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A log on IRC:

<anon#1> how old are you?
<anon#2> Lajla: Hei
<anon#2> Sorry
<anon#2> I don’t know any Finnish :(
<anon#1> hey anon#2
<anon#2> yet ;)
<Lajla> I am nine earthen years old.
<anon#2> Lajla: It’s anon#2, not :erased:, I suppose you’re using a sans-serif font :)
<anon#2> anon#1: Hey :D
<Lajla> anon#2, yes I am.
<anon#2> anon#1: I was in Prague for a week, just got back an hour ago
<anon#2> anon#1: Back in Finland yet?
<anon#1> I back here this sunday
<anon#2> I’m really jaded
<anon#2> Last week was a bit too much in this cold
<anon#1> Lajla, 9 years old?
<anon#2> gonna eat and take an hour long shower
<anon#2> see you anon#1
<anon#2> and Lajla :)
<anon#1> see you
<Lajla> Yes, I am nine years old.
<anon#1> you are quite young
<anon#2> Do your parents know that you are talking on IRC, Lajla ?
<Lajla> Well, given that I expect at least 70 more years, yes.
<Lajla> I doubt my mother knows what IRC is.
<Lajla> She hasn’t tapped into the computer revolution as veritably as I.
<Lajla> Regardless, I have enjoyed a rather liberal education on such values.
<Lajla> My mother loathes internet nanny services and things like that.
<anon#1> irc is a dangerous place
<Lajla> She feels I should do my best at accumilating as much information as I can and judge it to my own view.
<Lajla> Why?
<anon#2> He is right, it is.
<anon#2> Your mother should know that you are talking to strangers through the computer.
<anon#1> it’s full of bots that are waiting for a 9yo girl to eat her
<Lajla> You have failed to present any viable arguments you know that?
<Lajla> You expect some claw to come out of the machine or something?
<Lajla> Mother was wise enough to realize I am aptually more intelligent than most of my peers and adjust according to that, not some figure saying I was born nine years ago.
<Lajla> For some obscure reason, any prejudice is not-done except concerning age,
<Lajla> even legislative, one cannot drive before age x, vote, drink et cetera.
<Lajla> All based on prejudices that people before that age cannot, and after they can.
<Lajla> I’m more of a philosophy of looking into this per person.
<Lajla> And besides, those ages are guessed at whim, you know that>
<Lajla> There has never been any research done at what age one can drink alcohol, how could you? It’s a continuous gradient.
<Lajla> It should be that if you age, you can have a little bit more alcohol.
<Lajla> Not drink yourself to destruction after you reach a certain age and not a drop before it. it.

Interestingly enough, the moment they found out that I was a nine year old, they proceeded to warn me. They just treated me normally before that moment and assumed I was not a nine year old child? If they assume that I’m not a nine year old child? Wouldn’t that implicate that I can use IRC like any adult? But apparently that little number is more important to them than what I type.

Kind of like the idea of multiculturalism, this is for a very simple reason.

Dutch food sucks.

Let me introduce you to the finest intricacies of Dutch cuisine:

Aardappelen met Vlees en Groente:

This quite literaly translates to ‘Patatoes with meat and vegitables’, our naming convention is as creative as our kitchen. If you think this is just præpairing vegitibles, meat and patatoes and putting them on a plate together, you are correct. If you were to ask if any of this has but any seasoning, I am inclined to answer with a negative. A meal fit for a Jewish king in Auswitch, next:

Boerenkool met Worst:

Translates to ‘Farmer’s Cabbage with Sausage’, this is just destroying some cabbage to a pulp with some kind of squashing device and then putting a sausage next to it which may optionally, like here,  resemble together some kind of wretched phallic symbol. More often than not, the sausage is just laid next to it. If you were to ask a patriot here if this has but any taste you would get some-thing like ‘Taste in food? How dare you, this is treason to Her Majesty, The Queen, Beatrix of the Netherlands, go away to your own country if you want to eat the derangedness of food which has taste…’, next on we have:

If you at this point realized that Dutch food is mostly just lumping various articles extracted from nature together which you’ve heated on one plate with no internal cohesion or thought, then you have paid attention. This fine abomination here is another traditional Dutch dish. Now, compare to a random dish brought into this country by some children of Attatürk:

Döner Kebab:

Or

Hot Pot, from China:

Roti, from Suriname:

I should add that Surinamese Roti is a bit different from the Hindustani one often appreciated in the Anglician world.

I think I’ve made my point quite adequately, and if some Imam does not want to shake the hand of a woman, who cares, I don’t shake hands at all and every-one forgives me because I don’t wear a beard and a turban.

Richard Stallman, honestly one of the few people that have an en.wikipedia page to whom sincerely look up to and respect for political views and as far as an article there allows one to make a view thereon, also as a person. The way he lives, how what he stands for, his endless quest for perfection in terminology and what he strives to achieve.

He just hasn’t achieved it yet.

Fanboys of  GNU/Linux systems can become a bit obnoxious at time. Yes, GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like Systems serve their purpose and are the best there is in a certain field. A lot of people seem to forget that they don’t work properly in a lot of fields as well. The general ‘Ah good, you use Linux’ or ‘Get Linux’ after receiving a CTCP on IRC are just reaking of noviceness in general, or the people continuing their support for GNU/Linux while they cannot answer the critical questions regarding what exactly makes it better than Mac OS X, they tend to call it ‘Linux’ instead of ‘GNU/Linux’ too. I doubt the operating system would be significantly different if the Kernel was some-thing else too. The significant part of the system is the GNU part. It just doesn’t use Hurd as a kernel. They could try first taking into consideration what exactly the other party does with a machine before automatically assuming GNU/LInux is the best for every-thing, thinking that is just fanboyism. I personally tend to need professional graphics editing and audio editing tools. GNU/Linux doesn’t quite support these, or more like the reverse.

And then people come with ‘open source alternatives’, I just said professional, The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a completely unprofessional tool, it’s a toy to fool around with and desaturate your pictures of some sorts. It by no means meets the demands for a graphics designer, Photoshop 1.0 was better than The GIMP is today. And then people tell you you ‘need to be creative’ and then it becomes quite obvious that they are not graphics artists and when you ask them questions it turned out they didn’t know the capabilities of Photoshop by a vast margin. The people suggesting The GIMP comes close or even equal to Photoshop are extremely novice graphics artist and have very little sense of æsthetics, which probably is what the average GNU/LInux user is. And that’s probably why creative software on the platform is greatly insufficient but other things like CGG, Emacs, and LaTeX are not. And the last one is known for its ‘æsthetics are irrelevant’ policy. Have you ever seen the GNU site or Linux.org? Firepages? W3C.org?

Creative software isn’t really high on the GNU’s priority list I suppose is the cause of this, that, or they  themselves don’t realize the improvements it still requires. In that I have a Vista/Linuxmint dual boot, which isn’t because Windows is any great of an OS, it’s more because of the third party availability of commercial software which is largely simply because of the popularity of the platform. But still, it is how it is. Also, it has to be said that various stable builds of GNU/LInux distributions have bugs in them which would be unacceptable on commercial software, such as that it doesn’t suport turning of your speakers if you plug in your headphones which is a ‘known problem’ on various SUSE versions; that some Ubuntu versions where known to not even install at all on a lot of hardware configutarions, some solved the problem by anally raping your computer with an USB stick while you boot from CD, and no one knew why but it worked in some cases. On the other hand, Windows keeps having the very annoying bug that for instance a .jpg file being put on your drive can run itself as a binary executable in disguise, also known as virus. People that think Mac OS X and Unixen can’t get a virus is because of the obscurity of the software.. errhh. It’s essentially extremely strange that Windows can get virus, it’s a bug that files can just run themselves due to exploits in file-systems and what-not. And it still hasn’t been fixed, I reckon they can fix it. But just think about it, do you know any other things from MacAffee and Norton but virus scanner? I wouldn’t be that surprised if they paypal a huge sum to Bill Gates every year so that Microsoft doesn’t put them out of business by making their OS a little more resiliant against a flue. But ask yourself these questions:

• Why is an OS good on which generally software you install doesn’t work the way it should unless you google a solution which more often than not requires you to sudo a couple of text files in which an error can cause your box to boom?
• Why is an OS good which has an extremely limited availability of third party software?
• Why is an OS good on which bugs such as not being able to install at al or being unable to properly direct hardware is a ‘known feature’ in stable builds?
• Why is an OS good which requires extremely complicated procedures to get external hardware working like USB flash memory, SD card readers, portal MP3 players, and even if you get it to work it still lacks many features?

Try being objective about Stallman’s dream please. He has far from achieved it yet and the various stables could better be called GNU/Linux beta releases. They aren’t full fledged operating systems as of yet and have too many bugs and support issues for that. But I like the idea and support it, but also try to be realistic and down to earth about the feasibility of providing a good product free of charge and complete insight to company secrets. Though it’d be wonderful if he one day manages to achieve it.

I am by the way against all forms of intellectual property, thither my consistent Creative Commons tags.