Ok, now explain to everyone else why the Lightsaber combat article is so worthy of inclusion on wikipedia. It's notable? Heck, more than half the article seems like an interpretation of the films by the author. The notability clause is so broad that it can be used to delete anything you don't like.
Better yet (and scary, because similar things have happened)...
In completely unrelated news, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero has been arrested as an enemy combatant who hates freedom as is currently on an airplane in transit to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he will be held indefinitely. Ironically, it is unlikely that this judge will ever see his own day in court.
President Bush has issued a signing statement declaring that this measure had nothing to do with Judge Marrero striking down part of the Patriot Act.
The Linux kernel is absolutely useless without the GNU userland (GCC, glibc, bash, ls, man, mc, etc, etc). I'm ok with people calling it whatever they like, be it Linux, GNU/Linux, BarbieOS or whatever, but I call it GNU/Linux (it's my choice) so I don't feel like a hypocrite bashing the GNU project while using all of it's tools on a day to day basis.
The argument that it should be called MIT/X11/Apache/GNU/etc/Linux then is pointless and very childish... the kernel itself is nothing without the GNU userland (and compiler, BTW). If you hate the GNU project that much, then you are more than welcome to port the BSD userland and create your own distribution.
So, how exactly does a patent collection defend against patent trolls?
If you are sued on patent violation claims, and you don't have your own patent collection, you are screwed. If you have a fat collection then you counter-sue, because the other party most likely is violating one of your patents; in the end you'll most likely end up cross licensing each other patents and move on.
I know, is stupid as hell, but it's the way it works right now. Thank the US of A for the idiocy of the patent system.
Of course, if the patent troll is nothing more than a bunch of lawyers with a stupid patent, then no patent portfolio will be big enough to countersue, since the troll is just that: a creativeless entity (with no business model besides suit filing) whose only purpose is to stiff innovation (think Eolas).
The system is so stupid and anti-innovative it stopped being funny long ago.
Yes, you are right. Tell that to the 80% without any money.
How naive can you get? It's a huge injustice. How can you say that while kids keep dying for not having something to eat??? It's amazing how we have the technology for almost anything and children keep dying of hunger.
It's a sad state of affairs. And don't come with that crap that it's the way things are, or that's the way economy works, or any other bullshit. The fact that 2% of the people owns half the world's wealth is not only mind boggling... to read to such news and read such idiotic comments sickens me.
And they keep asking themselves why Chavez keeps winning...
That's because you are linking to a *computer generated 3D image*. Try reading before posting. They generated that image from the data gathered by the Mars Express. It's not a photo, it's a computer renderization using as input the 3D data.
The guy is 30. He's not a teenager. It's his account. He wanted it cancelled and the rep guy just insisted. Look at the NBC interview posted in the comments.
Whoa... so are you saying that people should not ask forn an ID when somebody buys beer? Or when somebody buys a gun? Or when somebody wants to purchase an XXX movie? Or when somebody wants to buy cigarrettes? Because all of those are retailers and should be responsible to whom they sell stuff.
Asking for an ID is not parenting, is doung the least you can to help. If you do not wish to do parenting, then stop selling video games to minors althogether, and only sell them to parents.
have been alienated by the cultural elitist French society
Yeah, right. Because if you don't speak the native language, hate the natives (and all Europe) and alienate yourself in small groups of people like you, it's the fault of the other people if you can't get a nice job.
Most of this people choose (for religiuos, ethnical, cultural and whatnot beliefs) not to integrate and decided to create sub-societies. What are they doing in France, living from its welfare system, if they hate it so much?
Not only that, but they are claiming that a 1999 investigation proves wrong the one performed on 2002.
Also, later on they claim that 'SCO also pointed out its legal wrangling with IBM dealt with more recent versions of the Linux code than were mentioned in the memo'. Are they saying the more recent version was available on 1999, but not in 2002?
If you don't trust the computer, then use a card sized linux distribution to boot the computer. If you can't boot the computer, then wait until you find a secure terminal.
If you want to teach ID on the religion class, go for it, but IT'S NOT SCIENCE. Can you prove it? Can you disprove it? No!!!! It's Phillosophy disguised as science, so it belongs on the 'religion' and 'phillosophy' class.
Teach it along the Platon writings, not along Darwinian writings. That the problem: ID'ers want you to look at it as a science, as astrology or future-telling, but it's just religion.
I'm using 0.16.7.2 (Gentoo) with a few E17 things that really make a great desktop.
For the other posters, I use VMWare AND Eclipse at the same time, plus Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype and Gaim. The difference is huge in comparation when I used KDE.
Sadly, about a month ago I gave up on KDE and Gnome and went back to Enlightenment. I have over 1GB RAM, but those desktops are becoming a huge memory hog.
E just sits there (looking beautiful, BTW) and does just what I need. A few tweaks away and I have a great desktop.
My brother has a problem with his inmune system that went unnoticed by doctors for a long time. He has been in and out of clinics his whole life. At one point he developen an infection in one knee that wouldn't stop with anything, even as he was being treated on the best clinic in town (the same he went to all his life). The knee problem only got worse and worse, even after being for over a month in the clinic.
Thank God my parents are biologists, and took the task to themselves to do research over this issue. When they found the first clues to what it was all doctors dismissed them, even being my dad highly regarded in his area of research. It was not after a long time had gone by that they had prepared a whole scientific case and presented it so strongly that the doctors said 'well, lets check if this could be the case'. It turned out my parents were right and for over two months the doctors were treatring my brother the wrong way.
I don't know, and don't want to imagine what had happened if the doctors had kept the same treatment for a few more months, as the infection was growing and, at the time the treatment was changed, it had taken over the whole leg. One month later my brother was out of the clinic.
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Ok, now explain to everyone else why the Lightsaber combat article is so worthy of inclusion on wikipedia. It's notable? Heck, more than half the article seems like an interpretation of the films by the author. The notability clause is so broad that it can be used to delete anything you don't like.
Notability and non-trivia my ass:
Dominion War
Silver medalist of unknown events?
Comparison of Battlestar Galactica (1978) and (2003)
List of Pokemon
Obscure Final Fantasy characters
Obscure Stars Wars characters
No trivia in wikipedia?
Obscure handballer
Obscure soccer player
The list goes on.
And that's the way you do it
Better yet (and scary, because similar things have happened) ...
In completely unrelated news, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero has been arrested as an enemy combatant who hates freedom as is currently on an airplane in transit to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he will be held indefinitely. Ironically, it is unlikely that this judge will ever see his own day in court.
President Bush has issued a signing statement declaring that this measure had nothing to do with Judge Marrero striking down part of the Patriot Act.
It's not as simple as that.
... the kernel itself is nothing without the GNU userland (and compiler, BTW). If you hate the GNU project that much, then you are more than welcome to port the BSD userland and create your own distribution.
The Linux kernel is absolutely useless without the GNU userland (GCC, glibc, bash, ls, man, mc, etc, etc). I'm ok with people calling it whatever they like, be it Linux, GNU/Linux, BarbieOS or whatever, but I call it GNU/Linux (it's my choice) so I don't feel like a hypocrite bashing the GNU project while using all of it's tools on a day to day basis.
The argument that it should be called MIT/X11/Apache/GNU/etc/Linux then is pointless and very childish
If you are sued on patent violation claims, and you don't have your own patent collection, you are screwed. If you have a fat collection then you counter-sue, because the other party most likely is violating one of your patents; in the end you'll most likely end up cross licensing each other patents and move on.
I know, is stupid as hell, but it's the way it works right now. Thank the US of A for the idiocy of the patent system.
Of course, if the patent troll is nothing more than a bunch of lawyers with a stupid patent, then no patent portfolio will be big enough to countersue, since the troll is just that: a creativeless entity (with no business model besides suit filing) whose only purpose is to stiff innovation (think Eolas).
The system is so stupid and anti-innovative it stopped being funny long ago.
Just as killing horde in WoW is a crime ... killing is worse than rape, no?
The engine (NeL) is already GPL.
Yes, you are right. Tell that to the 80% without any money.
How naive can you get? It's a huge injustice. How can you say that while kids keep dying for not having something to eat??? It's amazing how we have the technology for almost anything and children keep dying of hunger.
It's a sad state of affairs. And don't come with that crap that it's the way things are, or that's the way economy works, or any other bullshit. The fact that 2% of the people owns half the world's wealth is not only mind boggling
And they keep asking themselves why Chavez keeps winning
Three words: Jaguar and 5200
(well, that's actually two words and 4 digits, but what the hell)
That's because you are linking to a *computer generated 3D image*. Try reading before posting. They generated that image from the data gathered by the Mars Express. It's not a photo, it's a computer renderization using as input the 3D data.
The guy is 30. He's not a teenager. It's his account. He wanted it cancelled and the rep guy just insisted. Look at the NBC interview posted in the comments.
You mispelled you
Whoa ... so are you saying that people should not ask forn an ID when somebody buys beer? Or when somebody buys a gun? Or when somebody wants to purchase an XXX movie? Or when somebody wants to buy cigarrettes? Because all of those are retailers and should be responsible to whom they sell stuff.
Asking for an ID is not parenting, is doung the least you can to help. If you do not wish to do parenting, then stop selling video games to minors althogether, and only sell them to parents.
You sir are full of it.
have been alienated by the cultural elitist French society
Yeah, right. Because if you don't speak the native language, hate the natives (and all Europe) and alienate yourself in small groups of people like you, it's the fault of the other people if you can't get a nice job.
Most of this people choose (for religiuos, ethnical, cultural and whatnot beliefs) not to integrate and decided to create sub-societies. What are they doing in France, living from its welfare system, if they hate it so much?
You are right, he should have posted this in his blog
Not only that, but they are claiming that a 1999 investigation proves wrong the one performed on 2002.
Also, later on they claim that 'SCO also pointed out its legal wrangling with IBM dealt with more recent versions of the Linux code than were mentioned in the memo'. Are they saying the more recent version was available on 1999, but not in 2002?
It's much like how journalism is an objective view of events
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(Score:+5, Funny) or (Score:+5, Sad), I don't know which one is it
He said a well known serect, which is a perfectly valid pertrefection to the well known affirmatization.
Get a first post?
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If you don't trust the computer, then use a card sized linux distribution to boot the computer. If you can't boot the computer, then wait until you find a secure terminal.
If you want to teach ID on the religion class, go for it, but IT'S NOT SCIENCE. Can you prove it? Can you disprove it? No!!!! It's Phillosophy disguised as science, so it belongs on the 'religion' and 'phillosophy' class.
Teach it along the Platon writings, not along Darwinian writings. That the problem: ID'ers want you to look at it as a science, as astrology or future-telling, but it's just religion.
Hey, where do you leave k???
I'm using 0.16.7.2 (Gentoo) with a few E17 things that really make a great desktop.
For the other posters, I use VMWare AND Eclipse at the same time, plus Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype and Gaim. The difference is huge in comparation when I used KDE.
Sadly, about a month ago I gave up on KDE and Gnome and went back to Enlightenment. I have over 1GB RAM, but those desktops are becoming a huge memory hog.
E just sits there (looking beautiful, BTW) and does just what I need. A few tweaks away and I have a great desktop.
You could not be more insightful.
My brother has a problem with his inmune system that went unnoticed by doctors for a long time. He has been in and out of clinics his whole life. At one point he developen an infection in one knee that wouldn't stop with anything, even as he was being treated on the best clinic in town (the same he went to all his life). The knee problem only got worse and worse, even after being for over a month in the clinic.
Thank God my parents are biologists, and took the task to themselves to do research over this issue. When they found the first clues to what it was all doctors dismissed them, even being my dad highly regarded in his area of research. It was not after a long time had gone by that they had prepared a whole scientific case and presented it so strongly that the doctors said 'well, lets check if this could be the case'. It turned out my parents were right and for over two months the doctors were treatring my brother the wrong way.
I don't know, and don't want to imagine what had happened if the doctors had kept the same treatment for a few more months, as the infection was growing and, at the time the treatment was changed, it had taken over the whole leg. One month later my brother was out of the clinic.