From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 11 08:24:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA09622 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp1555.on.sympatico.ca (ppp1555.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.249.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA09608; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp1555.on.sympatico.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00406; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:23:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:23:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: "Joel N. Weber II" cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: <199708110951.FAA12121@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Joel N. Weber II wrote: > The League for Programming Freedom is a non-profit organization, > in the sense that I belive donataions to them are tax-deducable. Tch. Lobbying power is only one of the many costs of gov't money. Based on what has happened to the Catholic system here, and to other ex-religious schools which tried to comprimise, the gov't will restrict your ability to screen teachers based on religion. Curriculum choices decrease. Policy. Etc. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.