An essay that is sort of a culmination of my thinking over the past few months.

I've moved it to wikipedia so that it can be versioned (and pretty-diffed) each time I add to it.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hfastedge/essays/swdevel

After a fire killed many people in 1 internet cafe, china decides to shutdown 3000+
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2608305.stm
They state its for safety reasons, but this is unlikely.

As to the debian vs. gentoo stuff...I didnt finish the comment, but basically Im pissed that gentoo REALLY reinvented a lot of wheels without trying to make use of debian's base of package maintainers. To this end, I think that _most_ of the whines of these herd mentality gentooers could be solved by debian having an i686 distro, so im rousing the debian-devel list on this (whereas the other gentooers could simply do with an version of debian's package management system rewritten in python to

I noticed that theres like 400 people in the gentoo chatroom on freenode. Thats very close to the amount in debian.

I know what gentoo "is", a package system where you compile your own packages, but has the perks of dependency information.

So I go into this chatroom and ask:
are there any performance comparisons of gentoo vs. debian?

I get "not really".

Here is some really horrible hate poetry out of the recesses of my conscious.
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whats with that blank look your face shows me,
yeah, I feel that short sighted impatience from your cerebrum that i should worship as your anger

well, go fuck yourself some sympathy moron. yeah, a family.
please! eat some more meat onto you so you can beat me up even worse.

muthapffFFUCKA!
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=47383&cid=4847920

Sure, I can understand buying copies to support OpenBSD. I buy Redhat for the same reason, it's more principle than the actual material in the box.

You are correct. There's a slight difference, though, OpenBSD is not trying to turn a profit, just cover the development costs.

My history teacher from highschool, mr dickey, a vietnam veteran who appeared pretty balanced with respec to his time there, got me thinking about the topic "how to affect social change" when I was in his class.

The article below, about the spammer millionaire that got his dose of medicine, is a good example of how people are protesting in this day and age.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227

Wowowo. I've met my goal of getting +karma.

See: http://tacos.sus.mcgill.ca/~hperes/stuffBox/imp.png

If you think thats cool, then check out my inbox from a few weeks ago notice all of the people :-) :http://tacos.sus.mcgill.ca/~hperes/stuffBox/inbox.png