As a devout Catholic, I must take exception: 1) while the bottles may be sized in that evil metric system, we measure our wine and beer in God-fearing "ounces." 2) 30ml? that's two much for Communion, and far two little to drink.
>There is no such thing as a "Scientific Theory of >Creationism." Ask any long-time poster to >talk.origins. They've been asking for one for >years, and noone's ever offered one up that meets >the actual criteria of being a theory.
Uhh, if they all agree on this, then who are they asking? No wonder no one answered . ..
Don't take this as bitterness; it's not. I certainly don't regret spending the money described below, but if you want an honest count, does this amount include, 1) the interest we're still paying on the debt for the Marshall plan to rebuild the economy you use to make your contributions? 2) the 1945-1990 expenditures for the U.S. for troops & materiel in Europe (including supporting infrastructure and retirement payments for the next 50 years) 3) Current U.S. spending for world security (believe it or not, we are still isolationist my nature, and don't *want* to be the world cop, but at the moment, we're offered plenty of "help" in deciding *what* to do, but (for the most part) token resources.
Again, I don't regret this spending, as much as I'd like to avoid it. Recognize, though, that this spending is a major factor in Europe's ability to spend elsewhere.
If you use that many equations, you *should* be using lyx. Current versions compile without modification on windows (though I've never had a reason to do that).
It's equation editing doesn't merely trounce equation editor, but blows away the old typesetting commands in v1-5.1 of the macintosh versions of word--by enough that shortly after I met it, I dumped my macs and bought a *nix box as a starving graduate student.
People who write lots of equations *need* LyX. Badly. Never be forced to mouse your way around an equatoin again (though you can when you need to).
hawk, more suited to LaTeX, but using enough equations that he sticks with LyX
My news system is about $5300, not counting the compilers . . . and, YES, I *do* need that much, thank you . . .
And for those who have asked in the past, yes, it's still the same system, and it actually, finallly, and supposedly arrives tomorrorow--so it will sit for a week while I'm off at a conference.
hawk, who *Really* wishes his number-smasher had been here to use for the last week while getting ready for the conference.
I can't be the *only* one who liked dselect, and has never seen anything that does what it did (does) nearly as well--now can I? OK, the hostility I received when asking ab out a fix for the inability to search from a remote screen was annnoying (hostile response was that it was a ncurses bug, and therefor not his problem--even though it froze the session beyond recovery), but aside from that, the ability to choose *which* program to use to satisfy dependencies was nice.
portinstall in FreeBSD is getting some of that now, but still needs some refining (such as listing all the choices before asking you one by one whether or not to install them:).
Still, dselect wasn't enough to keep me with debian. Between the politics and the age of the packages, I got fed up. Now there is the "testing" distribution, but there used to be no middle ground between a hopelessly out of date stable and the unstable distro that you could count on knocking out your system about twice a year.
hawk, happily with FreeBSD for the last few years, but still using debian on smaller older systems
Congratualations, you have not only misrepresented capitalism, but *everything* I said.
I described what capitalism and ree markets are. THere is nothing about "pursuit of money or greed" in it. It is simply a matter of being allowed to control and benefit from your own things--as opposed to someone *else* controlling and benefitting from them.
Nor did I in *any* way suggest that this was my morality, nor my definition. While I'm far older than the typical slashdot reader, I am *not* over 200 years old--and the Protestant work ethic *is* far older than that. You can agree with or dispute that ethic, but it is the morality behind free markets.
If you try to put anything more into the "goals of capitalism" it's *you* who is making things up as you go along. Yes, some people use the freedom to make staggering amounts of money and hurt other people--that happens with Free Will.
Plain and simply, the alternative to free market capitalism is either to restrict what people are allowed to do with their own labor and other assets, or to assign the proceeds of the labor and other assets elsewhere. You're far more likely to get the results you want by taxing a free market and spending the proceeds on your goals, as every attempt other than first century Christianity failed (and even that one didn't scale well).
I'm plain and simply a couple of hundred years to make this up, though I'd love to take credit for it.:)
One of the early rules to learn is *never* work on a 100% contingency--the client has no real incentive, and it's usually already a pissing match when it's offered.
But no, I really don't have the time to land in another state to do this, anyway. If he wants to sue me, he has to come to a court with jurisdiction.
I've dealt with this kind of behavior before from those who represent themseloves. Yes, it can be expensive to handle along the way.
But guess what, punk: I *am* a lawyer, and my hourly is $400. If you want to start this, go for it; my kids want to go to college, and I'll have your inventory and 25% of your paycheck for the next 20 years . ..
hawk, esq., hoping the frivolous papers come his way . . .
you're being far to kind. More like bubble-gum pop with a vaguely country melody or a misused steel guitar. . ..
And think of all the realy good music we would have missed if waylon & co. hadn't done the outlaw recordings in LA . ..
Also, waylon was one of the ones who was incensed about patrons not getting their service charges refunded by ticket agencies for cancelled concderts (he was in the hospital with Laryngitus or some such), and I believe also for the missing tracks on CD's of albums (there's a biggie missin from his greatest hits [ladies love outlaws? it's not in front of me]).
hawk, who knows of no album better than side 1 of "I've always been crazy" (which he owns), and would actually pay $20 for a cd of that or of Bobby Bare's "The Winner" album
at $15, I just plain don't buy them. At all. THe last ones I bought were ins something like '98--and I bought those used.
OTOH, at $8-$10, I'd probably have a $50-$100/month habit.
hawk, who if pressed, would admit that there's really not much western music to buy these days, and likely won't be til this stupid "New Country" finally blows over . ..
Oh, and I've bought some ofthe 10-disk sets of classical and one or two of western for about $4/cd . . .
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1) while the bottles may be sized in that evil metric system, we measure our wine and beer in God-fearing "ounces."
2) 30ml? that's two much for Communion, and far two little to drink.
hawk, just helping htings out
Of cours--though I'd certainly include a twist of some kind . .
hawk
>Creationism." Ask any long-time poster to
>talk.origins. They've been asking for one for
>years, and noone's ever offered one up that meets
>the actual criteria of being a theory.
Uhh, if they all agree on this, then who are they asking? No wonder no one answered . .
:)
hawk
hawk
:)
hawk
1) the interest we're still paying on the debt for the Marshall plan to rebuild the economy you use to make your contributions?
2) the 1945-1990 expenditures for the U.S. for troops & materiel in Europe (including supporting infrastructure and retirement payments for the next 50 years)
3) Current U.S. spending for world security (believe it or not, we are still isolationist my nature, and don't *want* to be the world cop, but at the moment, we're offered plenty of "help" in deciding *what* to do, but (for the most part) token resources.
Again, I don't regret this spending, as much as I'd like to avoid it. Recognize, though, that this spending is a major factor in Europe's ability to spend elsewhere.
In short: this time, it's your turn.
hawk
Here? on slashdot? I'll take your word for it, but the far more likely suggestion around here is cluelessness.
slashdot, where even Meryl Streep fans can moderate (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30557&cid=32
:)
hawk
if geroge@momandpop.com sends a message of uunet, momandpop gets charged. Yep, *still* the small american ISP.
Uunet is using its dominance to take american isp's for everything they can get.
:)
hawk
It's equation editing doesn't merely trounce equation editor, but blows away the old typesetting commands in v1-5.1 of the macintosh versions of word--by enough that shortly after I met it, I dumped my macs and bought a *nix box as a starving graduate student.
People who write lots of equations *need* LyX. Badly. Never be forced to mouse your way around an equatoin again (though you can when you need to).
hawk, more suited to LaTeX, but using enough equations that he sticks with LyX
And for those who have asked in the past, yes, it's still the same system, and it actually, finallly, and supposedly arrives tomorrorow--so it will sit for a week while I'm off at a conference.
hawk, who *Really* wishes his number-smasher had been here to use for the last week while getting ready for the conference.
portinstall in FreeBSD is getting some of that now, but still needs some refining (such as listing all the choices before asking you one by one whether or not to install them
Still, dselect wasn't enough to keep me with debian. Between the politics and the age of the packages, I got fed up. Now there is the "testing" distribution, but there used to be no middle ground between a hopelessly out of date stable and the unstable distro that you could count on knocking out your system about twice a year.
hawk, happily with FreeBSD for the last few years, but still using debian on smaller older systems
I described what capitalism and ree markets are. THere is nothing about "pursuit of money or greed" in it. It is simply a matter of being allowed to control and benefit from your own things--as opposed to someone *else* controlling and benefitting from them.
Nor did I in *any* way suggest that this was my morality, nor my definition. While I'm far older than the typical slashdot reader, I am *not* over 200 years old--and the Protestant work ethic *is* far older than that. You can agree with or dispute that ethic, but it is the morality behind free markets.
If you try to put anything more into the "goals of capitalism" it's *you* who is making things up as you go along. Yes, some people use the freedom to make staggering amounts of money and hurt other people--that happens with Free Will.
Plain and simply, the alternative to free market capitalism is either to restrict what people are allowed to do with their own labor and other assets, or to assign the proceeds of the labor and other assets elsewhere. You're far more likely to get the results you want by taxing a free market and spending the proceeds on your goals, as every attempt other than first century Christianity failed (and even that one didn't scale well).
I'm plain and simply a couple of hundred years to make this up, though I'd love to take credit for it.
hawk
But no, I really don't have the time to land in another state to do this, anyway. If he wants to sue me, he has to come to a court with jurisdiction.
hawk
>Guide+ guide... (Oxygen,
Oxygen? Isn't that "The Chick-Flick Channel"
Gee, you'll miss out on the "Meryl Streep Marathon," and "Sally Fields' whiniest moments," and . .
;)
hawk
God's #1 arch-angel and right-hand (right halo?) being. #2 in all of creation, lives in heaven, and rebels and is cast into hell.
sounds more like the "fool for a client" category . .
:)
hawk, esq.
Oops! With this post, *I'm* a defendant.
I've dealt with this kind of behavior before from those who represent themseloves. Yes, it can be expensive to handle along the way.
But guess what, punk: I *am* a lawyer, and my hourly is $400. If you want to start this, go for it; my kids want to go to college, and I'll have your inventory and 25% of your paycheck for the next 20 years . .
hawk, esq., hoping the frivolous papers come his way . . .
THe packet it sends looks something like:
:)
hawk, coauthor of "IP over drunken mug" protocol
>you and you want to get completely shit faced...
If you can't remember (or tell!) which of these your dating, is it any surprise s/he/it dumped you???
:)
hawk
>has drunk enough for the night?
well, to drink, first ya gots to bring the mug to yo mout. Den ya breeds out, and den ya drinks.
And they test on the exhale . .
:)
hawk
well, empty class will explain why your pickup attempts all failed . .
:)
hawk
:)
hawk
And think of all the realy good music we would have missed if waylon & co. hadn't done the outlaw recordings in LA . .
Also, waylon was one of the ones who was incensed about patrons not getting their service charges refunded by ticket agencies for cancelled concderts (he was in the hospital with Laryngitus or some such), and I believe also for the missing tracks on CD's of albums (there's a biggie missin from his greatest hits [ladies love outlaws? it's not in front of me]).
hawk, who knows of no album better than side 1 of "I've always been crazy" (which he owns), and would actually pay $20 for a cd of that or of Bobby Bare's "The Winner" album
The *reasons* for our free market and captialism are *fundamentally* moral.
Capitalism means that you are entitled to the proceeds of assets you own, whether your own labor or land.
Free markets mean that you can buy, sell, or not with assets you control.
The switch from the older feudalism was largely a moral respones to the waste of assets and the intrusions on freedom
hawk
OTOH, at $8-$10, I'd probably have a $50-$100/month habit.
hawk, who if pressed, would admit that there's really not much western music to buy these days, and likely won't be til this stupid "New Country" finally blows over . .
Oh, and I've bought some ofthe 10-disk sets of classical and one or two of western for about $4/cd . . .
hawk, who might consider it, if they put in the four missing cylinders and added two tons of steel