Posts by CBM 13 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2019
A paranoid person would note that usual circumvention for the patents involves doing the link via a server rather than point to point... which is very much more convenient for LEA interception, can't help but wonder if the alphabet agencies (CIA/NSA/FBI etc) are mixed in this somewhere.
This one sounds like a legit case for change: It was developed when the framework was very new, and not that well explored. People have since discovered better ways of doing certain things, and trying to interoperate with the old ways just leads to piles of boilerplate. Stability can be good, but sometimes cutting your losses and moving on is better.
How would low wages increase house prices? There is a housing shortage, demand exceeds supply, people are paying as much as they can to get into a tight market - increase the amount of money they have and the price will instantly jump to compensate.
Increase wages by 10x and wake up in the morning to find house prices up by 20x in anticipation.
Combined with stupidly low interest rates and a belief you can't lose in property (based on seeing current bubble) people are driving house prices to insane levels by borrowing as much as the bank will let them. Here in Australia 80s interest rates were in the teens (of percent)... that would fix prices pretty quickly (but home owners don't want to lower prices... and they vote).
Sounds like a good thing. FSF insistence that dynamic linking counts as derivative work has never been tested anyway.
But btw linking against a symbol that that no longer exists in the runtime you will be using is just plain stupid (and will crash one way or another).
Not generally left wing. Because you don't like what they are saying you conclude they must be from the "other" side. Every time I've looked into one of these groups it has proven to be a false flag operation. They call themselves feminists, and use language that seems to focus on secular rights, but if you look into the background of the people involved in the groups promoting the "save them" antiporn/antiprostitution/"Nordic model", you will find most of them belong to conservative churches. Even if they could be called feminists, they are certainly not left wing.
SWERF (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist) is a (not complimentary) term that is used by other feminists to describe those who would exclude sex work from the definition of freedom.
Moral of that story, if you are a violent sociopath built like a truck, that no one in their right mind would retaliate against, you are allowed to bully whoever you like with impunity.
I was bullied terribly in primary school. Most bullies are pretty good at violence, you are just giving them a fee pass to "hit you back", since now you have broken the rules too. Telling you to fight back is just an asshole way to blame the victim.
As the wiki-rabble would say, [citation needed]. Unfounded implication that all or most women having abortions regret it in a substantial way - it is quite a common procedure, yet women loudly regretting it are rare, and almost always from a culture/religion that tells them that they should (and the quickest route for them to find acceptance & forgiveness in that culture is to express regret).
Even within simple questionnaires of sentiment must remember not all "regret" is equal. People can regret unwise comments or selfies... do we feel the need for regulation of those requiring mandatory warnings and cooling off periods?
You are framing the argument to advance your moral perspective, choosing to lament one lost potential while ignoring others. What about regret for the life choices lost by being forced into unplanned child bearing, dropping out of school, derailing their career, never meeting the partner they might have found otherwise, children of happy family that never exist because their mother became a single parent before she found a partner.
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