Wow, librairies only contain propaganda. That's quite a claim. In order to make that claim of course you've read and evaluated more than half of the books in at least the librairy closest to you. Strictly speaking you'd have to do that in a reasonable sample of all the librairies in the world but I'm missing the point aren't I? Can I guess? You're part of some cult or sect which fears knowledge right (an extreme version of christianity perhaps)? Or are you just too damn lazy to read and therefore take the position that there is nothing of value in books.

Either way, this post (mine that is) is pointless as you flaunt your ignorance way more effectively, and admittedly succinctly, than I ever could.

Have fun finding and burning the local witches...

If I take the vaccine and I only sleep with my wife and in 10 years I'm HIV free does it work?

Or is one of the pre-requisites of joining the trial that you commit to sleeping with as many sleeezy whores as you can find?

These are the questions that keep me from being a productive member of society.....

I can say: its because politicians are lying, scheming whores who care nothing for the people they are meant to represent. Not only that but in Canada they are bland, uninspring, grey, dull and well bland. I would rather take an interest in US politics. It probably has more of an impact on our lives here in Canada in any case.

He doesn't appear to be going "on and on". He appeared to me to be a talking about how we already have a working system but how, given that Canada is small and unimportant, its the perfect place (like say NZ) to experimentally roll out a new system and that in any case, even though the sytem aint broke, its the way everyone is going to go sooner or later.

I actually think that online voting is the first step towards true democracy although I have to admit to being scared as well as excited by that possibility (come see the Canadian death penaly...)

Its not just a matter of whether nuclear power can be done safely. In principle it can if you neglect the fact you have no way of getting rid of the waste. Its the practice thats the issue. Nuclear power is almost always done by private companies and they prefer their bottom line to our environment any day of the week and so, in the UK at least, they frequently let radioactive waste vent into the sea to the extent that all our coastlines and estuaries around the Irish sea are radioactive to many many times the legal limits. Come drink from and bath in the Irish Sea and bring your kids too and then maybe I will believe you when you say its perfectly safe. We have beautiful beaches in that area. I never saw people swimming....

I think his point is that those same legislators are abdicating their responsibility by allowing an effective monopoly (as pointed out by many previous posts) which then is free to abuse its market position. The point being then that capitalism is no longer working as advertised (i.e. increases consumer choice and leads to competitive pricing through... competition) and so one can either roll over pay up whatever they demand or rebel and pirate.

I always feel so welcome entering the US :)

Seriously though, how often do border guards ever catch anyone? All that frisking and undressing and do they EVER catch anyone? I feel certain that if they ever did, it would be all over the media. As evidenced here, this pointless pompous nonsense reaches the pinacle of its expression on the way into the US.

not only a very nice free IDE but an open-source cross-platform class library. My code compiles and runs on Windows (32 &64) Ubuntu (32 & 64) Red Hat Enterprise, FreeBSD - thats all thats been tested so far but no reason to think the list doesn't continue.

Erm kelowna.en.craigslist.ca is not in the US (the "ca" on the end is a dead giveaway) and it is owned by Craigslist and it is obvious to anyone without Asperger's that we're talking about Craigslist sites.

Kelowna seems fine too (also foreign) but I agree, its way too scary and unpredictable out here. You should stay in your safe little country and you should maybe think twice before leaving the house too - its just not safe!

no, maybe, oh I don't know. Why do I get all the hard questions?

I guess you're right in principle (as both a reciprocal licences and therefore encourage dual-licencing) but the GPL is scary to a lot of people and its not the best written licence in that a lot of its content is in the preamble which has no legal standing so far as I understand.
From our point of view, we would rather use a licence which is well-written and that we can imagine defending in court.
The GPL reads more like a manifesto than a licence. As a company, it is not our stance that we want to abolish the evil capitalist software market in favour of a socialist or libertarian anarchic utopia :) it just suits our purposes to have the code out there and to have a good reason to undercut the competition.

I run a small project funded by a private company and with the aim of making money at some point. We chose the Open Software Licence (OSLv3) as a clean and clear licence which allows us to show the code and for everyone to use it and contribute to it but without losing control of it. The GPL is an extreme open source licence which effectively says no-one should be able to make more than their hourly rate from software. Once we have taken over the market with our free open-source offering, we plan to make proprietary versions and modules as well as taking a royalty from third parties who can use our platform as a way to get their expertise to market in software.
I looked through all the major open-source licences and the OSL is the most business-friendly at least for our model.

Let me describe a scene as you're having trouble imagining the benefit: you're debugging a GUI but everytime you press run your screen redraw causes it to hit the breakpoint you've set. Ooh! two screens! move the test app to the other screen and keep the IDE on this one and now when you press run, you dont redraw your app immediately and can now debug easier.

Sometimes the whole point of two monitors is that you don't look at both at once.