Linux-Advocacy Digest #172, Volume #28 Wed, 2 Aug 00 05:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Windows virus WILL destroy your IDE drive. ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: I had a reality check today :( ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Micro$oft retests TPC benchmark ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Windows virus WILL destroy your IDE drive. ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: What are all you nix trolls doing in the WINDOWS advocacy list?
Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG (Ed Cogburn)
Re: Linux can physically destroy your hard drive! (Jacques Guy)
Re: There is no such thing as a free lunch! (Steve Wilbur)
Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG (Loren Petrich)
Re: Micro$oft retests TPC benchmark (Mats Olsson)
Re: one of Lenin's Useful Idiots denies reality (Loren Petrich)
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows virus WILL destroy your IDE drive.
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 03:59:58 -0400
Drestin Black wrote:
>
> "Gary Hallock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Drestin Black wrote:
> >
> > > you are making a poor asumption. I read the entire post (and the posts
> to
> > > the list as well as other articles about this) and am fully aware that
> it's
> > > possible to write a program like this that runs under Windows. Duh...
> >
> > You really are dense, aren't you? Here is a summary of the what was
> said:
> >
> > Drestin:
> >
> > Andre posted a thing he called disk-destroyer.c (see below) which
> > will use an IDE command to trash the partition table on a disk, thus
> > rendering all data inaccessible.
> >
> > Arthur responded to THIS part of your post with:
> >
> > Windows has had this feature for years. I've
> > had Win95 destroy it's partition table several
> > times, all by itself, with no input from me.
> > I've even had scandisk do it.
> >
> > Drestin:
> >
> > Apparently, however, there are other
> > variants possible which will cause the drive to wipe out its firmware,
> thus
> > turning it into a true brick.
>
> I didn't write the above.
>
> >
> > Arthur responded to THIS part of your post with:
> >
> > Seems to be a problem in the ATA/IDE spec that
> > allows this. There's no reason Windows couldn't
> > do it either. Note that Linux doesn't actually
> > do this - you have to write and run code to make
> > it happen.
> >
> > Drestin in response to Arthurs post:
> >
> > you missed the point - this doesn't just trash partion tables or make
> data
> > inaccessible - it actually physically destroys the firmware - as in, IDE
> > drive => brick.
>
> No, I understod it perfectly.
>
> >
> >
> > This last statement by you clearly indicates that you did not read Arthurs
> post
> > in full, or you simply chose to ignore it. Arthur clearly did understand
> that
> > the firmware could be destroyed.
>
> No, i understood. You are not making any points..
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:00:54 -0400
Drestin Black wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Drestin Black wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > > Drestin, this is hardly a glowing report forf Lose2000.
> > >
> > > not when you just change names and results until you get what you want
> outta
> > > it... nope...
> >
> > ALL I did was rename the "behavior" codes in order of desirability
> >
> > A Most desirable behavior
> >
> > B+ very good behavior
> > B-
> >
> > C - Undesirable behavior
> >
> > D - One-foot-in-the-grave-the-other-on-a-banana-peel behavior.
> >
> >
> > Do you dispute this?
>
> yep.
On what basis?
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:00:38 -0400
Drestin Black wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Drestin Black wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > > Drestin, this is hardly a glowing report forf Lose2000.
> > >
> > > not when you just change names and results until you get what you want
> outta
> > > it... nope...
> >
> > ALL I did was rename the "behavior" codes in order of desirability
> >
> > A Most desirable behavior
> >
> > B+ very good behavior
> > B-
> >
> > C - Undesirable behavior
> >
> > D - One-foot-in-the-grave-the-other-on-a-banana-peel behavior.
> >
> >
> > Do you dispute this?
>
> yep.
Which is why you're such a loser, attached to an obsolete architecture.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I had a reality check today :(
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:02:01 -0400
Ray Chason wrote:
>
> Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi Tim!
> >
> >Tim Palmer wrote:
> >> >why do these "bullet proof" linux distributions have the propensity to
> >> >leave these core droppings littered about in the first place?
> >>
> >> Becauze they expect you to fix thear bugs for them. Lie-nux if for poepal that
>watn to play with script's
> >> all day. Windo's for poepal who want to get on with their lives.
> >
> >I sure hope you get on with your spelling lessons...
>
> Timmy-boy is writing in Microsoft English(R).
>
Dat's becuz hees uzing Mikrosopht Alfabit
> --
> --------------===============<[ Ray Chason ]>===============--------------
> PGP public key at http://www.smart.net/~rchason/pubkey.asc
> Before people will respect the law, the law must respect people.
> Delenda est Windoze
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Micro$oft retests TPC benchmark
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:04:17 -0400
Stuart Fox wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Refresh my memory....
> >
> > Exactly how is re-installing the operating system, re-installing all of
> > the applications, and then having to tweak all of the settings through
> > a gui every couple of months "easier to maintain and operate"
>
> Is that what you have to do when you run NT? I certainly don't.
> >
> > In EXCEEDINGLY RARE the event of catastrophic failure on a Unix machine,
> > all you have to do is
> >
> > a) reload the absolute minimal base operating system (30 min max.)
> > b) recover from last night's backup tapes.
>
> As with NT.
Have fun with that registry crap
HA HAWWWWWWWW
>
> <Snip massive and completely pointless sig>
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows virus WILL destroy your IDE drive.
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:05:37 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> No but you DID write the title and all of the Linux does this... in the
> first post. That was MISLEADING at best. The fact is this can happen to
> ALL OS's that use IDE. But you were either not smart enough to catch
> that or you were deliberatly misleading (very close to lies). Which is
> it?
>
> why can't you be man enough to admit when your full of S___???
Drestin Adress isn't man enough to do anything.
She can't use a urinal, if you get my drift.
>
> In article <txEh5.1876$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Drestin Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > nope - not true.
> >
> > I didn't write the article...
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
I: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
J: Loren's Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: "Jeem" Dutton is a fool of the pathological liar sort.
C: Jet plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of
sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction
that she doesn't like.
D: Jet claims to have killfiled me.
E: Jet now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (D) above.
F: Neither Jeem nor Jet are worthy of the time to compose a
response until their behavior improves.
G: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
H: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: What are all you nix trolls doing in the WINDOWS advocacy list?
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:11:16 -0700
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike Byrns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:G%Mh5.8387$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8m7rok$2uq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Mike Byrns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:QbGh5.6878$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:8m731n$lfb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> >
> > > So there are idiots on both sides of the fence. What I don't
understand
> > is
> > > that every time I snip the crossposts to the nix groups on of my
> replies,
> > > some nixer puts them back. It's like they are looking for notoriety
> > amongst
> > > their peers. I post to the Windows groups. I try to snip the nix
> > > crossposts. Sometimes I forget. But when I do snip, it's COMPLETE
> troll
> > > behavior to put them back.
> >
> > Can you identify the on-line identity of those who added th unix / Linux
> > news groups back into the thread?
>
> I was posting in a thread with Mr. Kulkis and petilon. I removed these
> groups nearly a dozen times. I'd have to retrace the history to pinpoint
> the offender but I think that's well know to the offending parties. Let
it
> suffice to say that nobody likes it on either side of the fence.
>
>
I have looked into this siutations and have discovered that you facts as you
hace presented them appear to be distorted. It might be becuase of a fuzzy
memory on your part or you could had distorted the details on purpose.
Either way, here they are the true facts.
As you had stated, you did a number of times narrow the focus of the
newsgroups that the thread would be crossposted into. You were talking with
both Aaron Kulkis and petilon. In every case but one your narrowing of the
focus ended that branch of the thread with you getting the last word. Often
that last word was an undefendable position or a cheap shot, which you were.
Did you ever notify the other participants in those breanchas of the thread
that you were taking it out of the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroups? Or
did you hope that you could look clever to those who read the thread from
the Windows groups and those you were responding to would not have a chance
to respond if they don't read the Windows groups?
As I said, that ONE branch you narrowed the focus of was reexpanded, that
expandsion was not done by Aaron or petilon, it was done by Erik Funkenbusch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
The only other case of a thread be expanded on you is this very thread. You
started this discussion in comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and it was expanded
by [EMAIL PROTECTED] to include comp.os.linux.advocacy. So, in COLA,
fkddan's posting was the first of the thread available there. In COLA, it
is clear that Nathaniel Jay Lee, Mikey, and myself were posting follow ups
to fkddan's posting. But for some reason, fkddan's post never appeard in
COMA or it did and was canceled. So to some readers of the thread in COMA
it could look like Nathaniel, Mikey, and mjcr, all expanded the focus of
this thread to include COLA, but that is not the case at all.
I have found not evidence for any of your posts other than these two cases
being expanded to include more newsgroups than you had intended to be
included. What is more the two people you have already implicated,
indirectly, are innocent of what you are claiming. Unless there have been a
flood of canceled post, you have misdirected the blame and exaggerated the
situation.
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:20:08 -0400
From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles
Subject: Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>
> What would be far fairest of all would be if everyone paid the same
> DOLLAR AMOUNT in taxes, REGARDLESS of income.
Everyone paying the same dollar amount would require the gov to
drastically raise the taxes just to get the same amount of revenue it
gets now. That would decimate the lower income people while giving
the rich a free ride. That realization is what chilled the idea of a
flat tax.
As for the lower income using more public resources, that's
bullshit. The entire working poor class is making less money by
working than they could by going on the gov dole, yet most continue to
choose working, rather than ask the gov for help.
You're a representative of the rich, Aaron, folks who don't give a
damn about anyone else, that's very clear.
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:26:10 +0000
From: Jacques Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux can physically destroy your hard drive!
Drestin Black wrote:
>... (no need to repeat it for the umpteenth time)
It is very, very easy for Drestin Black to prove
his/her/its good faith: repost the very same original
post, to comp.os.ms-windows.*.advocacy groups, with
the subject line:
Windows can physically destroy your hard drive!
I am waiting with baited breath. (And BTW I am
still waiting for the address of that copyright
office where DB registered his code, AND the
registration numbers. Pretty pleeeease! I can't
hold my breath very much longer!)
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From: Steve Wilbur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.infosystems.gis,comp.infosystems.www.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: There is no such thing as a free lunch!
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 00:29:45 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How does my using Bubble sort without paying someone a patent
> royalty violate any thermodynamic pseuo-laws?
well it doesnt. you cant. (: but youre not getting it for free.
you're making use of energy that was already expended (original
development) and then adding additional energy by discovering
(education, training, researching, lucky browsing) the algorithm,
identifying it, evaluating it, selecting it, typing it in or
downloading it, etc. You've spent energy to get that solution. You
didn't get it for free.
There is no free lunch.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loren Petrich)
Crossposted-To:
misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.libertarian,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles
Subject: Re: AARON KULKIS...USENET SPAMMER, LIAR, AND THUG
Date: 2 Aug 2000 08:46:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:23:15 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
>> >Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>> >> Consumption taxes hit the lower and middle classes harder because they
>> >> spend a greater portion of their income.
>> This softens their impact, but the above still applies.
>So? Anything else breeds "class envy" appeals which the socialists
>of both ilk use to manipulate the populace.
Let's see. Mr. Kulkis has called the Kennedy and Rockefeller
families "trust-fund babies". If anyone else called them that, I'm sure
that Mr. Kulkis would howl "CLASS ENVY!!!!!"
>Stipulating that one's tax bill should be based solely on "the
>ability to pay," then you are endorsing the Communist principle
>"FROM EACH according to his abilities" -- i.e. the more 'able'
>you are, the greater amount of OTHER people's burden you are
>expect to carry.
>"Progressive" tax rates fall into this same category
>"Flat tax" plans ALSO fall into this category.
Grow up. There are good reasons for richer people to pay more in
absolute amounts, even if not in relative amounts; one need not support
soak-the-rich taxation to support that principle. And I'm *not* a fan of
soak-the-rich taxation. For instance, such people have more that has to be
protected by the government, and I mean protected with both force and
legal recognition.
And if I got fabulously filthy rich, I would not begrudge paying
more in absolute amounts than most other people.
>The only thing that is ethical is a "head tax" That is, your
>family pays, say, $10,000 / head, or whatever.
So says the Leona Helmsley Brigade, which include those who are
more than happy to see the Kennedys and the Rockefellers pay very little
in taxes compared to the rest of the population.
And Margaret Thatcher tried levying such a tax in Britain, and
look where that got her.
>This puts an IMMEDIATE end to the constant gaming of the system
>of each group trying to get the rest of society to pay for
>*their* favorite cause.
Including military pork, a kind of pork that Mr. Kulkis finds
very difficult to criticize.
>> What, are you saying that a millionaire should pay the same dollar amount as
>> a grad student on $7500 or so ? I'd hardly call that "fair".
>Define "fair"
What do you think "fair" means?
>Keep in mind that the millionaire uses *LESS* government resources
>than the grad student.
ROTFL. A millionaire has much more in assets to protect than a
grad student, so uses much more in government resources, even if only
indirectly.
>Cutting back public services means: cutting back on the kinds of
>things that people should ALREADY be paying for themselves.
Does that include military and police protection, by any chance?
And running the court system?
And does this mean that insurance companies and health-care-plan
companies have no right to exist?
>> Both alternatives would move things back to the 19th century kind of scenario
>> -- how much you earn would be predetermined by how much your parents earned,
>Providing great incentive for adults to work as opposed to mooching
>off of the gover^H^H^H^H^H TAXPAYERS.
If such mooching is so great, why not do it yourself, Mr. Kulkis?
It would give you LOTS of time to study so that you can become a *much*
better Unix sysadmin and do *much* more research into Communist conspiracies.
>> because the poor kids would not receive health care or a decent education ( if
>> any education at all ) OTOH, the rich kids would be on a gravy train.
>Does the concept of private charity and scholarships elude you?
However, a society built according to Mr. Kulkis's ideals would
not have *ANY* of those, because he opposes *anything* that might be
considered a handout. I don't see him bragging about how much of his
income he gives away; I've yet to see much evidence of an Aaron Kulkis
Scholarship Fund. There isn't a Loren Petrich one either, I will concede,
but that's because I don't have enough money to create one.
>> What you'd end up with is an anti-meritocracy, where old money takes
>> precedence over new genius.
>Not if income taxes are abolished and replaced with consumption taxes.
I don't see the connection.
--
Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] And a fast train
My home page: http://www.petrich.com/home.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mats Olsson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Micro$oft retests TPC benchmark
Date: 2 Aug 2000 08:59:56 GMT
In article <8m7q95$nlf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2 + 2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Mats Olsson wrote in message <8m74co$dbj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>In article <u_Ch5.5822$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>Mike Byrns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>"Donal K. Fellows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>>news:8m6f7f$hf3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>>> Partitionable or non-partitionable data?
>>>
>>>Doesn't matter to the TPC. Both are explicate allowed.
>>
>> Yep. Of course, to anyone trying to decide what the TPC/C numbers
>>_mean_ and how useful the number is, it is crucial to know whether it
>>used partitioning or not.
>>
>> For example, if you are doing read-only database work, then the
>>partitioned numbers can be pretty interresting.
>>
>> OTH, if you need to do handle ecommerce and want all those writes in
>>one database, then you want to look at the non-partitioned versions.
>>
>> So, while it is legal to use tpm/C for both partitioned and
>>non-partitioned runs, it is extremly important to know whether or not
>>it was partitioned runs.
>>
>> On the other hand, if all you want to do is benchmarketing, the
>>difference is of course neglible.
>
>You overlook the fact that the IBM result of 444,000 tpm is on 4 clusters.
Is it? IBM seems to be saying it is on 32 4 CPU machines. Of course,
they may be wrong - care to come up with a link?
>Each non-clustered box has 110,000 tpm, which approaches the Sun mark of
>136,000, AT ROUGHLY THE SAME PRICE.
Could you perhaps show any kind of link to support this claim? There
doesn't seem to be any other Netfinity 8500R c/s benchmark listed.
/Mats
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loren Petrich)
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: one of Lenin's Useful Idiots denies reality
Date: 2 Aug 2000 09:00:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Loren Petrich wrote:
>> What can one expect from someone who seems like he's live among
>> John Birch trees? ;-)
>You are a Goddamned Fucking Lying Prick!
How am I supposed to be a liar?
Mr. Kulkis's nonsensical Communist conspiracy theories are the
sort of thing the John Birch Society is fond of, and that organization's
name suggests certain metaphors, so...
>> Presumably the right to practice capitalism.
>> Which would make fencing stolen goods *very* good. And Napster
>> *very* good. Etc. etc. etc.
>Once again, LOREN THE COMMUNIST can't proceed without concocting lies.
>Please name one Libertarian who condones theft.
Which makes one wonder about the status of fencing stolen goods,
since it is a form of capitalism that depends on theft.
And Napster and similar software have been dependent on massive
copyright violations; without such violations, they would have a *much*
smaller userbase. If one does not believe in intellectual property
rights, Napster is 100% legitimate. However, if one does...
--
Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] And a fast train
My home page: http://www.petrich.com/home.html
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