The GPL does _not_ in any way restrict what you can do with the software. It allows you to do ANYTHING you like. It just doesn't allow you to add your own restrictions. Many people don't seem to know that. The GPL is similar to a right to own a gun (to keep it simple). It means that I can own a gun, even if the same law forbids m
Right, so perhaps she's to close to the problem, which is what the example of my sister was meant to illustrate. I'm not saying that people on welfare are/are not looking for a job, I'm saying homeless people would rather be anything but, and usually that means employed. A good number of welfare people are not homeless, and a goo
Yes, I'm sure IBM has adopted Linux because of its superiority just as car manufacturers adopted vinyl over leather because of its obvious superiority. As for GCC being worse, it's probably because it doesn't do its job as well as other compilers. Let's see. Microsoft gives away software with restrictive licenses, but they aren't selfless, while developers of GPL software give away software with restrictive licenses, which is a selfless act? Maybe
I don't see what makes her opinion any less valid than yours, especially when she dealt with them on a regular basis. Besides, just because somebody says they'd rather be working doesn't make it true, just like a child molestor saying he or she doesn't molest children doesn't make it true.
I've thought about it, and I've realized that while I've been criticizing Open Source as a whole, it's actually only "Free Software" (as defined by the FSF) that suffers from the flaws I state. Except for hobbyist developers, I haven't seen anybody prefer Linux to BSD, a commercial UNIX, or even Windows. Also, if giving something away freely is selflessness, then one can argue that Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, etc. are selfless as well.
My mother used to have a job in which she dealt with many welfare recipients and in her opinion, around 75% of those with whom she dealt were merely lazy and wanted free money.
I acknowledged that there are a few Open Source developers out there that are decent. Whether they are selfless or not is debatable. As for the obvious inferiority of Open Source software, I think comparing Linux, GCC, and khtml to their commercial counterparts is evidence of that.
(I understand that a minute selection of Open Source software is decent, but that software is made by bloodthirsty corporations who are either desperate to stay alive or seeking to benefit from those few programmers that are actually skilled without having to pay them.) Supporters of Open Source software often claim that Open Source software is better than commercial software because despite its obvious inferiority, it's made by selfless individuals who only want to help the world. Well
Nobody wants to be poor, but that doesn't mean that those who are poor are doing what they can to end their poverty.
According to the Dictionary.com , genocide is: "The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group." Did the United States intend to rid the world of the Native Americans?
Even those woth PhDs can have biases, which is why I'm highly suspicious of these claims that the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence weren't the real reasons for the war. This is also the first time I've heard it in my life, and it's not as if those other sources I've read were glorifying our founding fathers, what with mentioning their love for slavery and love for slave mistresses. Until I see some evidence of this, it sounds like a
I just think the words of those who actually lived during those times carry more weight than a historian born centuries later, just like somebody in the Holocaust probably knows more about it than someone born after it was all over, even if that someone had a PhD.
I am being reasonable. Just like people believe that spanking a child will lead to abusing them, I'm believing that giving children time outs will lead to locking them in a cupboard, and taking away a child's toy will lead them to taking away everything they love. It's all abuse in some form.
I highly doubt that Howard Zinn knows more about the Revoluntionary War than those who fought in it, and the failure to differentiate between taxes without representation and taxes with representation doesn't help. Of course, if he has some evidence of this Evil Mason Conspiracy that proves all the documents of those times are lies, then I'll accept it.
If the doctors have the time and resources to care about all their patients, but patients also have to understand that doctors aren't gods and that doctors aren't making them wait just to be jerks, just like I'm sure patients aren't late to appointments just because they don't care about the doctor's time.
From what I've heard throughout the years, the problem with doctors today is the fault of free medical services and HMOs and all that public healthcare stuff.
I'm with Tech Cat here. It seems like it's ran by teens with no value of money or the real world for me to enjoy it, although sometimes I do enjoy reading the trolls there. In fact, I'd say that's the only positive thing about Slashdot.
Also, let's not forget being yelled at. That's a humiliating experience. In fact, I have more dreams in which I'm having a verbal fight with my family than I do of being spanked. Therefore, I think that yelling should be considered a dangerous form of abuse. It scars people emotionally and makes them afraid.
From what I see, all discipline is child abuse, whether it's hitting them, locking them up (grounding them), or depriving them of what they love is all seriously detrimental to a child's mental health, as centuries of evidence has not proven. Someone who spanks their child is more likely to abuse them, and somebody who grounds their child is more likely to lock them in a cupboard than a parent who doesn't do a damn thing to discipline the child. We nee
This might sound age-ist of me, but I have a feeling that most elderly people led lives as normal as anybody else of today's generations. I don't buy into the belief that the elderly are all some sort of super generation that as some news anchors might call "the greatest generation ever." I always thought that most were normal human beings with nothing heroic or veteran about them. Also, if they saved so well, then why don't they use their savings to s
(The following will be told with a liberal bias because I feel that these people who consider spanking "child abuse" are taking their liberalism much too far, although I guess centuries of individuals being spanked (with thorny twigs) without irreparable damage and not being scarred for life might not be evidence of that.) Evil Canada has implemented fascism into the home once again in its attempt to destroy the protection children have from physical punishment by permitting fascist par
The difference between Bush and the elderly is that Bush pays his employees for their service while the elderly don't. If the elderly were to earn their keep, rather than burdening today's generations so that today's generations must then burden the future generations and creating a cycle, then I'm sure nobody would complain.
I'm not going to argue that taxes caused the Revolutionary War, but judging by this document , it does seem that it was definitely one of the many reasons for the Revolutionary War.
"Already we know for a fact that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs are being largely blocked, even frozen. We must do everything possible to strengthen this process." I don't want to sound as though I'm nitpicking, but the quote does sound as though he is acknowledging that Iraq had WMDs. If h
I loved that. I just hope those weren't real Macs he was destroying.
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