From my informal sense of public opinion, McCain wouldn't have needed the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court to hand him the presidency. He would have handily crushed Al Gore.
Yeah, right. Anything McCain picked up from moderates, he would have lost double from conservatives, just as George the Elder and Viagra Bob did. That's why there were Democratic activists in states with open primaries encouraging Democratic voters to vote for McCain in the Republican primaries.
The idea that people shouldn't have to buy power with money. That's why we have governments - to equally represent all people.
The more power you place in the hands of government, the more money will be spent to control that power. Governments are created by people with power to maintain their power. Any notion that they "represent all people" is merely pap to pacify the rabble.
I chose Replay eventually, partially because there was no monthly fee.
Ant it was probably $200 more expensive than the same capacity TiVo - at least that's the way it was when I was shopping around. With the TiVo 'lifetime' subscription going for $200 as well, that removed the price/monthly fee issue from the comparison.
the Miranda ruling that resulted in the now famous "You have the right to remain silent" Miranda rights, was initiated by a convicted inmate (Mr. Miranda) hand writing an appeal to the Supreme Court from his jail cell. He had been convicted, never having had a defense lawyer, or knowing that he didn't have to answer any questions in court.
He had lawyers. They were unable to have his confession excluded at trial, appealed it through to the Supreme Court, who ordered a new trial with the confession thrown out. Miranda was again convicted. He died in 1976 after being stabbed during an argument in a bar. The police arrested a suspect, but were forced to release him when he chose to remain silent after being advised of his rights, and noone was ever charged.
The 1st Amendment, among other things, gives you the right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Of course, with the number of petitions I've signed, it is painfully clear they aren't paying any attention to that one either.
Is someone from the government preventing you from petitioning it? You have the right to petition, not the right to have your petitions acted upon.
interviewer: So it's licenced under the "General Public Licence"?
Linus: Yes, the "General Public Licence"
WTF?
What does "GPL" stand for? "GPL" stands for "General Public License". The most widespread such license is the GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. This can be further shortened to "GPL", when it is understood that the GNU GPL is the one intended.
Yes, perhaps Linus should have mentioned that it's the GNU GPL, since it wouldn't necessarily be understod by the listening audience that he did mean the GNU GPL, but... Also, I didn't listen to the interview yet, but I expect that it was taped, and it's possible (but prolly not likely) that he mentioned GNU in a portion of the interview that was not aired.
IDE RAID is silly. For one thing, you need to turn off the write buffering for the IDE drive or you can corrupt data if your power fails.
If you're using RAID in the first place, not having a UPS would be silly.
Do the right thing and use SCSI.
Doing the "right thing" costs money. In an ideal world, you use a hot-swappable SCSI hardware RAID device with redundant power supplies and separate UPSes running off of different power lines leaving your facility at opposite ends of the building and heading to separate substations. That's neither affordable nor reasonable for all applications. IDE software RAID is a bargain-basement solution, but sometimes that's all you really need.
So, if they didn't have the zones, people could buy the DVDs before the movie had been shown at the theatres and so they would loose a lot of money on that.
And how does that explain zoning "Princess Bride", or "Casablanca", or "Citizen Kane", or...? Just how long does it take to show the movie at the theatres?
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We had a good product but the VCs were scared to pay for development because they thought that someone like Eazel would come along and do the same thing for free.
I'm sorry for your circumstances, but your comments suggest that your dot.com had no intention of making the product source available. As such, the threat to the company had little or nothing to do with the GPL, and much to do with having a business plan built around a product which apparently could be easily copied and re-implemented. In that case, it doesn't matter if the re-implementation is done by a group that makes the resulting product available under the GPL or another free or open source license, or if it's done by Microsoft and the resulting binary-only product made freely downloadable. If an organization doesn't produce something marketable which is either difficult or time-consuming for a competitor to duplicate, then it has little chance for survival, GPL or no GPL.
The principal doesn't deserve blame for suspending the kid.
No, he probably doesn't.
He didn't do anything wrong.
Now that's another question entirely. The principal may have used the "right" weasel words to make the threat of criminal proceedings "clearly" nonexistent, but most 13-year olds aren't going to hear the conditionals, they're going to hear "We could have you arrested for this.". That's exactly what the principal expected him to hear, and wanted him to hear. Was it wrong of the principal to make a threat that he knew to be false, but also knew that the student probably wouldn't realize was false? That school district is probably fortunate that I won't be sitting on the jury of a wrongful death lawsuit.
The converse of Moore's law is that a constant amount of computing power gets drastically cheaper with time. But it doesn't. The cheapest laptops have been around $1000 forever now. When can I buy one for $500?
The amount of laptop computing power available for $1000 has been increasing.
I couldn't get down to $500, but here's one for $779.
this article today which says that Napster is dramatically stepping up its filters, to the point of major over-filtering (ie, false positives).
Not really. Taken together, it indicates that the judge is coming to a realization that, even with Napster going so far as to exclude non-infringing files, it's still not possible to exclude all infringing files.
A kid in a highschool simply wouldn't be able to do anything more than injure someone if not for the guns.
So the bombs that were in the Columbine High School had no potential to do more than "injure someone"? If anything, the access to firearms reduced the death toll, because the killers got more personal gratification by blowing people away one by one than they would have by killing them by the dozens.
SDG&E can FORCE me to pay exorbitant prices for electricity (well actually, Sempra) because I have to have it and they've kept cheap alternative power out of the market so long with their brute market force that there are no feasible (as in less expensive) alternatives availiable.
As I understand it (and I may be in error, as I haven't followed the CA power issue as closely as I would have if I lived there) SDG&E doesn't own power generation facilities, and they were (a) kept from locking in power supplies at profitable rates in long-term contracts and (b) kept from having consumer rates reflect the rates they were paying for the supplies by the government. It was government force that set the consumer rates, and government force that kept competition out.
GenericPharmacueticals can FORCE me to pay so much for my patented AIDS cocktail that I cannot afford to buy it.
Yes, because it's the government forcing you to pay so much. It's the armed force of govenment that ensures that only GenericPharmacueticals can make your "patented" AIDS cocktail.
Honestly, if the cops were chasing after the REAL CRIMINALS as you say, we would be up to our eyeballs in petty theft, burglary, and other non-viloent offenses SO FAST THAT YOU MIGHT END UP HAVING TO GET A GUN TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY FROM EVERYONE COMING AND TAKING IT FIVE MINUTES LATER.
First, where was it said that those who commit "petty theft, burglary, and other non-viloent offenses" aren't "real criminals"? Nice strawman. Second, wake up and realize that the police are under no obligation to protect you from "petty theft, burglary, and other non-viloent offenses", or even violent offenses, so if you're counting on their protection instead of providing for your own, you're SOL already.
80% of all violent crime is committed under the comission of or influence of drugs.
I don't know what you mean by "under the commission of... drugs", but noone suggested that we not go after those who commit crimes. I don't care if the reckless driver who nearly hit me was drunk, stoned, taking cough syrup, tired, or shaving - I want him held accountable for reckless driving. I don't care if a killer did so for pot money, beer money, Duron money, or just because he didn't like the look of the fellow - I want him held accountable for murder.
i greatly prefer battlebots to robotwars for a myriad of reasons.
first being, watching a robot go thru an obstacle course is very, very boring.
Well, I disagree, but the producers of Robot Wars apparently agreed with you. In the first episode of "Robot Wars UK" (the new season) which KLRU showed, was 7 one-on-one duels (with the house robots, of course). I tend to agree with you about the house robots not going after both contestants in the same fashion (following one contestant out of the PPZ, while the other goes in and out of it without being attacked), but I enjoy the house robots themselves, expecially when one of the contestants does get the upper hand.
Don't forget that your telephone company will charge you per-minute while connected via ISDN.
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Now if the telco doesn't charge per minute anymore, I want to hear about it!
Well, Southwestern Bell doesn't charge me for usage on my ISDN line. I don't know the details of the service plan, as it was set up by my employer about four years ago.
It wasn't as consumer-driven as the 'net permits it to be, but in the heyday of the newspaper, most major cities had the Democratic paper and the Republican paper, and most people who read newspapers purchased one or the other, not both. With the rise to dominance of television and the decline of newspapers, there was less diversity in viewpoints, but the 'net and cable television has helped to restore the diversity of opinion sources. The 'common experience' apparently being extolled was not the historical legacy of the American Revolution, but was instead an abberant blip in history, and people seeking out viewpoints they agree with is the historical norm. I'm not claiming that this is good, but to argue that this is a new behavior is wrong.
Actually, the GPL is specifically meant to sabotage LibraNet's ability to tweak a few things, makes lots of money, and then lock future users out of their improvements.
And it does. All LibraNet is doing is charging for the use of their bandwidth, and access to their support services. Anyone who wishes to do so can pay LibraNet for the download, put it on their own server, and permit others to download from them. That is what the GPL guarantees -the freedom to share what you receive, not the right to demand that someone to provide you their bandwidth at no charge.
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They may see Linux as a good group of people to harden the code with.
How can they see this hthreat to the American Way as a good group of people? After all, Jim Allchin said it, so it must be true.
You might want to look a little further back in this before making statements like that, because the reverse is in fact true. SSH was invented by Ylonnen, trademarked by Ylonnen, and released in a freeware version by Ylonnen. AFTER it was released, it was adopted as a standard by the IETF.
You might want to take your own advice. SSH was invented by released as freeware by Ylonnen, proposed as a standard by Ylonnen (identifying himself as being associated with Helsinki University of Technology), then SSH Communications Security applied for a trademark. Note that, contrary to the claim in the SSH Trademark Q&A, the Internet Draft that Ylonnen submitted to the IETF, and that he included in the SSH distributions as RFC through at least 29 April 1999 (ssh-1.2.27) includes no mention of any assertion of trademark.
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He had lawyers. They were unable to have his confession excluded at trial, appealed it through to the Supreme Court, who ordered a new trial with the confession thrown out. Miranda was again convicted. He died in 1976 after being stabbed during an argument in a bar. The police arrested a suspect, but were forced to release him when he chose to remain silent after being advised of his rights, and noone was ever charged.
Doing the "right thing" costs money. In an ideal world, you use a hot-swappable SCSI hardware RAID device with redundant power supplies and separate UPSes running off of different power lines leaving your facility at opposite ends of the building and heading to separate substations. That's neither affordable nor reasonable for all applications. IDE software RAID is a bargain-basement solution, but sometimes that's all you really need.
Now that's another question entirely. The principal may have used the "right" weasel words to make the threat of criminal proceedings "clearly" nonexistent, but most 13-year olds aren't going to hear the conditionals, they're going to hear "We could have you arrested for this.". That's exactly what the principal expected him to hear, and wanted him to hear. Was it wrong of the principal to make a threat that he knew to be false, but also knew that the student probably wouldn't realize was false? That school district is probably fortunate that I won't be sitting on the jury of a wrongful death lawsuit.
Yes, because it's the government forcing you to pay so much. It's the armed force of govenment that ensures that only GenericPharmacueticals can make your "patented" AIDS cocktail.
You said it.
I don't know what you mean by "under the commission of
Now what's your problem with Lister?
It wasn't as consumer-driven as the 'net permits it to be, but in the heyday of the newspaper, most major cities had the Democratic paper and the Republican paper, and most people who read newspapers purchased one or the other, not both. With the rise to dominance of television and the decline of newspapers, there was less diversity in viewpoints, but the 'net and cable television has helped to restore the diversity of opinion sources. The 'common experience' apparently being extolled was not the historical legacy of the American Revolution, but was instead an abberant blip in history, and people seeking out viewpoints they agree with is the historical norm. I'm not claiming that this is good, but to argue that this is a new behavior is wrong.