I've got more GNU Kool-Aid here, if anybody wants it. Burz obviously already drank his fill and then some.
Linux is an operating system, just like Solaris is an operating system. It's still Solaris even if you replace all the userland tools with GNU tools. It never becomes GNU/Solaris no matter what you do to it. Same thing for Linux. It never becomes GNU/Linux or Lignux. Now, should RMS ever choose to give up this battle and create a "GNU" distribution of Linux, I'd be happy to call it GNU/Linux, or even just plain GNU if he wants.
No. You're neglecting the effect of armed victims on the perpetrator. In case your imagination is limited in that regard, imagine how many people would hunt if the right to keep and arm bears was exercised. And of course, I mean the right to arm all wildlife, not just bears.
Sigh. Your comment is rather heartless. Do you think the shooter would have killed more than one or two people if the people around him were armed? Of course not! I speculate (but not very much) that you are in favor of the VT gun ban. Okay, so by your support of it, you contributed to the deaths of these dozens of people.
Yeah, in a perfect world nobody would want to kill so many. I'll settle for a less perfect world in which nobody is *able* to kill so many.
Because anything can be a weapon. Surely someone from Japan would understanding that a ban on guns just causes other weapons to become more important. Why do you think the Samurai class continued to have power into the 20th century? Because they were behind the ban on guns. Their choice of weapon required their level of training, so it was not available to the general public. A gun makes everyone equally powerful, so you can't have Samurai pushing people around. (of course, the Samurai ethics, just like the knight's code of honor, served to prevent the worst abuses.)
I was speaking to somebody yesterday, who said "I don't want to buy that thing" to which she meant Vista. I encouraged her to call Dell and ask for a computer with XP.
Sigh. Money is not fictitious. Yes, "money" is just pieces of paper, but they are a limited resource which is in demand. The best way to understand money is that it is a thing just like any other thing, but it has the attribute of being a thing that everybody will barter for their stuff.
You might guess that I'm not a gold bug, and that I'm in favor of free banking. Good guess!
Spawn killing or not? I always play as an engineer, which makes play really suck if spawn-killing is allowed. Spawn... killed within 5 seconds.... wait 25 seconds for the next spawn, repeat until frustrated. Medics don't have this problem because they can heal.
Your comment is not helped by the fact that Noam Chomsky is an idiot. The reason half the Columbine victims were head shots was because the victims were cowering under tables and they were shot from practically point-blank range. If you think a FPS gives you mad skilz with a real gun, you need to fire a real gun.
We didn't have an explicit policy on "no fragging" (aka no human targets) because it never came up. So when my son downloaded Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory this past year, I wasn't upset. In fact, I've been playing it at the same time as him on my Windows gaming machine. He got his own Windows gaming machine alongside his Linux box when he stacked 20 cord of wood last summer. We used to hang out on on [RRE], but we've switched to shitstorm because there is a more reliable crowd.
Yeah, broadcom is coompletely impossible to work with. I've been trying to get data on their 4024 bt kbd controller. They suck as a company. Too bad their chips are so damned nice.
I wonder if Simon Hackett's Etherphone qualifies? He was running voice calls over raw Ethernet packets back in 1992. He wrote up a white paper which was distributed at Interop that year.
There is no such thing as a public domain song unless the song is older than 1920 (or some such number, and some newer works may also have gone into the public domain). Everything is copyrighted by default now.
But that's just what the legislation says. The law may differ.
The theory is that libdomainkeys will handle DKIM transparently, so supporting DKIM in qmail-dk is free. Might not work that way, so if there are changes to the libdomainkeys API I'll change qmail-dk as needed.
I would ask "Are you stupid?" but you've proven it adequately. You're thinking about this COMPLETELY wrong. Don't think of it has a "laptop". Think of it as "electronic book" with keyboard, touchpad, wifi, camera, usb slots, microphone, speakers, 400MBytes of free storage for book, convenient carrying handle, day-and-night screen, oh, and it also runs Python and a word processor and games. If you look at it that way, and then compare it to the money they're ALREADY spending on schoolbooks, you'll find that it STARTS OFF by saving money. The laptop is free once you buy the electronic book.
If you want to be a real bleeding heart, think of the blind children who will have ON PAR access to the SAME TEXTBOOKS as their sighted peers. Think of the children!
If you compare it to a laptop, well, that's only your first mistake. You can only (and do, enthusiastically) go downhill from there.
But perhaps neither of us should repeat heresay? I have one; it's very well made. Anyway, it was Koffi Annan who broke the crank, not Nelson Mandela. The crank was a bad idea anyway since children can't generate enough power with their hands. That's why kids' bikes have footbrakes, not handbrakes. So the human power supply will probably be more like a yo-yo. You could just pull on the string, or tie it to a board and use your foot. Takes any DC voltage between 10 and 20 volts, so there's all sorts of possibilities. Micro-hydro, or solar, or human powered, or you put your dog on a tredle (don't laugh, that's an old farmer trick).
expecting the distribution to be done in an honest and ethical way so that every single one ends up in the hands of a deserving child seems hopelessly naive to me.
So then you should conclude that they're actually not that naive. The question is not what you ask, but instead "Given that there will be massive fraud, waste, and corruption, is it worth doing anyway?" and their answer is "yes". Of course, OLPC can't actually *say* that, because their customers are the governments who will commit the fraud, waste, and corruption.
Of course they won't because a child without food or clean drinking water really gets a huge benefit out of a laptop
The government is already buying books for these kids, to the tune of about $20/year. Or not, in which case you can be sure they're NOT going to buy laptops. But if they are, then they convert the textbook into an ebook. Use of the laptop as an ebook pays for itself... and then there's everything else you *might* do with it. Even if the teachers don't incorporate it into the curriculum, it's still worth doing.
Or are you suggesting that governments shouldn't provide a free education for their children? That's an idea worthy of consideration, but I suspect it's one you disagree with.
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I've got more GNU Kool-Aid here, if anybody wants it. Burz obviously already drank his fill and then some.
Linux is an operating system, just like Solaris is an operating system. It's still Solaris even if you replace all the userland tools with GNU tools. It never becomes GNU/Solaris no matter what you do to it. Same thing for Linux. It never becomes GNU/Linux or Lignux. Now, should RMS ever choose to give up this battle and create a "GNU" distribution of Linux, I'd be happy to call it GNU/Linux, or even just plain GNU if he wants.
I am 99% certain that you are wrong. The 1% is there in case there are no other people within a mile of you.
Nearly all of my neighbors own guns. Do you know how safe that makes me feel?
No. Somebody opposing guns is guilty because somebody ELSE didn't have a gun to stop the murderer.
No. You're neglecting the effect of armed victims on the perpetrator. In case your imagination is limited in that regard, imagine how many people would hunt if the right to keep and arm bears was exercised. And of course, I mean the right to arm all wildlife, not just bears.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article15 52956.ece
But I don't expect facts to change your mind.
You'd probably say "people were killed" rather than "the shooter killed them". Your kind always does.
Sigh. Your comment is rather heartless. Do you think the shooter would have killed more than one or two people if the people around him were armed? Of course not! I speculate (but not very much) that you are in favor of the VT gun ban. Okay, so by your support of it, you contributed to the deaths of these dozens of people.
Yeah, in a perfect world nobody would want to kill so many. I'll settle for a less perfect world in which nobody is *able* to kill so many.
Because anything can be a weapon. Surely someone from Japan would understanding that a ban on guns just causes other weapons to become more important. Why do you think the Samurai class continued to have power into the 20th century? Because they were behind the ban on guns. Their choice of weapon required their level of training, so it was not available to the general public. A gun makes everyone equally powerful, so you can't have Samurai pushing people around. (of course, the Samurai ethics, just like the knight's code of honor, served to prevent the worst abuses.)
Just so's you know, these are not a bunch of leftists as would be US liberals. "Liberal" in Europe means the same thing as "Libertarian" in the USA.
I was speaking to somebody yesterday, who said "I don't want to buy that thing" to which she meant Vista. I encouraged her to call Dell and ask for a computer with XP.
Sigh. Money is not fictitious. Yes, "money" is just pieces of paper, but they are a limited resource which is in demand. The best way to understand money is that it is a thing just like any other thing, but it has the attribute of being a thing that everybody will barter for their stuff.
You might guess that I'm not a gold bug, and that I'm in favor of free banking. Good guess!
Hey! I know what HP ought to make! A USB-connected HP-IL interface. Now THAT would be an excellent homage from the child to the parent.
Spawn killing or not? I always play as an engineer, which makes play really suck if spawn-killing is allowed. Spawn ... killed within 5 seconds .... wait 25 seconds for the next spawn, repeat until frustrated. Medics don't have this problem because they can heal.
Your comment is not helped by the fact that Noam Chomsky is an idiot. The reason half the Columbine victims were head shots was because the victims were cowering under tables and they were shot from practically point-blank range. If you think a FPS gives you mad skilz with a real gun, you need to fire a real gun.
We didn't have an explicit policy on "no fragging" (aka no human targets) because it never came up. So when my son downloaded Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory this past year, I wasn't upset. In fact, I've been playing it at the same time as him on my Windows gaming machine. He got his own Windows gaming machine alongside his Linux box when he stacked 20 cord of wood last summer. We used to hang out on on [RRE], but we've switched to shitstorm because there is a more reliable crowd.
In my experience, Theo is always an inhuman asshole and should be the LAST person to expect politeness from anyone.
Yeah, broadcom is coompletely impossible to work with. I've been trying to get data on their 4024 bt kbd controller. They suck as a company. Too bad their chips are so damned nice.
I wonder if Simon Hackett's Etherphone qualifies? He was running voice calls over raw Ethernet packets back in 1992. He wrote up a white paper which was distributed at Interop that year.
http://russnelson.com/quadruple.jpg
There is no such thing as a public domain song unless the song is older than 1920 (or some such number, and some newer works may also have gone into the public domain). Everything is copyrighted by default now.
But that's just what the legislation says. The law may differ.
Errrr, you've basically reinvented the RUF. Go check it out.
The theory is that libdomainkeys will handle DKIM transparently, so supporting DKIM in qmail-dk is free. Might not work that way, so if there are changes to the libdomainkeys API I'll change qmail-dk as needed.
I would ask "Are you stupid?" but you've proven it adequately. You're thinking about this COMPLETELY wrong. Don't think of it has a "laptop". Think of it as "electronic book" with keyboard, touchpad, wifi, camera, usb slots, microphone, speakers, 400MBytes of free storage for book, convenient carrying handle, day-and-night screen, oh, and it also runs Python and a word processor and games. If you look at it that way, and then compare it to the money they're ALREADY spending on schoolbooks, you'll find that it STARTS OFF by saving money. The laptop is free once you buy the electronic book.
If you want to be a real bleeding heart, think of the blind children who will have ON PAR access to the SAME TEXTBOOKS as their sighted peers. Think of the children!
If you compare it to a laptop, well, that's only your first mistake. You can only (and do, enthusiastically) go downhill from there.
But perhaps neither of us should repeat heresay? I have one; it's very well made. Anyway, it was Koffi Annan who broke the crank, not Nelson Mandela. The crank was a bad idea anyway since children can't generate enough power with their hands. That's why kids' bikes have footbrakes, not handbrakes. So the human power supply will probably be more like a yo-yo. You could just pull on the string, or tie it to a board and use your foot. Takes any DC voltage between 10 and 20 volts, so there's all sorts of possibilities. Micro-hydro, or solar, or human powered, or you put your dog on a tredle (don't laugh, that's an old farmer trick).
So then you should conclude that they're actually not that naive. The question is not what you ask, but instead "Given that there will be massive fraud, waste, and corruption, is it worth doing anyway?" and their answer is "yes". Of course, OLPC can't actually *say* that, because their customers are the governments who will commit the fraud, waste, and corruption.
The government is already buying books for these kids, to the tune of about $20/year. Or not, in which case you can be sure they're NOT going to buy laptops. But if they are, then they convert the textbook into an ebook. Use of the laptop as an ebook pays for itself
Or are you suggesting that governments shouldn't provide a free education for their children? That's an idea worthy of consideration, but I suspect it's one you disagree with.