I could go on a rant about what happened. I'll just say that America doesn't have any respect for individualists any more. Instead, it's the collectivists who get recognition and respect. Everyone at the capital agrees that it's somehow evil and wrong to discipline a child, and all the nice little collectivist sheeps fall in line. The odd man (or woman) who doesn't agree, and acts differently, is soon found out, and convicted of some trumped up charge of child abuse and/or neglect.
It takes a village to raise an idiot. I heard that on television years ago, and the bullshit still makes the circuits in print. Some bimbo left a leaflet from some stupid program or another in the shopping cart a few months ago, with that village idiot thing printed on it.
The village didn't raise me, nor did it raise my sons.
I don't believe there is a justification. IMO, MS is a two-faced, underhanded opponent of open source. Sorry, I'm not going to waste time digging into the rationale - this is just something that I expect from Microsoft.
What I see, is, Microsoft has bowed - at least temporarily - to the inevitability of open source software being in competition with their offerings. But, they want to steer the path that open source takes, as much as possible. Hence, the agreements with SUSE, and the restriction on the GPLv3 in the app store. They hope to scare people away from releasing their code under GPLv3.
Again, I'm not up on the nuances of the various licenses - there is something about v3 that they can't live with, but v2 is bearable to them.
I say, "screw them". If you're going to release something to the public, there are other avenues to release. Go to Debian, or Ubuntu, or whatever - there are plenty of communities that are freindly to GPLvx
You're amused. Wonderful. Exactly what is it that amuses you? The scale of the project? I mean, the materials are out there, waiting for us to use them. I don't remember mentioning any time constraints on the project - let's ASSume that from start to finish, one colony ship takes 50 years to build. I see no problem.
Is it my ASSumption that a mile of concrete will protect people from radiation? Why shouldn't it? Our atmosphere's density is much less than 1`% the density of concrete, and it does a fine job of protecting us from harmful radiation.
The only real problems I see, are getting enough people and governments to cooperate - and the lack of a fusion reactor. The former, I have no idea how to solve. The latter is probably solveable in this generation's lifetime.
Better shielding is little problem. The problem is, people think to small. Want to launch a colony? Fine, we start gathering trash from among the asteroids, play with it, and see how we can make a concrete like substance with it. Shouldn't be terribly hard. Next, we create a hollow sphere. The shell needs to be quite thick - let's say a mile. The interior needs to be plenty roomy, to house a viable gene pool - let's say 50,000 people total. Did I say roomy? Make it about 100 times whatever you had in mind to house that many people. The biosphere needs to be filled with bio. Trees, grass, animals, air, insects - the whole works. Even snakes. Everything that we have in our own biosphere, right here on earth. Fill it up.
The only thing lacking, is a fusion reactor to provide heat, light, and propulsion along the way. It's going to be a long trip, unless someone figures out FTL travel. So, that reactor needs to fuel all the colony's needs for years to come - possibly a hundred years in space.
Let's remember, though - my shell is only that. A shell. The whole thing will still need structural members, whether they be steel, aluminum, or some other substance. But, I'm quite sure that a mile of concrete will be sufficient to shield all our little eggs and sperms from interstellar radiation.
Sorry, but in today's world, no care need be exercised when labeling people as "terrorists". Hell, even schoolteachers label their more rowdy students as terrorists. Overheard by an elementary school teacher: "Hey, punk, I'm going to whip your ass til your mother cries after school!" The headline read statewide, the following day: "School teacher busts terror network, and exposes possession of WMD" The WMD being described was a pile of rocks, for god's sake.
You're a rather sad person, I think. Snitching on a company or two, for something serious, may or may not be justified. I'd have to judge each case on it's own merits. But, snitching on ALL of your employers? That's just low. You admit that you are digging for something with which to punish them when you are gone. In effect, you have little value to a company, you know that you'll be terminated sooner or later, so you're actively searching for a way to punish them from the day you start.
You should change your sig. "sucks2bme"
Hardly matters, IMO. When you're a crooked employer, you better take better care of your employers than the competition does. Giving someone a powerful weapon that they can use against you, then dumping on that someone, is just plain stupid.
It is closed codec, because there aren't specs? That's New World doublespeak, isn't it? Preposterous. If the codec isn't even written yet, how CAN it be closed? Listening to you mush-mouths can actually make a guy's head hurt.
"to call a non-smoker brainwashed"
Whatever. I spoke with a young woman, whose grandmother died at age 93. Old woman died of cancer. NOT lung cancer, mind you, but cancer. The brain washed young woman insisted that the old woman would have lived years longer, if her FIRST husband hadn't been a smoker. The second hand smoke killed her grandma. Oddly, that FIRST husband, who was a smoker, was only the husband for about a year, about 75 years previously.
Again - the anti-smokers have indeed brainwashed this newest generation.
Well, I heard that those Egyptians use their left hand to wipe, then wipe their hand in the sand. That's one reason they generally only eat with their right hand. Of course, you can't believe everything that you hear, either, LOL
"negatively affected in a physical, quantifiable way"
Alright, quantify and qualify for me. I'm dense. I know asthmatics who smoke. I know people who are allergic to everything from their mother's milk to eggs and peanuts and beef and seafood - who smoke.
You're talking out your ass, because you've been brainwashed by the media.
I'm quite familiar with small towns and the sole restaurants that serve them. Some serve better food than others - some have better service than others - and some actually reserve a table or group of tables for the general riff-raff. (Old men playing checkers, loggers off work due to weather, whatever, the riff-raff)
There are some restaurants that will WELCOME a guy coming in, sitting in the community area, ordering a cup of coffee, then checking his email, maybe browsing a bit, checking in at the office - as long as it's not overdone. They may not welcome the guy 6 days a week, if he holds that spot down right through meal times, and only spends 6 dollars all week long.
Other places, they'll tell you REAL QUICK that this isn't the library or a school, and you better order or leave. Such places, I don't return to, even if I'm hungry, LOL
Alright, I won't cop out. Cafe owners are in business for the same reason most other people are in business: to make a living, or money. Having been a truck driver for years, I spent MANY an hour in truck stop diners, reading the news, reading a book, or just killing time in some other manner. Uncountable hours. But - I wouldn't DREAM of sitting in the diner during their lunch rush hour, taking up space, while I read another chapter or six of Asimov's Foundation. As friendly and chummy as most truck stop waitresses, managers, and owners are toward truck driver's needs - THEY NEED THAT SPACE at rush hour!
The average cafe desperately needs all the space available during meal times. And, between meals, many cafes are frantically busy with cleaning up, and preparing for the next onslaught. That is to say, unless the owner makes a policy of welcoming the idle into his establishment, his business space is BUSINESS space.
Of course, I know how valuable it is to court those idle people with time to kill, reading a book. Make them welcome today, let them slurp coffee as long as they want, and they'll come back when they are hungry. Some places, anyway. All the same - if you want them to welcome your little distractions, you should take the time to educate them about how your distraction might benefit them in some way. I mean - do you stop at that cafe 3 or more times a week? Are the waitresses familiar with you? Have you ever TALKED to the manager? No, no, and no? Well - this seems to to indicate that you have little, if any value to the store owner.
Hey, I'll bet that if you eat at the same restaurant every week, at least twice, the manager WILL remember you before long. Then, ban or no ban, if you pull your reader out for thirty minutes during non-rush hours, he ain't gonna say a WORD to you about it.
In short - stop expecting a free ride. You gotta give a little to get a little in this world.
Now you're talking - but the thrust of your point is a wee bit off target.
If I own ANYTHING with a CPU and an OS on it, I'm going to be ROOT! I will get in there, play with the kernel (at least as much as I can understand to play with) and see just how it works, why it works, and if it can't be made to work better. Nope, I'm not going to be merely "Administrator", in the context that Windows permits you to be administrator. I want to be ROOT - nothing more, nothing less. My refrigerator isn't rooted yet - but when they put a CPU on the damned thing, it certainly will be!
Local phone service costs me $14.00 per month. Dial-up costs an additional ten bucks. Twenty four dollars per month, for the bare minimum access to the outside world. Not quite a dollar per day. The telephone itself happens to have cost ~$80, the modem ~ $40 if I remember correctly. Computers vary wildly - I can actually find people who got their computers FREE after attending a Linux workshop training thing. (In effect, they traded man-hours for the opportunity to build their own machine from recycled e-waste) Others manage to find castoff machines that the rich kids don't think are any good anymore. Yet other people spend upwards of $700 for a "brand name" like Compaq.
Whatever - I can get online for FAR less than the cost of a smartphone plus a service contract.
Cyder - whoa, buddy. Ever heard, "We're from the government, and we're here to help you!" ???
Realize, that the justice system and "Justice" are only barely related. I mean, they both start with "J", and they sort of share some synonyms between them - like "right" and "wrong". But, the justice system is easily corrupted, and turned into a tool, if you have money, power, influence, powerful friends and relatives, etc.
Look at all the skanky whores in Hollywood who are in trouble with the law. See just how much leniency is shown them. See just how many times their fingers are laughingly slapped, before some judge finally gets serious with them.
Now, head on over to East L.A. where the poor people live. Same skanky whores committing the same stupid crimes - but they don't get the lenience that the broads over in Hollywood get. Nope - no money, no fanclub, no rich boyfriends, no memorabilia - nothing.
Justice. Worse than merely justice, you bring in morality. Man - that's like metaphysics compared to justice.
Morally speaking, I'm not obligated to assist the government in preparing the guillotine to chop off my own frigging head. Let them do the work themselves!! Hell yes, I'm going to destroy anything that I think they might want to use as evidence!!
Well - had I been involved in that mess, it would have been my parent's responsibility. John Junior was a year older than me. Not responsible for my actions, I say!
How about, "I seldom carry the damned cell phone because people can FIND ME!" I pay for the phone for MY convenience, not for everyone else's convenience. If the boss wants to be able to find me, he can pay for the cell phone, then I can forget HIS cellphone at the restaurant!!
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I could go on a rant about what happened. I'll just say that America doesn't have any respect for individualists any more. Instead, it's the collectivists who get recognition and respect. Everyone at the capital agrees that it's somehow evil and wrong to discipline a child, and all the nice little collectivist sheeps fall in line. The odd man (or woman) who doesn't agree, and acts differently, is soon found out, and convicted of some trumped up charge of child abuse and/or neglect. It takes a village to raise an idiot. I heard that on television years ago, and the bullshit still makes the circuits in print. Some bimbo left a leaflet from some stupid program or another in the shopping cart a few months ago, with that village idiot thing printed on it. The village didn't raise me, nor did it raise my sons.
"They are not able to meet the requirements the GPL imposes" What you mean is, "They are not willing to meet the requirements the GPL imposes"
I don't believe there is a justification. IMO, MS is a two-faced, underhanded opponent of open source. Sorry, I'm not going to waste time digging into the rationale - this is just something that I expect from Microsoft. What I see, is, Microsoft has bowed - at least temporarily - to the inevitability of open source software being in competition with their offerings. But, they want to steer the path that open source takes, as much as possible. Hence, the agreements with SUSE, and the restriction on the GPLv3 in the app store. They hope to scare people away from releasing their code under GPLv3. Again, I'm not up on the nuances of the various licenses - there is something about v3 that they can't live with, but v2 is bearable to them. I say, "screw them". If you're going to release something to the public, there are other avenues to release. Go to Debian, or Ubuntu, or whatever - there are plenty of communities that are freindly to GPLvx
You're amused. Wonderful. Exactly what is it that amuses you? The scale of the project? I mean, the materials are out there, waiting for us to use them. I don't remember mentioning any time constraints on the project - let's ASSume that from start to finish, one colony ship takes 50 years to build. I see no problem. Is it my ASSumption that a mile of concrete will protect people from radiation? Why shouldn't it? Our atmosphere's density is much less than 1`% the density of concrete, and it does a fine job of protecting us from harmful radiation. The only real problems I see, are getting enough people and governments to cooperate - and the lack of a fusion reactor. The former, I have no idea how to solve. The latter is probably solveable in this generation's lifetime.
Better shielding is little problem. The problem is, people think to small. Want to launch a colony? Fine, we start gathering trash from among the asteroids, play with it, and see how we can make a concrete like substance with it. Shouldn't be terribly hard. Next, we create a hollow sphere. The shell needs to be quite thick - let's say a mile. The interior needs to be plenty roomy, to house a viable gene pool - let's say 50,000 people total. Did I say roomy? Make it about 100 times whatever you had in mind to house that many people. The biosphere needs to be filled with bio. Trees, grass, animals, air, insects - the whole works. Even snakes. Everything that we have in our own biosphere, right here on earth. Fill it up. The only thing lacking, is a fusion reactor to provide heat, light, and propulsion along the way. It's going to be a long trip, unless someone figures out FTL travel. So, that reactor needs to fuel all the colony's needs for years to come - possibly a hundred years in space. Let's remember, though - my shell is only that. A shell. The whole thing will still need structural members, whether they be steel, aluminum, or some other substance. But, I'm quite sure that a mile of concrete will be sufficient to shield all our little eggs and sperms from interstellar radiation.
Sorry, but in today's world, no care need be exercised when labeling people as "terrorists". Hell, even schoolteachers label their more rowdy students as terrorists. Overheard by an elementary school teacher: "Hey, punk, I'm going to whip your ass til your mother cries after school!" The headline read statewide, the following day: "School teacher busts terror network, and exposes possession of WMD" The WMD being described was a pile of rocks, for god's sake.
You're a rather sad person, I think. Snitching on a company or two, for something serious, may or may not be justified. I'd have to judge each case on it's own merits. But, snitching on ALL of your employers? That's just low. You admit that you are digging for something with which to punish them when you are gone. In effect, you have little value to a company, you know that you'll be terminated sooner or later, so you're actively searching for a way to punish them from the day you start. You should change your sig. "sucks2bme"
Hardly matters, IMO. When you're a crooked employer, you better take better care of your employers than the competition does. Giving someone a powerful weapon that they can use against you, then dumping on that someone, is just plain stupid.
Which is the moose, and which the squirrel?
It is closed codec, because there aren't specs? That's New World doublespeak, isn't it? Preposterous. If the codec isn't even written yet, how CAN it be closed? Listening to you mush-mouths can actually make a guy's head hurt.
"Apple - - - their own Youtube competitor" Huh? Say what? I even Googled for that: http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+competition+Apple&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.pclinuxos:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
"to call a non-smoker brainwashed" Whatever. I spoke with a young woman, whose grandmother died at age 93. Old woman died of cancer. NOT lung cancer, mind you, but cancer. The brain washed young woman insisted that the old woman would have lived years longer, if her FIRST husband hadn't been a smoker. The second hand smoke killed her grandma. Oddly, that FIRST husband, who was a smoker, was only the husband for about a year, about 75 years previously. Again - the anti-smokers have indeed brainwashed this newest generation.
Fanatics don't care about anything except those few things which they are fanatical about. Ask people like Pol Pot. ;^)
Well, I heard that those Egyptians use their left hand to wipe, then wipe their hand in the sand. That's one reason they generally only eat with their right hand. Of course, you can't believe everything that you hear, either, LOL
Somebody mod this guy funny. He's earned at least a chuckle, alright?
"negatively affected in a physical, quantifiable way" Alright, quantify and qualify for me. I'm dense. I know asthmatics who smoke. I know people who are allergic to everything from their mother's milk to eggs and peanuts and beef and seafood - who smoke. You're talking out your ass, because you've been brainwashed by the media.
Vellum? You're a progressive, right? What is wrong with good old papyrus?
I'm quite familiar with small towns and the sole restaurants that serve them. Some serve better food than others - some have better service than others - and some actually reserve a table or group of tables for the general riff-raff. (Old men playing checkers, loggers off work due to weather, whatever, the riff-raff) There are some restaurants that will WELCOME a guy coming in, sitting in the community area, ordering a cup of coffee, then checking his email, maybe browsing a bit, checking in at the office - as long as it's not overdone. They may not welcome the guy 6 days a week, if he holds that spot down right through meal times, and only spends 6 dollars all week long. Other places, they'll tell you REAL QUICK that this isn't the library or a school, and you better order or leave. Such places, I don't return to, even if I'm hungry, LOL
Alright, I won't cop out. Cafe owners are in business for the same reason most other people are in business: to make a living, or money. Having been a truck driver for years, I spent MANY an hour in truck stop diners, reading the news, reading a book, or just killing time in some other manner. Uncountable hours. But - I wouldn't DREAM of sitting in the diner during their lunch rush hour, taking up space, while I read another chapter or six of Asimov's Foundation. As friendly and chummy as most truck stop waitresses, managers, and owners are toward truck driver's needs - THEY NEED THAT SPACE at rush hour! The average cafe desperately needs all the space available during meal times. And, between meals, many cafes are frantically busy with cleaning up, and preparing for the next onslaught. That is to say, unless the owner makes a policy of welcoming the idle into his establishment, his business space is BUSINESS space. Of course, I know how valuable it is to court those idle people with time to kill, reading a book. Make them welcome today, let them slurp coffee as long as they want, and they'll come back when they are hungry. Some places, anyway. All the same - if you want them to welcome your little distractions, you should take the time to educate them about how your distraction might benefit them in some way. I mean - do you stop at that cafe 3 or more times a week? Are the waitresses familiar with you? Have you ever TALKED to the manager? No, no, and no? Well - this seems to to indicate that you have little, if any value to the store owner. Hey, I'll bet that if you eat at the same restaurant every week, at least twice, the manager WILL remember you before long. Then, ban or no ban, if you pull your reader out for thirty minutes during non-rush hours, he ain't gonna say a WORD to you about it. In short - stop expecting a free ride. You gotta give a little to get a little in this world.
Now you're talking - but the thrust of your point is a wee bit off target. If I own ANYTHING with a CPU and an OS on it, I'm going to be ROOT! I will get in there, play with the kernel (at least as much as I can understand to play with) and see just how it works, why it works, and if it can't be made to work better. Nope, I'm not going to be merely "Administrator", in the context that Windows permits you to be administrator. I want to be ROOT - nothing more, nothing less. My refrigerator isn't rooted yet - but when they put a CPU on the damned thing, it certainly will be!
Local phone service costs me $14.00 per month. Dial-up costs an additional ten bucks. Twenty four dollars per month, for the bare minimum access to the outside world. Not quite a dollar per day. The telephone itself happens to have cost ~$80, the modem ~ $40 if I remember correctly. Computers vary wildly - I can actually find people who got their computers FREE after attending a Linux workshop training thing. (In effect, they traded man-hours for the opportunity to build their own machine from recycled e-waste) Others manage to find castoff machines that the rich kids don't think are any good anymore. Yet other people spend upwards of $700 for a "brand name" like Compaq. Whatever - I can get online for FAR less than the cost of a smartphone plus a service contract.
Cyder - whoa, buddy. Ever heard, "We're from the government, and we're here to help you!" ??? Realize, that the justice system and "Justice" are only barely related. I mean, they both start with "J", and they sort of share some synonyms between them - like "right" and "wrong". But, the justice system is easily corrupted, and turned into a tool, if you have money, power, influence, powerful friends and relatives, etc. Look at all the skanky whores in Hollywood who are in trouble with the law. See just how much leniency is shown them. See just how many times their fingers are laughingly slapped, before some judge finally gets serious with them. Now, head on over to East L.A. where the poor people live. Same skanky whores committing the same stupid crimes - but they don't get the lenience that the broads over in Hollywood get. Nope - no money, no fanclub, no rich boyfriends, no memorabilia - nothing. Justice. Worse than merely justice, you bring in morality. Man - that's like metaphysics compared to justice. Morally speaking, I'm not obligated to assist the government in preparing the guillotine to chop off my own frigging head. Let them do the work themselves!! Hell yes, I'm going to destroy anything that I think they might want to use as evidence!!
Well - had I been involved in that mess, it would have been my parent's responsibility. John Junior was a year older than me. Not responsible for my actions, I say!
Best answer yet. You must be working hard to become an old asshole like me, LOL
How about, "I seldom carry the damned cell phone because people can FIND ME!" I pay for the phone for MY convenience, not for everyone else's convenience. If the boss wants to be able to find me, he can pay for the cell phone, then I can forget HIS cellphone at the restaurant!!