From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruno =?UTF-8?B?RsOpbGl4?= Rezende Ribeiro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: manual activism (was: Re: no C-h i m emacs ??) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:08:27 -0200 Organization: The GNU Project Message-ID: <20141118220827.7e24a011@freedom-laptop> References: <87egt14r51.fsf@reader.local.lan> <87vbmdkytr.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87mw7ogqn7.fsf@debian.uxu> <877fysgncb.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416355762 20154 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 00:09:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:09:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 01:09:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqspa-0000RK-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:09:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55975 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqspa-00054c-4N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqspK-000547-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:08:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqspD-0006iy-Bp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqspD-0006iu-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [177.106.199.217] (port=46651 helo=freedom-laptop) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqspB-0008Dj-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:08:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877fysgncb.fsf@debian.uxu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101044 Archived-At: Em Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:23:16 +0100 Emanuel Berg escreveu: > > I'm not for wasting paper with books. >=20 > Just curious: how many e-books do you read every year? Does it count the GNU manuals read more than once? > > I can download an electronic copy and send it to > > you, though. >=20 > That won't be necessary: I am capable of downloading > files from the Internet. Are you sure? One thing is downloading it and another is finding it. Let me know if you happen to change your mind. > > Then, you can donate any amount of > > money you please to FSF. How about that? >=20 > How about: stop trying to spend *my* (non-existent) > money! I haven't spent I dime in five years. I'm not > talking about how to fund the FSF, I'm talking about > how to get those manuals to the library. You are of > course free to discuss FSF and all that but don't tell > me what to buy or download, that I'd appreciate. OK? Even if to give you instructions of how to get those manuals to the library we had to tell you what to buy or download? > OK, do you understand this quote, then: "Whenever you > read a book and you don't understand it, it isn't > always the book's fault." I understand it, but I don't see how it's applicable. I know however another quote that is so in this very situation: "Whenever you quote some text and someone else doesn't understand it, it isn't always their fault." --=20 ,=3D ,-_-. =3D. Bruno F=C3=A9lix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; \_/ All software must be free as in freedom;