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Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Funky See Funky Do posted:

All very important information OP but what I really need to know is how to surf the net ethnically.

black twitter

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FreshCutFries
Sep 15, 2007

FIRST TIME posted:

black twitter

bitter

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55P-UHdZ7WI

Tashan Dorrsett
Apr 10, 2015

by Deplorable exmarx
Please do

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circ dick soleil
Sep 27, 2012

by zen death robot

Rogue AI Goddess
May 10, 2012

I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?
Browse only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Browse in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
God this guy is so loving ... There honestly isnt a single word for it. I need at least 5: Creepy insufferable piece of poo poo.

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Stallman, despite eating his own filthy toe jam in public is right about everything he's ever said.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Beef Turret posted:

Stallman, despite eating his own filthy toe jam in public is right about everything he's ever said.

Is this for real? Before I read this thread I had only seen the Stallman "article" in the op. Turns out he is way way way way way way worse of a person than I could have imagined. And I already thought pretty low of him after that initial reading.

On second thought, we could have lived without gcc.

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Stallman has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. The man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are vilifying him as incompetent.

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

General Tofu posted:

Am I understanding this correctly? He stuffs dead plants up his nose while beating off? (or somehow gets sexual pleasure from it)

He's making a very clever joke about how since flowers are basically the sexual organs of plants (heh) you're technically having sex with them by inhaling their pollen, sort of, so smelling cut flowers is like, plant necrophilia, man! This is a very clever analogy which clearly has valid implications for human necrophilia and our irrational taboos about it.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Beef Turret posted:

Stallman, despite eating his own filthy toe jam in public is right about everything he's ever said.

he must have been home schooled

Jimbo Jaggins
Jul 19, 2013
I hear if you buy a chicken from the shop and stick your dick in it you're a necropaedophile whos found of bestiality

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Beef Turret posted:

Stallman has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. The man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are vilifying him as incompetent.

same

Jimbo Jaggins
Jul 19, 2013

Beef Turret posted:

Stallman has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. The man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are vilifying him as incompetent.

please dont troll in support of a paedophile

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Entropic posted:

He's making a very clever joke about how since flowers are basically the sexual organs of plants (heh) you're technically having sex with them by inhaling their pollen, sort of, so smelling cut flowers is like, plant necrophilia, man! This is a very clever analogy which clearly has valid implications for human necrophilia and our irrational taboos about it.

:negative: he really is the biggest loving goon

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Entropic posted:

He's making a very clever joke about how since flowers are basically the sexual organs of plants (heh) you're technically having sex with them by inhaling their pollen, sort of, so smelling cut flowers is like, plant necrophilia, man! This is a very clever analogy which clearly has valid implications for human necrophilia and our irrational taboos about it.

berries, fruits, and nuts are the sexual organs of plants too so think about eating some tree's jizz when you're eating an apple next time

further proof that vegetarians are queers

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Richard Stallman accomplished more than any paid developer yet they deride him as a senile fool for his eccentricities. He's always been eccentric. I can guarantee he can code any of his pitiful critics under the loving table. The world should have given the GNU project some money to hire developers and security auditors. Hell, it should have given Stallman a place to sleep that isn't a couch at a university. There is no loving justice in this world.

General Tofu
Nov 20, 2014

by Lowtax

Beef Turret posted:

Now that the world is done taking from him, they are vilifying him as incompetent.

I don't think the world needs to bother vilifying him- it'd be plenty happy letting him fade into obscurity. But it sounds like this guy is too busy trying to make himself sound like a big deal for something he did 30 years ago, when he's intentionally done nothing to keep himself relevant in the computer industry ever since. Hell, the guy refuses to even learn more than very basic HTML, use a web browser or learn how to work an email client, saying he "has no interest" or "doesn't have time" because he's spending it all on "free software activism". Which really sounds like he's spending the whole day checking his email and telling people how much better his pseudo-religious computing practices are than theirs.

Oh, and inviting himself to conventions to speak where he's apparently not wanted, probably because he sounds completely insufferable to be around

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
Don't ever respond to beef turret

lol rms actually uses emacs

Jimbo Jaggins
Jul 19, 2013

Jonny 290 posted:

Don't ever respond to beef turret

General Tofu
Nov 20, 2014

by Lowtax
I tried using Emacs once and its user interface was intolerable and incomprehensible. It's honestly a pretty poo poo text editor. People love to claim, "Oh! But you can make it do ANYTHING! You can program it to be a first person shooter!" I could train hamsters to re-enact Hamlet in mime but it wouldn't be a good idea

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

General Tofu posted:

I don't think the world needs to bother vilifying him- it'd be plenty happy letting him fade into obscurity. But it sounds like this guy is too busy trying to make himself sound like a big deal for something he did 30 years ago, when he's intentionally done nothing to keep himself relevant in the computer industry ever since. Hell, the guy refuses to even learn more than very basic HTML, use a web browser or learn how to work an email client, saying he "has no interest" or "doesn't have time" because he's spending it all on "free software activism". Which really sounds like he's spending the whole day checking his email and telling people how much better his pseudo-religious computing practices are than theirs.

Oh, and inviting himself to conventions to speak where he's apparently not wanted, probably because he sounds completely insufferable to be around

That's a really convoluted way to call a social reformer (which is technically what he is) an attention-whore for standing up to the faceless companies who want put your data through the meatgrinder without legal oversight, lol. Oh yeah, also he does eccentric things, what a piece of poo poo

Otto von Ruthless
Oct 1, 2014

General Tofu posted:

I could train hamsters to re-enact Hamlet in mime but it wouldn't be a good idea

i don't know anything about nerd operating systems or whatever dumb bullshit this thread is about, but this hamster thing is definitely a good idea

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
I won't forget what he's done, and what he continues to do for general computation and the Internet. Not a single day goes by that I will not be thankful for Stallman's work. You people are pieces of poo poo. I am disgusted, and you can pry my Emacs from my cold, dead NANDs

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

lol who the gently caress doesn't email web pages to themselves

General Tofu
Nov 20, 2014

by Lowtax

Beef Turret posted:

pry my Emacs from my cold, dead NANDs

You're using an SSD? With PROPRIETARY FIRMWARE?!
You're a disgrace to open source jesus. You're not fit to eat his toe cheese

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Parallax Scroll posted:

lol who the gently caress doesn't email web pages to themselves

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
I would totally hang with Stallman if I could wear a menthol salve under my nose like in the morgue.

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

QuantumNinja posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ejlP0uWeI Skip to the 2-minute mark to see the virgin bullshit; he's done it many times, and often drags it out longer than in that particular video.

This is actually physically painful to watch.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Beef Turret posted:

Richard Stallman accomplished more than any paid developer yet they deride him as a senile fool for his eccentricities. He's always been eccentric. I can guarantee he can code any of his pitiful critics under the loving table. The world should have given the GNU project some money to hire developers and security auditors. Hell, it should have given Stallman a place to sleep that isn't a couch at a university. There is no loving justice in this world.

n01currrrr

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Entropic posted:

This is actually physically painful to watch.

i couldnt make it to the relevant part about the virgin story or whatever. i even skipped ahead to the 2 minute mark.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
dude who argued against the concept of the wheel group and advocated for every random fucko that struts in a lab to get root is a champion of people's privacy. got it

rms knows nothing about security and the only thing he wants is for machines to be wide open so his chances of somebody starting emacs double to 0.16% per year

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
But how else will i write all this super in demand and desirable lisp software without opening emacs ?

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

thathonkey posted:

But how else will i write all this super in demand and desirable lisp software without opening emacs ?

Does he actually write software any more?

I have a hard time figuring out why someone so deliberately disconnected from modern computing actually needs a computer. He might as well just get a PO box and a typewriter. As long as the ink ribbons aren't proprietary.

Robot Randy
Dec 31, 2011

by Lowtax

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Entropic posted:

Does he actually write software any more?

I have a hard time figuring out why someone so deliberately disconnected from modern computing actually needs a computer. He might as well just get a PO box and a typewriter. As long as the ink ribbons aren't proprietary.

he needs to shuffle around at the convention pecking at a leemote yoolong to lecture the hosts of his next convention on his parrot loving habits so that he will be comfortable enough shuffling around pecking at his leemote yoolong next week lecturing the hosts of his next convention about his parrot loving habits so that he will be comf

Flyball
Apr 17, 2003

Entropic posted:

This is actually physically painful to watch.
It's like watching a much brighter version of my autistic nephew.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

:laffo: context?

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a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

vim works ok

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