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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love (relaxing@home.com):

Re check your facts. The bombs caused more damage than the guns did.

Then again, we Americans are sticklers for details

LK

Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love (relaxing@home.com):

When I was in Kindergarten through first grade out bus driver actually PAID two kids something like $2 per week to keep the other kids in line. I was shoved, and screamed at by second graders when I was only 5 years old. I was not allowed to sit in the same seat as my best friend because we were too rowdy.

One of the two was a female, who when she got older was actually kind of cute. I got back at her four years later. Every time she got on the school bus I squeezed her butt. Hard. She would get on the bus and see me and sit down in the nearest available seat. She tried to enlist other people to protect her hind quarters from the biting grasp of my hand, but the most people would do is stand between us. I had long arms, I reached around them. She finall told the art teacher, who pulled me aside and takled me into leaving her alone. He was a fair man and I've got no problem with what he did, but the incompetent principal who did NOTHING to stop my abuse was later promoted to superintendant of the FSCKING DISTRICT. The guy bully moved away, and I never got to get back at him.

I hadn't thought about this in years, but now it really pisses me off to think about it. I just hope nobody cuts me off on the drive home from work.

I haven't been this mad since I was 17.

When I was young I reached my breaking point and lashed out violently against several of my peers. That got me a reputation as a kid who people didn't fsck with, at least not as much as the other so called nerds.

Having a high pain threshhold didn't hurt either. One time a guy split my lip, and loosened one of my teeth. He climed on top of me and proceeded to punch me in the face. He got one or two shots in and I was able to block 3 or 4 punches. He climed off of me and ran down the hall before he could make it the length of of a classroom I was on my feet again calling him on again.(I probabaly would have lost teeth if he came back) My tenacity impressed people, that day a bunch of kids from school came to see how I was, one of the "cool" kids came along. When I told them my side of the story he said and I'll never forget this "You're one tough son of a bitch." If felt good to have the respect of my peers, and even though I had stitches in my face for two weeks, even though I lost, people didn't really pick on me after that.

That was during my 7th grade year. We were the youngest, and smallest people in the school. Many of my friends only ran or hid from being picked on, I faced it. I got mad, and I fought. In that year I got into four fights, and I only lost one.

That set the pace for the rest of my high school career. I didn't fight much after that year, because I didn't have to. There were even a couple of times I was able to intervene to stop strong people from picking on weak people.

To drop out is to let them win, or at least to let them think that they've won. This is unacceptable. Don't take a gun or a knife to school, but keep a tightly packed roll of nickels or two in mind.

LK

Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love (relaxing@home.com):

>>Would you rather that we learn nothing from the Littleton tragedy and that there be *no* reaction to violence, threats, or the poor taste of wearing a trenchcoat to school the day after a massacre?

Poor taste? It wasn't the trench coats that killed the people. It was the crazed people who wore them.

I wore a trench coat from the time I was 16 until years after I graduated. If I were still in school I wouldn't have hung mine up because some people I didn't know died. I didn't stop wearing my camo BDUs when the Oklahoma City Federal building was blown up either.

We didn't do it, we should have to face punishment for the two who did.

>>Teachers are scared by it and are afraid of their students.

GOOD! Many teachers at my alma mater were apathetic jerks. they hated me & kids like me because we knew more than they did. If they now treat kids who are like I was with fear instead of disgust, I say all the better.

>> I have no pity for anyone punished for saying something like this because they have no common sense, and no respect for the fears of others.

Nobody has to respect your fears. They're yours, you deal with them, not the rest of us. If you're afraid of spiders, do you expect me to not wear a spiderman T-Shirt? If you're hydrophoic do you expect me to not walk in the rain? If your ophidophobic should I not wear my snakeskin boots?

Wake up, and then grow up.

LK

Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love (relaxing@home.com):

You're culture spawned SCTV, Allanis Moanasette, and Michael J. Fox. yet you have the audacity to riticize the US?

If this were Canada or the UK we'd all be begging big daddy government to ban unauthorized sale of plumbing supplies.

LK

I've got the .bz2 file here if anyone wants it; it should be a reasonably fast connection.

Good call. I'm almost done downloading the .tgz; if it's actually different than the .bz2, I'll offer them both. (here, in case you missed it).

I'll leave it for a few days in here.

http://www.roxen.com/ for roxen, its a *very* powerful webserver.

iVend is a commercial module by license, but its undergoing testing right now. Its currently in use for a few sites.

Roxen has SSL3 support, the works. Its fast, and its got commercial support if you so need it.`

I'm currently re-writing themes.org to use it. http://random.themes.org/ shows my current blackbox page that I will use to replace the current one on themes.org.

Woo.. Roxen has a pop3 server too =) Combined with SQL authentication, its pretty damn easy to create clusters too.

--- mailto:vjanelle@home.com -- Vincent "Random I forgot my password again" Janelle.

Dear Corel,

Word Perfect 8 for Linux i386 only? I think it is very nice X-window program, my workplace is installing Linux and is looking at your services and Word Perfect support. We have several PPC machines, some run NT, some run Mac OS. If you use Intel-compatible pc's why not cross compile from Linux/i386 environment?

Cross Development for Linux/PPC

Well, for UNIX, there is a program called mxx, that does public key signatures, and encryption of messages. It works between systems running the server.

No reason it couldn't be extended slightly to work on Windows machines, handle a directory lookup, etc...

Note that the author is avoiding touching the code anymore.