I lost both my eyes in two terrible slingshot accidents, and all the fingers on both hands in a terrible meat grinding accident, you insensitive bastard. My hearing is also gone from listening to Joni Mitchell for thousands of hours at 148 dB. I also was born with no sense of smell so I can't have anyone scent my bills with distinctive odors. So what do *I* do? Huh? Huh?
There, problem solved, no jail time or actual real fine.
I think you know it is not as easy as that. It's an insiders' club. If you incorporate without playing the game by the old boys' rules, they have plenty of clauses to pierce the corporate veil and nail you good. My favorite one is that being an officer of a corporation does not protect you from individual liability due to fraud. Fraud is a code word for "not playing the game by the old boys' rules".
And Jewish shop owners in Nazi Germany broke the law by being Jewish. And they paid the penalty. First their shops were confiscated, then the "lawful government" grew emboldened and their lives were confiscated.
You seem to look on the law as your master. I believe it is supposed to be the people's servant.
isn't there a way for people to directly impeach the whole shit load of SC, senate, congress and the prez? This is what is needed in situations like this.
It's called a revolution. Governments aren't supposed to be a heavy yoke oppressing the people at the behest of the privileged. WE put the government in place to serve US. The people who did that would be aghast at what we are putting up with now.
In a rational and just society of rational and just laws, book, movie, and other media abandonware is fair game for copying. Given the technical state and essentially zero investment requirement of print-on-demand and CD-R/DVD-R burn-on-demand publishing, there is no excuse for EVER withholding availability.
Funny, I absolutely HATE creaking plastic, melted-soap fugly keyboards. I think the Unicomp is the most beautiful design out there. It bespeaks timeless industrial design wisdom.
It's the same way I react to all the melted-soap fugly cars of today. Give the gorgeously creased Giugiaro-styled 1977-1982 Audi 5000 and mark 1 VW Rabbit and Scirroco any day.
Yep. The Unicomp is the only keyboard I ever used that overloaded my KVM switch, and I've used lots of USB keyboards with the switch. I had to put a powered USB hub between them - YUCK. This is one thing they could and should improve. Nobody else slurps down that much power in a USB keyboard.
As for ruggedness, I am a confirmed keyboard masher (temper). I have given my Unicomp some wicked blows and it shook them off easily. This is one keyboard you can hit britally with the heel of your hand and your hand will give up first.
As in most cases where invoked, the grammar nazi disclaimer is not necessary here. Noting a really amusing spelling error in a non-hostile way could never be taken as nazi behavior by rational beings.
Hopefully the cache fails transparently so that the disk continues to work as a normal 5400 rpm disk after the flash writes are "up."
If you believe that, say hello to the tooth fairy and the easter bunny when you see them. Until somebody sacrifices one of these turkeys to science for rigorous testing, it would be wise to bank on the likelihood that this ill-conceived piece of garbage will just serve up disk errors when the flash goes tits up. Which it will do really fast, with all the throughput appropriate to a 1 TB disk drive being funneled through a microscopic 8 GB of flash. Doubtless the provisioning of spare blocks in the flash is ridiculously thin, and the controller is probably as slow and as dumb as fuck too.
French words need to be used because english is an imprecise language designed for the lowest common denominator.
Sheesh. English is just as precise if you use it correctly. In some particular cases you may need to use a few more words. Words are free; don't be afraid. Anyway, if you want to be absolutely anal about precision, you want German, not French.
For "gratuit", just say "free of cost" or "free of charge".
For "libre" just say "free to inspect and modify the source".
You do realize all the vendors already have their own kernels, right? Have you looked at the huge patch list Fedora/RedHat maintain against the stock kernel in their RPM builds?
You do know the difference between patching and bugfixing linux, and introducing a completely new kernel, right?
Debian needs to stop being Ubuntu's and Gnome's bitch.
Come on. Seriously?? Debian is nobody's bitch; certainly not Gnome's. You have a completely free choice of desktops in Debian, just as in practically all other distros. It's dead simple to select Xfce, and it's dead simple to select KDE, and it's dead simple to select LXDE, just for example.
Why would you have them completely drop support for ANY major desktop? Open source is about choice. Choice is good.
As for "Ubuntu's bitch", color me completely mystified. I can't even begin to imagine how anyone can connect that to reality.
Arch is as near as it comes (except maybe gentoo and Linux From Scratch) to plain linux rolling. It's got some great features as well as one or two mistakes. The mistake that matters is dropping sysvinit as an option. Not just adopting systemd as the default, but outright kicking sysvinit to the curb. That is hardly unique to Arch though.
... ruined Debian for me as an escape route from GNOME3/Unity hell.
It was never a viable escape route. Debian just goes with the irresistable flow, very realistically. The escape route is very simple. Xfce. Period. And you can run it on practically any distro. Hell, I'll say it. ANY distro (compile from source if you have to, but that should be a very rare case).
Now we just have to figure out an escape route from systemd hell - or just accept it.
What part of "stayed externally, physically identical" are you failing to understand?
Do you have the slightest idea what you are talking about? The current Mac Mini (post 2010) is 196x196x36mm and the AC cord plugs directly into it. The physical first generation (2005-2010) was 170x170x51mm and had an external power brick. That is not "externally, physically identical".
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And it is a bought and paid-for ass.
I lost both my eyes in two terrible slingshot accidents, and all the fingers on both hands in a terrible meat grinding accident, you insensitive bastard. My hearing is also gone from listening to Joni Mitchell for thousands of hours at 148 dB. I also was born with no sense of smell so I can't have anyone scent my bills with distinctive odors. So what do *I* do? Huh? Huh?
You drive. You drive. I think there's something wrong with me.
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Do you think that will go better than the first time it was tried?
I think you know it is not as easy as that. It's an insiders' club. If you incorporate without playing the game by the old boys' rules, they have plenty of clauses to pierce the corporate veil and nail you good. My favorite one is that being an officer of a corporation does not protect you from individual liability due to fraud. Fraud is a code word for "not playing the game by the old boys' rules".
And Jewish shop owners in Nazi Germany broke the law by being Jewish. And they paid the penalty. First their shops were confiscated, then the "lawful government" grew emboldened and their lives were confiscated.
You seem to look on the law as your master. I believe it is supposed to be the people's servant.
It's called a revolution. Governments aren't supposed to be a heavy yoke oppressing the people at the behest of the privileged. WE put the government in place to serve US. The people who did that would be aghast at what we are putting up with now.
In a rational and just society of rational and just laws, book, movie, and other media abandonware is fair game for copying. Given the technical state and essentially zero investment requirement of print-on-demand and CD-R/DVD-R burn-on-demand publishing, there is no excuse for EVER withholding availability.
We just had a story Monday that Wayland is deader than a doornail. Kinda makes this a waste of time and effort.
"Mate" is a funny way to spell Consort.
Maybe I will try one out after all. But first, what leads you to conclude that most writes will never see the flash?
No it doesn't. Unix time is based on 1970-01-01 AD. You can call it CE all you want, but it's just pointless revisionism.
Funny, I absolutely HATE creaking plastic, melted-soap fugly keyboards. I think the Unicomp is the most beautiful design out there. It bespeaks timeless industrial design wisdom.
It's the same way I react to all the melted-soap fugly cars of today. Give the gorgeously creased Giugiaro-styled 1977-1982 Audi 5000 and mark 1 VW Rabbit and Scirroco any day.
I vividly remember the price for the original IBM PC keyboard was $300 in 1982. Adjusted for CPI inflation, that works out to $702.56 in 2012.
Yep. The Unicomp is the only keyboard I ever used that overloaded my KVM switch, and I've used lots of USB keyboards with the switch. I had to put a powered USB hub between them - YUCK. This is one thing they could and should improve. Nobody else slurps down that much power in a USB keyboard.
As for ruggedness, I am a confirmed keyboard masher (temper). I have given my Unicomp some wicked blows and it shook them off easily. This is one keyboard you can hit britally with the heel of your hand and your hand will give up first.
All the suggestions I've seen here are wrong. I do it all the time and it's "sudo su -".
Oh, and if you want to be any user who has /sbin/nologin for a shell, just do e.g. "sudo su -s /bin/sh postfix"
As in most cases where invoked, the grammar nazi disclaimer is not necessary here. Noting a really amusing spelling error in a non-hostile way could never be taken as nazi behavior by rational beings.
If you believe that, say hello to the tooth fairy and the easter bunny when you see them. Until somebody sacrifices one of these turkeys to science for rigorous testing, it would be wise to bank on the likelihood that this ill-conceived piece of garbage will just serve up disk errors when the flash goes tits up. Which it will do really fast, with all the throughput appropriate to a 1 TB disk drive being funneled through a microscopic 8 GB of flash. Doubtless the provisioning of spare blocks in the flash is ridiculously thin, and the controller is probably as slow and as dumb as fuck too.
Sheesh. English is just as precise if you use it correctly. In some particular cases you may need to use a few more words. Words are free; don't be afraid. Anyway, if you want to be absolutely anal about precision, you want German, not French.
For "gratuit", just say "free of cost" or "free of charge".
For "libre" just say "free to inspect and modify the source".
You do know the difference between patching and bugfixing linux, and introducing a completely new kernel, right?
Come on. Seriously?? Debian is nobody's bitch; certainly not Gnome's. You have a completely free choice of desktops in Debian, just as in practically all other distros. It's dead simple to select Xfce, and it's dead simple to select KDE, and it's dead simple to select LXDE, just for example.
Why would you have them completely drop support for ANY major desktop? Open source is about choice. Choice is good.
As for "Ubuntu's bitch", color me completely mystified. I can't even begin to imagine how anyone can connect that to reality.
Arch is as near as it comes (except maybe gentoo and Linux From Scratch) to plain linux rolling. It's got some great features as well as one or two mistakes. The mistake that matters is dropping sysvinit as an option. Not just adopting systemd as the default, but outright kicking sysvinit to the curb. That is hardly unique to Arch though.
It was never a viable escape route. Debian just goes with the irresistable flow, very realistically. The escape route is very simple. Xfce. Period. And you can run it on practically any distro. Hell, I'll say it. ANY distro (compile from source if you have to, but that should be a very rare case).
Now we just have to figure out an escape route from systemd hell - or just accept it.
I think you need to support that claim. Everything I have ever seen says it is not allowed.
Do you have the slightest idea what you are talking about? The current Mac Mini (post 2010) is 196x196x36mm and the AC cord plugs directly into it. The physical first generation (2005-2010) was 170x170x51mm and had an external power brick. That is not "externally, physically identical".