If I'm giving money to the government, and they turn around and spend that money to help develop software, then I sure as hell deserve a piece of it! I helped to pay for it's existence, therefore I believe that I own a piece of it. If the government spends the money on a corporation to help them develop software that they are going to turn around and charge me for, then I am being charged twice for the same software!
If you're a Microsoft shareholder, can you barge-in and demand to see the source code for Windows XP?
If the populus of our nation wasn't so harshly taxed and Americans had more dispolsable income donations to non-profit organizations would drastically increase (it would, people in general do like to do good, they just don't like being forced to do so). With a private non-profit which is smaller and more efficent than any government can hope to be those resources are distributed with a greater effect than it would be through Socialist type systems like Social Security.
The problem with charities is that only the more fashionable causes get catered to. Fuck those who don't appeal to greedy assholes like you.
At least, with socialism, the State takes care of the charities and everyone gets his share, fashionable or not.
PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor now available for all IBM servers...
The leadership product for high-security cryptography and secure computing is now available for all IBM server platforms and many personal computers. The tamper-responding design has been certified under the USA FIPS 140-1 standard at levels 3 and 4, and has received German ZKA approval for critical financial transaction system processing.
One would think that the Germans are very careful with encription, nowadays, having been badly burned by Colossus decrypting their Enigma output during the war...:):)
Cars do talk, or did at one time. Back in the 80s there was a fad of sorts of cars telling drivers status updates and safety warnings: "Please fasten your seatbelt," "A door is ajar," "Please refill the oil," etc. They drove owners nuts and didn't last long.
When I was working for $BadCompanyWhichMakesAddictiveProducts, some 20 years ago, they suddenly replaced their whole fleet of company cars with those talkers. At least one senior director sent one in the ditch when the car suddenly said "your gas is low" while he was cruising along the highway...
And thou shalt make legislature pass laws favourizing thy product.
That's typical bourgeois attitude. Case in point: in the late 1700's, a brewer named Molson moved to Canada, where 99.99% of the french population, being from Normandy, made their own applejack cider (grapes dont's grow there). Rather than corner the cider market, the incompetent Molson had the governor pass a law prohibiting the people from making their own cider.
Voilà! Instant market for it's horsepiss beer!
That's typical of the the way anglo-saxons do business: shove their inferior crap down other's throats. And then, they wonder why planes crash into buildings...
Why don't we just replace all existing patent clerks with a large number of trained monkeys who would be issued rubber "Patent Oked" stamps. You could probably replace all patent clerks with a comparable number of monkeys for less than the price of a single patent clerk, and we'd have an exact duplicate of our existing system; every patent to go through the office would get accepted and the court system will be bound to figure out which ones are valid and which aren't.
Better yet, just take an infinite number of monkeys, each of them provided with a CAD workstation. In a infinite amount of time, they will produce *ALL* the plans for what's been invented and what'll be invented in the future.
"We haven't received one e-mail in support of the Hollings bill," said Judiciary Committee spokeswoman Mimi Devlin.
Bullshit!
Here is what I sent them:
Gentlemen,
I am a computer professionnal, being active in the field of software development and IT administration since 1979. Although I am not an American citizen, I would like to comment on the CBDPTA being studied by your committee.
This innovative bill, by crippling the ability of the U.S. computer industry to freely introduce innovative technology, will tremenduously favourize the (rest of the) world computer industry. Imposing limits on computer systems that would be illegal in many countries is a sure way to insure that the rest of the world computer industry will finally catch-up and leave in the dust the U.S. computer industry.
The other 95% of the world will be eternally grateful to the (comparatively) minuscule Hollywood movie industry for having the much bigger U.S. computer industry ground to a halt by having to spend a significant portion of their ressources just to comply with the CBDPTA.
Most other industries (those who use computers) will also benefit, as their U.S. counterparts will be hindered by less performing computers that are hobbled both in cost and performance by their expensive content monitoring "features", thus making them less efficient than their unencumbered foreign counterparts.
Another foreign industry that shall benefit will undoubtely the illegal drug industry, as it will be easier to ship illegal drugs to the United States as the U.S. Customs service will undoubtely be very busy searching for illegal computer contraband.
Please do consider the passage of this Act, as the world's computer industry needs a reprieve from the very innovative U.S. computer industry.
I hate to stir up more trouble, but it is my opinion that PetsWarehouse are a bunch of child molesting, cocaine distributing, AIDS-infected Satanists who routinely butcher small puppies and kittens in worship of the Dark Lord. Robert Novak is best friends with Gary Condit and he helped pull out Chandra Levy's teeth with a pair of pliers.
I concur, and I dare those assholes to try suing me!
This way, one could teach perfect penmanship by carefully programming the CCR (Chickenscratch Character Recognition) to reject badly-looking script. Children would come out with near-perfectly human recognizable calligraphy.
Notice that I said in schools. Not in the rest of the world, please!!!!
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I must have been asleep again!
I missed that!
When did that happen????
At least, with socialism, the State takes care of the charities and everyone gets his share, fashionable or not.
They actually grafted his head on senator Holling's body, and then had a generous amount of plastic surgery...
That's typical bourgeois attitude. Case in point: in the late 1700's, a brewer named Molson moved to Canada, where 99.99% of the french population, being from Normandy, made their own applejack cider (grapes dont's grow there). Rather than corner the cider market, the incompetent Molson had the governor pass a law prohibiting the people from making their own cider.
Voilà! Instant market for it's horsepiss beer!
That's typical of the the way anglo-saxons do business: shove their inferior crap down other's throats. And then, they wonder why planes crash into buildings...
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Here is what I sent them:
Gentlemen,
I am a computer professionnal, being active in the field of software development and IT administration since 1979. Although I am not an American citizen, I would like to comment on the CBDPTA being studied by your committee.
This innovative bill, by crippling the ability of the U.S. computer industry to freely introduce innovative technology, will tremenduously favourize the (rest of the) world computer industry. Imposing limits on computer systems that would be illegal in many countries is a sure way to insure that the rest of the world computer industry will finally catch-up and leave in the dust the U.S. computer industry.
The other 95% of the world will be eternally grateful to the (comparatively) minuscule Hollywood movie industry for having the much bigger U.S. computer industry ground to a halt by having to spend a significant portion of their ressources just to comply with the CBDPTA.
Most other industries (those who use computers) will also benefit, as their U.S. counterparts will be hindered by less performing computers that are hobbled both in cost and performance by their expensive content monitoring "features", thus making them less efficient than their unencumbered foreign counterparts.
Another foreign industry that shall benefit will undoubtely the illegal drug industry, as it will be easier to ship illegal drugs to the United States as the U.S. Customs service will undoubtely be very busy searching for illegal computer contraband.
Please do consider the passage of this Act, as the world's computer industry needs a reprieve from the very innovative U.S. computer industry.
Thank-you.
They should have it called the PARODIC table of elements...
Well, you can't, stupid yankee.
Notice that I said in schools. Not in the rest of the world, please!!!!
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