Controversial Opinions Thread

[silvertone]

a heavy majority of the people would be better off if they didn't do drugs

[strongbad]

a heavy majority of the people would be better off if they didn't do drugs

i think it's quite the opposite

[bluaki]

copyrights on productivity based software (anything that can be used as a tool) should be abolished, everything should be open-source, and there should be a tax to support open source software. this would create an ultimately superior computing experience that is driven by quality instead of one-upping the competition and financial gain that brings down the consumer (i.e. drm)

Free software actually does rely on copyright; licenses like GNU GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache are all based on copyright, although the license terms grant plenty of freedom while preserving credit. A lack of copyright is simply public domain.

Tax money effectively does fund proprietary software, particularly Microsoft's, because of its immense deployment in education, government offices, government services, etc., but some other governments (like I think France) have more funding directed at open-source software.

[strongbad]

Free software actually does rely on copyright; licenses like GNU GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache are all based on copyright, although the license terms grant plenty of freedom while preserving credit. A lack of copyright is simply public domain.

Tax money effectively does fund proprietary software, particularly Microsoft's, because of its immense deployment in education, government offices, government services, etc., but some other governments (like I think France) have more funding directed at open-source software.

interesting, thanks for calling out my ignorance.
but the principle in my point still stands.

[ncba93ivyase]

copyrights on productivity based software (anything that can be used as a tool) should be abolished, everything should be open-source, and there should be a tax to support open source software. this would create an ultimately superior computing experience that is driven by quality instead of one-upping the competition and financial gain that brings down the consumer (i.e. drm)

this and algorithms/mathematical formulas and biological objects should not be patentable

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

mbv sounds dated as fuck

[Hiro]

mbv sounds dated as fuck

it does sound old but i don't see how that's a bad thing or at all unexpected
the thing was made over the course of 20 years

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

it does sound old but i don't see how that's a bad thing or at all unexpected
the thing was made over the course of 20 years

its just kind of like what's the big deal there is nothing interesting going on in this album all his jokes were used on Loveless and to rehash what he's done is kind of ridiculous why did he spend twenty years bullshitting.

4/10

[Mando Pandango]

Just because it was made 20 years after the last one doesn't mean it took 20 years to make.

[Samus Aran]

the recording process was apparently half done in 1997 after the band broke up

i doubt it was touched very often in the 16 years following

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

Just because it was made 20 years after the last one doesn't mean it took 20 years to make.

In 2007, describing the imminent release of a new record, Shields said "It sounds like what we sounded likeâ€"different but not radically different" and revealed the album was composed from "[the] '96/'97 record half-finished record finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993â€"94, and a little bit of new stuff."[4]

[strongbad]

this and algorithms/mathematical formulas and biological objects should not be patentable

definitely. our patent system is so broken

[Samus Aran]

right, so it's pretty obvious why it sounds "dated"

because it's literally mostly a record from 16+ years ago

bad jokes notwithstanding