Me too. Slackware 96 CDROMS from Walnut Creek. (I still have them as a souvenir). Been using linux since then; Debian, Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu in several flavors, and then LFS. (In terms of nerdiness, LFS is Slackware squared.) I only recently installed FreeBSD. The learning process seemed similar to my early days with Slackware. It's dejavu all over again. The nerdiest thing I have ever seen is Nerds hanging out on Slashdot discussing which Linux/BSD distro is the nerdiest. That's just Neil Goldman nerdy.
And was he by chance an author of a history text that was required for the course? I took a chemistry class once where the $200 text was written by six professors, one of whom was teaching the course. On the other end, I also had a math professor who confessed that our 400 page calculus text was a rip-off. He stated that nothing about calculus had changed for decades and a 100 pages would have been more than enough to cover the topic. Unfortunately the choice of text was not up to him.
I realize that you intend "why do you care?" to be a rhetorical question. The trouble is that it isn't one. It makes a real difference when the people around you create a consensus that this or that is the preferred way of doing things, your way can become incompatible and unsupported. It applies to religion, software, and other choices also. You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.
Oh yes. Please help me make my employees more efficient. I have to hire way too many people as it is. They're costing way too much and making it difficult to justify my 8 figure salary.
I wonder though, if you find you just can't remove all of the info about yourself that's out there on the net. Perhaps you could just dilute with nonsense. Prospective employers looking for you years from now will find that you kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, were the inventor of Slinky football, were a U.S. Congressman in 1979 who successfully passed legislation outlawing cat juggling, and you were the original drummer for the Banana Splits, before you became an astronaut on Apollo 22.
I'm an engineer myself. What concerns me is that both Boisjoly and McDonald were blackballed and their careers ruined. Moral to the story: If you can't afford to be the whistleblower, keep your trap shut. Sorry, but in a similar situation, I would only document my objections, and that I had submitted my recommendations and kept my mouth shut afterward. (Now I have to post anonymously). The concept of tenure starts to make sense here. Appointing a few people, whose livelihoods are independent of their ability to speak their minds without regard to what powerful people think about it, could prevent the types of incidences that occurred with the Challenger and Columbia.
So much is revealed in your short response. 1. You have unwarranted prejudices against unions and their members. 2. You have no respect for sanitation workers. 3. You have no respect for tradesmen, such as operating engineers, or stationary engineers, whose working knowledge often exceeds that of licensed PE's. (I know what I'm talking about here. I've been both.) 3. You seem unaware that licensed professional engineers work in a field called "sanitation engineering". 5. You don't know the difference between "then" and "than".
I used to do maintenance work in hotels as a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers. We called ourselves engineers. I would like for you to meet the members down at the union hall and explain to them why they are not engineers. That should be an interesting discussion to watch. They may have some knowledge of the history of that word that you weren't taught in college. P.S. I'm not employed in that line of work anymore. I'm now a P.E.
So you're trying to equate the contempt we have for the wealthy with racism. Sorry, no sale. Wealthy people, white and otherwise, have largely earned the contempt we have for them.
Not True. The number of deaths from drunken driving has been steadily reducing for many years. What we've done about it has been very effective. We've treated it as if it were a crime. How effective do you all suppose it would have been to have declared "WAR" on drunk driving? My guess is that we'd have spent our treasury dry and had to borrow money from China. Probably would have ruined our economy. Sure glad that didn't happen.
Well now that we have your PIN we can just knock you over the head and take your card. Before we had to kidnap and torture you to get you to reveal the PIN. This is so much easier. Who says that technology isn't improving our lives?
AC, Please look up "straw man fallacy". Do you really think it's the government that's the only threat to your liberty. Do you suppose that corporations are interested in preserving your freedoms? If we can't check corporate power through government, how shall we do so?
Ronald Reagan (peace be upon him) said: "Big Government IS the problem." And you bought it. And you've been buying it ever since. I'm not buying it. I didn't buy a lot of shit Reagan sold: Borax, Chesterfield cigarettes, supply-side economics. But Reagan sure knew how to shine those turds. Much can be done to solve this particular problem in the private sector, to be sure, and I don't necessarily disagree that legislation may be unnecessary. But I marvel at how quick the anti-government knee-jerk reflex kicks in. It's a testament to the successful propaganda campaign of corporate owned media and right wing think tanks.
I'm 48 years old. I have lots of experience living without the internet. Between 1963 and 1995, I had no internet. I don't recommend it. You live in the early 21st century. Take advantage of it. Instant access to information is one of the few things that's better now than it was 30 years ago.
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Me too. Slackware 96 CDROMS from Walnut Creek. (I still have them as a souvenir).
Been using linux since then; Debian, Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu in several flavors, and then LFS. (In terms of nerdiness, LFS is Slackware squared.)
I only recently installed FreeBSD. The learning process seemed similar to my early days with Slackware. It's dejavu all over again.
The nerdiest thing I have ever seen is Nerds hanging out on Slashdot discussing which Linux/BSD distro is the nerdiest. That's just Neil Goldman nerdy.
They're moving to Canada to escape Obama's "socialist" health care plan. My head's going to explode with irony.
For starters, do you have any handcuffs?
... that Microsoft is now embracing Linux and will be extending its capabilities?
You probably already know this, but it sounds like your boss is basically an asshole.
And was he by chance an author of a history text that was required for the course? I took a chemistry class once where the $200 text was written by six professors, one of whom was teaching the course. On the other end, I also had a math professor who confessed that our 400 page calculus text was a rip-off. He stated that nothing about calculus had changed for decades and a 100 pages would have been more than enough to cover the topic. Unfortunately the choice of text was not up to him.
I realize that you intend "why do you care?" to be a rhetorical question. The trouble is that it isn't one. It makes a real difference when the people around you create a consensus that this or that is the preferred way of doing things, your way can become incompatible and unsupported. It applies to religion, software, and other choices also. You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.
...I don't have time to fiddle with with Unity either.
"Daisey lied about having first hand knowledge about how we abuse are employees. I can think of nothing more despicable than his telling such a fib."
I'm getting a patent on the letter "Q". I see some of you here have been using it. You'll be hearing from my attorney.
Oh yes. Please help me make my employees more efficient. I have to hire way too many people as it is. They're costing way too much and making it difficult to justify my 8 figure salary.
I wonder though, if you find you just can't remove all of the info about yourself that's out there on the net. Perhaps you could just dilute with nonsense. Prospective employers looking for you years from now will find that you kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, were the inventor of Slinky football, were a U.S. Congressman in 1979 who successfully passed legislation outlawing cat juggling, and you were the original drummer for the Banana Splits, before you became an astronaut on Apollo 22.
I respect Verne but also prefer Wells style.
In a sense the difference between the two is why Groundhog Day is a better movie than 12:01.
I'm an engineer myself. What concerns me is that both Boisjoly and McDonald were blackballed and their careers ruined. Moral to the story: If you can't afford to be the whistleblower, keep your trap shut. Sorry, but in a similar situation, I would only document my objections, and that I had submitted my recommendations and kept my mouth shut afterward. (Now I have to post anonymously).
The concept of tenure starts to make sense here. Appointing a few people, whose livelihoods are independent of their ability to speak their minds without regard to what powerful people think about it, could prevent the types of incidences that occurred with the Challenger and Columbia.
But don't beat yourself up. Apparently, I don't know the difference between 3 and 4.
So much is revealed in your short response.
1. You have unwarranted prejudices against unions and their members.
2. You have no respect for sanitation workers.
3. You have no respect for tradesmen, such as operating engineers, or stationary engineers, whose working knowledge often exceeds that of licensed PE's. (I know what I'm talking about here. I've been both.)
3. You seem unaware that licensed professional engineers work in a field called "sanitation engineering".
5. You don't know the difference between "then" and "than".
I used to do maintenance work in hotels as a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers. We called ourselves engineers. I would like for you to meet the members down at the union hall and explain to them why they are not engineers. That should be an interesting discussion to watch. They may have some knowledge of the history of that word that you weren't taught in college.
P.S. I'm not employed in that line of work anymore. I'm now a P.E.
So you're trying to equate the contempt we have for the wealthy with racism. Sorry, no sale. Wealthy people, white and otherwise, have largely earned the contempt we have for them.
Not True. The number of deaths from drunken driving has been steadily reducing for many years. What we've done about it has been very effective. We've treated it as if it were a crime.
How effective do you all suppose it would have been to have declared "WAR" on drunk driving? My guess is that we'd have spent our treasury dry and had to borrow money from China. Probably would have ruined our economy. Sure glad that didn't happen.
Well now that we have your PIN we can just knock you over the head and take your card. Before we had to kidnap and torture you to get you to reveal the PIN. This is so much easier. Who says that technology isn't improving our lives?
That is correct. But don't worry. In only several generations the wealth will distribute itself more evenly through the magic of the invisible hand.
AC, Please look up "straw man fallacy".
Do you really think it's the government that's the only threat to your liberty. Do you suppose that corporations are interested in preserving your freedoms? If we can't check corporate power through government, how shall we do so?
Ronald Reagan (peace be upon him) said: "Big Government IS the problem." And you bought it. And you've been buying it ever since.
I'm not buying it. I didn't buy a lot of shit Reagan sold: Borax, Chesterfield cigarettes, supply-side economics. But Reagan sure knew how to shine those turds.
Much can be done to solve this particular problem in the private sector, to be sure, and I don't necessarily disagree that legislation may be unnecessary. But I marvel at how quick the anti-government knee-jerk reflex kicks in. It's a testament to the successful propaganda campaign of corporate owned media and right wing think tanks.
I'm 48 years old. I have lots of experience living without the internet. Between 1963 and 1995, I had no internet. I don't recommend it. You live in the early 21st century. Take advantage of it. Instant access to information is one of the few things that's better now than it was 30 years ago.
sudo apt-get install pidgin
sudo apt-get remove empathy