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<h1>The page requested doesn't exist</h1>
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The 'intellectual property' oxymoron
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"*If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive
property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an
individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the
moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and
the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is
that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening
mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the
moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to
have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them,
like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any
point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being,
incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in
nature, be a subject of property.*" -— Thomas Jefferson
Copyright
---------
Copyright infringement is not stealing, and copyright law is against the free
market, it is a government sponsored monopoly.
Copyright law is routinely abused to suppress free speech and individual
freedoms, it is abused by recording companies to exploit artists, it is abused
by governments to control information. Copyright law is not only evil, it is
also stupid, and should be ignored by anyone that believes in a free society
and free markets.
Bach, Shakespeare and Michelangelo didn't need copyright, we don't need copyright.
Copyright infringement is a victim-less crime, nobody has a right to have a
monopoly on ideas or information, you have a right to keep your ideas and
information private, but if you make them public, they are not your private
property anymore.

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Global warming scaremongering
=============================
Anyone that questions that there is global warming is seriously delusional. But anyone who gets their scientific information from a 'documentary' by a politician is just as delusional.
While there is no doubt that global warming is real, and there is no doubt either that human activity is at the very least one of the main factors contributing to it, it is not clear at all what the midium/long term consequences of global warming will be. That is reason enough to be careful, but only fools (or people with other agendas, like politicians and huge subsidized agribusiness ethanol producers) jump into scaremongering.
Of course in the end everyone will believe whatever they want to believe, and reality and science be damned.
There is a reason most scientists hate to speak to the media, they are systematically quoted out of context and manipulated for all kinds of agendas, of course that makes things even worse as most people can't be bothered to read scientific journals or go to scientific conferences for themselves, or much more importantly, don't understand how science works at all.

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George Carlin:
Something else I'm getting tired of in this country is all this stupid talk
I have to listen to about children. That's all you hear about anymore,
children: "Help the children, save the children, protect the children." You
know what I say? Fuck the children!
They're getting entirely too much attention. And I know what some of you are
thinking: " Jesus, he's not going to attack children, is he?" Yes he is!
He's going to attack children. And remember, this is Mr. Conductor talking;
I know what I'm talking about.
And I also know that all you boring single dads and working moms, who think
you're such fucking heros, aren't gonna like this, but somebody's gotta tell
you for your own good: your children are overrated and overvalued, and
you've turned them into little cult objects. You have a child fetish, and
it's not healthy. And don't give me all that weak shit, "Well, I love my
children." Fuck you! Everybody loves their children; it doesn't make you
special. : : : John Wayne Gacy loved his children. Yes, he did. That's not
what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is this constant, mindless
yammering in the media, this neurotic fixation that suggests that somehow
everything--everything--has to revolve around the lives of children. Ist's
completely out of balance.
Listen, there are a couple of things about kids you have to remember. First
of all, they're not all cute. In fact, if you look at 'em real close, most
of them are rather unpleasant looking. And a lot of them don't smell too
good either. The little ones in particular seem to have a kind of urine and
sour-milk combination that I don't care for at all. Stay with me on this
folks, the sooner you face it the better off your going to be.
Second, premise: not all chidren are smart and clever. Got that? Kids are
like any other group of people: a few winners, a whole lot of losers! This
country is filled with loser kids who simply...aren't...going anywhere! And
there's nothing you can do about it, folks. Nothing! You can't save them
all. You can't do it. You gotta let 'em go; you gotta cut 'em loose; you
gotta stop over-protecting them, because your making 'em too soft.
Today's kids are way too soft. : : : For one thing, there's too much
emphasis on safety and safety equipment: childproof medicine bottles,
fireproof pajamas, child restraints, car seats. And helmets! Bicycle,
baseball, skateboard, scooter helmets. Kids have to wear helmets now for
everything but jerking off. Grown-ups have taken all the fun out of being a
kid. : : : What's happened is, these baby boomers, these soft, fruity baby
boomers, have raised an entire generation of soft, fruity kids who aren't
even allowed hazardous toys, for Chrissakes! What ever happened to natural
selection? Survival of the fittest? The kid who swallows too many marbles
doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple stuff. Nature knows best!
Another bunch of ignorant bullshit about your children: school uniforms. Bad
theory! The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school, it helps keep order.
Hey! Don't these schools do enough damage makin' all these children think
alike? Now they're gonna get 'em to look alike, too? : : : And it's not even
a new idea; I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard
to understand, because the narration was in German! But the uniforms looked
beautiful. And the children did everything they were told and never
questioned authority. Gee, I wonder why someone would want to put our
children in uniforms. Can't imagine.
And one more item about children: this superstitous nonsense of blaming
tobacco companies for kids who smoke. Listem! Kids don't smoke because a
camel in sunglasses tells them to. They smoke for the same reasons adults
do, because it's an enjoyable activity that relieves anxiety and depression.
And you'd be anxious and depressed too if you had to put up with these
pathetic, insecure, yuppie parents who enroll you in college before you've
figured out which side of the playpen smells the worst and then fill you
with Ritalin to get you in a mood they approve of, and drag you all over
town in search of empty, meaningless structure: Little League, Cub Scouts,
swimming, soccer, karate, piano, bagpipes, watercolors, witchcraft, glass
blowing, and dildo practice. It's absurd. : : : They even have "play dates",
for Christ sake! Playing is now done by appointment! But it's true. A lot of
these striving, and parents are burning their kids out on structure. I think
what every child needs and ought to have every day is two hours of
daydreaming. Plain old daydreaming.
Turn off the internet, the CD-ROMS, and the computer games and let them
stare at a tree for a couple of hours. Every now and then they actually come
up with one of their own ideas. You want to know how to help your kids?
Leave them the fuck alone.

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I Don’t Fucking Care About The Children. 18 December 2002
There. I said it. I don’t care about “the children” - and I don’t care about
protecting themselves. Keep your fucking plastic plates away from my outlets.
Keep your petitions to shut down the porno houses away from me, let I tear them
to bits and urinate upon them. If you tell me to throw away my books, violent
movies and games, or the like to keep the minds of children clean - I will tell
you to shove your head up your ass, fucker. This insane quest to protect “The
Children” is absurd! We coddle and we coddle the damn things and they still
turn out maladjusted… wait, maybe they wouldn’t turn out maladjusted if they
weren’t coddled! When children used to scream or throw tantrums or beat up
other children - they were usually PUNISHED! What a novel concept! Punishment!
Negative reinforcement for negative actions - how novel!
Worst of all, is the foisting of the care and proper raising of these wastes of
sperm and egg onto the populace at large! This is of course, when it doesn’t
involve the actual mental raising of the child - such as setting limits, or
telling the damn thing what it can or cannot do. That will damage it’s precious
self-esteem! We can’t have that, can we?! So, if we can’t tell the child
they’re doing something wrong, dangerous or illegal - what can we do? We can
immediately cease and desist all enjoyable activities that children either
cannot, or shoud not be involved in. Activities such as reading books with foul
language, playing violent games, watching porn, having pre-marital sex, eating
unhealthy foods, or thinking for ourselves.
Meanwhile, the parents will continue to funnel McDonalds and Easy Mac into
junior’s gaping maw because it’s easier than cooking a healthy meal. They will
continue to bitch about what’s on the television to politicians while letting
junior sit in front of it for 6 hours a day. They complain about women getting
abortions, because it “kills precious babies” while letting unwanted children
rot in orphanages and state care. They complain about people who say fuck in
public, while seeing nothing wrong with assualting anyone who dares tell their
child the simple word “No.” They constantly buy all the newest plastic
kindercrap, that junior is just going to play with for five minutes, than throw
it on the pile. This is the future? A world of spoiled brats who don’t know how
to control themselves above being able to hold in their shit until they can
find a toilet. A world of morons who blame everyone but themselves for their
own shortcomings. A world of closed-minded fuckers who refuse to budge from the
Staus Quo?
For the love of God, I can’t take that! I can’t fucking deal with that shit.
It’s not that I want to kill kids. That would involve being near the little
buggers long enough to get off a shot. I support public education - assuming
it’s good education, and not a glorfied state babysitter who can’t give a child
an F without getting reamed by both the parents and the administration. I
support socialized health care for everyone - adult and child. That doesn’t
mean I think we should suck up and kiss ass to anyone with half a brain and
proof of a functioning reproductive system (i.e. a child). Parenting is the
parent’s responsibility - not mine, not the government’s. Don’t pass the buck
to me, for fuck’s sake. I’m not making you do my computer science homework, so
don’t make me suffer the atonal screamings of your twatrocket while I’m trying
to eat, and don’t make my put up with your spoiled sprogling demanding what he
can’t get.
It is not my job, fuckers. Parent your own damn children!
Devo - Jocko Homo/I Need A Chick

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Children considered harmful
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Children are nothing more than a toy some parents use to feed their ego and feel important. They are a nuisance and make life miserable for everyone else around.
Some recommended articles for parents, prospective parents, or anyone that has to suffer the evils caused by little evil goblins.
* [Fuck the children](fuck_the_children) by George Carlin
* [I Don’t Fucking Care About The Children](i_dont_care) by Devo - Jocko Homo
Who should be responsible for childrearing?
-------------------------------------------
I don't care if the men or the woman do the childrearing, that is up to them to
sort out, both of them made a decision to have a child and they should have
know what the were getting into.
In the end it is not about 'men' or 'women' should do this or that, it is about
parents should be fucking responsible for their children. Period.
I am a man, and I wont take the bullshit from either men or women that whine
about how hard is to raise kids. I don't want kids, and if you got kids, it is
your problem and you should deal with it.
I also should add that I consider 'having children'(the words say it all) one
of the most egoistical and egotistical things a human being can do. And to then
come and try to whine about how unfair it is for some parents is the acme of
hypocrisy.
Alternatives to children
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* Contraception
* Videogames

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The Swedish dream
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Sweden is probably (together with Japan) the most undemocratic developed
country in the world. For all practical purposes Sweden has been a single party
system for the last 60 years, the single party system is so strong, that the
few very short times other parties have been in power their policies even more
socialist and it never was long before the real Socialists were back in power.
Cronyism and corruption are rampant, except that they have become so
institutionalized that they are accepted as normal.
In the Socialist government power has passed from generation to generation,
they are so imbredded that the Prime Minister was married with the CEO of the
national liquor monopoly (which is one of the biggest, if not the biggest,
company in the country and which provides huge amounts of income to the
government).
Politicians abused the rent control system so they can pay almost nothing for
huge apartments in the center of town while everyone else has to pay exorbitant
prices for a pathetic sociality flat so far from everything that it takes you
two hours to get to work.
There are less than five construction companies that control all the housing in
the whole country thanks to exclusive contracts from the government.
The list goes on and on, Sweden society is a lie, don't believe it.
Neutrality and pacifism
-----------------------
Sweden likes to boast of being a neutral and peace loving nation that doesn't
even want to join NATO, while at the same time the Swedish military industry is
one of the main exporters, and sells to all kinds of corrupt and despotic
governments all over the world, specially the USA(note that USA-bashing is the
Swedish national sport).
But you will never see any Swedish person mention or admit this, nobody talks
about it, it is like there is a social agreement to never bring this up, just
like the cooperation with the Nazis during WWII.
See also
--------
* [Who pays for Sweden's free lunch?](http://www.thelocal.se/7305/)
* [Mob rule in Sweden](http://www.thelocal.se/6311/20070205/)
* [Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia?](http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3688)

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Firefox
=======
Performance and memory usage
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I have to kill firefox after it has been running for a few days, because it using over 1Gb of ram and becomes so slow as to be unusable... even after I closed all windows and tabs and left only one window with a blank tab open!
And this happens every single time I run firefox (which fortunately it is not too often because on Plan 9 we have saner web browsers), in the end it always glops every single bit of free memory and slows down to a crawl.
Once I was so amused by this that I even had to take a screenshot, and after I killed it, when I tried to run it again I got this, lovely.
And note that of course I don't have flash, java or any such nonsense installed, so either it is firefox or one of the few hundred linux libraries it uses(I don't have any windows or OS X boxes, so I have no clue if it leaks this much on other platforms).
Every few days a new debian package shows up, and I naively await for the damned thing to download thinking that maybe they have fixed something... not such luck yet.
Firefox is the perfect example of all that is wrong with software today: out of control complexity, layers upon layers of badly thought out gratuitous abstractions, rampant abuse of libraries, etc. And I say this as someone that respects and appreciates the mozilla developers, and I know they are good people (I was at the first two European Mozilla Developers Conferences).
It is time for people to remember that simplicity is the most important value when building software, it is time to remember how to build small and simple programs that do one thing and do it well. But how can anyone do that with the ever growing tangle of standards?
And always remember that:
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
If your software is so complex you can't figure out how to fix a memory leak in less than twenty minutes, then you are doing something wrong, if the leak stays around for months, then maybe it is best that you give and start from scratch.
Alternatives
------------
* abaco
* charon
* mothra
* dillo
* gopher

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Object Oriented programming considered harmful
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"*object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.*" -- Rob Pike
OO is the "structured programming" snake oil of the 90'
Useful at times, but hardly the "end all" programing paradigm some like to make
out of it.
And, at least in it's most popular forms, it's often more harmful than helpful.
Inhiretance is more trouble than it's worth. Under the doubtful deguise of the
holy "code reuse" an insane amount of gratuitous complexity is added to our
enviroment, which makes necesary industrial cuantities of syntactical sugar to
make the ensuing mess minimally manageable...
People often forgets the 3 golden rules of programing as estated by Pike and
Kernighan: Simplicity, Clarity, Generality.
Limbo has all the adventages of Java(cross platform, high level) without the
disadventages, and a much cleaner and simple "object model", not to mention the
most wonderful "threading" framework(besides the Alef/Plan9's-libthread which
is based in the same ideas).
Too bad AT&T/Lucent fucked it up, but thanfully it's now truly Open/Free(unlike
Java), go download it if you haven't tried it yet:
http://cgi.www.vitanuova.com/cgi-bin/www.vitanuova.com/idown4e.pl
An introdution by Brian W. Kernighan:
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html
And other by Dennis M. Ritchie:
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html
I can deal with Python and Scheme if I have to though ;)
And there is always portable asm... er I mean C.
But Java(and other copies of the same stuff), *never again*, there are some
things in life that once are more than enough.