Greeks and democracy Athens, etc al Italy and lawyers(?) Rome Egypt and divine right(monarchy) Ancient Egypt Egypt and monotheism (religion) Ancient Eygpt Pharoah Akhnaton, I believe.
The English could patent English until the Germans and the Scandinavians proved prior art derivatives and the whole thing would be shot to hell by the heirs of the Indo-Aryan language group (India)when they would step in.
And all those pesky nation-states that invented agriculture.
And which ever one has the record now for the oldest know civilization. civilization
And if you believe in evolution, the Africans could patent being human and claim the Human Genome as theirs. And arent we breaking the law by reverse engineering DNA.
If all this were possible the lawyers would be drooling, the rest of us would laugh so we wouldnt cry and ponder voluntary extinction of the species.
I personally hope there arent any aliens out there. They might blockade/quarantine us, drop a rock in the sun or sell tickets.
Until the Industrial Revolution hit everyone either worked at home or worked from home. The farmer left the farm to work his fields, the blacksmith walked from his house to his smithy, other crafts people lived above their shops.
The main obstacle to telecommuting is old-style management. The technology exists already today, the cost savings are evident. But a PHB feels socially useless unless he cant face-to-face manage.
I have been working from home since Dec, 1999 and will miss it very much if I have to switch back. Prior to that I did work at home part-time as a sysadmin (yes, even sysadmins can do this). Unless you have to kick a machine in the ribs physically, everything can be done from remote.
For the PHB it is all about control, and the cost savings also includes needing less management. They will fight that tooth, nail, and claw.
The final caveat of course is, not everyone can do this. Some people will always need supervision and interaction in order to function.
While I am not a libertarian, nor belong to the NRA, lets look at the fourth article of the second Amendment in it's historical perspective.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
There was no National Guard back then, the people were the Militia, and vice versa. People that joined the Militia were required to furnish their own weapons, since military stocks were in short supply or non-existent. The government needed people to defend the State and thus encouraged the right of the people to bear Arms. That meant flintlocks and muskets in those days. The signers of the Constitution would have consider the M16/AK47 as being the equivalent to muskets in their day. They would have considered a 9mm the equivalent of a flintlock. A current day shotgun or hunting rifle would have been viewed as a pike or club, usefull but inadequate in the long run.
We dont live in those times anymore, we no longer have a Revolutionary government. An established government with no fears of external invasion will automatically seek to limit the means of the populace to revolt sucessfully. It is only common sense. It reduces trouble to manageable levels.
England having lost many colonies thru time has placed many restictions on their population that we would not and should not accept. The right to bear arms is not a God given right but is defined in the Constitution and is fought over and redefined as we go along.
On a side note, guns do not kill people, people kill. Far more people have been killed by axe, club,sword,spear,rock,bare hands,poison than any gun, if you look at the historical numbers.
Any person that thinks that they need a gun to kill, lacks imagination. A gun is a distance weapon, much like a bomber. The people that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima/Nagasaki from a distance were abstracted from the fact that they wiped out about 130,000 people in one fell swoop.
And yes I do own weapons, not just guns. Everything can be a weapon if properly used.
Henri J. Schlereth
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Additionally, I would like to say that all human interactions are by design abstract. We are all ultimately isolated within the body, and my brain is pretty happy with any form of outside contact, books, music, videos, games, occasional people. Before, the Internet I didnt like most people I met so I didnt bother, now I have met some people I REALLY loath. (grin) But also people I like.
I want all the games I have to play on Linux not just the O/S of lack of choice. I want all the games that other people play and I hate to play on Linux too.
Why settle for less? I have an entire rack of games that force me to run a win95/dos partition when I want to unstress from sysadmin work.
We should have the same choices as everyone else, even including such horrible ugly games as... well that's subjective so fill in the blank in your mind.
I havent bought any new games yet because of the lack of Linux choices (that's just on the ones/ type I like mind you now). There are some games out there but I decide last year to stop buying Evil Empire dependent software of any kind.
When they banned cigarette smoking I responded by not going to restaurants, public events, etc.
When clubs charged me $5.00 to come in and told me I couldnt come in wearing what I was wearing I stopped going to those places. "You mean you are going to charge me five bucks and then tell me what I can wear?"
I have boycotted Amazon as well. I always vote with my feet and my dollars.
With the DVD thing I refuse to buy any DVD device of any kind, or any DVD's.
Boycotts are actually simple, you want me money you have to cater to my needs not tell me what I want or what to do.
There is a difference between want and need. You need water to live, you only want DVD's.
Hey fuck nut! You must have read at least the index to decide to post. I got my flame proof asbesto long johns, on so do your worst. Wanna make something of it? I got tired of you shits about two weeks ago. I think everyone should be able to say their piece but at least have enough guts to stand by your words with your name. You are probably the reason that your parents should have used birth control or never have met.
Aint anything new, boys and girls. Usenet/UUCP was full of it from the beginning. Do you think people change that much because they have a new toy?
I like Jon Katz. I dont always agree with him but I rarely agree with the Leaf by Niggle people. (Tolkien reference) The English language is constantly evolving, if you understood it enough to be outraged or annoyed,you still understood it. (Please note that I am usually guilty of compunded sentences, but that is a product of my German upbringing)
I read all the posts and some are good, sharp and disagreeing and others well....
My mother always said if you cant say anything nice, dont say anything at all. For this email I will listen to her.
Usenet has been around a lot longer than DNS (back when people only used a hosts file) and the surge of email and the need for blocking of that spam thru tightened rules and MAPS/RBL/ORBS stuff. For us old farts when they announce an active UDP after a year(365 days) of trying to get @home to get their excreta together that means Usenet as a community/group has had enough.
Participation in a UDP is voluntary but generally unanimous. This is not about censorship but about "Until you can put your affairs in order we will leave you alone, to let you work this out. When you are ready to be part of the community again we will welcome you with open arms".
A UDP is really a serious indication that the ISP hasnt tried or was/is unwilling to try and fix the problem. And that every attempt was made to help them and alert them to this problem that was affecting everyone else.
Would it take you a year to fix a bug in your system?
It always strikes me as real funny that here in America they tout sex from toot-paste to cars. But when I buy a Playboy in Germany I can see nipples on the front cover but not on a Playboy made in America. I always LOL since 1974.
Darn, I miss all that fun. I am usually ahead of the RedHat Distro on quite a few proggies like Kernel,Bind,Samba,Sendmail, Fetchmail and generally wind up doing an RPM upgrade so I miss all the fun. Been that way since RH4.2 and havent gotten the text uipgrade ever to work right. But at least I have the option to do the RPM upgrade. Of course I miss the smb network install that disappeared, and the NFS one has gotten flaky lately.
I had to recently (on my only dual boot Linux/W95) box do a fdisk/MBR from DOS. It is a long story involving copying the W95 drive to a newer bigger HD (more room for games!). Immediatly I was locked out of the Linux partition. After I got the Windoze HD fixed and setup, I used a trusty mkbootdisk created disk to boot back into Linux and ran:
dd if=boot.0300 of=/dev/hda1 bs=446 count=1
and presto instant dual boot box again!
Take that MS!
PS. Powerquest Drive Copy works great on Windoze drives.
I always amuses me to hear people talk about how we have put ourselves outside of Natural Selection. Then I go read about the earthquakes, floods, fires, snow storms, tornados, hurricanes, that still manage to naturally "select" people out of the gene pool.
Nature is not done with us yet, even though we may delude ourselves that we are done with Nature.
I disagree. I grew up in Europe and have seen violent protests in Germany in person and seen violent protests in other places including France on TV. The French may have evolved into peaceful protests now but that has not always been the case. Check your history.
Consider the following, we broke the law often an with intent when we revolted against England in the 1700's. Sometimes you have to "break" an unjust law in order to get justice. You can write these people off as thugs and hooligans and clueless. People that destroyed property and did illegal things. Now how different is that from the "Boston Tea Party"? We did that too.
You must have used Babelfish for the title, it is supposed to be Ich bin ein Deutscher! Aber Ich bin ein Franke! Danke!
State censorship in Germany still allows you to buy pornography, and legally drink at an age that would toss you in jail here. Prostitution is also legal. The EU doesnt mess with the internal domestic policies of their member nations. I was surprised when I returned to the USA that I had to wait till I was 18 to drink beer and how intrusive our religious groups are here.
There was a rumour (during the Cold War) the the Russions were buying up mailling address lists of anybody that subscribed to war-game magazines. The theory was that these would be the people they would add to their immediate arrest list upon taking over the USA. Because these people (incl. myself) would be most likely able to organize armed resistance and lead/direct guerilla forces in action. While a person that plays military sims doesnt really have the real-life experience, they would have some knowledge on how to conduct operations and would be more likely to quickly learn how to apply theory to practice (trial by fire) and survive to become a threat.
Keep playing military sims, ya never know when you might need a hobby skill in real life, kind of like Linux....
This is outdated information even based on the kernel I am using (2.12-35), Samba 2.0.5. Even if they were right at that moment in time, we keep moving at a pace faster than NT. And I have an upgrade to Samba 2.0.6 due today.
The hardware they use is outlandishly beyond the budget of most of us poor mutts. I cant get NT to even work any kind of fast on my P133/16M as I can with Linux. Good to know that NT will work great with a super-fast processor(s) with lots of memory.
I had read about this before and the only thing that comes to mind is:
If they condition an entire generation to accept this nonsense then later on they wont question it when applying for jobs, apartments, and so on. This society is reaching the point that the conspiracy nuts began to seem more sane than the government and other "authority" figures. It smacks to me as desparately trying to control what you cannot control anymore.
After all, we have managed to lose the war on Drugs, we are winning the war on Poverty by making more poor people.:)
The world was in trouble point wise by move 11 when they ignored the treatened fork from the knight to king and rook and pressed on with the queen move. They recovered well enough to be 3 pieces ahead but GK whittled it down and advanced/protected his pawns on his right/blacks left where he could get another queen and do attrition on the black major pieces. The resignation was inevitable.
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try lba32 in your lilo.conf
More like 149 if you drop the RESV,DUPL and NOTA's
(Resolved, Duplicate, Not A Bug)
Greeks and democracy Athens, etc al
Italy and lawyers(?) Rome
Egypt and divine right(monarchy) Ancient Egypt
Egypt and monotheism (religion) Ancient Eygpt
Pharoah Akhnaton, I believe.
The English could patent English until the
Germans and the Scandinavians proved prior
art derivatives and the whole thing would be shot
to hell by the heirs of the Indo-Aryan language
group (India)when they would step in.
And all those pesky nation-states that invented
agriculture.
And which ever one has the record now for the
oldest know civilization. civilization
And if you believe in evolution, the Africans
could patent being human and claim the Human
Genome as theirs. And arent we breaking the
law by reverse engineering DNA.
If all this were possible the lawyers would be
drooling, the rest of us would laugh so we
wouldnt cry and ponder voluntary extinction
of the species.
I personally hope there arent any aliens out
there. They might blockade/quarantine us,
drop a rock in the sun or sell tickets.
"Look zigik#$5, they are at it again!"
Until the Industrial Revolution hit everyone
either worked at home or worked from home.
The farmer left the farm to work his fields,
the blacksmith walked from his house to his
smithy, other crafts people lived above their
shops.
The main obstacle to telecommuting is old-style
management. The technology exists already today,
the cost savings are evident. But a PHB feels
socially useless unless he cant face-to-face
manage.
I have been working from home since Dec, 1999
and will miss it very much if I have to switch
back. Prior to that I did work at home part-time
as a sysadmin (yes, even sysadmins can do this).
Unless you have to kick a machine in the ribs
physically, everything can be done from remote.
For the PHB it is all about control, and the
cost savings also includes needing less
management. They will fight that tooth, nail,
and claw.
The final caveat of course is, not everyone
can do this. Some people will always need
supervision and interaction in order to
function.
While I am not a libertarian, nor belong to the
NRA, lets look at the fourth article of the
second Amendment in it's historical perspective.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
There was no National Guard back then, the people
were the Militia, and vice versa. People that
joined the Militia were required to furnish their
own weapons, since military stocks were in short
supply or non-existent. The government needed
people to defend the State and thus encouraged
the right of the people to bear Arms. That meant
flintlocks and muskets in those days. The signers
of the Constitution would have consider the
M16/AK47 as being the equivalent to muskets in their day. They would have considered a 9mm the equivalent of a flintlock. A current day shotgun
or hunting rifle would have been viewed as a
pike or club, usefull but inadequate in the long
run.
We dont live in those times anymore, we no longer
have a Revolutionary government. An established
government with no fears of external invasion
will automatically seek to limit the means of
the populace to revolt sucessfully. It is only
common sense. It reduces trouble to manageable
levels.
England having lost many colonies thru time has
placed many restictions on their population that
we would not and should not accept. The right
to bear arms is not a God given right but is
defined in the Constitution and is fought over
and redefined as we go along.
On a side note, guns do not kill people, people
kill. Far more people have been killed by axe,
club,sword,spear,rock,bare hands,poison than
any gun, if you look at the historical numbers.
Any person that thinks that they need a gun to
kill, lacks imagination. A gun is a distance
weapon, much like a bomber. The people that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
from a distance were abstracted from the fact that
they wiped out about 130,000 people in one fell
swoop.
And yes I do own weapons, not just guns.
Everything can be a weapon if properly used.
Henri J. Schlereth
Additionally, I would like to say that all
human interactions are by design abstract.
We are all ultimately isolated within the
body, and my brain is pretty happy with any form
of outside contact, books, music, videos, games,
occasional people. Before, the Internet I didnt
like most people I met so I didnt bother, now
I have met some people I REALLY loath. (grin)
But also people I like.
Henri
"The Geezer Geek"
In Germany they have a saying,
"Never trust a statistic you havent forged
yourself"
I want all the games I have to play on Linux not
just the O/S of lack of choice. I want all the
games that other people play and I hate to
play on Linux too.
Why settle for less? I have an entire rack of
games that force me to run a win95/dos
partition when I want to unstress from sysadmin
work.
We should have the same choices as everyone else,
even including such horrible ugly games as...
well that's subjective so fill in the blank
in your mind.
I havent bought any new games yet because of the
lack of Linux choices (that's just on the ones/
type I like mind you now). There are some games
out there but I decide last year to stop buying
Evil Empire dependent software of any kind.
We want 'em all!
Henri
When they banned cigarette smoking I responded by not going to restaurants, public events, etc.
When clubs charged me $5.00 to come in and told me I couldnt come in wearing what I was wearing I stopped going to those places. "You mean you are going to charge me five bucks and then tell me what I can wear?"
I have boycotted Amazon as well. I always vote with my feet and my dollars.
With the DVD thing I refuse to buy any DVD device of any kind, or any DVD's.
Boycotts are actually simple, you want me money you have to cater to my needs not tell me what I want or what to do.
There is a difference between want and need.
You need water to live, you only want DVD's.
Hey fuck nut! You must have read at least
the index to decide to post. I got my flame
proof asbesto long johns, on so do your worst.
Wanna make something of it? I got tired of
you shits about two weeks ago.
I think everyone should be able to say their
piece but at least have enough guts to stand
by your words with your name.
You are probably the reason that your parents
should have used birth control or never have
met.
With fondest regards,
Aint anything new, boys and girls. Usenet/UUCP
was full of it from the beginning. Do you think
people change that much because they have a
new toy?
I like Jon Katz. I dont always agree with him
but I rarely agree with the Leaf by Niggle people.
(Tolkien reference)
The English language is constantly evolving, if
you understood it enough to be outraged or annoyed,you still understood it.
(Please note that I am usually guilty of
compunded sentences, but that is a product of
my German upbringing)
I read all the posts and some are good, sharp and
disagreeing and others well....
My mother always said if you cant say anything
nice, dont say anything at all. For this email
I will listen to her.
Usenet has been around a lot longer than DNS
(back when people only used a hosts file) and
the surge of email and the need for blocking of
that spam thru tightened rules and MAPS/RBL/ORBS
stuff.
For us old farts when they announce an active
UDP after a year(365 days) of trying to get
@home to get their excreta together that means
Usenet as a community/group has had enough.
Participation in a UDP is voluntary but generally
unanimous. This is not about censorship but about
"Until you can put your affairs in order we will
leave you alone, to let you work this out. When
you are ready to be part of the community again
we will welcome you with open arms".
A UDP is really a serious indication that the ISP hasnt tried or was/is unwilling to try and fix the
problem. And that every attempt was made to help
them and alert them to this problem that was
affecting everyone else.
Would it take you a year to fix a bug in your
system?
It always strikes me as real funny that here in
America they tout sex from toot-paste to cars.
But when I buy a Playboy in Germany I can see
nipples on the front cover but not on a Playboy
made in America. I always LOL since 1974.
Darn, I miss all that fun. I am usually ahead
of the RedHat Distro on quite a few proggies
like Kernel,Bind,Samba,Sendmail, Fetchmail and generally wind up doing an RPM upgrade so I miss all the fun. Been that way since RH4.2 and havent gotten the text uipgrade ever to work right.
But at least I have the option to do the RPM
upgrade. Of course I miss the smb network
install that disappeared, and the NFS one has
gotten flaky lately.
Sorry that was actually
/dev/hda1
dd if=boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
not
my bad!
I had to recently (on my only dual boot Linux/W95) /MBR from DOS. It is a long story involving copying the W95 drive to a newer
box do a fdisk
bigger HD (more room for games!). Immediatly I
was locked out of the Linux partition. After I
got the Windoze HD fixed and setup, I used a
trusty mkbootdisk created disk to boot back
into Linux and ran:
dd if=boot.0300 of=/dev/hda1 bs=446 count=1
and presto instant dual boot box again!
Take that MS!
PS. Powerquest Drive Copy works great on
Windoze drives.
Heh. Guess they havent heard yet about....
Tele-commuting!
I always amuses me to hear people talk about how
we have put ourselves outside of Natural Selection. Then I go read about the earthquakes,
floods, fires, snow storms, tornados, hurricanes,
that still manage to naturally "select"
people out of the gene pool.
Nature is not done with us yet, even though we
may delude ourselves that we are done with
Nature.
I disagree. I grew up in Europe and have seen
violent protests in Germany in person and seen
violent protests in other places including France
on TV. The French may have evolved into peaceful
protests now but that has not always been the
case. Check your history.
Consider the following, we broke the law often
an with intent when we revolted against England
in the 1700's. Sometimes you have to "break" an
unjust law in order to get justice. You can
write these people off as thugs and hooligans and
clueless. People that destroyed property and
did illegal things.
Now how different is that from the "Boston Tea
Party"? We did that too.
The British are indeed comming, what will you do?
You must have used Babelfish for the title,
it is supposed to be Ich bin ein Deutscher!
Aber Ich bin ein Franke! Danke!
State censorship in Germany still allows you to
buy pornography, and legally drink at an age that
would toss you in jail here. Prostitution is also
legal. The EU doesnt mess with the internal
domestic policies of their member nations.
I was surprised when I returned to the USA that I
had to wait till I was 18 to drink beer and how
intrusive our religious groups are here.
There was a rumour (during the Cold War) the
the Russions were buying up mailling address
lists of anybody that subscribed to war-game
magazines. The theory was that these would be
the people they would add to their immediate
arrest list upon taking over the USA. Because
these people (incl. myself) would be most likely
able to organize armed resistance and lead/direct
guerilla forces in action. While a person that
plays military sims doesnt really have the
real-life experience, they would have some
knowledge on how to conduct operations and would
be more likely to quickly learn how to apply
theory to practice (trial by fire) and survive
to become a threat.
Keep playing military sims, ya never know when
you might need a hobby skill in real life, kind
of like Linux....
This is outdated information even based on the
kernel I am using (2.12-35), Samba 2.0.5. Even if
they were right at that moment in time, we keep
moving at a pace faster than NT. And I have
an upgrade to Samba 2.0.6 due today.
The hardware they use is outlandishly beyond the budget of most of us poor mutts. I cant get NT
to even work any kind of fast on my P133/16M
as I can with Linux. Good to know that NT will
work great with a super-fast processor(s) with
lots of memory.
Less is more!
I had read about this before and the only thing
:)
that comes to mind is:
If they condition an entire generation to
accept this nonsense then later on they wont
question it when applying for jobs, apartments,
and so on. This society is reaching the point
that the conspiracy nuts began to seem more
sane than the government and other "authority"
figures. It smacks to me as desparately trying
to control what you cannot control anymore.
After all, we have managed to lose the war on
Drugs, we are winning the war on Poverty by
making more poor people.
And now the War of the Different!
The world was in trouble point wise by move 11 when they ignored the treatened fork from the knight to king and rook and pressed on with the queen move. They recovered well enough to be 3 pieces ahead but GK whittled it down and advanced/protected his pawns on his right/blacks left where he could get another queen and do attrition on the black major pieces. The resignation was inevitable.