it's not about who had more to do with developing parts of the kernel, it's about who has more to lose. sco has ibm by the short and curlies because they can revoke ibm's unix license, thereby nullifying every single one of ibm's aix licenses. sco is essentially saying to ibm, "give us a billion dollars or every single one of your aix customers is screwed." if they had such leverage against hp or intel, they would use it, but they don't so they're suing ibm instead.
of all things they ban Feng Shui?!?! does the art of arranging the furniture in your house in a aesthetically pleasing manner really constitute objectionable material? how will the poor chinese citizens decorate their houses?!?!
since you're not an american, i'll correct one of your points. in the pre-trial process, a rather large group of potential jurors is assembled and made to fill out questionaires about their beliefs and viewpoints on social issues such as the death penalty. then both the prosecution and defense eliminate jurors that they think won't help their side. for instance, if a islamic terrorist is on trial, the prosecution will try to get as many red-blooded americans on the jury as possible, while the defense will try to fill the jury with people sympathetic to muslims. this, in theory, creates a jury of mixed viewpoints.
3) If you start to pile up money in your bank account, the computer will sell your personal information to places like mortgage lenders, car lenders, and other high-dollar financing brokers to start trying to separate you from that money.
What a ridiculous allegation. There's no reason for banks to sell your personal information since banks make money by investing the money you have in your accounts. Why would they want sell your personal information for a few measly bucks (if even that much) when they can make much more by doing everything possible to keep your money in their hands for investment purposes?
I had to pay 10 bucks to leave the Bangkok airport. I never thought I'd want to leave a place where hot women grab my crotch as I'm walking down the street, but after two weeks of that, 10 bucks was a small price to pay to get away from all the GODDAMN HOOKERS!
If BMI adopts a "your concerns are worth sh~t to us" attitude and just tells people to accept inferior products, they will get a large public backlash.
i wouldn't be too sure about that. they are german after all, and germans aren't known for their "smiles and sunshine" disposition. i should know, i'm of 100% german ancestry (last name of hess, not sure if i'm related to rudolph), and i spend most days pissed off at the world.
sigh. are you saying that oligarchies, theocracies, and meritocracies are immune to corruption? money corrupts regardless of the form of goverment.
say for example that i have 1 billion dollars. how is democracy failing because i have 1 billion dollars (which was your original statement)? advancement of one's goals, not money, is the reason people get into manipulating politics and politicians.
... All income higher than 2 million is taxed at 100%.
no, it's not. the highest tax bracket in this country for straight income is 36%. germany used to have a limit at which any income over that was taxed at 90%, but they wised up so now it's down somewhere around 40-50%. no such limit like that exists in the united states.
I personally believe that at some level of income, the tax rate for individuals should become 100%.
what are you fucking retarded? if the government was taking 100% of someone's money, what is that person's motivation for working? if you starting taking all of larry ellison's money when he was making just a million dollars a year, why would he even bother showing up at the office? would he give a shit at that point whether his company was making the best goddamn RDBMS on the planet? under your rules, are you going to force him to work?
No one person should have a billion dollars, it's impossible for a democaracy to exist when people do.
what in the hell does someone having a billion dollars have to do with democracy working? here is the definition of democracy:
6,500,000,000 people
give each person 4 square feet of space
1 square mile = 27,878,400 square feet
6,500,000,000 / 27,878,400 = 233.1 square miles
therefore, you can fit the entire population of the world in 234 square miles. i did a little calculating one day at work about how many chickens humanity could eat in one year: http://www.leroybrown.com/chickens.html
actually, a burger king ad did explicitly mention mcdonalds in a commercial back in 1982 starring sarah michelle gellar. mcdonalds was so pissed that they sued not only burger king, but 5 year old sarah as well. now due to truth in advertising laws, she can only enter a mcdonalds in disguise.
being a sophomore, i wasn't 21 yet, otherwise i would've been at shorty's every night. can't say i recall owen kilcoyne, though... what dorm was he in? what dorm were you in?
...or when bill clinton came to kutztown university in january 1995. i was a sophomore and we found out one day that bill clinton would be speaking in our field house. the administration bulletin about the event mentioned something to the effect of "protestors will be dealt with accordingly". i don't remember the exact wording but i remember being outraged. students were told that they were being given priority to see him speak. so my roommmate and i got in line at 5:30am two days before the speech to get tickets. had to skip my first class because we didn't actually receive our tickets until 9:30. so at 6:00 am on the morning of the 10:30 speech, we got in line. at 9:30, when the doors opened, students were held at bay while we watched busload after busload of special interest groups being led in first. when they were all inside and seated, approximately 100 students were let inside. needless to say, students were outraged after standing outside in the freezing cold in january in pennsylvania only to be cast aside in favor of less volatile voters. so if you think for a second that this is soley a republican tactic, you're wrong.
if you think 1999 was a good metric for level-headed decisions in tech stocks, there's some land in florida i'd like to tell you about. don't you remember rhat? they had jumped to $120+ in the first three months then dropped to $15 in the first quarter of 2000. or lnux? they maxed out on their opening day ipo at $320 a share. now they're at 80 cents. it's all perceived value (and retards with way too much money on their hands).
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it's not about who had more to do with developing parts of the kernel, it's about who has more to lose. sco has ibm by the short and curlies because they can revoke ibm's unix license, thereby nullifying every single one of ibm's aix licenses. sco is essentially saying to ibm, "give us a billion dollars or every single one of your aix customers is screwed." if they had such leverage against hp or intel, they would use it, but they don't so they're suing ibm instead.
Can anyone tell me what he means by "baroque instruction encoding"?
well, you know what they say: if it ain't baroque, don't fix it.
i am going straight to hell for that one.
are you saying there's such a thing as a reasonably-priced porsche mechanic?
sorry, i sold my '84 911. had to have $2,500 in work done on it for the 90K service to sell it. seems "90,000 mile service" is a fairly loose term.
silly geek, it depends what C was initialized to
i could've sworn that cmdrtaco said i wouldn't have to look at ads if i subscribed to slashdot...
It's been cleaning dirty underwear for 48 years...
please don't tell us it's the same underwear you bought 48 years ago when consumer reports recommended it.
of all things they ban Feng Shui?!?! does the art of arranging the furniture in your house in a aesthetically pleasing manner really constitute objectionable material? how will the poor chinese citizens decorate their houses?!?!
since you're not an american, i'll correct one of your points. in the pre-trial process, a rather large group of potential jurors is assembled and made to fill out questionaires about their beliefs and viewpoints on social issues such as the death penalty. then both the prosecution and defense eliminate jurors that they think won't help their side. for instance, if a islamic terrorist is on trial, the prosecution will try to get as many red-blooded americans on the jury as possible, while the defense will try to fill the jury with people sympathetic to muslims. this, in theory, creates a jury of mixed viewpoints.
3) If you start to pile up money in your bank account, the computer will sell your personal information to places like mortgage lenders, car lenders, and other high-dollar financing brokers to start trying to separate you from that money.
What a ridiculous allegation. There's no reason for banks to sell your personal information since banks make money by investing the money you have in your accounts. Why would they want sell your personal information for a few measly bucks (if even that much) when they can make much more by doing everything possible to keep your money in their hands for investment purposes?
I had to pay 10 bucks to leave the Bangkok airport. I never thought I'd want to leave a place where hot women grab my crotch as I'm walking down the street, but after two weeks of that, 10 bucks was a small price to pay to get away from all the GODDAMN HOOKERS!
Gums was played by J.E. Jones...
Bleeding Gums Murphy was played by Ron Taylor, not James Earl Jones.
If BMI adopts a "your concerns are worth sh~t to us" attitude and just tells people to accept inferior products, they will get a large public backlash.
i wouldn't be too sure about that. they are german after all, and germans aren't known for their "smiles and sunshine" disposition. i should know, i'm of 100% german ancestry (last name of hess, not sure if i'm related to rudolph), and i spend most days pissed off at the world.
Oasis has approved the SAML 1.0 specification.
does this finally mean that XML is more popular than the beatles?
Yeah, because money has no influence in politics
sigh. are you saying that oligarchies, theocracies, and meritocracies are immune to corruption? money corrupts regardless of the form of goverment.
say for example that i have 1 billion dollars. how is democracy failing because i have 1 billion dollars (which was your original statement)? advancement of one's goals, not money, is the reason people get into manipulating politics and politicians.
no, it's not. the highest tax bracket in this country for straight income is 36%. germany used to have a limit at which any income over that was taxed at 90%, but they wised up so now it's down somewhere around 40-50%. no such limit like that exists in the united states.
I personally believe that at some level of income, the tax rate for individuals should become 100%.
what are you fucking retarded? if the government was taking 100% of someone's money, what is that person's motivation for working? if you starting taking all of larry ellison's money when he was making just a million dollars a year, why would he even bother showing up at the office? would he give a shit at that point whether his company was making the best goddamn RDBMS on the planet? under your rules, are you going to force him to work?
No one person should have a billion dollars, it's impossible for a democaracy to exist when people do.
what in the hell does someone having a billion dollars have to do with democracy working? here is the definition of democracy:
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=democracy
nowhere in that definition does it mention or even hint that democracy breaks down when some people have a shitload of money.
6,500,000,000 people
give each person 4 square feet of space
1 square mile = 27,878,400 square feet
6,500,000,000 / 27,878,400 = 233.1 square miles
therefore, you can fit the entire population of the world in 234 square miles. i did a little calculating one day at work about how many chickens humanity could eat in one year: http://www.leroybrown.com/chickens.html
i never thought i'd say this but i think linus is the best looking guy in that picture. and yes, i am secure in my manhood, thank you for asking.
That's what I call production over-run.
yeah, i guess they had a scene that couldn't be done without her since she was born seven years into post-production!
actually, a burger king ad did explicitly mention mcdonalds in a commercial back in 1982 starring sarah michelle gellar. mcdonalds was so pissed that they sued not only burger king, but 5 year old sarah as well. now due to truth in advertising laws, she can only enter a mcdonalds in disguise.
the imdb story
being a sophomore, i wasn't 21 yet, otherwise i would've been at shorty's every night. can't say i recall owen kilcoyne, though... what dorm was he in? what dorm were you in?
It was just like when Bush went to Ohio State
...or when bill clinton came to kutztown university in january 1995. i was a sophomore and we found out one day that bill clinton would be speaking in our field house. the administration bulletin about the event mentioned something to the effect of "protestors will be dealt with accordingly". i don't remember the exact wording but i remember being outraged. students were told that they were being given priority to see him speak. so my roommmate and i got in line at 5:30am two days before the speech to get tickets. had to skip my first class because we didn't actually receive our tickets until 9:30. so at 6:00 am on the morning of the 10:30 speech, we got in line. at 9:30, when the doors opened, students were held at bay while we watched busload after busload of special interest groups being led in first. when they were all inside and seated, approximately 100 students were let inside. needless to say, students were outraged after standing outside in the freezing cold in january in pennsylvania only to be cast aside in favor of less volatile voters. so if you think for a second that this is soley a republican tactic, you're wrong.
if you think 1999 was a good metric for level-headed decisions in tech stocks, there's some land in florida i'd like to tell you about. don't you remember rhat? they had jumped to $120+ in the first three months then dropped to $15 in the first quarter of 2000. or lnux? they maxed out on their opening day ipo at $320 a share. now they're at 80 cents. it's all perceived value (and retards with way too much money on their hands).
d'ough!
Now what do I do?
Stop breaking the law, asshole!!