Well, considering Diamler-Chrysler are merged, Diamler-Chrysler owns Mitsubishi, other of the big three own various japanese car companies (lexus and nissan), ford is a huge player in europe as well. Indeed american companies don't market american cars in europe because of narrow minded biggoted opinions such as this, american cars are probably not built aswell but they are built so that as many people as possible can afford them, you also ignore brands like cadillac.
Minor correction: Lexus is a brand of Toyota (which has been involved in deals with GM (I believe the Geo Prizm and Chevy Nova were built by Toyota)) and Nissan is owned by Renault now.
Remember, "capitalism" is not stock markets and such. It is the trading of goods and services in a free market, rather than the forced redistribution of goods and services by a government entity. Wherever there is a village market, there is capitalism.
I believe you're mistaken. "Free market" != "Capitalism". Capitalism is predicated on a free market in capital.
It's entirely possible to embrace free markets without embracing capitalism. It could be argued that the Green Party seeks to do just that, as do "Third Way" liberals (to combine a Tony Blair term with the North American definition of "liberal").
And the interesting part is that Taiwan and Korea were, in the 1960's and 1970's two of the nations most receptive to sweatshops.
Today, there are few in those countries, and the populace has become well educated and affluent.
Meanwhile, other nations, most notably India, refused to accept sweatshops as a means of building economic infrastructure. India was marginally economically better off than S. Korea and Taiwan in the 1950's and is now far worse off than those countries.
I realize that sweatshops aren't a good thing, by themselves.
However the biggest asset that a developing nation has is it's population (though in a few cases, location can be a bigger asset). The people in developing counties aren't apt to be educated, and by the definition of the term, lack assets that are easily liquidated. The labor of the population is the asset of the nation. Sweatshops provide a relatively efficient means of converting that asset into more liquid assets. These assets can then be used to move away from sweatshops.
I'm not that non-sweatshop approaches do not work. I am saying that they do not tend to work as quickly as the sweatshop option.
Judging by the opinion expressed in the brief, it seems that posting actual source code is where the mistake occurs. If an outline of the algorithim, possibly with an algorithim that generates keys, this would seem to qualify as a discussion, which is legal under the DMCA...
If they developed it further, we'd have had 82-track, double sided, double density floppies, holding more than a megabyte, and the 3.5" floppy might not be here today.
I doubt that. The other problem that the 5.25's had was their fragility. Sneakernet is much easier with 3.5's. That factor alone contributed greatly to the success of the 3.5" disk.
The canonical New Testament was compiled under a BSD style setup, iirc, with a committee selecting what would go in and occasionally editing. This page has more on this topic.
IANAL, so this is not the most in-depth explanation possible, but the basic difference between the GPL and BSD license is that the GPL has a "viral clause", which basically says that all derived works must be GPL'd. BSD makes no requirements as to the licensing of derived works.
As always, there will be others who have more in-depth info to post...
The reason that Yahoo's results for the same search mirror Google's is that Google rents their search to Yahoo, not that Google tunes their search to Yahoo's results.
Is it selling out to sell another service read access to your database? I don't think it is.
Google even uses the ODP, the biggest competitor to (historically) Yahoo's core: a hierarchical breakdown of websites.
It seems that the spammers and trolls have scared a lot of people away from Usenet and thus have left themselves as there's no one left. The s/n ratios are the highest I've seen in years.
The only newsgroups I'm active on (alt.fan.james-bond and opera.linux (only on news.opera.no)) are both quite spam-free, with maybe one spam per 30-40 real posts.
This is nothing new. Talk to Dow Corning and the other makers of breast implants. Despite a near total lack of medical evidence, they posted a huge settlement because it would be cheaper than fighting the suits.
There are two solutions to this problem: A) loser pays and B) open up the law by removing the monopoly that the ABA enjoys.
[And a note to anybody who thinks that Ralph Nader would have solved this problem, you are sorely mistaken. St. Ralph receives a rather large amount of money from the ABA (and ATLA). Being part of that monopoly, he will do nothing against it.
The only two break-ups to rival a potential MS break-up are Standard Oil and AT&T. In both cases, the broken up companies became worth more separately than in the unified form.
How exactly is it stealing if you license some code from someone else?
What libraries do you use when you code? By your logic, you're stealing that library code (because we're ignoring the possibility that you might have been granted a license to use that library).
Quick example: say I have 1M shares outstanding worth $5 each. I need to raise $1M. This means I can issue another.2M shares, which basically means, since the company has no more assets, that each share is worth 5/6 (1M old shares / 1.2M new shares) what it was before. That's what dilution means.
This requires the permission of the shareholders, who are basically therefore asked to vote on two possibilities:
Dilute your share value (say, from $7 per share to $5 per share) and continue losing gobs of money.
Cut costs dramatically so that the company will make money and, ultimately, the share price will increase, say from $7 to $10.
There is one problem with your logic. What does the company receive from selling stock? That's right: Cash (technically, the stock could be issued for anything, such as the services of a new CEO, which isn't a tangible asset). What's cash? An asset. The value of a share is thus (assuming all shares are common; preferred changes a few things): (assets - liabilities) / numberOfShares.
Assuming that the new shares are issued at the market value of the company at the date of offering, then there is no decrease in per-share values.
However, the price of the offering shares is rarely the market price of the existing shares, because the price is fixed some weeks before, in the SEC filing. However, the share prices tend to congregate very quickly.
This is obviously an oversimplification, but it is fundamentally true.
Boston has historically been one of the most racist cities in the US. Because it is a center of liberal thought, though, racism is swept under the carpet. Witness the busing debate of twenty-odd years ago.
The Boston sports teams are not immune to this. The Red Sox were the last baseball team to integrate. I believe the Bruins (hockey) had a black player before either the Red Sox or the Celtics (the Patriots weren't founded until 1960).
Probably the ultimate reason for the racism was the large Irish population in Boston. The Irish had a tendency to racism for the very simple reason that the blacks would compete with them for the same menial jobs (due to the bias of the Brahmins). When the Irish essentially took over the city in the early 20th-century they effectively did all they could to marginalize any black population.
Officially, the school district condemns censorship. As the district decrees, students' constitutional freedoms include the right to free expression and free inquiry.
Later, the director of elementary education argued, "A science fair is not the way we choose to discuss race relations."
Freedom of expression applies only in an approved forum? I guess they amended the First Amendment...
It's called the Street Performer Protocol. It's worked for Prince and (in modified form) Stephen King. Hell, it could keep the record business around by recasting them as venture capitalists.
"Larynxes can be used to replicate many kinds of copyrighted information; not just music, but books and source code are vulnerable. We must stop this piracy tool now," a German exec was quoted as saying, as he pushed for a tax on larynxes.
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Minor correction: Lexus is a brand of Toyota (which has been involved in deals with GM (I believe the Geo Prizm and Chevy Nova were built by Toyota)) and Nissan is owned by Renault now.
But Cadillacs are pure sh*t... ;o)
I believe you're mistaken. "Free market" != "Capitalism". Capitalism is predicated on a free market in capital.
It's entirely possible to embrace free markets without embracing capitalism. It could be argued that the Green Party seeks to do just that, as do "Third Way" liberals (to combine a Tony Blair term with the North American definition of "liberal").
And the interesting part is that Taiwan and Korea were, in the 1960's and 1970's two of the nations most receptive to sweatshops.
Today, there are few in those countries, and the populace has become well educated and affluent.
Meanwhile, other nations, most notably India, refused to accept sweatshops as a means of building economic infrastructure. India was marginally economically better off than S. Korea and Taiwan in the 1950's and is now far worse off than those countries.
I realize that sweatshops aren't a good thing, by themselves.
However the biggest asset that a developing nation has is it's population (though in a few cases, location can be a bigger asset). The people in developing counties aren't apt to be educated, and by the definition of the term, lack assets that are easily liquidated. The labor of the population is the asset of the nation. Sweatshops provide a relatively efficient means of converting that asset into more liquid assets. These assets can then be used to move away from sweatshops.
I'm not that non-sweatshop approaches do not work. I am saying that they do not tend to work as quickly as the sweatshop option.
Judging by the opinion expressed in the brief, it seems that posting actual source code is where the mistake occurs. If an outline of the algorithim, possibly with an algorithim that generates keys, this would seem to qualify as a discussion, which is legal under the DMCA...
Do they prefer Walgreens?
I doubt that. The other problem that the 5.25's had was their fragility. Sneakernet is much easier with 3.5's. That factor alone contributed greatly to the success of the 3.5" disk.
The canonical New Testament was compiled under a BSD style setup, iirc, with a committee selecting what would go in and occasionally editing. This page has more on this topic.
IANAL, so this is not the most in-depth explanation possible, but the basic difference between the GPL and BSD license is that the GPL has a "viral clause", which basically says that all derived works must be GPL'd. BSD makes no requirements as to the licensing of derived works.
As always, there will be others who have more in-depth info to post...
The reason that Yahoo's results for the same search mirror Google's is that Google rents their search to Yahoo, not that Google tunes their search to Yahoo's results.
Is it selling out to sell another service read access to your database? I don't think it is.
Google even uses the ODP, the biggest competitor to (historically) Yahoo's core: a hierarchical breakdown of websites.
It seems that the spammers and trolls have scared a lot of people away from Usenet and thus have left themselves as there's no one left. The s/n ratios are the highest I've seen in years.
The only newsgroups I'm active on (alt.fan.james-bond and opera.linux (only on news.opera.no)) are both quite spam-free, with maybe one spam per 30-40 real posts.
There's an article on Liberzine.com that essentially makes the same point that you do, but in a slightly different way, using Survivor as an analogy.
This is nothing new. Talk to Dow Corning and the other makers of breast implants. Despite a near total lack of medical evidence, they posted a huge settlement because it would be cheaper than fighting the suits.
There are two solutions to this problem: A) loser pays and B) open up the law by removing the monopoly that the ABA enjoys.
[And a note to anybody who thinks that Ralph Nader would have solved this problem, you are sorely mistaken. St. Ralph receives a rather large amount of money from the ABA (and ATLA). Being part of that monopoly, he will do nothing against it.
I agree with you 100%.
The only two break-ups to rival a potential MS break-up are Standard Oil and AT&T. In both cases, the broken up companies became worth more separately than in the unified form.
How exactly is it stealing if you license some code from someone else?
What libraries do you use when you code? By your logic, you're stealing that library code (because we're ignoring the possibility that you might have been granted a license to use that library).
There is one problem with your logic. What does the company receive from selling stock? That's right: Cash (technically, the stock could be issued for anything, such as the services of a new CEO, which isn't a tangible asset). What's cash? An asset. The value of a share is thus (assuming all shares are common; preferred changes a few things): (assets - liabilities) / numberOfShares.
Assuming that the new shares are issued at the market value of the company at the date of offering, then there is no decrease in per-share values.
However, the price of the offering shares is rarely the market price of the existing shares, because the price is fixed some weeks before, in the SEC filing. However, the share prices tend to congregate very quickly.
This is obviously an oversimplification, but it is fundamentally true.
Boston has historically been one of the most racist cities in the US. Because it is a center of liberal thought, though, racism is swept under the carpet. Witness the busing debate of twenty-odd years ago.
The Boston sports teams are not immune to this. The Red Sox were the last baseball team to integrate. I believe the Bruins (hockey) had a black player before either the Red Sox or the Celtics (the Patriots weren't founded until 1960).
Probably the ultimate reason for the racism was the large Irish population in Boston. The Irish had a tendency to racism for the very simple reason that the blacks would compete with them for the same menial jobs (due to the bias of the Brahmins). When the Irish essentially took over the city in the early 20th-century they effectively did all they could to marginalize any black population.
Officially, the school district condemns censorship. As the district decrees, students' constitutional freedoms include the right to free expression and free inquiry.
Later, the director of elementary education argued, "A science fair is not the way we choose to discuss race relations."
Freedom of expression applies only in an approved forum? I guess they amended the First Amendment...
Or this one:
About Fallout (1955)
Sponsor: US Dept. of Defense
Attempt to dispel many common myths and fallacies about radioactive fallout.
All I can say is, put your head under your desk to avoid the radiation!
From all pieces of Mandrake (printed) documentation: "Linux (R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds"
Linux is obviously a non-commercial piece of software, so it must be possible.
It's called the Street Performer Protocol. It's worked for Prince and (in modified form) Stephen King. Hell, it could keep the record business around by recasting them as venture capitalists.
It had to be said...
GNOME itself is not a WM, though you should use a WM that's somewhat GNOME-compliant. Sawfish and E are the only ones that fit that bill.
But then again, that would probably DOS the spammimic.com servers, right? Which would kind of make the service useless...
Or yfarren knows about it and included the link with his submission.
"Larynxes can be used to replicate many kinds of copyrighted information; not just music, but books and source code are vulnerable. We must stop this piracy tool now," a German exec was quoted as saying, as he pushed for a tax on larynxes.