[ale] [Kinda OT] The "TalkMaster", Freedom and Free Software

[Jim Kinney]

I can't listen for more than about 5 minutes before I am overcome with an
explosive urge to divest my digestive track all contents all at once. I
have thrown radios into a concrete casting from hearing him and his like.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:21 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 01/30/2012 02:17 PM, John Anderson wrote:
> > Hmm...
> >
> > Well who is more likely to pay for advertising? The maker of some cheesy
> > windows app or a Libre application with no profit motive?
> > You need to take your revenue where you can get it.
>
> The interesting thing is that he says (frequently) that he only endorses
> those things that he believes in.  I find it interesting that, this
> being the case, that he pushes shackles over freedom.
>
> > You could always try calling yourself and pointing this out.
>
> I suppose I could.  I’m not entirely sure I’d actually make it past
> Belinda, though, because (or at least so it seems, anyway) he tends to
> only take callers that wish to speak on whatever topic he is speaking on
> at the time, and I’ve never actually hard the topic of computer software
> arise on the show itself.
>
> Perhaps I could, however, send an email or a (gasp!) written letter.
>
>        --- Mike
>
> --
> A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

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