Go ahead and moderate me down for pointing out the hypocrisy, and don't bother defending it with "but they're corporations and we're people" that's as valid as a racial, ethnic or gender based discrimination
Let me start by saying that I do not believe that copyright law is evil or immoral. In particular, the GPL doesn't work very well without copyright law in place.
The problem is that corporations are the ones trying to have their cake and eat it too. They wish to have all of the rights of individuals without any of the associated responsibilities. In fact, many executives have said that a corporations only responsibility is to return a profit to the shareholders. This argument is usually trotted out when a company decides to move a facility to a region or country where they are receiving more corporate welfare than the current location, or when they need to lay off 15% of the employees for a little bump in the stock price.
The argument that corporations are therefore somehow morally equivalent to an individual will hold some weight when corporations (including the investors!) accept the same liabilities as individuals.
No, I'd be a whole lot more amenable to this show if there weren't already a whole bunch of people who believe in this stuff.
Amen to that! I spend way to much time trying to convince a few co-workers that the X-Files is fiction. I don't think I've ever watched an entire episode.
You may be correct, which is why I washed the names out of the story. I did ask an administrator while I was there if the story was true, and he said that the administration did not comment on that story.
So he "neither confirmed, nor denied" the situation. That made me suspicious;-)
This is nothing new. At the small liberal arts school I attended in the eighties, there were no fraternities or sororities because a big donor had given three buildings and the football stadium on the condition that national fraternal organizations be banned.
It seems that a favorite nephew was killed or seriously injured in a hazing incident at one of the Ivies and the donor in question developed a serious dislike of the entire Greek system. This occurred in the 1940s.
I just went to a lecture by Paul Sereno on his finds in Africa. The new sauropod he discovered he has named Jobharia, since the locals kept finding the bones in the desert and refered to them as Jobhar bones, with Jobhar being the local corruption of the Arabic word for giant.
They evidently did believe that the disarticulated bones they were finding were the bones of giants, which was of course, correct.
What's really sad is that Sereno had to win the celebrity challenge in the Chicago Marathon to raise the funds to clean and mount the skeletons.
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The NM256 sound chip works OK with RedHat 6.1. It does have problems coming out of suspend, though. This is supposed to be fixed in the newest version of the driver, but the patch only works against the generic kernel sources, and I've been too busy to download them.
Audio does skip with the Redhat kernel. You need to re-compile with "Use DMA if available" set to yes in the block devices section. (Sorry, I use make xconfig, so I don't remember the actual name of the parameter.)
The only serious problem I've had (other than the LoseModem)is that PC Card services and the built-in EtherPro network card don't want to play nice with each other. Once again, this is supposed to be fixed in the EPro driver included in 2.2.13+.
Supposedly malt extract was labeled for baking, not making beer during Prohibition. Of course, the interest in baking products that used Malt Extract went up significantly during that time!
I'll second that. The DC area Borders have had quite a selection for some time:
RedHat, incl. PowerTools
Suse
Slackware
Caldera
LinuxPro
MkLinux DR2
Applix
What do we need to do to add Debian to this selection? On another note, I was in CreepUSA over the weekend and saw Applix and WordPerfect, but the only two distros were Caldera and two versions of Redhat. No Civ CTP, though (Wahhh!) Weird that a bookstore has a better selection than a computer store!
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Let me start by saying that I do not believe that copyright law is evil or immoral. In particular, the GPL doesn't work very well without copyright law in place.
The problem is that corporations are the ones trying to have their cake and eat it too. They wish to have all of the rights of individuals without any of the associated responsibilities. In fact, many executives have said that a corporations only responsibility is to return a profit to the shareholders. This argument is usually trotted out when a company decides to move a facility to a region or country where they are receiving more corporate welfare than the current location, or when they need to lay off 15% of the employees for a little bump in the stock price.
The argument that corporations are therefore somehow morally equivalent to an individual will hold some weight when corporations (including the investors!) accept the same liabilities as individuals.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl dominos.
Amen to that! I spend way to much time trying to convince a few co-workers that the X-Files is fiction. I don't think I've ever watched an entire episode.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl dominos.
So he "neither confirmed, nor denied" the situation. That made me suspicious ;-)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl dominos.
It seems that a favorite nephew was killed or seriously injured in a hazing incident at one of the Ivies and the donor in question developed a serious dislike of the entire Greek system. This occurred in the 1940s.
In other words, money talks, and it always has.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl dominos.
They evidently did believe that the disarticulated bones they were finding were the bones of giants, which was of course, correct.
What's really sad is that Sereno had to win the celebrity challenge in the Chicago Marathon to raise the funds to clean and mount the skeletons.
Audio does skip with the Redhat kernel. You need to re-compile with "Use DMA if available" set to yes in the block devices section. (Sorry, I use make xconfig, so I don't remember the actual name of the parameter.)
The only serious problem I've had (other than the LoseModem)is that PC Card services and the built-in EtherPro network card don't want to play nice with each other. Once again, this is supposed to be fixed in the EPro driver included in 2.2.13+.
A good source of VAIO sound information is available at www.uglx.org/sony.html
Including Linux? Someone made reference to it being a LoseModem.
Governments never learn, do they?
- RedHat, incl. PowerTools
- Suse
- Slackware
- Caldera
- LinuxPro
- MkLinux DR2
- Applix
What do we need to do to add Debian to this selection? On another note, I was in CreepUSA over the weekend and saw Applix and WordPerfect, but the only two distros were Caldera and two versions of Redhat. No Civ CTP, though (Wahhh!) Weird that a bookstore has a better selection than a computer store!