And you think Gore's margin of defeat wasn't about equal to the number of Baby Boomers who can actuallly remember Congressman Gore's exchanges with St. Zappa and Jello Biafra?
Baby Boomers grew up playing war games based on the Westerns and leftover WWII propaganda so pervasive on TV and in theaters, with startlingly realistic toy guns. (I never, in those halcyon days, heard of the police being justified in shooting kids holding toy guns, either). Obviously, when it came time for Vietnam, we all lined up to enlist.
The attraction of Free (aka Open Source) coding is that the coders' efforts are not wasted by poor management
In proprietary code, one change from marketing/management and hours of effort are blackholed.
With Free software, if you produce quality work, it'll stay in the project until superceded by better code, not because some corporate Lord and Master is constipated.
So minimum wage workers are going to get computers? Sure! Right!
Even the homeless can get free snail-mail addresses, but email?
We're not all middle class. Fewer are every day.
So a bunch of loons demonstrates that with just a few knives fully fueled transcontinental airplanes can be made into bombs.
So why isn't Congress funding high-speed transcontinental rail instead of passing unenforceable crypto legislation? Try crashing a supersonic train into something significant.
So how does this affect the Palestininans? Does anyone think that this event will cause US policy change to favor Palestine?
Ariel Sharon now has carte blanche, short of setting up extermination camps.
You know, if this does eliminate Linux games on the desktop, businesses using Linux may think of that as a plus.
How many office managers are going to want their office serfs playing games on company time?
As a specific penalty for abusing their copyright monopoly in an illegal manner, the court might require Microsoft's release of Windows XP under the GPL. No need to figure out how many billions to fine, no need for ongoing oversite, not even so long as a corporate split might take.
Now, that would be an Intellectual Property destroyer.
No, it's you missing the point. You're insdtalling a lock on my data on my disk drive and objecting when I manipulte my property to break your encryption, all on my hardrive. I'm not breaking copyright until I actually distribute the data to another person.
Outlaw the hackers (and most especially their tools), so only approved security experts can secure systems.
Australia's going to do this next door to the Chinese info-war (internal, if you presume Taiwan is still part of China)?
This'll give bored Chinese a protected domain to crack open like an egg, at their leisure.
Wouldn't they be better off encouraging their script kiddies to keep their sysadmins on the ball?
One way or the other, it's evolution in action.
No black pillars. Probably, we've never been in a position to check. Haven't even been back for a couple of decades.
No Pan-Am shuttle. Well, no Pan-Am.
A very underfunded, undermanned space station. No big wheel.
NASA's attempting to go to... earth.
Somebody's going to space, but it damned sure won't be the Unite Staes of America. Probably better that way.
I buy CD's at the show, from artists I like.
A number of touring bands do quite nicely without signing onto the Music Industry's agenda (and signing away their "intellectual property"). Ani DeFranco comes to mind, offhand.
Dump the chair and desk, sit on a nice level floor as human evolution designed us to kneel and sit.
Keeping the keyboard on the floor and below the waist relieves the wrist strain, too.
Well, it works for me.
This is one of the reasons that Open Source and Intellectual Property cannot get along.
I surmise Scientology lawyers were able to delete the context as a by-product of copyright infrigement.
14 years protection was enough to get Moby Dick established in the public domain, it whould be enough for Scientology, or Disney, or Metallica.
Somebody's been reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Jerry Pounelle (I think) wants to orbit I-Beams to drop on tanks.
Glad the engineers are catching up with the SF authors again. You don't suppose this is the latest scheme to cure the Hoof and Mouth outbreak?
To be pedantic, we have a plutocracy, not an oligarchy.
Rule of the moneyed classes, not rule of a selected minority.
Pluto, lord of the ninth planet, the afterworld, money, and cartoon dogs.
Don't know who the Oligs were, or Olig was...
Banner ads on Lynx are a waste.
Apparently, the only text available is limited to "Click Here!"
I somehow doubt that many using text browsers ever "Click Here!".
Now, I ask you, why not include a hint of what you're advertising? For all I know I might be missing something historic, perhaps the first Microsoft ad on slashdot. (I still like the C'T Mutant Penguins, that ad pegged Linux, if only by accident).
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And you think Gore's margin of defeat wasn't about equal to the number of Baby Boomers who can actuallly remember Congressman Gore's exchanges with St. Zappa and Jello Biafra?
Isn't this the same US Supreme Court that overrode the Florida Supreme Court's deliberation on Florida's election in 2000?
Baby Boomers grew up playing war games based on the Westerns and leftover WWII propaganda so pervasive on TV and in theaters, with startlingly realistic toy guns. (I never, in those halcyon days, heard of the police being justified in shooting kids holding toy guns, either).
Obviously, when it came time for Vietnam, we all lined up to enlist.
In proprietary code, one change from marketing/management and hours of effort are blackholed.
With Free software, if you produce quality work, it'll stay in the project until superceded by better code, not because some corporate Lord and Master is constipated.
Anybody can publish anything, including original works.
Of course, we can't have everybody publishing whatever they want to, it might be copyright infringement.
To enjoy Freedom of the press, you must first own a press.
Presently, anyone connected to the internet is potentially a publisher.
The US might not be approaching that, but Argentina worries me.
So minimum wage workers are going to get computers? Sure! Right!
Even the homeless can get free snail-mail addresses, but email?
We're not all middle class. Fewer are every day.
So a bunch of loons demonstrates that with just a few knives fully fueled transcontinental airplanes can be made into bombs.
So why isn't Congress funding high-speed transcontinental rail instead of passing unenforceable crypto legislation? Try crashing a supersonic train into something significant.
So how does this affect the Palestininans? Does anyone think that this event will cause US policy change to favor Palestine?
Ariel Sharon now has carte blanche, short of setting up extermination camps.
You know, if this does eliminate Linux games on the desktop, businesses using Linux may think of that as a plus.
How many office managers are going to want their office serfs playing games on company time?
As a specific penalty for abusing their copyright monopoly in an illegal manner, the court might require Microsoft's release of Windows XP under the GPL. No need to figure out how many billions to fine, no need for ongoing oversite, not even so long as a corporate split might take.
Now, that would be an Intellectual Property destroyer.
Of course, I use Lynx...
No, it's you missing the point. You're insdtalling a lock on my data on my disk drive and objecting when I manipulte my property to break your encryption, all on my hardrive. I'm not breaking copyright until I actually distribute the data to another person.
Outlaw the hackers (and most especially their tools), so only approved security experts can secure systems.
Australia's going to do this next door to the Chinese info-war (internal, if you presume Taiwan is still part of China)?
This'll give bored Chinese a protected domain to crack open like an egg, at their leisure.
Wouldn't they be better off encouraging their script kiddies to keep their sysadmins on the ball?
One way or the other, it's evolution in action.
No black pillars. Probably, we've never been in a position to check. Haven't even been back for a couple of decades.
No Pan-Am shuttle. Well, no Pan-Am.
A very underfunded, undermanned space station. No big wheel.
NASA's attempting to go to... earth.
Somebody's going to space, but it damned sure won't be the Unite Staes of America. Probably better that way.
So revert to lynx, terminal type is legible to these eyes.
I buy CD's at the show, from artists I like.
A number of touring bands do quite nicely without signing onto the Music Industry's agenda (and signing away their "intellectual property"). Ani DeFranco comes to mind, offhand.
Dump the chair and desk, sit on a nice level floor as human evolution designed us to kneel and sit.
Keeping the keyboard on the floor and below the waist relieves the wrist strain, too.
Well, it works for me.
This is one of the reasons that Open Source and Intellectual Property cannot get along.
I surmise Scientology lawyers were able to delete the context as a by-product of copyright infrigement.
14 years protection was enough to get Moby Dick established in the public domain, it whould be enough for Scientology, or Disney, or Metallica.
It's sad that someone who gained so much credit for getting fired by Nixon for prosecuting Watergate should end up as an Intellectual Property whore.
Speed, the CIA was full of tweaks until methedrine was (finally) outlawed.
Somebody's been reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Jerry Pounelle (I think) wants to orbit I-Beams to drop on tanks.
Glad the engineers are catching up with the SF authors again. You don't suppose this is the latest scheme to cure the Hoof and Mouth outbreak?
Yeah, 40,000 sysadmins with influence on the buying decision of 40,000 corporate accounts, no big deal.
To be pedantic, we have a plutocracy, not an oligarchy.
Rule of the moneyed classes, not rule of a selected minority.
Pluto, lord of the ninth planet, the afterworld, money, and cartoon dogs.
Don't know who the Oligs were, or Olig was...
Banner ads on Lynx are a waste.
Apparently, the only text available is limited to "Click Here!"
I somehow doubt that many using text browsers ever "Click Here!".
Now, I ask you, why not include a hint of what you're advertising? For all I know I might be missing something historic, perhaps the first Microsoft ad on slashdot. (I still like the C'T Mutant Penguins, that ad pegged Linux, if only by accident).