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by rick888 16y ago
"I think the fact that we're seeing a lot of articles, stories, and publications revolving around the thoughts of college becoming useless and the importance of starting businesses says something about the way our culture is changing, and p
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"Europe, on the whole, balances lower individual buying power and higher unemployment against taking substantially better care of its citizens," "lower individual buying power" means much higher taxes and less freedom with your money. Right
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by rick888 16y ago
I hope that when there are discussions about the "drug war" in the US in the future, that people blame the cartels for murders and not the fact that drugs are illegal. After all, the government isn't the one doing the shooting. This seems
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you're wrong. The messenger had a responsibility with the information they received. They willingly gave out the information with no regard for the people in the documents. The difference between Wikleaks and the actual person that leaked
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by rick888 16y ago
"Fair enough; that's an honest disagreement. My perspective on the matter is simply that whatever the number of deaths that Wikileaks will hypothetically be responsible for, the American government and Taliban are each responsible for a hun
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by rick888 16y ago
Right. So seeing a questionable video involving a few asshole US soldiers means that it's perfectly okay for hundreds more to die needlessly. what the hell kind of reasoning is that?
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"Seriously. You're complaining about Wikileaks doing it (debatable) when Cheney makes this seem like so 2006" Seriously. When has two wrongs ever made a right? Also, the topic isn't Cheney, it's Wikileaks. Do republicans that don't run the
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"What reform is attained by exposing someone's phone or address? That's right. None. If you can't understand that privacy and transparency aren't incompatible, then you must be seriously intellectually challenged. In other words, you have n
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"They only thoroughly checked about ~2000 of the documents according to a speech Julian gave on Lateline (Australian TV Show), They [wikileaks] did offer the US government a chance to check though and blank any names they found but they did
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"Perhaps I'm just out of touch, but I normally would put most of the responsibility for these things on the warring parties. Blaming a third party that doesn't have an army, a militia, or guns seems self-serving or disingenuous, depending o
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by rick888 16y ago
"Who has the moral authority to hold Jake accountable? He exposed the truth. By contrast, Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld gave us Gulf of Tonkin II, the meretricious congressmen gave the executive branch all the power it wanted, we know that we
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Wikileaks may be important, but they should really think of the consequences of their actions: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7... If any death results from this "leak", Jake should be held accountable.
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that's support. I'm talking about selling software. There's a difference.
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"How many Free software supporters did you count said they're explicitly against profiting from software?" Do I really need to keep count? Look at any discussion involving the GPL. "Beside, if GPL make it difficult to earn money, than it's
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by rick888 16y ago
"I didn't come in here to argue that RMS is right, but there does seem to be some sort of moral or ethical issue behind this that is far beyond RMS getting upset that someone else is able to make money with his code. I suspect that he could
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by rick888 16y ago
"Metaphorically, of course. Stallman's good is causing unknown amounts of freedom restriction and consequent problems to not ever have happened - which isn't really tangible." Without Stallman and the GNU, we would still have just as much s
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"RMS sees the ability to hack your own system as a fundamental freedom. Computer as an extension of your mind/person. It would be like me telling you that you are not allowed think certain thoughts." Under these rules, I should be able to i
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"That's completely wrong. You're fundamentally misunderstanding what the free software movement is about. Ultimately it's a sort of grassroots consumer protection movement, not a bunch of hippies trying to abolish money." They aren't trying
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"Free software have nothing to do much with capitalism." So why does the GPL make it so difficult to make any kind of money. Many of the supporters are also against any and all forms of commercial software. "What he disagree with is what h
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"Many governments have switched to Gnu/Linux and are saving billions of dollars each year for the last ten years such as Brazil" It's funny how you can make the argument about money that "would have been spent". Many open source zealots (a
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"That's because you are not a minority, and of course you don't see it on a daily basis. Out of curiosity, what sort of racism have you experienced?" Right. There's so much racism in the US. Every job I have ever had has had a mix of diff
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"Everyone wants something for nothing." Is this surprising to you? Look at many of the discussions about piracy. Many people feel it is their "right" to download and use software that would otherwise cost them money. It doesn't surprise m
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I had the exact same idea a few months before Napster became really popular. Instead of a separate client/server, my idea was to use IRC (and a specialized fileserver) for sharing mp3s. One night while I was working on this project (I got
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"There is a good argument that advertising actively moves you away from the EMH which is one of the strongest arguments in favor of capitalism." I said anti-capitalist because many people were against advertisements and the gold accounts.
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The users of reddit are downright hostile toward anyone trying to make money. There was a thread last week about paid accounts. Out of 2000 comments, I think I only found one or two people supporting the idea. Most of the comments were s
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"I speak Japanese fairly well, which makes me employable, but nine out of ten people with this degree have no useful proficiency in any Asian language (heritage speakers excepted)." You have lived in Japan for at least a couple of years. Y
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"Dont pull that Patriot crap. Probably all the Fortune 1000, particularly the drug companies, are flowing revenue through tax havens to lower taxes. There was an article in the past couple of months about it, here I think." If you open a co
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It's things like this that will eventually force me to move my business (and invariably, my employees) to another country. Why do they want to make it even more difficult for small businesses?
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"Which Mullenweg and the FSF believe is right. Which is the reason the LGPL exists." Would you consider a Nintendo cartridge a derivative work of the Actual System? It obviously uses components of the actual system. This court case: http:/
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"One of the defining features of the GPL (or any copyleft license) is its reciprocal or "viral" nature. It was created to define an ecosystem distinct from one where source could be encumbered or hidden. And has been updated many times to m

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