I think the desktop-thing is overestimated. There is nobody who really needs more than a well configured fvwm -- well, you have to do the configuration first. But from my experience it's better to get rid of the bloat for the price to have to configure once according to needs, and leave it alone for the time remaining till the hardware dies. And: configuring the thing is a job for me ;-) -- i love NetBSD! Ok, needs change, but modern desktop ways to handle this (provide it all) lead to clutter, not to a stable and fast system -- better pay me than install kde (gnome is really better in that respect). If u're used to it, a xterm is better than every menu one can think of, it's just a matter of teaching -- another job for me! And i agree with the statement that it is a big plus for NetBSD to get going with the acpi-wireness, brave coders, thank you! Stefan

It's a failure to think the key behind exploiting the masses, governing them into wars as needed for the might to exploit them, forcing them to live for the money and starve if the money can't use them to grow, making them beg for labour by all means and costs, although nobody needs labour, but the things it produces, while all labour is only producing property of those who "give labour" and take money for those things the labour produces, let them rot rather than giving them starving humans, don't even let the labour produce them, if there is no chance to earn money -- it's a failure to believe the key behind all this was mis- or disinformation about the crude practices, that go with such a normality, or about the moral integrity of the leaders of this damaging world. Everybody knows what's going on. There is no secret about it. The point is: take this as information about the cause and it's consequences and stop thinking it was something like abuse or misuse of an originally nice order. Stop thinking that the "real" purpose of mankind was to be noble and the reason for failure was uncovered, bad behavior. The purpose is making money, the damage is a consequence of this -- it's about to change this purpose, not about to spot traitors on an imagined good purpose. And this to be changed purpose does not come from lies or human nature, it is dictated by force, by the force the governments command.

... and that's why Internet will die first. Electricity for running a Computer will be the point, a fall back to writing in stones is more likely for the masses than doing electric communication. The little minority of those who can afford will keep reading and writing here and there, they will only avoid the stones -- accept for their police-forces, who will read every stone to control the legality of thoughts. Or something like that.

"do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you think it's illusory? If not, why?" What does "valid construct" mean? If you mean if it's enforced by law the answer is yes, but doesn't depend on what we think. If you mean if I like it, the answer is no - I'll tell you why: Intellectual things, in contrast to physical things, can be given away without being lost for the one who gave them away. One can simply explain it to someone else and afterwards both can use the knowledge - nobody looses anything. But in this world it is not that simple, it's not about using knowledge to get a better live, it's about using knowledge to earn money. (You should know that, as "anarcho-capitalist", and you should know the difference.) That's the reason for intellectual property, and you met some antagonism in it, as you think about the "problem of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd litigation". Intellectual things oppose to being private property by their very own nature. They live in the medium of language - the most non-private thing one can think of - and are universal by themselves. In contrast to that physical things don't oppose to being private property, that doesn't mean that they are private property by themselves, but they don't oppose to being made to it by humans. Therefor every enforcement of intellectual property is an absurd act, in other words: "absurd litigation", you won't get your problem solved, you simply can't have both.