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- ME
- You may remember being told to go to a board on a site called 4chan, the technology board. Your response to it was "I tried to read that page, but I only saw inane comments". This, is definitely true. It has become a bit of a lightning rod for fools. However, there is a little used part of the website that is a text only board, in the fashion of old BBS's, kind of. No one ever goes there, apart from...who has found it and goes there. It's the programming board.
- The difference between this board and the inane imageboard you tried to read is that 1) it is not populated by people who are (generally) fools. The second attribute of it is that threads do not 404 within a day. I know you browse the web via some kind of wget setup, so if there was a question/answer thread there, you would actually be able to reply. People there are not the instant gratification types that would not appreciate waiting for an answer from you.
- I'm not entirely sure why, but they have some kind of adoration for Gerald Sussman, and have had contact with him before. He lectured them on the cult of personality, and not to put him on a pedastal, which is great really.
- I personally would dearly love it if you would agree to look at a thread of questions and maybe answer the ones you feel like. I know you are very busy, but if you don't ask you don't get. If you are OK with this, would you please let me know and I will send you the link to the thread.
- Yours, respectfully, <REDACTED>
- STALLMAN
- I'm not entirely sure why, but they have some kind of adoration for Gerald
- Sussman, and have had contact with him before. He lectured them on the cult
- of personality, and not to put him on a pedastal, which is great really.
- That is good. I sometimes say similar things to people who admire me
- more than they admire freedom.
- I personally would dearly love it if you would agree to look at a thread of
- questions and maybe answer the ones you feel like.
- I can do it; I think I've done it before.
- ME
- Thank you very much. Here's the link to the thread.
- http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1318230526/
- STALLMAN
- Sorry, I don't have time to read a thread of mail. I have to do
- things efficiently or I can't do them at all.
- If you send me a list of questions, I can think about asking them.
- ME
- OK, that is completely understandable. I get the feeling that it might
- be better this way anyway.
- First question, it has been said that you do not do much programming
- any more, due to using your time in other ways. Do you ever miss the
- times when you would program for hours at a time?
- Second question, What's your thoughts on the 'secure boot' feature
- related to Windows 8 which prevents booting unauthorized operating
- systems?
- Third question, What guns/weapons do you own? In addition: What is
- your favorite martial arts style?
- Fourth question, My question to RMS is is what could I do with my
- life? I do love free software and like to help it but there are other
- problems like hunger and war so I don't really know what to do......
- Fifth question, In one of your articles, you wrote:
- If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you blame the
- school for poor sex education.
- A responsible teacher would have taught her effective birth control
- techniques as well as pleasurable sex techniques.
- What exactly did you mean by ``to teach pleasurable sex techniques''?
- These are the only serious questions so far. They have already
- generated some debate amongst the posters, some who are interested on
- what your take will be on them.
- Again, thank you very much for your time so far, and considering
- answering these questions.
- STALLMAN
- First question, it has been said that you do not do much programming
- any more, due to using your time in other ways. Do you ever miss the
- times when you would program for hours at a time?
- Sometimes. But I could not do it now as well as I did when I was
- young. Meanwhile, there are lots of people writing free software now;
- my contribution, added to theirs, would be a small addition. What I
- am doing now is a lot more important, and a lot more scarce.
- Second question, What's your thoughts on the 'secure boot' feature
- related to Windows 8 which prevents booting unauthorized operating
- systems?
- Microsoft, take your boot off our computers!
- Third question, What guns/weapons do you own? In addition: What is
- your favorite martial arts style?
- The only weapons I own are two swords that have been given to me as
- gifts. I don't know how to use them, though. I have never done
- martial arts.
- Fourth question, My question to RMS is is what could I do with my
- life? I do love free software and like to help it but there are other
- problems like hunger and war so I don't really know what to do......
- Work on any of them -- pick a problem you see a way to be effective
- at!
- Fifth question, In one of your articles, you wrote:
- If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you blame the
- school for poor sex education.
- A responsible teacher would have taught her effective birth control
- techniques as well as pleasurable sex techniques.
- Yes, a good education should include those.
- What exactly did you mean by ``to teach pleasurable sex techniques''?
- My idea of a sex class is like a massage class or a dance class. You
- have a class of 10 to 16 people, either equally straight males and
- straight females, or all gays of the same sex. And one or two
- teachers.
- The teacher would demonstrate a technique by doing it to a student and
- inviting the student to do it to the teacher, while the other students
- watch. Then the students would do the technique with each other, in
- couples usually, and every so often the teacher would call on one
- group to advance around the circle.
- ME
- Thank you so much for answering! I especially enjoyed your answer as to what to do with your life, sage words.
- Strangely enough, some people have shown incredulity that these answers are actually coming from you in regards to the sex education question. I think they find it hard that someone they admire for your political action regarding free software has views that teachers should be sexually involved with the students. Personally, I can see the merit in it. As I come from England, when I was growing up it was hardly ever discussed in school, and this lead to a lot of bad decisions by some of the people I knew. Also I've met some women over the years who could probably have benefited from a few lessons in sex ed.
- STALLMAN
- Also I've
- met some women over the years who could probably have benefited from a few
- lessons in sex ed.
- I gather that men, in general, need it more than women.
- In Mangaia, according to an anthropology book I read, everyone starts
- having sex in the early teens, and they have sex with most of the
- teenagers they know, and learn various sorts of "sexual gymnastics".
- Later they start forming relationships that are deeper than that.
- It would be so nice to have grown up in a society that wasn't prudish about sex.
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