You know, those mom's who will do anything to make sure their daughters make the squad, up to and including murder (sounds like a made-for-tv movie, but there are cases).
Wow. A couple of sick idiots commit murder over cheerleading, and you attribute that failing to all mothers of cheerleaders.
If that's a fair characterization, then I guess Doom and Quake did cause Columbine, and all geeks should be sequestered.
A mathematician was blowing people up with letter bombs; obviously, we need to restrict all mathematicians from sending mail.
SunOS wasn't always called SunOS; it's just a flavor of BSD.
Charging for Unix is a pretty new idea. Unix was free for a long time before it was charged for, and experience with Unix is experience with Unix; especially pre-SVr4 Unix such as SunOS.
Over the next five years, a large number of recent graduates who are in sysadmin positions will start to rise to positions of greater purchasing power in IS departments. Many of these people have grown up with Free operating systems.
And perhaps you should "opt out" of using roads and ask for your money back? Maybe you don't use the public park, you should ask for your money back? Hey, you've never used welfare, ask for your money back?
If I didn't use the roads, it would absolutely be appropriate to give me that money back.
If I don't use the park, it's absolutely appropriate to give me that money back.
If someone else is too lazy to get a job, and too unfriendly to get help from their family or friends or church or whatever, why the hell should I be forced to pay for their upkeep? Especially to pay half my income to a system that wastes the vast majority of it on paying high government salaries and other crap instead of using it to help the needy?
If I want to help the needy, I'll give my money to an organization that will use most of it to help them, not an organization that will use 10% of it to give them food stamps, that are then used to buy a little bit of food and a lot of cigarettes and beer.
Welfare doesn't exist to help the needy; welfare exists to make as many people as possible dependant upon the government, so that they'll continue to vote for the folks who gave it to them.
You are wrong. In my situation thay take about 28%.
First of all, I was talking averages; people who make the average salaries in this industry are in a much higher tax bracket than you. Don't worry, you'll get there.
Secondly, are you including the other withholdings besides income tax? Are you including the sales tax you pay on goods you purchase? Excise taxes? Gas taxes?
You probably come out somewhere between 40% and 45% once it's all added up.
Well, at least the man is admitting he wants to use taxes as a means of getting around the 4th and 5th amendments, to punish people without all the bother of convicting them of crimes.
The above sentence means he wants to punish people for investing in American businesses.
It means he wants to punish 401k plans and pension plans.
This basically negatively affects everybody who doesn't work in the fast food industry, and it affects them too if they're management.
If you live in the US, over half of your income is taxed.
That means that if you work a 40 hour week, over 20 hours of your time is spent generating money for other people to spend.
Politics is about deciding how to spend YOUR money.
You have no other expense that remotely compares; not your house, not your car, not your broadband connection, not your caffeine or nicotine habit; nothing.
I don't know about you, but it seems obvious to me that one should care about how half of one's income is spent.
Again, this could make Netware largely irrelevant, especially now that most network printers are all direct-IP addressable and have little need for a print server (or at least in the concept that Netware/NT have).
Network-aware printers don't make Netware (or any other server-based print management solution) irrelevant any more than SAN hardware makes file servers irrelevant; it's a bitch to manage a medium sized LAN's printing needs without one or more print servers, and effing impossible to do so with a large LAN.
Although it's possible that Novell will go away, or that Netware will go away, network-aware printers will have nothing to do with it. In fact, companies that run server-based LANs are more likely to buy network-aware printers, in my admittedly-unscientific anecdotal experience.
If you live in a metropolitan area, chances are good that Open Source or Free Software "luminaries" will be in your area from time to time.
Having a good web page that is listed on GLUE is a good first step; it lets them find you.
If a conference of any sort is going to be in your area, check the guest list, and email any that appear interesting.
Don't be afraid to ask your members if they know anyone; the Orlando LUG got Ian Kluft to come speak that way, and unfortunately we had to turn down Chris DiBona but he contacted us because of a VA staffer in the LUG.
Don't be afraid to email anyone; the worst they can do is delete it unread, and you haven't wasted much time in that case.
That being said, don't be a cheap bastard, either; if your LUG can afford to pay for speakers, do so. Otherwise they might have to start charging for software to make a buck.
Oh; and watch for businesses in your area that may be in the Linux arena, they aften have contacts you don't, and will probably have interesting speakers on staff.
If not for the income tax, where will the money come from?
Eliminating the income tax would cut the federal income immediately to around a trillion dollars a year.
That's before the massive increase in income from excise taxes etc. that would follow in the wake of the massive growth of the economy that would occur as 270 million people suddenly had double their old effective income.
A trillion dollars a year is plenty to fund the Constitutionally-permissible functions of government, such as defense.
The net gives an opportunity for the messed-up weirdos of the world to show their faces in "public."
They were all doing that before. The net just changes their audience.
In fact, it makes them easier to ignore; instead of having to walk around them on the sidewalk or try to avoid them at work, now you just delete and filter.
It won't get you the reliability you want. You just can't get absolute reliability from one machine, no matter how well it's administered.
Yes, but if the goal is to always have access to your mail, and you're accessing it from the machine that's hosting it, then any time that machine is down you wouldn't be accessing it anyway.:-)
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You know, those mom's who will do anything to make sure their daughters make the squad, up to and including murder (sounds like a made-for-tv movie, but there are cases).
Wow. A couple of sick idiots commit murder over cheerleading, and you attribute that failing to all mothers of cheerleaders.
If that's a fair characterization, then I guess Doom and Quake did cause Columbine, and all geeks should be sequestered.
A mathematician was blowing people up with letter bombs; obviously, we need to restrict all mathematicians from sending mail.
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From what I can see, Nader is about taking choice away from the rich autocracy and returning it to ordinary people.
Nader is about taking choice away from everybody and keeping it to himself.
The asshole wants to outlaw Doom, for Pete's sake.
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We used SunOS on workstations,
SunOS wasn't always called SunOS; it's just a flavor of BSD.
Charging for Unix is a pretty new idea. Unix was free for a long time before it was charged for, and experience with Unix is experience with Unix; especially pre-SVr4 Unix such as SunOS.
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Over the next five years, a large number of recent graduates who are in sysadmin positions will start to rise to positions of greater purchasing power in IS departments. Many of these people have grown up with Free operating systems.
That has been happening for the last 30 years.
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So, by your logic, OpenBSD gets a lot less coding time and thus must have unrealistic political bullshit wrapped up in the technical design?
"If A then B" does not in any way imply "if B then A".
I suggest you consult an elementary logic text before pursuing this discussion any further.
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It doesn't have an equivalent number of coding hours because people aren't as enthused about working on it.
They aren't as enthused about working on it because they realize it's got unrealistic political bullshit wrapped up in the technical design.
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And perhaps you should "opt out" of using roads and ask for your money back? Maybe you don't use the public park, you should ask for your money back? Hey, you've never used welfare, ask for your money back?
If I didn't use the roads, it would absolutely be appropriate to give me that money back.
If I don't use the park, it's absolutely appropriate to give me that money back.
If someone else is too lazy to get a job, and too unfriendly to get help from their family or friends or church or whatever, why the hell should I be forced to pay for their upkeep? Especially to pay half my income to a system that wastes the vast majority of it on paying high government salaries and other crap instead of using it to help the needy?
If I want to help the needy, I'll give my money to an organization that will use most of it to help them, not an organization that will use 10% of it to give them food stamps, that are then used to buy a little bit of food and a lot of cigarettes and beer.
Welfare doesn't exist to help the needy; welfare exists to make as many people as possible dependant upon the government, so that they'll continue to vote for the folks who gave it to them.
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Kind of like the Linux-kernel was in the beginning then? :-)
Sure; but how many years old was Linux when it was like that?
Hurd isn't "in the beginning" in age, just in capabilities.
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You are wrong. In my situation thay take about 28%.
First of all, I was talking averages; people who make the average salaries in this industry are in a much higher tax bracket than you. Don't worry, you'll get there.
Secondly, are you including the other withholdings besides income tax? Are you including the sales tax you pay on goods you purchase? Excise taxes? Gas taxes?
You probably come out somewhere between 40% and 45% once it's all added up.
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We should tax stock market speculation.
Well, at least the man is admitting he wants to use taxes as a means of getting around the 4th and 5th amendments, to punish people without all the bother of convicting them of crimes.
The above sentence means he wants to punish people for investing in American businesses.
It means he wants to punish 401k plans and pension plans.
This basically negatively affects everybody who doesn't work in the fast food industry, and it affects them too if they're management.
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If you live in the US, over half of your income is taxed.
That means that if you work a 40 hour week, over 20 hours of your time is spent generating money for other people to spend.
Politics is about deciding how to spend YOUR money.
You have no other expense that remotely compares; not your house, not your car, not your broadband connection, not your caffeine or nicotine habit; nothing.
I don't know about you, but it seems obvious to me that one should care about how half of one's income is spent.
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Obviously some users are going to complain "how can i take my work home to my home computer?"
"Email it to yourself, dork."
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Hardly any net taxes exist, doofus; and most cities in the US still exist.
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Great! I'll just run right out and replace all my printers with NDPS-aware ones right away!
Of course, FedEx will have to raise it's rate to pay for this. How does $150 per package sound?
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FedEx runs our entire LAN, servicing something like 145,000 employees in various ways, on Novell.
While I can't speak for corporate policy, I highly doubt that we're going to just suddenly up and switch to Windows 2000.
As long as Novell has huge customers like us paying for their overpriced products, they aren't going anywhere.
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Again, this could make Netware largely irrelevant, especially now that most network printers are all direct-IP addressable and have little need for a print server (or at least in the concept that Netware/NT have).
Network-aware printers don't make Netware (or any other server-based print management solution) irrelevant any more than SAN hardware makes file servers irrelevant; it's a bitch to manage a medium sized LAN's printing needs without one or more print servers, and effing impossible to do so with a large LAN.
Although it's possible that Novell will go away, or that Netware will go away, network-aware printers will have nothing to do with it. In fact, companies that run server-based LANs are more likely to buy network-aware printers, in my admittedly-unscientific anecdotal experience.
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If you live in a metropolitan area, chances are good that Open Source or Free Software "luminaries" will be in your area from time to time.
Having a good web page that is listed on GLUE is a good first step; it lets them find you.
If a conference of any sort is going to be in your area, check the guest list, and email any that appear interesting.
Don't be afraid to ask your members if they know anyone; the Orlando LUG got Ian Kluft to come speak that way, and unfortunately we had to turn down Chris DiBona but he contacted us because of a VA staffer in the LUG.
Don't be afraid to email anyone; the worst they can do is delete it unread, and you haven't wasted much time in that case.
That being said, don't be a cheap bastard, either; if your LUG can afford to pay for speakers, do so. Otherwise they might have to start charging for software to make a buck.
Oh; and watch for businesses in your area that may be in the Linux arena, they aften have contacts you don't, and will probably have interesting speakers on staff.
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This isn't unlike some of the ideas to use services like PayPal to compensate music artists
Yes, it's very much like it, in that only half a dozen people will actually do it.
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If not for the income tax, where will the money come from?
Eliminating the income tax would cut the federal income immediately to around a trillion dollars a year.
That's before the massive increase in income from excise taxes etc. that would follow in the wake of the massive growth of the economy that would occur as 270 million people suddenly had double their old effective income.
A trillion dollars a year is plenty to fund the Constitutionally-permissible functions of government, such as defense.
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The net gives an opportunity for the messed-up weirdos of the world to show their faces in "public."
They were all doing that before. The net just changes their audience.
In fact, it makes them easier to ignore; instead of having to walk around them on the sidewalk or try to avoid them at work, now you just delete and filter.
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It's sad that it's going to take another 30 or 40 years before college people today get into the government.
It's incredibly frightening that the people who are in college today are someday going to be in government.
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As a Browne voter, I have to say Nader isn't all bad:
And Hitler made the trains run on time.
And Stalin reduced overpopulation.
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Well, this is a treaty, not a law. And the Constitution doesn't limit treaties as strongly as it limits laws.
It does, however, restrict treaties to compliance with the Constitution. We had this argument a couple of months ago, I was on your side, and we lost.
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Vote Libertarian.
They don't think the federal government has any Constitutional authority to make laws regarding this issue.
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It won't get you the reliability you want. You just can't get absolute reliability from one machine, no matter how well it's administered.
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Yes, but if the goal is to always have access to your mail, and you're accessing it from the machine that's hosting it, then any time that machine is down you wouldn't be accessing it anyway.
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