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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2294121 | Jan 20 17:40 |
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| TechrightsBot | @deadsuperhero@joindiaspora.com reshared: #drone strikes do not help prevent civil wars; they create such wars w/ a rift between those who welcome invaders and those who don't | Jan 20 17:41 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 20 17:41 |
| schestowitz | My problem is more about the morality of the situation itself. Imagine a battle between an army of these robotic drones, and some alleged "terrorists" in some third-world country that the US has vested interests in (read: oil, plutonium, political leverage). The US can keep building these drones faster than any opposing force can produce people, and the necessity of even having soldiers fight our wars for us will be made obsolete. | Jan 20 17:41 |
| schestowitz | If our government cannot remain accountable with this amount of power over a country that is trying to legally get rid of personally-owned guns, we have our own uphill battle. | Jan 20 17:41 |
| schestowitz | The trend will favor robotic soldiers We will have these kinds of machines performing surveillance on our own countries, and no way to fight back against them if the government abuses that responsibility. | Jan 20 17:41 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 20 17:41 |
| schestowitz | "Sean, I share many of your thoughts in respect to drones. I also find the open embracing of video games eg America's Army, CoD franchise, et al for recruitment purposes especially egregious. The fact that US military strategy is experiencing a conscious shifting of the experience of US military personnel to that of a video game speaks volumes." | Jan 20 17:42 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2294226 | Jan 20 17:42 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "SHOCKING VIDEO: MAN JUMPS ONSTAGE & POINTS GUN AT BULGARIA PARTY LEADER" http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/19/shocking-video-man-jumps-onstage-points-gun-at-bulgaria-party-leader | Jan 20 17:42 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Shocking Video: Man Jumps Onstage & Points Gun at Bulgaria Party Leader | Video | TheBlaze.com .::. Size~: 182.56 KB | Jan 20 17:42 |
| schestowitz | "The whole room full of people is lucky the guards did not pull a Huey Long assassination and shoot everyone." | Jan 20 17:42 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houie_Long | Jan 20 17:43 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Huey Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .::. Size~: 211.14 KB | Jan 20 17:43 |
| schestowitz | > Lucky. I hope you can keep it that way. Debt, for most practical | Jan 20 17:52 |
| schestowitz | > purposes, killed me off. I got through undergraduate studies without | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > debt but picked too much up during the tail end of grad school. I | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > made it worse by moving to Sweden where, despite a relatively | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > (locally) high salary, I was not making more than the minimum to live | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > and pay off the loan. I got by through living in rented rooms because | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > I could not afford my own place. I left then for about double the | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > salary in Denmark but the job was high stress. Even though I picked | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > up knowledge of Linux and FOSS, there were a lot of other problems | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > including a consultant playing people and departments off each other | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > for more work. I did an expansive job search and found a really good, | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > fun, easy job in Norway, but that only lasted a year and afterward I | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > had to fall back onto web development. By then I was too physically | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > sick to do much though I did finally pay off my loan. I moved to | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > Finland then but that precluded starting a family but by then I was | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > too ill to care. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > I taught for a while at a polytechnic here, that was fun. But the | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > softers were all high school friends and or cousins to everyone | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > (pretty much everyone here are cousins to each other) so eventually | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > they were able to gang up and prove how small, mean and petty they | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > could be. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > Without the debt, I probably could have stayed in Sweden where I was | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > familiar with the language and culture. And despite the very severe | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > problems that the university was experiencing, I probably could have | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > built the great job into a career of sorts. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > I'm slowly exploring new options. A few weeks ago I started volunteer | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > English tutoring. It is interesting, but it is more like teaching | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > than tutoring. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > I like the dark winter, but the spring-winter is nice too and it is | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > starting. Just yesterday, the sun showed over the top of the hill and | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > shone through the trees for a few minutes. It was visible longer | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > today around midday. I look forward to the warmer air, so I can do | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | > more skiing. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | I had seen your resume but only now did I see a more personal, less embellished life story. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | For me, well... the most rewarding thing is activism, BY FAR. A job just gets me by. About kids, maybe we'll have 1 or two, maybe none. It's not that important to me. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | People leave their mark by impacting society, not businesses, outliving their career phase. Wikileaks has been inspirational in recent years; their angle is different from the FSF's. | Jan 20 17:53 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2295548 | Jan 20 18:00 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Aaron Swartz: cannon fodder in the war against internet freedom http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/20/aaron-swartz-cannon-fodder-internet-freedom #internet #copyright v. @glynmoody | Jan 20 18:00 |
| schestowitz | "I just noticed that his name is in the "About" menu for HTTPS Everywhere." | Jan 20 18:00 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Aaron Swartz: cannon fodder in the war on internet freedom | Technology | The Observer .::. Size~: 142.94 KB | Jan 20 18:00 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2294831 | Jan 20 18:00 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: #Science #Space - Sounds completely contradictory doesn't it? Gliese 436b is 33 light-years from the Sun, and it orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 436. Gliese 436b orbits its star so closely that the temperature on the surface stays at a constant 800°F (425°C). In spite of this, it is completely covered in solid water. How is this possible? The gravity on the planet is so incredibly strong that all of th | Jan 20 18:00 |
| TechrightsBot | Photo by ii_try@pod.orkz.net: https://pod.orkz.net/uploads/images/thumb_medium_f61c61bcf2b2cf125bb3.jpg | Jan 20 18:00 |
| schestowitz | "Burning Ice? Fuck Logic." | Jan 20 18:00 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2294129 | Jan 20 18:01 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "American Federation of Teachers" a misnomer. Not for Americans or for teachers, it's Gates-funded front group. #billgates #lobbying | Jan 20 18:01 |
| schestowitz | "They are also mentioned here, http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/the-lines-of-influence-in-education-reform/ " | Jan 20 18:01 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: The Lines of Influence in Education Reform | Seattle Education .::. Size~: 627.23 KB | Jan 20 18:01 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2294156 | Jan 20 19:11 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Chávez and #FOSS http://www.somoslibres.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5971 | Jan 20 19:11 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Chávez, un defensor del software libre - Software Libre .::. Size~: 42.83 KB | Jan 20 19:11 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 20 19:12 |
| schestowitz | Among some of the positive things the current government in power has brought to table. sadly is badly and hardly implemented even in governmental offices, where they should be using GNU+Linux by law. All in all, the Canaima Os ( and the Canaimita project) has come a long way, pumped and cared by a thriving and hopeful open-source/software libre supporting community that has to fight against the all well know weight that is to fight | Jan 20 19:12 |
| schestowitz | against privative/proprietary software implementation in our lives. | Jan 20 19:12 |
| schestowitz | Yes I expect and hope for more support to FOSS in my country by current, or any coming government in the future. But it is hard to believe their dedication to the project, when CANTV (the government-owned Telecommunications service provider) spent 12,505,000$ on Microsoft Windows licenses, and the subway stations of the capital city of our country are filled with Internet Explorer publicity. | Jan 20 19:12 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2284721 | Jan 20 20:25 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Five notable new features in #Fedora #Linux 18 'Spherical Cow' http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025390/five-notable-new-features-in-fedora-linux-18-spherical-cow.html "leading-edge distribution" and *not* hardware | Jan 20 20:25 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 20 20:25 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Five notable new features in Fedora Linux 18 'Spherical Cow' | PCWorld .::. Size~: 56.9 KB | Jan 20 20:25 |
| schestowitz | @Roy: | Jan 20 20:25 |
| schestowitz | Who do you work for? | Jan 20 20:25 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 20 20:25 |
| schestowitz | Sirius | Jan 20 20:26 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2295700 | Jan 20 20:27 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: #TOC #OCD | Jan 20 20:27 |
| TechrightsBot | Photo by raulete@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_1b8352e8637fb159815f.jpg | Jan 20 20:27 |
| schestowitz | "Fix it! FIX IT!!!!!" | Jan 20 20:27 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/293102313751584768?uid=26603208&iid=am-209358414613587160120223539&nid=27+236 | Jan 20 21:13 |
| TechrightsBot | @davidgerard: @schestowitz oh roy, please link that I revised https://t.co/aQ8wHAJP over the holidays and would like more eyes on it. thanks :-) | Jan 20 21:13 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2295799 | Jan 20 21:50 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 10 Year Old #KDE Bug Finally Gets Fixed http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3ODk #gnu #linux | Jan 20 21:50 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: [Phoronix] 10 Year Old KDE Bug Finally Gets Fixed .::. Size~: 17.53 KB | Jan 20 21:50 |
| schestowitz | "I suppose it's the age-old conundrum of "too many improvements" and "not enough fixing what you already have."" | Jan 20 21:50 |
| *ChanServ gives channel operator status to MinceR | Jan 20 21:50 | |
| schestowitz | "All bugs are shallow, right?'" | Jan 20 21:50 |
| MinceR | not enough eyeballs, obviously :> | Jan 20 21:50 |
| schestowitz | need MOAR eyes! | Jan 20 22:26 |
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