If you will look at the epidemiology, the lives saved through malaria abatement substantially outnumber the lives lost due to toxicity, in those areas where malaria is endemic.
I'm not arguing for DDT use in the U.S., where (1) malaria is not endemic and (2) we can afford malathion, but in places like Congo or Laos, DDT is desperately needful.
Killing off entire generations of mosquitos with cheap insecticides like DDT could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Unfortunately donor nations, such as the U.S., tend to balk at paying for DDT, which is banned in the U.S. Thus, lives are lost.
The ideal future scenario is that PubPat should accumulate a massive arsenal of patents, and then take legal action against infringers throughout industry, settling only when they agree to cross-license their patents to the public at large. By attacking the most eggregious abusers of the patent system, PubPat could play a role akin to that of DDT in Malaria abatement.
And yet you feel compelled to contribute to it. Puzzling, that.
Actually threads don't have points. Posters (heads) do. It's similar to the allusion made previously in this thread, that it's silly to treat a business as a person, since businesses are amoral.
The cellular industry has grown by leaps and bounds on a continuous ongoing basis, long before E911 became available. I understand that the considerations relative to the market are different for VOIP, but clearly there is a precedent which leads to the conclusion that E911 is not crucial to the uptake of a new telephony delivery format.
It seems terribly perverse to call it FUD on the one hand, and spread the FUD with the other hand.
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That disproportional allowance is patently unconsitutional, and its perpetuation makes a prima facie case that the court system has failed. The foundational laws of the nation are mooted by practice, so that the U.S. is in practice a lawless system of interconnected potentates weilding what power they can for what ends they will. This internal lawlessness is reflected in a lawless international policy.
Assassination politics is the last, best hope of good government.
It's going to take 4 to 6 years to produce and deliver the u.s. built replacement for the elektron systems, according to the article.
A smart third grader can make an oxygen generator with a battery, wire, salt and electrodes in 5 minutes. For the 0g environment, we'll add a slow centrifuge.
Remind me not to pay my taxes if this is the crap I get for it.
According to Larry Silverstein, he ordered it "pulled", i.e. a controlled demolition.
It was pulled less than 8 hours after 1 & 2 came down. Analysis, design, and placement of explosives for a controlled demolition of a tall building typically take at least a month. Thus it is sensible to conclude that demolition charges were placed in WTC 7 in advance. This raises the question: Were there also demolition charges in place in WTC 1 and 2?
Really, the word is used in many different senses. There definitely are senses of the term in which the entire GNU project is a communist project. It's not helpful to respond to such a use with a reactive reflex that assumes the term to have a very different meaning.
They have every right to send a C&D letter any time they wish, for whatever reason, as long as doing so is not a criminal act. We have the right to disregard their letters and snicker up our sleeves. If you want to take my stuff down, you need a court-order, buddy.
People are stupid. They get a C&D letter from some lawyer, and they cave. What a waste of protoplasm. Ignore them. If you get a court order, *then* you have a legal obligation to move your content offshore. Until then, it's play time.
Y'all keep going on, railing against revenge and such, but the question wasn't limited to negative reactionary strategies. It's an open-ended creative opportunity for self-expression, which can well be to the benefit and edification of every one involved. Sure, revenge can be sweet if it is an execution of justice, but there are an infinite variety of things that you can't do when working for an anal employer, things that are enjoyable, heartening, even helpful or inspiring, which an exit plan frees you to do.
"Professionalism" is grossly over-rated. I don't do business with self-styled "professionals". I hire people with talent and personality. I buy from people with good shit. And any "professionals" that come knocking can go back to their nazi rat holes and imagine their jackbooted heels stomping endlessly on a human face for kicks.
I'm pulling 114k right now, down from a peak of 120k in 2001. Your problem is that you are trying to get jobs working for places like DSR. If you go to work for an employer that needs real talent, you'll get real money.
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> IBM is NOT here to promote Linux or save the world.
That might not be their motivation, but it might be the *exact* reason why God created IBM.
Excuse me, but International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day isn't until September 19.
If you will look at the epidemiology, the lives
saved through malaria abatement substantially
outnumber the lives lost due to toxicity, in those
areas where malaria is endemic.
I'm not arguing for DDT use in the U.S., where
(1) malaria is not endemic and (2) we can afford
malathion, but in places like Congo or Laos, DDT
is desperately needful.
Killing off entire generations of mosquitos with
cheap insecticides like DDT could save hundreds of
thousands of lives each year. Unfortunately donor
nations, such as the U.S., tend to balk at paying
for DDT, which is banned in the U.S. Thus, lives
are lost.
The ideal future scenario is that PubPat should
accumulate a massive arsenal of patents, and then
take legal action against infringers throughout
industry, settling only when they agree to
cross-license their patents to the public at large.
By attacking the most eggregious abusers of the
patent system, PubPat could play a role akin to
that of DDT in Malaria abatement.
> I fail to see the point of this entire thread.
And yet you feel compelled to contribute to it.
Puzzling, that.
Actually threads don't have points. Posters (heads) do.
It's similar to the allusion made previously in
this thread, that it's silly to treat a business
as a person, since businesses are amoral.
The cellular industry has grown by leaps and
bounds on a continuous ongoing basis, long before
E911 became available. I understand that the
considerations relative to the market are different
for VOIP, but clearly there is a precedent which
leads to the conclusion that E911 is not crucial
to the uptake of a new telephony delivery format.
It seems terribly perverse to call
it FUD on the one hand, and spread the FUD
with the other hand.
John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy.
That disproportional allowance is patently unconsitutional, and its perpetuation makes a prima facie case that the court system has failed. The foundational laws of the nation are mooted by practice, so that the U.S. is in practice a lawless
system of interconnected potentates weilding what power they can for what ends they will. This internal lawlessness is reflected in a lawless international policy.
Assassination politics is the last, best hope of good government.
You just wait until the armies of the undead come
knocking. You'll be wishing for a belt-feed.
It's going to take 4 to 6 years to produce and
deliver the u.s. built replacement for the elektron
systems, according to the article.
A smart third grader can make an oxygen generator
with a battery, wire, salt and electrodes in 5
minutes. For the 0g environment, we'll add a
slow centrifuge.
Remind me not to pay my taxes if this is the
crap I get for it.
If your hot young liberal wife starts to turn Republican with age, you're not going to get your *ahem* needs met like you did before you got married.
> Why did WTC 7 collapse?
According to Larry Silverstein, he ordered it "pulled", i.e. a controlled demolition.
It was pulled less than 8 hours after 1 & 2
came down. Analysis, design, and placement of
explosives for a controlled demolition of a tall
building typically take at least a month. Thus
it is sensible to conclude that demolition charges
were placed in WTC 7 in advance. This raises the
question: Were there also demolition charges in
place in WTC 1 and 2?
In communist regimes, there is no regime.
Really, the word is used in many different senses.
There definitely are senses of the term in which
the entire GNU project is a communist project.
It's not helpful to respond to such a use with a
reactive reflex that assumes the term to have a
very different meaning.
Hall of infamy perhaps.
Personally, I think a user who READS the documentation is at least as rare and precious.
Why not run it on a MITS Altair 8080/24KB?
Can't find one? Neither can I find a P233/64MB
any more.
But yeah, what the world needs is a good 50k VM.
They have every right to send a C&D letter any time they wish, for whatever reason, as long as doing so
is not a criminal act. We have the right to disregard their letters and snicker up our sleeves.
If you want to take my stuff down, you need a court-order, buddy.
Square could defend it's trademarks by licensing them.
They don't need to defend their copyrights.
Really, check the law.
Lots of us have dev kits.
Nothing to do with them, unless someone releases some source.
People are stupid. They get a C&D letter from some lawyer, and they cave. What a waste of protoplasm.
Ignore them. If you get a court order, *then* you have a legal obligation to move your content offshore.
Until then, it's play time.
Y'all keep going on, railing against revenge and such, but the question wasn't limited to negative
reactionary strategies. It's an open-ended creative opportunity for self-expression, which can well be to the benefit and edification of every one involved. Sure, revenge can be sweet if it is an execution of justice, but there are an infinite variety of things that you can't do when working for an anal employer, things that are enjoyable, heartening, even helpful or inspiring, which an exit plan frees you to do.
"Professionalism" is grossly over-rated. I don't do business with self-styled "professionals". I hire people with talent and personality. I buy from people with good shit. And any "professionals" that come knocking can go back to their nazi rat holes and imagine their jackbooted heels stomping endlessly on a human face for kicks.
As root on the svn box, I control the history of time itself.
I'm pulling 114k right now, down from a peak of 120k in 2001. Your problem is that you are trying to get jobs working for places like DSR. If you go to work for an employer that needs real talent, you'll get real money.
It's bupkis.
Noch a chochem!