If you refuse to take part in democracy by not voting Dan, you can hardly complain when the government makes decisions you don't like.
I suggest you save up and purchase your own island. Then you can be fully responsible for every decision that affects you. In the mean time you could set up your own political party.
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1. Re: help put free software on the 38 degrees map.... (Dan MacDonald) 2. Fri 17 August: Meatbeer geek social (Paul Waring)
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:01:15 +0100 From: Dan MacDonald <address@hidden> To: Anna Morris <address@hidden> Cc: address@hidden, Leicester Linux User Group Mailing List <address@hidden>, address@hidden, Manchester GNU/Linux Users <address@hidden>, General list for the genderchangers <address@hidden>, Discussion list for members of Flossie <address@hidden>, manchester <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden, Joe Morris <address@hidden>, David R Morris <address@hidden> Subject: Re: [Fsuk-manchester] help put free software on the 38 degrees map.... Message-ID: <address@hidden> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Whoever voted for our coalition gov? I know I didn't!
Anyone who works for the public and especially those in positions of power and responsibility like our coalition government, should be using free and open source software not only because it would save our supposedly cash-strapped and austerity-enforced nation literally hundreds of millions of pounds a year in MS tax but then we'd also know that MS or Apple or whichever other closed, non-free software vendor weren't harvesting our public records for private, confidential data and using it for who knows what purposes for a start.
Hardly anyone knows about Libreoffice, Openoffice, gnumeric, koffice, GIMP, KDEnlive, Ardour, blender, qtractor, synfig, inkscape, TAL-Noisemaker and many other powerful free desktop productivity software that are freely available because the UK IT curriculum is still totally MS centric. Android people have heard of. Linux - whats that?
Valve's imminent releasing of games for Linux combined with Windows 8s unwanted interface changes could have a huge impact on the current state of peoples willingness to adopt a new platform and new set of apps and will likely lead to more machines coming pre-installed with a Linux variant - which will be good for everyone except maybe MS.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Anna Morris < address@hidden> wrote:
> > https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/what-campaign-next-july-2012-1page#petition > > for those of us who are on the 38 degrees train, they are having their > annual "what issues should we focus on next" vote - there is a box on the > form for which campaign should we do right now, and I put "all elected > bodies should use free software and open standards" > > thought maybe if we all wrote it and got everyone to write it, we could > make a noise? > > Pass it on folks!! : ) > > Love to all > > Anna > > -- > www.ethical-pets.co.uk - The pet shop thats *all sorts *of ethical! > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsuk-manchester mailing list > address@hidden > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fsuk-manchester/attachments/20120803/fd06809d/attachment.html>
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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:04:56 +0100 From: Paul Waring <address@hidden> To: address@hidden, address@hidden, Manchester Free Software <address@hidden> Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Fri 17 August: Meatbeer geek social Message-ID: <address@hidden> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On Friday 17 August a number of us from various geek groups will be going for a Brazilian "meatbeer" social at Bem Brasil in the Northern Quarter[1]. We'll be meeting outside the restaurant at 7:20pm and going straight in for a meal, followed by drinks at a nearby pub.
The food is a fixed price (around ?25) and drinks are extra.
Everyone is welcome to attend, but please email me by 6pm on Wednesday 15 August so that I can book for the correct number.