What are you talking about? The EU can mandate what goes on in their territory. IF YOU WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN THE EU, you can't bundle this. IF YOU WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN THE EU, don't merge with another large competitor. What's so confusing about that?
Well for one thing, because Taiwan isn't part of China. And until recently Hong Kong wasn't. Grouping them together as a single entity when talking about creative production doesn't make sense when the only one in the group that qualifies as "undeveloped" is China.
Not if you're talking about the influence of Chinese film, as MOST of the influential directors from Hong Kong started influencing Hollywood back when it was a British colony. And neither Taiwan nor Hong Kong qualify as "large, resource-rich countries" as the poster was talking about. FOCUS ON THE WORDS, PEOPLE, DON'T TRY TO SCORE POINTS ON IRRELEVANCIES.
It ain't just GWB, either. The lawmakers as a whole are either reacting to or catering to the fear factor.
A lot of it IS GWB though. Him and his little cadre of ultraright think tank buddies. Vote for Kerry, send a letter to Kerry's campaign saying that if he pulls the same stuff you'll vote against him next time.
Megacorporations, for once, have amazing power to do a huge amount of good for freedom in this country - by refusing to comply.
Oh god no. The day corporations stop complying with the laws you don't like is the day they'll stop complying with the laws you do like.
Environmental regulations? Out the window. OSHA laws? Gone. Child labor? Hiya kids, grab a pick and head to the mines. We can go back to the early part of the century when companies could spy on their workers' private lives in order to ensure they were living "morally".
Well chemistry's a funny thing. Like intuitively you'd think that H202 was something similar to water, rather than something you really wouldn't want to drink.
There might be some truth to "If you build it, they will come" but in reality, unless there are an awful lot of people clamoring for the ballpark, it's not gonna happen.
It DID happen. Loki heard the clamor, released a bunch of games, then went belly up because all the people who had insisted for years that they'd buy linux games if they came out turned out to be lying.
Look at Law and Order. On for years, and they still stay away from the private lives of the characters, and when the actors inevitably complain they're told to go stuff themselves.
In other words they do to law what Star Trek did to physics. That's what turned me off of the various Trek series; they invented fake science to solve fake scientific problems, and expected us to care.
What bearing does that have on buying Free Software from a respectable company such as Red Hat or IBM?
Huh? What bearing does that have on the parent's point? You're saying you won't need insurance if you only buy from two vendors?
Silly. The risk is exactly the same for closed-source.
You seem to be jumping to the conclusion that the insurance doesn't already exist for closed-source, and the story is saying ONLY open-source software use benefits from insurance. Why would you jump to this conclusion?
I don't know the details of styrofoam manufacture but you could conceivably object to it's using water in its manufacturing. There IS a general shortage of clean, potable water on the planet, and cotton growing (which uses obscene amounts of water) is (rightly in my mind) criticized for its insane water use.
Pretty easy to take potshots at elected officials. In cases like this one, they're well deserved.
I wouldn't be too harsh on them. I haven't done chemistry since high school (well, did a little in bio in college), and while I consider myself reasonably well-grounded I don't remember all the details of chemical nomenclature.
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Doesn't help with Starship Troopers, the book's not that great either.
What are you talking about? The EU can mandate what goes on in their territory. IF YOU WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN THE EU, you can't bundle this. IF YOU WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN THE EU, don't merge with another large competitor. What's so confusing about that?
Well for one thing, because Taiwan isn't part of China. And until recently Hong Kong wasn't. Grouping them together as a single entity when talking about creative production doesn't make sense when the only one in the group that qualifies as "undeveloped" is China.
Not if you're talking about the influence of Chinese film, as MOST of the influential directors from Hong Kong started influencing Hollywood back when it was a British colony. And neither Taiwan nor Hong Kong qualify as "large, resource-rich countries" as the poster was talking about. FOCUS ON THE WORDS, PEOPLE, DON'T TRY TO SCORE POINTS ON IRRELEVANCIES.
If you exclude Taiwan and Hong Kong, not many.
It ain't just GWB, either. The lawmakers as a whole are either reacting to or catering to the fear factor.
A lot of it IS GWB though. Him and his little cadre of ultraright think tank buddies. Vote for Kerry, send a letter to Kerry's campaign saying that if he pulls the same stuff you'll vote against him next time.
Megacorporations, for once, have amazing power to do a huge amount of good for freedom in this country - by refusing to comply.
Oh god no. The day corporations stop complying with the laws you don't like is the day they'll stop complying with the laws you do like.
Environmental regulations? Out the window. OSHA laws? Gone. Child labor? Hiya kids, grab a pick and head to the mines. We can go back to the early part of the century when companies could spy on their workers' private lives in order to ensure they were living "morally".
Free Software shouldn't be equated with the right to brazenly steal from those who provide it.
Right, that's Open Source Software's job.
Well chemistry's a funny thing. Like intuitively you'd think that H202 was something similar to water, rather than something you really wouldn't want to drink.
The stories should be fictional. The law shouldn't be. It's called deus ex machina, and it's the last resort of the unimaginative writer.
There might be some truth to "If you build it, they will come" but in reality, unless there are an awful lot of people clamoring for the ballpark, it's not gonna happen.
It DID happen. Loki heard the clamor, released a bunch of games, then went belly up because all the people who had insisted for years that they'd buy linux games if they came out turned out to be lying.
Oh, I meant the REAL Law and Order. And I think SVU is the worst of the three.
Look at Law and Order. On for years, and they still stay away from the private lives of the characters, and when the actors inevitably complain they're told to go stuff themselves.
In other words they do to law what Star Trek did to physics. That's what turned me off of the various Trek series; they invented fake science to solve fake scientific problems, and expected us to care.
"You honor, we plead cybernetic estoppel."
Humor? Does anyone still find this tired old joke funny anymore?
What bearing does that have on buying Free Software from a respectable company such as Red Hat or IBM?
Huh? What bearing does that have on the parent's point? You're saying you won't need insurance if you only buy from two vendors?
Silly. The risk is exactly the same for closed-source.
You seem to be jumping to the conclusion that the insurance doesn't already exist for closed-source, and the story is saying ONLY open-source software use benefits from insurance. Why would you jump to this conclusion?
Ze news, she must be finely aged for here.
I can't even think of an example where someone with that background would involve themselves in politics.
Jimmy Carter.
I don't know the details of styrofoam manufacture but you could conceivably object to it's using water in its manufacturing. There IS a general shortage of clean, potable water on the planet, and cotton growing (which uses obscene amounts of water) is (rightly in my mind) criticized for its insane water use.
Pretty easy to take potshots at elected officials. In cases like this one, they're well deserved.
I wouldn't be too harsh on them. I haven't done chemistry since high school (well, did a little in bio in college), and while I consider myself reasonably well-grounded I don't remember all the details of chemical nomenclature.
Uh is that why we revere English teachers more than doctors, ad writers more than physicists?
The noisiest part of MY computer is the speakers.
I foresee some argument along the lines of "If we do this, will be able to soup-up the performance of their cars, and escape capture.
Too late.
Why on earth wouldn't I want windows to play back videos fresh out of the box.
Maybe you run a business, and don't want your workers playing around with stupid video clips their brother-in-law emailed them.
Yeah, you're right, most of them sucked, but Magnum still has it.