Whether or not you agree with the government doing this, feeling as if you are personally threatened by it is pretty unreasonable. The government has many high and low profile criminals to violate the rights of before they move on to the average citizen who may have some beliefs that are perceived as threatening to government or society.
That isn't to say we should ignore questionable acts on the part of our government, but we should be realistic about their implictions. The right to privacy is an important one, but that does not mean we should expect to never have to take steps to protect it ourselves.
So-called sciences like sociology rely, at the core on pure subjectivity. Economics, at the very least, breaks down to variables that are quantifiable, even if they can be difficult to measure accurately.
This is really a packaging issue. Compare DragonFly to a FreeBSD mini-iso or the Bonzai Debian installer.
Most people seem to prefer not to use the packages from the FreeBSD install CDs as they tend to be outdated. Generally speaking, I stay away from packages as things can get pretty screwed up when you mix them with ports.
Including a ports snapshot would be nice though, if for no other reason than to take a chunk of the time off the initial cvsup.
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Whether or not you agree with the government doing this, feeling as if you are personally threatened by it is pretty unreasonable. The government has many high and low profile criminals to violate the rights of before they move on to the average citizen who may have some beliefs that are perceived as threatening to government or society.
That isn't to say we should ignore questionable acts on the part of our government, but we should be realistic about their implictions. The right to privacy is an important one, but that does not mean we should expect to never have to take steps to protect it ourselves.
So-called sciences like sociology rely, at the core on pure subjectivity. Economics, at the very least, breaks down to variables that are quantifiable, even if they can be difficult to measure accurately.
Why is this under YRO? It seems like if it's not under Main, Books would be the most appropriate section.
I would rather hear the drill than the crap they usually play in dentists' offices.
This is really a packaging issue. Compare DragonFly to a FreeBSD mini-iso or the Bonzai Debian installer.
Most people seem to prefer not to use the packages from the FreeBSD install CDs as they tend to be outdated. Generally speaking, I stay away from packages as things can get pretty screwed up when you mix them with ports.
Including a ports snapshot would be nice though, if for no other reason than to take a chunk of the time off the initial cvsup.
I thought it was only as a package/port...
- DOES NOT INSTALL A TEXT-BASED BROWSER OR WGET.
Neither does FreeBSD. I'd imagine NetBSD and OpenBSD don't either.