You just have to do \include{filename} for each of your separate files. It's not hard at all. Also, you shouldn't have to put your TOC in a separate file, because the only thing you need to automatically generate it is \tableofcontents in the main file.
Thx for the tip about putting the TOC in the main file. I did mention that I was a casual user, didn't I?:)
The last time that I tried the \include statement in Lyx, it still failed to pull it in cleanly and I couln't figure out why. I pulled my hair out for a couple days, then gave up and went back to Open Office. Too bad, as I was trying to set up an environment for someone who wanted a tool to write books in. I thought Lyx would be perfect for her.
I'll give Lyx a shot again and see if it does right, now. Unless you can recommend a better front end for the/casual/ user?
Most LaTeX distributions now give PDF output by default.
What about HTML or ODF? That would make it easier to resolve formatting for multiple destinations in one project a whole lot easier.
Actaully, yes, the Republican party did stand for those things 130+ years ago. They gave up on them 100+ years ago, yes. It just took some of us a long time to realise it.:(
Re:I'm a "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" user
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So, basically you're saying that you have the most impressive OS on the planet and the rest of us are simply idiots for not recognizing just how wonderful it is? Or are you saying that you have the best OS on the planet and your/glad/ that the rest of us haven't recognized that fact so we can't spoil your tiny playground?
Or is it that you hate the fact that an OS built "by amateurs, for amateurs" is somehow eating your lunch at every turn? Are you happy living with an addmittedly experimental OS that doesn't have 99% of the current applications ported to it so you are forced to VNC into a "lesser" OS just to be able to use a decent Web browser??
(shakes head in wonder) And people say Theo is a PITA!
Did it ever occur to you that if Plan 9 truly is that remarkable, a more inclusive, community building spirit might help lift it above Linux in no time? That is the true secret to Linux's continuing success, after all; Richard's and Linus's willingness to include everyone and every project who wishes to contribute. Otherwise you wouldn't have the ability to package a distribution so easily.
If it were simply a matter of being a better OS, OpenBSD would have flattened Linux a long time ago. Nope, Theo and company chased off contributors of all stripes with their collective incredibly elitist attitude a decade ago, and they still keep it up. Sounds to me like you guys took their attitude and inflated it by an order of magnitude.
Here's a clue: Want people to help out in adding functionality and apps? Start treating them decently and give them a reason to contribute.
Do you know why LaTeX has never had that much penetration? Because it's a PITA to do right. I've played around with it several times, but it just sucks for casual use. There doesn't seem to be a good way to blend various files easily without sacrificing the goat at midnight of the new moon, then carefully studying the entrails on your keyboard while holding your mouth just so.
Think I'm kidding? The easiest LaTeX front end that I've ever found is Lyx, and it suffers from an inability to properly merge style and text files. As long as you've got everything in one file, you're probably OK. God help you if you want to follow commonly accepted practice and build a book with separate title page, bibliography, index, TOC, and chapter files.
I'll grant you, if your only concern is printed output and you have the time to learn it, LaTeX does a fantastic job of layout. It sucks any time you have to create online content and printed content from the same information. When someone (finally!) figures out how to do that, let me know. Until then, I'll stick with OpenOffice's style sheets and WYSIWYG, thanks.
And back on topic, it's a hell of a lot easier to create an output format that one of these small houses will accept if you're using a tool that produces HTML, PDFs, and DOC formats. Outside the university press world, how many of these places would even know what LaTeX is?
Then you haven't been paying attention. There are a LOT of us. The problem is, as was mentioned at the top of this thread, we don't have a home. The Republican party has deserted its principles and the Democrats, God bless 'em, couldn't find their collective ass with both hands, a map, and a big neon sign saying "GRAB HERE".
Nope, politics in the US has clearly demonstrated that there is a complete failure of the two party system. I personally think we'd be a lot better off with a parlimentary one at this point. European politics don't seem to be as messed up as ours is lately. At least part of that has to be because everyone truly does get to have a voice in politics.
Well, you're both right. To many developers and investors, "rich user experience" seems to mean, "Let's re-invent the fat client using new(ish) technologies!" Thus, the abomination that is the overuse of Flash, misuse of AJAX to do everything, etc. I'm 90% sure that's the definition that the GP had in mind.
I'm not advocating that one should use GIMP for editing.raw files from a camera. Actually, I was replying to the implication that if you used GIMP, your problems dealing with proprietary formats are far from over since GIMP wants to save everything in/their/ proprietary format instead of something obvious. Like, oh, say, any published standard? Pick a winner. I don't care.
Re:The problem with the alternatives to PHP
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You're kidding, right?
I just did the same thing. There's a sidebar named "Using Python for..." on the right hand side. "Databases" is the second entry:
# Databases # ODBC, MySQL, Others
How much easier does it have to be to find?
Oh, wait. You don't like the fact that it links directly to the site for the plug-in, I take it. Too bad. If you had bothered to check the "Docs" link on the Sourceforge page, you would have seen a link to "How to Use MySQLdb", which states:
"MySQLdb is compliant with the Python Database API Specification version 2.0. You should become familar with this document before trying to use MySQLdb.
Additional HTML documentation is located in the doc directory of the source tarball. If you obtained MySQLdb/MySQL-python through a third-party vendor, they should have installed these files where they install other documentation. Typically this is in/usr/share/doc on most Linux distributions.
In addition, MySQLdb is documented using Python documentation standards. This documentation can be viewed using pydoc or the help function in recent versions of Python. Example:
>>> from pydoc import help # not needed for 2.2 or newer >>> help("MySQLdb")"
The reason that the "import help" statement isn't needed in >=2.2 is because it's embedded.:)
And anyone who uses tools that lock their data to the vendor's format without looking the tradeoffs deserves the lock-in that results. Now, if you go into it with your eyes open and brain engaged, you'll look for solutions that provide multiple avenues to export your data to standard formats. If you're serious about long term data preservation, how well that export occurs should be a key decision point. If you don't care, then don't whine when you can't get your old data to display in 10 or 15 years' time.
In fact, Mitre told them that they were already using FOSS so much that "...banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on many sensitive and security-focused DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks." (Quoting from the executive summary)
You can read the whole thing here. So, it's taken four years for the DoD to finally put in place an official policy encouraging the use of FOSS when the guys in the trenches have apparently been doing so routinely for about a decade. Typical.:)
I read recently that Amazon has been working hard to reduce fees for both buyers and sellers on their site. I think they've figured out that they can make more money by acting as an online marketplace than they can as a sole source for goods. Storage and transport are overhead, after all. It might be worth your while to look at them again if you haven't used them in a while.
There's also Barnes and Noble, too, btw. Not as large as Amazon, but they get their share of traffic.
I was swapping stupid user tricks with a TRW printer tech while we waited for parts to show up from his shop. This was back in the mid 80s, I think. He told me one that had me laughing so hard I was crying.
It seems that way back when, TRW had gotten into providing support contracts for people in small towns all over the Midwest. We were in the Twin Cities, and this guy's territory covered Minnesota, Iowa, and most of North and South Dakota. Anyhow, he gets this call from a lawyer's secretary somewhere in North Dakota.
It seems that no matter what she tried, she just couldn't seem to save her files to her 5 1/4" floppies. This was back in the days when many PCs were sold without any hard drive, so the loss of those floppies meant that she had no soft copies of her boss's correspondence. She didn't mind so much, as she was required to print out everything anyway. Still, she knew that if she could use those old letters as templates, she wouldn't have near as much work.
Well, the tech goes back and forth with her. No magnets nearby. No, she wasn't using magnets to stick them to the desk. (Don't laugh! I actually had a user do that to me!) No paper clips. None of the more usual or even unlikely problems that we all saw back then.
He even walked her through saving a file from Word Perfect, then verified that she could actually pull it back up. Everything seemed to check out fine.
Now, he doesn't want to drive to the far side of North Dakota unless he has to. It's a looong haul. So he has her send him one of the bad floppies so he can run it through some diagnostic software.
It shows up in a 3" mailer tube.
Think about that for a second. He had to explain it to me twice before I got what he was telling me.
He pulls the floppy out and unrolls it, but naturally by this time it's unreadable. He calls her up and asked her how it got that way. It seems that after she was done filling up a floppy, she would slap a blank label on it, slide over to the old IBM Selectric typewriter, roll the floppy in like a piece of paper, and fill in the label!
Twenty minutes of patient over the phone tutoring later, problem solved.:)
As American schools tend to concentrate on the preamble (fine, inspiring words that they are), and British schools tend to concentrate on the taxation issues, I thought it might be interesting to see what was actually published. Keep in mind that the Declaration's original purpose was to tell the rest of Europe why we were going our own way so that we could ask for help from England's enemies. At the time, the first real worldwide war was being fought, after all. The Continental Congress probably figured we could pick up some aid just because we'd be a distraction to England. Whether or not that actually played anywhere is open to question. I'd say not, with the exception of France. Even there, they waited a long time before they committed even a small part of their navy.
Anyhow, here's the full list of grievances from the Declaration itself:
The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introduci
Funny, the way that I read the parent post, he got a cast off work laptop that his company was getting rid of. Some places still do that, after all. In that case, the IS dep't probably wiped the HD before giving it away.
There's another option that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in this thread that has served me well more than once: If you get jerked around by the grunts in the trenches, go straight to the top. Find out the CEO's mailing address and send a polite, detailed letter describing the problem from your point of view. Obviously, the CEO won't deal with it directly, but when a letter gets forwarded from his office to whichever VP is in charge of customer relations, you're far more likely to see a positive outcome.
Does it work? Well, I got a brand new replacement 25 h.p. outboard motor for free once.:)
True. However, it's a heck of a leap from that statement to your previous one:
Most actual believers will believe and accept what they are told to believe and accept. And they will like it. And they will like making you accept it too.
That statement assumes a level of sheepleness that simply does not exist in the real world. If it did, we would not have something like 100 denominations of Christianity, some number of Jewish sects, two or three major Bhuddist splits, I don't know how many minor variations on the two major Islamic sects, animal worship, sun worship, etc. ad nauseum.
The real truth seems to me to be that rather than automatically assume that he has all the right answers, man has been constantly questioning his relationship with the universe and God. He has formulated literally hundreds of answers to that question based upon his observations and his theories of what they mean. Granted, lots of bloodshed has been spilled because one splinter group or another became convinced that they were only ones with the answer to the One True Way. However, they have also been vigorously resisted. That's why they're called wars, I suppose.;)
A passage from one of my favorite novels might help to illustrate the point that I'm trying to make:
"It seems, once again," he remarked lightly, "that I shall be forced to act in this world of sensation based on faith alone." The panther shrugged. "So be it."
"Nonsense," stated the hunter. "Faith alone? Nonsense!" He waved his hand, majestically dispelling uncertainty.
"We have philosophy, man, philosophy!"
A great grin erupted on the hunter's face, blazing in the gloom of the forest like a beacon.
"I have heard that you are a student of philosophy yourself."
The panther nodded.
The grin was almost blinding.
"Well then! This matter of the soul is not so difficult, after all. Not, at least, if we begin with the simple truth that the ever-changing flux of reality is nothing but the shadow cast upon our consciousness by deep, underlying, unchanging, and eternal Forms."
The panther's eyes narrowed to slits. The treasure of his soul in captivity--bound for the lust of the beast--a furious battle ahead, a desperate flight from pursuit, a stratagem born of myth, and this--this--this half-naked outlandish barbarian--this--this--
"I've never encountered such blather in my life!" roared the panther. "Childish prattle!" The tail lashed. "Outright cretinism!"
Furiously, he stirred the fire to life.
"No, no, my good man, you're utterly befuddled on this matter. Maya--the veil of illusion which you so inelegantly call the ever-changing flux of apparent reality--is nothing. Not a shadow--nothing. To call such a void by the name of shadow would imply--"
The panther broke off.
"But I am being rude. I have not inquired your name."
"Ousanas." The black man spread his hand in a questioning gesture. "Perhaps I introduced the topic at an inappropriate time. There is a princess to be rescued, assassinations to commit, a pursuit to be misled, subterfuges to be deepened, ruses developed, stratagems unfolded--all of this, based on nothing more than a vision. Perhaps--"
"Nonsense!"
"Shakuntala will keep," he pronounced, waving his hand imperiously. "As I never tire of explaining to that beloved if headstrong girl: only the soul matters, in the end. Now, as to that, it should be obvious at first glance--even to you--that the existence of the soul presupposes the One. And the One, by its very nature, must be indivisible. That said--"
"Ridiculous!" growled Ousanas. "Such a One--silly term, that; treacherous, even, from the standpoint of logic, for it presupposes the very thing which must be proved--can itself only--"
When a guy sleeps with your wife, he is not only doing real emotional harm to you, but there is a good chance you might end up raising a child that is not your own. In the United States, anywhere from 10-30% of fathers unwittingly raise children that are not their own. In other words, the mothers were sleeping around, and very often you can't tell if a child belongs to a particular father, until much later on in life if the skin color of biological father and the cuckholded father are the same.
Can you cite any credible evidence to support your claims? Especially in this day of easily available birth control and STD prevention (which has the side effect of also acting as birth control)?
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Thx for the tip about putting the TOC in the main file. I did mention that I was a casual user, didn't I?
The last time that I tried the \include statement in Lyx, it still failed to pull it in cleanly and I couln't figure out why. I pulled my hair out for a couple days, then gave up and went back to Open Office. Too bad, as I was trying to set up an environment for someone who wanted a tool to write books in. I thought Lyx would be perfect for her.
I'll give Lyx a shot again and see if it does right, now. Unless you can recommend a better front end for the
What about HTML or ODF? That would make it easier to resolve formatting for multiple destinations in one project a whole lot easier.
Actaully, yes, the Republican party did stand for those things 130+ years ago. They gave up on them 100+ years ago, yes. It just took some of us a long time to realise it. :(
So, basically you're saying that you have the most impressive OS on the planet and the rest of us are simply idiots for not recognizing just how wonderful it is? Or are you saying that you have the best OS on the planet and your /glad/ that the rest of us haven't recognized that fact so we can't spoil your tiny playground?
Or is it that you hate the fact that an OS built "by amateurs, for amateurs" is somehow eating your lunch at every turn? Are you happy living with an addmittedly experimental OS that doesn't have 99% of the current applications ported to it so you are forced to VNC into a "lesser" OS just to be able to use a decent Web browser??
(shakes head in wonder) And people say Theo is a PITA!
Did it ever occur to you that if Plan 9 truly is that remarkable, a more inclusive, community building spirit might help lift it above Linux in no time? That is the true secret to Linux's continuing success, after all; Richard's and Linus's willingness to include everyone and every project who wishes to contribute. Otherwise you wouldn't have the ability to package a distribution so easily.
If it were simply a matter of being a better OS, OpenBSD would have flattened Linux a long time ago. Nope, Theo and company chased off contributors of all stripes with their collective incredibly elitist attitude a decade ago, and they still keep it up. Sounds to me like you guys took their attitude and inflated it by an order of magnitude.
Here's a clue: Want people to help out in adding functionality and apps? Start treating them decently and give them a reason to contribute.
Do you know why LaTeX has never had that much penetration? Because it's a PITA to do right. I've played around with it several times, but it just sucks for casual use. There doesn't seem to be a good way to blend various files easily without sacrificing the goat at midnight of the new moon, then carefully studying the entrails on your keyboard while holding your mouth just so.
Think I'm kidding? The easiest LaTeX front end that I've ever found is Lyx, and it suffers from an inability to properly merge style and text files. As long as you've got everything in one file, you're probably OK. God help you if you want to follow commonly accepted practice and build a book with separate title page, bibliography, index, TOC, and chapter files.
I'll grant you, if your only concern is printed output and you have the time to learn it, LaTeX does a fantastic job of layout. It sucks any time you have to create online content and printed content from the same information. When someone (finally!) figures out how to do that, let me know. Until then, I'll stick with OpenOffice's style sheets and WYSIWYG, thanks.
And back on topic, it's a hell of a lot easier to create an output format that one of these small houses will accept if you're using a tool that produces HTML, PDFs, and DOC formats. Outside the university press world, how many of these places would even know what LaTeX is?
Then you haven't been paying attention. There are a LOT of us. The problem is, as was mentioned at the top of this thread, we don't have a home. The Republican party has deserted its principles and the Democrats, God bless 'em, couldn't find their collective ass with both hands, a map, and a big neon sign saying "GRAB HERE".
Nope, politics in the US has clearly demonstrated that there is a complete failure of the two party system. I personally think we'd be a lot better off with a parlimentary one at this point. European politics don't seem to be as messed up as ours is lately. At least part of that has to be because everyone truly does get to have a voice in politics.
Well, you're both right. To many developers and investors, "rich user experience" seems to mean, "Let's re-invent the fat client using new(ish) technologies!" Thus, the abomination that is the overuse of Flash, misuse of AJAX to do everything, etc. I'm 90% sure that's the definition that the GP had in mind.
I'm not advocating that one should use GIMP for editing .raw files from a camera. Actually, I was replying to the implication that if you used GIMP, your problems dealing with proprietary formats are far from over since GIMP wants to save everything in /their/ proprietary format instead of something obvious. Like, oh, say, any published standard? Pick a winner. I don't care.
You're kidding, right?
/usr/share/doc on most Linux distributions.
:)
I just did the same thing. There's a sidebar named "Using Python for..." on the right hand side. "Databases" is the second entry:
# Databases
# ODBC, MySQL, Others
How much easier does it have to be to find?
Oh, wait. You don't like the fact that it links directly to the site for the plug-in, I take it. Too bad. If you had bothered to check the "Docs" link on the Sourceforge page, you would have seen a link to "How to Use MySQLdb", which states:
"MySQLdb is compliant with the Python Database API Specification version 2.0. You should become familar with this document before trying to use MySQLdb.
Additional HTML documentation is located in the doc directory of the source tarball. If you obtained MySQLdb/MySQL-python through a third-party vendor, they should have installed these files where they install other documentation. Typically this is in
In addition, MySQLdb is documented using Python documentation standards. This documentation can be viewed using pydoc or the help function in recent versions of Python. Example:
>>> from pydoc import help # not needed for 2.2 or newer
>>> help("MySQLdb")"
The reason that the "import help" statement isn't needed in >=2.2 is because it's embedded.
And anyone who uses tools that lock their data to the vendor's format without looking the tradeoffs deserves the lock-in that results. Now, if you go into it with your eyes open and brain engaged, you'll look for solutions that provide multiple avenues to export your data to standard formats. If you're serious about long term data preservation, how well that export occurs should be a key decision point. If you don't care, then don't whine when you can't get your old data to display in 10 or 15 years' time.
In fact, Mitre told them that they were already using FOSS so much that "...banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on many sensitive and security-focused DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks." (Quoting from the executive summary)
:)
You can read the whole thing here. So, it's taken four years for the DoD to finally put in place an official policy encouraging the use of FOSS when the guys in the trenches have apparently been doing so routinely for about a decade. Typical.
Nope, that's really what it is. Wild, huh?
Whooooosh!
I read recently that Amazon has been working hard to reduce fees for both buyers and sellers on their site. I think they've figured out that they can make more money by acting as an online marketplace than they can as a sole source for goods. Storage and transport are overhead, after all. It might be worth your while to look at them again if you haven't used them in a while.
There's also Barnes and Noble, too, btw. Not as large as Amazon, but they get their share of traffic.
I was swapping stupid user tricks with a TRW printer tech while we waited for parts to show up from his shop. This was back in the mid 80s, I think. He told me one that had me laughing so hard I was crying.
:)
It seems that way back when, TRW had gotten into providing support contracts for people in small towns all over the Midwest. We were in the Twin Cities, and this guy's territory covered Minnesota, Iowa, and most of North and South Dakota. Anyhow, he gets this call from a lawyer's secretary somewhere in North Dakota.
It seems that no matter what she tried, she just couldn't seem to save her files to her 5 1/4" floppies. This was back in the days when many PCs were sold without any hard drive, so the loss of those floppies meant that she had no soft copies of her boss's correspondence. She didn't mind so much, as she was required to print out everything anyway. Still, she knew that if she could use those old letters as templates, she wouldn't have near as much work.
Well, the tech goes back and forth with her. No magnets nearby. No, she wasn't using magnets to stick them to the desk. (Don't laugh! I actually had a user do that to me!) No paper clips. None of the more usual or even unlikely problems that we all saw back then.
He even walked her through saving a file from Word Perfect, then verified that she could actually pull it back up. Everything seemed to check out fine.
Now, he doesn't want to drive to the far side of North Dakota unless he has to. It's a looong haul. So he has her send him one of the bad floppies so he can run it through some diagnostic software.
It shows up in a 3" mailer tube.
Think about that for a second. He had to explain it to me twice before I got what he was telling me.
He pulls the floppy out and unrolls it, but naturally by this time it's unreadable. He calls her up and asked her how it got that way. It seems that after she was done filling up a floppy, she would slap a blank label on it, slide over to the old IBM Selectric typewriter, roll the floppy in like a piece of paper, and fill in the label!
Twenty minutes of patient over the phone tutoring later, problem solved.
As American schools tend to concentrate on the preamble (fine, inspiring words that they are), and British schools tend to concentrate on the taxation issues, I thought it might be interesting to see what was actually published. Keep in mind that the Declaration's original purpose was to tell the rest of Europe why we were going our own way so that we could ask for help from England's enemies. At the time, the first real worldwide war was being fought, after all. The Continental Congress probably figured we could pick up some aid just because we'd be a distraction to England. Whether or not that actually played anywhere is open to question. I'd say not, with the exception of France. Even there, they waited a long time before they committed even a small part of their navy.
Anyhow, here's the full list of grievances from the Declaration itself:
The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introduci
Funny, the way that I read the parent post, he got a cast off work laptop that his company was getting rid of. Some places still do that, after all. In that case, the IS dep't probably wiped the HD before giving it away.
How about Serious Sam? :)
Wide open spaces.
There's another option that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in this thread that has served me well more than once: If you get jerked around by the grunts in the trenches, go straight to the top. Find out the CEO's mailing address and send a polite, detailed letter describing the problem from your point of view. Obviously, the CEO won't deal with it directly, but when a letter gets forwarded from his office to whichever VP is in charge of customer relations, you're far more likely to see a positive outcome.
:)
Does it work? Well, I got a brand new replacement 25 h.p. outboard motor for free once.
D'oh! Meant to reply to the parent. Sorry. :)
Apparently you're not a black man living in Chicago. or Las Vegas. Or Los Angeles. or any major metro area in the US. Or any small town.
Or a Latino living in any of the same cities.
Or a practicing Muslim attempting to pray in public.
True. However, it's a heck of a leap from that statement to your previous one:
That statement assumes a level of sheepleness that simply does not exist in the real world. If it did, we would not have something like 100 denominations of Christianity, some number of Jewish sects, two or three major Bhuddist splits, I don't know how many minor variations on the two major Islamic sects, animal worship, sun worship, etc. ad nauseum.
;)
The real truth seems to me to be that rather than automatically assume that he has all the right answers, man has been constantly questioning his relationship with the universe and God. He has formulated literally hundreds of answers to that question based upon his observations and his theories of what they mean. Granted, lots of bloodshed has been spilled because one splinter group or another became convinced that they were only ones with the answer to the One True Way. However, they have also been vigorously resisted. That's why they're called wars, I suppose.
A passage from one of my favorite novels might help to illustrate the point that I'm trying to make:
Sorry. I must have somehow replied to the wrong thread. My mistake.
Can you cite any credible evidence to support your claims? Especially in this day of easily available birth control and STD prevention (which has the side effect of also acting as birth control)?
And you probably never will. :(