Very good point. And I would add one additional suggestion: go to open source conventions. I'm not going to name any, dare I get labeled a shill, but it's been my experience at open source cons that people with very narrow scope tend to run into other people with very narrow scope at these events. If possible, get on the con's speaker list, and talk about your product. People who aren't interested will skip the talk, but then you'll end up with a room where all the attendees *are* interested in your product. Great networking potential!
Of course, that's just one way to go about it, there are many other valid suggestions here that you should do as well, not just one.
It's interesting that they don't mention pig skin grafts for burn victims. I guess today, those are considered sub-par to human grafts.
I owe a lot to a pig - 25 years ago or so, I suffered a major burn on my head. I was rushed to UW/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, which besides being a welfare hospital, is one of the premier burn units in the U.S. So, I was lucky that I was only a few miles away from it. After the "scrubbing" (which you do not want me to describe here) they had to come up with a graft that would act like human skin, but not be rejected by my immune system. Pig skin grafts were the hot (if you'll excuse the pun) medicine at the time, because pig skin actually has a lower rejection rate than donor human skin (the only other alternative being, removing and grafting skin from another part of the victim's body, which I'm told is very unpleasant, albeit less than "scrubbing".)
So after a third degree burn, and a successful pig skin graft, I was released after about a week or so. Without the pig skin graft, I'm told I would have spent months in the hospital dealing with the effects of anti-rejection drugs.
P'raps the pre-graft typing of human skin tissue has improved, reducing rejection. That's great. But I still owe a lot to a pig.
Apology not accepted. It's a huge bias and polarizes the entire debate. The courts, legislature, and president can still order seizure of files. Every American has access to this redress through their congressperson, senator, and federal courts.
So I guess it just boils down to Interpol not paying taxes that you're so pissed off about.
Maslow never proposed a social utopia where all of his D-needs were met by society or government. In fact, he describes self-actualization as a "motivator", i.e. what makes people achieve more success in life for themselves. His theories are generally accepted as theories of personality and motivation, not social or societal ideals.
Unions in the U.S. are much different than your unions in Sweden. For one thing, unions are big business here. Big, corrupt business. It's just one big business making deals with another big business (the employer) for those "minimum" wages that end up being "the most anyone in a union shop makes".
Their employees make a living off of union dues. Members are strong-armed to support political candidates and other laws and referendums that are union-friendly, even if they don't agree with them. "Support" in this case generally means putting a "I support X" sign in your front yard, but may also mean donating a percentage of your salary increase to a political candidate.
And then there's the elected union leadership. Sometimes a particular shop supports one candidate for union boss, and if the other candidate wins, that winner will punish the shops that supported his opponent. And not to mention if you get high enough in the union leadership and cross them, you could end up "sleeping with the fishes."
That's true to up to a certain point, but the US also has extradition treaties with many countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties) that allow for extradition of that countries' own citizens. Again, as long as the death penalty is not in play, which is not the case here.
Better bone up on your facts. The laws around the US justice system apply to everyone, not just U.S. citizens. The U.S. has detained prisoners in Guantanamo under an executive order that, while flawed, could be applied to U.S. citizens as well.
The reason why the US made a (successful) argument that he should be tried in the US is because that's where the damage occurred. If he had caused damage in China, and China argued successfully for his extradition, then he would be tried there. That's the way extradition has worked for ages.
The only area where the U.S. tends to lose extradition is when the death penalty is on the table - other countries that oppose the death penalty usually refuse to extradite unless the U.S. prosecutors take the death penalty off the table.
I remember when everyone knew who Hayes was, and nobody knew who USR was. USR was the underdog in that battle, and eventually switched roles from the David to the Goliath. But anyway 3COM was hardly a no-name company when they bought USR; Bob Metcalf invented Ethernet and founded 3COM and at the time was the God Of All Things to network geeks. He put ethernet adapters into VAX machines that had previously been stand alone systems in Universities, connected them all up, and made the Internet go. By the time of the buyout, 3COM was riding high on the sales of NICs and USR was the king of dial-up. It was a match made in heaven. Until both markets collapsed, for different reasons. I miss those days.
Yes, Word wasn't the first. But I think the author is right that MS Word was the first incarnation of word processing software that was really geared toward printing. Prior to that, we had applications that were geared toward simplifying layout and design and allowing creative people (and yes, I'm including IT people in this group) to simply plug their content into the application, and make only a few simple layout and formatting settings.
Now you have Word, which while not the first WYSIWYG editor, was nearly the first. And by the way, that should really be "WYSIWYP" - P for Print, not Get, because what most people got back in the early days of Word (not wordprocessing) was a printout. And the point is, why are we spending so much time and effort making Word docs look pretty when old-school technology like FrameMaker which has long since been abandoned in corporate America used to (mostly) do that for us?
Yes. At least in the US, the legal differentiation of a Pyramid scheme and an MLM is whether or not the company has a product to sell. Even if all the analysis indicating that this type of service at this price is not technically feasible is correct, they do not yet offer the service, ergo it is a Pyramid scheme. The courts have been very clear on this. Offering a "future service" doesn't cut it, if you want to operate an MLM you must have a product, not vapor.
If she qualifies to file for chapter 7, anything she earns after the bankruptcy discharge is hers to keep. If she doesn't qualify, anything she earns after about three years is safe.
Both state and federal laws come into play with regard to bankruptcy exemptions, and there's an amazing amount of exemptions in some states that allow the complainant to keep things. Thousands of dollars in real assets are untouchable in bankruptcy, and in fact most bankruptcy trustees won't touch non-exempt assets (too much trouble for them) if it's pretty clear that a complainant's assets only exceed their debts by a few thousand dollars.
If she loses appeals, she will probably do better living on the grid and filing bankruptcy than living off the grid, but I understand why you espouse that way of life. A misunderstanding of the law is usually what drives people off the grid.
Translation: They pay the companies that actually develop and promote innovative handsets a ton of money for exclusivity, and that money goes into further R&D.
You still believe the myth that the pretty pixels they program their computers to display on the screen are real.
In real poker, you see your opponents faces. You learn to read their actions. You see them get paid what amounts to cash for their wins. You see the house rake.
In computer poker, you see pretty pixels that they program their computers to show you, with a promise that it's all real. I guess it boils down to, do you trust them.
Slashdot Mirror
It allows her to carry, except in the cities / villages that have outlawed them (like Chicago, Morton Grove, etc.)
Ummm, my wife has a firearms license, and we live in Illinois.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
And get off my lawn!
I didn't see anything in the article about hacking. It all looked like cracking to me.
Very good point. And I would add one additional suggestion: go to open source conventions. I'm not going to name any, dare I get labeled a shill, but it's been my experience at open source cons that people with very narrow scope tend to run into other people with very narrow scope at these events. If possible, get on the con's speaker list, and talk about your product. People who aren't interested will skip the talk, but then you'll end up with a room where all the attendees *are* interested in your product. Great networking potential!
Of course, that's just one way to go about it, there are many other valid suggestions here that you should do as well, not just one.
It's interesting that they don't mention pig skin grafts for burn victims. I guess today, those are considered sub-par to human grafts.
I owe a lot to a pig - 25 years ago or so, I suffered a major burn on my head. I was rushed to UW/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, which besides being a welfare hospital, is one of the premier burn units in the U.S. So, I was lucky that I was only a few miles away from it. After the "scrubbing" (which you do not want me to describe here) they had to come up with a graft that would act like human skin, but not be rejected by my immune system. Pig skin grafts were the hot (if you'll excuse the pun) medicine at the time, because pig skin actually has a lower rejection rate than donor human skin (the only other alternative being, removing and grafting skin from another part of the victim's body, which I'm told is very unpleasant, albeit less than "scrubbing".)
So after a third degree burn, and a successful pig skin graft, I was released after about a week or so. Without the pig skin graft, I'm told I would have spent months in the hospital dealing with the effects of anti-rejection drugs.
P'raps the pre-graft typing of human skin tissue has improved, reducing rejection. That's great. But I still owe a lot to a pig.
Apology not accepted. It's a huge bias and polarizes the entire debate. The courts, legislature, and president can still order seizure of files. Every American has access to this redress through their congressperson, senator, and federal courts.
So I guess it just boils down to Interpol not paying taxes that you're so pissed off about.
Maslow never proposed a social utopia where all of his D-needs were met by society or government. In fact, he describes self-actualization as a "motivator", i.e. what makes people achieve more success in life for themselves. His theories are generally accepted as theories of personality and motivation, not social or societal ideals.
I was a union organizer for IAM (AFL-CIO) for three years.
Unions in the U.S. are much different than your unions in Sweden. For one thing, unions are big business here. Big, corrupt business. It's just one big business making deals with another big business (the employer) for those "minimum" wages that end up being "the most anyone in a union shop makes".
Their employees make a living off of union dues. Members are strong-armed to support political candidates and other laws and referendums that are union-friendly, even if they don't agree with them. "Support" in this case generally means putting a "I support X" sign in your front yard, but may also mean donating a percentage of your salary increase to a political candidate.
And then there's the elected union leadership. Sometimes a particular shop supports one candidate for union boss, and if the other candidate wins, that winner will punish the shops that supported his opponent. And not to mention if you get high enough in the union leadership and cross them, you could end up "sleeping with the fishes."
That's true to up to a certain point, but the US also has extradition treaties with many countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties) that allow for extradition of that countries' own citizens. Again, as long as the death penalty is not in play, which is not the case here.
Better bone up on your facts. The laws around the US justice system apply to everyone, not just U.S. citizens. The U.S. has detained prisoners in Guantanamo under an executive order that, while flawed, could be applied to U.S. citizens as well.
The reason why the US made a (successful) argument that he should be tried in the US is because that's where the damage occurred. If he had caused damage in China, and China argued successfully for his extradition, then he would be tried there. That's the way extradition has worked for ages.
The only area where the U.S. tends to lose extradition is when the death penalty is on the table - other countries that oppose the death penalty usually refuse to extradite unless the U.S. prosecutors take the death penalty off the table.
Who did what to who now?
I remember when everyone knew who Hayes was, and nobody knew who USR was. USR was the underdog in that battle, and eventually switched roles from the David to the Goliath. But anyway 3COM was hardly a no-name company when they bought USR; Bob Metcalf invented Ethernet and founded 3COM and at the time was the God Of All Things to network geeks. He put ethernet adapters into VAX machines that had previously been stand alone systems in Universities, connected them all up, and made the Internet go. By the time of the buyout, 3COM was riding high on the sales of NICs and USR was the king of dial-up. It was a match made in heaven. Until both markets collapsed, for different reasons. I miss those days.
Or, its covering of something is useful.
Mille Bourne
Aren't open source license agreements also enforced by patent law?
I'm just sayin'....
My take on the article was a bit different.
Yes, Word wasn't the first. But I think the author is right that MS Word was the first incarnation of word processing software that was really geared toward printing. Prior to that, we had applications that were geared toward simplifying layout and design and allowing creative people (and yes, I'm including IT people in this group) to simply plug their content into the application, and make only a few simple layout and formatting settings.
Now you have Word, which while not the first WYSIWYG editor, was nearly the first. And by the way, that should really be "WYSIWYP" - P for Print, not Get, because what most people got back in the early days of Word (not wordprocessing) was a printout. And the point is, why are we spending so much time and effort making Word docs look pretty when old-school technology like FrameMaker which has long since been abandoned in corporate America used to (mostly) do that for us?
Yes. At least in the US, the legal differentiation of a Pyramid scheme and an MLM is whether or not the company has a product to sell. Even if all the analysis indicating that this type of service at this price is not technically feasible is correct, they do not yet offer the service, ergo it is a Pyramid scheme. The courts have been very clear on this. Offering a "future service" doesn't cut it, if you want to operate an MLM you must have a product, not vapor.
So yes, it's a pyramid scheme.
I like giving people the "Let me google that for you treatment":
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+encrypted+drive
Bankruptcy doesn't work like that.
If she qualifies to file for chapter 7, anything she earns after the bankruptcy discharge is hers to keep. If she doesn't qualify, anything she earns after about three years is safe.
Both state and federal laws come into play with regard to bankruptcy exemptions, and there's an amazing amount of exemptions in some states that allow the complainant to keep things. Thousands of dollars in real assets are untouchable in bankruptcy, and in fact most bankruptcy trustees won't touch non-exempt assets (too much trouble for them) if it's pretty clear that a complainant's assets only exceed their debts by a few thousand dollars.
If she loses appeals, she will probably do better living on the grid and filing bankruptcy than living off the grid, but I understand why you espouse that way of life. A misunderstanding of the law is usually what drives people off the grid.
Translation: They pay the companies that actually develop and promote innovative handsets a ton of money for exclusivity, and that money goes into further R&D.
You still believe the myth that the pretty pixels they program their computers to display on the screen are real.
In real poker, you see your opponents faces. You learn to read their actions. You see them get paid what amounts to cash for their wins. You see the house rake.
In computer poker, you see pretty pixels that they program their computers to show you, with a promise that it's all real. I guess it boils down to, do you trust them.
No, the law was "brought in" to protect the American taxpayers from losing tax revenue on winnings earned, redeemed and spent in the US.