That's pretty much the argument that got the laws changed in NY. The state court ruled that it towns/cities could only make it illegal for a women to be topless in public if it was also illegal for a men.
I'll try to highlite the sections of the parent post that you ignored, please answer them in your next post:
FURTHERMORE, OFF's 661 committee, which was in charge of blocking contracts, had absolutely no authority to either investigate companies for giving kickbacks to the Iraqi government, or to block them even if it knew about this. Their charter authority was only to block banned items from getting to Iraq. There was a body that could block contracts, but it wasn't an OFF body: it was the UN security council. I.e., *our government* could have investigated and blocked contracts (it only took one government). It didn't. The 661 committee actually complained about suspected kickbacks to the security council; it didn't act.
Also, you seem unaware of how kickbacks work. The kickbacks aren't kickbacks to the company; they're kickbacks to the Iraqi government. In order to get the contracts, the company would have to raise their prices. On paper, the company would have been making a much larger profit as a consequence, but in reality they were only paid for what they initially would have charged, and the Iraqi government would get the extra money. Kickbacks are almost standard in many 3rd world countries, but Iraq was just a particuly sensitive case.
It didn't seem like he was okay with Open Source/Free software even as a hobby...
From the Article:
However, I start to wonder where your benefit is. You are - out of principle - not making any money out of this, because it is open-source and you and your buddies insist that it must be absolutely free. So you are putting all of that time and energy into this project for what? Fame? To found a career? Come on.
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In the end, Aiden, it's your choice. Do you want to have a car, a house and a family when you are 30? Do you love being a software engineer at the same time? If so, you literally need to get a life. Forget the dream about stuff being free and stop advocating it. It's idiocy. It's bigotry. If you want to put your skills to work and you need to support a family, your work and work results can't be free. Software is the immediate result and the manifestation of what your learned and what you know. How much is that worth? Nothing? Think again.
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The point is to limit the scope of the try block and to only catch exceptions on code that you expect to throw things in. Here's an example:
try:
foo = someDict[key]
except KeyError:
return None
else:
return myCrazyFunction(foo)
If myCrazyFunction throws a KeyError you probably want it propagated upwards, not caught.
That's pretty much the argument that got the laws changed in NY. The state court ruled that it towns/cities could only make it illegal for a women to be topless in public if it was also illegal for a men.
I'll try to highlite the sections of the parent post that you ignored, please answer them in your next post:
FURTHERMORE, OFF's 661 committee, which was in charge of blocking contracts, had absolutely no authority to either investigate companies for giving kickbacks to the Iraqi government, or to block them even if it knew about this. Their charter authority was only to block banned items from getting to Iraq. There was a body that could block contracts, but it wasn't an OFF body: it was the UN security council. I.e., *our government* could have investigated and blocked contracts (it only took one government). It didn't. The 661 committee actually complained about suspected kickbacks to the security council; it didn't act.
Also, you seem unaware of how kickbacks work. The kickbacks aren't kickbacks to the company; they're kickbacks to the Iraqi government. In order to get the contracts, the company would have to raise their prices. On paper, the company would have been making a much larger profit as a consequence, but in reality they were only paid for what they initially would have charged, and the Iraqi government would get the extra money. Kickbacks are almost standard in many 3rd world countries, but Iraq was just a particuly sensitive case.
From the Article: