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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Wikipedia states: "Bushnell [..] is employed by Google LLC. He is a member of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church." With all due respect to his employment and religious beliefs, that is not the sort of person to provide a better un
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> have described him as a "creep". "Creep" is a description of how attractive you personally feel someone is. By that rationale it should be okay for someone to describe her as "hot", and question her profes
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> Some pretty responsible and knowledgeable people such as the EFF's head of cybersecurity have described him as a "creep" Seems like it's a pastime over at the EFF who can be outraged the most in the vilest manner (s
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Wondering about your effort to maintain an argument in good faith, I read up a little: "mav3rick: What about the KoolAid that HN drinks against anything Facebook, Google ?" "mav3rick: He seems like an out and out terrorist.&q
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Again, please read what I wrote. I'm starting to doubt you are providing an argument in good faith here as you are constantly generalising. If some religious members of an audience, who are very serious about their faith, go to see a k
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> You get to decide how much time is enough to exonerate someone of all accusations i.e. 1 week Not at all. Again, something I didn't say or imply. Please make an effort to read what I write, not what you think I wrote (e.g. "T
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
You are aware that the St. IGNUcius bit is a spoof on dogmatic religion, right? Maybe that offends you as a religious person, but it's hardly fair to hold that against Stallman whose audiences are usually mainly fellow atheists, or rel
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
>You are part of the same system that vilifies assault / harassment victims "I'm out of arguments, so you're just a ..." Please don't do that. >by saying accusations are "too old" / "h
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> your narrative of sexism in the software industry being a mostly made-up issue Is this what this is all about? Stallman has approximately 0 sway in the "software industry". I'm sure it is a real problem, but Stallman is
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Of course that's not a coincidence, hence the ellipses of omission. I left out the bits that weren't factual. Even then your "Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office" comes out of nowhere.
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> Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office. Even the initial accusation doesn't try to push the story that far: "He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. [..] (the mattress
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I understand ignoring her goes counter to your notion of justice, and this is somehow fair play. You have every right to doubt her, but you should realise it doesn't matter. No matter how much doubt you could reveal about her person, y
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Please don't. Salem G. made a mistake in desiring to address a problem that is worth discussing, but did so with a hasty ill-conceived reaction constructed through gossip and hearsay. It shouldn't happen, but it does. The various
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> I sincerely hope that there will be people in the FSF There are: https://www.fsfla.org/%7Elxoliva/ But apart from being next in line, he's also next in line: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/
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> on a university mailing list has direct negative effects for a lot of people. That very mailing list was about to arbitrarily accuse a dead innocent man of a crime to help provide cover for actual criminals still walking the halls at M
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Some might have found it funny, others might have found it tacky. It's the way jokes work. Important here is that his is not the first time it happened or where it was used disproportionally against him: https://stallman.org
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> If he’s defending That's a big "if" Stallman was reviled not for things he didn't do, but for thoughts he didn't think.
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> and also afraid of plants from someone who actually worked with him: "p.s.: In the closet-sized "office" Bushnell, McGrath, and I shared for a time we did have some spider plants as part of a running silly joke. They did
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Those are terrible starting points. For the actual background on the current chain of events at MIT: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html For earlier allegations, take the original sources including quotes and
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Someone took the time to actually sift through all the accusations and put them in context. https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html This is only about the publications on medium, Vice, and The Daily Beast, not thi
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
So "no" then? Unless you mean him asking for a date and people saying "no", which is in no way related to "abuse of his positions". Words matter, even if you can't feel bothered to motivate them, which is
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
How about not alleging dead people are violent child rapists without any evidence, and then, when being called out on your false allegations, create a media storm of manufactured outrage to punish the person who called you out on them?
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> It dismisses the decades of Stallman's abuse of his positions at FSF and MIT Does this extend beyond hearsay and having a "Knight for Justice (also: hot ladies)" sign on his door? Also, where do these "decades"
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
RMS was pointing out inaccuracies in how a deceased colleague who was being accused of a heinous crime might simply have slept with a prostitute, if at all (which turns out probably wasn't the case). > This is a man who said somethi
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Yes, the actually unpalatable elements of the FLOSS community are crawling out of the woodworks now. I would have never expected the Software Freedom Conservancy and the EFF to be amongst them though. Poor Richard, having his life's wo
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
If it becomes too boring, the rules might be modified. Castling and en-passant were not always a given. Something simple like a draw is 1/4 point for white, 3/4 point for black, might re-invigorate matches in classical format.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Let's not pussyfoot around then. Let's enforce software patents rigorously, and do it retroactively . Now we can make it easy on ourselves and cut a single cheque of what amounts to basically all the value in the world to Don K
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
The abundance of cookie warnings is a sign of the sorry state of the Web, not of bureaucrats gone wild.
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Almost 100%. I'm always pleasantly surprised when some outlet does seem understand the GDPR, or at least not weasel their way out of it in a most obvious manner. Following a link to theatlantic.com just a few hours go was such a pleasa
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
There's "tech" meaning mostly "data-mining/advertising" and "tech" as short for "technology". As long as the EU remains strong in actual technology, the EU doesn't need to reinvent itse

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