Raymond Moyers wrote:
> ""If we prevent them from doing stupid things, we also prevent
> them from doing creative things"" - Cant Remember Who
>
> And these new things are seem seemless because the system
> concepts are extensable with flexability in depth
>
> Winblows by contrast has the depth of leftist reason and
> the flexability of a socialist utopian machine gunner setting up
> 40 paces from a fresh dug mass grave ditch.
> and like winblows, equal use and benifit to you if your aim and desire
> dont fit with theirs.
I don't agree with your political descriptions.
Windows I use if I have too.
> Flexability is freedom, freedom gives birth to creativity.
> True or false dont matter ? you really would make a good leftist
> ( called liberal today, even as the real liberal is the opposite of a
> leftist, its George Orwells newspeak, todays liberals are not liberals
> they are leftists, perhaps Marxocrat would be a good label )
I always got lost in political terms. True or False do matter but I
don't have all the information to say that is true or false or a ring
oscillator.
> > > Gimp dont translate to a tty very well, but an xterm is certainly the
> > > bitmapped representation of the tty.
> >
> > BUT I MAY NOT WANT a bit map when running under XWINDOWS!
> > I want a 80x25 screen (640x480) because I can read the screen for
> > text-editing!
> > No font's under X-windows (linux) would give me that!
>
> What makes you think they wont ? you can have any size you want.
I tried (under linux)!
No font gives me 80 x 25 on a 640x480 window!
> This is wrong, to do so would eliminate creativity.
How can that be? -- if only the scribes can read and write what hope
does the common farmer have to write something profound.
> New protocols are invented every day, the usefull ones end up
> being adopted and the bad ones on the ashheap.
>
> Software darwinism is a good thing.
>
> > > eh ? what would be wrong with a nice large 4096 x 3192 screen
> > > with whatever size fonts you desire ? and the ability to populate
> > > that screen with the workload of a whole stack of boxes.
>
> > 1) Not everybody has the same standard fonts!
> > 2) I like 1 screen 1 program and screen flipping.
>
> This is wrong ... X11 does come with a full set of standard
> fonts. and adding more is easy.
>
> > > "Well the end user experience" is system agnostic except
> > > for the winblows limitations that dumbs your system down
> > > to the microset winblows can provide. unix has point and
> > > click too, but it isnt implimented stupidly.
> >
> > But the 3 button mouse is hard to find!
>
> On a 2 button mouse, you press both buttons to simulate
> button 3, it works smoothly and perfectly well.
I like 3 buttons better.
> > > You would make a good leftist, the asurdity seems high enough.
Nah ... More a "Mother Earth News" type guy.
> > After 40 years waiting for public space travel, my faith in NASA
> > is wearing thin.
>
> Public space travel to where ?
Well off the planet is a good start.
> I also dream of the day when a colony on mars is in full tilt of the 100
> - 1000 year job of terraforming the place, complete with a planetary
> mag field generator to fend off them nasty solar rays, but we are
> still suffreing the leftist egalitarian poison that has raped the planet
> of man potential. ( and left 200 million of its citizens in mass graves )
More like Greed and Capitalism and OVER population!
I never could get Mars terraformed in a 1000 years! Are you better with
SIM-EARTH
than me? BTW if my mars deed has any leagal value in the future I refuse
to have
my land terraformed YOUR way!
> When the social enginners are no longer putting the jackboots
> of goverment on the necks of the acheavers in the name of
> "social justice" and the envirowackos stand fully discredited
> by the emissions data from the volcano Penetubo, perhaps then
> we can get along back to the accent of man.
Darn where is BABLE fish when you need one!
> Raymond
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Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 23:43:22 BST