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The exception is that if you own in a piece of property without direct access to the public road network, you can sign a special contract with the owner of the surrounding land that makes it illegal for him to remove the road leading to your propery. If I'm not mistaken, the owner of the surrounding property is allowed to share some of the cost of maintaining the road with the other owner.
If taxation is theft, you should refuse to pay taxes, but if you do, the repo men will come and invade your property, at which time you will be forced to defend yourself and your propery, which will lead to police actions that most probably result in your death. If you however survive, you will be sent to prison where you in all probability will be raped. Hence, taxation is also either murder or rape. But we already knew the latter.
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*doh*
The latter statement is also inacurate. The laws do not prohibit all types of private roads, etc. There are some regulated exceptions.
This is just not my day.
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You are right, reading my post I was very unclear on both those issues.
What I should have said was:
There are laws that _strongly_ favour public healthcare.
There are laws against charging money from people using private roads and other such infrastucture.
If we accept that it is the government's job to research medicine, should we also accept that it is the government's job to provide that medicine? Such a system in which we rely on the government to do something automatically puts downward pressure on the current providers of that service.
In other words, you belive that if the government provides a service it will do so cheaper and better than the private sector, and push them out of the market. I simply don't belive that. The only way that can happen is if public companies manage to change the law in their favour. Otherwise, free competition will in the long run favour the private sector.
All these companies that are complaining about the government taking away their profit by competing with them are doing is whine about the fact that they're losing grip of their monopoly and have to start competing. If the private sector is so bad at providing a service that even public companies are able to compete with them, they truly need the competition.
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So true. I live in Sweden, and here there are laws prohibiting most forms of private healthcare, private transportation, etc. In America, there seems (at least from what we get reported here in Sweden) to be a strong movement to prohibit public broadband efforts, public chemical databases, etc.
I am a big fan of small government, but in my book, small government means fewer laws and the possibility for the government to take swift action. If it the private sector is overpricing something that can benefit the community, I don't see why there should be laws agains the government providing a little competition.
You misunderstand the way that patches work. It seems intuitive that when a patch is applied to a program, it is somehow sewed onto the program binary, much like you sew a patch onto a piece of clothing. If that where the case, programs would indeed get larger and larger, until all programs where made of 99% patches and all looked exactly alike.
The reason why this does not happen is that once a patch has been applied for a while, it is removed again. This is most apparent under Linux, where you can download a patch file and apply it directly to the source. Applying the patch will change the program, but will not consume or change the patch itself. Obviously, once the patch has been applied, it's code healing abilities kick in and remove any local vulnerabilities, after which the patch can be safely removed.
As a matter of fact, the exact same patch can be applied to multiple pieces of software, without destroying or diminishing the patch. Try it out for yourself! Be aware, though, that some patches are made to fit specific types of programs or bugs, so applying a patch made to fix a buffer overflow in firefox may fix similar bugs in Opera or Internet Explorer, they will most likely do very little to remove crash bugs in Open Office or Gnome.
Britney is not fake, she is really smart person. Check out her guide to semiconductor physics, if you doubt her abilities. I actually read some of her work while studying for my semiconductor finals.
What advantage does this have over regular public-access cable:
Your show is always on prime time, which probably doubles your audience
Your show is distributed all over the world, which probably increases the audience by an order of magnitude
Once the technology becomes mainstream, more people can watch stuff like this from work, which probably increases your audience by an order of magnitude.
So, given the above information, and some usage statistics about public access television, we can conclude that about two hundred people will watch a regular show, and all of them will be the mother of the shows creator.
Here in Sweden, You only have to show id when you need to be able to prove you are who/what you say you are, like when entering a pub or some other place with an age restriction, or when paying using other means than cash, etc. You do not need to have an Id-card when taking the train or buying groceries. Case in point: My girlfriend doesn't have one.
I think the discussion about problems with a national ID card completely miss the point. It is ok to demand that you can prove you are what you say you are in the above cases. The only problem I see with Id card is at the other end, i.e. government id databases, etc.
I don't care if the clipboard is an X thing or not. On a headless computer, you could just make a faked X server that only support the notifications required for a clipboard. You can view X as a somewhat awkward IPC mechanism.
And RAW mode does not give you exact key events. You get them in real time, but they are still badly mangled. What I want is things like key up and key down events to specific keys, including keys like left shift, right control, Alt gr and escape.
The number 58 does not include commands that start or en blocks, such as 'if' 'case', etc. I included them, since I consider them to be a sort of builtin commands, that is why I said about 70. And while there are commands in bash that are there since it would be difficult to implement them as an external program, many, many of them are there for very little reaseon. Examples of this include 'echo', 'printf', 'pwd', 'kill', 'test' and 'time'.
And bash does support regular expressions. Try this:
if [[ abcfoobarbletch =~ 'foo(bar)bl(.*)' ]]; then echo tjo; fi
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For a shell that only has builtins for things that can't be implemented as commands, and that has a very clean, simple syntax, try out fish.
I think you do, since I agree with you 100%. Bash has half-assed support for loads of things which should NOT be part of the shell syntax. The power of the shell lies in the exprenal commands. Bash tries to do everything by itself, and does a bad job of it.
Mostly true, I admit. But check out fish. Really! I am not biased by the fact that I am the main author.:)
Some of the new features in fish include a much nicer history, descriptions for tab completions (like when tab completing a manual page, the description is the whatis information on the manual page), tab completions for the options to many common commands, a good pager for browsing long lists of tab completions, syntax highlighting with error flagging of many common errors such as misspelled commands, misspelled options or reading from or appending to a non-existing file, X clipboard integration, a saner language syntax.
Well Microsoft does have a bit of an Not invented here problem, to put it mildly.
If I remember correctly, the official reason why they are going to use their own vector image format instead of svg is that svg does not use PascalCase. I don't have a link to back that statement up, but I'm pretty sure I read that in a msdn article, or something semi-official like that.
Regarding configurable colors, I agree with you about what is the right way to implement this.
As to the reason for supporting copy and paste, I think your reasoning is backwards. Every modern shell allows you to copy and paste text, using ^K, ^Y and other keyboard shortcuts. This is exactly the same shortcuts that are used by X programs to do the same thing. The notion that these clippings should _not_ be shared between shells, but should be shared between gui applications is rather weird and unintuitive to me.
And it would be very cool if someone would fix up screen and various terminal programs so that you could do things like read the current cursor position, actually read the _exact_ key events as they take place, set arbitrary colors, insert bitmap graphics, get a abstract general purpuse support for mice, popup messages, scrollbar control, etc, etc. But doing this would require changes in terminfo, screen and a large number of terminal emulators such as xterm, gnome terminal and konsole in order for it to become used.
Of course. Any features that may not be supported by the current environment should fail gracefully. fish (my shell) simply manages it's own clipboard if X is not available.
And even when running in fullscreen mode, I think the best way to pick colors four your terminal should be to look at the current theme, though what is the 'current' theme may be a bit hard to know, since Linux uses multiple widget sets...
I don't mean that in the way you seem to mean it. Of course there is no reason to force mouse support into every little shellscript. But for instance when you are tab completing, it makes sense to be able to select a completion with the mouse. And it makes sense to be able to position the cursor on the screen by clicking with the mouse. That kind of support.
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The exception is that if you own in a piece of property without direct access to the public road network, you can sign a special contract with the owner of the surrounding land that makes it illegal for him to remove the road leading to your propery. If I'm not mistaken, the owner of the surrounding property is allowed to share some of the cost of maintaining the road with the other owner.
The arguiment boils down to 'Taxation is theft, since it restricts the right to own property'.
This is a extremist stance that has been discussed many times.
If taxation is theft, you should refuse to pay taxes, but if you do, the repo men will come and invade your property, at which time you will be forced to defend yourself and your propery, which will lead to police actions that most probably result in your death. If you however survive, you will be sent to prison where you in all probability will be raped. Hence, taxation is also either murder or rape. But we already knew the latter.
*doh*
The latter statement is also inacurate. The laws do not prohibit all types of private roads, etc. There are some regulated exceptions.
This is just not my day.
What I should have said was:
Thank you for pointing those inaccuracys out.
In other words, you belive that if the government provides a service it will do so cheaper and better than the private sector, and push them out of the market. I simply don't belive that. The only way that can happen is if public companies manage to change the law in their favour. Otherwise, free competition will in the long run favour the private sector.
All these companies that are complaining about the government taking away their profit by competing with them are doing is whine about the fact that they're losing grip of their monopoly and have to start competing. If the private sector is so bad at providing a service that even public companies are able to compete with them, they truly need the competition.
So true. I live in Sweden, and here there are laws prohibiting most forms of private healthcare, private transportation, etc. In America, there seems (at least from what we get reported here in Sweden) to be a strong movement to prohibit public broadband efforts, public chemical databases, etc.
I am a big fan of small government, but in my book, small government means fewer laws and the possibility for the government to take swift action. If it the private sector is overpricing something that can benefit the community, I don't see why there should be laws agains the government providing a little competition.
You misunderstand the way that patches work. It seems intuitive that when a patch is applied to a program, it is somehow sewed onto the program binary, much like you sew a patch onto a piece of clothing. If that where the case, programs would indeed get larger and larger, until all programs where made of 99% patches and all looked exactly alike.
The reason why this does not happen is that once a patch has been applied for a while, it is removed again. This is most apparent under Linux, where you can download a patch file and apply it directly to the source. Applying the patch will change the program, but will not consume or change the patch itself. Obviously, once the patch has been applied, it's code healing abilities kick in and remove any local vulnerabilities, after which the patch can be safely removed.
As a matter of fact, the exact same patch can be applied to multiple pieces of software, without destroying or diminishing the patch. Try it out for yourself! Be aware, though, that some patches are made to fit specific types of programs or bugs, so applying a patch made to fix a buffer overflow in firefox may fix similar bugs in Opera or Internet Explorer, they will most likely do very little to remove crash bugs in Open Office or Gnome.
Britney is not fake, she is really smart person. Check out her guide to semiconductor physics, if you doubt her abilities. I actually read some of her work while studying for my semiconductor finals.
Or rather because if you already own a VHS recorder, why even spend $40 on a DVD recorder?
Why pay good money for a dead tree-version of something that will soon be obsolete when it is available through the Internet, and alway up to date?
Jörg Schilling will be so happy. He can finally release SchilliX, the Linux lookalike that runs cdrecord the way god intended it to.
Same model as any open source software, by offering paid support for people who have endured the programs!
So, given the above information, and some usage statistics about public access television, we can conclude that about two hundred people will watch a regular show, and all of them will be the mother of the shows creator.
Wow, your first post got marked redundant...
Here in Sweden, You only have to show id when you need to be able to prove you are who/what you say you are, like when entering a pub or some other place with an age restriction, or when paying using other means than cash, etc. You do not need to have an Id-card when taking the train or buying groceries. Case in point: My girlfriend doesn't have one.
I think the discussion about problems with a national ID card completely miss the point. It is ok to demand that you can prove you are what you say you are in the above cases. The only problem I see with Id card is at the other end, i.e. government id databases, etc.
I don't care if the clipboard is an X thing or not. On a headless computer, you could just make a faked X server that only support the notifications required for a clipboard. You can view X as a somewhat awkward IPC mechanism.
And RAW mode does not give you exact key events. You get them in real time, but they are still badly mangled. What I want is things like key up and key down events to specific keys, including keys like left shift, right control, Alt gr and escape.
The number 58 does not include commands that start or en blocks, such as 'if' 'case', etc. I included them, since I consider them to be a sort of builtin commands, that is why I said about 70. And while there are commands in bash that are there since it would be difficult to implement them as an external program, many, many of them are there for very little reaseon. Examples of this include 'echo', 'printf', 'pwd', 'kill', 'test' and 'time'.
And bash does support regular expressions. Try this:
if [[ abcfoobarbletch =~ 'foo(bar)bl(.*)' ]]; then echo tjo; fi
<yet another shameless plug>
For a shell that only has builtins for things that can't be implemented as commands, and that has a very clean, simple syntax, try out fish.
</yet another shameless plug>
I think you do, since I agree with you 100%. Bash has half-assed support for loads of things which should NOT be part of the shell syntax. The power of the shell lies in the exprenal commands. Bash tries to do everything by itself, and does a bad job of it.
I did not say good, I said ok. And 4dos was a much later development.
Mostly true, I admit. But check out fish. Really! I am not biased by the fact that I am the main author. :)
Some of the new features in fish include a much nicer history, descriptions for tab completions (like when tab completing a manual page, the description is the whatis information on the manual page), tab completions for the options to many common commands, a good pager for browsing long lists of tab completions, syntax highlighting with error flagging of many common errors such as misspelled commands, misspelled options or reading from or appending to a non-existing file, X clipboard integration, a saner language syntax.
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Thanks! :)
Well Microsoft does have a bit of an Not invented here problem, to put it mildly.
If I remember correctly, the official reason why they are going to use their own vector image format instead of svg is that svg does not use PascalCase. I don't have a link to back that statement up, but I'm pretty sure I read that in a msdn article, or something semi-official like that.
Btw, I really hop you'll like fish!
Regarding configurable colors, I agree with you about what is the right way to implement this.
As to the reason for supporting copy and paste, I think your reasoning is backwards. Every modern shell allows you to copy and paste text, using ^K, ^Y and other keyboard shortcuts. This is exactly the same shortcuts that are used by X programs to do the same thing. The notion that these clippings should _not_ be shared between shells, but should be shared between gui applications is rather weird and unintuitive to me.
And it would be very cool if someone would fix up screen and various terminal programs so that you could do things like read the current cursor position, actually read the _exact_ key events as they take place, set arbitrary colors, insert bitmap graphics, get a abstract general purpuse support for mice, popup messages, scrollbar control, etc, etc. But doing this would require changes in terminfo, screen and a large number of terminal emulators such as xterm, gnome terminal and konsole in order for it to become used.
Of course. Any features that may not be supported by the current environment should fail gracefully. fish (my shell) simply manages it's own clipboard if X is not available.
And even when running in fullscreen mode, I think the best way to pick colors four your terminal should be to look at the current theme, though what is the 'current' theme may be a bit hard to know, since Linux uses multiple widget sets...
I don't mean that in the way you seem to mean it. Of course there is no reason to force mouse support into every little shellscript. But for instance when you are tab completing, it makes sense to be able to select a completion with the mouse. And it makes sense to be able to position the cursor on the screen by clicking with the mouse. That kind of support.