You are confusing movements. OSI is the Open Source Initiative. All they care about is having the source code. The GPL, to which you are referring, is a product of the Free Software movement. All they care about is the right to use software without restriction.
They may seem to have the same goals. But there are subtle differences in implementation.
Your view of the world is too simplisitic. Researchers should do research and leave the politics to the politicians. Life is never as simple as you make it out to be.
Disclaimer: This advice is probably only applicable to small businesses. The maze of inter-departmental bullshit and bureaucracy that goes on in large corporations is usually the cause of their own problems, but, in most businesses:
The problem in IT is always money. Either too much or not enough.
Every IT department I've seen falls into one of two categories: spendthrift idiots with twelve copies of VMWare and 4 gigs of RAM on each machine. Or frazzled techs running an entire company on 8 year old PCs and unlicensed software.
And anyone but a competent, experienced IT person will have no idea how to determine which it is. Managers are especially bad. But some IT people can be even worse.
So, here's what you do. Hire an outside consultant, perhaps two, to come in, look around for a couple of weeks, and answer a simple question: are we spending too much money on IT or not enough?
Once you've determined that, figure out who the responsible member of IT is. Sit down with him, and with the consultant(s), and give him a budget. Base it on previous expenditures, future plans, and everything that IT is responsible for. Make sure it is easily accessible. And have someone oversee it every few months or so.
Because "income" doesn't mean what you think it means. It really means "profit". And profit, for a person, means any expenses spent or capital accumulated that is not really necessary to survive and do one's job.
So, the only revenue that is taxable is your "income", which is net revenue minus expenses. Expenses must be deducted. And there must be a method for individuals to deduct their expenses that are not profit.
It's a Constitutional requirement. You can't get around it.
Taxes don't exist to redistribute wealth, though that's what they've been doing for the last 50 years. They exist to provide funding for government from the profit of it's citizens, and to provide government an incentive to ensure it's citizens create profit rather than debt. It reaffirms the notion of government, or the Federal government at least, as an emergent phenomenon, not a fundamental or driving aspect of society.
Martial law didn't end until Rutherford B. Hayes was granted the presidency in the Compromise of 1877. It was during this time that the reconstruction amendments were imposed on the South.
This seems to be a fairly common attitude I'm noticing. "I paid for Kazaa," or "I paid for Napster," therefore I'm allowed to copy all the music I want. Now it's "I paid for the internet." Notwithstanding the fact that AOL is Time Warner, which owns a hefty chunk of all the music out there, that just isn't how it works. That's akin to saying "I bought an XBox, therefore I am entitled to copy all the games."
An iPod is blank media. At least it is in countries with such a tax. And if you think they won't just raise the tax as rewritable media is substituted for write-once, you're mistaken.
It's not such a dumb idea. Most things are probably on a UPS. With some creative design and purchasing, you could run 48 volts DC directly to the UPS. That's assuming solar panels or whatever are worthwhile to begin with, of course.
Only those rights already defined and/or upheld, including the situations in which they apply. Which was the point of Gilmore's case - he's asking "isn't this a violation of my rights in the Constitution" and the court said "not in the Constitution, which is where you have staked your claim."
Rights are asserted, not "defined". For a right to be "upheld", it must either be recognized by a lower court or have been appealed at some point. The point is, nothing precludes lower courts from recognizing rights without them having been spelled out in previous decisions or in the Constitution itself. Rights are reserved by the 9th amendment. One would hope that courts, all courts, would recognize this fact, especially after having been pointed to it specifically.
If Congress wants a national day for peanuts and the President signs it into law, the SC probably will not question that "whim." When the Constitution and case law has no conflict, the SC almost always steps out of the way.
Of course. Unless there is a question of one's rights being violated, the courts have no say. Now, one might argue that one has a right to a government that fails to specially recognize peanuts, but it may be a tough argument. Of course, if the government went ahead and asked schoolchildren to pledge allegiance to peanuts or something, one might have a stronger case.
The appellate court, just so we stay on topic here, functions as a filter for the SC so that cases which are not constitutional in nature, like the peanut day law, never bother the Court and those cases which are constitional in nature but may conflict with existing laws, are sent upward.
All cases in which individual rights are asserted, and are restricted by actions of the Federal government, and sometimes the State governments, are constitutional in nature.
Maybe it never had an interest, but it was designed to represent voters, who are individuals.
It was designed to represent individuals collectively, as a government. You'd have to be an idiot to believe that collectivism and government is inherently respectful of individual rights. The people who signed the Constitution sure as hell knew that wasn't true.
Second, install a solar power system. Kinda pricy, but if you have a large roof you can generate some solid power. And don't think that being in the north excludes you from solar power. Uni-Solar has a great sun index map showing what level of solar output and electrical output you can expect in any given area.
Third, going with solar, a battery array or some other type of power storage. By using the solar pannels to juice up the batteries, you can pull power from the batteries at peek time, but charge them all day.
Whoa... what? If your peak isn't the same as solar peak, what's the point of this? It just sounds like much more expensive electricity to me.
The job of *any* court is to protect individual rights. In fact, it's the only reason we have courts. It's the reason we have juries, capable of determining both law and fact. And it's the reason the Federal government, at least, can't even accuse someone of wrongdoing without the assent of a jury: to protect individuals from government.
He is only interested in upholding existing law
The judiciary is a third branch of government. It does not exist to cater to the whims of Congress. It exists to hold the Executive and Congress to the Constitution.
and existing Constitutional interpretation (such as it is).
This tradition of deferring to higher courts on "decided" matters, though it may be practical at times, is by no means required. Judges make their own decisions all the time, even most Supreme Court justices have voted to reverse decisions that were previously thought "decided".
The fact that the Federal system may not be working right, that Congress may have no interest in individual rights, etc. does not change the job of an appeals court.
Congress never has an interest in individual rights. It was never designed to. What isn't working here isn't just Congress, it's the poor quality and education of lawyers. In fact, it's that we rely on lawyers at all to tell us what our rights are. That's the real problem here.
1) Be prepared to sign an agreement for monthly support, and pay it regularly. Nothing makes contractors happier than knowing what to expect. And nothing makes them angrier than not getting paid.
2) Be up-front about your needs. Don't try to hire someone for a few months and have them teach you everything they know. These people exist, but they bill at $150/hr and won't be worth your while. Micromanagement behaviour, especially from small businesses who claim they need outside services, sets off alarm bells for contractors. If they don't trust you, you won't trust them.
3) Be extremely clear with each other about what type of support is expected. Full service, I-have-the-root-password-and-nobody-installs-anyth ing support is easier and cheaper for everyone. If you want to be able to fuck around on your systems, and expect hand-holding, be prepared to pay extra or find a third-rate service that will put up with that.
4) Pooling resources is also extremely beneficial. If you can find a few other small businesses in need of support, the odds of finding and retaining high quality help will increase.
5) And, most importantly, computer support is about more than just fixing mice and installing updates. Especially for small businesses, outsourcing IT means reaping the benefits of more efficient processes than you otherwise would be able to accomplish. Take advantage of those benefits.
As a trained physicist, I learned that there is one universal currency: energy.
I'd just like to say "Fuck You" on behalf of all Americans to you and other physicists like you for pandering to our belligerent military instead of informing Americans of this important fact.
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the CIA, backed by President Ronald Reagan, aimed to bring down the Russian economy with dodgy software.
too.. many.. jokes...
Because eventually Microsoft will release a version of Windows that won't run without it.
So war is now too important to be left to the soldiers?
You are confusing movements. OSI is the Open Source Initiative. All they care about is having the source code. The GPL, to which you are referring, is a product of the Free Software movement. All they care about is the right to use software without restriction.
They may seem to have the same goals. But there are subtle differences in implementation.
Your view of the world is too simplisitic. Researchers should do research and leave the politics to the politicians. Life is never as simple as you make it out to be.
Wrapped in irony...
I love how slashdot goes from Bill Gates' taxes, to Chuck Norris, to cures for cancer.
Disclaimer: This advice is probably only applicable to small businesses. The maze of inter-departmental bullshit and bureaucracy that goes on in large corporations is usually the cause of their own problems, but, in most businesses:
The problem in IT is always money. Either too much or not enough.
Every IT department I've seen falls into one of two categories: spendthrift idiots with twelve copies of VMWare and 4 gigs of RAM on each machine. Or frazzled techs running an entire company on 8 year old PCs and unlicensed software.
And anyone but a competent, experienced IT person will have no idea how to determine which it is. Managers are especially bad. But some IT people can be even worse.
So, here's what you do. Hire an outside consultant, perhaps two, to come in, look around for a couple of weeks, and answer a simple question: are we spending too much money on IT or not enough?
Once you've determined that, figure out who the responsible member of IT is. Sit down with him, and with the consultant(s), and give him a budget. Base it on previous expenditures, future plans, and everything that IT is responsible for. Make sure it is easily accessible. And have someone oversee it every few months or so.
Then sit back and watch the problem solve itself.
which is net revenue minus expenses
Oops, I meant *gross* revenue.
Why are tax deductions a necessity?
Because "income" doesn't mean what you think it means. It really means "profit". And profit, for a person, means any expenses spent or capital accumulated that is not really necessary to survive and do one's job.
So, the only revenue that is taxable is your "income", which is net revenue minus expenses. Expenses must be deducted. And there must be a method for individuals to deduct their expenses that are not profit.
It's a Constitutional requirement. You can't get around it.
Taxes don't exist to redistribute wealth, though that's what they've been doing for the last 50 years. They exist to provide funding for government from the profit of it's citizens, and to provide government an incentive to ensure it's citizens create profit rather than debt. It reaffirms the notion of government, or the Federal government at least, as an emergent phenomenon, not a fundamental or driving aspect of society.
Martial law didn't end until Rutherford B. Hayes was granted the presidency in the Compromise of 1877. It was during this time that the reconstruction amendments were imposed on the South.
I already am. I am paying for my internet access
This seems to be a fairly common attitude I'm noticing. "I paid for Kazaa," or "I paid for Napster," therefore I'm allowed to copy all the music I want. Now it's "I paid for the internet." Notwithstanding the fact that AOL is Time Warner, which owns a hefty chunk of all the music out there, that just isn't how it works. That's akin to saying "I bought an XBox, therefore I am entitled to copy all the games."
An iPod is blank media. At least it is in countries with such a tax. And if you think they won't just raise the tax as rewritable media is substituted for write-once, you're mistaken.
Are you under the impression that IQ has anything to do with "work"?
It's not such a dumb idea. Most things are probably on a UPS. With some creative design and purchasing, you could run 48 volts DC directly to the UPS. That's assuming solar panels or whatever are worthwhile to begin with, of course.
None. Almost everything in a datacenter runs on DC power.
Only those rights already defined and/or upheld, including the situations in which they apply. Which was the point of Gilmore's case - he's asking "isn't this a violation of my rights in the Constitution" and the court said "not in the Constitution, which is where you have staked your claim."
Rights are asserted, not "defined". For a right to be "upheld", it must either be recognized by a lower court or have been appealed at some point. The point is, nothing precludes lower courts from recognizing rights without them having been spelled out in previous decisions or in the Constitution itself. Rights are reserved by the 9th amendment. One would hope that courts, all courts, would recognize this fact, especially after having been pointed to it specifically.
If Congress wants a national day for peanuts and the President signs it into law, the SC probably will not question that "whim." When the Constitution and case law has no conflict, the SC almost always steps out of the way.
Of course. Unless there is a question of one's rights being violated, the courts have no say. Now, one might argue that one has a right to a government that fails to specially recognize peanuts, but it may be a tough argument. Of course, if the government went ahead and asked schoolchildren to pledge allegiance to peanuts or something, one might have a stronger case.
The appellate court, just so we stay on topic here, functions as a filter for the SC so that cases which are not constitutional in nature, like the peanut day law, never bother the Court and those cases which are constitional in nature but may conflict with existing laws, are sent upward.
All cases in which individual rights are asserted, and are restricted by actions of the Federal government, and sometimes the State governments, are constitutional in nature.
Maybe it never had an interest, but it was designed to represent voters, who are individuals.
It was designed to represent individuals collectively, as a government. You'd have to be an idiot to believe that collectivism and government is inherently respectful of individual rights. The people who signed the Constitution sure as hell knew that wasn't true.
The filter you propose wouldn't even catch the travesty that was epicycles.
... world
Sure it did. Not immediately, but eventually:
external consistency with the outer (earth/cosmos)
But we drink alcohol to bring them back!
Whoa... what? If your peak isn't the same as solar peak, what's the point of this? It just sounds like much more expensive electricity to me.
Why is their (Microsoft's) censorship software ineffective?
Dur...
The job of *any* court is to protect individual rights. In fact, it's the only reason we have courts. It's the reason we have juries, capable of determining both law and fact. And it's the reason the Federal government, at least, can't even accuse someone of wrongdoing without the assent of a jury: to protect individuals from government.
He is only interested in upholding existing law
The judiciary is a third branch of government. It does not exist to cater to the whims of Congress. It exists to hold the Executive and Congress to the Constitution.
and existing Constitutional interpretation (such as it is).
This tradition of deferring to higher courts on "decided" matters, though it may be practical at times, is by no means required. Judges make their own decisions all the time, even most Supreme Court justices have voted to reverse decisions that were previously thought "decided".
The fact that the Federal system may not be working right, that Congress may have no interest in individual rights, etc. does not change the job of an appeals court.
Congress never has an interest in individual rights. It was never designed to. What isn't working here isn't just Congress, it's the poor quality and education of lawyers. In fact, it's that we rely on lawyers at all to tell us what our rights are. That's the real problem here.
Here are some tips:
h ing support is easier and cheaper for everyone. If you want to be able to fuck around on your systems, and expect hand-holding, be prepared to pay extra or find a third-rate service that will put up with that.
1) Be prepared to sign an agreement for monthly support, and pay it regularly. Nothing makes contractors happier than knowing what to expect. And nothing makes them angrier than not getting paid.
2) Be up-front about your needs. Don't try to hire someone for a few months and have them teach you everything they know. These people exist, but they bill at $150/hr and won't be worth your while. Micromanagement behaviour, especially from small businesses who claim they need outside services, sets off alarm bells for contractors. If they don't trust you, you won't trust them.
3) Be extremely clear with each other about what type of support is expected. Full service, I-have-the-root-password-and-nobody-installs-anyt
4) Pooling resources is also extremely beneficial. If you can find a few other small businesses in need of support, the odds of finding and retaining high quality help will increase.
5) And, most importantly, computer support is about more than just fixing mice and installing updates. Especially for small businesses, outsourcing IT means reaping the benefits of more efficient processes than you otherwise would be able to accomplish. Take advantage of those benefits.
we have enough coal to not have to worry about centralized generation supplies, ever.
Overheard 100 years ago: "We have enough food to last forever!!!one!eleven"
And 50 years ago: "We have enough oil to last forever!!eleventy!!!"
And 500 years from now: "How are we going to feed 150 billion people without nuclear fuel?"
As a trained physicist, I learned that there is one universal currency: energy.
I'd just like to say "Fuck You" on behalf of all Americans to you and other physicists like you for pandering to our belligerent military instead of informing Americans of this important fact.
"it will actually get better mileage and/or more power" than gas
I accounted for that.
And you can convert a gas powered car to ethanol, not to biodiesel.
In the long term, which is more important: the car you're driving *right now*, or a fuel that's 20% easier to obtain?