I do not believe in God but I have no problem with the concept. Your comment made me think, though...
If particles can be in more than one place and controlled simply by measuring or observing them then could we humans have, perhaps, created a God? The whole thing about the statistical chances of this being an accident is interesting but not a part of this. By worshiping a deity could humans have created a deity? It seems unlikely but, well, who knows? I think it would make an interesting science fiction plot...
I had a sixth grade teacher who had an overhead projector (get off my lawn) that had a handle so you could put a roll of clear projector stuff on it and scroll through it. He tended to use the same scroll from year to year and MAYBE make a small notation or update to them. Unfortunately the only thing he taught well was mathematics. However, it was like PP in many ways. He did use it better than most use PP today but I think that is because he had memorized all of the 'scrolls of sixth grade knowledge, one each' and that was what you got.
And you have no idea what a Classic Libertarian is. Note the capitalization and even Wikipedia should help you out on this one. Liberty is neither anarchy nor is it regurgitated Republican ideals. We live in a society, we must maintain that to ensure our own survival. Placing liberties into a communal pot to ensure freedoms (the two words do not mean the same thing) to provide a more accessible society is a given. Anarchy and ignorant Republicans co-opting the name (not all Republicans, just the ignorant ones) are both childish and unable to be function effectively so long as there are humans on the planet. You can not have pure Communism, pure Socialism, pure any *ism so long as there are humans involved.
I am free to kill you. I am not at liberty to do so.
At risk of being pedantic, I believe it was Mandrake in 2000 or so. I think 8.1 was still Mandrake at least, but my memory could be fuzzy so I won't bet on it nor state it authoritatively. I am also too damned lazy to look it up. Google is so far away...
Technically my first was RedHat and I could not get that fucker to install properly on any machine. Every. Single. One... The monitor would never work - multiple different monitors. It worked during the install process, damn it... I paid for that disk too! Mandrake is the first one that, well, just worked. I had used Sun before it but that was UNIX.
Does anyone recall the distro that had a game you could play during installation of the OS? You were a penguin who slid on their belly down through the snow and had to avoid objects and go through the gates like a slalom skier... My brain has seemingly fried that synapses. I can not recall which distro it was... It was not Mandrake which would have been the name at the time as this predates the Mandriva renaming/rebranding.
Opera spell-check wanted to change Mandriva to Mandrake. I am amused.
I am downloading it now. I will see how it goes. I have a PC about a year old that I am not sure why I bought it (I think the i7 and 16GB of RAM for something silly like $400 was the reason - stupid NewEgg making me buy silly things I do not need) but it has never had an OS on it at all - it has never even been plugged in - so I think it will suit for a test. I should journal my results and I may but I may be too lazy for that.
Since the early day of Mandrake I have had Mandrake/Mandriva as my favorite distro. It is sad to see it go but this is not surprising. One thing I noticed was that their site had been very difficult to navigate in the last few years and their attempts to monetize was crude, at best. These two things are not the reason they went out of business but I do not think they helped in any way. They were my favorite. I am hoping someone forks and continues the project.
I am an atheist and a Buddhist. The two are perfectly compatible.
I observed people coming into the area, "from away," that bought up large portions of property. This property has been used for hunting, fishing, and recreation for years by the local populace. They ignored this culture and marked the land as private with the appropriate legal signage and the likes... I find this deplorable and against the laws of humankind.
I have another post in this area if you refresh. It was in response to an AC (I do not mind but my comments are my own and I own them so I do not submit as an AC) and it may fill in some details if you are curious.
Also, I had not noticed your signature. I can see why you would agree with my beliefs about property. Legally I own the property. Given the size and my inability to possible have to use all of it for private matters it is against the moral laws to disallow access. While I may own it I do not have the moral right to block others from utilizing it in a responsible manner. I do not even mind (it happens a lot more than I expected but not enough to matter) if folks come in and harvest some trees (responsibly) if they are in a situation where they would be cold without them. Good forestry is good for the land, the animals, and the environment in general.
Scholarship and tuition abatement (I can not think of another term) were my friend. My parents still paid, a lot for them - my father, the primary wage earner, was a career Marine and an occifer (NCO) so we were not exactly rich but we were not hungry either. I was able to attend because of the age difference between my elder siblings and I - they were out of the house when I entered middle school. Unfortunately it meant I spent a long time away from my family (they owned property in the area which is how I ended up there) but it meant I actually got to learn things that I would not have learned going from school to school to school. Some bases had schools on them but did not have a standardized education shared among them and sometimes it was a public school that I attended.
I must admit, having a private ice arena and alpine ski slope (and cross-country trails) was a nice benefit but having our own observatory was simply awesome when I was that age. There is now a technology scholarship that one can apply for and a handful of kids can go for anywhere from zero tuition (room and board applies still) to half tuition coverage depending on financial need. If you have kids along the lines and with the aptitude I strongly suggest looking into it. I am absolutely positive that the creator of said scholarship/trust would be honored to have a/.ers child take advantage of the opportunity. The school has changed a great deal (including an almost new replacement ice arena and an updated chair lift for the ski slope - it was a tow rope back in the day) but they still concentrate on academics and are a very good school. They have no rifle or pistol clubs now and one can not bring a firearm to school - even if it is locked in the headmaster's safe when not in use.
Hmm... No. I am not quite there. I have about seven more years to wait. Either way, I still won't need it. It is quite probable that it is impossible for me to need it. I do not live miserly but I do not need to make any large expenditures and even a moderate amount of large expenditures are acceptable as interest is good and the tax rate is absurdly low on such. My big purchases these days are usually properties. I am surrounded by land that was owned and raped (has been replanted or grown back naturally) by the wood harvesters and paper companies of old. They put large chunks up for sale at very low rates (buying three acres is a lot different then buying 700) and I plan to leave the land to a charity with some caveats about the improved property and the use while also leaving a trust to ensure they can maintain and pay the taxes. At the end of this summer I hope to close on another chunk and then I will abut a State Park property. I think that will help.
I want the improved property to be used for either a library (not entirely logical however idealistic) or a residence for a licensed guide or a ranger. I want the access to remain public (I post it like people post no trespassing but instead I encourage people to visit with trespassers, hunters, or fishermen welcome) and I want to ensure that ATV/snowmobile use is still allowed/encouraged with stipulations that they are encouraged to remain on marked trails (old wood roads, often called tote roads around here) and that they take out everything they brought in. Camping, hunting, fishing, exploring are all encouraged now and that is why I bought the land in the first place - I wanted to ensure that there was a place for these things as so many folks buy the land and mark it with no trespassing signs. It is also a good investment should I change my mind.
I also don't want it named after me... I was lucky, 'there by the grace of God go I' is the adage though I am not a Christian or the likes, and do not deserve accolades. Instead I consider this repayment for my good fortune and a way to ensure I keep my karma levels topped off.
Sorry for the novella but this doesn't fit into a single paragraph very well.
I chuckled. Yes, I really did. I do believe, obviously, that you are aware of the meme and that you took it as the sarcasm that it is. Good show with your reply too. We really need a sarcasm markup.
Classic Libertarians, no idea about Musk on this, do not mind taxes, paying for libraries or roads or even single payer health-care as they make things more efficient and less expensive (for example) and they do not mind government subsidies that are logical and not long-term. You are PERHAPS confusing them with the many Republicans who were ashamed of the moniker so they claim to be libertarian (note the small L in that) and they really are just Jebus worshiping neocons who co-opted the name of an otherwise sane group of people.
This is the US. We'd make them illegal, not teach Jebus and evolution, and ship the detractors off to FEMA camps, dontchaknow? This is common knowledge.
I went to a private school (Kent's Hill if you are curious) and we used to bring our firearms from home and have them on campus - in our own dorm rooms AND unlocked. How the hell else were we supposed to skip and go deer hunting? At a public school we brought our guns to school and often had comparison notes with the principal or interested teachers. Hell, I belonged to the Rifle Team for the last four years of school. That, and heritage, got me to join the Marines (twice 'cause I am an idiot) and make love to that sweet GI Bill to pay for school. That education is why I am retired/retarded today. Guns, they are good for education and business.business. Today, YMMV...
Hey now, I am retired and I don't even take (I think I am old enough now - I have not looked to be honest) the Social Security that I paid in. I don't need it. I have plenty. They can keep their ransom money. They can spend it on someone else seeing as I paid a LOT in.
I can understand distorted thinking and it is an unfortunate (or maybe not) human trait. I have tried so hard to be logical in my dealings that I don't get attached and fear I have missed out on many warm experiences because of this. Yet, when I think back, I have been highly illogical. It is quite a dilemma. The pragmatism, stoic even, traits of my belief system do not help, I am a Buddhist which does not help much.
I have been reading and learning about a thorium reactor. It seems to be a brilliant idea, unfortunately there are many who do not realize that all radiation is not equal. Then they go out in the natural sun and have a long picnic...
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I do not believe in God but I have no problem with the concept. Your comment made me think, though...
If particles can be in more than one place and controlled simply by measuring or observing them then could we humans have, perhaps, created a God? The whole thing about the statistical chances of this being an accident is interesting but not a part of this. By worshiping a deity could humans have created a deity? It seems unlikely but, well, who knows? I think it would make an interesting science fiction plot...
I think they are anti-porn (at least of the heterosexual variety) and I am also pretty sure that that is half their problem.
I had a sixth grade teacher who had an overhead projector (get off my lawn) that had a handle so you could put a roll of clear projector stuff on it and scroll through it. He tended to use the same scroll from year to year and MAYBE make a small notation or update to them. Unfortunately the only thing he taught well was mathematics. However, it was like PP in many ways. He did use it better than most use PP today but I think that is because he had memorized all of the 'scrolls of sixth grade knowledge, one each' and that was what you got.
And you have no idea what a Classic Libertarian is. Note the capitalization and even Wikipedia should help you out on this one. Liberty is neither anarchy nor is it regurgitated Republican ideals. We live in a society, we must maintain that to ensure our own survival. Placing liberties into a communal pot to ensure freedoms (the two words do not mean the same thing) to provide a more accessible society is a given. Anarchy and ignorant Republicans co-opting the name (not all Republicans, just the ignorant ones) are both childish and unable to be function effectively so long as there are humans on the planet. You can not have pure Communism, pure Socialism, pure any *ism so long as there are humans involved.
I am free to kill you. I am not at liberty to do so.
At risk of being pedantic, I believe it was Mandrake in 2000 or so. I think 8.1 was still Mandrake at least, but my memory could be fuzzy so I won't bet on it nor state it authoritatively. I am also too damned lazy to look it up. Google is so far away...
Holy shit... I thought you were dead or something.
Technically my first was RedHat and I could not get that fucker to install properly on any machine. Every. Single. One... The monitor would never work - multiple different monitors. It worked during the install process, damn it... I paid for that disk too! Mandrake is the first one that, well, just worked. I had used Sun before it but that was UNIX.
Dumb question time...
Does anyone recall the distro that had a game you could play during installation of the OS? You were a penguin who slid on their belly down through the snow and had to avoid objects and go through the gates like a slalom skier... My brain has seemingly fried that synapses. I can not recall which distro it was... It was not Mandrake which would have been the name at the time as this predates the Mandriva renaming/rebranding.
Opera spell-check wanted to change Mandriva to Mandrake. I am amused.
I am downloading it now. I will see how it goes. I have a PC about a year old that I am not sure why I bought it (I think the i7 and 16GB of RAM for something silly like $400 was the reason - stupid NewEgg making me buy silly things I do not need) but it has never had an OS on it at all - it has never even been plugged in - so I think it will suit for a test. I should journal my results and I may but I may be too lazy for that.
Since the early day of Mandrake I have had Mandrake/Mandriva as my favorite distro. It is sad to see it go but this is not surprising. One thing I noticed was that their site had been very difficult to navigate in the last few years and their attempts to monetize was crude, at best. These two things are not the reason they went out of business but I do not think they helped in any way. They were my favorite. I am hoping someone forks and continues the project.
I feel like I owe an additional explanation...
I am an atheist and a Buddhist. The two are perfectly compatible.
I observed people coming into the area, "from away," that bought up large portions of property. This property has been used for hunting, fishing, and recreation for years by the local populace. They ignored this culture and marked the land as private with the appropriate legal signage and the likes... I find this deplorable and against the laws of humankind.
I have another post in this area if you refresh. It was in response to an AC (I do not mind but my comments are my own and I own them so I do not submit as an AC) and it may fill in some details if you are curious.
Also, I had not noticed your signature. I can see why you would agree with my beliefs about property. Legally I own the property. Given the size and my inability to possible have to use all of it for private matters it is against the moral laws to disallow access. While I may own it I do not have the moral right to block others from utilizing it in a responsible manner. I do not even mind (it happens a lot more than I expected but not enough to matter) if folks come in and harvest some trees (responsibly) if they are in a situation where they would be cold without them. Good forestry is good for the land, the animals, and the environment in general.
Scholarship and tuition abatement (I can not think of another term) were my friend. My parents still paid, a lot for them - my father, the primary wage earner, was a career Marine and an occifer (NCO) so we were not exactly rich but we were not hungry either. I was able to attend because of the age difference between my elder siblings and I - they were out of the house when I entered middle school. Unfortunately it meant I spent a long time away from my family (they owned property in the area which is how I ended up there) but it meant I actually got to learn things that I would not have learned going from school to school to school. Some bases had schools on them but did not have a standardized education shared among them and sometimes it was a public school that I attended.
I must admit, having a private ice arena and alpine ski slope (and cross-country trails) was a nice benefit but having our own observatory was simply awesome when I was that age. There is now a technology scholarship that one can apply for and a handful of kids can go for anywhere from zero tuition (room and board applies still) to half tuition coverage depending on financial need. If you have kids along the lines and with the aptitude I strongly suggest looking into it. I am absolutely positive that the creator of said scholarship/trust would be honored to have a /.ers child take advantage of the opportunity. The school has changed a great deal (including an almost new replacement ice arena and an updated chair lift for the ski slope - it was a tow rope back in the day) but they still concentrate on academics and are a very good school. They have no rifle or pistol clubs now and one can not bring a firearm to school - even if it is locked in the headmaster's safe when not in use.
Hmm... No. I am not quite there. I have about seven more years to wait. Either way, I still won't need it. It is quite probable that it is impossible for me to need it. I do not live miserly but I do not need to make any large expenditures and even a moderate amount of large expenditures are acceptable as interest is good and the tax rate is absurdly low on such. My big purchases these days are usually properties. I am surrounded by land that was owned and raped (has been replanted or grown back naturally) by the wood harvesters and paper companies of old. They put large chunks up for sale at very low rates (buying three acres is a lot different then buying 700) and I plan to leave the land to a charity with some caveats about the improved property and the use while also leaving a trust to ensure they can maintain and pay the taxes. At the end of this summer I hope to close on another chunk and then I will abut a State Park property. I think that will help.
I want the improved property to be used for either a library (not entirely logical however idealistic) or a residence for a licensed guide or a ranger. I want the access to remain public (I post it like people post no trespassing but instead I encourage people to visit with trespassers, hunters, or fishermen welcome) and I want to ensure that ATV/snowmobile use is still allowed/encouraged with stipulations that they are encouraged to remain on marked trails (old wood roads, often called tote roads around here) and that they take out everything they brought in. Camping, hunting, fishing, exploring are all encouraged now and that is why I bought the land in the first place - I wanted to ensure that there was a place for these things as so many folks buy the land and mark it with no trespassing signs. It is also a good investment should I change my mind.
I also don't want it named after me... I was lucky, 'there by the grace of God go I' is the adage though I am not a Christian or the likes, and do not deserve accolades. Instead I consider this repayment for my good fortune and a way to ensure I keep my karma levels topped off.
Sorry for the novella but this doesn't fit into a single paragraph very well.
I chuckled. Yes, I really did. I do believe, obviously, that you are aware of the meme and that you took it as the sarcasm that it is. Good show with your reply too. We really need a sarcasm markup.
Classic Libertarians, no idea about Musk on this, do not mind taxes, paying for libraries or roads or even single payer health-care as they make things more efficient and less expensive (for example) and they do not mind government subsidies that are logical and not long-term. You are PERHAPS confusing them with the many Republicans who were ashamed of the moniker so they claim to be libertarian (note the small L in that) and they really are just Jebus worshiping neocons who co-opted the name of an otherwise sane group of people.
Then pay it, bitch. We are not going to hold back society for you to have an advantage for your crotchfruit. Society does not work that way.
It is hard to accept the validity of the arguments proffered by a person who is wallowing around in their own dung.
This is the US. We'd make them illegal, not teach Jebus and evolution, and ship the detractors off to FEMA camps, dontchaknow? This is common knowledge.
Actually, my understanding is that it is still lit because it is not bumped nor does it ever lose power.
I went to a private school (Kent's Hill if you are curious) and we used to bring our firearms from home and have them on campus - in our own dorm rooms AND unlocked. How the hell else were we supposed to skip and go deer hunting? At a public school we brought our guns to school and often had comparison notes with the principal or interested teachers. Hell, I belonged to the Rifle Team for the last four years of school. That, and heritage, got me to join the Marines (twice 'cause I am an idiot) and make love to that sweet GI Bill to pay for school. That education is why I am retired/retarded today. Guns, they are good for education and business.business. Today, YMMV...
Hey now, I am retired and I don't even take (I think I am old enough now - I have not looked to be honest) the Social Security that I paid in. I don't need it. I have plenty. They can keep their ransom money. They can spend it on someone else seeing as I paid a LOT in.
Nice try. There are no girls on the internet. I believe the colloquialism is TRAP.
I can understand distorted thinking and it is an unfortunate (or maybe not) human trait. I have tried so hard to be logical in my dealings that I don't get attached and fear I have missed out on many warm experiences because of this. Yet, when I think back, I have been highly illogical. It is quite a dilemma. The pragmatism, stoic even, traits of my belief system do not help, I am a Buddhist which does not help much.
I understand your point but am not going to write a book. I am happily retired. I merely pointed out the oft spoken words that I see here.
I have been reading and learning about a thorium reactor. It seems to be a brilliant idea, unfortunately there are many who do not realize that all radiation is not equal. Then they go out in the natural sun and have a long picnic...