Comment Re:So, if idiots have power. . . (Score 1) 19
Oh, sure, and next you're just going to tell us that it's really all ethernet packets, and the rest of the network stack is just a carefully crafted illusion of 1s and 0s.
Comment Re:So, if idiots have power. . . (Score 1) 19
And you are always complaining about which "idiots" are using the power.
Indeed. Stand by for the heat discharge from conservatives toward the Vichy GOP as they assume Congressional power.
Comment Re:"redemption" (Score 1) 51
Fair point. Let me elaborate: "There is no work we can undertake of ourselves whereby we can say: Lord we are justified by this thing WE did under our own power." Even the act of accepting salvation is a passive one.
Comment Re:Every President in my Lifetime (Score 1) 72
The issue is that, after half a dozen reps, you veer into Broken Recordism.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 14
God is omnipresent, but God's Holiness is antithetical to sin.
Comment Re:"redemption" (Score 1) 51
there is nothing under the sun we can do, individually, or collectively, to be redeemed.
Of course there is: "Repent, and sin no more". (And since you're fallen... repeat as necessary).
Of course there is: "Repent, and sin no more". (And since you're fallen... repeat as necessary).
Journal Journal: ATTENTION ERIC HOLDER
Comment Ye Gods! (Score 1) 314
Ye Gods! No!
OpenBSD truly adheres to "KISS", especially regarding simple configuration files. Exactly of what systemd isn't. It may have (and I'm still not convinced) nice features, but for my uses what is presently being used suffices, both on Linux and especially on OpenBSD.
Comment So, if idiots have power. . . (Score 1) 19
So, if idiots have power, they use it.
Journal Journal: Northern Ireland at Hungary
Went with some friends tonight to watch Hungary play Northern Ireland in their Euro Cup qualifier match.
It was held at Groupama Arena. It was my first time there and it is a very nice facility. We bought lower priced tickets but it still felt like we were very close, especially compared to what it is like at Ferenc Puskás Stadium.
Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 326
Concur. I think that there are a spectrum of motives for doing code, from joy to business.
What matters is that the legal system allow and deconflict a flourishing of motives, not that Any One True Opinion prevail.
What matters is that the legal system allow and deconflict a flourishing of motives, not that Any One True Opinion prevail.
Comment Re:not communism (Score 2) 326
I think his role as FSF cheerleader #1 requires inflexibility. RMS certainly plays the role with gusto. What else is he supposed to do? I guess we'll find out when existential inevitabilities catch up with him, and someone else has to try to be RMS.
Comment Re:Shortest version (Score 1) 326
It's the "moral" connotation to which I object. There is no means of putting source code on the same behavior continuum as, say, sexual mores or discussion of the afterlife. There are pragmatic reasons to support the FSF, and I do, but they are not moral ones.
Comment Re:Every President in my Lifetime (Score 1) 72
I'll assume your position and tell you that it's all before you, you just have to open your eyes. The Zen Bozo role being a relatively straightforward algorithm.
Comment Re:Let's call it: "The Banana Ear" (Score 1) 51
Au contraire: absurdity seems the most efficient means of responding to you.
