Just remember there are 192 countries represented in the UN. "Free" countries (G20, G30) would never win these open votes because they are not close to a majority of governments.
Still, a spaceport needs lots of empty, human free area around it. That goes nicely with the interests of creating a wildlife preserve. A rocket launch isnt teribly more noisy or violent than a nasty thunderstorm. No, it's not ideal for the critters, but it's also good use of space when we have it.
Technically if you are doing THAT much formatting you should be using Pagemaker or LaTex. That is what journals and print houses use... MS Word is just a fancier toy compared to those.
The Supreme Court can certainly say that a PRIVATE contract cannot overrule a Constitutional RIGHT. The US Constitution clearly says a person has a RIGHT to a trial in court over their matter, hence the creation of small claims court.
The court would not have been "creating" any law.
On a side note, the Supreme Court can only REACT to CASES files by the EXECUTIVE branch. Congress can make unconstitutional laws all day, but if they are not ENFORCED SCOUS cannot TOUCH them! A LOT of things are going on the court can't deal with because DAs drop or plead cases they know the court will overturn. So WHEN they get a chance to rule, they tend to make BIG changes.. Which is why their decisions are so important.
My own experience is that you can set your tools to "XHTML strict" and build a nice looking page that will work on Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox (and depreciate nicely on mobile versions, etc) it won't be "perfect" across all of them, but it won't have glaring render errors either. You can do this with NO BROWSER SPECIFIC HACKS.
Then you add IE and stuff breaks all over the place. Some versions of IE will work more than others, but the point is why invest in adding code JUST to make something work on IE that will work "good enough" everywhere else?
The build quality of business laptops from Dell and HP is pretty good. Also, a few years out they are super easy to find eBay replacement parts for... Because so many are sold en masse to companies and get parted out.
Of course by the time you soend for the Enterprise level laptop and customizing it online, you're in spitting distance ($200) of an OFF THE SHELF Mac you can get at the Apple Store.
The Apple Store experience is FUN for buying a laptop. They can do setup right there...even copy files if you take your old laptop. So you WALK OUT of the store with your email and such setup, ready to go. They HELP YOU do it.. Not pass it off to somebody in the Nerd Herd.
COBOL is still around because the systems that use it only get rebooted every 10 years or so. People don't realize how much business and legal knowledge is locked up in these programs. In many cases it's more efficient to "screen scrape" than even attempt to get 15 years of collected business intelligence and regulation compliance exactly correct... And all that stuff is MOVING pieces that have to be adjusted every year because laws change.
This is why company ERP conversions fail so spectacularly. Many company systems have a great deal of "tribal" knowledge from long-retired employees hard-coded by long-retired programmers.
What's that comment? "don't get caught with a DEAD girl or a LIVE boy..."
A married businessman that bangs his way through hookers on sales trips gets hi-fives. Single guy hooks up with another man out of town and risks his job. The only enforce "sodomy" laws when a BOY is on the dick, not a girl and the laws were written that way on purpose.
When they codified punishing "gay" into law they opens this up. Now gays want PROTECTION codified into the law... The State ALREADY got involved... There's no going BACK to "in the closet".
The judge let the Jury ruling stand so the DA got to win, but didn't get his sacrifice. The defense will be fuming for years because they LOST, and list hard. This kid will do his 30 days, and it's not worth to appeal. So the DA's case and the JURY decision STANDS on the books for now. That's a giant club they are going to have to fight again.
Of course if you were a freshman and your 18 year-old roommate brought home a 17 year-old freshman you won't find that very funny either!
Seriously, sounds like the judge let the verdicts stand, but realized it was throwing a pretty heavy book at the kid. This also LEAVES the precedent on the books that a JURY convicted on all the counts. Nobody is going to tie this up in appeals for years over 30 days jail. That makes this a REALLY BIG STICK for the DA to use later!
I would seriously start watching what you post as "revenge pranks" from now on.
I can safely say in at least 2-3 years I have acquired any pirate software. I don't have anything I'll-acquired on my in-use systems... Bout there might be something on old HDD somewhere.
I used "pirate" opposed to "licensed" because they take their definition a set FURTHER than LEGAL definition of "infringement". Use stock Ubuntu... You're a pirate because of patents and such like you didn't PAY for it.
along the same line, my workplace actively locks down PCs from users acquiring software not licensed and verified by them. Of course, the BSA based its definition on CONTRACT terms.. Which are often outright illegal... Oops, your check was a day late.. We should have claimed $50k for each PC in your business.. That's how they get the crazy numbers.
You can call "liar, liar" of course the BSA itself has been sued in court for not properly licensing the software THEY use. They can cry, but THEY can't follow all the rules they claim to be enforcing.
Of course the REASON for my new found legality is the Apple App Store for Mac and iOS. I've spent more money on software there 2 years than in the 5 years previous to that. It's beautiful. Restoring shared purchases to a fresh install of Mac OSX is a breeze. Apple figured out how to make it fun to buy stuff. Not to mention waiting for the little update badge each day for new things.
More importantly try to start Facebook in a country where the King's advisors can lock you in jail for bad mouthing him. I'm sure now that one of Facebook's owners is there they will get right on implementing those "bad speech" reports for the King's media police.
Except that all those resources are basically paid shills. Nobudy but the plebs pay full price. Art departments get the product for reduced price, as do book writers, teachers, and even students. Then you get in the real world and find out you have to purchase $5k in full-price software every year to stay in that pool of "cheap and easily hirable" workers.
So basically, the workers are the indentured "product" that Adobe sells to companies? The workers are also the chief business revenue model because they pay full price.
Why is an entire workflow held up like this? Why was it EVER acceptable in the first place?
No company would buy a loading dock that only fit "Fords". Hence, I can choose any brand of truck based on the size of work to do. Roads are a standard size so I don't have to worry about "GM" only toll bridges either. The auto market is so fiercely competive that a few years after GM tried to "roll their own" engine coolant the third party makers created a product that works with all brands of engines again.
People are more than able to caught $20 for the music THEY want to here. The problem with Jukeboxes is that they play all of one customers songs in the order paid for. Some kid dumps $10 for the same song 20 times there's nothing to do about it. There are a lot of other ways to deal with the situation that could be built into the player.. Randomize tracks, only accept 3 songs at a time, only let so many repeats in an hour, etc....
This is a classic Tragedy of the Commons situation. The music affects everybody at the location, but the play rights are sold to one jukebox provider. Once they got the rights, they have no further interest in making user the experience is good for everybody. Free Capitalism baby! If somebody wants to harass the other customers with $20 of MCHammer it's not the jukebox providers problem.. They got their $20! If you didn't like the selection put your own $20 in first. You had the same chance as anybody else... Why did you "share"? It's exactly like the Ferengi Rules of Accusition.
The TSA's OWN scanners don't meet the FDA and FCC standards for safety to scan HUMANS. So do many other things at Airports because Airplanes, radar installations, etc are all special cases with gobs of rules. That's why patients are warned.
Medical devices are exempt expectation of "blocking" interference because the sensitivity required to interact with the human body are fractions of what an average electronic device outputs.
Except the failure is that the passenger EXPECTED them to go,look in a book or call a supervisor about a technical, medical, and life it death matter. The issue is that THIS PERSON did EVERYTHING RIGHT. They informed the screamer, they showed the screener, the brought proper identification from a doctor for the device including a medical recommendation not to subject the device to scanning.
A medical device like this is critical. Does a TSA minimum wage lackey have the expertise to decide a doctor's recommendation. They fried a $10,000 device because the agency clearly does NOT provide the proper training for situations that WILL happen, or a hotline to a supervisor that IS MEDICALLY QUALIFIED to make that decision. From previous discussions here, the TSA management would not consider themselves liable if this agents malpractice had caused this girl to die. According to them it is an acceptable unforeseen loss.
In a way this was of course a set-up... The girl going through the scanner KNEW THEY WERE INEPT but chose to properly follow their instructions. That's a real trooper!
Apple does, IBM does, Oracle did (before they bought Sun), Microsoft did (before Sun took it away), HP had one through their web portal products... Pretty much anybody selling hardware with Enterprise Java had their own Java compiler and JVM license at one point.
On the mobile front, anybody using JavaME had a license too... Pre-iPhone that was almost everybody.
The problem was that JAVA was too big, and JavaME was too small. Sun wasn't willing to do a major overhaul, or let Google pay them money and "bend" the rules a bit. Google was gift wrapping Android, but Sun was too stuck on themselves to shut up and take their money!
IBM has a license and a CERTIFIED copy of Java. They got nothing to fear here.
Google wanted a "Java" license, but they didn't want to follow any of the packages including certifications Sun was offering. Agree or not with the tech, it was Sun's ball and Google got 3/4 of they way through the project before they just stopped negotiating. Google even touted their "Java" compatibility to get developers onboard Android before their version was fully baked.
Google , like so many other startups, was sloppy and bully and not careful enough. When Sun went on the Block they should have bought it, but they didn't.
If this was any Open Source project that tried this, you'd get the DMCA hammer early on and update your project... It happens in similar cases all the time.. This is just a case of it catching up with one of the big guys.
But AT THE TIME Google started the project, Java was not an "ISO" language. I do RPG programming on AS400 and just about every manual is labeled by IBM that it is tied to the software license, can't be reverse engineered, blah, blah.
The issue is that Google set out with j The Java API manual and recreated them ALL with the same names and function calls, etc... That's pushing it even for open source projects.
Even MONO doesn't go THAT far in that they only implement the released ISO specs EXACTLY as written... The.Net APIs had to be rebuilt with different names.
Google even copied to the point the Binary programs in Java would work.. Google COULD have backed off. Google could have kept the language, but not the binary. Google could have redone the work in Python or something... But they were too far along and Sun didn't want to play ball versus Sun's crippled JAVAME. Google took a risk and they lost.
Effectively the sanctions only destroy the budding MIDDLE CLASS. That is the part of society that "keeps" the peace in civilization because they NEED law and order to work. The poor dont care about freedom... In most cultures the poor have "freedom" to live in their ghettos and fight over tablescraps. The Rich just put up taller fences and throw some bread and circus every once and a while.
Groups like Programmers are where REAL FREEDOM is appreciated. They need freedo
Of speech to produce stories, they need freedom of association and travel to build teams, they need monetary freedom to build their business.
The big world corporations, Monasto, Exxon, GE, etc will all get THEIR multi-billions in business with Syria no matter who is in charge. Even under sanctions. The rich upper classes aren't being denied any fathomable luxury item... They just buy whatever they want at the Duty-Free store when leaving the UN.
This has been a key in the other BRIC countries. When the Middle Class gets to a critical mass they BUY things from their own country rather than merely work in the factories. Economic sanctions prevent all the independant ideals from happening.. It plays right into the Dictators hand for total power. Why would a dictator ever WANT his people to freely mingle with other countries???
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Just remember there are 192 countries represented in the UN. "Free" countries (G20, G30) would never win these open votes because they are not close to a majority of governments.
Just promise to drill for oil there! Then any spills can be blamed on oil and to question oil gets you kicked out of Texas.
Still, a spaceport needs lots of empty, human free area around it. That goes nicely with the interests of creating a wildlife preserve. A rocket launch isnt teribly more noisy or violent than a nasty thunderstorm. No, it's not ideal for the critters, but it's also good use of space when we have it.
Pegged to Facebook, Zynga, XBox Live, Wiipoints... And Smurfberries!
Technically if you are doing THAT much formatting you should be using Pagemaker or LaTex. That is what journals and print houses use... MS Word is just a fancier toy compared to those.
The Supreme Court can certainly say that a PRIVATE contract cannot overrule a Constitutional RIGHT. The US Constitution clearly says a person has a RIGHT to a trial in court over their matter, hence the creation of small claims court.
The court would not have been "creating" any law.
On a side note, the Supreme Court can only REACT to CASES files by the EXECUTIVE branch. Congress can make unconstitutional laws all day, but if they are not ENFORCED SCOUS cannot TOUCH them! A LOT of things are going on the court can't deal with because DAs drop or plead cases they know the court will overturn. So WHEN they get a chance to rule, they tend to make BIG changes.. Which is why their decisions are so important.
My own experience is that you can set your tools to "XHTML strict" and build a nice looking page that will work on Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox (and depreciate nicely on mobile versions, etc) it won't be "perfect" across all of them, but it won't have glaring render errors either. You can do this with NO BROWSER SPECIFIC HACKS.
Then you add IE and stuff breaks all over the place. Some versions of IE will work more than others, but the point is why invest in adding code JUST to make something work on IE that will work "good enough" everywhere else?
If you can do your own support.
The build quality of business laptops from Dell and HP is pretty good. Also, a few years out they are super easy to find eBay replacement parts for... Because so many are sold en masse to companies and get parted out.
Of course by the time you soend for the Enterprise level laptop and customizing it online, you're in spitting distance ($200) of an OFF THE SHELF Mac you can get at the Apple Store.
The Apple Store experience is FUN for buying a laptop. They can do setup right there...even copy files if you take your old laptop. So you WALK OUT of the store with your email and such setup, ready to go. They HELP YOU do it.. Not pass it off to somebody in the Nerd Herd.
COBOL is still around because the systems that use it only get rebooted every 10 years or so. People don't realize how much business and legal knowledge is locked up in these programs. In many cases it's more efficient to "screen scrape" than even attempt to get 15 years of collected business intelligence and regulation compliance exactly correct... And all that stuff is MOVING pieces that have to be adjusted every year because laws change.
This is why company ERP conversions fail so spectacularly. Many company systems have a great deal of "tribal" knowledge from long-retired employees hard-coded by long-retired programmers.
What's that comment? "don't get caught with a DEAD girl or a LIVE boy..."
A married businessman that bangs his way through hookers on sales trips gets hi-fives. Single guy hooks up with another man out of town and risks his job. The only enforce "sodomy" laws when a BOY is on the dick, not a girl and the laws were written that way on purpose.
When they codified punishing "gay" into law they opens this up. Now gays want PROTECTION codified into the law... The State ALREADY got involved... There's no going BACK to "in the closet".
The judge let the Jury ruling stand so the DA got to win, but didn't get his sacrifice. The defense will be fuming for years because they LOST, and list hard. This kid will do his 30 days, and it's not worth to appeal. So the DA's case and the JURY decision STANDS on the books for now. That's a giant club they are going to have to fight again.
Of course if you were a freshman and your 18 year-old roommate brought home a 17 year-old freshman you won't find that very funny either!
Seriously, sounds like the judge let the verdicts stand, but realized it was throwing a pretty heavy book at the kid. This also LEAVES the precedent on the books that a JURY convicted on all the counts. Nobody is going to tie this up in appeals for years over 30 days jail. That makes this a REALLY BIG STICK for the DA to use later!
I would seriously start watching what you post as "revenge pranks" from now on.
I'd love to see the questions they use.
I can safely say in at least 2-3 years I have acquired any pirate software. I don't have anything I'll-acquired on my in-use systems... Bout there might be something on old HDD somewhere.
I used "pirate" opposed to "licensed" because they take their definition a set FURTHER than LEGAL definition of "infringement". Use stock Ubuntu... You're a pirate because of patents and such like you didn't PAY for it.
along the same line, my workplace actively locks down PCs from users acquiring software not licensed and verified by them. Of course, the BSA based its definition on CONTRACT terms.. Which are often outright illegal... Oops, your check was a day late.. We should have claimed $50k for each PC in your business.. That's how they get the crazy numbers.
You can call "liar, liar" of course the BSA itself has been sued in court for not properly licensing the software THEY use. They can cry, but THEY can't follow all the rules they claim to be enforcing.
Of course the REASON for my new found legality is the Apple App Store for Mac and iOS. I've spent more money on software there 2 years than in the 5 years previous to that. It's beautiful. Restoring shared purchases to a fresh install of Mac OSX is a breeze. Apple figured out how to make it fun to buy stuff. Not to mention waiting for the little update badge each day for new things.
More importantly try to start Facebook in a country where the King's advisors can lock you in jail for bad mouthing him. I'm sure now that one of Facebook's owners is there they will get right on implementing those "bad speech" reports for the King's media police.
Except that all those resources are basically paid shills. Nobudy but the plebs pay full price. Art departments get the product for reduced price, as do book writers, teachers, and even students. Then you get in the real world and find out you have to purchase $5k in full-price software every year to stay in that pool of "cheap and easily hirable" workers.
So basically, the workers are the indentured "product" that Adobe sells to companies? The workers are also the chief business revenue model because they pay full price.
WHY?
Why is an entire workflow held up like this? Why was it EVER acceptable in the first place?
No company would buy a loading dock that only fit "Fords". Hence, I can choose any brand of truck based on the size of work to do. Roads are a standard size so I don't have to worry about "GM" only toll bridges either. The auto market is so fiercely competive that a few years after GM tried to "roll their own" engine coolant the third party makers created a product that works with all brands of engines again.
Well of course Adobe likes it. It forces people to download the latest version with ever shifting rules and privacy settings.
People are more than able to caught $20 for the music THEY want to here. The problem with Jukeboxes is that they play all of one customers songs in the order paid for. Some kid dumps $10 for the same song 20 times there's nothing to do about it. There are a lot of other ways to deal with the situation that could be built into the player.. Randomize tracks, only accept 3 songs at a time, only let so many repeats in an hour, etc....
This is a classic Tragedy of the Commons situation. The music affects everybody at the location, but the play rights are sold to one jukebox provider. Once they got the rights, they have no further interest in making user the experience is good for everybody. Free Capitalism baby! If somebody wants to harass the other customers with $20 of MCHammer it's not the jukebox providers problem.. They got their $20! If you didn't like the selection put your own $20 in first. You had the same chance as anybody else... Why did you "share"? It's exactly like the Ferengi Rules of Accusition.
The TSA's OWN scanners don't meet the FDA and FCC standards for safety to scan HUMANS. So do many other things at Airports because Airplanes, radar installations, etc are all special cases with gobs of rules. That's why patients are warned.
Medical devices are exempt expectation of "blocking" interference because the sensitivity required to interact with the human body are fractions of what an average electronic device outputs.
Except the failure is that the passenger EXPECTED them to go,look in a book or call a supervisor about a technical, medical, and life it death matter. The issue is that THIS PERSON did EVERYTHING RIGHT. They informed the screamer, they showed the screener, the brought proper identification from a doctor for the device including a medical recommendation not to subject the device to scanning.
A medical device like this is critical. Does a TSA minimum wage lackey have the expertise to decide a doctor's recommendation. They fried a $10,000 device because the agency clearly does NOT provide the proper training for situations that WILL happen, or a hotline to a supervisor that IS MEDICALLY QUALIFIED to make that decision. From previous discussions here, the TSA management would not consider themselves liable if this agents malpractice had caused this girl to die. According to them it is an acceptable unforeseen loss.
In a way this was of course a set-up... The girl going through the scanner KNEW THEY WERE INEPT but chose to properly follow their instructions. That's a real trooper!
You give Ellison's ego WAY too much credit. There's no way Oracle would SHARE CREDIT for something like this. It's not in their nature.
Apple does, IBM does, Oracle did (before they bought Sun), Microsoft did (before Sun took it away), HP had one through their web portal products... Pretty much anybody selling hardware with Enterprise Java had their own Java compiler and JVM license at one point.
On the mobile front, anybody using JavaME had a license too... Pre-iPhone that was almost everybody.
The problem was that JAVA was too big, and JavaME was too small. Sun wasn't willing to do a major overhaul, or let Google pay them money and "bend" the rules a bit. Google was gift wrapping Android, but Sun was too stuck on themselves to shut up and take their money!
IBM has a license and a CERTIFIED copy of Java. They got nothing to fear here.
Google wanted a "Java" license, but they didn't want to follow any of the packages including certifications Sun was offering. Agree or not with the tech, it was Sun's ball and Google got 3/4 of they way through the project before they just stopped negotiating. Google even touted their "Java" compatibility to get developers onboard Android before their version was fully baked.
Google , like so many other startups, was sloppy and bully and not careful enough. When Sun went on the Block they should have bought it, but they didn't.
If this was any Open Source project that tried this, you'd get the DMCA hammer early on and update your project... It happens in similar cases all the time.. This is just a case of it catching up with one of the big guys.
But AT THE TIME Google started the project, Java was not an "ISO" language. I do RPG programming on AS400 and just about every manual is labeled by IBM that it is tied to the software license, can't be reverse engineered, blah, blah.
The issue is that Google set out with j
The Java API manual and recreated them ALL with the same names and function calls, etc... That's pushing it even for open source projects.
Even MONO doesn't go THAT far in that they only implement the released ISO specs EXACTLY as written... The .Net APIs had to be rebuilt with different names.
Google even copied to the point the Binary programs in Java would work.. Google COULD have backed off. Google could have kept the language, but not the binary. Google could have redone the work in Python or something... But they were too far along and Sun didn't want to play ball versus Sun's crippled JAVAME. Google took a risk and they lost.
But it IS important!
Effectively the sanctions only destroy the budding MIDDLE CLASS. That is the part of society that "keeps" the peace in civilization because they NEED law and order to work. The poor dont care about freedom... In most cultures the poor have "freedom" to live in their ghettos and fight over tablescraps. The Rich just put up taller fences and throw some bread and circus every once and a while.
Groups like Programmers are where REAL FREEDOM is appreciated. They need freedo
Of speech to produce stories, they need freedom of association and travel to build teams, they need monetary freedom to build their business.
The big world corporations, Monasto, Exxon, GE, etc will all get THEIR multi-billions in business with Syria no matter who is in charge. Even under sanctions. The rich upper classes aren't being denied any fathomable luxury item... They just buy whatever they want at the Duty-Free store when leaving the UN.
This has been a key in the other BRIC countries. When the Middle Class gets to a critical mass they BUY things from their own country rather than merely work in the factories. Economic sanctions prevent all the independant ideals from happening.. It plays right into the Dictators hand for total power. Why would a dictator ever WANT his people to freely mingle with other countries???