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 Discussion on answer by Paul Johnson:…

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Martin Rosenau
Jun 3, 2021 20:18
In Germany, some GPL programmer sued a company and argued that the Linux kernel is a "Sammelwerk" and therefore in a certain situation the company had to observe the GPL. The GPL programmer won the process. However, that classification ("Sammelwerk") has a drastic impact: The Linux kernel is not seen as "one work" but every kernel module is seen as "work on its own". ... and German law seems explicitly to allow adding works of different licenses (for example: closed-source) to a "Sammelwerk" and does not allow some license (GPL) to forbid this!
 

 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: How…

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Martin Rosenau
Apr 17, 2021 17:42
@Raffzahn Actually, with "event the 68008" I didn't mean the 68008, but CPUs featuring a Supervisor mode in general: Obviously, there already was some use-case for memory protection in the 1970s...
Martin Rosenau
Apr 17, 2021 17:42
@Raffzahn I don't know why even the 68008 (the lowest-level 68k) had a User mode with limited access rights (malware from the Internet is definitely not the reason), but it is fact that the 68ks had such an operating mode. Virtual memory was possible, but at least the earlier 68ks (68000, 68010) required an additional circuit for this. I didn't notice the term "assembly source code" but I think that the OP actually meant "machine code".
Martin Rosenau
Apr 17, 2021 17:42
@PoC 68000 CPUs have a User mode and a Supervisor mode. And there were systems where some memory ranges where protected from User access. You might use the x86 terminology ("Real Mode" / "Protected Mode") to distinguish between systems using protection features and systems not using them.
 

 Discussion on answer by Kris: If Jesu…

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Martin Rosenau
Jan 28, 2020 02:54
@Mr.Bond In verses 34-36, Jesus claims that there is a verse in the Old Testament where God said that every faithful person is a "god". He insists that he only called himself as "son of god" but not as "god" although every faithful person could call himself or herself "a god" and justify this claim with that verse in the Old Testament.
Martin Rosenau
Jan 28, 2020 02:54
@Mr.Bond I just read the Catholic (because I'm Catholic myself) German translation of John 10:24 to 10:36. If I understand 10:34 to 10:36 correctly, Jesus explains in these three verses that what he claimed about himself in the verses 10:24 to 10:30 is even less (!) than what the Bible says about "regular" faithful people. In other words: In 10:34 to 10:36, Jesus tells the Jewish people that his words were misinterpreted.
Martin Rosenau
Jan 28, 2020 02:54
@Mr.Bond "I and My Father are one" means that the Father and Jesus have the same nature Unfortunately, we don't know if this sentence was said in Aramaic or Hebrew language. However, in German language the sentence "she and her brother are one" has the meaning: They always have the same opinion and they never argue. Can you be sure that in Aramaic language this sentence does not have the same meaning?
 

 Discussion on question by Leo: Is the…

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Martin Rosenau
Oct 16, 2019 07:45
@Leo "This seems much fairer..." As I already wrote, it is not only the EU citizens who'll have a lot of problems if they want to live in GB. It's also the GB citizens who'll have a lot of problems if the want to live in the EU. So both GB and EU citizens will have a lot of problems if they want to live on the "wrong side of the border". And foreigners (even EU citizens) who want to live in Germany have a lot more paperwork to do than Germans...
Martin Rosenau
Oct 16, 2019 07:45
Here in Germany everybody must register oneself at the city where he or she is living. In Austria this is also mandatory. In Germany it's also mandatory to register oneself at the city where someone has a second apartment.
Martin Rosenau
Oct 16, 2019 07:45
Unlike the two answers already written, I'd say that it is not "discrimination". Why? According to the declaration of human rights, everybody is allowed to live in the country of his citizenship. However, there is no right to live in a foreign country - neither for you, nor for people with British citizenship.
 

 Discussion on question by ethos: Shou…

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Martin Rosenau
Dec 5, 2018 07:28
@ethos First of all: What we (the Catholics) celebrate on Christmas is **not** (simply) the birth of Jesus; what we actually celebrate is the beginning of the salvation of mankind by Christ.
This festival is **only** celebrated by Christians and the purpose of the festival is to thank God for something and there is no other purpose. And you want to tell me that this is a non-Christian issue?
Here in Germany most people do not believe in God and they celebrate something on Christmas just to celebrate. However Christians typically do **not** take part in such kinds of celebrations: Just like …
Martin Rosenau
Dec 4, 2018 19:55
@4castle However this is not the point. The main point is that "ethos" argues that some Christian festivals are "pagan". The question is now: What does "pagan" mean? That you worship other gods? In this case "ethos" is definitely wrong. Or that something (e.g. celebrating) was done in another religion before Christians started to do this? In this case praying is "pagan" so it should not be allowed to pray any more (according to ethos' logic)...
Martin Rosenau
Dec 4, 2018 19:55
@4castle Now I read 2 Cor. 15-17 in different translations - both our one and the JW one. I don't find any word that forbids celebrating.
Martin Rosenau
Dec 4, 2018 19:55
@ethos I don't get your point: Is your problem that there is another festival on the same day? I'm sure you'll find 366 murderers that are born at another date. This means every day of the year is the birthday of a murderer! Using your argumentation celebrating would not be allowed at all because if you are celebrating (no matter what!) this would automatically mean that you are celebrating on the birthday of a murderer. With exception of the date however Christmas has nothing to do with the other festivals: You don't worship the sun on Christmas.
Martin Rosenau
Dec 4, 2018 19:55
@4castle It is true that early Christians did not celebrate birthdays and they did not celebrate a lot of Christian festivals we know today. But does this mean that it is not allowed to do so? Jesus depicts celebrating whenever there is some occasion as something which is absolutely normal (examples: Lk 15,9; Lk 15,23). So why not celebrating when there definitely is an occasion? At least I don't know any quote from the Bible which forbids this.
Martin Rosenau
Dec 4, 2018 19:55
@4castle This was the explanation I was told in a museum in Rome. The German Wikipedia at least says that this is one of the theses still being discussed. However this is not the point. The point is that one religious Roman festival, (probably) one Mitras cult festival and Christmas were celebrated on the same day but the three festivals had nothing to do with each other. By celebrating one of the three festivals you don't automatically celebrate the other two festivals.
Martin Rosenau
Dec 4, 2018 19:55
Your premise is wrong: Early Christians have chosen the day of Saturnalia (or whatever festival) to celebrate Christmas because it was a public holiday in Rome so they could celebrate without being noticed (especially in times of persecution). Both festivals have nothing to do with each other with exception of the date when they are celebrated. If I understand the rest of the quotes correctly, these refer to the festival of Saturnalia (or whatever festival was celebrated at those days), not to Christmas!
 

 Discussion on answer by Lyndon White:…

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Martin Rosenau
May 24, 2018 05:37
I have heard that there was a scientific paper about the topic "why are scientific papers so hard to read?". I have heard that the conclusion was that in most cases papers are written in a much more difficult language than needed even making the content more difficult to understand for the expert, not making it easier to understand as in your example. Unfortunately I don't have a reference.
 

 Discussion on answer by ratchet freak…

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Martin Rosenau
Feb 18, 2015 22:07
"toString" is not only used for debugging; one of the main use cases of "toString" is the output; in C++ it would be the line: "cout << someGenericObject". This could be implemented in C++, too, if a generic base class of all objects existed.