Aha, now I understand. It is a manly and tough culture. No place
for niceties, that is for sissies who refuse to be extremely alert
and defend their manly honor.
I've seen a post or two from you here Roger and they do indeed
contain some rather nifty insights, but I'm thinking you've got some
things wrong here. The terms "manly" and "sissy" and the
distinctions between the two are irrelevant. For the most part, it's
not about dominance or that foul darwin/nietzsche mentality where
only the strong survive. Although core capitalism hammers in on my
theory considerably.
It's about solving the problem at hand. All else that surrounds that
problem means nothing. We can worry about such implications after
we've put the problem to rest. Until we do, diplomacy is nothing
more then overhead. It's secondary.
Most newbie linux users are faced with solving problems. Diplomacy
will only get in the way. This "weak and strong" angle you center on
is plain bullpucky!. Likewise for the 'proper manners' crap too.
I have always wondered why there is so much violence in
television. And so much foul language and rude attitudes in
usenet.
No foul language in my post. Not yet.
So this is what it is all about. A manly and tough culture where
concern for others have no place.
This has political and social implications too. No reason to care
for the weak people, they have to learn to fight or die.
You seem to be at odds with human nature, or existence in general.
Female cats will only defend their cubs up to a point. When death is
eminent, they'll run. Too bad for the cubs. But humans aren't
animals now are they?. Humans are "beings" for crying out loud and
it implies we are better then the cats! Arrogance gets the best of
us now and then doesn't it?
So there is no reason to organize a comfortable society for all
people, that would just encourage the sissies and weaklings.
Humans do possess a trait no other animal does. It's called
compassion. Any response I have here is best left to email. Just add
'[123]' and mix with a subject. Makes a nice glue actually.
Okay, then we just have to train our children to fight and get
tough.
Living organisms have been doing this for eons. Roger Johansson is
here because of it!. So am I. So is everything else! So we think.
No reason to help others in this newsgroup, if they cannot find
out things by themselves they should get lost and die.
And how does a baby cat know what to eat and what not to? It's
called instinct. Couple this fact with the rather hard training
program the parents put it thru and it lives. If the cubs internal
instinct is flawed even slightly, or it doesn't get the rough
training, it's going to die. Users of windows (I was one myself) end
up with a minimized instinct. Dealing with other horrible Linux
users gives us the hard training we need.
Man, I gotta be nuts right?
No reason to have any freeware either, people can work and pay for
the software. There is no place for lazy sissies in this world.
Shesh, are you blind? That's exactly what Gates and his ilk want!!!.
Something the Linux and OSS crowd are hoping to thwart. The
embracing of an OS that incorporates product activation, DRM
mechanisms, and directives from Tcpa and/or Palladium (hardware
DRM!) is geared solely towards achieving what you state above. Do
you really think all that crap is relegated to a mere moral issue
such as software piracy? Or even, umm, as you say it, "lazy sissies
in this world?" Heh!
Give it another five or ten years and you'll see. But no, by that
time you will have been socially programmed to simply accept it.
I'm confused as to which side you're on? In the future that is
already being set up, you can't tell me you've managed to safely
stay neutral. Or maybe you have in your own mind, but time will cut
you. Count on it!. Don't faint when the blood flows...
Where does this lead us, and whose purposes does this culture
serve?
A money grubbing capitalist like gates. He ain't alone either. The
RIAA and smurfs like it are doing rather well last I checked. I've
already seen a few com/infomercials(?) on TV describing how horrible
it is to download music (In the USA anyway!). Poor music industry.
It's a shame a billion dollar or more a year industry is being
killed by a minority of low life trash ****s. <-- Oops. Foul
language. Please disregard everything (*everything*) I've just said.
Let the social programming begin...
Max
