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If we have no laws then people will act completely on their believe and base their decision on religion or they own mind. This means we go back to 1000 years ago, where the strongest person will win. Instead of working for something you can just go and take it. Plundering will become a big problem again. Also people will start fighting each other again because of different religions. Even today we can still see that religion is being used to turn humans against each other.
I can see politicians and oligarchs acting completely on their believe, adjusting laws to their own purpose or completely ignoring them. Politicians do not need to work, they simply take money from other people (and threat them with violence, if they do not like it). And, exactly as you typed, people still fights because of some stupid things as religion is. I see no difference beetween real present-day world and this hypotetical "if we have no laws". It's the same, laws just change how all this matter looks - to ostensibly be more "civilized". But from the inside, it is same dirt - it just looks like "people want it like that because it is the law, so it is completely ok and there is no way to disagree".
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First I must say, that it is interesting, how many people believe, that society without laws (or even without central government) cannot exists. Interesting, but not surprising. Centuries of existence of laws together with lack of imagination results to this funny situation - that we are afraid of even think to something else.
First of all, try this little experiment with your opinion. Is your claims about necessity of laws (and government which creates it) based on rational consideration? Is there any rational argument you think that without laws world will fail into chaos? If you have some real arguments, please, write it here because I didn't read any yet.
Think about this. There is nothing like human laws on the planet and nature can still exists quite well, even without humans at all. Then why human laws even came into existence? I definitelly don't think that laws are some kind of salvation from endless chaos in the meaning of an ultimate evil (as some tried to claim). My opinion is, that only purpose of laws is domination, nothing more. Do you afraid, that without law, there will be just rule of greed and violent people who don't care about others? But we already have it - and it is not in spite of law, but because of law. The fear of law is a weapon to rule.
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Economic power is the most dangerous of all. When a person has money to buy everything, he will buy everything if needed even the lives can be bought by the money.
I add one funny comment - it is the people, who gives power above themselves to the hands of someone.
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Power can only currupt in an atmosphere or state whereby laws fragile. Where nobody is above laws power can't be currupt or abused
But laws are created by individuals. Creator of law is always about that law. Isn't it?
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Well, we (in the meaning of mankind) used to rate and evaluate everything we meet on our journey through life. But we must have in mind, that some of these ratings are just our subjective point of view and maybe it simply cannot be applied to such a thing as evolution is.
We know that evolution of life is full of dead and blind branches, species that extincted completelly. Species that were superseded by others. How can we tell, that way mankind's evolving is unnatural? Maybe it will be the final victory over other species on the planet in this longtime-period battle. Maybe it is the only way to start next journey in the evolution of whole universe.
We are blind wanderers and it is not up to us to deciding what is natural and what isn't. Everything what mankind did was a part of evolution process that started long before us. These process brought us to this moment in time. There are just two possible future realities: We will survive or we will extinct. That is only relevant rating of mankind's deeds, when comes to rating evolution.
What will the future look like? Who knows such a things? Maybe we will extinct. But it is sure that this eventuality is totally natural thing in the diversity of evolution and hence there is nothing to worry about. The universe will still works as it used to do.
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True, AppImage basically just format of portable application. But you could update it on each major update. I only update my Electrum occasionally (when there's new interesting feature or fix serious security vulnerability).
I understand, but considering this process for boring and archaic (from certain point of view). Central software management (maintaining software up to date) is one of the reasons I am using Linux for about ten years. I don't want to know about security problems - I want downstream to do the job and supply updates to users in confortable manner. It has some problems on non-rolling distros (I was using archlinux for long period), but Linux Mint show us, it is possible to integrate Flatpak to system in very comfortable manner and thats what I really like. But no offense - every technology finds its users and I hope you enjoy using appimage.
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I know Flatpak (along with Snap and App Center) is great for lazy people, but AppImage is still very easy to use. On most cases, you just need to make sure you can execute it (by open properties of the AppImage file), then double-click.
I don't know appimage, but according to what i read, you have to manually download new package on every new release. That's not very lazy-friendly. Linux Mint has flatpak updates integrated in its system update manager, so flatpaks updates automatically together with regular packages.
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Thank you very much. It seems that electrum devs do not use/like flatpak and don't care about the package at all. One should be really careful, when using these these kind of flathub packages. But I think, that electrum devs should be even more careful about this matter. Cryptocurrency wallets are special case of software - there are really strong motivation for blackhats (and electrum is quite a popular).
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...but you can contact Electrum website support directly for confirmation. I clicked on See details under Publisher section in Additional information and I got the same github link as posted above.
Well, Electrum website said that questions can be asked on this forum, so I hope that someone watch it from time to time... I do not think that Publisher section on Flathub is relevant - if it is some fake/malware/whatever package, it is easy to put real developer info to it, isn't it?
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Since the repository is owned by Flatpak itself, there's small credibility of this Electrum package. But please use AppImage instead if you're looking for one-click solution.
Yes, but I am using Linux Mint, which has very nice flatpak integration (very nice means for lazy people as I am).
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