A really good post install todo list after installing Ubuntu, focused on v9.10 Karmic from The Silent Number blog
An insightful article by Larry Barr, K5WLF, on maintaining good public relations as we practice our craft as Amateur Radio Operators.
I think we have all seen the following quotes in emails on the internet. They have a strong appeal and the ideas presented typically strike the reasoning mind that has any historical sense as being true. The following is some interesting research into the origins of what can be best called a modern proverb. While the true authorship, particularly of the first paragraph, may never be known, there is good material for thought here in the research presented. This article points out both the need for being honest in our quotations, but also of the origins and growth of modern proverbs. Proverbs, when they faithfully reflect the human condition a give us wisdom retain their value over time – even if we never know who first said them.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
— often attributed to Alexander Tytler
K5WLF just started up his own blog. Check it out.
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