It might encourage Chinese citizens to break through the Great Firewall of China, which would result in some of them getting imprisoned, which might encourage a revolution.
Or we can keep helping the Chinese government provide circuses to the Chinese people while also reporting those who dare do something unapproved by the Chinese government to the government.
BTW has anyone ever seen any of John Nash's computer programs? They're supposed to be pretty elegant. I was able to get my hands on a couple, however it was all gibberish that just printed "she doesn't grow old" in hex over and over again.
Well given I can't RTFA this might be what happened, or it might be that the person took a small (but representative) sample of wars, built a model on those and then ran a much, much larger sample of wars (or even all wars they could get enough information on) and found it was accurate 80% of the time.
That would be amazing. But as I can't RTFA I don't know if it did that or not.
World Trade Center? Or perhaps you meant World Trade Organization?
Since when have we followed the WTO in rulings against us? Personally I'm a bit unsure what they're suppose to be good for.... After all, here we clearly are doing harm (invading other countries and putting them in worse condition then when we arrived) depending on foreign oil. Wouldn't it be better if we stopped doing that?
If the government was serious about finding minimizing our dependency on foreign oil then this man would be exempt as he does not use foreign oil. Let's get all non-foreign oil sources (including domestic sources, if at all feasible, I'm not sure if it is) exempt from these taxes, and raise the taxes elsewhere. That way more and more people will avoid foreign oil. Then once we've achieved 0 use of foreign oil, we can start slowly putting those taxes back on, while raising the foreign oil taxes even further and lower the taxes elsewhere (wherever it was increased to make up for the loss of tax from the exemption in the first place) so it will continue to remain profitable to use domestic sources. Then, if its still an issue which I think it will be, we can repeat the entire process with more environmentally friendly fuel methods.
Or we can keep invading countries and enrichen US companies that import foreign oil.
Fuck you, my habits are none of your damn business. It's not like people are sitting around blowing smoke in your face, so quit your bitching. If you don't want to hang around people while they're smoking, don't. As a smoker you have no idea how sensitive people can be to your smoking. Simply being near you after you've had a smoke can be unbearable. Now if that's too bad at a place of work, then I say we repeal sexual harrassment laws. If you don't like being sexually harrassed, you can go find another job.
I have no sympathy, especially for asthma sufferers under 25. Now chances are you're older in which case I have some sympathy for you (the older you are the more sympathy I have;)) as back then it wasn't as well known. But I have no sympathy for smokers under 25. They know what they were doing when they started, they can reap the consequences.
Ah yes, giving away FREE software and expecting people to use it for FREE. In turn for that FREE use, if someone finds a bug it's absolutely ludicrous to expect them to report it. Of course it is. There is no way I'd expect my mother to report a bug. However what isn't ridiculous is expecting someone who deliberately seeks out a bug, has the ability to reproduce it, and has blogged about it and also calls themselves a security analyst, to actually report the bug. Heck, only a link to his blog post would probably be helpful to Apple. That takes very little effort on his part, so its not unreasonable to expect it.
Funny I thought these were people who weren't acting as official policeman making themselves look like they were acting as official policeman to break into homes and places of work to seize their goods.
If these people are breaking the law, take them to court or call the police who will then act in an official capacity. Do not impersonate policeman acting in an official capacity, when the people are clearly not (hence the RIAA logos).
we are talking about employees of theirs going to JAIL under the same oppressive regime that is forcing them to hand over the info. Yahoo employees cannot go to jail for breaking Chinese law if they do not operate out of China. Its that simple. They choose to operate out of China, therefore they choose to do morally repugnant things.
Who are we to say that OUR moral code is more valid than the Chinese government's moral code? That sounds like a great way to let anything happen. Genocide in a small african nation? Not our problem, perhaps their moral code is different. Trampling of civil liberties in Europe? Well we'd like to help, but perhaps the moral code of those Europeans are different so we just can't risk it.
Or we could accept that some things are morally repugnant and do everything in our power to stop those we can.
Also, what happens to the people who are working for Yahoo!China? Do they lose their jobs just so Yahoo! can be morally upright? People always say how another search company will rise to replace Yahoo if it leaves, so these people aren't out of jobs, they'll just be hired by those we can't deter from operating in China.
after all the US has a death penalty and their companies may horror of horrors be forced to help the police in a murder case (where the suspect is likely to face the death penalty). Funny you should mention that as not all countries are willing to help us in murder cases. The example of Canada comes to mind.
NOT to have turned over this information would have been at least as 'morally reprehensible' as turning it over because individuals would suffer for it -and- they would be breaking the law. Bullshit. In no way is losing money is as morally reprehensible as being thrown in jail for trying to shed light on censorship. Nowhere near even close. And that's all that would happen to Yahoo, it would lose money because it wouldn't be able to operate under Chinese law and so therefore would have to pull out. However they chose to operate under Chinese law, and so therefore they should be held accountable for every morally reprehensible thing they do.
If other OSes can ship it then so can Microsoft. Correction: If other OS publishers who've been convicted of abusing their monopoly can do it, then so can Microsoft.
For convicted monopolists, there are different rules then for non-convicted monopolists and everyone else. This is partly because you can't throw a monopoly into jail, and partly to keep the market fair and free (if you want a totally free market then we have to get rid of copyright laws, therefore most companies don't want a completely free market and as such rules coming into the market must exist).
So no, just because others can do it doesn't mean Microsoft should be able to do it. Microsoft made the choice to break the law and abuse its monopoly, and it was caught. Now it should suffer the consequences, which is having to work under rules that no-one else the market is followed to force.
Unfortunately this won't happen as the Bush administration is pro-Big Business and pro-monopoly abuses. This is why under the Democrats Microsoft was convicted and under the Republicans they have not been punished. The swap of power was quite unfortunately timed for software developers.
This is the same company that made a deal with Apple to have Safari's web search box locked into Google so you can't change the default or even add secondary search providers (as if that doesn't harm competing search engines on the Mac platform), *sigh*
Its shit like this that really makes me want to leave Google. Does anyone know of any comparative services from companies that aren't as evil? I use: * Gmail (so I'd like a web-based interface that's as rich as this) * Google Personalized Homepage * Google Docs
I might not switch, but I'm certainly considering it as more and more of Google's shit comes to light.
Y'know what, I pirate. I don't pirate the MPAA's work or the RIAA's work, because both are sue happy so I avoid them. In related news I buy 0 songs a year and I buy very few DVDs, at most one or two a year, and I think the last time I bought a DVD was Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (although I might have got Shawshank Redemption or Dave for a christmas gift after it, I'm not sure the order they came in. But I'm fairly certain they're the last 3 DVDs I got).
Instead I pirate a fairly geeky medium, which I also have trouble buying in my local area, although I don't buy as much as I could. I buy 4 items a month from this medium (which I'm going to be increasing to 5) along with lots of it for christmas gifts and birthday gifts. Whenever I stop pirating the work, the amount I buy decreases to 0. Whenever I pirate it, the amount I buy increases again. I buy stuff from this medium because the publishers have said they won't sue piraters.
The overwhelming majority of people using bittorrent use it to trade in pirated content and everyone who questions that is missing a couple cogs in their brain.
I support ODF and support the government using it. The fact that some other companies might benefit from it is incidental. If OpenXML was truly open and Microsoft willingly gave control of it to a standards comittee and actually followed the standards developed for it, I might support OpenXML. As it is, the standards for OpenXML have been obfusticated in 6,000 pages of waffle and actually has parts of it that are simply not in those specifications.
where is the corresponding support for OpenXML in OpenOffice and Google's online Office suite? Since when have the complete specifications been made available for OpenXML?
Bills that would have required state agencies to use freely available document formats in Texas, Connecticut, Florida, and Oregon were shot down mainly due to the pro-Microsoft lobby Incorrect. They were shot down because of the FUD spread by both IBM and Microsoft.
From Computer World:
Wyne said, "this really is a battle among large commercial interests" -- a comment that was echoed by other people engaged in the political fighting.
The other problem, Mathers said, was the jargon-laden disinformation that committee members felt they were being fed by lobbyists for both IBM and Microsoft. Although lobbyists would tell the committee one thing in private, they got cold feet when asked to verify the information publicly under oath.
That undermined the credibility of each side, but it particularly damaged the position of ODF proponents. Perhaps this time round IBM will keep its mouth shut and the government will be able to see this isn't a battle for commercial gain, but a battle for information freedom and the rights of the people to view what its government has to say.
The whole racism rant is an assumed thing here in the ghetto. The whole list of possible solutions or fixes to racism has also been beaten to death, and requires no addressing. We don't need to name companies which use immoral tactics, we all know the names. We don't need to cry about all of the projects which have been destroyed. We all know it's commonplace and might as well get used to it.
No sir-ree, there is noting to see here, just the white cracker doing their jobs just as well as ever. Thankfully not everyone thought the above when it came to the systematic racist policies against niggers.
1) That will hurt hypchondriacs and make soap stars' lives even worse as bloggers become paparazzi. 2) As more jobs move online allowing people to no longer be in a physical workplace which allows the jobs to be offshored to India. 3) As you discovery what tentacle rape is along with NAMBLA. 4) As criminals from jail get internet access. 5) With jihadists who wished you were dead. 6) Who then turn out to be complete psychopaths revealing to you just how sick you truly are. 7) Allowing the terrorists to make new strains of anthrax. 8) That require your details to be entered over an unsecure medium which is then given to hackers.
The net is great, for the criminals. If idiots want to hide their head in the sand, sane people should counter.
The net isn't great, it isn't terrible. Its simply a tool that can be used for both good and evil. Unfortunately many use it for the latter while many others use it for the former, you must be careful to avoid the latter. Most clueless people simply aren't informed enough to efficiently avoid the latter.
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It might encourage Chinese citizens to break through the Great Firewall of China, which would result in some of them getting imprisoned, which might encourage a revolution.
Or we can keep helping the Chinese government provide circuses to the Chinese people while also reporting those who dare do something unapproved by the Chinese government to the government.
I know which option I'd rather take.
Shareholders are people. Some people put human rights above money. An amazing concept I know, but its true.
Well given I can't RTFA this might be what happened, or it might be that the person took a small (but representative) sample of wars, built a model on those and then ran a much, much larger sample of wars (or even all wars they could get enough information on) and found it was accurate 80% of the time.
That would be amazing. But as I can't RTFA I don't know if it did that or not.
World Trade Center? Or perhaps you meant World Trade Organization?
Since when have we followed the WTO in rulings against us? Personally I'm a bit unsure what they're suppose to be good for.... After all, here we clearly are doing harm (invading other countries and putting them in worse condition then when we arrived) depending on foreign oil. Wouldn't it be better if we stopped doing that?
If the government was serious about finding minimizing our dependency on foreign oil then this man would be exempt as he does not use foreign oil. Let's get all non-foreign oil sources (including domestic sources, if at all feasible, I'm not sure if it is) exempt from these taxes, and raise the taxes elsewhere. That way more and more people will avoid foreign oil. Then once we've achieved 0 use of foreign oil, we can start slowly putting those taxes back on, while raising the foreign oil taxes even further and lower the taxes elsewhere (wherever it was increased to make up for the loss of tax from the exemption in the first place) so it will continue to remain profitable to use domestic sources. Then, if its still an issue which I think it will be, we can repeat the entire process with more environmentally friendly fuel methods.
Or we can keep invading countries and enrichen US companies that import foreign oil.
I have no sympathy, especially for asthma sufferers under 25. Now chances are you're older in which case I have some sympathy for you (the older you are the more sympathy I have ;)) as back then it wasn't as well known. But I have no sympathy for smokers under 25. They know what they were doing when they started, they can reap the consequences.
As someone who has never used a Mac or Apple software, its pretty dicky of him not to report it.
Funny I thought these were people who weren't acting as official policeman making themselves look like they were acting as official policeman to break into homes and places of work to seize their goods.
If these people are breaking the law, take them to court or call the police who will then act in an official capacity. Do not impersonate policeman acting in an official capacity, when the people are clearly not (hence the RIAA logos).
Or we could accept that some things are morally repugnant and do everything in our power to stop those we can. Also, what happens to the people who are working for Yahoo!China? Do they lose their jobs just so Yahoo! can be morally upright? People always say how another search company will rise to replace Yahoo if it leaves, so these people aren't out of jobs, they'll just be hired by those we can't deter from operating in China.
You're not truly paying for higher quality, you're paying for a lack of DRM. The fact its higher quality is an attempt to hide this fact.
Its pretty telling and sad when the company responsible for root-kits has a higher regard among us then the DoJ.
For convicted monopolists, there are different rules then for non-convicted monopolists and everyone else. This is partly because you can't throw a monopoly into jail, and partly to keep the market fair and free (if you want a totally free market then we have to get rid of copyright laws, therefore most companies don't want a completely free market and as such rules coming into the market must exist).
So no, just because others can do it doesn't mean Microsoft should be able to do it. Microsoft made the choice to break the law and abuse its monopoly, and it was caught. Now it should suffer the consequences, which is having to work under rules that no-one else the market is followed to force.
Unfortunately this won't happen as the Bush administration is pro-Big Business and pro-monopoly abuses. This is why under the Democrats Microsoft was convicted and under the Republicans they have not been punished. The swap of power was quite unfortunately timed for software developers. This is the same company that made a deal with Apple to have Safari's web search box locked into Google so you can't change the default or even add secondary search providers (as if that doesn't harm competing search engines on the Mac platform), *sigh*
Its shit like this that really makes me want to leave Google. Does anyone know of any comparative services from companies that aren't as evil? I use:
* Gmail (so I'd like a web-based interface that's as rich as this)
* Google Personalized Homepage
* Google Docs
I might not switch, but I'm certainly considering it as more and more of Google's shit comes to light.
Y'know what, I pirate. I don't pirate the MPAA's work or the RIAA's work, because both are sue happy so I avoid them. In related news I buy 0 songs a year and I buy very few DVDs, at most one or two a year, and I think the last time I bought a DVD was Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (although I might have got Shawshank Redemption or Dave for a christmas gift after it, I'm not sure the order they came in. But I'm fairly certain they're the last 3 DVDs I got).
Instead I pirate a fairly geeky medium, which I also have trouble buying in my local area, although I don't buy as much as I could. I buy 4 items a month from this medium (which I'm going to be increasing to 5) along with lots of it for christmas gifts and birthday gifts. Whenever I stop pirating the work, the amount I buy decreases to 0. Whenever I pirate it, the amount I buy increases again. I buy stuff from this medium because the publishers have said they won't sue piraters.
So think about that MPAA, I doubt I'm alone.
The overwhelming majority of people using bittorrent use it to trade in pirated content and everyone who questions that is missing a couple cogs in their brain.
From Computer World: Wyne said, "this really is a battle among large commercial interests" -- a comment that was echoed by other people engaged in the political fighting. The other problem, Mathers said, was the jargon-laden disinformation that committee members felt they were being fed by lobbyists for both IBM and Microsoft. Although lobbyists would tell the committee one thing in private, they got cold feet when asked to verify the information publicly under oath.
That undermined the credibility of each side, but it particularly damaged the position of ODF proponents. Perhaps this time round IBM will keep its mouth shut and the government will be able to see this isn't a battle for commercial gain, but a battle for information freedom and the rights of the people to view what its government has to say.
Make innovative inventions and do not patent them. That's how you boycott the USPTO. At least until the "first to patent wins" system comes into play.
No sir-ree, there is noting to see here, just the white cracker doing their jobs just as well as ever. Thankfully not everyone thought the above when it came to the systematic racist policies against niggers.
Here's the full story on your examples....
1) That will hurt hypchondriacs and make soap stars' lives even worse as bloggers become paparazzi.
2) As more jobs move online allowing people to no longer be in a physical workplace which allows the jobs to be offshored to India.
3) As you discovery what tentacle rape is along with NAMBLA.
4) As criminals from jail get internet access.
5) With jihadists who wished you were dead.
6) Who then turn out to be complete psychopaths revealing to you just how sick you truly are.
7) Allowing the terrorists to make new strains of anthrax.
8) That require your details to be entered over an unsecure medium which is then given to hackers.
The net is great, for the criminals. If idiots want to hide their head in the sand, sane people should counter.
The net isn't great, it isn't terrible. Its simply a tool that can be used for both good and evil. Unfortunately many use it for the latter while many others use it for the former, you must be careful to avoid the latter. Most clueless people simply aren't informed enough to efficiently avoid the latter.