It's not your job to enforce the speed limit, it's the job of the police.
It's exactly this kind of thinking which necessitates having police at all. In a proper society police ought to be nothing more than a faint rumor from far-away lands, the very notion of which a proper free people spit upon with disgust.
You see, in a good and proper society, when one is being an asshat, those around him take the responsibility to walk up and say "stop being an asshat." If the person continues to be an asshat, they soon cease to be a member of that society through one means or another.
M-Audio has some great hardware. They are owned by Avvid, which is also the parent company of DigiDesigns, known for their professional interfaces and ProTools (Note that you can also get ProTools M-Powered, which is the same software but works with M-Audio interfaces instead of DigiDesigns interfaces). Edirol gear is also DEFINATELY worth looking into. I've done quite a bit with an Edirol UA-25 USB interface. It's inexpensive and has GREAT sound, provides full 48v phantom power, etc. Also, Roland helped write the specs for USB-Audio, so the Edirol is probably one of the most standards-compliant USB interfaces on the market (Edirol is a Roland brand). For anyone interested, the Edirol UA-25 *does* work out of the box on Linux. I haven't tested the M-Audio stuff so I couldn't say for sure, but it likely does too.
In the interest of full disclosure, I manage a store which is a dealer for Roland/Edirol and soon to be a dealer for M-Audio as well. I haven't decided yet which I'm going to buy for myself. Possibly both.
My phone doesn't have such a switch. My phone has a rotary dial. If I want a 5, I stick my finger in the hole above the "5," and I spin the rotary dial clockwise till it hits the little metal hook and stops. When I release it, it spins backwards and clicks 5 times into the phone line. This is how I dial when using my home phone (obviously my cell phone is not rotary dial). So you see, it really *isn't* always that easy.
Are you so passionate about your belief in evolution that you failed to notice that I *never stated* what my beliefs on the matter are? For all you know I might agree with you 100%, but because I didn't say that, you blindly launch into a tirade about why you're right and I'm wrong. Sure, evolutionary changes *could* add up over millions of years to become something else. And a supreme being *could* create everything from scratch exactly how he wants. I did not state which I believe. For all you know I *could* believe in some combination of the two, or neither one, or I could have no idea *what* I believe.
The debate about creation vs. evolution is almost entirely a religious one as far as I can tell. Those who believe that everything was created can not show me things being created. Those who believe everything evolved from lesser forms of life can not show me things evolving from lesser forms of life. In other words, both sides rely entirely on faith in *something.* Both sides have scientific things they point to in an attempt to "prove" their side is right, but neither is able to do so, because neither can go back and _observe_ what actually happened when life was formed.
So-called micro-evolution, however, can be observed in day to day life. This micro-evolution is shown in things like certain colors of moth becoming greater in numbers while a different color decreases in numbers, because one is more visible to its predators. Basic survival of the fittest is a common-sense principle which can be shown all throughout the world. Very few people will argue that.
Next month I will be working 90-100 hours a week, because it is our busy month. Being a store manager, I make commission only. I also have to pay my employees out of my paycheck. I make about 24k/year (at least that's what I made last year). Now, certainly this probably breaks some labor law, but so far I haven't found a replacement job, so I stay. I *am* beginning to consider McD's and other fast food manager positions, and Starbucks, cause not much could be worse for the pay/hours as what I'm doing now.
This whole "Chinese people are working 60 hrs/wk plus overtime!" "outrage" is not really that bad. Sure they may not make a lot, but do they pay for housing or does the company? Do they pay for medical care or does the company (or government)? Do they pay for food or does the company have a cafeteria of some sort? Do they pay for fuel or do they live right there where they can walk to work easily? So yeah... they have crappy pay by our standards. But their cost of living is much much MUCH lower as well. With my $24k/year, I'd live like royalty if I was there. Here I live like a pauper.
Please sir, stay right where you are. The unmarked black vehicles will be pulling into your driveway any moment now. Do not struggle, they are coming to help you. You will soon realize how misguided your view of your government is. They are your friends. They are only protecting you from the evil that roams outside. It is in your best interest to do as they say. They care about you. They love you. You love them. If you do not realize it now, you will soon. Now please hold still for this injection. That's right. It's for your good. And for the children. That's right... think of the children. You want them to look up to you don't you? That's right... be a good role model for society. Show the children how much you love your government. Let them know how much their government loves them. The fighting Afghanistan and Iraq was about the Terrorists. The fighting in Iran will be about the Terrorists. You don't want the children living in terror do you?
Unfortunately that's only a solution if Adobe actually pays attention to those feature requests. I'm sure they've been getting lots of them for some time (like ever since Linux users got the shaft on Flash Player 8), but there still seems to be no progress. At least they finally released a stable version of FP 7. I was having tons of crashes using FP7 under Mozilla before version 7.0.63.0 came out (in March I think it was). That release seems to be stable, at least for the most part.
One major difference between VisiCalc's successors and Mosaic's successors is that the successors to Mosaic were all pretty much built off of Mosaic code. Both IE and earlier Netscape versions have references to NCSA Mosaic in their copyright notices. Strangely, I don't see any explicit reference to it in Mozilla's About: page.
Aside from that, is WMA such an issue? I mean, now we got flash video players that are platform agnostic...
While having a Flash Player available for every platform would be a solution to the whole media distribution issue, let's face it... this isn't likely to happen soon.
Right now, Linux users are stuck with Flash Player 7.0.63.0. That's right... no version 8 or 9 has come out yet, and there's no official comment about when such a player might even be available. Also, right now there's no x86-64 version of Flash Player (even for Windows). So if you have an x86-64 system, you have to either run in 32-bit mode or go without Flash Player. Then consider the poor saps running Linux on an x86-64 system. How soon do you think they'll be supported? I for one am not holding my breath.
On a completely unrelated note, why the heck does Windows not copy when a person highlights? Or paste with a middle-button click? grr. I'm frustrated. These control+key combinations seem so... antiquated.
Did you read the article? He specifically mentions VisiCalc, and also states WHY he decided Excel should be on the list and NOT VisiCalc. From the article:
For software to be considered a success, it has to be up to handling the job it was created to do.
That axiom certainly applies to VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software. It's great because it demonstrated the power of personal computing. The software put the ability to analyze and manipulate huge amounts of data into the hands of every business. But VisiCalc itself, despite representing a breakthrough concept, wasn't great software. It was flawed and clunky, and couldn't do many things users wanted it to do. The great implementation of the spreadsheet was not VisiCalc or even Lotus 1-2-3 but Microsoft Excel, which extended the spreadsheet's power and gave businesspeople a variety of calculating tools. Microsoft's claims that it makes great software are open to dispute, but the Excel spreadsheet is here to stay. Nearly everyone is touched by it.
See, there was more thought put into this than you may realize.
A couple years ago (July 2003) I took a domestic flight within Argentina. There was no security whatsoever. My group showed up at the airport, showed our tickets, climbed on board the plane and flew to Buenos Aires (we did have to go through the usual BS when boarding the connecting flight back to the US). It was GREAT. I would gladly pay an extra $50 to be able to do the same here in the US. As I see it, if someone wants to blow up the plane I'm riding on badly enough, they'll do it. No amount of inconvenience to me from stupid security checkpoints is going to prevent someone from blowing me out of the sky, so why go through the hassle in the first place? Let me carry my knife on and I'll help defend from hijackers. Better yet let me carry my gun on. I carry it pretty much every waking minute on the ground, why not in the sky? I'd have no problem whatsoever with half the plane being armed to the teeth. In my opinion, planes should be just like a bus... you pay your fare, you climb on board, you travel to your destination and climb back off. You tip your hat to the driver and say, "thanks for the ride."
Ultimately, if you don't like it, you haven't got any options other than to not use it.
Sure you do. Get a fake fingerprint (thin silicon tip on your fingers). Give the same one to all your friends and family. Pretty soon they see 20 or 30 people with the same finger-ID coming through their system. This causes much bug-hunting and cost increase and general head-scratching, and eventually the system goes away. If you don't like the system, confuse the hell out of it.
All of my servers have onboard video. On most, it's called/dev/ttyS0. Works great. Doesn't need even 2 MB of mem. Doesn't seem to slow stuff down at all. ymmv.
You, twinkie, seem to be confused about what "cause" entails. What you describe is simple correlation. The fact that there is a correlation in two events in no way makes one event causative of the other. You see, it's possible that the cause of secession was abolition. It's also possible that the cause of abolition was secession. It's also possible that the cause of secession was states getting sick of bullshit from the feds, and the cause of abolition was feds wanting to assert their dominance over the states. There are other possibilities as well. Do not assume anything political has a simple cause. Doing so labels you a product of the gulag that the truly learned call publik indoktrination and the rest of the sheeple call public education.
Umm... excuse me? Who's misrepresenting? The results of the 2nd count (first recount) places ROSSI ahead by 42 votes. Not GregoireTheBitch. And yes, GTB won the second recount by 129 votes. After King County dredged up enough ballots from who knows what house of fraud. What was it in all, 10,000 "misplaced" ballots that were found in King County after the first count, and then thrown into the lot? Ballots that could not be proven valid?
The whole thing's a mess. Fucking revote already. And let's get it right this time, eh folks?
Simple.. if you don't need to save it in an editable version, use "Print to File" option. This'll save you a nice postscript copy on your hard drive. Then print out one for the IRS and one for any hard copy files you keep around. Problem solved.
I have to say, 192Kbps Xing truly is awful. The Xing encoder is incredibly fast (at least I remember it being pretty fast... been a long time since I used it), but incredibly bad sounding. On the other hand, something like 192Kbps MP3 encoded with LAME using joint-stereo sounds much much better, and in my opinion is generally perfectly listenable, especially on lower-end audio hardware (ie normal computer speakers, or in my truck where I have a great stereo but it's competing with lots of road noise).
I see our Publik Skool System hsa trained you well to simply say "theeese authoritys, they knows bestess for meesir.. meesir will bend over and takes it up mees ass cuzz thats the goodest thing for mees." Seriously, anyone who just sits back and takes that kind of crap from their employees is asking for trouble all throughout life. And yes, I said employees. Do not be confused... your professer should be considered your EMPLOYEE. You are the one paying, they are the one receiving money. Do not let them trample you.
Hence, he is an ass, and a failure as a teacher/prof. As many others have said, if the whole class fails, there's something wrong with the teacher. This is something everyone should be furious about, as the only thing worse then paying way too much for a pompous arrogant asshole to teach you, is paying way too much for a pompous arrogant asshole to fail your whole class, destroy your GPA, possibly lose any scholarships you have, and make your life hell, all while teaching you.
This should definately be taken up with the dean of students or someone in a similar position. A prof who fails an entire class is not a hard prof, they're an unreasonable ass and should be treated as such.
I fully understand how the internet sales tax thing works currently. There has been much talk of changing that, and from the wording of the initial message (about this mattering to online merchants) I thought perhaps someone was finally about to do something about it. But yerright, this is one article I didn't read (cause I didn't care that much).
Well... let me tell you. When was the last time you needed some specialty product, and needed it right away? How did you get it? Did you order it online? No? It would've taken 3 days to a week to get it, or cost an extra $20 plus in shipping? Or you needed it RIGHT THEN and couldn't even wait a day? Ok. So you went to your local shop that sells that sort of specialty product (whatever it might've been... computer hardware, musical gear, electronics, auto parts, tools, whatever).
Now, let me tell you (as the manager of a small retail store), internet sales are killing small businesses left and right because of a couple things. One is the low overhead, the other, and probably one of the primary reasons, is the lack of sales taxes. The lack of sales tax alone means a savings of 8.8% to people living near my store in Washington state.
If this insanity continues, next time you need that little item "RIGHT NOW," you aren't going to be able to get it. Why? Because the only place left to go will be online, where you will be buying from somewhere across the country and won't possibly be able to get it for at least a day or two.
Personally, I'm all for taxation of internet sales. I really think they should have an equal or greater sales tax rate compared with any brick-and-mortar retailer. I do agree that there shouldn't be a tax on internet access however.
These people exist, and I've had to deal with them. Quite frankly, they aren't worth the time and effort I've had to put into them, and I wish I had a way of saying nope, I'm sorry, but you have a long history of being a jackass and I'm not going to help you.
I've had to deal with this type of person at my work also. Nice thing is, I'm now a store manager and I *do* have the right to turn down rental customers or simply refuse to help someone if they have a history of being a jackass.
One important thing to remember as a retail worker: You DO have the right to refuse service to people. If they threaten you or treat you rudely, ask them to leave. If they refuse, you have every right to call the cops and have them removed. If they threaten you at all, you can also have them charged with assault (I believe it's called "assault in the 4th degree" or "verbal assault" in most states).
Yes, that used to be true... but that page is fairly badly outdated. If you follow the link to David Cantrell's site, you will find this: "Please note: I do not work for Slackware anymore (technically BSDi or Walnut Creek CDROM)."
Looking at Chris Lumens' site, he hardly mentions anything about slackware at all, other than to say his server runs slackware -current. So while Slackware used to have a few employees, I believe when it was split off and once again became its own entity it went back to being just Patrick. It still (to the best of my knowledge) remains the only commercial Linux distro which has always been profitable.
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It's not your job to enforce the speed limit, it's the job of the police.
It's exactly this kind of thinking which necessitates having police at all. In a proper society police ought to be nothing more than a faint rumor from far-away lands, the very notion of which a proper free people spit upon with disgust.
You see, in a good and proper society, when one is being an asshat, those around him take the responsibility to walk up and say "stop being an asshat." If the person continues to be an asshat, they soon cease to be a member of that society through one means or another.
M-Audio has some great hardware. They are owned by Avvid, which is also the parent company of DigiDesigns, known for their professional interfaces and ProTools (Note that you can also get ProTools M-Powered, which is the same software but works with M-Audio interfaces instead of DigiDesigns interfaces). Edirol gear is also DEFINATELY worth looking into. I've done quite a bit with an Edirol UA-25 USB interface. It's inexpensive and has GREAT sound, provides full 48v phantom power, etc. Also, Roland helped write the specs for USB-Audio, so the Edirol is probably one of the most standards-compliant USB interfaces on the market (Edirol is a Roland brand). For anyone interested, the Edirol UA-25 *does* work out of the box on Linux. I haven't tested the M-Audio stuff so I couldn't say for sure, but it likely does too.
In the interest of full disclosure, I manage a store which is a dealer for Roland/Edirol and soon to be a dealer for M-Audio as well. I haven't decided yet which I'm going to buy for myself. Possibly both.
My phone doesn't have such a switch. My phone has a rotary dial. If I want a 5, I stick my finger in the hole above the "5," and I spin the rotary dial clockwise till it hits the little metal hook and stops. When I release it, it spins backwards and clicks 5 times into the phone line. This is how I dial when using my home phone (obviously my cell phone is not rotary dial). So you see, it really *isn't* always that easy.
Are you so passionate about your belief in evolution that you failed to notice that I *never stated* what my beliefs on the matter are? For all you know I might agree with you 100%, but because I didn't say that, you blindly launch into a tirade about why you're right and I'm wrong. Sure, evolutionary changes *could* add up over millions of years to become something else. And a supreme being *could* create everything from scratch exactly how he wants. I did not state which I believe. For all you know I *could* believe in some combination of the two, or neither one, or I could have no idea *what* I believe.
The debate about creation vs. evolution is almost entirely a religious one as far as I can tell. Those who believe that everything was created can not show me things being created. Those who believe everything evolved from lesser forms of life can not show me things evolving from lesser forms of life. In other words, both sides rely entirely on faith in *something.* Both sides have scientific things they point to in an attempt to "prove" their side is right, but neither is able to do so, because neither can go back and _observe_ what actually happened when life was formed.
So-called micro-evolution, however, can be observed in day to day life. This micro-evolution is shown in things like certain colors of moth becoming greater in numbers while a different color decreases in numbers, because one is more visible to its predators. Basic survival of the fittest is a common-sense principle which can be shown all throughout the world. Very few people will argue that.
Next month I will be working 90-100 hours a week, because it is our busy month. Being a store manager, I make commission only. I also have to pay my employees out of my paycheck. I make about 24k/year (at least that's what I made last year). Now, certainly this probably breaks some labor law, but so far I haven't found a replacement job, so I stay. I *am* beginning to consider McD's and other fast food manager positions, and Starbucks, cause not much could be worse for the pay/hours as what I'm doing now.
This whole "Chinese people are working 60 hrs/wk plus overtime!" "outrage" is not really that bad. Sure they may not make a lot, but do they pay for housing or does the company? Do they pay for medical care or does the company (or government)? Do they pay for food or does the company have a cafeteria of some sort? Do they pay for fuel or do they live right there where they can walk to work easily? So yeah... they have crappy pay by our standards. But their cost of living is much much MUCH lower as well. With my $24k/year, I'd live like royalty if I was there. Here I live like a pauper.
Please sir, stay right where you are. The unmarked black vehicles will be pulling into your driveway any moment now. Do not struggle, they are coming to help you. You will soon realize how misguided your view of your government is. They are your friends. They are only protecting you from the evil that roams outside. It is in your best interest to do as they say. They care about you. They love you. You love them. If you do not realize it now, you will soon. Now please hold still for this injection. That's right. It's for your good. And for the children. That's right... think of the children. You want them to look up to you don't you? That's right... be a good role model for society. Show the children how much you love your government. Let them know how much their government loves them. The fighting Afghanistan and Iraq was about the Terrorists. The fighting in Iran will be about the Terrorists. You don't want the children living in terror do you?
Unfortunately that's only a solution if Adobe actually pays attention to those feature requests. I'm sure they've been getting lots of them for some time (like ever since Linux users got the shaft on Flash Player 8), but there still seems to be no progress. At least they finally released a stable version of FP 7. I was having tons of crashes using FP7 under Mozilla before version 7.0.63.0 came out (in March I think it was). That release seems to be stable, at least for the most part.
One major difference between VisiCalc's successors and Mosaic's successors is that the successors to Mosaic were all pretty much built off of Mosaic code. Both IE and earlier Netscape versions have references to NCSA Mosaic in their copyright notices. Strangely, I don't see any explicit reference to it in Mozilla's About: page.
Aside from that, is WMA such an issue? I mean, now we got flash video players that are platform agnostic...
While having a Flash Player available for every platform would be a solution to the whole media distribution issue, let's face it... this isn't likely to happen soon.
Right now, Linux users are stuck with Flash Player 7.0.63.0. That's right... no version 8 or 9 has come out yet, and there's no official comment about when such a player might even be available. Also, right now there's no x86-64 version of Flash Player (even for Windows). So if you have an x86-64 system, you have to either run in 32-bit mode or go without Flash Player. Then consider the poor saps running Linux on an x86-64 system. How soon do you think they'll be supported? I for one am not holding my breath.
On a completely unrelated note, why the heck does Windows not copy when a person highlights? Or paste with a middle-button click? grr. I'm frustrated. These control+key combinations seem so... antiquated.
Did you read the article? He specifically mentions VisiCalc, and also states WHY he decided Excel should be on the list and NOT VisiCalc. From the article:
For software to be considered a success, it has to be up to handling the job it was created to do.
That axiom certainly applies to VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software. It's great because it demonstrated the power of personal computing. The software put the ability to analyze and manipulate huge amounts of data into the hands of every business. But VisiCalc itself, despite representing a breakthrough concept, wasn't great software. It was flawed and clunky, and couldn't do many things users wanted it to do. The great implementation of the spreadsheet was not VisiCalc or even Lotus 1-2-3 but Microsoft Excel, which extended the spreadsheet's power and gave businesspeople a variety of calculating tools. Microsoft's claims that it makes great software are open to dispute, but the Excel spreadsheet is here to stay. Nearly everyone is touched by it.
See, there was more thought put into this than you may realize.
A couple years ago (July 2003) I took a domestic flight within Argentina. There was no security whatsoever. My group showed up at the airport, showed our tickets, climbed on board the plane and flew to Buenos Aires (we did have to go through the usual BS when boarding the connecting flight back to the US). It was GREAT. I would gladly pay an extra $50 to be able to do the same here in the US. As I see it, if someone wants to blow up the plane I'm riding on badly enough, they'll do it. No amount of inconvenience to me from stupid security checkpoints is going to prevent someone from blowing me out of the sky, so why go through the hassle in the first place? Let me carry my knife on and I'll help defend from hijackers. Better yet let me carry my gun on. I carry it pretty much every waking minute on the ground, why not in the sky? I'd have no problem whatsoever with half the plane being armed to the teeth. In my opinion, planes should be just like a bus... you pay your fare, you climb on board, you travel to your destination and climb back off. You tip your hat to the driver and say, "thanks for the ride."
Ultimately, if you don't like it, you haven't got any options other than to not use it.
Sure you do. Get a fake fingerprint (thin silicon tip on your fingers). Give the same one to all your friends and family. Pretty soon they see 20 or 30 people with the same finger-ID coming through their system. This causes much bug-hunting and cost increase and general head-scratching, and eventually the system goes away. If you don't like the system, confuse the hell out of it.
All of my servers have onboard video. On most, it's called /dev/ttyS0. Works great. Doesn't need even 2 MB of mem. Doesn't seem to slow stuff down at all. ymmv.
Ergo, the cause of Secession was...
You, twinkie, seem to be confused about what "cause" entails. What you describe is simple correlation. The fact that there is a correlation in two events in no way makes one event causative of the other. You see, it's possible that the cause of secession was abolition. It's also possible that the cause of abolition was secession. It's also possible that the cause of secession was states getting sick of bullshit from the feds, and the cause of abolition was feds wanting to assert their dominance over the states. There are other possibilities as well. Do not assume anything political has a simple cause. Doing so labels you a product of the gulag that the truly learned call publik indoktrination and the rest of the sheeple call public education.
Umm... excuse me? Who's misrepresenting? The results of the 2nd count (first recount) places ROSSI ahead by 42 votes. Not GregoireTheBitch. And yes, GTB won the second recount by 129 votes. After King County dredged up enough ballots from who knows what house of fraud. What was it in all, 10,000 "misplaced" ballots that were found in King County after the first count, and then thrown into the lot? Ballots that could not be proven valid?
The whole thing's a mess. Fucking revote already. And let's get it right this time, eh folks?
Simple.. if you don't need to save it in an editable version, use "Print to File" option. This'll save you a nice postscript copy on your hard drive. Then print out one for the IRS and one for any hard copy files you keep around. Problem solved.
I have to say, 192Kbps Xing truly is awful. The Xing encoder is incredibly fast (at least I remember it being pretty fast... been a long time since I used it), but incredibly bad sounding. On the other hand, something like 192Kbps MP3 encoded with LAME using joint-stereo sounds much much better, and in my opinion is generally perfectly listenable, especially on lower-end audio hardware (ie normal computer speakers, or in my truck where I have a great stereo but it's competing with lots of road noise).
I see our Publik Skool System hsa trained you well to simply say "theeese authoritys, they knows bestess for meesir.. meesir will bend over and takes it up mees ass cuzz thats the goodest thing for mees." Seriously, anyone who just sits back and takes that kind of crap from their employees is asking for trouble all throughout life. And yes, I said employees. Do not be confused... your professer should be considered your EMPLOYEE. You are the one paying, they are the one receiving money. Do not let them trample you.
Hence, he is an ass, and a failure as a teacher/prof. As many others have said, if the whole class fails, there's something wrong with the teacher. This is something everyone should be furious about, as the only thing worse then paying way too much for a pompous arrogant asshole to teach you, is paying way too much for a pompous arrogant asshole to fail your whole class, destroy your GPA, possibly lose any scholarships you have, and make your life hell, all while teaching you.
This should definately be taken up with the dean of students or someone in a similar position. A prof who fails an entire class is not a hard prof, they're an unreasonable ass and should be treated as such.
I fully understand how the internet sales tax thing works currently. There has been much talk of changing that, and from the wording of the initial message (about this mattering to online merchants) I thought perhaps someone was finally about to do something about it. But yerright, this is one article I didn't read (cause I didn't care that much).
How would we benefit from an internet tax?
Well... let me tell you. When was the last time you needed some specialty product, and needed it right away? How did you get it? Did you order it online? No? It would've taken 3 days to a week to get it, or cost an extra $20 plus in shipping? Or you needed it RIGHT THEN and couldn't even wait a day? Ok. So you went to your local shop that sells that sort of specialty product (whatever it might've been... computer hardware, musical gear, electronics, auto parts, tools, whatever).
Now, let me tell you (as the manager of a small retail store), internet sales are killing small businesses left and right because of a couple things. One is the low overhead, the other, and probably one of the primary reasons, is the lack of sales taxes. The lack of sales tax alone means a savings of 8.8% to people living near my store in Washington state.
If this insanity continues, next time you need that little item "RIGHT NOW," you aren't going to be able to get it. Why? Because the only place left to go will be online, where you will be buying from somewhere across the country and won't possibly be able to get it for at least a day or two.
Personally, I'm all for taxation of internet sales. I really think they should have an equal or greater sales tax rate compared with any brick-and-mortar retailer. I do agree that there shouldn't be a tax on internet access however.
These people exist, and I've had to deal with them. Quite frankly, they aren't worth the time and effort I've had to put into them, and I wish I had a way of saying nope, I'm sorry, but you have a long history of being a jackass and I'm not going to help you.
I've had to deal with this type of person at my work also. Nice thing is, I'm now a store manager and I *do* have the right to turn down rental customers or simply refuse to help someone if they have a history of being a jackass.
One important thing to remember as a retail worker: You DO have the right to refuse service to people. If they threaten you or treat you rudely, ask them to leave. If they refuse, you have every right to call the cops and have them removed. If they threaten you at all, you can also have them charged with assault (I believe it's called "assault in the 4th degree" or "verbal assault" in most states).
More like at least a 3 man distro:
http://www.slackware.com/about/
Yes, that used to be true... but that page is fairly badly outdated. If you follow the link to David Cantrell's site, you will find this: "Please note: I do not work for Slackware anymore (technically BSDi or Walnut Creek CDROM)."
Looking at Chris Lumens' site, he hardly mentions anything about slackware at all, other than to say his server runs slackware -current. So while Slackware used to have a few employees, I believe when it was split off and once again became its own entity it went back to being just Patrick. It still (to the best of my knowledge) remains the only commercial Linux distro which has always been profitable.
Coyote traps of this sort are still legal at least in Washington state.