Christ is something that was tacked onto Saturnalia 1600 years ago, and despite the efforts of the Christians the festive nature of the Holiday hasn't changed.
1. SCO Loses. (Most likely) They go bankrupt and everyone is out of work.
2. SCO Wins. They get License fees and don't need anyone outside of the accounting department and everyone else is out of work.
Either way SCO dosen't look like a good long term employment bet for most people. Might be a good idea to update the old resume before they find themselves compeating with all the other former SCO employees in the job market.
The current laws are a liberal measure to "protect" lazy investers from the consequances of not bothering to check out the claims of Corporations they invest in, an apt subject in the case of SCO.
The most Irresponible corporate actions I see are from Non Profits. They pull SCO type actions on a regular basis, making wild charges before courts and regulatory agencies that result in far more time and money wasted than SCO has managed over the past few months. PETA and Greenpeace have been pulling shit like SCO is attempting for years, with their executives hiding behind the NPC legal fiction.
It might be fun to get rid of the Legal Fiction. Then people could file Bankruptcy inducing lawsuits against indiviual members of non profit corporations like PETA and Greenpeace.
The Legal Fiction of a Corporate identity is nothing more than a means of creating a shared ownership model. It's existance still depends on the indiviual rights of the people who own it.
I'm not a worshiper of any of the "middle eastern dieties", and I fail to see what "middle eastern" religon has to do with the subject. It's introduction says more about your personal bigotry than about the concept of indiviual rights which originated in Greek and Roman (Pagan) philosophical ideas on Natural Law.
"I dislike the libertarians because (like Bush) they often seem to be more interested in the rights of corporations than of human beings"
I Dislike Liberals because they forget (or ignore) the fact that the owners of those corporations are human beings who have rights. The "Rights" of a corporation are derived from the rights of the indiviuals who own it. An attack on "Corporate Rights" is actually an attack on the indiviual rights of the human beings who own the Corporation.
I Would like the SEC to implement a freeze on the buying and selling of SCOX so that the slimeballs playing the pump & dump scam will take it in the ass when the stock collapses.
The Ruling was from a three Judge panel, not the full court. The Ruling was only if the court could enforce supeonas, not legalizing file sharing. The RIAA has the right to appeal to the full court or the the Supremes, which they allmost certainly will. The law wasn't struck down as unconstitunal, so even if the Supremes uphold the ruling the RIAA can take go to Congress to get the supeonas legalized. This isn't going away just yet.
"School shouldn't be about filling your head with facts, but about encouraging you to study things that you're interested in."
If that were the case the majority of the students would be studying subjects like Football and there wouldn't be enough demand for Math and Scince to make it worth the effort of building classrooms to teach those subjects in.
The Wright Brothers flight led to the formation of the Wright Company in 1909, the first Company to actually produce an aircraft model in numbers instead of the one off experimental aircraft of the early days. Wright later merged with arch rival Curtis forming the Curtis Wright company which produced the Engines for the DC3 among many other important aircraft from the 1920s through the 1940s. Curtis Wright is still in business producing aircraft control systems as well as branching out into other control systems for non aviation purposes such as the control valves used in US Nuclear Submarines and the M1A1 tank.
That flight in Kitty Hawk was the start of the aviation industry rather than the dead ends that some of the other claiment's achivements turned out to be.
You are missing one thing that isn't a constant, yhe number of titles released. As the RIAA members merge into larger and larger companies they are releasing fewer and fewer titles each year.
A CD that isn't released will sell ZERO copies
The RIAA is pushing formula music and not releasing as many titles, and it's the bands that haven't made it big that are getting hit the hardest. Some of these bands could have been this years big run away hit, but they never got recorded because they didn't have the formula sound the RIAA is looking for.
The Champ Vaporware is the stuff that predates personal computers. Things like Flying Cars, Commerical Space Travel, Personal Robots, and Fusion Reactors have been been talked about for decades not just a few years.
There are a lot of people who have been online for years that are leaving the premium Dial Ups like AOL and Earthlink for the bargin dialups. The type of user that checks his email each day, and maybe his stocks. The light users. These are the people that the Netscape ISP is aimed at.
The Netscape dosen't have the recognition it had 5 years ago, but it still has more than NewName ISP would have.
AOL is getting hit from the top and the bottom. High Speed Access is erroding their customer base from the top, and Low Cost Dialups are attracting customers from the bottom. Having their own low cost Dial Up will allow them to at least get some money from people who are leaving them for a cheaper alternitive. Using the AOL brand name for the cheaper service would cause confusion (Why am I being billed 23.95? I saw an ad for 9.95!) so they needed a different name for it. They already own the rights to a well known name associated with the Internet, Netscape, so it was a natural choice.
Let's not omit the forced abdication of James II when Parliment invited William of Orange to invade in 1688. That was a regime change, though it still predates the American Constution.
There is a simple way to avoid the "tribute", Don't fucking use MS Software !
If you don't like the GPL, then don't use GPL software, If you don't like the BSD License, avoid software licensed under it. If you don't like any licenses then get off your ass and write an OS and release it into the public domain.
I'm really getting bored with snotty nosed little brats whinning because someone won't GIVE them a piece of candy or a piece of software. Quit acting like a spoiled 3 year old that didn't get the toy he wanted and grow up.
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Christ is something that was tacked onto Saturnalia 1600 years ago, and despite the efforts of the Christians the festive nature of the Holiday hasn't changed.
Saturn is the reason for the season.
Hmmmm......
Two Posibilities.
1. SCO Loses. (Most likely) They go bankrupt and everyone is out of work.
2. SCO Wins. They get License fees and don't need anyone outside of the accounting department and everyone else is out of work.
Either way SCO dosen't look like a good long term employment bet for most people. Might be a good idea to update the old resume before they find themselves compeating with all the other former SCO employees in the job market.
The current laws are a liberal measure to "protect" lazy investers from the consequances of not bothering to check out the claims of Corporations they invest in, an apt subject in the case of SCO.
The most Irresponible corporate actions I see are from Non Profits. They pull SCO type actions on a regular basis, making wild charges before courts and regulatory agencies that result in far more time and money wasted than SCO has managed over the past few months. PETA and Greenpeace have been pulling shit like SCO is attempting for years, with their executives hiding behind the NPC legal fiction.
A Coward wrote "Nice strawman, asshole"
Strawman?
About half the shit Leftists post about wealthy people looks like it was plagerized from Joseph Goebbels.
It might be fun to get rid of the Legal Fiction. Then people could file Bankruptcy inducing lawsuits against indiviual members of non profit corporations like PETA and Greenpeace.
"Joe Jackass"?
Now Where have I heard the use of dehumanizing terms as part of an attack on some groups rights?
Oh Yes!! I Remember!! Terms like "Nigger" and "Kike" to describe groups of people whom another group wished to deprive of their rights!
The Legal Fiction of a Corporate identity is nothing more than a means of creating a shared ownership model. It's existance still depends on the indiviual rights of the people who own it.
I'm not a worshiper of any of the "middle eastern dieties", and I fail to see what "middle eastern" religon has to do with the subject. It's introduction says more about your personal bigotry than about the concept of indiviual rights which originated in Greek and Roman (Pagan) philosophical ideas on Natural Law.
"I dislike the libertarians because (like Bush) they often seem to be more interested in the rights of corporations than of human beings"
I Dislike Liberals because they forget (or ignore) the fact that the owners of those corporations are human beings who have rights. The "Rights" of a corporation are derived from the rights of the indiviuals who own it. An attack on "Corporate Rights" is actually an attack on the indiviual rights of the human beings who own the Corporation.
Dear Santa,
I Would like the SEC to implement a freeze on the buying and selling of SCOX so that the slimeballs playing the pump & dump scam will take it in the ass when the stock collapses.
" Which is what people have been pushed to by the RIAA"
Do you mean the postion the RIAA was pushed to by people ILLEGALY distrubiting copyrighted materials via P2P?
The Ruling was from a three Judge panel, not the full court. The Ruling was only if the court could enforce supeonas, not legalizing file sharing. The RIAA has the right to appeal to the full court or the the Supremes, which they allmost certainly will. The law wasn't struck down as unconstitunal, so even if the Supremes uphold the ruling the RIAA can take go to Congress to get the supeonas legalized. This isn't going away just yet.
"Please save us some time and handcuff yourself before we get there."
The East Point Georgia Police department has made arresting yourself easy with thier Citizen's self arrest form.
All you pirates head here to turn yourself in
"School shouldn't be about filling your head with facts, but about encouraging you to study things that you're interested in."
If that were the case the majority of the students would be studying subjects like Football and there wouldn't be enough demand for Math and Scince to make it worth the effort of building classrooms to teach those subjects in.
The Wright Brothers flight led to the formation of the Wright Company in 1909, the first Company to actually produce an aircraft model in numbers instead of the one off experimental aircraft of the early days. Wright later merged with arch rival Curtis forming the Curtis Wright company which produced the Engines for the DC3 among many other important aircraft from the 1920s through the 1940s. Curtis Wright is still in business producing aircraft control systems as well as branching out into other control systems for non aviation purposes such as the control valves used in US Nuclear Submarines and the M1A1 tank.
That flight in Kitty Hawk was the start of the aviation industry rather than the dead ends that some of the other claiment's achivements turned out to be.
You are missing one thing that isn't a constant, yhe number of titles released. As the RIAA members merge into larger and larger companies they are releasing fewer and fewer titles each year.
A CD that isn't released will sell ZERO copies
The RIAA is pushing formula music and not releasing as many titles, and it's the bands that haven't made it big that are getting hit the hardest. Some of these bands could have been this years big run away hit, but they never got recorded because they didn't have the formula sound the RIAA is looking for.
CUBS (Columbia Ultimate Business Systems) on SCO servers is very common for bill collection companies
;-)
Another reason to hate SCO!!
Then maybe we should help Linux-POS
http://www.linux-pos.org/
And kill what's left of SCO's market.
The Champ Vaporware is the stuff that predates personal computers. Things like Flying Cars, Commerical Space Travel, Personal Robots, and Fusion Reactors have been been talked about for decades not just a few years.
There are a lot of people who have been online for years that are leaving the premium Dial Ups like AOL and Earthlink for the bargin dialups. The type of user that checks his email each day, and maybe his stocks. The light users. These are the people that the Netscape ISP is aimed at.
The Netscape dosen't have the recognition it had 5 years ago, but it still has more than NewName ISP would have.
AOL is getting hit from the top and the bottom. High Speed Access is erroding their customer base from the top, and Low Cost Dialups are attracting customers from the bottom. Having their own low cost Dial Up will allow them to at least get some money from people who are leaving them for a cheaper alternitive. Using the AOL brand name for the cheaper service would cause confusion (Why am I being billed 23.95? I saw an ad for 9.95!) so they needed a different name for it. They already own the rights to a well known name associated with the Internet, Netscape, so it was a natural choice.
ROFLMAO.
Why am I not surprised that Ramsey Kook popped up here!
Let's not omit the forced abdication of James II when Parliment invited William of Orange to invade in 1688. That was a regime change, though it still predates the American Constution.
It's no worse than the mindless leftwing drivel in many of the sigs.
There is a simple way to avoid the "tribute", Don't fucking use MS Software !
If you don't like the GPL, then don't use GPL software, If you don't like the BSD License, avoid software licensed under it. If you don't like any licenses then get off your ass and write an OS and release it into the public domain.
I'm really getting bored with snotty nosed little brats whinning because someone won't GIVE them a piece of candy or a piece of software. Quit acting like a spoiled 3 year old that didn't get the toy he wanted and grow up.
"Seems to me that the punishment should fit the crime"
Good idea, let's force feed him one can of SPAM for each spam he sent out. Without removing the processed meat product from the can.