This is such an offensive stereotype and misconceived stereotype. Who says pot smokers have no motivation? If you want to see motivation, just wait till they get the munchies they'll be at 7-11 in no time flat. Or after their post-feeding frenzy ciesta, the'll be ready to go out and score more buds at the drop of a hat.
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I believe the first successful kidney transplant was between identical twins, back before they had drugs to deal with rejection.
If I had a nickel for every time someone pointed out that MS was not a monopoly, I'd be as rich as... well, Bill Gates. Just because they don't mean the literal dictionary definition doesn't mean it's not useful to classify them as a monopoly. The legal definition of monopoly is broader, and it is broader for a reason. When a company is in a high position of power like MS, they can do things that are detrimental to consumers, such as strongarming PC manufacturers into not selling naked PCs. When I bought a Dell notebook, I had to pay MS tax, even though I totally wiped off XP and installed Fedora. These are strongarm tactcs, and they work only because MS has such a high degree of market conrol. The fact that you put "encouraging" in quotes tells me something. Maybe it's like how the local mafia bosses "encourage" store owners to pay protection fees. Oh no, MS doesn't have any real power.. The real reason PC manufacturers listen to what they say is that Ballmer is so charasmatic.
Balmer is just fronting. An all out patent war against Linux would be a Legal and PR nightmare for them. It might stir up further antitrust issues and would likely incur the wrath of the Linux community worldwide. I think that a war would be disasterous for both sides, but Microsoft would ultimately be the loser. We have weathered quite well against SCO, which I believe was sort of a pilot lawsuit for MS. As a result, I doubt they'll be dumb enough to try an all out frontal assault. Their best bet is to maintain a threatening posture and attempt to slow the growth of Linux as long as possible while they transition themselves further into a services oriented company.
This is a good observation, but I don't think that lack of a difference would disprove it. There are many other factors that could affect the outcome, such as the trauma inflicted upon a woman's body in the process of pregnancy and childbirth . Also, the lifestyle of a woman may change after she has a baby, she may spend more time taking care of the child and exercise less. Either of those factors could possibly counteract any hypothetical good done by these cells. This observation would still be valuable in allowing women to make choices about their health. The hypothesis seems to have a slightly religious flavor. The unspoken message is that childbirth is what God intended for women and to avoid having children would result in poor health and/or an early death. However, it might also be true that women who don't want children may still be able to benefit by intentionally getting pregnant and subsequently having an abortion.
Oh... so because Will Durant did it, now it's ok to fuck a 14 year old? He may not have been a pedophile in the classic sense, but there is something serioulsly messed up about a 25 year old getting together with a 14 year old. Just the idea of it makes me sick.
What is it about our society that we disassociate the perpetrator from the crime? Oh... He was a really great guy, except for those people he killed. He did molest his daughter... but aside from that, he was a loving husband, generous and volunteered for charity. I'm a pretty forgiving guy, but there are some things that shouldn't be forigiven. Fucking children is one of those things, at least in my book.
As Winston Wolfe of Pulp Fiction fame eloquently put it.. "Let's not start sucking each others' dicks just yet."
While this does sound like a good proposal, it is only one part of the PACE Act. There is one measure in this act that I found very disturbing and that is the establishment of a "First inventor to file system." Basically, that sounds like it would kill off any prior art claims that had not been a part of a previously filed patent. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't increase the number of BS patents filed because companies would be scrambling to file for things just to get it on record. Very Scary.
First, I'm pretty sure that in most states, the situation you describe would merely be statuory rape, NOT child molestation. I don't think it should be illegal for a 21 year old to have sex with a 15 year old, regardless of gender. However, Life in prison would certainly much too harsh for such an offense. I believe in some states, it is even legal to have sex with a 16 year old as long as there is an age difference of 2 years or less. There can be exceptions written in to the law for certain situations. But certainly for the clear cut child molestation case, Life in prison is completely justified.
In my fairly Libertarian views, I agree with the ideals of your argument. However, Child molestation is some seriously sick and dangerous s#!7. I have heard doctors express the viewpoint that child molestation is getting out of control. When a child is sexually abused, that child will later have a 60% chance of going on to abuse other children in adulthood. And they don't abuse just one child. It's got all the markings of a disease with exponential growth built right in. I mean, if someone can indulge in their own sick fantasies and not have it affect the outside world... then great. But I suspect that's not how it works in the real world.
On the practical side... There proabably are things we can do to effectively curb sexual abuse without restricting our freedoms. Perhaps our tax dollars would be better spent on tracking down the real perpetrators, educating the public about the nature of this abuse and helping protect children from being abused. We should institute some very invasive psychological screening for teachers or other positions that allow adults to come in close contact with children. I also think that child molesters should be given life in prison for the first offense.
SONY: I'm so sorry baby. Can't you see how you hurt me leaving me this way? I promise I'll never hit you again... It's just that when you do that I just can't control myself. Can you forgive me this one last time?
CUSTOMER: Well.. ok.
SONY: Oh... thank you baby. I'm so lucky to have you... And BITCH!, if you EVER try to leave me again I'll knock your skull so hard you'll do a backflip!
If Google, Yahoo and other major providers simply all agreed among themselves not to pay, that would significantly weaken BellSouth's position. If they reduce everyone's ping times, then they are degrading the service and increase the liklihood of customers abandoning their DSL service.
Seeing as how urine is fairly sterile, I just pee in the sink. no splashback, and it all gets washed down when i wash my hands. I learned about this environmentally friendly tip from Adam Carolla.
Certainly ls is a useful command, but you need more tools than a hammer and nails to build a skyscraper. I frequently query the rpm database to give me information that ls is simply not capable of giving me. If you can use ls and remember every last little file you installed, where it came from, on one of 40 systems, your memory is orders of magnitude better than mine.
For example, I see a file on the system and I don't know where it came from
# rpm -qf file That will tell me what package the file is a member of.
If I want to know when a peice of software was installed or other various information about it:
# rpm -qi pkgname
Or if I'm on a disk space and you want to uninstall a package:
# rpm -e pkgname
And to list all packages installed on a system
# rpm -ql
Essentially, when you do a make install with most packages, unless you saved a typescript of the install process, you're not gonna know where it put every last little file. Even if you do that, I don't know that it will capture all the information you need. You are gonna have to grep through it all. Back when hard drives weren't so huge, This was a real problem for me and the biggest reason I moved away from slackware.
* recompile and generate an installable package with one command (rpmbuild --rebuild myapp-1.0-1.src.rpm)
* atomatic determiniation of most external dependencies
* modularization of pristine source and patches
* A preselected set of default compile options that can be tweaked easily
* results in an installable package whose files are completely accounted for in a central database
Now, granted.. I've heard of something called slaktool which may be doing some RPM like stuff without calling it RPM, and keeping the tar.gz format.
The thing that really bodes will for RPM is that people actually use it. When I was a slackware user, the package manager was essentially useless and 95% of the additional software I installed had to be built manually and installed. I will concede that this criticism is 8+ years old, and if the situation has changed much, I'd love to hear from slackware users telling me about it. And even with that extra effort, I didn't get the accounting capabilities that I get with RPM. I don't know about you, but if I admin a large nubmer of systems, I like to know what's installed where.
It might be better to try and hack any machines that were used in a state that was more of a close call. It also might be very revealing to see if the hardware and software on those machines differs in any way from the machines here in CA. If there was some naughty stuff going on in some of those boxes, it would be better to ship out only a few to reduce the likelihood of getting busted.
Generally, anyone who uses the phrase "RPM Hell" has not used a modern RPM based system with yum/apt. A common attitude of Slackware fans is that Slackware is a real man's Linux distro. Me Grog, me no need RPM. Build from source, satify own dependency! So fast, only need 3 days! Raahhh! Slackware may have it's strenghts, but since I haven't used it in 8 or 9 years, I am ignorant of what those strenghts are, besides maybe a good learning tool. I can say with a fair amount of confidence, that package management is not a major strength of Slackware. I have met Slackers that have said "I don't want to use RPM, I prefer to compile from source." But this statement shows a complete ignorance of how RPM works. In fact, if you like compiling your own stuff, an RPM based distro is certainly superior to slackware. With the source rpm, you can simply tweak and build off of someone else's work, rather than doing it over from scratch. Just, edit the spec and rebuild it. In general, Slackers complaints about RPM are simply unfounded. Slackware was my first distribution and using it certainly taught me how to build software from source. But shortly after that, I found RPM and learned how to build RPMs. Since then, I've never looked back, even when "RPM Hell" was a reality.
With standard oil, I know they would lower prices temporarily to drive local competitors out of business and then subsequently raise them again. But perhaps they didn't raise them above the original price... however when you are the only supplier, you can maintain the price, where when there is healthy competition, prices will come down. So although this may not be a pure counter example, since prices stayed the same, one could argue they were kept artificially high. It's also impossible to know what would have happened had the antitrustlaws never been passed. Certainly if you're in a bar fight, and you're beating up on a few scrawny guys, it might be to your advantage to let them hit you a few times so that their 7ft buddy (the government) is less likely to jump in.
IE is NOT free. It never has been. I don't own a copy of Windows, where's my free IE? Even if i want to run it under Wine, that would violate the EULA. Just because something is tied to another product, does not make it free. IE is no more free than wordpad, hyperterm, the windows kernel or any other program they include 'free' with windows.
From the I.E. 5.01 EULA
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY "OS PRODUCT" (MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION VERSION 4.0, AND/OR MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT SERVER VERSION 4.0), YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
If you paid for a windows license, you can guarantee that some portion of that money went to pay for the development of IE. When you tie the products together, it simply obfuscates the true market price of the individual components.
Microsoft & Netscape, although IE was technically free, but since it was tied to windows and didn't run on any other platform, the true cost is difficult to determine. But the consuemr paid for it and still does.
Recently Samsung in Korea was accused of selling memory below cost, which is apparently illegal under Korean anti-trust law. This is not a particularly good example though because they government may have thwarted the plan.
I'm glad to see this come about. So maybe this is only OK'd in the UK, but is there anything preventing American companies from purchasing licenses abroad?
2^128 is a large number, no doubt.. but I suspect there are more atoms than that in the universe.
I remember from chemistry that a mole of atoms is about 6.02 * 10^23 atoms. That's roughly equal to 2^79 So, 2^128 would be about 2^49 moles of matter. One gram of hydrogen, is about 1 mole. 1 metric ton of H would be 10^6 moles, or a little less than 2^20 moles (2^99 atoms). That means 2^29 metric tons of hydrogen would be about 2^128 hydrogen atoms. I'm not quite sure how big a star is, but I would suspect that it is probably bigger than 2^29 metric tons. On top of that There are billions of stars in the universe, (another 2^30+)
If you really want to have any hope of assigning an IP address to every particle in the universe, a 256 bit address space would be a safer bet.
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You are being insensitive. Apparently you didn't realize that in some cultures, urinating and defecating on a corpse is the highest form of respect.
This is such an offensive stereotype and misconceived stereotype. Who says pot smokers have no motivation? If you want to see motivation, just wait till they get the munchies they'll be at 7-11 in no time flat. Or after their post-feeding frenzy ciesta, the'll be ready to go out and score more buds at the drop of a hat.
I believe the first successful kidney transplant was between identical twins, back before they had drugs to deal with rejection.
Sounds great...
But do you honestly think that the big boys won't have the resources to circumvent DRM as they please?
So what are the best resources for us engeineering types to learn about investment, stocks etc.?
If I had a nickel for every time someone pointed out that MS was not a monopoly, I'd be as rich as... well, Bill Gates. Just because they don't mean the literal dictionary definition doesn't mean it's not useful to classify them as a monopoly. The legal definition of monopoly is broader, and it is broader for a reason. When a company is in a high position of power like MS, they can do things that are detrimental to consumers, such as strongarming PC manufacturers into not selling naked PCs. When I bought a Dell notebook, I had to pay MS tax, even though I totally wiped off XP and installed Fedora. These are strongarm tactcs, and they work only because MS has such a high degree of market conrol. The fact that you put "encouraging" in quotes tells me something. Maybe it's like how the local mafia bosses "encourage" store owners to pay protection fees. Oh no, MS doesn't have any real power.. The real reason PC manufacturers listen to what they say is that Ballmer is so charasmatic.
Balmer is just fronting. An all out patent war against Linux would be a Legal and PR nightmare for them. It might stir up further antitrust issues and would likely incur the wrath of the Linux community worldwide. I think that a war would be disasterous for both sides, but Microsoft would ultimately be the loser. We have weathered quite well against SCO, which I believe was sort of a pilot lawsuit for MS. As a result, I doubt they'll be dumb enough to try an all out frontal assault.
Their best bet is to maintain a threatening posture and attempt to slow the growth of Linux as long as possible while they transition themselves further into a services oriented company.
This is a good observation, but I don't think that lack of a difference would disprove it. There are many other factors that could affect the outcome, such as the trauma inflicted upon a woman's body in the process of pregnancy and childbirth . Also, the lifestyle of a woman may change after she has a baby, she may spend more time taking care of the child and exercise less. Either of those factors could possibly counteract any hypothetical good done by these cells. This observation would still be valuable in allowing women to make choices about their health. The hypothesis seems to have a slightly religious flavor. The unspoken message is that childbirth is what God intended for women and to avoid having children would result in poor health and/or an early death. However, it might also be true that women who don't want children may still be able to benefit by intentionally getting pregnant and subsequently having an abortion.
Oh... so because Will Durant did it, now it's ok to fuck a 14 year old? He may not have been a pedophile in the classic sense, but there is something serioulsly messed up about a 25 year old getting together with a 14 year old. Just the idea of it makes me sick.
What is it about our society that we disassociate the perpetrator from the crime? Oh... He was a really great guy, except for those people he killed. He did molest his daughter... but aside from that, he was a loving husband, generous and volunteered for charity. I'm a pretty forgiving guy, but there are some things that shouldn't be forigiven. Fucking children is one of those things, at least in my book.
As Winston Wolfe of Pulp Fiction fame eloquently put it.. "Let's not start sucking each others' dicks just yet."
While this does sound like a good proposal, it is only one part of the PACE Act. There is one measure in this act that I found very disturbing and that is the establishment of a "First inventor to file system." Basically, that sounds like it would kill off any prior art claims that had not been a part of a previously filed patent. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't increase the number of BS patents filed because companies would be scrambling to file for things just to get it on record. Very Scary.
First, I'm pretty sure that in most states, the situation you describe would merely be statuory rape, NOT child molestation. I don't think it should be illegal for a 21 year old to have sex with a 15 year old, regardless of gender. However, Life in prison would certainly much too harsh for such an offense. I believe in some states, it is even legal to have sex with a 16 year old as long as there is an age difference of 2 years or less. There can be exceptions written in to the law for certain situations. But certainly for the clear cut child molestation case, Life in prison is completely justified.
In my fairly Libertarian views, I agree with the ideals of your argument. However, Child molestation is some seriously sick and dangerous s#!7. I have heard doctors express the viewpoint that child molestation is getting out of control. When a child is sexually abused, that child will later have a 60% chance of going on to abuse other children in adulthood. And they don't abuse just one child. It's got all the markings of a disease with exponential growth built right in. I mean, if someone can indulge in their own sick fantasies and not have it affect the outside world... then great. But I suspect that's not how it works in the real world.
On the practical side... There proabably are things we can do to effectively curb sexual abuse without restricting our freedoms. Perhaps our tax dollars would be better spent on tracking down the real perpetrators, educating the public about the nature of this abuse and helping protect children from being abused. We should institute some very invasive psychological screening for teachers or other positions that allow adults to come in close contact with children. I also think that child molesters should be given life in prison for the first offense.
Looks like the government is taking a cue from Bruce Schneier Glad to see that someone is listening.
SONY: I'm so sorry baby. Can't you see how you hurt me leaving me this way? I promise I'll never hit you again... It's just that when you do that I just can't control myself. Can you forgive me this one last time?
CUSTOMER: Well.. ok.
SONY: Oh... thank you baby. I'm so lucky to have you... And BITCH!, if you EVER try to leave me again I'll knock your skull so hard you'll do a backflip!
If Google, Yahoo and other major providers simply all agreed among themselves not to pay, that would significantly weaken BellSouth's position. If they reduce everyone's ping times, then they are degrading the service and increase the liklihood of customers abandoning their DSL service.
Seeing as how urine is fairly sterile, I just pee in the sink. no splashback, and it all gets washed down when i wash my hands. I learned about this environmentally friendly tip from Adam Carolla.
Certainly ls is a useful command, but you need more tools than a hammer and nails to build a skyscraper. I frequently query the rpm database to give me information that ls is simply not capable of giving me. If you can use ls and remember every last little file you installed, where it came from, on one of 40 systems, your memory is orders of magnitude better than mine.
For example, I see a file on the system and I don't know where it came from
# rpm -qf file
That will tell me what package the file is a member of.
If I want to know when a peice of software was installed or other various information about it:
# rpm -qi pkgname
Or if I'm on a disk space and you want to uninstall a package:
# rpm -e pkgname
And to list all packages installed on a system
# rpm -ql
Essentially, when you do a make install with most packages, unless you saved a typescript of the install process, you're not gonna know where it put every last little file. Even if you do that, I don't know that it will capture all the information you need. You are gonna have to grep through it all. Back when hard drives weren't so huge, This was a real problem for me and the biggest reason I moved away from slackware.
Sorry.. forgot that part. Let me list a few.
* recompile and generate an installable package with one command (rpmbuild --rebuild myapp-1.0-1.src.rpm)
* atomatic determiniation of most external dependencies
* modularization of pristine source and patches
* A preselected set of default compile options that can be tweaked easily
* results in an installable package whose files are completely accounted for in a central database
Now, granted.. I've heard of something called slaktool which may be doing some RPM like stuff without calling it RPM, and keeping the tar.gz format.
The thing that really bodes will for RPM is that people actually use it. When I was a slackware user, the package manager was essentially useless and 95% of the additional software I installed had to be built manually and installed. I will concede that this criticism is 8+ years old, and if the situation has changed much, I'd love to hear from slackware users telling me about it. And even with that extra effort, I didn't get the accounting capabilities that I get with RPM. I don't know about you, but if I admin a large nubmer of systems, I like to know what's installed where.
It might be better to try and hack any machines that were used in a state that was more of a close call. It also might be very revealing to see if the hardware and software on those machines differs in any way from the machines here in CA. If there was some naughty stuff going on in some of those boxes, it would be better to ship out only a few to reduce the likelihood of getting busted.
Generally, anyone who uses the phrase "RPM Hell" has not used a modern RPM based system with yum/apt. A common attitude of Slackware fans is that Slackware is a real man's Linux distro. Me Grog, me no need RPM. Build from source, satify own dependency! So fast, only need 3 days! Raahhh!
Slackware may have it's strenghts, but since I haven't used it in 8 or 9 years, I am ignorant of what those strenghts are, besides maybe a good learning tool. I can say with a fair amount of confidence, that package management is not a major strength of Slackware. I have met Slackers that have said "I don't want to use RPM, I prefer to compile from source." But this statement shows a complete ignorance of how RPM works. In fact, if you like compiling your own stuff, an RPM based distro is certainly superior to slackware. With the source rpm, you can simply tweak and build off of someone else's work, rather than doing it over from scratch. Just, edit the spec and rebuild it. In general, Slackers complaints about RPM are simply unfounded.
Slackware was my first distribution and using it certainly taught me how to build software from source. But shortly after that, I found RPM and learned how to build RPMs. Since then, I've never looked back, even when "RPM Hell" was a reality.
I think that someone would quickly figure out how to keep the ads from popping up, thus killing MS's revenue stream. I'm all for it!
IE is NOT free. It never has been. I don't own a copy of Windows, where's my free IE? Even if i want to run it under Wine, that would violate the EULA. Just because something is tied to another product, does not make it free. IE is no more free than wordpad, hyperterm, the windows kernel or any other program they include 'free' with windows.
From the I.E. 5.01 EULA
If you paid for a windows license, you can guarantee that some portion of that money went to pay for the development of IE. When you tie the products together, it simply obfuscates the true market price of the individual components.
Standard Oil.
Microsoft & Netscape, although IE was technically free, but since it was tied to windows and didn't run on any other platform, the true cost is difficult to determine. But the consuemr paid for it and still does.
Recently Samsung in Korea was accused of selling memory below cost, which is apparently illegal under Korean anti-trust law. This is not a particularly good example though because they government may have thwarted the plan.
I'm glad to see this come about. So maybe this is only OK'd in the UK, but is there anything preventing American companies from purchasing licenses abroad?
2^128 is a large number, no doubt.. but I suspect there are more atoms than that in the universe.
I remember from chemistry that a mole of atoms is about 6.02 * 10^23 atoms. That's roughly equal to 2^79
So, 2^128 would be about 2^49 moles of matter. One gram of hydrogen, is about 1 mole. 1 metric ton of H would be 10^6 moles, or a little less than 2^20 moles (2^99 atoms). That means 2^29 metric tons of hydrogen would be about 2^128 hydrogen atoms. I'm not quite sure how big a star is, but I would suspect that it is probably bigger than 2^29 metric tons. On top of that There are billions of stars in the universe, (another 2^30+)
If you really want to have any hope of assigning an IP address to every particle in the universe, a 256 bit address space would be a safer bet.