Ever since my teenage years, I felt as if there were a filmy curtain separating me from other people my age. I understood the words of their conversations, but I could not grasp why they said what they did.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/end-child-marriage-u-s-you-might-be-surprised-who-n1050471 βπβ End child marriage in the U.S.? You might be surprised at who's opposed βπβ Sept. 8, 2019 βπβ Conservatives have found some surprising allies as they fight efforts to raise the marriage age. βπβ A bill that would have ended child marriage in Idaho β which has no minimum age for couples who want to wed β died in the Statehouse this year. Republican lawmakers, who control the Legislature, opposed it, including state Rep. Bryan Zollinger, who said it "went too far." βπβ
If you haven't done so the last time, switch all your projects from (A)GPLv3+ to (A)GPLv3 exactly, since a subverted GPL published swiftly after an FSF takeover is the obvious endgame.
relicense away from the GPL >>7
an 8 year old child bride from Afghanistan (where actual good people exist).β >>13
writing software for Stallman unpaidhttps://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html
βWon't everyone stop programming without a monetary incentive?β
Actually, many people will program with absolutely no monetary incentive. Programming has an irresistible fascination for some people, usually the people who are best at it. There is no shortage of professional musicians who keep at it even though they have no hope of making a living that way.
But really this question, though commonly asked, is not appropriate to the situation. Pay for programmers will not disappear, only become less. So the right question is, will anyone program with a reduced monetary incentive? My experience shows that they will.
For more than ten years, many of the world's best programmers worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab for far less money than they could have had anywhere else. They got many kinds of nonmonetary rewards: fame and appreciation, for example. And creativity is also fun, a reward in itself.
Then most of them left when offered a chance to do the same interesting work for a lot of money.
What the facts show is that people will program for reasons other than riches; but if given a chance to make a lot of money as well, they will come to expect and demand it. Low-paying organizations do poorly in competition with high-paying ones, but they do not have to do badly if the high-paying ones are banned.
There is no shortage of professional musicians who keep at it even though they have no hope of making a living that way.
Programming has an irresistible fascination for some people
programmers worked at the Artificial Intelligence LabPaid by the taxpayers for their completely useless work. MIT AI Lab haven't produced anything of value, beside these short-lived Symbolics workstations, which Stallman did everything to harm.
for far less money than they could have had anywhere elseRead: Stallman wants engineer to be poor and depend on government give away, like in Soviet Union. Yet Stallman forgets that USSR completley lost to America in the field of computing. And USSR had a lot of Jewish programmers, who just disliked the idea of working for free. One of soviet programmers, Boris Berezovsky, instead moved into business (illegal at the name).
Symbolicshttps://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1582047203#reply_280
Soviet Union USSRhttps://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#31_March_2021_(Pro-business_party)
I do not advocate being "anti-business"; it would be very bad to abolish business. (We have seen how bad Communism is.) However, businesses have a tendency to mistreat human beings, so a large part of the job of the state is to make businesses stop doing that.
MIT AI Lab haven't produced anything of valuehttps://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1582047203#reply_182
Forward Reasoning and Dependency-Directed Backtracking in a System for Computer-Aided Circuit analysis by Richard M. Stallman and Gerald J. Sussman
We present a rule-based system for computer-aided circuit analysis. The set of rules, called EL, is written in a rule language called ARS. Rules are implemented by ARS as pattern-directed invocation demons monitoring an associative data base. Deductions are performed in an antecedent manner, giving EL's analysis a catch-as-catch-can flavour suggestive of the behavior of expert circuit analyzers. We call this style of circuit analysis propagation of constraints. The system threads deduced facts with justifications which mention the antecedent facts and the rule used. These justifications may be examined by the user to gain insight into the operation of the set of rules as they apply to a problem. The same justifications are used by the system to determine the currently active data-base context for reasoning in hypothetical situations. They are also used by the system in the analysis of failures to reduce the search space. This leads to effective control of combinatorial search which we call dependency-directed backtracking.
While working (starting in 1975) as a research assistant at MIT under Gerry Sussman,[18] Stallman published a paper (with Sussman) in 1977 on an AI truth maintenance system, called dependency-directed backtracking.[22] This paper was an early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems. As of 2009, the technique Stallman and Sussman introduced is still the most general and powerful form of intelligent backtracking.[23] The technique of constraint recording, wherein partial results of a search are recorded for later reuse, was also introduced in this paper.[23]
Gazprom goodhttps://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#7_September_2020_(Navalny_poisoning)
*Navalny poisoning forces Merkel's party to ask: how do we hit back at Putin?* Here's a suggestion: switch to renewable energy as fast as possible. It's vitally necessary anyway, and it will eliminate demand for Russia's key exports (fossil fuels).
Pro-Trump lawyer says βno reasonable personβ would believe her election lies
I can take any political views, even contradictory, when it suits me. I.e. if Trump pays me a million USD to promote racism, I will be promoting racism, and if Hilary pays me million USD to speak against racism, I will be speaking against racism.
For now I just hope that Americans will start killing each other in a civil war, so America will become less full and I could immigrate there. America actually needs a bloodshed.
I.e. today I support both sides of the conflict, cheering for every American death.
My argument is: pay me money and I will follow the party line. Otherwise I will be false flagging from the both sides, writing nasty things. Nostrovia!
So I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I just hate Americans.But no one gives any credence to someone with fluid and contradictory stances, so your false-flagging won't be anywhere near as efficient as it might be if you had credibility. That means that you are destroying the efficiency of your chosen tool, regardless of whether that tool choice makes any sense to begin with.Not everyone is as smart as you. We are talking about the complete drooling American right wingers. These creatures have less intelligence than a retarded hamster. So why bothering puting in any effort, if most alt-rights get triggered?
Russian spyhttps://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#29_July_2012_(Persecution_of_Pussy_Riot)
In Russia, any women who are musicians can become Pussy Riot, and the intense persecution of three of them is making Russians recognize what a tyrant Putin is.
Wikileaks reveals that the US and other countries recognize that Russia is a "virtual mafia state".
The only opposition candidate in Russia faces criminal charges of falsifying signatures in his nomination petition. The investigators are practicing intimidation tactics. Apparently Putin is not satisfied with rigging the election β he seems to wish to declare openly that Russian elections are a sham.
Russian police cracked down on an anti-Putin conference operating in parallel with the G8. Clearly Russia is no democracy now.
Corruption was bad in Russia before Putin, but now it is much worse.
It is true that Putin has corrupted and destroyed democracy in Russia and runs a corrupt and repressive regime, but war is not the way to deal with that.
*Navalny poisoning forces Merkel's party to ask: how do we hit back at Putin?* Here's a suggestion: switch to renewable energy as fast as possible. It's vitally necessary anyway, and it will eliminate demand for Russia's key exports (fossil fuels).
Bullies like ErdoΔan, Putin and the conman use threats and shakedowns to get what they want, but they are no one's friend or ally.
Moscow Police Arrest up to 200 Ahead of Election Protest. Putin openly visits contempt on democracy as an act of intimidation, like what the bully does in the US.
The cheater tried to set up a hotel deal in Latvia with businessmen linked to Putin, and also to corruption. This particular proposed deal was not necessarily wrongdoing on the cheater's part, but the long list of situations where he has been involved with associates of Putin adds up to a pattern of support for a foreign tyrant.