Governments don't have rights, they have powers. Governments don't have any intrinsic right to not be deprived of powers. Conversely, citizens do have intrinsic rights, like a right to self defense. Therefore, and argument like "guns don't kill people, people do" is valid when discussing an individual right, but your argument is not a valid defense of a governmental power.
Not to mention that in any situation where the U.S. government had the will and power to begin seizing firearms, firearms would be useless as a tool of resistance, with or without a registry. Ask David Koresh.
I think your generalization of what happened at Mt. Carmel to be over-broad. You are correct as long as the government is able to convince "the people" that this is an isolated thing to protect them from an "evil" person. In this case it is only the "gun nuts" who are upset. (Witness that an agent of the US government can shoot a woman, armed only with an infant, dead with no public outcry.) OTOH, it is my opinion that a large percentage of LEOs and servicemen would "turn on their masters" so to speak in any radical oppression. Also consider that there are many times more armed citizens than there are LEOs and servicemen combined.
This is actually very relevant to my main point. A registry allows a government a much better opportunity to confiscate firearms quitely, and starting with the most "subversive" (a.k.a. "freedom loving") citizens. "Boiling the frog" as the saying goes.
Contrast this with a policy of confiscation without a registry. It can only be effectively implemented in ways that are repugnant to all of the citizenry. This is an advantage in the defense of freedom.
Finally, since I am way off topic anyway . . . it is important to understand that "instant background checks" and such amount to registries. That is why people who genuinely want to preserve our 2nd amendment rights are opposed to them. They are not a "harmless means of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals" as their proponents would have you belive.
-Peter
PS: If any of this makes sense or is interesting to you please check out Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership. The are a fantastic organization and are well spoken proponents of ALL the Bill of Rights for ALL citizens.
At the risk of provoking an invocation of Godwin's Law, please read the proud history of using gun registries as a means of implementing "public safety" before you become to enamored of the idea.
more than one group is trying to organize a boycott
Everyone who has installed SCO (any type or version) in the last year raise your hand.
I don't think there is much of a point in boycotting a company who has clearly turned away from producting anything and now simply exists to litigate based on its IP.
All common "Linux" distros use more lines of GNU code than Linux code to create a functioning OS. There are Linux systems out there that aren't GNU based, but they are gnerally quite specialized and are almost exclusively embedded systems.
What you have observed is the fact that people who take the time and care to call them GNU/Linux systems are generally people who take the time and care to build Free systems.
It isn't the absence of non-free packages that makes a "Linux" system GNU/Linux, it is the fundamental dependence on GNU software.
How hard would it be to rip Glibc out of your Debian system then rebuild it without Gcc? (Not to mention everything from Autoconf or Bash to Time or Wget.)
Has forcing a government agency to pay (monetarily) for its mistakes, thereby forcing Congress to increase that agencies budget, ever been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the number of mistakes that the agency makes?
Always remember that from the bureaucrat's point of view it is all funny-money, and increasing his budget, even if only to allow him to cover punitive expenses, only increases his clout in Washington.
It is called a TrackPoint II or III. I find them to be far and away the best mobile pointing device. In fact, I'm probably going to get a full sized keyboard with one for "quick" mouse access while typing at the desktop.
I can't stand those pads. Won't have one. Using one instantly creates tension in my hand and forearm and results in total frustration after a few minutes.
I guess that's why they make vanilla and chocholate.
Anyway, IBM is responsible for the TrackPoint. Interestingly, the original TrackPoint was actually a track ball.
FTP supports file listing. Many HTTP servers support auto-indexing, but it really isn't the same.
It's quite a bit easier to get a bunch of files from an FTP server in many cases. "wget ftp://some.server.tld/some/directory/*.ext" can't be replicated over HTTP without some scripting against the index.
Now, YOU have to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing for your application.
"What does a period represent" "it represents pi" ergo "A period represents pi."
You can't possible mean that.
Read my original post again. I did not ask what the sig meant, I asked (to quote my whole post) "What does a period between numerals represent in a number system that does not use a consistent base?"
You seem to have some difficulty with the English language.
So, thank you for your continued efforts to explain the fact that his sig is meant to represent pi in roman numerals. You seem to feel pretty clever for figuring this out all by yourself. The fact is, however, that I felt that the fact that it was meant to be pi was so self-evident that there was no need to point out that I understood.
Now, I'm going to fill you in on what my post was actually about. The fact is that a "roman point" doesn't make any sense. (A "decimal point" is only used in decimal: base 10. A binary point is used in base 2, etc.) Since roman numerals don't use a consistent base, a "roman point" can't have any meaning. It was a rhetorical question. It was a question that has no answer, designed to bring the person being asked to this point through his own thought process. I'm surprised that you didn't pick up on this, since you use fancy Latin words like ergo and fancy rhetorical phrases like "in point of fact."
I read this article really wanting to be sympathetic to this guy and maybe learn how I could be a better "IT guy" in the eyes of end-users. Then he said:
With each advance in technology, I believe I have lost some significant chunk of my personality, some measurable portion of my soul.
What? While this might be a good line for an "A" paper in Mrs. Johnson's Creative Writing class, what the hell is the point? What is he trying to convey? If it has any meaning at all it may be that he has a persecution complex: Those IT guys are doing it to me again.
Then he laments that he was "I was handed a 53-page binder." 53 pages of reference for the primary tool he uses to do his job! Woha, now I understand . . . it doesn't get much more soul-crushing than 53 pages of documentation.
I say make this fuck-hole ink-stain his fingers on an old-fashioned typewriter and carry his copy around the building. Spell-check? Here's your new Webster's desk set.
for Squirrelmail you have to use courier imap and either courier mta or qmail.
This is totally false. I use SM with UW IMAP and Sendmail.
Why would you say that you have to use courier and/or qmail?
From the config utilty:
Each IMAP server has its own quirks. As much as we tried to stick to standards, it doesn't help much if the IMAP server doesn't follow the same principles. We have made some work-arounds for some of these servers. If you would like to use them, please select your IMAP server. If you do not wish to use these work-arounds, you can set this to "other", and none will be used.
cyrus = Cyrus IMAP server
uw = University of Washington's IMAP server
exchange = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server
courier = Courier IMAP server
macosx = Mac OS X Mailserver
other = Not one of the above servers
SquirrelMail supports ANY mail server that offers a reasonable approximation of SMTP AND can use the sendmail binary that comes with most MTAs.
On a long enough time line the life of every battery drops to zero.
I was a recall coordinator. My job was to apply the formula. Take the number of notebooks in the field, A. Multiply it by the probable rate of failure, B. Then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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While this is clever and true it isn't the point.
Governments don't have rights, they have powers. Governments don't have any intrinsic right to not be deprived of powers. Conversely, citizens do have intrinsic rights, like a right to self defense. Therefore, and argument like "guns don't kill people, people do" is valid when discussing an individual right, but your argument is not a valid defense of a governmental power.
I think your generalization of what happened at Mt. Carmel to be over-broad. You are correct as long as the government is able to convince "the people" that this is an isolated thing to protect them from an "evil" person. In this case it is only the "gun nuts" who are upset. (Witness that an agent of the US government can shoot a woman, armed only with an infant, dead with no public outcry.) OTOH, it is my opinion that a large percentage of LEOs and servicemen would "turn on their masters" so to speak in any radical oppression. Also consider that there are many times more armed citizens than there are LEOs and servicemen combined.
This is actually very relevant to my main point. A registry allows a government a much better opportunity to confiscate firearms quitely, and starting with the most "subversive" (a.k.a. "freedom loving") citizens. "Boiling the frog" as the saying goes.
Contrast this with a policy of confiscation without a registry. It can only be effectively implemented in ways that are repugnant to all of the citizenry. This is an advantage in the defense of freedom.
Finally, since I am way off topic anyway . . . it is important to understand that "instant background checks" and such amount to registries. That is why people who genuinely want to preserve our 2nd amendment rights are opposed to them. They are not a "harmless means of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals" as their proponents would have you belive.
-Peter
PS: If any of this makes sense or is interesting to you please check out Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership. The are a fantastic organization and are well spoken proponents of ALL the Bill of Rights for ALL citizens.
-P
At the risk of provoking an invocation of Godwin's Law, please read the proud history of using gun registries as a means of implementing "public safety" before you become to enamored of the idea.
-Peter
I'm sure we all remember that Eric Wright (RIP), when asked why he stows his package like that, said "for easy access, baby."
-Peter
Everyone who has installed SCO (any type or version) in the last year raise your hand.
I don't think there is much of a point in boycotting a company who has clearly turned away from producting anything and now simply exists to litigate based on its IP.
-Peter
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html for the official explanation.
All common "Linux" distros use more lines of GNU code than Linux code to create a functioning OS. There are Linux systems out there that aren't GNU based, but they are gnerally quite specialized and are almost exclusively embedded systems.
What you have observed is the fact that people who take the time and care to call them GNU/Linux systems are generally people who take the time and care to build Free systems.
-Peter
It isn't the absence of non-free packages that makes a "Linux" system GNU/Linux, it is the fundamental dependence on GNU software.
How hard would it be to rip Glibc out of your Debian system then rebuild it without Gcc? (Not to mention everything from Autoconf or Bash to Time or Wget.)
-Peter
It doesn't say that it is viewable from 165 degrees, it says there are "165 viewing angles".
:-(
It must be hard to position yourself at exactly one of those 165 descrete angles, though.
But seriously, how do you propose to view what is, for practial purposes, a two dimensional display from 90 degrees off the normal?
IOW, it is viewable from 180 degrees, but only if you point it at something that looks like the side of a camera body. Or a vertiacal line.
-Peter
Has forcing a government agency to pay (monetarily) for its mistakes, thereby forcing Congress to increase that agencies budget, ever been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the number of mistakes that the agency makes?
Always remember that from the bureaucrat's point of view it is all funny-money, and increasing his budget, even if only to allow him to cover punitive expenses, only increases his clout in Washington.
-Peter
Nor does correlation imply causation, but is that relevent?
r ies&author=&tid=§ion=&sort=1, a story entitled "Gibson to Embed Guitars with Ethernet".
:-P
See the title of the third hit at http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=gibson&op=sto
Thought you had me, didn't you?
-Peter
The article is Slashdotted, but MaGIC doesn't sound like IP to me.
Ethernet does not imply IP.
-Peter
"When she looks like she is trying to do the prime factorization of an odd, five digit number in her head keep doing exactly what you are doing."
-Peter
Very intuitive. Makes much more sense than some random keys like, say, "Page Up" and "Page Down."
-Peter
It is called a TrackPoint II or III. I find them to be far and away the best mobile pointing device. In fact, I'm probably going to get a full sized keyboard with one for "quick" mouse access while typing at the desktop.
I can't stand those pads. Won't have one. Using one instantly creates tension in my hand and forearm and results in total frustration after a few minutes.
I guess that's why they make vanilla and chocholate.
Anyway, IBM is responsible for the TrackPoint. Interestingly, the original TrackPoint was actually a track ball.
-Peter
Is there any limit to the recursion on this?
Yes. My attention span.
And . . . we just exceeded it.
-Peter
PS: Did anyone else take the "riddle inside an enigma" or whatever to be an allusion to the film "JFK"?
-P
FTP supports file listing. Many HTTP servers support auto-indexing, but it really isn't the same.
It's quite a bit easier to get a bunch of files from an FTP server in many cases. "wget ftp://some.server.tld/some/directory/*.ext" can't be replicated over HTTP without some scripting against the index.
Now, YOU have to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing for your application.
-Peter
Get your library to support a Free book! Check it out at http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython.html.
I'm told that this is being used as a HS CS text somewhere, so it seems apropriate.
-Peter
To expand what you just said:
"What does a period represent" "it represents pi" ergo "A period represents pi."
You can't possible mean that.
Read my original post again. I did not ask what the sig meant, I asked (to quote my whole post) "What does a period between numerals represent in a number system that does not use a consistent base?"
You seem to have some difficulty with the English language.
So, thank you for your continued efforts to explain the fact that his sig is meant to represent pi in roman numerals. You seem to feel pretty clever for figuring this out all by yourself. The fact is, however, that I felt that the fact that it was meant to be pi was so self-evident that there was no need to point out that I understood.
Now, I'm going to fill you in on what my post was actually about. The fact is that a "roman point" doesn't make any sense. (A "decimal point" is only used in decimal: base 10. A binary point is used in base 2, etc.) Since roman numerals don't use a consistent base, a "roman point" can't have any meaning. It was a rhetorical question. It was a question that has no answer, designed to bring the person being asked to this point through his own thought process. I'm surprised that you didn't pick up on this, since you use fancy Latin words like ergo and fancy rhetorical phrases like "in point of fact."
-Peter
Absolutely not. The GPL is terms for (re-)distribtuion.
One needn't agree to the terms to use the software in any way. Therefore, by definition, it is not an End User License Agreement.
-Peter
Was there something about my post that made you think I didn't know that?
Is the fact that it is supposed to be pi somehow relevent to the question?
-Peter
What does a period between numerals represent in a number system that does not use a consistent base?
-Peter
Well, a lot of us never click links directly on /. anyway.
I've seen that goat sex receiver guy enough times for this lifetime, thanks.
-Peter
What? While this might be a good line for an "A" paper in Mrs. Johnson's Creative Writing class, what the hell is the point? What is he trying to convey? If it has any meaning at all it may be that he has a persecution complex: Those IT guys are doing it to me again.
Then he laments that he was "I was handed a 53-page binder." 53 pages of reference for the primary tool he uses to do his job! Woha, now I understand . . . it doesn't get much more soul-crushing than 53 pages of documentation.
I say make this fuck-hole ink-stain his fingers on an old-fashioned typewriter and carry his copy around the building. Spell-check? Here's your new Webster's desk set.
I keep seeing stuff about new BeOS variants on the street, but the most "official" thing I have heard is that Palm owns it.
What gives. Are these rouge distros or what?
Are they legal? Is there any reason to belive that Palm won't pull the plug on any variants out there at any given time?
I'm sincerly trying to understand the situation. Links are appricated.
-Peter
This is totally false. I use SM with UW IMAP and Sendmail.
Why would you say that you have to use courier and/or qmail?
From the config utilty:
SquirrelMail supports ANY mail server that offers a reasonable approximation of SMTP AND can use the sendmail binary that comes with most MTAs.
-Peter
On a long enough time line the life of every battery drops to zero.
I was a recall coordinator. My job was to apply the formula. Take the number of notebooks in the field, A. Multiply it by the probable rate of failure, B. Then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
"Are there a lot of these kind of failures?"
You wouldn't believe.
"Which computer company do you work for?"
A major one.
-Peter
Very . . . modern art.