Re:Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beij...
by schoen on Saturday May 17, 2014 @12:03PM
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I think the parent commenter was agreeing with you. The English idiom "could do with" (which I think is somewhat uncommon in California, where I live) means something like "could benefit from", "still needs", or "would like". It suggests that someone doesn't yet have the thing that they "could do with", but that it would be good if they did, at least from the speaker's perspective.
Re:Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beij...
by dengnan on Saturday May 17, 2014 @02:09PM
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Thank you! I didn't know thus expression before. (I can always learn a lot from HN.) Upvote for the Wikipedia link.
Re:Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beij...
by mark_l_watson on Saturday May 17, 2014 @09:53AM
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Thanks for your comment. I did overstep in making my comparison, and I appreciate the feedback.
I desire a highly secure and unfettered Internet, and I just get frustrated by countries, and companies, that get in the way of achieving this goal.
Re:Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beij...
by tiatia on Saturday May 17, 2014 @10:42AM
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"- Try to access any popular web site in China like Youtube, facebook, etc. Good luck."
Try to access the internet in China. Good luck! (But Baidu always works)
Re:Richard Stallman – "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Beij...
by sillysaurus3 on Saturday May 17, 2014 @12:18PM
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If you say something bad about the government on Internet, you may have the risk of being kidnapped by some unknown person and thrown into some unknown mountain area. (No kidding, one of my friend had this experience.)
Would you elaborate? This is very interesting. How did they get out of that situation?
- You do not have choice of service providers. All providers are government department and there's nearly no competition.
- Try to use Google in China, lots of fun!
- Try to access any popular web site in China like Youtube, facebook, etc. Good luck.
- If you say something bad about the government on Internet, you may have the risk of being kidnapped by some unknown person and thrown into some unknown mountain area. (No kidding, one of my friend had this experience.)
Specific to RMS: I'm the translator of Free as in Freedom (Chinese edition.) Until now, I have no idea if the word "free" (自由) could appear in the title when we publish it.
Edit 1: grammar