not great. I think so far that the mini-series is better than the movie - I really didn't like it, even though I'll watch it whenever it's on - the one thing that they could have done better fairly easy was the blue-on-blue eyes: why not just use totally blue contact lenses? The eyes glowing in the dark - and not blue at all in the side-shots - really gave the thing a cheesy look. Other than that I'm glad that Baron Harkonnen looks like a real person - just fatter than hell - and not some acne-gone-wild puffball. No voice-overs is good. I'm waiting until the whole thing is aired and then watching it back-to-back on Sunday (didn't somebody mention that) to digest it and then decide. I'm glad it's on, tho; Dune rocks my socks!
There was a movie, long ago, starring Tony Curtis called the Great Prestender that had a plot along the same lines. Anyone know if the movie was based on this book? Kind of wierd detail that sticks in the mind worth little or nothing:)
Great site! I have this(it's not goatsex!) picture from that page taped to the back of my monitor. Folks who stop by to visit look at it rather oddly and with a blank look in their eye. When I tell them what it's about, they just nod and walk away:)
I'd like to use encryption all the time w/ my email from the client, just as a matter of principle, but the sad fact is that 99% of the people I communicate with don't have encryption on their side, and they don't see any good reason to install it: hence the ease of communication that is the basis of email is lost. What I'd like to see is all email clients that folks use - let's say the major ones in commercial settings - have encryption built in so that I can opt to encrypt everything I send out, and if the recipient isn't running encryption "on top" as it were, his or her client would accept my email, tell the recipient that this is an encrypted email form me, their great a good friend, and offer to unencrypt it for their reading pleasure. Am I being totally fscked up thinking this way or what? In other words, what would be the major problems having this as an embedded feature in all email clients? The feds, agreeing on a standard, actual coding, or something else?
Here's the link (no, it's not goatsex:). This seems kind of going backward - I mean the whole idea re fqdn is for us humans to not have to deal w/ numbers, yes?
From the article re. the guy that's going to be doing this:
De Saram, now living in Sri Lanka, was last year on the Sunday Times under-30 Rich List, living a millionaire's lifestyle with several homes and a Ferrari. He insists that he can easily pay the debts but that he relocated to Sri Lanka because his life in the UK was made intolerable by MI5 and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. He claims he was being harrassed because an advanced new encryption programme he devised would make it difficult for the security services to snoop on emails."
Color me cynical, but this sounds like a pretty marginal operator. Has anyone ever heard of this fellow? Sounds like a hyped-up scheme to grab some cash and maintain his life-style.
Fuck you monkey-humper, don't you know anything? You are a third-world sewer, just look into the fucking mirror. Asshole! What with all the monkey fucking you've been doing, I'm surprised you're not already dead from eubola.
There was a great story on All Things Considered yesterday, I think, about this. The guy they interviewed explained what was going on and why very clearly. I'm not into this much, but understood the basic concepts pretty well. For those in the audience asking "What's a Higgs?", here's a link to a Scientific American Article about the Higgs Boson. I tried to get to NPR's site to see if they have a link to the story, but the site is pretty hosed right now. I wonder why:)
Huh, nice piece of FUD - using a generic plural thereby implying that any operating system not pre-installed is illegal. And we all know what operating systems come pre-installed....
"we also tried ether to fuel it (don't do this) but the one we tried blew apart...so we were forced to build another, large potato gun..with a 4 inch combustion chamber...we launched a spud from my friend's house to the highway...i am serious..the highway was about.5 miles away...I love those things."
Lol! Good thing I'm at home, or the liquid I was drinking would be all over the nice new monitor I have at work. I can just picture a spud arching over a nice quiet subruban landscape on its way to the interstate!
Guy in the back yard b-b-q-ing:
"Damn! There's that fjordboy again. Why don't his parents buy him a nice chemistry set instead...No, wait.."
The place where I work used to develop and support a VRML editor/viewer, and we found that the market really just dried up - this was about a year to year and a half ago. Just no real demand for it. Basically, the VRML stuff was slow as shit - kinda like java, but slower (no offense to java heads:)).
It is kind of cool and all that, but bulky. Also, there was a shaking out of the viewer market a while back when sgi basically dumped Cosmo. Seems to me the merits of the language and its application to the web just don't show enough positives for reinstatement. Just my two cents, you understand.
Disappointed, but not suprised. Face it, Linux and it associated hangers-on and developers are big news. Mainstream in other words. And in the real world sound bytes ru13Z.
Whether this is taken out of context, or is a figment of RHAT's collective vision of Alice as she goes down the wormhole, I am heartily sick of the whole scene. I realize that when money gets into the game things get weird, but this kind of statement just doesn't parse.
I'm rambling now, but I'm disappointed mostly. I can remember when Yggdrasil and Slack where the de-facto distros and RHAT was a newcomer. What is going on is politics and when politics enter in the front door, I'm out the window....fast.
Previewing this, I realize that it might sound bitter and resigned, but parsing the article and the current zietgiest, I just want to down another beer and stare out the window. At least I know that the view there is real.
why not start looking at the poss. of underground cities? Or maybe domed ones - ala the cities Azimov talked about on Earth in the Robot series? As long as you have a stable power supply and power plant, you can live for quite some time in a hostile environment - think nuclear powered missle subs.......
Number one: *.0 releases from RedHat are always buggy - deal!
I've run 4.2 on my servers and just patched the security stuff via the errata - #1 if it ain't broke don't fix it. 4.2 is rock solid. Uptimes w/ htpd, nntpd and a private ftp server on a lowly pent 90 w/ 64 megs and this baby just sits there and DOES ITS JOB!
I run 4.1 RedHat at home an dsee no reason to upgrade - call me old and non-bleeding edge, I don't care.
I haven't even LOOKED at a RedHat distro since 4.2, so I'm totally out of it re: what's the big deal - I still run Sun OS 4.1.4 on a production web server and it just sits there and runs (patches addedfor security and such.
WTF is the big deal? I run NT 4.0 at work, server and workstation, Win2kpro at home w/ cable modem, support win98 desktops at work...............
So, RedHat 7.0 comes out w/ mucho bugs........
So what. RH always posts errata which are easy as shit to install
RH doesn't hide the problems
RH releases stuff on the bleeding edge and lets the "community" look at the distro and code.
If you don'tneed to upgrade, don't and deal.
If you want to upgrade, do so and deal......
If you get disgusted at RH for the distro, you've got shitloads of others to choose fron - just check LWN...deal
This is getting too long. So, I'm gonna have another beer and watch Ms. Sommers and her newest ab developer and wait for 7.2
P.S. pardon my spelling - I'm wasted, not brain-challenged!
for this time of night and level of beer consumption, but the whole idea of pulling out a rather lengthy full-blown report on the dire consequences to the economy if MS gets the axe really gets my goat.
I recall that BG & CO, screamed bloody murder and also predicted dire market behavior if win95 release was in any way fscked with. Result: nothing happened.
Being sort of a hobbiest re. the market - on off-days I watch the business heads on CNBC from Squawk Box to the market wrapup, I've heard various analysts state that they like MS stock in the lower 60's: not flying high.
BG is riding a very tricky wave. Right now tech is like the magic guest list for Studio 54 back in the late 70's/80's. He's just short-sighted enough to really believe that the market is tightly aligned to the fortunes of MS, et.al. If you watch the market, traditional Blue Chip industries which are not tech heavy are always there as a shelter for investors.
Bottom line: tech ain't the cat's pajamas.
Disclaimer - I'm a techie and I'm not a luddite, but I have great faith in the natural movement of investment and people's bottom line: elightened self-interest. If Billy boy and his techopop present/future don't play. he ain't gonna get paid.
I always get a kick out the distro list on LWN:
Distributions
Alphanet
Alzza Linux
Bad Penguin Linux
Best Linux
Black Cat Linux
BluePoint Linux
CAEN Linux
Cafe Linux
Caldera OpenLinux
Circle MUDLinux
Complete Linux
Conectiva Linux
Corel Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
deepLinux
Definite Linux
DLite
e-smith
Elfstone Linux
Eridani
ESware Linux
Eurielec Linux
eXecutive Linux
FTOSX
Gentoo
Gentus
Gibraltar
HA Linux
Halloween Linux
HispaFuentes
IceLinux
Ivrix
ix86 Linux
Jurix
Kaiwal Linux
Kondara MNU/Linux
KRUD
KSI-Linux
Laonux
LASER5
Leetnux
Linpus Linux
Linux Cyrillic Edition
Linux MLD
Linux-Mandrake
LinuxFromScratch
LinuxOne OS
LinuxPPP
Linux Pro Plus
Linux-SIS
LNX System
LoopLinux
LSD
Lunar Penguin
Lute Linux
MageNet
Mastodon
MaxOS
minilinux
nmrcOS
NoMad Linux
Nuclinux
PingOO Linux
Plamo Linux
PLD
Project Ballantain
PROSA
Rabid Squirrel
Red Linux
Red Flag
Red Hat
Repairlix
Rock Linux
Scrudgeware
Serial Terminal
ShareTheNet
Slackware
Small Linux
Spiro
spyLinux
Stampede
Stataboware
Storm Linux
SuSE
Think Blue Linux
TimeSys Linux/RT
TINY
Tom Linux
Tomsrtbt
Trinux
TurboLinux
VA-enhanced Red Hat
VectorLinux
Vine Linux
WholeLinux
WinLinux 2000
Xdenu
XTeamLinux
Yellow Dog Linux
ZipSlack
ZipSpeak
Now all I need is one of those s/390's to install these suckers on!
to this discussion, I found a couple of related articles in the SJMerc News. this one mentions some of the 14 gov't agencies hit buy the worm.
this one highlights stuff from the congressional hearings on the worm and security in general. Both pretty good reads. No real bashing/praising one way or t'other.
I was watching the late evening business news on CNBC yesterday, and they interviewed the CEO, is it, of HP - the very sexy-looking lady, Fiorino, Carly Fiorino? Man, I'd like to be her personal assistant:) Anyway, the interviewer was asking about HP earnings, and the debut of the "new" MS-based PocketPC, and Ms. Fiorino also started in on Sun. Seems HP's got their server sites set on ol' Scott&Co. Big announcement that eBay replaced it's Sun's w/ HP's. Ms. F. said to look for future announcements in the same vein.
that will most likely get downed in the general noise in this thread:)
1. I don't read jonkatz - nothing personal Jon, I just don't like your writing style here. But I'm tempted to buy this book. Why?
2. I think it's great the the/. crew - mostly hemos it seems - had the intestinal fortitude to go ahead with this venture knowing that they would create a shitstorm of *ahem* protest in the thread. Also, I think it's pretty neat that the/. guys are branching out and making a name for themselves in a different, but related area.
3. As to the timing and such, well, the whole Columbine thing IS still a controversy, and people are still trying to make sense of why it happened - and will continue to happen. So, in light of that, I think that the book could contribute positively to the whole debate. At least I hope so.
Just an aside here: I went to a central hs back in the day - graduated in 1972. I can still remember the distinct cliques that existed there:
freaks - long-haired hippie types jocks - of course archies - kids that lived out-of-town, mostly on farms norms - kids who hit the books and stayed clear of the rest (this group included the rather small geek contingent)
Now, these groups did not get a long, really, and I remember the cafeteria being divided by group rigidly. Not once in the 3 1/2 years I was there was there a major violent action comparable to Columbine. And I'm talking about a smallish town with lots of kids who hunted a lot in the fall - I had access to a.20 cal, a.45 handgun my dad had to protect his store - he was a pharmacist - and a winchester lever action - forget the cal. And I was not an exception by any means.
This is not to say that there wasn't a good deal of low-level violence - harassment, insults, humiliation, the occasional fist fight, public snubbing in the halls, etc. That's what made hs such a shitty place - that and the fact that I really had no interest in the "learning process" that was practiced there.
My point to this whole long-winded post? I still can't understand why the Columbine tragedy happened, and maybe this book will help me get closer. I mean kids today are not THAT fundamentally different from when I was in hs, are they?
BTW, I was one of the freaks - had hair "down-to-there", smoked anything that was even close to being mind-altering, wore raggedy-assed bell-bottoms, no shoes, and a cast-off national guard shirt, had a very bad attitude toward authority figures, and thought folks who took life seriously were certifiable - and said so, often.
I found his comments about the internet rather vaccuous and snotty, but beyond that, the man is in need of a cluestick to the crotch.
As many pointed out above, reading on-line is not the best visual experience - RIGHT NOW. What about advances in technology Mr. Librarian of Congress? Don't you think that starting the digitizing process for books now in preparation for future use might just be a good idea?
I like books - I spent a lot of time in libraries in college; heck, I even worked in a largish public library for four years. But, with the way technology changes - web tablets w/ decent resolution as someone else pointed out - wireless becoming more and more workable - why not start the preparations now for digital access?
Maybe Mr. B has been spending too much time at the crt himself; thus his short-sightedness is explained!
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not great. I think so far that the mini-series is better than the movie - I really didn't like it, even though I'll watch it whenever it's on - the one thing that they could have done better fairly easy was the blue-on-blue eyes: why not just use totally blue contact lenses? The eyes glowing in the dark - and not blue at all in the side-shots - really gave the thing a cheesy look. Other than that I'm glad that Baron Harkonnen looks like a real person - just fatter than hell - and not some acne-gone-wild puffball. No voice-overs is good. I'm waiting until the whole thing is aired and then watching it back-to-back on Sunday (didn't somebody mention that) to digest it and then decide. I'm glad it's on, tho; Dune rocks my socks!
There was a movie, long ago, starring Tony Curtis called the Great Prestender that had a plot along the same lines. Anyone know if the movie was based on this book? Kind of wierd detail that sticks in the mind worth little or nothing :)
Great site! I have this(it's not goatsex!) picture from that page taped to the back of my monitor. Folks who stop by to visit look at it rather oddly and with a blank look in their eye. When I tell them what it's about, they just nod and walk away :)
I'd like to use encryption all the time w/ my email from the client, just as a matter of principle, but the sad fact is that 99% of the people I communicate with don't have encryption on their side, and they don't see any good reason to install it: hence the ease of communication that is the basis of email is lost. What I'd like to see is all email clients that folks use - let's say the major ones in commercial settings - have encryption built in so that I can opt to encrypt everything I send out, and if the recipient isn't running encryption "on top" as it were, his or her client would accept my email, tell the recipient that this is an encrypted email form me, their great a good friend, and offer to unencrypt it for their reading pleasure. Am I being totally fscked up thinking this way or what? In other words, what would be the major problems having this as an embedded feature in all email clients? The feds, agreeing on a standard, actual coding, or something else?
Here's the link (no, it's not goatsex :). This seems kind of going backward - I mean the whole idea re fqdn is for us humans to not have to deal w/ numbers, yes?
From the article re. the guy that's going to be doing this:
De Saram, now living in Sri Lanka, was last year on the Sunday Times under-30 Rich List, living a millionaire's lifestyle with several homes and a Ferrari. He insists that he can easily pay the debts but that he relocated to Sri Lanka because his life in the UK was made intolerable by MI5 and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. He claims he was being harrassed because an advanced new encryption programme he devised would make it difficult for the security services to snoop on emails."
Color me cynical, but this sounds like a pretty marginal operator. Has anyone ever heard of this fellow? Sounds like a hyped-up scheme to grab some cash and maintain his life-style.
Best wishes to the new one and the rest of the family!
Fuck you monkey-humper, don't you know anything? You are a third-world sewer, just look into the fucking mirror. Asshole! What with all the monkey fucking you've been doing, I'm surprised you're not already dead from eubola.
There was a great story on All Things Considered yesterday, I think, about this. The guy they interviewed explained what was going on and why very clearly. I'm not into this much, but understood the basic concepts pretty well. For those in the audience asking "What's a Higgs?", here's a link to a Scientific American Article about the Higgs Boson. I tried to get to NPR's site to see if they have a link to the story, but the site is pretty hosed right now. I wonder why :)
Huh, nice piece of FUD - using a generic plural thereby implying that any operating system not pre-installed is illegal. And we all know what operating systems come pre-installed....
No mention of Windows/2K anywhere in the article.
Classic FUD posing as helpful advice.
"we also tried ether to fuel it (don't do this) but the one we tried blew apart...so we were forced to build another, large potato gun..with a 4 inch combustion chamber...we launched a spud from my friend's house to the highway...i am serious..the highway was about .5 miles away...I love those things."
Lol! Good thing I'm at home, or the liquid I was drinking would be all over the nice new monitor I have at work. I can just picture a spud arching over a nice quiet subruban landscape on its way to the interstate!
Guy in the back yard b-b-q-ing:
"Damn! There's that fjordboy again. Why don't his parents buy him a nice chemistry set instead...No, wait.."
Thanks, man, you made my night.
The place where I work used to develop and support a VRML editor/viewer, and we found that the market really just dried up - this was about a year to year and a half ago. Just no real demand for it. Basically, the VRML stuff was slow as shit - kinda like java, but slower (no offense to java heads :)).
It is kind of cool and all that, but bulky. Also, there was a shaking out of the viewer market a while back when sgi basically dumped Cosmo. Seems to me the merits of the language and its application to the web just don't show enough positives for reinstatement. Just my two cents, you understand.
Disappointed, but not suprised. Face it, Linux and it associated hangers-on and developers are big news. Mainstream in other words. And in the real world sound bytes ru13Z.
Whether this is taken out of context, or is a figment of RHAT's collective vision of Alice as she goes down the wormhole, I am heartily sick of the whole scene. I realize that when money gets into the game things get weird, but this kind of statement just doesn't parse.
I'm rambling now, but I'm disappointed mostly. I can remember when Yggdrasil and Slack where the de-facto distros and RHAT was a newcomer. What is going on is politics and when politics enter in the front door, I'm out the window....fast.
Previewing this, I realize that it might sound bitter and resigned, but parsing the article and the current zietgiest, I just want to down another beer and stare out the window. At least I know that the view there is real.
why not start looking at the poss. of underground cities? Or maybe domed ones - ala the cities Azimov talked about on Earth in the Robot series? As long as you have a stable power supply and power plant, you can live for quite some time in a hostile environment - think nuclear powered missle subs.......
My house........
I live in the deep south and the summers here are just hard as shit on the siding. Don't even ask about the palmetto bugs!
Number one: *.0 releases from RedHat are always buggy - deal!
I've run 4.2 on my servers and just patched the security stuff via the errata - #1 if it ain't broke don't fix it. 4.2 is rock solid. Uptimes w/ htpd, nntpd and a private ftp server on a lowly pent 90 w/ 64 megs and this baby just sits there and DOES ITS JOB!
I run 4.1 RedHat at home an dsee no reason to upgrade - call me old and non-bleeding edge, I don't care.
I haven't even LOOKED at a RedHat distro since 4.2, so I'm totally out of it re: what's the big deal - I still run Sun OS 4.1.4 on a production web server and it just sits there and runs (patches addedfor security and such.
WTF is the big deal? I run NT 4.0 at work, server and workstation, Win2kpro at home w/ cable modem, support win98 desktops at work...............
So, RedHat 7.0 comes out w/ mucho bugs........
So what. RH always posts errata which are easy as shit to install
RH doesn't hide the problems
RH releases stuff on the bleeding edge and lets the "community" look at the distro and code.
If you don'tneed to upgrade, don't and deal.
If you want to upgrade, do so and deal......
If you get disgusted at RH for the distro, you've got shitloads of others to choose fron - just check LWN...deal
This is getting too long. So, I'm gonna have another beer and watch Ms. Sommers and her newest ab developer and wait for 7.2
P.S. pardon my spelling - I'm wasted, not brain-challenged!
for this time of night and level of beer consumption, but the whole idea of pulling out a rather lengthy full-blown report on the dire consequences to the economy if MS gets the axe really gets my goat.
I recall that BG & CO, screamed bloody murder and also predicted dire market behavior if win95 release was in any way fscked with. Result: nothing happened.
Being sort of a hobbiest re. the market - on off-days I watch the business heads on CNBC from Squawk Box to the market wrapup, I've heard various analysts state that they like MS stock in the lower 60's: not flying high.
BG is riding a very tricky wave. Right now tech is like the magic guest list for Studio 54 back in the late 70's/80's. He's just short-sighted enough to really believe that the market is tightly aligned to the fortunes of MS, et.al. If you watch the market, traditional Blue Chip industries which are not tech heavy are always there as a shelter for investors.
Bottom line: tech ain't the cat's pajamas.
Disclaimer - I'm a techie and I'm not a luddite, but I have great faith in the natural movement of investment and people's bottom line: elightened self-interest. If Billy boy and his techopop present/future don't play. he ain't gonna get paid.
I always get a kick out the distro list on LWN:
Distributions
Alphanet
Alzza Linux
Bad Penguin Linux
Best Linux
Black Cat Linux
BluePoint Linux
CAEN Linux
Cafe Linux
Caldera OpenLinux
Circle MUDLinux
Complete Linux
Conectiva Linux
Corel Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
deepLinux
Definite Linux
DLite
e-smith
Elfstone Linux
Eridani
ESware Linux
Eurielec Linux
eXecutive Linux
FTOSX
Gentoo
Gentus
Gibraltar
HA Linux
Halloween Linux
HispaFuentes
IceLinux
Ivrix
ix86 Linux
Jurix
Kaiwal Linux
Kondara MNU/Linux
KRUD
KSI-Linux
Laonux
LASER5
Leetnux
Linpus Linux
Linux Cyrillic Edition
Linux MLD
Linux-Mandrake
LinuxFromScratch
LinuxOne OS
LinuxPPP
Linux Pro Plus
Linux-SIS
LNX System
LoopLinux
LSD
Lunar Penguin
Lute Linux
MageNet
Mastodon
MaxOS
minilinux
nmrcOS
NoMad Linux
Nuclinux
PingOO Linux
Plamo Linux
PLD
Project Ballantain
PROSA
Rabid Squirrel
Red Linux
Red Flag
Red Hat
Repairlix
Rock Linux
Scrudgeware
Serial Terminal
ShareTheNet
Slackware
Small Linux
Spiro
spyLinux
Stampede
Stataboware
Storm Linux
SuSE
Think Blue Linux
TimeSys Linux/RT
TINY
Tom Linux
Tomsrtbt
Trinux
TurboLinux
VA-enhanced Red Hat
VectorLinux
Vine Linux
WholeLinux
WinLinux 2000
Xdenu
XTeamLinux
Yellow Dog Linux
ZipSlack
ZipSpeak
Now all I need is one of those s/390's to install these suckers on!
You can get a freebie add-on from:
Nemx called Power Tools. It runs as a service under exchange and allows stripping of attachments via extensions.
to this discussion, I found a couple of related articles in the SJMerc News.
this one mentions some of the 14 gov't agencies hit buy the worm.
this one highlights stuff from the congressional hearings on the worm and security in general. Both pretty good reads. No real bashing/praising one way or t'other.
26/34/38 - easy!
LMAO! You hit on this one! Perfect, bravo! You really need to get these organized and up on a website.
I was watching the late evening business news on CNBC yesterday, and they interviewed the CEO, is it, of HP - the very sexy-looking lady, Fiorino, Carly Fiorino? Man, I'd like to be her personal assistant :) Anyway, the interviewer was asking about HP earnings, and the debut of the "new" MS-based PocketPC, and Ms. Fiorino also started in on Sun. Seems HP's got their server sites set on ol' Scott&Co. Big announcement that eBay replaced it's Sun's w/ HP's. Ms. F. said to look for future announcements in the same vein.
Guess Sun better check it's six, huh?
that will most likely get downed in the general noise in this thread:)
/. crew - mostly hemos it seems - had the intestinal fortitude to go ahead with this venture knowing that they would create a shitstorm of *ahem* protest in the thread. Also, I think it's pretty neat that the /. guys are branching out and making a name for themselves in a different, but related area.
.20 cal, a .45 handgun my dad had to protect his store - he was a pharmacist - and a winchester lever action - forget the cal. And I was not an exception by any means.
1. I don't read jonkatz - nothing personal Jon, I just don't like your writing style here. But I'm tempted to buy this book. Why?
2. I think it's great the the
3. As to the timing and such, well, the whole Columbine thing IS still a controversy, and people are still trying to make sense of why it happened - and will continue to happen. So, in light of that, I think that the book could contribute positively to the whole debate. At least I hope so.
Just an aside here: I went to a central hs back in the day - graduated in 1972. I can still remember the distinct cliques that existed there:
freaks - long-haired hippie types
jocks - of course
archies - kids that lived out-of-town, mostly on farms
norms - kids who hit the books and stayed clear of the rest (this group included the rather small geek contingent)
Now, these groups did not get a long, really, and I remember the cafeteria being divided by group rigidly. Not once in the 3 1/2 years I was there was there a major violent action comparable to Columbine. And I'm talking about a smallish town with lots of kids who hunted a lot in the fall - I had access to a
This is not to say that there wasn't a good deal of low-level violence - harassment, insults, humiliation, the occasional fist fight, public snubbing in the halls, etc. That's what made hs such a shitty place - that and the fact that I really had no interest in the "learning process" that was practiced there.
My point to this whole long-winded post? I still can't understand why the Columbine tragedy happened, and maybe this book will help me get closer. I mean kids today are not THAT fundamentally different from when I was in hs, are they?
BTW, I was one of the freaks - had hair "down-to-there", smoked anything that was even close to being mind-altering, wore raggedy-assed bell-bottoms, no shoes, and a cast-off national guard shirt, had a very bad attitude toward authority figures, and thought folks who took life seriously were certifiable - and said so, often.
Anywhoooo, this has been my $.25.
I found his comments about the internet rather vaccuous and snotty, but beyond that, the man is in need of a cluestick to the crotch.
As many pointed out above, reading on-line is not the best visual experience - RIGHT NOW. What about advances in technology Mr. Librarian of Congress? Don't you think that starting the digitizing process for books now in preparation for future use might just be a good idea?
I like books - I spent a lot of time in libraries in college; heck, I even worked in a largish public library for four years. But, with the way technology changes - web tablets w/ decent resolution as someone else pointed out - wireless becoming more and more workable - why not start the preparations now for digital access?
Maybe Mr. B has been spending too much time at the crt himself; thus his short-sightedness is explained!