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by holri 12y ago
The purpose of an insurance is to share the risk of individuals with a great number of people. To pinpoint the risk to a single person is against this purpose. They can get away with this because you have to have a insurance by law. Theref
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by holri 12y ago
To have or to be?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Have_or_to_Be%3F
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by holri 12y ago
Something like C3S? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Commons_Collecting_So...
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by holri 12y ago
the battery is cheap to replace. I stay with my N900. I did not see anything better.
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by holri 12y ago
Vienna has this ("Platte") and build a new district and recreational erea besides the Danube on top of it.
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by holri 12y ago
Word can not even open their old Word version documents correctly. LibreOffice opens them better. Therefore "There is no other format that works as well as Word" is completely wrong. Relying on closed document formats and propriet
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by holri 12y ago
I use latex and create pdf's. They look exactly the same everywhere.
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by holri 12y ago
there was a (German) talk at 31C3 about a proof of concept such a propaganda bot: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6184_-_de_-_...
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by holri 12y ago
is anarchy freedom? is a society without laws and rules a free one?
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by holri 12y ago
The human nature is not static as well. Humans are able to think and act very differently. If I look back what I was thinking and doing 20 years ago, I have to shake my head in astonishment.
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by holri 12y ago
> In technology as elsewhere, it seems life is ultimately based on trust in someone. trust is a function of control. With free software it is distributed trust and control. With proprietary Sw it is centralized trust and control. Real li
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by holri 12y ago
If our society values sharing and condemn selfish behavior everything would be ok. But at the moment our neo liberalism capitalism values none cooperative egoists. It is our ideas and virtues that have to change.
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by holri 12y ago
Red Hat found the bash bug and is a successful commercial company with paid developers. Commercial and free software (freedom) is no contradiction.
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by holri 12y ago
The interesting thing is that they obviously think that there is now a market and selling point for privacy.
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by holri 12y ago
I installed my nephew http://minetest.net because this is free software and therefore better suited for learning to hack. With this deal it is even better suited.
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by holri 12y ago
Free software's purpose is not to kill someone, but to give users the freedom to use, share, understand and improve software. Something Microsoft can not offer.
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by holri 12y ago
good news for http://minetest.org/
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by holri 12y ago
Alternative: This script synchronizes a music collection recursively one way from a lossless format source directory to a lossy file format target directory. https://bitbucket.org/ghorvath/music-collection-sync
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by holri 12y ago
did they read this? CCC Publish German Minister’s Fingerprint: http://www.wired.com/2008/03/hackers-publish/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/30/german_interior_mini...
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by holri 12y ago
The reigning CDU and also the in the past reigning SPD are well known for their protectionism and regulation. If voters would not like that they would have voted the FDP. This has nothing to do with corruption, but with Europe's and Ge
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by holri 12y ago
The broader issue here is that Europe and especially Germany has a regulated market. The voters voted for that for generations. It is not only taxi but all sorts of professions that have similar or even more restrictive laws.
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by holri 12y ago
Well, than the Germans have to vote for a more liberal government. But they did the opposite, the liberals just lost their parliament seats.
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by holri 12y ago
The court says they are violating laws. What has this to do with a free market? Is a free market one without laws? Is anarchy free market?
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because the hype begins to slow down
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by holri 12y ago
I prefer 4′33″ by John Cage as background music.
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This is a contradiction: "Knowledge is the grasp of the facts of reality." is was Socrates in an essence said about knowledge. Then you say Socrates was wrong.
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by holri 12y ago
Facts are not knowledge. Read Socrates / Platon.
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because money does not make you rich
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24. http://www.osdomotics.com/ Important is the use of open standards, osdomotics uses open 6lowpan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6LoWPAN I use it to control the humidity of my old piano and to automa
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by holri 12y ago
It is about an open WEB not Open Source. An Open Source Browser controlled by a big corporation is still a problem if it has a giant market share.

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