I will now have to send a copy of my Drivers License to
adduser on FreeBSD??
https://linuxdicasesuporte.blogspot.com/2021/04/jonathan-carter-e-reeleito-lider-do.html
Suddenly...
Why are you so worried? I don't know why, but during this war, I'm catastrophically losing my fear threshold.
As soon as they introduce age verification into Debian products, I'll simply say goodbye to them. I said goodbye to systemd products the same way. I still have somewhere to go...
Well, it's clear they'll push age verification into Debian. Especially with a new project leader who will promote "inclusivity and diversity." This isn't my personal sexism [although I am one and I don't hide it], but the fact is – women are captive to emotions. And this has a negative impact on management and decision-making. She's 38. So, I think she'll simply be a weather vane for the "federals", who will bend the entire Linux line to their own interests. We all remember how they pushed through the systemd vote. I don't see any transparent electoral currents there. The same system for promoting and implementing age verification will be implemented in Debian. Other derivative distributions will also fall for Debian.
I haven't seen the slightest resistance from the FreeBSD Foundation or senior management. Perhaps there are already a few "consenting" proposals from them somewhere? It's interesting to see how they (State officials) used a cunning method to push through not the mainstream BSD product, but MidnightBSD, which probably has 0.0003% of the desktop user base... It's simply a legal strategy aimed at "testing the waters"... This all reminds me of lobbying and promoting meta-projects from the state system. First, let's start with age, and then finish with biometrics and retina. Is this a tolerant post?
Suddenly...
Why are you so worried? I don't know why, but during this war, I'm catastrophically losing my fear threshold.
As soon as they introduce age verification into Debian products, I'll simply say goodbye to them. I said goodbye to systemd products the same way. I still have somewhere to go...
Well, it's clear they'll push age verification into Debian. Especially with a new project leader who will promote "inclusivity and diversity." This isn't my personal sexism [although I am one and I don't hide it], but the fact is – women are captive to emotions. And this has a negative impact on management and decision-making. She's 38. So, I think she'll simply be a weather vane for the "federals", who will bend the entire Linux line to their own interests. We all remember how they pushed through the systemd vote. I don't see any transparent electoral currents there. The same system for promoting and implementing age verification will be implemented in Debian. Other derivative distributions will also fall for Debian.
I haven't seen the slightest resistance from the FreeBSD Foundation or senior management. Perhaps there are already a few "consenting" proposals from them somewhere? It's interesting to see how they (State officials) used a cunning method to push through not the mainstream BSD product, but MidnightBSD, which probably has 0.0003% of the desktop user base... It's simply a legal strategy aimed at "testing the waters"... This all reminds me of lobbying and promoting meta-projects from the state system. First, let's start with age, and then finish with biometrics and retina. Is this a tolerant post?
We live in a flawed society, where there are people who do evil things to others. There's still wars based on land theft and oppression, which people do heinous things to others. That attempted California law doesn't do anything to address that, it just hides it. It might prevent some children from going astray, but it still doesn't address the root problems.
How is that California law enforceable anyway? If it were to make sense, there would be a limit cap on how much could be fined per organization. Some BSD's fundraise $20,000 per year, and how many millions of children are in California that could be fined for. Secondly, children need the Internet to remain in contact with their parents to stay safe. Fining operating systems makes it difficult to access this technology. Also, even if an OS does go by California law, people will get around it, and the OS can get fined for what they didn't do. If a law were to be, it would make a lot more sense to target for profits only, but even that doesn't make sense.
There are Internet services which already filter content not suitable for children. For children, and other Internet services, this should be promoted.
As for society, there's a lot of corruption. You'll notice how people who come from trailer parks that you'll come across in real life or from the Internet have the lowest morals. Their parents tell them, it's ok to scam people to the extent where they would go further to do blatantly evil things to people if they could get away with it, rather than they provide what they want for their adult children. Or, you'll be in a neighborhood where it didn't used to be so bad a decade ago, then, suddenly, all you'll come across a bunch of indecent people, and people complaining about this neighborhood.
Go to another city in another state, and people are so friendly and also open. It's nothing like what you see on tv about the people there. Maybe, bc I didn't go into the hoods of that city. Though, these people are wrapped up in their own lives.
We live in a world, where there are people like Epstein, Jay Z, P Diddy and people like them have been taking advantage of people in the most obscene ways. We have corrupt country leaders who torment people. I could get political too, how US presidents from either side of the aisle, have members from their own party turn on them out of principle for their enabling of genocide, starting irresponsible wars, or withdrawing in the most irresponsible ways. They make weak US presidents look like they belong on Mt Rushmore. They were more concerned about their self image as narcissists, than helping people when they had the chance to. Maybe California doesn't have the power to change these, or maybe California has its own place to clean up first, with the gangs they have, the glamorized gang culture, and their vicinity to a lawless country. Look at Ecuador as well, it used to be one of the most peaceful countries in the Americas, then in less than a decade, it became one of the most violent, because it imported societal problems from Colombia and Mexico. We have a lot of corrupt countries and or corrupt leaders, whether it's USA, Iran, Russia, UAE, Israel etc etc. including a few countries which were otherwise ok, but still oppressing people like what India does to Kashmir. Even Ukraine, while they weren't the oppressor, elite from there get rich selling weapons meant for the defense of their country, to horrible organizations.
How is that California law enforceable anyway? If it were to make sense, there would be a limit cap on how much could be fined per organization. Some BSD's fundraise $20,000 per year, and how many millions of children are in California that could be fined for. Secondly, children need the Internet to remain in contact with their parents to stay safe. Fining operating systems makes it difficult to access this technology. Also, even if an OS does go by California law, people will get around it, and the OS can get fined for what they didn't do. If a law were to be, it would make a lot more sense to target for profits only, but even that doesn't make sense.
There are Internet services which already filter content not suitable for children. For children, and other Internet services, this should be promoted.
As for society, there's a lot of corruption. You'll notice how people who come from trailer parks that you'll come across in real life or from the Internet have the lowest morals. Their parents tell them, it's ok to scam people to the extent where they would go further to do blatantly evil things to people if they could get away with it, rather than they provide what they want for their adult children. Or, you'll be in a neighborhood where it didn't used to be so bad a decade ago, then, suddenly, all you'll come across a bunch of indecent people, and people complaining about this neighborhood.
Go to another city in another state, and people are so friendly and also open. It's nothing like what you see on tv about the people there. Maybe, bc I didn't go into the hoods of that city. Though, these people are wrapped up in their own lives.
We live in a world, where there are people like Epstein, Jay Z, P Diddy and people like them have been taking advantage of people in the most obscene ways. We have corrupt country leaders who torment people. I could get political too, how US presidents from either side of the aisle, have members from their own party turn on them out of principle for their enabling of genocide, starting irresponsible wars, or withdrawing in the most irresponsible ways. They make weak US presidents look like they belong on Mt Rushmore. They were more concerned about their self image as narcissists, than helping people when they had the chance to. Maybe California doesn't have the power to change these, or maybe California has its own place to clean up first, with the gangs they have, the glamorized gang culture, and their vicinity to a lawless country. Look at Ecuador as well, it used to be one of the most peaceful countries in the Americas, then in less than a decade, it became one of the most violent, because it imported societal problems from Colombia and Mexico. We have a lot of corrupt countries and or corrupt leaders, whether it's USA, Iran, Russia, UAE, Israel etc etc. including a few countries which were otherwise ok, but still oppressing people like what India does to Kashmir. Even Ukraine, while they weren't the oppressor, elite from there get rich selling weapons meant for the defense of their country, to horrible organizations.
Yes. What makes me so incredibly sad is, there were many promising beginnings, and all of it has been thrown overboard and forgotten by now.
I spent my youth hunting for these ideas, then finding a layer behind our commonsense reality that is much more interesting and rewarding and worth living for, while I for my part didn't even fully understand what it is about. Then I was hoping that common advance would shed more light onto things and they might get clearer over time.
It is my understanding that it does not lead to betterment when we only create awareness for problems and critizise evil proceedings, because people generally do not enjoy to apprehend negativity. Instead, it would rather be feasible to call for a more healthy and sane approach to life, one that can be enjoyed.
My imagination was that this would naturally happen over time, and in the beginning I considered the IT and Internet as just another building block to get nearer to that destination.
Now it rather seems that IT and the Internet have been successfully swallowed by ultra backwardly forces, which try to make it behave in their image.
I have been worried about such development since it became obvious that shops that would provide almost zero amount of originality (a search engine, a bookshop, a video playing platform, a webpage creator) gained prominence and acquired leadership in the Internet. But only now when they are about to take away your personal plaything, consideration seems to rise.
The Internet is used for both good and bad. A library has Internet intended for good purposes, they go further by limiting what can be accessed. It blocks a lot of good stuff, but it's free Internet meant for children to use as well. There's lot of Internet which is OK and doesn't cause harm, even if some services block it. I heard the dark web can be nasty, and give people nightmares.
I read from a site about stocks, which pertains to real life. It says how forces will sway back and forth between good and evil, or between not necessarily good and evil for instance one political party against another. Good will win for a while, then the bad side will lose, but then, there will be a shift, where bad starts winning, and good losses. Then this will shift back and forth. It has to do with one side got ahead, due to hard work and effort. The other side is building while it is losing and bounces back, so the other side starts losing. A tug of war, if you will. We also see this in political parties and more rarely in sports teams too. It was using this example for how stock markets work.
Come on, age verification law is aimed at OSes and services that use sneaky and underhanded tactics to tease out a user's real information. Apple/Google/Microsoft are the real targets of that law. FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD and the like have nothing to fear. If they demanded real information in exchange for access to the Ports Collection, then yeah, that Cal law would target FreeBSD.
FreeBSD doesn't do that. Neither does Debian, last I heard. Or any of the BSDs, for that matter.
FreeBSD doesn't do that. Neither does Debian, last I heard. Or any of the BSDs, for that matter.
It could be that those idiots even don't know about plenty of *nix operating system out there.I suspect the only thing they know about operating systems is a screen with GUI displayed on it.
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Many see their job as being purely theatrical to maintain the illusion of government serving the public.
Instead of having a system where our representatives are automatically selected to vote on laws during a period of holding office, there should be an eligibility process to qualify representatives. Every proposed law must have a minimum of 50% of eligible representatives physically present to vote on them. Eligibility to vote is obtained only by passing with a minimum score of 85% in an examination test. This test is written specifically to assess the representatives knowledge on the subject and the effect of the proposed law. If voting on a proposed law cannot achieve the required minimum attendance of 50% of eligible representatives proven to have sufficient knowledge of the subject, then the proposal can have two more attempts at becoming eligible before it is scrapped. Those that fail to read the text of the proposed law and understand the effect of the proposed change will have failed to obtain eligibility to vote and cannot vote on this proposal.
I'm interested too, any updates?
I looked up an English dictionary. Regress is the opposite of progress. I think con doesn't always mean opposing. Also close, related, together, combined. Constellation, conjunction, conjecture...
MG as a native US English speaker, I stand by my joke. Yes, regress is the opposite of progress, but I think that most US English speakers will catch the fact that con is often used as the opposite of pro. (I suspect UK, etc speakers would catch it too, but I don't know). And yes, con is often used in words meaning joined together, such as the ones you mention and several others. Congress can also mean a formal meeting or other connection.
But, at least in the US, there is the common phrase pros and cons, meaning positives and negatives.
Yes, regress is the opposite of progress, but I think that most US English speakers will catch the fact that con is often used as the opposite of pro. (I suspect UK, etc speakers would catch it too, but I don't know). And yes, con is often used in words meaning joined together, such as the ones you mention and several others. Congress can also mean a formal meeting or other connection. But, at least in the US, there is the common phrase pros and cons, meaning positives and negatives.
It was a cynical rhetorical question? I don't think that anybody had evil intentions here but maybe I missed some context.
Wanna know how I got these scars? (I fell a lot as a kid and knee scars never healed). MG that's also a joke referring to the Dark Knight movie. The Joker constantly goes through asking people if they want to know how he got his scars and tells a different story every time. And, no, no one had evil intentions, it was just a bit of silliness, with part of the humor relying on the The Dark Knight having some well known lines.
No particular fan. I watched the old series as a kid. That was real fake.
I like the meme video where Murray shoots Joker after his gun jammed. I'm following this age verification problem a little. CA, the land of historic BSD. What are they going to do with 8 months to go? Not a lot happening yet.
I think from the steam engine onward, humanity has done nothing but devolve into savagery. I'm in favor of everything that thwarts further progress.
(Or maybe I'm just bored and wanted to write something outrageous.)
(Or maybe I'm just bored and wanted to write something outrageous.)
I'm appalled: a proponent of technical exceptionalism resorting to something as low as a meme. Besides, I think there's an age limit for using memes, is there not?
Also: YAWN LOL YAWN LOL YAWN LOL
Speak for yourself. I live in a perfect society of one.