ANYBODY with an high-school education can teach children to read and count. Quite frankly, any adult who feels academically unqualified to teach elementary school should sue their high school for educational malpractice. The only bit that makes the job difficult is managing large groups of small children. That's something that can be gained only be experience, and would best be learned in a one-year apprenticeship.
Why am I qualified to make this statement? Because of what I do for a living.
A friend of mine works in the network abuse department of my town's cable service. He calls people that have been identified as flagrantly violating the TOS. If they refuse to cooperate, the phrase he uses is "I'm sorry, your high-speed experience is over." His company then terminates the agreement with the customer and refuses to enter into any future agreements. So yeah, banned for life is about right.
(Names have been withheld to avoid offense of our corporate masters).
we should still regard them as backward and incompetent, right? Yup. Read Skunk Works. Note that the original idea for a stealth aircraft came from a young engineer who was reading an article that was written in Russian...
Their scientists are not incompetent, merely the people who (fail to) provide the scientists with funds.
Yeah, but how many texts exist that explain the function of a piece of machinery? THAT is a technical manual. Botany codices and medical texts, as you note, are dimes per dozens.
Here where I work, we've been talking about the PayPal link you have. It's a great idea and I'd love to contribute. Linux is a passion of mine, and I'd like to help directly (if only in a small way) to rebuild the information infrastructure that my government has done their best to level. But what assurances can you provide that contributions will be used only to promote linux in Iraq? I wouldn't want to end up in Guantanamo bay with Ashcroft's rifle-butt in my stomach.
This is a serious question - are you affiliated with any international organization? I don't know what the government is like right now - can you be registered as a non-governmental organization? Is there someone who can audit your finances? Any information you can provide would be useful.
LOTR had a predictable ending...yeah. Perhaps because it was written 50 years ago?
Classics are imitated. A jaded reader (or viewer), ignorant of a particular classic's role, will consider a classic a poorly done example of the category CREATED by the classic. LOTR is archetypal in this.
There is nothing to stop the root operators from selling out
This comment goes to the heart of the matter; I hope we never see it proven correct. I also hope for universal peace and brotherhood, and you can see what good THAT does me.
Remeber Google before Google-bombing? Remember USENET before spam? Remember the World Wide Web before popups? Remember email before viruses? Remember the internet before the Morris worm? Remember all those things that didn't need to be secured because we were all pure of heart? Yeah.
I would prefer to see an Internet based voting system that gets rid of the electoral college system....
You realize, of course, that with an internet-based voting system, there'd be no need for the electoral college, as the Powers That Be could juggle the votes directly and invisibly. If you disagree, I invite you to view all the systems rooted in the last hour. What? You can't see them? Precisely my point!
Um, no. Guess you've missed out on all the fun of the last 15 years.
If any drugs are found in your car, any at all, the police can seize the car without ever charging you. You will never get it back; they will sell the car to fund their activities. If you rent a house and the renters have drugs on the premises, the police can seize the house without ever charging you.
I forget the legal term, but the drug war has effectively amended the "deprived of...property without due process of law" clause out of the Constitution.
In the US the defendant is permitted access to EVERYTHING the prosecution has. If the prosecution has a copy of the data, so does the defense. In a case like this, though, I would think there'd be some strict controls on it.
Some dreams are more important that a marriage If I parse this correctly, you are saying that some things are more important than some people. Surely any person is more important than any thing.
1. Assign copyright to the FSF 2. Sic Moglen on them
The only reason to refrain from doing this is if you wish to retain some proprietary interest in the code, for the purpose of perhaps producing a closed-source version of it. If that is your intent, I really don't give a flying fig what you do. If, however, you are pure of heart, you have absolutely nothing to lose by assigning the copyright to the FSF. You'll always be able to use, modify, and distribute the code, just as you can now. The only right you (might) lose would be the right to later create a proprietary version.
Naw. I don't work for companies that can afford those kinds of resources. They have too much specialization in their IT departments. "What do you want to be, the guy who plugs cables into routers, or the guy who changes ACLs on home directories, or the guy who reads the access logs for port 25, or...." I prefer to be the jack of all trades, master of none.
MS has been selling Unix Services for Windows for YEARS now, long before the SCO debacle. This is just another server app to them, now updated for Windows 2003 server. They didn't need to buy another license from SCO.
Kelvin's starting point makes sense for science. The gradations are STILL dependent on the state of water at specific pressure. So Kelvin's silly too.
However, I'd point out that it's not a random molecule - it's the one of the most important molecules in biochemistry. The "specific atmospheric pressure" is the pressure on most of the earth's surface.
I would like to see a system of measurements based solely on physical constants - planck length, planck mass, etc.
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Regarding elementary teaching - get real!
ANYBODY with an high-school education can teach children to read and count. Quite frankly, any adult who feels academically unqualified to teach elementary school should sue their high school for educational malpractice. The only bit that makes the job difficult is managing large groups of small children. That's something that can be gained only be experience, and would best be learned in a one-year apprenticeship.
Why am I qualified to make this statement? Because of what I do for a living.
No, his post argues that we shouldn't be faux-environementally conscious. Granted, he's not well-informed, but he appears to grasp the principle:
Act with knowledge of the consequences of your actions.
A friend of mine works in the network abuse department of my town's cable service. He calls people that have been identified as flagrantly violating the TOS. If they refuse to cooperate, the phrase he uses is "I'm sorry, your high-speed experience is over." His company then terminates the agreement with the customer and refuses to enter into any future agreements. So yeah, banned for life is about right.
(Names have been withheld to avoid offense of our corporate masters).
Yup.
Have a refueling station in orbit with some reoxidizing stations 10-15 km away. That'd be a short jaunt but quite safe.
we should still regard them as backward and incompetent, right?
Yup. Read Skunk Works. Note that the original idea for a stealth aircraft came from a young engineer who was reading an article that was written in Russian...
Their scientists are not incompetent, merely the people who (fail to) provide the scientists with funds.
And they're all American citizens...
War is the normal state of human affairs; peace is an ideal condition we extrapolate from the fact that there are intervals between wars.
Yeah, but how many texts exist that explain the function of a piece of machinery? THAT is a technical manual. Botany codices and medical texts, as you note, are dimes per dozens.
IANAL but I used to work for one and patents cost a TON.
Putting it in the public domain means no one else can patent it. It doesn't dissolve the patent.
Hamburger restaurant. Like McDonald's. #3 in the US, behind McD and Burger King.
Here where I work, we've been talking about the PayPal link you have. It's a great idea and I'd love to contribute. Linux is a passion of mine, and I'd like to help directly (if only in a small way) to rebuild the information infrastructure that my government has done their best to level. But what assurances can you provide that contributions will be used only to promote linux in Iraq? I wouldn't want to end up in Guantanamo bay with Ashcroft's rifle-butt in my stomach.
This is a serious question - are you affiliated with any international organization? I don't know what the government is like right now - can you be registered as a non-governmental organization? Is there someone who can audit your finances? Any information you can provide would be useful.
LOTR had a predictable ending...yeah. Perhaps because it was written 50 years ago?
Classics are imitated. A jaded reader (or viewer), ignorant of a particular classic's role, will consider a classic a poorly done example of the category CREATED by the classic. LOTR is archetypal in this.
There is nothing to stop the root operators from selling out
This comment goes to the heart of the matter; I hope we never see it proven correct. I also hope for universal peace and brotherhood, and you can see what good THAT does me.
Remeber Google before Google-bombing? Remember USENET before spam? Remember the World Wide Web before popups? Remember email before viruses? Remember the internet before the Morris worm? Remember all those things that didn't need to be secured because we were all pure of heart? Yeah.
I would prefer to see an Internet based voting system that gets rid of the electoral college system....
You realize, of course, that with an internet-based voting system, there'd be no need for the electoral college, as the Powers That Be could juggle the votes directly and invisibly. If you disagree, I invite you to view all the systems rooted in the last hour. What? You can't see them? Precisely my point!
Hey, I can see my house from up here!
No, it's not OK, it's just not news.
Um, no. Guess you've missed out on all the fun of the last 15 years.
If any drugs are found in your car, any at all, the police can seize the car without ever charging you. You will never get it back; they will sell the car to fund their activities. If you rent a house and the renters have drugs on the premises, the police can seize the house without ever charging you.
I forget the legal term, but the drug war has effectively amended the "deprived of...property without due process of law" clause out of the Constitution.
In the US the defendant is permitted access to EVERYTHING the prosecution has. If the prosecution has a copy of the data, so does the defense. In a case like this, though, I would think there'd be some strict controls on it.
Some dreams are more important that a marriage
If I parse this correctly, you are saying that some things are more important than some people. Surely any person is more important than any thing.
1. Assign copyright to the FSF
2. Sic Moglen on them
The only reason to refrain from doing this is if you wish to retain some proprietary interest in the code, for the purpose of perhaps producing a closed-source version of it. If that is your intent, I really don't give a flying fig what you do. If, however, you are pure of heart, you have absolutely nothing to lose by assigning the copyright to the FSF. You'll always be able to use, modify, and distribute the code, just as you can now. The only right you (might) lose would be the right to later create a proprietary version.
Naw. I don't work for companies that can afford those kinds of resources. They have too much specialization in their IT departments. "What do you want to be, the guy who plugs cables into routers, or the guy who changes ACLs on home directories, or the guy who reads the access logs for port 25, or...." I prefer to be the jack of all trades, master of none.
MS has been selling Unix Services for Windows for YEARS now, long before the SCO debacle. This is just another server app to them, now updated for Windows 2003 server. They didn't need to buy another license from SCO.
The license purchase was solely blood money.
Yup. When I'm in serious job-hunting mode I have Kinko's print my resume on 100% cotton bond.
Kelvin's starting point makes sense for science. The gradations are STILL dependent on the state of water at specific pressure. So Kelvin's silly too.
However, I'd point out that it's not a random molecule - it's the one of the most important molecules in biochemistry. The "specific atmospheric pressure" is the pressure on most of the earth's surface.
I would like to see a system of measurements based solely on physical constants - planck length, planck mass, etc.