omouse

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by omouse 15y ago
Considering all the abuses that giant media companies visit on us daily with attacks on "pirates", bittorrent, etc. maybe you should be providing us with concrete proof that there this is no such plan in the works.
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by omouse 15y ago
What does that even mean? Are you trying to say they're acting as if they're privileged?
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by omouse 15y ago
The problem is that the startup will be acquired and thus absorbed into the bureaucracy or it will grow into that giant bureaucracy someday ;p But yeah, I see what you're saying.
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by omouse 15y ago
I'm against that as well. I believe that if you're in a union and the union has stopped working for you, you should stop working for the union and form a new one or go it alone. The only reason that kind of thing happens is because the unio
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by omouse 15y ago
Savings? You must come from a privileged background! Some of us have to build our savings from scratch and take out mass loans just to go to school. We're in debt in our first few years of employment, so yes, the alternative to working for
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by omouse 15y ago
The sad part is that the word "Libertarian" used to mean someone that was in favour of equality and socialism. Someone who was actually liberal.
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by omouse 15y ago
Unions depend on threats of violence or specialized legal action EMPLOYMENT depends on threats of poverty! If you don't work, you might fucking die . Unions depend on threats of strikes and other actions, but they don't depend on violenc
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by omouse 15y ago
There are many laws granting unions more power than they would otherwise have if the market worked. THe employer still has a lot of power. You can be fired at a moment's notice and be forced into poverty. That's waaaaaay more power than a
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by omouse 15y ago
Because unions protect the worker from being abused. The power balance is heavily in favour of management who can fire workers on a whim. Also, the market isn't efficient. If you look at any large corporation, the amount of bureaucracy is c
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by omouse 15y ago
Alternative: release the source under the GNU GPL or some other open source license. No such thing as piracy then ;)
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by omouse 15y ago
I would prefer it if the agreement were "the code will be released under the GPL or BSD or MIT licenses and the art will be released under a Creative Commons license". That way there's no arguments later on about commercialization of it bec
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by omouse 15y ago
Following up on someone's suggestion to make a Google Group, why not make it a group on RiseUp? https://we.riseup.net/ Yes yes I know, it's an activist social network, but the software that runs it is pretty cool. It's called Crabgrass,
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by omouse 15y ago
You can't because programmers aren't in control of themselves. The ones who have enough cash and power are more than willing to continue with the present system or they cash out and leave someone else to do the work of opposing it.
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by omouse 15y ago
All software patents abolished. Stop stifling people's creative urges damnit.
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by omouse 15y ago
Saving money = oppressing yourself. Making more money = oppressing others.
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by omouse 15y ago
So we have two sides of capitalism here: consumers who want to buy at a cheaper price, and consumers who want to spend more on quality/brand/etc. I should change my nickname to "socialist_commentary" or something. Why not argue about why
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by omouse 15y ago
Brick-through-window, a new DRM scheme by DefectiveByDesign.
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by omouse 15y ago
You're basically saying "down with capitalism". There's no way to work within the current system because everything that goes through it is bent towards profit and power. Do you really think companies would adopt such a T&C? Which would
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by omouse 15y ago
Cool, it's basically like the WTB (Want To Buy) announcements in online video games.
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by omouse 15y ago
Scientists in the mold of capitalists and totalitarians? Disgusting.
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by omouse 15y ago
Yay! More lock-in! :D
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by omouse 15y ago
I don't get it, isn't the 6% basically the interest rate?
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by omouse 15y ago
It's a symptom of government to reduce one's freedom and human rights.
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by omouse 15y ago
Less corporate/company crap, more independent ideas please. Things like Freenet, GNUNet, etc. have the right idea for decentralization, same with more specific projects like Appleseed, StatusNet, etc.
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by omouse 15y ago
You should read this: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6366/persuasive_games_... and see what you think about gameification afterwards.
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by omouse 15y ago
they really do have to be more careful about their private info vs. the care Joe Schmoe in Hoboken should take. You know that poorer people have property and troubles of their own that requires personal information staying personal.
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by omouse 15y ago
Conformity = cool, got it.
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by omouse 15y ago
Cool, more $$$ down the drain just to kill one man in someone else's country. Good stuff. It looks like an oversized UAV more than a helicopter. I also like how computer geeks ignore the politics of the situation and get distracted by shiny
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by omouse 16y ago
This is different, this is about personal information being made publically available.
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by omouse 16y ago
I think the other problem is that Facebook makes it more acceptable to use your real name and real information. I remember the old days of the internet where you were wary of marketers and spammers and used as much fake information as was p

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