[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[foobar]

On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 13:00:13 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 24.01.2012, 13:26 Uhr, schrieb foobar <foo at bar.com>:
>
>> On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 07:09:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
>> wrote:
>>> "foobar" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:gaeafbliswzwkmitpghj at dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>>>>
>>>> IP can't be evil, it's the basic protocol of the internet ;)
>>>> seriously though, the term IP is highly misleading and 
>>>> doesn't have a hold in (legal) reality. It's a collection of 
>>>> unrelated laws with separate agendas and purposes: 
>>>> copyright, patent, trademarks. Each individual law *supposed 
>>>> to* make sense, but at a whole they really don't. Yes, it is 
>>>> perfectly legitimate for an author/artist/musician/font 
>>>> creator/etc to want to be paid and they really should be. it 
>>>> is not hover at all legitimate that a book publisher/record 
>>>> company/etc be paid if that business model isn't justified 
>>>> anymore in the market place. Forcing those on the market 
>>>> when they aren't necessary is the true meaning of evil. I 
>>>> also disagree that it's the companies' fault. They simply 
>>>> want to make money. That their purpose. The government is 
>>>> the responsible party to set the rules for corporations and 
>>>> not vice versa and the US government is completely at fault 
>>>> for this huge mess. It's like children setting the rule for 
>>>> their parents.
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely convinced that the US gov isn't effectively 
>>> a corporate puppet.
>>
>> If it is it just proves my point and stuff needs to be done to 
>> change the current circumstances. AFAIK the current situation 
>> is against the spirit if not the letter of the US constitution 
>> which forbids any group from oppressing another (in this case 
>> Corporate America vs. the little guy).
>>
>> There is this phenomena in the US where some people feel that 
>> they have the right to be ignorant but they ought to realize 
>> that this isn't a core human right and it slowly degrades 
>> society in such a way that they lose all other rights and 
>> freedoms. People should educate themselves and be responsible 
>> for their votes and actually do vote. In my country (Israel) 
>> an elections with ~67% of people voting was the lowest 
>> percentage ever and usually it's closer to 80%. in the USA 
>> it's closer to 50%. That isn't even a majority of the 
>> population!
>>
>> The current situation is directly connected to the ignorance 
>> and lack of caring by the people. After all, a democratic 
>> government comes from the people and represents the people. 
>> Clearly, the citizens of the USA didn't care enough.
>
> You compare a country with two parties with a country with over 
> one hundred parties, this can become a long philosophical 
> debate. :D
> I'm voting for Moria. It reminds me of Lord of the Rings.

I never claimed our system is perfect and for sure we have too 
many parties. OTOH it does show we take active role and we do 
care! :)
Another example would be the social protests that happened this 
summer where 300,000 people physically came to demonstrate in 
Tel-Aviv. No small fit for a country of 7 million.