I was happy to see Vance Brand, of Apollo Soyuz fame as well as the backup CMP for Apollo 15, listed as active. I was hoping to find John Young but I forgot that he retired 2 years ago.
I am writing to formally complain about the abusive behavior of Mr. Jerry A. Taylor, one of your highest profile City Managers. As of this morning's publication of an Information Technology news service titled Slashdot (see links below), I can assure you that he (and, by association, your town of Tuttle, Oklahoma) is the topic of derisive conversations throughout the entire computing systems world. Quite frankly, Mr. Taylor's alleged "22 years in computer systems engineering and operation," his unwillingness to consider the advice of professional peers, his inability to comprehend simple systems documentation, and his hair-trigger willingness to contact the FBI whenever your town suffers WEB server configuration issues, cast great doubts in regard to both Tuttle's IT infrastructure, as well as your town's slogan: "The Place Where People Grow Up - Friendly!" This is very bad publicity, Mr. Paxton. Until this morning, it's true that hardly anyone outside of Oklahoma knew where Tuttle even was. However, now millions of people know about Tuttle for all the wrong reasons. As a consequence, I am only half joking when I state that I would hardly be surprised to see your town spoofed without mercy on an upcoming episode of The Daily Show, for example. This is THAT big an issue.
In any event, I must commend the representative from CentOS.org, Mr. Johnny Hughes. Time and time again, as Mr. Taylor become increasingly impossible to deal with, as Mr. Taylor's words became more and more threatening (at one point, Mr. Taylor went so far as to report that "I have no fear of the media, in fact I welcome this publicity" - a statement which I believe he will soon regret, if he doesn't already), Mr. Hughes remained both patient and calm and did everything he could -- and I can't state this with enough emphasis, even though this was clearly neither an issue with CentOS.org, nor Mr. Hughes -- to help resolve Mr. Taylor's problem.
I use CentOS on a daily basis and I am positively grateful for the philanthropic efforts of this superhuman organization. I am extremely disappointed with your office because Mr. Hughes clearly did not deserve Mr. Taylor's unmindful harassment. To resolve this injustice, at the very least, I encourage you to prevail upon Mr. Taylor to publicly acknowledge an admission of discourtesy toward both CentOS.org and Mr. Hughes himself, accompanied by a written expression of regret. Your town should consider itself fortunate that CentOS.org, to date, has not issued you an invoice for payment of software technical support.
Thanks very much for your attention. I sincerely wish that we could be communicating under much more favorable conditions.
This is interesting. We have a 1600 CPU Linux cluster and we recently did an envelope calculation in regard to how much a single CPU hour would cost (based on initial investment, admin salaries, number of CPUs, projected number of processed jobs, projected end-of-life duration, etc) and we came up with $0.09/hour.
You are fucking kidding me? I have to wait until Jan of 2006? If so, then it's true what everybody says: I live in such a 54th rate country, it's not even funny. I live in the English-Speaking, North-American, Third World. For the remainder of this post I will attempt to control my shattered emotions...
Who, I wonder, is responsible for this decision? What are the economics/politics behind such a decision? What are the advantages/angles? How exactly has my federal government failed me, this time? This can't just be a CanCon issue -- the damned show is filmed in Vancouver, for Christ's sake, and Canadians probably make up 75% of the cast/crew... And it's not like Space Channel has anything else going for it. What gives?
Anyone in the Biz know about such things?
In the meantime, I limp through the remainder of my work day, absolutely devastated. My productivity has dipped to less than the square root of zero.
I am deeply concerned about the copyright legislation your government intends to introduce. It's all over the Internet. I find it interesting that the international community is also discussing the consequences of this Canadian bill. Please see this link, for a thorough discussion:
As far as most voting individuals are concerned, the entire entertainment industry (especially the movie and music divisions) is, pure and simple, an institution of greed. They grossly overestimate their total contribution to society. They especially overestimate the value of their products. And, what's worse, they gravely underestimate, and consequently insult, the intelligence of their consumers.
As such, I have absolutely no intention of increasing neither their economic subsidy nor political support. And I am not at all interested in seeing this legislation go forward. It's bad enough that every time my company purchases a package of blank CDs or DVDs, your government assumes I intent to use them to pirate movies and music, and I am subsequently taxed for this blanket misconception. Just maybe we are using this media to archive the one and only asset which keeps my company in business -- that is to say, DATA. Our data. Which has, to the astonishment of the entertainment industry, nothing to do with them.
In closing, I ask you this: if this legislation passes, will your government repeal the blank CD/DVD tax? I am betting that you will not.
Please, I ask you to consider defeating this legislation. There are so many more important problems which deserve your immediate and full attention. The entertainment industry, regardless of the size and wealth of its many powerful lobbies, simply shouldn't rank in comparison.
Sorry, pal. No personal offense intended. However, correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, proofreading, and proper sentence syntax (ie. capital letters at the beginning of the first word of each sentence) often get people professional jobs, too.
I hope that they didn't ask you to submit a couple of sample emails or/. postings.
Then again, what do I know? Maybe you only had like 15 seconds to type/submit the above posting.
... and, if CanCon had its way, 700,000 other Canadian classics (by 6 other well-known bands).
Oh well, at least I can use this to top up my Glenn Gould collection.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that we are interested in gig copper. We are exclusively interested in gig copper. And, as far as anyone has told me, we don't care about HIPPI compliance.
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot to end with the phrase 'nuff said. On the bright side, at least you didn't start out by asking "Am I the only one who thinks that...?"
Thanks very much for completely missing the entire point.
Which free tools would you rather suggest? I am sincerely interested.
If you can't win their hearts and minds, just, you know, cook them...
I was happy to see Vance Brand, of Apollo Soyuz fame as well as the backup CMP for Apollo 15, listed as active. I was hoping to find John Young but I forgot that he retired 2 years ago.
Dear Mayor Lonnie Paxton:
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I am writing to formally complain about the abusive behavior of Mr. Jerry A. Taylor, one of your highest profile City Managers. As of this morning's publication of an Information Technology news service titled Slashdot (see links below), I can assure you that he (and, by association, your town of Tuttle, Oklahoma) is the topic of derisive conversations throughout the entire computing systems world. Quite frankly, Mr. Taylor's alleged "22 years in computer systems engineering and operation," his unwillingness to consider the advice of professional peers, his inability to comprehend simple systems documentation, and his hair-trigger willingness to contact the FBI whenever your town suffers WEB server configuration issues, cast great doubts in regard to both Tuttle's IT infrastructure, as well as your town's slogan: "The Place Where People Grow Up - Friendly!" This is very bad publicity, Mr. Paxton. Until this morning, it's true that hardly anyone outside of Oklahoma knew where Tuttle even was. However, now millions of people know about Tuttle for all the wrong reasons. As a consequence, I am only half joking when I state that I would hardly be surprised to see your town spoofed without mercy on an upcoming episode of The Daily Show, for example. This is THAT big an issue.
In any event, I must commend the representative from CentOS.org, Mr. Johnny Hughes. Time and time again, as Mr. Taylor become increasingly impossible to deal with, as Mr. Taylor's words became more and more threatening (at one point, Mr. Taylor went so far as to report that "I have no fear of the media, in fact I welcome this publicity" - a statement which I believe he will soon regret, if he doesn't already), Mr. Hughes remained both patient and calm and did everything he could -- and I can't state this with enough emphasis, even though this was clearly neither an issue with CentOS.org, nor Mr. Hughes -- to help resolve Mr. Taylor's problem.
I use CentOS on a daily basis and I am positively grateful for the philanthropic efforts of this superhuman organization. I am extremely disappointed with your office because Mr. Hughes clearly did not deserve Mr. Taylor's unmindful harassment. To resolve this injustice, at the very least, I encourage you to prevail upon Mr. Taylor to publicly acknowledge an admission of discourtesy toward both CentOS.org and Mr. Hughes himself, accompanied by a written expression of regret. Your town should consider itself fortunate that CentOS.org, to date, has not issued you an invoice for payment of software technical support.
Thanks very much for your attention. I sincerely wish that we could be communicating under much more favorable conditions.
For your reference, here are some links referred to earlier:
Original story posted on Slashdot:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/27
What is Slashdot and how large is it's following in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
CentOS's coverage of the abuse:
http://wwwf.centos.org/127_story.html?storyid=127
What CentOS is:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.p
What LINUX is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Yours Sincerely,
This is interesting. We have a 1600 CPU Linux cluster and we recently did an envelope calculation in regard to how much a single CPU hour would cost (based on initial investment, admin salaries, number of CPUs, projected number of processed jobs, projected end-of-life duration, etc) and we came up with $0.09/hour.
You are fucking kidding me? I have to wait until Jan of 2006? If so, then it's true what everybody says: I live in such a 54th rate country, it's not even funny. I live in the English-Speaking, North-American, Third World. For the remainder of this post I will attempt to control my shattered emotions...
Who, I wonder, is responsible for this decision? What are the economics/politics behind such a decision? What are the advantages/angles? How exactly has my federal government failed me, this time? This can't just be a CanCon issue -- the damned show is filmed in Vancouver, for Christ's sake, and Canadians probably make up 75% of the cast/crew... And it's not like Space Channel has anything else going for it. What gives?
Anyone in the Biz know about such things?
In the meantime, I limp through the remainder of my work day, absolutely devastated. My productivity has dipped to less than the square root of zero.
Um, I'm an English Major, too. However, at my school, they taught us how to use 'its' correctly.
Dear Hon. MP:
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I am deeply concerned about the copyright legislation your government intends to introduce. It's all over the Internet. I find it interesting that the international community is also discussing the consequences of this Canadian bill. Please see this link, for a thorough discussion:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/1
As far as most voting individuals are concerned, the entire entertainment industry (especially the movie and music divisions) is, pure and simple, an institution of greed. They grossly overestimate their total contribution to society. They especially overestimate the value of their products. And, what's worse, they gravely underestimate, and consequently insult, the intelligence of their consumers.
As such, I have absolutely no intention of increasing neither their economic subsidy nor political support. And I am not at all interested in seeing this legislation go forward. It's bad enough that every time my company purchases a package of blank CDs or DVDs, your government assumes I intent to use them to pirate movies and music, and I am subsequently taxed for this blanket misconception. Just maybe we are using this media to archive the one and only asset which keeps my company in business -- that is to say, DATA. Our data. Which has, to the astonishment of the entertainment industry, nothing to do with them.
In closing, I ask you this: if this legislation passes, will your government repeal the blank CD/DVD tax? I am betting that you will not.
Please, I ask you to consider defeating this legislation. There are so many more important problems which deserve your immediate and full attention. The entertainment industry, regardless of the size and wealth of its many powerful lobbies, simply shouldn't rank in comparison.
Thank you very much for your attention,
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Sorry, pal. No personal offense intended. However, correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, proofreading, and proper sentence syntax (ie. capital letters at the beginning of the first word of each sentence) often get people professional jobs, too.
/. postings.
I hope that they didn't ask you to submit a couple of sample emails or
Then again, what do I know? Maybe you only had like 15 seconds to type/submit the above posting.
... and, if CanCon had its way, 700,000 other Canadian classics (by 6 other well-known bands). Oh well, at least I can use this to top up my Glenn Gould collection.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that we are interested in gig copper. We are exclusively interested in gig copper. And, as far as anyone has told me, we don't care about HIPPI compliance.