Linux-Advocacy Digest #53, Volume #32 Thu, 8 Feb 01 09:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux is INFERIOR to Windows ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Did anyone from LinuxWorld get sick (literally) afterwards? ("Lloyd Llewellyn")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Sun vs. MS (Charlie Ebert)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Yum! A new laptop screen, i thinks ill fry it! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Did anyone from LinuxWorld get sick (literally) afterwards? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Johan Kullstam)
[Fwd: [MDLUG] rotfl] ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux is INFERIOR to Windows
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:02:27 -0500
Hugh Jass wrote:
>
> hell, where I work we're still running some PDP 11's to control our
> manufacturing machines :-)
Why migrate if you don't have to?
The equipment is paid for.
And if you have a problem in a CPU, just remove the offending 74xx LSI chip,
and put in a new one.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:95o5q7$gp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Stuart R. Fuller
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Lincoln Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > : Probably true if you consider Solaris or VMS, but who can afford the
> > > : price of the software and specialized hardware?
> >
> > > : On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:39:38 GMT, "Stuart R. Fuller"
> > > : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > :>Charlie Ebert <charlie> wrote:
> > > :>: Linux has the BEST uptime record of any operating system in the
> > > :>: world.
> > > :>
> > > :>Well, between Windows and Linux, that might be true. However, there's
> more to
> > > :>the world than Linux and Windows.
> > > :>
> > > :> Stu
> >
> > > I was specifically referring to VMS. One site had an uptime of 18 years
> (yes,
> > > 18 YEARS). Longer than since Linux was invented!
> >
> > That machine must have been very useful after 18 years. :P
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----.
> >
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Did anyone from LinuxWorld get sick (literally) afterwards?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:03:23 GMT
Are we witnessing the birth of open-source medical care?
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:06:54 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> ...
> > However...typical market forces would force even teachers
> > to learn the Constitution.
>
> What's the connection between a free market and inflexible
> legislation again?
Simple: "OUR schools have X% teachers who have successfully passed the
citizenship tests"
>
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:07:27 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> ...
> > DEMONCROOK ...
>
> Abuse makes for a very unconvincing argument.
>
Merely characterizing them for what they are.
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert)
Subject: Re: Sun vs. MS
Reply-To: Charlie Ebert:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:09:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Condon wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Gardiner) wrote in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>And why do you say that? After looking at Microsoft...A collective
>>group of companys/organisations develop and embrace and open
>>standard..however...Microsoft wants to re-invent the wheel again, so
>>they create C# and DirectX because they don't like using something not
>>developed by them. Given the chance, if Microsoft could, they would try
>>to replace TCP/IP with their own protocol
>
>They tried that, the original Windows for Workgroups had NetBEUI, and only
>later did it support TCP/IP (and NetBEUI was still the default).
>
>> just out of spite of the fact
>>that it was embraced my UNIX first. When it comes to analysing
>>Microsoft, they, in my view, they as a company are very childish.
>
>Not childish, just obsessed with creating customer lock-in.
>--
>Nick
Microsoft quite litterally has this notion that if you have
a business which isn't completely dominated by MS software,
then that business is flawed...
--
Charlie
**DEBIAN** **GNU**
/ / __ __ __ __ __ __ __
/ /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ /
/_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\
http://www.debian.org
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:10:43 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> >
> > Most of the tamper-friendly voting systems are in Demoncrook-run counties.
> > Why is that?
>
> Because George W didn't want to count the ones in Re-publican counties.
>
Are you alleging that the Demoncrook election officials in the Demoncrook-run
counties were unwilling to properly count Al Gore votes the first time?
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:13:35 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> ...
> > You remember all the chads that kept getting swept up off the floor
> > in Florida...NEVER allowed to accumulate, lest it become completely
> > f#$*ing obvious what was being done.
>
> Interesting point, but does every fanatical supporter of George "Dubya"
> (*)
> display a foul tongue in public, or is that a characteristic only of the
> most morally upright Republican voters?
False premise. I'm a registered LIBERTARIAN, asshole.
>
> (*) Hey! Isn't that a Russian name?
No. In fact, according to my (full, comprehensive) Russian-English
dictionaries, there are no Russian words which, in any form, turn into
the word "Dubya"
>
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:14:47 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> ...
> > [By the way, I'm a Libertarian, not a Republican]
>
> I always wondered what the difference is. Now i know:
> a Republican has a sweet tongue in public.
>
Wrong. We oppose socialism and mommy-state and daddy-state government.
Democrats want government to be your mommy
Republicans want government to be your daddy
Libertarians want government to treat you like an ADULT.
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:15:58 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> Walt, Southern, California, USA wrote:
> >
> > All you have to do is read and you'll see that historically, the most
> > crooked elections have happened in Democratic strongholds: Tamany Hall
> > (New York City), Chicago under Richard Daley Sr., and the county of Los
> > Angeles (in recent years) in California.
>
> No, Democrats (and Richard Nixon) are stupid enough to get caught
> committing felonies.
>
> Smart politicians, like Ronald ("i forget") Reagan, and Joh Bjelke
> ("i forget") Petersen, can violate constitutions, big time, and
> get away with it.
>
> Now i'll be hated by both parties, but i have low regard for their
> opinions.
Then join the Libertarians.
The only reason you tolerate criminal behavior by government officials
is because you choose to.
You are free to choose NOT to do so at any time.
>
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:17:25 -0500
Geoffrey Tobin wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> ...
> > The whole Constitution is founded upon the principle
> > that government can't be trusted....least of all those individuals in
> > government who LIKE being a part of it.
>
> Now i'm really frightened of Ronald ("happy, happy") Reagan.
>
Reagan has done more for Americans' freedom than any other president
in this century.
Other than the founding fathers, I think first place would be Andrew Jackson,
for vetoing the Bank of United States scheme.
> --
> Best wishes!
> Geoffrey Tobin
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yum! A new laptop screen, i thinks ill fry it!
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:19:53 -0500
meow wrote:
>
> Is this guy always an obnoxious ****?
Only when dealing with idiots like you...it's my way of communicating
to you my utter CONTEMPT for your stupidity.
> Seems like it from the number of posts i see against him
Stupid people always say things like that.
>
> meow
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > meow wrote:
> > >
> > > Well this is just great
> > > I havent even had my Sony Vaio a week and the screens fucked
> > > I installed Mandrake 7.2 and when asked to choose a monitor choosse lcd
> > > that can do 1024x768 which worked fine initially but after a reboot it
> > > trashed the screen which is now permament
> >
> > Liar. LCD screens are NOT susceptable to damage by too high of
> > a dot-clock setting.
> >
> >
> > > Fortunately its new and under warranty so ill get a new machine from
> > > them.
> > > This isnt the first time this has happened to me. Linux also fucked up a
> > > monitor i had a few years back too.
> >
> > Translation: Meow was tooo STUPID to read the EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS
> > to reference his monitors specs for maximum dot-clock frequency.
> >
> >
> >
> > > THIS SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE. THERE IS NO REASON THIS CANT BE CODED SO
> > > THAT THE USER CAN ONLY CHOOSE OPTIONS THAT HIS MONITOR SUPPORTS.
> > > iTS EXTREMELY BAD PROGRAMMING THAT IT ALLOWS THEM TO SCREW UP THERE
> > > MACHINE SO VERY EASILY.
> > > Im a very experienced computer user and a program of 15 years so im not
> > > some hopeless newbie that can barely switch on there machine.
> >
> > So experienced, that you COMPLETELY IGNORED *specific* and *dire*
> > warnings to make sure that you don't specify too high a frequency?
> >
> > What wents wrong....fuzzy thinking from semen inhalation...or what...
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > mr angry
> >
> >
> >
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Did anyone from LinuxWorld get sick (literally) afterwards?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:25:36 -0500
Lloyd Llewellyn wrote:
>
> Are we witnessing the birth of open-source medical care?
medical care already is.
You can walk into any open-to-the-public medical library (usually for FREE
in the US), and read as much about anything as you would like.
Same for pharmaceutical libraries.
The best place to find these is on a college campus.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:27:10 GMT
Karel Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ian Davey wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoffrey Tobin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> but I can't remember who coined it now:
> > >> "the existance of God disproves the existance of God, therefore God
> > >> does not exist".
> > >
> > >That's an invalid argument, because its premise is false.
> > >
> > >If you want to find a logical foundation for your atheism
> > >you will have to do much better than to commence by giving
> > >credit to arrant falsehoods.
> >
> > To put it simply, the logic behind it is this: "If God doesn't need a
> > creator then neither does the universe". To believe in God you have to believe
> > that something can exist without being created (i.e. God) so that applies
> > equally to the Universe.
> >
> > One simple question: If God doesn't need a creator, then why does the
> > Universe need one?
> >
>
> Sorry for budding in, but isn't that merely shifting the problem?
no, it's *un*-shifting the problem.
> Aren't you essentially turning the universe into a non-created
> entity?
as something without a creator, sure.
> And if not, could you explain - in a clear and non-ambiguous way (*) -
> how the universe came into being?
only if you can explain -- in a clear and non-ambiguous way -- how god
came into being. invoking a creator of the universe adds complexity.
> (*) I can't help but noticing that the more cosmology advances, the
> more its publications begin to resemble Genesis (there should really
> be a smiley here, but then again...).
only in a very superficial way.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: [Fwd: [MDLUG] rotfl]
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:35:26 -0500
> From: tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Multiple recipients of list MDLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> OK
> I'm stuck.
> I'm also laughing pretty hard.
>
> I have a dual boot notebook with a eepro100 NIC baked into the
> MOBO and a PCMCIA NIC sticking out the side.
>
> I typically have the eepro100 disabled and use just the pcmcia.
> Under Linux this was really quite easy to configure.
>
> I've spend 3 weeks playing with Win98 trying to do the same
> thing. But I keep running into the vicious cycle of:
> "Oo!! I found new hardware, let me set it up for you"
> "I found a network card so I'll make it work for you"
> "Your pcmcia card is not working properly"
> (I go in a disable the eepro device and the TCP/IP config
> associated with it)
> "You changed something, I have to reboot now"
> "Oo!! I found new hardware, let me set it up for you"
> "I found a network card..."
>
> I tried disabling the devices but it's just not working. I don't
> work on it too long because I get *really tired* or constantly
> rebooting the PC. It's just killing me!!
>
> I try not to be biased. But sometimes Linux just has certain
> advantages over the Win-stuff.
^^^
You misppelled "Lose"
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