I don't think that "under god" is actually a religious thing. It is more of a statement of what the one nation is answerable to.
Slashdotters do say the funniest things
I will go further in saying that even the athiest acknowledge there is a higher power, may it be nature, laws of science or whatever. "Under god" is easily meant to be that too. I know when the under god was added in the 60's it was ammended to mean that we have one nation with the consent of the higher power or "god" if you will.
What - one nation with the consent of the laws of physics? That's meaningless.
Teacher pay was NEVER meant to be supportive of a family, but since teacher pay worldwide is well above minimum wage - even single mothers and fathers COULD support themselves and their children - they just can't have cable TV with HBO and Dinner at Outback every night.
Ha ha ha ha
That's very nice, but unfortunately we want teachers who have degrees. The state is therefore in competition with the general graduate market.
I don't know about Canada, but here in the UK we have major problems with teacher recruitment and retention. The argument for teacher pay rises comes not from socialism but simple free market economics. If people are not paid enough then they will go and do something else instead. And at the moment, in teaching, plenty of people do.
Last I checked, college kids writing software for free most definitely have an adverse effect on the economy.
How is that exactly?
But if you don't think so, just tell me where you work, and I'll follow you around, offering to your managers to do your job for free. Then you can tell me about "generating" money.
Hmmm. Non-sequitur. Just because I lost my job because someone was coding for free, doesn't mean that the economy was damaged. If I lost my job because a machine could do it, did that damage the economy?
At any rate, the people working on Linux at IBM etc. do get paid. And when a company takes the source code and doesn't give its modifications back, they are damaging those other businesses. IBM/RedHat work on Linux under the understanding that other modifications will be released.
But he concedes that his foundation hates the way companies like Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) generate billions of dollars by selling software licenses. "We'd like people to stop selling proprietary software. It's bad for the world," Kuhn says.
Nice use of the word "generate". It leaves the impression that those no-good opensourceniks want to stop Microsoft from "generating" money - that is - making money out of nothing.
Poor old Microsoft is there, generating money for the economy, doing nothing wrong! And these hippies want to stop it! Communists! It's not like it charges obscene amounts to businesses through its monopolistic practises.
It's not in the EULA, its in the website "legal notice".
However, a strict reading would still mean that the software ("All materials published by Skype on this Site (including, but not limited to Skype Software,....") is subject to this idiotic clause which is clearly supposed to stop you from stealing their content and putting it on your own website.
Today we have Open/StarOffice but unfortunately it doesn't contain all functionality of the MS product. I'm not talking about minor stuff like missing word count,.....
World Series (baseball) got its name from the New York World, the newspaper that originally sponsored it; so to use it as an example of American arrogance is as inaccurate as it is tedious
Wrong.
http://snopes.com/business/names/worldser.htm
Much as I love the Guardian, the do seem to fall for these urban legends e.g. they fell for this one too:
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I'm running screen just fine. I couldn't care less whether you believe it.
I think the problem is that he is replying to what you explicitly wrote and didn't assume or infer it!
Uh - the story says "Perhaps AJAX will finally deliver what Java promised."
Either the story poster means that AJAX could fill the same niche as Java applets, or he got confused between Java and Javascript, which I doubt.
I think Rev. Tony Blair agrees with you.
didn't they find that ecoli changes it's dna much faster than random mutation can account for?
Interesting - have a reference?
So what's wrong with a dna-editing pan-organismic (or however you'd like to slice it) intelligent consciousness?
Uh, the fact that you just made it up, and there's no evidence for it.
I assume that means it integrates with Firefox too.
not really.
Yeah. Thank god Gmail is written in flash and not javascript....
Try cutting out a section of the A square and dragging it in and out of the shadow. It gets lighter and darker! I swear! :-)
(Do google even claim not to be evil?)
Uh, yes. That's what everyone is talking about.
Ah, but the link in the story was not to a phrase search, and so the "*" has no effect!
I don't think that "under god" is actually a religious thing. It is more of a statement of what the one nation is answerable to.
Slashdotters do say the funniest things
I will go further in saying that even the athiest acknowledge there is a higher power, may it be nature, laws of science or whatever. "Under god" is easily meant to be that too. I know when the under god was added in the 60's it was ammended to mean that we have one nation with the consent of the higher power or "god" if you will.
What - one nation with the consent of the laws of physics? That's meaningless.
Teacher pay was NEVER meant to be supportive of a family, but since teacher pay worldwide is well above minimum wage - even single mothers and fathers COULD support themselves and their children - they just can't have cable TV with HBO and Dinner at Outback every night.
Ha ha ha ha
That's very nice, but unfortunately we want teachers who have degrees. The state is therefore in competition with the general graduate market.
I don't know about Canada, but here in the UK we have major problems with teacher recruitment and retention. The argument for teacher pay rises comes not from socialism but simple free market economics. If people are not paid enough then they will go and do something else instead. And at the moment, in teaching, plenty of people do.
Oh wait... you said Lunix. Never heard of that...
:-)
Its an operating system that, due to being targeted at the C64, is doomed to obscurity
Perhaps they're going to revamp the vibrator function of their cellphones afterall?!
:-)
like this?
If I'm not mistaken this very joke appeared in the Bible.
Don't you mean "Jesus called, and he wants his joke back"?
Gee, I glad someone here could make the point I was trying to make coherently :-)
Last I checked, college kids writing software for free most definitely have an adverse effect on the economy.
How is that exactly?
But if you don't think so, just tell me where you work, and I'll follow you around, offering to your managers to do your job for free. Then you can tell me about "generating" money.
Hmmm. Non-sequitur. Just because I lost my job because someone was coding for free, doesn't mean that the economy was damaged. If I lost my job because a machine could do it, did that damage the economy?
At any rate, the people working on Linux at IBM etc. do get paid. And when a company takes the source code and doesn't give its modifications back, they are damaging those other businesses. IBM/RedHat work on Linux under the understanding that other modifications will be released.
Nice use of the word "generate". It leaves the impression that those no-good opensourceniks want to stop Microsoft from "generating" money - that is - making money out of nothing.
Poor old Microsoft is there, generating money for the economy, doing nothing wrong! And these hippies want to stop it! Communists! It's not like it charges obscene amounts to businesses through its monopolistic practises.
John Cleese as Arthur.
Are you insane?? surely Graham Chapman!
It's not in the EULA, its in the website "legal notice".
However, a strict reading would still mean that the software ("All materials published by Skype on this Site (including, but not limited to Skype Software,....") is subject to this idiotic clause which is clearly supposed to stop you from stealing their content and putting it on your own website.
Is that a joke? Disappointing because it lags in eye candy even though it is much more consistent and easier to use?
Courtesy of my friend Graham's blog: Data forever keeping: no grow mouldy!.
Today we have Open/StarOffice
but unfortunately it doesn't contain all functionality
of the MS product. I'm not talking about minor stuff
like missing word count,.....
Try File->Properties and the Statistics Tab
And it's now apt-gettable from security.debian.org.
Nice.
World Series (baseball) got its name from the New York World, the newspaper that originally sponsored it; so to use it as an example of American arrogance is as inaccurate as it is tedious
Wrong.
http://snopes.com/business/names/worldser.htm
Much as I love the Guardian, the do seem to fall for these urban legends e.g. they fell for this one too:
http://snopes.com/horrors/drugs/deadbaby.htm