On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote: > UTC Time: June 10, 2017 2:13 AM > > From: joel.r...@gmail.com > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: >> Le primidi 21 prairial, an CCXXV, The Wanderer a écrit : >>> Disagreed. This results in sending extra copies to people who are >>> subscribed to the list, which is incorrect. >> >> Not if the list is properly configured. >> >> Debian's lists are badly configured, it results in burden to all users, >> but the users should reject that burden. I do. >> >> I will not answer Gene's message, he obviously missed the whole point of >> my mail. >> Nicolas George > > And Now Google Doesn't Think Users Should Ever Set Headers. > Progress is progress. > > > Progress in a society comes when they collectively pursue in common > something > that would improve their lives and conditions. If the few and powerful > coerce or > blackmail a society to move a certain direction because that advances the > interests > of the few I wouldn't dare call this progress. Rarely in history did such > moves lasted > and stabilized, as for every action there is a reaction. Just give it some > time and > the vast majority of the world will be really happy to see google/fb/ms > collapse > and vanish. That may be progress, being without the pests. > > Would you call android and win10 progress? I hope not. Vehicles were > progress > over horses and carriages in some respects, people walking and one in > ten thousands being driven in a Rolls Royce where the passengers were > covered > and the driver was outside was not progress. Model A was progress at > a cost. > > Progress is not made by following rulers and those in power, it comes > from the dialectic of resisting and reacting to power and oligarchy. > > Joel Rees > > > (AK)
Yeah. Progress is progress. ahem. Sorry. I guess I forgot something. {irony}Progress is progress.{end-irony} -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with a bare cast. More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html