Linux-Advocacy Digest #914, Volume #33 Wed, 25 Apr 01 16:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males (Chad Everett)
Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Importance, or lack, of Marketshare? (Eric Leblanc)
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft (Icarus)
Re: Aaron Kuklis Arrested! (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! (Zippy)
Microsoft hit new security 'level' :-) (Roy Culley)
Re: there's always a bigger fool (Zippy)
Re: Microsoft abandoning USB? (Zippy)
Re: Tired of XEMACS, moving to VIM ("Kelsey Bjarnason")
Re: Bye all. Wow the Linux scene has changed. (Nico Coetzee)
Re: More Lies from a Linux "advocate" ("jim")
Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males ("jim")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("jim")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("jim")
Re: Bye all. Wow the Linux scene has changed. ("jim")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("jim")
Re: Importance, or lack, of Marketshare? ("Glitch")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop (Chronos Tachyon)
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft (Paul Repacholi)
Re: I Love the BSA ("Glitch")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop (Roberto Alsina)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Apr 2001 13:46:21 -0500
On 25 Apr 2001 18:42:14 GMT, Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:34:44 GMT, chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina) wrote:
>>
>>>>It can be dangrous for women to walk alone.
>>
>>>So, women should be forbidden from doing anything that's dangerous?
>>
>>What a jerk. Are you just a troll now? We know you're not that
>>stupid...
>
>In the part you snipped, I introduced the stuff about women and walking
>alone by saying "Aaron believes women are better off when they are NOT
>ALLOWED to walk alone".
>
And you believe that women should NOT BE ALLOWED the tools to protect
themselves while they walk alone.
>
>>No reasonable person can leap from "women should have the CHOICE of
>>carrying a gun for personal protection" to "women should be forbidden
>>from doing anything that's dangerous".
>
>Actually, it goes exactly the other way around. Aaron is pro forbidding
>women the right to walk alone, because they would be in danger.
>I am pro giving them that right. You just misunderstood the whole thing.
>
But we do understand thay you would like to deny women the right to
protect themselves.
>--
>Roberto Alsina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina)
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males
Date: 25 Apr 2001 19:11:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chad Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 25 Apr 2001 18:37:57 GMT, Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>It does help exposing you for the obvious nutcase you are. Not to
>>mention you are also an incompetent liar.
>>
>
>Boy Roberto, you fit all of those to a tee. You're the ultimate nutcase
>and an extremely incompetent liar.
Well, actually I am a very good liar, I just prefer not to use that
skill.
As for the rest... well, being called a nutcase by someone that has
dialogs with god has funny undertones.
--
Roberto Alsina
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Subject: Re: Importance, or lack, of Marketshare?
From: Eric Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:08:42 GMT
"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Peter Köhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> > > It's more than just number of users. There has to be a viable market as
> > > well. Many software developers don't see the Linux market as viable
> > > even though it probably has enough users to otherwise make it so (if it
> > > were a closed source platform, like the Mac).
> > >
> > > The reason is that Linux users are always screaming about price, and how
> > > things are free. ISV's see this as "Nobody wants to pay for software,
> > > and I'm not going to write it for charity".
> >
> > BS to the extreme.
> > In the last 12 month I *bought* linux-software for more than 1500$,
> > compared to just about 300$ for wintendo (for the kids).
> > Give me the progs (and not this shit like office), and I will gladly pay
> > for them if they are good.
>
> Peter, do you *HONESTLY* think you are a typical Linux desktop user?
Let's talk about typical Windows home desktop users, In my experience, most of
them have bought less than 5 software titles including the ones that came
with their computer when they bought it. Most of what is installed were
*borrowed* from work, colleagues and friends or simply lifted from the
net.
So by your own arguments Erik, the software market for windows is not viable
as the users of windows want everything for free?
[snip]
--
Eric Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Departement de Mathematique % Univ. du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Qc
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no
account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Icarus)
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:15:43 GMT
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:10:18 -0400, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>
>Can they robuset enough to continue operating during a nuclear war, like TCP/IP?
If I'm parsing this sentence corectly, AFAIK that capability hasn't
yet been tested. As the QA guy at a previous job stated, "If it
hasn't been tested, it doesn't work.
Followups trimmed. Regards,
Icarus
--
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here
-A. Lincoln, Gettysberg Address
I Don't Do Windoze. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Subject: Re: Aaron Kuklis Arrested!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:17:06 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edward Rosten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:25:44 +0100
<9but4i$4rc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
><html>
><body bgcolor="#000000">
><font color="#0000ff">
>
>>> how come you posted it using HTML encoding?
>>
>> HTML rocks over text.
>>
>> Are you stuck in the dark ages or something?
>
>You are very short sighted. Why is HTML any more suitable for usenet than
>plain text?
>
><br>
>
>Wait with html, I can make stuff look
><font color="ff0000">K3wl<font color="#00ff00">
There might be issues with Unicode support (which may be of great
importance to, say, the Chinese community), italicization, and
bold text for emphasis of what the author considers important
passages in his or her diatribe, and of course links,
embedded pictures (with or without text flowing around them),
tables, and even Javascript virii/worms/what have you.
Or one can hide <!-- secret --> text from the prying eyes
of those who should <!-- not --> see it. :-) (I for one
would consider this a waste of bandwidth, but there are
far worse offenders than Usenet posters in this regard.
It's also not horribly effective -- "View Source".)
Or you can really screw up things by misusing HTML by
creating goofy framesets, tables that don't end (Netscape
doesn't like that), or beginning a tag or comment and never
completing it.
All of which can be worked around in Usenet (anyone else remember
uuencode? :-) ) and are probably not that important anyway,
especially since SCREAMING AT PEOPLE doesn't accomplish much,
and even _underlining text_ or *emphasizing text* is questionable,
although it depends on the context. (I would also assume that
Chinese-language newsgroups have adequate workarounds, as well,
for the encoding problem.)
Calm, reasoned responses don't require styles; authors such as
Shakespeare and Asimov didn't require the <BLINK> tag, certainly. :-)
Or even smilies. They just wrote, and wrote well.
They didn't even use lots of fonts -- most of them used one, or
maybe two or three (chapter headers, start-of-chapter quotes in
italics).
And old-timers such as myself still remember roff/nroff/troff/groff
(still used for man pages today AFAIK). One could also make a case
for TeX -- and that might be a big boon for newsgroups such as
sci.math and sci.physics, as they are heavily into math. :-)
(Or it might not; not everyone's going to be into pretty typesetting
of equations such as
lim x/(x-1) = 1
x->oo
:-) .)
I should also mention RTF, which, despite its origins, is more
or less standard (as opposed to Word) AFAIK.
[.sigsnip]
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Is <BLINK> annoying, annoying, or just plain annoying?
EAC code #191 8d:09h:53m actually running Linux.
[ ] Check here to always trust monopolistic software.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina)
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males
Date: 25 Apr 2001 19:19:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chad Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 25 Apr 2001 18:42:14 GMT, Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:34:44 GMT, chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina) wrote:
>>>
>>>>>It can be dangrous for women to walk alone.
>>>
>>>>So, women should be forbidden from doing anything that's dangerous?
>>>
>>>What a jerk. Are you just a troll now? We know you're not that
>>>stupid...
>>
>>In the part you snipped, I introduced the stuff about women and walking
>>alone by saying "Aaron believes women are better off when they are NOT
>>ALLOWED to walk alone".
>>
>
>And you believe that women should NOT BE ALLOWED the tools to protect
>themselves while they walk alone.
If you advocate they should not walk alone, that doesn't make
any difference does it? And anyway, I did not. Check the archives.
>>>No reasonable person can leap from "women should have the CHOICE of
>>>carrying a gun for personal protection" to "women should be forbidden
>>>from doing anything that's dangerous".
>>
>>Actually, it goes exactly the other way around. Aaron is pro forbidding
>>women the right to walk alone, because they would be in danger.
>>I am pro giving them that right. You just misunderstood the whole thing.
>
>But we do understand thay you would like to deny women the right to
>protect themselves.
You misunderstand. Everyone should be entitled to protect themselves.
Women, men, transvestites and tax collectors alike. In fact, they ARE
entitled to protect themselves. All that straw is gonna cause you
hay fever.
--
Roberto Alsina
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zippy)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:22:00 GMT
name a company that's ever been harmed by being split up. microsoft doesn't
want to split - it's painful at first. but it's in EVERYBODY's best
interest - even microsoft's.
this is, after all, a democracy. that's why our businesses are so
successful.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy Culley)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Microsoft hit new security 'level' :-)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:42:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18516.html
Roll on .net so that we can all let Microsoft look after our
valuable data. What a joke they are. :-)
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Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: there's always a bigger fool
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zippy)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:24:18 GMT
this is an amusing conversation.
i use StarOffice every day. unlike MS Office, it doesn't crash my machine
every 15 minutes.
great office package, and it's FREEEEEEEEE!!!!
THANK YOU SUN COMPUTER!
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Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft abandoning USB?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zippy)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:25:29 GMT
USB is freaking AWESOME! try the Mitsubishi line of monitors, with
switching USB hubs built in. you'll never go back.
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From: "Kelsey Bjarnason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
gnu.emacs.help,alt.religions.vim,alt.religion.emacs,fj.editor.vi,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Tired of XEMACS, moving to VIM
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:26:00 GMT
"Brian V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9c70d3$13p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <9c3g1q$afs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Edward Rosten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
> |> Wires, yes. Sondering? no. They crimp the wires with their fingers (any
> |> weenie can crimp using teeth).
>
> Wires! We dreeaamed of having wires! We had to wet our skin and make
connections
> with our fingers!
Which was especially fun since our only source of electrical power was
lightning. :)
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:41:02 +0200
From: Nico Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bye all. Wow the Linux scene has changed.
Hullo wrote:
>
> I originally posted to try and get material for an anti W2K perspective for
> a report to a particularly trite director who MS marketing have got to and
> save my time(and no I do not use my company facilities to post to Usenet).
> You've convinced me (to my surprise) to dump the debian Linux boxes I have
> deployed and switch to W2K(which has stayed up and under burnin in my lab
> for 221 days today). They have been a pain since I was first convinced to
> deploy them(DEBIAN boxes) and the "guru" who set them up has had to
> repeatedly get me to fix them (he is now an ex-employee, fired during
> probation after he turned out to have faked credentials and claimed
> postscript was a proprietary Microsoft thing he did not care about).
221 days is a long time to wait to post such a message... what exactly
was your point now? if it's uptime - sorry, you still need plenty more
days to go before you get to Linux levels. And as usual I bet the Win2K
Super Servers are only serving files and sharing printers - something
that should NOT through a Server off.
Anyway, a lot has happened in 221 days. Perhaps you should try Linux
again... Wait 442 days and post a slightly altered version of this post
to the Win2K crowd.
he-he-he
--
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Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus
Where the three-body problem is solved,
Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K,
And the cold virus never evolved. (chorus)
We eat algea pie, our vacuum is high,
Our ball bearings are perfectly round.
Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed,
And a kilogram weighs half a pound. (chorus)
If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
If we just find a big enough wrench. (chorus)
I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
And living up here is a bore.
Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
'Cause I'm moving next week to L4! (chorus)
CHORUS: Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
-- to Home
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More Lies from a Linux "advocate"
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 03:01:36 +1200
All I said was WINDOWS 2000 ROCKS.
>
I'm sorry I have to butt in here and say that the saying {xyz} ROCKS is the
most puerile, illiterate, x-crap-generation bloody saying I have ever come
across.
You can actually tell how diseased a brain is because at last the
drugs/alcohol/glue/lack of vitamins take effect and it just becomes:
"IT ROCKS!"
I like Linux a bit more now.
Linux actually might just about f**king R*CK.
Jimbo
usage: Linux 11% Windows 89%
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Feminism ==> subjugation of males
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:32:09 +1200
>
> men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin,
> more even than death
> - bertrand russell
>
and linux users fear crosspostings even less to such newsgroups as
soc.men
soc.singles
alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
that even self-flaggelation witnessed by a feminist would not deter the
linux users' secret lust for domination - I am dominated my friends, for a
small price YOU can be dominated by Microsoft. You see, I have great
software AND it sorts out my sexlife. If you're into the ol' BND scene,
Microsoft is Bill Gates in Hard Leather spanking your hot ass with a cricket
bat. Linux on the other hand is Linus Torvalds in Vinyl bitch-slapping your
mother-in-law. You NEED to be dominated. What has to happen in the Linux
world is KDE or trolltech or Gnome or whatever have to come out and TELL you
who is boss.
And you will like it.
You Naughty, naughty boy.
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:30:38 +1200
> > By the age of 7 kids have just started to call each other `Gay' as an
> > insult (from my memory of being 7).
>
Hey WOW that reminds me of that old vietnam song released a long time back -
you should RAP it! What was the name of it - used to go
"Nineteen - N N N Nineteen" etc etc
Now all you have to do is buy a cheap drum machine and sing the above-
"By the age of 7 kids have just started to call each other `Gay' as an
insult (from my memory of being 7). S S S S Seven"
Excellent! And when you have made your first million bucks, you will have
forgotten about the silly bloke that was completely offtopic in
comp.os.linux.advocacy.
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:10:31 +1200
>
> sorry...Excel is a MicroPro ripoff. come to think of it, the name
> "Microsoft" is a MicroPro ripoff. WNT is a VMS rip-off...for those that
> recall HAL (the letters of IBM backed up one each), WNT is VMS forward one
> character each.
>
> MS Bob and Clippie are rip-offs from Commodore.
>
> Blue screen of death i attribute completely to MS.
>
Linux is a UNIX ripoff.
A good artist borrows, and a wise artist steals 8-)
Jimbo
current usage: Linux 10% Windows 90%
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bye all. Wow the Linux scene has changed.
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:42:25 +1200
> I'm hiring an MS head rather than a Linux guru as at least they show less
> capacity for being personally obnoxious.
I have found most of the assistance I have had from the internet regarding
Linux to be excellent - as a new user, I have found people very happy to
help, UNLESS the operating system dear to their heart is criticised, and
then - well put on your flame retardant suit!
current usage status: Windows 90% Linux 10%
Jimbo.
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:53:30 +1200
> This is not how I remember the story, as told by Prof. Raśl Rojas.
> Apparently Zuse started off with private funding, only the Z4 was built
under
> contract for the German Airspace Research Office.
>
> http://www.zib.de/zuse/English_Version/index.html [see "comments"]
>
> > He built his biggest machine in the living room of his parents- in-law.
>
"My daughter - why did you marry that man - I despair of you!!!! LOOK AT THE
STATE OF MY LIVING ROOM!"
Current usage: Linux 10% Windows 90%
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Importance, or lack, of Marketshare?
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:44:02 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Craig Kelley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The Microsoft zealots always quote marketshare at some point, have you
>> noticed? I started thinking about that, why is it important? Is it
>> important?
>>
>> I think "why" marketshare is somewhat important, is because you need a
>> community of users and developers to create the various software. The
>> days where one could write all that they need are long gone.
>>
>> The real issue is how big does that market need to be? How many active
>> users/developers does it take before a system is self sustaining? Also,
>> does open source make this number larger or smaller than the equivalent
>> closed source?
>
> Just like a nuclear reaction; you need to achive critical. It doesn't
> take much really -- I'd put all the BSD varients in that category.
>
> What's *really* cool is the number of universities that are using Linux
> as a tool for education. Each of the students in those classes will now
> know the intricacies of the kernel and other open source software
> packages when they graduate (is there a college campus that *doesn't*
> use Linux?).
>
Other than one Unix server (not sure of exact version) my school in Ohio
doesn't have any Linux boxes. They offer MCSE classes and everything
runs Windows 95/98. The computers in one lab are always freezing up with or
without a user being present and in another lab the computers are always
getting BSOD's simply by double clicking on Internet Explorer.
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From: Chronos Tachyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:39:27 GMT
On Wed 25 Apr 2001 09:28, chrisv wrote:
> Chronos Tachyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hint: even if I did have some sort of "magic fairy dust" to make arbitrary
>>men turn gay, that doesn't mean that they would suddenly find me
>>attractive, much less a potential lifemate.
>
> True, but irrelevant. It increases your odds. More gays is a "good
> thing" for you.
>
I suppose, in the same sense that rohypnol is a "good thing" for straight
guys trying to pick up women in bars.
>>Certainly, if I had the
>>ability to turn straight people gay, I would also have the ability to turn
>>gay people straight, and thus I wouldn't be taking part in this discussion
>>in the first place because I already would have turned myself straight.
>
> I don't agree with one word of this.
>
I live in Kansas, and I'm a shy, gay, geek -- and a large part of the
shyness comes from the "gay" and "Kansas" both being true. If there were
some way for me to wave a wand and turn myself straight, the only thing
that would even potentially hold me back is that it's been a part of who I
am for half my life.
>>Fundamentally, there are only two possibilities about what makes people
>>gay: (1) it's something in the brain, and would take neurotropic drugs or
>>surgery to alter if it were at all possible, or (2) it's just a choice,
>>and everyone is really just bisexual and lying to themselves about it.
>>Based on your experience as (presumably) a straight man, which of the two
>>possibilities matches up with your experiences?
>
> IMO it's some of each.
>
Not to discount your experience, but my experience leads me to believe that
#1 is the more dominant factor for a lot of people. In my entire life, I
have never found a woman sexually attractive. When my dad gave me a few
issues of Playboy, I read the articles. I have dreamed about having sex
with a woman exactly twice, and both were nightmares. Surely, most people
living heterosexual lives don't have these sorts of experiences, right?
--
Chronos Tachyon
Guardian of Eristic Paraphernalia
Gatekeeper of the Region of Thud
[Reply instructions: My real domain is "echo <address> | cut -d. -f6,7"]
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Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Apr 2001 02:45:25 +0800
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can they robuset enough to continue operating during a nuclear war,
> like TCP/IP?
Huh, IP can seldom cope on a GOOD day. The idea of an IP based network
staying up under severe stress is just too funny to be funny.
--
Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
West Australia 6076
Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Love the BSA
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:47:43 -0400
>>
>>
> Don't we all love the BSA. I get great excitement dobbing in
> Win-advocates who use pirated software, already dobbed in 4, great fun.
> When asked by BSA what I ran, I reply, "Linux of course!".
>
> As for Linux in the third world, Linux will bridge the gap between the
> developing and developed countries. Compare that to Windows that wants
> to divide and ensure that those in poor countries don't get ahead. China
> are pushing Linux in a big way, imagine if 10% of the population that
> have PC's use Linux, that would equate to 120 million end users, not
> including government departments that would also use it as well.
>
> Windows = Keeping countries poor
> Linux = Helping countries progress forward
>
As long as the countries who are already ahead continue to move ahead
instead of being equal with the countries that are moving forward then it
will be okay, otherwise we start getting into Communism where everyone is
equal wrt how much money they have.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina)
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: 25 Apr 2001 19:43:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chronos Tachyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Not to discount your experience, but my experience leads me to believe that
>#1 is the more dominant factor for a lot of people. In my entire life, I
>have never found a woman sexually attractive. When my dad gave me a few
>issues of Playboy, I read the articles. I have dreamed about having sex
>with a woman exactly twice, and both were nightmares. Surely, most people
>living heterosexual lives don't have these sorts of experiences, right?
Everyone has. Ok, not the nightmare part, but the articles in Playboy are
actually pretty good. I remember reading Mailer, Asimov, Bradbury, and
many others there.
--
Roberto Alsina
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