Funny, I thought much the same about Bzr. Bzr has at least one GUI (bzr-gtk), is better supported on more than just Linux-based systems, is also written in Python, etc.

Unfortunately, Bzr development has apparently stalled (hence the email from esr suggesting moving off bzr to git -- he notes that he would prefer hg, but that Git has basically won). But, bzr does everything I ask of it. I'll be continuing to use it, so long as it continues to work. When it stops, I guess I'll have to find a tool to convert all my shit to Git or whatever, and find replacements for the various tools that I use (e.g. integration into Gedit).

Hi.
My name is Johan Smith, and I live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC.

I just logged in to say, you're all a bunch of cunts. Soulskill is a cunt. The mods are all cunts. And this article was written by a cunt.

Anyone who thinks that non-anonymous commentating will drive away the trolls, and the hacks, and the flamebaiters, is insane, and/or a cunt.

Also, anyone who thinks that people are using their real names on the Internet is probably wrong.

You must not have seen cold fjord's posts on the NSA and Snowden.

Well, in my case it's because I don't want to make it too easy to tie this account to my real life self. But, it's obvious that I'm somewhere in the tropics. You can read some other posts to discover that the chocolate made here is crap. And, ah, I can't remember if I complained about the political system or not.
Yeah. I'm not advertising this place, I'm just using it as an example. So you don't need to know exactly where it is.

Except that I'm not expressing as disdain for anything, and I'm not saying that decorating your dwelling for "winter holidays" is nonsense or anything else. I'm just saying that: A. I'm not doing anything. B. the poll is flawed because it makes too many assumptions about the audience (e.g. that there will be winter, and that there will be holidays in the winter).

But anyway...

1984 was written as a mirror for Orwell's times, so yeah, '84 as opposed to '48 when he was writing.

People keep thinking he was writing about Russia. But he wasn't. He was writing about Britain. Having worked in the propaganda dept. during WW2, he new all about propaganda from the state. He wasn't writing about Russia at all, what would be the point? There were plenty of others who would write about that part of the world. No, he was writing about his own country. He was writing against fascism, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism in his own country.

He would recognize the shit happening from the NSA, and he would nod, and say "I warned you". That book was written because he knew too well how "liberal, democratic" countries could turn bad.

I suggest everyone go and read Why I Write: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

Moreover, it should apply to all those criminalized, and convicted under this awful law. Alan Turing was a great man, sure enough. But he was not the only victim of this sadistic state. The least the state can do is a blanket pardon, apology, and striking from the records of the "crime" of being gay and acting on it.

It's OK, I dwell in a dwelling that is basically a hole in the ground. But not just any hole, not a dirty, wet hole filled with half ends of worms, or stuff like that. But a nice hole, with carpet, and pantries, and round windows. I.e. a hobbit hole.

My only trouble is, I'm a tall person, and I keep hitting my head on the damn ceiling...

I don't care if Christmas is the freaking birth of the FSM, or the discovery of a teapot in orbit around the sun. I'm also not decorating anything for the New Year.

I.e. you're reading too much into my post.

You can do what you want with your own dwelling, but I shall be doing nothing. And I don't see what bah humbug has to do with that.

Look, I don't have any problem with the poll. Just the implication that by not decorating my dwelling, I'm saying "bah humbug". Which, frankly, isn't the case. I'm just not celebrating anything. I'm not objecting to you, or anyone else, doing what they will (with certain obvious caveats).

Also, this website maybe "American", but I don't the majority of the members and visitors are American.

You regularly get mod-bombed because you're a fucking idiot who is presenting the most inane and stupid ideas, and you expect people to treat those ideas (and yourself) as if they had the same validity as actual sane (even if wrong) ideas.

A lot of people with different opinions get modded up on /. even if those opinions go against the 'group-think'. You, however, are either a troll, or just stupidly crazy (shaken too much as a baby?). Either way, you're opinions are not presented in a manner that justifies giving them anything but contempt.

Maybe if instead of sucking on the NSAs hypothetical cock/cunt so much, with such "oh yes, I love Big Brother", and your shit about "Al Qaida" being at war with the USA (and being so successful, that they have had one attack in the USA in the last 200 years, unlike the Christian fundamentalists who have had at least three that i can think of), and thus justifying bombing weddings, funerals, and anyone who looks at the drone funny, you just stuck to non-political subjects, you'd get on better. (I've seen +5 posts of yours, so it is possible.)

You are a caricature.

My point stands. Even when signing up to pay for stuff, that says "don't redistribute", I don't think I've ever seen a clause that says "and if you do redistribute, we'll come and make you pay us". Normally, it would be implied that they have copyright law on their side. Except, that, well, here they don't. So, to repeat the question of the anon coward, what penalties would they be seeking?

And... /. ate my </troll> bugger. Well, here it is.

I was hoping they floated off into the depths of space to die alone... Leaving their fellow crew members to die of heat (or whatever)

With what penalties? I don't believe I've seen an online contract (aka terms of service, which aren't really a contract at all) that matters that has enforceable penalties. So:
1. download
2. redistribute.
2a. if redistributing anonymously, goto 4.
2b. if redistributing in a fashion that is easy to link you to your account, goto 3.
3. lose your account. who cares? end.
4. continue as you please. end.