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What is it with Slashdot? With all the idiots on there now moderating their trolls and crap up and other things that are valid but don't agree with them down it's like some stupid popularity contest. Makes me wonder if "article scoring" here might (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) the (...) of (...) Hmmmm, well, I would have thought that the High School perspective would be that we needed guns to overthrow existing governments that got out of hand, so what do I know? :-) I was actually responding from what I perceive to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Very true. In addition, the 2nd Amendment was written when the latest in firearms technology took quite a while to reload. Even today, I understand the concerns of some citizens who feel they must have their guns to protect themselves (against (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here's the "real" press release... (not for the humor-impaired!) (URL) for the bookmarks. :) --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It may say that to you now, looking back on things from a modern high school American history perspective, but it didn't mean just that when it was written. Think about the people involved in writing the first batch of ammendments and what (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Easy to fix (in fact, one of the very first things I do with a new install): Open an Explorer window; open up the Options dialog (Menu "View" -> "Options") Unselect "Hide file extensions for known file types" Also, select "Show all files" (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) LOL! --Karim (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Windows is so friendly and easy to use..." "How friendly is it!" "Windows is so friendly and easy to use, that you can now choose your own custom background color and patterns for the BSOD!" --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Windows is so friendly and easy to use that it hides extensions from you as often as possible. I use Dreamweaver to assemble the site, but I was lazy and just used explorer to copy the dat files in... somewhere along the way, the extensions (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:06:26 GMT Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) in programming it's easy - if I want to name a variable FILE, I don't want it to be misinterpeted as a command, if one day an upgrade introduces (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 2 reasons come to me right away: Case sensitivity contributes to a faster and less-buggy environment. If you need to match a string against a set of possible matches (e.g. looking for a file in the directory, or looking for a variable in a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm, there must be a definitive FAQ or treatise somewhere on the net about this... --Todd (who has yet to see any good coming from case INsensitivity in a file system, much less a programming language; but who has seen lots of good coming from (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why is case insensitivity evil? What good comes from having case sensitivity? I have yet to see any good coming from case sensitivity in a file system or a programming language. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ObRef: cows were out of season and one of the hunters wasn't insured.... (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The filesystem in Win32 is case-preserving, but not case-sensitive. e.g. if you open a file named "FiLeNaMe.txt" but the file was really saved as "FILENAME.TXT", it'll still load. Compare this to the Unix filesystem, where "A" != "a". Why they (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:11:54 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Website': (...) oh - ok, I agree... having a case-insensitive platform, well, it just isn't good :) I thought the jab was at W2k or somesuch that finally does (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, the EVIL part isn't uppercase filenames per-se, it's that WinDOwS is case-insensitive about filenames, even to the absurd point of allowing filenames in IIS-served URLs to be case-insensitive. There are few things more evil. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) MS made evil uppercase filenames popular. Inherited them from CP/M in 1981 and didn't begin to get rid of them until 1995. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) gun (...) It's not the solution to the bigger problem, but I don't see how it's a bad idea. Are you railing against the seatbelts in your car because they impede your movement when you're driving and trying to change the radio station? It's a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Dan, (...) How can requiring gun manufacturers, providing this gun lock, making the consumer pay more (I don't care how "cheap" it is, this is used for taxes as well, and I don't buy it), and them going in the trash, going to solve anything? Bad (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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