Its an appeal for decition already taken in the bilsky case and nobody in the legal "community" (can lawyers actually be construed as members of any community?) has come up with good arguments for it except the ones appealing.... but, it may be just that I get my news from all the wrong places.
A mean bunch of bastards for claiming patents and not disclosing any kind of infringement. But the ones that buy into the scam, man, those are PLAIN IDIOTS.
Our children's children will eat us for dinner at some point. I have just managed to accept this fact and actually welcome our new youth, blood related canibal overlords
Imposition generates frustration, frustration leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and we all know where hate leads to because we all love Master Yoda.
Really, this is akin to choking you with cheeseburgers until you absolutely hate them forever.
There is nothing "experimental" about open source in hospitals. There are several HIS and hospital management open source solutions that are quite good, throw in some open office in the mix and you have a very cheaply run hospital.
Im sick and tired of this. It replicates along the whole industry and spans countries, crosses the barrier between private and public sectors: some IT managers, the more blindly promicrosoft the more likely, are on the take.
Everybody gets raped in prision if they are in there enough time.
I wish we already dropped the cliche so that somebody would worry about that. Jails in japan, germany or spain are much better places of actual rehabilitation. The american way of jailing people is really third world rate.
Okay, you are using a web browser as a development tool and find it trendy to beat on it because it gets bulky when you decide to make it do stuff that it wasn't inherently designed to do.... and thats the developer's fault?
So you want a web browser that can double as the best web development tool in the planet (i do think that ff+plugins is the best dev platform for the web today), and when doing that is faster and slimmer than even browsers that can only browse (like safari)?
Go for the discrete math. class. It has tons and tons to do with the basic computing theory of turing, which is the father-mother theory of the whole thing and learning to make and evaluate mathematical proof is the true signature of the masterful engineer. You will learn enough to invent algorithms and move on to the hairy part of computing: IA, genetic algorithms, fuzzy thingies and that kind of shit.
Discrete math IS the immediate superset of computing theory.
Precisely my point (your bullets are great +10 informative), would you want to prevent Burroughs work because he made some threats at school?
I mean, he WAS a damned criminal, make no mistake, and for that he was prosecuted and declared guilty in the USA and then went on to kill his wife in a weird "accident". The point here being that a crime is not a crime until it actually happens. Prevention of it because of a certain behaviour pattern that is not at all conclusive (such as writing on a wall non anonymously), may get you punishing someone that may or may not be actually dangerous (sure as HECK burroughs was dangerous).
Some will say: sure, if burroughs was dangerous, he shouldve been behind bars and damn to his work. But not everyone is burroughs, not everyone that thinks harshly or vents anger in writing is dangerous. I would go farther than that: most people that write in anger, will never hurt a soul in the real world. I would worry much more for the people that DONT write how will they commit a crime....
Well I call 29 years "almost teenage" because I actually believe that. Sorry, I guess its my perception that all students in their 20's that write idiotic venting on their walls are *mostly* harmless.
I guess yes.... you may have caught me over reacting myself. But I'll say that it doesn't necessarily invalidate the whole argument. What do you think?
Come on bro, it isn't that simple. Not ALL Americans think that this is ok. Id say most educated people in the world, including America, could question this kind of behaviour by the school, at least, as a knee jerk reaction.
Im just saying it how it looks from the outside. Believe me, I love america.
If enough people consider this kind of thing "prevention" you guys are going to end up in a distopia such that anything remotely violent, even if in plain writing, will be a crime.
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The lawyers had little to do with Bush pardoning Microsoft, giving them a slap in the wrist, instead of what Clinton's DOJ had done so well.
Its an appeal for decition already taken in the bilsky case and nobody in the legal "community" (can lawyers actually be construed as members of any community?) has come up with good arguments for it except the ones appealing.... but, it may be just that I get my news from all the wrong places.
Plain reformat, put linux on the box, or buy a mac.
A mean bunch of bastards for claiming patents and not disclosing any kind of infringement. But the ones that buy into the scam, man, those are PLAIN IDIOTS.
Got bitten by that very smart IT manager that "beleived" in ActiveX, did you?
Killem too.
It doesnt deserve a funeral. Fuck it, all I want is for that piece of SW to be forgotten forever.
Our children's children will eat us for dinner at some point. I have just managed to accept this fact and actually welcome our new youth, blood related canibal overlords
Imposition generates frustration, frustration leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and we all know where hate leads to because we all love Master Yoda.
Really, this is akin to choking you with cheeseburgers until you absolutely hate them forever.
There is nothing "experimental" about open source in hospitals. There are several HIS and hospital management open source solutions that are quite good, throw in some open office in the mix and you have a very cheaply run hospital.
Im sick and tired of this. It replicates along the whole industry and spans countries, crosses the barrier between private and public sectors: some IT managers, the more blindly promicrosoft the more likely, are on the take.
INVESTIGATE NOW.
Ah... but does it run... never mind.
God hates koalas, what more evidence do you need!
Everybody gets raped in prision if they are in there enough time.
I wish we already dropped the cliche so that somebody would worry about that. Jails in japan, germany or spain are much better places of actual rehabilitation. The american way of jailing people is really third world rate.
Okay, you are using a web browser as a development tool and find it trendy to beat on it because it gets bulky when you decide to make it do stuff that it wasn't inherently designed to do.... and thats the developer's fault?
So you want a web browser that can double as the best web development tool in the planet (i do think that ff+plugins is the best dev platform for the web today), and when doing that is faster and slimmer than even browsers that can only browse (like safari)?
Go code your own, lets see if thats possible.
Go for the discrete math. class. It has tons and tons to do with the basic computing theory of turing, which is the father-mother theory of the whole thing and learning to make and evaluate mathematical proof is the true signature of the masterful engineer. You will learn enough to invent algorithms and move on to the hairy part of computing: IA, genetic algorithms, fuzzy thingies and that kind of shit.
Discrete math IS the immediate superset of computing theory.
OMG
You exgirlfriend is a ZOMBIE!
Well hell. You have won this discussion.
Or Neal Cassidy....
Precisely my point (your bullets are great +10 informative), would you want to prevent Burroughs work because he made some threats at school?
I mean, he WAS a damned criminal, make no mistake, and for that he was prosecuted and declared guilty in the USA and then went on to kill his wife in a weird "accident". The point here being that a crime is not a crime until it actually happens. Prevention of it because of a certain behaviour pattern that is not at all conclusive (such as writing on a wall non anonymously), may get you punishing someone that may or may not be actually dangerous (sure as HECK burroughs was dangerous).
Some will say: sure, if burroughs was dangerous, he shouldve been behind bars and damn to his work. But not everyone is burroughs, not everyone that thinks harshly or vents anger in writing is dangerous. I would go farther than that: most people that write in anger, will never hurt a soul in the real world. I would worry much more for the people that DONT write how will they commit a crime....
Man... i couldnt agree more with your statement here... You should get +5 insightful.
He had neurosifilis....
If only Dr. House had been around....
Well I call 29 years "almost teenage" because I actually believe that. Sorry, I guess its my perception that all students in their 20's that write idiotic venting on their walls are *mostly* harmless.
I guess yes.... you may have caught me over reacting myself. But I'll say that it doesn't necessarily invalidate the whole argument. What do you think?
I apologize for the generalization. Its wrong on my part, as you justly point out.
Come on bro, it isn't that simple. Not ALL Americans think that this is ok. Id say most educated people in the world, including America, could question this kind of behaviour by the school, at least, as a knee jerk reaction.
Im just saying it how it looks from the outside. Believe me, I love america.
If enough people consider this kind of thing "prevention" you guys are going to end up in a distopia such that anything remotely violent, even if in plain writing, will be a crime.
Is that a good price to pay?