Your
reference seems to be from a crackpot. He uses a lot of nice sounding words, but the overall pictures he tries to paint is inconsistent. This David Allan
has these great theories, including a "Unified Field Theory", that purport to explain everything, yet his
theory seems to be limited cartoon explanations involving new forces. Plus the only references the guy seems to have are to his own papers, and he only has papers in conference proceedings, not refereed journals.
Anyway, I agree that solar input has to be included in climate models, and I'm pretty sure it is. The problem is our understanding of the long term cycle of the Sun still is uncertain as well. As for nuclear testing affecting other things, its possible that nuclear testing has some small effects on the climate, but I can imagine how it could effect the Sun and solar flares. I find that unlikely to the extreme. Its seems like someone probably found some small degree of corellation between nuclear testing and solar flares, and then said that this corellation implied causation. Not a very convincing argument, to say the least.
No, companies can censor. That why all of the US broadcast networks have people on staff who job title is "network censor" or something similar. Clear Channel is censoring its own playlists.
"Smooth Criminal" is far from the only recent song on the list.
Drowning Pool's "Bodies",
Mudvayne's "Death Blooms", and Bush's "Speed Kills"
are a few that I recongnize as only having been released in the last several months. I'm sure there are plenty more.
Title 26, United States Code, Section 861, Subchapter N.
Quit being ignorant and take the time to educate yourself.
I take it that you're responding to my sig. I've looked at the
regulation that you mention, but I don't see how it refutes the Berke Breathed quote. Care to elucidate?
I don't think so. If he were taking advantage of the situation, he probably would have tried to push the Free Software position. Instead he stuck very close to the topic at hand and possible repercussions.
The story about this took less than five minutes to be rejected by the editors. Apparently when your stock is circling the drain, a member of the Board of Directors saying something like that isn't something you necessarily want publicised.
Yawn. Get over the conspiracy theories already. Every contoversial thing ESR (or RMS, or Bruce Perens, or Linus) says does not necessarly deserve to be a slashdot article. For articles like that see here. Over 99% of submissions to slashdot are rejected. An article about that quote would be nothing more than flamebait, so why should it be posted?
FYI, the text in quotes (and italics) in the article was written by the submitter (JgiSaw in this case). CT is not a great speller, but this one isn't his fault. By the way, what's "succes" ?;)
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Coordinates wouldn't do us any good at this point. We have no way to at Afghanistan yet. None of the countries that border on Afghanistan are our allies, and I doubt any of them yet have given us permission for plane or missile fly-overs. If we get enough evidence and unite the world behind us, then we'll be able to strike if necessary. We're not ready for that yet. Revenge is a dish best served cold and all that.
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The times of London is
reporting that the Taleban have put Osama bin Laden
under house arrest in Afghanistan. Of course its still too early to conclude who is responsible, but its encouraging to hear of possible cooperation. If no one will harbor the fiends responsible for this, it may be possible to bring them to justice without loss of other innocent lives.
I wonder whether Jay Leno will leave the Twin Towers on the skyline backdrop to his set.
I hate to be pendantic, but you must mean Conan O'Brien or David Letterman. Leno's show tapes in California. I believe Letterman is off this week, so we'll have to wait to see his reaction.
The Red Cross site seems to be bogged-down, but many of the state chapters of the Red Cross have sites that seem to be working. For Minnesota and parts of surrounding areas the site is yourbloodcenter.org.
Also, try the American Association of Blood Banks site.
His version works fine in vi. Since there's no direct reference to sed, I think he's fine and you're the one who should be careful about corrections;).
Well, yeah they poke fun at Bush. They also poked fun at Clinton, Gore, etc. Slashdot iosn't supposed to be quasi-neutral or objective like CNN. If all the news was played straight without humor, who'd bother to come here?
Splitting Microsoft would probably be good for Microsoft's total value in the long term (just as it was for AT&T and Standard Oil), and it would be a long time before Microsoft was actually split. And in the short term, Microsoft's stock probably wouldn't be much affected by the case. The stock price certainly has not been tracking events in this case that closely up to this point.
It's just the Slashdot editors abusing their power to stir up resentment and further their political views.
Cripes, so Michael was a little bit loose in the way that he worded things. He's since changed the imprecise "The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush" to the unwieldy (and redundant) "The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush Administration" (The DOJ is part of the Bush administration, so the Bush administration is telling the Bush administration what to do). Imprecise wording is the rule not the exception around here, so I think that supposing this reflects some kind of axe grinding by slashdot is kind of silly. Remember the old saying, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I think that you're buying too easily into the spin. Microsoft will tie any restrictions that have teeth upp in court almost as long as they would have held up a break up. And if they just want to get restriction in place, what's the point of dropping the Browser being tied to the OS?
Come on, Microsoft is not GM. I think its pretty obvious that breaking up Microsoft would be good for the tech economy. More small companies would have a chance to compete and, dare I say it, innovate. Plus there'd be two separate Microsofts for fools to invest in.
I agree that there probably isn't any direct corruption involved here. Its just a sign of the Republicans' mushy laissez-faire views on regulation of business.
It's just the Slashdot editors abusing their power to stir up resentment and further their political views.
Cripes, so Michael was a little bit loose in the way that he worded things. He's since changed the imprecise "The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush" to the unwieldy (and redundant) "The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush Administration". Imprecise wording is the rule not the exception around here, so I think that supposing this reflects some kind of axe grinding by slashdot is kind of silly. Remember the old saying, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
That's not a safe assumption at all. During the campaign Bush made several remarks against the way the DOJ was pressing the case against Microsoft. I don't recall Gore making any such remarks. Besides which Microsoft had been giving money to both parties for sometime, and that didn't stop the Clinton administration from pressing the case. Democrats are too tight with big corporations in a lot of areas these days (the DMCA being a notable example), but this isn't one of those cases.
I mean... opening new windows etc is just a PITA with Mozilla...
Huh? How is opening a new window a pain? Is hitting Control-N difficult? Or middle clicking on a link? Or clicking on the Navigator icon in the lower left?
I know there are valid reasons for disliking Mozilla, but I can't even tell what you are trying to get at.
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why we can have a hundred messages arguing whether "piracy is evil or a right", but not one decrying the arrogation of the word "piracy" to apply to a markedly non-violent crime (copyright infringement).
Actually, it's not true the "piracy is not the right word" argument is made almost everytime this topic comes up. Here's an
example. Hell, if you look you'd also find the usual
rebuttal - that piracy has been used with copyright infringement meaning for over 100 years. If you keep looking, you'll find
RMS's views on piracy, which seems to be similar to your view.
While I agree with you that piracy is a stupid word to use in the context of copyright, this argument has been made many times here.
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Anyway, I agree that solar input has to be included in climate models, and I'm pretty sure it is. The problem is our understanding of the long term cycle of the Sun still is uncertain as well. As for nuclear testing affecting other things, its possible that nuclear testing has some small effects on the climate, but I can imagine how it could effect the Sun and solar flares. I find that unlikely to the extreme. Its seems like someone probably found some small degree of corellation between nuclear testing and solar flares, and then said that this corellation implied causation. Not a very convincing argument, to say the least.
How many people want to kick some ass?
I do! I do!
No, companies can censor. That why all of the US broadcast networks have people on staff who job title is "network censor" or something similar. Clear Channel is censoring its own playlists.
"Smooth Criminal" is far from the only recent song on the list. Drowning Pool's "Bodies", Mudvayne's "Death Blooms", and Bush's "Speed Kills" are a few that I recongnize as only having been released in the last several months. I'm sure there are plenty more.
I don't think so. If he were taking advantage of the situation, he probably would have tried to push the Free Software position. Instead he stuck very close to the topic at hand and possible repercussions.
FYI, the text in quotes (and italics) in the article was written by the submitter (JgiSaw in this case). CT is not a great speller, but this one isn't his fault. By the way, what's "succes" ? ;)
Coordinates wouldn't do us any good at this point. We have no way to at Afghanistan yet. None of the countries that border on Afghanistan are our allies, and I doubt any of them yet have given us permission for plane or missile fly-overs. If we get enough evidence and unite the world behind us, then we'll be able to strike if necessary. We're not ready for that yet. Revenge is a dish best served cold and all that.
The times of London is reporting that the Taleban have put Osama bin Laden under house arrest in Afghanistan. Of course its still too early to conclude who is responsible, but its encouraging to hear of possible cooperation. If no one will harbor the fiends responsible for this, it may be possible to bring them to justice without loss of other innocent lives.
The Red Cross site seems to be bogged-down, but many of the state chapters of the Red Cross have sites that seem to be working. For Minnesota and parts of surrounding areas the site is yourbloodcenter.org. Also, try the American Association of Blood Banks site.
His version works fine in vi. Since there's no direct reference to sed, I think he's fine and you're the one who should be careful about corrections ;).
Well, yeah they poke fun at Bush. They also poked fun at Clinton, Gore, etc. Slashdot iosn't supposed to be quasi-neutral or objective like CNN. If all the news was played straight without humor, who'd bother to come here?
Splitting Microsoft would probably be good for Microsoft's total value in the long term (just as it was for AT&T and Standard Oil), and it would be a long time before Microsoft was actually split. And in the short term, Microsoft's stock probably wouldn't be much affected by the case. The stock price certainly has not been tracking events in this case that closely up to this point.
Cripes, so Michael was a little bit loose in the way that he worded things. He's since changed the imprecise "The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush" to the unwieldy (and redundant) "The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush Administration" (The DOJ is part of the Bush administration, so the Bush administration is telling the Bush administration what to do). Imprecise wording is the rule not the exception around here, so I think that supposing this reflects some kind of axe grinding by slashdot is kind of silly. Remember the old saying, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I think that you're buying too easily into the spin. Microsoft will tie any restrictions that have teeth upp in court almost as long as they would have held up a break up. And if they just want to get restriction in place, what's the point of dropping the Browser being tied to the OS?
I agree that there probably isn't any direct corruption involved here. Its just a sign of the Republicans' mushy laissez-faire views on regulation of business.
That's not a safe assumption at all. During the campaign Bush made several remarks against the way the DOJ was pressing the case against Microsoft. I don't recall Gore making any such remarks. Besides which Microsoft had been giving money to both parties for sometime, and that didn't stop the Clinton administration from pressing the case. Democrats are too tight with big corporations in a lot of areas these days (the DMCA being a notable example), but this isn't one of those cases.
I know there are valid reasons for disliking Mozilla, but I can't even tell what you are trying to get at.
While I agree with you that piracy is a stupid word to use in the context of copyright, this argument has been made many times here.