Digit

Troubling, given how much the put-up-or-hack-up users-are-developers ethos having slipped as more and more come in enjoying the convenience wrapping, with their consumer mentality.

That is amusing if BSD do that. Being from there.

Them being armed will make it a lot more thrilling when you persist in asking them under what conditions are you lawfully obligated to comply.

War is good for business?

Yep.

Plenty bad reasons though.

Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

… So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?

If only all those agents hadn’t told us to not use the political compass, we might be less lost now. :3

Ahhh. Neo-liberal.

Gotta love that Orwellian marketing.

Neo-liberal. Neither new (neo), nor liberal.

Basically, same old fascist.

Yup.

Welcome to newspeak, USA-flavor.

Still drinking hair of the dog to nurse the McCarthyian redscare hangover.

Layers deep into the newspeak. Liberal, conservative, democrat… all these terms already many contortions and inversions distanced from original meaning. Soon, even “him”, “he” and “himself” too. Then even “is” and “not”, and then the CIA’s work will be done.

Armed thugs of the state break into every home, and install their bigbrotherware operating system, and kill anyone who flinches like they might be committing any acts of dissidence. There we go. Everybody happy. And of course, you wont own the software. You’ll be renting it. Like everything else. Own nothing, be happy. Maybe they care. :/

I wonder if that “this distro is not allowed in California” approach is even compatible with the various free software licenses.

No addresses or entities tied to the distro respins I’ve made.

That was not a requirement in the software license.

Or they made a law to attempt to ban operating systems with free software licenses.

No biggie. I got ready for this in minutes after hearing about it.

#!/usr/bin/env fish
read -P "Are you old enough?  (yes/no)  " input
if test "$input" = "yes" -o "$input" = "Yes"
echo "Proceeding..."
else
echo "You are not old enough.  Exiting." 
exit 1
end

… What? … Why are you all looking at me like that?