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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: [OT] Linux on Windows (was: Re: USA is deeply wrecked)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 01:22:54 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 04:14:03 +0000, bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor)
wrote in <e03ce4c29fc72847a1d4243720734cff@www.novabbs.org>:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:58:13 +0000, vallor wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:40:24 +0000, bertietaylor@myyahoo.com
>> (Bertitaylor)
>> wrote in <0695a0c98a298e31f24e0137beac8eab@www.novabbs.org>:
>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:35:47 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/21/25 11:50 PM, Bertitaylor wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 0:00:49 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/21/25 2:46 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>>>>>> Today I had the idea to buy the USA dip,
>>>>>>> like buying a little NASDAQ stocks or something.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But then I read about the closing of the department of education,
>>>>>>> which was distributing 30 billion PELL GRANTS, which is around 150
>>>>>>> USD wealth
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> redistribution per capita. So I think USA is fucked,
>>>>>>> and it will only get worse and worse. Mostlikely the timeing is
>>>>>>> bad taking other seasonal effects
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> into account, and 2025 will not recover. Thats my hypothesis,
>>>>>>> since month May is too near already.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The university system is itself fucked anyway. It is grossly unfair
>>>>>> to the students. As I've repeatedly explained here, "students" must
>>>>>> be paid good money to just study. The money should come either from
>>>>>> businesses or the government. It must be an _employment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also the degree system is too old. It is idiotic. Full of defects
>>>>>> and features that make no sense.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Business or government "students" would study and go through their
>>>>>> curricula while getting paid like a good job, and eventually (if
>>>>>> they manage it) get fine-tuned clearly understandable certificates
>>>>>> showing what that employee can do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Scholarships are there. University is there for social snob reasons
>>>>> and if you pass, a stamp for getting more stamps. Then you can make
>>>>> money. The Indian Navy paid the fees for the students they selected.
>>>>> Pioneers,
>>>>> what.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, you didn't get the gist of what I'm saying (what a surprise).
>>>
>>> You generally talk senseless crap, Roachie, amusing though in its way.
>>> Also exhilarating to Arindam when you talk about bumping him off. Some
>>> compliment.
>>>>
>>>> Scholarships are genera help, like charity.
>>>
>>> No. Those getting charity get so from empathy. Scholarships are to
>>> support the meritorious who are also poor.
>>>
>>> What I say a "student" must
>>>> get is _employment_ payments backed by employment laws. Studying is a
>>>> serious EMPLOYMENT. It is crazy that crooks expect students not only
>>>> not get paid, but pay for their studies as well!.. That's another
>>>> pure Jewish scheme which is still being practiced.
>>>
>>> You never got any employment, Roachie. So you don't know how much any
>>> employee has to study to keep his job if it is worth keeping. With or
>>> without company help. Yes if he is employed, part time study is
>>> feasible. Arindam did his MTech working full time.
>>>
>>> If studies are too expensive and your pop ain't rich do cheap
>>> correspondence courses. Why pay tons unless you get scholarships or
>>> work your way! Anyway internet should make universities and the horrid
>>> professors obsolete.
>>>
>>> Best is mutual self-help, study circles, coaching, employer originated
>>> training, apprenticeship, etc. One major effort must be to attack
>>> those putting out fake news.
>>>>
>>>> You first get _employed_, and only then study the material that your
>>>> employer (businesses and/or government) provides. There's no other
>>>> way around this that does not amount to fraudulent money schemes.
>>>
>>> Who wants to employ useless roaches like you, Roachie? University
>>> degree gives a stamp vital for recruitment. Better than that is for
>>> the employer to catch them young and fund them for higher education
>>> with a bond, while getting work out if them.
>>>
>>> Point is that certification from companies have less worth than uni
>>> degrees. Which is why the uni market remains hot.
>>
>> Point is, "Roachie" is probably an unregistered foreign agent.
>>
>> He's "employed" alright -- by Iran.
> 
> Doubt of they pay him.
>>
>> (Can you keep your dreck out of cola?  This is serious Linux we're
>> discussing here!)
> 
> Point. Did not notice it.
> 
> Well if this is a Linux group may I ask about how to install it on
> windows 11 and how to use it to access newsgroups using vn and nn as was
> done in the 90s A FAQ could help.

If you have Windows 11, you can install "Windows Subsystem for Linux",
which lets you easily run Linux on Windows in a virtual machine.

Give it a google.  And the nn(1) newsreader is in Ubuntu, so that's
the distribution you'll probably want to install.

-- 
-v