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The physical thing isn't the music. It's just a vehicle. A package.

And what are these "statistics" based on? Self reported survey data, aka "anecdotes".

So why weren't those sensors and alarms mandated, as opposed to a redundant and distracting in-car CCTV system?

There are plenty of jobs where you're technically always on call. Firefighters, paramedics, doctors, soldiers, etc. What stops employers from simply informing their employees that, from now on, they are all on call 24 hours a day?

It's good at preventing use as well. Because manufacturers and shop owners want you to buy it, but they could care less if you ever use it. Make the bastards come up with a better solution.

Violence. Guns. These are the threats behind every piece of legislation. Comply, or we'll send the goons with guns to make you comply. That most people go ahead and comply without making the government resort to using violence doesn't mean the violence isn't right there behind every bureaucrat's pen.

It would also be great if people would refuse to buy items with anti-consumer clamshell packaging. That stuff is a waste in addition to being a huge annoyance. Let's kill two birds with one stone!

They learn more about computers by using them. That was, I thought, the point. This whole "teach math, science, history, literature, etc. -- but better because COMPUTERS" crap was always overblown, in my opinion. I supported OLPC because I never thought it was about that. It was about bringing technology to children around the world and seeing what they could do with it. Maybe they had to shift their focus to get governments and teachers on board?

Re: Patronage.

You're aware artists get ~$0 from streaming services right? Huge names like Radiohead make maybe $100/month from Spotify and the like. Unless you're huge, you're probably getting pennies, if that.

Buy the album, go to a show, get a t-shirt. That's patronage. Don't hand your money over to a record company exec, filtered through a middle man, and pretend you're helping the artist.

> Don't want ads? Pay for your product!

So that's why there are no ads on cable TV, in magazines or newspapers?

Almost every time based graph goes up and to the right. Big whoop. Maybe the internet causes gluten intolerance? Or maybe Roundup caused the rise of social networking?

Use a package manager.

Try motivating art students to paint fences. And never show them any "art" except different colored fences. That's what this article is about. If you teach real math, you can actually motivate people to want to learn it.

The point is not that they can avoid using Time Warner's infrastructure, it's that Time Warner will eventually stop offering content if nobody wants to view it. Then they will have no more incentive to throttle third party content.

I'm not suggesting that this will work, I'm disputing that the people don't have any power. People almost always have some influence over their situation. That doesn't mean they have a magic bullet, but there is almost always hope.

They can serve their own content while boycotting Time Warner's.

Well, for the most part they're like lawyers: you only need them around for shitty situations, so that's what they're remembered for.

I'm not saying all cops are bad people (though almost all police forces are bad institutions), but why would you just hang out and have a good time with a cop, in his cop role? I'm sure they have friends, but they're not being cops when they're watching the game with their friends.

My comment was more about the fact that police don't walk the beat and help old ladies with their groceries anymore. When cops are around, shit's going down. So even if they are doing their job professionally, it isn't a pleasant experience. And if they're doing their job poorly, it's a nightmare.

Really? Who has pleasant experiences with cops besides other cops? Honest question.

Periods are not optional in readable English. Period. The rest, spelling, capitalization, are all there for the same reason -- readability.

Seeing an unpunctuated piece of writing doesn't make me think "Gee, good thing they're not mad at me", it makes me think "Gee, they didn't care enough to make this readable". Which, for some circumstances, is probably fine. I apologize for the "uneducated" remark. You just write differently (albeit only in certain informal contexts apparently) than any literate person I know.

The rest of the punctuation-emotion the short article described predates the internet and texting, like using question marks if you're unsure (I turn left here?), or exclamation points for emphasis (Yes!!). What I'm disputing is the "don't bother using a period if you're not angry" phenomenon. It's not my experience that literate adults do this. You and the article disagree. Fair enough. Learn something new everyday.

I wasn't trying to offend. In my experience, the kids who didn't read enough tended to think proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation weren't important, even in the days before texting and IMs. As they grew up and began to use the English language in a less superficial fashion, they started to see the importance of writing properly.

I've seen multiple friends go through this phase, at different points in their lives. One (a disabled guy who doesn't work -- he's a great friend though, I hate calling him out), still refuses to spell, capitalize, or punctuate. Everything he writes is just an unformatted list of misspelled words. Not coincidentally, this is the only friend who doesn't read for work or pleasure. All he reads is facebook statuses and the weather channel.

Maybe I'm being uncharitable, but in my experience, people start out thinking punctuation and spelling are matters of formality, eschewing it as the concern of old folks and authority figures, but eventually come to realize it is about readability. But maybe there's a social signalling that I'm unfamiliar with:

this note is short and readability isnt a concern as much as signalling im not a stuffy outsider

While this note (and the rest of this post) is something I want you to consider, and therefore the utmost importance is legibility, readability and clarity.

It's an British thing, in my understanding. I've never heard an American say it, but I see it in English literature all the time. I can only assume it's a regular, everyday word there.

This is not even close to true among my peer group -- 20- and 30-something, middle class, educated Midwesterners. Nor is it true on any of the message boards I frequent online. So this may be an interesting anthropological datum about some segment of the population (teenagers? the poor? uneducated? the author and his wife?), but it doesn't generalize.

Punctuation is important, and sufficiently literate people recognize that. Since our society is getting more literate (or at least compared to a hundred years ago, not sure if literacy has been improving lately), I imagine this phenomenon is getting less likely, not more.

No, it isn't. It's illegal to sell it across state lines, or in some places to the general public. But in most states, you can buy it at a farm, or other licensed facility. It isn't like heroin, or even pot, and you won't get in trouble for possession.

http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/raw_milk_map.htm

The measure of a good janitorial staff should be a successful company.

I agree, but phones get sold. I've bought every smartphone I've ever owned off of ebay or craigslist. How would I know the previous owner didn't retain the power to kill my phone? Or the carrier/manufacturer for that matter?

What happens when you pick a town with a good ISP, which then gets bought by GiantEvilCo a month after you move in?

I don't think voting with your feet and mortgages is a solution. Perhaps forgoing entirely? When Charter dicked me around in 08, I went back to dialup for over a year before DSL became available at my house. Screw 'em. I can still read HN and text-based websites at 56k.

Which isn't a whole lot slower than AT&T is giving me now. But at least they don't treat me like a subhuman ATM like Charter did.

Why do you think Steve Jobs would have wanted to sell Apple computers with Linux pre-installed? That seems like the exact opposite of what Steve would have wanted, and what he actually did.

I got both at the same time, in fall 2005. I guess I'm a late adopter, but I remember having to be invited to Gmail. Facebook I just heard about from another friend in college around the same time.

You're confounding issues here. RMS is in the position of a critic of the US government, rightly claiming that, while your country is "free", it installs and supports dictatorships all over the world. It is possible to be unfree, and not support other dictatorships, like Cuba.

It is possible to be both unfree, and support dictatorships, like the USSR. RMS's goal with GCC, is to be like the mythical free country that also supports freedom and discourages dictatorships elsewhere in the world.

In other words, your software can be free, and yet support and aid those who would take your freedom away. This is the claim RMS is making of Clang.

Do you even know who Richard Stallman is?

Open source and Free software are essentially equivalent when it comes to licensing. The difference is in their motivation.

So when RMS says that, he's saying Clang/LLVM opened up the source code in order help their software perform better and see wider usage. Whereas RMS's goal for GCC is to ensure freedom for its users. Technical superiority is great, but it is not the goal, and may be sacrificed if necessary to achieve that goal.

He's not saying Clang isn't free software, he's saying their ultimate goal is not freedom, as contrasted with the FSF.