A significant portion of your senior class are 18, voters, have in fact reached their majority, and can sue in their own right.
These are voters. Get them registered. Talk to the League of Women voters about a voter registration.
Now if you can't get at the League of Women Voters on the net, call them on the phone.
Talk to your parents, teachers, librarians too.
I drive a taxi. If you come to Eugene, Oregon, and climb into my cab and say "Where's the heroin sold? Take me there!" Perhaps I legally can drive you down near 6th and Blair and turn you loose to find a pusher. Perhaps.
The police and District Attorney have a different opinion, however, and can impound and perhaps confiscate the taxi (not mine, though) and pull my driving permit, denying me an income, without convicting me of any legal infraction. I won't, of course, appeal, I'll have no income.
But when I don't know why you want to go to 6th and Blair, or downtown Springfield, I'm safe, you have a taxi, but if you ask me to take you to do something illegal, I'll decline to drive you, regardless of whether I approve of the law.
Judging by the rate of fatal overdoses in Eugene, this policy has no beneficial effect.
This applies to Napster, who apparently hyped themselves as enablers of copyright infringers. This was blatently stupid, guaranteed to really tick off fools who think some behaviour of masses is controllable by some elite.
This will have its desired effect, and provide employment for lawyers and even the police for generations. The spread of either intoxicants or music will go unchecked.
Re:I have to question the point of this exercise.
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I'd rather see internet nodes spread far and wide. As more individuals publish opinions and commentary from backwater sites, it becomes harder for official sources to pronounce authoritative lies.
The more sources you have for information, the better you can be at evaluating those sources and information.
This more decentralised source of available information might well be useful when it comes time to decide whether and how to invest in Ghana.
If you want such a project, do it. There's nothing preventing you form releasing your very own kernel, differing in whatever manner you choose, and nobody'll complain as long as you conform to the GPL.
Of course, if you want developers to sign on you might find it a rough road without Linus's blessing, but who's to say he won't bless your alternative kernel? (Well, I suppose Linus is who).
If cryptography is controlled as a weapon for export purposes, I'm surprised that the posession of such a weapon by 2600 is nor also protected under the Fourth amendment, that is that American citizens are allowed to "keep and bear arms".
Do what you can for fellow workers, most likely you'll do better for them by going elsewhere and giving them good references.
You owe no loyalty to your managers. That's OK, managers owe you no loyalty either.
Forget the pretty pictures, I want the words.
Being a bit impatient, I mostly use Lynx. That's a text browser, useful on a dial-up.
More often than not, the websites I notice are, like Slashdot, mainly textual in content.
Making your text informative enough for my bare notice would probably vastly improve GUI clickthroughs as well.
It'd help to include enough text to tell me what on Earth you're advertising.
I mean, this page whence I submit leads with "Click here to test drive!". Cool. Test drive what?
Were I in the market for an upgrade, and browsing with text because I didn't want to wait to wait forever for the graphics to render, here's an ad I'd be sure to miss.
And you wonder why those state of the art graphics generate zilch?
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Why worry about missiles? The only nukes used against any enemy so far were dreopped as bombs, not launched as missles.
Keep track of the warhesads.
I did a google search on VM/CMS+XEDIT and came up with a link to THE, The Hessling Editor. GPL'd, as is REXX.
I think it's available in RPM, I apt-got it.
Once upon a time a Macedonian king named Philip built a good army on the Greek model, and promptly conquered his neighbors. He died. His son took that army and conquered neighboring empires. Alexander died young. The generals took over, and divided the empire among themselves.
One of these generals set up shop in Damascus, and actually called his part of the empire Syria.
By that time, Israel and Judea had been conquered by several empires and were pretty much reduced to provinces of Syria, with religious quirks, such as not worshipping foreign gods, or any gods at all besides their one true God (but they lacked capitalisation). The Greeks tried to standardise culture to their norms, including normal religion. The result was a guerilla war, culminating in a briefly independent Jewish kingdom, which was conquered later by the Romans as a side effect of their Republic's civil wars.
When the Romans were faced with the same issue, they won, and the Temple Mount was cleared for Islam to build the Dome of the Rock.
So who knows what the market penetration of any Open Source OS is?
How can anybody get reliable numbers?
It's possible that every obsolete computer still in use is running an Open Source OS. Well, unlikely, but nobody can know how many copies there are, let alone how many get installed.
While Starship Troopers was set on a Fascist Earth, one must also note that it was written from the point of view of one of its subjects.
This society is agressive, and dominating, and throughout the book is losing the war, a war that the government sought.
Heinlein portrays this society from the viewpoint of one of its elite, who quite naturally assumes that it is the best of all possible societies. A soldier writing a piece for military propaganda might well be expected to take a lauditory attitude towards his government.
Read Starshp Troopers with a little care, it might do for you what it once did for me. (Hint; I didn't enlist for Vietnam).
It is written to emulate a fascist paen, no question, but the effect is quite opposite.
You want another Heinlein story with much the same effect? Read The Puppet Masters. I wish that J. Edgar Hoover or William Casey had.
The one place Heinlein did not want suspension of disbelief for readers is in the socio/political aspects of his work. He demanded skepticism of his readers.
We're not going to have internet voting unless computer illiterates can be convinced they won't suffer from it.
The people we need to convince are politicians. The evidence suggests that it's an uphill battle.
At 2:30 AM the bulk of driving is done by drunks (well, and cops hunting drunks). "It wasn't his fault, he tested 0.00"
Believe me, I know, I drive taxi in the wee hours. The worst drivers come out between two and three (last call) and between four and five. After five, the espresso stands open.
The objective is not more consumers, for whom software is provided for as minimal an effort as is judged possible.
The objective is users, who can be co-opted into debugging, and then gradually converted into developers, documenters, even coders.
It's not a budgeted, scheduled event for sales and marketing. Marketing is very close to irrelevant to voluteer based development.
Mostly it's not even a corporate effort, although such efforts are appreciated (and their lack in corporate environments is noted, and often resented).
Does anyone think that getting RMS barbered, suited and necktied will make him appear more friendly to Unfree software or its users?
Does anyone think suits will attract developers?
Open Source is developed by and for its developers. The rest of us may use it, or not, as we (or our masters) choose.
As for schedule slippage, it's ready when its developers are convinced it's ready, but don't joggle elbows.
Before the slashdot posting, the forum posts tended to flame the author (and Mr. Sapiro) for dissing Linux.
I guess not that many slashdotters posted there, because the pro/anti-Linux ratio didn't change notably after timothy brought it to slashdot...
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A significant portion of your senior class are 18, voters, have in fact reached their majority, and can sue in their own right.
These are voters. Get them registered. Talk to the League of Women voters about a voter registration.
Now if you can't get at the League of Women Voters on the net, call them on the phone.
Talk to your parents, teachers, librarians too.
I drive a taxi. If you come to Eugene, Oregon, and climb into my cab and say "Where's the heroin sold? Take me there!" Perhaps I legally can drive you down near 6th and Blair and turn you loose to find a pusher. Perhaps.
The police and District Attorney have a different opinion, however, and can impound and perhaps confiscate the taxi (not mine, though) and pull my driving permit, denying me an income, without convicting me of any legal infraction. I won't, of course, appeal, I'll have no income.
But when I don't know why you want to go to 6th and Blair, or downtown Springfield, I'm safe, you have a taxi, but if you ask me to take you to do something illegal, I'll decline to drive you, regardless of whether I approve of the law.
Judging by the rate of fatal overdoses in Eugene, this policy has no beneficial effect.
This applies to Napster, who apparently hyped themselves as enablers of copyright infringers. This was blatently stupid, guaranteed to really tick off fools who think some behaviour of masses is controllable by some elite.
This will have its desired effect, and provide employment for lawyers and even the police for generations. The spread of either intoxicants or music will go unchecked.
I'd rather see internet nodes spread far and wide. As more individuals publish opinions and commentary from backwater sites, it becomes harder for official sources to pronounce authoritative lies.
The more sources you have for information, the better you can be at evaluating those sources and information.
This more decentralised source of available information might well be useful when it comes time to decide whether and how to invest in Ghana.
So will this intensify the boycott called by RMS?
Birds Of a Feather
If you want such a project, do it. There's nothing preventing you form releasing your very own kernel, differing in whatever manner you choose, and nobody'll complain as long as you conform to the GPL.
Of course, if you want developers to sign on you might find it a rough road without Linus's blessing, but who's to say he won't bless your alternative kernel? (Well, I suppose Linus is who).
If cryptography is controlled as a weapon for export purposes, I'm surprised that the posession of such a weapon by 2600 is nor also protected under the Fourth amendment, that is that American citizens are allowed to "keep and bear arms".
Do what you can for fellow workers, most likely you'll do better for them by going elsewhere and giving them good references.
You owe no loyalty to your managers. That's OK, managers owe you no loyalty either.
Forget the pretty pictures, I want the words.
Being a bit impatient, I mostly use Lynx. That's a text browser, useful on a dial-up.
More often than not, the websites I notice are, like Slashdot, mainly textual in content.
Making your text informative enough for my bare notice would probably vastly improve GUI clickthroughs as well.
It'd help to include enough text to tell me what on Earth you're advertising.
I mean, this page whence I submit leads with "Click here to test drive!". Cool. Test drive what?
Were I in the market for an upgrade, and browsing with text because I didn't want to wait to wait forever for the graphics to render, here's an ad I'd be sure to miss.
And you wonder why those state of the art graphics generate zilch?
Why worry about missiles? The only nukes used against any enemy so far were dreopped as bombs, not launched as missles.
Keep track of the warhesads.
So to democratise thi we need a Kalishnikov to engineer a low tech way to make this High tech weapon?
I did a google search on VM/CMS+XEDIT and came up with a link to THE, The Hessling Editor. GPL'd, as is REXX.
I think it's available in RPM, I apt-got it.
Read the constitution. Not a word about any concept related to "Intellectual Property". It's not a constitutional principle.
If we had the votes, Nader would be president-elect.
Once upon a time a Macedonian king named Philip built a good army on the Greek model, and promptly conquered his neighbors. He died. His son took that army and conquered neighboring empires. Alexander died young. The generals took over, and divided the empire among themselves.
One of these generals set up shop in Damascus, and actually called his part of the empire Syria.
By that time, Israel and Judea had been conquered by several empires and were pretty much reduced to provinces of Syria, with religious quirks, such as not worshipping foreign gods, or any gods at all besides their one true God (but they lacked capitalisation). The Greeks tried to standardise culture to their norms, including normal religion. The result was a guerilla war, culminating in a briefly independent Jewish kingdom, which was conquered later by the Romans as a side effect of their Republic's civil wars.
When the Romans were faced with the same issue, they won, and the Temple Mount was cleared for Islam to build the Dome of the Rock.
Bush was (in Florida, anyway) elected by his brother and Bush family retainers.
I'd be more interested if they'd even mentioned Ogg Vorbis...
So who knows what the market penetration of any Open Source OS is?
How can anybody get reliable numbers?
It's possible that every obsolete computer still in use is running an Open Source OS. Well, unlikely, but nobody can know how many copies there are, let alone how many get installed.
The winner will be known, Like Hayes, as "His Fraudulence".
NPR tells me his Fraudulence will be George W. Bush.
While Starship Troopers was set on a Fascist Earth, one must also note that it was written from the point of view of one of its subjects.
This society is agressive, and dominating, and throughout the book is losing the war, a war that the government sought.
Heinlein portrays this society from the viewpoint of one of its elite, who quite naturally assumes that it is the best of all possible societies. A soldier writing a piece for military propaganda might well be expected to take a lauditory attitude towards his government.
Read Starshp Troopers with a little care, it might do for you what it once did for me. (Hint; I didn't enlist for Vietnam).
It is written to emulate a fascist paen, no question, but the effect is quite opposite.
You want another Heinlein story with much the same effect? Read The Puppet Masters. I wish that J. Edgar Hoover or William Casey had.
The one place Heinlein did not want suspension of disbelief for readers is in the socio/political aspects of his work. He demanded skepticism of his readers.
We're not going to have internet voting unless computer illiterates can be convinced they won't suffer from it.
The people we need to convince are politicians. The evidence suggests that it's an uphill battle.
Not actually true, a minority of states allow convicted felons the vote, one or two while incarcerated.
At 2:30 AM the bulk of driving is done by drunks (well, and cops hunting drunks). "It wasn't his fault, he tested 0.00"
Believe me, I know, I drive taxi in the wee hours. The worst drivers come out between two and three (last call) and between four and five. After five, the espresso stands open.
The objective is not more consumers, for whom software is provided for as minimal an effort as is judged possible.
The objective is users, who can be co-opted into debugging, and then gradually converted into developers, documenters, even coders.
It's not a budgeted, scheduled event for sales and marketing. Marketing is very close to irrelevant to voluteer based development.
Mostly it's not even a corporate effort, although such efforts are appreciated (and their lack in corporate environments is noted, and often resented).
Does anyone think that getting RMS barbered, suited and necktied will make him appear more friendly to Unfree software or its users?
Does anyone think suits will attract developers?
Open Source is developed by and for its developers. The rest of us may use it, or not, as we (or our masters) choose.
As for schedule slippage, it's ready when its developers are convinced it's ready, but don't joggle elbows.
Before the slashdot posting, the forum posts tended to flame the author (and Mr. Sapiro) for dissing Linux.
I guess not that many slashdotters posted there, because the pro/anti-Linux ratio didn't change notably after timothy brought it to slashdot...