Kyle Jacob Biodrowski

On 9/24/2016 at 9:58 AM, Jules Troy said:

https://g.co/kgs/pUVj5n

Oh Kyle?????

You might want to crank this one up. ?

Thanks Jules, 

Unfortunately, it didn't do much for me. I have trouble appreciating the more modern rock bands. Maybe I'm just showing my age. I once read that the younger you are, the less receptive you are to new music. Perhaps the first signs of that are coming about. 

Of course, this doesn't mean I don't like any new rock songs. Here's one that I recently heard on the radio. 

And, just for old times sake, here's something old. A little something new; a little something old. That's how I take life. Also, I'm posting the music video, since I know just how much Brant loves a good music video (as opposed to a still frame shot of whatever). There's some fantastic cinematography in this one. Even more amazing when you consider the year in which the video was made. 

The goal is never equality. The goal is control, by any means necessary.

That cannot be stated enough. 

In this case, the means of control is the guilt brought about by some intangible, unverifiable monstrosity known as "privilege". 

To go one step further, the ultimate goal, depending on the person, is either power or free stuff. From experience, free stuff, whether that is money or respect or pity, is the most common goal. 

Woah, this is going to take some getting used to. 

Is TR angry or is he putting us on?

--Brant

fun?

He's a fairly angry fellow, but he does have a good amount of fun making music and music videos.

Finding the uncensored cut of this video is like pulling teeth.

I was never a fan of Bowie, but I can appreciate his influence on the music industry. He's nothing short of an icon. One of the giants. Sad to see him go. Though he died at 68, he lived enough life to fill 1000 years.

I especially enjoyed his collaborations with Trent Reznor.

You okay?

Hey Kyle good to see you man.

Can Women Survive without Men?

No, they would be fucked. But, the question is, who would be doing the fucking?

Sheesh, I don't think I've yet posted a single Megadeth song. Shame, shame. How about a classic or two?

Posted this in my thread. I think it deserves a quick repost.

Rooster

Ain't found a way to kill me yet

Eyes Burn with stinging sweat

Seems every path leads me to nowhere

Wife and kids household pet

Army green was no safe bet

The bullets scream at me from somewhere

Here they come to snuff the rooster

Yeah here come the rooster, yeah [2x]

You know he ain't gonna die

No, no, no, ya know he ain't gonna die

Walkin' tall machine gun man

They spit on me in my home land

Gloria sent me pictures of my boy

Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death

My buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath

Oh god please won't you help me make it through

Here they come to snuff the rooster

Yeah here come the rooster, yeah

You know he ain't gonna die

No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die

A bit of background, the "rooster" in the song is Jerry Cantrell's [Alice in Chain's guitarist's] father who served in Vietnam. His nickname was "rooster" during the war. He is seen in the video with his son, both reflect on the war and the time they spent together.

My first OS was Redhat 6.1, then I tried Caldara.

I used to use GIMP a lot and had a version of Blender for 3d modeling.

Buttttt all the programs I wanted to use where windows or MAC based and winwine was too clunky so I went the windows way. I really loved how easy it was to make linux secure though as well as how resource friendly/smooth running it is.

I've never used RedHat, though, I'll likely give it a shot one day. As for switching to Windows, you could always dual-boot. No need to choose one OS over the other. I have multiple OSs installed on my desktop PC. Virtual machines, too, are an option, though, I find that virtual machines don't often make the best use of existing hardware. It's a shame there aren't more rendering and design programs for the Linux distros, that may change in the future.

Thanks! I have been on board with this for decades. ...

You've been on board with the FSM? What have you done for the movement ...

Sorry to be late with this, and I apologize if I overstated my case. All I meant was that I have known about Stallman and the OSF for many years, and, like you, have told people what it is, and is not. "Free" does not (necessarily) mean "no pay."

For myself, I have the GPG public key crypto on my computer and I sent them $25 for it. My wife is the real computerist here and she runs Kali Linux on her test network. We both have Wireshark, and we took a class in it a couple of years ago. She also has Metasploit, BeEF, and a few others. I do not know which she has sent in money for. I am pretty sure that she has not posted any of her own updates, patches, etc.

I am a lot freer with my money than she is with hers. On the Galt's Gulch board, one of the regulars touted Axanar, a new Star Trek fan movie now in production. I watched their trailer, Prelude to Axanar, and then I sent them $100. (Of course, I was a contributor to AS3. My daughter and I got a line credit at the end.) I just joined the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers for $30. I could go on. The point is that if I use "free" software, I pay for it. But, no, I do not modify it, post it to GitHub, or anything like that. I am a technical writer, not a devops person.

And I also knew about Richard Stallman from the old WELL: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. I was active there, in the 80s and 90s, but their being taken over by Salon left me completely alienated. Whereas before, at least some semblance of libertarianism was evident, since Salon, the mainstream there pretty much never met a government program they did not like. I must confess, though, that I feel special for having heard about Barack Obama in 2006. I even voted for him in 2008, though not in 2012, of course.

Neat. I've never donated money, but I've bought GNU/Linux merchandise in the past. I love buying GNU/Linux-related stickers. I just can't get enough of those stickers. They raise a few eyebrows and they're great conversation starters.

I'm a fan of the Debian distro family and I've been playing with Kali quite a lot lately to familiarize myself with some common pentesting tools. Just today, I unearthed an old Dell Latitude D620 laptop from my hardware crypt. Its default operating system in Windows XP, however, I can live boot Kali on it whenever I feel like putting in a bit of learning. In fact, the laptop runs Kali better than it runs XP, which I found surprising. Yep, it's getting a sticker.

Control is the goal, and guilt is the means to that goal.

The article is nothing more than your daily dose of stupid shit. Unfortunately, a number of people will take it seriously.

Free software: there is no such thing. Everything costs something. There are no exceptions. Once this is acknowledged rational discussion can proceed.

--Brant

see that bar of gold lying in the road?--it costs something to stop and pick it up and maybe more than you can imagine (it also costs you something to ignore it and go on your way--why?--because everything costs something, if only brain space)

When Stallman uses the word "free", he isn't talking about price or even cost. He's talking about freedom. To Stallman, a piece of software is conducive to freedom when it is:

1. Able to be run by the user in any way the user sees fit.

2. Modifiable by the user (being able to view the source code is a prerequisite to this)

3. Able to freely distribute copies of the software.

4. Able to freely distribute modified copies of the software.

When the user of the software can view a piece of software's source code, he can verify whether the software is violating any portion of the user's privacy.

When a piece of software meets all of the above requirements, it is considered "free".

In the video, Stallman makes the point that monetarily free software isn't necessarily free (as in freedom) and paid-for software isn't necessarily unfree (as in freedom).

LibreOffice is a free, open source suite of spreadsheets, etc. It's free to you in the sense that you can use it w/o paying anyone.

This isn't how Stallman uses the word "free". See above explanation.

Merlin,

A person can't just modify a piece of software and peak at your assets. They would need to modify it, distribute it, and have Fidelity users download and run it. Just don't download software from any site other than Fidelity, which goes without saying.

Thanks! I have been on board with this for decades. Your summary is better than I could have done - and written better than Richard Stallman speaks it, though, of course, he is always compelling.

You are right, that Objectivists dislike the FSM for all the wrong reasons. Most misunderstand the word "free". Beyond that, they believe that you have a right to control the licensing of your work. I agree. You also have the right to be a Fundamentalist Christian. Your "right" is not the topic here. Your self-interest is.

(I decoded your ASCII sigline when I first noticed it a few months back. Have you seen my Fortune Cookie?)

You've been on board with the FSM? What have you done for the movement, if you don't mind me asking. I'm looking for ideas on how I can contribute, though, they do have an entire webpage dedicated to how people can help the movement. In the past, I've bought stuff from their store and I've helped debug C code in free software, though, my help was minimal since I only have a modest understanding of the C language.

Perhaps the biggest way a person could help the FSM is to get the word out. So few people know of operating systems outside of Windows and OS X, and even fewer people know of the FSM. My GNU shirt has raised a few eyebrows from curious people. When they ask, I do my best to explain what GNU is and what the FSM is, but I ain't so good with the verbal communication. After the conversation is finished, most people walk away with the idea that there is more out there than Windows and OS X; it's a start.

I'm not sure if I've seen your Fortune Cookie, but if it's anything like other fortune cookies, I've probably seen it.

In addition to what MSK said, that isn't Satan. That's Baphomet.

How is it the author of the article kept calling the statue "Satan" when the group clearly identified it as Baphomet?

Stallman is a major ideologue who doesn't let practicality into his perspective. He's against Uber because he knows that the information collected them will be used to invade privacy.

Nothing necessarily wrong with being an ideologue. Nothing necessarily right with being practical. If being practical means forfeiting your information to some company, what does being practical serve? Transportation, of course. But there's always a trade-off. Stallman has chosen to sacrifice convenience for security, whereas Uber clients would do the inverse. It's his choice and I can't say he made an imprudent choice.

Good job of encouraging me to watch a long video. I'll try it.

But no free beer?

--Brant

I'm already disappointed

Quite an accomplishment on my part considering I can't write for crap.

There is gratis, proprietary beer, but it tastes like an old copy of 1984.

Reminds me of the average thread on Objectivist Living.

Jules,

That song keeps popping up on my car's radio. I like it more than I thought I would.

Here's a hidden gem which evaded my grasp for many years. Better late than never.

Spider One is nearing his 50s and he can still scream like a monster.

WOW! Now that is incredible.

To be honest, I thought you meant something else by "Ghosting". I'm not disappointed though.

The issue with filtering something like government disinfo is that one man's truth is another man's disinfo. I doubt there is a commonly held definition of disinfo between the developers and the users, hence Michael's findings.

Ya know, I've never had a desire to bang my head on the wall.

Any deeper than this and I start screaming:

https://youtu.be/WtuoFv4dcwM

--Brant

How's this one, Brant? Probably still too heavy. Just keep the volume low.