Arguably a BSD license could have worked as well, but many people have a fear that if they contribute to BSD projects, that evil companies might benefit from their work; with GPL they are comfortable contributing.
Good thing the NSA doesn't run Linux!
A BSD license means that the only development you are guaranteed to get is your own development. Anything else is just by chance...If you publish the same code under GPL, and even a single other developer shows some interest and adds something to your work, you are guaranteed to get rewarded by additional functionality.
The guarantee requires that the developer distribute their work.
There is no ROI for your development work if you publish something under BSD license.
LLVM and FreeBSD would like a word with you. Some extremely popular projects use very liberal licenses and there are more, not less of these.
Thing is, I suspect you are right on the first part but thats the thing...its insignificant to the point.
Irregardless, it's just a hunch
Just because online comments are a crapshoot....offline ones are too btw... doesn't say anything about any individual one
??? I'm unclear on this, comments don't say anything about an individual? Disagree strongly, if so. What people joke about, what they focus on subject wise, and how they discuss it speaks volumes about themselves and how they perceive the world. Example, all women are referred to as bitches. Or, They should just get a job! Or, they're all fucking faggots etc.
and....frankly....Ive known some otherwise intelligent people who don't speak well or have trouble speaking/typing.
Intelligence is expressed in many capacities including communication. If we can't speak, read or write well it is counterproductive. Cutting to the chase since these are considered trivial subjects by the STEM crowd (boo hiss to liberal arts!) as witnessed here and elsewhere, does this make the intelligent-but-unable-to-communicate person simply lazy? They're intelligent after all! What are people called, intelligent or not, who make mistakes? Willfully making mistakes? If they're a politician, they're stupid. Why wouldn't this apply here?
Its simply bigotry to read someone words and focus only on how they speak while ignoring their message. This whole "you don't speak exactly to my standards so fuck your opinion" really doesn't deserve to be acceptable.
There are responsibilities shared by both the audience and speaker, classically anyway, if you respect that then that means that every point is valid, including the AC comment which started this. Bigotry is such an emotionally charged word concerning intolerance to others opinions, key being opinions. We're entitled to our own opinions, after all (ex: In my opinion, towing the line is correct!) but this isn't a matter of opinion, it's about a phrase, a fact. We document reality with facts.
I agree with your sentiment regarding entitled people, it comes down to being persuasive and knowing you'll never persuade someone. The AC in a very unpersuasive way dew attention to an unfortunately common mangled phrase. Full stop. Reading too deeply into something results in projection. We have to agree on some things otherwise communication goes downhill quickly. Without standards like you mention we wouldn't be able to use the internet
Are you really trying to justify being irritatingly pedantic in order to somehow enhance the discussion? All it has accomplished is this timewasting derail.
How am I being pedantic? Let's recap shall we? Some guy online uses a phrase that he's never used before and manages to mangle it up. Someone calls him on it. Someone else doesn't like that someone else calls people out on things. I reply to this person to the effect that I suspect it's a phrase heard before and that using phrases improperly makes you look foolish. You reply to me with a response that I'm pedantic. If you'll notice I'm not the one who brought this up so your suggestion is better directed elsewhere.
Keeping that in mind, maybe it's just better to let this minor meaningless slip-up go?
And yet, you're commenting on it, too. By your logic does this make you pedantic or just self loathing?
Nothing but an attack on the intelligence of the poster based on....a single fucking word.
It's not so much that it's a word, but a phrase which subtly changes the meaning. My hunch is it's a phrase they've heard and not read. As always the devil is in the details. Have you heard someone slip up with their units (TB and KB)? An innocent slip or not it makes them sound foolish in a technical discussion, likewise using a phrase improperly taints the points they're making and brings into question and how informed they are. Perception is reality. Without people pointing this crap out, how will it get better? The use of irregardless is on the rise ffs.
Online posts are such absurd crapshoots of appeals to authority and opinion as fact, even people (myself included) who seem to know what they're talking about spout so much profound misinformed nonsense and outright fantasy it's hilarious to take anything read online seriously. On the internet nobody knows you're a dog, nobody.
Yes, the methodology by which the statistics are gathered is suspect. That's because there isn't a gallup poll; it's a criminal activity and people don't answer the phone and say "Yes, I traffic in women."
"It's a really big problem, I watched Netflix and heard some stories." A similar thing occurred with D&D and a fear campaign around satanic crap. Do you have anything better than a "trust me it's a big problem"?
Yes, there are people who just decide to go into prostitution for economic reasons and are psychologically healthy about it. They of course defend their profession from statistics that show a lot of young women are not voluntarily in the trade, and a lot of them aren't even going to understand that
"There are people in an industry that I don't work in, but that I have watched some completely unbiased shows on (trust me), and they don't know what they're talking about!"
and a lot of them aren't even going to understand that some young women they think are their voluntarily have been effectively brainwashed by someone who collects all of their profits and buys them an ice cream cone and says that they care.
This comes off much like a "think of the children". You used girl elsewhere, however, young women are by their very definition a woman, for woman to apply that would mean at least 18 (an adult). This continues the line of thinking that women are children and cannot make decisions on their own behalf. Let's not forget that girls mature faster than boys, and they're taught about people touching them - something boys aren't. Not to mention there are "a lot" (another weasel word, see how that works?) of 18yo males who enlist and deploy and are maimed or meet an untimely end. Take a story in the paper if it was about a young man, they'd drop the young part and just refer to him as a man. There's an effort here to paint this in a particular light. Why would that be?
More and more girls who are younger and younger. The average age has gone down over the years--you used to every once in a while see a girl who was underage. Now it's all the time. Girls who are underage cannot consent.
Is it so, or could it be that it's easier to share things nowadays? Look at all the (disproportionately female) teachers raping students, is this a new phenomenon? Or is it something that's occurring with the same frequency and just broadcast further and faster? Another example is how people are worried about sending their children outside when crime is following a 40 year trend downwards.
Since you're fond of think of the children angle how about a present scandal occurring at this very moment. Human trafficking involving Chinese citizens coming over and having anchor babies. I've seen this with my own eyes, too. People who pay tens of thousands of dollars to come here and have a child on our dime by claiming to be destitute when at the Hospital. Getting back to the original issue, as far as these picture websites, your stance is that there isn't enough laws on the books to address these sites? That's rich.
I buy a new phone about every 3 years, when my previous one is worn out. Most people do this every year or two. What a waste...This article shows what you're missing when you sign that lease, or buy that new iPhone.
I replace mine with about the same frequency. Not to toot Apple's horn but they have trade in programs which reduce the cost of the new phone and they refurbish or recycle the old one. Many people will hand their phones down, too. Often the only thing that the handsets really need is a battery.
The motors and battery (which needs to be replaced every X years) for your new Prius are not so great for the environment. Sure, it makes you feel good to not fill up at the gas pump, but what is the true environmental cost of that car?
One argument that can be made is efficiency, is it more efficient to tap the grid vs generating energy at home? Is less fuel consumption beneficial? Here's a Forbes article about Prius, having a battery replaced with a refurbished one from a 3rd party.
The reality is that there are 28 separate cells in the hybrid battery pack. When the unit starts to fail, only a handful of the individual cells are bad. What Prius Battery Repair of Houston does, and Toyota could do if it wanted to, is replace the bad hybrid battery pack with a reconditioned one to get the customer back on the road. Then, determine which cells are bad, and simply replace the bad battery cells, recondition the battery, and sell it to the next customer.
Same goes for windmills, etc. Are they really better for the environment than, say, nuclear power?
Better is so subjective. Replace windmills with $anyitem (minifridge, dams, coal power plants). Does it make it more or less profound?
I'm glad someone out there is forcing us to look at the downside of all of the technology we use. Kudos to them for doing it.
Forcing? Hardly. This is the byproduct of cheap.
I'd say this article just focuses on an admittedly bad area where stuff is done cheaply because that's what many people want world wide. A rare earth mine is ramping up production in California. Compare how it's done. It lowered capacity because of cost, a re-occuring theme with a lot of American industry.
Anybody telling you to 'be sincere and do what I say' is saying 'fake sincerity, copy me'.
They could have Aspergers and don't know how. Copying people is how we learn, just the format that changes.
There is a resurgence of the anti-intellectualism culture in this country, and it's being elected into positions where it can do unimaginable damage to our country.
Resurgence? It's been going on longer than we've been alive. "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."" - Isaac Asimov, 1980
Stupid people make stupid decisions, and when those stupid people are in public office, they make stupid decisions that fuck up everyone's life.
Where to begin? Unfortunately stupid people do not hold a monopoly on stupid decisions. Ever tried ordering lunch for an entire company? Scale that up to 300 million people and you may begin to appreciate the scope of the issue. Politicians don't magically slither into office, they're voted in. Ultimately it sounds like you don't want a politician but a leader, one who cannot make poor decisions meaning no compromising is allowed, since that results in stupidity, nor any dissent since only stupid people would go against the smart leader. Sounds like a good fit for a totalitarian. Who do you recommend take the helm?
You have state representatives who don't have a basic understanding of the female anatomy trying to regulate women's medical treatments: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
There are minions of the state involved in falsifying test scores for financial gain, spanning over a decade, see the huge scandal in Georgia which affects tens of thousands of students.
I couldn't help but notice the source and targets for both of those links, HuffPo isn't exactly center, as tempting as it may be this is be to frame this as such it is by no means a partisan issue. There is a sustained and concerted effort by powerful monied interests spanning decades working on both sides of the aisle to undo this country and they successfully have us fighting one another. Only by working together will we get things done.
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.