No, it's not if the organization has no means of enforcement (i.e. police).

Obvioulsly this depends a lot on what interpretation of the word "government" one chooses. For the sake of this discussion I would say that if the organization has no means of enforcement and no way to coaction, it could not be a government. Then people abid voluntarily to the "rules". This is basically a no-goverment form of society, because no one, including the organization itself, has any degree of power over any individual.

Of course, if you choose another definition for "government" then YMMV.

Anarchy by definition is NOT a form of government. Or, if you prefer, is the self government of each individual over himself.
Paraphrasing J. L. Borges, "perhaps one day we deserve no government". That's anarchy.
And mind you, not any form of organization is a government one.

Nop.
Multiple rows of cylinders where used to acommodate big engines (e.g. 28 cylinder Pratt and Whitney), so the cylinders not in the front row would be not cooled when the plane is not flying.

so +1

What you really need is a good set of soldering irons to cover the range of works you need to do.

A good set would be a 25-35 watt pencil type with two or three points (fine and normal, plus flat), optionally with a high temperature button (i.e. 20 watt normal, 200 watt hi-temp).
Then a 40-60 watt iron with normal and flat points, for somewhat bigger stuff like soldering connectors to coax, tube-era components and tube sockets, transformers, power sockets. This iron need to be *massive* compared to the first one, you need something that will not cool down whenever you touch something with some surface.
Then the day will come when you need a big iron, something really massive in the 200 watt range, with a big point.

Beyond that, a couple of timers/pwm controls for temperature and security, i.e. auto-off timer.

> Remember the Malvinas War ?
There, fixed it for you.

I wish my latests cars were not so security thigh, most notably not codded and/or RFID key.

Security devices only levels up the barrier for the lifters to get a car, forcing them to take cars when the driver is in the vehicle.
In the good old days they could lift a car with a jumper cable to the ignition coil and get away in two minutes, now they need to take it from you at gun point, between two or more thefts and most of the time getting away with you in the car for a couple of miles or even take the opportunity for an ATM raid.

I much prefer the old way, really.

It looks like they were different Maskelynes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Maskelyne_(magician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nevil_Maskelyne
73 de LU2DFM

I think a significant portion of google users are somewhat aware of the security concerns that using this kind of services imposes. fb userbase looks like it does not really cares, so fb can appear before it's users as it does, but google has to be more cautious on pushing ethical boundaries out.

Jaja, muy bueno. Son como el perro del hortelano, no cojen ni dejan cojer. Imaginate lo que va a ser si el satélite llega a fallar, van a brindar con champagne como la vez pasada... Bueno, otro palito en el orto de la derecha cipaya. Saludos y agradecimiento a los científicos argentinos por el logro. *Algunos* compatriotas estamos orgullosos de ustedes.

Common sense varies, because is mostly derived from experience than science. For example, in 1490 common sense indicated that the circumnavigation from Europe to Asia could not be done. Common sense in the 1940's indicates that smoking was a good habit. Common sense also varies with culture: between the Inuits it's a the most courteous action to offer your own woman to your guest, where around here common sense more often recommends killing your guest if he touch her. So, yes, common sense could be very wrong and it's not rigorous at all. And it's very dangerous too, because promotes extrapolation, which as my common sense has grasped, is almost always wrong :)

for much less of what Assange did.

In Guantanamo and other illegal detention centers around the world, without trial and elementary human rights guarantee, persons abducted by the US and other countries governments are incarcerated for much less that this journalist is doing.

The most foolish thing he could ever do is to go to the authorities of any country; if he do so, he will be in jail for a long time.

>> XFCE also is an X environment (guess why it starts with "X"). Basically, today there's no graphical environment for Linux which isn't based on X.

I was making a point about the bloated contraptions that KDE and Gnome are, also implying that it seems to be an effort to reproduce some "features" from windows or mac that I'm skeptic about...

Nowhere I said that XFCE is not X. I said "be careful choosing an X environment" because since the grown popularity of ubuntu there is less and less visibility of other desktop environments that depart more or less from the typical windows or mac imitators.

Bear in mind that since I was claiming some experience in migrating small to medium companies from proprietary systems to FOSS based ones, I _must_ know how a X desktop systems works ;)

And I'm a fluxbox user myself (after Enlightenment, fwm, WindowMaker, blackbox, and several others that where fugacious in my boxes).

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I did some small and medium business migrations towards FOSS software and I can attest that it's not easy.

Key factors I've encountered are: users have a bad predisposition, they always prefer windows because they (think they) know it, they have it in their home computer, notebook and phone, and they don't want to make the effort to learn another system; there are custom developed apps that not always are easy or at least economically feasible to migrate; there are software that are probably easy to migrate but you lost support if your server is not windows, and you are setting yourself in a position where you will be blamed by any problem a computer could ever have, related or not to FOSS.

In my experience trying to perform a 100% migration is not very easy not desirable: except in very restricted environments, every non trivial system will always be made up of heterogeneous OSes and apps. Because of smartphones, laptops and embedded systems, that mixture is pretty much guaranteed these days. So it's better to move early the back systems: replace mail servers, file servers, databases, printservers, backup systems, http and ftp servers, LDAP, routers, firewalls... and make sure they work and are appropriately configured.

Then deploy OOorg to _windows_ WS, perhaps with Firefox and Thunderbird (I always though that the Thunderbird developers would be looking at Pegasus Mail, sadly they weren't). That way your users will be familiar with the apps and then changing the "desktop" will be more easy. Change the users WS OS progressively, change first the WS of the more "advanced" users and try your best to show the deployment of the "new" system as a privilege; if you can, change the OS and put a new WS for it, or at least a new or bigger monitor.

Important factors in success and collaborative users is to provide them with compatibility: you're migrating, the rest of the world no. So you have to make sure your users can communicate with the external world: not only OOorg has to open xls and doc files; they _need_ to chat in the msn network, watch videos on youtube, and so on. Those are as much as important as to be able to do the work if you want your users supporting you.

Be careful choosing a X environment: the popularity of Ubuntu these days hides the fact that it can be obnoxious and overcomplicated for end users. A smaller, lighter and more orthogonal desktop environment (like XFCE) could be better.
Don't try for the new environment to mimic "look and feel" of windows: it's far more irritating to encounter subtle and minimal differences in behavior that to face a complete different approach. Most users spend 90% of they time in two or three apps (mail, office suite, some custom or enterprise app) and they simply don't care about anything else.

Your ultimate goal is to be asked to install "linux" on their home boxes or laptops. That will happen when they feel comfortable and familiar with the new system.