• Re: Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing

    From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to All on Mon Oct 25 19:09:08 2021
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:39:31 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

    "[Think of it as|its just] evolution in action." ;-)


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    Martin | martin at
    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

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  • From TimS@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Wed Oct 27 08:41:08 2021
    On 27 Oct 2021 at 07:51:38 BST, "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:

    On 26-10-2021 23:06, TimS wrote:
    Unix has apropos. So I just tried "apropos remove file". This gave me three >> and a half screens-full of commands (so, some hundreds), but not including >> 'rm'.

    On MacOS (~BSD) it gives more than 20 pages because it seems to treat
    the keywords as OR-ed and "file" is ubiquitous. Two pages for just
    "apropos remove" and in both versions it includes on page two (because alphabetically) :

    My Terminal windows are nearly 100 lines long.

    --
    Tim

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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to TimS on Wed Oct 27 12:28:36 2021
    On 27-10-2021 10:41, TimS wrote:
    On 27 Oct 2021 at 07:51:38 BST, "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:

    On 26-10-2021 23:06, TimS wrote:
    Unix has apropos. So I just tried "apropos remove file". This gave me three >>> and a half screens-full of commands (so, some hundreds), but not including >>> 'rm'.

    On MacOS (~BSD) it gives more than 20 pages because it seems to treat
    the keywords as OR-ed and "file" is ubiquitous. Two pages for just
    "apropos remove" and in both versions it includes on page two (because
    alphabetically) :

    My Terminal windows are nearly 100 lines long.

    Mine 80.

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  • From Robert Riches@3:770/3 to William Unruh on Wed Nov 3 02:48:50 2021
    On 2021-11-02, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
    On 2021-11-02, jak <nospam@please.ty> wrote:
    Il 02/11/2021 15:39, The Natural Philosopher ha scritto:
    On 02/11/2021 14:31, jak wrote:
    Il 02/11/2021 09:26, The Natural Philosopher ha scritto:
    On 01/11/2021 20:22, jak wrote:
    Forgive my lack of knowledge of the English language but it is
    precisely
    on this point that our opinions differ: if, for example, you are
    vaccinated and you touch the handle of an infected door then you will >>>>>> touch another handle that I will also touch, I will get infected
    because
    of you even if you are vaccinated.

    Exactly.

    The difference is that you who are
    vaccinated will not get sick while I, who am not, will. When I was >>>>>> young, they gave me the measles vaccine and told me that by doing so I >>>>>> would most likely not get measles. Instead now they tell me that I have >>>>>> to vaccinate otherwise other people get sick? I am really confused >>>>>> because it is not necessary to be sick to pass the infection.

    Exactly. BUT it reduces the spread. the virus on your vaccinated
    hands will not multiply in your lungs and get coughed out into
    someone unvaccinated persons face to cause them to wither and die.

    Vaccination reduces the overall world virus load.

    As well as 'protecting vulnerable people'

    The whole anti-vax thing is simply another manifestation of the
    ArtStudent™ mind that can only think in Boolean terms =  protect/does >>>>> not protect, prevents infection/does not prevent infection.

    It's a numbers game. Vaccination lowers infection rate, transmission >>>>> rate hospitalisation rate and death rate.

    which certainly indicates that the side effects are less worse than
    the disease.

    It does however, *guarantee* nothing,





    First of all I thank everyone (in this branch) for your answers and now >>>> I understand the reason for your reasoning. Here where I live (Italy)
    the media have said and reiterated that this was not an airborne virus, >>>
    Then they are probably guilty of fake news.
    Wiki:

    "COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets
    and small airborne particles containing the virus. The risk of breathing >>> these in is highest when people are in close proximity, but they can be
    inhaled over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can
    also occur if splashed or sprayed with contaminated fluids in the eyes,
    nose or mouth, and, rarely, via contaminated surfaces. People remain
    contagious for up to 20 days, and can spread the virus even if they do
    not develop symptoms"


    for this reason I have a different way of looking at the related
    problems. In any case, public administrations are very concerned with
    the people who want to vaccinate and what they don't, but they forget to >>>> manage what they can't.


    I think something got lost in translation there.???



    ...you are probably right :)

    Following the media, they talk a lot about the vaccinated and also a lot
    about those who refuse the vaccine. Unfortunately, they speak very
    little about how to behave those who cannot be vaccinated. This problem

    The problem is that those who "cannot" be vaccinated are a miniscule
    part of the population. What makes it so they cannot be vaccinated? A
    severe alergic reaction to some of the ingredents might be, but that is
    very rare. If everyone but them were vaccinated, one would have no
    worries. The virus would die out.

    "What makes it so they cannot be vaccinated?" Certain heart
    conditions, for one. A few weeks ago, an elderly man told me his
    cardiologist had told him that the "vaccine" it _WOULD_ damage
    his heart. [quotation marks mine, emphasis his and his doctor's]

    --
    Robert Riches
    spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
    (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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  • From Bob Martin@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Thu Nov 4 07:14:08 2021
    On 3 Nov 2021 at 08:30:27, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 03/11/2021 07:58, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 07:27:04 +0000
    Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> wrote:

    The UK is no longer in Europe?

    Correct. They took a referendum, voted to leave the EU, did so and
    went through a protracted (more than two years!) leaving negotiation
    process that ended up with essentially "no deal" and, since the start of
    this year, are no longer in the EU, leaving a messy issue around the
    Eire/Northern Ireland border.

    Did you really miss all that happening ? Did you not encounter the
    term Brexit ?

    Do you really think that the EU - a small corrupt bureaucracy founded by
    an Italian communist that gathers and redistributes taxes, and attempts
    to be a self appointed undemocratic lawmaker for 27 countries whose politicians were bribed or blackmailed into entering it - represents Europe?

    After yesterday's shenanigans in the Commons how can you accuse others
    of corruption with a straight face?

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Bob Martin on Thu Nov 4 10:50:12 2021
    On 04/11/2021 07:14, Bob Martin wrote:
    On 3 Nov 2021 at 08:30:27, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 03/11/2021 07:58, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 07:27:04 +0000
    Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> wrote:

    The UK is no longer in Europe?

    Correct. They took a referendum, voted to leave the EU, did so and
    went through a protracted (more than two years!) leaving negotiation
    process that ended up with essentially "no deal" and, since the start of >>> this year, are no longer in the EU, leaving a messy issue around the
    Eire/Northern Ireland border.

    Did you really miss all that happening ? Did you not encounter the
    term Brexit ?

    Do you really think that the EU - a small corrupt bureaucracy founded by
    an Italian communist that gathers and redistributes taxes, and attempts
    to be a self appointed undemocratic lawmaker for 27 countries whose
    politicians were bribed or blackmailed into entering it - represents Europe?

    After yesterday's shenanigans in the Commons how can you accuse others
    of corruption with a straight face?

    Owen Patterson is a well known critic of the corrupt green energy
    business pushed by the EU.

    Naturally he had to be 'cancelled'.



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    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

    —Soren Kierkegaard
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  • From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to Bob Martin on Thu Nov 4 10:22:52 2021
    On 4 Nov 2021 07:14:08 GMT, Bob Martin wrote:


    After yesterday's shenanigans in the Commons how can you accuse others
    of corruption with a straight face?

    Well said!

    Things have come to a pretty pass when an ex-cabinet member with his hand
    out for 'commissions', behaviour that's explicitly forbidden for MPs,
    gets defended by the PM. The first should be expelled from Parliament and
    the second should resign.


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  • From Nikolaj Lazic@3:770/3 to All on Sat Dec 25 00:22:56 2021
    Dana Fri, 24 Dec 2021 21:09:24 +0000, Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> napis'o:
    On 24/12/2021 18:09, Axel Berger wrote:

    Java Jive wrote:

    On 24/12/2021 08:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I have a first class honours degree in electrical engineering

    I have a 1st Class Honours Degree in Mathematics & Computing,

    In German we have a word for that: "Schwanzvergleich".

    Translates literally as "tail comparison", so I presume the vernacular
    would be "arse comparison" :-)


    No... "dick comparison"
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