Hmm, you've got a point. GPL3 does now contain some very spurious language that attempts to assert that the recipient has "agreed" to the GPL if they distribute.
That's exceptionally foolish, as it muddies the water between a pure license - with copyright as a remedy - and a contract. Another Eben Moglen classic - why use one word, when seven will say more of less the same thing, in a more ambiguous way.
Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west, near Hawtch-Hawtch, there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher. His job is to watch... is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee. A bee that is watched will work harder, you see.
Well...he watched and he watched. But, in spite of his watch, that bee didn't work any harder. Not mawtch.
So then somebody said, 'Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee-watching as hard as he can. He ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a Bee-Watcher -Watcher!'
Well... The Bee-Watcher-Watcher watched the Bee-Watcher. He didn't watch well. So another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a Watch Watcher-Watcher!
And today all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch, Watch-Watching the Watcher who's watching that bee.
You're not a Hawtch-Watcher. You're lucky, you see.
First post that actually gets it. Honest to Stallman, if I have to read another post screaming "ZOMG federal GPL violation class action lawsuit SUUUUUUE THEMMMMM!" I'm going to lose what little faith I had left in humanity. We might as well just give up, and let the lawyers drain us dry.
What's a "GPL violation case"? The GPL is a license, not a contract. You'd have to find someone with a copyright interest in the source, and the cause of action would be breach of copyright, not "GPL violation".
A handful of professional complainers complain, and that translates to "most people would find [the plate] to be repulsive".
Hint to you guys: if you read this plate, and your brain says "have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids!", then it's not the plate that's the problem.
With parts made by the cheapest Chinese no-name bidder and slapped together by minimally trained clock watchers in Detroit, you can be sure that while the Car of Tomorrow may not fly, it will become obsolete, broken down and uneconomic to fix quicker and more efficiently than ever before. Recycling essentially roadworthy cars with a couple of busted black boxes is certainly going to be a growth industry - unfortunately, it'll all be done in China as well.
100% agree. I tried Lord of the Rings online once it went free to play, and, bleurgh, it's just yet another "deliver this pot pie" and "exterminate ten Pointy Birds" snoozefest of mundanity. The novelty of getting "fetch me a carrot" quests from a badly voiced model with "ARAGORN" floating over it wears off rapidly, and after that, there's really nothing to distinguish it from WOW, except the price. And even giving it away, they're losing players.
If Old Republic is betting on its name being enough to provide an ongoing thrill, then they're making a huge mistake.
Well, it's even worse, since the only high score table that matters is the World Of Pacman one, that all your friends play.
If Old Republic actually launches as free to download, free to play, then it stands an outside chance of getting the required numbers. Making a profit will have to be step 3. If they try launch as a $50 box with a $15 subscription fee, well, at least it'll save them the expense of buying many servers.
We're talking about a broad who won't go and accept an award in person because They Might Get Her. Another sign that she's a spazz is the high concentration of White Knight Syndrome displayed by the dateless wonders who worship her.
I mean that in the nicest possible way, she's a shy nerd spazz. Lovely voice, but a total paranoid shut-in. Probably got lots of cats and a glass menagerie.
People like PJ don't readily trust other people, because they don't really know any other people. If this "Brian Proffitt" character wants a bigger Groklaw, he'd better get on with creating it himself.
What do you imagine would happen if the rest of the world tried to get tough with China, and the Chinese regime locked down the ports, told their businesses that they'd underwrite their wage bills in order to keep the peasants working, and just started backing up all the exports - or for that matter, just diverted them straight from the factories that make them to the factories that recycle them?
I'd give it a week before the rest of the planet blinked and caved in completely. We need them China a lot more than China needs us. You don't bluff on a pair of sevens.
Oh, well done. The Pacific Institute knows about water use, granted, but are clearly a bunch of biased eco-hippies. Note that their refutation criticises the assumptions in the original report, but then makes a whole bunch of different assumptions that are blatantly chosen just to produce their pre-selected outcome. That kind of awful belief based pseudo-science is at the heart of most greenwashing scams, and while it's fine for grabbing more funding, sooner or later physics is going to have its say.
What is a switch dies and takes out sixteen users?
Replace switch with spare. Back online in an hour or so.
Attempt to fill in IT service request to replace switch. Realise need computer to do that. Pick up phone, but forgotten how to use. Wander hallways seeking IT support monkey. Monkeys elusive, cunning, always escape behind cubicle. Finally corner one, demand support. Monkey needs key to server room but IT manager must authorise taking key off hook. IT manager away doing Six Sigma Course. Monkey suggest fill in IT service request. Escape into air duct.
Reality of corporate environment not always match SLA. Rogerborg sad, but must speak truth, even if delivered in cursive.
Internal combustion engines are very clean now. Fossil plants might become clean in the next generation, which means in about 20 years time. The time for electric cars is therefore in 20 years, not now.
Now they just need to capture all the pollutants from the fossil plants that produce (at least, California is the best case) 80% of the electricity for these abominations, and have them pump it out of them as they drive.
Honest to god, I can't decide whether (current) photovoltaic cells or (current) electric cars are the bigger greenwashing scam, but they both boil my piss. Take fossil fuels, add a liberal dose of my tax money, and hey, you have something that will never, ever recoup the energy costs it took to make it in its working life. SCIENCE!
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Hmm, you've got a point. GPL3 does now contain some very spurious language that attempts to assert that the recipient has "agreed" to the GPL if they distribute.
That's exceptionally foolish, as it muddies the water between a pure license - with copyright as a remedy - and a contract. Another Eben Moglen classic - why use one word, when seven will say more of less the same thing, in a more ambiguous way.
Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west, near Hawtch-Hawtch, there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher. His job is to watch... is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee. A bee that is watched will work harder, you see.
Well...he watched and he watched. But, in spite of his watch, that bee didn't work any harder. Not mawtch.
So then somebody said, 'Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee-watching as hard as he can. He ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a Bee-Watcher -Watcher!'
Well... The Bee-Watcher-Watcher watched the Bee-Watcher. He didn't watch well. So another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a Watch Watcher-Watcher!
And today all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch, Watch-Watching the Watcher who's watching that bee.
You're not a Hawtch-Watcher. You're lucky, you see.
First post that actually gets it. Honest to Stallman, if I have to read another post screaming "ZOMG federal GPL violation class action lawsuit SUUUUUUE THEMMMMM!" I'm going to lose what little faith I had left in humanity. We might as well just give up, and let the lawyers drain us dry.
What's a "GPL violation case"? The GPL is a license, not a contract. You'd have to find someone with a copyright interest in the source, and the cause of action would be breach of copyright, not "GPL violation".
A handful of professional complainers complain, and that translates to "most people would find [the plate] to be repulsive".
Hint to you guys: if you read this plate, and your brain says "have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids!", then it's not the plate that's the problem.
With parts made by the cheapest Chinese no-name bidder and slapped together by minimally trained clock watchers in Detroit, you can be sure that while the Car of Tomorrow may not fly, it will become obsolete, broken down and uneconomic to fix quicker and more efficiently than ever before. Recycling essentially roadworthy cars with a couple of busted black boxes is certainly going to be a growth industry - unfortunately, it'll all be done in China as well.
And how much extra tax are you volunteering to pay to recruit people from Google and Apple? Put a number on it.
100% agree. I tried Lord of the Rings online once it went free to play, and, bleurgh, it's just yet another "deliver this pot pie" and "exterminate ten Pointy Birds" snoozefest of mundanity. The novelty of getting "fetch me a carrot" quests from a badly voiced model with "ARAGORN" floating over it wears off rapidly, and after that, there's really nothing to distinguish it from WOW, except the price. And even giving it away, they're losing players.
If Old Republic is betting on its name being enough to provide an ongoing thrill, then they're making a huge mistake.
Well, it's even worse, since the only high score table that matters is the World Of Pacman one, that all your friends play.
If Old Republic actually launches as free to download, free to play, then it stands an outside chance of getting the required numbers. Making a profit will have to be step 3. If they try launch as a $50 box with a $15 subscription fee, well, at least it'll save them the expense of buying many servers.
I'm not Maureen, I'm Darl. And so's my wife.
We're talking about a broad who won't go and accept an award in person because They Might Get Her. Another sign that she's a spazz is the high concentration of White Knight Syndrome displayed by the dateless wonders who worship her.
I mean that in the nicest possible way, she's a shy nerd spazz. Lovely voice, but a total paranoid shut-in. Probably got lots of cats and a glass menagerie.
People like PJ don't readily trust other people, because they don't really know any other people. If this "Brian Proffitt" character wants a bigger Groklaw, he'd better get on with creating it himself.
The fix is to work for smarter people.
What do you imagine would happen if the rest of the world tried to get tough with China, and the Chinese regime locked down the ports, told their businesses that they'd underwrite their wage bills in order to keep the peasants working, and just started backing up all the exports - or for that matter, just diverted them straight from the factories that make them to the factories that recycle them?
I'd give it a week before the rest of the planet blinked and caved in completely. We need them China a lot more than China needs us. You don't bluff on a pair of sevens.
It's the 1st of January, not April.
If you take this even remotely seriously, then The Terrorists have already won.
Any more than they should ban pen and paper and require students to chisel notes on stone slabs. Next stupid question?
Also, I love how he doesn't even bother to explain what Drupal is or why anyone should care. I mean, all the cool kids are already using it, right?
Oh, well done. The Pacific Institute knows about water use, granted, but are clearly a bunch of biased eco-hippies. Note that their refutation criticises the assumptions in the original report, but then makes a whole bunch of different assumptions that are blatantly chosen just to produce their pre-selected outcome. That kind of awful belief based pseudo-science is at the heart of most greenwashing scams, and while it's fine for grabbing more funding, sooner or later physics is going to have its say.
You were doing so well up to there. I despair, I really do.
Attempt to fill in IT service request to replace switch. Realise need computer to do that. Pick up phone, but forgotten how to use. Wander hallways seeking IT support monkey. Monkeys elusive, cunning, always escape behind cubicle. Finally corner one, demand support. Monkey needs key to server room but IT manager must authorise taking key off hook. IT manager away doing Six Sigma Course. Monkey suggest fill in IT service request. Escape into air duct.
Reality of corporate environment not always match SLA. Rogerborg sad, but must speak truth, even if delivered in cursive.
So, who does say it? Point at them.
Internal combustion engines are very clean now. Fossil plants might become clean in the next generation, which means in about 20 years time. The time for electric cars is therefore in 20 years, not now.
I think that's pretty much the nub of that argument. Devs don't sell games at $5 because they want to - it's because they've got no other choice.
Now they just need to capture all the pollutants from the fossil plants that produce (at least, California is the best case) 80% of the electricity for these abominations, and have them pump it out of them as they drive.
Honest to god, I can't decide whether (current) photovoltaic cells or (current) electric cars are the bigger greenwashing scam, but they both boil my piss. Take fossil fuels, add a liberal dose of my tax money, and hey, you have something that will never, ever recoup the energy costs it took to make it in its working life. SCIENCE!