...experience in Brazil. He said that all the science teaching there was rote and gave the example of triboluminescence. He asked some Brazilian students to define triboluminescence, which they were able to do. But then he asked what would happen if he were to crush a sugar crystal in the dark with a pair of pliers, and none were able to answer.
SCO isn't toast yet, quite. There are still ninety-some-odd items of evidence that IBM are trying to get dismissed as they don't implicate IBM in any wrongdoing, and seven-or-so expert testimonies IBM are trying to get trimmed as they include new evidence past the closing of discovery.
I thought the Diebold voting machines were rigged, and the dishonest Republicans were going to steal the election. Does that mean that the Diebold machines aren't rigged? And that the Republicans are honest?
The description of the patients is very dry, so I wanted to say something on behalf of the people receiving this treatment. What's happened is that each one started getting symptoms, probably a growth on the skin. They went to a doctor and were told that they had the most malignant of the three forms of skin cancer. Treatment options were presented to them, and they chose to undergo surgery. Either a few days after the surgery they were told that the margins weren't clean, or immediately after the surgery they were told that portions of cancer were inoperable, or some weeks later they were told that the cancer had returned. Then they underwent immune therapy. I don't know anything about that. Finally, they were told that they were terminal patients and to get their affairs in order, but that there was a new therapy the surgeons wanted to try. The chances of success were unknown. I don't know how much chemotherapy was necessary to destroy their immune systems, but a very good friend of mine, now dead, described it as getting flu one day a week for weeks on end. I count at least six events that had to be completely emotionally devastating to the patients and their families.
I like the unsubstantiated side-bar claiming that porn spam had a 5.6% click-through rate. I suppose that's 5.6% of delivered spam? How could this possibly be measured? I'm not saying it can't be approximated but a sidebar and a couple of quotes are hardly sufficient evidence.
They probably got that from an email. You know? BUY our Unsolicited Marketing Email package and get a guaranteed 5.6%* click through rate!
* Only guaranteed for pr0n. Other types of email may have a different click-through rate.
That's already happened.IBM counter-sued them to get them to say that IBM doesn't infringe. Red Hat sued to get them to say that Red Hat's customers don't have to pay SCO's licensing fees. And Novell sued them for 95% of their revenue. Amongst other things.
It lied. It got some fools to pay for their Linux licenses, which might be fraudulent.
It tried. SCO refused to sell the licenses once people stepped forward to buy one. Well, except for Microsoft and Sun, but SCO won't show the contracts that went with those sales.
SCO needs to be buried for all this sometime soon.
It'll happen. The Novell lawsuit is going to gut SCO. The IBM countersuit is going to render the fat into soap. And then the Red Hat lawsuit is going to clean up the blood stains.
Right. Basically, SCO is submitting source code with no reference to anything. Heck, they probably are taking random lines of code in LINUX and CLAIMING that they are also in Unix.
No, mostly what they've done is to highlight emails from IBM employees to the linux kernel mailing list, among others, telling them to use certain techniques or not to use certain techniques to accomplish certain goals.
What a feeble attempt at defrauding the court. If this were a legitimate case, all the evidence would be available now. At this point, SCO is getting closer and closer to the borderline of being nothing more than a patent troll.
Yes, but that's not the correct term as SCO have no patents. Vexatious Litigant? Frivolous lawsuit?
So if even the court believes that SCO has abused the legal system for unfair gains - will there be any punishment for that? Can the judge declare such punishment or does it have to go through a seperate case? Does the court system even have a way to send the message that it doesn't like being abused?
Normally you'd be right. However, I still think the parent has a point. Several things SCO has done make it appear that the whole purpose of the lawsuit was to slow the uptake of Linux. In other words, a trial in the court of public opinion. It's a though there's someone pulling SCO's strings. Someone with deep pockets; someone who would greatly benefit by Linux's demise. However, I can't imagine who that might be.
Geeze, looks like another idiot choose to grace Slashdot with yet another Anonymous Coward troll.
Look again, kozumik. The GP poster hasn't claimed that he believes in Jesus, and I think he probably doesn't, although that's by no means certain. What he's doing is highlighting the fact that the GGP poster is claming that you should believe in global warming becauses of the severity of the consequences. You shouldn't do that. You should believe in global warming, or any theory (including Christianity,) based on the evidence that affirms the truth of the theory. Here's how the GP poster accomplished that. He described another theory, one that many believers of global warming disbelieve, and claimed that you should believe in that theory based on the severity of the consequences. Now, if a believer in global warming rejects that argument, then by analogy, he should also reject belief in global warming if the argument for global warming is based on the same type of argument.
It's a lot better when you don't have to explain it.
Same thing for money - printing more money, like $100 bills, takes just a few cents in paper, ink and press time. Why doesn't the US Mint just print enough money so we can all be billionaires?
The answer to that's quite obvious and I'm suprised it didn't occur to you. From 1882 to 1933 US currency was a certificate verifying that you had deposited a certain amount of gold coin with the government, and that the government would exchange the certificate for the corresponding amount of gold coin on demand. Then, in 1933, the US passed a law whereby they no longer would return to you the gold they had promised, and, in fact, you had to sell all your monetary gold to the government at $35 an ounce. Basically, the government was stealing twice. First, they were stealing all the gold placed on deposit with them, and second they were stealing the gold you hadn't placed on deposit because by that time gold was selling for more than $35 an ounce on the open market. So, why doesn't the US mint just print enough money so we can all be billionaires? Because if they did, then we would be stealing all the gold they stole in 1933, and that wouldn't be fair.
Imagine: An old man in a corner... i talk to him and he tells me where to get illegal drugs, but he does not have anything. Even he does not carry the drugs, isn't he guilty anyway?
That's certainly true. The police should immediately arrest all informants.
For example, I drive a pretty nice car, an Audi. If I was to sell it, it wouldn't be cheap. However, there are people out there that would like to drive an Audi, but do not want to pay the amount of money that they cost. Should I be required to sell my car to them for a lower price than I wish simply because other people don't want to pay the amount of money that I would be willing to sell at?
Well, your analogy hasn't broken yet, so let's see if we can stretch it a little more. Suppose Xerox made a copier that could copy cars. And suppose you made a copy of your Audi and sold it to someone for whatever price you two were able to agree upon. You might have to do a few things like filing off the VIN numbers (or report it to the Department of Redundancy Department) because Audi wouldn't want to provide warranty service for a car they didn't make. But other than that, should Audi be able to have the gendarmes throw you into gaol? Or suppose it was that medicine that prevented death due to dehydration in third-world countries?
...and Gates McFadden playing the ever-luscious Dr. Beverly Crusher.
I just could never get interested in Dr. Crusher. She just didn't ever seem...foxy.
How ironic, then, that these unmanned war machines fly in the face of the famous Star Trek TOS episode A Taste of Armageddon
So...you're saying that unmanned vehicles shouldn't be used in war because of...a TV show? I'm sure I'm missing some of your logic here.
..where the inhabitants of a planet who have been at war with each other for 500 years have simply learned to accept casualty-less war as normal life.
Almost the opposite. It wasn't well-explained in the show, but what the people were doing was accepting a war without wounded, and without damage to property. There most definitely were casualties. In fact, the crisis was precipitated by Kirk when the foxy chick was declared a casualty, and he was unwilling to accept that.
No one has the will to stop fighting because no one really gets hurt.
On the contrary. The casualties all got hurt. The reason they were unwilling to stop the war is because they didn't realize that the other side would find a return to a shooting war as undesirable as they, themselves, did. They thought that if they stopped the booths, the other side would start shooting real munitions instead of simulated ones.
How much lower will our resolve to make peace be when the cost to ourselves in a war is insignificant? When we count our casualties by the amount of toys broken than the number of lives lost?
I'm having a little trouble discerning the problem here. Suppose two countries decided to draw high card instead of have a war. Loser has to offer unconditional surrender. To quote Jacopo, "How is this a bad plan?" Oh, it's not horrific enough? You have to kill millions of people, wound three-millions, and destroy lots of stuff first? And then you can surrender?
Making decisions based on the knowledge that there are no repercussions is tantamount to driving down Route 66 with a blindfold. Maybe you'll miss everything in the road.
I'm drinking a glass of ice water right now, based on the knowledge that there are no repurcussions. So far I haven't hit a soul.
And I'd like to make campaigning limited to local funds. I don't want funds from New England rich boys or Texas oil tycoons funding political ads in my state. If you want to campaign for a federal office (House, Senate, or Presidency) in my state, then you should have to have the funding come from MY STATE. If you can't raise funds here for your advertising, well, too bad.
If your Senator is going to be passing laws that I have to obey, then I want a chance to influence who it is.
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...experience in Brazil. He said that all the science teaching there was rote and gave the example of triboluminescence. He asked some Brazilian students to define triboluminescence, which they were able to do. But then he asked what would happen if he were to crush a sugar crystal in the dark with a pair of pliers, and none were able to answer.
-Loyal
SCO isn't toast yet, quite. There are still ninety-some-odd items of evidence that IBM are trying to get dismissed as they don't implicate IBM in any wrongdoing, and seven-or-so expert testimonies IBM are trying to get trimmed as they include new evidence past the closing of discovery.
-Loyal
I think Verhoeven got it right. Read all about it at http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeve n-9809.html.
That makes me wonder why the enormous number of volunteer monitors at the polling places in 2004 were ineffective.
-Loyal
I thought the Diebold voting machines were rigged, and the dishonest Republicans were going to steal the election. Does that mean that the Diebold machines aren't rigged? And that the Republicans are honest?
-Loyal
The description of the patients is very dry, so I wanted to say something on behalf of the people receiving this treatment. What's happened is that each one started getting symptoms, probably a growth on the skin. They went to a doctor and were told that they had the most malignant of the three forms of skin cancer. Treatment options were presented to them, and they chose to undergo surgery. Either a few days after the surgery they were told that the margins weren't clean, or immediately after the surgery they were told that portions of cancer were inoperable, or some weeks later they were told that the cancer had returned. Then they underwent immune therapy. I don't know anything about that. Finally, they were told that they were terminal patients and to get their affairs in order, but that there was a new therapy the surgeons wanted to try. The chances of success were unknown. I don't know how much chemotherapy was necessary to destroy their immune systems, but a very good friend of mine, now dead, described it as getting flu one day a week for weeks on end. I count at least six events that had to be completely emotionally devastating to the patients and their families.
-Loyal
s/comprised/compromised
They probably got that from an email. You know? BUY our Unsolicited Marketing Email package and get a guaranteed 5.6%* click through rate!
* Only guaranteed for pr0n. Other types of email may have a different click-through rate.
-Loyal
That's already happened.IBM counter-sued them to get them to say that IBM doesn't infringe. Red Hat sued to get them to say that Red Hat's customers don't have to pay SCO's licensing fees. And Novell sued them for 95% of their revenue. Amongst other things.
It lied. It got some fools to pay for their Linux licenses, which might be fraudulent.
It tried. SCO refused to sell the licenses once people stepped forward to buy one. Well, except for Microsoft and Sun, but SCO won't show the contracts that went with those sales.
SCO needs to be buried for all this sometime soon.
It'll happen. The Novell lawsuit is going to gut SCO. The IBM countersuit is going to render the fat into soap. And then the Red Hat lawsuit is going to clean up the blood stains.
-Loyal
No, mostly what they've done is to highlight emails from IBM employees to the linux kernel mailing list, among others, telling them to use certain techniques or not to use certain techniques to accomplish certain goals.
What a feeble attempt at defrauding the court. If this were a legitimate case, all the evidence would be available now. At this point, SCO is getting closer and closer to the borderline of being nothing more than a patent troll.
Yes, but that's not the correct term as SCO have no patents. Vexatious Litigant? Frivolous lawsuit?
-Loyal
Yes. Yes, no. Yes.
-Loyal
Normally you'd be right. However, I still think the parent has a point. Several things SCO has done make it appear that the whole purpose of the lawsuit was to slow the uptake of Linux. In other words, a trial in the court of public opinion. It's a though there's someone pulling SCO's strings. Someone with deep pockets; someone who would greatly benefit by Linux's demise. However, I can't imagine who that might be.
-Loyal
Look again, kozumik. The GP poster hasn't claimed that he believes in Jesus, and I think he probably doesn't, although that's by no means certain. What he's doing is highlighting the fact that the GGP poster is claming that you should believe in global warming becauses of the severity of the consequences. You shouldn't do that. You should believe in global warming, or any theory (including Christianity,) based on the evidence that affirms the truth of the theory. Here's how the GP poster accomplished that. He described another theory, one that many believers of global warming disbelieve, and claimed that you should believe in that theory based on the severity of the consequences. Now, if a believer in global warming rejects that argument, then by analogy, he should also reject belief in global warming if the argument for global warming is based on the same type of argument.
It's a lot better when you don't have to explain it.
-Loyal
So, be a Rogue and stealth, or be a Night Elf and meld.
-Loyal
The answer to that's quite obvious and I'm suprised it didn't occur to you. From 1882 to 1933 US currency was a certificate verifying that you had deposited a certain amount of gold coin with the government, and that the government would exchange the certificate for the corresponding amount of gold coin on demand. Then, in 1933, the US passed a law whereby they no longer would return to you the gold they had promised, and, in fact, you had to sell all your monetary gold to the government at $35 an ounce. Basically, the government was stealing twice. First, they were stealing all the gold placed on deposit with them, and second they were stealing the gold you hadn't placed on deposit because by that time gold was selling for more than $35 an ounce on the open market. So, why doesn't the US mint just print enough money so we can all be billionaires? Because if they did, then we would be stealing all the gold they stole in 1933, and that wouldn't be fair.
--Loyal
Well, maybe that's okay for you, but it's not okay for me.
Imagine: An old man in a corner... i talk to him and he tells me where to get illegal drugs, but he does not have anything. Even he does not carry the drugs, isn't he guilty anyway?
That's certainly true. The police should immediately arrest all informants.
Well, your analogy hasn't broken yet, so let's see if we can stretch it a little more. Suppose Xerox made a copier that could copy cars. And suppose you made a copy of your Audi and sold it to someone for whatever price you two were able to agree upon. You might have to do a few things like filing off the VIN numbers (or report it to the Department of Redundancy Department) because Audi wouldn't want to provide warranty service for a car they didn't make. But other than that, should Audi be able to have the gendarmes throw you into gaol? Or suppose it was that medicine that prevented death due to dehydration in third-world countries?
-Loyal
So then what happens when the people who counterfeited an entire NEC company counterfeit an entire bank?
-Loyal
-Loyal
I just could never get interested in Dr. Crusher. She just didn't ever seem...foxy.
How ironic, then, that these unmanned war machines fly in the face of the famous Star Trek TOS episode A Taste of Armageddon
So...you're saying that unmanned vehicles shouldn't be used in war because of...a TV show? I'm sure I'm missing some of your logic here.
Almost the opposite. It wasn't well-explained in the show, but what the people were doing was accepting a war without wounded, and without damage to property. There most definitely were casualties. In fact, the crisis was precipitated by Kirk when the foxy chick was declared a casualty, and he was unwilling to accept that.
No one has the will to stop fighting because no one really gets hurt.
On the contrary. The casualties all got hurt. The reason they were unwilling to stop the war is because they didn't realize that the other side would find a return to a shooting war as undesirable as they, themselves, did. They thought that if they stopped the booths, the other side would start shooting real munitions instead of simulated ones.
How much lower will our resolve to make peace be when the cost to ourselves in a war is insignificant? When we count our casualties by the amount of toys broken than the number of lives lost?
I'm having a little trouble discerning the problem here. Suppose two countries decided to draw high card instead of have a war. Loser has to offer unconditional surrender. To quote Jacopo, "How is this a bad plan?" Oh, it's not horrific enough? You have to kill millions of people, wound three-millions, and destroy lots of stuff first? And then you can surrender?
Making decisions based on the knowledge that there are no repercussions is tantamount to driving down Route 66 with a blindfold. Maybe you'll miss everything in the road.
I'm drinking a glass of ice water right now, based on the knowledge that there are no repurcussions. So far I haven't hit a soul.
-Loyal
I can see I'm not the only one who read that as, "Anthony Debian Elected New Town Leader."
-Loyal
If your Senator is going to be passing laws that I have to obey, then I want a chance to influence who it is.
-Loyal
I think the Canadian manufacturers should retaliate by putting Canadian music on all their blank CDs.
-Loyal
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