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I usually do not deal with politics, philosophy or what not in this blog as I try to keep it purely technical even thoug I have some strong opinions regarding various topics. Nevertheless, when Steve Jobs tries to redefine our dictionaries in something that looks like Orwellian attempt to control our minds I feel obliged to defy.

A few days ago, Ryan Tate “picked a fight” with Apple's CEO. I don't want to judge the whole “discussion” they had nor say who was right. I only want to refer to Job's single statement:

Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom.

Does it occur only to me that freedom is to or of never from? There's freedom of speech. One has freedom to go naked in his or her house. But there's no such thing as freedom from.

Or wait… Maybe I'm in fact mistaken and people in China have freedom from uncensored Internet?

It's so ironic… Apple has finally turned into the Big Brother it was fighting back in 1984. An so it's only natural for this company and Jobs to use techniques described in the book:

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.

So no, Mister Jobs, I refuse to participate in your propaganda. I will use words in the way they were intended so that I can be hungry or cold but at the same time be free to say two plus two make four and then all else will follow…

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Ponieważ ostatnio zaopatrzyłem się w 9 komorową baterię do mojego Wicherka postanowiłem sprawdzić co tak naprawdę oznacza te 7,8 Ah. Testy nie są może jakość szczególnie wiarygodne, czy dokładne, ale dają pewien ogląd na sytuację.

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