Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
21/02/07/friendly-atheist-defends-censorhip/ -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thin

Re: "rms-open-letter" choice 3: do not, as the project itself, sign any letter regarding rms

2021-03-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
ing Debian members) wishing to (co-)sign any of the > open letters on this subject is invited to do this in a personal capacity. > ---8<---8<---8<--- I support that. Thanks, Timo. -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- The end cannot justify the me

Re: "rms-open-letter" GR choice 2: sign https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

2021-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
;---8<---8<--- Seconded. This option is necessary to balance RMS derangement syndrome. IMHO this shameful GR should not have existed as it is not our business to interfere with internal matters of FSF. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 2048R/CCBC38B3CCEE --- Ty

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
A. Hayek "The Road to Serfdom" https://mises.org/library/road-serfdom-0 -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a w

Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-04-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
I'm saying and I'm is not confirming your point. Communism is a bad ideology that does not work (and could not work even in theory) - that's why it should be "cancelled". Free speech is a beautiful working practice but it is in the way of terrible ideas and that's why th

Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 5

2021-04-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
a person (who dedicated his entire life to the mission) for being weird then we will only see more exercise of mob power here and everywhere else... -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who d

Re: General Resolution: please vote responsibly

2021-04-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
cel mob can never be satisfied and, if encouraged, they will demand more sacrifices soon. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent dis

Re: Debian Project Leader election 2021: both candidates are from cancel mob

2021-04-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
dex.md -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in. -- John Pilger

Re: General Resolution: please vote responsibly

2021-04-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
is worth remembering that to cancel someone's life mission is nothing less than an expressed death (non-existence) wish. -- Kind regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into

dealing with aggression against project

2021-04-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
se and putting it out for GR then we are DoS'ed successfully. -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. -- Aldous Huxley -

Re: dealing with aggression against project

2021-04-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
ctors (choice 1), with refusal to cooperate until our demands are met (choice 3). An undeniable aggression. -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but wh