Right, it's that way here in the States, too. I was more interested in whether CmdrTaco would have to alter the database to comply with the sale of a comment and a cease-and-desist, though.:)
It takes a lot of logical processing on top of the neural bitwise decisionmaking to distill the 95% to the 99% or so correct answer rate that constitutes "intelligent thought".
So what sort of magical new cell that you have discovered is involved in the logicification of neuronal input? I think you'll find that the magical cells are actually neurons themselves...:)
Hrm, so if I buy from you the moral right to claim authorship of your comment, would that mean I could make Taco change the comment to say it was from me? How about the copyright?
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p.s., I need an army of lawyers at my beck and call.
The problem with class action lawsuits is that the lawyers settle, collect millions of dollars, and the petitioners get coupons on future software purchases from the violator! Buncha jerks, I tell ya's...
As I understand it, you can still buy just one copy of RedHat Enterprise and install it on a zillion machines -- just don't expect zillion-machine level support for one lousy copy.
A company I interviewed for does web-based photo fulfillment. Wal-mart was looking to get into the biz and asked them for a tour before signing the contract. After the tour, Wal-mart aborted contract negotiations and started their own fulfillment program -- modeled exactly after the other company's. Bastards.
The Terms of Service still stipulate you cannot run servers. You can be disconnected at any time they feel like it. Sure, they haven't been Nazis this year. What about next year? However much I HATE SBC, their TOS are better. Unfortunately, in my zipcode, RR and SBC are my only options.
It's just more overhead. That's visible in your typical PPPoE MTU of 1492 vs. typical Ethernet @ 1500. That's 8 bytes of lost bandwidth, not to mention the CPU time to calculate TCP/IP over PPP over Ethernet vs. just TCP/IP over Ethernet. Sure, it's easier for the TELCO to manage, but you're paying for it in bandwidth and CPU time. Given funky ADSL rates like 1500 down / 128 up, that 8 bytes can eat into your big uploads quickly.
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p.s., I have RR Cable and SBC DSL (Austin, TX). RR has greater -- especially upload -- bandwidth. SBC has better latency and better Terms of Service.
Speaking of John... I was at the local Goodwill last night. Take one guess as to which software claimed the most shelf space there. I got a good laugh out of it.
Right, so your argument is that: Perl encourages learning and broadening your programming vocabulary whereas Java and corporate standards encourage conformity and stagnation?
As a native put it to me, it's "Cincinnati chili", not "chili chili". If you go in thinking you're getting old fashioned cowboy Texas chili, you're in for a suprise.:)
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Consumer Reports is only part of the equation of balancing corporate profits with fair labor practices and customer safety. Off the cuff, CR appears to have these problems:
You have to be subscribed or go to a library to read it
CR doesn't set standards, it just makes comparisons of products already in the marketplace
CR is not on the label at the supermarket
I'm not sure that CR reports on the labor going into a product -- just the product's performance
CR does not have the force of law behind it to punish bad instances of corner-cutting
The free market demands that government maintain, under force of law, a level playing field.
OSHA falls under the "necessary and proper" clause. Argue all you want, complain about judicial activism, but it goes all the way back to McCullogh vs Maryland in 1819 and the Supreme Court has consistently held up that interpretation. If you want a government without implied powers, you'll have to roll your own.
When no business in the industry is certified, there is a defacto monopoly-of-practice. In many industries, it would be very hard for a start-up, certified business to compete with the huge, entrenched, uncertified Corporate Machines. The free market dictates "cheap", though what a customer might really want is "cheap, but Evil-free".
Customers often don't know who is or who isn't certified or what the certification means. Maybe I personally wouldn't mind paying more for XYZ good if I could read right there on the label that it's a Certified[tm] company in "Fair Labor Practices". Maybe I should be able to zap it with my CueCat and find out if the company is under investigation for violations.
Some industry certifications are meaningless since the cert orgs are packed with industry lackeys. Of course, it's in their best interest to keep this quiet so the Cert brand remains respected.
Of course, the government isn't immune to bribery, but it does have the advantage of being able to set minimum standards for entire industries so corporations can compete without having to do Evil. Unfortunately, do-gooder-y is hard to export and many countries sell their souls to Evil so their corporations can undercut non-Evil companies in the ethics-neutral, global free market.
This is why it is important for big trade agreements to include minimum standards for labor, environment, and the like. Minimum, global standards protect the marketplace from punishing the humans at the bottom who keep it going and allow Good Corporations to continue to compete.
I'd contact your PUC and see if you can get a refund on all your damaged equipment. You could use the refund to purchase some regulators (or spare coffee makers...)
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Firefox ate mine too... My fault for using 'mv .mozilla-firebird .firefox' instead of 'tar' + Import facility.
Highly annoying.
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Right, it's that way here in the States, too. I was more interested in whether CmdrTaco would have to alter the database to comply with the sale of a comment and a cease-and-desist, though. :)
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So what sort of magical new cell that you have discovered is involved in the logicification of neuronal input? I think you'll find that the magical cells are actually neurons themselves... :)
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Hrm, so if I buy from you the moral right to claim authorship of your comment, would that mean I could make Taco change the comment to say it was from me? How about the copyright?
-l
p.s., I need an army of lawyers at my beck and call.
The problem with class action lawsuits is that the lawyers settle, collect millions of dollars, and the petitioners get coupons on future software purchases from the violator! Buncha jerks, I tell ya's...
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Doesn't matter to me, as I use Debian and haven't needed to look into RH licensing. I'm just surprised they'd try and finagle that in.
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As I understand it, you can still buy just one copy of RedHat Enterprise and install it on a zillion machines -- just don't expect zillion-machine level support for one lousy copy.
No?
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A company I interviewed for does web-based photo fulfillment. Wal-mart was looking to get into the biz and asked them for a tour before signing the contract. After the tour, Wal-mart aborted contract negotiations and started their own fulfillment program -- modeled exactly after the other company's. Bastards.
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The Terms of Service still stipulate you cannot run servers. You can be disconnected at any time they feel like it. Sure, they haven't been Nazis this year. What about next year? However much I HATE SBC, their TOS are better. Unfortunately, in my zipcode, RR and SBC are my only options.
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It's just more overhead. That's visible in your typical PPPoE MTU of 1492 vs. typical Ethernet @ 1500. That's 8 bytes of lost bandwidth, not to mention the CPU time to calculate TCP/IP over PPP over Ethernet vs. just TCP/IP over Ethernet. Sure, it's easier for the TELCO to manage, but you're paying for it in bandwidth and CPU time. Given funky ADSL rates like 1500 down / 128 up, that 8 bytes can eat into your big uploads quickly.
$0.02USD,
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p.s., I have RR Cable and SBC DSL (Austin, TX). RR has greater -- especially upload -- bandwidth. SBC has better latency and better Terms of Service.
Speaking of John... I was at the local Goodwill last night. Take one guess as to which software claimed the most shelf space there. I got a good laugh out of it.
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Right, so your argument is that: Perl encourages learning and broadening your programming vocabulary whereas Java and corporate standards encourage conformity and stagnation?
???
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As a native put it to me, it's "Cincinnati chili", not "chili chili". If you go in thinking you're getting old fashioned cowboy Texas chili, you're in for a suprise. :)
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They were trying to save water, too! ;)
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The free market demands that government maintain, under force of law, a level playing field.
$0.02USD,
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OSHA falls under the "necessary and proper" clause. Argue all you want, complain about judicial activism, but it goes all the way back to McCullogh vs Maryland in 1819 and the Supreme Court has consistently held up that interpretation. If you want a government without implied powers, you'll have to roll your own.
-l
Of course, the government isn't immune to bribery, but it does have the advantage of being able to set minimum standards for entire industries so corporations can compete without having to do Evil. Unfortunately, do-gooder-y is hard to export and many countries sell their souls to Evil so their corporations can undercut non-Evil companies in the ethics-neutral, global free market.
This is why it is important for big trade agreements to include minimum standards for labor, environment, and the like. Minimum, global standards protect the marketplace from punishing the humans at the bottom who keep it going and allow Good Corporations to continue to compete.
$0.02USD,
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Still legal in TWELVE states!
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A killbot that welds luminescent steel dildos? Yeow!
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I'd contact your PUC and see if you can get a refund on all your damaged equipment. You could use the refund to purchase some regulators (or spare coffee makers...)
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Your "HaHa!" made me think of Nelson (from the Simpsons of course)... they should have a Nelson Office Assistant. Now THAT'D be funny.
"It looks like you're writing a letter to your Grandma. Ha-ha!"
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