"Sunshine, lollypops and
rainbows ..."

Why are we still fighting crap like this? "Those guys ..." are not people we associate with willingly, yes? So who's letting them get away with this? Somebody shoot the fsckers already! It's self-defence!

That thing in the Constitution about rising up and revolting ... Does that include shooting your politicians? You'd think that would be a good place to start. Is anybody doing anything about that?

Why were they hired? Who hired them, who managed them, who laid down their ground rules? Who did their performance appraisals? Who signed their cheques?

Those people can always find flunkies to do the work (need money feed family|patriotism|...). Go after "Those people."

Would you bigots please go get a room?

(0) infidel /home/keeling_ uname -a
Linux infidel 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(0) infidel /home/keeling_ apropos bsd
bsd-from (1) - print names of those who have sent mail
bsd-mailx (1) - send and receive mail
bsd-write (1) - send a message to another user
bsd_signal (3) - signal handling with BSD semantics
File::Glob (3perl) - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
finite (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
finitef (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
finitel (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isinff (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isinfl (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isnanf (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isnanl (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
perlfreebsd (1) - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems
perlopenbsd (1) - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems
re_comp (3) - BSD regex functions
re_exec (3) - BSD regex functions
sigblock (3) - BSD signal API
siggetmask (3) - BSD signal API
sigmask (3) - BSD signal API
sigsetmask (3) - BSD signal API
sigvec (3) - BSD signal API
tetris-bsd (6) - the game of tetris
wait3 (2) - wait for process to change state, BSD style
wait4 (2) - wait for process to change state, BSD style

Linux was intended to be sloppy happy about communicating with anything any way it wanted to since someone first offered Linus networking code.

I've been on the net since ca. '90, and I have acquaintances from South Africa through South America through Eastern Europe and we buy each other "Seasonal Gifts" ... and they can't play what I bought with cash and sent them (and vice versa)? Highway robbery! What are there, ca. 180 - 200 countries out there, and we can't talk to each other in the 21st Century, why? I want heads on pikes.

Finally, someone who can read. :-) Hi.

Yeah, see I've got this bud currently across the pond don't ya know, and I get all this BBC, GDR, Kiev burned ... in my physical mailbox (!!!) and a dvd player <might> play it (dependent upon moi).

I feel for you. <crickets>

Fill in the blanks in any way it may please you. So, what do you think about goldfish?

You've an optimistic view. Bravo. In my experience, 99.9% of your hopes and dreams will be dashed on the rocks of some or other special interest/regulation/user pay fee structure, but we'll all be dead soon, so who cares, really? You only live once. Make sure once is enough.

Offside, what is clinical depression, really?

What happens when a buddy from EU sends you a disk of EU region code?

Ever heard of Debbie Brill? Six time world champion women's high jump, co-creator of the "Fosbury Flop", the style now used by all world class high jumpers. She still holds the over fifty women's world title, so she's still doin' it. She's from Mission, BC.

Always liked that girl.

Yes, it will, and it should. Will, in the sense that some will, and maybe more eventually will. If it gains traction, it's a new standard. Those using it in the meantime won't mind the wait. It's kind of like Linux vs. Windows 3.1: "Jump, or ... !@#$ yeah, jump!" for those who could tell the difference between the two. Canada went SI by gov't fiat, and it was a good thing (as much as it hurts to admit it). I don't much use it, but I know that SI makes a !@#$ of a lot easier calculations than that monstrosity, The Imperial System, with its arcane pints, quarts, inches, feet, furlongs, acre, ...

Time ought to be easy to calculate. Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours per day, twenty-eight to thirty-one days per month, ... Gaahhd! That mess needs cleaning up. It's as silly as Latin still being used in law, Greek in math, etc. Reboot and speak a common tongue! Don't listen to those old farts mumbling about tradition. They're just trying to keep new people out of their bailliwick.

I've not read the article, btw, but the proposal in the summary is appealing. Sell it to the kids as *easier*. They'll go for that.

Ah, geez man! You gave away the secret! Why're you helping Erdogan?!? Why do you hate the Turkish people?!?

Considering all that we've seen lately that the US gov't has been up to, how you can even attempt to suggest that you compare favourably to the EU is a mystery. Today's US is a parody of those "Land of the free, home of the brave" platitudes in your anthem. Ukraine is showing you how it's done, and Poland before them. "USA!!1!" What a pathetic joke.

What sonny?

I haven't heard a word about 4chan lately, so maybe it's become interesting and enlightening or something.