Nice

So you were brainwashed by the other thing instead.

Read the other comments please.

Thanks for this :)

I agree with your last point - and I may be a bit bourgeois (not to mention ignorant) myself. I’d appreciate recommendations if you wouldn’t mind.

It’s come and gone throughout the millennia, like certain pieces of knowledge. Eratosthenes very accurately calculated the circumference of the world in Ptolemaic Egypt and later on people thought the Earth was flat (and some morons still do). As for capitalism, look at prehistoric societies using shells as currency. What is that currency for?

Fair point, I accept that. A bit like how democracy is the worst form of government apart from those other ones we tried.

It’s not “Capitalism”, it’s governments not doing their job in regulating capitalist practices, and instead embracing neoliberal economics. I don’t accept that all ownership is theft. Trade in goods and services benefits both parties. I am so sick of people using this shorthand word “capitalism” to describe what’s going on here. We’ve had capitalism for millennia, and it’s brought us longer, healthier and happier lives, and reduced warfare. It’s Thatcherite/Reaganomic practices by governments that are the problem, not the system of ownership of capital.

“What’s wrong with me, Doc?” “Well, you look like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.”

And fear overpowers intelligence yet again.

The phrase is “free as in SPEECH/beer”, because it doesn’t make sense to say “freedom” - especially since that has all sorts of other connotations, especially in the USA. Everyone should be able to understand that free speech doesn’t mean a speech that you listen to at no cost to yourself. It means the ability to express yourself without censure. And beer… everyone understands that, and who doesn’t love free beer?

I think what happened is that someone typed “google” into Google, and broke the internet.

Casu marzu

Occupational hazard. Doesn’t mean said engineer isn’t owed compensation though. On the contrary.

A better quote

It was clear from context what was meant, i.e. torrenting copyrighted content. Let’s not be disingenuous about this.

Similes are metaphors, too

Cum and sine in Latin, same meaning as con y sin

Just a slightly higher barrier to entry really filters out the low-quality ignorant/belligerent/unconstructive posters, don’t you think? The relative absence of useless posts made either by bots or unhelpful users is refreshing too. It’s not perfect but it’s a huge step in the right direction.

Cain disAbeled his brother…