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I missed the part where corporations were defined as "a person".

You sure did.

A quick look at dict.org turned up the following legal definition of "corporation" from 1856:

CORPORATION. An aggregate corporation is an ideal body, created by law, composed of individuals united under a common name, the members of which succeed each other, so that the body continues the same, notwithstanding the changes of the individuals who compose it, and which for certain purposes is considered as a natural person.

(Emphasis added.)

One of the points of forming a corporation is to have a virtual "legal person" that won't change when you hire a new CEO...

Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.

Law, n.: In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.

Enforcement, n.: The act of enforcing; compulsion.

Agency, n.: The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

Perhaps you meant "savvy", not "saavy".

Please demonstrate which of these definitions excludes "smart, tech-savvy people".

Please back up your assertion that LEAs are comprised of former bullies.

Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.

Law, n.: In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.

Enforcement, n.: The act of enforcing; compulsion.

Agency, n.: The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

Perhaps you meant "savvy", not "saavy".

Please demonstrate which of these definitions excludes "smart, tech-savvy people".

Please back up your assertion that LEAs are comprised of former bullies.

Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.

Law, n.: In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.

Enforcement, n.: The act of enforcing; compulsion.

Agency, n.: The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

Perhaps you meant "savvy", not "saavy".

Please demonstrate which of these definitions excludes "smart, tech-savvy people".

Please back up your assertion that LEAs are comprised of former bullies.

I couldn't disagree more. I think that nowadays the demographic is spread about much farther. Instead of switching from 5-15 year olds to 25-35 year olds, we switched from 5-15 year olds to 5-35 year olds.

Read this.

I hope that helps.

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=utilitarian

    utilitarian
              adj 1: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: useful]
              2: having utility often to the exclusion of values; "plain
                    utilitarian kitchenware"
              n : someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on
                      its utility

Compare: Parity vs. Parody

Compare: Parity vs. Parody

A republic, by definition, is a representative democracy. Generally, those who claim that a republic is not a democracy are using the claim as an excuse to place the greed of the few ahead of the needs of the many. Please stop spreading this silly lie.

Thank you.

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=* &Database=*&Query=Esoteric

Sorry if I missed a joke :)

From within Nethack (http://nethack.org/):

Pick an object.
F a fungus or mold (lichen)

From the Jubilex monster manual (http://www.juiblex.co.uk/nethack/VernonSpoilers/M onsterManual/lichen.html#lichen):

Name: lichen
Difficulty: 1
Base level: 0
Base experience: 4
Speed: 1
Base AC: 9
Base MR: 0
Alignment: 0
Frequency: Uncommon
Genocidable: Yes
ATTACK:
        Sticks to you
Weight: 20
Nutritional value: 200
Size: small
Resistances: None
Resistances conveyed by eating: None

Due to its unusual body chemistry, A lichen has no need to breathe. It has no eyes, and is therefore impervious to gaze and blindness attacks. It has no mind, and is therefore not detectable via telepathy. It has no limbs and no head. A lichen cannot pick up objects.

The chamber was of unhewn rock, round, as near as might be, eighteen or twenty feet across, and gay with rich variety of fern and moss and lichen. The fern was in its winter still, or coiling for the spring-tide; but moss was in abundant life, some feathering, and some gobleted, and some with fringe of red to it.
Lorna Doone, by R.D. Blackmore

At Dict.org:
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=* &Database=*&Query=lichen

Not that Amazon. And no, not the river. JFGI or maybe use this.

I'm sorry, but admitting the business degree isn't the sole way you're "loosing" credibility here.

See the differences between "lose" and "loose".

(If you're a non-native speaker, please accept my apologies -- it's the folks who grew up with English as a first language and still make these simple mistakes who earn my ire).

I'm sorry, but admitting the business degree isn't the sole way you're "loosing" credibility here.

See the differences between "lose" and "loose".

(If you're a non-native speaker, please accept my apologies -- it's the folks who grew up with English as a first language and still make these simple mistakes who earn my ire).

Waaah.

We stole their land and tried to supress their culture. That's not nice, but it's still not fucking genocide.

For people like me with a week vocabulary:

Slashdot headline: Google Reacts to Splogs

Are you mixing up your facts or just trying to be political*?

Unless you mean the ancient Greek-Athens definition for the word, yes we don't have deomcracy, but a democracy is defined as power by the people exercised by elected representatives See Democracy. A republic as well is defined as the state in which said definition of democracy is exercised See Republic.

You can argue the point that this system is unfair and everything the GP is stating but just get your points correct.

Are you mixing up your facts or just trying to be political*?

Unless you mean the ancient Greek-Athens definition for the word, yes we don't have deomcracy, but a democracy is defined as power by the people exercised by elected representatives See Democracy. A republic as well is defined as the state in which said definition of democracy is exercised See Republic.

You can argue the point that this system is unfair and everything the GP is stating but just get your points correct.

The great grandparent made a comparison involving Nazis, and therefore, has lost the thread. There's nothing in Godwin's law about who's making the comparison, all you have to do to invoke Godwin's law is to make "a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler".

So what you're saying is that you feel "Godwin's law" is demonstrably (by your own continuation of the thread)
neither a law nor accurate.

The post from which this thread (disproving Godwin's so-called law) followed expressed concern that the propaganda tactics used by Microsoft in the UK are indiscernably different from propaganda tactics used by the government of Germany during the 1930's and early 1940's (when the Nazi party was in control).

Saying "blah, blah, blah Godwin's Law blah blah blah" does not invalidate that view or end the useful discussion thread. The question should be whether that is an accurate comparison. Any experts on 20th century propaganda want to weigh in on this?

*sigh*
Re-read it again, this time *without* skipping over the word 'orthodox'. If you don't understand it, here's a link to help you: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=orthodox
Bloody religious wacko.

Silly question.

I'm sorry but PR is propaganda. Propaganda is "information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause".

Specifically, there is not an infinite number of people

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infinite 3: too numerous to be counted;

Furthermore, we need to get rid of lazy programming.

Lazy programming is one of the greatest advances in computer science: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=lazy+evaluation

>Where do you get the idea that a fact isn't FUD?

From the dictionary.
"the term FUD [...] has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon."
Don't worry, it's never too late to get some actual education.

>Factual FUD is the best kind, because it can't be simply proven wrong.

"Factual FUD" is actually a very creative expression, if it weren't complete bullsh*t of course.
Everybody with a brain knows very well there's a very sharp line separating facts from FUD - and, just as a bonus, one can also consider the number of people that used the expression "factual FUD" before (0, of course).

>>It's true that FreeBSD can route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon
>>while Linux, *on the same hardware*, can't do much more than 100kpps
>>(200kpps? 300kpps? Still quite far from 1Mpps).
>No. This is *wrong*.
>The FreeBSD guys never tried Linux on that hardware.

Nope. That was *right*. And yes, they did.

>>It's true that, even if Linux is the current record holder,
>>last year NetBSD broke the Internet2 Land Speed World Record twice.
>Yes, and it is true that by selectively choosing facts,
>you can paint your position in a better light than it is.

Every time - *every time* - anybody says anything that's true, he selectively chooses facts somehow.
Nonetheless, facts are facts.

It takes much more than a dishonest slashdot moderator to turn a pathetic troll's crap into truth.

>"Linux routes over 1Mpps on a single processor system, and 2.1Mpps on a dual processor."
Some mommies should teach their kids not to compare performance on different hardware.
What's the Linux performance on a 2.8GHz Xeon? (And what was it in September 2004, since there was a *date* close to that article?)

>"Linux currently holds all the internet land speed records"
In short: so?
In long: here.

Again, I really suggest you look up the word FUD once and for all. Remember: the dictionary is your friend.

you being the etymologist that you are, should know that encyclopedia is an alternate, and much more common, spelling.

you being the etymologist that you are, should know that encyclopedia is an alternate, and much more common, spelling.

You don't seem to know what FUD means.
So, calm down, and then please point out *where* exactly you think the message was not accurate.

The message never stated that NetBSD was the *current* record holder. As the record history shows, the record is broken every 3 months or something. Heck, between the 2 NetBSD records, it even belonged to Windows for some months. So, kudos to Linux, but I'm not sure that who's the *current* record holder actually means a lot.

I really suggest you look up "FUD" in a dictionary. That would be an educational experience.

Look up surprise and emotion in a dictionary.

Look up surprise and emotion in a dictionary.

Empower \Em*pow"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Empowering.]
1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission;
to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil
or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an
acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

People have touched on this in other posts, but English is one of the only languages which has no distinction between free as in freedom, and free as in cost. As a fluent French and Spanish speaker, rms appreciates the concept of a seperate word for freedom, and his speeches in other languages tend to come across a bit better in terms of ambiguity.

As Stallman has also mentioned on occasion, there are Nineteen definitions for the word "Free" in the dictionary, and only one of them refers to price. The most apt is quite possibly:

14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.

So in many respects, it is not even the ambiguity of the word, it is the modern use and context of it which causes the ambiguity.

A report 11 in 1976 of a CIA briefing claimed that the Israeli arsenal of 13 weapons was prepared for possible use at the start of the 1973 war. Defence Minister Moshe Dyan was quoted in the report as justifying the Israeli nuclear option as, 'Israel has no choice, with our manpower we cannot physically go on acquiring more and more tanks and more and more planes'. The readiness to use their nuclear weapons to fight, if they are in danger of being defeated, indicates that the 'no first use' policy is rhetoric.

Now a big difference between Israel and North Korea is that it is believable that North Korean command will sacrifice much of its population during retaliation. Moreover, give the US's open borders policy, North Korea's doesn't need missiles to deliver nuclear warheads to the most critical central control structuers of the US. If they were to strike during a time of civil disturbance arising from the neocon use of immigrant floods to justify protecting US citizens with "Homeland Security" in exchange for their rights, it could shatter that ideological and political con-game of open-borders combined with the tyranny of "Homeland Security" and cause a shooting war between the employer class and the working class.

Israel's likely targets, on the other hand, are far less fragile than the highly centralized and corrupted US. Moreover, compared to North Korea, Israel has something resembling accountability to its Jewish citizens, most of whom would prefer not to be the offering under a real holocaust:

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

Holocaust \Hol"o*caust\, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?,
?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to
burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.]

1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was
consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
--Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a
theater or a ship.

Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

2 definitions found for imprimatur

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

Imprimatur \Im`pri*ma"tur\, n. [L., let it be printed.] (Law)
A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in
countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval
of that which is published.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

imprimatur
n : formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the
union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement,
indorsement, warrant]

2 definitions found for imprimatur

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

Imprimatur \Im`pri*ma"tur\, n. [L., let it be printed.] (Law)
A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in
countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval
of that which is published.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

imprimatur
n : formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the
union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement,
indorsement, warrant]

2 definitions found for imprimatur

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

Imprimatur \Im`pri*ma"tur\, n. [L., let it be printed.] (Law)
A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in
countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval
of that which is published.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

imprimatur
n : formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the
union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement,
indorsement, warrant]

There's also free/libre wordnet, wiktionary...

Why can't these projects work together? Seems like a lot of wheel-reinvention to me...

Journalists go out and find out what's going on, they (hopefully) check their sources out and get confirmation and input from both sides and then report on it. Commentators -- and these includes bloggers -- are consumers of what journalists generate. They add (or, some might argue, remove) value by way of interpretation.

As one of those who do the mangling, I know that what a reporter wrote sometimes bears little resemblance to what gets printed.

And speaking of reporters going out, sometimes the going out part goes no further than the fax machine or mail server. Or haven't you heard of the term press release? I often see reports that are simply lightly rewritten press releases. And guess what the reporter's contribution often is? The editorializing.

A well-hit blogger is probably just as reliable or unreliable, as fair or biased, as a popular newspaper.

Common sense might indicate to you that this was the case, and common sense would be completely wrong. While the connotations of the word recycle are generally what you suggest, the denotation may clearly be a synonym for reuse.

consult:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycle
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary& va=recycle&x=0&y=0
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=recycle
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=recycle

-michael

Zope is an incredibly flexible web application development environment. It can be used for pretty much anything ranging from a full blown CMS with shopping cart facilities to a cutting edge XHTML/CSS showcase site. It works well with all Internet standards (including XML, XHTML, iCalendar, etc.) and most non-standards / semi-standards (PDF, Flash, RSS, etc.). I've even used it to on-the-fly convert definitions from within a CMS to be served by a dict server.

The popular Plone is built on top of Zope / CMF. Ditto for Silva and Nuxeo CPS.

Because Zope is so flexible, the sites it's used for generally look quite different from one another.

No you *can't* rest assured. Here, have a look at what the word "likely" means.

Kudos to who marked a Troll "interesting"... :-/

I wish that you might show more respect, to cultures that are different from your own. It is possible to know love, but also to know modesty and propriety as well.

This story's headline fills me with a faint form of Schadenfreude:

IP telephony is the technology I pitched to my company's management, when they saddled me with thankless chore of upgrading our decrepit digital key system.

PBX is what they ended up buying.

Yes, the devils dictionary, I love it.

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict3&Database=d evils

To use a slogan from a certain network: I report, you decide!

;-)