On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Stefan Kangas skangas@skangas.se wrote:
Unfree speech OR Free beer
You are correct!
you shouldn't have to choose between the two ;-)
This specific conclusion is wrong, however. The disjunction is inclusive, not exclusive. You CAN have both! ;-)
Right, but very few would want free beer at the cost of unfree speech (it wouldn't be free if it had a cost, so, in a way, it translates into exclusivity ;-) or a contradiction )
Sorry for the rant, I couldn't help myself ;-)
Thanks for spotting this mistake!
I actually had fun spotting it ^^
And, no I wasn't serioius, I just felt we could take out the "opposite" word :D
Peace and love!
Rikard
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Rikard Fröberg wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Stefan Kangas skangas@skangas.se wrote:
Unfree speech OR Free beer
You are correct!
you shouldn't have to choose between the two ;-)
This specific conclusion is wrong, however. The disjunction is inclusive, not exclusive. You CAN have both! ;-)
Right, but very few would want free beer at the cost of unfree speech (it wouldn't be free if it had a cost, so, in a way, it translates into exclusivity ;-) or a contradiction )
Sorry for the rant, I couldn't help myself ;-)
I actually had fun spotting it ^^
I just found myself laughing out loud at your, Rikard, little Boolean exposition. Thanks!
Regarding the choice between free speech and free bear, actually what we oppose our selves against is the tendency that fewer and fewer choose the freedom-to-speak part and seems rather to take the free-beer part. The whole idea of Gmail relies on this tendency. And Google even refuse their customers their freedom to their own thoughts, and, I am sorry to say, those customers seems to have no problem at all with that.
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I just found myself laughing out loud at your, Rikard, little Boolean exposition. Thanks!
I'm used to having people laugh at me. Not always in a good sense ;-) and alarmingly often regarding my logics :D
Regarding the choice between free speech and free bear, actually what we oppose our selves against is the tendency that fewer and fewer choose the freedom-to-speak part and seems rather to take the free-beer part. The whole idea of Gmail relies on this tendency. And Google even refuse their customers their freedom to their own thoughts, and, I am sorry to say, those customers seems to have no problem at all with that.
Agreed!
Rikard