trav4225

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   by trav4225 10y ago

   To me, it's not about categories (users, companies, developers, etc.). We're all people -- citizens. The question is: should ideas belong to the category of legally-protected personal property? I'm very aware of the pragmatic
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   I agree 100% with your last paragraph. I think the issue for many libertarians, however, is this: should thought be considered personal property, thus under legal protection by the state?
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   I'm not sure if I'm understanding correctly what you have said, but I think it should be pointed out that GPL absolutely depends on and hangs off of copyright law. It's just as much an expression of the ownership of thought a
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   Definitely agree. I just wanted to point out that, even though it often seems otherwise, there are indeed people in the technological community who have deep problems with the FSF philosophies.
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   IMO, the fundamental problems with Stallmanism are not to be found in its tactics and execution, but rather in the very core of the philosophy itself.
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   In modern vernacular it seems that that sense might be better expressed as "policy", rather than "politics".
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   I completely sympathize. The hate is real -- I myself often have to take a personal "detox break" from HN simply in order to feel human again. It would be nice to be able to consider HN a welcoming, warm community but, on the othe
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   Is "firing" not a thing anymore?
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   by trav4225 10y ago

   Yes. There's a fine line between protecting people and becoming a full-blown nanny state. Safety is a good thing, but so is liberty.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Don't you get it? It's all about the "ionic frequencies" which cleanse the body of "toxins"! ;-)
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Bottled water doesn't imply spring water.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    "abusive previous generation of programmers" It was interesting for me to read that because I'm from that previous generation of programmers, and I've always felt that it's the current generation that's abusi
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    It doesn't need to be downsampled, though -- merely rate-governed.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    I'm seeing this too: people are locking on a piece they don't like and completely ignoring the rest. :)
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Yup. But at a more core level, the real problem is that what we want to know isn't what we should know. The two ideally would be equivalent. The solution for this problem is personal wisdom, and hopefully the shock that people are
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    That is indeed a danger, agreed.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Yup, agreed. Thanks for your thoughts.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    No offense, but the overwhelming majority of them are not (IMO).
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Congress was, in part, designed for gridlock.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    One California is more than enough. Please don't come and corrupt the midwest as well. :)
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    and not voting is also "voting for evil", since a non-vote is effectively a vote for the front-runner. :-)
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    I respect your position. Thank you for taking the time to elaborate.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    One reason people aren't charitable anymore is because the government has muscled itself into that role. It also doesn't help matters when it shuts down people's soup kitchens for bureaucratic "violations", threaten
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Society has basically two choices: charity, or have the state confiscate by force. I prefer charity. ;-)
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    I remember the RAIN network! I also remember the lovely spray-painted recycled Wyse terminals that were installed locally at the Speakeasy itself. Those were all I used -- I didn't bother with the PCs they had there. I never lived in S
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    The memory this sparked in me was of the great old Speakeasy cafe in Seattle, which opened circa '94/'95: http://www.historylink.org/File/3300
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Thank you both for the clarification!
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    This is indeed a humorous juxtaposition, but they wouldn't make crap like that if our society didn't gobble it up.
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    Interesting -- I (incorrectly?) assumed this would need to be approved by several regulatory bodies in order to be legal to sell...
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    by trav4225 10y ago

    A prison for your mind. All hail our benevolent thought-police.