The state promises you nothing. The state can't be sued for breach of contract, fraud, or negligence, even if they decide to tear up every road they own. Of course, you can vote the bums out of office, but that's a little different from suing them.
Stuff happens. Pick your battles. Win them and you won't have anything to complain about.
Yeah, well, I think Windows XP is a great OS because I've never seen it crash. And I've never broken a bone. And I don't know any homeless people. So I think Microsoft, Dr. Harris, and George Bush are really good at their jobs.
Anecdotal evidence is COMPLETELY irrelevant when you're discussing issues that address thousands or millions. UNLESS, of course, you have anecdotal evidence from every member of the studied population...
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Compiling could be considered encryption of the original source code...
Much government software is produced under a contract in which the contractor holds ALL copyrights and the government is granted the rights to use the software. FOIA requests will have no effect, any more than a FOIA request could produce the source code to Windows just becuase the government uses it.
How to do this is already public knowledge and it's being implemented on a wide scale. Even Windows can do it (though no one knows when it will be able to do it correctlye. Look here.
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I'd submit that the ultimate limit of real-time rendering will be when the onscreen characters are able to pass a sort of Turing test - are they human or computer generated actors? When the audience can't decide (ie, when the vote is split), the point of diminishing returns will have been reached. Further effort beyond that time will be devoted to better physics and more realistic modeling of human behavior - doesn't matter if you have that perfect rendering of a human face if the eyes never smile when the mouth does.
A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
Yup...unable to comprehend its purpose. Insufficiently evolved to take advantage of it. Inherently inferior to beings capable of using it. Eventually trapped and devoured by the bicycle-riders.
A fish WITH a bicycle, on the other hand, would be a thing to behold.
Businesses will stay open later if it makes economic sense for them to. Businesses will NOT stay open if local laws prevent it. The point was not to madate late hours but to permit them.
Perhaps better verbiage would be "Legal in Europe, where he lives and where he was when he 'broke' U.S. Law."
It would probably be a good idea to point out other laws he's broken - he's a spy, since he has provided information to the Russian government. He's old enough that he might have even given info to the KGB under trhe Soviets! He has never paid ONE CENT to the IRS - shouldn't we hit him with income tax evasion? I doubt he's registered his car (assuming he has one) with the state of California. Etc. etc.
Knowing the facts, there are only two ways to argue against missile defense: you are either in favor of M.A.D., or you believe that taxpayer dollars shouldn't pay to protect us from a very likely threat of nuclear devestation.
If you beleive the former, you are simply un-American
Thank you for implying that EVERY military and political leader for the past 50 years has been un-American.
I could pay an extra $2 to prevent my face turning into what a french fry from dropped into a deep fryer looks like, I think I'll pony up the cash. I would, too. What I don't want to do is to spend $2/paycheck to make weapons manufacturers rich.
We should take the Israeli approach and start blowing up any facility among our potential enemies that looks like it might be used to create weapons of mass destruction. If you suggest otherwise, then you are UN-AMERICAN. And an ANTI-SEMITIC. And a NAZI.
Yes. Sort of like backhoes, bulldozers, and cement trucks can today. Oops...I mean, the men driving the backhoes, etc. After all, the peasants weren't the brains; they were the power. They didn't decide where to put the stones or how to orient them. They merely did what the men with whips told them to. The men with whips, in turn, obeyed the men with swords, who obeyed the king with the army, who followed the advice of his court mathematicians and astronomers. Just as open source software can be used by non-programmers, stones can be emplaced by non-astronomers and non-mathematicians.
So it's bad to call a device that can be used for saving lives a Light Saber, but it's OK to call a huge military-industrial boondoggle Star Wars?
And regardless of your opinion of a super-tech missile defense system, you've got to admit that it's been presented by the mainstream press exactly as I described it.
Spoken like a rich guy. You're billing at what, $50/hr? Of course it's worth your while to pay some guy $25 bucks to change your oil.
Imagine now that you're earning $12/hr. Is it worth your while to pay some guy $50/hr for something you can do yourself? By your own reasoning, I'd have to say no. Furthermore, the people that earn $12/hr don't always have the option of working all the hours they want at those rates. Beyond the 40-60 hours that they work each week, their time is worth much less than $12/hr.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you...I consider myself quite well off and pay other people to do work for me. HOWEVER, what works for me doesn't work for everyone all the way down the economic ladder.
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The state promises you nothing. The state can't be sued for breach of contract, fraud, or negligence, even if they decide to tear up every road they own. Of course, you can vote the bums out of office, but that's a little different from suing them.
Stuff happens. Pick your battles. Win them and you won't have anything to complain about.
Yeah, well, I think Windows XP is a great OS because I've never seen it crash. And I've never broken a bone. And I don't know any homeless people. So I think Microsoft, Dr. Harris, and George Bush are really good at their jobs.
Anecdotal evidence is COMPLETELY irrelevant when you're discussing issues that address thousands or millions. UNLESS, of course, you have anecdotal evidence from every member of the studied population...
Compiling could be considered encryption of the original source code...
NT 3.5, IIRC? Maybe 3.51? Anyway, it was't just no network...it was no floppy and no CD-ROM, too.
GUI - GUI Unix Is...
(This will parse perfectly if you are conversant with Ardean grammar)
Much government software is produced under a contract in which the contractor holds ALL copyrights and the government is granted the rights to use the software. FOIA requests will have no effect, any more than a FOIA request could produce the source code to Windows just becuase the government uses it.
How to do this is already public knowledge and it's being implemented on a wide scale. Even Windows can do it (though no one knows when it will be able to do it correctlye. Look here.
I'd submit that the ultimate limit of real-time rendering will be when the onscreen characters are able to pass a sort of Turing test - are they human or computer generated actors? When the audience can't decide (ie, when the vote is split), the point of diminishing returns will have been reached. Further effort beyond that time will be devoted to better physics and more realistic modeling of human behavior - doesn't matter if you have that perfect rendering of a human face if the eyes never smile when the mouth does.
A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
Yup...unable to comprehend its purpose. Insufficiently evolved to take advantage of it. Inherently inferior to beings capable of using it. Eventually trapped and devoured by the bicycle-riders.
A fish WITH a bicycle, on the other hand, would be a thing to behold.
Surely someone somewhere could claim that they use this encryption scheme to protect copyrighted data...
Businesses will stay open later if it makes economic sense for them to.
Businesses will NOT stay open if local laws prevent it. The point was not to madate late hours but to permit them.
> This company release a warning, what, like 6 months ago
June 18. Nowhere near 6 months ago. Barely a month before the onslaught of Code Red I.
Perhaps better verbiage would be "Legal in Europe, where he lives and where he was when he 'broke' U.S. Law."
It would probably be a good idea to point out other laws he's broken - he's a spy, since he has provided information to the Russian government. He's old enough that he might have even given info to the KGB under trhe Soviets! He has never paid ONE CENT to the IRS - shouldn't we hit him with income tax evasion? I doubt he's registered his car (assuming he has one) with the state of California. Etc. etc.
This is completely off topic (and is likely to be moderated as such), but that sig made me laugh out loud. And I'm not easily amused.
For those that have sigs turned off:
Spews from birds: Stuff that splatters.
All you need now is a name for your new scatalogical forum...
Go to www.eeye.com. They did some extensive analysis of the worm's code.
Wow! I didn't know a command prompt was a GUI!
Or my favorite techno-mangling of the English language:
administrated
Knowing the facts, there are only two ways to argue against missile defense: you are either in favor of M.A.D., or you believe that taxpayer dollars shouldn't pay to protect us from a very likely threat of nuclear devestation.
If you beleive the former, you are simply un-American
Thank you for implying that EVERY military and political leader for the past 50 years has been un-American.
I could pay an extra $2 to prevent my face turning into what a french fry from dropped into a deep fryer looks like, I think I'll pony up the cash.
I would, too. What I don't want to do is to spend $2/paycheck to make weapons manufacturers rich.
We should take the Israeli approach and start blowing up any facility among our potential enemies that looks like it might be used to create weapons of mass destruction. If you suggest otherwise, then you are UN-AMERICAN. And an ANTI-SEMITIC. And a NAZI.
Naw...you just climb the string, grab on to the kite, and steer it into a controlled glider-like descent.
Yes. Sort of like backhoes, bulldozers, and cement trucks can today. Oops...I mean, the men driving the backhoes, etc. After all, the peasants weren't the brains; they were the power. They didn't decide where to put the stones or how to orient them. They merely did what the men with whips told them to. The men with whips, in turn, obeyed the men with swords, who obeyed the king with the army, who followed the advice of his court mathematicians and astronomers. Just as open source software can be used by non-programmers, stones can be emplaced by non-astronomers and non-mathematicians.
Tron was for programmers like the Black Hole was for astrophysicists.
So it's bad to call a device that can be used for saving lives a Light Saber, but it's OK to call a huge military-industrial boondoggle Star Wars?
And regardless of your opinion of a super-tech missile defense system, you've got to admit that it's been presented by the mainstream press exactly as I described it.
Spoken like a rich guy. You're billing at what, $50/hr? Of course it's worth your while to pay some guy $25 bucks to change your oil.
Imagine now that you're earning $12/hr. Is it worth your while to pay some guy $50/hr for something you can do yourself? By your own reasoning, I'd have to say no. Furthermore, the people that earn $12/hr don't always have the option of working all the hours they want at those rates. Beyond the 40-60 hours that they work each week, their time is worth much less than $12/hr.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you...I consider myself quite well off and pay other people to do work for me. HOWEVER, what works for me doesn't work for everyone all the way down the economic ladder.
Isn't buckshot like a Beowulf cluster of rocks?
/me ducks and runs
That works great. Of course, it pretty reduces you to subsistence farming, as participating in the modern global economy harms everyone.