FYI, silicone breast implants have not been shown to cause any medical problems in the women who have them. Also, since you don't seem to keep up with this kind of stuff, high voltage lines do not cause cancer.
To translate for the irony deprived... Dow Corning have now gone out of the silicon breast business because the expense of paying for their customers health bills and there is a demonstrably higher incidence of childhood leukemeas in children living near high power lines.
HOWEVER, this does not prove that microwaves are dangerous... they might only possibly be dangerous.
The author, Eric Krieg is offering $10,000 to anyone who can pass his test and demonstrate a working free energy machine.
Oh wow cool! I've just invented a free energy machine and solved all of human (and alien) kind's energy problems for perpetuity and I get $10,000. Yeah Eric Kriegs web-page would be the very first place I would report my invention.
Class has nothing to do with intelligence level, more to do with how much $ you have.
Class almost inevitably does have something to do with how much $ you have, HOWEVER, its a mistake to think of class as being a pure function of income. A better view is that class is a shared culture. That's why its possible to be poor and yet bourgeois (the proverbial 'champagne taste and beer money'), or in fact to be working class, and have a shit load of $ (champagne money and beer taste I guess).
Package management was a good idea because users didn't have to learn how to use a compiler or tar before they could install software.
Come on now, how hard is untaring and compiling anyway. Just 'cause someone updates using tarballs doesn't make them a *nix hero in my books.
No, the real advantage of package management is management. Its about having a database of installed packages, being able to query and control versions (especially if you have several versions of the same software installed) etc. Tarballs are great if mindlessly typing 'make config... make install' is your idea of doing real work. Try managing half a dozen or so linux boxes in various corners of your network, quickly applying to a security patch to the lot, keeping track of what is installed on which box, and which version(s) of what it is, who wants to be updated and who doesn't... --and you will quickly discover the real advantage of package management.
Pure capitalism would never be able to make these bold steps into the future.
Well pure capitalism might not, but the American model in place in the 1960s, of capitalism mixed with a highly funded governmental research program, would seem to have out-performed the pure communist approach of the other side.
Communism would require the government or a directing body to ultimately own or control the software and it's direction, while with Anarchy the workers/developers determine the path which it ultimately follows.
According to Marx, communism would be achieved when the state melted away. Government would not resemble the imposition of force now associated with the institution, but would consist of the free cooperation of equal players. Actually the vision of the end state which Anarchists and (the original) Marxists had, were virtually identical, where they differed was on the question of praxis, ie how that state was to be achieved.
In a Communist model, copyright would be used to prevent branching and ensure the development stays with the main project.
Communism?... Copyright?!!! You don't even have to look to some imagined communist utopia to see a society without copyright. Just look to the Soviet Union. Even in the nasty brutal realisations of the communist ideal, copyright was eliminated!
So many people equate open source and free software with communism, apparently not in jest
And the reason they do so is because it so neatly fits in with the from each according to their ability, to each according to their need credo which characterises ideal, if not real (by which I mean actually existing or existed, rather than genuine) communism.
With any luck, that their "rules" are stupid and unenforcable.
No luck necessary -- the rules are unenforcable. (Well at law anyway, KPMG could always hire a few big guys with baseball bats...)
There is no right for KPMG to assert. There is no breach of copyright, and unless the linking is being framed in a deceptive way, no claim that the contents of the site belong to anyone other than KPMG (ie not passing off either). In fact, it is KPMG, who would have to be very lucky to get this to fly even at first instance.
If this weren't Microsoft and 'we all' weren't so zealously seeking its death, how far should a government go in punishing a monopoly for misbehavior?
Yes, but it is Microsoft, and Microsoft has an outrageous monopoly and indulges in outrageous misbehaviour! Turn your question on its head... If Microsoft were not a misbehaving monopoly, would we be so zealously seeking its death? I think not.
How far should the government go? As far as it is required to maintain (create) functional competition in the market in which the monopolist misbehaves. That was the original intention of Anti-trust law before Posner et al. emasculated it. If Anti-trust law is now so toothless, that a corporation like Microsoft can't be brought to account by it, it is, IMHO, time to rewrite it.
I didn't think that a juggernaut had any meaning related to size
Juggernaut is also used to describe really big trucks... The original Jagannath, was a large idol of Krshna which was schleppt around Puri in on a big cart, big enough at least for devotees to be able to throw themselves under its wheels. Hence the 'blind devotion' meaning.
Yes, but at least as an Australian, you have the right to express your disgust as an exercise of 'political communication.' Now if you also happen to own a metropolitan daily, you can really make yourself heard.
The Constitution, our highest law, explicitly protects the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms.
That's a myth. The right is conditional on what is reasonably necessary for the maintainace of state militias. In effect it gives the National Guard the right to bear arms. That's not my opinion, its the opinion of the Supreme Court
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than 18 inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well- regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.
UNITED STATES v. MILLER, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
Yes, its an old case, but it has been the court's final word on the subject
Of course the opinion of a French court does not apply to Yahoo, US. But we knew that all along.
Wrong! Foreign judgements can be enforced in US courts under the Uniform Foreign Money Order Code. The point is that this code (or rather the state laws which enact it), is itself subject to the first amendment.
Now let's hope that a Thai federal judge will rule...
Which would have as little effect on what is legal within the US, as this ruling has on what is legal with France. Something that is being overlooked here is that this ruling only says that a US court won't enforce a judgement against Yahoo in the US. The French court may be unable to force Yahoo to remove items posted on its US site, but since Yahoo has a business presence in France, it could enforce a judgement against Yahoo in France for what is posted on the US site.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, government mandates must conform to constitutional limitations, company policies on the other hand can simply trample liberty underfoot.
In fact people living with EMF sensitivity, have to get into the shower and stand under it at full blast until the thunderstorm passes.
What is so nutty about wanting to live in a pollution free environment?
To translate for the irony deprived ... Dow Corning have now gone out of the silicon breast business because the expense of paying for their customers health bills and there is a demonstrably higher incidence of childhood leukemeas in children living near high power lines.
HOWEVER, this does not prove that microwaves are dangerous ... they might only possibly be dangerous.
Oh wow cool! I've just invented a free energy machine and solved all of human (and alien) kind's energy problems for perpetuity and I get $10,000. Yeah Eric Kriegs web-page would be the very first place I would report my invention.
Class almost inevitably does have something to do with how much $ you have, HOWEVER, its a mistake to think of class as being a pure function of income. A better view is that class is a shared culture. That's why its possible to be poor and yet bourgeois (the proverbial 'champagne taste and beer money'), or in fact to be working class, and have a shit load of $ (champagne money and beer taste I guess).
Come on now, how hard is untaring and compiling anyway. Just 'cause someone updates using tarballs doesn't make them a *nix hero in my books.
No, the real advantage of package management is management. Its about having a database of installed packages, being able to query and control versions (especially if you have several versions of the same software installed) etc. Tarballs are great if mindlessly typing 'make config ... make install' is your idea of doing real work. Try managing half a dozen or so linux boxes in various corners of your network, quickly applying to a security patch to the lot, keeping track of what is installed on which box, and which version(s) of what it is, who wants to be updated and who doesn't ... --and you will quickly discover the real advantage of package management.
And I guess you rub two sticks together when you want fire too?
You sir, are an incompetent troll! You keep on hitting the nail far to well on the head.
Well pure capitalism might not, but the American model in place in the 1960s, of capitalism mixed with a highly funded governmental research program, would seem to have out-performed the pure communist approach of the other side.
According to Marx, communism would be achieved when the state melted away. Government would not resemble the imposition of force now associated with the institution, but would consist of the free cooperation of equal players. Actually the vision of the end state which Anarchists and (the original) Marxists had, were virtually identical, where they differed was on the question of praxis, ie how that state was to be achieved.
In a Communist model, copyright would be used to prevent branching and ensure the development stays with the main project.Communism? ... Copyright?!!! You don't even have to look to some imagined communist utopia to see a society without copyright. Just look to the Soviet Union. Even in the nasty brutal realisations of the communist ideal, copyright was eliminated!
And the reason they do so is because it so neatly fits in with the from each according to their ability, to each according to their need credo which characterises ideal, if not real (by which I mean actually existing or existed, rather than genuine) communism.
Indeed, but that is not a question for the judge, it's one for the legislature
No luck necessary -- the rules are unenforcable. (Well at law anyway, KPMG could always hire a few big guys with baseball bats ...)
There is no right for KPMG to assert. There is no breach of copyright, and unless the linking is being framed in a deceptive way, no claim that the contents of the site belong to anyone other than KPMG (ie not passing off either). In fact, it is KPMG, who would have to be very lucky to get this to fly even at first instance.
Yeah, only trouble is they have to find a cause of action to sue on... I guess they'll have to get Capitol Hill to pass some new legislation.
Yes, but it is Microsoft, and Microsoft has an outrageous monopoly and indulges in outrageous misbehaviour! Turn your question on its head ... If Microsoft were not a misbehaving monopoly, would we be so zealously seeking its death? I think not.
How far should the government go? As far as it is required to maintain (create) functional competition in the market in which the monopolist misbehaves. That was the original intention of Anti-trust law before Posner et al. emasculated it. If Anti-trust law is now so toothless, that a corporation like Microsoft can't be brought to account by it, it is, IMHO, time to rewrite it.
Hmm surely this damage was either intentional or as a result of negligence, but intentional neglect?!
Juggernaut is also used to describe really big trucks ... The original Jagannath, was a large idol of Krshna which was schleppt around Puri in on a big cart, big enough at least for devotees to be able to throw themselves under its wheels. Hence the 'blind devotion' meaning.
Yes, but at least as an Australian, you have the right to express your disgust as an exercise of 'political communication.' Now if you also happen to own a metropolitan daily, you can really make yourself heard.
Instead we have this situation of utopian free-speech where anyone who says anything bad about Perl gets modded down Troll/Flamebait -9 ...
sure it doesn't exist, but it could.
On the other hand fr.yahoo.com (or even www.yahoo.fr) does!
That's a myth. The right is conditional on what is reasonably necessary for the maintainace of state militias. In effect it gives the National Guard the right to bear arms. That's not my opinion, its the opinion of the Supreme Court
Yes, its an old case, but it has been the court's final word on the subject
Wrong! Foreign judgements can be enforced in US courts under the Uniform Foreign Money Order Code. The point is that this code (or rather the state laws which enact it), is itself subject to the first amendment.
Which would have as little effect on what is legal within the US, as this ruling has on what is legal with France. Something that is being overlooked here is that this ruling only says that a US court won't enforce a judgement against Yahoo in the US. The French court may be unable to force Yahoo to remove items posted on its US site, but since Yahoo has a business presence in France, it could enforce a judgement against Yahoo in France for what is posted on the US site.
In case you haven't noticed there's just a little too much of this healthy by-product floating around these days ...