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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
You don't know what a monopoly is. It isn't what you think it is, the currently biggest player in a market.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Also, you're mixing the German and the Swedish cases here a bit. There are not German and Swedish cases. The media industry efforts cross national borders. The quote being from a swedish MEP doesnt make IFPI's case somehow different.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> The issue was that under the pretense of fighting child pornography the government wanted/wants to install a system The Christian-led goverment party didn't even pretend that hard what the envisioned "Zensurinfrastruktur" will be late
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
This whole movement was born out of the frustration that there was no democratic way to influence or change IP policy because the established party system effectively shielded it from public access. Elections were won with other topics like
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> "liberals" (FDP) and the Greens, have neglected topics like data privacy, net neutrality. They didnt neglect them, they in theory represented the same values as the pirate party, but after the elections, they ritually neglected their
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
It should be noted that this article is written by a CLISP developer, which is a Common Lisp implementation (of ViaWeb fame), so his criticism of OCaml should be taken with a grain of salt.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
After the LA intro courses, see Strangs "Computational Science and Engineering": * http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F706B428FB7BD52C * http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?gl=DE&hl=de&p=... based on the book of the same
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> You people don't even I'm not "you people", I'm not affiliated with Guile in any way. However, you are wrecking your brains over something without being fully informed. It is not and never has been intended to _rewrite_ anywthing writ
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
As I understood it, the goal is not to simply allow Guile alongside Elisp, with the intent to confuse users, but to eventually replace Elisp completely. Guile devs are claiming that their Elisp implementation running on top of guile provide
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> How do we fix this? Somebody said it. Swiss-style combination of direct and representative democracy. So you can let political parties do their jobs, but there is a corrective measure if they try to sneak in a lwa against the people.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Based on similar fates of previous social networks / instant messengers de jour. Every few years a new generation of users grew bored with one beehive and collectively left it for a new one. IRC/ICQ/AIM/YIM/MSN/Friendster/MySpace couldnt av
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
The book is very enjoyable. I only recently found out that Chapter 5 has already been available online in a limited, but colorized form as "Casting SPELs in Lisp", http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html Conrad mentioned that in the next ed
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Wasn't it the case for gmail? For me gmail is still the best webmail around. You dont need other people to use gmail to be able to use gmail. Email is standardized, so gmail as a client could be evaluated on its own merits. Since it w
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
I don't use FB either. I had a higher opinion of Google, as many other people also hoped G+ would be a social network made right. But enforcing stupid policies right from the start against early adopters is ridiculous, no matter what the po
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
I was excited about G+ at first, but decided that their invitation-only game to drive up demand is childish and that I will wait for them to open up for everyone, like I did with gmail back then. Then they started to strictly enforce a stup
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
When neither you, nor anybody else works any more on Arc, are you considering officially abandoning it and going back to vanilla Scheme or even Common Lisp, to make news.arc more reusable within the (larger) Scheme an Lisp communities?
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
One man's trash is another man's treasure. I love mibbit and have been a happy user for years. It's been doing wonders for a wider acceptance of IRC.
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Mibbit has been offering such a service for years, but completely based on IRC under the hood.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> I wish Linux had ONE great interface and standard GUI programming API. Gnome2 was the de facto standard Linux desktop for probably a decade. Then it was abandoned overnight because the developers got simply bored with endlessly mainta
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> do you really think that protections for that work are going to become less popular? I dont know. What I do know is that the majority of my peers does _not_ support IP in its current form... > Did we ever have a formal, democratic
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> In what way is it undemocratic? I wrote about this in my original post, you can read it there. Copyright is a new, unnatural form of "property" and only a minority has such a kind of property and it is enforced against the majority. B
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> you're just another pirate stealing Keep talking yourself into it, and keep calling people with different political opinions names, if it makes you more easily cope with the undemocratic authoritative nature of today's copyright.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> people want to optimize for what they think is best for themselves and their offspring Copyright is a form of for-profit censorship. There are always people who will vote for censorship and slavery in order to maximize the exploitatio
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Subverting the legal system and making common things illegal is just one way of artificially skewing a natural balance in order to make a profit purely out of arbitrage. There is a reason why drugs and copyright have basically no democratic
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
It is a legal battle as long as the legal system allows it, intentionally or unintentionally. The fact is, the blackmailers only have a case at all because the law criminalizes private file sharing. Instead of trying to work out how to prot
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Is modern copyright even valuable? Is political censorship valuable to North Korean goverment? Probably yes, otherwise they wouldnt pursue it. Is is valuable to the population at large? We dont know, since the North Korean population
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
What if the election mechanism has been (psychologically) engineered in a way to make real change as difficult as possible and where the only possible changes are pre-scripted like a video game to the benefit of whoever is at the top at the
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Adding options ... confuse everyone else This false argument gets repeated over and over. You dont have to bombard everybody with a zillion of probably unneeded options. Separate the everyday from power user options. The poweruser stu
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> they want one hand to feed them, and the other to keep away. They dont seem to be in a negotiating position to express "wishes" which then somehow have to be granted in the exact way they want them.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Copyright fascism, aka WWMD, "What Would Mussolini Do".

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