On 4/24/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Lyberta <lybe...@lyberta.net> wrote: > >> There is a line that you may cross after which there is almost no >> return. If the whole world is extremist and fascist, then you fix it >> with extremism and terrorism. > > y'know... there's a famous black civil rights activist who, when > faced with a fascist / aparheid "law" he was accused of violating, > responded "go ahead and arrest me: because if i comply with your law > it's far worse than *anything* you could do to me by putting me in > prison". > >> An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind > > you know that that saying actually means that if you take someone's > eye, then *yours* will be taken, right? it's *not* giving you the > "right" to respond with violent force against violence: it's a > *WARNING* to you that violence committed is a downward spiralling > trap. > >> Fuck. I hate this world, I hate myself. > > i have a wise friend who very kindly gave me a definition of stress. > he said it's when people make a comparison between the external > (perceived) world and their internal view, cannot cope with the > difference... and seek to blame the EXTERNAL world. "i hate your > tie!! yesss... it's the *tie's* fault!" :) > > ironically i had never considered before the scenario where the > "target" of the emotion/stress *was* actually your "self". > > lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and > relevant). ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic, > in some of the worst (bitchiest) back-stabbing in-fighting for funding > and "status" academic environments it's possible to be in, and it was > really *really* getting him down. so one day he woke up and said to > himself, intending to kill himself, "i can't live with myself". > > except, the academic in him went, "hang on a minute, what the hell? > what the hell is the damn difference between this "I" and this > "myself"?? in that stupid sentence! *I* can't live with my "self"?? > wtf??" and the sudden and revelationary recognition of the incredible > cognitive dissonance between two "things" - two "selfs" - in his mind > which he *wasn't even aware were separate" resulted in what's known in > the trade as a "kundalini whiteout". > > when he came to he found he was still sitting on the bed but he could > perceive things in a totally new way. i won't go into the rest of the > story but he's now one of the western world's best known "spiritual > masters", so his books (including audio books) are well worth reading. > > >>> And anyway something that is not widely known: when arm netbooks started >>> becoming a thing OEMs were putting linux on them( of course). Microsoft >>> saw >>> a very threatening market emerging and raged hell upon them that if they >>> kept doing this the sales of their other models would suffer due to them >>> removing the OEM discount on the windows license. > > i heard they were just out-and-out blackmailing companies. i've > heard a lot of these stories. > >>> After that they proceeded >>> to change the model so instead of charging per machine they charge per >>> model. So basically even if you buy e.g. a Dell Lattitude with Ubuntu >>> preinstalled and then wipe it and replace it with an FSF approved distro >>> YOU ARE STILL PAYING THE WINDOWS LICENSE. Now some people might disagree >>> with me, but for me libre software is a war against oppression and is >>> directly competing with microsoft etc( disagree as in that we do not >>> compete but exist to fulfeel our own needs). So just for this reason, if >>> you need to buy an x86 computer and a libreboot model is not an option it >>> is better to buy a system76 instead of e.g. a dell or a thinkpad and then >>> install gnu/linux on it. >> >> Interesting observation. > > agreed. > >> I have bought Dell laptop with Ubuntu >> preinstalled as it was the only model with GNU/Linux distro I could find >> quickly. > > well, now you're aware of two other possible companies: system76 and > thinkpenguin. yay! > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
And, just to put my cent out there, Kant and Nietzsche are also options for that reading list xP _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk