Sanders isn't going to be able to wave a magic wand and have all of his desired policies implemented. I welcome the change in attitude that he represents. He can do a lot of good even without fulfilling some of the things that he'd like to see done the most.
It's nice to see you come out of your anonymous shell and post as you again. I think that's a defensive mechanism, when you don't like what's happening you try to hide and play anonymous and write messages in support of yourself, that's your defensive mechanism. Too bad you can't do that offline, huh?
Seriously man, you've got a lot of growing up to do. And seriously, suck my balls.
I figured you'd avoid a simple question with a lame evasion.
Truly, you are a master of the "I know you are but what am I?" school of debate, APK.
This is what your little fit is down to now, throwing out the same lame non-insults and evading any questions about your spamming habits or the fact that you dishonestly misrepresent yourself. You're a paper tiger. You're pathetic. You think that if you claim victory enough times then people will start to believe you've won. You haven't won anything, you're desperate to appear intelligent or meaningful when in fact you're a spammer relying on anonymous posting to try and make yourself look good. And, what's worse, you think that people can't tell. You won't even sign your posts any more, just stringing along some vain misguided attempt to appear respectable. No doubt at some point you'll decide again to post "as yourself" where you once again declare victory, once again point out that I'm not proving you wrong when I'm not even trying to, and throw out the same stupid taunts and insults while trying to show "support" coming from yourself posting anonymously.
I feel bad for you, man. You've got a lot of growing up to do.
The master of evading questions is really telling me to stop evading? Here, I'll post this now a fourth time:
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down? And then, after re-posting your spam 30+ times in a single comment thread, why do you gloat about "defeating" the moderating system?
Am I on topic? Yes, scroll up and look at the title of this thread.
I've never tried to stop you from posting, APK. I don't submit all of your posts to Steve, only your spam. I like how you keep bringing up Article 19, since that was a discussion of an advertising POS trying to use Article 19 to justify why they should be allowed to advertise to everyone. I enjoy the fact that you're trying to use the same argument as an advertising POS to justify your own spam.
I've always said you're free to post whatever you want here. People are free to mod you down, and once you take that step of re-posting your crap because it got modded down then that's when you become the spammer that you've always been destined to be.
I also like how you keep trotting out the tired old "well you can't prove me wrong on hosts" line, as if I've ever even attempted to do that. Once again, you're playing a game that only you are playing, and you think you're winning. I have nothing to say about hosts files, and I never have. I have nothing to say about your technical skills. I've only ever criticized your spam. You want to talk about staying on-topic? You need to stay on-topic. I'm not talking about hosts files, I'm not talking about your technical ability, I'm talking about you spamming Slashdot, so stay on topic.
You want to spread information about hosts? Fine, post your advertisement once per topic if it makes you feel good, and if people think that it is valuable on-topic information then they will mod it up. People mod it down when they see it posted multiple times in a thread and they see it rightly for what it is: spam. If you don't want it to be spam, then don't repeatedly post it in the same thread, and try to actually engage what people are talking about instead of just pasting your canned advertisement all over the place.
None of apk's downmodders prove him wrong on his points on hosts in his posts so it's definitely sockpuppeteers from adblock shills like you and advertisers that bought almostalladsblocked out so it doesn't work right by default who farm karma to abuse it downmodding is who is doing it.
Take a deep breath and try that sentence again.
None of your downmodders prove you wrong? News flash: people who moderate a thread cannot post in that thread, and vice-versa. So, yeah, people who want to hide your spam don't also take the time to try and address any points you make, they just hide your spam. That's how it works here. Welcome to Slashdot, Alex.
Which Anonymous Coward incessantly talks about how no one can prove him wrong? Which Anonymous Coward accuses everyone of being a sockpuppet? Which Anonymous Coward accuses people of being adblock shills? Which Anonymous Coward uses the term "almostalladsblocked"? Which Anonymous Coward keeps trying to post as other people and thinks that no one knows what he's doing? What's the first rule when dealing with a spammer?
I suspect you of doing it in fact amicusnycl.
I'm sure you do. I actually believe you when you say that. But you're wrong about it, and I know for a fact that you're wrong because you're talking about me, which just goes to reinforce my opinion of you and what you think about me. I haven't used my mod points in probably 3 months, I honestly can't remember the last story I modded. They keep giving me 15, but they keep expiring before I use them.
Ever wondered why slashdot wouldn't help you when you said you wrote dice?
No, I didn't, because I realize that the management of Slashdot doesn't really give a shit. If they gave a shit about making Slashdot a great place then it would support Unicode. They bought the site and have been just riding it out since then. BTW, Dice does not own Slashdot any more.
By the way, which Anonymous Coward knows that I wrote to Slashdot about filtering out your spam?
It was the same when you tried to get apk's software removed by malwarebytes hphosts and they wouldn't.
Steve still thanks me when I send him your spam reports. He's a pleasant guy to deal with. You've seen what I've sent him, you know that I'm not being emotional or vindictive, I just send him the collection of your spam links when you flood a story.
I'm not trying to stop you from posting, APK, I'm only trying to stop you from spamming. Getting you to admit that you are also a liar posting as other people would be a bonus, but I'm not exactly holding my breath on that one. Because I know what the first rule is when dealing with spammers.
Yes, you are APK. Which Anonymous Coward around here talks about people "eating their words" all the time? Which Anonymous Coward incessantly posts links to other Slashdot comments backing up his non-points? Which Anonymous Coward posts in support of APK as if APK has some legion of anonymous supporters but for some reason people who are actually registered don't seem to show up to support APK? Who else do you think is reading this thread, APK? It's just you and me, buddy.
I'm not apk.
APK, what's the first rule when dealing with a spammer?
No APK, not every AC poster is you. Just the ones who defend you using the same lame insults or grammar structure that you use. And especially the ones who cite my post history, as if there are people out there not connected to either you or I who decide to spend the time going through my post history, as if they have nothing better to do. What's more, you know that I'm right, because you're sitting there actually making those posts. You know that it can't be proven, and you know that I'm right. You also know that you are being dishonest when you make those posts representing yourself as someone other than you. You know you're being dishonest, and so do I, even though I can't prove it based on the information that Slashdot shares about posters. You truly are an Anonymous Coward.
What's the first rule when dealing with spammers, APK? Spammers lie. You prove that statement true every time you post and refer to yourself in the third person, because doing so is dishonest. You are representing yourself as someone you're not, and you know that to be a fact. As far as I go, I *am* "amicusNYCL", that is my identity here. I don't post anonymously except if I have sensitive information to reveal, and I don't have any other registered accounts. amicusNYCL is my only account, it is my Slashdot identity, it is who I am. You can look through my post history and see every post I've ever made, other than the handful that had sensitive information which I posted anonymously. My record is there for all to see. Yours is not, because you are an Anonymous Coward. I know this to be true also. You can accuse me of having however many accounts you want, but I know for a fact that I have a single account, just like I know for a fact that you are intentionally dishonest with everyone by representing yourself as something that you are not. Every time you accuse me of having multiple accounts it just further cements the fact that you have no idea what you're talking about. You know that you have no idea, but that doesn't stop you from willingly saying things that are not true. That's how you represent yourself, as an intentionally dishonest person. You can post your anonymous messages of support to yourself all you want, but at the end of the day you know that you are a dishonest person, and I know it too.
What's the first rule when dealing with spammers, APK?
APK, you forgot to answer my question for a third time. Here it is again:
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down?
Fucking Slashdot. I read the summary, think "hmm, that's interesting", and want to read through the comments to see if people are talking about the plane that was used, maybe some other links to information about the plane, the flight path, where it landed or took off from, how they thought they were going to capture Snowden, or any number of other interesting things, and here you guys are 8 comment levels deep arguing about whether or not Scotland is a country.
Right, all of those clueless elderly people browsing around the Comodo website trying to update their servers' SSL certificates and notice that, hey, apparently Comodo publishes a browser based on Chromium.
Here's APK thinking that "outsmarting" means posting as someone else and referring to himself in the third person. Soon he'll be along to post as himself thanking himself for posting as someone else. This is APK "outsmarting" someone.
Yeah, there's noooooo way that's APK posing as someone else. Can't be that. An AC using all of APK's lame insults and backing him up, when no other people post to back him up, is definitely not APK. Must be some completely separate person, who didn't bother to register an account, but wants to post a message in support of APK anyway (and apparently familiar with my post history, as if I'm someone notable here).
Man, I really wish that I could be like APK, but he's just so damn clever and smart.
But wait, APK, you forgot to answer my question. I'm sure that was just an oversight on your part since you were too busy outsmarting me. Here, let me ask it again:
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down?
You have an answer to that question, right APK? Go ahead, show me how smart you are.
Get your story straight APK, this week I'm the Adblock shill, not the advertiser. Next week I'll probably be the advertiser again, or maybe just a bad programmer. Whatever your mind decides to conjure up that week, really.
Wow, an "AC who is definitely not APK, posting about APK in the third person" posting a duplicate reply in the same comment thread? That's so unlike APK, APK never posts duplicate replies, this AC must definitely not be APK! APK is so clever!
You are seriously still posting as other people, referring to yourself in the third person? Seriously? You still think people don't know that's you? Or some random AC out there just knows APK's motivation for posting as AC?
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down? And then, after re-posting your spam 30+ times in a single comment thread, why do you gloat about "defeating" the moderating system?
I'll just burn you out of your modpoints (I've done so literally 175++ @ a time, lol) - so keep it up! I figure it this way - I can easily repost as much as I like
But now you're trying to suggest that the reason you post as AC is so that it's easy for people to avoid your spam? I don't buy it, APK. I think you would post at +5 if you could. The reason you post as AC is because, if you had a registered account, it would quickly lose karma and you would be posting at -1. So you stay as AC to keep your posts at 0 instead of -1. You also stay as AC because when you've tried crap like this on other forums they just ban you. You've finally found a place where you can't be banned, where you can post your spam all day long if you want to. That's why you're AC.
It's $795 for all of the various sign fonts in the family, and that's assuming you have a single computer where they create signs. If your state has between 86 and 90 computers that can do that, then it's over $10,000. That's obviously not a ton of money when you're talking about government, but it still adds up.
A shitty font because people who are good at spending the many long hours of work required to make good fonts DONT FUCKING DO IT FOR FREE.
Overpass isn't a bad font, and there are in fact many skilled people who do in fact donate their time to various things. If you could have your work showcased on road signs all across the country, would you do that for free? These people decided that, yes, they would do it for free, even without a guarantee that it would be used.
Force the graphics artist to deal with some half assed font package in order to get your OSS font
Right, like the little-used and poorly-supported TTF format.
as far as fonts are concerned, OSS is absolute shit.
Bistream Vera is pretty good, the sans mono version is a great one for programming.
Cause if so your cutting off you're nose to spite you're ignorant face.
It's obviously more than just OCR, because when you mouse over the page it will hightlight each article you're looking at, however oddly that article was fit into the page (including highlighting associated pictures, etc). That's actually a pretty cool site, in fact that archive might even be a better reason to get a subscription than the actual current edition.
The free preview doesn't give you much, but it does show the issue from February 1, 1979. In the top right is a story about Ayatollah Khomeini arriving back in Iran from exile, which is interesting to see the contemporary story. On the bottom-left of the front page is a smaller article, without pictures, that continues on page 21. Here's the headline:
Security Agency Holds A Quiet, Crucial Power Over Communications
The article begins "For the last quarter century, one of the Government's most secret agencies has played an important, largely undisclosed role in shaping the nation's privately owned..." (that's your free preview). If I zoom in on the paper I think I can make out the rest of that sentence as "... communications network of [broadcast towers?], underground cables, satellites, and computers." The list of subjects on that article lists astronautics, communications, internal security, internal communications, National Security Agency, telephones, and United States. 37 years ago today the NY Times was reporting on the NSA holding power over the communications infrastructure of the US.
Page 4 has an ad for the latest TI calculators, available at Bloomingdale's.
This story is on page 7:
SOLAR ENERGY HELD STILL DECADES AWAY Panel Does Not Expect Major Shift Until Technology Is Ready for Conversion in Electricity A panel of leading specialists, convened a year ago at the request of the White House to assess prospects for generating electric power from sunlight, has concluded that the ultimate prospects are "bright" but that for at least a decade the technology will not be sufficiently advanced to initiate a major conversion effort.
You know as well as I do that his software would be better received if he maintained a web site for it and didn't treat Slashdot as his personal advertising site. When he posts 30+ wall-of-text advertisements in certain threads then his reputation gets diminished a bit. He is, by definition, a spammer, so people can be excused if they don't want to use a piece of "security software" advertised by a spammer, regardless of who else hosts or recommends it.
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Sanders isn't going to be able to wave a magic wand and have all of his desired policies implemented. I welcome the change in attitude that he represents. He can do a lot of good even without fulfilling some of the things that he'd like to see done the most.
I don't remember one of the fundamental lessons of the 9/11 attacks being that we weren't watching everyone all the time without a warrant.
Haha! Wow, I really hit a nerve there, didn't I?
It's nice to see you come out of your anonymous shell and post as you again. I think that's a defensive mechanism, when you don't like what's happening you try to hide and play anonymous and write messages in support of yourself, that's your defensive mechanism. Too bad you can't do that offline, huh?
Seriously man, you've got a lot of growing up to do. And seriously, suck my balls.
Asking again. Question: You on topic?
Definitely.
You can't prove apk wrong on hosts.
I've never attempted to. I don't care to.
I figured you'd avoid a simple question with a lame evasion.
Truly, you are a master of the "I know you are but what am I?" school of debate, APK.
This is what your little fit is down to now, throwing out the same lame non-insults and evading any questions about your spamming habits or the fact that you dishonestly misrepresent yourself. You're a paper tiger. You're pathetic. You think that if you claim victory enough times then people will start to believe you've won. You haven't won anything, you're desperate to appear intelligent or meaningful when in fact you're a spammer relying on anonymous posting to try and make yourself look good. And, what's worse, you think that people can't tell. You won't even sign your posts any more, just stringing along some vain misguided attempt to appear respectable. No doubt at some point you'll decide again to post "as yourself" where you once again declare victory, once again point out that I'm not proving you wrong when I'm not even trying to, and throw out the same stupid taunts and insults while trying to show "support" coming from yourself posting anonymously.
I feel bad for you, man. You've got a lot of growing up to do.
Suck my balls.
You're destiny is blowhard loserville.
I remember 5th grade too, those insults were fun. Nice grammar, by the way.
You claim you're a programmer: Where's your ware? It's not!
What? It's not what? Have you been drinking, APK? Did you miss your medication? Did you take your medication then start drinking?
You're dead afraid of apk and his facts on hosts superiority to that bloated junk you champion stupidly.
The only thing I "champion" is clearing Slashdot of your spam.
Want to know a secret? I have 3 privacy/security browser extensions on Opera right now, and ABP is not one of them.
The master of evading questions is really telling me to stop evading? Here, I'll post this now a fourth time:
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down? And then, after re-posting your spam 30+ times in a single comment thread, why do you gloat about "defeating" the moderating system?
Am I on topic? Yes, scroll up and look at the title of this thread.
I've never tried to stop you from posting, APK. I don't submit all of your posts to Steve, only your spam. I like how you keep bringing up Article 19, since that was a discussion of an advertising POS trying to use Article 19 to justify why they should be allowed to advertise to everyone. I enjoy the fact that you're trying to use the same argument as an advertising POS to justify your own spam.
I've always said you're free to post whatever you want here. People are free to mod you down, and once you take that step of re-posting your crap because it got modded down then that's when you become the spammer that you've always been destined to be.
I also like how you keep trotting out the tired old "well you can't prove me wrong on hosts" line, as if I've ever even attempted to do that. Once again, you're playing a game that only you are playing, and you think you're winning. I have nothing to say about hosts files, and I never have. I have nothing to say about your technical skills. I've only ever criticized your spam. You want to talk about staying on-topic? You need to stay on-topic. I'm not talking about hosts files, I'm not talking about your technical ability, I'm talking about you spamming Slashdot, so stay on topic.
You want to spread information about hosts? Fine, post your advertisement once per topic if it makes you feel good, and if people think that it is valuable on-topic information then they will mod it up. People mod it down when they see it posted multiple times in a thread and they see it rightly for what it is: spam. If you don't want it to be spam, then don't repeatedly post it in the same thread, and try to actually engage what people are talking about instead of just pasting your canned advertisement all over the place.
I figured you would offer some lame non-reply. I was right.
None of apk's downmodders prove him wrong on his points on hosts in his posts so it's definitely sockpuppeteers from adblock shills like you and advertisers that bought almostalladsblocked out so it doesn't work right by default who farm karma to abuse it downmodding is who is doing it.
Take a deep breath and try that sentence again.
None of your downmodders prove you wrong? News flash: people who moderate a thread cannot post in that thread, and vice-versa. So, yeah, people who want to hide your spam don't also take the time to try and address any points you make, they just hide your spam. That's how it works here. Welcome to Slashdot, Alex.
Which Anonymous Coward incessantly talks about how no one can prove him wrong? Which Anonymous Coward accuses everyone of being a sockpuppet? Which Anonymous Coward accuses people of being adblock shills? Which Anonymous Coward uses the term "almostalladsblocked"? Which Anonymous Coward keeps trying to post as other people and thinks that no one knows what he's doing? What's the first rule when dealing with a spammer?
I suspect you of doing it in fact amicusnycl.
I'm sure you do. I actually believe you when you say that. But you're wrong about it, and I know for a fact that you're wrong because you're talking about me, which just goes to reinforce my opinion of you and what you think about me. I haven't used my mod points in probably 3 months, I honestly can't remember the last story I modded. They keep giving me 15, but they keep expiring before I use them.
Ever wondered why slashdot wouldn't help you when you said you wrote dice?
No, I didn't, because I realize that the management of Slashdot doesn't really give a shit. If they gave a shit about making Slashdot a great place then it would support Unicode. They bought the site and have been just riding it out since then. BTW, Dice does not own Slashdot any more.
By the way, which Anonymous Coward knows that I wrote to Slashdot about filtering out your spam?
It was the same when you tried to get apk's software removed by malwarebytes hphosts and they wouldn't.
Steve still thanks me when I send him your spam reports. He's a pleasant guy to deal with. You've seen what I've sent him, you know that I'm not being emotional or vindictive, I just send him the collection of your spam links when you flood a story.
I'm not trying to stop you from posting, APK, I'm only trying to stop you from spamming. Getting you to admit that you are also a liar posting as other people would be a bonus, but I'm not exactly holding my breath on that one. Because I know what the first rule is when dealing with spammers.
Yes, you are APK. Which Anonymous Coward around here talks about people "eating their words" all the time? Which Anonymous Coward incessantly posts links to other Slashdot comments backing up his non-points? Which Anonymous Coward posts in support of APK as if APK has some legion of anonymous supporters but for some reason people who are actually registered don't seem to show up to support APK? Who else do you think is reading this thread, APK? It's just you and me, buddy.
I'm not apk.
APK, what's the first rule when dealing with a spammer?
Search your feelings; you know it to be true.
No APK, not every AC poster is you. Just the ones who defend you using the same lame insults or grammar structure that you use. And especially the ones who cite my post history, as if there are people out there not connected to either you or I who decide to spend the time going through my post history, as if they have nothing better to do. What's more, you know that I'm right, because you're sitting there actually making those posts. You know that it can't be proven, and you know that I'm right. You also know that you are being dishonest when you make those posts representing yourself as someone other than you. You know you're being dishonest, and so do I, even though I can't prove it based on the information that Slashdot shares about posters. You truly are an Anonymous Coward.
What's the first rule when dealing with spammers, APK? Spammers lie. You prove that statement true every time you post and refer to yourself in the third person, because doing so is dishonest. You are representing yourself as someone you're not, and you know that to be a fact. As far as I go, I *am* "amicusNYCL", that is my identity here. I don't post anonymously except if I have sensitive information to reveal, and I don't have any other registered accounts. amicusNYCL is my only account, it is my Slashdot identity, it is who I am. You can look through my post history and see every post I've ever made, other than the handful that had sensitive information which I posted anonymously. My record is there for all to see. Yours is not, because you are an Anonymous Coward. I know this to be true also. You can accuse me of having however many accounts you want, but I know for a fact that I have a single account, just like I know for a fact that you are intentionally dishonest with everyone by representing yourself as something that you are not. Every time you accuse me of having multiple accounts it just further cements the fact that you have no idea what you're talking about. You know that you have no idea, but that doesn't stop you from willingly saying things that are not true. That's how you represent yourself, as an intentionally dishonest person. You can post your anonymous messages of support to yourself all you want, but at the end of the day you know that you are a dishonest person, and I know it too.
What's the first rule when dealing with spammers, APK?
APK, you forgot to answer my question for a third time. Here it is again:
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down?
Wasn't this around the time Obama said on TV that he "wouldn't be scrambling jets to get a 29 year old .....hacker"
Jets! Plural! This was only 1.
Fucking Slashdot. I read the summary, think "hmm, that's interesting", and want to read through the comments to see if people are talking about the plane that was used, maybe some other links to information about the plane, the flight path, where it landed or took off from, how they thought they were going to capture Snowden, or any number of other interesting things, and here you guys are 8 comment levels deep arguing about whether or not Scotland is a country.
Right, all of those clueless elderly people browsing around the Comodo website trying to update their servers' SSL certificates and notice that, hey, apparently Comodo publishes a browser based on Chromium.
Here's APK thinking that "outsmarting" means posting as someone else and referring to himself in the third person. Soon he'll be along to post as himself thanking himself for posting as someone else. This is APK "outsmarting" someone.
an inferior competitor
APK insult? check
advertiser lackey
APK insult? check
in fear of apk's superior methods
APK insult? check
failing vs. apk
APK insult? check
Your favorite color truly must be transparent
APK insult? check
We all see through you easily
APK insult? check
You can't handle that apk outsmarts you at every turn
APK insult? check
If you're trying to make apk look good you're doing a marvellous job.
APK insult? check
Yeah, there's noooooo way that's APK posing as someone else. Can't be that. An AC using all of APK's lame insults and backing him up, when no other people post to back him up, is definitely not APK. Must be some completely separate person, who didn't bother to register an account, but wants to post a message in support of APK anyway (and apparently familiar with my post history, as if I'm someone notable here).
Man, I really wish that I could be like APK, but he's just so damn clever and smart.
But wait, APK, you forgot to answer my question. I'm sure that was just an oversight on your part since you were too busy outsmarting me. Here, let me ask it again:
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down?
You have an answer to that question, right APK? Go ahead, show me how smart you are.
Get your story straight APK, this week I'm the Adblock shill, not the advertiser. Next week I'll probably be the advertiser again, or maybe just a bad programmer. Whatever your mind decides to conjure up that week, really.
Who do you think provided the coins? The big banks! And who created the coins? The establish-MINT.
Wake up, sheeple!
Wow, an "AC who is definitely not APK, posting about APK in the third person" posting a duplicate reply in the same comment thread? That's so unlike APK, APK never posts duplicate replies, this AC must definitely not be APK! APK is so clever!
Apk posts ac so you can avoid him.
You are seriously still posting as other people, referring to yourself in the third person? Seriously? You still think people don't know that's you? Or some random AC out there just knows APK's motivation for posting as AC?
OK, you're saying that you post as AC so people can avoid you? Then here's a question: if you purposefully post using low karma so that your spam is easy to avoid, then why do you re-post your spam when someone mods it down? And then, after re-posting your spam 30+ times in a single comment thread, why do you gloat about "defeating" the moderating system?
I'll just burn you out of your modpoints (I've done so literally 175++ @ a time, lol) - so keep it up! I figure it this way - I can easily repost as much as I like
But now you're trying to suggest that the reason you post as AC is so that it's easy for people to avoid your spam? I don't buy it, APK. I think you would post at +5 if you could. The reason you post as AC is because, if you had a registered account, it would quickly lose karma and you would be posting at -1. So you stay as AC to keep your posts at 0 instead of -1. You also stay as AC because when you've tried crap like this on other forums they just ban you. You've finally found a place where you can't be banned, where you can post your spam all day long if you want to. That's why you're AC.
Why? For purpose? To save $175?
It's $795 for all of the various sign fonts in the family, and that's assuming you have a single computer where they create signs. If your state has between 86 and 90 computers that can do that, then it's over $10,000. That's obviously not a ton of money when you're talking about government, but it still adds up.
A shitty font because people who are good at spending the many long hours of work required to make good fonts DONT FUCKING DO IT FOR FREE.
Overpass isn't a bad font, and there are in fact many skilled people who do in fact donate their time to various things. If you could have your work showcased on road signs all across the country, would you do that for free? These people decided that, yes, they would do it for free, even without a guarantee that it would be used.
Force the graphics artist to deal with some half assed font package in order to get your OSS font
Right, like the little-used and poorly-supported TTF format.
as far as fonts are concerned, OSS is absolute shit.
Bistream Vera is pretty good, the sans mono version is a great one for programming.
Cause if so your cutting off you're nose to spite you're ignorant face.
FTFY
It's obviously more than just OCR, because when you mouse over the page it will hightlight each article you're looking at, however oddly that article was fit into the page (including highlighting associated pictures, etc). That's actually a pretty cool site, in fact that archive might even be a better reason to get a subscription than the actual current edition.
The free preview doesn't give you much, but it does show the issue from February 1, 1979. In the top right is a story about Ayatollah Khomeini arriving back in Iran from exile, which is interesting to see the contemporary story. On the bottom-left of the front page is a smaller article, without pictures, that continues on page 21. Here's the headline:
Security Agency Holds A Quiet, Crucial Power Over Communications
The article begins "For the last quarter century, one of the Government's most secret agencies has played an important, largely undisclosed role in shaping the nation's privately owned ..." (that's your free preview). If I zoom in on the paper I think I can make out the rest of that sentence as "... communications network of [broadcast towers?], underground cables, satellites, and computers." The list of subjects on that article lists astronautics, communications, internal security, internal communications, National Security Agency, telephones, and United States. 37 years ago today the NY Times was reporting on the NSA holding power over the communications infrastructure of the US.
Page 4 has an ad for the latest TI calculators, available at Bloomingdale's.
This story is on page 7:
SOLAR ENERGY HELD STILL DECADES AWAY
Panel Does Not Expect Major Shift Until Technology Is Ready for Conversion in Electricity
A panel of leading specialists, convened a year ago at the request of the White House to assess prospects for generating electric power from sunlight, has concluded that the ultimate prospects are "bright" but that for at least a decade the technology will not be sufficiently advanced to initiate a major conversion effort.
I understand that, but it sounds like the OP is looking for more than browser-based blocking.
You know as well as I do that his software would be better received if he maintained a web site for it and didn't treat Slashdot as his personal advertising site. When he posts 30+ wall-of-text advertisements in certain threads then his reputation gets diminished a bit. He is, by definition, a spammer, so people can be excused if they don't want to use a piece of "security software" advertised by a spammer, regardless of who else hosts or recommends it.