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Comment Re:Ctrl-Z (Score 1) 201

I am familiar with UNIX shell job control, and I was not stating that undo came first... only that your insinuation it was some ("modern") Windows-centric thing was in error.

Got it, thanks! I've never been an Apple/Mac/iOS, etc... user -- though I did use, and develop on, a Xerox 1108 Dandelion from 1985-87 using InterLISP-D (still have that LISP manual), but I was first raised on BSD...

Comment Re:Ctrl-Z (Score 1) 201

Job Control was a feature of the 4.1BSD Kernel, released in June 1981. Csh, first released in 1978, was (I believe) the first application to incorporate it to suspend a running job using Ctrl-Z. That job could then be either restart in the foreground using the command "fg" or restarted in the background using "bg". Running jobs could be monitored using the "jobs" command.

Comment Re:Real question (Score 2) 201

I used to be "civil unions for all, if you want to be married, find a priest/religious official to do the ceremony", but I've moderated over the years.

As I noted elsewhere, before I saw your post, I think there should be two entities. A Civil Union for the legal/tax part and a marriage for the religious part, if desired and/or there is one. The first is a contract with The State and the second is with your Religion. Maybe that would make things clearer/simpler.

Comment Re:Real question (Score 1) 201

Because it's a civil matter of a marriage being a contract. Like a domestic partnership.

That's why I think they should be separate entities. A Civil Union for the legal/tax part and a Marriage for the religious part, if there is one -- and they could both be applied at the same time if desired. Maybe this would cut down on the pedantic "marriage is between ..." arguments.

Comment Re:Welcome To The Machine (Score 0) 90

Or, if you really cared about the brown people from down south stealing your jobs/taking your welfare/fucking your wife, you'd go after the people hiring them first and foremost

And if only all employers were required to verify an employee's identity and eligibility to work in the U.S. with, say, an I-9 form -- oh wait, they are.

Comment Re:Welcome To The Machine (Score 1, Insightful) 90

Without taxes, how's the government going to pay all those people to round up the illegal aliens you're so scared of? Or cover the salary of a standing military? Or build a border wall?

They could get Mexico to pay to round up all those people, then pay them to build the wall and pay our, or their, military as overseers. Throw in a few bullwhips to complete the imagery. On the other hand, Republicans only really care about cutting taxes for rich people and corporations (often run by those rich people). They're super okay with building things on the backs of the poor(er) -- and denying them healthcare as they're easy to replace when they get ill/injured.

Comment Re:Why (Score 2) 117

"Program Files" has a space in it for the same reason Linus put tabs in his Kconfig -- to force devs to handle spaces in paths correctly.

Because the people that did this were focused on a GUI experience and not a command-line one and failed to consider the ramifications of their actions. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of white-space in file paths/names and take efforts to name things w/o them.

Comment Re:Reruns (Score 1) 120

I've gone to the movie theater for one of two reasons: it was an IMAX-worthy film (eg Dune and Bladerunner), or it was some kind of fan service (eg: several episodes of the restored ST: TNG series). Well, since an IMAX worthy film is maybe a once a year thing for me, why not have more fan service?

I can easily wait for most films to come out on either Amazon or network TV these days.
I think the last two films I saw at a (real) IMAX theater were Gravity and Interstellar, at the Virginia Air and Space Center.

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