I don't mean to speak for awhelan, but I am a staunch libertarian and I mostly agree with him.
You should understand that libertarians aren't anarchists. I think that cooperation is great*. Coercion is bad. A Union ("federal") government that operates way out of its constitutional bounds is bad. Local cooperation, even through the office of a governmental body, is good.
I would be against my city providing free Internet access outside of, say, a city park or a library. (In fact, the Denver Public Library provides fee-based WiFi, which annoys me.) On the other hand, I think that a community has the right to make this sort of decision within the bounds of libertarianism.
Also, as a tangentially related note, I think that the corporate protection that business get is a huge problem. I think that corporations have (governmentally imposed) advantages that put the market out of balance.
-Peter
*I have contributed to several Free Software projects, a Free textbook project, and currently run my own Free Curriculum project. Capitalism doesn't have to mean crass consumerism.
Great. I live in the city and county (or is it covnty?) of Denver. Not in the boondocks; in the city proper.
Quest won't sell me DSL. I live in a place CALLED THE TECH CENTER, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
I'm a little frustrated.
Oh, and they tried REALLY hard to fuck me on a repair charge last time I had a land line. It is a Scientifically verifiable fact that Qwest is teh suck.
Magic bacteria that aren't bound by conservation of mass.
Neat.
Am I the only one that thinks that the point of April Fools is to try to catch someone off guard? By the time you post 37 bullshit stories all you are doing is being annoying. This new thing with posting think geek stuff over and over is particularly annoying.
On the other hand, I've been here long enough to realize that I'm not going to influence the editors.
The point is that formatting isn't a coat of paint, it is inherently part of the data. Being able to snarf the ASCII out of a Word document isn't the same not losing your data.
There is no "formatted" version of my example. The point is that it could be meaningful with some formatting, and is meaningless without it.
As to your HTML comments, another user pointed out that Word cannot and does not export HTML, though it does create files with the extension.htm that are usually readable by Internet Explorer.
But that is completely off irrelevant, since we are talking about.doc. If you don't have a legal.doc reader, you can't export, can you?
You also might look up the word algorithm. It doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.
You should re-read the page. I didn't ask for a Linux-based utility. What I asked for is one that doesn't require me to buy Windows or a Mac. Most flash utilities are DOS based. I own a copy of DOS. There are free clones of DOS, so they could make a bootable floppy image downloadable from their page.
In fact, they do just that for their SCSI drives.
I don't recall what the "system requirements" on the box were. If we suppose that they require windows that's fine, they are well within their rights. But I am well within my rights to express my dissatisfaction, and to warn other people who may not want to use Windows not to buy their products.
As a side note, I used to work in tech support. I fully appreciate the need for companies to enforce their support boundaries. I don't see this as being in conflict with my dissatisfaction with them tying their flash utility to an operating system that costs a couple hundred dollars.
I'm the kind of cheap bastard that uses lamp cord for speaker wire. (I tin the ends, which makes all the difference.)
BUT, I did buy a monster cable for my bass. Instrument cables get the crap kicked out of them, and the cable has a "life time warranty". We have yet to see how that goes when the cable starts to go.
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This is a problem easily solved with a model M and a dishwasher.
-Peter
I don't mean to speak for awhelan, but I am a staunch libertarian and I mostly agree with him.
You should understand that libertarians aren't anarchists. I think that cooperation is great*. Coercion is bad. A Union ("federal") government that operates way out of its constitutional bounds is bad. Local cooperation, even through the office of a governmental body, is good.
I would be against my city providing free Internet access outside of, say, a city park or a library. (In fact, the Denver Public Library provides fee-based WiFi, which annoys me.) On the other hand, I think that a community has the right to make this sort of decision within the bounds of libertarianism.
Also, as a tangentially related note, I think that the corporate protection that business get is a huge problem. I think that corporations have (governmentally imposed) advantages that put the market out of balance.
-Peter
*I have contributed to several Free Software projects, a Free textbook project, and currently run my own Free Curriculum project. Capitalism doesn't have to mean crass consumerism.
You come of rather snarky for someone who doesn't know the difference between then and than.
-Peter
Keep talking like that and you're going to find yourself elected to public office.
-Peter
Great. I live in the city and county (or is it covnty?) of Denver. Not in the boondocks; in the city proper.
Quest won't sell me DSL. I live in a place CALLED THE TECH CENTER, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
I'm a little frustrated.
Oh, and they tried REALLY hard to fuck me on a repair charge last time I had a land line. It is a Scientifically verifiable fact that Qwest is teh suck.
-Peter
I think the stronger defence of the act is that it doesn't say what people think and fear it says for the most part.
The fact that it has only been abused minimally to date is small comfort.
-Peter
You must have stopped by my web page. I used to link to the JPFO in my sig, but that's been some time.
For anyone else reading, the JPFO is an organization that supports all the bill of rights for all citizens. Check 'em out!
-Peter
That's exactly the sort of thinking that made this country great.
More bread! More circuses!
-Peter
PS: I live in Denver. I didn't want the stadium either. (Especially with that atrocious name.) I would enjoy the WiFi, but I oppose it politically.
None of the agents could be reached for comment, as they were all busy arresting eachother citing the Patriot Act and the DMCA.
-Peter
Wow, eight replies.
But no one got it right. The correct reply is, "Mother's damn cookies!"
-Peter
It has moved to more classified levels.
I'd go into more detail, but the C.I.A. and C.I.D are at my door. Ooh, the B.A.T.F. just pulled up in a Mother's Cookies truck!
-Peter
You know, just this morning I was thinking that it was a nice day for an arms race.
-Peter
Magic bacteria that aren't bound by conservation of mass.
Neat.
Am I the only one that thinks that the point of April Fools is to try to catch someone off guard? By the time you post 37 bullshit stories all you are doing is being annoying. This new thing with posting think geek stuff over and over is particularly annoying.
On the other hand, I've been here long enough to realize that I'm not going to influence the editors.
-Peter
Who knows how to decode a 1000 year old radio signal?
USE A COVER STONE.
-Peter
When I first read this it seemed like hollow marketing hype. Then I remembered Tiger's renowned driver skills.
Man, I made myself groan with that one.
-Peter
Cookie?
A guy who came to Fight Club for the first time, his ass was a wad . . . damn it, I took it too far.
Anyway, yeah, it's a great flick. It is one of my all time favorite films. Sick desparation is my favorite motif.
-Peter
Pistol? I'd never carry a pistol. There are only two handgun cartridges worth discussing. S&W .44 magnum, and S&W .357 magnum.
.44 is ideal for home and vehicle use, while .357 is perfect for carry.
Each has its place.
What's the controversy?
-Peter
I showed this already to my man over here. You liked it, didn't ya?
-Peter
Male computer hitter seeking female computer sweet-talker for a co-dependent relationship.
-Peter
Right. Just like Social Security.
-Peter
You have spectacularly missed my point.
.htm that are usually readable by Internet Explorer.
.doc. If you don't have a legal .doc reader, you can't export, can you?
The point is that formatting isn't a coat of paint, it is inherently part of the data. Being able to snarf the ASCII out of a Word document isn't the same not losing your data.
There is no "formatted" version of my example. The point is that it could be meaningful with some formatting, and is meaningless without it.
As to your HTML comments, another user pointed out that Word cannot and does not export HTML, though it does create files with the extension
But that is completely off irrelevant, since we are talking about
You also might look up the word algorithm. It doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.
-Peter
You should re-read the page. I didn't ask for a Linux-based utility. What I asked for is one that doesn't require me to buy Windows or a Mac. Most flash utilities are DOS based. I own a copy of DOS. There are free clones of DOS, so they could make a bootable floppy image downloadable from their page.
In fact, they do just that for their SCSI drives.
I don't recall what the "system requirements" on the box were. If we suppose that they require windows that's fine, they are well within their rights. But I am well within my rights to express my dissatisfaction, and to warn other people who may not want to use Windows not to buy their products.
As a side note, I used to work in tech support. I fully appreciate the need for companies to enforce their support boundaries. I don't see this as being in conflict with my dissatisfaction with them tying their flash utility to an operating system that costs a couple hundred dollars.
-Peter
I know that schools are "special" in just about every way, but have you paused to consider who the customer is in this situation?
-Peter
You are reaching. If there is semantic meaning in the formatting data are lost.
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this one and this one are true.
this one and this one are false.
All of my ASCII characters are here, but my data have been lost.
-Peter
I'm the kind of cheap bastard that uses lamp cord for speaker wire. (I tin the ends, which makes all the difference.)
BUT, I did buy a monster cable for my bass. Instrument cables get the crap kicked out of them, and the cable has a "life time warranty". We have yet to see how that goes when the cable starts to go.
-Peter