The analogy of "infection" remains. Indeed, each of the options you have presented is analogous to an organism being infected by a virus:
#1 corresponds to living in symbiosis with the virus #2 corresponds to acting as a carrier for the virus #3 corresponds to mounting a successful immune response against the virus #4 corresponds to the virus killing the organism
and the virus can't force the organism to implement one of these four options!
The obvious counter-argument is that, in spite of its apparent flaws, no system has ever been demonstrated to produce greater general prosperity or efficiency than free market capitalism.
I like to say that the free market is the worst system ever invented, except for all the alternatives.
It's to protect objects spread over a wide area, as opposed to a point defence system, designed to protect one particular object -- such as Phalanx, which is supposed to destroy missiles that are about to hit your ship.
This is also why it is easier to steal from the people when you are spending 1 billion a week in a foreign country on a war against an undefined enemy for an indeterminate amount of time. Lots of room for rounding errors.
Not that I am in favor of the war or anything, but how is this relevant to personal bankruptcy?
You're saying that RedHat would rather go to court than pay $5k to license the name? $5k will buy you all of about three days of a good lawyer's time...
The point is that the terms are not arduous, and the trademark is worth protecting. Why would RedHat or anyone else get into a snit about it?
More generally, what you are talking about is leadership, which is not unique to corporations. Any legal position of leadership has the same potential to be abused by a psychopath.
My leadership training is from the military, where they emphasize that the leader often has to make unpopular decisions, but the most effective leaders -- the ones whose men will follow them in battle -- are the ones that have integrity. Indeed, the leader "manipulates" the soldiers to perform the mission, but this need not be psychopathic as long as the leader acts fairly and takes his followers' welfare seriously.
Given that Marx himself advocated totalitarianism as an intermediate step towards "true communism", this is at best a nitpick. And given that communism has been attempted in probably two dozen countries, and none ever advanced beyond the totalitarian stage, a "true communist" government is probably not achievable.
Meanwhile, in Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger etc. many people who are starving are patiently waiting for food supplies to be handed out.
1. When the UN provides food aid, they are usually smart enough to bring along well-armed peacekeeping soldiers to prevent riots.
2. In those cases where the UN did not bring said peacekeepers, food riots have often occurred.
3. In those cases where the food riots did not occur, it is usually because the people were so chronically malnourished that they were too weak to riot.
It's something like democracy in that everyone has an active hand in it which inspires people to do their best because the wikipedia is as much theirs as anyone else's.
It's more like a co-operative, then.
I don't like the comparison to democracy (and the corollary, that any restriction is an affront to said democracy). The analogy would be to allow any citizen to log on to wikiwashington.org and change the nation's laws at will. Can you imagine...
- Set a course for Alpha Centauri! - Aye aye, Captain! (five or more years of boring space cruise) (exterior shots in perfect silence, there is no sound in space) (finally the ship arrives) - Scan for life forms! - Sorry sir, there's no such thing as a "life form detector". It's not like life gives off a special energy or something. - Well, shit. Let's go home then. (several more years of boring space cruise)
Are you serious? How would it have looked if they had left the gap filler in place, and then they lost the shuttle? Especially since they came out and said that they didn't understand the phenomenon well enough to guarantee that it was fine. The reasoning of "it didn't hurt us last time, so we can get away with it forever, even though we don't understand what is happening" contributed hugely to both the Columbia and Challenger accidents.
It's like saying: sometimes when I walk briskly, I get a crushing pain in my chest and numbness in my arm. I don't understand why it is happening, but it goes away in a few minutes, so I must be perfectly fine. -- It only takes one "major problem" to disprove the assertion that there is nothing wrong... but by then it's too late.
And there was an incident in the early pre-release days of NT where our boot sector code broke multi-boot with OS/2; in that case, despite claims of outrage from the Blue Ninja Clan, it was simply that we had never tested that configuration; once we heard about the bug, we fixed it and added it to our test mix.
This made me laugh; Windows installation has never been shy about overwriting LILO (and later GRUB), and the Linux user base has to be roughly as large as OS/2's was in its heyday. But hey, all's fair.
As a Firefox user it bugs me when websites ask me to "upgrade to a supported browser" (e.g., IE), even if they display their content anyway.
The converse (IE users getting an "upgrade to a compliant browser" recommendation) would be more annoying than informative, no matter how "right" the sentiment is.
As I am typing this post on a Windows machine running Firefox (not to mention Cygwin, Openoffice, and a few others), I think that answers the question right there.
And as for graphics specifically, I'd love to run GIMP on Windows, if it weren't such a pain in the ass to install.
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust.
I'll do them one better. I will only charge $99 million to let people see the dark side of the moon. Just stand in my back yard, look at the moon, and whatever portion is dark, that is the dark side of the moon. (Offer not valid during full moons.)
I think what they mean is the far side of the moon, which is never visible from Earth (because the moon rotates at the same rate that it revolves). The far side is illuminated as often as the near side; for instance, it is fully illuminated during every new moon.
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust.
In fact you can see the dark side from Earth; just try to find the moon during the "new" phase. I think what they mean to say is the far side, which is never visible from Earth.
I agree completely! People with licenses never get into accidents. And taking a CS course means you never hit "Reply All" when you mean to hit "Reply".
Sure, but what he is talking about is an easy way to create a cookie whitelist, when your browser does not support cookie whitelists. This is not some kind of magic cookie shield that gives you all the benefits with total anonymity.
The fact that some material was on the disk is totally beside the point. If the user plays the game without hacking it, no such content is available.
That is not correct. The proof is that the PS2 version contains the Hot Coffee content, and it is virtually impossible to execute a third-party patch on the PS2. However, using a GameShark (which is popular enough to be sold at WalMart), it is possible to enter cheat codes which unlock the content, which must have been already present on the disk. This is too simple and accessible to count as hacking, and not a reasonably forseeable scenario for a busy parent.
Support or oppose the DST change for REAL reasons.
Here in Canada, the change is being presented as something the Americans are ramming down our throats. Seriously: here's the Toronto Star coverage.
What kind of a country is this where you can get a knee-jerk reaction against anything by calling it "American-style"? (I'll tell you: it's the kind of country that, 138 years later, still prints their colonial ruler's face on their money.)
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The analogy of "infection" remains. Indeed, each of the options you have presented is analogous to an organism being infected by a virus:
#1 corresponds to living in symbiosis with the virus
#2 corresponds to acting as a carrier for the virus
#3 corresponds to mounting a successful immune response against the virus
#4 corresponds to the virus killing the organism
and the virus can't force the organism to implement one of these four options!
The obvious counter-argument is that, in spite of its apparent flaws, no system has ever been demonstrated to produce greater general prosperity or efficiency than free market capitalism.
I like to say that the free market is the worst system ever invented, except for all the alternatives.
And what's an area defense system?
It's to protect objects spread over a wide area, as opposed to a point defence system, designed to protect one particular object -- such as Phalanx, which is supposed to destroy missiles that are about to hit your ship.
This is also why it is easier to steal from the people when you are spending 1 billion a week in a foreign country on a war against an undefined enemy for an indeterminate amount of time. Lots of room for rounding errors.
Not that I am in favor of the war or anything, but how is this relevant to personal bankruptcy?
You're saying that RedHat would rather go to court than pay $5k to license the name? $5k will buy you all of about three days of a good lawyer's time ...
The point is that the terms are not arduous, and the trademark is worth protecting. Why would RedHat or anyone else get into a snit about it?
More generally, what you are talking about is leadership, which is not unique to corporations. Any legal position of leadership has the same potential to be abused by a psychopath.
My leadership training is from the military, where they emphasize that the leader often has to make unpopular decisions, but the most effective leaders -- the ones whose men will follow them in battle -- are the ones that have integrity. Indeed, the leader "manipulates" the soldiers to perform the mission, but this need not be psychopathic as long as the leader acts fairly and takes his followers' welfare seriously.
Given that Marx himself advocated totalitarianism as an intermediate step towards "true communism", this is at best a nitpick. And given that communism has been attempted in probably two dozen countries, and none ever advanced beyond the totalitarian stage, a "true communist" government is probably not achievable.
Does anyone have any details on how it will be launched?
1. Aim the pointy end at space.
2. Press the "Launch" button.
Meanwhile, in Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger etc. many people who are starving are patiently waiting for food supplies to be handed out.
1. When the UN provides food aid, they are usually smart enough to bring along well-armed peacekeeping soldiers to prevent riots.
2. In those cases where the UN did not bring said peacekeepers, food riots have often occurred.
3. In those cases where the food riots did not occur, it is usually because the people were so chronically malnourished that they were too weak to riot.
It's something like democracy in that everyone has an active hand in it which inspires people to do their best because the wikipedia is as much theirs as anyone else's.
...
It's more like a co-operative, then.
I don't like the comparison to democracy (and the corollary, that any restriction is an affront to said democracy). The analogy would be to allow any citizen to log on to wikiwashington.org and change the nation's laws at will. Can you imagine
I think they would come out a lot like this:
- Set a course for Alpha Centauri!
- Aye aye, Captain!
(five or more years of boring space cruise)
(exterior shots in perfect silence, there is no sound in space)
(finally the ship arrives)
- Scan for life forms!
- Sorry sir, there's no such thing as a "life form detector". It's not like life gives off a special energy or something.
- Well, shit. Let's go home then.
(several more years of boring space cruise)
Are you serious? How would it have looked if they had left the gap filler in place, and then they lost the shuttle? Especially since they came out and said that they didn't understand the phenomenon well enough to guarantee that it was fine. The reasoning of "it didn't hurt us last time, so we can get away with it forever, even though we don't understand what is happening" contributed hugely to both the Columbia and Challenger accidents.
... but by then it's too late.
It's like saying: sometimes when I walk briskly, I get a crushing pain in my chest and numbness in my arm. I don't understand why it is happening, but it goes away in a few minutes, so I must be perfectly fine. -- It only takes one "major problem" to disprove the assertion that there is nothing wrong
I've got your dangling gap filler right here! *grabs crotch*
...
Good thing I have my forceps and makeshift hack-saw blade tool handy
From the article:
And there was an incident in the early pre-release days of NT where our boot sector code broke multi-boot with OS/2; in that case, despite claims of outrage from the Blue Ninja Clan, it was simply that we had never tested that configuration; once we heard about the bug, we fixed it and added it to our test mix.
This made me laugh; Windows installation has never been shy about overwriting LILO (and later GRUB), and the Linux user base has to be roughly as large as OS/2's was in its heyday. But hey, all's fair.
As a Firefox user it bugs me when websites ask me to "upgrade to a supported browser" (e.g., IE), even if they display their content anyway.
The converse (IE users getting an "upgrade to a compliant browser" recommendation) would be more annoying than informative, no matter how "right" the sentiment is.
Last time I tried it was a while ago, and I gave up in frustration. Maybe it's become easier since then. Thanks for the link.
As I am typing this post on a Windows machine running Firefox (not to mention Cygwin, Openoffice, and a few others), I think that answers the question right there.
And as for graphics specifically, I'd love to run GIMP on Windows, if it weren't such a pain in the ass to install.
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust.
I'll do them one better. I will only charge $99 million to let people see the dark side of the moon. Just stand in my back yard, look at the moon, and whatever portion is dark, that is the dark side of the moon. (Offer not valid during full moons.)
I think what they mean is the far side of the moon, which is never visible from Earth (because the moon rotates at the same rate that it revolves). The far side is illuminated as often as the near side; for instance, it is fully illuminated during every new moon.
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust. In fact you can see the dark side from Earth; just try to find the moon during the "new" phase. I think what they mean to say is the far side, which is never visible from Earth.
I agree completely! People with licenses never get into accidents. And taking a CS course means you never hit "Reply All" when you mean to hit "Reply".
If you decide to re-post that, I have a couple for you:
1. Spelling Microsoft or MS with a dollar sign instead of an S, as though it is somehow clever and edgy.
2. Maintaining a list of Foes.
3. Typing out a lengthy post in anticipation of a story on your pet topic so that you can paste it in as an early comment.
Sure, but what he is talking about is an easy way to create a cookie whitelist, when your browser does not support cookie whitelists. This is not some kind of magic cookie shield that gives you all the benefits with total anonymity.
I spent a year in South Bend. The best thing I can say for the place is that it's a short drive from Chicago.
The fact that some material was on the disk is totally beside the point. If the user plays the game without hacking it, no such content is available.
That is not correct. The proof is that the PS2 version contains the Hot Coffee content, and it is virtually impossible to execute a third-party patch on the PS2. However, using a GameShark (which is popular enough to be sold at WalMart), it is possible to enter cheat codes which unlock the content, which must have been already present on the disk. This is too simple and accessible to count as hacking, and not a reasonably forseeable scenario for a busy parent.
Gamespot coverage
Support or oppose the DST change for REAL reasons.
Here in Canada, the change is being presented as something the Americans are ramming down our throats. Seriously: here's the Toronto Star coverage.
What kind of a country is this where you can get a knee-jerk reaction against anything by calling it "American-style"? (I'll tell you: it's the kind of country that, 138 years later, still prints their colonial ruler's face on their money.)