You shuld read some of the classics of liberal democracy (don't disappoint me by attacking the workd "liberal"... sigh). A free press and reliable information are crucial to democracy.
Policy makers who get their information from seriously biased media who claim the issue is one of science vs. radical left wing non-scientists. This is completely false (read what I wrote): GMO policc is NOT about "science" it is about economic interest: there is NO ECONOMICALLY JUSTIFIABLE NEED for GMO food.
And, umm you don't have to be a partisan of an "extremist left-wing agenda" to recognize the existence of an integrated media industry: read the business journals and the interviews with CEO's of Disney, AOL/TimeWarner, etc. Read some *right wing* criticism of the media for a change.
This rigid integration and editorial control is the very reason why there is alternative media.
It's not about "junk science" and never has been. "Junk science" is a red herring. "Good science" supports the safety of home nuclear power generation as well: whether the economics and risk factors justify adopting public policy to support home nulcear power plants is the question. After all, there are risks associated with widely available nuclear materials that go beyond "science".
Forbes and other pro-GMO groups are more guilty of employing junk economics and ignoring science when they want. In their promotion efforts they claim (by extension) that allowing the same kind of patent madness that afflicts the US software and technology sectors to rule food production and agriculture will be good for consumers, the world food supply, and innovation. People who object are irrational Luddites who fear science. But the calims of pro-GMO groups are a big lie: akin to claiming that replacing all books with access controlled Adobe Readers will help world literacy - the thing is we already have the books.
The problem being solved by Monsanto and other pro GMO policy makers is of the same order: we already have the food. What need is *more competition* and innovation in food storage and distribution and certainly more competition in supplier inputs into in food production: NOT less. This will not happen with GMO patents since GMO foods reduce competition and favour large corporate interests in the food supply and production system. Whether they are supported by good science or junk science is completely beside the point.
As part of the integrated capitalist media system Forbes' ideas are bought and paid for by Monsanto and other such entities, so their view of GMO food is predictable: it's their shameful manipulation of the issue (as one of "science vs. unreason") that is especially worrisome and anti-democratic.
You have had your mind warped by big media firms - that are of course the same ones that McDonalds pays to advertise its "food products".
McDonalds not only *knowingly* produced coffee that was TOO HOT. They refused to compensate the victim for 3RD DEGREE BURNS to her crotch that caused her gros deformity and physical pain in the later part of her life.
as much as microsoft does - i.e. yes they will start to restrict rights. The recent judgement against a garage door opening firm (that siad competitors were free to creat interoperable and add-on components) was a blip in history. It will be overturned, or defeated by simple encryption. If competitors reverse engineer the equipment they will have to circumvent and thus will be criminally liable.
The trend (unmistakable) is towards less innovation and competition. The DMCA has enshrined mediocrity: any piece of crap tool (but one with half-assed encryption) can establish a non-competitive monopoly and be protected under law. Ther used to be laws *AGAINST* this.
America is less capitalist and less free market then people think - and the DMCA is the most draconian and totalitarian anti-free market legislation yet devised. The US is more like Britain during the period when its empire began to decline: still the big cheese but soon to be blown out of the water!
Start up tech firms can look to Russian, India, and China as massive markets that are gaining on the US.
... good chance they have "bought" them already. After all that was a surprisingly fast and generous settlement MS mad with SCO re: MS's monopolistic lock-out and destruction of DR-DOS. I am sure MS could won the case or drawn it out had it gone to court but surprisingly they settled.
I doubt MS lawyers suggested to SCO that they take this route (and use some the proceeds of the settlement to finance it) - after all that would be disgraceful monopolistic collusion on the part of MS. While it has been proved in courst on several occasions that MS does engage in monopolistic collusion to destroy competitors they have since paid their fines and completely reformed the company... SO MS was definitely NOT involved in this plot to muddy the IPR waters regarding Linux. MS VP Balmer previously stated that Linux is a cancer IPR - given the opportunity to try and prove that via collusion with SCO, lies, stock market manipulation and fraud I am certain Microsoft would have taken the high road.
The antics of these corporate kingpins are getting pathetic and laughable. But they are serious. Just becasue it's not as much money as Enron doesn't mean the fraud, lies, and manipulation of the stock market aren't just as illegal.
I hope someone is documenting (with suitable domain name: www.SCO-fraud.org) and tracking all the letters and corporate statements they are making (digital voice recording of their statements during their "road show" will be useful and revealing I am sure).
The state of Utah (SCO HQ) and or other jurisdictions should be charging the company with public mischief and fraud: if not now then some time in the future.
We should hope that the UN and ITU openly favour Microsoft and commercial software. If utter idiots advocate and support MS that makes MS look bad.
Besides, who wants the world's worst bureacracy, least effective and least meritocratic band of inept fools "endorsing" your work or "taking over" Internet governance and "recommending" your product or service?
Any effort expended on WSIS shuld be expended to mock and ridicule its irrelevance...
Which means you take steps to prevent sharing of information and knowledge whenever you can. I would caution against trying to reverse engineer this equipment since it is now against the law (DMCA). If developing garage door opener equipment that is interoperable is viewed as a violation of the DMCA then this certainly would be.
Better yet is to simply not ever use Nvidia hardware: it places your whole business/organization at legal risk becasue you never know who might try using it with Linux or BSD.
Hey Intel - how about those synthetic diamonds!! Think any competitors will come up with diamond CPUs that run 10 times faster and half the price of than your silicon chips?? Nah... won't happen.
Someone is full of crap and going to get some historically significant "disrupting".
(Flushing sound)
Asia is gonna go medieval on your share value baby.
Not in my office. This is such an oft repeated statement everyone thinks it's true. It is not true.
Here sme things require two clicks some one; on some right click gives context some right click produces nothing; some use Ctrl-this some use Ctrl-that for the same function. And that's the MS applications. Overall the desktop (NT4.0 with SAP, Lotus, Java, legacy apps written for Win3.1, IE5, OfficeXP) looks like hell and has no consistency whatsoever.
1) this component with never run on Linux or OS/X desktops (let alone other desktops).
2) in 18 months or a year +50% of new content will require it (MS authoring tools will make it easy)
3) most CIOs will cave in and view this as a reason to accept MS licensing
4) more XP and new MS licensing 6 licenses are sold, more content authoring tools from MS are sold, complete and utter locking in of MS on desktop is more likely
Conclusion: either way, in every way and on all sides Microsoft wins hugely by doing thing
10-12 years in jail ought to teach this young thief that if you want music you should listen to the radio and what that *companies* want you to hear... not pick and choose songs you want from the Internet.
You should have paid for since haring and listening to music is ILLEGAL - but you didn't so you must pay now. Forced labour fetching coffee and cocaine for record execs (a.k.a. "community service") might be a way to get early parole but you need to do time girly.
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not a requirement
bsd in general
/usr/ports/somepackage ; make all ; make install
cd
no "complex set up" either.
cat toughbook > /dev/null
"even jurors who thought the case was just a tempest in a coffee pot were overwhelmed by the evidence against the Corporation".
You should really and truly read the facts. The case is on line.
You shuld read some of the classics of liberal democracy (don't disappoint me by attacking the workd "liberal" ... sigh). A free press and reliable information are crucial to democracy.
Policy makers who get their information from seriously biased media who claim the issue is one of science vs. radical left wing non-scientists. This is completely false (read what I wrote): GMO policc is NOT about "science" it is about economic interest: there is NO ECONOMICALLY JUSTIFIABLE NEED for GMO food.
And, umm you don't have to be a partisan of an "extremist left-wing agenda" to recognize the existence of an integrated media industry: read the business journals and the interviews with CEO's of Disney, AOL/TimeWarner, etc. Read some *right wing* criticism of the media for a change.
This rigid integration and editorial control is the very reason why there is alternative media.
It's not about "junk science" and never has been. "Junk science" is a red herring. "Good science" supports the safety of home nuclear power generation as well: whether the economics and risk factors justify adopting public policy to support home nulcear power plants is the question. After all, there are risks associated with widely available nuclear materials that go beyond "science".
Forbes and other pro-GMO groups are more guilty of employing junk economics and ignoring science when they want. In their promotion efforts they claim (by extension) that allowing the same kind of patent madness that afflicts the US software and technology sectors to rule food production and agriculture will be good for consumers, the world food supply, and innovation. People who object are irrational Luddites who fear science. But the calims of pro-GMO groups are a big lie: akin to claiming that replacing all books with access controlled Adobe Readers will help world literacy - the thing is we already have the books.
The problem being solved by Monsanto and other pro GMO policy makers is of the same order: we already have the food. What need is *more competition* and innovation in food storage and distribution and certainly more competition in supplier inputs into in food production: NOT less. This will not happen with GMO patents since GMO foods reduce competition and favour large corporate interests in the food supply and production system. Whether they are supported by good science or junk science is completely beside the point.
As part of the integrated capitalist media system Forbes' ideas are bought and paid for by Monsanto and other such entities, so their view of GMO food is predictable: it's their shameful manipulation of the issue (as one of "science vs. unreason") that is especially worrisome and anti-democratic.
... and applying the rule that one should not assume malicious forethought when incompetence and stupidity offer and equally plausible explanation.
You have had your mind warped by big media firms - that are of course the same ones that McDonalds pays to advertise its "food products".
McDonalds not only *knowingly* produced coffee that was TOO HOT. They refused to compensate the victim for 3RD DEGREE BURNS to her crotch that caused her gros deformity and physical pain in the later part of her life.
http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
"You're an American, aren't you?"
No, I'm someone who pays attention to the UN.
as much as microsoft does - i.e. yes they will start to restrict rights. The recent judgement against a garage door opening firm (that siad competitors were free to creat interoperable and add-on components) was a blip in history. It will be overturned, or defeated by simple encryption. If competitors reverse engineer the equipment they will have to circumvent and thus will be criminally liable.
The trend (unmistakable) is towards less innovation and competition. The DMCA has enshrined mediocrity: any piece of crap tool (but one with half-assed encryption) can establish a non-competitive monopoly and be protected under law. Ther used to be laws *AGAINST* this.
America is less capitalist and less free market then people think - and the DMCA is the most draconian and totalitarian anti-free market legislation yet devised. The US is more like Britain during the period when its empire began to decline: still the big cheese but soon to be blown out of the water!
Start up tech firms can look to Russian, India, and China as massive markets that are gaining on the US.
I doubt MS lawyers suggested to SCO that they take this route (and use some the proceeds of the settlement to finance it) - after all that would be disgraceful monopolistic collusion on the part of MS. While it has been proved in courst on several occasions that MS does engage in monopolistic collusion to destroy competitors they have since paid their fines and completely reformed the company
With an in depth understanding of technology, the Internet and the history of Unix
The antics of these corporate kingpins are getting pathetic and laughable. But they are serious. Just becasue it's not as much money as Enron doesn't mean the fraud, lies, and manipulation of the stock market aren't just as illegal.
I hope someone is documenting (with suitable domain name: www.SCO-fraud.org) and tracking all the letters and corporate statements they are making (digital voice recording of their statements during their "road show" will be useful and revealing I am sure).
The state of Utah (SCO HQ) and or other jurisdictions should be charging the company with public mischief and fraud: if not now then some time in the future.
... but have him wear a dark shirt those huge sweating wet pit marks look gross ...
Total cost 5million$
We should hope that the UN and ITU openly favour Microsoft and commercial software. If utter idiots advocate and support MS that makes MS look bad.
...
Besides, who wants the world's worst bureacracy, least effective and least meritocratic band of inept fools "endorsing" your work or "taking over" Internet governance and "recommending" your product or service?
Any effort expended on WSIS shuld be expended to mock and ridicule its irrelevance
Believe me ... I follow WSIS closely ... watch the streaming video of the latest preparation meetings at the WSIS website http://www.itu.int/wsis/
You have no idea how idiotic these people are when it comes to technology. They are all diplomacy bureaucrats (i.e. incompetent).
They'll want XP back ... big time and in a bad way ....
and the knowledge based society ...
Which means you take steps to prevent sharing of information and knowledge whenever you can. I would caution against trying to reverse engineer this equipment since it is now against the law (DMCA). If developing garage door opener equipment that is interoperable is viewed as a violation of the DMCA then this certainly would be.
Better yet is to simply not ever use Nvidia hardware: it places your whole business/organization at legal risk becasue you never know who might try using it with Linux or BSD.
There's hundreds of BSD users with this equipment.
I think rather than being evil and trying t
... won't happen.
Hey Intel - how about those synthetic diamonds!! Think any competitors will come up with diamond CPUs that run 10 times faster and half the price of than your silicon chips?? Nah
Someone is full of crap and going to get some historically significant "disrupting".
(Flushing sound)
Asia is gonna go medieval on your share value baby.
"MS has a very consistant standard for UI"
Not in my office. This is such an oft repeated statement everyone thinks it's true. It is not true.
Here sme things require two clicks some one; on some right click gives context some right click produces nothing; some use Ctrl-this some use Ctrl-that for the same function. And that's the MS applications. Overall the desktop (NT4.0 with SAP, Lotus, Java, legacy apps written for Win3.1, IE5, OfficeXP) looks like hell and has no consistency whatsoever.
1) this component with never run on Linux or OS/X desktops (let alone other desktops).
...
2) in 18 months or a year +50% of new content will require it (MS authoring tools will make it easy)
3) most CIOs will cave in and view this as a reason to accept MS licensing
4) more XP and new MS licensing 6 licenses are sold, more content authoring tools from MS are sold, complete and utter locking in of MS on desktop is more likely
Conclusion: either way, in every way and on all sides Microsoft wins hugely by doing thing
Or I could be wrong
10-12 years in jail ought to teach this young thief that if you want music you should listen to the radio and what that *companies* want you to hear ... not pick and choose songs you want from the Internet.
You should have paid for since haring and listening to music is ILLEGAL - but you didn't so you must pay now. Forced labour fetching coffee and cocaine for record execs (a.k.a. "community service") might be a way to get early parole but you need to do time girly.
which = .72 USD these days