Liberals recognize that the sales tax is horribly regressive although they don't say it out loud. They generally would prefer to make up the difference with a progressive income tax
Most of our Tax models are basically horribly out of date. By what I personally consider to be sane standards (yeah, flame, here we go, just my opinion) we seem to be very keen on taxing Good Things (tm) like income, sales, capital gains and the like (in short, wealth creation), and in general very bad at taxing Bad Things, such as use of scarce polluting fossil fuels, dumping of toxic material, development on greenfield sites, er, blah, you get the picture (in general, resource destruction).
Of course there *is* the inevitable snag that if these taxes are set high enough to discourage the designated Bad Things, after a while the Bad Things disappear and you need to find a new revenue stream, but we're an imaginative species, we'll always come up with new Bad Things to replace the old, and in the meanwhile, anyone who p!sses in the tent has to pay for the privilege.
If you are a library and don't show one book because of its content, then you are censoring. One book or one thousand, censorship is censorship
Tricky. No library on earth can *contain* every book published, though a good one will make anything available on request by Inter-Library Loan (albeit for a fee and with an associated delay). And deciding what to stock locally is always a value judgement based, to some extent, on content.
But there are some items whose availablity is actually reduced by placing them on the open shelves rather than in a closed stack. The canonical example here in the UK is material on Freemasonry. I can't remember the Library Association's figures precisely, but basically books on freemasonry placed on the shelves of UK public libraries tend to last less than a month before they vanish or are vandalised to the point of unusability
Now whether this is due to masons or anti-masons I don't know (or care), but in any case it's only by restricting access to such material that such access can be preserved at all
Europe is a Socialist contintent, [...] other than the right of the ruling caste to do as they please.
My what a rum view of socialism. Socialism with castes now. Tomorrow, cats with six legs, hard carapaces and wings.
the previous political system in Europe, monarchism
What's so previous about monarchism? The UK, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, most of Scandinavia (and anyone else I've been rude enough to omit) are still Monarchies. So now we're looking at Socialist Monarchies, with castes.
the law states that the citizens are the property of the State
The Law, in Europe? We don't have a single government yet. Admittedly we're Subjects (i.e. property) in the UK, but you might want to consider how the French revolution was plagiarised by the colonists in the Americas. Liberte, egalite, fraternite anyone? I've always admired the French for their willingness to burn civic buildings when the powers that be get too nasty. And their authorities for taking a mature approach when they do so.
the governments there can and will detain or kill anybody
Whereas in the States you mostly detain and kill poor black people, particularly near election time, and especially if they're too mentally handicapped to defend themselves.
And I disagree that 'curbing freedoms' is necessarily a good ideal; freedom is the only political absolute.
Can't be. Just not possible. Except in a true anarchy. I'm not moaning about the curbs on my freedom to rob, rape and murder, though.
Do I have the right to demand 24/7 free instant access to a medical team?
If you're American, then the answer is no. As a UK subject, the answer is Yes. Admittedly the NHS is underfunded by comparison with our European neighbours, and a four-hour wait is about the norm for inner city Casualty departments, but we DO have a National Health Service, and of all the things that destroyed the last Tory government (corruption, incompetence,...) it was probably the perceived threat to the NHS that got the traditional Tories out for Labour
..more advanced Socialist societies like Europe, and the United Kingdom
Point 1 - europe's not a country (yet) point 2 - I'd hardly describe Nanny Blair's UK as Socialist. Even people who were on the right wing of the Labour Party 5 years ago seem to think it's pretty Tory now
recently the subjects of Her Majesty democratically decided to give up their rights to own handguns
Never had a right to own handguns. There was a privilege, with associated licensing. Not a right. Mind you, technically we are still obliged to own a longbow and do 2 hours of compulsory Archery practice per week.
Her Majesty's subjects have also agreed to being monitored by thousands of public video cameras
Her Majesty's
Who? Oh, that Mrs Windsor at #1, the Mall. Less of the reverent capitals, please. She can have the capitals back if (a) she pays her taxes (No Capitalisation without Taxation) and (b) gets out of our state structures along with anyone else whose great-great^n-grandparent was the biggest bully of his time
er, no. Nobody asked me. This was brought in using Statutory Instruments to legalise the practice, and has generally been implemented in piecemeal fashion by the commercial owners of shopping centres, railway stations etc. Not many Councils are implementing cameras yet, largely because of worries about the consequences once we incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights
The USA could use a politician with true conviction of his beliefs, like the Presdent of the UK, Tony Blear
Where to start? firstly we don't have a President (official elected by the population as a whole) - we have a Prime Minister who is, effectively, in the post ex-officio as leader of the party with an unearned first-past-the-post majority in the House Of Commons. Furthermore, it's been a few years since anyone last seriously suggested that Tony Blair still has any beliefs; certainly anything that might affect the opinion of the 11,000 or so voters in the 50 most marginal constituencies has to go through the whole Alistair Campbell spinfactory before it's allowed to see the light of day. And we must never upset all those multinationals in the City of London, or we'll lose that hard economic competence image we had to gain at the cost of everything the Labour Party (created by the Unions for the benefit of the Unions) ever stood for.
Not that conviction politicians are a good thing. Look at Maggie. And flinch.
God's condemnation of homosexuality in Leviticus 20:13,
I refer the honourable gentleman to Mr God's condemnation of shellfish in Leviticus 11:12, and offer him a nice warming bowl of clam chowder, which is an abomination (the same word used to describe non-heterosexuality)
I further bring his attention to the condemnation of Wool-mix sweaters in Lev 19:19. Which is purportedly just as sinful as prawn cocktails
May I humbly suggest that a bit of loving your neighbour, and possibly a quick plank-in-the-eye check might be in order.:)
Sellotaping a book shut could not possibly be considered access control.
And yet this is the very mechanism (OK, padlocked metal clasps) used for centuries to control access to books in libraries across the world. Supposedly Bad books which the Catholic Church didn't want anyone unauthorised to see. Such as the works of Galileo Galilei until about 5 years ago.
The police seal crime scenes by, to all intents and purposes, sellotaping them shut. Admittedly the 'Sellotape' is 2" wide, bright yellow, and says something like "Crime Scene - keep out", but they are, nonetheless, a recognized and legally enforceaple Access Control system based on Plastic Tape.
Thinking for a moment more (ouch!), surely even a "keep out" sign on an open door constitutes Access Control, enforceable through trespass laws.
Is it to be expected that a company will be able to enforce disablement of software where UCITA type laws are not in place
Under the UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990, timebombing software and similar methods of disablement are considered unauthorised access and tampering and are punishable by the courts. There's a lot of case history and precedent, from firms whose software needed keys after pre-specified timeout periods and so on.
Not quite. If you are in the database you have been *convicted* of a crime
That would be nice, but in the UK is sadly false. As of a couple of months ago, the sample is taken when you are first questioned. For example, if you are stopped for suspected drunk driving (which is a BAD BAD thing, by the way), the Police are entitled to demand a DNA sample even before they breathalyse you. This sample, or rather the profile from it, remains on file thereafter. Even if you are acquitted. Liberty and several other bodies are trying to get this overturned in the courts, and it will probably be revoked once we incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights later this year.
But for the time being, if they want a sample, they can get it. And if they then want to blackmail you over that embarrassing congenital condition, they can go ahead.
Incidentally, in the UK you can certainly sue the authorities over unlawful imprisonment. Consider the cases of the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4 and the Maguire 7, all convicted of terrorist offenses in the 1970's and all convictions quashed in the early 1990's because it was overwhelmingly clear that they were all fitted up.
Particularly insofar as when Greenpeace were protesting about nuclear tests in the south Pacific they merrily blew up the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour.
ActiveX is marketing-speak for COM. COM is the object model underlying 32-bit Windows. Everything you can see in Windows is a COM object. And the only difference between COM and ActiveX is the spelling.
My version of Win 95 hasn't been updated since 1997.
This bit's really scary. That would put you about 200 security patches behind the rest of us. I assume you're not running an unpatched '97 build of Linux. Time to Service Pack the living daylights out of your WinBoxes.
We never had the 'right' to have guns. Something i personally am very glad about. People kill people, but it's definitely easier with guns. Witness the Dunblane case - man with gun walks into primary school, kills 14 children. A week later, another man walks into a primary school in Wolverhampton bent on destruction. He has a machete and injures 2 people, neither in a life-threatening fashion.
Mind you, they never actually repealed the laws requiring all adult males to attend Longbow practice every Sunday. remember, just because it's on the statute books doesn't mean it will be universally enforced.
Not sic that you have to hand over decryption keys or the plain text
If this has now received Royal Assent, then Jack Straw (Home Secretary) is in BIG trouble. Potentially at least. I recommend a look at this neat little mantrap that the chaps and chapesses at stand.org.uk have arranged for the lovely Jack. He has an encrypted message. A solicitor has attested to the fact that it is pertinent to a real crime. The same solicitor has seen the only copy of the cleartext, and the only copy of the key (on a floppy), destroyed.
Now Jack has the message, and it's provably relevant to a crime, he's liable to 2 years in one of his own jails should the police choose to investigate (shame they won't...)
You can't discover an inhabited continent. Columbus no more discovered america than did Leif Ericsson five hundred years before him. Or did the population of Hispaniola (a third of which was dead after ten years of Columbus' governorship) suddenly say 'Crikey, there's land underneath us! i thought we were just floating in a vacuum'.
And don't get me started on the British empire declaring australia 'Terra Incognita' so that murdering most of the population wasn't murder, as legally they were only a figment of the murderer's imagination.
..and this is what a lot of site proprietors seem to have missed. Form is indeed function. And if the Form of the site is such as to inconvenience (or worse) a potential revenue source (human being, in oldspeak), then the Function of the site is to inconvenience (or worse) a potential revenue source.
And no sane businessperson would go out of hir way to inconvenience a potential revenue source. If they really understood that that was what they were doing.
If someone starts to run across a busy street without looking, is it so unreasonable for me to cry out 'look out, there are cars!'?
MS has done a brilliant job of training people to accept a product that is "good enough" There aren't too many other industries that you could get away with that
Ferrari make superb cars but most people accept a Ford/VW/GM car that is 'good enough'
I'd love a washing machine that ironed and shelved my clothes. It's technically possible but my Zanussi is 'good enough'
It would be nice if my kettle didn't always boil the water but allowed me to preset the stop temperature. It doesn't, but the one i have is 'good enough'.
For 10,000 quid I could get a stereo that would make my heart weak at the beauty of the music it produces. But the 1000 quid one i have is 'good enough'. As is the 20 quid Sony radio I use most of the time.
Japan and France have 200mph+ trains. Ours peak at 140mph. But that's 'good enough'.
The chair I'm sitting on cost 50 quid. It serves the purpose. It's not leather, it's not deeply padded, it wasn't custom-built to meet my personal ergonomic needs. but it's 'good enough'
Economics is about the distribution of scarce and costly resources. BillG is one of the lucky few who don't have to settle for 'good enough' most of the time. There aren't too many industries which can afford to refuse to supply a 'good enough' product - the market's just not there for the 'ultimate' products.
And people who can't afford the 'ultimate' product have every right to expect a 'good enough' alternative.
<Sarcasm> Personally, i only ever use AT&T System V on my System/370. And i pity the poor saps who can only afford Sparc.</Sarcasm> sorry about that last bit
Well I don't, for starters. It's a very nice luxury having one at home. A luxury in which i chose to indulge recently. I'm 32. I got a PC at home for the first time since my ZX81 earlier this year. I use it indulging my coding habit, playing a few games and writing the odd letter.
But I don't need it in any sense whatsoever. My Mum doesn't have one, my sister doesn't have one. They're still breathing just fine. Most of the population of the planet doesn't have one.
I need food, air, shelter, freedom, company. I, and you, do not need a computer.
Everyone pays a license fee to the British Broadcasting Corporation for possesion of a T.V. reception apparatus [...] I considered the #40 or so pounds pretty reasonable for commercial free TV
that must have been a while ago. But it's still good value at over 100 quid today.
I can just hear the Dead Kennedys or RATM popping in soundbites for Ford Explorers
Sigue Sigue Sputnik did precisely this on their first LP, "Flaunt It" (1986). Hasn't really caught on tho.
Most of the people I know who make illegal copies all the time don't have the money to buy what they're copying. They buy what they can, and rip what they can't.
Sounds fantastic. Where can i get one of these free computers to do the ripping. I had to pay about a thousand pounds for mine. Which means that if i were to claim that I can't afford CD's it would be an obvious, specious, self-serving falsehood.
Question is, where did the land the farmer is using come from? He claimed it, of course.
He claimed it almost certainly by force or the threat of force. He'll say, "it was my father's". And if asked where his father got it from he'll say "it was his father's"
And if pushed hard enough (this is true in regard of at least one welsh landowner I challenged) as to where their great^n-grandfather got it, they'll finally get on their high horse and say 'He fought for it'.
The desktop user does tolerate BSOD's and the occasional reboot (once an hour is annoying, but provided you don't lose data, it's fine...).
This install of NT4 BSOD'ed once on installation, because i was foolish enough to install with network support on hardware several years younger than the install disk, rather than servicePacking first and networking later. I've not seen the BSOD in the intervening 21 months.
I like to reboot about once a month anyway, 'cos i'm old-fashioned like that.
Yes it would be lovely to be able to servicepack without a reboot, but it's not something i lose much sleep over.
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Most of our Tax models are basically horribly out of date. By what I personally consider to be sane standards (yeah, flame, here we go, just my opinion) we seem to be very keen on taxing Good Things (tm) like income, sales, capital gains and the like (in short, wealth creation), and in general very bad at taxing Bad Things, such as use of scarce polluting fossil fuels, dumping of toxic material, development on greenfield sites, er, blah, you get the picture (in general, resource destruction).
Of course there *is* the inevitable snag that if these taxes are set high enough to discourage the designated Bad Things, after a while the Bad Things disappear and you need to find a new revenue stream, but we're an imaginative species, we'll always come up with new Bad Things to replace the old, and in the meanwhile, anyone who p!sses in the tent has to pay for the privilege.
TomV
Tricky. No library on earth can *contain* every book published, though a good one will make anything available on request by Inter-Library Loan (albeit for a fee and with an associated delay). And deciding what to stock locally is always a value judgement based, to some extent, on content.
But there are some items whose availablity is actually reduced by placing them on the open shelves rather than in a closed stack. The canonical example here in the UK is material on Freemasonry. I can't remember the Library Association's figures precisely, but basically books on freemasonry placed on the shelves of UK public libraries tend to last less than a month before they vanish or are vandalised to the point of unusability
Now whether this is due to masons or anti-masons I don't know (or care), but in any case it's only by restricting access to such material that such access can be preserved at all
TomV
My what a rum view of socialism. Socialism with castes now. Tomorrow, cats with six legs, hard carapaces and wings.
the previous political system in Europe, monarchism
What's so previous about monarchism? The UK, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, most of Scandinavia (and anyone else I've been rude enough to omit) are still Monarchies. So now we're looking at Socialist Monarchies, with castes.
the law states that the citizens are the property of the State
The Law, in Europe? We don't have a single government yet. Admittedly we're Subjects (i.e. property) in the UK, but you might want to consider how the French revolution was plagiarised by the colonists in the Americas. Liberte, egalite, fraternite anyone? I've always admired the French for their willingness to burn civic buildings when the powers that be get too nasty. And their authorities for taking a mature approach when they do so.
the governments there can and will detain or kill anybody
Whereas in the States you mostly detain and kill poor black people, particularly near election time, and especially if they're too mentally handicapped to defend themselves.
TomV
Can't be. Just not possible. Except in a true anarchy. I'm not moaning about the curbs on my freedom to rob, rape and murder, though.
Do I have the right to demand 24/7 free instant access to a medical team?
If you're American, then the answer is no. As a UK subject, the answer is Yes. Admittedly the NHS is underfunded by comparison with our European neighbours, and a four-hour wait is about the norm for inner city Casualty departments, but we DO have a National Health Service, and of all the things that destroyed the last Tory government (corruption, incompetence, ...) it was probably the perceived threat to the NHS that got the traditional Tories out for Labour
TomV
Point 1 - europe's not a country (yet)
point 2 - I'd hardly describe Nanny Blair's UK as Socialist. Even people who were on the right wing of the Labour Party 5 years ago seem to think it's pretty Tory now
recently the subjects of Her Majesty democratically decided to give up their rights to own handguns
Never had a right to own handguns. There was a privilege, with associated licensing. Not a right. Mind you, technically we are still obliged to own a longbow and do 2 hours of compulsory Archery practice per week.
Her Majesty's subjects have also agreed to being monitored by thousands of public video cameras
Her Majesty's
Who? Oh, that Mrs Windsor at #1, the Mall. Less of the reverent capitals, please. She can have the capitals back if (a) she pays her taxes (No Capitalisation without Taxation) and (b) gets out of our state structures along with anyone else whose great-great^n-grandparent was the biggest bully of his time
er, no. Nobody asked me. This was brought in using Statutory Instruments to legalise the practice, and has generally been implemented in piecemeal fashion by the commercial owners of shopping centres, railway stations etc. Not many Councils are implementing cameras yet, largely because of worries about the consequences once we incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights
The USA could use a politician with true conviction of his beliefs, like the Presdent of the UK, Tony Blear
Where to start? firstly we don't have a President (official elected by the population as a whole) - we have a Prime Minister who is, effectively, in the post ex-officio as leader of the party with an unearned first-past-the-post majority in the House Of Commons. Furthermore, it's been a few years since anyone last seriously suggested that Tony Blair still has any beliefs; certainly anything that might affect the opinion of the 11,000 or so voters in the 50 most marginal constituencies has to go through the whole Alistair Campbell spinfactory before it's allowed to see the light of day. And we must never upset all those multinationals in the City of London, or we'll lose that hard economic competence image we had to gain at the cost of everything the Labour Party (created by the Unions for the benefit of the Unions) ever stood for.
Not that conviction politicians are a good thing. Look at Maggie. And flinch.
TomV
I refer the honourable gentleman to Mr God's condemnation of shellfish in Leviticus 11:12, and offer him a nice warming bowl of clam chowder, which is an abomination (the same word used to describe non-heterosexuality)
I further bring his attention to the condemnation of Wool-mix sweaters in Lev 19:19. Which is purportedly just as sinful as prawn cocktails
May I humbly suggest that a bit of loving your neighbour, and possibly a quick plank-in-the-eye check might be in order. :)
TomV
And yet this is the very mechanism (OK, padlocked metal clasps) used for centuries to control access to books in libraries across the world. Supposedly Bad books which the Catholic Church didn't want anyone unauthorised to see. Such as the works of Galileo Galilei until about 5 years ago.
The police seal crime scenes by, to all intents and purposes, sellotaping them shut. Admittedly the 'Sellotape' is 2" wide, bright yellow, and says something like "Crime Scene - keep out", but they are, nonetheless, a recognized and legally enforceaple Access Control system based on Plastic Tape.
Thinking for a moment more (ouch!), surely even a "keep out" sign on an open door constitutes Access Control, enforceable through trespass laws.
TomV
Under the UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990, timebombing software and similar methods of disablement are considered unauthorised access and tampering and are punishable by the courts. There's a lot of case history and precedent, from firms whose software needed keys after pre-specified timeout periods and so on.
That would be nice, but in the UK is sadly false. As of a couple of months ago, the sample is taken when you are first questioned. For example, if you are stopped for suspected drunk driving (which is a BAD BAD thing, by the way), the Police are entitled to demand a DNA sample even before they breathalyse you. This sample, or rather the profile from it, remains on file thereafter. Even if you are acquitted. Liberty and several other bodies are trying to get this overturned in the courts, and it will probably be revoked once we incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights later this year.
But for the time being, if they want a sample, they can get it. And if they then want to blackmail you over that embarrassing congenital condition, they can go ahead.
Incidentally, in the UK you can certainly sue the authorities over unlawful imprisonment. Consider the cases of the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4 and the Maguire 7, all convicted of terrorist offenses in the 1970's and all convictions quashed in the early 1990's because it was overwhelmingly clear that they were all fitted up.
TomV
Particularly insofar as when Greenpeace were protesting about nuclear tests in the south Pacific they merrily blew up the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour.
TomV
ActiveX is marketing-speak for COM. COM is the object model underlying 32-bit Windows. Everything you can see in Windows is a COM object. And the only difference between COM and ActiveX is the spelling.
My version of Win 95 hasn't been updated since 1997.
This bit's really scary. That would put you about 200 security patches behind the rest of us. I assume you're not running an unpatched '97 build of Linux. Time to Service Pack the living daylights out of your WinBoxes.
TomV
We never had the 'right' to have guns. Something i personally am very glad about. People kill people, but it's definitely easier with guns. Witness the Dunblane case - man with gun walks into primary school, kills 14 children. A week later, another man walks into a primary school in Wolverhampton bent on destruction. He has a machete and injures 2 people, neither in a life-threatening fashion.
Mind you, they never actually repealed the laws requiring all adult males to attend Longbow practice every Sunday. remember, just because it's on the statute books doesn't mean it will be universally enforced.
TomV
If this has now received Royal Assent, then Jack Straw (Home Secretary) is in BIG trouble. Potentially at least. I recommend a look at this neat little mantrap that the chaps and chapesses at stand.org.uk have arranged for the lovely Jack. He has an encrypted message. A solicitor has attested to the fact that it is pertinent to a real crime. The same solicitor has seen the only copy of the cleartext, and the only copy of the key (on a floppy), destroyed.
Now Jack has the message, and it's provably relevant to a crime, he's liable to 2 years in one of his own jails should the police choose to investigate (shame they won't...)
Very elegant.
TomV
And don't get me started on the British empire declaring australia 'Terra Incognita' so that murdering most of the population wasn't murder, as legally they were only a figment of the murderer's imagination.
TomV
And no sane businessperson would go out of hir way to inconvenience a potential revenue source. If they really understood that that was what they were doing.
If someone starts to run across a busy street without looking, is it so unreasonable for me to cry out 'look out, there are cars!'?
TomV
Is this a typo (for 'underpin') or a remarkably deep comment? Just wondering.
TomV
In the UK the Death Penalty is still pretty popular according to a lot of surveys (see above posts for a general discussion of surveys <g>)
We abolished it, in spite of popular opinion, because it is murder.
TomV
- Ferrari make superb cars but most people accept a Ford/VW/GM car that is 'good enough'
- I'd love a washing machine that ironed and shelved my clothes. It's technically possible but my Zanussi is 'good enough'
- It would be nice if my kettle didn't always boil the water but allowed me to preset the stop temperature. It doesn't, but the one i have is 'good enough'.
- For 10,000 quid I could get a stereo that would make my heart weak at the beauty of the music it produces. But the 1000 quid one i have is 'good enough'. As is the 20 quid Sony radio I use most of the time.
- Japan and France have 200mph+ trains. Ours peak at 140mph. But that's 'good enough'.
- The chair I'm sitting on cost 50 quid. It serves the purpose. It's not leather, it's not deeply padded, it wasn't custom-built to meet my personal ergonomic needs. but it's 'good enough'
Economics is about the distribution of scarce and costly resources. BillG is one of the lucky few who don't have to settle for 'good enough' most of the time. There aren't too many industries which can afford to refuse to supply a 'good enough' product - the market's just not there for the 'ultimate' products.And people who can't afford the 'ultimate' product have every right to expect a 'good enough' alternative.
<Sarcasm> Personally, i only ever use AT&T System V on my System/370. And i pity the poor saps who can only afford Sparc.</Sarcasm> sorry about that last bit
TomV
Well I don't, for starters. It's a very nice luxury having one at home. A luxury in which i chose to indulge recently. I'm 32. I got a PC at home for the first time since my ZX81 earlier this year. I use it indulging my coding habit, playing a few games and writing the odd letter.
But I don't need it in any sense whatsoever. My Mum doesn't have one, my sister doesn't have one. They're still breathing just fine. Most of the population of the planet doesn't have one.
I need food, air, shelter, freedom, company. I, and you, do not need a computer.
TomV
that must have been a while ago. But it's still good value at over 100 quid today.
I can just hear the Dead Kennedys or RATM popping in soundbites for Ford Explorers
Sigue Sigue Sputnik did precisely this on their first LP, "Flaunt It" (1986). Hasn't really caught on tho.
TomV
Sounds fantastic. Where can i get one of these free computers to do the ripping. I had to pay about a thousand pounds for mine. Which means that if i were to claim that I can't afford CD's it would be an obvious, specious, self-serving falsehood.
TomV
Rudolf Nureyev, Luciano Pavarotti, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Otto Von Klemperer.
TomV
http://www.urban75.com/Action/index.html
TomV
Question is, where did the land the farmer is using come from? He claimed it, of course.
He claimed it almost certainly by force or the threat of force. He'll say, "it was my father's". And if asked where his father got it from he'll say "it was his father's"
And if pushed hard enough (this is true in regard of at least one welsh landowner I challenged) as to where their great^n-grandfather got it, they'll finally get on their high horse and say 'He fought for it'.
Well I'll fight you for it now, my friend
TomV
The desktop user does tolerate BSOD's and the occasional reboot (once an hour is annoying, but provided you don't lose data, it's fine ...).
This install of NT4 BSOD'ed once on installation, because i was foolish enough to install with network support on hardware several years younger than the install disk, rather than servicePacking first and networking later. I've not seen the BSOD in the intervening 21 months.
I like to reboot about once a month anyway, 'cos i'm old-fashioned like that.
Yes it would be lovely to be able to servicepack without a reboot, but it's not something i lose much sleep over.
TomV