On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Lyberta <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a line that you may cross after which there is almost no > return. If the whole world is extremist and fascist, then you fix it > with extremism and terrorism. y'know... there's a famous black civil rights activist who, when faced with a fascist / aparheid "law" he was accused of violating, responded "go ahead and arrest me: because if i comply with your law it's far worse than *anything* you could do to me by putting me in prison". > An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind you know that that saying actually means that if you take someone's eye, then *yours* will be taken, right? it's *not* giving you the "right" to respond with violent force against violence: it's a *WARNING* to you that violence committed is a downward spiralling trap. > Fuck. I hate this world, I hate myself. i have a wise friend who very kindly gave me a definition of stress. he said it's when people make a comparison between the external (perceived) world and their internal view, cannot cope with the difference... and seek to blame the EXTERNAL world. "i hate your tie!! yesss... it's the *tie's* fault!" :) ironically i had never considered before the scenario where the "target" of the emotion/stress *was* actually your "self". lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and relevant). ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic, in some of the worst (bitchiest) back-stabbing in-fighting for funding and "status" academic environments it's possible to be in, and it was really *really* getting him down. so one day he woke up and said to himself, intending to kill himself, "i can't live with myself". except, the academic in him went, "hang on a minute, what the hell? what the hell is the damn difference between this "I" and this "myself"?? in that stupid sentence! *I* can't live with my "self"?? wtf??" and the sudden and revelationary recognition of the incredible cognitive dissonance between two "things" - two "selfs" - in his mind which he *wasn't even aware were separate" resulted in what's known in the trade as a "kundalini whiteout". when he came to he found he was still sitting on the bed but he could perceive things in a totally new way. i won't go into the rest of the story but he's now one of the western world's best known "spiritual masters", so his books (including audio books) are well worth reading. >> And anyway something that is not widely known: when arm netbooks started >> becoming a thing OEMs were putting linux on them( of course). Microsoft saw >> a very threatening market emerging and raged hell upon them that if they >> kept doing this the sales of their other models would suffer due to them >> removing the OEM discount on the windows license. i heard they were just out-and-out blackmailing companies. i've heard a lot of these stories. >> After that they proceeded >> to change the model so instead of charging per machine they charge per >> model. So basically even if you buy e.g. a Dell Lattitude with Ubuntu >> preinstalled and then wipe it and replace it with an FSF approved distro >> YOU ARE STILL PAYING THE WINDOWS LICENSE. Now some people might disagree >> with me, but for me libre software is a war against oppression and is >> directly competing with microsoft etc( disagree as in that we do not >> compete but exist to fulfeel our own needs). So just for this reason, if >> you need to buy an x86 computer and a libreboot model is not an option it >> is better to buy a system76 instead of e.g. a dell or a thinkpad and then >> install gnu/linux on it. > > Interesting observation. agreed. > I have bought Dell laptop with Ubuntu > preinstalled as it was the only model with GNU/Linux distro I could find > quickly. well, now you're aware of two other possible companies: system76 and thinkpenguin. yay! l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
