``I don't know anyone who declares money received through paypal to the tax man.''
Well, now you do. BTW, the feds aren't interested in money that comes through paypal. They're only interested in net profit which may, or may not, have come in through paypal.
Keep in mind that the driver behind this project is one of the drivers behind Biosphere II. The real business plan (per TFA):
is to build a full-scale version of the planned Mars settlement and charge visitors to tour the "Mars Settlement Research and Outreach Center." 4Frontiers hopes to have a site selected for the center by the end of this year, said company co-founder and CEO Mark Homnick
I doubt it will raise enough cash to get to Mars. OTOH, I don't doubt that it will raise enough cash to line the pockets of the folks bootstrapping the company.
Depending on whether or not you count US presence in the middle east, estimates of US government subsidies to the oil industry range from twenty cents to a buck and half per gallon.
The US government funds the building of pipelines, exploration for new oil reserves, leases federal land at below market rates, etc., etc. And all that before the latest energy bill just signed into law which massively increases the amount of subsidies going to oil firms.
The link I made above to the actual governor's proclamation, I think, would be definitive. It clarifies that there is no state of martial law.
I'll concede that an arguable case may be made that martial law has been declared, but I think that there is presently good reason to reject the term for the present state of affairs. Martial law is when the military becomes the sole means of justice. Presently, the military has taken over the role of the police in New Orleans. But there are many other cases where the military does police work, so I don't think that the military enforcing the civilian code of law ought to be referred to as martial law.
If the military were trying individuals before military tribunals or creating a new code of law to be enforced, I would agree that martial law is present in New Orleans. As it is, though, if military personnel arrests individuals, will be tried before civilian courts. Further, the military is only enforcing the decrees and statutes of the civilian government of Louisiana.
PyScript integrates Python with the Windows Scripting Host (WSH), Windows' official scripting engine. WSH is interesting because it's scripting language-agnostic, and because it provides an API for adding new scripting languages to the system.
Using WSH, Python has full access many of the core Windows features, such as such as mapping drives, controlling network printers, and remote scripting. WSH also allows Python to be used in login scripts. And since WSH has poor support for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), Python is a nice complement. By using pyscript you get everything that the WSH provides as well as all the capabilities and just plain fun that Python provides.
They're methods of the WSH object. Any language that can make a call to the WSH Active X control can create a WSH object. After invoking something like:
var wshObj = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");... you should have access to all of the methods of the WSH.
One of the case studies in the article is about Linux running on IBM's zSeries mainframes. Given that memory and timing issues on the zSeries is abstracted out of the OS that is running in a virtual partition, I'd say that these puppies will trounce Solaris with regards to scheduling, timing, throughput and memory issues.
The article addresses the people factor. The first study, the Robert Frances report, specifically considers training in its report. TCO case studies are always done for a particular case. In *this* case, the companies that were studied already had people with Unix skills. The report would have likely been different if that had not been the case.
From TFA: The biggest disparity in costs at this time comes from Linux's lack of licensing fees, Chad Robinson, principal analyst with Robert Francis Group, said Wednesday during an IBM roundtable. But other cost-of-ownership factors that weigh in favor of Linux, according to the report, include the crossover nature of Unix and Linux skills, as well as lower ongoing support and management costs and improvements in how customers manage their Linux systems.
Second, the other case study in the report deals with Boscov's migration to Linux on an IBM zSeries z900. Are you really arguing that IBM mainframe kit is inferior hardware compared to your typical Windows server?
First, evolution would be more aptly described as 'survival of the adequate' rather than 'survival of the fittest'. That no complex creatures have regenerative capabilities means only that said creatures can adequately survive long enough to reproduce healthy offspring without those capabilities.
Second, there is no choice in evolution. Evolution can't choose attributes because it is a mindless process. Sure, sometimes there is concurrent evolution of similar features, but it isn't like Mother Nature is saying to herself, ``hey, this works great for frogs, so let's do poodles the same way.''
Third, it could be the case that more advanced animals lost this capability because of either side effects that the genes that coded for it conferred or simply because it didn't offer an advantage. There are roughly a bzillion other factors aside from the actual expression of a gene that are in play with regard to whether or not the gene survives to the next generation.
Louisiana is in a state of emergency rather than a state of martial law. Should someone be apprehended for violating the law in one of the areas for which this state has been declared, will that person be tried before a civilian jury or by military tribunal? Certainly this state of emergency has some aspects of martial law, such as suspension of habeas corpus. But until you show me civilians being hauled up in front of military tribunals for civilian crimes, I don't think that what is going on in New Orleans counts as martial law. At most, the US military can hold individuals without charges. We won't be seeing any military tribunals in Louisiana.
Your point about Lincoln is misplaced. It was only after the Civil War that the Supreme Court placed further restrictions on key aspects of martial law in the US. Chief of these restrictions is that the US military is only allowed to resort to military tribunals in the absence of functional civilian courts. Given that civilian courts are functioning within the state of Louisiana, I don't foresee the possibility of martial law in the near term.
But, then maybe you're speaking of Marshall Law rather than marital law.
Louisiana's state constitution does not allow for martial law. A state of emergency has been declared for the areas most impacted by Hurricane Katrina, but that is a far cry from a state of martial law.
From TFA: For accuracy, I think it's important to compare Windows Vista Beta 1 to both Mac OS X Tiger and the promises that Microsoft made at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003
But the only comparissons I could find were between Tiger and Vista. Where were the comparissons of Vista functionality to promises made at PDC 03?
The definition of slavery is nothing else than ownership of another human being. This does not necessarily translate in the right to rape, torture or kill at will. Many past societies where slavery was prevalent had legal codes against this very sort of thing. Further, it is quite evident that, with some types of property, there are regulations that prohibit certain uses. Many places, for example, will arrest and imprison anyone who rapes their pets regardless of the fact that their pets are their private property. In most countries, private property rights are not absolute, but limited by various social conventions.
Not that I'm defending slavery. Explicit slavery is a repugnant practice that all modern civilizations have rightly rejected. My point is merely that your examples of what differentiate employer/employee relationships from master/slave relationships are not attributes that are necessary to the condition of slavery.
The one aspect that makes a difference is the attribute of consent. A master owns a slave regardless of the slave's consent to the relationship. In theory, an employer only employs an employee with the consent of the employee. But in reality, this consent would only truly exist in a world where there would be no question of whether or not the material needs of a laborer were met if that laborer didn't work. In the real world, especially in less developed countries, if individuals don't work, they starve to death or die from exposure. Consequently, it can be argued that these individuals cannot really give consent to an employer/employee relationship.
As you correctly point out, at ``the utter level of poverty many third worlders live in, a few cents more a day can be the difference between life and death.'' In other words, those workers do not have the opportunity to consent to better employment. Their only real choice is to take it because the only alternative is to die. It is not so obvious how this differs from the master/slave relationship.
If Intel supported the AltiVec instructions, large swaths of code that uses AltiVec instructions wouldn't have to be changed in order to use Intel's compiler chain rather than Apple's compiler chain.
But you never know. Working with Win 95 at launch is what convinced me to turn my IT career to Unix from 97 through 03. I'm just now coming back to the Windows world and I have to admit that two things surprised me. The first is how much Windows has grown up. The second is how much it still pisses me off.
Redpack (it would only run Windows 3.x programs if you already had Windows installed) cost me $89 after the rebate.
Bluepack (it had Windows 3.x compiled with Wacomm's much envied 16 bit compiler included) could be found for $129.
I don't think your problem was OS/2
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``Token Ring LAN''
Heh, I remember when some idiot at the brokerage firm I worked at tried to install Windows 95 on the Broken Ring network the weak after 95's release. It took down the whole network. He got escorted out on the spot. Long story short: Broken Ring was a nightmare to support regardless of the OS on the clients.
Later, when I worked at a Help Desk, I loved our clients that ran OS/2. For the most part, they never called. When they did call, the problem was almost always a training issue, ``Yeah, it works that way in Windows, but in OS/2, you have to...'' Those calls were a piece of cake.
Supporting Windows 95 was a mixed bad. For the first two years after release, supporting the OEM version was a nightmare. To this day, I'm convinced that the original OEM version of Windows 95 was nothing more than an expanded beta test. The retail version, however, wasn't bad to work with at all. At least not at the time of release.
Of course, a couple of years down the road with OEM SR2, the OEM version of Windows 95 became vastly superior to the retail version. At that time, OEM SR2 was the best, easiest to support, Microsoft operating system ever. IMO, its reign as the King of the MS operating systems lasted until 98SE. NT 3.x and 4 were fiendishly difficult to support, mostly because of hardware incompatibility.
Re: I don't know anyone that went from 3.x to NT4
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Sure, there were a few. But for the most part the 3.x (desktop PCs) and NT (workstations) were entirely separate market segments.
2000's big improvements weren't so much architectural, but in improvements on existing architecture. For example, DCOM got slightly reworked and the unified driver model was put in place. 2000 is also light years ahead of 4.0 in terms of stability.
The biggest change, however, was to provide a single code base for both workstation class machines and desktop class machines so that there was no longer an NT line and a 9x line.
I disagree: The 9x to NT kernel was a huge upgrade
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I think that the move from the 9X code base to the NT code base was at least as big of a leap as from the 3.x codebase to the 9x codebase. Granted, the leap seems more evolutionary because of the NT 3.1 -> 4.0 -> 2000 chain, but for most people, the transition was from 95 or 98 -> 2000. This leap was tremendous, even if the UI seemed to stay largely the same.
That said, I do agree that XP is not that large of a change from 2000. Nor does it look like Vista will be that large of a change from XP. At one point, it may have been. But they've taken quite a bit of the innovative features out of Vista. Of course, I don't necessarily know that this is a bad thing. There is something to be said for marginal improvements. My only complaint with Vista is the relative speed at which the marginal change is happening.
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Surely, if the funds change hands as repayment of a loan, as one example, only the interest (if any) is taxed.
In the US, it all gets added into your annual gross adjusted income and gets taxed at whatever tax bracket that falls into.
``I don't know anyone who declares money received through paypal to the tax man.''
Well, now you do. BTW, the feds aren't interested in money that comes through paypal. They're only interested in net profit which may, or may not, have come in through paypal.
As long as they need to trade with Earth for at least one essential items, Earth will be able to browbeat them into accepting copyright conventions.
Read up at:
- The Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Taxpayers for Common Sense
- The Union of Concerned Scientists
The US government funds the building of pipelines, exploration for new oil reserves, leases federal land at below market rates, etc., etc. And all that before the latest energy bill just signed into law which massively increases the amount of subsidies going to oil firms.The link I made above to the actual governor's proclamation, I think, would be definitive. It clarifies that there is no state of martial law.
I'll concede that an arguable case may be made that martial law has been declared, but I think that there is presently good reason to reject the term for the present state of affairs. Martial law is when the military becomes the sole means of justice. Presently, the military has taken over the role of the police in New Orleans. But there are many other cases where the military does police work, so I don't think that the military enforcing the civilian code of law ought to be referred to as martial law.
If the military were trying individuals before military tribunals or creating a new code of law to be enforced, I would agree that martial law is present in New Orleans. As it is, though, if military personnel arrests individuals, will be tried before civilian courts. Further, the military is only enforcing the decrees and statutes of the civilian government of Louisiana.
Consequently, I think that
But they tend to work. One of my present projects is using the WSH engine to automate Crystal Reports.
Oh, the things I do for money!
The AppActivate() and SendKeys() methods of the WScript object will do everything he needs to do.
I won't quibble that WSH is sadly lacking in some aspects of working with a GUI, but it's quite trivial to use WSH to dismiss an error box.
They're methods of the WSH object. Any language that can make a call to the WSH Active X control can create a WSH object. After invoking something like:
... you should have access to all of the methods of the WSH.
var wshObj = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
AppActivate to set the current application to the app that is generating the server did not respond window. Do this before the error gets generated.
Then use SendKeys to send the appropriate key strokes to close the error box.
And you should be using the Python plugin for WSH rather than a stand alone python install.
One of the case studies in the article is about Linux running on IBM's zSeries mainframes. Given that memory and timing issues on the zSeries is abstracted out of the OS that is running in a virtual partition, I'd say that these puppies will trounce Solaris with regards to scheduling, timing, throughput and memory issues.
You are correct about POSIX compliance, though.
The article addresses the people factor. The first study, the Robert Frances report, specifically considers training in its report. TCO case studies are always done for a particular case. In *this* case, the companies that were studied already had people with Unix skills. The report would have likely been different if that had not been the case.
Second, the other case study in the report deals with Boscov's migration to Linux on an IBM zSeries z900. Are you really arguing that IBM mainframe kit is inferior hardware compared to your typical Windows server?
First, evolution would be more aptly described as 'survival of the adequate' rather than 'survival of the fittest'. That no complex creatures have regenerative capabilities means only that said creatures can adequately survive long enough to reproduce healthy offspring without those capabilities.
Second, there is no choice in evolution. Evolution can't choose attributes because it is a mindless process. Sure, sometimes there is concurrent evolution of similar features, but it isn't like Mother Nature is saying to herself, ``hey, this works great for frogs, so let's do poodles the same way.''
Third, it could be the case that more advanced animals lost this capability because of either side effects that the genes that coded for it conferred or simply because it didn't offer an advantage. There are roughly a bzillion other factors aside from the actual expression of a gene that are in play with regard to whether or not the gene survives to the next generation.
Louisiana is in a state of emergency rather than a state of martial law. Should someone be apprehended for violating the law in one of the areas for which this state has been declared, will that person be tried before a civilian jury or by military tribunal? Certainly this state of emergency has some aspects of martial law, such as suspension of habeas corpus. But until you show me civilians being hauled up in front of military tribunals for civilian crimes, I don't think that what is going on in New Orleans counts as martial law. At most, the US military can hold individuals without charges. We won't be seeing any military tribunals in Louisiana.
Your point about Lincoln is misplaced. It was only after the Civil War that the Supreme Court placed further restrictions on key aspects of martial law in the US. Chief of these restrictions is that the US military is only allowed to resort to military tribunals in the absence of functional civilian courts. Given that civilian courts are functioning within the state of Louisiana, I don't foresee the possibility of martial law in the near term.
But, then maybe you're speaking of Marshall Law rather than marital law.
Louisiana's state constitution does not allow for martial law. A state of emergency has been declared for the areas most impacted by Hurricane Katrina, but that is a far cry from a state of martial law.
But the only comparissons I could find were between Tiger and Vista. Where were the comparissons of Vista functionality to promises made at PDC 03?
The definition of slavery is nothing else than ownership of another human being. This does not necessarily translate in the right to rape, torture or kill at will. Many past societies where slavery was prevalent had legal codes against this very sort of thing. Further, it is quite evident that, with some types of property, there are regulations that prohibit certain uses. Many places, for example, will arrest and imprison anyone who rapes their pets regardless of the fact that their pets are their private property. In most countries, private property rights are not absolute, but limited by various social conventions.
Not that I'm defending slavery. Explicit slavery is a repugnant practice that all modern civilizations have rightly rejected. My point is merely that your examples of what differentiate employer/employee relationships from master/slave relationships are not attributes that are necessary to the condition of slavery.
The one aspect that makes a difference is the attribute of consent. A master owns a slave regardless of the slave's consent to the relationship. In theory, an employer only employs an employee with the consent of the employee. But in reality, this consent would only truly exist in a world where there would be no question of whether or not the material needs of a laborer were met if that laborer didn't work. In the real world, especially in less developed countries, if individuals don't work, they starve to death or die from exposure. Consequently, it can be argued that these individuals cannot really give consent to an employer/employee relationship.
As you correctly point out, at ``the utter level of poverty many third worlders live in, a few cents more a day can be the difference between life and death.'' In other words, those workers do not have the opportunity to consent to better employment. Their only real choice is to take it because the only alternative is to die. It is not so obvious how this differs from the master/slave relationship.
If Intel supported the AltiVec instructions, large swaths of code that uses AltiVec instructions wouldn't have to be changed in order to use Intel's compiler chain rather than Apple's compiler chain.
But you never know. Working with Win 95 at launch is what convinced me to turn my IT career to Unix from 97 through 03. I'm just now coming back to the Windows world and I have to admit that two things surprised me. The first is how much Windows has grown up. The second is how much it still pisses me off.
Redpack (it would only run Windows 3.x programs if you already had Windows installed) cost me $89 after the rebate.
Bluepack (it had Windows 3.x compiled with Wacomm's much envied 16 bit compiler included) could be found for $129.
``Token Ring LAN''
...'' Those calls were a piece of cake.
Heh, I remember when some idiot at the brokerage firm I worked at tried to install Windows 95 on the Broken Ring network the weak after 95's release. It took down the whole network. He got escorted out on the spot. Long story short: Broken Ring was a nightmare to support regardless of the OS on the clients.
Later, when I worked at a Help Desk, I loved our clients that ran OS/2. For the most part, they never called. When they did call, the problem was almost always a training issue, ``Yeah, it works that way in Windows, but in OS/2, you have to
Supporting Windows 95 was a mixed bad. For the first two years after release, supporting the OEM version was a nightmare. To this day, I'm convinced that the original OEM version of Windows 95 was nothing more than an expanded beta test. The retail version, however, wasn't bad to work with at all. At least not at the time of release.
Of course, a couple of years down the road with OEM SR2, the OEM version of Windows 95 became vastly superior to the retail version. At that time, OEM SR2 was the best, easiest to support, Microsoft operating system ever. IMO, its reign as the King of the MS operating systems lasted until 98SE. NT 3.x and 4 were fiendishly difficult to support, mostly because of hardware incompatibility.
Sure, there were a few. But for the most part the 3.x (desktop PCs) and NT (workstations) were entirely separate market segments.
2000's big improvements weren't so much architectural, but in improvements on existing architecture. For example, DCOM got slightly reworked and the unified driver model was put in place. 2000 is also light years ahead of 4.0 in terms of stability.
The biggest change, however, was to provide a single code base for both workstation class machines and desktop class machines so that there was no longer an NT line and a 9x line.
I think that the move from the 9X code base to the NT code base was at least as big of a leap as from the 3.x codebase to the 9x codebase. Granted, the leap seems more evolutionary because of the NT 3.1 -> 4.0 -> 2000 chain, but for most people, the transition was from 95 or 98 -> 2000. This leap was tremendous, even if the UI seemed to stay largely the same.
That said, I do agree that XP is not that large of a change from 2000. Nor does it look like Vista will be that large of a change from XP. At one point, it may have been. But they've taken quite a bit of the innovative features out of Vista. Of course, I don't necessarily know that this is a bad thing. There is something to be said for marginal improvements. My only complaint with Vista is the relative speed at which the marginal change is happening.