Your cries of To arms, Yankee militias, to arms! will fall on confused ears. You disarmed your Yankee militas throughout the course of this century. I'm pretty sure Texas and Florida could assemble formidably armed militas without much trouble.
After he receives his patent, you or anyone else will be able to see EXACTLY how this device works. This is how the patent process is supposed to work. In exchange for letting the entire world know about/study his creation he will, for a limited time, have exclusive control over the rights to manufacture it. According to R.K. Dewan & Co. (IP Attorneys) "An inventor has to disclose his/her invention in such a manner that any person, other than the inventor, skilled in the art should be able to work out the invention."
Not "opening the IP up" would be manufacturing a "black box" that creates eyeglasses that cannot be opened or studied in any way, at least not without the lawyers/hit squad coming after you. The inventor would still have exclusive control over the rights to manufacture it, but no other person would be able to study it in any way.
If not, you might want to consider an older medium format camera. Two years ago I got a Rolleicord V off of eBay for ~$175 (that includes shipping). Yes the camera is older than I am but it still has LOTS of years left in it. It is a Twin Lens Reflex camera with an excellent lens. The film it uses produces a negative that is 6x6cm. These cameras all ALL manual, most don't even have a light meter in them. And don't think that just because something is old that it is no good. Cameras made in the 50s (like my Rollei) anr constructed with a degree of skill and craftsmanship that is simply unavailable these days.
I would agree with this, but be aware that Nikon has not changed their lens mounting system, while Canon has. What this means is that older Canon gear will usually be less expensive than older Nikon gear because you can use an old Nikon lens on a new Nikon body, and vice versa. With Canon gear however, a lens that will fit my AE-1 will not fit one of the current EOS camera.
Im sure you got the memo, but we are now putting cover sheets on all of our TPS reports. So, from now on if you could just put a cover sheet on your TPS reports, that would be great.
On a sadder note, tho, the residents have never requested this. Likely, they do not care...
It's probably more accurate to say that they don't know any better. If you reqeust a file in an "open format" from most any person, you will receive a blank stare. They wrote their document in Word, they can open it. Everyone they know can open it. If you can't (or won't) open it, then there must be something wrong with you or your computer. After all, theirs works fine.
In addition, if you start evangelizing about the virtues of Open Source, you stand a pretty good chance of receiving a very negative response. Why would they want to use something that can't even open a simple Word file?
So why not build a drive with a separate head for each cylinder? That way you would have large capacity and no latency while the head looks for the right cylinder.
Whould this make the drives too expensive to manufacture/sell? It would seem to make the drive a bit more reliable since this design reduces the number of moving parts.
Jamming them may be illegal, but is designing your restaurant or movie theatre like a giant Faraday cage illegal? That would not be jamming the phone per se it would be blocking the RF signal from reaching the phone.
I recently sat on a jury. The judge specifically instruced us that we are to only judge the facts of the case and not the law. He was the only one who could judge the law.
During jury selection he asked if anyone could not uphold a law they disagreed with. He used marijuana possession as an example of a law that many people desagree with. In the instructions given to us before deliberation he again told us to only consied the facts of the case and not the law.
I am not saying that I disagree with you or the Fully Informed Jury people, but the legal community is dead set against jurys having this information
Your homebuilt 2500USD Über machine is not what ESR is talking about. Using your math with this $499.50 machine from Best Buy $100 / $499.50 * 100 = 20% of the price of the system. I wonder how many people would be willing to pay that if they knew exactly what it cost.
If you want to hand write a letter (they are treated very differently in Washington, ie. read by someone who matters, not JUST form letter replies like e-mails)
A year ago I would have wholeheartedly agreed with this statement. Today however, with the recent anthrax scare, I am not so sure. At this time, probably the best way to insure that someone actually reads your letter is to write/type it as you say and then FAX it to your representative.
Any Congressional staffers out there have any comment?
Why would they bother? The BSD license is entirely free, unlike the GPL.
The fact that the BSD license is not viral is not the issue here. The fact that Microsoft has spent a lot of time and money explaining how it is the innovative force in software today and how quaint the open source projects are is the issue. If it became known that portions of Windows are based on open source code, the result would be a MAJOR PR blow for Bill G. & Co.
Unfortunately you are assuming that the only waste product a coal fired power plant produces is nitrous oxide. However, coal plants release a wide variety of nasty substances such as, mercury, arsenic, chlorine, and lead as well as radioactive uranium and thorium. Oak Ridge National Lab has an article about the ammounts of radioactive pollutants released from nuclear as well as coal fired power plants.
Of course Linux is not a corporation. No one ever said it was. However, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE et al certainly are corporations and do have PR departments. They also have a vested interest in making Linux succeed in the marketplace.
Some more mainstream advertising for Linux of any flavor would be a good thing IMHO. There are many PHBs out there who have heard of "that linux thing" but don't think anything about it, partly because all they have heard is whispers in the hallways. They are NOT going to go searching through the Web or Usenet to get info on Linux. Even if they did, they would ask a simple question and get their ass flamed to a crisp by the hoardes of 15 year olds telling them to RTFM (where F != "Friendly"). However, if that same PHB came across a nice 2-page advert in Business Week explaning what Linux is and how it can same them time & money, they would be much more impressed an inclined to listen to the local computer geeks when they want to use a Linux box for some purpose.
I know it sound retarted, but it is not that uncommon. If you are doing research using sources like old manuscripts the librarians will not allow you into the room with the manuscripts if you have any type of writing device. It is all to protect irreplaceable documents.
spent a few moments yesterday cutting open the dead battery from my Sony VAIO 505TX laptop. My thinking was the "battery" for the laptop was a few Lithium-Ion cells, which I could pick up at one of the local electronics outlets and replace (keeping in mind mA/Hrs, charging profiles, etc.)
I did a similar thing for my Yaesu FT-416 ham radio. It used a 12V 600mAh battery available from Yaesu for the low, low price of only $50.00
I got 2 6v 600mAh cordless phone batteries from RadioShack for 4.99 each, wired them in series and put them back in the battery pack. They dont quite fit in it. There is about a 1/4" gap in the housing now, but it does work. And I saved $40 on the deal...
According to mapquest.com, driving distance from Amsterdam to Paris is 305mi/491km. Driving distance from Denton, Texas (where I live, just north of Dallas) to El Paso, Texas, is 640mi/1030km. So, by our standards, Amsterdam and Paris are near each other:)
What you have quoted states that the US has never targeted "innocent people." In a war, how do you define "innnocent."
Obviously the officers and men of a nation's military are valid targets but what about the factories that produce the weapons? Would that be a vaild target? What if there was no centralised factory, and workers made weapons, or weapon parts in their own homes? Would their homes be vaild military targets?
If you are assembling tank treads in your garage, should you really be surprised if the enemy bombs your house?
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Man I got a vasectomy last week and I wish there would have been a NOCLIP option.
Stubble is a bitch.
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Not "opening the IP up" would be manufacturing a "black box" that creates eyeglasses that cannot be opened or studied in any way, at least not without the lawyers/hit squad coming after you. The inventor would still have exclusive control over the rights to manufacture it, but no other person would be able to study it in any way.
Its the $200,000,000 shipping and handling cost that is the killer.
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Im sure you got the memo, but we are now putting cover sheets on all of our TPS reports. So, from now on if you could just put a cover sheet on your TPS reports, that would be great.
I know this is slashdot, where grammar and spelling are somewhat, shall we say, arbitrary, but damnit dont use nouns as verbs!
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It's probably more accurate to say that they don't know any better. If you reqeust a file in an "open format" from most any person, you will receive a blank stare. They wrote their document in Word, they can open it. Everyone they know can open it. If you can't (or won't) open it, then there must be something wrong with you or your computer. After all, theirs works fine.
In addition, if you start evangelizing about the virtues of Open Source, you stand a pretty good chance of receiving a very negative response. Why would they want to use something that can't even open a simple Word file?
Hooptie
Whould this make the drives too expensive to manufacture/sell? It would seem to make the drive a bit more reliable since this design reduces the number of moving parts.
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During jury selection he asked if anyone could not uphold a law they disagreed with. He used marijuana possession as an example of a law that many people desagree with. In the instructions given to us before deliberation he again told us to only consied the facts of the case and not the law.
I am not saying that I disagree with you or the Fully Informed Jury people, but the legal community is dead set against jurys having this information
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ITYM
White Oppressors and Indigenous American Peoples
THT, HAND.
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A year ago I would have wholeheartedly agreed with this statement. Today however, with the recent anthrax scare, I am not so sure. At this time, probably the best way to insure that someone actually reads your letter is to write/type it as you say and then FAX it to your representative.
Any Congressional staffers out there have any comment?
Hooptie
The fact that the BSD license is not viral is not the issue here. The fact that Microsoft has spent a lot of time and money explaining how it is the innovative force in software today and how quaint the open source projects are is the issue. If it became known that portions of Windows are based on open source code, the result would be a MAJOR PR blow for Bill G. & Co.
Hooptie
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Some more mainstream advertising for Linux of any flavor would be a good thing IMHO. There are many PHBs out there who have heard of "that linux thing" but don't think anything about it, partly because all they have heard is whispers in the hallways. They are NOT going to go searching through the Web or Usenet to get info on Linux. Even if they did, they would ask a simple question and get their ass flamed to a crisp by the hoardes of 15 year olds telling them to RTFM (where F != "Friendly"). However, if that same PHB came across a nice 2-page advert in Business Week explaning what Linux is and how it can same them time & money, they would be much more impressed an inclined to listen to the local computer geeks when they want to use a Linux box for some purpose.
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I got 2 6v 600mAh cordless phone batteries from RadioShack for 4.99 each, wired them in series and put them back in the battery pack. They dont quite fit in it. There is about a 1/4" gap in the housing now, but it does work. And I saved $40 on the deal...
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Obviously the officers and men of a nation's military are valid targets but what about the factories that produce the weapons? Would that be a vaild target? What if there was no centralised factory, and workers made weapons, or weapon parts in their own homes? Would their homes be vaild military targets?
If you are assembling tank treads in your garage, should you really be surprised if the enemy bombs your house?
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