Zionist Israel and the Mossad in conjunction with the American Secret Government orchestrated the 9-11 attacks.
John F. Kerry is made president, people believe in him and will follow him with renewed energy. He has Jewish blood lines, and Zionist support, and so can be counted on to continue support to Israel.
Is it just me, or is this guy talking like he wants to fire up Auschwitz?
Asbestos exposure leads to Mesothelioma usually. Small cell lung cancer has been long suspected as being a direct result of cigarette smoking, but asbestos is also a possibility.
Bill collectors are known to use these tactics. They'll try to call you, then if they can't get you, they'll just tell you to call them without leaving a name, only a number.
Last year, he tripled the budget for foriegn aid earmarked to fighting AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean to $15 Billion over 3 years. There are lots of things to criticize Bush about, but this may be the one thing he's done right.
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I know where you're coming from. My mom died of it in '84... June marks the 20th anniversary of her passing. I don't envy what you have to go through, because I went through it myself.
That said, for those not in the know, the small cell lung cancer (80% of those affected are smokers) is the worst kind you can get. Due to the types of cells that replicate out of control, it almost immediately spreads to the rest of the body, depositing in other organs. If you're lucky, it'll take up to four years to hit the brain. If not, it'll take less than four months.
They've made all kinds of progress in the last 20 years with other cancers, like Leukemia, but the small cell lung cancer seems to be a much more difficult beast to tackle.
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If you think about it, a license is nothing more than a contract between two parties. As far as I know, a contract can be declared voidable if certain conditions are met, but one party can't just "take it back" if it feels like it. In other words, if you GPL something, whatever code you GPL'ed at the time remains under the GPL. The company can remove the software from their website, but all that will do is to prevent them from directly making the same contract with someone else. The way the GPL is worded, though, makes it so that I can extend my contract priveledges to as many people as I want for any arbitrary reason, so long as certain guidelines are met. Under this reasoning, you can't un-GPL software unless all parties in possession of the code/software agree to the new terms.
In other words, this is GPL'ed code, and remains public, free, and open. No take backs.
But I'm not a lawyer, so I may be talking out of my ass.
So what you're saying is, we should keep our money inside our country. The question then becomes, how do we do this while maintaining our quality of life considering inflation, high tariffs, and a higher cost of living? The only solution to this is to create a new market for our goods so we make sure to export more than we import. How do we do this? Well, great powers in history have done this in two ways: 1) they set up colonies to act as markets, severly restricting liberty in order to get their resources, or 2) take over a small country and force them to buy our products. It's called Mercantileism, and it failed when the U.S. severed itself from Britain. I'm not saying that free market capitalism is the best solution, but it's the best one we have right now.
And when the average quality of life for American citizens drops until it equals that of other developing nations, we'll finally be able to compete toe-to-toe with their cheap labor.
This argument is a doomsday fallacy.
Our quality of life may drop, but only so much as we won't be able to spend $50,000 on a new SUV every three years or buy a $5 cup of coffee every morning. We'll buy more domestic stuff and less imports. Prices will drop at the same time, because of the cheaper production, allowing us to do more with less money. On top of that, we would have just created new markets for our exports, even if we are just exporting our brands. The profits will still go to American companies, who will be able to expand our economy, pay their workers more, and create jobs. Even if only the top executives get rich off of it, they'll still have to do something with their money -- either buy stuff (pay people) or invest it (loan it to businesses to pay people). Either way, we all benefit.
You're talking about lowest-common-denominator economics.
You're not talking about real economics at all! It amazes me reading slashdot how everyone acts as though they have Ph.D.'s in everything from economics to nanotech. You are not an expert on the subject. I am not an expert on the subject. It's far too easy to blame outsourcing for job loss when you're the one out of a job, but consider another cause. Instead of just jumping on the bandwagon that is so pervasive in our current political culture, talk to an expert. Listen to what Greenspan is saying. Study history. Understand that what is truly happening in our economy has been happening for over 100 years, and that we have always rebounded with jobs.
History tells us that after every boom, there is a bust. And the last boom was a big one. We've recovered from every bust that has ever happened. We'll recover from this one, and we'll be better positioned for the future.
We're out of jobs because of cyclic economic forces, not structural instability! It will get better. It always does.
You know, I just don't understand how a company that bought all that unnecessary crap could ever go out of business. The more money you spend, the longer you stay in business, right?
Do you honestly think that Kerry will be able to do anything about this? You're talking about fighting economic forces here. The only way to prevent this current outsourcing trend is to become totally isolationist, which two world wars tell us is totally wrong. Either that or go back in time and undo the Clintonian H1B trend of the last ten years (where do you think the Indian labor force learned how to do their jobs) and stop importing students for American universities.
Do the words "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" mean anything to you?
No, America's true skill is not in tech or medicine, but in creativity. Just wait. You'll see a new revolution in something, maybe nanotech, maybe biotech (here's hoping we can get cloning regulated, not banned), maybe something completely different, that will propel us into the future. In the mean time, we're rich enough. Let the rest of the world have some for a change. Hell, our unemployment rate currently is less than the average unemployment rate of the 1990's. We're doing OK. I'm just as bitter about not being able to skim inflated wages anymore as you are, but soon, we'll start to at least make something fair. It'll just take some time. No matter who gets elected President.
According to the authors, the same method, when used on Mac OS X, Unix and Linux boxes, however, could require either 4,096 times more memory or 4,096 times longer.
I can see it now... Wesley Snipes straps the ACME(R) Lil' Bat-man(TM) costume on and jumps off a cliff, waving his sword as the Road Runner speeds for the tunnel..... You fill in the rest:)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
According to my IP Law professor, there are 3 reasons to patent something:
1) To prevent someone else from using your invention 2) To ensure your further use of an invention 3) The third reason escapes me...
Anyway, the important thing is number 2. Patent this thing, because if someone else comes along and patents it, prior art or not, you will be out of luck. Chances are, you'll patent this, and the NSA will come along and 'make you an offer you can't refuse' for the exclusive rights, in which case you'll be a very rich person.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer, I'm just a student. Nothing here is to be construed in any way as legal advice for any reason.
There is a precedent for this -- See NEC v. Intel. The case here was that NEC had reverse engineered some of intel's microcode for one of their chips. Intel alleged direct copyright infringement due to substantial similarity of the codes involved. However, NEC argued (successfully) that to perform the function they were trying to perform, there were very limited ways to get it to work, and were actually able to hire an independant team to black box develop the exact same codes, without any access to the original. The bottom line of the decision was that the code looked similar because of the constraints under which the code was developed. The decision said that microcode was proper subject for copyright, but no copyrights were infringed here.
Remember the Bigfoot? Quantum's bright idea for a new design for a hard drive? 1" height, took up a full 5.25" bay in a computer, and designed so that OEM's could shove them in tight places inside proprietary cases. HP, Compaq and others were all over this drive. Too bad they had so many quality control issues that OEM's that were using them were replacing them with different models of drives (if they fit). Spare parts departments were swamped with orders for these drives because they were so lousy. I was a hardware lackey when these things were out, and I had to replace more of those crappy drives than I'd care to admit. Every one I've ever seen went bad. And they were SLOW! The access times on those drives were insanely slow. It made a P166 run like a 486SX25. I'm not saying that this drive is going to have the same problems, but I still don't trust it. If it isn't broke, why fix it?
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Zionist Israel and the Mossad in conjunction with the American Secret Government orchestrated the 9-11 attacks.
John F. Kerry is made president, people believe in him and will follow him with renewed energy. He has Jewish blood lines, and Zionist support, and so can be counted on to continue support to Israel.
Is it just me, or is this guy talking like he wants to fire up Auschwitz?
New Yorker? I thought only pretentious people subscribed to the New Yorker to put on their coffee tables to impress their pretentious peers.
Here in El Paso, Texas, you are taxed for rainfall. I kid you not.
OK, I'll bite. How does that work?
Well, with any government project, kickbacks are always a problem, but in this case I'd be more concerned with recoil. :)
Asbestos exposure leads to Mesothelioma usually. Small cell lung cancer has been long suspected as being a direct result of cigarette smoking, but asbestos is also a possibility.
hey were badly acted (from actors we KNOW can do better!)
Yeah. And episodes 4-6 weren't "badly acted from actors we know can do better"?
Do the words, "That's no moon. It's a space station!" mean anything to you?
We used to play a Star Wars drinking game in college. Every time you heard Luke whine, you drank. Man did we get plowed.
Bill collectors are known to use these tactics. They'll try to call you, then if they can't get you, they'll just tell you to call them without leaving a name, only a number.
Are you paid up on your Beowulf cluster of Imacs?
No, Bush isn't doing anything about AIDS.
Last year, he tripled the budget for foriegn aid earmarked to fighting AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean to $15 Billion over 3 years. There are lots of things to criticize Bush about, but this may be the one thing he's done right.
I know where you're coming from. My mom died of it in '84... June marks the 20th anniversary of her passing. I don't envy what you have to go through, because I went through it myself.
That said, for those not in the know, the small cell lung cancer (80% of those affected are smokers) is the worst kind you can get. Due to the types of cells that replicate out of control, it almost immediately spreads to the rest of the body, depositing in other organs. If you're lucky, it'll take up to four years to hit the brain. If not, it'll take less than four months.
Here's a link to a good description.
They've made all kinds of progress in the last 20 years with other cancers, like Leukemia, but the small cell lung cancer seems to be a much more difficult beast to tackle.
If you think about it, a license is nothing more than a contract between two parties. As far as I know, a contract can be declared voidable if certain conditions are met, but one party can't just "take it back" if it feels like it. In other words, if you GPL something, whatever code you GPL'ed at the time remains under the GPL. The company can remove the software from their website, but all that will do is to prevent them from directly making the same contract with someone else. The way the GPL is worded, though, makes it so that I can extend my contract priveledges to as many people as I want for any arbitrary reason, so long as certain guidelines are met. Under this reasoning, you can't un-GPL software unless all parties in possession of the code/software agree to the new terms.
In other words, this is GPL'ed code, and remains public, free, and open. No take backs.
But I'm not a lawyer, so I may be talking out of my ass.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"
--Napoleon (paraphrased)
There are no terrorists in Iraq
Amazing how one phrase can completely discredit someone's entire argument.
So what you're saying is, we should keep our money inside our country. The question then becomes, how do we do this while maintaining our quality of life considering inflation, high tariffs, and a higher cost of living? The only solution to this is to create a new market for our goods so we make sure to export more than we import. How do we do this? Well, great powers in history have done this in two ways: 1) they set up colonies to act as markets, severly restricting liberty in order to get their resources, or 2) take over a small country and force them to buy our products. It's called Mercantileism, and it failed when the U.S. severed itself from Britain. I'm not saying that free market capitalism is the best solution, but it's the best one we have right now.
Reading Slashdot.
Yeah, yeah... Just don't piss her off. She might turn into Lou Ferigno in green paint and start breaking shit.
And when the average quality of life for American citizens drops until it equals that of other developing nations, we'll finally be able to compete toe-to-toe with their cheap labor.
This argument is a doomsday fallacy.
Our quality of life may drop, but only so much as we won't be able to spend $50,000 on a new SUV every three years or buy a $5 cup of coffee every morning. We'll buy more domestic stuff and less imports. Prices will drop at the same time, because of the cheaper production, allowing us to do more with less money. On top of that, we would have just created new markets for our exports, even if we are just exporting our brands. The profits will still go to American companies, who will be able to expand our economy, pay their workers more, and create jobs. Even if only the top executives get rich off of it, they'll still have to do something with their money -- either buy stuff (pay people) or invest it (loan it to businesses to pay people). Either way, we all benefit.
You're talking about lowest-common-denominator economics.
You're not talking about real economics at all! It amazes me reading slashdot how everyone acts as though they have Ph.D.'s in everything from economics to nanotech. You are not an expert on the subject. I am not an expert on the subject. It's far too easy to blame outsourcing for job loss when you're the one out of a job, but consider another cause. Instead of just jumping on the bandwagon that is so pervasive in our current political culture, talk to an expert. Listen to what Greenspan is saying. Study history. Understand that what is truly happening in our economy has been happening for over 100 years, and that we have always rebounded with jobs.
History tells us that after every boom, there is a bust. And the last boom was a big one. We've recovered from every bust that has ever happened. We'll recover from this one, and we'll be better positioned for the future.
We're out of jobs because of cyclic economic forces, not structural instability! It will get better. It always does.
You know, I just don't understand how a company that bought all that unnecessary crap could ever go out of business. The more money you spend, the longer you stay in business, right?
Do you honestly think that Kerry will be able to do anything about this? You're talking about fighting economic forces here. The only way to prevent this current outsourcing trend is to become totally isolationist, which two world wars tell us is totally wrong. Either that or go back in time and undo the Clintonian H1B trend of the last ten years (where do you think the Indian labor force learned how to do their jobs) and stop importing students for American universities.
Do the words "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" mean anything to you?
No, America's true skill is not in tech or medicine, but in creativity. Just wait. You'll see a new revolution in something, maybe nanotech, maybe biotech (here's hoping we can get cloning regulated, not banned), maybe something completely different, that will propel us into the future. In the mean time, we're rich enough. Let the rest of the world have some for a change. Hell, our unemployment rate currently is less than the average unemployment rate of the 1990's. We're doing OK. I'm just as bitter about not being able to skim inflated wages anymore as you are, but soon, we'll start to at least make something fair. It'll just take some time. No matter who gets elected President.
Don't knock the minivan. Check this out:
http://www.turbovan.net/van.html
Or, more impressively, this:
http://www.turbovan.net/pauls_van.mpg
13 seconds * 4096 = 53248 seconds
53248 seconds = 887.46 minutes
887.46 minutes = 14.79 hours
In other words, what takes 13 seconds on a Windows box takes a full fourteen hours on a Linux box.
I can see it now... Wesley Snipes straps the ACME(R) Lil' Bat-man(TM) costume on and jumps off a cliff, waving his sword as the Road Runner speeds for the tunnel..... You fill in the rest :)
Also from the DMCA:
(f) Reverse Engineering. -
(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
According to my IP Law professor, there are 3 reasons to patent something:
1) To prevent someone else from using your invention
2) To ensure your further use of an invention
3) The third reason escapes me...
Anyway, the important thing is number 2. Patent this thing, because if someone else comes along and patents it, prior art or not, you will be out of luck. Chances are, you'll patent this, and the NSA will come along and 'make you an offer you can't refuse' for the exclusive rights, in which case you'll be a very rich person.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer, I'm just a student. Nothing here is to be construed in any way as legal advice for any reason.
There is a precedent for this -- See NEC v. Intel. The case here was that NEC had reverse engineered some of intel's microcode for one of their chips. Intel alleged direct copyright infringement due to substantial similarity of the codes involved. However, NEC argued (successfully) that to perform the function they were trying to perform, there were very limited ways to get it to work, and were actually able to hire an independant team to black box develop the exact same codes, without any access to the original. The bottom line of the decision was that the code looked similar because of the constraints under which the code was developed. The decision said that microcode was proper subject for copyright, but no copyrights were infringed here.
Remember the Bigfoot? Quantum's bright idea for a new design for a hard drive? 1" height, took up a full 5.25" bay in a computer, and designed so that OEM's could shove them in tight places inside proprietary cases. HP, Compaq and others were all over this drive. Too bad they had so many quality control issues that OEM's that were using them were replacing them with different models of drives (if they fit). Spare parts departments were swamped with orders for these drives because they were so lousy. I was a hardware lackey when these things were out, and I had to replace more of those crappy drives than I'd care to admit. Every one I've ever seen went bad. And they were SLOW! The access times on those drives were insanely slow. It made a P166 run like a 486SX25. I'm not saying that this drive is going to have the same problems, but I still don't trust it. If it isn't broke, why fix it?