I had a short psychotic episode a couple weeks ago, for broadly similar reasons. I think "we geeks" tend to run best at higher stress levels than normal (i do); that added to the increased stress of "the times" is making for a lot of unhappy folks.
I have no answers, yet; but I'm working on it. So far the best idea i've had is to just quit my job (self-employed) and start a church... we'll have egg tosses on Saturday and drink.
"If we just all shut up, maybe everyone will be forced to use *MY* platform... and maybe i can speed the process by casting aspersions on the motives of those who think a little differently than I. After all, there could be no greater sin than disgreeing with the great Me."
There was a comment on LKML not all that long ago that dealt with the detials; IIRC it was in response to someone wondering about using software RAID0 for swap.
"de-advertising" blah. Give us who cough up real money endless moderator points... something. "Karma" made it all a game; EQ has shown how profitable that can be. If its not too expensive I'll pony up.
I'll kick in some cigarette money, even. Problem is, finding someone who is both worthy and willing to stand under that hammer. I'm certainly neither; can't throw blame to anyone else for lacking the "willing".
Selling bandwidth twice would be an improvement. ISP's typically run 4 to 10 times more bandwidth to customers, than they have to their upstream providers.
Re:How much sway does the ACM have though?
on
ACM vs. RIAA
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
potentially lots.
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN. All the EFF has is money. The ACM has people who can reasonably explain whey they, as a voter, think the congresscritter needs to do something. Believe it or not, as idealistic as it sounds, enough people writing letters can still overcome large amounts of money in deals like this.
nearly anything combustable, diveded finely enough and mixed in with a proper amount of air, will burn quickly enough once lit to pass for an explosive even though it may not meet whatever particular technical definition someone cares to point out. kaBOOM.
An improvised m80 and a small bag of wheat flour can be used to demonstrate this effect in a wide open unpopulated area... and use a long fuse...
Confine that reaction on a large scale, like in a grain silo; now you have Real Fun.
They weren't running. If you tape a UPS to the top of them, and leave them running say bonnie on the way down, then we might accord your results some validity.
And do an NT machine while you're at it; it wouldn't do to be seen as biased or anything.
"Just consider RMS as what he really is, a politican."
But he's NOT a politician. If he was, yer user group would have a different name now, and nobody'd be bitching about RMS and his ego. A politician can steal your shoes, sell them back to you, have your socks when you sit down to put the shoes back on, and still have you thank him at the end of the deal.
RMS is somebody with a Vision that he wishes the world to share, whether or not it really wants to. He has very little regard for politicking in promoting his vision.
There were a lot of people who never had any understanding of what Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, etc. were doing at the founding of the USA. There are a lot of people now who have little or no understanding of what RMS is saying (granted, he's not saying it as clearly). In both cases, those folks can reap the benefits of the work of their betters in ignorance without causing much harm.
No, that makes too much sense; it's not all inclusive so let's trash the whole thing, start over from scratch, and revert to 7bit ASCII in the meantime. We need a system that can handle every glyph that has ever had meaning to somebody, somewhere.
...for the sarcasm impaired, the above should be read as "good point".
And so on. See back to Feb 2000, for the same old arguments.
We need a good, polite, robust, idiot-proof "mirror" script so that the folks who are interested in this stuff will be the backup of last resort more reliably.
Slashdot Mirror
I have no answers, yet; but I'm working on it. So far the best idea i've had is to just quit my job (self-employed) and start a church... we'll have egg tosses on Saturday and drink.
I bet you pushed S/MIME too.
I once met a packard bell (!) 486 laptop with a similar "mouse".
There was a comment on LKML not all that long ago that dealt with the detials; IIRC it was in response to someone wondering about using software RAID0 for swap.
"de-advertising" blah. Give us who cough up real money endless moderator points... something. "Karma" made it all a game; EQ has shown how profitable that can be. If its not too expensive I'll pony up.
I'll kick in some cigarette money, even. Problem is, finding someone who is both worthy and willing to stand under that hammer. I'm certainly neither; can't throw blame to anyone else for lacking the "willing".
Really, best of luck and thanks so much for all the news so far, regardless.
Don't editorialize out our paranoia, it has served well so far.
"Ken (a 1997 winner of the IOCCC)"
Do you point this accomplishment out to prospective employers? Do they view it as a positive thing? :)
Oh, wow; never heard that one before...
no rollovers for a while. Sorts correctly. Fits old filename conventions. Intelligible for humans.
Selling bandwidth twice would be an improvement. ISP's typically run 4 to 10 times more bandwidth to customers, than they have to their upstream providers.
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN. All the EFF has is money. The ACM has people who can reasonably explain whey they, as a voter, think the congresscritter needs to do something. Believe it or not, as idealistic as it sounds, enough people writing letters can still overcome large amounts of money in deals like this.
An improvised m80 and a small bag of wheat flour can be used to demonstrate this effect in a wide open unpopulated area... and use a long fuse...
Confine that reaction on a large scale, like in a grain silo; now you have Real Fun.
/me fires off a 21 Telebit Trailblazer salute
And do an NT machine while you're at it; it wouldn't do to be seen as biased or anything.
But he's NOT a politician. If he was, yer user group would have a different name now, and nobody'd be bitching about RMS and his ego. A politician can steal your shoes, sell them back to you, have your socks when you sit down to put the shoes back on, and still have you thank him at the end of the deal.
RMS is somebody with a Vision that he wishes the world to share, whether or not it really wants to. He has very little regard for politicking in promoting his vision.
There were a lot of people who never had any understanding of what Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, etc. were doing at the founding of the USA. There are a lot of people now who have little or no understanding of what RMS is saying (granted, he's not saying it as clearly). In both cases, those folks can reap the benefits of the work of their betters in ignorance without causing much harm.
thanks, i needed that
ARGH! dammit, i wish i'd said that.
Them little bastards are expensive. That's probably the whole problem. :)
...radio control...
the splatter movie possibilities here are endless, I think.
...but all the eskimo words for snow are, technically, obscenities... :)
or some ignorant reporter using the word "superfund" out of its precisely defined legal context, as they have been known to do reepeateedly.
We need a good, polite, robust, idiot-proof "mirror" script so that the folks who are interested in this stuff will be the backup of last resort more reliably.