As noted in a previous comment, it wold be nice to have some sort of evidence of that. Not that it would surprise me, mind you.
I'm a Mormon myself and I find this quite appalling. To set someone up like this and dump them after they've made a serious investment is rude at the very least. What's even more sad to me is that there isn't room to adjust the pub to also work as a restaurant. While I hate alcohol I love going to pubs when I've overseas. They usually have the best food.
Regardless of what's behind this I'm quite sorry for the owner. He should not have been stabbed in the back like this. No Mormon who actually pays attention to the principles of the religion would have wanted that.
Concerning the author's comment on battery life, could one potentially recycle an old phone to act as a node in this network? Seems many of us get a new one every few years anyway.
If you can find a way to add privacy, then this could be a great way to return power to consumers and stick it to the man. Or at least have some leverage in convincing major companies to act more consume-friendly. I for one want to see lower prices and the end of the long-distance tax we have now.
I find two issues have been eating away at my local LUG. First is the leadership issue. In the last three years the LUG's leaders seem to be growing increasingly lazy. Four years ago we had a great leader, fun meetings, good attendance. The next year we had a leader who put in a lot of effort, but chose some lousy meeting topics. The year after that it picked up again at first, but towards the end our president stopped putting effort into the club and meetings started disappearing. This year there were so few members left that our current president ran unchallenged. We've had one installfest, and no meetings (understand the turnover point is in April).
The second issue is the topics. I think the face of Linux is changing and that's causing some issues with the meetings. It's great to have some newbie meetings to get people up and running. But I miss the days when the LUG was specifically geared towards the hobbyist. When we all went out, found some new, cool, weird way to use Linux. When I was first attending Linux meetings as a newbie, there was little I understood. I was there because I wanted to learn no matter what. I recognized that the things my fellow members were doing were incredible. Recently in my Operating Systems class we were allowed to pick a personal final project. The presentations given were amazing. My MythTV box was one of the more pathetic works. I remember thinking, "This is what we're missing in LUG!" The creativity to adapt Linux to suit our zanny nerdy needs. The projects included booting Linux (and Windows) from USB drives, a Linux OS customized for digital sound manipulation, a router with OpenWRT and text-to-voice software. The users could log in, type a message, and the router would talk. One classmate used Puppy Linux and customized it to run all his normal applications with little to no load delay.
LUGs aren't having fun with Linux anymore. But that can change. We need good leaders who can find these projects and good member to present on them. I hope that Linux users haven't forgotten how to have fun with Linux.
In the future, spam filters will put anything with "Time Critical" and "Good Idea" emotiflags directly in the trash. Then again, no aquaintance of mine would be caught dead using this. This could be a great new way to filter your messages.
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ISPs should start censoring Google. See how long an idea like this holds up after that.
As noted in a previous comment, it wold be nice to have some sort of evidence of that. Not that it would surprise me, mind you.
I'm a Mormon myself and I find this quite appalling. To set someone up like this and dump them after they've made a serious investment is rude at the very least. What's even more sad to me is that there isn't room to adjust the pub to also work as a restaurant. While I hate alcohol I love going to pubs when I've overseas. They usually have the best food.
Regardless of what's behind this I'm quite sorry for the owner. He should not have been stabbed in the back like this. No Mormon who actually pays attention to the principles of the religion would have wanted that.
Concerning the author's comment on battery life, could one potentially recycle an old phone to act as a node in this network? Seems many of us get a new one every few years anyway.
If you can find a way to add privacy, then this could be a great way to return power to consumers and stick it to the man. Or at least have some leverage in convincing major companies to act more consume-friendly. I for one want to see lower prices and the end of the long-distance tax we have now.
I find two issues have been eating away at my local LUG. First is the leadership issue. In the last three years the LUG's leaders seem to be growing increasingly lazy. Four years ago we had a great leader, fun meetings, good attendance. The next year we had a leader who put in a lot of effort, but chose some lousy meeting topics. The year after that it picked up again at first, but towards the end our president stopped putting effort into the club and meetings started disappearing. This year there were so few members left that our current president ran unchallenged. We've had one installfest, and no meetings (understand the turnover point is in April). The second issue is the topics. I think the face of Linux is changing and that's causing some issues with the meetings. It's great to have some newbie meetings to get people up and running. But I miss the days when the LUG was specifically geared towards the hobbyist. When we all went out, found some new, cool, weird way to use Linux. When I was first attending Linux meetings as a newbie, there was little I understood. I was there because I wanted to learn no matter what. I recognized that the things my fellow members were doing were incredible. Recently in my Operating Systems class we were allowed to pick a personal final project. The presentations given were amazing. My MythTV box was one of the more pathetic works. I remember thinking, "This is what we're missing in LUG!" The creativity to adapt Linux to suit our zanny nerdy needs. The projects included booting Linux (and Windows) from USB drives, a Linux OS customized for digital sound manipulation, a router with OpenWRT and text-to-voice software. The users could log in, type a message, and the router would talk. One classmate used Puppy Linux and customized it to run all his normal applications with little to no load delay. LUGs aren't having fun with Linux anymore. But that can change. We need good leaders who can find these projects and good member to present on them. I hope that Linux users haven't forgotten how to have fun with Linux.
In the future, spam filters will put anything with "Time Critical" and "Good Idea" emotiflags directly in the trash. Then again, no aquaintance of mine would be caught dead using this. This could be a great new way to filter your messages.
A lot has happened in 16 years and this little 'baby' has grown into quite the teenager.
And like most teenagers, has an over-abundant collection of porn.