Actually, we were Saddam's ally, until we weren't. When we liked what he was doing, we supported him. Then he invaded Kuwait, which we decided we weren't so in favor of, and everything changed.
Maybe you have new iraq / old iraq issues. The current democratically elected government of iraq is our ally (again). Most of the insurgents doing battle with us are actually coming into iraq from other countries, calling them 'parts of iraq' is misleading at best.
Which is sad because there is nothing better to do with land than growing crops? And it's also not strictly true. There are places in the world that have been built on, and had the buildings torn down later to make room for farming and other uses.
MS employs vast numbers of not so talented people. They also have a pretty good number of very talented people, much like most large companies. They do hamstring their most talented developers of course, which is not always the best strategy.
What nation are we engaged in a war with? The nation of iraq is our ally. Are we also at war with Afghanistan? Kosovo? Bosnia? http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/global- deployments.htm We're fighting some terrorists who are attempting to overthrow the government of our ally iraq. It's a police action at best, but "we're at police action, pick a side" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Only barely, and only if you accept that many of the people involved in this discussion are at war with each other, per definition 2a. http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war I think most people prefer the definition involving states or nations.
The unfortunate reality that the laws are trying to deal with, though, is that it is essentially impossible for law enforcement to spot all the drunks on the road, and deliver you home as you suggest (imagine the logistics of that: you could put all the police in this country on that duty full time!, and still not have enough cops).
Worse, it won't even be near to possible for them to indentify all of the sufficiently impaired so as to protect the rest of us from their idiocy.
What drunk driving laws do is create an incentive for everyone to voluntarily police themselves, and to act more responsibly. If you know you run a risk of a long incarceration just for drunk driving, you may not take my life into your hands by getting behind the wheel and driving the same roads as I do. If you (or most of these drunk idiots) know that the only penalty for getting caught is being taken home, then you'll be much more encouraged to just take your chances with my life, rather than deal with the inconvenience and cost of a taxi ride.
Drunk driving laws disencentivize behaviors on an individual basis that normally have unfortunate incentives on an individual basis, but have an extremely high average cost for the rest of society. This is also why no-sleepy-driving and no-cellphone-driving laws are a similarly good idea.
My opinion is that in addition to your argument, the difficulty of this task is reduced by carrying fewer passengers. The passenger weight is not at all insignificant, so doing this with one person rather than two is actually a significantly simpler proposition. Having a single pilot retain sufficient alertness over the flight period is a long solved problem.
So there are actually a number of reasons to believe that doing this solo was not nearly as great an accomplishment as doing it with two people.
Really, putting humanity in safes is just what the pusher robots want, your child will just be an unwitting pawn. The only way your child can truly help is if you educate them about our protectors, the shover robots.
Now I'm slightly baffled that the front page title has developes, while the story has been corrected to develops. Caching issue on firefox, or are they really not the same text?
This solution is way too easy to fraud. As a simple example:
Have notary notarize several basically blank pages (fill in only as much as you need to convince a notary to mark it). Mail an unsealed envelope to yourself. Fill in your 'discovery' 'borrowed' from someone else on the notarized pages years later. Stick in envelope, seal, sign over seal.
Please don't mod up this urban legend. There are plenty of ways to fraud this, and no one can offer a court case that actually accepted this as proof. http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp
This is not the way to go. Read the other comments about how easy it is to fraud this strategy. Just register with the copyright office. Fairly cheap, fairly easy, fairly fast.
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Yep, it's definitely all the millions poured into Erlang development and publicity that made it the COSA killer it is today.
Yes, as opposed to them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nireah_Johnson
(among others)
Actually, we were Saddam's ally, until we weren't. When we liked what he was doing, we supported him. Then he invaded Kuwait, which we decided we weren't so in favor of, and everything changed.
Maybe you have new iraq / old iraq issues. The current democratically elected government of iraq is our ally (again). Most of the insurgents doing battle with us are actually coming into iraq from other countries, calling them 'parts of iraq' is misleading at best.
Which is sad because there is nothing better to do with land than growing crops?
And it's also not strictly true. There are places in the world that have been built on, and had the buildings torn down later to make room for farming and other uses.
MS employs vast numbers of not so talented people. They also have a pretty good number of very talented people, much like most large companies. They do hamstring their most talented developers of course, which is not always the best strategy.
What nation are we engaged in a war with? The nation of iraq is our ally. Are we also at war with Afghanistan? Kosovo? Bosnia?- deployments.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/global
We're fighting some terrorists who are attempting to overthrow the government of our ally iraq. It's a police action at best, but "we're at police action, pick a side" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Only barely, and only if you accept that many of the people involved in this discussion are at war with each other, per definition 2a.
http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war
I think most people prefer the definition involving states or nations.
Seconded. The constant we're at war litany drives me crazy. People: we are not at war!
As evil bender once said:
Hey Sexy Mama, Wanna Kill All Humans?
The unfortunate reality that the laws are trying to deal with, though, is that it is essentially impossible for law enforcement to spot all the drunks on the road, and deliver you home as you suggest (imagine the logistics of that: you could put all the police in this country on that duty full time!, and still not have enough cops).
Worse, it won't even be near to possible for them to indentify all of the sufficiently impaired so as to protect the rest of us from their idiocy.
What drunk driving laws do is create an incentive for everyone to voluntarily police themselves, and to act more responsibly. If you know you run a risk of a long incarceration just for drunk driving, you may not take my life into your hands by getting behind the wheel and driving the same roads as I do. If you (or most of these drunk idiots) know that the only penalty for getting caught is being taken home, then you'll be much more encouraged to just take your chances with my life, rather than deal with the inconvenience and cost of a taxi ride.
Drunk driving laws disencentivize behaviors on an individual basis that normally have unfortunate incentives on an individual basis, but have an extremely high average cost for the rest of society. This is also why no-sleepy-driving and no-cellphone-driving laws are a similarly good idea.
My opinion is that in addition to your argument, the difficulty of this task is reduced by carrying fewer passengers. The passenger weight is not at all insignificant, so doing this with one person rather than two is actually a significantly simpler proposition. Having a single pilot retain sufficient alertness over the flight period is a long solved problem.
So there are actually a number of reasons to believe that doing this solo was not nearly as great an accomplishment as doing it with two people.
... If so you're out of luck, because they aren't hiring.
Really, putting humanity in safes is just what the pusher robots want, your child will just be an unwitting pawn. The only way your child can truly help is if you educate them about our protectors, the shover robots.
Thank you. I also encourage people to think hard about which is really the more interesting and challenging accomplishment.
A zero emissions vehicle emits zero of several possible emissions. A PZEV emits zero of some, and is allowed to emit small amounts of the others.
Note to mods and metamods: this was ontopic and funny when the title was 'ibm developes ...', but the title later got corrected.
Now I'm slightly baffled that the front page title has developes, while the story has been corrected to develops. Caching issue on firefox, or are they really not the same text?
Thanks, I did assume his jurisdiction was us.
Thanks. I considered trying to work in a definition of developeer somehow, but decided to go for succinct. I like your version.
I would think they'd have an automated process to spell check the titles so they could not care and not get well deserved rounds of criticism.
reeally astoundeing stuffe.
Not done.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp
This solution is way too easy to fraud. As a simple example:
Have notary notarize several basically blank pages (fill in only as much as you need to convince a notary to mark it).
Mail an unsealed envelope to yourself.
Fill in your 'discovery' 'borrowed' from someone else on the notarized pages years later.
Stick in envelope, seal, sign over seal.
Done!
Please don't mod up this urban legend. There are plenty of ways to fraud this, and no one can offer a court case that actually accepted this as proof.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp
You posted to suggest getting real legal advice, and offered and urban legend. Excellent!
Read the various posts above about all the fun ways to fraud the system of sending yourself a sealed envelope.
This is not the way to go. Read the other comments about how easy it is to fraud this strategy.
Just register with the copyright office. Fairly cheap, fairly easy, fairly fast.