In 1994, web forums were almost nonexistant. Most of them were no more than guestbooks. Remember those sites with 300 replies that were just blank submissions? That was "web forums" in 1994.
The Web forum didn't really take off until 1998/1999 or so.
I'm sure that whoever makes those nice cushion things on pens got a patent, and I'm sure that's part of the user interface that makes it nicer.
You can't get a design patent on that. You can only get a design patent on the nonfunctional parts of something. Since the pad serves a functional purpose of enhancing grip and comfort, you can't get a design patent on it.
Usenet was a cesspool of spam when web forums started to get popular. Usenet is better now, but back then you could sift through a few hundred spams per legitimate message in most groups.
I assume you mean only in terms of "the daemon doesn't crash"... because MySQL still has a very long way to go in terms of catching up with just about any other database when it comes to speed of complex queries.
Am I the only person here who is absolutely opposed to people buying two entrees at a restaurant?
That's food someone waiting to get seated at the restaurant could eat. I go to restaurants, and people throw away half their second entree 80% of the time. It's DISGUSTING. People love to eat the first entree, but leave the second half eaten on the table. Quit driving up my god damned wait times, they're high enough as it is.
Does one person really need to have two entrees, when he can only eat one at a time? There are so many people struggling to find a food at all.
Drugs have government granted price fixing. Patents are more corrupt than any corporate collusion, since it has the violent force of the government behind it.
We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people. These lists aren't just for rapist pedophiles, every crime remotely related to sex gets you on the list.
Keep in mind these people have already served any sentence they might have gotten.
I think you need a reality check, we are talking about a simple herb here, a plant.
It's prima facie ridiculous to even talk about whether a plant should be legal or illegal.
You didn't respond to my most important point, that the drug war has basically obliterated any semblance we had of a limited federal government.
I don't buy your claim that it's a "moral crusade" - more likely that angle is being used to persuade people to support the agenda (which is still wrong, IMO) but I don't at all buy your theory that this is the real reason why some drugs are illegal.
I don't think it takes much persuasion. There are a large number of young women that believe in prohibition. A recent survey showed that 57% 18-29 year olds think we should start a tobacco prohibition too. Women were twice as likely to support it than men. These people are completely out of touch with reality in their moral crusading. This strongly reflects the alcohol prohibition movement, which was also driven by ignorant young women. An observant person will note that alcohol prohibition started not long after women's suffrage was granted. After women realized how huge a mistake such an idealistic policy was, women's groups actually worked to repeal prohibition.
Now on to why men, who have always run this country, might actually let women pass such a stupid measure. There's a lot of money in the drug war. A huge pool of slave labor is available in the prison population. Prison construction, maintenence, and staffing is a huge business too. It's not persuasion as much as quid pro quo. Enhance the opportunities for the government to spend tons of money (and pay back those campaign donations, give your brother in law a fat contract, etc), while giving women voters something they think they want.
This message may sound misogynist, but think of it more as a sociological observation. The role of women in prohibition is well documented, I'm not the first one to observe it.
Curiously, the existence of these laws hasn't made me a criminal.
Oh, really?
Never had oral or anal sex?
I accept the idea of a "war on drugs" primarily on the premise that plentiful supply of potent recreational drugs is detrimental to our society as a whole
I don't. That's not the reason for it anyway. It's a moral crusade, organized by the relgion (specifically methodist temperance), women's groups who want to dictate how people live, and opportunistic slimeballs like Hurst and every president since Nixon.
You accept denying marijuana to terminally ill people in states where it is legal? Raich v Ashcroft expanded the commerce clause giving the federal government absolute power over every person. Amendment 9 and 10 are worthless now, because of this moral crusade you support.
I don't know if you read the judgement, but it went like this: Angel Raich grows pot in her backyard for her own medicinal use. She therefore buys less pot from a drug dealer. That drug dealer might get his pot from across state lines. Therefore the commerce clause applies and the federal government can dictate what people grow in their backyard, even if it never leaves their house.
Potential reduction of potential aggregate demand of potential interstate commerce is now enough to give the federal government full power to take away any right normally reserved to the states or the people.
Baking cookies for a church bake sale, for example, is now subject to federal juristiction.
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Actually, I could hardly read your review, since it was so crammed with non-standard jargon
It's a common hallmark of a brainwashed cult.
That he thinks the small group of people that use Ruby is a huge "craze", that's another sign of a cult.
Most of my professors were indeed smart. I'm not so egotistical to believe I was smarter than all (or even most) of them, there were several that were clearly extremely intelligent, and most were well above average at a minimum.
That was when I was in CS. Once I changed to a business programming major, the intelligence level dropped sharply.
Their choice to become a professor implies that they care more about ego stroking than actually doign something useful with their gifts. That's the bottom line.
I don't see any links to thier CVS or SVN... Or even a source tarball. Until they actually release something as open source, it's just another empty promise regarding some proprietary language.
It is sad if a majority of scientists don't understand the difference between correlation and causation.
I don't believe that to be the case.
There are a number of scientists that understand the concept. Those are just the ones that would risk their professional reputation by standing up to the leftist establishment. There's probably a lot more of them.
While we're at it, what are some of the other times scientific evidence has been ignored or even persecuted?
Exactly my point. Environmentalism is religious dogma these days. It's environmentalism vs science, and science is losing badly at this point.
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In 1994, web forums were almost nonexistant. Most of them were no more than guestbooks. Remember those sites with 300 replies that were just blank submissions? That was "web forums" in 1994.
The Web forum didn't really take off until 1998/1999 or so.
I'm sure that whoever makes those nice cushion things on pens got a patent, and I'm sure that's part of the user interface that makes it nicer.
You can't get a design patent on that. You can only get a design patent on the nonfunctional parts of something. Since the pad serves a functional purpose of enhancing grip and comfort, you can't get a design patent on it.
Wrong, Copyright does not cover look and feel of a software interface. Apple v Microsoft, and others.
Design patents have existed forever. They are really no big deal. An item has to be almost exactly the same to infringe on them.
Unless the government does it in the form of fake news stories, then it's OK.
Usenet was a cesspool of spam when web forums started to get popular. Usenet is better now, but back then you could sift through a few hundred spams per legitimate message in most groups.
I assume you mean only in terms of "the daemon doesn't crash"... because MySQL still has a very long way to go in terms of catching up with just about any other database when it comes to speed of complex queries.
Am I the only person here who is absolutely opposed to people buying two entrees at a restaurant?
That's food someone waiting to get seated at the restaurant could eat. I go to restaurants, and people throw away half their second entree 80% of the time. It's DISGUSTING. People love to eat the first entree, but leave the second half eaten on the table. Quit driving up my god damned wait times, they're high enough as it is.
Does one person really need to have two entrees, when he can only eat one at a time? There are so many people struggling to find a food at all.
There's a reason no one likes you.
Drugs have government granted price fixing. Patents are more corrupt than any corporate collusion, since it has the violent force of the government behind it.
Are you on crack?
We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people. These lists aren't just for rapist pedophiles, every crime remotely related to sex gets you on the list.
Keep in mind these people have already served any sentence they might have gotten.
Virtuozzo?
I'm not sure what you mean. I meant to say, it's not likely she just up and left.
... more readable background for that site? I can barely read it.
You might think about a
I think you need a reality check, we are talking about a simple herb here, a plant.
It's prima facie ridiculous to even talk about whether a plant should be legal or illegal.
You didn't respond to my most important point, that the drug war has basically obliterated any semblance we had of a limited federal government.
I don't buy your claim that it's a "moral crusade" - more likely that angle is being used to persuade people to support the agenda (which is still wrong, IMO) but I don't at all buy your theory that this is the real reason why some drugs are illegal.
I don't think it takes much persuasion. There are a large number of young women that believe in prohibition. A recent survey showed that 57% 18-29 year olds think we should start a tobacco prohibition too. Women were twice as likely to support it than men. These people are completely out of touch with reality in their moral crusading. This strongly reflects the alcohol prohibition movement, which was also driven by ignorant young women. An observant person will note that alcohol prohibition started not long after women's suffrage was granted. After women realized how huge a mistake such an idealistic policy was, women's groups actually worked to repeal prohibition.
Now on to why men, who have always run this country, might actually let women pass such a stupid measure. There's a lot of money in the drug war. A huge pool of slave labor is available in the prison population. Prison construction, maintenence, and staffing is a huge business too. It's not persuasion as much as quid pro quo. Enhance the opportunities for the government to spend tons of money (and pay back those campaign donations, give your brother in law a fat contract, etc), while giving women voters something they think they want.
This message may sound misogynist, but think of it more as a sociological observation. The role of women in prohibition is well documented, I'm not the first one to observe it.
Curiously, the existence of these laws hasn't made me a criminal.
Oh, really?
Never had oral or anal sex?
I accept the idea of a "war on drugs" primarily on the premise that plentiful supply of potent recreational drugs is detrimental to our society as a whole
I don't. That's not the reason for it anyway. It's a moral crusade, organized by the relgion (specifically methodist temperance), women's groups who want to dictate how people live, and opportunistic slimeballs like Hurst and every president since Nixon.
You accept denying marijuana to terminally ill people in states where it is legal? Raich v Ashcroft expanded the commerce clause giving the federal government absolute power over every person. Amendment 9 and 10 are worthless now, because of this moral crusade you support.
I don't know if you read the judgement, but it went like this: Angel Raich grows pot in her backyard for her own medicinal use. She therefore buys less pot from a drug dealer. That drug dealer might get his pot from across state lines. Therefore the commerce clause applies and the federal government can dictate what people grow in their backyard, even if it never leaves their house.
Potential reduction of potential aggregate demand of potential interstate commerce is now enough to give the federal government full power to take away any right normally reserved to the states or the people.
Baking cookies for a church bake sale, for example, is now subject to federal juristiction.
Actually, I could hardly read your review, since it was so crammed with non-standard jargon
It's a common hallmark of a brainwashed cult.
That he thinks the small group of people that use Ruby is a huge "craze", that's another sign of a cult.
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious.
You mean, no overt advertising.
The "product review" industry is a very profitable one, and that money isn't coming from subscribers.
Oxide plates haven't been used for a long time. It's all thin film now.
Most of my professors were indeed smart. I'm not so egotistical to believe I was smarter than all (or even most) of them, there were several that were clearly extremely intelligent, and most were well above average at a minimum.
That was when I was in CS. Once I changed to a business programming major, the intelligence level dropped sharply.
Their choice to become a professor implies that they care more about ego stroking than actually doign something useful with their gifts. That's the bottom line.
They aren't saints, but using drugs as an excuse to put "undesirable" people away is a very dangerous precedent.
Selective enforcement of laws that makes everyone a criminal is a sure road to oppression.
I don't know about you, but I already knew how to learn.
I'm still not sure what college is for, other than lining the pockets of various sports teams, and stroking intellectual's egos.
I don't see any links to thier CVS or SVN... Or even a source tarball. Until they actually release something as open source, it's just another empty promise regarding some proprietary language.
It is sad if a majority of scientists don't understand the difference between correlation and causation.
I don't believe that to be the case.
There are a number of scientists that understand the concept. Those are just the ones that would risk their professional reputation by standing up to the leftist establishment. There's probably a lot more of them.
While we're at it, what are some of the other times scientific evidence has been ignored or even persecuted?
Exactly my point. Environmentalism is religious dogma these days. It's environmentalism vs science, and science is losing badly at this point.
That's mainly because of the bullshit drug war though. If you remove drug "crimes" we'd have a lot less people in prison.
What are you talking about?
In the US the state only gets one shot, after that you can't be tried again.
They were already almost divorced, that doesn't seem very likely at all.