Unless you are firing your employee for doing something horrible, best pratice when terminating white collar employees who have been trusted with access is to cut off access Friday evening, give notice Monday morning, and pay them for another 2-4 weeks at full salary to work half time writing documentation (and be free to spend the rest of their time looking for another job or golfing). The company avoids sabatoge and burning bridges, gets documetnation, and has remaning employees who know they will be treated respectfully.
Of course, the more power you give to one person, however competent he may be, the more evil he becomes. There really isn't a solution to that problem.
If they are copyrightable, will we all have to switch to Scala running on the JVM?
If the APIs are copyrightable, the bytecode spec will also be copyrightable. So you cannot write a JVM without Oracle's permission. This was the problem for Apache Harmony. If APIs are found to be non-copyrightable but the bytecode spec still is for some reason, Google could write (or allow others to write) a Dalvik VM for other platforms and we could continue writing Java code but compile it for the DVM instead of the JVM.
There is a simpler solution. Get rid of property taxes and corporate taxes and tax capital gains as income. This will break the argument that corporations are citizens and make governments pay attention to where the money is coming from - the people.
Microsoft got in trouble because the leveraged a monopoly in one market (desktop operating systems) to get an unfair advantage in another (web browsers).
We can fix things by electing better people. But if we continue educating children to think that everything the government does is good, not enough people will realize the problems to want to elect better people. We need to be aware of exactly what is wrong with out government to fix it, and we cannot do that by being ignorant.
I got a publicly funded education K-12 and federally subsidized loans. I am perfectly aware at how much the taxpayers overpaid for my education, with tens of thousands of dollars per student going towards massive administrative bloat, unused curriculum, dangerous sports programs, unions, unnecessary bussing, meaningless standardized tests, baby sitting, frequent politically-driven realignment of schools and departments, and numerous other wastes. The district my children live in spends over $17,000 per year per student and has a graduation rate under 50%. My kids are getting a combination of private school and home schooling*.
The problem is not so much a publicly funded education system but a government-run education system.
* I do not want to hear the rants about how I am isolationg my children and giving them a substandard education. My kids have lots of interaction with other kids outside of school, my wife is a well-educated and certified teacher, I am going to make damn sure the science they learn is current and accurately presented, and the Internet has a wealth of resources (e.g. Khan Academy).
"...because most people don't have... thirty thousand dollars extra to purchase a car in cash?"
I think you mean:...because most people aren't willing to drive a beater and save the money they would be spending on a lease for a nice car until they can afford to buy it in cash?
Beater cars end up costing a lot of money too. And probably cost more for fuel. Most people are not willing to take public transit or ride bicycles or walk instead of owning a car or two.
The New York Thruway is kept in great condition, and once gas hit about $2.50/gal it became cheaper to pay the toll than to take parrallel roads that are not as straight and level (e.g. US20, NY17/I86).
And the money collected also maintains the Erie Canal Trail.
Easy. Accept that the accounts in religious texts were written by people and subject to their scope of knowledge. If there was a group of people 6000 years ago who had only covered an area of a few hundred square miles in their lives, and that few hundred square miles flooded, they would write that the world flooded. Believing that the entire Earth did not flood in no way invalidates the text.
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Unless you are firing your employee for doing something horrible, best pratice when terminating white collar employees who have been trusted with access is to cut off access Friday evening, give notice Monday morning, and pay them for another 2-4 weeks at full salary to work half time writing documentation (and be free to spend the rest of their time looking for another job or golfing). The company avoids sabatoge and burning bridges, gets documetnation, and has remaning employees who know they will be treated respectfully.
Wait, the tailgating pig gave himself a ticket?
When has that ever stopped them before?
Sure there is. Put it on an encrypted partition.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000115
Sure there is. Vote him out.
If the APIs are copyrightable, the bytecode spec will also be copyrightable. So you cannot write a JVM without Oracle's permission. This was the problem for Apache Harmony. If APIs are found to be non-copyrightable but the bytecode spec still is for some reason, Google could write (or allow others to write) a Dalvik VM for other platforms and we could continue writing Java code but compile it for the DVM instead of the JVM.
Tweens and tards are the ideal target for advertisers. AOL's problem was that they lost the tweens and tards to cable, Google, and MySpace.
Except for plugins.
There is a difference between using your parents resources and using the citizens' resources.
There is a simpler solution. Get rid of property taxes and corporate taxes and tax capital gains as income. This will break the argument that corporations are citizens and make governments pay attention to where the money is coming from - the people.
Microsoft got in trouble because the leveraged a monopoly in one market (desktop operating systems) to get an unfair advantage in another (web browsers).
Apple does not have a monopoly.
Citation needed.
We can fix things by electing better people. But if we continue educating children to think that everything the government does is good, not enough people will realize the problems to want to elect better people. We need to be aware of exactly what is wrong with out government to fix it, and we cannot do that by being ignorant.
Right, because the urban uneducated poor are known for voting Republican.
I got a publicly funded education K-12 and federally subsidized loans. I am perfectly aware at how much the taxpayers overpaid for my education, with tens of thousands of dollars per student going towards massive administrative bloat, unused curriculum, dangerous sports programs, unions, unnecessary bussing, meaningless standardized tests, baby sitting, frequent politically-driven realignment of schools and departments, and numerous other wastes. The district my children live in spends over $17,000 per year per student and has a graduation rate under 50%. My kids are getting a combination of private school and home schooling*.
The problem is not so much a publicly funded education system but a government-run education system.
* I do not want to hear the rants about how I am isolationg my children and giving them a substandard education. My kids have lots of interaction with other kids outside of school, my wife is a well-educated and certified teacher, I am going to make damn sure the science they learn is current and accurately presented, and the Internet has a wealth of resources (e.g. Khan Academy).
OpenJDK6 has some issues, but OpenJDK7 is the reference implementation.
"...because most people don't have ... thirty thousand dollars extra to purchase a car in cash?"
I think you mean: ...because most people aren't willing to drive a beater and save the money they would be spending on a lease for a nice car until they can afford to buy it in cash?
Beater cars end up costing a lot of money too. And probably cost more for fuel. Most people are not willing to take public transit or ride bicycles or walk instead of owning a car or two.
I have lots to hide. Just because it is not illegal, unethical, or immoral does not mean I do not want to hide it.
I am also do not want to spend my time complying with this kind of regulation.
Time to move my mail/chat server out of the US.
Rand Paul != Ron Paul
The New York Thruway is kept in great condition, and once gas hit about $2.50/gal it became cheaper to pay the toll than to take parrallel roads that are not as straight and level (e.g. US20, NY17/I86).
And the money collected also maintains the Erie Canal Trail.
No - the court should rule on what the law states, not what somebody thinks the intent is. Hopefully the lawmakers will make this explicitly illegal.
Easy. Accept that the accounts in religious texts were written by people and subject to their scope of knowledge. If there was a group of people 6000 years ago who had only covered an area of a few hundred square miles in their lives, and that few hundred square miles flooded, they would write that the world flooded. Believing that the entire Earth did not flood in no way invalidates the text.
A frighteningly large number of people, apparently.