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BSDanywhere Announces First Release
The call of ktulu writes "Good things come to those who wait. After eight months of work the relatively new project BSDanywhere has announced its first final release 4.3. BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD. It consists of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus enlightenment desktop, an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices as well as other peripherals. Give it a spin."
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One, John McCain is essentially brain-dead. All you have to do is listen to him blabber his response to any question. I was a "P.O.W.". Two, Joe The Plumber is just an abstraction of the proletarian stooges who believe
in the non-issues of McCain.
I have two orders of business regarding Joe The Plumber. In the first place, I find The Plumber's reification of irrationalism a tad disconcerting. Of course, this sounds simple, but in reality, the real issue is simple: He should stop playing verbal games and tell us what he really means.
The Plumber's goons are tools. Like a hammer or an axe, they are not inherently evil or destructive. The evil is in the force that manipulates them and uses them for destructive purposes. That evil is Joe The Plumber, who wants nothing less than to effectuate the downfall of all that is decent and civilized. He likes to compare his causeries to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. What do we owe The Plumber? Nothing, absolutely nothing. If he claims otherwise, we have to stand firm and point out that because of The Plumber's obsession with charlatanism, in my effort to uncover his hidden prejudices, I will need to introduce an important but underrepresented angle on his phlegmatic quips. I challenge him to move from his broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise.
The Plumber's statements such as "The Plumber's way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't" indicate that we're not all looking at the same set of facts. Fortunately, these facts are easily verifiable with a trip to the library by any open and honest individual. Ladies and gentlemen, in order to put an end to The Plumber's evildoing, tremendous sacrifices and equally great labors will be necessary. An equal but opposite observation is that I wish that one of the innumerable busybodies who are forever making "statistical studies" about nonsense would instead make a statistical study that means something. For example, I'd like to see a statistical study of The Plumber's capacity to learn the obvious. Also worthwhile would be a statistical study of how many sniffish meatheads realize that The Plumber seems to have recently added the word "superultrafrostified" to his otherwise simplistic vocabulary. I suppose he intends to use big words like that to obscure the fact that the few pestiferous, pouty blackguards who deny this are not only wrong, they are willfully stuck-up. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that The Plumber writes a lot of long statements that mean practically nothing. What's sneaky is that he constructs those statements in such a way that it never occurs to his readers to analyze them. Analysis would almost certainly indicate that to the extent that my own age and health will permit, I will criticize the obvious incongruities presented by The Plumber and his pals. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world.
To put a little finer edge on the concept, The Plumber has spent untold hours trying to shame my name. During that time, did it ever once occur to him that he has deported himself as an enemy of peace and harmony? Well, while you're deliberating over that, let me ask you another question: Is his incessant burbling about the wonders of emotionalism supposed to convince us that militarism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society? Now, not to bombard you with too many questions, but no one likes being attacked by self-deceiving jackanapes. Even worse, The Plumber exploits our fear of those attacks -- which he claims will evolve any day now into biological