Fair enough, but there's no need to be a jackass about it. I never described Percy, I described some other dishonest farmers whose cause has been taken up by militantly anti-GM nutbags. I forget which exact phrase I searched for, but both Yahoo (EVER TRIED IT?!?! HUH BUSTER!?!?!?) and Google turned up nothing besides some links about how some poor farmer was being picked on for breaking his license agreement - because the crime was a "revered and ancient agricultural practice" without the license agreement they had signed.
That sounds like a legitimate gripe against Monsanto as opposed to the other ones, and that truly sucks.
I agree with you, however, Monsanto has been suing farmers who have not planted Monstano's Canola seeds yet the farmer's crops get cross-pollinated from a neighbouring Monsanto Canola field. Farmers call it 'Nature', Monstanto calls it 'Theft'.
Link? Every time I've heard this alleged, it turns out it's just some cheat farmer trying to plant Monsanto product he didn't pay for, or seeds he illegally harvested and re-planted without paying for them.
Are we supposed to not discuss certain topics because some people refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence when it conflicts with their presupposed biases?
...since that approach would pretty much rule out every pro-Linux story (and the several subsequent dupes;) on Slashdot....it would seem that ID is fair game.
You're right....South Korea has the US beat in corporate ownership of the government hands down. Ever been there? Hyundai, KIA, Samsung, and L.G. pretty much run the whole country.
He was good in 'Life as a House.' He still plays a whiny teenage punk, but his acting and dialogue actually have depth. Natalie Portman (don't say it!;)) is also great in everything that I've seen outside of Episodes I-III. I think it's 100% Lucas here.
I should have probably clarified above I understood the simple P/E ratio stuff. This is the point I was driving at...so they take over all online ad revenues. Great. Their P/E goes down a bit....
Their valuation obviously means that investors expect TONS more from them than just taking over online advertising. I see lots of free stuff that they offer, but nothing that justifies the price.
Yeah...I've seen the soaring stock price of Google (market cap beats AOL/TW now, yeah, uh...wow) and I'm wondering when it's going to collapse. They provide some nice free things for the web, but their advertising revenue can't come close to justifying their $80B value.
What do they do that makes money? Believe me, I know there's more to life than money, but that's pretty much the main factor in the stock valuation.
Since the whole reason he was allegedly switching is due to MS dropping updates for his 5+ year old OS (along with VB), it does seem appropriate to bring up the very EOL'd and very unsupported nature of the Linux contemporaries of Win2K. The vast majority of Linux users have already nuked and paved away any 5+ year old installs, as is the recommended course of action that I've seen for even RH3 to RH4 updates (in fedoraforum.org, at least). If his reason for switching was to do OSS stuff and self-maintenance, I could see that.
How reasonable is it to assume that a newbie (remember, he said he was switching) do way-after-EOL maintenance on a Linux install?
I'm not portraying anyone as a victim here, it's merely a joke. You have to admit, it's kind of funny how humorless anti-MS zealots will bash MS and jump to conclusions about almost ever....uh....oh never mind, you wouldn't find it funny.
... It's nice to see Microsoft recognizing the power of blogs, but the move is likely going to draw accusations that Redmond is trying to buy off bloggers to hype Longhorn."
That's a safe bet - MS could release a patch for XP that cured cancer and they'd still be accused of doing something underhanded.;)
Really? Gosh, I thought it was clear that Methanex Corp. ran the entire Canadian government and employed every citizen! But Americans are all a homogenous, monolithic block of interfering anti-Canadian loons with 100% of policy dictated by one trade representative's proposed review, right?
If you read past the first link (the only one you apparently noticed), you'd see it wasn't "one Canadian firm" in question, either. The point is not "Canada bad, USA good!" but that individuals and corporations from both sides dick each other around. How has this proposed review impacted Canada so far? Ouch, it's costing you $1billion and polluting your groundwater, right?
There is hardly some helpless victim here being bullied by anyone.
America doesn't care about the effect it has on other economies. It just wants its way. And because Canada needs the US more than the US needs Canada, they can use that leverage to force us to change our policies to benefit their industries.
You forgot to mention that Canada doesn't care about the effect it has on other economies, and they seem to have plenty of leverage to force changes in American policy, thanks to NAFTA!
MTBE is nasty stuff, and Canadians are ready to sue the US to make sure it continues to make its way into our ground water. There's plenty more where that came from, too.
PoE could end up being a universal power supply system as the cables and connectors for it are the same all over the world. By contrast power sockets and plugs differ by country.
That's awesome! It solves the cable problem! I'll just plug my universal AC/DC power supply into....d'oh!
How about we fix the system instead of just throwing more money at it and expecting that alone to fix it?
It's like it's 1999 and 'education' is 'an open source business opportunity.' Same lesson as TFA: throwing money at something doesn't fix it or make it work.
It's a friggin' warning, not a binding legal contract. If the pilot will blindly follow some colored lights nowhere near a restricted airspace without getting on the radio or checking where he is, he ought to be grounded.
I wasn't exactly serious - you do have to find a little humor in the fact that one of the first comments on the story was tearing her down (right or wrong) after she complained about abusive Linux nuts.
If you're going to just copy and paste an example of the zealous nonsense she's complaining about, at least format it correctly so that we can see that it's a quote.;)
In other words: M$ can't win. They can't. Leave systems unpatched and polluting the internet with age-old exploits that they fixed months or years ago? People like you will complain that they're not doing enough to fix security. If they 'ram this service pack down your throat' they suck because these 3rd party companies refuse to update their software to work on the current release of Windows after a year or so of a well-controlled beta-to-release cycle to get their shit together.
Rest assured, no matter what they do, they're in the wrong according to people like you. I'm glad they did the better 'wrong' thing here to try and get people to update their security.
So, according to the author....the corporate IT departments, who allegedly can't manage, protect, and maintain corporate PCs and user data, are going to be able to set up a productive mainframe and thin clients that rely entirely on them?
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Fair enough, but there's no need to be a jackass about it. I never described Percy, I described some other dishonest farmers whose cause has been taken up by militantly anti-GM nutbags. I forget which exact phrase I searched for, but both Yahoo (EVER TRIED IT?!?! HUH BUSTER!?!?!?) and Google turned up nothing besides some links about how some poor farmer was being picked on for breaking his license agreement - because the crime was a "revered and ancient agricultural practice" without the license agreement they had signed.
That sounds like a legitimate gripe against Monsanto as opposed to the other ones, and that truly sucks.
I agree with you, however, Monsanto has been suing farmers who have not planted Monstano's Canola seeds yet the farmer's crops get cross-pollinated from a neighbouring Monsanto Canola field. Farmers call it 'Nature', Monstanto calls it 'Theft'.
Link? Every time I've heard this alleged, it turns out it's just some cheat farmer trying to plant Monsanto product he didn't pay for, or seeds he illegally harvested and re-planted without paying for them.
Are we supposed to not discuss certain topics because some people refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence when it conflicts with their presupposed biases?
...since that approach would pretty much rule out every pro-Linux story (and the several subsequent dupes ;) on Slashdot....it would seem that ID is fair game.
You're right....South Korea has the US beat in corporate ownership of the government hands down. Ever been there? Hyundai, KIA, Samsung, and L.G. pretty much run the whole country.
...what horrible things can happen when information finds its way into a search engine. ;)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0264796/
;)) is also great in everything that I've seen outside of Episodes I-III. I think it's 100% Lucas here.
He was good in 'Life as a House.' He still plays a whiny teenage punk, but his acting and dialogue actually have depth. Natalie Portman (don't say it!
I should have probably clarified above I understood the simple P/E ratio stuff. This is the point I was driving at...so they take over all online ad revenues. Great. Their P/E goes down a bit....
Their valuation obviously means that investors expect TONS more from them than just taking over online advertising. I see lots of free stuff that they offer, but nothing that justifies the price.
Yeah...I've seen the soaring stock price of Google (market cap beats AOL/TW now, yeah, uh...wow) and I'm wondering when it's going to collapse. They provide some nice free things for the web, but their advertising revenue can't come close to justifying their $80B value.
What do they do that makes money? Believe me, I know there's more to life than money, but that's pretty much the main factor in the stock valuation.
Since the whole reason he was allegedly switching is due to MS dropping updates for his 5+ year old OS (along with VB), it does seem appropriate to bring up the very EOL'd and very unsupported nature of the Linux contemporaries of Win2K. The vast majority of Linux users have already nuked and paved away any 5+ year old installs, as is the recommended course of action that I've seen for even RH3 to RH4 updates (in fedoraforum.org, at least). If his reason for switching was to do OSS stuff and self-maintenance, I could see that.
How reasonable is it to assume that a newbie (remember, he said he was switching) do way-after-EOL maintenance on a Linux install?
...because things like Red Hat Linux 6.2 are still up to date and patched today. Right?
Why read the Beeb when you have an optical mouse and a DVD burner? :)
I'm not portraying anyone as a victim here, it's merely a joke. You have to admit, it's kind of funny how humorless anti-MS zealots will bash MS and jump to conclusions about almost ever....uh....oh never mind, you wouldn't find it funny.
... It's nice to see Microsoft recognizing the power of blogs, but the move is likely going to draw accusations that Redmond is trying to buy off bloggers to hype Longhorn."
;)
That's a safe bet - MS could release a patch for XP that cured cancer and they'd still be accused of doing something underhanded.
Really? Gosh, I thought it was clear that Methanex Corp. ran the entire Canadian government and employed every citizen! But Americans are all a homogenous, monolithic block of interfering anti-Canadian loons with 100% of policy dictated by one trade representative's proposed review, right?
If you read past the first link (the only one you apparently noticed), you'd see it wasn't "one Canadian firm" in question, either. The point is not "Canada bad, USA good!" but that individuals and corporations from both sides dick each other around. How has this proposed review impacted Canada so far? Ouch, it's costing you $1billion and polluting your groundwater, right?
There is hardly some helpless victim here being bullied by anyone.
America doesn't care about the effect it has on other economies. It just wants its way. And because Canada needs the US more than the US needs Canada, they can use that leverage to force us to change our policies to benefit their industries.
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You forgot to mention that Canada doesn't care about the effect it has on other economies, and they seem to have plenty of leverage to force changes in American policy, thanks to NAFTA!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c
MTBE is nasty stuff, and Canadians are ready to sue the US to make sure it continues to make its way into our ground water. There's plenty more where that came from, too.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=canadian+nafta+s
PoE could end up being a universal power supply system as the cables and connectors for it are the same all over the world. By contrast power sockets and plugs differ by country.
That's awesome! It solves the cable problem! I'll just plug my universal AC/DC power supply into....d'oh!
How about we fix the system instead of just throwing more money at it and expecting that alone to fix it?
It's like it's 1999 and 'education' is 'an open source business opportunity.' Same lesson as TFA: throwing money at something doesn't fix it or make it work.
WTF does this have to do with the article? Oh, nothing, but it criticizes the US, so mod it up to +5.
It's a friggin' warning, not a binding legal contract. If the pilot will blindly follow some colored lights nowhere near a restricted airspace without getting on the radio or checking where he is, he ought to be grounded.
I wasn't exactly serious - you do have to find a little humor in the fact that one of the first comments on the story was tearing her down (right or wrong) after she complained about abusive Linux nuts.
If you're going to just copy and paste an example of the zealous nonsense she's complaining about, at least format it correctly so that we can see that it's a quote. ;)
In other words: M$ can't win. They can't. Leave systems unpatched and polluting the internet with age-old exploits that they fixed months or years ago? People like you will complain that they're not doing enough to fix security. If they 'ram this service pack down your throat' they suck because these 3rd party companies refuse to update their software to work on the current release of Windows after a year or so of a well-controlled beta-to-release cycle to get their shit together.
Rest assured, no matter what they do, they're in the wrong according to people like you. I'm glad they did the better 'wrong' thing here to try and get people to update their security.
So, according to the author....the corporate IT departments, who allegedly can't manage, protect, and maintain corporate PCs and user data, are going to be able to set up a productive mainframe and thin clients that rely entirely on them?
That sounds a little scary.
AHA! See the problem that wpiman pointed out? We can't even tell for sure if the UK has 4x or 5x as many bots as the US!
I'm not the AC, but they're pretty easy to dig up.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17
Execute arbitrary scripts. Apple ignored it for months. Here's 2 more:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/22
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25
They have all since been patched, but most of the major flaws in Windows that are being exploited were patched long ago as well.