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   by gglitch 12y ago

   Same. Importing my mp3 collection into iTunes, for example, has been a disaster.
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   I see many people in this thread debating (1) whether Sunde is some sort of freedom fighter, and (2) the ethics of intellectual property law. In my interpretation Sunde is mainly arguing that people who are criticizing him for not defending
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   Excellent idea. For journalists - or just for citizens who happen to be standing around in the wrong place at the right time.
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   Same, about the file hierarchy. Makes the most sense to me. If VLC had a file browser panel, my OSX audio life would feel complete. You know what I really love though in the meantime? MOC on Linux.
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   Thanks for the thoughtful response. I can appreciate the difficulties of hypothesizing, and I hadn't thought about it (at least directly) from a moral standpoint. It's still difficult for me to believe that in a totally free marke
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   No offense, but this seems specious because it presumes that a majority of consumers are making a rational choice from a well-informed position, which is not necessarily the case. They're currently making the trade, yes, but that does
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   Not sure why this was downvoted, I kind of agree. We're supposed to be defending rational choices made by informed consumers, but I too question whether current regulation adequately safeguards either one of those principles.
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   I guess I was thinking of the abstract question of how someone would convincingly argue that the plight of new parents would be better off in general with no government regulation at all. I agree that the FMLA is grossly inadequate, but not
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   by gglitch 12y ago

   Genuinely curious - where are the markets-should-be-completely-unregulated guys on this?
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I sympathize with anyone who doesn't have the technical knowledge to know whether a given ad is benign or malignant, or even what the real differences are between the two. For that crowd, the unregulated ad-based market (the web) can f
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I'm both an beginner with html and css, and a subscriber to the Economist. As an exercise, does anyone have any idea whether there's anything in this page's markup that I can edit in Firefox's console to reveal the text?
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    The financial costs a young artist or group incurs to bring one or a few albums into the world are slim, but the cost in time is great, especially if they're also trying to keep food in their bellies by touring. But here's the thi
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I have both of those problems too. I find it an effective remedy to use a pencil to asterisk thought-provoking passages in the margin. It helps me focus on each sentence as potentially noteworthy, but when I note one, it also helps me let i
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I'm reminded of the _Nicomachean Ethics_, which, if I recall accurately, begins with an analysis of what you're calling instrumental activities vs terminal, in order to show that the end goal of any activity is happiness, which is
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I run ssh inside emacs, and I also leave emacs running in server mode on my targets. I drop my signal, no big deal; I reconnect and reattach to emacs. No fuss, no muss, no lost work. It then becomes immense that I can do almost everything
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I have that problem too. I usually narrow it down to two or three options and ask the server/cashier what I want. About 80% of the time I go with whatever s/he says; other times, simply hearing his/her recommendation makes me
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I'm schooled in Plato and Aristotle, and the quote above seems to me very like their way of thinking, and also seems both logical and intuitive. Can you recommend some authors or titles representative of the kind of "basic contemp
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    "Maybe it is because I don’t allow any advertising at all into my life..." ...How does he manage this? Advertising and marketing have become a major, major, nearly pathological personal issue for me, to such an extent that I somet
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I'd really love to know about this as well. I have often wanted this.
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I guess it's a sign of my age, but when I read stories like this, I no longer try to carefully reason my way through to a solid judgment on whether it's right or wrong, or sensible or foolish; instead I just view it as a sign of t
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I know exactly what you mean. The Combray part was hard to dig into, but full of enough psychological insight to make me want to continue. Then the long, brutal debasement of Swann, such an inspiring character, was intensely painful, someti
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I hoped my French would be up to Proust, but sadly it wasn't, and I didn't want re-learning French to be an impediment to the enjoyment of the story. So I've read the Enright versions.
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I'm halfway through the last volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and I admit I'm proud of it. I don't know what can be said in a small space about a novel so large and canonical, but I've deeply enjoyed it. A
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    While my brief comment history will confirm that I completely agree with your analysis of Orwellian vs. Huxleyan dystopias, and agree completely about the greater relevance of Huxley's vision to our cultures, I'd nevertheless be r
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    Maybe he's thinking of a Huxleyan dystopia. Very few of us would call the setting of Brave New World a utopia, but very few of the inhabitants of that world would call it anything else. Our joyful new information-dense world has brough
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    I propose "surveillance creep" as a label for the concern. Cf. "feature creep."
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    A lot of what's being written in this thread hits home for me, but especially the 'wanting to get ahead' bit - part of the problem is job insecurity, knowing that your present position may not last, and feeling compelled to u
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    by gglitch 12y ago

    Because I've found his emacs info useful many times, and because I'd rather not see or filter ads, I bought the tutorial.
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    by gglitch 13y ago

    In my reading, Huxley depicts a society too sated and distracted to criticize the power structures they live in. The oppression is not one of force and fear, as in Orwell, but is equally demoralizing and incapacitating. Maybe even more inca
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    by gglitch 13y ago

    I also never switched, for ideological reasons. I've been hooked by the Mozilla Foundation's consistent messaging on freedom.