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Stallman's honors and awards for just some of the great work he's done (like launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs): 1986: Honorary lifetime membership of the Chalmers University of Technology Computer Society 1990: Exceptional merit award MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant") 1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray…
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It's hard to get overseas by train.
True, although we did manage it in the UK. Hard to see how that casts any light on the (apparent) contradiction.
Anyway, it casts light on the apparent contradiction simply because life is made of trade-offs. The choice to prefer (say) Greyhound (or a personal vehicle) to Amtrak is a wholly different thing than the choice to visit or not visit (say) Indonesia. The same concern may merit the former but not the latter.
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Off-topic note, by this token, Buddhism is even more in favor of atheism (at least more accepting, and several denominations are almost that without saying the word). It's a religion born out of Hinduism that tries to eliminate almost everything except acceptance, peace and meditation (that's an oversimplification, but it's rather accurate).
Err.. No. Buddhism is just a non-theistic religion. It's a religion without deities.
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Huh. I thought he had a free-libre cell phone at some point. Anyway, one can buy a throwaway cell phone in cash, and power it down when not in use, I thought. Like drug dealers do. Still surveillable, but no more than any borrowed phone.
Some cellphones can be wiretapped even when powered off. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
> Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery;
Someone like RMS would be comfortable pulling out a battery, I expect.
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Huh. I thought he had a free-libre cell phone at some point. Anyway, one can buy a throwaway cell phone in cash, and power it down when not in use, I thought. Like drug dealers do. Still surveillable, but no more than any borrowed phone.
Some cellphones can be wiretapped even when powered off. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
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Anyway, one can buy a throwaway cell phone in cash you can not do it in many countries like Spain where you have to provide your ID (because of terrorism).
Hm, curious. In Germany (and Austria, wherefrom I got my N9), it is perfectly fine to buy a phone . What you cannot do (legally) is buy a SIM card without ID – however, most shops just require you to fill in some form and don’t bother checking any form of ID.
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True, although we did manage it in the UK. Hard to see how that casts any light on the (apparent) contradiction.
You managed it over a pretty small hop, compared to what you'd have to do to get anywhere from the US. Anyway, it casts light on the apparent contradiction simply because life is made of trade-offs. The choice to prefer (say) Greyhound (or a personal vehicle) to Amtrak is a wholly different thing than the choice to visit or not visit (say) Indonesia. The same concern may merit the former but not the latter.
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You managed it over a pretty small hop, compared to what you'd have to do to get anywhere from the US. Anyway, it casts light on the apparent contradiction simply because life is made of trade-offs. The choice to prefer (say) Greyhound (or a personal vehicle) to Amtrak is a wholly different thing than the choice to visit or not visit (say) Indonesia. The same concern may merit the former but not the latter.
So it is a contradiction, but one forced by circumstance.