The Revolutionary - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Yes (Score 2, Informative) 363

by The Revolutionary on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @04:28AM (#7161096) Attached to: Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job?

Christopher Langan, the self-proclaimed "smartest man alive", is, I say, arrogant, childish, and with good reason so far as I am aware more or less only "self-proclaimed" (I qualfiy this incase his goons get wind of it and claim slander).

He talks big, mostly in a maze of his own terminology, and seems to refer to his position as tautologous, as if that is supposed to be an asset.

His position being, so far as I can tell, that his great big mind reveals the truth of some sort of spiritualist pantheism; some sort of self-aware universe.

Something about a "theory of everything", of course explaining even logic, which, I presume, logic can not even apply to!

But that's just my take on it; any inaccuracies in my representation or irrationality in my opinions should be taken as genuine misunderstanding and frustration stemming from my inaequate and puny mind, so don't accuse me of just spreading lies; I really did make a good effort trying to figure out what the hype was about.

But don't take my word for it. You're welcome to come to your own conclusions about the man. CTMU should get you started.

Journal Journal: Realistic fines for copyright infringment 1

Journal by The Revolutionary on Saturday October 04, 2003 @11:47PM

These fines have two purposes: 1) recompensate the copyright holder for economic losses, 2) deter future infringment by both the violator and others.

(1) clearly is greatly exaggerated under current policies. A single instance of downloading in violation of copyright all tracks from a particular CD at most constititues an economic loss to the copyright holder in the amount of the payment the copyright holder would have received from a retail sale of this CD.

Journal Journal: Repost: how the regime will crumble

Journal by The Revolutionary on Tuesday August 26, 2003 @06:14AM

Until we have nothing left but locked down hardware which self-destructs in response to attempts to study it, distributors can not stop prevent the willing from liberating the information.

Until neighbors are paid off to report neighbors, brothers to report brothers, distributors can not prevent the willing from liberating the information.

Journal Journal: Take a stand on the MPAA 2

Journal by The Revolutionary on Friday August 15, 2003 @08:45PM

The following was offtopic for the story, "Renegade Reverse Engineering - John Woo Style". I am reposting it below:

No, not, "Where to we stand on the matter of the MPAA?" Where do I stand and where do you stand on the matter of the MPAA?

I would urge everyone to, when then find themselves facing the dilema of whether or not to financially support the MPAA, to not just say, "Oh, isn't that funny; yesterday we hated them, and today we will support them," and shrug off the matter.

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