I'm sure that Larry would be happy to agree with you in many cases that the legal system is broken. An attorney's job isn't to fix the legal system. It's to help you live with the existing legal system. You want change, go vote. -russ
You do not need a license to use qmail. Period. End of sentence. And your problem with this is?
Clue: qmail is at version 1.03. qmail has never had a security flaw. Now, if Dan was to change qmail in any way, do you think that would 1) increase qmail's security, 2) decrease qmail's security, or 3) have no effect on qmail's security?
Configuration files are easy to read. cat/var/qmail/control/me. Works for me.
What features do you need that qmail does not have? -russ
There's an optical corner reflector on the moon already. If you know where to look, you can see yourself (more or less) (okay, less rather than more) (but you know what I mean). -russ
You should read his book, _Law's Order_. He goes into great detail about the difference between, and effects of, punishing crime versus preventing crime. -russ
Um, when the government stops something from happening, that is BY DEFINITION interference in the market. How can you praise free markets and market interference in the same posting??? What are you, nuts?
In a free competitive market, sometimes you have winners. Sometimes you only have one winner. This is not a problem with a free market, it is a direct result of a successful competition.
In the Olympics, you have a winner even though the competition is incredibly fierce. Why not in free markets? -russ
Hopefully the government WON'T step in and subsdize (with a Z, thank you very much) them. If they're subsidized, you won't be able to buy them outside India. And yet selling them outside India is *exactly* what the Indian market needs. The more sold outside India (where most people can afford a $200 PDA), the cheaper will be the cost of production, and the cheaper they can be sold inside India. -russ
It's not *impossible* to start a business in India, otherwise nobody would eat or wear anything. It's nearly impossible to start a legal business in India. -russ
Woo hoo! You know about free markets, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. Oops, wrong movie. -russ
The reason India cannot afford lots of imports from the US, Korea, or Japan is BECAUSE THEIR GOVERNMENT CHARGES INCREDIBLY HIGH DUTIES. The theory is that they're protecting the native computer industry, but since there is no such thing, everybody just buys their computers from HP, or Dell, or Compaq, or whoever.
That's why you were accused of smuggling in high tech items, and that's why the demand is so high. -russ
You have obviously never been to India. Drive along any commercial street, and about every five hundred feet you'll see an "ISM" sign. This is a telephone booth, only it isn't really, it's just a store that happens to have a telephone.
Indians are incredible entrepreneurs. They'll buy shit for 13 cents and sell it for 14 cents, and make enough money to feed themselves, their children, his parents, her parents, and his maiden aunt who was so ugly that NOBODY would marry her.
Okay? So they'll sell this computer, many people will buy them, and charge five rupees for five minutes. 9,000 minutes later they've repaid their investment.
Indians have incredible family ties. If you don't call your mother on her birthday, you may as well cut off your testicles and immolate them. You're just the worst sort of scum. And you'll write to her, often, too. If you know she has access to a simputer, and you do too, you can write to her more easily.
The simputer helps Indians be Indians. You can bet your bottom dollar it'll sell. -russ
When a company asks to be regulated, WATCH OUT! What they actually want is to be regulated, so that they can control the regulations. Then, everything they do will be legal, so there won't be any reason to block them. -russ
I looked at their map. I don't believe it. There are many square miles in the Adirondack park which have zero permanent residents (been there, saw that), and yet they don't show up on their map.
Fly over the USA some time. You'll be amazed at the vast quantities of land which have no sign of being touched by humans. -russ
You ask in your signature "Why do peole hate Muslims?" People don't hate Muslims. People hate Islamists, because Islamists think the Koran gives them God's permission to violently suppress other religions.
If the wolves make the laws, the sheep know what's for dinner. The California energy system was never privatized. It was differently regulated. And as we can all see now, badly regulated.
You don't seem to understand that monopolies are not bad, per se. It is monopoly pricing that is bad. And in a free market, a monopoly has a very hard time sustaining monopoly pricing for any length of time. Said length being related to the cost of entry into a business. -russ
It's more the power of the government (which uses guns to get what it wants) then the power of corporations (which uses advertising to get what it wants). Advertising is a lot less lethal than guns. -russ
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It's already the case that most of the programming shops in Bangalore specialize in Windows.
-russ
That's not why it sells the XBox at a loss. It sells it at a loss so that people can afford to buy games which are then profitable.
Microsoft would be selling at a loss to drive (e.g.) Nintendo out of business if it also sold the games at a loss.
-russ
"Obscure"?? What spaceship did you just disembark from? Nothing is obscure in the Day of Google.
-russ
I'm sure that Larry would be happy to agree with you in many cases that the legal system is broken. An attorney's job isn't to fix the legal system. It's to help you live with the existing legal system. You want change, go vote.
-russ
You do not need a license to use qmail. Period. End of sentence. And your problem with this is?
/var/qmail/control/me. Works for me.
Clue: qmail is at version 1.03. qmail has never had a security flaw. Now, if Dan was to change qmail in any way, do you think that would 1) increase qmail's security, 2) decrease qmail's security, or 3) have no effect on qmail's security?
Configuration files are easy to read. cat
What features do you need that qmail does not have?
-russ
If he's dead, who's going to enforce his copyright, and to what end?
-russ
There's an optical corner reflector on the moon already. If you know where to look, you can see yourself (more or less) (okay, less rather than more) (but you know what I mean).
-russ
You should read his book, _Law's Order_. He goes into great detail about the difference between, and effects of, punishing crime versus preventing crime.
-russ
Um, when the government stops something from happening, that is BY DEFINITION interference in the market. How can you praise free markets and market interference in the same posting??? What are you, nuts?
In a free competitive market, sometimes you have winners. Sometimes you only have one winner. This is not a problem with a free market, it is a direct result of a successful competition.
In the Olympics, you have a winner even though the competition is incredibly fierce. Why not in free markets?
-russ
Ghandi was a nice guy, but he didn't understand economics any better than the Christ, who has his own set of economic malapropisms.
-russ
Hopefully the government WON'T step in and subsdize (with a Z, thank you very much) them. If they're subsidized, you won't be able to buy them outside India. And yet selling them outside India is *exactly* what the Indian market needs. The more sold outside India (where most people can afford a $200 PDA), the cheaper will be the cost of production, and the cheaper they can be sold inside India.
-russ
It's not *impossible* to start a business in India, otherwise nobody would eat or wear anything. It's nearly impossible to start a legal business in India.
-russ
Woo hoo! You know about free markets, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. Oops, wrong movie.
-russ
The reason India cannot afford lots of imports from the US, Korea, or Japan is BECAUSE THEIR GOVERNMENT CHARGES INCREDIBLY HIGH DUTIES. The theory is that they're protecting the native computer industry, but since there is no such thing, everybody just buys their computers from HP, or Dell, or Compaq, or whoever.
That's why you were accused of smuggling in high tech items, and that's why the demand is so high.
-russ
You have obviously never been to India. Drive along any commercial street, and about every five hundred feet you'll see an "ISM" sign. This is a telephone booth, only it isn't really, it's just a store that happens to have a telephone.
Indians are incredible entrepreneurs. They'll buy shit for 13 cents and sell it for 14 cents, and make enough money to feed themselves, their children, his parents, her parents, and his maiden aunt who was so ugly that NOBODY would marry her.
Okay? So they'll sell this computer, many people will buy them, and charge five rupees for five minutes. 9,000 minutes later they've repaid their investment.
Indians have incredible family ties. If you don't call your mother on her birthday, you may as well cut off your testicles and immolate them. You're just the worst sort of scum. And you'll write to her, often, too. If you know she has access to a simputer, and you do too, you can write to her more easily.
The simputer helps Indians be Indians. You can bet your bottom dollar it'll sell.
-russ
-russ
This was designed before the Zaurus but after Linux was running on the iPAQ.
-russ
When a company asks to be regulated, WATCH OUT! What they actually want is to be regulated, so that they can control the regulations. Then, everything they do will be legal, so there won't be any reason to block them.
-russ
I looked at their map. I don't believe it. There are many square miles in the Adirondack park which have zero permanent residents (been there, saw that), and yet they don't show up on their map.
Fly over the USA some time. You'll be amazed at the vast quantities of land which have no sign of being touched by humans.
-russ
You ask in your signature "Why do peole hate Muslims?" People don't hate Muslims. People hate Islamists, because Islamists think the Koran gives them God's permission to violently suppress other religions.
Nobody expects it to be a utopia. They just expect it to be better; not perfect.
-russ
If the wolves make the laws, the sheep know what's for dinner. The California energy system was never privatized. It was differently regulated. And as we can all see now, badly regulated.
You don't seem to understand that monopolies are not bad, per se. It is monopoly pricing that is bad. And in a free market, a monopoly has a very hard time sustaining monopoly pricing for any length of time. Said length being related to the cost of entry into a business.
-russ
The Civil War was at least in part a battle for the right to own people. Big difference.
-russ
It's more the power of the government (which uses guns to get what it wants) then the power of corporations (which uses advertising to get what it wants). Advertising is a lot less lethal than guns.
-russ
Vectrex, 1982. Do the math. Sigh.
-russ
Didn't Doonesbury already mock this idea?
-russ