Guns are easy and inexpensive to produce. AK-47s are relatively straightforward to make, and for that reason they have spread throughout the world. They can be repaired easily, and parts can be made in a basic shop. But you do bring up an interesting point about American prices... why would they bother, when arms dealers elsewhere can get them primo ordinance for less? Guns flow into Mexico from all over, and if you thing the presence of a few guns of American origin is proof that the whole drug trade is armed with nothing but American guns, you're sadly mistaken. That propaganda has been promoted by a) the Mexican government, for reasons of gaining immigration concessions from the US, b) anti-gun rights Americans, who will stop at nothing to ban law-abiding citizens here from exercising their rights, and c) those whose understanding of the issue comes from sound bites.
Right... so you're saying that I can use a Droid to create a hotspot without either a) paying a Verizon tax or b) rooting it to undo Verizon douchebaggery?
Sun had an earlier 486-based sbus card like this which would have been more contemporary to the HyperSPARC.
As far as OS for the SPARCplug, I don't know, but since they are running 32 bit cpus that would have been in SPARC 20 systems, my guess is that SunOS 4.xx stuff would likely run, and probably older versions of Solaris, up maybe through 2.5.1 and 2.6.
What "freedom" does a user have if the software he wants never exists in the first place, because the GPLed code prevents a company from investing time and money into the product that the user wants?
The user has the same freedoms he always has. They have the freedom to write their own software. Or pay to have it done. Or buy it from a closed source software house. Or stand on their heads and yodel, for all I or the GPL care.
GPL doesn't prevent companies from developing code. It prevents them from using other peoples' code if they are not willing to abide by certain conditions. Every piece of software these days, unless in the public domain, comes with some sort of restrictions attached. Don't like it? Fine! Use something else. The world is full of software code and tools that developers can use on their projects, whether subject to GPL restrictions or some other form.
So what? I'm already paying over $50/month to the cable company for a toll road to my house. I'm paying way more for the phone & data plans for various members of my family. Why should anyone have to pay more? More to the point, now that I have paid for that toll road, who the hell is Verizon or Google to say (beyond compliance with the law and normal traffic management) how that highway will be used?
Any executive weasel caught even contemplating this should be sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor cleaning bus station toilets with their tongue.
I'm sure there are plenty of those. Of course, I could show you a few bridges in my city that are very well-marked - marked with a sign, and also marked with the paint of a dozen trailers. Every now and then a new driver makes the paper on a slow news day.
your property is yours ONLY because there is a society that defends it
It could also be argued that society is there ONLY because of its ability to defend my rights. Society (and land ownership, or HOAs for that matter) are artificial constructs brought about to support the free exercise of natural rights.
Here in the northeast it isn't completely unusual for utilities to get to the end user through bizarre and circuitous routes. I used to appraise real estate, and every now and then I'd come across something like an underground easement for city sewer access for the house behind/next to the one I was appraising.
seems like the kind of thing only an idiot would do.
You seem to be under the assumption that no idiots are involved in planning and building these things.
To be fair, outside of planned developments, real world considerations often lead to piss-poor comprimises. For example, I don't have gas on my street, but I'm pretty sure the next street over has it. If I wanted it, the utility company would either have to dig up a bunch of pavement, or reach an agreement with my neighbor to run a line through his property, preferably near the edge.
Well, judging by truck drivers here in the states trying to drive under bridges, I wonder how many lawn croquet hoops are going to be taken down daily by miscalculating truck drivers.
There is at least one municipality in the US that bought busses nearly 2x the length of regular ones, with an accordion section in the middle, and ran them on regular roads. There must be some similar engineering feat at play here. Not speaking Mandarin or Cantonese, I'll have to take it on faith that they've addressed the issue.
If 90% of the office workers could telecommute and you removed them from the roads, wouldn't that alleviate much of the congestion in the first place? Assuming a mixed load of white and blue collar commuters, of course?
Relative difficulty is not the point. It is certainly possible to infringe on the GPL, although the particular example of students hacking code would more likely be embraced rather than opposed. But I'm saying that the same copyright laws that protect Linux under GPL protect software other licensing schemes as well, whether we favor them or not. If we want others to respect the GPL and other OSS licenses, we should be prepared to respect their restrictive licenses as well.
For the record, I mostly run Debian-based systems, occasionally Gentoo or Red Hat. I've been meaning to play with Mandrake lately, but haven't gotten around to it. I also have a couple Solaris boxes I haven't lit up in a while.
Actually, I take that back... that part was edited out. It was part of the original military investigation, however, and is referenced in the transcripts from that investigation.
The building was not known to have any civilians. Do you have any proof that your "unknown number" was greater than zero?
Fox News has failed to show the existence of any news/opinion separation.
The distinction is about as clear as it is on the other networks, actually.
Sherrod was fired (forced to resign, whatever) by an administration which should have resisted the temptation to cave in to bloggers and pundits, and instead should have waited until all the facts were known. I consider myself libertarian/conservative in most respects (however, environmentally, I'm centrist, leaning left; on various other issues such as gay marriage I'm probably left of Obama) and I had no problem clearly seeing that she was being railroaded by the right and cut loose by the left. I can't blame her for not wanting her old job back.
And that actually beings be back full circle to the original Wikileaks point. I said that their release of an edited (and heavily editorialized) video was a propaganda smear job. And I'm right. The difference is that everyone here is outraged about the smear on Sherrod, but they believe the smear on the helo crew as if it were gospel.
What do you make of the scene when they call off an attack because of known civilian presence in the area? The facts as shown on the 31 minute video disagree with your "tough guy" assumption.
If you ask me, the dumbass here is the guy who drove his family into an area where combat was obviously taking place. If I were that guy in the van, I probably would have risked my life to save the guys lying in the street, but no way in hell I would have done that with my kids in the van. No way in hell.
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Guns are easy and inexpensive to produce. AK-47s are relatively straightforward to make, and for that reason they have spread throughout the world. They can be repaired easily, and parts can be made in a basic shop. But you do bring up an interesting point about American prices ... why would they bother, when arms dealers elsewhere can get them primo ordinance for less? Guns flow into Mexico from all over, and if you thing the presence of a few guns of American origin is proof that the whole drug trade is armed with nothing but American guns, you're sadly mistaken. That propaganda has been promoted by a) the Mexican government, for reasons of gaining immigration concessions from the US, b) anti-gun rights Americans, who will stop at nothing to ban law-abiding citizens here from exercising their rights, and c) those whose understanding of the issue comes from sound bites.
But there was a tax, and there was a seal (stamp, actually). Of course, the whole idea was to stop cannabis, not raise revenue.
Right ... so you're saying that I can use a Droid to create a hotspot without either a) paying a Verizon tax or b) rooting it to undo Verizon douchebaggery?
Doesn't matter what the new features are. Verizon & friends will rip them out and replace them with pay-to-play versions.
By definition, any serious racist would obviously not remain a member of a party that is led by a black man.
I guess that leaves them out of the GOP too.
There have been 98 black members of congress. Since 1900, only 5 of them have been African-American.
What? Am I reading this right? Did you mean only 5 of them have been Republican?
Sun had an earlier 486-based sbus card like this which would have been more contemporary to the HyperSPARC.
As far as OS for the SPARCplug, I don't know, but since they are running 32 bit cpus that would have been in SPARC 20 systems, my guess is that SunOS 4.xx stuff would likely run, and probably older versions of Solaris, up maybe through 2.5.1 and 2.6.
Some creative folks have gotten 9 to run on a SPARC 20, sort of.
Interesting ... sort of the inverse of the SunPCI card.
The Chuck Norris of brain cells, as it were. I am in awe.
What "freedom" does a user have if the software he wants never exists in the first place, because the GPLed code prevents a company from investing time and money into the product that the user wants?
The user has the same freedoms he always has. They have the freedom to write their own software. Or pay to have it done. Or buy it from a closed source software house. Or stand on their heads and yodel, for all I or the GPL care.
GPL doesn't prevent companies from developing code. It prevents them from using other peoples' code if they are not willing to abide by certain conditions. Every piece of software these days, unless in the public domain, comes with some sort of restrictions attached. Don't like it? Fine! Use something else. The world is full of software code and tools that developers can use on their projects, whether subject to GPL restrictions or some other form.
So what? I'm already paying over $50/month to the cable company for a toll road to my house. I'm paying way more for the phone & data plans for various members of my family. Why should anyone have to pay more? More to the point, now that I have paid for that toll road, who the hell is Verizon or Google to say (beyond compliance with the law and normal traffic management) how that highway will be used?
Any executive weasel caught even contemplating this should be sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor cleaning bus station toilets with their tongue.
I'm sure there are plenty of those. Of course, I could show you a few bridges in my city that are very well-marked - marked with a sign, and also marked with the paint of a dozen trailers. Every now and then a new driver makes the paper on a slow news day.
There are NO natural rights
Yes there are, and the US is founded on the principle that they exist. Read Thomas Paine.
your property is yours ONLY because there is a society that defends it
It could also be argued that society is there ONLY because of its ability to defend my rights. Society (and land ownership, or HOAs for that matter) are artificial constructs brought about to support the free exercise of natural rights.
seems like the kind of thing only an idiot would do.
You seem to be under the assumption that no idiots are involved in planning and building these things.
To be fair, outside of planned developments, real world considerations often lead to piss-poor comprimises. For example, I don't have gas on my street, but I'm pretty sure the next street over has it. If I wanted it, the utility company would either have to dig up a bunch of pavement, or reach an agreement with my neighbor to run a line through his property, preferably near the edge.
Well, judging by truck drivers here in the states trying to drive under bridges, I wonder how many lawn croquet hoops are going to be taken down daily by miscalculating truck drivers.
There is at least one municipality in the US that bought busses nearly 2x the length of regular ones, with an accordion section in the middle, and ran them on regular roads. There must be some similar engineering feat at play here. Not speaking Mandarin or Cantonese, I'll have to take it on faith that they've addressed the issue.
If 90% of the office workers could telecommute and you removed them from the roads, wouldn't that alleviate much of the congestion in the first place? Assuming a mixed load of white and blue collar commuters, of course?
And if I came off trollish, I didn't mean too. Sorry there.
No worries, no harm done.
I'll bet it's more expensive than just shipping a $.05 DVD, and the manufacturers won't even do that.
Relative difficulty is not the point. It is certainly possible to infringe on the GPL, although the particular example of students hacking code would more likely be embraced rather than opposed. But I'm saying that the same copyright laws that protect Linux under GPL protect software other licensing schemes as well, whether we favor them or not. If we want others to respect the GPL and other OSS licenses, we should be prepared to respect their restrictive licenses as well.
You're joking, right?
For the record, I mostly run Debian-based systems, occasionally Gentoo or Red Hat. I've been meaning to play with Mandrake lately, but haven't gotten around to it. I also have a couple Solaris boxes I haven't lit up in a while.
Actually, I take that back ... that part was edited out. It was part of the original military investigation, however, and is referenced in the transcripts from that investigation.
The building was not known to have any civilians. Do you have any proof that your "unknown number" was greater than zero?
Fox News has failed to show the existence of any news/opinion separation.
The distinction is about as clear as it is on the other networks, actually.
Sherrod was fired (forced to resign, whatever) by an administration which should have resisted the temptation to cave in to bloggers and pundits, and instead should have waited until all the facts were known. I consider myself libertarian/conservative in most respects (however, environmentally, I'm centrist, leaning left; on various other issues such as gay marriage I'm probably left of Obama) and I had no problem clearly seeing that she was being railroaded by the right and cut loose by the left. I can't blame her for not wanting her old job back.
And that actually beings be back full circle to the original Wikileaks point. I said that their release of an edited (and heavily editorialized) video was a propaganda smear job. And I'm right. The difference is that everyone here is outraged about the smear on Sherrod, but they believe the smear on the helo crew as if it were gospel.
What do you make of the scene when they call off an attack because of known civilian presence in the area? The facts as shown on the 31 minute video disagree with your "tough guy" assumption.
Sticks and stones and all that ...
If you ask me, the dumbass here is the guy who drove his family into an area where combat was obviously taking place. If I were that guy in the van, I probably would have risked my life to save the guys lying in the street, but no way in hell I would have done that with my kids in the van. No way in hell.