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holri
12y ago
An open and free Web is much more important than those ridiculous personal complaints about tiny issues.
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12y ago
I am regular bicycle driver. We won a weekend trip with e-bikes on a contest. Although the electric motor increases the average speed, range and hill climbing I did not like the handling and additional weight and complexity of the electric
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Then Art is not sustainable either, because very few artists earn a lot of money with their works. The masterpieces of Art were seldom a financial success. The oldest known art is about 37000 years old. That is much older than money and a p
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12y ago
They misunderstand something fundamentally: Free Software is not about making money, it is about freedom. Making money with freedom did never work. But making this world a better place works with freedom.
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I use Linux on ThinkPads since 1999 or so. I can not remember issues I could not solve. Just last week I installed Debian Wheezy on a X61 and everything worked out of the box. Works like a charm. This is a helpful resource: http:/
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well they built a system that has a "Modeling Engine that is purpose built to change dynamically". Well exactly this describes Spreadsheets and that is at the same time their asset and problem. Because there is no consistent and w
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Thankfully a lot of bother care about insanities. They are in the grid of thinking, good people. The whole free software movement is a an evidence that a lot of people care about insanities. RMS is the founder and forerunner of this impress
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No it is not useful in this case, because Stallmanns page is much more about than just materials not distributed freely. For your convenience the headers of his page about Amazon: * Restricting and Shafting Customers * Censorship * Exploiti
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To conclude something from a name without reading the works and criticizing it factually is just prejudice.
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Reasons not to buy from Amazon: https://stallman.org/amazon.html
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thank you, claws is an excellent email client
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the task email froze my claws-mail in html view. js and pictures are disabled for html view.
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Greek philosopher Epiktet has the solution. From http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html : The Enchiridion By Epictetus Written 135 A.C.E. Translated by Elizabeth Carter 1. Some things are in our control and oth
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well this just shows weight loss does not do the trick. changing your lifestyle does.
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Yes but people are not really aware of the already present severe privacy implications Facebook has. They are suppressing or downplaying it like overweight people are pushing aside such thoughts while eating. Every now and then when a new s
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12y ago
it is pretty clear that people who think about ethical issues, must be unhappy in and with this world.
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From an interview with the author of this study: """ ... Nathalie Burkert: No, no, that's not true. Based on our results, we conclude not that much meat is healthy. There was a press release with which we disagree. Since
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Unicode support in Python 2 is broken. That is not a imaginary problem for me. Unicode in Python 3 is much cleaner and robust.
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This works in Austria and Germany already for a long time. Those privacy laws are common there since the 1970ies (the raise of private computer data)
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You do not need to delete the whole data. Just make it no personal data. Just erase the name, birthday and maybe the street.
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No Britney Spears is a person of public interest, likewise for example politicians. The privacy law has a exception for person of public interest.
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For targeted advertising a real name policy is not necessary.
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It does not matter for the OP if Google's behavior is illegal or not. Ethic is independent from law.
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Why didn't he compare it to the Greifer laying on the table? The myoeletric device he compared the 3 printed one to was the cosmetic hand. The workhorse is the Greifer, which is a much better device for working and handling than the co
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Now, your mom and here charity are completely dependent on Facebook. This is an excellent example why programming or being able to do something yourself is important to defend independence and freedom of our society.
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I experience that not using Facebook has positive filter effects. People that do not understand that I do not like FB are not my friends. Facebook is therefore a good knife to cut me off drivel.
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Even if you love to run marathons, running marathons all day will destroy you .
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Then you definitely would not like to hear Bach or Mozart themselves playing their own works. It is well known that those improvised on their own works during performances.
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If those orchestras sounded like a old washboard and a bucket of nails, than I definitely do not want to attend a concert.
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A painting exists to moment it is drawn and it is persistent more or less for at least a few hundred years. Music on the other hand is ordered vibration of air molecules (and this is something different than a composition, hence the pipe e
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