Come to think of it, linux and gnu don't come from the US. So isn't open source bad for the US economy ?
Linus is from Finland, but of course RMS is from the US. So you're right, and wrong. :)
I thought RMS came from oxford...
We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
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Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
I take issue with this "real job" thing. A "real job" is something you do to get reliable income. More often than not, it implies working for someone else. "Real job" don't have to be interesting, fulfilling, or even productive. If yours is, great, but that is not their main function. Their main function is to get you to pay the bills. Hence my issue with the qualifier: "real". "Real" implies something inherently goo…
It is quite clearly a 'no true Scotsman'-type argument.
What "it" refers to? My comment? Arguments based on "real jobs"? Something else?
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sigh, I'm all for calling people "she" if they desire, but this feels like a pointless comment. Do you know that the person being referred to (user "jordigh") would prefer to be called something other than "he"? Do you know whether or not the person you're replying to has done the research on which word to use? If you don't know, you're wasting our time with snarky but baseless "PC" attitude. At least put in a few mo…
As the person whose gender was in question, I appreciate the doubt. I don't think you had any reason to believe that I was male, and male should not be the default gender.
Your name is right in your profile, so pdx could have easily got your gender from it. Maybe pdx even opened your site, where you have a photo clearly showing your gender.
It's also possible that English is not pdx mother tongue, maybe pdx tongue is one of those where the male pronoun is used to refer to people when the sex is unknown. Also, while it's usage as this has been fading, "he" is defined as "Used to refer to a person or animal of unspecified sex" in many dictionaries, and someone could have been tough that in school (I have been).
Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
As the person whose gender was in question, I appreciate the doubt. I don't think you had any reason to believe that I was male, and male should not be the default gender.
Your name is right in your profile, so pdx could have easily got your gender from it. Maybe pdx even opened your site, where you have a photo clearly showing your gender. It's also possible that English is not pdx mother tongue, maybe pdx tongue is one of those where the male pronoun is used to refer to people when the sex is unknown. Also, while it's usage as this has been fading, "he" is defined as "Used to refer t…
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Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sigh, I'm all for calling people "she" if they desire, but this feels like a pointless comment. Do you know that the person being referred to (user "jordigh") would prefer to be called something other than "he"? Do you know whether or not the person you're replying to has done the research on which word to use? If you don't know, you're wasting our time with snarky but baseless "PC" attitude. At least put in a few mo…
As the person whose gender was in question, I appreciate the doubt. I don't think you had any reason to believe that I was male, and male should not be the default gender.
> and male should not be the default gender
Jordi, you're being a dumbass dude. Jordi is usually a mans name. Of course I assume male. Take the stupid PC bullshit down, OK?
Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is quite clearly a 'no true Scotsman'-type argument.
What "it" refers to? My comment? Arguments based on "real jobs"? Something else?
"Real jobs." If we can't value people who are chasing their dreams, then what is the point of working together as a society to accomplish things? If artists should be cogs in a machine somewhere, then what is the point that machine?
It's absurd to suggest that people should get 'real jobs.' Life is a real job, and we've all already got it.
Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#397I think we just need to convince gun owners that gun companies are saying this about their guns. And then this problem goes away.
Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
As the person whose gender was in question, I appreciate the doubt. I don't think you had any reason to believe that I was male, and male should not be the default gender.
> and male should not be the default gender Jordi, you're being a dumbass dude. Jordi is usually a mans name. Of course I assume male. Take the stupid PC bullshit down, OK? https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+jordi&tbm=isch
Just got this email from Jordi.
So, now that we're inulting each other and no longer civil, you're
being a flaming asshole and the reason women don't want to be in tech.
Fuck off and die.
- Jordi G. H.
You WERE being a dumbass. You DO need to take the stupid PC bullshit down.
Neither of these statements is actually that insulting. I did not call you a dumbass, I said you were being a dumbass in this instance. I did not call you stupid. l told you to take the stupid PC bullshit down (which you do need to do).
Now, telling somebody to Fuck off and die, that is insulting. I think your latin temper is showing itself, my friend. It's abolutely not OK to tell me to fuck off and die. It doesn't reflect well on you, or your organization. You need to wind it down.
Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#399I work in IT in the car industry and we are part of the GENIVI aliance, see http://genivi.org/
> GENIVI® is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of specified, open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software.
GENIVI is getting some traction and perhaps this is the an answer to problems like the OPs link explains.
Re: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iowan here. There are almost no family farms left at all. My neighbor would desperately like to be a farmer. But the scrubby 40-acre field across from his house just sold for $400,000. He'd get maybe 120 bushels of corn off of it. Current price per bushel: $3.80. So $456 income per acre == $18,240 per year. That's half the mortgate payments. Not to mention the cost of working the field. So a lost cause. The 13 farmer…
One wonders how the corporations farm them. The situation you describe doesn't sound like it would be any more economically feasible for them to work than your neighbor. (Hm. Random calculation: 120 bushels of corn at 56 lbs per bushel, per acre, is about 11 metric tons per hectare[1]. According to the FDA[2], the US average projected production for 2014/2015 is 10.7 metric tons (the world average is about half that)…
181? Where did that come from, idiot?
120 bushels per acre is about 7.5 tons per hectare, which probably makes it a bit low for economic farming.
You have: (120 * 56) pounds per acre
You want: metrictons per hectare
* 7.5321198
/ 0.13276475