On 12/12/12 01:44, Paul Stimpson wrote:
> Isaac Close <ack@???> wrote:
>
>> It may be possible to remove this with :
>>
>> # sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
>>
>> Which worked for my ubuntu 12.10 box.
> Interestingly, if you open the Ubuntu Software Centre and search for "lens" the shopping lens doesn't show up to remove. If one wished to be uncharitable, one might jump to conclusions...
>
> I love Ubuntu and I know they need to make money but I'm worried that the bean counters may be taking over. I'm really finding it hard to believe anyone who knows the community wouldn't see the risks of alienating their core support by leaking personal information off the box. There has to be another way.
>
> One of my commercial customers that deals with sensitive information has just rejected Unity. I don't know is this was a factor. I can't imagine my friend that works in child protection entertaining it.
>
> I would be happy if there was a selection of commercial search tools and it was easy and obvious how to choose which ones, if any, I want to share my searches with.
>
> The Unity type to find way of working is definitely growing on me. I used a colleague's XP machine today for the first time in ages and, on seeing the packed out start menu, my first instinct was to want to press the first few letters of what I wanted to do.
>
> Cheers.
> Paul.
>
In the old days ( 1960s-1970s ), people said of this sort of thing: "
they've gone, & sold out "
Nowadays, all they say, amount to facile justifications, for survivalism
as cover for the manipulation of market share
Fact is, that all our dearest values & standards, are counter-current, &
have been made to become so, at least since 1999
It's not the accountants, but the Moneybags, whose avowed aim is, to
redirect community ventures, into their high ground of conformities
If this is the central development programme scheduled for the
mainstream, then it effectively sidelines itself, all by itself, without
needing any help
L
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" The power of this life, if men will open their hearts to it, will heal
them, will create them anew, physically and spiritually. Here is the
gospel of earth, ringing with hope, like May mornings with bird-song,
fresh and healthy as fields of young grain. But those who would be
healed must absorb it not only into their bodies in daily food and
warmth but into their minds, because its spiritual power is more
intense. It is not reasonable to suppose that an essence so divine and
mysterious as life can be confined to material things; therefore, if our
bodies need to be in touch with it so do our minds. The joy of a spring
day revives a man's spirit, reacting healthily on the bone and the
blood, just as the wholesome juices of plants cleanse the body, reacting
on the mind. Let us join in the abundant sacrament--for our bodies the
crushed gold of harvest and ripe vine-clusters, for our souls the purple
fruit of evening with its innumerable seed of stars ". Vis Medicatrix
Naturae, by Mary Webb, in Spring of Joy: Nature Essays, Constable,
London, 1917 "
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