[ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Dear linux-il friends, 1. I'm very concerned with freedom of speech online, especially today when the www and Internet has become so commercial. When the big corporations control the Internet, or at least to some extent are controlling the Internet, some things can't be said and some ideas can't be expressed without being censored or sued. There are a few issues I want to discuss related to this, it's off topic linux but related to open source and freedom of speech so I think it's better if you reply off list to my posts or write me directly, I'm not writing everything here because it's long and I don't want to spam the list. 2. I need some information and advice about open source software for exchanging files and ideas, and I'm also looking for people to support and help coding or finding people who can help coding and also (before coding) designing the technical issues involved here. It's long and off topic so if you are interested please see more information here: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=83 3. I recently joined facebook but my account was disabled and I decided to leave. It's also related to me being politically active and also me criticizing facebook. There are many people who use mainly facebook to communicate with other people and I can't communicate with these people (including my friends) and by the way things I wrote have been removed from Wikipedia talk pages and I was asked to leave and not return to this website too. http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=81 4. I'm currently looking for work. If you know something please let me know privately. You can see my profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/urievenchen Thanks and I hope this post is accepted although it's not directly related to linux-il. Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My website: http://www.speedy.net/uri/ Never believe anything men say on odd days. Never believe anything women say on even days. Check the date before you believe someone! * מכתב זה אישי וחסוי מתחילתו ועד סופו. כל זכויות היוצרים שמורות לכותב המכתב. אין לפרסם או להפיץ את המכתב ברבים ללא רשות מפורשת מכותב המכתב. אם קיבלת מכתב זה בטעות וקראת עד כאן, תשכח מה שקראת, אל תדע מה שידעת ותעמיד פנים שמעולם לא קיבלת ולא קראת את המכתב. *
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Hi, 2008/4/5 Uri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear linux-il friends, 1. I'm very concerned with freedom of speech online, especially today when the www and Internet has become so commercial. When the big corporations control the Internet, or at least to some extent are controlling the Internet, some things can't be said and some ideas can't be expressed without being censored or sued. There are a few issues I want to discuss related to this, it's off topic linux but related to open source and freedom of speech so I think it's better if you reply off list to my posts or write me directly, I'm not writing everything here because it's long and I don't want to spam the list. I somehow have a feeling that many people from here already marked a message from you as SPAM and kicked this message. 2. I need some information and advice about open source software for exchanging files and ideas, and I'm also looking for people to support and help coding or finding people who can help coding and also (before coding) designing the technical issues involved here. It's long and off topic so if you are interested please see more information here: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=83 I read your idea, and I would like to say few comments both to you and to people who might want to join you: 1. You're thinking about creating yet another file sharing company. Find yourself some lawyers. 2. As a person who previously matched between companies and developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that you are a Red Risk, which means that developers should ask for cash (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel and/or being fully Naive. 3. Of course, any developer who accidentally served in the Israeli army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully childish behavior. 3. I recently joined facebook but my account was disabled and I decided to leave. It's also related to me being politically active and also me criticizing facebook. There are many people who use mainly facebook to communicate with other people and I can't communicate with these people (including my friends) and by the way things I wrote have been removed from Wikipedia talk pages and I was asked to leave and not return to this website too. http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=81 Hmm, I wonder why they banned you :) 4. I'm currently looking for work. If you know something please let me know privately. You can see my profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/urievenchen With your behavior? with your history? any potential employer who will Google you will throw your CV to the trash after 3 minutes. You clearly alienated tons of people with your act and any HR clerk with half a brain who will google you and see the results, will think that you are a trouble maker, and thats a big red-flag to them, which means they won't accept you. In all honesty Uri, you made few very-public mistakes by flaming many Israelis on your web site's banner only because they served in the army, and you keep doing so on other places till today. I've seen that you've become a spiritual guy, and one of the things that any spiritual things that you learn is to accept the other, even if his opinions are the opposite of yours. I myself write a blog and I wtite my political opinions there (I'm from the right-side of the political map), but I totally respect people who disagree with me. It's very important to separate a political opinion from a person and a basic respect should be given. I think you should apologize to many people who were insulted by your actions. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
- Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2008/4/5 Uri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear linux-il friends, I somehow have a feeling that many people from here already marked a message from you as SPAM and kicked this message. Dear Hetz, I feel that your reaction to UeCh is somewhat Pavlovian. His idea (which - alas - is more of the very old same only smeared with spiritualistic nonsense) does not merit such reaction, in my opinion. 1. You're thinking about creating yet another file sharing company. Find yourself some lawyers. That is sound advice. Alas, Uri, no matter whether your intent is to share unencumbered content or (tfu-tfu-tfu, has ve halila, perish the thought) encumbered content, the powers that be (namely, people with gazillions of dollars in ready money) will not look on such an idea with all that much goodwill. 2. As a person who previously matched between companies and developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that you are a Red Risk, which means that developers should ask for cash (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel and/or being fully Naive. Hetz, my dear, this is an ad hominem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem). It might even constitute libel. Yes, Uri is either unaware or ignoring Israeli and other laws, but using an ad hominem is always a bad idea. 3. Of course, any developer who accidentally served in the Israeli army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully childish behavior. Again, an ad hominem. What does it matter that Uri rails (quite incoherently, I must say, which gravely detracts from his argumentation) against criminal organizations like the IDF, etc. Uri is somewhat misguided in his views, but that is not a very good reason to ad hominem him. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Dear Hetz, Hi Marc, 2. As a person who previously matched between companies and developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that you are a Red Risk, which means that developers should ask for cash (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel and/or being fully Naive. Hetz, my dear, this is an ad hominem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem). It might even constitute libel. Yes, Uri is either unaware or ignoring Israeli and other laws, but using an ad hominem is always a bad idea. Ad hominem, the short hebrew version: http://milon.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=indexterm=ad+hominem I see your point, but I respectfully disagree. I can give myself as an example: After signing my last contract to work at a start-up, the boss decided (3 weeks after I started to work) that I need to select an option: either a 60% cut of my salary or quitting. He's sure that he can get professional Linux staff for around 6-7K bruto. (I'm not talking about some person who just finished RHCE, he is looking for someone who knows load balancing, scripts, deep server knowledge etc..). Why he didn't check prior signing a contract with me getting people with this amount of salary is beyond me. I know that I had to quit due to his childish decisions and be left high and dry. It's not that he wasn't satisfied with my work, it's that he wasn't satisfied with the contract that he himself wrote and signed. Thats why I wrote what I wrote. 3. Of course, any developer who accidentally served in the Israeli army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully childish behavior. Again, an ad hominem. What does it matter that Uri rails (quite incoherently, I must say, which gravely detracts from his argumentation) against criminal organizations like the IDF, etc. Uri is somewhat misguided in his views, but that is not a very good reason to ad hominem him. Oh? look at this (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3295235,00.html). If someone cannot separate a military service from a citizen's life, then I think that developers who want to work for/with him should decide whatever they want to decide. Sorry for this OT stuff. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:53:49AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I see your point, but I respectfully disagree. I can give myself as an example: After signing my last contract to work at a start-up, the boss decided (3 weeks after I started to work) that I need to select an option: either a 60% cut of my salary or quitting. He's sure that he can get professional Linux staff for around 6-7K bruto. (I'm not talking about some person who just finished RHCE, he is looking for someone who knows load balancing, scripts, deep server knowledge etc..). Why he didn't check prior signing a contract with me getting people with this amount of salary is beyond me. I know that I had to quit due to his childish decisions and be left high and dry. It's not that he wasn't satisfied with my work, it's that he wasn't satisfied with the contract that he himself wrote and signed. Thats why I wrote what I wrote. I expect that it was something quite different. Much more likely is that they either had money troubles, or they had staffing problems and wanted to hire someone who wanted the extra money. They figured you would take the cut, and if you did not, they would live with whomever they could get at the salary. Each month they did not fill the job, they would make do and save the money. Quite possibly, they budgeted salaries and expenses at 4.25 NIS to the dollar, got their funding in dollars and found that it was now 30% short. I'm sorry that you had to go through the emotional roller coaster but in the end you are well rid of them. 95% of all startups fail, 75%-85% of them in the first year, and this is just one of the reasons. The statistics the government publishes are skewed because they only count startups that make it to the point of incorportation or registering with the tax authorities. Lots of startups are funded privately and never get that far. I'm not sure how you could do it and not expose yourself to trouble, but you should let everyone know who the guy was and the name of his company, so that no one else falls for the same trap. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Hi Geoff, I expect that it was something quite different. Much more likely is that they either had money troubles, or they had staffing problems and wanted to hire someone who wanted the extra money. They figured you would take the cut, and if you did not, they would live with whomever they could get at the salary. Each month they did not fill the job, they would make do and save the money. Quite possibly, they budgeted salaries and expenses at 4.25 NIS to the dollar, got their funding in dollars and found that it was now 30% short. Actually they had the money from VC's (around $700K) which isn't bad for a 4 people start-up. They already started to make some money. I'm sorry that you had to go through the emotional roller coaster but in the end you are well rid of them. 95% of all startups fail, 75%-85% of them in the first year, and this is just one of the reasons. Emotional roller coaster? thinking about the work there right now, it was simply written all over, and I should have connect the dots and see it coming. Want an example? I was given a simple task: create a backup/restore scripts. Nothing fancy, just create some tarballs, run it with cron with a command line parameter for debugging. Easy stuff, right? So I wrote it in bash, just like the other scripts were written. He didn't like that I use grep instead of egrep. fine. modified the script. Now he wants it to be written in Perl. Fine, Perl it is. Then he wanted it to be written in PHP. Fine, I wrote it in PHP with libcurl for uploading/downloading. He doesn't like libcurl. Fine, I'll rewrite it without libcurl. Ah, but libcurl can give you the HTTP status (200,300 you know..), rewrite with libcurl and add parameters for more verbose output. See what I mean? A damn simple job to create backup/restore had to be written 4 times because he couldn't decide on one way or letting me decide what to write and with what to write. Thats why I wrote what I wrote the first time. If your boss is acting like a child when he needs to make decisions, then this should be a sign for a potential employee. Personally, I like to laugh a lot and making stupid things, I have strong political opinions, and I even do some research on mysticism, and I write a blog about these things. I leave all of this behind me when I work. I'll be happy to talk to friends at work about mystic or political stuff when we're eating out or when we finished working at the end of the day, but I will NOT mix my agenda's with my work. Few months ago, I wrote a post about a biologist who was fired because he believed in creationism. You might be interested in reading it: http://benhamo.info/wp/?p=314 I'm not sure how you could do it and not expose yourself to trouble, but you should let everyone know who the guy was and the name of his company, so that no one else falls for the same trap. I prefer not to name names. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
