What you say is what happenned in BC. The BC Liberal party had (from memory) 43% of the popular vote, the NDP had 40%, and the BC Reform party, idealogically equivalent (at the time) to the Liberals, had about 15%.
The NDP won the election with a two seat majority. This is why the federal PC party now polls at about 4% in BC. The bulk of the population realises that they cannot split the vote so badly again. (As an interesting side note, some polls at the end of August had the BC Liberal party winning every single seat in the province handily. That's potentially as frightening as another term with the NDP in power.)
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Re:Copyright, GPL, and selling (out)
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Simply because a minority of this site's readership is zealously in support of the saying "information wants to be free" doesn't mean we all are.
If you'll recall when Slashdot wanted to try to publish a book involving our comments on Katz' Hellmouth series? Around fifty people, including myself, were extremely vocal in our protests against it. You'll generally not see these same people supporting Napster. I can chose to use the GPL on a throwaway program. The program is *not* under the GPL by default, until I say otherwise. Likewise with my writings and public domain. The post you are reading is copyrighted. However unlikely I am to enforce it, I certainly could - and probably would, were someone else using it in a way that I found objectionable, without permission. (ie, publishing it on a different website, in print, etc)
I'm not sure how long you've been reading this site, but the editorial opinion is not written into stone - perhaps the editors are fairly hypocritical, but the majority of the readership is not.
So, if it failed to reposition itself, is there a chance that its signal will be picked up again within a year from now, when the earth moves back into the path of the signals?
That's possible, but unlikely. I haven't gone to the trouble of reading the article, but I can come up with three different ways they could have lost communication with the probe:
1. Transmitter failure.
2. Rotational jets (or whatever it uses to aim itself) failure.
3. Nudged off course/damaged by a chunk of rock (aka meteor/astroid).
I suppose that mainstream media will cover this somewhat, considering the number of years that the thing worked perfectly and the historical role it played.
...i'm getting a bit frustrated at the political naivete displayed by the 'slashdot communal mind' at times like this. Laws such as those used by the MPAA, RIAA, et al. are passed by the congress and the senate, who are lobbied by groups with MONEY. If we were to lobby on our own behalf instead of waiting for someone else like the ACLU to fight for us, we might avoid some of these ridiculous situations (DeCSS,:CueCat, Sega) in the first place. Think about the numbers for a minute; if slashdot has perhaps half a million readers (I'm really just pulling that number out of thin air... anyone know a 'real' number?) and perhaps 10% of those care
enough about these issues to donate $100, that's um... let's see... (*counting on toes...*) a good start to an organized lobbying effort on our own behalf!
Slashdot has about ten thousand readers. No more, no less. The rest of the user accounts are simply those made by the trolls and other kiddies who live on the website, reloading the front page every fifteen seconds who need multiple usernames in order to carry out long, detailed conversations with themselves. Don't underestimate those ten thousand, even if they are a much smaller number than one expects, given the 250k user accounts.
And now, at $10,000,000. The current high bidder is notable for purchasing previous items in multi-million dollar auctions from sellers such as "pcguru99", "moovieland" and "atlascollectibles".
pcguru99 sells things such as: an in-car television.
moovieland sells: a lot of used movies.
atlascollectibles sells: signed playboy pictures and a whole lot of other "hidden" stuff that needs adult verification.
Ah, yes... This guy certainly has the looks of someone who will pay $10 million for a web presence. (Though he actually appears to, get this, pay money for his newsfeed, thus raising his credibility somewhat)
I find it ironic that a paper on ease of use uses such unapproachable language. I found to be over-analytical and bombastic (I love self-describing words).
Not to pick on you in particular, deacent, but I was rather amused to see several people commenting on the vernacular the author demonstrated.
As I was reading it, I was thinking of how nice it was to see someone who dares push beyond the simple vocabulary we're used to encountering on network television and even in most newspapers. The "people who use big words are elitist" and general anti-literate attitude that prevails in North America disgusts me. (And you'd think that people who, in general, claim to have sufferred mild persecution for their intellect would be the last to criticize such an author.) Even if he did manage to lose a good chunk of his readership by mixing in several coined terms without defining them until a couple paragraphs later, he used the most accurate language he could find for the job. More power to him.
And don't forget that the man teaches writing. He'd very nearly look bad if he were to forego a smattering of tri-sylibic words in everything he publishes.
That's what I thought for a while, too, but I've since changed my mind.
I think that when Putin arrested that media guy, he was simply making the statement that he owed the people who helped him get into power nothing. The media owner had been running pro-Putin content in both newspapers and on television prior to the Russian presidential elections. After a week or so in prison, the man was released.
I could be wrong, of course, but that's the impression I got from it.
Except for the fact that a large percentage of the world's population is not in fact under US jurisdiction.
And how is this front site any different than distributing to some BBS which you chose at random? Anonymity on the Internet is a myth. So many logs are kept of assorted kinds of traffic that I would never dream of doing anything more illicit over the net than grabbing the odd mp3.
I don't know about how the BBS scene is these days, but up until when I closed my own board, most BBSes didn't keep very detailed logs. To provide an example, I had nothing more than when the last time a user logged in was and who were the previous five callers. Nothing whatsoever about who uploaded what file.
Don't the groups that actually put out "warez" still use an elaborate BBS-based scheme before it gets onto the internet in general?
What if I believe in freedom to play whatever games they want? What if I believe in teaching my child that I (gasp) trust them? That they should be doing what I want them to do without my supervision?
Well, perhaps you could go into the store, grab whatever titles they're interested in, and buy them without questioning the content. During the car ride home, you could tell them that you disagree with the need for the restriction, but as it exists there's nothing you can do about it. Kids are amazingly understanding.
Why, K-mart is now infringing on my principles, and I can point back at the 'we-want-control' parents and ask "why are you too lazy to take your kids to Kmart, if you really believe in supervision?
This doesn't make sense. No parent, no matter how smothering, is going to watch over their child 24/7. Some kids, amazingly enough, disobey their parents, even when their parents are acting in the child's best interests. Kid is at school, kid goes to store at lunch and buys game, parents can't do anything to stop them.
Have you never been responsible for a child (or, for that matter, a puppy) in your life?
I'm nearly ready to join the omnifrog fan club, seeing as s/he got away with the remark that it seems the majority of "geeks" have no clue about how the world works.
Does anybody else here get sick of the constant adolescent whining about RIAA, Metallica, IP, "ageism" - there's a good one - and whatever else? And ah, yes.. Like several of the trolls enjoy pointing out, how much of a contrast it is to the zealous protection of the GPL. OH MY GOD!! THEY DIDN'T RELEASE THE SOURCE CODE!! Let's start an emailing campaign because we're ignorant of the fact that it is laughed off and too lazy to actually put pen to paper. (Online voting - "Some of us care a lot about politics. Really! But... We can't take ten minutes out of our day to go to a polling station and vote once every four years.")
Pft.
And while I'm whining on the topic of all this other whining, I'd like to ask that Slashdot adds a Napster catagory, so I and the others who feel likewise can filter out the crap.
You've missed the point. They're taking choice away from parents. If parents really were responsible, they shouldn't need "assistance" of this sort from K-mart. Lemme ask you this:
Yes, it certainly takes choice away from parents.
Scenario A - No ID. Parent says, "I don't want you playing that game, so I won't buy it for you." Kid goes down to the store, buys it, goes home, and plays it.
Scenario B - IDed. Parent says, "I don't want you playing that game, so I won't buy it for you." Kid goes down to the store, tries to buy it, fails. Sure, if they look hard enough they may find some person who will buy it for them, thus circumventing the parents' ability to parent. The parents can only do so much, but at least they tried. Hopefully, though, the kid has been raised well enough that he/she will not even try to go down to the store.
If you're the sort who believes your kids can play whatever games they like, the least you can do is go buy it for them. I mean, really - if you're too lazy to get off your ass and go to the store to FIGHT FOR YOUR PRINCIPLES, you mustn't feel all that strongly after all.
It's kinda like one comment on a story about online voting. The person says that he cares a lot about politics, but that it's too hard to leave the house for ten minutes to go vote. We should be able to vote on the computer. Please.
Human civilization existed for thousands of years throughout North America without imperialistic behavior like we see today and have for a while.
Now, I disagree with you quite strongly on global warming, but of the people who take my side of the argument a good many are both well enough informed and rational enough to make what I have to say on the matter redundant. Instead, I simply ask you whether you have ever heard of the Aztecs, the Mayans, or the Inca? Let us not forget that the Indian tribes based in the United States were constantly at war with one another.
You're missing something - this ruling allows parents to parent their children.
The government has not made it illegal for ANYONE to play this game. If you are a parent and you don't mind your children playing this game, you can go buy it for them.
It's as simple as that. Just like cigarettes, alcohol, restricted movies, etc.
Things like this don't prevent parents from raising their children as they see fit. They enable the parents.
If the public purchases something with one of the above things built into it, they are obviously accepting it. You don't want to pay a tax on recordable media? Don't use them. If something is offensive enough, people will boycott the product quite successfully. DivX, say. Sales of Windows 2000 are low because a significant number of people don't agree with the exorbitant pricing. However, nobody expects your personal tastes to be perfectly in line with everybody else's. What you find a major turnoff may be a non-issue in most people's minds.
People most obviously do want Ms. Spears, else why has she sold some seventeen million albums in the USA alone? Sure, she was marketed. And she found a nearly untapped market with incredible buying power. You and I don't want her, and therefore we don't buy her albums, don't go to her concerts, and don't listen to radio stations that play her music incessantly. That's our prerogative under this capatilistic system. Much better than going to the government operated CD Shoppe, where each of us redeems our coupon for our "choice" of either Spears or Aguilera. Despite what you say, teenaged pop stars are not being stuffed down our throats.
Corporations do make what the people want. Nobody said that you have to follow the crowds in their rampant consumerism.
Note that several of your complaints have absolutely nothing to do with corporations.
He was a philandering egomaniac who pushed the world closer to a nuclear conflagration than any sane person would be willing to do.
That the Soviets backed down shows that they had more sense than Kennedy.
The American public loves Kennedy because he stood up for America regardless of his faults. Stalin did the same for Russia. Russia was the *other* superpower. Would so many Americans be rabidly patriotic if they were citizens of Luxembourg?
Of course, a leader on a plane of his own is Winston Churchill.
Take a look at russia and what communism has done to its enviroment. There are places that are so radioactive you have to fly over by helicopter.
Yes, Communism caused Chernobyl's problems.
I can't decide whether you're deliberately being stupid or are outright ignorant.
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Re: "jobs fer hard werkin 'Mericans"
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You apparently don't have a clue.
The point is not the number of hours worked, but how hard they work during them. I certainly hope you have today off, because otherwise you're just another slacker.
Yes, you may have a job that allows you to do this for whatever the reason may be. However, as a general rule in our culture, workers are lazy. You're being paid to do work, not just show up at work. "Oh, you're having a bad day? In that case, go ahead, mope at your desk doing nothing on my dollar." Pft.
Why are Cuban-Americans so successful? They got off their asses and moved to the USA. They have ambition, and to further it, they work hard. Not many of them flee the country in a boat, then proceed to lie on their couch watching tv all day.
I really doubt it. Doing so doesn't make business sense.
It would be much better to pay full price for the software, thus making it an operating expense for one division (ie, a loss) and increasing the sales of another (ie, press release info). You can then write off the loss in one division for tax purposes, and use the revenue in the other to pay the salaries of the bulk of your employees, as they are located in that division.
Mozilla's not dead, nor is it dying, but really... Who in their right mind is going to use the built in IRC client?
Ship a working browser, with a built in (and better than SmartDownload) upgrading facility and then you can add in all the stupid useless modules, including mail and news, that you like in the future.
Truly, an easy upgrade is all they need. Look at Windows Update - a great many people check it on a daily basis, installing every last thing on the page that shows up, even if they don't need an input method editor in Korean, Japanese, Chinese...
This would also get rid of the problem they have with dozens of versions existing. I mean - 4.0 - 4.08, 4.50 - 4.53, 4.60 - 4.62, 4.70 - 4.73. Nevermind the people who are still hapily using Navigator 3.x.
Just get a *good* browser out the door that people can use full time and throw the rest of the stuff in later.
And with an article about fraudulent porn sites only a few spots farther down the main page, I have been inspired to most respectfully suggest that yes - the news of anything being open sourced will indeed lead to a not insignificant number of enthusiasts shuddering orgasmically.
(Peeve - Come being spelled cum, much like love is spelled luv)
I find your nod to "What about the children?" quite amusing. Does the fact that the rape victim is underage strengthen the argument in any way?
And if statistics are to be believed, this rape victim might benefit from knowing that yes, there are thousands of others who are in the same situation, listening in on their counselling, etc.
(I think it was) Asimov (who) wrote a short story on the topic involving televiewers, or some word to that effect. Something-goggles? A technology which allowed users to see what was going on anywhere in the world at a given time. The story essentially centerred upon a woman confronting her husband about the time spent at some blonde's apartment while he was "working late", ending with her kicking him out, telling him to get a (word for item). It also included an additional scene in which two different groups of burglers stumble across each other while attempting to rob a vault they had just scoped out using (technology).
Anyway, in a truly transparent society - what most people refer to when mentioning the term -, blackmail is infeasible. Everything about everyone is common knowledge, easily accessible to all. The establishment of such a situation is another, much more difficult, matter altogether.
Privacy is not considered a basic human right by any but privacy nuts and their sympathisers. Your views on this matter lead you to believing that any future but Bradbury's is impossible. Everybody, bar none, has some manner of deviency.
Slashdot Mirror
Go Alliance go!
What you say is what happenned in BC. The BC Liberal party had (from memory) 43% of the popular vote, the NDP had 40%, and the BC Reform party, idealogically equivalent (at the time) to the Liberals, had about 15%.
The NDP won the election with a two seat majority. This is why the federal PC party now polls at about 4% in BC. The bulk of the population realises that they cannot split the vote so badly again. (As an interesting side note, some polls at the end of August had the BC Liberal party winning every single seat in the province handily. That's potentially as frightening as another term with the NDP in power.)
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Simply because a minority of this site's readership is zealously in support of the saying "information wants to be free" doesn't mean we all are.
If you'll recall when Slashdot wanted to try to publish a book involving our comments on Katz' Hellmouth series? Around fifty people, including myself, were extremely vocal in our protests against it. You'll generally not see these same people supporting Napster. I can chose to use the GPL on a throwaway program. The program is *not* under the GPL by default, until I say otherwise. Likewise with my writings and public domain. The post you are reading is copyrighted. However unlikely I am to enforce it, I certainly could - and probably would, were someone else using it in a way that I found objectionable, without permission. (ie, publishing it on a different website, in print, etc)
I'm not sure how long you've been reading this site, but the editorial opinion is not written into stone - perhaps the editors are fairly hypocritical, but the majority of the readership is not.
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So, if it failed to reposition itself, is there a chance that its signal will be picked up again within a year from now, when the earth moves back into the path of the signals?
That's possible, but unlikely. I haven't gone to the trouble of reading the article, but I can come up with three different ways they could have lost communication with the probe:
1. Transmitter failure.
2. Rotational jets (or whatever it uses to aim itself) failure.
3. Nudged off course/damaged by a chunk of rock (aka meteor/astroid).
I suppose that mainstream media will cover this somewhat, considering the number of years that the thing worked perfectly and the historical role it played.
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Wow. Nice reading comprehension.
He said: "Ok, lets say that after taxes you're making 40k a year."
You said: "You are missing something drastic: The very small detail you miss is TAXES"
Apparently the other reply missed this as well.
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Slashdot has about ten thousand readers. No more, no less. The rest of the user accounts are simply those made by the trolls and other kiddies who live on the website, reloading the front page every fifteen seconds who need multiple usernames in order to carry out long, detailed conversations with themselves. Don't underestimate those ten thousand, even if they are a much smaller number than one expects, given the 250k user accounts.
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at the time of posting... $1,679,098.00
And now, at $10,000,000. The current high bidder is notable for purchasing previous items in multi-million dollar auctions from sellers such as "pcguru99", "moovieland" and "atlascollectibles".
pcguru99 sells things such as: an in-car television.
moovieland sells: a lot of used movies.
atlascollectibles sells: signed playboy pictures and a whole lot of other "hidden" stuff that needs adult verification.
Ah, yes... This guy certainly has the looks of someone who will pay $10 million for a web presence. (Though he actually appears to, get this, pay money for his newsfeed, thus raising his credibility somewhat)
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I find it ironic that a paper on ease of use uses such unapproachable language. I found to be over-analytical and bombastic (I love self-describing words).
Not to pick on you in particular, deacent, but I was rather amused to see several people commenting on the vernacular the author demonstrated.
As I was reading it, I was thinking of how nice it was to see someone who dares push beyond the simple vocabulary we're used to encountering on network television and even in most newspapers. The "people who use big words are elitist" and general anti-literate attitude that prevails in North America disgusts me. (And you'd think that people who, in general, claim to have sufferred mild persecution for their intellect would be the last to criticize such an author.) Even if he did manage to lose a good chunk of his readership by mixing in several coined terms without defining them until a couple paragraphs later, he used the most accurate language he could find for the job. More power to him.
And don't forget that the man teaches writing. He'd very nearly look bad if he were to forego a smattering of tri-sylibic words in everything he publishes.
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That's what I thought for a while, too, but I've since changed my mind.
I think that when Putin arrested that media guy, he was simply making the statement that he owed the people who helped him get into power nothing. The media owner had been running pro-Putin content in both newspapers and on television prior to the Russian presidential elections. After a week or so in prison, the man was released.
I could be wrong, of course, but that's the impression I got from it.
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Except for the fact that a large percentage of the world's population is not in fact under US jurisdiction.
And how is this front site any different than distributing to some BBS which you chose at random? Anonymity on the Internet is a myth. So many logs are kept of assorted kinds of traffic that I would never dream of doing anything more illicit over the net than grabbing the odd mp3.
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I don't know about how the BBS scene is these days, but up until when I closed my own board, most BBSes didn't keep very detailed logs. To provide an example, I had nothing more than when the last time a user logged in was and who were the previous five callers. Nothing whatsoever about who uploaded what file.
Don't the groups that actually put out "warez" still use an elaborate BBS-based scheme before it gets onto the internet in general?
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And you keep missing the point again and again.
It must be because your argument is illogical...
What if I believe in freedom to play whatever games they want? What if I believe in teaching my child that I (gasp) trust them? That they should be doing what I want them to do without my supervision?
Well, perhaps you could go into the store, grab whatever titles they're interested in, and buy them without questioning the content. During the car ride home, you could tell them that you disagree with the need for the restriction, but as it exists there's nothing you can do about it. Kids are amazingly understanding.
Why, K-mart is now infringing on my principles, and I can point back at the 'we-want-control' parents and ask "why are you too lazy to take your kids to Kmart, if you really believe in supervision?
This doesn't make sense. No parent, no matter how smothering, is going to watch over their child 24/7. Some kids, amazingly enough, disobey their parents, even when their parents are acting in the child's best interests. Kid is at school, kid goes to store at lunch and buys game, parents can't do anything to stop them.
Have you never been responsible for a child (or, for that matter, a puppy) in your life?
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I'm nearly ready to join the omnifrog fan club, seeing as s/he got away with the remark that it seems the majority of "geeks" have no clue about how the world works.
Does anybody else here get sick of the constant adolescent whining about RIAA, Metallica, IP, "ageism" - there's a good one - and whatever else? And ah, yes.. Like several of the trolls enjoy pointing out, how much of a contrast it is to the zealous protection of the GPL. OH MY GOD!! THEY DIDN'T RELEASE THE SOURCE CODE!! Let's start an emailing campaign because we're ignorant of the fact that it is laughed off and too lazy to actually put pen to paper. (Online voting - "Some of us care a lot about politics. Really! But... We can't take ten minutes out of our day to go to a polling station and vote once every four years.")
Pft.
And while I'm whining on the topic of all this other whining, I'd like to ask that Slashdot adds a Napster catagory, so I and the others who feel likewise can filter out the crap.
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Yes, it certainly takes choice away from parents.
Scenario A - No ID. Parent says, "I don't want you playing that game, so I won't buy it for you." Kid goes down to the store, buys it, goes home, and plays it.
Scenario B - IDed. Parent says, "I don't want you playing that game, so I won't buy it for you." Kid goes down to the store, tries to buy it, fails. Sure, if they look hard enough they may find some person who will buy it for them, thus circumventing the parents' ability to parent. The parents can only do so much, but at least they tried. Hopefully, though, the kid has been raised well enough that he/she will not even try to go down to the store.
If you're the sort who believes your kids can play whatever games they like, the least you can do is go buy it for them. I mean, really - if you're too lazy to get off your ass and go to the store to FIGHT FOR YOUR PRINCIPLES, you mustn't feel all that strongly after all.
It's kinda like one comment on a story about online voting. The person says that he cares a lot about politics, but that it's too hard to leave the house for ten minutes to go vote. We should be able to vote on the computer. Please.
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Human civilization existed for thousands of years throughout North America without imperialistic behavior like we see today and have for a while.
Now, I disagree with you quite strongly on global warming, but of the people who take my side of the argument a good many are both well enough informed and rational enough to make what I have to say on the matter redundant. Instead, I simply ask you whether you have ever heard of the Aztecs, the Mayans, or the Inca? Let us not forget that the Indian tribes based in the United States were constantly at war with one another.
There was no such thing as the noble savage.
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You're missing something - this ruling allows parents to parent their children.
The government has not made it illegal for ANYONE to play this game. If you are a parent and you don't mind your children playing this game, you can go buy it for them.
It's as simple as that. Just like cigarettes, alcohol, restricted movies, etc.
Things like this don't prevent parents from raising their children as they see fit. They enable the parents.
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In essence, yes.
If the public purchases something with one of the above things built into it, they are obviously accepting it. You don't want to pay a tax on recordable media? Don't use them. If something is offensive enough, people will boycott the product quite successfully. DivX, say. Sales of Windows 2000 are low because a significant number of people don't agree with the exorbitant pricing. However, nobody expects your personal tastes to be perfectly in line with everybody else's. What you find a major turnoff may be a non-issue in most people's minds.
People most obviously do want Ms. Spears, else why has she sold some seventeen million albums in the USA alone? Sure, she was marketed. And she found a nearly untapped market with incredible buying power. You and I don't want her, and therefore we don't buy her albums, don't go to her concerts, and don't listen to radio stations that play her music incessantly. That's our prerogative under this capatilistic system. Much better than going to the government operated CD Shoppe, where each of us redeems our coupon for our "choice" of either Spears or Aguilera. Despite what you say, teenaged pop stars are not being stuffed down our throats.
Corporations do make what the people want. Nobody said that you have to follow the crowds in their rampant consumerism.
Note that several of your complaints have absolutely nothing to do with corporations.
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The American public views JFK as a hero.
He was a philandering egomaniac who pushed the world closer to a nuclear conflagration than any sane person would be willing to do.
That the Soviets backed down shows that they had more sense than Kennedy.
The American public loves Kennedy because he stood up for America regardless of his faults. Stalin did the same for Russia. Russia was the *other* superpower. Would so many Americans be rabidly patriotic if they were citizens of Luxembourg?
Of course, a leader on a plane of his own is Winston Churchill.
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Take a look at russia and what communism has done to its enviroment. There are places that are so radioactive you have to fly over by helicopter.
Yes, Communism caused Chernobyl's problems.
I can't decide whether you're deliberately being stupid or are outright ignorant.
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You apparently don't have a clue.
The point is not the number of hours worked, but how hard they work during them. I certainly hope you have today off, because otherwise you're just another slacker.
Yes, you may have a job that allows you to do this for whatever the reason may be. However, as a general rule in our culture, workers are lazy. You're being paid to do work, not just show up at work. "Oh, you're having a bad day? In that case, go ahead, mope at your desk doing nothing on my dollar." Pft.
Why are Cuban-Americans so successful? They got off their asses and moved to the USA. They have ambition, and to further it, they work hard. Not many of them flee the country in a boat, then proceed to lie on their couch watching tv all day.
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I really doubt it. Doing so doesn't make business sense.
It would be much better to pay full price for the software, thus making it an operating expense for one division (ie, a loss) and increasing the sales of another (ie, press release info). You can then write off the loss in one division for tax purposes, and use the revenue in the other to pay the salaries of the bulk of your employees, as they are located in that division.
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Mozilla's not dead, nor is it dying, but really... Who in their right mind is going to use the built in IRC client?
Ship a working browser, with a built in (and better than SmartDownload) upgrading facility and then you can add in all the stupid useless modules, including mail and news, that you like in the future.
Truly, an easy upgrade is all they need. Look at Windows Update - a great many people check it on a daily basis, installing every last thing on the page that shows up, even if they don't need an input method editor in Korean, Japanese, Chinese...
This would also get rid of the problem they have with dozens of versions existing. I mean - 4.0 - 4.08, 4.50 - 4.53, 4.60 - 4.62, 4.70 - 4.73. Nevermind the people who are still hapily using Navigator 3.x.
Just get a *good* browser out the door that people can use full time and throw the rest of the stuff in later.
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And with an article about fraudulent porn sites only a few spots farther down the main page, I have been inspired to most respectfully suggest that yes - the news of anything being open sourced will indeed lead to a not insignificant number of enthusiasts shuddering orgasmically.
(Peeve - Come being spelled cum, much like love is spelled luv)
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Actually, Telus still offers a reverse number lookup service online.
For BC: click here.
I assumed there was one for Alberta, but don't see it. I don't remember whether one ever existed, though.
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I find your nod to "What about the children?" quite amusing. Does the fact that the rape victim is underage strengthen the argument in any way?
And if statistics are to be believed, this rape victim might benefit from knowing that yes, there are thousands of others who are in the same situation, listening in on their counselling, etc.
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(I think it was) Asimov (who) wrote a short story on the topic involving televiewers, or some word to that effect. Something-goggles? A technology which allowed users to see what was going on anywhere in the world at a given time. The story essentially centerred upon a woman confronting her husband about the time spent at some blonde's apartment while he was "working late", ending with her kicking him out, telling him to get a (word for item). It also included an additional scene in which two different groups of burglers stumble across each other while attempting to rob a vault they had just scoped out using (technology).
Anyway, in a truly transparent society - what most people refer to when mentioning the term -, blackmail is infeasible. Everything about everyone is common knowledge, easily accessible to all. The establishment of such a situation is another, much more difficult, matter altogether.
Privacy is not considered a basic human right by any but privacy nuts and their sympathisers. Your views on this matter lead you to believing that any future but Bradbury's is impossible. Everybody, bar none, has some manner of deviency.
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