It would be nice to live in a world where the platform you develop for doesn't dictate how you write the software, but in practice that isn't going to happen.
America has reached its position of economic success and standing in the world by being different. That difference is among other things the idea of the rugged individual, that people should provide for themselves and pay their own way.
America became wealthy and successful with generally full employment and steadily rising quality of life over its history because (historically) it was a wild and free place where you knew no one was expected to take care of you, but you were only limited by limits you put on yourself. It was an environment that was sink or swim, and that motivated people to work hard.
The environment has changed. Now most people don't pay any taxes at all, indeed the numeric majority are drains and not contributors to the system as a whole. The idea has changed from government functioning as a night watchman to government being the provider of all the necessities of life, as if we were baby birds and government our mother.
It's not only anathema to what made this country great, it actively militates against it.
If one wants to live in a European welfare state where your tax burden rises above 50% in exchange for "free" health care (eventually), there are many of those places to choose from.
This is all well and good, but shell scripts don't have the geek-panache needed to make this sound both cool, and like an idea that would turn someone into the world's richest man if anyone could just be bothered to implement it.
We need a mention of Ruby on Rails and to propose that Natalie Portman be included on the crew for the maiden voyage of Whedon-2517. Then we have geekstered up enough.
Furthermore Susan, I can definitely see a thread developing here where the consensus is that the most successful world possible is one where random joes show up to crowdsource the construction of a much better space vessel from reclaimed scrap, all controlled by open-source systems running Linux on netbooks.
After the Obama administration clearly fabricated details most favorable to them immediately after the raid came to public knowledge, like there was a firefight and he refused to surrender, I don't believe this at all. I think it's mean to undermine his standing in the world among Muslims and probably isn't true.
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It would be nice to live in a world where the platform you develop for doesn't dictate how you write the software, but in practice that isn't going to happen.
Indemnity has been part of common vocabulary since the idea of insurance came about.
No, the judge noticed that RightHaven doesn't own the copyrights that it is suing about, and _because they don't_, they haven't been injured.
Thank you, that's what I meant to type.
It sounds promising - he's acknowledging that TrollHaven likely doesn't even own this IP, and if they do, haven't been injured.
Apparently you haven't heard about the Hope and Change he's going to bring us.
America has reached its position of economic success and standing in the world by being different. That difference is among other things the idea of the rugged individual, that people should provide for themselves and pay their own way.
America became wealthy and successful with generally full employment and steadily rising quality of life over its history because (historically) it was a wild and free place where you knew no one was expected to take care of you, but you were only limited by limits you put on yourself. It was an environment that was sink or swim, and that motivated people to work hard.
The environment has changed. Now most people don't pay any taxes at all, indeed the numeric majority are drains and not contributors to the system as a whole. The idea has changed from government functioning as a night watchman to government being the provider of all the necessities of life, as if we were baby birds and government our mother.
It's not only anathema to what made this country great, it actively militates against it.
If one wants to live in a European welfare state where your tax burden rises above 50% in exchange for "free" health care (eventually), there are many of those places to choose from.
and with the exception of health care, which it's not the purpose of government to provide anyway.
With the exception of "welfare", you could fund all of those things with taxes at their originally intended (low) levels.
It's good to see schools succumbing to tinfoil hattery like this...
I happen to think that Star Wars: Episodes I-III present a serious health risk, can we ban those within 1,000 yards of a school too?
I don't think that this patent was that bad in and of itself - the real question is, why can they be bought and sold like securities?
They should be non-transferable unless the case is one of a certain company buying another.
They shouldn't be traded like baseball cards and then used to suck money out of the system without adding a cent of value to anything, anywhere.
Loud != numerous
the new SCO Group is born...
We shouldn't lump in legitimate uses for IP protections in with companies like Trollsys, er I mean Lodsys.
Since they're only going to a soundstage, why would they be afraid?
*ducks*
This is all well and good, but shell scripts don't have the geek-panache needed to make this sound both cool, and like an idea that would turn someone into the world's richest man if anyone could just be bothered to implement it.
We need a mention of Ruby on Rails and to propose that Natalie Portman be included on the crew for the maiden voyage of Whedon-2517. Then we have geekstered up enough.
"These people" predicting that are a couple of dozen nuts following one nut leading one church. Who made the same predictions before and was wrong...
Furthermore Susan, I can definitely see a thread developing here where the consensus is that the most successful world possible is one where random joes show up to crowdsource the construction of a much better space vessel from reclaimed scrap, all controlled by open-source systems running Linux on netbooks.
They don't. They shrug and say "Who cares about homoerotic porn cartoons?" and then go back to their kindles.
If I were him, I would.
since the obama administration is starting this rumor, you can be sure it has nothing to do with Christianity.
It's all about them trying to undermine Bin Laden and stop revenge attacks from happening.
You must not be married if you think having a wife around means someone will usually fulfill your desires :)
After the Obama administration clearly fabricated details most favorable to them immediately after the raid came to public knowledge, like there was a firefight and he refused to surrender, I don't believe this at all. I think it's mean to undermine his standing in the world among Muslims and probably isn't true.
How many abortion clinic bombings have there been in the last 20 or 30 years?
How many Caucasians have we had hijack airplanes in the last 20 or 30 years?
I think we should be able to request a woman do our patdowns instead of a man.
The idea of some mustachioed 50 year old man grabbing my balls is a lot more offensive to me than a woman doing it.