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Comment amazon returns are even better (Score 1) 140

meanwhile in the US we've been enjoying 30+ day return periods from Amazon

we have free book exchanges too but people leave crappy books so its not usually worth it.
we also have a thing called libraries which are free and have 10s of thousands of books.

america's a great place bro. should check it out some time.

Comment wanted to recover (Score 1) 71

FYI they wanted to recover but had difficulty getting permits to do so seeing as this is the first time ever. The agreement reached was if they can do it over water first, then allowed to do land next.

It's important to realize they're attempting to land a rocket backwards, which requires carrying extra fuel, which means if something went wrong on landing, there would be a rocket full of propulsives out of control landing somewhere in FL or CA.

Comment Re: and... (Score 1) 196

Paraphrasing other Slashdot posts I have seen, there are no compelling reasons to upgrade to Python 3. Removing the global interpreter lock would be one major reason to, but no one has submitted a good patch for that, and besides, someone would probably just backport it to Python 2.7.

Comment Re:RMS needs to get over the GPL (Score 1) 279

On the contrary, that point is exactly *why* we GPL advocates advocate it. We don't want to enable companies which have no intention whatsoever to be part of the community. They're free to do everything themselves, and good luck to them. But giving them a leg up to get off the ground just so they can be selfish assholes with their ideas? Why should we? And yes, sharing your *ideas* and *implementations* is what we mean by being part of the community. If this isn't for you, then don't let the door hit you on the way out, thanks.

hm I see your point, but i don't have a problem with enabling companies to be selfish.
You only exclude the entrepreneurs by being viral. The large companies will jump in and be selfish because they already have teams they can dedicate to being selfish and rolling their own if they want. They'll just use BSD or something.
The entrepreneurs create new technologies, so excluding them just kills new smaller markets that larger companies wouldn't have entered anyways.
Maybe it's not a big deal and maybe its good we get closed companies being forced to contribute. I know IMO having closed hardware that only runs NonFree software is lame.

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