No doubt buried in the requirements is something that Halliburton hopes will make this bullshit business method patent different from all the other bullshit business method patents, but I'm actually hopeful that they'll get the smackdown they deserve.
He went to work in California. The question is whether a contract signed in New York is enforceable in California, and that's not a clear-cut case. There are two competing cases referenced above about this very thing.
His problem is that IBM filed the federal lawsuit in New York. Following the Erie doctrine, that state's laws will be used to determine the outcome. If he had sued first, in California, he would've been on much more solid legal ground.
Interesting that today's top story at TheDailyWTF is all about regexes, too. Except there, they're showing a case when you should NOT use it. I think a few of the people posting here need to take the quote in that article to heart:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. â" Jamie Zawinski
The best I ever heard it put was by an English commentator. He said we need to recall that the freedom we're so thoughtlessly flushing down the toilet isn't even ours to give away. It was bought and paid for with the blood of our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents.
Not only that, but we're guarding it for our children and grandchildren. If we give up our freedoms for convenience and safety now, how will they look at us in the future? How many of you want to be remember as a coward who gave up so much, for so very little?
If only there were some other party that subscribed to the ideals of liberty and freedom for all espoused by Lincoln, Goldwater, and Reagan that the moderate Republicans could turn to in their hour of need....
As someone else pointed out, if you want to abolish the electoral college, then push to amend the Constitution. We're not just going to start ignoring parts of it because you don't like them.
As for the passports, most Americans don't have them. (Before you react too strongly to that, bear in mind that from here I can travel for two thousand miles in any direction, or three thousand miles to the west, without a passport. This is mostly a very good thing, though it would be nice if it were somewhat easier to find people who speak a foreign language fluently.)
Actually, you can travel much further than that to the west (I'm assuming you live on the West Coast and were referring to Hawaii). American Samoa and Saipan are several thousand miles further, and more to the south, than Hawaii; Guam is even further. Travel by US citizens to all of those territories does not require a passport, even after the increased passport requirements institutde by the Gestapo^WDHS last year.
Different governmental bodies handle different taxes. With Federal income tax, your employer will notify the IRS that you're on their payroll (they have to, to get certain tax incentives for themselves). If you are self-employed, you'll need to register your business with your local government (city at least, possibly county or state depending on type of business). Regardless, you'll need to file your income taxes after the end of the year and before April 15th. If you fail to do so, the IRS will contract with a collection agency to find you. It might take awhile, but unless you're in a cabin in the woods, they'll find you eventually (and stick you with the tab for having to find you in the first place).
Sales taxes are levied on everyone who buys something in the state, no need to register for that.
Property taxes are levied on all property owners, but since you have to register your title to your property, anyway, it's not a big step to tell the county assessment office you now own a given parcel of land. But if you're just renting, the government has no need to know where you live (and doesn't particularly care, either).
And utilities are billed each month to each residence. You'll need to have them turned on in your name (and they'll probably do a credit check, to determine if you need to make a deposit before activation).
You have to remember that the US has more in common with the EU, as a political body, than it does with the Netherlands, or France, or even the former USSR. The 50 states are all quasi-independent, so there's really no central database for every American. And we (most of us, at least) like it that way.
Perhaps it is a piece of research that will not result in a product that somebody can sell at a huge profit, but will only increase our understanding of the world a little.
Why is it that some people think those are two mutually incompatible things? There's no reason we can't have a better understanding of the world, and enrich the people who made that understanding possible at the same time.
I'm no Obama supporter, but the experience argument is pretty specious. Bush had several years worth of executive experience before being elected, and look how well that turned out.
Personally, I think both Obama and McCain will do more to destroy the country than save it (especially with their respective economic policies). But I think Obama's tack will take longer to destroy things than McCain's, making him the lesser of those two evils, in my book. Still voting for Barr, though.
For what it's worth -- while I consider myself a libertarian at heart, there is no way I could vote for the Barr/Root ticket. Not when the VP candidate runs a sports book. So, this is not a shameless LP pandering comment.
We've had eight years of a VP willing to gamble with our lives and economy. Why not try one willing to gamble with our sports?
No no no, when you let someone smoke your weed, you're smoking them out. "Smoking up" just means you gave them a smoke cured ham. But don't worry, lots of people get confused on those two (especially with the memory loss that comes from all that ham).
You think that's speculative? My entire retirement plan revolves around putting money into a 401(k) and an IRA, and I'm heavily invested in blue chip stocks and index funds. Now that's playing footloose and fancy free with the future!
Yes, it would be a good candidate for a probe, especially since we could learn more about the early solar system.
But as for setting up a colony, that seems doubtful. The star is only 850 million years old, it doesn't seem likely that any rocky planets in orbit would be stable enough yet to support life (it would be a lot easier to set up camp on a planet teaming with at least primitive life, assuming an ecosystem compatible with life from Earth). Not to mention the increased likelihood of cometary impacts on planets in the inner system (a younger star system wouldn't have cleared out all the debris from the initial formation yet).
And what would you suggest in its place? You'll still need a database that maps human-readable names to IP addresses. And you'll still need those names to be delivered in an authoritative way, most likely by a centralized service provider(s). Which means you'd be replacing DNS with something that looks an awful lot like DNS, so why bother with the hassle?
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If Denmark was a series of extremely tiny islands, you'd have a point. But it's not, so you don't.
And if Denmark were Holland, your comment would make a lick of sense. But it's not, so it doesn't.
Personally, I can't wait to see Spock point his index finger at someone slice their head open.
Ha! You're both screwed, because I patented a method of recursively patenting patent trolls. No matter how deep you go, my patent covers it.
No doubt buried in the requirements is something that Halliburton hopes will make this bullshit business method patent different from all the other bullshit business method patents, but I'm actually hopeful that they'll get the smackdown they deserve.
That's obvious, they're doing it with a computer!
He went to work in California. The question is whether a contract signed in New York is enforceable in California, and that's not a clear-cut case. There are two competing cases referenced above about this very thing.
His problem is that IBM filed the federal lawsuit in New York. Following the Erie doctrine, that state's laws will be used to determine the outcome. If he had sued first, in California, he would've been on much more solid legal ground.
Interesting that today's top story at TheDailyWTF is all about regexes, too. Except there, they're showing a case when you should NOT use it. I think a few of the people posting here need to take the quote in that article to heart:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. â" Jamie Zawinski
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Now-I-Have-Two-Hundred-Problems.aspx
The best I ever heard it put was by an English commentator. He said we need to recall that the freedom we're so thoughtlessly flushing down the toilet isn't even ours to give away. It was bought and paid for with the blood of our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents.
Not only that, but we're guarding it for our children and grandchildren. If we give up our freedoms for convenience and safety now, how will they look at us in the future? How many of you want to be remember as a coward who gave up so much, for so very little?
Or .,$s/foo/bar/g. Change everything from the current line to the end of the file.
Parse out and sort column 2 from a semicolon delimited file:
cat myfile.txt | cut -d \; -f 2 | sort > output.txt
Um, why wouldn't you just:
awk -F; '{print $2}' myfile.txt | sort > output.txt
Seems easier to me.
Except this guy isn't a developer. Or did you not read that part of the summary?
If only there were some other party that subscribed to the ideals of liberty and freedom for all espoused by Lincoln, Goldwater, and Reagan that the moderate Republicans could turn to in their hour of need....
As someone else pointed out, if you want to abolish the electoral college, then push to amend the Constitution. We're not just going to start ignoring parts of it because you don't like them.
As for the passports, most Americans don't have them. (Before you react too strongly to that, bear in mind that from here I can travel for two thousand miles in any direction, or three thousand miles to the west, without a passport. This is mostly a very good thing, though it would be nice if it were somewhat easier to find people who speak a foreign language fluently.)
Actually, you can travel much further than that to the west (I'm assuming you live on the West Coast and were referring to Hawaii). American Samoa and Saipan are several thousand miles further, and more to the south, than Hawaii; Guam is even further. Travel by US citizens to all of those territories does not require a passport, even after the increased passport requirements institutde by the Gestapo^WDHS last year.
Different governmental bodies handle different taxes. With Federal income tax, your employer will notify the IRS that you're on their payroll (they have to, to get certain tax incentives for themselves). If you are self-employed, you'll need to register your business with your local government (city at least, possibly county or state depending on type of business). Regardless, you'll need to file your income taxes after the end of the year and before April 15th. If you fail to do so, the IRS will contract with a collection agency to find you. It might take awhile, but unless you're in a cabin in the woods, they'll find you eventually (and stick you with the tab for having to find you in the first place).
Sales taxes are levied on everyone who buys something in the state, no need to register for that.
Property taxes are levied on all property owners, but since you have to register your title to your property, anyway, it's not a big step to tell the county assessment office you now own a given parcel of land. But if you're just renting, the government has no need to know where you live (and doesn't particularly care, either).
And utilities are billed each month to each residence. You'll need to have them turned on in your name (and they'll probably do a credit check, to determine if you need to make a deposit before activation).
You have to remember that the US has more in common with the EU, as a political body, than it does with the Netherlands, or France, or even the former USSR. The 50 states are all quasi-independent, so there's really no central database for every American. And we (most of us, at least) like it that way.
Perhaps it is a piece of research that will not result in a product that somebody can sell at a huge profit, but will only increase our understanding of the world a little.
Why is it that some people think those are two mutually incompatible things? There's no reason we can't have a better understanding of the world, and enrich the people who made that understanding possible at the same time.
I'm no Obama supporter, but the experience argument is pretty specious. Bush had several years worth of executive experience before being elected, and look how well that turned out.
Personally, I think both Obama and McCain will do more to destroy the country than save it (especially with their respective economic policies). But I think Obama's tack will take longer to destroy things than McCain's, making him the lesser of those two evils, in my book. Still voting for Barr, though.
For what it's worth -- while I consider myself a libertarian at heart, there is no way I could vote for the Barr/Root ticket. Not when the VP candidate runs a sports book. So, this is not a shameless LP pandering comment.
We've had eight years of a VP willing to gamble with our lives and economy. Why not try one willing to gamble with our sports?
If you're in the DFW area, the Tarrant County Libertarian Party is having an Election Watching party at the Cowboys Golf Club. Details here.
No no no, when you let someone smoke your weed, you're smoking them out. "Smoking up" just means you gave them a smoke cured ham. But don't worry, lots of people get confused on those two (especially with the memory loss that comes from all that ham).
I was going for +1, Depressing.
You think that's speculative? My entire retirement plan revolves around putting money into a 401(k) and an IRA, and I'm heavily invested in blue chip stocks and index funds. Now that's playing footloose and fancy free with the future!
Bad taste in IRC? Never heard of such a thing.
Yes, it would be a good candidate for a probe, especially since we could learn more about the early solar system.
But as for setting up a colony, that seems doubtful. The star is only 850 million years old, it doesn't seem likely that any rocky planets in orbit would be stable enough yet to support life (it would be a lot easier to set up camp on a planet teaming with at least primitive life, assuming an ecosystem compatible with life from Earth). Not to mention the increased likelihood of cometary impacts on planets in the inner system (a younger star system wouldn't have cleared out all the debris from the initial formation yet).
Twitter is the new Haiku?
Stupid and banal
Thoughtless posts, neverending
Moonlight on a sunny day.
And what would you suggest in its place? You'll still need a database that maps human-readable names to IP addresses. And you'll still need those names to be delivered in an authoritative way, most likely by a centralized service provider(s). Which means you'd be replacing DNS with something that looks an awful lot like DNS, so why bother with the hassle?