Ah, nice. ESR is the perfect argument against an armed citizenry.
Every time some 12 year old posts "IMA KIL U U FAT FCK I AMA IRANYAN NINJA U NEVAR C ME CUMING!!!!1!!" on his blog, he craps his pants, buys another.45 extension for his shrinking penis, and gets another entry in his FBI "whackjob time waster" file.
Personally I think the entire "ESR" persona is the intartube's longest running piece of performance art, but it appears that some of his followers:
1) Actually believe that he's real and someone to be emulated...
2) Are armed.
I have some bad news for you. Assuming that SCO don't appeal this Order and a chapter 11 Trustee is appointed, what are his options?
Shut the company down and pay the last remaining cash to the creditors. Since there's not enough left in SCO's accounts (now, let alone after Darl & Co loot it) to pay the creditors, this is the option of last resort, and not what a Chapter 11 Trustee is meant to do anyway.
Cut or sell off the loss making parts of the company to fund the profitable bits. But since SCO has systematically cannibalised everything except the litigation, there are no profitable bits left. As the bankruptcy judge has noted, the litigation is the only part of the company that might make money.
Sell part of the company to fund the litigation. However, there's nothing of value left to sell. SCO have just been denied the opportunity to pull an incestuous "sale" of some nebulous "assets" to a sock-puppet (i.e. unXis), and I can't see an independent Trustee allowing any such shennanigans.
Sell the whole company - i.e. the litigation - and make it someone else's problem.
I think option 4 is the only realistic one. This name on this litigation is about to change, but it isn't going anywhere.
They probably are proud, since the particular cops in this case - "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents"- are doing their job.
If you have some snide comments to make, they would be better directed at the elected officials that created their posts, not the grunts on the ground.
Uh huh. Let's not bother to read the article, shall we?
The charges against Crippen stem from an ICE investigation initiated late last year [...] agents executed a federal search warrant at Crippen's home, where they seized more than a dozen Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony video game consoles.
Look, the sentence this guy is facing is ridiculous and the law needs changing, but we don't have to pretend that he's just some nerd modding a console or two for his homies.
Leaving aside irrelevant examples from previous generations, what on earth did conquering and then setting up a puppet regime in Iraq have to do with "peace"?
Whose peace? Who was Iraq threatening when it was conquered, how, and with what?
Is it better to live in a violent primitive Islamic tribal proconsulate than a stable advanced secular dictatorship? Do you want to make an argument about freedom being better than security? Because I'm pretty sure that Bush II's regime - your beloved saviors of Iraq - passed a shedload of US laws based on exactly the opposite position.
Look, I'm going to type this reeeeally slowly to make it easy for you to understand: outside of kiddie cartoons, the enemy of evil is not automatically good. In the real world, it can be evil vs evil.
Uh... what exactly did Bush II do "right", except get them to dig their nuclear facilities deeper underground? The Taepodong-2 was built and tested on Bush II's watch.
Oh, blah. Japan was already blockaded, utterly defeated, and teetering on the brink of the stone age when it was nuked. The nukes just provided a convenient excuse for them to surrender.
Question: to demonstrate this overwhelming new weapon, did the USA have to actually drop it on two Japanese cities? Wouldn't dropping one in the entrance to Tokyo Bay have done the same job?
Well, that's ancient history. How many sovereign nations has North Korea invaded recently?
If your counter is "Only because they're being forcibly prevented", then that only serves to highlight that North Korea can be forcibly prevented from empire building. What's stopping the USA?
MAD only applied when the enemy was a State. When it's a bunch of Peace Loving Religious cultists bashing lumps of plutinium together on a boat in New York Harbor, then survivability becomes an issue.
I wouldn't listen to the voices from your dental work. The police have been testing door locks since their inception. It's called crime prevention, and it's first and last in Peel's Nine Points:
Boot the Linux kernel and nothing else. What can you do with it? Not very much, therefore, just the kernel is not an operating system
Not a userland operating system, no. Do you have some point to make that isn't based on willful ignorance of the preponderance and relative importance of userland vs embedded systems?
Now, now, that's not true. You could say that a crack whore is all about giving bareback blowjobs to playas, but that's just the public facing activity to fund the underlying goal.
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The defendant is forced to pay for them. Try avoiding paying taxes, and see how far you get.
Ah, nice. ESR is the perfect argument against an armed citizenry.
Every time some 12 year old posts "IMA KIL U U FAT FCK I AMA IRANYAN NINJA U NEVAR C ME CUMING!!!!1!!" on his blog, he craps his pants, buys another .45 extension for his shrinking penis, and gets another entry in his FBI "whackjob time waster" file.
Personally I think the entire "ESR" persona is the intartube's longest running piece of performance art, but it appears that some of his followers:
1) Actually believe that he's real and someone to be emulated...
2) Are armed.
Which is quite a worrying combination.
Hang on; he'll post a dupe later, once his meds have kicked in.
To figure out how to get people to pay them money? How much money are they thinking they'll get back? It's more than $50 million, right?
I think option 4 is the only realistic one. This name on this litigation is about to change, but it isn't going anywhere.
You can put the law on the books, but enforcing it is another matter.
This is Slashdot; how could you insult anyone's intelligence level?
When the Feds come for your "6 computers", then we can talk about your irrelevant strawman comparison.
They probably are proud, since the particular cops in this case - "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents"- are doing their job.
If you have some snide comments to make, they would be better directed at the elected officials that created their posts, not the grunts on the ground.
Uh huh. Let's not bother to read the article, shall we?
Look, the sentence this guy is facing is ridiculous and the law needs changing, but we don't have to pretend that he's just some nerd modding a console or two for his homies.
Since any "World Series" will only be open to American teams.
Leaving aside irrelevant examples from previous generations, what on earth did conquering and then setting up a puppet regime in Iraq have to do with "peace"?
Whose peace? Who was Iraq threatening when it was conquered, how, and with what?
Is it better to live in a violent primitive Islamic tribal proconsulate than a stable advanced secular dictatorship? Do you want to make an argument about freedom being better than security? Because I'm pretty sure that Bush II's regime - your beloved saviors of Iraq - passed a shedload of US laws based on exactly the opposite position.
Look, I'm going to type this reeeeally slowly to make it easy for you to understand: outside of kiddie cartoons, the enemy of evil is not automatically good. In the real world, it can be evil vs evil.
Uh... what exactly did Bush II do "right", except get them to dig their nuclear facilities deeper underground? The Taepodong-2 was built and tested on Bush II's watch.
Question: to demonstrate this overwhelming new weapon, did the USA have to actually drop it on two Japanese cities? Wouldn't dropping one in the entrance to Tokyo Bay have done the same job?
Well, that's ancient history. How many sovereign nations has North Korea invaded recently?
If your counter is "Only because they're being forcibly prevented", then that only serves to highlight that North Korea can be forcibly prevented from empire building. What's stopping the USA?
Segways are sidewalk users, not road users.
Depends if kdawson's running another Snake Oil Happy Hour Special. So, likely yes.
MAD only applied when the enemy was a State. When it's a bunch of Peace Loving Religious cultists bashing lumps of plutinium together on a boat in New York Harbor, then survivability becomes an issue.
+1 for Interracial Chubby Bondage reference.
Not a userland operating system, no. Do you have some point to make that isn't based on willful ignorance of the preponderance and relative importance of userland vs embedded systems?
No to worry; 4.3.3 is a big step towards producing a compiler that punches you in the balls without a -Wno_punch_in_the_balls option.
Hmm, good spot. The Slashdot summary says:
I've given a hint about which word doesn't appear in the original article.
Now, now, that's not true. You could say that a crack whore is all about giving bareback blowjobs to playas, but that's just the public facing activity to fund the underlying goal.
The Soviets also put retroreflectors on the moon. Remind me, did they do it with a manned mission?
They might get lonely; lob a few lawyers in there as well.