Why the fuck was that marked a troll? Its a deadly serious point. The major funders of the Climate denial movement is the Heratige foundation, who in turn have been funded by Exon and various other oil companies.
The Heratige foundation ALSO are major funders of the creationist movement.
And it IS an important for people to be soberly aware of that fact, that the same people trying to rewrite the laws of physics to make a 6 day magical creation shit to kids are the same people trying to rewrite the laws of physics to propose some sort of hidden mechanism that disables CO2s greenhouse effects (First observed in the 1800s!) from affecting anything.
What the hell are you talking about there aren't thousands of researchers? There was thousands of researchers involved with just the UN report alone and that was just the post-doctorals. Dude, theres tens of thousands of researchers and no they don't all know each other. Don't just go assuming you know the field just from reading the noisy people who write angry blogs.
Well unless your a journalist, ex-member, family member of a dead member, or anyone caught by them criticizing the church. Suggest you do a bit of reading on the subject. Nobody would give a shit about the CoS if they didn't have a huge history of going after non members.
And the 1st amendment doesn't protect your right to say things that classify as libel/slander, so I don't see why the cops shouldn't be able to force you to say good things about specific people/companies.
It frightens me that people like you are allowed to vote.
Theres a big difference between actively saying harmful untruths and being forced to lie on threat of violence from the state to say that you approve of something or wish something to happen.
This is pure and simple police-state intimidation, and hopefully it will be sternly discarded by the first judge it hits as a meritless assault on personal liberties.
"Lacks empathy" wont get you off. Sociopathy generally is NOT a defense in criminal trials, because a sociopath knows his actions are wrong and harmful, he just doesn't give a damn.
A schizophrenic who believes he's james bond and kills his mother because he believes shes about to set off a nuclear bomb that will level new york, however will probably get a prolonged stay in the happy-ward because it can be shown that he believed he was doing the right thing, as a government agent, to save lives. Even if in reality he had actually just murdered his mother whilst loudly singing "jingle bells".
The difference is that in the first case it can be shown the defendant was still in charge of his own behavior and had the agency to chose not to. The Schizophrenic however had diminished responsibility, because an organic brain fault made him think he had no choice but to save the world.
In the case of the brain tumor, diminished responsibility can probably be demonstrated because an organic brain fault had broken the dudes brain into thinking kiddy fiddling was acceptable and desirable (and perhaps the guy was even on automatic mode of some sort).
Unfortunately Juries have very little experience in determining these things well, and theres a tragic history of Schizophrenics on death row that belong in hospital, not in the chair, and theres probably also a few cases of sociopathic assholes getting off be feigning craziness.
God only knows my years working in courts taught me that despite juries being a good theory, in reality its a huge game of russian roulette with peoples freedoms, determined by whether or not the defendant is able to afford a lawyer expert not in good law but bamboozling the jury.
So the poor , probably ethnic, guy who shot the sherriff , believing himself to be self-defending against a martian assassin, gets fried, while the sleazy billionare who shoots some girl because she wont put out cops ten years and Oprah winfrey interview on release.
Yeah dude, this isn't exactly what you call "fair competition". Its called anti-competitive behavior, and microsoft has already been raped in the courts for this trick before.
What exactly is "antitrust" about trying to prevent people breaching their software licences? Theres already a court case about this exact issue, and apple has so far been found perfectly within its rights to not just technologically prevent it, but actually go after people who do it. The ethics and business sense can be debated till the cows come home (Although you would know from history that last time apple let third party people make generic pcs to run macos on, it was a big money loser for apple) but the law seems pretty clear on this one.
You mean like the time the Taliban tried to deport Bin Laden, but was blocked by the Afghan supreme court , because like all other countries in the world, you can't just deport people without presenting evidence to a court. Of course the americans couldn't accept that the taliban where blocked by the court from deporting him so they decided to just say 'fuck it lets bomb' and started the first of a pair of illegal wars of agression.
And the sad irony is, after invading one friendly country (Afghanistan, at the time a US friendly country) for not breaking the law, we are now bombing a second friendly country, pakistan. All of this, btw , could have been avoided by simply sending the evidence over. I mean its not like there wasn't any, its just it would have prevented a war Bush *really* wanted. tens of thousands of lives lost.
fucking oath he'd be able to ask it. Remember its up to the feds to prove it was illegitimate, and that gives him considerable leeway to prove that legitimate uses existed. Since telcos where buying it, its a legitimate product, albeit with capacity for abuse. Case dismissed , embarassed feds with a lot of questions to answer.
Infact even if telcos where buying it for *illegitimate* reasons, it doesn't matter, as long as he believed it was legit and can prove legit reasons exist.
And those who consider it shouldn't have the power to decide it except in a court of law.
Just because some paranoid mcarthyist hacks in the government think some guy seems a bit whack doesnt mean they should have a right to go around fucking people over with no fly lists unless its proven in a court.
The system is entirely at odds with the concept of liberty and needs to be *urgently* scrapped and subject to a public enquiry to identify the decision makers behind it so that they might be prevented from having anything to do with policy ever again.
That stock price artificially bubbled for about a year and a half then plumeted hard. Now its a bankerupt company with a tonne of impending lawsuits about to rip it a new asshole, and the potential for individuals in the company to be personally targeted for fuck-off sized lawsuits and even criminal law repercussions.
The sad thing is, before that happened it had strong IP in its adaption of NOVEL's unix that was still used in industry and Caldera linux was a more or less respected brand in certain elements of the IT industry. It'd still be around ten years from now. In a year it'll be dead and a litany of current and former management will be wishing they never heard the accursed name of Darl McBride.
Yeah, your dead on the money here. Microsoft have decided to force through an update, specifically and intentially designed to harm their customers who are not so loyal as to only buy the microsoft branded consumables.
I'd be convinced the third party flash drive manufacturers could take them to court , if it wasn't for the fact that microsoft has a shotgun to their head with the words "FAT32 PATENT" engraved on the bullets.
I believe the 'glue circutry' you refer to is called a flux capacitor. It uses an awful lot of power, and for that , the options are either a small thermonuclear reactor, or the smaller and more politically correct Z80 processor.
Do you honestly think anyone who has half a clue on setting up MTAs allows their email to come from Dynamic IPs? Get a clue dude, that shit was getting blacklisted in the 90s.
I'm sorry if you go out of your way to try and criminalize a natural and harmless thing like being gay you have absolutely no right to complain about "organized intimidation". There is no bigger organizer of intimidation than conservative big government.
You can't prove all 'gods' dont exist, but pretty much all the 'gods' in the pantheon of human beliefs tend to have claims about them that can be tested, so far not looking good for the theists. We can pretty much rule out the biblical Judeo god (christianity, islam and judaism) because theres a LOT of claims about reality that contradict science (7 day creation, 6000 years old, giant wierd flood, space made of water, etc) The hindu conception is a little more plausible in terms of time spans, but still makes claims that don't hold up under the microscope. No idea about the Sikh concept. Budhism? I think you'll find the same problems with hinduism, but possibly compounded by different schools of thought. Admittedly I dont know much about the specific claims of much outside the judeo-christian-muslim religions,but its not the point. The point is you CAN test the individual claims, unless its a truly unknowable god being proposed in which case why even bother, its not like theres any proposed negative outcomes from not caring.
Nah thats not the point. The GPL is the right licence, but it might have a few vunerabilities that could do with some patches. Thats where GPL3 comes in. I sorta reckon that it might be cool if the FSF put out a "definitions"document or whatever that could be included with the GPL2 to clarify the ambiguities that are worrying the law boffins however.
Hmm. As an aussie, I gotta say, $200mil is piss money as far as this govt is concerned, but its horror money for a small aussie start up business.
I love the govt spending my tax on science. better that then blowing up poor brown folks, but even better is that my tax money is spent on science for the benefit of all mankind. Thats an excellent use of tax in my opinion.
Its fucking slashdot, not a sociology journal. Nobody is going to go and conduct a multimonth time series data set on sexist incidents, even though the article is about institutional sexism , just for a fucking one line slashdot zinger.
This is lazy argumentation friend. You can throw it at almost any debate from any side, and stump people, because nobody is going to go to the effort just to reply to post. Its not a victory by argument, its a victory by default, and thats no victory at all.
Worst of all, the article is not even about that, but see you'd know that if you read it right?
Your misunderstanding the point here. People are not accusing steam of misproprietous software, rather they are making a similar sort of point, say, some australians make about the queen. Just because the current queen isn't a dictator in behavior, doesnt mean that theres not a risk that we have an absolute executive who COULD be a dictator if she wanted (well sort of , constitution and all that). And we don't know that King William, demented with rage at the early loss of his mother wont declare australia a theme park and make us all walk around in rubber animal costumes for brits to laugh and throw rocks at. Well again constitution, but you get the abstract point I'm making. Just because the current king is enlightened, this tells us nothing about his successors.
You only need to look at the iPhone app store to see where the problem is. As an iphone app developer, theres entire classes of software Im not allowed to write. Up until very recently I couldnt write a VOIP app that worked over 3G/Edge. I cant port firefox because it breaks their 'substantial similarity' rule about not competing with apple apps. So on. Now so far steam has been very good and hasn't nixed any of , say, half life's competitors. But lets say steam does end up being the primary game distribution channel, if they wanted to they could say "Right HL3 is coming out. No first person shooters for the next 3 months" and theres jack shit anyone could do, short of calling in the hounds from the various competition watchdogs which might well go "Meh... computer games are for kids" and ignore it, as regulators oft are prone to do.
Theres other problems too. Valve have to pay precisely zero dollars in fees to a competitor to release a product on steam. Anyone else has to pony up. Thats an immediate unfair competitive advantage.
Nobody is saying steam as it stands is a bad thing. In truth its great (well unless your an aussie with one of those horrible 500meg download limits) , but the potential for abuse is massive, so its not FUD to talk about it before it becomes a problem.
Forget the DOJ, they had the opportunity a decade ago and balked it when George bush ordered them to back down. Its the europeans they have to fear. The EU has had a fun little habit of issueing them multi billion dollar slapdowns for anticompetitive behavior against european companies and consumers, and I suspect that, more than anything has forced the decision to start behaving for microsoft.
As long as the EU remains vigilant , microsoft wont dare try and shut down its only competition for file serving and risk getting utterly disemboweled by the EU.
Andrew could end up a [i]very rich man[/i] should Microsoft dare risk the EU's temper.
It really depends man. Cap ship battles tend to be fairly slow and ponderous. Couple of gangs of big ol' dreadnaughts pounding each others arses at snails pace (whilst the owners have mini seziures out of fear of losing their multi billion isk investments) meanwhile a showdown between a couple of vagas might be some crazy fast paced dogfight with a couple of sets of angry warriorII drones in hot pursuit. The lag though is really a product of those crazy 1000 man a side battles that happen, and really despite the improvements in eves lag (Im told its dramatically better then when I stopped playing a couple of years ago) nothing will make that non laggy, theres just mathematical limits to how fast you can push that much data around.
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Why the fuck was that marked a troll? Its a deadly serious point. The major funders of the Climate denial movement is the Heratige foundation, who in turn have been funded by Exon and various other oil companies.
The Heratige foundation ALSO are major funders of the creationist movement.
And it IS an important for people to be soberly aware of that fact, that the same people trying to rewrite the laws of physics to make a 6 day magical creation shit to kids are the same people trying to rewrite the laws of physics to propose some sort of hidden mechanism that disables CO2s greenhouse effects (First observed in the 1800s!) from affecting anything.
Pseudoscience is always in company people.
What the hell are you talking about there aren't thousands of researchers? There was thousands of researchers involved with just the UN report alone and that was just the post-doctorals. Dude, theres tens of thousands of researchers and no they don't all know each other. Don't just go assuming you know the field just from reading the noisy people who write angry blogs.
"Pwnt!" - Winston Churchill.
It probably wouldn't suprise you then that when you look at who are funding climate skeptic research
http://www.heritage.org/LeadershipForAmerica/energy-and-environment.cfm
are the same people funding the creationist whackos
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev041905a.cfm
Yeah, its the same guys lecturing climate scientists and accusing them of fraud that lecture biologists and accuse THEM of fraud.
No agendas here folks, move on citizen.
Well unless your a journalist, ex-member, family member of a dead member, or anyone caught by them criticizing the church. Suggest you do a bit of reading on the subject. Nobody would give a shit about the CoS if they didn't have a huge history of going after non members.
It frightens me that people like you are allowed to vote.
Theres a big difference between actively saying harmful untruths and being forced to lie on threat of violence from the state to say that you approve of something or wish something to happen.
This is pure and simple police-state intimidation, and hopefully it will be sternly discarded by the first judge it hits as a meritless assault on personal liberties.
"Lacks empathy" wont get you off. Sociopathy generally is NOT a defense in criminal trials, because a sociopath knows his actions are wrong and harmful, he just doesn't give a damn.
A schizophrenic who believes he's james bond and kills his mother because he believes shes about to set off a nuclear bomb that will level new york, however will probably get a prolonged stay in the happy-ward because it can be shown that he believed he was doing the right thing, as a government agent, to save lives. Even if in reality he had actually just murdered his mother whilst loudly singing "jingle bells".
The difference is that in the first case it can be shown the defendant was still in charge of his own behavior and had the agency to chose not to. The Schizophrenic however had diminished responsibility, because an organic brain fault made him think he had no choice but to save the world.
In the case of the brain tumor, diminished responsibility can probably be demonstrated because an organic brain fault had broken the dudes brain into thinking kiddy fiddling was acceptable and desirable (and perhaps the guy was even on automatic mode of some sort).
Unfortunately Juries have very little experience in determining these things well, and theres a tragic history of Schizophrenics on death row that belong in hospital, not in the chair, and theres probably also a few cases of sociopathic assholes getting off be feigning craziness.
God only knows my years working in courts taught me that despite juries being a good theory, in reality its a huge game of russian roulette with peoples freedoms, determined by whether or not the defendant is able to afford a lawyer expert not in good law but bamboozling the jury.
So the poor , probably ethnic, guy who shot the sherriff , believing himself to be self-defending against a martian assassin, gets fried, while the sleazy billionare who shoots some girl because she wont put out cops ten years and Oprah winfrey interview on release.
Yeah dude, this isn't exactly what you call "fair competition". Its called anti-competitive behavior, and microsoft has already been raped in the courts for this trick before.
What exactly is "antitrust" about trying to prevent people breaching their software licences? Theres already a court case about this exact issue, and apple has so far been found perfectly within its rights to not just technologically prevent it, but actually go after people who do it. The ethics and business sense can be debated till the cows come home (Although you would know from history that last time apple let third party people make generic pcs to run macos on, it was a big money loser for apple) but the law seems pretty clear on this one.
You mean like the time the Taliban tried to deport Bin Laden, but was blocked by the Afghan supreme court , because like all other countries in the world, you can't just deport people without presenting evidence to a court. Of course the americans couldn't accept that the taliban where blocked by the court from deporting him so they decided to just say 'fuck it lets bomb' and started the first of a pair of illegal wars of agression.
And the sad irony is, after invading one friendly country (Afghanistan, at the time a US friendly country) for not breaking the law, we are now bombing a second friendly country, pakistan. All of this, btw , could have been avoided by simply sending the evidence over. I mean its not like there wasn't any, its just it would have prevented a war Bush *really* wanted. tens of thousands of lives lost.
Good old USA.
fucking oath he'd be able to ask it. Remember its up to the feds to prove it was illegitimate, and that gives him considerable leeway to prove that legitimate uses existed. Since telcos where buying it, its a legitimate product, albeit with capacity for abuse. Case dismissed , embarassed feds with a lot of questions to answer.
Infact even if telcos where buying it for *illegitimate* reasons, it doesn't matter, as long as he believed it was legit and can prove legit reasons exist.
And those who consider it shouldn't have the power to decide it except in a court of law.
Just because some paranoid mcarthyist hacks in the government think some guy seems a bit whack doesnt mean they should have a right to go around fucking people over with no fly lists unless its proven in a court.
The system is entirely at odds with the concept of liberty and needs to be *urgently* scrapped and subject to a public enquiry to identify the decision makers behind it so that they might be prevented from having anything to do with policy ever again.
That stock price artificially bubbled for about a year and a half then plumeted hard. Now its a bankerupt company with a tonne of impending lawsuits about to rip it a new asshole, and the potential for individuals in the company to be personally targeted for fuck-off sized lawsuits and even criminal law repercussions.
The sad thing is, before that happened it had strong IP in its adaption of NOVEL's unix that was still used in industry and Caldera linux was a more or less respected brand in certain elements of the IT industry. It'd still be around ten years from now. In a year it'll be dead and a litany of current and former management will be wishing they never heard the accursed name of Darl McBride.
Yeah, your dead on the money here. Microsoft have decided to force through an update, specifically and intentially designed to harm their customers who are not so loyal as to only buy the microsoft branded consumables.
I'd be convinced the third party flash drive manufacturers could take them to court , if it wasn't for the fact that microsoft has a shotgun to their head with the words "FAT32 PATENT" engraved on the bullets.
Meanwhile we all get fucked.
I believe the 'glue circutry' you refer to is called a flux capacitor. It uses an awful lot of power, and for that , the options are either a small thermonuclear reactor, or the smaller and more politically correct Z80 processor.
JMP #FFFF
Do you honestly think anyone who has half a clue on setting up MTAs allows their email to come from Dynamic IPs? Get a clue dude, that shit was getting blacklisted in the 90s.
I'm sorry if you go out of your way to try and criminalize a natural and harmless thing like being gay you have absolutely no right to complain about "organized intimidation". There is no bigger organizer of intimidation than conservative big government.
You can't prove all 'gods' dont exist, but pretty much all the 'gods' in the pantheon of human beliefs tend to have claims about them that can be tested, so far not looking good for the theists. We can pretty much rule out the biblical Judeo god (christianity, islam and judaism) because theres a LOT of claims about reality that contradict science (7 day creation, 6000 years old, giant wierd flood, space made of water, etc) The hindu conception is a little more plausible in terms of time spans, but still makes claims that don't hold up under the microscope. No idea about the Sikh concept. Budhism? I think you'll find the same problems with hinduism, but possibly compounded by different schools of thought. Admittedly I dont know much about the specific claims of much outside the judeo-christian-muslim religions ,but its not the point. The point is you CAN test the individual claims, unless its a truly unknowable god being proposed in which case why even bother, its not like theres any proposed negative outcomes from not caring.
Nah thats not the point. The GPL is the right licence, but it might have a few vunerabilities that could do with some patches. Thats where GPL3 comes in. I sorta reckon that it might be cool if the FSF put out a "definitions"document or whatever that could be included with the GPL2 to clarify the ambiguities that are worrying the law boffins however.
Hmm. As an aussie, I gotta say, $200mil is piss money as far as this govt is concerned, but its horror money for a small aussie start up business.
I love the govt spending my tax on science. better that then blowing up poor brown folks, but even better is that my tax money is spent on science for the benefit of all mankind. Thats an excellent use of tax in my opinion.
Its fucking slashdot, not a sociology journal. Nobody is going to go and conduct a multimonth time series data set on sexist incidents, even though the article is about institutional sexism , just for a fucking one line slashdot zinger.
This is lazy argumentation friend. You can throw it at almost any debate from any side, and stump people, because nobody is going to go to the effort just to reply to post. Its not a victory by argument, its a victory by default, and thats no victory at all.
Worst of all, the article is not even about that, but see you'd know that if you read it right?
Your misunderstanding the point here. People are not accusing steam of misproprietous software, rather they are making a similar sort of point, say, some australians make about the queen. Just because the current queen isn't a dictator in behavior, doesnt mean that theres not a risk that we have an absolute executive who COULD be a dictator if she wanted (well sort of , constitution and all that). And we don't know that King William, demented with rage at the early loss of his mother wont declare australia a theme park and make us all walk around in rubber animal costumes for brits to laugh and throw rocks at. Well again constitution, but you get the abstract point I'm making. Just because the current king is enlightened, this tells us nothing about his successors.
You only need to look at the iPhone app store to see where the problem is. As an iphone app developer, theres entire classes of software Im not allowed to write. Up until very recently I couldnt write a VOIP app that worked over 3G/Edge. I cant port firefox because it breaks their 'substantial similarity' rule about not competing with apple apps. So on. Now so far steam has been very good and hasn't nixed any of , say, half life's competitors. But lets say steam does end up being the primary game distribution channel, if they wanted to they could say "Right HL3 is coming out. No first person shooters for the next 3 months" and theres jack shit anyone could do, short of calling in the hounds from the various competition watchdogs which might well go "Meh... computer games are for kids" and ignore it, as regulators oft are prone to do.
Theres other problems too. Valve have to pay precisely zero dollars in fees to a competitor to release a product on steam. Anyone else has to pony up. Thats an immediate unfair competitive advantage.
Nobody is saying steam as it stands is a bad thing. In truth its great (well unless your an aussie with one of those horrible 500meg download limits) , but the potential for abuse is massive, so its not FUD to talk about it before it becomes a problem.
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NSLog(@"Customer name %s\nAddress %s %s\nOrder :%s\n", customerName , streetAddress , city , state , orderInfo );
Normal C is pretty similar more or less.
Forget the DOJ, they had the opportunity a decade ago and balked it when George bush ordered them to back down. Its the europeans they have to fear. The EU has had a fun little habit of issueing them multi billion dollar slapdowns for anticompetitive behavior against european companies and consumers, and I suspect that, more than anything has forced the decision to start behaving for microsoft.
As long as the EU remains vigilant , microsoft wont dare try and shut down its only competition for file serving and risk getting utterly disemboweled by the EU.
Andrew could end up a [i]very rich man[/i] should Microsoft dare risk the EU's temper.
It really depends man. Cap ship battles tend to be fairly slow and ponderous. Couple of gangs of big ol' dreadnaughts pounding each others arses at snails pace (whilst the owners have mini seziures out of fear of losing their multi billion isk investments) meanwhile a showdown between a couple of vagas might be some crazy fast paced dogfight with a couple of sets of angry warriorII drones in hot pursuit. The lag though is really a product of those crazy 1000 man a side battles that happen, and really despite the improvements in eves lag (Im told its dramatically better then when I stopped playing a couple of years ago) nothing will make that non laggy, theres just mathematical limits to how fast you can push that much data around.