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Tales of Trumplings Past 0
Elsewhere, Sasha Abramsky is has similar thoughts. Follow the link for the complete article:
As in, “Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt telling the world that many Nazi protestors were ‘good people’?” As in, “Can you imagine Ronald Reagan crowing about his crowd size while touring a region utterly devastated by hurricane winds and rain?” As in, “Can you imagine John Kennedy publicly urging “the torture” on terrorism suspects and the roughing up by the police of criminal suspects?”
The answer, of course, to all of these questions is that such utterances are, quite simply, unimaginable.
Image via Job’s Anger.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to strong families.
Investigators tell Channel 11 the gun that was used was a 9 mm. Investigators said the two boys were home alone, with the 10-year-old was babysitting the 6-year-old.
The story goes on to say that the mother, who was at work when this happened, may be charged. It does not point out this simple equation
no gun } locked gun=no shooting
Geeking Out 0
Slackware 14.2 with the Window Maker window manager.
Window Maker is the one major *nix window manager I haven’t played with, other than the tiling window managers, which are not to my taste. I’ve used Blackbox (there once was a Blackbox for Windows but the maintainer’s site got hacked and he abandoned the project, but it was a pleasure to use); IceWM; Fluxbox (my favorite window manager); and even TWM, the oldest (some would say “most primitive”) of all.
Window Maker is much more versatile and configurable than I expected. It’s been around for a long time and is still actively supported.
I expect to have fun playing with it.
Afterthought:
Window managers are unknown on Apple and Windows; their default interfaces are “desktop environments.” If the terms puzzle you, this may help.
Some Roses 0
When we were at the Gardens by the Sea, the red roses looked a bit bedraggled, but the yellow and pink ones were resplendent.
Seizure in September 0
Farron looks at what the Republican-controlled Congress is facing and concludes that it ain’t pretty.
NIMBY Nonsense 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
To express their annoyance at the situation, around 20 residents of the village in the Haute-Savoie – home to a total of 600 people – have signed a petition to have the cows moved.
The petition, signed “only by second home owners” in the village, according to mayor Henri-Victor Tournier, including Brits, Belgians, Corsicans and Parisians, complains of the “noise of the animals on the paths opposite the chalets and apartments of the Corbier hill”.
Follow the link for more nonsense.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Scatter ye politeness where ye may
Lest people still enjoy the light of day.
Geeking Out 0
Slackware 14.2 with the old FVWM desktop environment. Fifteen years ago, FVWM was in vogue because it could be used to make a Linux distro look (sort of) like Windows 95. I’m running Slackware –Current on this here computer, but I have 14.2 in a VirtualBox virtual machine because I’m considering taking another shot at LFS.
Several years ago, I used FVWM for a while on Debian just for fun, but KDE or Enlightenment it’s not.
FVWM is still around and still supported, but not very popular any more.
Afterthought:
I’m using KDE on all three of my computers right now. One is running Magiea, one is running Debian, and one is running Slackware. (I’m a Slacker at heart–Slackware always works and never breaks.)
I guess I’m just a KDE kind of guy.
Make TWUUG Your LUG–Special Pizza Event 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (September 7, 2017).
There will be no pre-meeting dinner. Free pizza and soft drinks will be supplied for this meeting.
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
The Power of Google, Reprise 0
Several days ago, I noted Josh Marshall’s musings on Google’s dominance of the Inner Webs and his concern that, with great power comes great temptation to abuse that power.
“Dreamers” and the Hollow Man 0
Dick Polman, in the context of a larger article on what Donald Trump’s punt on the DACA means for the Republican Party, cites Trump’s contradictory statements on immigrants over the years and concludes
One Degree of Separation 0
In The Roanoke Times, a Liberty University graduate shares the letter she wrote when she returned her Bachelors diploma to Jerry Falwell, Jr., in protest of Liberty’s political agenda.
Aside:
Busy day today.