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by mtrower 7y ago
It's like saying the Taurus, Camaro and Camry are all varieties of Mustang. The statement is false. Those are all varieties of cars, or automobiles - but not varieties of Mustang. Similarly, the listed Operating Systems are not vari
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by mtrower 7y ago
Erm, preferring the old Apple experience (or even a perceived old Apple experience) to the modern Apple experience does not necessarily mean he would prefer the Microsoft experience to the modern Apple experience...
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by mtrower 7y ago
No, you just have a wildly differing opinion from the people you speak of (well, most of them, anyway... there does seem to be more than one crowd of defenders). It goes both ways - Stallman's words seem pretty accurate to me, and it
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by mtrower 7y ago
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191... Start at the bottom.
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by mtrower 7y ago
It is not likely, in your estimation, that he was pressured and coerced into "resigning"?
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by mtrower 7y ago
> In all seriousness: what the actual fuck does Richard Stallman's opinion on what does or doesn't constitute rape matter? Why would he think that was a point that needed his quibbling? Maybe that's the judgement under que
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by mtrower 7y ago
Yes. That's exactly what she did --- and she's not alone; I've seen many other individuals do the same (after reading the primary source). Whether they've all read too fast, or for some other reason failed to parse the
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by mtrower 7y ago
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191... This is an excerpt from the CSAIL mailing list archive, so start at the bottom and work your way up. All names aside from RMS have been redacted. So
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by mtrower 7y ago
Are you going to tell me that you view sexual intercourse with a 6 year old as being the same as sexual intercourse with a 16 year old? If so, we can stop here. If not, then here's what changes: if you tell me someone is a pedophile,
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by mtrower 7y ago
RSM did not say 1 or 2. There are other people in that thread besides him... all names have been redacted except his. He did say 3. He did say 4, but (perhaps I misunderstand?) you seem to have colored it. Epstein as a coercer remains a fa
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by mtrower 7y ago
He's not creating an equivalence at all, though. He's constructed that scenario as a direct counterargument to this... > I think you should be aware that all non-consensual sex is sexual assault, and all sexual assault is viol
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by mtrower 7y ago
There are numerous items in play at this point. You are correct about the events of the past week. What's being referred to, in regards to his opinion of Epstein, is this piece from April: https://stallman.org/archives
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by mtrower 7y ago
RMS has in fact called Epstein a "serial rapist" and expressed that he should have received a much harsher sentence than he did.
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by mtrower 7y ago
erm... except it's true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia In no way is he defending Epstein. He actually calls for a harsher sentence for Epstein, and a more concrete term that paints him in a harsher lig
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by mtrower 7y ago
He did not say Minsky was legally innocent of sexual assault (he in fact gave no opinion of guilt). He said that sexual assault is a poor term, for reasons of broadness and vagueness, and that we should avoid using such terms in order to a
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by mtrower 7y ago
You are referring to this CSAIL mailing list excerpt? https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420... Please show me the plain words, in the email thread which I have read in its entirety , where he sa
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by mtrower 7y ago
Well, if you want to use Ephebophilia, you need to establish primary sexual preference, not simply sexual interest. Setting that aside, however... You talk about colloquial definitions, but colloquial definitions vary. When you say "
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by mtrower 7y ago
It's just moral relativism. While not usually the most popular of philosophical schools of though, it's hardly new, either. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/ But, fine, let us suppos
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by mtrower 7y ago
Unfortunately the comment I replied to has been flagged, so I can no longer review the context in which my reply was written. The context for me , involved a FaceBook post, a blog post, a number of media headlines, and a CSAIL mail archiv
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by mtrower 7y ago
> I didn’t show up to free software today and start opining based on what I read on Reddit. Erm... I didn't suggest that you did? I suggested that the parent comment about sleeping on things may have been directed at the blog write
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by mtrower 7y ago
He may be talking about the blog post on Medium by Selam G.? The one where she launched a personal attack at him, publicly, because she was "too angry to work right now".
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by mtrower 7y ago
Please read Richard's actual words again. Read them carefully --- and read his actual words, not just someone summarizing them or stitching fragments out of context. Richard said no such thing.
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by mtrower 7y ago
U.S. English native. This ("a female") sounds just fine to me. My friends or I might talk this way amongst ourselves(and no, I'm not talking about an all-male, socially mal-adjusted circle of friends). It's not what you
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by mtrower 7y ago
Not the women - their partners.
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by mtrower 7y ago
So, there are a great many tiling window managers out there. i3 is just one fish in the sea. Here's a starting point at a list just for X11: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/window_manager#Tiling_w... The us
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by mtrower 8y ago
Did SIMM RAM straight up replace the DIP chips when it was introduced? For some reason I thought they were used in parallel, with conventional RAM physically separate from the rest. I guess there's no reason that should have to be, tho
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by mtrower 8y ago
So the cache can stand in for main memory when none was present? I'd be interested to see the implementation details, but alas, I must be going about my search wrong =( Will have to look into it more when I have some more time.
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by mtrower 8y ago
That's not cache, friend - that's main system memory =) (and 640 KB by the time of the 486) (though, speaking of cache, the 486 was the first chip in the family to have L1 cache - a whole 8KB of it!)
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by mtrower 8y ago
Don't know about the 486 specifically, but this sort of thing wasn't unheard of. I have a pentium-era machine with 8MB EDO built into the board. It can stand alone or complement whatever you put in your DRAM slots (though curiousl
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by mtrower 8y ago
Sadly, I can't view your images on my device, but I have a '96 Presario that's fairly close in vintage; it has what I presume you are describing. The program resides on a hidden DOS partition on the HDD. While novel, it'

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