From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: manual activism (was: Re: no C-h i m emacs ??) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:43:41 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87vbmcf29u.fsf@debian.uxu> 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: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416357924 19670 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 00:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:45:24 +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 01:45:17 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 1XqtOX-0002bZ-DO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqtOX-0001l2-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:45:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.81.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 60 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ONB3V3dLCkgk5cyyv2c4I5Q9sf4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208766 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:101046 Archived-At: Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro writes: >>> I'm not for wasting paper with books. >> >> Just curious: how many e-books do you read every >> year? > > Does it count the GNU manuals read more than once? Absolutely. A "book" can be everything from say 75 pages to some 300. "Lord of the Rings", "Idiot", etc. count one book per volume. Re-reading counts as a new, as it is a virtue to do that, especially if some time has passed since the previous read. A "book" can also be a magazine of the type Black Belt, The Ring, Linux Journal, the SF&F magazines (previously refered to as pulp mags), and so on, as they often contain as much information as a book. Actually the "rules" are not that important. Just give me a rough estimate and I'll accept it. >>> I can download an electronic copy and send it to >>> you, though. >> >> 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. No, stop it, I know where to find them and how to download them as does everyone else. > 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? You have not given me a single instruction that has made any sense. One person said something sensible when he confirmed this was a legal thing to do, after that is has only been negativism and expedition fever all over. > 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." You just made that quote up, but OK: what I wrote was a joke. I'm not going to explain it because even if you succeed explaining jokes only on "Star Trek" with Data's emotion chip they make people laugh in retrospect long after the joke was made. If you don't get it - yeah, that's it. -- underground experts united