Posted on 11/03/2012 7:29:44 PM PDT by Errant
It would be dark soon at the Coney Island Houses, the fourth night without power, elevators and water. Another night of trips up and down pitch-black staircases, lighted by shaky flashlights and candles. Another night of retreating from the dark.
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It ought to use Twitter as the medium, without explaining to anyone what is creating those tweets....
And all the law-abiding citizens are unarmed...
Hadn’t though of that. What’s the advantage?
Puzzling the dickens out of everyone else who’s watching! Broadcast every move of the virtual looters.
Not very effective with things getting worse daily. Bet the thugs have already found guns.
Yea! Now that’s what I’m talking about!!! lol
You have to go with the Patriotic angle.
Patriotic Looters of America, Union Local 64
But, but, aren’t there guns protecting Mayor Bloomberg? So much inconsistency...
I'm seriously considering moving to linux. Programmed using windows tools for years but went Galt when Obama appeared on the scene. I've had a lingering interest in robotics for years. May get back into something if we change administrations.
Linux has caught on like mad... it’s the ultimate do it yourself platform. People who want their hands held (most) or who absolutely must have some special commercial package (a few) can still use Winders.
No one but his police are allowed firearms. Paranoid, much he is...
And funny thing, the Linux movement really got going thanks to the efforts of that screaming liberal, Richard Stallman, who invented the quasi-libertarian GPL license. Nobody ever hears from Stallman today outside of the tech world. He’d doubtless stump for Barack Obama if asked, but is never seen in those circles. I kind of wish he would, it would bring ridicule upon lefties. The GPL is his forte, but just about everything else he advocates for is just plain stupid and silly.
Without power, the sprinklers can't be working. These places are fire traps. Tent cities should be set up until power is restored.
Not in NYC, where you have to go to a laundromat to wash clothes and bedding, and that can cost you $20 right there. Many of these people live in areas where there are no markets, just little bodegas selling soda, beer, chips and twinkies.
Nite all...
The guts of Linux are more straightforward and elegant than those of Windows, in my view. If you get in as root, absolutely nothing is hidden or forbidden to you, at least in principle. Of course practical processes do not run as root, they run as users with circumscribed permissions. I’m sure Windows aficionados would disagree on the elegance, but that’s neither here nor there. The performance is very similar for both platforms, and a wealth of database programming support is available in Linux.
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