"As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate.and, perhaps, even cruel.when one considers all the potential uses of such money."
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The mother of all networks. First
incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET,
a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. ... - AUP /A-U-P/
Abbreviation, "Acceptable Use Policy".
The policy of a given ISP which sets out what the... - Brief History Of Linux (#12)
A note from Bill Gates' second grade teacher:
Billy has been having some trouble behaving in class... - BASIC /bay'-sic/ n.
A programming language,
originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system
in the early 1960s,
which for many years was the leading cause of brain... - mailing list n.
(often shortened in context to `list')
1.
An email address that is an alias (or macro, though... - Physical Activity and Sports:
Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and
are determinedly anti-physical.
Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is... - Brief History Of Linux (#24)
Linus Torvalds quotes from his interview in "LinuxNews" (October 1992):
"I doubt Linux will be here to stay, and maybe Hurd... - Most of what I really need to know about how to live,
and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten... - If no one uses something, it isn't needed.
--
Robert...
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- Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people,
but from individuals. When groups try to be creative... - Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental
to society... - College and university education should be free for all students,
fully financed by the government... - National governments should devote more of their social
programs and services to children than to adults... - Tradition and modernization are incompatible.
One must choose between them...
