You reference the 'casual sale' of a car with Linux in the dashboard. Notwithstanding whatever a 'casual sale' means, what is your problem? You are selling a device that uses Linux. You are distributing, to that customer, a copy of the code, in compiled form, in the dashboard. No, technically you do not have to give the buyer the source code. Technically, you must be able to provide the changes to him, for reasonable reproduction costs, if he asks for it. But you knew that. Yes, that is a derivative work. No, it does not infringe the GPL - it's about as cut and dried as anything. I have no idea why you have to come up with new 'processes' to cover doing that.
How about a car analogy? In the above, you are selling the car. I now own that car, can do with it what I will, and, in the spirit of the GPL, if you messed up the code that runs it - I want to be able to, or hire someone able to, fix it. Or improve it. That's what the GPL is about. The public performance angle, to me, is like using that new car I got as a taxi. Maybe it does something really spiffy other cabs can't - whatever. You aren't entitled to a copy of what makes my cab spiffy just 'cause you got a ride in it. I'd tell you to buzz off.
I have no problem with leaving things as they are. If they make something available over a web service that is useful, well, I can pay them to use it, or not. But they wrote the part that makes it useful, over anyone else's web service. Am I entitled to the source code for that? Hell no! I can get off my own ass and make something just as good or better, if it's that important to me.
Offering something as a service, as a lease, is a lot different that selling it. There are huge drawbacks for the customers in something only available as a service, which are pretty obvious. So there should be an incentive for people to make something like it that you CAN buy - and make a profit at it.
What about if you don't access it over a web service, or a computer network connection, but by talking to one of my reps over the phone? You give them info, they punch it in, and read you back the results. You gonna try to enforce THAT too? Good luck. Drawing a line in the sand like this is crazy. There's always a way to get around it - it becomes an arms race.
For health, life, disability, and accident insurance purposes, there is ONE, and only ONE, risk pool. And everyone in the US is in it.
There. Two sentences. Could be one. Done.
Couple that with having the individual purchase health coverage from any provider they want (with company contributions still, of course), and with any provider required to take them, no restrictions, and 99% of the healthcare debate is over.
Isn't the problem that the economy CAN act in feedback loops?
I thought the real purpose of the Fed was to be a fail-safe, and insurance policy if you will. Deflation is the boogy-man here. It has a habit of being a feedback loop - deflation leads to worse deflation, until the economy is standing still. And like a shark, when it stops moving it stops breathing.
So the Fed is used to create a permanent, controllable, state of mild inflation - to avoid ever getting into Deflation.
Whoa there. Compounding the confusion now. If gravity waves carry energy, and are radiated (you say from accelerating objects, but really don't all objects radiate gravity all the time?)... Where is all that energy coming from? And why, if everything radiates gravity, doesn't all matter in the universe simply 'evaporate' into gravitons, since that energy has to come from somewhere? Or is it somehow balanced by 'absorbed' gravitons from elsewhere?
I've always had a single view on healthcare reform that no one has ever stated that I can tell. The one sure way to fix healthcare is to declare that there is one and only one 'pool'. Once a provider cannot kick you out or keep you out regardless of existing conditions, we will have an improvement. Then healthcare will be back to working like insurance - if we're all in one big risk pool - the only pool - then no company will be able to cherrypick clients. And the only way the healthcare companies can make more money is to keep you healthy - so they don't have to shell out when you are sick.
Yes, if you are a healthy person you will pay a little more to cover everyone else. Why not? You never know when YOU'RE going to be hit by a bus and end up in life support. And if you don't ever need it all you've post is a little money, while gaining peace of mind. Seems worth it to me.
That, and one other change. Let everyone be able to sign up for any healtcare that covers the area, or nation. Companies will still give you money towards your healtcare, but cannot dictate who you go with. That makes the covered person(s) the customer again, and will also make things better.
Great post - maybe you can clear up a conundrum for me.... From General Relativity it follows gravity waves can exist. OK - I'll buy that. Now, what if anything can actually produce gravity waves? Consider - matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be converted from one to the other. Now, the matter in the universe is all already there - if you follow my meaning - there is no sudden influx of matter anywhere. Since all matter is already putting out gravity constantly, and the matter cannot be moved around faster than gravity acts, and matter is not leaving or entering the universe by another means, then WHAT can produce gravity waves? From what I can see, nothing can. Maybe, just maybe, the collapse of a star into a black hole or neutron star might make a gravity wave. As in one. Ever.
Am I really missing something fundamental here? Sounds like a paradox - gravity waves can exist, but nothing can make them.
Shifting demand on a large scale is going to screw up the economics of power supply.
I don't get it - why would this screw anyone? If the datacenters have high rates, doesn't that mean that the electric company can't keep up with the peak demand, so they are raising prices? And so if you shift your data elsewhere, reducing the peak demand in that area, doesn't that help everyone, including the electric company?
While at Fort Walton Beach, Fl, years ago for work we visited a small aircraft museum there. Can't recall the name, but it should be locatable as a local attraction. They had at least a couple of dozen really cool old aircraft, including MiG jets and one of the 3 SR-71s in museums at the time (there may be more now). You could really get up close to most of them too.
Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA, is also really great. Had a lot of fun roaming around the battleship Massachusetts - marveling at how big, and small, it was. Still has some scars of battle damage too - a great legacy of another age.
Subsidies for food crops are an absolute necessity. There is one thing you do not want the 'market' regulating, and that is the growing of food. I consider the subsidies a relatively cheap insurance policy - prop up the growing of food during good and average years (where the price the market would support would be too low to have many producers survive) so that when a BAD year, or two or three, happen, we don't have a famine here.
And believe me - if there is a famine in the US, a lot of the rest of the world is going to be starving.
You know, I loved the first two movies, and would have liked the series to progress as it seemed it should - 3 would have the Alien actually brought back to a space station around Earth, then 4 could be them getting TO Earth.
But the point I wanted to make is that the next sequel should have someone stumble on the Alien's home planet - where they originally are from. Think about it - they are communal, live in a colony and can build a new one with a single individual, like some of our insects. They cooperate, can withstand very hostile environments. They have eggs that can do the same and lie dormant for long periods of time. They have lightning speed, hide really well, and have acid for blood.
Now think about the world that could produce such a creature, with all those defenses. The Aliens.... are not even CLOSE to the top of the food chain. Imagine what horrors you would find on the world that produced them....
I suppose one could argue the case better - it certainly should have won on its merits. There are at least 2 circumstances I can think of where a short barrel shotgun would come in really handy for the military.
1) Storming, and specifically clearing, enemy trenches. Up close, personal, and the stopping power of a shotgun would be a lot better use than an unwieldy rifle.
2) Tunnel clearing. Typically they used a pistol, but a shotgun not much bigger than a pistol would be a better option, if available.
Unfortunately, non-interventionism would not work for us, economically. We have only a fraction of the world's territory, yet we have need, in our economy, of every single natural resource in existence anywhere in the world.
Obscure stuff - rhodium, indium, platinum, etc. Stuff we just don't have here. Yes, you can trade for it, but the bad news is that you need to be able to resort to force in order to get trade.
If someone has you over a barrel - if what they have you NEED, and there is nowhere else in the world you can get it, you are in serious trouble.
Sad to say it, but that's where diplomacy (including 'gun-boat' diplomacy) comes into play.
A lot of the time, 'bonuses' are simply a way for a company to take part of what they pay people (and, of course, only those who make 6 figures can afford to accept this) and delay paying it for 6-12 months at a time.
Some of it may be performance based - meaning they can tweak *part* of that bonus based on performance - but the bulk is really just what their salary should be.
All so the company can squeeze 6 months of interest out of part of what they pay some people. Seems more trouble than it's worth, but it's more common than you would think. There may be other benefits to the company too - reducing unemployment insurance and medicare deductions, etc. Not certain about that. And they can get more 'creative' with salary adjustments.
I don't think culture is what is being referred to here as the success of western civilization. I think what is being referred to here is the exponential development in every endeavor that has happened in the West. While the East and Near East have stagnated for centuries, the West has been a crucible of innovation due to intense warfare and competition. We went, in the space of just 100 years from Napoleon to WWII - from smoothbore muskets and field guns to machineguns, battleships, computers, modern surgery, antibiotics, jet aircraft, and nuclear power/weapons.
As far as pragmatic creativity and innovation go, modern Western civilization has been on the order of a Pre-Cambrian explosion. Nothing like it in history - it's truly staggering when you look at it that way.
I think that is what is meant. Empires? Feh! Going from blood-letting and medicine men chanting over chicken bones to mapping chromosomes and gene therapy - now THAT is what conquers worlds. That is what makes us unique. We need to hang onto that.
I think that religious people refer to 'hope' out of fear (maybe subconsciously). You and I may be OK with acting civilly for our own sake, with no other compulsion than our own sense of what is right and just. And that may (just a theory - putting it out there) just scare the religious silly.
THEY have an omniscient, omnipresent 'father' figure lurking about, watching their every move, waiting to burn them in Hell for Eternity if they get out of line. That is what they believe, and maybe, in the dark corners of their own souls, what they NEED in order to act civilly. That's all they've ever known. And they think everyone else 'needs' that as well, to make them act civilly. Again. maybe only on a subconscious level.
And without it? If no one 'believed' as they do? Chaos - anarchy. Terror in the streets. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
You get the idea. If 'father' isn't "going to tan your hide when he gets home tonight", what motivation do the kids have to not misbehave? We don't have a 'daddy' to keep us in line, which may make us scary in a way.
I disagree. I can certainly see why the manufacturers responded as they did - how could they not, given that they are selling those machines? However, If I had performed what I considered rigorous scientific testing of two different (and I assume expensive) 'lie detector' machines and found them no better than a random guess, I would have published much stronger words than just 'charlatanry'.
I had the same kind of experience in High School. Had been doing Karate for a couple of years and got jumped while delivering newspapers in the afternoon. Just one, never even seen him before, no idea who he was or why he wanted to get me. But I just blocked, moved, never threw a punch, never said a word. I was running track and cross country too at the time... after 20 minutes he was all punched out. Exhausted, he just walked away. I never even broke a sweat - just picked up my bag and carried on with my route.
At the end I could have kicked the crap out of him - he could barely lift a hand. There was just no reason to.
An amber alert is a child kidnapping. Basic idea is you blast whatever info you have - description, car, possible suspects - out to everyone within range. If everyone just looks around wherever they are, there is a good chance someone will spot them. Kind of like a beowolf cluster of concerned citizens.
But wait, there's more. I seriously considered West Point, and talked to some folks about applying and getting an appointment. I was a finalist for the NMS at the time, so our reps basically told me "Don't worry about it, if I have to borrow a nomination and pay it back for the next ten years, you'll get one." So, they can even horse-trade them like picks at the drafts!
Thanks for the info. Have any recommendations on who to buy the replacements from in the USA? Or did you do refills? Can't find anyone to do refills for Canon here (lawsuit related).
I'm lazy and don't mind a couple of extra bucks once in a blue moon (don't use the printer that heavily) so I just get them from Staples. It's on my way to work and I've used their copies of the Cannon cartidges with no worries.
I doubt cow farts are adding to greenhouse gases on a historical level. Less than a couple of hundred years ago there were tens of MILLIONS of buffalo roaming North America. I doubt their farts have any less methane in them.
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You reference the 'casual sale' of a car with Linux in the dashboard. Notwithstanding whatever a 'casual sale' means, what is your problem? You are selling a device that uses Linux. You are distributing, to that customer, a copy of the code, in compiled form, in the dashboard. No, technically you do not have to give the buyer the source code. Technically, you must be able to provide the changes to him, for reasonable reproduction costs, if he asks for it. But you knew that. Yes, that is a derivative work. No, it does not infringe the GPL - it's about as cut and dried as anything. I have no idea why you have to come up with new 'processes' to cover doing that.
How about a car analogy? In the above, you are selling the car. I now own that car, can do with it what I will, and, in the spirit of the GPL, if you messed up the code that runs it - I want to be able to, or hire someone able to, fix it. Or improve it. That's what the GPL is about. The public performance angle, to me, is like using that new car I got as a taxi. Maybe it does something really spiffy other cabs can't - whatever. You aren't entitled to a copy of what makes my cab spiffy just 'cause you got a ride in it. I'd tell you to buzz off.
I have no problem with leaving things as they are. If they make something available over a web service that is useful, well, I can pay them to use it, or not. But they wrote the part that makes it useful, over anyone else's web service. Am I entitled to the source code for that? Hell no! I can get off my own ass and make something just as good or better, if it's that important to me.
Offering something as a service, as a lease, is a lot different that selling it. There are huge drawbacks for the customers in something only available as a service, which are pretty obvious. So there should be an incentive for people to make something like it that you CAN buy - and make a profit at it.
What about if you don't access it over a web service, or a computer network connection, but by talking to one of my reps over the phone? You give them info, they punch it in, and read you back the results. You gonna try to enforce THAT too? Good luck. Drawing a line in the sand like this is crazy. There's always a way to get around it - it becomes an arms race.
The whole attempt is ridiculous.
Who needs a whole page?
For health, life, disability, and accident insurance purposes, there is ONE, and only ONE, risk pool. And everyone in the US is in it.
There. Two sentences. Could be one. Done.
Couple that with having the individual purchase health coverage from any provider they want (with company contributions still, of course), and with any provider required to take them, no restrictions, and 99% of the healthcare debate is over.
What is so hard about this stuff?
Isn't the problem that the economy CAN act in feedback loops?
I thought the real purpose of the Fed was to be a fail-safe, and insurance policy if you will. Deflation is the boogy-man here. It has a habit of being a feedback loop - deflation leads to worse deflation, until the economy is standing still. And like a shark, when it stops moving it stops breathing.
So the Fed is used to create a permanent, controllable, state of mild inflation - to avoid ever getting into Deflation.
Whoa there. Compounding the confusion now. If gravity waves carry energy, and are radiated (you say from accelerating objects, but really don't all objects radiate gravity all the time?)... Where is all that energy coming from? And why, if everything radiates gravity, doesn't all matter in the universe simply 'evaporate' into gravitons, since that energy has to come from somewhere? Or is it somehow balanced by 'absorbed' gravitons from elsewhere?
Unfortunate, but all too true apparently.
I've always had a single view on healthcare reform that no one has ever stated that I can tell. The one sure way to fix healthcare is to declare that there is one and only one 'pool'. Once a provider cannot kick you out or keep you out regardless of existing conditions, we will have an improvement. Then healthcare will be back to working like insurance - if we're all in one big risk pool - the only pool - then no company will be able to cherrypick clients. And the only way the healthcare companies can make more money is to keep you healthy - so they don't have to shell out when you are sick.
Yes, if you are a healthy person you will pay a little more to cover everyone else. Why not? You never know when YOU'RE going to be hit by a bus and end up in life support. And if you don't ever need it all you've post is a little money, while gaining peace of mind. Seems worth it to me.
That, and one other change. Let everyone be able to sign up for any healtcare that covers the area, or nation. Companies will still give you money towards your healtcare, but cannot dictate who you go with. That makes the covered person(s) the customer again, and will also make things better.
It's mind-boggling that no one else can see this.
Now THERE is a New Yorker. I knew if we waited long enough one of you would post.
Great post - maybe you can clear up a conundrum for me.... From General Relativity it follows gravity waves can exist. OK - I'll buy that. Now, what if anything can actually produce gravity waves? Consider - matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be converted from one to the other. Now, the matter in the universe is all already there - if you follow my meaning - there is no sudden influx of matter anywhere. Since all matter is already putting out gravity constantly, and the matter cannot be moved around faster than gravity acts, and matter is not leaving or entering the universe by another means, then WHAT can produce gravity waves? From what I can see, nothing can. Maybe, just maybe, the collapse of a star into a black hole or neutron star might make a gravity wave. As in one. Ever.
Am I really missing something fundamental here? Sounds like a paradox - gravity waves can exist, but nothing can make them.
Shifting demand on a large scale is going to screw up the economics of power supply.
I don't get it - why would this screw anyone? If the datacenters have high rates, doesn't that mean that the electric company can't keep up with the peak demand, so they are raising prices? And so if you shift your data elsewhere, reducing the peak demand in that area, doesn't that help everyone, including the electric company?
While at Fort Walton Beach, Fl, years ago for work we visited a small aircraft museum there. Can't recall the name, but it should be locatable as a local attraction. They had at least a couple of dozen really cool old aircraft, including MiG jets and one of the 3 SR-71s in museums at the time (there may be more now). You could really get up close to most of them too.
Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA, is also really great. Had a lot of fun roaming around the battleship Massachusetts - marveling at how big, and small, it was. Still has some scars of battle damage too - a great legacy of another age.
Subsidies for food crops are an absolute necessity. There is one thing you do not want the 'market' regulating, and that is the growing of food. I consider the subsidies a relatively cheap insurance policy - prop up the growing of food during good and average years (where the price the market would support would be too low to have many producers survive) so that when a BAD year, or two or three, happen, we don't have a famine here.
And believe me - if there is a famine in the US, a lot of the rest of the world is going to be starving.
You know, I loved the first two movies, and would have liked the series to progress as it seemed it should - 3 would have the Alien actually brought back to a space station around Earth, then 4 could be them getting TO Earth.
But the point I wanted to make is that the next sequel should have someone stumble on the Alien's home planet - where they originally are from. Think about it - they are communal, live in a colony and can build a new one with a single individual, like some of our insects. They cooperate, can withstand very hostile environments. They have eggs that can do the same and lie dormant for long periods of time. They have lightning speed, hide really well, and have acid for blood.
Now think about the world that could produce such a creature, with all those defenses. The Aliens.... are not even CLOSE to the top of the food chain. Imagine what horrors you would find on the world that produced them....
THAT's the movie I want to see.
It's a Monty Python reference from the Holy Grail movie. And for that, you get a WHOOSH!
I suppose one could argue the case better - it certainly should have won on its merits. There are at least 2 circumstances I can think of where a short barrel shotgun would come in really handy for the military.
1) Storming, and specifically clearing, enemy trenches. Up close, personal, and the stopping power of a shotgun would be a lot better use than an unwieldy rifle.
2) Tunnel clearing. Typically they used a pistol, but a shotgun not much bigger than a pistol would be a better option, if available.
Unfortunately, non-interventionism would not work for us, economically. We have only a fraction of the world's territory, yet we have need, in our economy, of every single natural resource in existence anywhere in the world.
Obscure stuff - rhodium, indium, platinum, etc. Stuff we just don't have here. Yes, you can trade for it, but the bad news is that you need to be able to resort to force in order to get trade.
If someone has you over a barrel - if what they have you NEED, and there is nowhere else in the world you can get it, you are in serious trouble.
Sad to say it, but that's where diplomacy (including 'gun-boat' diplomacy) comes into play.
A lot of the time, 'bonuses' are simply a way for a company to take part of what they pay people (and, of course, only those who make 6 figures can afford to accept this) and delay paying it for 6-12 months at a time.
Some of it may be performance based - meaning they can tweak *part* of that bonus based on performance - but the bulk is really just what their salary should be.
All so the company can squeeze 6 months of interest out of part of what they pay some people. Seems more trouble than it's worth, but it's more common than you would think. There may be other benefits to the company too - reducing unemployment insurance and medicare deductions, etc. Not certain about that. And they can get more 'creative' with salary adjustments.
I don't think culture is what is being referred to here as the success of western civilization. I think what is being referred to here is the exponential development in every endeavor that has happened in the West. While the East and Near East have stagnated for centuries, the West has been a crucible of innovation due to intense warfare and competition. We went, in the space of just 100 years from Napoleon to WWII - from smoothbore muskets and field guns to machineguns, battleships, computers, modern surgery, antibiotics, jet aircraft, and nuclear power/weapons.
As far as pragmatic creativity and innovation go, modern Western civilization has been on the order of a Pre-Cambrian explosion. Nothing like it in history - it's truly staggering when you look at it that way.
I think that is what is meant. Empires? Feh! Going from blood-letting and medicine men chanting over chicken bones to mapping chromosomes and gene therapy - now THAT is what conquers worlds. That is what makes us unique. We need to hang onto that.
I think that religious people refer to 'hope' out of fear (maybe subconsciously). You and I may be OK with acting civilly for our own sake, with no other compulsion than our own sense of what is right and just. And that may (just a theory - putting it out there) just scare the religious silly.
THEY have an omniscient, omnipresent 'father' figure lurking about, watching their every move, waiting to burn them in Hell for Eternity if they get out of line. That is what they believe, and maybe, in the dark corners of their own souls, what they NEED in order to act civilly. That's all they've ever known. And they think everyone else 'needs' that as well, to make them act civilly. Again. maybe only on a subconscious level.
And without it? If no one 'believed' as they do? Chaos - anarchy. Terror in the streets. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
You get the idea. If 'father' isn't "going to tan your hide when he gets home tonight", what motivation do the kids have to not misbehave? We don't have a 'daddy' to keep us in line, which may make us scary in a way.
I disagree. I can certainly see why the manufacturers responded as they did - how could they not, given that they are selling those machines? However, If I had performed what I considered rigorous scientific testing of two different (and I assume expensive) 'lie detector' machines and found them no better than a random guess, I would have published much stronger words than just 'charlatanry'.
I had the same kind of experience in High School. Had been doing Karate for a couple of years and got jumped while delivering newspapers in the afternoon. Just one, never even seen him before, no idea who he was or why he wanted to get me. But I just blocked, moved, never threw a punch, never said a word. I was running track and cross country too at the time... after 20 minutes he was all punched out. Exhausted, he just walked away. I never even broke a sweat - just picked up my bag and carried on with my route.
At the end I could have kicked the crap out of him - he could barely lift a hand. There was just no reason to.
Well, duh! Of course not - Santa already KNOWS if you've been naughty or nice. The children don't have to tell him.
Jeez - everybody knows THAT.
Ahem! I think what you meant to say was that Falcon 2 through 8 were not entirely successful.
An amber alert is a child kidnapping. Basic idea is you blast whatever info you have - description, car, possible suspects - out to everyone within range. If everyone just looks around wherever they are, there is a good chance someone will spot them. Kind of like a beowolf cluster of concerned citizens.
But wait, there's more. I seriously considered West Point, and talked to some folks about applying and getting an appointment. I was a finalist for the NMS at the time, so our reps basically told me "Don't worry about it, if I have to borrow a nomination and pay it back for the next ten years, you'll get one." So, they can even horse-trade them like picks at the drafts!
Thanks for the info. Have any recommendations on who to buy the replacements from in the USA? Or did you do refills? Can't find anyone to do refills for Canon here (lawsuit related).
I'm lazy and don't mind a couple of extra bucks once in a blue moon (don't use the printer that heavily) so I just get them from Staples. It's on my way to work and I've used their copies of the Cannon cartidges with no worries.
I doubt cow farts are adding to greenhouse gases on a historical level. Less than a couple of hundred years ago there were tens of MILLIONS of buffalo roaming North America. I doubt their farts have any less methane in them.