These debates. Only people in the debates have a chance of getting before the people and getting votes. Making the debates 4-way (say four biggest vote-getting parties from the last election) would break the Republicrat tunnel vision this country has.
But they let a three-way happen in '92 with Ross Perot, who seriously embarrassed them, and immediately changed the rules for '96 to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
Simply, no other candidates will be prominent and get votes because the debate commission, federal rules and state rules made by the Republicrats keep it from happening.
You apparently don't understand and need a good dictionary.
MS is saying that Linux users may be harassed because of copyright and patent issues, and they stand behind their software to ensure that won't happen, but MS in that section disclaims your rights to the following among others:
CONDITION OF TITLE: Microsoft doesn't even guarantee that they own what they're licensing to you
QUIET ENJOYMENT: The ability to use something without fear of harassment.
QUIET POSSESSION: Roughly that it won't fall apart on you while you are entitled to use it.
(these are really real-estate and landlort-tenant concepts put on software licensing)
NON-INFRINGEMENT: The same lack of protection from infringement they're complaining about the GPL
One other thing that's come up more over the last 12 months is this notion of indemnification [against patent and copyright claims].... We really stand behind our technology in a pretty aggressive way. We should make sure that we get credit for that compared to Linux in many ways.
Okay, let's look at the XP license:
Privacy: (MS) 16. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.... ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE.
If Scribus and Gimp keep up they way they're going, I might be able to not upgrade to InDesign 5 and Photoshop 10. But until then I'll stick with the stuff with the high-end abilities and fluid, productivity-enhancing GUI.
We've dropped them out the backs of trucks, let the innards of 286s fill with desert sand, etc., and had them still work. I'm sure some soldier out there has had his PC shot by now.
In the extremely large military network I worked on, all P2P ports were blocked (the rule was deny all, allow by exception) and the IDS was tweaked to catch anyone who fiddled with the ports to get around that. The security guys were not nice to people they caught.
I guess some areas of the military just aren't set up that well.
The precedent may help in that SCO was asking for a fishing expedition to go through everything DC has to see if maybe DC "misappropriated" SCO's alleged IP. After seeing this maybe, if we're lucky, other judges will be less likely to grant fishing expeditions, such as the one SCO is currently asking for in the IBM case.
Although I have one question: Did DC have any counterclaims?
First, the standards would shoot the weight of these vehicles through the roof, massively cutting any fuel economy.
These rules are mostly stupid though, even if well-intentioned, and I'm not sure all are. Why couldn't I bring my Lotus Elise over? It was a safe, fuel-efficient car, legal in comparatively ultra-green Germany. Lotus had to redesign quite a bit and put in a heavier (although more powerful) motor and put much more stuff into it to sell the next generation in America, at several hundred pounds heavier. Now consumers will be forced to accept airbags and ABS if they want this car (which, BTW, is now a LOT more expensive), where the previous generation did fine without them.
But, the second best is probably a completely modern SUV, assuming that you have to get into one in the first place.
That's assuming you didn't buy a deathrap SUV based on a standard ladder chassis. They're getting better, but there are still a lot of SUVs out there that I wouldn't want to ride in.
First, of course is the "for the children" angle which Hatch always uses. When politicians say "for the children," hold on to your rights.
Second is the "big bad corporations" spin, forgetting that this law was paid for by "big bad corporations." There's also the fact that a simple search for "P2P on SourceForge will produce pages of non-corporate P2P applications that this bill also targets.
Hatch is a Hollywood-owned political hack, and his bills have a nasty habit of being declared unconstitutional. But let's not let this one go that far -- call your senators (unfortunately, my loser senator is busy trying to become vice president, so will probably not care and be as absent as Kerry anyway).
I haven's seen it yet, but I suspect it will be as entertaining as Bowling for Columbine, and with the same number of lies and distortions.
I saw a bit yesterday when he asked that congressman if he'd be willing to let his kids sign up to go to war (the point being that those in power don't mind sacrificing the lives of other peoples' children). The congressman declined and that made it into the movie. However, in an interview with someone else, the congressman stated that Moore cut off the part of the interview where he said his nephew just got shipped off to Afghanistan.
Take a Moore film as good entertainment, but do not treat it as a documentary, do not believe everything you see in it.
As far as physical security for the system goes, the duplicated silo sets were on a closed (no entrance without papers) Air Force base. Lots of guns and fighter jets around in case anyone tries something funny.:)
I know one organization that has twin tape silos (you know, the kind with the robotic arms), and a backup twin silo a couple miles away with fiber running to it.
The neat thing is they still do station wagon backups too, putting boxes of tapes in the car and driving them away. I guess in their case the "bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes" saying was actually true.
So far the biggest danger to transporting nuclear waste that I've seen is all of the environmental activists protesting the shipments. These people have evenremoved sections of track ahead of the approaching train!
Why do they think there will be an accident transporting nuclear waste? Because they're doing their damnedest to create one.
I thought it was quite easy to distinguish between Moore editorializing i.e. him pushing his opinion and the factual bits of the movie.
Moore is good at that. Here are some lies:
Willie Horton ad (false attribution to Bush campaign, lying subtitle)
NRA reaction to gun tragedies (doesn't tell whole story, splices multiple speeches together to get the speech he wants or uses speeches with no relation to the event)
NRA/KKK cartoon, just made most of that up
There's lots more. As I said, he raises some valid questions in the movie, but he could have done much better by honestly portraying what he shot, and maybe hiring a fact checker.
IMHO, you are correct that the film explored the culture of guns in America, and it was a topic worth examining. Too bad another filmmaker didn't do it, maybe one who had an affinity for facts rather than lies and distortion.
But you are trying to avoid the point. The film was flat-out full of lies and misrepresentations. That is factual, beyond dispute, yet, IIRC, documentaries are not supposed to be fiction. I don't expect this film to be any better.
I don't know if it's the first time this prize is awarded to a documentary
If this movies is anything like Columbine, then you don't have to worry about this being a first award for a documentary. Columbine was so full of falsehoods, misrepresentations and outright lies that it did not deserve the "documentary" classification.
I agree with you in general, but in this case they had to prove to a grand jury that the tap was necessary and get a court order for it. I think that easily passes constitutional muster, as opposed to some PATRIOT provisions.
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These debates. Only people in the debates have a chance of getting before the people and getting votes. Making the debates 4-way (say four biggest vote-getting parties from the last election) would break the Republicrat tunnel vision this country has.
But they let a three-way happen in '92 with Ross Perot, who seriously embarrassed them, and immediately changed the rules for '96 to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
Simply, no other candidates will be prominent and get votes because the debate commission, federal rules and state rules made by the Republicrats keep it from happening.
You apparently don't understand and need a good dictionary.
MS is saying that Linux users may be harassed because of copyright and patent issues, and they stand behind their software to ensure that won't happen, but MS in that section disclaims your rights to the following among others:
CONDITION OF TITLE: Microsoft doesn't even guarantee that they own what they're licensing to you
QUIET ENJOYMENT: The ability to use something without fear of harassment.
QUIET POSSESSION: Roughly that it won't fall apart on you while you are entitled to use it.
(these are really real-estate and landlort-tenant concepts put on software licensing)
NON-INFRINGEMENT: The same lack of protection from infringement they're complaining about the GPL
Okay, let's look at the XP license:
That's really backing up your software guys.
If Scribus and Gimp keep up they way they're going, I might be able to not upgrade to InDesign 5 and Photoshop 10. But until then I'll stick with the stuff with the high-end abilities and fluid, productivity-enhancing GUI.
So, I'd be listed as a registered TV repairman although I have no idea how to fix a TV? Interesting.
We've dropped them out the backs of trucks, let the innards of 286s fill with desert sand, etc., and had them still work. I'm sure some soldier out there has had his PC shot by now.
In the extremely large military network I worked on, all P2P ports were blocked (the rule was deny all, allow by exception) and the IDS was tweaked to catch anyone who fiddled with the ports to get around that. The security guys were not nice to people they caught.
I guess some areas of the military just aren't set up that well.
Your tax dollars are paying for it all. Yep, you get to pay to get screwed.
:)
Have a nice day.
The precedent may help in that SCO was asking for a fishing expedition to go through everything DC has to see if maybe DC "misappropriated" SCO's alleged IP. After seeing this maybe, if we're lucky, other judges will be less likely to grant fishing expeditions, such as the one SCO is currently asking for in the IBM case.
Although I have one question: Did DC have any counterclaims?
First, the standards would shoot the weight of these vehicles through the roof, massively cutting any fuel economy.
These rules are mostly stupid though, even if well-intentioned, and I'm not sure all are. Why couldn't I bring my Lotus Elise over? It was a safe, fuel-efficient car, legal in comparatively ultra-green Germany. Lotus had to redesign quite a bit and put in a heavier (although more powerful) motor and put much more stuff into it to sell the next generation in America, at several hundred pounds heavier. Now consumers will be forced to accept airbags and ABS if they want this car (which, BTW, is now a LOT more expensive), where the previous generation did fine without them.
But, the second best is probably a completely modern SUV, assuming that you have to get into one in the first place.
That's assuming you didn't buy a deathrap SUV based on a standard ladder chassis. They're getting better, but there are still a lot of SUVs out there that I wouldn't want to ride in.
First, of course is the "for the children" angle which Hatch always uses. When politicians say "for the children," hold on to your rights.
Second is the "big bad corporations" spin, forgetting that this law was paid for by "big bad corporations." There's also the fact that a simple search for "P2P on SourceForge will produce pages of non-corporate P2P applications that this bill also targets.
Hatch is a Hollywood-owned political hack, and his bills have a nasty habit of being declared unconstitutional. But let's not let this one go that far -- call your senators (unfortunately, my loser senator is busy trying to become vice president, so will probably not care and be as absent as Kerry anyway).
I am a parent who served in the last war while still quite young.
Not a documentary, but it'll probably get an Oscar for "best documentary" just as his last non-documentary film did.
I haven's seen it yet, but I suspect it will be as entertaining as Bowling for Columbine, and with the same number of lies and distortions.
I saw a bit yesterday when he asked that congressman if he'd be willing to let his kids sign up to go to war (the point being that those in power don't mind sacrificing the lives of other peoples' children). The congressman declined and that made it into the movie. However, in an interview with someone else, the congressman stated that Moore cut off the part of the interview where he said his nephew just got shipped off to Afghanistan.
Take a Moore film as good entertainment, but do not treat it as a documentary, do not believe everything you see in it.
Just for laughs I'll do you one better:
:)
As far as physical security for the system goes, the duplicated silo sets were on a closed (no entrance without papers) Air Force base. Lots of guns and fighter jets around in case anyone tries something funny.
I know one organization that has twin tape silos (you know, the kind with the robotic arms), and a backup twin silo a couple miles away with fiber running to it.
The neat thing is they still do station wagon backups too, putting boxes of tapes in the car and driving them away. I guess in their case the "bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes" saying was actually true.
So far the biggest danger to transporting nuclear waste that I've seen is all of the environmental activists protesting the shipments. These people have evenremoved sections of track ahead of the approaching train!
Why do they think there will be an accident transporting nuclear waste? Because they're doing their damnedest to create one.
England, being a civilized sort of place, does not allow guns.
It's funny that all this mugging and criminals with guns only really took off after England banned guns. Really civilized.
Moore is good at that. Here are some lies:
There's lots more. As I said, he raises some valid questions in the movie, but he could have done much better by honestly portraying what he shot, and maybe hiring a fact checker.
The Linux kernel process is now better, and it probably wouldn't have happened if not for SCO, or at least not this soon.
IMHO, you are correct that the film explored the culture of guns in America, and it was a topic worth examining. Too bad another filmmaker didn't do it, maybe one who had an affinity for facts rather than lies and distortion.
I have one small pistol.
But you are trying to avoid the point. The film was flat-out full of lies and misrepresentations. That is factual, beyond dispute, yet, IIRC, documentaries are not supposed to be fiction. I don't expect this film to be any better.
Sad, because I used to like Moore.
I don't know if it's the first time this prize is awarded to a documentary
If this movies is anything like Columbine, then you don't have to worry about this being a first award for a documentary. Columbine was so full of falsehoods, misrepresentations and outright lies that it did not deserve the "documentary" classification.
I agree with you in general, but in this case they had to prove to a grand jury that the tap was necessary and get a court order for it. I think that easily passes constitutional muster, as opposed to some PATRIOT provisions.