There are plenty of countries who don't allow software patents. Just move the "official" location of WINE to one of those, and voilà, instant immunity.
And if those who still want software patents insist, well, let them put customs posts on the Internet to prevent them from downloading it.
It's just a question of technology advance. When printing was invented, it lowered the cost of making a book, since it involved less monks (and monasteries).
Now, myself, for $40 a month, I have my own server at home on which I can publish what I want. It's much cheaper than printing and distributing my own magazine.
Those guys are just taking advantage of technological advances that enable one to publish without the expense of a printing press and delivery trucks (not to mention sucking-up to newsstands - or distributors).
Established scientific journals are actually of great value, because what is published in these is supposed to be rigorously reviewed by other experts in the field. The legitimacy this provides is precisely the reason why scientists often pay a journal large amounts to have something published
And, pray tell, what is the scientific law you know (and the slashdot crowd doesn't) that states that only a pay-for-play journal can conduct a proper peer review???
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Ah! You're French. That explains the lack of productivity and willingness to take unnecessary days off.
Actually, that the french manage to be the 5th economy with only a fifth the population of the USA and despite their 5 week holidays and so many days off clearly indicates that they are far more efficient workers than the americans...
Anyone remember those fujitsu drives (20-40s) ?
those failed because a chip didn't like it hot or cold
Interestingly, I got a shitload of those for free (upgrades) and I use them as flying test drives (from one machine to the other). Despite them becoming so hot you burn yourself when you touch them, they are actually very reliable.
Of course it might be a different kind of logic board, too...
Public bathrooms. Public swimming pools. Public schools.
Think about the above three things, and then tell me you want public healthcare.
Everyone here is very happy about our public healthcare. We wouldn't dream of having it privatized to see our cost soar and much less coverage. And so do everyone who lives in a country with a meaningful State.
You can find a lot of nations that have unique ID but not capital punishment, weapons in every house and don't make war every 10 years. Uh, and they have a working social security too!
As well as public-funded universal health-care systems what won't result in people losing their homes to pay for the doctors if they become sick.
Even a cheap laser without duplexing can still do two-sided printing. You just have to flip the stack over manually and print even / odd pages.
** DANGER ** DANGER ** WILL ROBINSON **
Do NOT re-feed laser-printed pages in a laser printer, especially if you flip them over.
The xerographic printing process involves a fusing step, where the paper is heated to high temperature between two rollers, in order to melt the powdered ink. Only the roller on the ink side is designed to be impergious to the molten ink, so when you pass the sheet again, the ink will often melt and stain the other roll, which will then stain every following sheet. Fixing it involves replacing the whole fuser unit ($$$OUCH$$$).
Note: some very specialized printers are designed to allow page-flipping; so make sure that the printer documentation explicitly states so.
All complaints can be delivered through approved channels, such as the local Parent Teachers Organization.
If you had RTFAed, you would have seen that the scholl have CANCELLED PTAO meetings for the rest of the school year, effectively neutering the approved complaint channel.
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from TFA: "At 3M, however, there is a long-standing policy that permits employees to spend fifteen percent of their time working on projects of their own choosing."
Not only that, but they are obligated to not spend some percentage of their budget on their primary research project, so they have that little margin to explore "side effects" that would be neglected thanks to traditional normal stupid shortsighted bean-counters.
I have 59,224 pornographic files (including 879 movies and clips), all organized by category (sex acts performed, races involved, clothing worn, kind of kink, etc.).
Since I have several of those that span more than one category, I put everything on a Linux server and I put hard links to directories containing the various categories the pictures are into.
So whenever I crave for a particular kind of kink, I have no problem locating the series of files I want to look at.
As a British guy who travelled Canada with a French guy (from Saint Malo no less) I can honestly say that Quebec (more specifically Montreal) was the WORST place in Canada we visited. The people were unfriendly to me as an Englishman, and when my French friend tried to reason with people they called him a traitor. What a bunch of fucking idiots.
That's because you probably have acted as arses. And, here, the french-from-France have a well-earned reputation of being total arses, et par with what yankees are when abroad (I'm frankly surprised that you were picked upon, unless you were not cricket - which would be surprising, because the brits are usually well-behaving -, but the french guy, none at all).
As of being traitors, the french guy propably said something stupid and clueless, like "in Europe, they are getting together, so why want to get away", thus displaying a total lack of understanding of our history (we were DUMPED to the british by the french king, and afterwards, thrown at the hungry wolves merchants that came to plunder our ressources and enslave us with the genrous help of the scatholic church, and all sorts of devious slithery ways were used by the brits to keep us within the empire).
As of the aiport tax, that was a scam where the airports were "privatized" by the tories to totally unnacountable private croporation (more information on this here; happy reading!)
I would be in favor of dissolving Amtrak, creating a rail agency that is at least capable of doing some things right, and running rail routes that make sense, like the east and west coast corridors. I don't think they need to necessarily turn a profit, but there should be some limits to how much of a loss we will tolerate.
In nearly 35 years of existence, Amtrak has receive as much federal money as the airlines have received last year.
Yeah, there should be limits to how much loss you shall tolerate...
you CAN'T make money off ideas!!!!!! you need to produce something.
americans are so high on hollywood hype, do they not know anything about what really puts food on the table, what really counts in the global market? putting up real product, not just "ideas", oh so precious, is the new rule for global trade.
Hollywood has only one output, that is, bullshit. Americans love their bullshit so much that they want to shove laws to protect their bullshit down the throats of other nations.
That is ridiculous, and I think it's sad that this got modded insightful. The writers of the American Constitution saw a need to protect creative works, inventions and the like, and I agree with them.
The writers of the american constitution are spinning in their graves when they see what their orginal idea has been turned into. They never have intended copyright to benefit solely pigopolists.
The US has been living beyond its means - that is, it has a huge current account deficit: net capital inflow to the US far outweighs capital outflow. In and of itself that isn't necessarily bad, and is certainly no reason to panic: it has happened before, and will likely happen again. ...
This drop hasn't yet caused a turn around in the current account deficit - it has continued to grow apace.
In less than 100 years, the US will be like Spain is now, an economically backwards country that have been sucked-dry of all it's weath.
Je me souvien (i remember) is about all the murders
done by the canadian gouvernement. Unfortunatly
most canadians do not remember. May be it because
the victimes where only sub humains like autochtone
and focking french-canadians.
Yes, you are right, we keep lost since 1743.
Quebec has been forced into canada a few time.
but next referendum will welcome international
observers. Poll will be legit and free of frauds.
It was legitimate and free of fraud the last time, too. Face it, the PQ is an anachronism suited for bigoted backwoods hicks, not the thinkers that gravitate towards the big cities, and you won't win with those rubes as your only support.
I've had about enough of talking to an anonymous coward, as well. If you want to debate this, be a man and make an account to claim ownership of your statements. Otherwise, you're nothing but another whiny Quebecois coward, full of bluster but incapable of backing it up.
The backwoods hicks are the stupid english assholes like you who are to fucking stupid to learn another language.
Here I am, not a fucking anonymous coward, and the cities don't vote as much for the PQ because only in the cities you will find large ghettoes of immigrants that are brainwashed by the federal government in hating the french.
For a quarter millenium the english have been very hard at work to try to eliminate us. First by telling us that we are shit, we are no good, then by throwing us as pasture to the scatholic church to brainwash us into believing that we are unable to run our own business, then by flooding us with hostile immigration and by sending us to fight wars for the britshit.>
Despite all that, we are still there, and given the recent display of outright corruption by the federal government, we will not stay there for long.
The next referendum will be winning, because there will be NO FUCKING WAY that the 300,000 people that were not from Québec will be able to vote in the referendum again. We won't lose it by 50,000 votes, we'll win it by more than 250,000 votes.
And you will play very nice with us, you will call us "sirs" and you will do what we ask, because if you don't, you can kiss your ass goodbye for paying our share of the canadian debt, like sovereignists always have said they will pay.
You, the english, will never show respect unless a gun is held to you head. You will never tolerate more than 5 minutes what we, the french, have tolerated for 250 years, so you have no fucking lessons to give to anyone, especially to the french.
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There are plenty of countries who don't allow software patents. Just move the "official" location of WINE to one of those, and voilà, instant immunity.
And if those who still want software patents insist, well, let them put customs posts on the Internet to prevent them from downloading it.
Now, myself, for $40 a month, I have my own server at home on which I can publish what I want. It's much cheaper than printing and distributing my own magazine.
Those guys are just taking advantage of technological advances that enable one to publish without the expense of a printing press and delivery trucks (not to mention sucking-up to newsstands - or distributors).
Of course it might be a different kind of logic board, too...
The xerographic printing process involves a fusing step, where the paper is heated to high temperature between two rollers, in order to melt the powdered ink. Only the roller on the ink side is designed to be impergious to the molten ink, so when you pass the sheet again, the ink will often melt and stain the other roll, which will then stain every following sheet. Fixing it involves replacing the whole fuser unit ($$$OUCH$$$).
Note: some very specialized printers are designed to allow page-flipping; so make sure that the printer documentation explicitly states so.
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Dear Mrs. Reigelman
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CSUSA has reviewedthe web site and has determined that your and other parents' and other web site participants' published accusations, comments and statements are unlawful, defamatory and libelous against CSUSA, Gateway Charter School and DR.Nauss.
Accordingly, CSUSA hereby demands that you immediatly cease and desist your continues published libal and defamatory accusations, comments and statments about CSUSA, Gateway Charter Scool and Dr.Nauss through any means, including a web site. If you fail to heed this demand, you will leave CSUSA with no altermative but to proceed with all legal actions to protect CSUSA against your continues false, libelous and defamatory publications.
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Looks like the terrorists have won...
I mean, it's been 28 years since the first one came out. Truly the youngest fans must have grown-up since!!!
Lady Astor, first woman elected to the House of Commons, to Winston Churchill:
-- If you were my husband, I would poison your coffee.
-- If you were my wife, I would drink it.
Since I have several of those that span more than one category, I put everything on a Linux server and I put hard links to directories containing the various categories the pictures are into.
So whenever I crave for a particular kind of kink, I have no problem locating the series of files I want to look at.
Good. Each time a computer is infected, just DHCPit out of existence. That oughta make them clean their act real soon now...
As of being traitors, the french guy propably said something stupid and clueless, like "in Europe, they are getting together, so why want to get away", thus displaying a total lack of understanding of our history (we were DUMPED to the british by the french king, and afterwards, thrown at the hungry wolves merchants that came to plunder our ressources and enslave us with the genrous help of the scatholic church, and all sorts of devious slithery ways were used by the brits to keep us within the empire).
As of the aiport tax, that was a scam where the airports were "privatized" by the tories to totally unnacountable private croporation (more information on this here; happy reading!)
Yeah, there should be limits to how much loss you shall tolerate...
Here I am, not a fucking anonymous coward, and the cities don't vote as much for the PQ because only in the cities you will find large ghettoes of immigrants that are brainwashed by the federal government in hating the french.
For a quarter millenium the english have been very hard at work to try to eliminate us. First by telling us that we are shit, we are no good, then by throwing us as pasture to the scatholic church to brainwash us into believing that we are unable to run our own business, then by flooding us with hostile immigration and by sending us to fight wars for the britshit.>
Despite all that, we are still there, and given the recent display of outright corruption by the federal government, we will not stay there for long.
The next referendum will be winning, because there will be NO FUCKING WAY that the 300,000 people that were not from Québec will be able to vote in the referendum again. We won't lose it by 50,000 votes, we'll win it by more than 250,000 votes.
And you will play very nice with us, you will call us "sirs" and you will do what we ask, because if you don't, you can kiss your ass goodbye for paying our share of the canadian debt, like sovereignists always have said they will pay.
You, the english, will never show respect unless a gun is held to you head. You will never tolerate more than 5 minutes what we, the french, have tolerated for 250 years, so you have no fucking lessons to give to anyone, especially to the french.