now, this is just a short excerpt ...
>  ""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
                                                            seamless
>  concepts are extensable with flexability in depth
                            extensible          flexibility
>
>  Winblows by contrast has the depth of  leftist reason and
>  the flexability of a socialist utopian machine gunner setting up
          flexibility
>  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.
    don't
>
>  Flexability is freedom, freedom gives birth to creativity.
    Flexibility
Every one of your posts has this sort of syntax/orthographic error in
quantity.   Doesn't your OS' email handler have a spell-checker?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Moyers" <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
> On Monday 22 April 2002 20:28, you wrote:
>
> > >  Ok so you dont know anything about unix, thats what you are
> > >  saying here.
> >
> > True, but considering most of unix was developed
> > in a educational atmosphere were only a few programs ran
> >  -- text editor -- C Compiler -- TROFF  at once because that
> > all a student or staff member could run because resorce limitations.
>
>  And today you have enough hardware in a PC box to support
>  5,000 people doing the same thing, not that your lust for faster
>  hardware is over, because unix is doing things that Ken and Dennis
>  never envisioned.
>
>  http://www.nop.org/misc/unix/ken-and-den.gif
>
>  ""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.
>
>  Flexability is freedom, freedom gives birth to creativity.
>
> > >  Its also apparent that everything you have been told about it came
> > >  from those equally ignorant, they are all wrong.
> >
> > What is true or false is not important as this is the view I have
> > of the systems with the knowlage and understanding from what I have
> > seen.
>
>  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 )
>
> > >  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.
>
>
> > >  Unix already has this    X11 is a standard  you can run your sun apps
> > >  your irix apps your freebsd apps all on the GUI of your linux box all
> > >  at once.  and last time i looked,  all the other systems have adopted
> > >  our plumbing, not the other way around.
> >
> >   It is not the plumbing -- it is what goes down the pipe that needs to
> >  be standarded!
>
>
>  This is wrong, to do so would eliminate creativity.
>
>  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.
>
> > >  You would make a good leftist, the asurdity seems high enough.
>
> > After 40 years waiting for public space travel, my faith in NASA
> > is wearing thin.
>
>  Public space travel to where ?
>
>  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 )
>
>  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.
>
>  Raymond
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 10:47:32 BST