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Comment Re:RTFGPL (Score 1) 126

I am afraid you do not understand. There are no furher restrictions placed on your right to redistribute the sources. You can freely do it. It's just that it means Redhat will terminate their customer relationship with you. Which means they no longer have to offer you binaries. Which means they no longer have to offer your sources either.

It's devilishly clever legalese. Stupid and annoying yes, but also devilishly clever.

Comment Re:For future bills controlling corporations (Score 0) 41

You need to add a clause to these bills re-asserting state sovereign immunity and withdrawing consent of the government to be sued by corporations the law applies to. The companies notoriously abuse the court system to obstruct.

On most matters states are immune to being sued, so I am not sure why this is tolerated to allow companies to push back against regulations like so. Write a statute in consumer protection laws like this restoring the government's Immunity so that the courts cannot be used to obstruct implementation.

Í don't like to throw the word around, but you are literally asking for fascism. FUCK THAT.

Comment Re:There aught to be a law (Score 1) 32

Honestly copyrights need to be a quicker removal from software that is written for a specific hardware platform that is no longer in production, I'm thinking like 5 years.

That's absurd. The fact that you chose to not actively exercise your property rights for a prolonged time IS, in itself, exercising your property rights. Not a prelude to being stripped of them.

Comment Re:Only if competition isn't working (Score 1) 62

HAHAHAHAHAA

Oh, you were serious... Oh my.

Let me guess, trickle down economics works too?

You could actually open the most recent annual reports for a few large insurers and see for yourself where most of the income over time actually comes from.

Instead of embarrasing yourself in public.

Comment Re:Sometimes the right and corporates aren't buddi (Score 1) 62

No, thats how they make MORE money.

If you think insurance companies are hurting on profit, you either havent been looking at their reports OR you are making dividends off them and have a reason to be disingenuous.

If you think insurance underwriting is how insurers make most of their money, you have absolutely zero idea about how insurance actually works and where the profits are coming from.

Comment Re:Because being a dick makes everything better (Score 4, Insightful) 303

No. Being an asshole is not the right answer.

This has been a public service announcement.

Lots of people enjoy LARPing that we shouldn't shame people because it supposedly doesn't work, except it does work. Shaming, ostracising and peer pressure ALL work, which is why they have persisted as effective ways of shaping societies for many millennia.

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