Isn't this the essential plot of Planet of the Apes (the real one, not that shoddy remake). A man, with no interest in humanity, suddenly has to defend the human race as being superior, to a religious zealot who believes that God created Ape in his own image.
Sorry to burst your bubble; but the industry has shown us time and again that they will change the law to suit their purposes. You really think that in a decade, these software patents will become public domain? Ha, that has just as much a chance as Mickey Mouse becoming public domain (yeah, I know, copyright versus patent, but in the end we are discussing the same thing which is intellectual property).
Trust me, there are lobbys in D.C. right now fighting to extend patents, and then extend them again, probably into perpetuity. Once a company sees a revenue stream from patents, you think they are going to give that up just because it's the law? You must be high. From a long-term standpoint it's more profitable to spend millions to change the law.
Someone big has to lose BIG TIME for there ever to be reform.
And I mean, damages in the multi-billions, enough to practically put MS out of business. Because only when MS's loss affects EVERYONE else who uses their software, will the media pick up on the story, and then it will finally reach the ears of the average joe, and the maybe we'll see some action to change the heinous laws that govern this mucked up form of facist-capitalism that rules this country.
So, Windows 7 is much more susceptible to malware than previously claimed? This is the big win for Microsoft? Sorry, but if that large enough of a percentage of folks are experiencing the problem, then it's a real issue that MS needs to address. It sounds like they are just saying "not my problem", and forgetting about it. Meantime Windows 7 will be completely destroyed by the time it gets decent marketshare.
Maybe MS turned their attention to Windows 8 a little sooner than claimed.
Wasn't there just a huge fiasco with Danger losing all the Sidekick data that was stored "in the cloud"? You people *do* realize that when folks say "in the cloud", what they really mean is "on a server, somewhere" -- and that server may not have redundant drives, or backups, or it might be owned by a company that gets bought by another company (Danger was bought by Microsoft), and then the new owners decide to "downsize" the staff, until no one is left to take care of the server. Or worse, it might be like MLB where they decide to change vendors or some wacky corporate decision is made to theoretically shave costs, and boom, all your data's inaccessible, gone, or worse destroyed with no chance of recovery. What if the "cloud" becomes pets.com, and just runs out of money, closes up shop and shuts down the servers, and then sells them to a recovery company that takes your data and sells it to the highest bidder.
Rule #1) Do not trust the cloud. Rule #2) When in doubt, see rule #1.
You must be new here. Verizon landline with no hidden costs... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Every month I find something new on my bill, and every month I would have to call them and waste my time for them to tell me it's a new fee they have to pay for the government, when in reality, it's a new fee they made up to increase profits.
Their solution was a novel one. They changed the bill so now you just get a statement that tell you you owe $120, and they don't say for what. The bill isn't broken down, you cannot see what calls have been made, and you don't know what fees are being levied.
If you don't like it, they will be happy to disconnect you.
How about you read the conclusion? According to the article you're linking to CNN provided the most balanced coverage, not FOX. Or... did you screw up the link again? Or, do you just not know how to read?
Particle man, Particle man, Doin' the things a particle can. What it's like, it's not important, Particle man. Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater, does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows. Particle man.
I can't think of a single car $100,000 or over that *is* general purpose. The Bugatti Veyron isn't exactly a family hauler, a Corvette isn't going to lug home a couch, and a Ferrari can barely hold your golf clubs.
Maybe Mercedes builds a $100k+ vehicle that's general purpose, and large trucks exist over 100k (but you don't normally take the diesel semi to go to the supermarket and get groceries), but the "general purpose" car category exists in the 20k to 50k price range.
Everything else is too cheap/small, or too expensive and targeted as rich people toys.
"Thinking that they would save the tax-payer a lot of money, the result was that all but two manufacturers announced that they would no longer make the vaccines at all."
[citation needed]
FIVE companies make both types (Seasonal and H1N1) of flu vaccine for the U.S. market: Sanofi-Aventis SA, CSL Ltd, Novartis AG, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca unit MedImmune.
"So you want people to die, die, die, so you can get socialized medicine. That's sick."
You mean, like PNAC wanted people to die, die, die so that they could advance their conservative agenda?
I would assume you're not a student of history. The great motivator for most national advances is when people die, die die.
Your solution is worse than mine. Get rid of the FDA, and we'd probably have millions dead each year due to tainted food and drugs. We'd be eating Chinese-made cardboard food laced with lead and anti-freeze.
I hate to be callous, but seriously, the only way for there to be "real" health-care reform in this country is for a 9-11 style incident to happen in the "health-care universe".
If many thousands of people were to die of swine flu, their deaths might cause the kind of outcry that this country needs to actually change the system. Right now everyone is listening to Faux News and heeding the "socialized healthcare == death panels" mantra.
But the system we're got right now is killing lots of children. Won't someone think of the children?
It's only after ENOUGH people die that we as a nation get off our collective butts and do something. However, this time I fear, we were fed too many divergent signals, and now we're running about in circles while people die needlessly.
So fine then, let them die. I actually hope many die. I hope it's a pandemic that wipes out a decent percentage of the populace, because it's going to take a lot of death before we have decent healthcare in the USA.
I'm tired of being told we're number one when we're really very close to being a third world nation. We need a wake up call, because we've been asleep at the wheel for over 20 years.
Unfortuantely, we'll more likely just scrape by this year, and the slow destruction of the nation will continue on it's merry way, with all the talking heads on TV arguing with one another instead of getting anything meaningful done. And they'll keep doing "just enough" to keep us in our chains.
--- tax only democrats - let them pay for the idiotic programs only the democrats want. --
Tell ya what. I'll agree to that if Republicans only are taxed to pay for the wars they started and Democrats didn't want. I'll see your idiotic programs and raise you your idiotic wars.
And while we're at it, draft only the sons of prominent Republicans to fight in those wars and die for their country that they are so proud of. And so proud of being ignorant about.
A truly civilized nation doesn't let one neighbor swipe money from other neighbors' wallets. ------------
So, a truly civilized nation allows one neighbor to die because he doesn't have "coverage"? A truly civilized nation allows his neighbor's children to starve?
Exactly what definition of "civilized" are you using?
I've never seen the "redneck's dictionary", but then again, that's probably because most rednecks are illiterate, as you have demonstrated.
No, they are NOT better. Not only do they not have incentive to give a shit about you, but once they take your money out of your paycheck, there's NO LAW that they actually have to PROVIDE ANYTHING. They are profit-driven and greedy. They choose, where, when, if, and what price they want to pay regardless of the bill, and the rest is up to you.
I had surgery over a year ago. I am still fighting with the insurance company to pay their portion of the bills, meantime, the bills have gone into collection and guess who's credit history is being affected, and I'll give you a hint -- it's not the insurance company's.
So, I go co-sign a school loan for my nephew, and guess what, DECLINED.
So, just so you've got this straight, my nephew is about to be thrown out of college because the insurance company didn't cover the portion of the bill they were supposed to, and as a result, my credit is toast.
Personally, I'll take SOCIALIZED medicine any day of the week! Because what we have right now is a steaming pile of crap that screws you no matter what. We are living in the United States of Bubba, because no matter what, whether you drop your soap or not, you get %$%#@!! up the ass.
So what exactly would the "free market" do for ME? I mean, other than take all my money and then let me die as quickly as possible?
This is yet another example of Corporations having more freedoms and rights, than people do. People can vote, but corporations can lobby. People go to jail when they break the law, corporations maybe pay a fine at most -- some in fact, seem to get money from the government for breaking the law.
I urge everyone in the United Corp.. uh States of America, to incorporate themselves so that they finally have rights.
Remember that faxed letterhead carries more weight than actual legal precidence....
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Isn't this the essential plot of Planet of the Apes (the real one, not that shoddy remake). A man, with no interest in humanity, suddenly has to defend the human race as being superior, to a religious zealot who believes that God created Ape in his own image.
I for one, welcome our new corporate overlords (same as the old overlords).
Sorry to burst your bubble; but the industry has shown us time and again that they will change the law to suit their purposes. You really think that in a decade, these software patents will become public domain? Ha, that has just as much a chance as Mickey Mouse becoming public domain (yeah, I know, copyright versus patent, but in the end we are discussing the same thing which is intellectual property).
Trust me, there are lobbys in D.C. right now fighting to extend patents, and then extend them again, probably into perpetuity. Once a company sees a revenue stream from patents, you think they are going to give that up just because it's the law? You must be high. From a long-term standpoint it's more profitable to spend millions to change the law.
I'm with you.
Someone big has to lose BIG TIME for there ever to be reform.
And I mean, damages in the multi-billions, enough to practically put MS out of business. Because only when MS's loss affects EVERYONE else who uses their software, will the media pick up on the story, and then it will finally reach the ears of the average joe, and the maybe we'll see some action to change the heinous laws that govern this mucked up form of facist-capitalism that rules this country.
So, Windows 7 is much more susceptible to malware than previously claimed? This is the big win for Microsoft? Sorry, but if that large enough of a percentage of folks are experiencing the problem, then it's a real issue that MS needs to address. It sounds like they are just saying "not my problem", and forgetting about it. Meantime Windows 7 will be completely destroyed by the time it gets decent marketshare.
Maybe MS turned their attention to Windows 8 a little sooner than claimed.
We have always been at war with Oceania...
Big Brother Loves You.
(Blank is beautiful!)
Slaves aren't paid, last I checked. Did he file a 1099?
Wasn't there just a huge fiasco with Danger losing all the Sidekick data that was stored "in the cloud"? You people *do* realize that when folks say "in the cloud", what they really mean is "on a server, somewhere" -- and that server may not have redundant drives, or backups, or it might be owned by a company that gets bought by another company (Danger was bought by Microsoft), and then the new owners decide to "downsize" the staff, until no one is left to take care of the server. Or worse, it might be like MLB where they decide to change vendors or some wacky corporate decision is made to theoretically shave costs, and boom, all your data's inaccessible, gone, or worse destroyed with no chance of recovery. What if the "cloud" becomes pets.com, and just runs out of money, closes up shop and shuts down the servers, and then sells them to a recovery company that takes your data and sells it to the highest bidder.
Rule #1) Do not trust the cloud.
Rule #2) When in doubt, see rule #1.
Earth's only hope for survival will be to resurrect these two subs as spaceships to kick some Gamilon ass.
"Leader Dessslok, it's as if we're fighting a ghost ship! How can an old Earth submarine defeat all of Gamilon?"
Hurry Starforce, there are only 57 days before all life on Earth becomes extinct!
You must be new here.
Verizon landline with no hidden costs... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Every month I find something new on my bill, and every month I would have to call them and waste my time for them to tell me it's a new fee they have to pay for the government, when in reality, it's a new fee they made up to increase profits.
Their solution was a novel one. They changed the bill so now you just get a statement that tell you you owe $120, and they don't say for what. The bill isn't broken down, you cannot see what calls have been made, and you don't know what fees are being levied.
If you don't like it, they will be happy to disconnect you.
This device is a violation, and users will have to pay royalties for a public performance of a copyrighted work.
#1) You are "copying" (aka pirating), when you take the snapshot.
#2) The device then produces an audio public performance of the pirated work.
It's illegal under copyright laws and the DMCA.
We will never run out of Passenger Pidgeons.
Don't believe that Polar Bear nonsense. There will always be Polar Bears.
Oil is a finite resource. That is a fact. Sooner or later, we WILL run out.
How about you read the conclusion? According to the article you're linking to CNN provided the most balanced coverage, not FOX. Or... did you screw up the link again? Or, do you just not know how to read?
>> Problem #2. Sedentary people have fewer mitochondria than athletic people.
So.... Fat people can never become Jedi Knights?
Particle man, Particle man,
Doin' the things a particle can.
What it's like, it's not important, Particle man.
Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater, does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows. Particle man.
I can't think of a single car $100,000 or over that *is* general purpose. The Bugatti Veyron isn't exactly a family hauler, a Corvette isn't going to lug home a couch, and a Ferrari can barely hold your golf clubs.
Maybe Mercedes builds a $100k+ vehicle that's general purpose, and large trucks exist over 100k (but you don't normally take the diesel semi to go to the supermarket and get groceries), but the "general purpose" car category exists in the 20k to 50k price range.
Everything else is too cheap/small, or too expensive and targeted as rich people toys.
"Thinking that they would save the tax-payer a lot of money, the result was that all but two manufacturers announced that they would no longer make the vaccines at all."
[citation needed]
FIVE companies make both types (Seasonal and H1N1) of flu vaccine for the U.S. market: Sanofi-Aventis SA, CSL Ltd, Novartis AG, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca unit MedImmune.
"So you want people to die, die, die, so you can get socialized medicine. That's sick."
You mean, like PNAC wanted people to die, die, die so that they could advance their conservative agenda?
I would assume you're not a student of history.
The great motivator for most national advances is when people die, die die.
Your solution is worse than mine.
Get rid of the FDA, and we'd probably have millions dead each year due to tainted food and drugs.
We'd be eating Chinese-made cardboard food laced with lead and anti-freeze.
I hate to be callous, but seriously, the only way for there to be "real" health-care reform in this country is for a 9-11 style incident to happen in the "health-care universe".
If many thousands of people were to die of swine flu, their deaths might cause the kind of outcry that this country needs to actually change the system. Right now everyone is listening to Faux News and heeding the "socialized healthcare == death panels" mantra.
But the system we're got right now is killing lots of children. Won't someone think of the children?
It's only after ENOUGH people die that we as a nation get off our collective butts and do something. However, this time I fear, we were fed too many divergent signals, and now we're running about in circles while people die needlessly.
So fine then, let them die. I actually hope many die. I hope it's a pandemic that wipes out a decent percentage of the populace, because it's going to take a lot of death before we have decent healthcare in the USA.
I'm tired of being told we're number one when we're really very close to being a third world nation. We need a wake up call, because we've been asleep at the wheel for over 20 years.
Unfortuantely, we'll more likely just scrape by this year, and the slow destruction of the nation will continue on it's merry way, with all the talking heads on TV arguing with one another instead of getting anything meaningful done. And they'll keep doing "just enough" to keep us in our chains.
--- tax only democrats - let them pay for the idiotic programs only the democrats want. --
Tell ya what. I'll agree to that if Republicans only are taxed to pay for the wars they started and Democrats didn't want. I'll see your idiotic programs and raise you your idiotic wars.
And while we're at it, draft only the sons of prominent Republicans to fight in those wars and die for their country that they are so proud of. And so proud of being ignorant about.
Charles Stross says "Darmok and Jelad... At Tenagra!"
And trust me, it's about as meaningful if he had said that instead of what he actually said.
A truly civilized nation doesn't let one neighbor swipe money from other neighbors' wallets.
------------
So, a truly civilized nation allows one neighbor to die because he doesn't have "coverage"? A truly civilized nation allows his neighbor's children to starve?
Exactly what definition of "civilized" are you using?
I've never seen the "redneck's dictionary", but then again, that's probably because most rednecks are illiterate, as you have demonstrated.
No, they are NOT better. Not only do they not have incentive to give a shit about you, but once they take your money out of your paycheck, there's NO LAW that they actually have to PROVIDE ANYTHING. They are profit-driven and greedy. They choose, where, when, if, and what price they want to pay regardless of the bill, and the rest is up to you.
I had surgery over a year ago. I am still fighting with the insurance company to pay their portion of the bills, meantime, the bills have gone into collection and guess who's credit history is being affected, and I'll give you a hint -- it's not the insurance company's.
So, I go co-sign a school loan for my nephew, and guess what, DECLINED.
So, just so you've got this straight, my nephew is about to be thrown out of college because the insurance company didn't cover the portion of the bill they were supposed to, and as a result, my credit is toast.
Personally, I'll take SOCIALIZED medicine any day of the week! Because what we have right now is a steaming pile of crap that screws you no matter what. We are living in the United States of Bubba, because no matter what, whether you drop your soap or not, you get %$%#@!! up the ass.
So what exactly would the "free market" do for ME?
I mean, other than take all my money and then let me die as quickly as possible?
Tsk tsk, are you having a tough day at the office?
This is yet another example of Corporations having more freedoms and rights, than people do. People can vote, but corporations can lobby. People go to jail when they break the law, corporations maybe pay a fine at most -- some in fact, seem to get money from the government for breaking the law.
I urge everyone in the United Corp.. uh States of America, to incorporate themselves so that they finally have rights.
Remember that faxed letterhead carries more weight than actual legal precidence....