[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards

[Lionel Peterson]

On May 5, 2009, at 7:39 PM, "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> Well, a central government might be able to provide a better defense
>> against ships flying under the flags of foreign countries dumping  
>> waste.
>
> No, the central government would merely send emissaries and armies on
> their behalf.  The absence of the central government is not an  
> inherent
> stumbling block to doing those things in the status quo, except that  
> there
> exist many people on planet Earth who would refuse to acknowledge the
> legitimacy of such a request unless it were sent on letterhead from an
> organization calling itself "The Republic/Nation/State of _______".
>
> Perhaps if the pirates keep up their work, they'll scare off enough  
> ships
> that maybe their own ecosystem can recover.
>
>> But, much of the problem in Somalia are caused by gangs of men who  
>> are
>> able to rape, plunder and murder with no fear of reprisal.
>
> Funny, that happens in many of states -with- central governments.   
> To a
> lesser degree it happens in this country.  Rape seems to be an  
> acceptable
> form of punishment in prison (even though it doesn't show up in the
> sentence anywhere).  Plunder is the inevitable result of not paying  
> the
> property taxes levied against you or owning a vehicle without begging
> permission, etc.  Murder is what happens when the state puts men to  
> death
> even when there is evidence[0] to acquit or when armies set up camp
> overseas (in our name) in order to kill enemies who haven't directly
> attacked near us.
>
> However, we couch these in terms like "tax sale" or "violation" or
> "unfortunate mistake" or "casualty of war", and they don't seem  
> nearly so
> bad.
>
>
> [0] George W. Bush, as governor of the State of Texas pulled this  
> little
>    stunt several times because he was "tough on murderers".

Right. He had a special drawer in his desk for exculitory evidence  
given to him around election time.

Just like Pilosi and Reid, it's what did HE know and when did HE know  
it - evidence that doesn't make it to him in time is not his fault.  
That someone else witheld information is not his fault, how could it  
be? He didn't know...

Lionel