I would not choose to use Mac OS for any other reason than being brutally forced. But I like Mac Hardware, so when Linux support becomes adequate, I'll consider buying a MacBook Pro, and wipe the system without ever booting it.
That sounds great in theory. But you're punishing specific people for the actions of a third party.
I believe the argument is about the morality and reasonability of how copyright is implemented, especially when it comes to academic publishing. Authors make almost no money on their publications, which is as it should be, since they are usually payed good salaries while they write. I have published a chapter of a book with a well esteemed publisher, and although the book presumably sells well, I have not seen one penny. Which is as it should be. The publishers, however, make insane profits because most academic libraries need to buy an overpriced copy of almost all published books, and students must buy overpriced text books.
In recent years many governments, including the US, have started a process where they demand that all research that they pay for should be published openly. The problem with this, of course, is that publishers actually contribute something of value, which is quality control an editing. The solution is to find better systems for taking care of these tasks than having publishers who exploit both their authors, the universities and the general public. The biggest losers in the current system are academics in the 3rd world, since their universities often cannot afford to give them access to published research, not even their own. Z-Library is just taking a shortcut to rectify a huge problem that the governments in the world are already in the process of fixing, just more slowly.
So, there is no third party being punished in this case. That would have been the authors, but in most cases they don't get much payment for the sale of books or articles anyway. They get payed for doing the research. There is one abusive party, the publishers, and then there are victims. The governments are victims, although they to some degree protect the publishers who make them pay for the same research twice. The authors are victims, since access to their research is restricted. And the general public are victims, since they have no access to the information they have payed for through their taxes.
Nothing comes close.
It seems this argument isn't particularly new. And what's going on, really? This should have been first post.
Earlier today my colleague and I were talking about kung fu movies at work, just talk, no googling, and a few minutes later I got an ad for kung fu training from facebook. That is the first kung fu ad I have seen ever. After that we have been talking about buying an Audi car, and are awaiting the ads, just to be sure that they are listening in... But of course that must have been a coincidence, since I'm using Linux, and I know when the microphone on my computer is turned on. I do, however, have an Android phone which I have given all permissions, so if google and facebook cooperate, that could explain this very strange coincidence.
I had an Amstrad CPC464, a little less advanced than the 6128. It had 64Kb of RAM instead of 128 and a built in cassette recorder for storage instead of a built in disk drive. I was 12 when I got it, and I learned programming (and improved my English exponentially) from the manual. I'm still amazed with myself when I remember that I had programmed my first working shoot-em-up game 3 weeks after I got it. Most of my friends had Commodore 64s of course, and I rememember being frustrated when my point that the Amstrad's Z80 processor was 4 times faster than the 1MHz MOS 6510 didn't seem to impress them at all.
Yes, it is silly to divide Linux by distribution, and even sillier by packaging system. It's like having options for "Windows - Edge based" and "IE based", with no option for "Firefox". I've had Arch on all my computers since 2003. But since I wrote a script and put it in
Still there are some ignorant deniers who don't accept the unanimous scientific proof that the heat death of the universe is human made.
I can't help myself mentioning that i3wm is not awesome, although both are tiling wms.
Yes, and then they figured they also want some terrorist mafia action in their life.
That is a very good observation, and it is very old. This is from the poetics of Aristotle:
"that which is credible but impossible, is preferable to that which is possible but incredible."
Yes, org-mode is definetly the best solution for organizing information that I have found. It's extremely simple and flexible. It makes it possible for me to do almost everything in Emacs. I use vm for email, ledger for accounting, I write most of my documents in org-mode and export to pdf through latex.
Of course org-mode and the other text and emacs related solutions doesn't take care of all my information processing needs, but almost. For photos, videos and music I use the old fashioned descriptive file name in a good directory strycture method. My hand written notes, however, are more difficult to take care of. I have a drawer (physical one) for them, but I wouldn't call that coping with the information.
Yes, my understanding of English is quite good enough that I was able to see your point. I was just tempted to add to it, by examplifying...
How can you work when the system's so crowded?
