Isn't comparing the number against tax receipts a bit misleading because total budget is going to be >100% of tax receipts when you're running a deficit.
I've come to the conclusion that a guaranteed way to get modded up is to claim you're martyring your karma and get the mods to mod you up so they can feel they are open-minded.
After seeing all 6, I'm starting to think R2 is the only one with everything put together - He (She? It?) happens to save the main character(s) in every episode. Maybe R2 is intelligent enough to keep quiet about things and not tell Luke about his father because he and Obi-wan had a talk. I got the feeling that R2 going to Tantooine to Luke going to Yoda was all planned out in that final conferance between Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Organa. It wasn't just an "Oh, btw, Luke, how about you visit this guy on Dagobah..."
One thing I haven't seen discussed yet is Obi-Wan's age. I believe there are 12 years between Episode I-III and 18 between III and IV. That's a total of 30 years between I and IV. Obi-Wan looks at least mid-60s in IV, but I don't think he would have been a Padawan in Ep I much later than mid-20s, which is a differance at least 10 years?
Quick, probably obvious comment, but just because IBM may support open source in general does not mean that they will have positive things to say about everything that is GLD'ed.
Cynicism suggests they may be more likely support open source projects that they don't have a competing product in.
It's not censorship. As much as we may gripe about corporations having power in the US, they're still not the government.
They're a company and should have the right to sell what they want within the law - If you call making an alternate product available censorship because they refuse to sell the original, can't Gates call making an alternate computer product (because in his mind all computers originally had Windows on them) censorship as well?
Tipper Gore was the one that started the music rating system and was more than willing to have her husband then-Senator Gore propose legislation if the industry didn't do it.
As well - corporations are *owned* by people. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of/.ers that have a job own a piece of M$ through their 401(k) or other retirement plan.
That's not necessarily a class action lawsuit result.
Purdue's had M$ software here for yeas for $5 a CD - OS upgrades, Visual Studio, Office, "Learning X" tutorials.
They figure any money they lose with college students (and it probably isn't that much... I would't be surprised is Purdue ponied up for the deal) will be more than made back when, once graduated, they demand that their cubicle always be stocked with the latest M$ apps.
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On a side note... what are the chances that all the judges that have been involved in this case used Word when writing their decisions.
However, when you widen the definition too much then you lose the battle when something that really is censorship comes around... For instance, the ACLU has supported the same suits the Christian Coalition has. However, for a good amount of people, they see some of the cases they suppport and then decide it's *all* a bunch of nuts.
But I digress... (I can't believe I'm posting in a Katz editorial...)
I wish people would read the First Ammendment before they reference it. The Constitution guarantees you the right to not be stopped by the government from speech ("Clear and present danger", fire in theatre, laws aside).
It does not guarantee you a podium, your right to buy a podium, or an audience.
If you are using the equipment owned by even the government - a library or school - and they limit what you can "hear" or "say" over their equipment, feel free to disagree with it, say it's pointless, a bad idea, etc.
But don't say it's censorship. The only legitimate Constitutional gripe I think anyone has for these type of things is if they would filter unevenly, esp. regarding religion - i.e. let pages promoting Islam come through but ban pages promoting Buddhism.
As for ISPs... They are corporations and as such have one goal - making money for their shareholders. And before anyone wants to generally comment on corporations being evil, I suggest they dump any 401(k) plans they have.
ISPs are going to make policies to keep members from posting things that are going to harm their image, which affects the bottom line when they can.
I'd think that often they might do so not because of policy but fear of being sued by anyone "hurt" by a customer's speech. Of course the gov't can legislate they have to apply any such policies equally as a civil rights issue.
But the bottom line is this - it is not censorship when a private group tries to stop speech. If you have the right to say "I think I should be able to say X" then doesn't someone else have the right to say the opposite?
If they resort to illegal means you can call it vandalism or property destruction but that's something else. It is also not censorship when the owner of the computer or network connection you are using, public or private, limits speech access, especially if it's done equally.
It is censorship if the government makes a law or enforces the idea that you can't make or receive certain speech on your own time with your own capital. And that's about all it is.
What happens if I open the shrinkwrap to a CD case but when I run the install program I don't agree to the EULA? I can't return it anywhere and it's completely useless to me...
Anyone try doing this and then accusing someone of fraud for selling an unusable product?
I don't think that the amount of those is terribly significant.. i'm sure they exist but despite the opinion of a lot of urbanites, farmers and other rurals use computers a good deal - the dumb farmer is no more accurate a stereotype than the pimply engineer that can't get a date with anyone but himself...
Saying 46% of Americans don't use the internet doesn't imply that 46% of homes don't have it. I'm sure there are homes where not everyone uses the computer... the general online kid with a parent or two who don't know where the "any" key is.
If he was a member of a group that tried blowing up McDonell Douglas that'd be something else...
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You can use both AIM and MSN without having to subscribe to either's internet services...
of course the general public might not realize that... sort of like MSN advertizing "sign up and get unlimited hotmail accounts"... One can do that regardless of course.
In general, I don't have too much sympathy for people's ignorance regarding technology. No, it's a tool for most, not a a way of life and I don't think everyone should be able to compile their own kernel, but it's still a complicated tool and no one should think they can just turn it on and go yet.
Mechanics don't expect the average drive to know how to rebuild a transmission, but they do need to be able to check the oil and be ready to change a tire.
Or maybe troll... I know I wouldn't have posted if the submitter hadn't added that last comment.
No one legitimately gripes about China because they have jails, searches, etc.
They do it because it can be done without due process. For all your bitching, the fact that you can even complain about the Federal government aloud without fear of being investigated shows how meaningless the statement was.
Of course our system isn't perfect - but nothing is. But saying if you get pushed and if you get shot in the head is the same thing won't get anywhere.
I've seen about 15 "diff" comments... hopefully sarcastic?
A decent program doesn't just do a String compare, it checks the structure i.e. if you change variable names and minor details it'll still catch the duplication.
Of course, why this is terribly relevent when the program was written several years ago and plenty of other places have implemented this sort of stuff since... not my place to say:)
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Isn't comparing the number against tax receipts a bit misleading because total budget is going to be >100% of tax receipts when you're running a deficit.
I've come to the conclusion that a guaranteed way to get modded up is to claim you're martyring your karma and get the mods to mod you up so they can feel they are open-minded.
How would you define a unit of force without starting with a given amount of mass?
After seeing all 6, I'm starting to think R2 is the only one with everything put together - He (She? It?) happens to save the main character(s) in every episode. Maybe R2 is intelligent enough to keep quiet about things and not tell Luke about his father because he and Obi-wan had a talk. I got the feeling that R2 going to Tantooine to Luke going to Yoda was all planned out in that final conferance between Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Organa. It wasn't just an "Oh, btw, Luke, how about you visit this guy on Dagobah..."
One thing I haven't seen discussed yet is Obi-Wan's age. I believe there are 12 years between Episode I-III and 18 between III and IV. That's a total of 30 years between I and IV. Obi-Wan looks at least mid-60s in IV, but I don't think he would have been a Padawan in Ep I much later than mid-20s, which is a differance at least 10 years?
Any Ideas?
Cynicism suggests they may be more likely support open source projects that they don't have a competing product in.
Worst verbing, ever
While we're at it, I'd like a pony!!
They're a company and should have the right to sell what they want within the law - If you call making an alternate product available censorship because they refuse to sell the original, can't Gates call making an alternate computer product (because in his mind all computers originally had Windows on them) censorship as well?
Tipper Gore was the one that started the music rating system and was more than willing to have her husband then-Senator Gore propose legislation if the industry didn't do it.
I didn't say that they were liberals. I merely said he was a democrat, implying he wasn't conservative.
Read the article.
Hollings is a Democrat. Besides which, nothing has been reaching the floor without Daschle's (majority leader, also a Dem) approval.
If you're going to whine about grammar, learn to spell "marry" correctly.
A corporation *IS* a legal person.
/.ers that have a job own a piece of M$ through their 401(k) or other retirement plan.
As well - corporations are *owned* by people. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of
Purdue's had M$ software here for yeas for $5 a CD - OS upgrades, Visual Studio, Office, "Learning X" tutorials.
They figure any money they lose with college students (and it probably isn't that much... I would't be surprised is Purdue ponied up for the deal) will be more than made back when, once graduated, they demand that their cubicle always be stocked with the latest M$ apps.
On a side note... what are the chances that all the judges that have been involved in this case used Word when writing their decisions.
Now, I firmly believe real censorship is wrong.
However, when you widen the definition too much then you lose the battle when something that really is censorship comes around... For instance, the ACLU has supported the same suits the Christian Coalition has. However, for a good amount of people, they see some of the cases they suppport and then decide it's *all* a bunch of nuts.
But I digress...
(I can't believe I'm posting in a Katz editorial...)
I wish people would read the First Ammendment before they reference it. The Constitution guarantees you the right to not be stopped by the government from speech ("Clear and present danger", fire in theatre, laws aside).
It does not guarantee you a podium, your right to buy a podium, or an audience.
If you are using the equipment owned by even the government - a library or school - and they limit what you can "hear" or "say" over their equipment, feel free to disagree with it, say it's pointless, a bad idea, etc.
But don't say it's censorship. The only legitimate Constitutional gripe I think anyone has for these type of things is if they would filter unevenly, esp. regarding religion - i.e. let pages promoting Islam come through but ban pages promoting Buddhism.
As for ISPs...
They are corporations and as such have one goal - making money for their shareholders. And before anyone wants to generally comment on corporations being evil, I suggest they dump any 401(k) plans they have.
ISPs are going to make policies to keep members from posting things that are going to harm their image, which affects the bottom line when they can.
I'd think that often they might do so not because of policy but fear of being sued by anyone "hurt" by a customer's speech. Of course the gov't can legislate they have to apply any such policies equally as a civil rights issue.
But the bottom line is this - it is not censorship when a private group tries to stop speech. If you have the right to say "I think I should be able to say X" then doesn't someone else have the right to say the opposite?
If they resort to illegal means you can call it vandalism or property destruction but that's something else. It is also not censorship when the owner of the computer or network connection you are using, public or private, limits speech access, especially if it's done equally.
It is censorship if the government makes a law or enforces the idea that you can't make or receive certain speech on your own time with your own capital. And that's about all it is.
Sorry if this is a tad off-topic but...
What happens if I open the shrinkwrap to a CD case but when I run the install program I don't agree to the EULA? I can't return it anywhere and it's completely useless to me...
Anyone try doing this and then accusing someone of fraud for selling an unusable product?
I don't think that the amount of those is terribly significant.. i'm sure they exist but despite the opinion of a lot of urbanites, farmers and other rurals use computers a good deal - the dumb farmer is no more accurate a stereotype than the pimply engineer that can't get a date with anyone but himself...
Saying 46% of Americans don't use the internet doesn't imply that 46% of homes don't have it. I'm sure there are homes where not everyone uses the computer... the general online kid with a parent or two who don't know where the "any" key is.
It says Adversely...
If he was a member of a group that tried blowing up McDonell Douglas that'd be something else...
You can use both AIM and MSN without having to subscribe to either's internet services...
of course the general public might not realize that... sort of like MSN advertizing "sign up and get unlimited hotmail accounts"... One can do that regardless of course.
In general, I don't have too much sympathy for people's ignorance regarding technology. No, it's a tool for most, not a a way of life and I don't think everyone should be able to compile their own kernel, but it's still a complicated tool and no one should think they can just turn it on and go yet.
Mechanics don't expect the average drive to know how to rebuild a transmission, but they do need to be able to check the oil and be ready to change a tire.
It's the year 2000 and I was promised flying cars!!!
Hmm...
Talk about the irony. A post modding the story as being redundant gets modded as being redundant...
If I have to give someone a second overcoat I worked to own then why would I bother with the effort in the first place..?
Anything material I accumulate affects someone else about as much as my not eating peas as a child affected kids starving in Africa.
Or maybe troll... I know I wouldn't have posted if the submitter hadn't added that last comment.
No one legitimately gripes about China because they have jails, searches, etc.
They do it because it can be done without due process. For all your bitching, the fact that you can even complain about the Federal government aloud without fear of being investigated shows how meaningless the statement was.
Of course our system isn't perfect - but nothing is. But saying if you get pushed and if you get shot in the head is the same thing won't get anywhere.
A decent program doesn't just do a String compare, it checks the structure i.e. if you change variable names and minor details it'll still catch the duplication.
Of course, why this is terribly relevent when the program was written several years ago and plenty of other places have implemented this sort of stuff since... not my place to say :)
This isn't "Editorials for nerds, two cents from people you've never met nor care to."