So who is the Queen of England? is she not also the Queen of Australia and New Zealand?
She's also the Queen of Canada.
The UK, NZ & Australia merely have an appearance of democracy with a monarchy that can do what it wants.
They merely have an appearance of monarchy with a democracy which really runs things. If the Queen ever attempted to do something that wasn't popular, that would be the end of the monarchy.
For all the talk of democracy, the US is really more 0wn3d by corporations than by the people. Corporations would seem to be more autocratic than a figurehead monarchy.
And you already paid them for the intellectual property in the previous versions, so why do it again?
Well, Linux and Open-Source software put you in the same boat. You paid $0.00 for the original version and they force you to pay the FULL PRICE OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR EACH MARGINAL INCREMENT! And there are a lot of available increments. Someone think of the children!
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Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
One reason that this happens is that many moderators probably read at a threshold of 3 or so.
Also, for those at 50 karma, it is "safer" to moderate up a posting that others have already moderated up, rather than risking your standing in the 50-karma club on an "unproven" post.
No, the issue is not with the 50-point cap, it's that you post a message the people mod up to say 5, and then some other people come along later and mod it down to 3. Through no fault of your own, if you were are 50 before, you're now at 48, even though your message is still modded up one point. It's the fault of the over-eager early moderators, something quite beyond your control. This has happened to me at least five times (though to 49). Rather than applying the mods individually, the net mod should be computed on a per-message basis.
The only patent I can think of offhand that MSFT uses in a blocking fashion is the Kerberos extension patent. They make sure that people know that the technology is patented however.
I thought that the Kerberos embrace-and-extend attack was protected as trade secret distributed with a non-disclosure EULA [as part of an open-source-developer-contaimination strategy]. No patents involved.
Look, spending the resources we currently expend on space travel isn't going to contribute substantially to work peace (nor hunger, nor overpopulation, nor keeping people from being laid off).
World peace and hunger are not technological problems; they are entirely political. The only way to solve them is to eradicate all bullshit republics and regimes from planet Earth. This isn't a matter of spending; it is a matter of political will. To accomplish this, we must stop granting sovereignty to these bullshit regimes, declare self-determination to be a fundamental human right, and make all soverign nations sign a mutual-defence pact with the U.N. (in part as a condition of sovereignty). This would legally allow and require the U.N. to interdict if, for example, a coup was made against the government of Afghanistan (such as in 1996). When all nations are signed on, this would be the end of war.
We could feed everyone on Earth today if we really wanted to (or at least, we'd be able to within a short number of months). Mostly, it's bullshit regimes, war, and third-world political corruption that prevents this.
Overpopulation seems to me to be linked to general poverty. Industrialized nations naturally curb the birth rate, as it seems that only the poor can afford to have children. I'm guessing that a higher standard of living is realized in an industrialized nation without or with very few children, and with lots of children in third-world countries (since, if they live, they are your retirement security). Your retirement security in the first world is your career savings, if you manage to save, and public welfare if you don't.
"People being laid off" is a very vague description of a problem. People are laid off for many reasons, normally, of course, because they are not actually doing something that is profitable (or even break-even-able). Preventing layoffs by subsidization is a waste of money and keeps people making unimportant things for no reason that people don't want, instead of having them do something actually useful. Basically, it's micro-scale communism, and communism succeeds best at equally distributing poverty.
[After reading the whole of your message, I guess the highlighted idea is from someone else.]
IIS has NEVER been installed by default in ANY version of NT or 2000 Workstation, Professional, etc. I know that it wasn't installed by default in NT4 Server as well. I honestly can't remember with 2000 Server.
Really, this seems like a massive missed opportunity for the monster marketing machine. (Is there a synonym for "opportunity" that starts with 'M'?) If they distributed IIS with every desktop and enabled it by default, they would push Apache off of its majority market share and claim the prize for themselves. This would be an important step in monopolizing both the client and the server. Of course, the Internet would be crushed under the weight of all the resulting worms and attacks, but that's not their fault, is it?
Actually, it's more like US$23.65. Break out the Economics 101 text book and look up "purchasing-power parity". Foreign-exchange rates don't mean much when you buy stuff in your own country.
According to the alt.folklore.urban FAQ, Disney caused people to believe that Lemmings suicide in march to sea. During the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.
There's also a theory that diseases can bypass evolutionary defenses if they occur AFTER an organism has procreated.
In the case of humans, it would need to be more than 15-20 years after procreation, since the survival of the child has a significant dependency on the survival of the parents for that period of time.
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The most efficient system (in terms of number of coins need for an arbitrary transaction) would of course be 1-3-9-27-81-...
Are you sure that the most efficient system wouldn't have an e in it somewhere? Not that that would help with making a rational amount of change.
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the people who remove the coins out of vending machines have a wheeled cart because of the heavy load. Its not unreasonable for the people who are emptying the parking meters to have a few hundred pounds of coins and because that many coins has quite some value, you have to have armed guards to empty most vending machines so prices go up as do losses from theft.
I'm not sure this makes a whole lot of sense. Regardless of whether paper or coins of different denominations are used, you'd expect the vending machines and parking meters to have the same amount of money in them because people will have bought the same amount of stuff from them.
Also, for parking meters that only take coins, a dollar in lower-value coins will probably weigh more than a dollar coin in most currencies.
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Look north for a view on how well a $1 coin can suceed. Canada's been useing them over a decade now.
Of course, there is a significant cultural difference between Canada and America in changing currency. Canada is more like Pepsi in that the flavor is tweaked every time you turn around. The styles of the bills have changed at least five times in the past 30 years and I don't think the mint has printed the same set of coins for any two years in a row in the past decade. There must have been (literally) forty different styles of quarters over the past five years.
America is like Coca-Cola in that any attempt to change the flavor results in cries of bloody murder.
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So who is the Queen of England? is she not also the Queen of Australia and New Zealand?
She's also the Queen of Canada.
The UK, NZ & Australia merely have an appearance of democracy with a monarchy that can do what it wants.
They merely have an appearance of monarchy with a democracy which really runs things. If the Queen ever attempted to do something that wasn't popular, that would be the end of the monarchy.
For all the talk of democracy, the US is really more 0wn3d by corporations than by the people. Corporations would seem to be more autocratic than a figurehead monarchy.
I got pretty much dead center. I think the technical polysci term for that is "Mutt".
How about 5: The ASP will take your data hostage if you refuse to comply with their terms (even if it's stored on your own hardware).
And you already paid them for the intellectual property in the previous versions, so why do it again?
Well, Linux and Open-Source software put you in the same boat. You paid $0.00 for the original version and they force you to pay the FULL PRICE OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR EACH MARGINAL INCREMENT! And there are a lot of available increments. Someone think of the children!
Microsoft Sucks
UML is a means for UML weenies to communicate with other UML weenies while leaving most actual implementors out in the cold.
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Holy crap! WWIII has erupted.
Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
One reason that this happens is that many moderators probably read at a threshold of 3 or so.
Also, for those at 50 karma, it is "safer" to moderate up a posting that others have already moderated up, rather than risking your standing in the 50-karma club on an "unproven" post.
No, the issue is not with the 50-point cap, it's that you post a message the people mod up to say 5, and then some other people come along later and mod it down to 3. Through no fault of your own, if you were are 50 before, you're now at 48, even though your message is still modded up one point. It's the fault of the over-eager early moderators, something quite beyond your control. This has happened to me at least five times (though to 49). Rather than applying the mods individually, the net mod should be computed on a per-message basis.
The only patent I can think of offhand that MSFT uses in a blocking fashion is the Kerberos extension patent. They make sure that people know that the technology is patented however.
I thought that the Kerberos embrace-and-extend attack was protected as trade secret distributed with a non-disclosure EULA [as part of an open-source-developer-contaimination strategy]. No patents involved.
Look, spending the resources we currently expend on space travel isn't going to contribute substantially to work peace (nor hunger, nor overpopulation, nor keeping people from being laid off).
World peace and hunger are not technological problems; they are entirely political. The only way to solve them is to eradicate all bullshit republics and regimes from planet Earth. This isn't a matter of spending; it is a matter of political will. To accomplish this, we must stop granting sovereignty to these bullshit regimes, declare self-determination to be a fundamental human right, and make all soverign nations sign a mutual-defence pact with the U.N. (in part as a condition of sovereignty). This would legally allow and require the U.N. to interdict if, for example, a coup was made against the government of Afghanistan (such as in 1996). When all nations are signed on, this would be the end of war.
We could feed everyone on Earth today if we really wanted to (or at least, we'd be able to within a short number of months). Mostly, it's bullshit regimes, war, and third-world political corruption that prevents this.
Overpopulation seems to me to be linked to general poverty. Industrialized nations naturally curb the birth rate, as it seems that only the poor can afford to have children. I'm guessing that a higher standard of living is realized in an industrialized nation without or with very few children, and with lots of children in third-world countries (since, if they live, they are your retirement security). Your retirement security in the first world is your career savings, if you manage to save, and public welfare if you don't.
"People being laid off" is a very vague description of a problem. People are laid off for many reasons, normally, of course, because they are not actually doing something that is profitable (or even break-even-able). Preventing layoffs by subsidization is a waste of money and keeps people making unimportant things for no reason that people don't want, instead of having them do something actually useful. Basically, it's micro-scale communism, and communism succeeds best at equally distributing poverty.
[After reading the whole of your message, I guess the highlighted idea is from someone else.]
"Given enough eyeballs, all bullshit is shallow."
- Another Vulnerability Discovered in IIS
- New IIS Patch the Ultimate Fix?
- Microsoft Says IIS 5.0 Web Servers Vulnerable to Attack
- Apache Group Creates Foundation
Chortle.IIS has NEVER been installed by default in ANY version of NT or 2000 Workstation, Professional, etc. I know that it wasn't installed by default in NT4 Server as well. I honestly can't remember with 2000 Server.
Really, this seems like a massive missed opportunity for the monster marketing machine. (Is there a synonym for "opportunity" that starts with 'M'?) If they distributed IIS with every desktop and enabled it by default, they would push Apache off of its majority market share and claim the prize for themselves. This would be an important step in monopolizing both the client and the server. Of course, the Internet would be crushed under the weight of all the resulting worms and attacks, but that's not their fault, is it?
How about a compulsory $37-billion donation to the Free Software Foundation as punishment?
So why don't they just have a national driver's license?
Montreal on your list actually is 15-25 cities
Montreal is kind of a bad example, since it is now officially one single big honkin' city as of January 1, 2002.
Here are corresponding stats for Canada (numbers in thousands):
Toronto (Ontario) 4,881.4
Montréal (Quebec) 3,511.8
Vancouver (British Columbia) 2,078.8
Ottawa-Hull (Ontario/Quebec) 1,106.9
Calgary (Alberta) 971.5
Edmonton (Alberta) 956.8
Québec (Quebec) 693.1
Winnipeg (Manitoba) 684.8
Hamilton (Ontario) 680.6
London (Ontario) 426.3
Kitchener (Ontario) 431.7
St. Catharines-Niagara (Ontario) 393.1
Halifax (Nova Scotia) 359.2
Victoria (British Columbia) 318.8
Windsor (Ontario) 313.8
Oshawa (Ontario) 305.3
Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) 230.5
Regina (Saskatchewan) 198.1
St. John's (Newfoundland) 176.2
ChicoutimiJonquière (Quebec) 158.7
Sudbury (Ontario) 156.7
Sherbrooke (Quebec) 154.9
Trois-Rivières (Quebec) 141.5
Saint John (New Brunswick) 128.1
Thunder Bay (Ontario) 124.6
Add it up, and 2/3 of Canada's population is concentrated in 25 cities. Hook me up, Scotty!
that works out to about $US 19.25 per month
Actually, it's more like US$23.65. Break out the Economics 101 text book and look up "purchasing-power parity". Foreign-exchange rates don't mean much when you buy stuff in your own country.
Not to mention Antarctica.
According to the alt.folklore.urban FAQ, Disney caused people to believe that Lemmings suicide in march to sea. During the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.
There's also a theory that diseases can bypass evolutionary defenses if they occur AFTER an organism has procreated.
In the case of humans, it would need to be more than 15-20 years after procreation, since the survival of the child has a significant dependency on the survival of the parents for that period of time.
The most efficient system (in terms of number of coins need for an arbitrary transaction) would of course be 1-3-9-27-81-...
Are you sure that the most efficient system wouldn't have an e in it somewhere? Not that that would help with making a rational amount of change.
the people who remove the coins out of vending machines have a wheeled cart because of the heavy load. Its not unreasonable for the people who are emptying the parking meters to have a few hundred pounds of coins and because that many coins has quite some value, you have to have armed guards to empty most vending machines so prices go up as do losses from theft.
I'm not sure this makes a whole lot of sense. Regardless of whether paper or coins of different denominations are used, you'd expect the vending machines and parking meters to have the same amount of money in them because people will have bought the same amount of stuff from them.
Also, for parking meters that only take coins, a dollar in lower-value coins will probably weigh more than a dollar coin in most currencies.
Look north for a view on how well a $1 coin can suceed. Canada's been useing them over a decade now.
Of course, there is a significant cultural difference between Canada and America in changing currency. Canada is more like Pepsi in that the flavor is tweaked every time you turn around. The styles of the bills have changed at least five times in the past 30 years and I don't think the mint has printed the same set of coins for any two years in a row in the past decade. There must have been (literally) forty different styles of quarters over the past five years.
America is like Coca-Cola in that any attempt to change the flavor results in cries of bloody murder.