Why should a corporation be treated as an individual? Because that allows the owners of the corporation to shift the blame for their actions (or 'limit the liability' to use the common euphemism).
Flying was never intended for the unwashed masses anyway. In a couple of years only select members of the ruling class will be allowed to board a plane.
I implied nothing of the kind, I chose my words with care to reflect the fact that this research was of a particular level. Now read that sentence again.
I read the summary, the newspaper report, started to doubt the story because I recall reading about exactly that type of plastic and exactly those bacteria in the nineties and subsequently scanned the literarure references to double-check. And you manage to come up with the slashdot knee-jerk RTFS?
Decomposing with bacteria would, assuming the article is correct, be an alternative to incinerating
A poor alternative if you don't use the heat for power generation. Perhaps oil prices in Canada are so low they have to burn it to get rid of the surplus?
This sounds like an excellent high school project, combined with crappy PR and lazy Journalism.
but as far as Burd and his teacher Mark Menhennet know -- and they've looked Yeah right, so googling 'biodegradation Sphingomonas polyethene OR polyethylene' doesn't return any hits in Canada.
Actually, yes, despite your illegal attempt to illegally put illegal subliminal illegal messages in your illegal comment. Some jurisdictions allow downloading, but forbid uploading of copyrighted materials (the 'copy' part is considered to be in the uploading action).
Because at some time in the past somebody 'staked a claim' on every plot of land.
I'm amazed (as, no doubt, were the native americans a couple of centuries ago) at the general consensus here that 'putting up a fence' somehow fixes property rights from that moment to eternity.
# Don't post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, or bomb making. # Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it. # YouTube is not a shock site. Don't post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies and similar things.
Wow, there's a movie script idea for a real box-office hit if I ever saw one...
Most replacements for SysV init are based on lack of knowledge of SysV init combined with an attitude problem (that writing code is much easier than understanding code). I gues you're taliking about Upstart (which is now used by Fedora 9 and Ubuntu). Upstart is different, because it is based on a thourough lack of knowledge of SysV init, crond, atd, udev, acpid and apmd all conveniently bundled into one single product.
I still applaud that Google is not arbitrarily deciding which particular laws they abide by and what crimes should be prosecuted. I also think they should seriously consider not being an accomplice to oppression, by not dealing with regimes that maintain such laws and accepting the loss of that market.
The question is if Google is to behave ethically, how ethical is enough? 10,000$?, 10,000,000$...?
But if you're a different breed young padawan how come you assume that at the age of 47 you will be capable to manage the 20-year old, who will be the first of the always-on-line breed?
Now, as for the youthful arrogance thing. Your words, I'd go for 'forgiveable hormone imbalance driven exuberance'... I was hacking in ResEdit at the age of 10 So did everybody then who wanted to fiddle with icons and menus on a Mac.
I think you should clarify this; Do you mean
a) the stuff you learnt at 8,10 or 14 is now totally irrelevant, and so you know nothing more than people who barely know how to switch on a computer twenty years later, but who have spent the same amount of time as you with web-5 programming?
or
b) you gained a lot of knowledge by playing with those now long-obsolete systems and your experience has an added value even when working on someting completely new?
You're probably right and, amusingly, like so many 20 year olds you presume that the old farts you're arguing with skipped from their teens straight to their forties and fifties without learning anything that you don't know already.
It appears that Vista has DRM functioning properly. Stopping you from recording something when the program is flagged is exactly the feature you have bought. Furthermore, if you can record a flagged broadcast with XP or TiVo you should probably file a complaint that this software is circumventing the DRM and failing to manage your digital rights properly.
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Why should a corporation be treated as an individual?
Because that allows the owners of the corporation to shift the blame for their actions (or 'limit the liability' to use the common euphemism).
Cool: First Post and Godwin's law.
the flexibility is just... amazing, in python.
:a -e '$\!N; s/\n/ /; ta' file.csv | sed 's/,/ /g' | awk 'BEGIN {i=1} {while (i<NF) { print int($i+0.5); i++;}}'
You mean you need python because you're unfamiliar with the standard unix cli?
I would just type:
sed -e
~
Well, why not ask Novell's business partner:
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/getthefacts/default.mspx
With friends like that...
Influenza is not a false positive, it's a bioterrorist attack.
No problem, calmly playing with my AK47 and counting my hand-grenades is still ok.
Flying was never intended for the unwashed masses anyway. In a couple of years only select members of the ruling class will be allowed to board a plane.
I feel safer killing insurgents in their backyard
Insurging against you in their own backyard?
You're not strange, your colonialism is of all ages.
I implied nothing of the kind, I chose my words with care to reflect the fact that this research was of a particular level.
Now read that sentence again.
I read the summary, the newspaper report, started to doubt the story because I recall reading about exactly that type of plastic and exactly those bacteria in the nineties and subsequently scanned the literarure references to double-check.
And you manage to come up with the slashdot knee-jerk RTFS?
Decomposing with bacteria would, assuming the article is correct, be an alternative to incinerating
A poor alternative if you don't use the heat for power generation. Perhaps oil prices in Canada are so low they have to burn it to get rid of the surplus?
This sounds like an excellent high school project, combined with crappy PR and lazy Journalism.
but as far as Burd and his teacher Mark Menhennet know -- and they've looked
Yeah right, so googling 'biodegradation Sphingomonas polyethene OR polyethylene' doesn't return any hits in Canada.
Actually, yes, despite your illegal attempt to illegally put illegal subliminal illegal messages in your illegal comment.
Some jurisdictions allow downloading, but forbid uploading of copyrighted materials (the 'copy' part is considered to be in the uploading action).
Because at some time in the past somebody 'staked a claim' on every plot of land.
I'm amazed (as, no doubt, were the native americans a couple of centuries ago) at the general consensus here that 'putting up a fence' somehow fixes property rights from that moment to eternity.
# Don't post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, or bomb making.
# Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it.
# YouTube is not a shock site. Don't post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies and similar things.
Wow, there's a movie script idea for a real box-office hit if I ever saw one...
I'd say around 1990 or MS-DOS 5.0, when Peter norton sold his company to Symantec.
...assume that there's an IT professional somewhere that looks over these released files prior to their release?
Apparently you have never worked for a government department.
Otherwise it's like having a flu vaccine released by managers that went nowhere near an immunologist or virologist.
or in the pharmaceutical industry.
Score: 0 Flamebait, Ha, that'll teach you to piss off the MSerables during office hours.
Most replacements for SysV init are based on lack of knowledge of SysV init combined with an attitude problem (that writing code is much easier than understanding code). I gues you're taliking about Upstart (which is now used by Fedora 9 and Ubuntu). Upstart is different, because it is based on a thourough lack of knowledge of SysV init, crond, atd, udev, acpid and apmd all conveniently bundled into one single product.
I still applaud that Google is not arbitrarily deciding which particular laws they abide by and what crimes should be prosecuted.
...?
I also think they should seriously consider not being an accomplice to oppression, by not dealing with regimes that maintain such laws and accepting the loss of that market.
The question is if Google is to behave ethically, how ethical is enough? 10,000$?, 10,000,000$
But if you're a different breed young padawan how come you assume that at the age of 47 you will be capable to manage the 20-year old, who will be the first of the always-on-line breed?
Now, as for the youthful arrogance thing.
Your words, I'd go for 'forgiveable hormone imbalance driven exuberance'...
I was hacking in ResEdit at the age of 10
So did everybody then who wanted to fiddle with icons and menus on a Mac.
I think you should clarify this; Do you mean
a) the stuff you learnt at 8,10 or 14 is now totally irrelevant, and so you know nothing more than people who barely know how to switch on a computer twenty years later, but who have spent the same amount of time as you with web-5 programming?
or
b) you gained a lot of knowledge by playing with those now long-obsolete systems and your experience has an added value even when working on someting completely new?
You're probably right and, amusingly, like so many 20 year olds you presume that the old farts you're arguing with skipped from their teens straight to their forties and fifties without learning anything that you don't know already.
Now get off my lawn.
Right. I should also complain to Ferrari that my car goes over 55 Mph
Strictly speaking you should, if it was sold with 'Maximum Speed Management'...
It appears that Vista has DRM functioning properly. Stopping you from recording something when the program is flagged is exactly the feature you have bought.
Furthermore, if you can record a flagged broadcast with XP or TiVo you should probably file a complaint that this software is circumventing the DRM and failing to manage your digital rights properly.