Nope. Just creates more problems. Raising taxes is hardly ever a solution to problems, because it assumes government spends the money better than the private sector. I can assure you that it doesn't. But it is easy to play class warfare and not really address the problems.
We've spent TRILLIONS on "war on poverty" to what end? Do we still have "poor people"? Of course! It is just that the "poor" today have running water, electricity, TVs, Cell phones and Computers. But they are still "poor" we just shifted the definition of what it means to be "poor", and we need more taxes and more programs to help poor people, because there are more of them. We make more poor people by taxing them till they are poor in a vicious cycle.
All taxes are regressive, and leftwingnuts never realize that they are the most anti "progressive" people in the world, because they don't want progress, they want to punish progress by taxing it to death.
Lesson:Never give government more power than it barely needs to function. Stop voting with (D) or (R) who use Government to usurp the power of the people for their own greedy desires.
Problem: Who decides how much is too much? Why $100M? Why not $1M? Why not $250K? How would you figure Stock bonuses and growth in stock value, say like Steve Jobs who gets payed $1 year salary, and everything else is stock options and such? How do you value that?
It sounds great and wonderful on paper. Like the internet, artificial restrictions are viewed by the system as being "broken" and routes around it.
How, exactly, do you tell if what you're downloading is infected with a trojan such as this? Permissions list is nice, but doesn't tell the whole story. Who inspects the packages being uploaded to the unsavory store you're about to download from? I'm certain you don't inspect the contents of every app you're downloading.
I know plenty of people who download crap because "it is free", from all sorts of places who get infected by all the crap that is out there. I usually tell them "its not free", that it costs them in infections and stolen identity or empty bank accounts.They just don't care, all they see is "free" and clickety click..
There is no real good answer, because on the one hand, we don't want the walled iApp garden approach, but on the other hand we don't want a bunch of rooted Androids screwing life for the rest of us.
some better quality debate how to distribute labor, social decision making, and rewards/benefits.
How would YOU propose distribution? I guarantee you that whatever method or means you generate will have critical flaws in it, that smart people who will game the system to exploit those flaws to gain an "unfair" advantage. It is, and always will be the case.
Socialism fails because it assumes people will try hard(er) for no more reward, and won't work less because they are lazy. Capitalism fails because is seen as cruel and heartless(It is, btw).
I'm just curious what kind of system you'd set up that perfectly accounts for limited resources and social decision making that doesn't incorporate the flaws of either of those two economic systems.
I find the "Democracy" cries from the left (and often from the right as well) a tad hollow. What they seem to cry is "Democracy when we're in power". We just had elections, and the Conservative Right won power, democratically, under the promise of doing exactly this thing. So Democracy is working just fine. You may not like it, but that is besides the point. Losers usually don't like losing.
And wasn't it the (D) party that blamed the shutdown of the government on the (R) party for doing the exact same thing they are doing now; weren't they the ones crying how evil the (R)s were for causing a shut down of the government? Let me get this right... if (R) shut down the government it is because they are evil, and if the (D) shut down the government it is because the (R) are evil. Is that how it works?
Mind you, I'm not either (D) or (R) and I clearly see the hypocrisy on both sides. However the (D) are acting like little babies here, and taking the ball and running home because they don't like how the game is being played. Grow up.
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IF you want to use a classic email interface, use Thunderbird or Outlook Express, and you'll even get the benefits of being able to read your email when offline!
News Flash. Kids don't have a "right to privacy" in the same sense as you're placing it. Parents have an obligation to protect their children as they see fit. And you telling people how to raise their kids is just insane. How would you like me dictating how you should raise your kids, HMMM???
The arrogance of some people is just mind boggling.
If your 14 year old daughter is showing her titties to her boyfriend, you have bigger problems than jail. STDs and Pregnancy are two big problems. One is life threatening the other is life altering (next 18 years). Of course the typical/. crowd won't want to admit that 14 year olds shouldn't be having sex.
Both are NN issues. Because what is already happening is tunneling things like BT in HTTP, where everything defaults to Port 80 for data traffic between two points. The problem is that people are violating the very nature of the system to route around perma-broken links. You're just shoveling the problem up the Stack.
QoS only works for temporary / bursty problems. When you have someone not having enough bandwidth to handle NORMAL traffic, all the time, then no amount of QoS can fix the problem. And how providers are dealing with THAT issue is a NN issue, because they are discriminating against destinations (address or port).
If you do a speed test between your computer and DSLREPORTS that differs from one done between two random computers, that is a NN issue. And yet, that is exactly what is going on. Because DSLREPORTS my Cable speed as being much higher than anything I can achieve going to my nearly empty GB link at work in the middle of the night. Tell me, how is that even possible?
Republicrats,. all of them, are evil. Voting for little evil over bigger evil is still voting for evil.
The (D) are just as evil, just ask them how they love taking FREE SPEECH away via Fairness Doctrine and Politically Correct Speech rules. Or when they give a pass to big labor (UNIONS) that they wouldn't give to big Corporations, like excusing them from Obama Care. They happen to be right on this point. It doesn't make them a paragon of virtue in my book.
And don't get me started on the complete lack of understanding by members of both parties, from "we don't have GPS" Harry Reid crafting laws dealing with anything technical.
So, yes, I'd rather have NO law, than one that is horribly crafted by special interest groups on either side. Because there is no way I trust the idiots of either party to have our (citizen's) best interest in mind. The worst laws passed are driven by the mentality "There ought to be a law, this is a law, therefore we have to have it".
So, do you understand Fiat Currency any better? Why Fiat Currency?
The problem with Fiat Currency is that it has no basis in value, except the faith of people in it. You think that is any better way of valuing something?
You missed the point. Section 12 is a superiority clause, saying that if ALL of the terms of the GPL3 cannot be superceeded by any other agreement. There is a risk involve if you want to put in any other agreement (Ap Store TOS) along side the GPL3. The simplest solution is to not allow GPL3 along side any other agreement, because the GPL3 takes precedence over the other agreements (TOS), in effect, either nullifying the TOS or breaking GPL3 compliance.
This doesn't affect the Software authors, except restrict the means of distribution of their GPL3 software. Which is fine if you want to GPL3 your works, just don't expect to be able to distribute those works in commercial stores with TOS agreements. I the sure heck wouldn't allow GPL3 on my Ap Store, not because I don't want GPL3 code, I don't want the FSF or other OSS supporters coming after me because my TOS violates the GPL3. Its not worth the potential headache.
The GPL3 is too restrictive, and isn't about Free software, it is about control and is just as insidious as any other EULA, IMHO. Use the GPL2 instead.
It shows that there was a sixty second period where FB was updated, accident happened and 911 call occurred. The order of event is yet to be determined, however, it would seem easy postulate the order based on the Status Update actual content. But don't let the whole 60 seconds thing get in the way of a good/. rumor mongering.
If you write out 0s to a disk, and the disk EVER read back a 1 because it was 0.6 then the disk has larger problems than what you're suggesting. You couldn't ever rely upon the bits stored. And by "ever" I mean EVER.
The newer drives, if you wrote 0s out, the density of the data on the platter is so high that it is virtually impossible to recover any data. So writing out 0s is and should be acceptable for 99.99% of the drives. If you are that scared of what is on your drive, just put it into a Magnetic Pulse Machine (Degausser) and then grind it up.
Trust should never be absolute.Trust is an analog scale, not a digital bit.
Trust but verify is prudent behavior. This is why we pull ever Nth item off a production line, to test and verify that it is worthy of the trust we've placed in the process as a whole.
See Section 12. GPL3 claims superiority to all other agreements/licenses and if you don't agree, you can't distribute the code. It is fairly simple problem that is built into the GPL3. And I wouldn't distribute any GPL3 code for this reason alone. I much prefer GPL2 or Berkeley licenses.
GPL3 is the very thing that Open Source Community advocates against. Use GPL2 instead.
If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey a covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not convey it at all. For example, if you agree to terms that obligate you to collect a royalty for further conveying from those to whom you convey the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.
The Application of this license supersedes all other licenses or other general conditions outlined by terms of service of an Ap Store. It is sad when I get modded troll by people who don't know the GPL3. I'm a huge fan of GPL2, but I don't like the GPL3 at all.
And this is where you tell me I am wrong about the meaning of the clause.
This is how it is supposed to work, just not as it was intended to work. The difference is that GPL3 is a VERY restrictive license, one that will prevent, through legal licensing restrictions, distributions via anything resembling an "app store". Don't blame Apple or Microsoft on this one, blame that idiots who didn't see this coming when they wrote the GPL3.
Apple and Microsoft are protecting themselves from the anti-corporate measures in the GPL3 (and similar) licenses. Which is exactly what the GPL3 was supposed to do. The authors of GPL3 just didn't see this contingency. They have no right to complain.
For those that don't know the quote, it was Obama. It also explains why it was modded down. Can't have people quoting Obama on why Obama care won't work.
And that is why Geeks have a bad reputation with regard to tech. For every one of you that wants everything you said, there are 1,000 people who just want a phone to work right, not have to mess with it, and easy to use.
And you can have your phone if you want to root one. And from your requirements you listed, you should be able to root just about any Android phone and put Linux on it, just like you want. And since you want it and can have it, you should have googled it and got this link... showing Ubuntu running on Android Phone.
So, quit you bitching and do it. Oh it is too expensive, and too hard and too much bother? Then you don't really want it, you're just whining to whine.
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Nope. Just creates more problems. Raising taxes is hardly ever a solution to problems, because it assumes government spends the money better than the private sector. I can assure you that it doesn't. But it is easy to play class warfare and not really address the problems.
We've spent TRILLIONS on "war on poverty" to what end? Do we still have "poor people"? Of course! It is just that the "poor" today have running water, electricity, TVs, Cell phones and Computers. But they are still "poor" we just shifted the definition of what it means to be "poor", and we need more taxes and more programs to help poor people, because there are more of them. We make more poor people by taxing them till they are poor in a vicious cycle.
All taxes are regressive, and leftwingnuts never realize that they are the most anti "progressive" people in the world, because they don't want progress, they want to punish progress by taxing it to death.
Lesson:Never give government more power than it barely needs to function. Stop voting with (D) or (R) who use Government to usurp the power of the people for their own greedy desires.
Problem: Who decides how much is too much? Why $100M? Why not $1M? Why not $250K? How would you figure Stock bonuses and growth in stock value, say like Steve Jobs who gets payed $1 year salary, and everything else is stock options and such? How do you value that?
It sounds great and wonderful on paper. Like the internet, artificial restrictions are viewed by the system as being "broken" and routes around it.
How, exactly, do you tell if what you're downloading is infected with a trojan such as this? Permissions list is nice, but doesn't tell the whole story. Who inspects the packages being uploaded to the unsavory store you're about to download from? I'm certain you don't inspect the contents of every app you're downloading.
I know plenty of people who download crap because "it is free", from all sorts of places who get infected by all the crap that is out there. I usually tell them "its not free", that it costs them in infections and stolen identity or empty bank accounts.They just don't care, all they see is "free" and clickety click ..
There is no real good answer, because on the one hand, we don't want the walled iApp garden approach, but on the other hand we don't want a bunch of rooted Androids screwing life for the rest of us.
How would YOU propose distribution? I guarantee you that whatever method or means you generate will have critical flaws in it, that smart people who will game the system to exploit those flaws to gain an "unfair" advantage. It is, and always will be the case.
Socialism fails because it assumes people will try hard(er) for no more reward, and won't work less because they are lazy. Capitalism fails because is seen as cruel and heartless(It is, btw).
I'm just curious what kind of system you'd set up that perfectly accounts for limited resources and social decision making that doesn't incorporate the flaws of either of those two economic systems.
I find the "Democracy" cries from the left (and often from the right as well) a tad hollow. What they seem to cry is "Democracy when we're in power". We just had elections, and the Conservative Right won power, democratically, under the promise of doing exactly this thing. So Democracy is working just fine. You may not like it, but that is besides the point. Losers usually don't like losing.
And wasn't it the (D) party that blamed the shutdown of the government on the (R) party for doing the exact same thing they are doing now; weren't they the ones crying how evil the (R)s were for causing a shut down of the government? Let me get this right ... if (R) shut down the government it is because they are evil, and if the (D) shut down the government it is because the (R) are evil. Is that how it works?
Mind you, I'm not either (D) or (R) and I clearly see the hypocrisy on both sides. However the (D) are acting like little babies here, and taking the ball and running home because they don't like how the game is being played. Grow up.
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Labels are much more powerful than "sort", at least to me. Labels create a multisort capability that no classic email can provide. If you take the time to build your Labels correctly, they'll do everything you want and more. I've stopped using Thunderbird for Gmail a long time ago because it just felt clunky.
IF you want to use a classic email interface, use Thunderbird or Outlook Express, and you'll even get the benefits of being able to read your email when offline!
News Flash. Kids don't have a "right to privacy" in the same sense as you're placing it. Parents have an obligation to protect their children as they see fit. And you telling people how to raise their kids is just insane. How would you like me dictating how you should raise your kids, HMMM???
The arrogance of some people is just mind boggling.
If your 14 year old daughter is showing her titties to her boyfriend, you have bigger problems than jail. STDs and Pregnancy are two big problems. One is life threatening the other is life altering (next 18 years). Of course the typical /. crowd won't want to admit that 14 year olds shouldn't be having sex.
Both are NN issues. Because what is already happening is tunneling things like BT in HTTP, where everything defaults to Port 80 for data traffic between two points. The problem is that people are violating the very nature of the system to route around perma-broken links. You're just shoveling the problem up the Stack.
QoS only works for temporary / bursty problems. When you have someone not having enough bandwidth to handle NORMAL traffic, all the time, then no amount of QoS can fix the problem. And how providers are dealing with THAT issue is a NN issue, because they are discriminating against destinations (address or port).
If you do a speed test between your computer and DSLREPORTS that differs from one done between two random computers, that is a NN issue. And yet, that is exactly what is going on. Because DSLREPORTS my Cable speed as being much higher than anything I can achieve going to my nearly empty GB link at work in the middle of the night. Tell me, how is that even possible?
Republicrats,. all of them, are evil. Voting for little evil over bigger evil is still voting for evil.
The (D) are just as evil, just ask them how they love taking FREE SPEECH away via Fairness Doctrine and Politically Correct Speech rules. Or when they give a pass to big labor (UNIONS) that they wouldn't give to big Corporations, like excusing them from Obama Care. They happen to be right on this point. It doesn't make them a paragon of virtue in my book.
And don't get me started on the complete lack of understanding by members of both parties, from "we don't have GPS" Harry Reid crafting laws dealing with anything technical.
So, yes, I'd rather have NO law, than one that is horribly crafted by special interest groups on either side. Because there is no way I trust the idiots of either party to have our (citizen's) best interest in mind. The worst laws passed are driven by the mentality "There ought to be a law, this is a law, therefore we have to have it".
{sheepish} yup {/sheepish}
So, do you understand Fiat Currency any better? Why Fiat Currency?
The problem with Fiat Currency is that it has no basis in value, except the faith of people in it. You think that is any better way of valuing something?
You missed the point. Section 12 is a superiority clause, saying that if ALL of the terms of the GPL3 cannot be superceeded by any other agreement. There is a risk involve if you want to put in any other agreement (Ap Store TOS) along side the GPL3. The simplest solution is to not allow GPL3 along side any other agreement, because the GPL3 takes precedence over the other agreements (TOS), in effect, either nullifying the TOS or breaking GPL3 compliance.
This doesn't affect the Software authors, except restrict the means of distribution of their GPL3 software. Which is fine if you want to GPL3 your works, just don't expect to be able to distribute those works in commercial stores with TOS agreements. I the sure heck wouldn't allow GPL3 on my Ap Store, not because I don't want GPL3 code, I don't want the FSF or other OSS supporters coming after me because my TOS violates the GPL3. Its not worth the potential headache.
The GPL3 is too restrictive, and isn't about Free software, it is about control and is just as insidious as any other EULA, IMHO. Use the GPL2 instead.
They need a Thermometer thing next to the request to show people how close (far) they are from raising the funds.
No.
It shows that there was a sixty second period where FB was updated, accident happened and 911 call occurred. The order of event is yet to be determined, however, it would seem easy postulate the order based on the Status Update actual content. But don't let the whole 60 seconds thing get in the way of a good /. rumor mongering.
If you write out 0s to a disk, and the disk EVER read back a 1 because it was 0.6 then the disk has larger problems than what you're suggesting. You couldn't ever rely upon the bits stored. And by "ever" I mean EVER.
The newer drives, if you wrote 0s out, the density of the data on the platter is so high that it is virtually impossible to recover any data. So writing out 0s is and should be acceptable for 99.99% of the drives. If you are that scared of what is on your drive, just put it into a Magnetic Pulse Machine (Degausser) and then grind it up.
Trust should never be absolute.Trust is an analog scale, not a digital bit.
Trust but verify is prudent behavior. This is why we pull ever Nth item off a production line, to test and verify that it is worthy of the trust we've placed in the process as a whole.
See Section 12. GPL3 claims superiority to all other agreements/licenses and if you don't agree, you can't distribute the code. It is fairly simple problem that is built into the GPL3. And I wouldn't distribute any GPL3 code for this reason alone. I much prefer GPL2 or Berkeley licenses.
GPL3 is the very thing that Open Source Community advocates against. Use GPL2 instead.
How about this passage ... for starts ..
The Application of this license supersedes all other licenses or other general conditions outlined by terms of service of an Ap Store. It is sad when I get modded troll by people who don't know the GPL3. I'm a huge fan of GPL2, but I don't like the GPL3 at all.
And this is where you tell me I am wrong about the meaning of the clause.
In related news, HP plans to release a special "Facebook Edition" of the WebOS phone, to be called "Face Palm".
This is how it is supposed to work, just not as it was intended to work. The difference is that GPL3 is a VERY restrictive license, one that will prevent, through legal licensing restrictions, distributions via anything resembling an "app store". Don't blame Apple or Microsoft on this one, blame that idiots who didn't see this coming when they wrote the GPL3.
Apple and Microsoft are protecting themselves from the anti-corporate measures in the GPL3 (and similar) licenses. Which is exactly what the GPL3 was supposed to do. The authors of GPL3 just didn't see this contingency. They have no right to complain.
For those that don't know the quote, it was Obama. It also explains why it was modded down. Can't have people quoting Obama on why Obama care won't work.
And that is why Geeks have a bad reputation with regard to tech. For every one of you that wants everything you said, there are 1,000 people who just want a phone to work right, not have to mess with it, and easy to use.
And you can have your phone if you want to root one. And from your requirements you listed, you should be able to root just about any Android phone and put Linux on it, just like you want. And since you want it and can have it, you should have googled it and got this link ... showing Ubuntu running on Android Phone.
http://phandroid.com/2010/07/08/ubuntu-running-on-nexus-one-video/
So, quit you bitching and do it. Oh it is too expensive, and too hard and too much bother? Then you don't really want it, you're just whining to whine.
Who said the following about Health Care Reform?
Whoever it was was right. We're just following his logic.