I lived in Malaysia for a couple of years (check the weather: hot and humid).
Since a corporation was paying my bills they commented on them. They were quite happy because I was using 75% less electricity than the previous occupant of the flat in question. Venture a guess where this guy came from. I can almost bet you can figure out from which US state he was. This wasn't atypical, USians were the one using more energy and driving more miles. I walked regularly to the office, European colleagues used to bike (in spit of the horrendous traffic in Kuala Lumpur on those days, worsened by the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers) and our bills (non USians) were consistently substantially lower.
I also mandated that temperature in the office was raised to 22 degrees (Celsius, what the civilized world uses) from the insane, idiotic 17 that the previous person in charge (guess his country) has mandated.
To round my anecdotal experiences, I visited several times offices in the US, and very often people had to wear jumpers because it was too cold inside.
My conclusion, based entirely in anecdotal evidence, is that USians do not know how to use energy responsible.
Even Bush recognized the addictive relationship the US populace has with energy usage.
So keep finding excuses, nobody serious believes them.
That is because I mostly travel by plane and on arrival I always use taxi (or public transport if I am on holiday, funny to get out of 5 star hotels to catch a bus).
Many gambling companies have parent companies in such shady places as the UK and Ireland.
Gambling has a long history of successful regulation in other countries. I anything the US should have looked at Vegas or Atlantic City, whose founding icons had links with the mafia.
Saying that gambling is better regulated in the US is quite spacious, to say the least.
There is absolutely nothing to stop the US regulating foreign companies BTW, as long as the regulations applicable to foreign companies are the same by which local companies have to abide, the WTO would have no problem with that.
The gambling industry from outside the US was perfectly happy to comply with similar restrictions imposed into local concerns (which would be fair to all parties involved).
The problem is that Herr Bush's government is using some arcane laws that apply to foreign concerns but not to local ones. The WTO has seen through this dishonest (ha, Bush dishonest, quelle surprise, does Dick Cheney have share in local gambling companies?) bullshit and is bringing the US into line.
International treaties have preponderance over state laws or equivalents of any country.
The US joined the WTO with a treaty that was approved by your respective representatives and senators, so though cookie wise boy (if it serves of any consolation, other countries are equally screwed, ant in several occasions the US has won other rulings).
MS lost squarely in the EU. Do you know how many people work in the department in the European Commission that brought to fruition the antitrust case against MS? Less than 20. And the MS case was not the only one they were dealing with.
The idea that only having loads of money you can defend a case is ludicrous. If you know you are in the right and have a lawyer that knows what he is doing you should be OK.
There are plenty of examples of non democratic countries where the populace was nationalistic and fully committed to the vision of their leaders.
Just for starters, neither the US or the UK (the great motors of the industrial and technological revolution in the last 300 years) were particularly democratic (unless you define democracy as the rule by a minority of white males). Slavery and racism was widespread in both countries and women couldn't vote until relatively recently, the UK ruled all the bits of the empire with differing version of apartheid, which many states in the US continued to uphold until quite recently.
So no, democracy is not really a big factor in technological progress.
Science can chose to test religious hypothesis of any kind in order to see if they provide new light rewarding our understanding of the world.
As long as the scientific method is applied consistently, there is no reason why science can't turn religion into a subject of study or possible knew knowledge (my take is that religion has provided precious little when it comes to scientific knowledge, but that does not mean they must be divorced).
As for religion dealing with science, well, there is no point. The moment scientific fact overrides religious dogma, religious people will not drop their beliefs, no matter what science is probing.
Mexico (the country from which most immigrants to the US come) has separated church and state for 140 years.
In Mexico, unlike in the US, you don't pray in public schools where religious symbols are forbidden, all public servants swear their charges using the Mexican constitution, not the Bible, and many women ignore advice from the Pope regarding contraception (the Pope will not provide for my unwanted children - they say wisely).
Most Mexicans are catholic alright, but we have learned to live and let live, so your fears are unfounded (if anything, the exaggerated religiosity in the US may erode such healthy attitudes towards religion from Hispanic immigrants).
The day has only 24 hours a day, 8 of which one is asleep, another 8 one is hopefully working.
Then add all other kind of activities that a rounded individual will engage in and frankly listening to old albums seems like one of the worst kinds of freakery.
If you don't want US companies to offshore jobs (note, they are not US's jobs, US's citizens haven't got a birth right to jobs created by *multinational* corporations incorporated in the US) then I am pretty sure you neither want those same companies stablishing offices in other countries and transferring profits (and thus paying taxes) in the US.
Want capitalism? Then it is time we all embrace the full package and cut the bullshit.
You don't like capitalism? Look at the old USSR, old China or North Korea for guidance and get ready to starve to death.
People are always trying to save money, this includes buyers voting with their dollars buying cheap stuff made in China or corporations outsourcing elsewhere.
You talk nonsense numbers about Ohio or whatever small spot in the US you are referring to, but anybody that has been to both the US and India knows which country is in more desperate need of those jobs, and given the economic disparities between both countries these jobs are flowing naturally to where they make the global economic system more efficient. No bullshit trolling about terrorism will change all this, even if they are not idle treaths, and even in the completely ludicrous scenario in which your "revolution" wins.
So Novell are trying to write drivers that would potentially benefit only them (and the other meretricious Linux distributors that signed agreements with MS) while in the other hand would expose other Linux distros to MS's patent trolling threats.
Please probe me unnecesarily pessimistic and show me that they are releasing these drivers under GPL3...
... I think most people would prefer to die quickly and painlessly.
The person that is ignorant is the one that can't live in the society where he was born, somebody accumulating useless knowledge is not any better for doing this, as you clearly are implying.
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I lived in Malaysia for a couple of years (check the weather: hot and humid).
Since a corporation was paying my bills they commented on them. They were quite happy because I was using 75% less electricity than the previous occupant of the flat in question. Venture a guess where this guy came from. I can almost bet you can figure out from which US state he was. This wasn't atypical, USians were the one using more energy and driving more miles. I walked regularly to the office, European colleagues used to bike (in spit of the horrendous traffic in Kuala Lumpur on those days, worsened by the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers) and our bills (non USians) were consistently substantially lower.
I also mandated that temperature in the office was raised to 22 degrees (Celsius, what the civilized world uses) from the insane, idiotic 17 that the previous person in charge (guess his country) has mandated.
To round my anecdotal experiences, I visited several times offices in the US, and very often people had to wear jumpers because it was too cold inside.
My conclusion, based entirely in anecdotal evidence, is that USians do not know how to use energy responsible.
Even Bush recognized the addictive relationship the US populace has with energy usage.
So keep finding excuses, nobody serious believes them.
You just have to avoid the respective section....
I have never owned one. A car that is.
That is because I mostly travel by plane and on arrival I always use taxi (or public transport if I am on holiday, funny to get out of 5 star hotels to catch a bus).
Or very cheap if you consider a subscription.
I think you will have no problem to probe that point.
There is always the one......
So send me your /. password please.
Encrypted I suppose.
Because expropriation derives from the will of the people of the country that expropriates a given asset.
Many gambling companies have parent companies in such shady places as the UK and Ireland.
Gambling has a long history of successful regulation in other countries. I anything the US should have looked at Vegas or Atlantic City, whose founding icons had links with the mafia.
Saying that gambling is better regulated in the US is quite spacious, to say the least.
There is absolutely nothing to stop the US regulating foreign companies BTW, as long as the regulations applicable to foreign companies are the same by which local companies have to abide, the WTO would have no problem with that.
The gambling industry from outside the US was perfectly happy to comply with similar restrictions imposed into local concerns (which would be fair to all parties involved).
The problem is that Herr Bush's government is using some arcane laws that apply to foreign concerns but not to local ones. The WTO has seen through this dishonest (ha, Bush dishonest, quelle surprise, does Dick Cheney have share in local gambling companies?) bullshit and is bringing the US into line.
International treaties have preponderance over state laws or equivalents of any country.
The US joined the WTO with a treaty that was approved by your respective representatives and senators, so though cookie wise boy (if it serves of any consolation, other countries are equally screwed, ant in several occasions the US has won other rulings).
MS lost squarely in the EU. Do you know how many people work in the department in the European Commission that brought to fruition the antitrust case against MS? Less than 20. And the MS case was not the only one they were dealing with.
The idea that only having loads of money you can defend a case is ludicrous. If you know you are in the right and have a lawyer that knows what he is doing you should be OK.
There are plenty of examples of non democratic countries where the populace was nationalistic and fully committed to the vision of their leaders.
Just for starters, neither the US or the UK (the great motors of the industrial and technological revolution in the last 300 years) were particularly democratic (unless you define democracy as the rule by a minority of white males). Slavery and racism was widespread in both countries and women couldn't vote until relatively recently, the UK ruled all the bits of the empire with differing version of apartheid, which many states in the US continued to uphold until quite recently.
So no, democracy is not really a big factor in technological progress.
What you are saying makes no sense.
Science can chose to test religious hypothesis of any kind in order to see if they provide new light rewarding our understanding of the world.
As long as the scientific method is applied consistently, there is no reason why science can't turn religion into a subject of study or possible knew knowledge (my take is that religion has provided precious little when it comes to scientific knowledge, but that does not mean they must be divorced).
As for religion dealing with science, well, there is no point. The moment scientific fact overrides religious dogma, religious people will not drop their beliefs, no matter what science is probing.
Mexico (the country from which most immigrants to the US come) has separated church and state for 140 years.
In Mexico, unlike in the US, you don't pray in public schools where religious symbols are forbidden, all public servants swear their charges using the Mexican constitution, not the Bible, and many women ignore advice from the Pope regarding contraception (the Pope will not provide for my unwanted children - they say wisely).
Most Mexicans are catholic alright, but we have learned to live and let live, so your fears are unfounded (if anything, the exaggerated religiosity in the US may erode such healthy attitudes towards religion from Hispanic immigrants).
If some people knew a bit of history ....
.... you *are* old.
Me looks at company's report of global systems.
Big chunk in pie chart says Linux.
Me looks at company's list of approved OSes. Yep, Linux is there.
So at least one Fortune100 company uses Linux, I am sure others do.
How much more fucking mainstream does Linux need to become?
The day has only 24 hours a day, 8 of which one is asleep, another 8 one is hopefully working.
Then add all other kind of activities that a rounded individual will engage in and frankly listening to old albums seems like one of the worst kinds of freakery.
If you don't want US companies to offshore jobs (note, they are not US's jobs, US's citizens haven't got a birth right to jobs created by *multinational* corporations incorporated in the US) then I am pretty sure you neither want those same companies stablishing offices in other countries and transferring profits (and thus paying taxes) in the US.
Want capitalism? Then it is time we all embrace the full package and cut the bullshit.
You don't like capitalism? Look at the old USSR, old China or North Korea for guidance and get ready to starve to death.
Economics is a race to the bottom. Deal with it.
People are always trying to save money, this includes buyers voting with their dollars buying cheap stuff made in China or corporations outsourcing elsewhere.
You talk nonsense numbers about Ohio or whatever small spot in the US you are referring to, but anybody that has been to both the US and India knows which country is in more desperate need of those jobs, and given the economic disparities between both countries these jobs are flowing naturally to where they make the global economic system more efficient. No bullshit trolling about terrorism will change all this, even if they are not idle treaths, and even in the completely ludicrous scenario in which your "revolution" wins.
And even if you did, you can't fight economic realities, these will bite you one way or another.
So Novell are trying to write drivers that would potentially benefit only them (and the other meretricious Linux distributors that signed agreements with MS) while in the other hand would expose other Linux distros to MS's patent trolling threats.
Please probe me unnecesarily pessimistic and show me that they are releasing these drivers under GPL3...
There is this thing called progress which makes life easier.
... I think most people would prefer to die quickly and painlessly.
The person that is ignorant is the one that can't live in the society where he was born, somebody accumulating useless knowledge is not any better for doing this, as you clearly are implying.