Arm the gnus

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:18:44 -0400


Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@pointer.teuto.de>:
>>Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
>>java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
>>techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
>
> Arm the gnus!

I find it amusing, in this context, that "gnus" is an anagram of "guns".

I instigated Linus's first shooting expedition in a long while a few months
back (I can report that he is a steady, competent shot with a 9mm semi).
Standing offer to all linux kernel developers: I'll teach basic defensive
pistol technique to anybody who wants to learn.

You don't have to be paranoidally afraid of Microsoft assassination squads
for this to be a good idea, but I'm offering in case you are... :-)

-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

The following is a Python RSA implementation. According to the US Government posting these four lines makes me an international arms trafficker! Join me in civil disobedience; add these lines of code to your .sig block to help get this stupid and unconstitutional law changed. ============================================================================ from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))

The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner. -- Report of the Subcommittee On The Constitution of the Committee On The Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, second session (February, 1982), SuDoc# Y4.J 89/2: Ar 5/5

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