It was also, according to that linked Wikipedia article (which is strangely unclickable on FF4) only down there for twenty minutes. Not a very exciting experiment.
Despite your (somewhat painful) libertarian trolling, you kinda missed the point. clem.dickey was talking about Amazon assisting their customers in avoiding the payment of taxes through locally-operating vendors who presumably would be subject to the sales tax.
As other commentators stated, alas, it wasn't Silvio. I'm sure he's not far behind, though.
Note that Italy, being the home of fascism, doesn't generally consider it to be as much of an insult or bad thing as we English-speakers do. Most Italian governments since the fall of Mussolini have resembled it to some extent, and indeed the sentiments behind it (which we call corruption and nepotism in a democracy) have been commonplace on the northern side of the Mediterranean since the Roman Republic. I know a software developer living in Athens who constantly complains about having to bribe the postman in order to get his mail delivered, for example. This is also how organizations like the Mafia came into existence, and why they continue to function successfully, as a kind of tribe.
Outside of ancient treatises on philosophy, democracy in that region has pretty much always been a masquerade ball for aristocrats; it's not at all like in countries with a Germanic linguistic heritage + Protestant background, where people are treated much more on par with one another. So, naturally? The law is just an impediment. You keep your dirty business out of the law's sight until you've accrued enough power to manipulate your problems away... including the people who have discovered said dirt.
Actually, XEmacs is a fork, and still GPL'd. The joke is that by inserting the slash, it goes from "Emacs, by GNU" to "the GNU toolchain running on top of the Emacs kernel", like "GNU/Linux". But alas; jokes, they fall flat.
Man. Now you're making me wish I could use my mod points on this article. Hail the all-conquering clipboard, and congrats on RTFAing. Thou art the biggest man.
Also, the dog has thousands of sock-puppet friends at its disposal who will block you from using any public utilities if it looks like you're inventing a shoe or boot, and weighs several thousand tons.
Hey, there are arguments to be made. By coming in, the managerial tier gains the satisfaction of knowing that, while you may not be always working on something productive, you're at least not, say, looking at the kinds of things that most corporate filters are designed to block. Also, if your job sometimes involves labor or maintenance tasks (rebooting a server, swapping RAM...) they're increasing the amount of time necessary to get your butt on premises to fix it, and potentially impacting their business while you do so.
Remember, you can't spell One True Window Environment without twm!
The obsession with prefixes was really a dot-com era thing. I'm pretty konfident they've gotten past that now. Really, they've totally kleaned up their act and accepted standard spelling konventions for their application names. Don't believe me? Konsider the evidence for yourself!
Brilliant! You're right! We'll all just point at this, say "this is why we can't have nice things," and standardize on twm. All debates about good desktop environment design will end. It's a perfect world.
It's slimy as hell, but they're not patenting the original sequence, they're patenting the sequence as modified for optimal function in the new organism, and making the argument that the DNA sequence is the blueprint to a machine (which it is.) Usually this new organism is the mouse.
Nah; as someone else noted in these here comments, it's probably going to be more like an Italian DMCA. Nothing to worry about—other than the complete kookoo bizarreness that is the Italian media.
Also, Benito Mussolini. What's the deal with that guy? Man. What a guy.
Who knows! Personally I'd like to think it was the base appeal to memes, and perhaps my half-hearted attempt at acting like I had some kind of textbook answer.
Really? The only more successful ways of having sex without risk of pregnancy are surgeries that make it impossible or expensive to have kids in the future.
Wrongity, wrong-wrong, wrong. Gentlemen, I give you the future. Physical implants and highly specific hormone receptor blockers, both reversible, both more cost-effective than either of the above, and both with control rates comparable to surgeries (which, amusingly, don't have perfect rates either.)
To an uneducated observer, it may look that way, but as we've learned from pretty much every single time an infrastructure-owning corporation starts up its own content outlet, anything that doesn't put money directly in their pocket is the competition and will be blocked or tariffed to the full extent possible under the law. There are no publicly-traded ISPs that are not evil, unless you perhaps count Google TiSP.
Hey, don't jump the gun. Just because BT hasn't blocked BitTorrent yet doesn't mean it isn't part of the plan.
Give them a chance to get their stuff together first. They've got a quarterly puppy-kicking quota to meet before they can worry about little details like shafting the customer.
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It was also, according to that linked Wikipedia article (which is strangely unclickable on FF4) only down there for twenty minutes. Not a very exciting experiment.
Despite your (somewhat painful) libertarian trolling, you kinda missed the point. clem.dickey was talking about Amazon assisting their customers in avoiding the payment of taxes through locally-operating vendors who presumably would be subject to the sales tax.
It sure does when you have blood in your semen!
Prove that they don't, genius.
You belong in a church somewhere.
As other commentators stated, alas, it wasn't Silvio. I'm sure he's not far behind, though.
Note that Italy, being the home of fascism, doesn't generally consider it to be as much of an insult or bad thing as we English-speakers do. Most Italian governments since the fall of Mussolini have resembled it to some extent, and indeed the sentiments behind it (which we call corruption and nepotism in a democracy) have been commonplace on the northern side of the Mediterranean since the Roman Republic. I know a software developer living in Athens who constantly complains about having to bribe the postman in order to get his mail delivered, for example. This is also how organizations like the Mafia came into existence, and why they continue to function successfully, as a kind of tribe.
Outside of ancient treatises on philosophy, democracy in that region has pretty much always been a masquerade ball for aristocrats; it's not at all like in countries with a Germanic linguistic heritage + Protestant background, where people are treated much more on par with one another. So, naturally? The law is just an impediment. You keep your dirty business out of the law's sight until you've accrued enough power to manipulate your problems away... including the people who have discovered said dirt.
Heretic! Double-reverse triple-heretic!
Actually, XEmacs is a fork, and still GPL'd. The joke is that by inserting the slash, it goes from "Emacs, by GNU" to "the GNU toolchain running on top of the Emacs kernel", like "GNU/Linux". But alas; jokes, they fall flat.
Man. Now you're making me wish I could use my mod points on this article. Hail the all-conquering clipboard, and congrats on RTFAing. Thou art the biggest man.
Ten bucks says it's Silvio Berlusconi himself. Check out his rap sheet for more exciting facts on just how corrupt one (Italian) man can get!
Also, the dog has thousands of sock-puppet friends at its disposal who will block you from using any public utilities if it looks like you're inventing a shoe or boot, and weighs several thousand tons.
I love this analogy!
Hey, there are arguments to be made. By coming in, the managerial tier gains the satisfaction of knowing that, while you may not be always working on something productive, you're at least not, say, looking at the kinds of things that most corporate filters are designed to block. Also, if your job sometimes involves labor or maintenance tasks (rebooting a server, swapping RAM...) they're increasing the amount of time necessary to get your butt on premises to fix it, and potentially impacting their business while you do so.
Remember, you can't spell One True Window Environment without twm!
The obsession with prefixes was really a dot-com era thing. I'm pretty konfident they've gotten past that now. Really, they've totally kleaned up their act and accepted standard spelling konventions for their application names. Don't believe me? Konsider the evidence for yourself!
Brilliant! You're right! We'll all just point at this, say "this is why we can't have nice things," and standardize on twm. All debates about good desktop environment design will end. It's a perfect world.
What about growing people for organ harvesting? Or moving up the date of an execution for the same?
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Damn you, China!
This is probably why science fiction has moved back to being positive, and on to transhumanism.
It's slimy as hell, but they're not patenting the original sequence, they're patenting the sequence as modified for optimal function in the new organism, and making the argument that the DNA sequence is the blueprint to a machine (which it is.) Usually this new organism is the mouse.
That would be hard to do, seeing as it's already GNU/Emacs. GNU/BSD just seems unnatural. (oh wait)
Nah; as someone else noted in these here comments, it's probably going to be more like an Italian DMCA. Nothing to worry about—other than the complete kookoo bizarreness that is the Italian media.
Also, Benito Mussolini. What's the deal with that guy? Man. What a guy.
You're just setting yourself up for defeat. In the end, feature bloat always wins.
But at least they had a text editor!
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That can play Tetris!
Who knows! Personally I'd like to think it was the base appeal to memes, and perhaps my half-hearted attempt at acting like I had some kind of textbook answer.
Yes! His resume is here. Major career highlights include getting mentioned in Slashdot summaries, and getting mentioned in Slashdot summaries.
Here's a better joke using the same material.
Threats to open source:
1. Patents
2. Copyrights
3. ???
4. Proffitt!
5. Other bloggers.
Really? The only more successful ways of having sex without risk of pregnancy are surgeries that make it impossible or expensive to have kids in the future.
Wrongity, wrong-wrong, wrong. Gentlemen, I give you the future. Physical implants and highly specific hormone receptor blockers, both reversible, both more cost-effective than either of the above, and both with control rates comparable to surgeries (which, amusingly, don't have perfect rates either.)
To an uneducated observer, it may look that way, but as we've learned from pretty much every single time an infrastructure-owning corporation starts up its own content outlet, anything that doesn't put money directly in their pocket is the competition and will be blocked or tariffed to the full extent possible under the law. There are no publicly-traded ISPs that are not evil, unless you perhaps count Google TiSP.
Hey, don't jump the gun. Just because BT hasn't blocked BitTorrent yet doesn't mean it isn't part of the plan.
Give them a chance to get their stuff together first. They've got a quarterly puppy-kicking quota to meet before they can worry about little details like shafting the customer.
Your theory is hard to not like.