Your two things are nouns, not propositional beliefs, at all. "IP" isn't partly normative - it's totally normative, and ineradicably politcal. While your choice of Ubuntu isn't normative (it's about what you choose and want to use, rather than what you choose or want others to), it isn't a statement either.
So, do you want to revise the meme requirements to match what appears to be really interesting in this vein - or do we stick with the rules as laid out?
"So, do you want to revise the meme requirements to match what appears to be really interesting in this vein"
I am not 100% sure what you're going for but ...I am hoping that if there's an interesting variant close by in meme-space that that is the one that gets posted to your journal not mine :) I'm going for maximum dispersal and impact.
It's definitely a worthy exercise to prompt people to think carefully about //how// they come to the conclusions they do, and about what parts of those arguments are essential and necessary to them. Because they often don't. I believe the scientific method calls this falsifiability, no? It's as important to know that you HAVE assumptions that lead to your conclusions as it is to know which ones are indispensible to them. There's a lot to say about it.
The difference between normative desires and declarative beliefs is an important part of this, because the weakest places in arguments leading to affirmations of declarative conclusions probably occurs when arguments magically and subtly cross the lines between these two categories. If, in tracing the logic from a declarative belief backwards by asking "why do I belief this", you find yourself talking about something you //want// instead of something that's proabably true, that's probably a pretty weak point in the argument.
I took a serious look at Mint Debian Edition recently, as well as going back to Debian on my server. Mint seems like a really good escape route should Canonical render Ubuntu intolerably corrupted.
In the end, I decided to upgrade to Trusty Tahr LTS this year, rather than switch back to Debian-based distros. Trusty is going to have numerous package upgrades I could really use, many of which Wheezy lacks. When Jesse releases next year, I will re-evaluate.
I'm still on Precise for every machine I manage, although I tried Raring briefly when it released. The non-LTS Ubuntu releases just didn't have enough to offer this cycle, mostly because I've never used Unity. And now that they're only supported with patches for 9 months, I've decided I'm getting too old to stay on their schedule.
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So, do you want to revise the meme requirements to match what appears to be really interesting in this vein - or do we stick with the rules as laid out?
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I am not 100% sure what you're going for but ...I am hoping that if there's an interesting variant close by in meme-space that that is the one that gets posted to your journal not mine :) I'm going for maximum dispersal and impact.
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In the end, I decided to upgrade to Trusty Tahr LTS this year, rather than switch back to Debian-based distros. Trusty is going to have numerous package upgrades I could really use, many of which Wheezy lacks. When Jesse releases next year, I will re-evaluate.
I'm still on Precise for every machine I manage, although I tried Raring briefly when it released. The non-LTS Ubuntu releases just didn't have enough to offer this cycle, mostly because I've never used Unity. And now that they're only supported with patches for 9 months, I've decided I'm getting too old to stay on their schedule.
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This seems to be the decade of changes that users didn't ask for.
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