...you'll find that candidates for office will write their own blogs. In fact, in some cases, it goes the other way around -- the DailyKos blogger will go and run for office, inspired by other Kossacks.
Well, let's look at your objections to other OSes one by one:
True, but if you use XP, you get something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy.
I seem to recall that SCO mentioned something about suing the University of California over BSD, too, so the unquantifiable risk of forcable buggery isn't a net minus. Plus, strlcat() and strlcpy() are easy to implement yourself.
You never know when you might need that Apple ][e for a mission-critical application. Also, NetBSD isn't responsible for your friend Bob's house burning down. Your friend Bob voted Republican, and God punished him.
OpenBSD is a very secure OS written by very unpleasant people who think that things like device drivers and state of the art X Windows System configuration utilities are for the hopelessly stupid. The untreatable brain cancers are a feature, not a bug.
Wearing black polo shirts would be a fashion step up for most Slashdot readers.
In conclusion, FreeBSD isn't as innocuous as you claim. It's not just a real UNIX that failed to catch on like Linux due to some fact of history. No: FreeBSD will give you Hantavirus. In a big, bad way. I'd give you the names of everyone that can confirm my story, but they're all dead because they got Hantavirus. I didn't get Hantavirus because I was running Kubuntu Linux.
For example, I'm presuming they got their cosmological constant after using a Newtonian simulation. What happens if they assume that the ejected mass has a small relativistic effect?
It's only a hunch, but something tells me that that alone would make the constant go away.
You guys are good at running experiments that are spectacularly entertaining. Have you ever considered running an experiment that's both spectacularly entertaining and publishable in a peer-reviewed journal (besides Irreproducible Results)?
Actually they're part of IBM now.. and their flagship product (Rational XDE) was taken off the market by IBM for whatever reason. This move on IBM's part restores some of the functionality to the market, but not all of it. In particular the UMLcode pieces are still missing.
- A generator with plenty of gas, because the power supply is highly questionable. Your vehicle could double as a generator with the right gear, but you also need it to move around. - Portable refrigerator. Remove the light bulb. Get it started first before you plug anything else into the generator. - Hand-held radios with several frequencies so that you're not stepping on the signal of people doing rescue and reconstruction work. - Loud whistles as a backup in case the radios fail. Pre-arrange signals. - Ration bars, and figure you're going to eat two a day (2400 calories) if you're doing a ton of work. Don't expect the locals to feed you. - Water purification gear, non-electric, both personal (one per person) and group (for extras). You want something that will filter out at least four nines of microbes and pollution. They say the water's fine, but my understanding is that they stopped taking samples after three days and therefore don't know squat. - Baby wipes. Just a whole hell of a lot of 'em. Even if you have a shower facility handy, you'll thank me. If you don't, these will make life just a lot better. - Hand sanitizing gel. - Small portable commode, just in case. - A good tool kit (see above comments). Chainsaws could be handy, but make sure you've got plenty of safety gear including earplugs and eye protection. - Multi-tool and keyring multi-tool. See ThinkGeek. - Rubber gloves to handle power lines and the like - One bottle each of 100 tablets aspirin, ibuprofin, acetominophen. 100 pepto tablets, 100 anti-diarhea tabs, liquid benadryl. Betadine. Neosporin + Pain Relief gel. - First aid kit WITH CPR MASK. - Nexcare liquid bandage drops and spray. - Female sanitary napkins -- dual-use as sanitary napkins and bandages. - Crank-powered radio/light. - Flashlights that get power from shaking (see ThinkGeek). - Plenty of batteries. It would help to consolidate your tools on one or two kinds of battery.
He's a world-class prick, but you can't question the guy's tenacity.
It was from him that I learned that USGIs were moving in to the area, and that the French Quarter is now dry.
Maybe the problem with those startups is that they're trying to get started in the wrong place.
There's a glut of talent in a lot of cities up and down the Coast. How about doing a start-up in Oregon or Nevada instead of the Bay? I'll bet you the salaries are way cheaper, too.
Back in the 1990s you were right; today it's different. It used to be that OPEC's pricing made for more expensive oil, but as recently as last December the price band for OPEC was between $22 and $28 a barrel amidst $55/bbl prices. (NB: the current price is a little above $66/bbl.) The Saudis and the US are now aiming for a price of $45/bbl which would be a significant improvement over the $66/bbl we're now paying.
Since the police won't deal with the problem, you might want to get together with your neighbors and file a class-action suit against the burglars. Make sure they get cease-and-desist orders, too.
Be sure you have a shotgun when you do this. These burglars will surely get very cranky with you and yours once you do this.
It costs the government hundreds of dollars to process a paper tax return, versus maybe ten to process an electronic return. If every non-Windows-user filed on paper, and included a note stating that they would have e-filed if the software worked on non-Windows platforms, that might give them the hint.
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...you'll find that candidates for office will write their own blogs. In fact, in some cases, it goes the other way around -- the DailyKos blogger will go and run for office, inspired by other Kossacks.
Ads like that might whip up the Republican base, but that's about it. Besides, if you want some real nutcases, give Little Green Footballs a whirl.
Don S. Davis (Gen. Hammond) is also gone.
How much business did Jack Abramoff do on behalf of WPO?
In conclusion, FreeBSD isn't as innocuous as you claim. It's not just a real UNIX that failed to catch on like Linux due to some fact of history. No: FreeBSD will give you Hantavirus. In a big, bad way. I'd give you the names of everyone that can confirm my story, but they're all dead because they got Hantavirus. I didn't get Hantavirus because I was running Kubuntu Linux.
if you're willing to take the risk, of course.
That's pretty much how Karl Rove keeps his job, isn't it?
The parent is right on. This is just trading one environmental stressor for another.
And in this room, 50 million lines of CASE tool-generated COBOL.....
That's typically how most companies get started.
You're forgetting the hard-core rat bastards who won't leave until the roaches give up the ghost.
You're also forgetting the looters. And I don't mean Nagin, FEMA, or the contractors, although they certainly do qualify.
For example, I'm presuming they got their cosmological constant after using a Newtonian simulation. What happens if they assume that the ejected mass has a small relativistic effect? It's only a hunch, but something tells me that that alone would make the constant go away.
You guys are good at running experiments that are spectacularly entertaining. Have you ever considered running an experiment that's both spectacularly entertaining and publishable in a peer-reviewed journal (besides Irreproducible Results)?
For that matter ... what about Slashcode?!? Or Scoop, which powers Kuro5hin and DailyKos?
Actually they're part of IBM now .. and their flagship product (Rational XDE) was taken off the market by IBM for whatever reason. This move on IBM's part restores some of the functionality to the market, but not all of it. In particular the UMLcode pieces are still missing.
- A generator with plenty of gas, because the power supply is highly questionable. Your vehicle could double as a generator with the right gear, but you also need it to move around.
- Portable refrigerator. Remove the light bulb. Get it started first before you plug anything else into the generator.
- Hand-held radios with several frequencies so that you're not stepping on the signal of people doing rescue and reconstruction work.
- Loud whistles as a backup in case the radios fail. Pre-arrange signals.
- Ration bars, and figure you're going to eat two a day (2400 calories) if you're doing a ton of work. Don't expect the locals to feed you.
- Water purification gear, non-electric, both personal (one per person) and group (for extras). You want something that will filter out at least four nines of microbes and pollution. They say the water's fine, but my understanding is that they stopped taking samples after three days and therefore don't know squat.
- Baby wipes. Just a whole hell of a lot of 'em. Even if you have a shower facility handy, you'll thank me. If you don't, these will make life just a lot better.
- Hand sanitizing gel.
- Small portable commode, just in case.
- A good tool kit (see above comments). Chainsaws could be handy, but make sure you've got plenty of safety gear including earplugs and eye protection.
- Multi-tool and keyring multi-tool. See ThinkGeek.
- Rubber gloves to handle power lines and the like
- One bottle each of 100 tablets aspirin, ibuprofin, acetominophen. 100 pepto tablets, 100 anti-diarhea tabs, liquid benadryl. Betadine. Neosporin + Pain Relief gel.
- First aid kit WITH CPR MASK.
- Nexcare liquid bandage drops and spray.
- Female sanitary napkins -- dual-use as sanitary napkins and bandages.
- Crank-powered radio/light.
- Flashlights that get power from shaking (see ThinkGeek).
- Plenty of batteries. It would help to consolidate your tools on one or two kinds of battery.
He has a wife. I met her in 1999 at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. She's a good-looking woman, too.
This is going to lead to an anti-GPL revolt. I know I'm considering it right now.
He's a world-class prick, but you can't question the guy's tenacity. It was from him that I learned that USGIs were moving in to the area, and that the French Quarter is now dry.
...the land is going to be cheap, seeing as it's all swamp now.
There's a glut of talent in a lot of cities up and down the Coast. How about doing a start-up in Oregon or Nevada instead of the Bay? I'll bet you the salaries are way cheaper, too.
Meanwhile, here's an analysis by an oil industry think thank that points to the actual cause of inflated oil prices (tight supplies, shortages in non-OPEC production, combined with fears of supply interruptions due to terrorist activity).
If you're that desperate for hockey, you could always move to Atlanta, or Raleigh....y'all.
Since the police won't deal with the problem, you might want to get together with your neighbors and file a class-action suit against the burglars. Make sure they get cease-and-desist orders, too. Be sure you have a shotgun when you do this. These burglars will surely get very cranky with you and yours once you do this.
It costs the government hundreds of dollars to process a paper tax return, versus maybe ten to process an electronic return. If every non-Windows-user filed on paper, and included a note stating that they would have e-filed if the software worked on non-Windows platforms, that might give them the hint.