The USA is full of pussies these days that are afraid of weapons.
9/11 happened because people were afraid of the sharp metal pointy things. 30 years ago everyone would have been around knives all their lives and would have fought back and won. Or they would have died trying because they believed they could win. Still, 5 guys against 200 passengers isn't a fair fight with machine guns, let alone box cutters.
If kids were taught about guns and other weapons from a young age, and - the important part - ALLOWED TO FIRE THEM in a safe way (i.e. at a strictly controlled firing range under lots of adult supervision), the fascination with guns and shooting and weaponry would not exist, and people would in general be safer - within a generation's time. They'd know what happens when you pull the trigger, and wouldn't need to go behind anybody's back to find out.
Now, I don't know how this can be accomplished. Mandatory military service isn't the answer, and a civilian pro-gun movement will just end up being corrupted by the jesus freaks and the boardroom-fellating neo-conservatives.
All I know is that when kids are around guns regularly, there's no mystique attached to them, which means that they're less likely to be used appropriately.
improving the Linux user experience carries no geek cred.
Until it does - which it never will because that's too "mainstream" of a goal for geeks to want to take up their spare time with - the Linux GUI experience will suck compared to the windows usability experience (no, I'm not talking about stability, I'm talking about the ease of doing mundane things)
I think you hit the nail on the head. Managers at that level never do anything because they think it's right, they only do what will cover their asses, and they have no conscience about it whatsoever.
troll, huh? guess an ESR fanboy got mod points today.
Look, people, nobody gives a shit how leet you are. Go do something that benefits mankind, rather than continuing to push it down the shithole to a Minority Report-like lifestyle.
You can't take someone's baby away. Until they graduate, and they realize that there are better things to do than sit around and code all the fucking time.
your feeble republican brain probably has to reduce things down to that oversimplified WWE-watching Limbaugh-listening level to understand correctly, so, yes.
I do not write Free Software so that some middle-aged yuppie can browse porn for $80 less.
Until you deign to bring your omniscience and prodigious talents to the masses, ye mighty, Linux won't be anything more than a geek's toy and a workgroup server.
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oops, the last word should be "inappropriately".. sorry bout that
The USA is full of pussies these days that are afraid of weapons.
9/11 happened because people were afraid of the sharp metal pointy things. 30 years ago everyone would have been around knives all their lives and would have fought back and won. Or they would have died trying because they believed they could win. Still, 5 guys against 200 passengers isn't a fair fight with machine guns, let alone box cutters.
If kids were taught about guns and other weapons from a young age, and - the important part - ALLOWED TO FIRE THEM in a safe way (i.e. at a strictly controlled firing range under lots of adult supervision), the fascination with guns and shooting and weaponry would not exist, and people would in general be safer - within a generation's time. They'd know what happens when you pull the trigger, and wouldn't need to go behind anybody's back to find out.
Now, I don't know how this can be accomplished. Mandatory military service isn't the answer, and a civilian pro-gun movement will just end up being corrupted by the jesus freaks and the boardroom-fellating neo-conservatives.
All I know is that when kids are around guns regularly, there's no mystique attached to them, which means that they're less likely to be used appropriately.
It's also another opportunity for you Republicans to sell out your country to crooked businessmen, don't forget.
there is unrest in the forest
there is trouble with the trees
for the maples want more sunlight
and the oaks ignore their pleas
A union as in C would be a more apt analogy
Newsflash. I grew up in the south and this law gets violated on a daily basis in every school I've been in.
improving the Linux user experience carries no geek cred.
Until it does - which it never will because that's too "mainstream" of a goal for geeks to want to take up their spare time with - the Linux GUI experience will suck compared to the windows usability experience (no, I'm not talking about stability, I'm talking about the ease of doing mundane things)
you shouldn't have killed that gecko, it could have saved you a bunch of money on your car insurance
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Managers at that level never do anything because they think it's right, they only do what will cover their asses, and they have no conscience about it whatsoever.
feel better now, pompous dickhead?
that's because the majority of people don't use drugs. Everyone speeds.
troll, huh? guess an ESR fanboy got mod points today.
Look, people, nobody gives a shit how leet you are. Go do something that benefits mankind, rather than continuing to push it down the shithole to a Minority Report-like lifestyle.
You can't take someone's baby away.
Until they graduate, and they realize that there are better things to do than sit around and code all the fucking time.
Gigawatt?
Jigga Who?
Gigawatt?
Jigga..aw, forget it
not anymore, he plays Peavey guitars.
They're more or less copies of his EB/MM signature guitar, but still, they are not EB/MM.
where are you posting from?
but the real question is, could they suck cock?
uptime is nothing to brag about, unless you're talking about your penis.
I don't see what's so hard about this.. it's not rocket science..
*rimshot*
But it seems in this corrupt world, anything innocent and beautiful will eventally be raped by those who have nothing to do but distroy purity.
That's right. Bend over.
your feeble republican brain probably has to reduce things down to that oversimplified WWE-watching Limbaugh-listening level to understand correctly, so, yes.
Earthquake in a bottle? it's called King Cobra
drink that and the next day's shit will generate new faultlines in your area
Can I get a Pat Buchanan Gerbil here please.
Hang on, I gotta pull it out of Bill O'Reilly's ass..
I do not write Free Software so that some middle-aged yuppie can browse porn for $80 less.
Until you deign to bring your omniscience and prodigious talents to the masses, ye mighty, Linux won't be anything more than a geek's toy and a workgroup server.
You, sir, are the definition of pretentious ass.
depends on how hungry Otzi was, or what the trading economy was like of the time.