Primarily I am objecting to the prospect of legislation that violates the constitution. Once the government can pass whatever laws it feels like, the people are in trouble.
With a few exceptions (i.e. banks as the constitution grants the federal government the power to regulate banking), companies are incorporated with a state.
But that would make it hard for politicians to accidentally fail to pay their taxes until caught, to create loopholes in exchange for political favors, to obscure from the taxpayers how much of their money is actually being taken, and to make vague promises to make the tax code more fair that nobody will ever be able to evaluate.
Please show us where in the US Constitution it says that the federal government has the right to tell corporations how many resources they can give to individuals and NGOs.
It may be a problem that corporations can give huge sums of money to campaigns. (But only because of the problem that the voters do not research the candidates and think for themselves, but allow themselves to be sold by glitzy advertisements.) But it not within the power of the federal government to regulate it. The solution is with the people, not with the government.
I do not think that Oracle and IBM are deliberately going after MS. But the more business applications get written in Java, the more tenuous MS's desktop OS monopoly becomes.
Any programmer who doesn't grasp this and who puts tabs into his code is obviously not a good rational thinker and is thus probably not a very good programmer
There are plenty of good rational thinkers and good programmers who write code in environments where the development tools are homogenous and tabs are used.
Google is not getting out because they think operating in China was evil, they are getting out because they think operating in China carries excess financial risks.
If everybody worked hard for 40 hours a week, 25% of the working population could do 100% of the work, and we'd have a 75% unemployment rate. Or 75% of the population in marketing.
That people pay less in the UK for their health coverage than in the USA may have something to do with the wasteful disasters that are Medicaid and Medicare, and that Americans make the least healthy choices of any first-world country.
Voluntarily buying a product to make your life better/longer from a company is not at all the same as paying an unavoidable tax to a government whether you use the services supposedly provided or not.
Now if you said that in the USA you have to pay a tax to General Motors, AIG, Citigroup, Chyrsler, JP Morgan Chase, . . .
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Primarily I am objecting to the prospect of legislation that violates the constitution. Once the government can pass whatever laws it feels like, the people are in trouble.
With a few exceptions (i.e. banks as the constitution grants the federal government the power to regulate banking), companies are incorporated with a state.
But that would make it hard for politicians to accidentally fail to pay their taxes until caught, to create loopholes in exchange for political favors, to obscure from the taxpayers how much of their money is actually being taken, and to make vague promises to make the tax code more fair that nobody will ever be able to evaluate.
Please show us where in the US Constitution it says that the federal government has the right to tell corporations how many resources they can give to individuals and NGOs.
It may be a problem that corporations can give huge sums of money to campaigns. (But only because of the problem that the voters do not research the candidates and think for themselves, but allow themselves to be sold by glitzy advertisements.) But it not within the power of the federal government to regulate it. The solution is with the people, not with the government.
The survivors are not the sociopaths. First of all, there just aren't that many sociopaths.
The survivors are the ones who learn treat their jobs as routine amoral functions that have no impact on their personal lives or self worth.
Sounds just like the US public schools to me.
Right. They are ignoring the huge volume of legitimate mail that hotmail/msn silently deletes in violation of the RFCs.
If I had to go to space, I would rather go with Boeing or Lockheed Martin that with NASA.
An open proxy for what? SMTP?
I do not think that Oracle and IBM are deliberately going after MS. But the more business applications get written in Java, the more tenuous MS's desktop OS monopoly becomes.
Hopefully they will keep them around. Both Oracle and IBM pushing Java is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Linux at the moment.
Clearly they are not thinking at all. If they were, they would want to return to the days of the Reagan era.
Not that kind of caching. Caching downloaded objects so you do not have to download them again when you visit the page next week.
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
GPLv2
There is a gimp plugin that provides a very nice front end for it.
They've been in Debian for years.
I thought it was largely as a concession to the corn farmers in midwest and Great Lakes regions.
Option 1: Allow clueless customers to send sensitive data via FTP. Keep customers. Make money.
Option 2: Require clueless customers so send sensitive data via SFTP. Lose customers. Lose money.
Ok. What is your phone number?
There are plenty of good rational thinkers and good programmers who write code in environments where the development tools are homogenous and tabs are used.
Cyclists spend a lot of time on the road. It would be nice if drivers were paying enough attention to see them.
That is why you do not see it. The companies that use it know what they are doing, and do not need you.
whoosh.
The sun rises on the eastern horizon just as you are going to bed after sitting at your computer all night.
Google is not getting out because they think operating in China was evil, they are getting out because they think operating in China carries excess financial risks.
If everybody worked hard for 40 hours a week, 25% of the working population could do 100% of the work, and we'd have a 75% unemployment rate. Or 75% of the population in marketing.
That people pay less in the UK for their health coverage than in the USA may have something to do with the wasteful disasters that are Medicaid and Medicare, and that Americans make the least healthy choices of any first-world country.
Voluntarily buying a product to make your life better/longer from a company is not at all the same as paying an unavoidable tax to a government whether you use the services supposedly provided or not.
Now if you said that in the USA you have to pay a tax to General Motors, AIG, Citigroup, Chyrsler, JP Morgan Chase, . . .