The issue is control. TCP/IP **IS**, by it's very design and essence peer-to-peer.
It was developped by univertities for military use, and eventually released to the great unwashed masses(TM).
Boy do the powers that are must regret that decision! The genie cannot be put back in the bottle...
The pitiful restraints some ISPs try to impose ("no servers, no this, no that") are a reflection of the big power's fears when the people is allowed to express itself just like the big and powerful.
Right now in France, they are trying nothing less than institute a compulsory monitoring program where the State would have access to all you do on the internet.
Laws are being proposed to equate blogs with weapons of psychological destruction, no doubt with an eventual eye to suppress what annoys the powerful.
She clipped another car then slammed in to a toll booth. She showed complete disregard for the well being of anyone else, which is pretty much the definition of a sociopath.
The environment where a father works as a real-estate agent, whose work is to artificially inflate the price of houses (and we have seen the worldwide economic collapse this has caused) and brings-in enormous amount of money is also very conductive to nurture sociopaths.
May his house plummet to 1/10th of it's value, and his mortgage rate raised 10% (and I'm generous! 25 years ago, my parents struggled with a 22% mortgage!!! Not a pretty sight.)
Stack of floppies that had been downloaded over BBS/FidoNet with a 14.4 kbps telephone modem
Linux kernel version was something like 0.97 or so.
Welcome to the club!:)
I'm not sure if my first try was with Slackware, SLS, or who knows what.
Yggdrasil???:)
(Actually, Yggdrasil kicked ass: it was the first distro I ever saw that automagically installed X and ran it first shot, which was cool, back in 94-95).
Must have been around 1993 or so. I downloaded Slackware on a 2400 baud modem. It took every evening of a week before I could have something big enough to be usable.
Then I had to make room on my computer, which had something like a 120 meg ESDI drive. I removed some junk, shrunk the partition, made a new compressed partition, shuffled some stuff there, shrunk again the partition, compressed it, etc... until I had something like 5 DOS partition and enough room (something like 30 megs) to put Linux.
Now, bear in mind that my first ever home machine was a homemade 6809 box running Uniflex, so Unix wasn't exactly new to me. In fact, I spent the previous few years swearing at how DOS was stupidly useless compared to Unix, and I just could not afford to pay $1000 or so to get Xenix or SCO. So I endured.
Anyways, I finally installed Linux, and wow! wow! wow! I finally had a Unix machine to work seriously on. I eventually got myself a 320 megs ESDI drive and so I was able to have a cleaner system with more space, and I started to try X-windows (but on a 386-16 with 3 megs of RAM, it wasn't exactly a success).
Eventually, I was able to have a second (then a third) machine, since then, and I always have had at least one machine running Linux.
You've validated to the spammers that your email address is being actively read, and that you actually READ spam. You have confirmed to them that you are an excellent use of their resources.
Er, no. Spammers ARE users of OUR ressources.
Spam is theft, theft of OUR bandwidth and OUR mail server space, cpu time and time.
If spammers will not honour our private property rights by stealing our bandwidth and mail server ressources, what makes you think that they will honour requests not to be spammed again?
Worse, "opting" out confirms that the e-mail address the spam has be sent to is valid!!!
You never opt-out of spams, you LART their upstreams until they have no more connectivity.
I have no love for TW -- I run a small ISP. But a government-run business charging break-even prices is not fair competition for any business. I would certainly be complaining if it looked like my taxes dollars were being used to compete with me !
Why should you be afaid of that? After all, as an all-american entrepreneur(TM), you know very well that "government can't run things as efficiently as the private sector", no?
Or is there something you don't tell us? Perhaps because you want to go around in a $80,000 truck instead of a $50,000 car??? Or want a $400,000 McMansion instead of a $200,000 house???
The Internet is the greatest tool for free speech and learning in all of human history. It has the power to put everyone on equal footing in terms of knowledge-power.
Which is precisely why the powers that are are working hard to suppress it.
Calling someone a sissy for not going to the library is not denying them access.
Re-read the post; he said "the kids are called sissies FOR GOING to the library".
One of my uncles, a mechanic, married a hick, and their son wanted to become an engineer.
For the hick mother, as soon as a kid hits 16, he should stop wasting time with school and go to work. When the kid said that he wanted to go on at school to become an engineer, the uncle was torn between wanting his kid to have the good education he himself wanted to have but wasn't able to get, and his wife denying him pussy privileges.
It might be argued that our government does well at national defense, but if you are talking about a per-dollar value, then most of this list is absolutely pathetic.
Name one of the things above that is done by a private company, and then you can compare and say that "it sucks". Otherwise, since you don't have anything to compare against the government's performance, you are pissing in a violin.
Yeah, "socialism", as "the infrastructure is belongs to the government for the use of everyone", (like the roads in the U.S.) as opposed as "the infrastructure belongs to a monopolist who can then gouge the people".
And how many of you people want government run health care? You think the government will want to keep your health info private?
You goddammed fucking stupid moronic yankee. Only a yankee would be that stupid in his irrational stupid hatred of government.
Everywhere there is GOVERNMENT HEALTH-INSURANCE (repeat: GOVERNMENT HEALTH-INSURANCE), the health info is KEPT PRIVATE (repeat yet again so it goes through your thick cranium: KEPT PRIVATE) because THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT IS ***NOT*** PROVIDING THE HEALTH-CARE, JUST PAYING FOR IT.
And there is NO FUCKING NEED for the insurer to "share" private patient information, BECAUSE EVERYONE GETS THE SAME COVERAGE BY THE SAME INSURER, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO SNOOP IN ORDER TO FIND PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS (as a manner to be able to deny coverage) BECAUSE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS CANNOT BE USED TO DENY COVERAGE (I repeat again: BECAUSE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS CANNOT BE USED TO DENY COVERAGE).
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It was developped by univertities for military use, and eventually released to the great unwashed masses(TM).
Boy do the powers that are must regret that decision! The genie cannot be put back in the bottle...
The pitiful restraints some ISPs try to impose ("no servers, no this, no that") are a reflection of the big power's fears when the people is allowed to express itself just like the big and powerful.
Right now in France, they are trying nothing less than institute a compulsory monitoring program where the State would have access to all you do on the internet.
Laws are being proposed to equate blogs with weapons of psychological destruction, no doubt with an eventual eye to suppress what annoys the powerful.
A program to make look CRT like teletype output (or DEC LA-36)??? Or to make CRT look like Hollerith cards???
Well, since it was the "backup for Air-Force one", it could very well be "Air-Force two", no???
It's just the normal procedure when the US court system is faced to the fact that some big croporation appears to have acted illegally.
I wonder how much extra is the gift-wrapping...
The environment where a father works as a real-estate agent, whose work is to artificially inflate the price of houses (and we have seen the worldwide economic collapse this has caused) and brings-in enormous amount of money is also very conductive to nurture sociopaths.
May his house plummet to 1/10th of it's value, and his mortgage rate raised 10% (and I'm generous! 25 years ago, my parents struggled with a 22% mortgage!!! Not a pretty sight.)
Welcome to the club! :)
Yggdrasil??? :)
(Actually, Yggdrasil kicked ass: it was the first distro I ever saw that automagically installed X and ran it first shot, which was cool, back in 94-95).
No, wait! toggling programs in binary on the front-panel switches!!!! (remember daß blinkenlights???)
Ow! The headaches you must have had!!! (I can't stand CRT refreshes below 70hz)
1024x768@43i
Then I had to make room on my computer, which had something like a 120 meg ESDI drive. I removed some junk, shrunk the partition, made a new compressed partition, shuffled some stuff there, shrunk again the partition, compressed it, etc... until I had something like 5 DOS partition and enough room (something like 30 megs) to put Linux.
Now, bear in mind that my first ever home machine was a homemade 6809 box running Uniflex, so Unix wasn't exactly new to me. In fact, I spent the previous few years swearing at how DOS was stupidly useless compared to Unix, and I just could not afford to pay $1000 or so to get Xenix or SCO. So I endured.
Anyways, I finally installed Linux, and wow! wow! wow! I finally had a Unix machine to work seriously on. I eventually got myself a 320 megs ESDI drive and so I was able to have a cleaner system with more space, and I started to try X-windows (but on a 386-16 with 3 megs of RAM, it wasn't exactly a success).
Eventually, I was able to have a second (then a third) machine, since then, and I always have had at least one machine running Linux.
Er, no. Spammers ARE users of OUR ressources.
Spam is theft, theft of OUR bandwidth and OUR mail server space, cpu time and time.
If spammers will not honour our private property rights by stealing our bandwidth and mail server ressources, what makes you think that they will honour requests not to be spammed again?
Worse, "opting" out confirms that the e-mail address the spam has be sent to is valid!!!
You never opt-out of spams, you LART their upstreams until they have no more connectivity.
The issue is that there could be profits that go into TWC's coffers.
Why should you be afaid of that? After all, as an all-american entrepreneur(TM), you know very well that "government can't run things as efficiently as the private sector", no?
Or is there something you don't tell us? Perhaps because you want to go around in a $80,000 truck instead of a $50,000 car??? Or want a $400,000 McMansion instead of a $200,000 house???
The same way TWC should stand for municipal fiber networks.
You, sir, are an idiot. :)
Which is precisely why the powers that are are working hard to suppress it.
Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who WAS washing Waldo Woo.
There, I fixed it for you.
Who else parsed this as "I was once married to a female and had dicks"????
Re-read the post; he said "the kids are called sissies FOR GOING to the library".
One of my uncles, a mechanic, married a hick, and their son wanted to become an engineer.
For the hick mother, as soon as a kid hits 16, he should stop wasting time with school and go to work. When the kid said that he wanted to go on at school to become an engineer, the uncle was torn between wanting his kid to have the good education he himself wanted to have but wasn't able to get, and his wife denying him pussy privileges.
A very ugly situation.
Name one of the things above that is done by a private company, and then you can compare and say that "it sucks". Otherwise, since you don't have anything to compare against the government's performance, you are pissing in a violin.
Yeah, "socialism", as "the infrastructure is belongs to the government for the use of everyone", (like the roads in the U.S.) as opposed as "the infrastructure belongs to a monopolist who can then gouge the people".
You goddammed fucking stupid moronic yankee. Only a yankee would be that stupid in his irrational stupid hatred of government.
Everywhere there is GOVERNMENT HEALTH-INSURANCE (repeat: GOVERNMENT HEALTH-INSURANCE), the health info is KEPT PRIVATE (repeat yet again so it goes through your thick cranium: KEPT PRIVATE) because THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT IS ***NOT*** PROVIDING THE HEALTH-CARE, JUST PAYING FOR IT.
And there is NO FUCKING NEED for the insurer to "share" private patient information, BECAUSE EVERYONE GETS THE SAME COVERAGE BY THE SAME INSURER, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO SNOOP IN ORDER TO FIND PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS (as a manner to be able to deny coverage) BECAUSE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS CANNOT BE USED TO DENY COVERAGE (I repeat again: BECAUSE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS CANNOT BE USED TO DENY COVERAGE).