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Though these references are sometimes vastly generalized and mispronounced (“Fundamentally, America in 1860 and America now are little different.”), more often than not they serve to allow access to less knowledgeable readers. Even the above case can be found to contain a kernel of cross-historical truth, when it is followed by the explanation, “much of the opposition we can muster [to America’s leadership past and present] is ‘sniveling...
...simple request, Torvalds began a process that would complete one of the most extraordinary collaborations in history. In 1984 M.I.T. researcher Richard Stallman had launched the "free-software movement" in a project to build a free operating system that he called GNU. It provided the scaffolding within which Torvalds' kernel ("Linux") could hang. In the dozen years since Torvalds' post, literally thousands of programmers from around the world have authored and tinkered with the GNU and Linux code to produce Microsoft's most dreaded competition. Microsoft's fear is not that this GNU/Linux OS is better. It might well...
With each new album, the band moves closer to capturing on record what they do in concert. Donovan says that the first record was “more experimental, and about us trying to find our sound and what we wanted to do. It’s the kernel for everything that comes after...
...sure, there are some countries that see their ultimate security as dependent upon the international order maintained by the U.S. These are not insignificant countries, and over time they may become the kernel of an entirely new alliance system. They include Anglo-Saxons (Britain, Australia) and a few Europeans (Italy, Spain, Poland, other newly liberated East European countries). They understand that the sinews of stability--free commerce, open sea lanes, regional balances of power, nonproliferation, deterrence--are provided overwhelmingly by the American colossus. They understand that without it, the world collapses into chaos and worse. They believe in the American...
...sure, there are some countries that see their ultimate security as dependent upon the international order maintained by the U.S. These are not insignificant countries, and over time they may become the kernel of an entirely new alliance system. They include Anglo-Saxons (Britain, Australia) and a few Europeans (Italy, Spain, Poland, other newly liberated East European countries). They understand that the sinews of stability - free commerce, open sea lanes, regional balances of power, nonproliferation, deterrence - are provided overwhelmingly by the American colossus. They understand that without it, the world collapses into chaos and worse. They believe in the American...