How do either of these guys prevent Big Brother from whacking them with trademark infringement when users start throwing up the next cool t-shirt base on a logo or picture?
Many criticisms have been leveled at this 18th Century system. First, why have electoral votes at all? Why not just elect the president by popular vote? The reason this system has never changed is simple: politics. States with many buffalo and few people, like Wyoming, benefit from it and are not keen on changing it. Since every state gets at least three electors, low-population states have proportionally far more political power than they would have in a direct election system. The number of voters per elector is about four times smaller in the three-elector states than in the most-populous states, as shown in this table http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/states.html. The fact that nearly all the low-population states are heavily Republican adds to the difficulties of changing the system. Direct election of the president would eliminate the current bias in favor of the Republicans.
MS tossed sound engineeing principles out the window and placed legal and marketing concerns ahead of everything else. They deserver the shitty security reputation they have.
Marketing concerns are what makes the product sell. Engineering principles (for the sake of principle only) create things the market doesn't need or want.
Avoiding legal concerns for your product isn't a bad idea either, but it hasn't stopped gun manufacturers or cigarette companies [not that MS is at the same level...]
Ironically, the fourth book, the Foundation's Edge, Asimov counters this statement. The basic premise of the book is that the Second Foundation'ers on Trevise are able to alter one girl's brain to influence and predict her behavior, setting up a chain of events thoughout the book.
This is actually a federal law. No federally funded project can compete with a commercial enterprise - the idea is to insure that the government doesn't become corrupt and start to take over/absorb some of the work that local businesses can do, solely becuase it has larger resources to do it.
This was a big deal a while back when the post office was "competing" with UPS and FedEx - both created a big stink about it. In the same vein, my dad worked at a federally funded division of the Navy that refurbished guns on Naval warships. If a business within 50 miles made a part they needed (or had the ability to do so), they couldn't make it themselves - they had to contract with the local firm.
A pain in the ass if you're trying to get your work done, but keeps the government from becoming Wal-Mart.
However, applying that clause to this scenario is pretty misleading, as PubScience seems to be pointing to federally funded research. We've ALREADY PAID for this information by supporting those scientists that do the work!
Bummer - double checking the date, though it might have been April 1st. Speaking of fool's...
www.fool.com recently went to subscriptions on their message boards (the most used/valuable component of the site) They "gifted" a few folks who had been significant posters (high karma) over the years - over a thousand total.
http://www.fool.com/landing/pb/pb_land_d.htm
Handing out a few here might be helpful to insure the content continues.
This article from Information week has some views on H1-B visas. A couple folks in Congress are trying to reduce the number back to 65K a year (in '98) whick rose to almost 200K. The also discuss a couple hiring managers who state, "I want to hire the best people." Also touches on average lower pay for H1-B workers
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How do either of these guys prevent Big Brother from whacking them with trademark infringement when users start throwing up the next cool t-shirt base on a logo or picture?
Actually, the original poster is correct, it's the house as well as the senate.
e ge.html The table link has the actual ratio of people per electoral vote. Wyoming has 1 per 165,101, California 1 per 616,924.
From http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/electoral-coll
Many criticisms have been leveled at this 18th Century system. First, why have electoral votes at all? Why not just elect the president by popular vote? The reason this system has never changed is simple: politics. States with many buffalo and few people, like Wyoming, benefit from it and are not keen on changing it. Since every state gets at least three electors, low-population states have proportionally far more political power than they would have in a direct election system. The number of voters per elector is about four times smaller in the three-elector states than in the most-populous states, as shown in this table http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/states.html. The fact that nearly all the low-population states are heavily Republican adds to the difficulties of changing the system. Direct election of the president would eliminate the current bias in favor of the Republicans.
MS tossed sound engineeing principles out the window and placed legal and marketing concerns ahead of everything else. They deserver the shitty security reputation they have.
Marketing concerns are what makes the product sell. Engineering principles (for the sake of principle only) create things the market doesn't need or want.
Avoiding legal concerns for your product isn't a bad idea either, but it hasn't stopped gun manufacturers or cigarette companies [not that MS is at the same level...]
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According to this logic, amazon should bring suit against google. Check out froogle.google.com -
Ironically, the fourth book, the Foundation's Edge, Asimov counters this statement. The basic premise of the book is that the Second Foundation'ers on Trevise are able to alter one girl's brain to influence and predict her behavior, setting up a chain of events thoughout the book.
This is actually a federal law. No federally funded project can compete with a commercial enterprise - the idea is to insure that the government doesn't become corrupt and start to take over/absorb some of the work that local businesses can do, solely becuase it has larger resources to do it.
This was a big deal a while back when the post office was "competing" with UPS and FedEx - both created a big stink about it. In the same vein, my dad worked at a federally funded division of the Navy that refurbished guns on Naval warships. If a business within 50 miles made a part they needed (or had the ability to do so), they couldn't make it themselves - they had to contract with the local firm.
A pain in the ass if you're trying to get your work done, but keeps the government from becoming Wal-Mart.
However, applying that clause to this scenario is pretty misleading, as PubScience seems to be pointing to federally funded research. We've ALREADY PAID for this information by supporting those scientists that do the work!
I've been following along with the matching after the fact, but haven't been able to catch any of them live. Anyone know the time?
Here's a link to the flash/PGN replays-
http://www.fritz7.de/bahrain/english/
Isn't this actually how many medichlorians you have? A six year old could pull this off...
http://www.forbes.com/2002/03/18/0318digitaldistri bution.html
Bummer - double checking the date, though it might have been April 1st. Speaking of fool's...
www.fool.com recently went to subscriptions on their message boards (the most used/valuable component of the site) They "gifted" a few folks who had been significant posters (high karma) over the years - over a thousand total.
http://www.fool.com/landing/pb/pb_land_d.htm
Handing out a few here might be helpful to insure the content continues.
This article from Information week has some views on H1-B visas. A couple folks in Congress are trying to reduce the number back to 65K a year (in '98) whick rose to almost 200K. The also discuss a couple hiring managers who state, "I want to hire the best people." Also touches on average lower pay for H1-B workers
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK2002020