The one option no one has mentioned here is actually buying BitKeeper. What is so wrong about spending money on a commercial piece of software if it saves you time and money?
Can't be done. The $x (where x > 0) license for BK contains the same anti-reverse-engineering clause as the $0 license. OSDL can't use BK.
The problem could be "solved" by OSDL firing Linus, but I guess you don't want that.
[...] they would ask everyone if they packed their own luggage and if they were with their bags the entire time. What kind of moron terrorist would say no?
They're not wondering if you're a terrorist, they want to know if your nice new middle eastern boyfriend put a clock radio in your bag.
Look up what happened to Anne Marie Murphy in 1986.
It would be nice to see the revenue from today's costly reusable craft going to fund tomorrow's slightly less expensive (or crash prone) reusable craft.
Huh? Revenue? You think the shuttle makes money? Care to inform us on step 2?
Also, if you hit someone with a cricket bat it tends to break where the handle attaches to the body. A baseball bat is much better for beating people to death.
One challenge to the legitimacy of the election was the low Sunni turnout, which was as low as 2 percent in Anbar province. [...]
The boycott was largely a product of the threatened violence.
By the way, there were no UN monitors.
As Wikipedia says:
The election was monitored by the International Mission for Iraqi Elections made up of members from nine nations and headed by Canada. It was supported by the United Nations but was not a UN operation. The UN recused itself from monitoring the election as it had played a central role in setting up the election. A number of UN staffers worked within the Iraqi electoral commission setting up the election and are considered by some to be de facto international observers. It proved impossible to find monitors that would actually monitor the election from within the country. Rather the IMIE observers were based in Amman, Jordan and monitored the election from there. There were also representatives in Baghdad, generally the staff in the embassies of the IMIE nations. The absentee poll held in fourteen countries around the world were monitored by a wide array of IGO and NGOs, but these groups were unwilling to monitor the election in Iraq itself.
In my day, we used punch cards, and once you made a hole, it was there for life.
Ah, the holes may have been there for ever (modulo tricks with sticky tape), but clever people could always make more holes.
P.S. I'm not joking, If all they keypunch machines were in use it was sometimes faster to modify a card or two using the hand punch, adding extra holes to a card.
The Republican argument was dividend taxes were double taxation, because the company paid taxes on it when the money was made and it was unfair to tax it again when it was paid out as a dividend. The little catch they didn't mention was big corporations exploit so many loopholes in the tax code, and take advantage of so many shelters they often don't pay any taxes in the first iteration.
Here in France we have a simple solution to this. When you are paid a dividend you get a tax credit with it that is the amount of taxes already paid on that dividend.
So a company that paid no taxes would be unable to give tax credits with its dividends, so the people receiving those dividends would pay more taxes.
Space Ship One utilises a far more complex design princple. It does much much more with far less..
No, you made a typo there. Space Ship One does much much less with far less.
It doesn't get into orbit.
What use are wings in space?
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And don't even get me started on the Apple//c.
Ah, the Apple//c, that brings back fond memories.
I got to test our serial I/O based application on a//c four days before it was to be shown in a booth at a big expo.
Bugger, it didn't work. Why? The Apple supplied terminal emulator worked, why didn't ours? Much messing around, debugging, datascope.... Huh? They have programmed the UART for something crazy like 8 bits + mark parity (i.e. 9 bit bytes) and the code is removing the recieved parity.
Turned out that all the internal clocks were being generated from one crystal, and when they changed the video from 60Hz to 50Hz for Europe they messed up the bit clock for the serial port. The crazy byte size was just enough (at 1200bps) to con the modem into working.
On output the 9th bit was being seen by the modem as a stop bit, on input the stop bit from the modem was falling into the parity bit of the byte and being masked off by the code.
So I had 1/2 a day left to re-write our 8 bit file transfer software to work in a 7 bit datapath.
It took Apple many months to admit this, although they obviously knew long before they delivered the test machine to me.
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Can't be done. The $x (where x > 0) license for BK contains the same anti-reverse-engineering clause as the $0 license. OSDL can't use BK.
The problem could be "solved" by OSDL firing Linus, but I guess you don't want that.
They're not wondering if you're a terrorist, they want to know if your nice new middle eastern boyfriend put a clock radio in your bag.
Look up what happened to Anne Marie Murphy in 1986.
It's more than a couple of hundred yards from Paris to the German frontier.
If she was in transit she would never leave the airport, so never have to pass customs or immigration.
So, to re-write in Debian terminology FreeBSD has an official "backports" collection and has security updates for it.
Nice.
Hey, wana buy a bridge?
Oh, I don't know. It doesn't scare me when I'm looking for somewhere to piss.
All generalisations are always wrong.
Nice hook you sneaky little fucker.
All you do here is prove that you don't know what stable means.
A "stable" system can't be up-to-date. If it's up-to-date it's changing. If it changes it's not stable.
Debian is not stable. Debian stable is stable. If you want up-to-date use Debian unstable.
(Only use testing if you want to test the next version of stable. Testing is not more stable than unstable.)
So, the shuttle program costs the US govt $15,000,000,000 a year.
And it makes $0 a year.
So, once again, where's the revenue?
Huh? Revenue? You think the shuttle makes money? Care to inform us on step 2?
1. Launch shuttle.
2. ???
3. profit!!!
If you only read the first two chapters then you missed the best bit, the happy ending.
Ah, at least 4% have one of those nasty "connect to the internet via a premium rate number" viruses.
Also, if you hit someone with a cricket bat it tends to break where the handle attaches to the body. A baseball bat is much better for beating people to death.
1. Everyone accuses others of their own sin.
2. So, got a better source?
By the way, only plonkers plonk.
You don't know the difference between a parliament and a government but you do know all the details of the Iraqi transitional law. Odd.
Got a source for that? I've been looking around and can't seem to find any reliable looking stuff online.
The ever reliable says:
By the way, there were no UN monitors.
As Wikipedia says:
No, the national assembly was elected. The government has yet to be formed.
You'd claim that everyone had free access to the polls? That the people who didn't vote in the "Sunni" regions didn't vote of their own free will?
0% for reading comprehension.
The message to which I replied said:
As I pointed out, and as you agree ("The assembly will...") Iraq does not yet have a freely elected government.
It does have a (largely) freely elected national assembly.
Um, what government?
Who do you think is president of Iraq?
Prime minister?
Any other elected position?
What "office of profit or trust" does BG hold?
Did you complain when Ronald Regan accepted a knighthood in 1989?
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I rarely get blue bags here. Do you think it work work as well with other colours, or even transparent?
Ah, the holes may have been there for ever (modulo tricks with sticky tape), but clever people could always make more holes.
P.S. I'm not joking, If all they keypunch machines were in use it was sometimes faster to modify a card or two using the hand punch, adding extra holes to a card.
UEA computer lab, 1977-78.
Here in France we have a simple solution to this. When you are paid a dividend you get a tax credit with it that is the amount of taxes already paid on that dividend.
So a company that paid no taxes would be unable to give tax credits with its dividends, so the people receiving those dividends would pay more taxes.
It doesn't get into orbit.
What use are wings in space?
I got to test our serial I/O based application on a //c four days before it was to be shown in a booth at a big expo.
Bugger, it didn't work. Why? The Apple supplied terminal emulator worked, why didn't ours? Much messing around, debugging, datascope.... Huh? They have programmed the UART for something crazy like 8 bits + mark parity (i.e. 9 bit bytes) and the code is removing the recieved parity.
Turned out that all the internal clocks were being generated from one crystal, and when they changed the video from 60Hz to 50Hz for Europe they messed up the bit clock for the serial port. The crazy byte size was just enough (at 1200bps) to con the modem into working.
On output the 9th bit was being seen by the modem as a stop bit, on input the stop bit from the modem was falling into the parity bit of the byte and being masked off by the code.
So I had 1/2 a day left to re-write our 8 bit file transfer software to work in a 7 bit datapath.
It took Apple many months to admit this, although they obviously knew long before they delivered the test machine to me.
Thanks a lot JLG.