No kidding, just look at all those stock exchanges popping up everywhere and competing, unregulated by the government. The NYSE and NASDAQ are so awesome that no one would ever want to compete.
While there is a strong rational argument for drug decriminalization (just look at Portugal), the real problem is that people hate liberty and loath tolerance.
translation: It's too complicated for programmers using Debian to get things like recent versions of Eclipse or NetBeans... It's too complicated to install things on Debian, they need a Windows installer.
So we realize that instead of it being something mild, Steve Jobs very well may die. Does it really make sense to go after someone who is dying for not being completely honest about well, their mortality? I mean, I'm a shareholder of Apple, and I just don't find myself furious at someone who is dying from illness.
Right... but when you consider every sample is copyrighted, you could probably count each individual instrument and every 5 seconds or so... Going by that theory, you could probably say it's more like 2000 copyright infringements and $300 million. All you need to do now is find someone you don't like who has iTunes, install kazaa, and call the RIAA... 1 billion dollars!
You don't even need to make a choice! Microsoft has already made all the choices for you. Why bother wasting your time looking at options when you can be a Microsoft Einsteinium partner and have all of your needs met at a competitive rate. Don't know how to compare things? Microsoft has the answers to show you just how competitive you can be using their products.
If you don't feel the benefits of the internet, along with all the nasty things that come along with it (like people being stupid), build your own network, then get the major website hosts to also connect to your private network.
An ordinary user using a Mac is arguably operating a less virus prone system than one on windows with anti-virus. Why doesn't the government just give everyone a $50 tax deduction for getting a Mac? Then again, how many people really nickel and dime every last little thing they do each day? Perhaps we could also give people $100 for not eating meat on Fridays. Does an average taxpayer really know what anti-virus is and how to make good use of it, or will they get the crappiest "anti-virus" any spammer is selling, and grab a government handout? Does this not sound wasteful to you? Who determines what is "Quality" anti-virus - the good guys or the bad guys?
Fining individual users for unintentionally spreading viruses might arguably be negligence, but considering the vastness of the problem I can't say justice would be served by attempting to punish the uneducated mob as you could only make examples of individuals. Even if you were effective, you would simply make people stop using computers. You could fine the software developers for negligence in making something vulnerable, but once again all you could do is make examples of people, while if you were actually effective you would destroy the software development industry, as no one would be willing to make software.
If the authorities aren't clever enough or capable of finding and punishing the criminals, then you can't just magically pass some law that will make all the criminals dissipate. Even if you were to get every last user on anti-virus chances are the viruses would just adapt to dealing with those programs. Pragmatically, I think the only things that will work would be to reward those who successfully find and punish the criminals, and perhaps argue the benefits of being moral over creating bot nets and screwing people over like AIG.
Then again, as a Ron Paul supporter, I see the light of your ideas, and think you might like the ideas of Johnathan Swift with his treatise, "A Modest Proposal".
Becuase it is government that is acting, there is coercion involved
Is a small town that much different from a company? Because an executive makes a decision, there is coercion involved. Anyone dissenting is forced to suck it up, or quit their job. Chances are the executive wasn't even elected. Of course, nothing is stopping the people in that town from moving to some other town. Changing jobs often requires moving - so which is a "free"er market - a small town or a corporation?
If I were Oracle, I'd actually stop helping PostGres as much and make MySQL a new pet project to ramp to Oracle... Nevermind having a good way of making money through support for the lower end.
The mountain is high, the valley is low
And you're confused 'bout which way to go
So I flew here to give you a hand
And lead you into the promised land
So, come on and take a free ride (free ride)
Come on and take it by my side
Come on and take a free ride
If the game companies pay less, then they might work for some other industry.
This is much the case for programmers, but even more comically - good game developers might come back and develop low cost games to make more money. Sounds to me like management doesn't know how to pick and hold onto good developers (or what to do with them)... Blizzard doesn't seem to have any problems developing high cost games and churning out more profit than anyone else.
Oh it's necessary... With normal browsers you can install multiple versions on the same machine. With IE, you have to use hacks which Microsoft breaks... Now Microsoft might charge you to make things compatible with their browser in single vm.
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
No kidding... This is a patent on basically translating one computer language to another. If this holds, it would be just as plausible to patent compiling code to a different architecture. Trying to make a compiler for a new language to different architecture? Oh snap, a patent troll got it. This is an attack on Hibernate, as far as I can tell, which is basically the most widely used ORM out there...
nah, Warner is the company that's being stupid... Rock Band - which Activision bought - merged with Blizzard, and in the process became a part of Vivendi - a French massive media conglomerate which includes Univeral Music Group... Basically, what this means is - Warner makes less money, Vivendi makes more money off their own music labels... Guess who's winning the war?
We're living in a non-standards compliant world, and it's not changing anytime soon. Sure it's great Microsoft might finally get on the bandwagon, but they've left behind a big pile of junk. Go tell a businessman that at least some 30% of the users won't see things right or that you'll have to cut back on features or spend some 500% extra time to get things to look good that are both standards compliant and compliant with that 30%... What determines the right way of doing things again? I hope it's not pragmatic.
I dunno, #1 sounds like what a rational society would do. #2 sounds like false arrest - definitely worth bringing a lawsuit about. Kid can't follow school rules? Kick them out and arrest their parents for abandonment if they keep coming back.
The government is incapable of solving all of your problems, and just because something IS morally wrong does not mean the government should be involved. The LAW is good at applying ESTABLISHED RULES, right or WRONG. Using the law irresponsibly establishes poor precedent, preventing the system from functioning correctly. If there is not an established rule, new ones may be established, but they cannot retroactively affect violators. If there is no good current law on the books, the government SHOULD NOT punish her.
The federal government already has mechanisms to protect intellectual property: patents and copyrights. Furthermore, a non-compete does not specifically have anything to do with trade secrets, as that would be a separate clause of agreement. I'm not sure the state should ever enforce anything to do with trade secrets unless criminal activity was involved. If the Hamburgler gets McDonald's secret recipies while working for them, there is no such thing as a patent or copyright to protect such trade secrets and no federal court should stop the Hamburgler from working for Burger King. To establish such a broad enforcement of a non-compete agreement would set a dangerous precedent in which if you work for a company involved in interstate commerce, that you could not get a job anywhere beyond the first place you get a job. Let's not forget that growing plants on your own land that only you consume is interstate commerce according to the feds...
One could do this without merging the plugins as part of the core browser. I'd compare Firefox 3 plugin system to Netbeans 6 as being functionally and cosmetically identical. Netbeans 6 does have different distributions, but they're all actually the same Netbeans just with different plugins and bundled software... It certainly would make life nicer for administrators, and I fail to see why people would disagree if it was done correctly...
It's perfectly legal to sell M games and rated R movies in the USA to children and babies. M is not A (adults only) and R is not (NC-17), which suggests porno (what you legally can't sell to minors). The rating system is a private industry standard and practice. Stop suggesting that it takes precedent over the 1st amendment.
Why don't we go into Cuba, Russia, and China to displace a few leaders we don't like? I'm not saying we should like the nuts in the middle east, but instead of running around trying to build the next Japan out of Iraq, we should have just gone in rapidly and wiped out Bin Laden. We have no place over there trying to tell them how to live. Ron Paul voted to attack the actual terrorists, not Iraq. We should have sent large numbers of marines to cull the terrorists, then we should have gotten the hell out of middle eastern society as we Americans can't identify with.
Reducing the national deficit makes lowering taxes easier, assuming you can get the spending cut. The war is the health of the state, so to speak, and by health, I mean massive deficit spending. Economically, the current crop of Republicans besides Ron Paul are terrible. Socially, the Democrats are a mirror of the Republicans, except on the abortion issue.
Get a Democrat elected to make a point?
I pretty much agree with Ron Paul all the way, although my priority list would be different. If Ron Paul doesn't get the nomination, I think South Park has said it best with the choices of a Douche Bag and a Turd Sandwich. On the other side of the table, conservative pundits Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter will not vote for McCain no matter what. I feel the same way, except about Romney not McCain.
1. Goodbye IRS.
2. Goodbye FDA.
3. Ok, we need legal reform to really get rid of the EPA, including a national standard way of doing so.
You've left out:
4. Stop policing the world.
What is "vitally necessary" on the scale we operate is individual freedom. What individual freedom requires is less government and lower taxes. The government is *not* the answer to the problems of the world, so why does America keep increasing its size?
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No kidding, just look at all those stock exchanges popping up everywhere and competing, unregulated by the government. The NYSE and NASDAQ are so awesome that no one would ever want to compete.
While there is a strong rational argument for drug decriminalization (just look at Portugal), the real problem is that people hate liberty and loath tolerance.
translation: It's too complicated for programmers using Debian to get things like recent versions of Eclipse or NetBeans... It's too complicated to install things on Debian, they need a Windows installer.
So we realize that instead of it being something mild, Steve Jobs very well may die. Does it really make sense to go after someone who is dying for not being completely honest about well, their mortality? I mean, I'm a shareholder of Apple, and I just don't find myself furious at someone who is dying from illness.
Right... but when you consider every sample is copyrighted, you could probably count each individual instrument and every 5 seconds or so... Going by that theory, you could probably say it's more like 2000 copyright infringements and $300 million. All you need to do now is find someone you don't like who has iTunes, install kazaa, and call the RIAA... 1 billion dollars!
You don't even need to make a choice! Microsoft has already made all the choices for you. Why bother wasting your time looking at options when you can be a Microsoft Einsteinium partner and have all of your needs met at a competitive rate. Don't know how to compare things? Microsoft has the answers to show you just how competitive you can be using their products.
If you don't feel the benefits of the internet, along with all the nasty things that come along with it (like people being stupid), build your own network, then get the major website hosts to also connect to your private network.
An ordinary user using a Mac is arguably operating a less virus prone system than one on windows with anti-virus. Why doesn't the government just give everyone a $50 tax deduction for getting a Mac? Then again, how many people really nickel and dime every last little thing they do each day? Perhaps we could also give people $100 for not eating meat on Fridays. Does an average taxpayer really know what anti-virus is and how to make good use of it, or will they get the crappiest "anti-virus" any spammer is selling, and grab a government handout? Does this not sound wasteful to you? Who determines what is "Quality" anti-virus - the good guys or the bad guys?
Fining individual users for unintentionally spreading viruses might arguably be negligence, but considering the vastness of the problem I can't say justice would be served by attempting to punish the uneducated mob as you could only make examples of individuals. Even if you were effective, you would simply make people stop using computers. You could fine the software developers for negligence in making something vulnerable, but once again all you could do is make examples of people, while if you were actually effective you would destroy the software development industry, as no one would be willing to make software.
If the authorities aren't clever enough or capable of finding and punishing the criminals, then you can't just magically pass some law that will make all the criminals dissipate. Even if you were to get every last user on anti-virus chances are the viruses would just adapt to dealing with those programs. Pragmatically, I think the only things that will work would be to reward those who successfully find and punish the criminals, and perhaps argue the benefits of being moral over creating bot nets and screwing people over like AIG.
Then again, as a Ron Paul supporter, I see the light of your ideas, and think you might like the ideas of Johnathan Swift with his treatise, "A Modest Proposal".
Becuase it is government that is acting, there is coercion involved
Is a small town that much different from a company? Because an executive makes a decision, there is coercion involved. Anyone dissenting is forced to suck it up, or quit their job. Chances are the executive wasn't even elected. Of course, nothing is stopping the people in that town from moving to some other town. Changing jobs often requires moving - so which is a "free"er market - a small town or a corporation?
If I were Oracle, I'd actually stop helping PostGres as much and make MySQL a new pet project to ramp to Oracle... Nevermind having a good way of making money through support for the lower end.
EA is actually partnering with Will Wright. I don't think EA and id are much alike, nor do I think Romero really left on such ambivalent terms.
The mountain is high, the valley is low
And you're confused 'bout which way to go
So I flew here to give you a hand
And lead you into the promised land
So, come on and take a free ride (free ride)
Come on and take it by my side
Come on and take a free ride
If the game companies pay less, then they might work for some other industry.
This is much the case for programmers, but even more comically - good game developers might come back and develop low cost games to make more money. Sounds to me like management doesn't know how to pick and hold onto good developers (or what to do with them)... Blizzard doesn't seem to have any problems developing high cost games and churning out more profit than anyone else.
Oh it's necessary... With normal browsers you can install multiple versions on the same machine. With IE, you have to use hacks which Microsoft breaks... Now Microsoft might charge you to make things compatible with their browser in single vm. http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
No kidding... This is a patent on basically translating one computer language to another. If this holds, it would be just as plausible to patent compiling code to a different architecture. Trying to make a compiler for a new language to different architecture? Oh snap, a patent troll got it. This is an attack on Hibernate, as far as I can tell, which is basically the most widely used ORM out there...
nah, Warner is the company that's being stupid... Rock Band - which Activision bought - merged with Blizzard, and in the process became a part of Vivendi - a French massive media conglomerate which includes Univeral Music Group... Basically, what this means is - Warner makes less money, Vivendi makes more money off their own music labels... Guess who's winning the war?
We're living in a non-standards compliant world, and it's not changing anytime soon. Sure it's great Microsoft might finally get on the bandwagon, but they've left behind a big pile of junk. Go tell a businessman that at least some 30% of the users won't see things right or that you'll have to cut back on features or spend some 500% extra time to get things to look good that are both standards compliant and compliant with that 30%... What determines the right way of doing things again? I hope it's not pragmatic.
I dunno, #1 sounds like what a rational society would do. #2 sounds like false arrest - definitely worth bringing a lawsuit about. Kid can't follow school rules? Kick them out and arrest their parents for abandonment if they keep coming back.
1+1=2 no matter what all you MVC enthusiasts think!
The government is incapable of solving all of your problems, and just because something IS morally wrong does not mean the government should be involved. The LAW is good at applying ESTABLISHED RULES, right or WRONG. Using the law irresponsibly establishes poor precedent, preventing the system from functioning correctly. If there is not an established rule, new ones may be established, but they cannot retroactively affect violators. If there is no good current law on the books, the government SHOULD NOT punish her.
The federal government already has mechanisms to protect intellectual property: patents and copyrights. Furthermore, a non-compete does not specifically have anything to do with trade secrets, as that would be a separate clause of agreement. I'm not sure the state should ever enforce anything to do with trade secrets unless criminal activity was involved. If the Hamburgler gets McDonald's secret recipies while working for them, there is no such thing as a patent or copyright to protect such trade secrets and no federal court should stop the Hamburgler from working for Burger King. To establish such a broad enforcement of a non-compete agreement would set a dangerous precedent in which if you work for a company involved in interstate commerce, that you could not get a job anywhere beyond the first place you get a job. Let's not forget that growing plants on your own land that only you consume is interstate commerce according to the feds...
One could do this without merging the plugins as part of the core browser. I'd compare Firefox 3 plugin system to Netbeans 6 as being functionally and cosmetically identical. Netbeans 6 does have different distributions, but they're all actually the same Netbeans just with different plugins and bundled software... It certainly would make life nicer for administrators, and I fail to see why people would disagree if it was done correctly...
It's perfectly legal to sell M games and rated R movies in the USA to children and babies. M is not A (adults only) and R is not (NC-17), which suggests porno (what you legally can't sell to minors). The rating system is a private industry standard and practice. Stop suggesting that it takes precedent over the 1st amendment.
Why don't we go into Cuba, Russia, and China to displace a few leaders we don't like? I'm not saying we should like the nuts in the middle east, but instead of running around trying to build the next Japan out of Iraq, we should have just gone in rapidly and wiped out Bin Laden. We have no place over there trying to tell them how to live. Ron Paul voted to attack the actual terrorists, not Iraq. We should have sent large numbers of marines to cull the terrorists, then we should have gotten the hell out of middle eastern society as we Americans can't identify with.
Reducing the national deficit makes lowering taxes easier, assuming you can get the spending cut. The war is the health of the state, so to speak, and by health, I mean massive deficit spending. Economically, the current crop of Republicans besides Ron Paul are terrible. Socially, the Democrats are a mirror of the Republicans, except on the abortion issue.
Get a Democrat elected to make a point?
I pretty much agree with Ron Paul all the way, although my priority list would be different. If Ron Paul doesn't get the nomination, I think South Park has said it best with the choices of a Douche Bag and a Turd Sandwich. On the other side of the table, conservative pundits Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter will not vote for McCain no matter what. I feel the same way, except about Romney not McCain.
1. Goodbye IRS.
2. Goodbye FDA.
3. Ok, we need legal reform to really get rid of the EPA, including a national standard way of doing so.
You've left out:
4. Stop policing the world.
What is "vitally necessary" on the scale we operate is individual freedom. What individual freedom requires is less government and lower taxes. The government is *not* the answer to the problems of the world, so why does America keep increasing its size?