as much as they want.... Yahoo is only used for weather pages, way too noisy... and - W2K can't run IE7, not to speak about the "Advantage" thingie....
Second, US military hegemony is unmatched, especially at the point at which the US military spends more in a year than all the other nations in the world combined.
At what price?
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Iraq
learned anything yet? Apparently not.
700 + US military bases around the planet
- rape issues going on around a military base in Japan
any country, or citizen thereof likes being occupied by a foreign power pretending to be a friend?
What is the benefit of military expense?
Defense and security, yes?
Well, who is going to invade US - Mexico or Canda? Get real!
Swiss are more effective - every man has a rifle in his closet and is trained to use it.
Look at Iraq what the "well equipped" US is up against. They can't stick their head out of the window without getting shot at. Good result for spending billions!
Also, nuclear weapons. The US is the only nation who keeps thousands of nukes well-maintained and has an fleet of AEGIS-style cruisers capable of shooting enemy nukes down.
Good to keep 6000+ war heads active and try to prevent any other nation to get nuclear technology and good luck succeeding. France polishing up their nukes again lately and surely Arab nations making efforts to get nuke weapons. Makes you feel very safe - doesn't it?
Any polititian starting a war or increasing the military budget instead of reducing it should get fired on the spot because it shows stupidity and failure to get along with other countries population's representatives.
The opinion your post represents is cause for human suffering on many levels. Maybe you will learn at one point when either you - volunteering for the army to serve the need of your country in Iraq (yes?) or a closer friend gets in touch with the reality of war either in form of a folded American flag, a smashed limb or the inabilty to get a good education in a financially deprived educational system. Or, for a change, at one point you start using the grey matter in your head and open your eyes beyond what you think is your reality.
Polonium-210 is very dangerous to handle in even milligram or microgram amounts, and special equipment and strict control is necessary. Damage arises from the complete absorption of the energy of the alpha particle into tissue.
The maximum permissible body burden for ingested polonium is only 0.03 microcuries, which represents a particle weighing only 6.8 x 10-12 g. Weight for weight it is about 2.5 x 1011 times as toxic as hydrocyanic acid. The maximum allowable concentration for soluble polonium compounds in air is about 2 x 10-11 microcuries/cm3.
Soluble in acidic environment.
Apparently he was repeatedly invited by by an unkown russian person to drink tea.... A little sourness in tea with a few milligram of metal dissolved.
Could you please define what would be acceptable as "strong evidence" for hush dealings by a somewhat threatened company with a net profit of 28.5 % on 44.3 Bn $ revenue, 34 Bn $ cash reserves where 50 Million $ are somewhere involved?
I think that Groklaw does a pretty good job on digging in on that. Either you see it or you don't. Wouldn't bother me a bit if you think that Microsoft is clean. The latest article on Novell at Groklaw hits the nail again!
Microsoft did not suceed with SCO to hurt/eliminate Linux.
Since that fell flat, they went fishing again. Now they have another fish on the hook: Novell. No matter what is written or said. The facts are clear. Microsoft is trying to destroy Linux!
They have to, or they are lost. The only remedy against their monopoly, clout and billions of money is free software - on equal grounds, within the capitalistic money system, it's impossible to compete.
There has been something going on between Microsoft and Novell to make this deal. It went on hidden and under the table. Remember SCO - the 56 Million $ (or similar) investment coming from somewhere - _not_ from Microsoft... sure!
Do you trust Ballmer? Just look at him - a madman throwing chairs in anger.
Open Source developers should withdraw their copyrights from Novell because they are breaking the Open Source agreement. Individually, one by one.
This is the second attack. SCO was averted. This one is tougher. Maybe there is no IBM to pick up the tab. We'll see....
"can't see this idea getting traction in the U.S."
There _are_ differences.
Looking at the stop sign use where I live in US: low traffic, wide open roads and - stop signs everywhere - you need to stop, increasing vehicle wear, cussing at the idiocy - or.. eff-it. Pretty anal IMO.
Comparing to DE - stop signs are mostly put where it's really dangerous and makes sense to better stop and take a closer look.
Similar with double middle lines. In US - double lines en masse - can't pass. In DE - rarely double lines, only when it's really dangerous and, if there is no double line, there is no guarantee that it's a good place to pass.
Difference: In one country more responsibilty is given to the driver, on the other, decisions are made for the driver.
What could be the underlying reasons? Maybe the sue-happiness in US: Uups, I didn't watch and had an accident and ah - there was no double line. Well, that's the real reason for my accident... sue them!
Earth is save! A couple of cleansing asteroids actually would not hurt getting rid of those little pests walking upright and haven't learned yet how to use their enlarged brains:
Subject: Holy Hell They've Gone Nuts - $160 billion More for Iraq!
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2171&i ssue_id=35
Fiscal 2007 War Supplemental Expected to Be Largest Yet:
Pentagon Prepares $160 Billion Request for Iraq War
11/12/2006
CQ TODAY
Nov. 7, 2006
wasn't the whole point of broadcast licenses to prevent frequency interference?
Actually not in Germany, if I remeber right. With broadcast receiving license fees TV and radio stations are funded. And - since they have financing secured in this manner, their programming is actually informative, educational, partially critical, of higher quality and very often a pleasure to watch (bublic broadcasting stations - there are privates as well, more going US style). That may be a positive aspect.
On the downside, attempts are made to milk wherever possible and there seems to be no end to it. They are in the process of increasing the sales tax (actually VAT) from 16 % a couple of % higher.
So, everyone attempting to suck more should get their fingers beaten until they give up.
So the system is faulty.
Things get lost, but you can go to the lost luggage counter and have a chance. With the habeas corpus gone, there is no lost luggage counter to go when there is a fault in the system - arbitrary persons are goners.
I'd consider this a major goof and real idiots producing this kind of shit!
There's no point. Luggage doesn't have any rights to trample on.
BS - luggage is owned by "somebody" and that "somebody" has a right to privacy.
Luggage tracking on airports is pretty sophisticated, luggage tag numbers are linked to a ticket record, luggage can be immediatley linked to an individual with a wireless barcode scanner.
And - if spooks want to search (and bug) the luggage of a human, all they need to do to go to TSA and have them to pull the luggage. You can bet that this is happening.
So - there, you twerp!
And - what are the TSA love notes you find in your luggage tell you - do you feel any safer with the habeas corpus dismantled by your government, in the great country of the USA?
nope - that gun went against the shooter.
The attack consolidatet the Linux front and exposed the idiots. Almost all attempts of SCO to make money out of licensing failed and that attempt of their undertaking is going to blow them out of existence.
Don't you think this will be a deterrent for anyone else to try something similar?
That's a benefit right there.
Let M$ continue on their track - they continue to annoy with their protectionism, so nobody likes them eventually. A necessary evil with a lot of money on the side. Got nothing better to do than playing with them, pro or con - does not matter.
The coercion having to buy a piece of hardware in order to use a particular piece of operating software on existing hardware is called a "loophole"?
Good newspeech!
How can a software company get away this this at all?
How would it be with the "loophole" plugged? Whenever a new OS is released, forced to buy it with a full system, so the software can be branded by a hardware key and not be moved off that box? Maybe that was the idea.
Some information contained in sounds (acoustic) or printed, some pixels on a screen - whatsover.
That input is then interpreted by the cybernetic matrix in an individuals brain and comes, with some collisions, marked with a label "offensive" out of the system possibly provoking an emotional/fanactic response in the human body.
Where is this matrix coming from? Instinct, early childhood conditioning, social patterning, ongoing education, successful repetition of behavioral patterns.
In essence, anyone blaming somebody else for "offensiveness" in words is trying to make the other responsible for the content of the own interpretation matrix.
Slashdot Mirror
And acts the other way....
Very common tactic - mainly in politics: Put out the "word" - do what you "need" to do anyway
A sufficient number of people read the "word" and are convinced that Microsoft is actually a well behaved company.
Of cause that depends on your criteria. In extracting money from other's they are brilliant.
"Normal" people go to jail.....
as much as they want....
Yahoo is only used for weather pages, way too noisy... and -
W2K can't run IE7, not to speak about the "Advantage" thingie....
At what price?
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Iraq
learned anything yet? Apparently not.
700 + US military bases around the planet
- rape issues going on around a military base in Japan
any country, or citizen thereof likes being occupied by a foreign power pretending to be a friend?
What is the benefit of military expense?
Defense and security, yes?
Well, who is going to invade US - Mexico or Canda? Get real!
Swiss are more effective - every man has a rifle in his closet and is trained to use it.
Look at Iraq what the "well equipped" US is up against. They can't stick their head out of the window without getting shot at. Good result for spending billions!
Also, nuclear weapons. The US is the only nation who keeps thousands of nukes well-maintained and has an fleet of AEGIS-style cruisers capable of shooting enemy nukes down.
Good to keep 6000+ war heads active and try to prevent any other nation to get nuclear technology and good luck succeeding. France polishing up their nukes again lately and surely Arab nations making efforts to get nuke weapons. Makes you feel very safe - doesn't it?
Any polititian starting a war or increasing the military budget instead of reducing it should get fired on the spot because it shows stupidity and failure to get along with other countries population's representatives.
The opinion your post represents is cause for human suffering on many levels. Maybe you will learn at one point when either you - volunteering for the army to serve the need of your country in Iraq (yes?) or a closer friend gets in touch with the reality of war either in form of a folded American flag, a smashed limb or the inabilty to get a good education in a financially deprived educational system. Or, for a change, at one point you start using the grey matter in your head and open your eyes beyond what you think is your reality.
The maximum permissible body burden for ingested polonium is only 0.03 microcuries, which represents a particle weighing only 6.8 x 10-12 g. Weight for weight it is about 2.5 x 1011 times as toxic as hydrocyanic acid. The maximum allowable concentration for soluble polonium compounds in air is about 2 x 10-11 microcuries/cm3.
From: there
Soluble in acidic environment.
Apparently he was repeatedly invited by by an unkown russian person to drink tea....
A little sourness in tea with a few milligram of metal dissolved.
Could you please define what would be acceptable as "strong evidence" for hush dealings by a somewhat threatened company with a net profit of 28.5 % on 44.3 Bn $ revenue, 34 Bn $ cash reserves where 50 Million $ are somewhere involved?
I think that Groklaw does a pretty good job on digging in on that.
Either you see it or you don't. Wouldn't bother me a bit if you think that Microsoft is clean. The latest article on Novell at Groklaw hits the nail again!
Microsoft did not suceed with SCO to hurt/eliminate Linux.
Since that fell flat, they went fishing again. Now they have another fish on the hook: Novell.
No matter what is written or said. The facts are clear. Microsoft is trying to destroy Linux!
They have to, or they are lost. The only remedy against their monopoly, clout and billions of money is free software - on equal grounds, within the capitalistic money system, it's impossible to compete.
There has been something going on between Microsoft and Novell to make this deal. It went on hidden and under the table. Remember SCO - the 56 Million $ (or similar) investment coming from somewhere - _not_ from Microsoft... sure!
Do you trust Ballmer? Just look at him - a madman throwing chairs in anger.
Open Source developers should withdraw their copyrights from Novell because they are breaking the Open Source agreement. Individually, one by one.
This is the second attack. SCO was averted. This one is tougher. Maybe there is no IBM to pick up the tab. We'll see....
There _are_ differences.
Looking at the stop sign use where I live in US: low traffic, wide open roads and - stop signs everywhere - you need to stop, increasing vehicle wear, cussing at the idiocy - or.. eff-it. Pretty anal IMO.
Comparing to DE - stop signs are mostly put where it's really dangerous and makes sense to better stop and take a closer look.
Similar with double middle lines. In US - double lines en masse - can't pass. In DE - rarely double lines, only when it's really dangerous and, if there is no double line, there is no guarantee that it's a good place to pass.
Difference: In one country more responsibilty is given to the driver, on the other, decisions are made for the driver.
What could be the underlying reasons?
Maybe the sue-happiness in US: Uups, I didn't watch and had an accident and ah - there was no double line. Well, that's the real reason for my accident... sue them!
as you wish - slashdotting the popup, it's already slow....
A couple of cleansing asteroids actually would not hurt getting rid of those little pests walking upright and haven't learned yet how to use their enlarged brains:
Subject: Holy Hell They've Gone Nuts - $160 billion More for Iraq!
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2171&
Fiscal 2007 War Supplemental Expected to Be Largest Yet:
Pentagon Prepares $160 Billion Request for Iraq War
11/12/2006
CQ TODAY
Nov. 7, 2006
Partition size cannot be reduced below 37 G.
Vista requires significant HW upgrades to be functional and more hi-tech junk will end in land fills.
Any environmental credits for putting more "Advantage" programs on peoples computer are forever in the negative for this company.
Another one: creating unnecessary junk, just to be in the market: Zine, X-Box and what else have you?
Can't you get a jail sentence there for littering a cigarette bud, or something of that or similar "severeness"?
If things continue as they are in US, this may come here too.
Ever seen a new law or regulation coming out recently which gives more freedom or is sensible instead of making things tighter?
This whole mechanism and attitude of people pulling the strings goes towards more control and punishment. Totally senseless and idiotic!
Dang - another hole in the foot!
Technology review page warns: "nudity"
So - to see humans in their original gestalt is something one has to be warned of.
I wonder who is more wrong here - the one doing the "offending" or the "offended".
Actually not in Germany, if I remeber right. With broadcast receiving license fees TV and radio stations are funded. And - since they have financing secured in this manner, their programming is actually informative, educational, partially critical, of higher quality and very often a pleasure to watch (bublic broadcasting stations - there are privates as well, more going US style). That may be a positive aspect.
On the downside, attempts are made to milk wherever possible and there seems to be no end to it. They are in the process of increasing the sales tax (actually VAT) from 16 % a couple of % higher.
So, everyone attempting to suck more should get their fingers beaten until they give up.
So the system is faulty.
Things get lost, but you can go to the lost luggage counter and have a chance.
With the habeas corpus gone, there is no lost luggage counter to go when there is a fault in the system - arbitrary persons are goners.
I'd consider this a major goof and real idiots producing this kind of shit!
BS - luggage is owned by "somebody" and that "somebody" has a right to privacy.
Luggage tracking on airports is pretty sophisticated, luggage tag numbers are linked to a ticket record, luggage can be immediatley linked to an individual with a wireless barcode scanner.
And - if spooks want to search (and bug) the luggage of a human, all they need to do to go to TSA and have them to pull the luggage. You can bet that this is happening.
So - there, you twerp!
And - what are the TSA love notes you find in your luggage tell you - do you feel any safer with the habeas corpus dismantled by your government, in the great country of the USA?
http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/
the power toys - or whatever the junk is from M$ - sucks!
nope - that gun went against the shooter. The attack consolidatet the Linux front and exposed the idiots. Almost all attempts of SCO to make money out of licensing failed and that attempt of their undertaking is going to blow them out of existence.
Don't you think this will be a deterrent for anyone else to try something similar?
That's a benefit right there.
Let M$ continue on their track - they continue to annoy with their protectionism, so nobody likes them eventually. A necessary evil with a lot of money on the side. Got nothing better to do than playing with them, pro or con - does not matter.
I was expecting some information about a FPU unit - parallel processing, pipelining and all that.
But it links to: "The trouble with rounding floating point numbers"
Kind of shallow...
There are so many missdirects on search results anyway, if it's not the right one, just delete the browser tab and move on.
Good newspeech!
How can a software company get away this this at all?
How would it be with the "loophole" plugged? Whenever a new OS is released, forced to buy it with a full system, so the software can be branded by a hardware key and not be moved off that box?
Maybe that was the idea.
Will Ballmer ever burn out?
Some information contained in sounds (acoustic) or printed, some pixels on a screen - whatsover.
That input is then interpreted by the cybernetic matrix in an individuals brain and comes, with some collisions, marked with a label "offensive" out of the system possibly provoking an emotional/fanactic response in the human body.
Where is this matrix coming from? Instinct, early childhood conditioning, social patterning, ongoing education, successful repetition of behavioral patterns.
In essence, anyone blaming somebody else for "offensiveness" in words is trying to make the other responsible for the content of the own interpretation matrix.
Is the other responsible? Hardly.....
So, lay off that stupid blame game and grow up!
total bull!
it's a cancerous disease
read groklaw