Re: Obama's Net Neutrality Statement: What it Really Means
[Farrago of non sequiturs and gibberish]
If you think Obama somehow invented the concept, you're literally too fucking retarded to talk to. If you think he gives a shit about it, you're even more retarded.
You are apparently too retarded to understand that "net neutrality" existed as a natural result of the free market and Obama is preaching that we need government to sustain or implement (regulate) the concept, which is a fucking lie and how they will actually destroy the concept.
Those who are bitching about not having net access in their communities are either wanting some subsidy from the government to drive service to their uneconomic rural location or their community is already suffering from lack of competition due to over regulation and regulatory capture by the vested interests. The free market did not fail to provide "net neutrality". Adding more government regulation only makes it worse!
You pontificate about shit which you don't know about, because ... well let the progenitor of the term "open source" explain it to you:
Those who cant build, talk
Quote from: Eric S Raymond author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
Those who cant build, talk
Posted on 2011-07-28 by Eric Raymond
One of the side-effects of using Google+ is that Im getting exposed to a kind of writing I usually avoid ponderous divagations on how the Internet should be and the meaning of it all written by people whove never gotten their hands dirty actually making it work. No, Im not talking about users I dont mind listening to those. Im talking about punditry about the Internet, especially the kind full of grand prescriptive visions. The more I see of this, the more it irritates the crap out of me. But Im not in the habit of writing in public about merely personal complaints; theres a broader cultural problem here that needs to be aired.
Posted on 2011-07-28 by Eric Raymond
One of the side-effects of using Google+ is that Im getting exposed to a kind of writing I usually avoid ponderous divagations on how the Internet should be and the meaning of it all written by people whove never gotten their hands dirty actually making it work. No, Im not talking about users I dont mind listening to those. Im talking about punditry about the Internet, especially the kind full of grand prescriptive visions. The more I see of this, the more it irritates the crap out of me. But Im not in the habit of writing in public about merely personal complaints; theres a broader cultural problem here that needs to be aired.
Eric like myself was actually active in building the internet:
- Eminent Domains: The First Time I Changed History
- World Without Web
- A world without ESR
- Eric's GIF code in nearly every open source software in the world. He reminisced about it.
- He also did work on libpng that nearly every open source software uses
- Android development pulls hot chicks. Who knew?
- Emacs git conversion is done at one month from his 57th birthday.
- An Open Letter to Chris DoddQuote from: Eric RaymondIm talking about the actual engineers who built the Internet and keep it running, who write the software you rely on every day of your life in the 21st century.
Im one of those engineers you rely on my code every time you use a browser or a smartphone or a game console. Im not exactly a leader among them as you would understand the term, because we dont have those and dont want them. But I am a well-known philosopher/elder of the tribe (Ill name two others later in this letter), and also one of our few public spokespersons. In the late 1990s I helped found the open-source software movement.
Btw, Eric apparently idols Donald Knuth (I also owned and skimmed some of his books):
Shameless name-dropping
Double Vision
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You fucking Communists and Socialists are God Damn fucking plague on this earth.
Don't be so mad comrade. You need us commies, apparently we are the last defenders of your digital rights. Come now, ve drink some wadka.
I am an expert and highly accomplished programmer, so I don't need you to protect my digital rights, because I protect them with my own code. The protections have never come from the governmentthey (and you complicit socialists) only steal and destroy. The protections have always come from technological innovations, of which I am working now on making the government intervention impotent.
Get off my fucking lawn.