You don't need to install any special custom versions of anything for SVN. The only semi-unusual requirements are neon and apr. It works fine with vanilla Apache 2. You don't need to install Apache support if you don't want it, either -- I remember specifically choosing to install it. And vanilla berkdb is indeed 'good enough'.
You're assuming there that body fat is necessarily unattractive. Some people are comfortable being fatter than others. It's only recently in even our culture's history that extreme thinness has been an ideal.
Stop superimposing your personal preferences on the rest of the world.
You forgot elderly pensioners who have already been taxed on their income and consequently are not taxed on their pensions. Let's not forget those who make so little income that they don't owe tax, for one reason or another. They're still working, and more importantly, they're all still members of our society and benefit or suffer from its workings. They deserve to vote. How about non-citizens with work visas who end up paying tax in the US? Do they get to vote? The Senate is not and should not be the voice of "taxpayers;" the number of people who don't pay tax and are still eligible to vote is vanishingly small. Do you really think, say, Ken Lay's vote meant anything compared to his campaign contributions?
The rich still pay more tax on average than the poor, in absolute terms. I still don't see why one's taxpaying status should be anything but a legal one -- if you're paying the amount of taxes you are legally required to, you are entitled to exactly the same voting status as any other citizen.
Uh, because the poor have an equal right to representation as the rich? Having accumulated a fortune gives you no more right to determine the destiny of your country than if you are working at McDonald's.
Where's your proof that the media is left-leaning? It's an absurdity. Journalists have surveyed as being more conservative than the general public, and editorial control rests in the hands of the rich and powerful. Are you really claiming that Disney and News Corporation are liberal?
GPL'd binaries can be redistributed, according to the FSF. Thus, anyone could have that binary, and as a result anyone has the right to request source.
How do you expect to prove whether the requester has or does not have said binary? I suppose legally you're right, but there's no way to put that into practice.
Yes. X11 has always supported cutting and pasting basically any MIME type; application support has always been the issue. (Same with Windows, I might add.) Apps are beginning to get it together. I can copy and paste formatted text between GAIM and Firefox; I can copy and paste text and images from Firefox to OOwriter. That's all I've needed to do at this point, but it is possible.
I hear KDE has some pretty wide-ranging copy-paste support, too.
You know, I know elementary school kids and Grandmas who have no trouble using Linux. My wireless networking worked from installation. I never have to compile a kernel if I don't want to -- that's what binary packages are for. Expose is terribly overrated. And there are commercial apps for Linux. I own a number.
That's absurd. You could have said the same about computers in the 1940's, or moon landings in the 1950's. There has never been a genuine, popular attempt to institute real communism or Marxism to this day. That doesn't mean anything about its viability.
I mean, how many pure capitalisms are there? It takes time to develop an economic system, because humans are imperfect. Socialist utopias are no more reasonable than capitalist utopias; however, they're both equally damaged by imperfect man. Frankly, I think pure socialism's need for universal altruism is more realistic than the insanely unlikely perfect balance that pure capitalism requires.
You can't point to the Cold War and call it the triumph of capitalism over socialism. The United States is not anywhere near pure capitalism, and Soviet Russia was not anywhere near pure socialism. The Cold War was the triumph of liberal government over authoritarianism, and that's all it was.
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Why is a essentially proprietary binary installer preferable to an open format?
You don't need to install any special custom versions of anything for SVN. The only semi-unusual requirements are neon and apr. It works fine with vanilla Apache 2. You don't need to install Apache support if you don't want it, either -- I remember specifically choosing to install it.
And vanilla berkdb is indeed 'good enough'.
rpm2tgz the RPM, open up the resulting tarball, and stick things where you want them.
If you're a BIG CLEVER I-DON'T-USE-PACKAGING Slackware user, you should know enough to figure out where to put things.
It wasn't called World War One in 1939. The current war hadn't been dubbed World War Two yet.
You're assuming there that body fat is necessarily unattractive. Some people are comfortable being fatter than others. It's only recently in even our culture's history that extreme thinness has been an ideal.
Stop superimposing your personal preferences on the rest of the world.
So what you're saying is that women who aren't skinny don't deserve relationships.
Is that what you're saying? You shallow fuck.
You forgot elderly pensioners who have already been taxed on their income and consequently are not taxed on their pensions. Let's not forget those who make so little income that they don't owe tax, for one reason or another. They're still working, and more importantly, they're all still members of our society and benefit or suffer from its workings. They deserve to vote.
How about non-citizens with work visas who end up paying tax in the US? Do they get to vote?
The Senate is not and should not be the voice of "taxpayers;" the number of people who don't pay tax and are still eligible to vote is vanishingly small. Do you really think, say, Ken Lay's vote meant anything compared to his campaign contributions?
The rich still pay more tax on average than the poor, in absolute terms. I still don't see why one's taxpaying status should be anything but a legal one -- if you're paying the amount of taxes you are legally required to, you are entitled to exactly the same voting status as any other citizen.
Uh, because the poor have an equal right to representation as the rich? Having accumulated a fortune gives you no more right to determine the destiny of your country than if you are working at McDonald's.
Um, that was all over the news.
Where's your proof that the media is left-leaning? It's an absurdity. Journalists have surveyed as being more conservative than the general public, and editorial control rests in the hands of the rich and powerful. Are you really claiming that Disney and News Corporation are liberal?
They have a blogger. It's called Blogger.
GIMP's quickmask works more or less the same as Photoshop's, in my experience.
Why? No other OS has ever locked down the GUI.
GPL'd binaries can be redistributed, according to the FSF. Thus, anyone could have that binary, and as a result anyone has the right to request source.
How do you expect to prove whether the requester has or does not have said binary? I suppose legally you're right, but there's no way to put that into practice.
Anyone who receives the binaries, whether from the original distributor or not, is entitled to receive source code. [faq link]
I read it as a jab at the people complaining, not the developer, actually. It's vague, anyway.
Yes. X11 has always supported cutting and pasting basically any MIME type; application support has always been the issue. (Same with Windows, I might add.)
Apps are beginning to get it together. I can copy and paste formatted text between GAIM and Firefox; I can copy and paste text and images from Firefox to OOwriter. That's all I've needed to do at this point, but it is possible.
I hear KDE has some pretty wide-ranging copy-paste support, too.
There are tons of sites with user-created stuff for the Sims. And I remember at least one that had an item used to set stuff on fire.
You know, I know elementary school kids and Grandmas who have no trouble using Linux. My wireless networking worked from installation. I never have to compile a kernel if I don't want to -- that's what binary packages are for. Expose is terribly overrated.
And there are commercial apps for Linux. I own a number.
What's your problem with Javascript?
The name Cray should be synonymous with supercomputing for anyone even vaguely aware of the field. I mean, Seymour Cray? Does the name ring a bell?
That's absurd. You could have said the same about computers in the 1940's, or moon landings in the 1950's. There has never been a genuine, popular attempt to institute real communism or Marxism to this day. That doesn't mean anything about its viability.
I mean, how many pure capitalisms are there? It takes time to develop an economic system, because humans are imperfect. Socialist utopias are no more reasonable than capitalist utopias; however, they're both equally damaged by imperfect man. Frankly, I think pure socialism's need for universal altruism is more realistic than the insanely unlikely perfect balance that pure capitalism requires.
You can't point to the Cold War and call it the triumph of capitalism over socialism. The United States is not anywhere near pure capitalism, and Soviet Russia was not anywhere near pure socialism. The Cold War was the triumph of liberal government over authoritarianism, and that's all it was.
Because a changelog doesn't only address bugs.