duairc

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by duairc 13y ago
You are really misinformed about anarchism.
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by duairc 14y ago
Commie bullshit.
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by duairc 14y ago
Thanks for your respectful reply. You're right that most people who want to die don't want to die all the time, and suicide decisions are impulsive to the extent that that they're made when the suicidal person wants to die (which is only so
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by duairc 14y ago
> The real victims of suicide are the loved ones and close friends. This is bullshit. And so fucking insensitive. This idea, that anybody owes it to their ‘friends’ to force themselves to stay alive when they want to die, just so those
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by duairc 14y ago
Without even getting into the morality of Aaron's actions (though I think you're a pretty shit person if you don't support them), it's pretty clear that the actions of the prosecutor did contribute to Aaron's death. This means that if the p
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by duairc 14y ago
Totally ridiculous, victim-blaming comment. “If you add up everyone's responsibility for something, it doesn't equal 100% — it equals a billion percent if it has to, because any number of entities can be fully responsible for the same thing
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by duairc 14y ago
No. I have developed (free) software in the past, and I've contributed to larger projects as well, but I don't have as much time for programming anymore. I "make" a living through a combination of squatting, dumpster diving and occasionally
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by duairc 14y ago
You can take stuff and eat it for free from a supermarket. It's called shoplifting and people do it all the time. Food should be free, by the way; you seem to think that it shouldn't be and that it's right that people are forced to work f
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by duairc 14y ago
But piracy is a feature . It's good thing. Paying for stuff sucks. From a user's point of view, if Apple's walled garden approach prevents piracy, then that's just another reason their walled garden approach is bad. Edit: I'm not even play
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by duairc 14y ago
I don't understand? "IP laws" are totally incompatible with communism because property itself is totally incompatible with communism. I'm not sure what you mean by "market-friendly" but it sounds like some sort of euphemism?
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by duairc 14y ago
"If free and open access to all of human knowledge at the push of a button truly prevents our society’s beloved artists, authors, thinkers, and other creative people from putting food on their tables, then maybe it’s time to rethink how to
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by duairc 14y ago
What's "human nature"? Human nature, if anything, is adaptability. What feels "natural" to us is largely determined by our socialisation and our environment (i.e., things which we can change).
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by duairc 14y ago
Why don't you support illegal activity?
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by duairc 15y ago
First of all, fuck patents. I'm in complete agreement about that (except for the bit where the author says that maybe they might be okay sometimes). I've long felt this way. However, in the last year or two, I've become much more interested
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by duairc 15y ago
Of course writing to your representatives will do no good. This whole world is completely insane. "Your" representatives couldn't fix it even if they wanted to. Revolution is the only way out of this mess.
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by duairc 15y ago
Oh come on, where are there so many copyright apologists here? Even if you're a capitalist the concept of intellectual property doesn't make any sense.
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by duairc 15y ago
This is exactly my experience of trying to use OS X, thanks for putting it into words! The Home and End thing is by far the most annoying one (for me, but only because it's always the first one I run into whenever I find myself having to us
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by duairc 15y ago
> The term "Intellectual Property" is a misnomer. No, I get that. Even if you're a capitalist, the concept of intellectual property doesn't make sense. > As Marx wrote, from your link, " 'theft' as a forcible violation of property p
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by duairc 15y ago
Haha, wow. I use Google Street View a lot for scouting out empty buildings (I squat for housing). It would be amazing if you could see the inside of them without having to break in to do so!
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by duairc 15y ago
All property is theft! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft !
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The Telekommunist Manifesto: Venture Communism and Free Culture(networkcultures.org)
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by duairc 15y ago
> Does anyone here not remember the Industrial Revolution? The creation of the automobile? The switch to trains for long-distance travel? The usage of water or wind to turn mills to make bread? Pick something! This is the progress of ci
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by duairc 15y ago
Oh fuck all of you capitalist scum. I really hate how much of this community is based on this really fucked up reappropriation of the hacker ethos into some sort of pro-capitalist thing. Capitalism is an inherently authoritarian economic sy
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by duairc 15y ago
I wish people would do this stuff to Apple...
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by duairc 15y ago
For what it's worth, I completely agree with you. This site is depressingly full of capitalist apologists.
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by duairc 15y ago
> A large part of human endeavor is not about increasing value in the world, but rather increasing value for oneself, possibly with the side-effect of decreasing value for others. It's just the way we are. It's not just the way we are,
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by duairc 16y ago
How I wish that were true! Most people, young and old, really don't care at all.
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by duairc 16y ago
People aren't uniformly distributed among the different types either. I accept your point though; the distribution of programmers across Meyer's Briggs types isn't the same as the distribution of all people across Meyer's Briggs types. Corr
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by duairc 16y ago
This is obvious. I mean isn't it basically a fluke that we all ended up as programmers? I don't I'd think be half as interested in computers as I am if my dad didn't bring us home a computer when I was 3 or 4, or if my grandmother didn't ra
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by duairc 16y ago
But (in anarchist communism at least), there is no "at the top" or "at the bottom". "Better for those at the bottom" is "better for everyone".

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