Slashdot Mirror
Chandler 0.1 Released
kolchak writes "Very promising news is Chandler 0.1 (the Open Source PIM) has finally been released. 'While we are still very early in the design and
implementation process, we intend for this 0.1 release to make us a more
fully open project. We have made the release available for download,
opened up our bug tracking database, and opened our source code
repository.'" This is Mitch Kapor's attempt to offer an alternative to Microsoft Outlook, especially to small (under 100-person) organizations, last mentioned in December.
My girlfriend's stark vagina, bless her heart, is bloody like a Chinese revolution.
Now STFU before I thrust my throbbing man-root between your quivering unlubricated beef-curtains.
My name is Laurie Garrett. I am astounded by what I've read here.
As I scanned the correspondence on this URL I found myself imagining tens of thousands of reasonably intelligent, energetic souls wasting precious moments of their lives and collective brainpower over an extraordinarily silly exercise. I saw an enormous web of cross-referencing and communication herein -- of wasted 'community'.
Ten years ago, before the Great Dot Com Crash, Silicon Valley pundits waxed eloquent about the great 'community' of the internet, and the 'new global democracy' it represented. But people, this is a fraud. Do you imagine for a moment that the participants in the WEF -- whether they be the CEOs of Amoco an IBM of the leaders of Amnesty International and OXFAM -- waste their time with Internet chat rooms and discussions such as this? Do you actually believe, as you type your random thoughts in such Internet settings, that you are participating in Civilization? In Democracy? In changing your world?
I beg of all of you -- the Internet addicts of the world -- to turn off your TVs and computers now and then and engage the world. Go have actual eye-to-eye conversations with your family, friends and neighbors. Read a great book. Argue politics over dinner with friends. Go to City Council meeting. Raise money for your local public library. Teach your 12-year-old algebra.
Climb a mountain.
Execute a dream.
Be a citizen of the real world.
As I read through the electronic conversation on this URL I was reminded of documentary I saw years ago about 'Star Trek' fans. In it, William Shatner (AKA Captain Kirk) stood before hundreds of people dressed as Klingons, Vulcans, Romulans and assorted other imagined aliens. Somewhat bemused, Shatner looked at the sea of masked and oddly dressed humans and said, "People, I have only one thing to say to you: Get a life!".
Please.
Give up, it's over.
Linux is so 2001.
Liberation abroad, repression at home - a student's tale
Repression in Ohio? This corner of the USA need not belong to the puritans, as this letter eloquently explains.
The following is advice for that student.
If campus repression is this big a problem for students at OSU/Columbus, organize, register locally and vote in your own local government that has something better to do than harass students. Just about every student at your school is old enough to vote, and 10-20K students voting as a bloc will have a *big* impact on local elections, especially anywhere that city councilcritters are elected by city electoral district.
Perhaps there are other things wrong with the local government as well. Do the roads look like they belong in the Third World due to bad maintenance? Unusual corruption? Are the public schools known to be shitholes? I don't know your area, but unless your city is looked to by the rest of the US as a "model of good government", there are *always* things the government is massively and visibly screwing up that a fair number of the locals pissed off. From your description of misplaced government priorities, I consider the odds that your city is a "model of good government" as roughly zero.
And look for ways to monitor the voting process, especially if the voting machines are the new touchscreen type with no paper audit trails.
If the students can't organize to cover their own asses, I don't see why I should be concerned about them other than another set of victims of the RIAA/MPAA situation which makes the members of these organizations collectively "the common enemies of mankind".
I assume a certain number of students at the school are poltical science majors. Would any like to get some practical experience of the sort that looks good on resumes?
"Campaign Manager - Columbus City Councilman [insert name here]" looks pretty good.
If you "best and brightest" at OSU can't get your acts together, your personal option is to change schools.
In any case, don't whine to us about it. We can't help you unless you are willing to help yourself and I don't think anybody is inclined to try. The tools to fix the problem are in your hands, not ours. If you students do want to organize to fix the problem, there's lots of political expertise from hard-core political types online, ask in the right place and you'll probably get some.
A.Lizard ®
many would do better to begin to understand the wwworld buy the use of the WORlD's spoken languages.
.asp can be found DOWt at trustworthycomputing.com(missar)IE.
the Godless megaslothions continue to shun the oil for babies(tm) program in their mindless quest for WORlD domination. don't bulleave them?
lookout bullow. frequent contact with yOUR creator is the best known method to avoid evile greed/fear based bunkerIE, such
n/t
You wouldn't know because you have never used it. You can't use it as you have been indefinately blocked from our networks for attempting bandwidth-theft.
Schedule your world with ScheduleWorld.com http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ (Java Web Startable)
What?