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What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You
iter8 writes "NewsForge has an article explaining what your choice of distro says about you. There's no comment on what using Windows or OS X does for your rep. I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."
You make bathtime lots of fun
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you!
Was red now blue.
ok, here are my REAL ones as I promised:
5 8b19-6f45f145ca
c 0563-18969179a8
1 50e2-0bef3ba2a4
2 cd83-e0644e7ef5
6 9d32-22621daaff
7 c84e-b9e70ce4cd
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-b0ab39f1a8-51723
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-b0ab39f1a8-13556
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-b0ab39f1a8-bc9b1
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-b0ab39f1a8-d6f30
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-b0ab39f1a8-62e3c
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-b0ab39f1a8-6c3f0
It's Saturday. Go outside, drink beer and talk to girls!
When you get to hell -- tell 'em Itchy sent ya!
. . .through 10 feet of snow
Wearing sandals, although when it gets below 20F I do tend to add neoprene socks. Very fasionable.
KFG
In the second article in this series, Linda S. Gottfredson, a professor of education at the University of Delaware, argues that genetically inherited intelligence, "the g factor," is "a universal and reliably measured distinction among humans in their ability to learn, reason, and solve problems . . . . Understanding g's biological basis in the brain is the new frontier in intelligence research today." Experiments in raising I.Q.s have failed, the author reports. "Distinctions in g, or general intelligence, are evidently as much a fact of nature as differences in height, blood pressure, and the like."
The fortunate few are likely to benefit greatly from their gift: People born with high intelligence tend to have better jobs and higher incomes, and they enjoy better health and longevity. "Research roundly affirms what experience suggests: People with higher IQs have a remarkable ability to make their way out of even the most dire environments. This protection, along with the little-appreciated fact that the laws of genetics ensure that parents and children will tend to differ substantially in IQ, guarantees that talent will emerge from even the worst of environments, in turn ensuring considerable social mobility in any free society." I can imagine those findings spurring a host of doctoral dissertations in history.
Oh, I don't know. I think it would be pretty accurate to say that running mu on my laptop says I'm a cheap bastard who doesn't see any reason to buy a new machine so long as I can get vanilla vi to run.
KFG
You love the results? Blocked arteries and a figure like a walrus?
The USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship that happened to use the word "socialism" a lot in its mission statement. Holding it up as the pinnacle of socialist achievement is like holding up the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (hint: that's the one in the north) as the pinnacle of democracy.
There is no shortage of states to the left of the USA that provide higher quality of life by any reasonable measure except adding up everyone's income and dividing by the population count (which is a pretty useless measure, as would become clear to anyone who saw my $10 million/year and your mom's-basement libertarian $12,500/year and heard us claim to be, on average, the two richest guys in the bar).
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS