The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is now running a campaign to require that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. The reason being that if it is public money, the code should be public as well. General benefits include overall tax savings, increased collaboration, public service, and fostering innovation. Money is currently being wasted on code that cannot be modified or even studied, let alone redistributed. Code paid for by the people should be available to the people!
(Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:11PM (5 children)
Nuclear warheads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:37PM
While I [soylentnews.org] concur with your assessment, I wonder if the thread author does. How about it, fustakrakich?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:52PM (3 children)
To answer both of you (That silly AC will just have to read it here), I would prefer an A-10 Thunderbolt. You can use it more than once, and who doesn't want a 30mm Gatling gun? I wonder if there's a two seat version. For carrying the beer and steaks, there's the UH-1 Iroquois.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:48PM (2 children)
To that end, what would you do about 18 USC 922 [cornell.edu] of US federal law which has some pretty nasty punishments in store for unimportant people such as yourself taking possession of what is both a machinegun and a destructive device in the form of the GAU-8/A autocannon, without even considering that its typical ammunition consists largely of depleted uranium rounds?
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:53PM (1 child)
Depleted Uranium is perfectly safe. That's why we don't mind dispensing it in vast quantities all around the planet, and not cleaning up afterwards.
Any oncologist claiming otherwise is clearly an anti-American Terrorist.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:37PM
If an oncologist does care about depleted uranium, it just means that it wasn't depleted enough before use. Toxicologists, on the other hand, might have a problem with it.
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