I keep telling people that these "American Companies" aren't American at all. Fewer and fewer of their worker's are American, their ideals are not American and their tax revenue isn't reported in America.
I think that you'll find that a large chunk of the profits go to Americans.
phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity
And no analogy in your comment. Perhaps consider renaming yourself to inane first post guy?
Government-owned implies tax-funded, which means that the costs have already been shifted to the general public. How is it legitimate to force people to pay for research and then deny them access to the results?
You missed a few pertinent words in your question Let me add them for you - they make the answer obvious.
How is it legitimate to force Australian people to pay for research and then deny American & European Corporations access to the results?
Automobiles affect the environment in many ways. Impacts begin when a vehicle is manufactured (including the production of all the parts and materials that go into the car) and end with its scrappage in a junkyard (which can recycle many parts but also involves the disposal of many wastes). Over the life of an average motor vehicle, however, much of the environmental damage occurs during driving and is greatly associated with fuel consumption. Over the dozen or so years of a vehicle's life, nearly 90 percent of lifecycle ("cradle to grave") greenhouse gas production for a typical automobile is due to fuel consumption.
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There is a case to be made that replacing a car with a more fuel efficient one is a green move. I am quite sure replacing many cars younger than 20 years with a newer, more efficient model would pay for itself carbon-emissions wise after a few years. I'm not quite sure where that cut off point would be however. Perhaps someone a little more knowledgeable would care to comment?
No, I'm just enough of a realist to know that war comes with human misery and that the alternative of continuing to live under Saddam would have been worse for the 2/3'rds of the country that wasn't Sunni.
Do you really believe that life is better for iraqis now than it was under Saddam?
It's funny how your quoted death toll keeps rising the longer we talk. Originally it was 100k. Now it's "hundreds of thousands". I suspect that if we continue this conversation long enough the entire population of Iraq will have died and it will all be George W. Bush's fault.
The documented death toll is approximately 100k - the actual death toll is likely much higher.
the skillz market for hacking phones just went up again. when will these music industries/RIAJ/RIAA/etc ever learn from Amazon/Ebay/etc? Its all about customer experience. This may be the same reason why top100 music generally licks balls.
Ebay and Customer service in the same paragraph? Incorrect..
Ebay and generally licks balls in the same paragraph? Correct.
While choosing your diet to make your shit smell less is indeed rather stupid (is that the only argument for vegetarianism they made?), from wikipedia's feces article:
Vegetarian diets produce feces with less odor from the standpoint of human perception than diets containing large amounts of meat, in both human beings and animals; for example, the odor of feces produced by carnivores such as lions or tigers tends to be much stronger than that of feces produced by herbivores such as horses or cows
You noticed the difference between the smell of dog shit & cow shit?
using the software without a valid license. This means a breach of copyright
No. Breach of contract is not the same as copyright infringement.
Here's an example of a lawsuit where someone declined an EULA & was not prosecuted for copyright infringement (and in fact was allowed to resell the software as per normal copyright laws, etc).
Can you find me an example that backs up your point? Or are you just talking shit?
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Go ahead and tell me it's not China's fault for producing substandard products and that I, as an America, am profiting in some way from it.
Quality toaster ovens are available for you to buy (manufactured all over the world).
Yet you choose to buy the cheaper, inferior products.
I keep telling people that these "American Companies" aren't American at all. Fewer and fewer of their worker's are American, their ideals are not American and their tax revenue isn't reported in America.
I think that you'll find that a large chunk of the profits go to Americans.
A contractor on the other hand is paid for work when called in but not for being on call.
A contractor can negotiate a contract asking for on call pay if they like.
HTF is that phishing? Wikipedia sez:
And no analogy in your comment. Perhaps consider renaming yourself to inane first post guy?
Yes because Australians are paying other countries for their tax-funded inventions right?
Yes, they are.
Government-owned implies tax-funded, which means that the costs have already been shifted to the general public. How is it legitimate to force people to pay for research and then deny them access to the results?
You missed a few pertinent words in your question Let me add them for you - they make the answer obvious.
How is it legitimate to force Australian people to pay for research and then deny American & European Corporations access to the results?
If they are vegetarians, why do they make webs?
For protection.
Basically, Apple demands something better than Adobe is willing to develop.
Do you have a non-speculative source for this?
You are implying that darwin is just a kernel,
No. I'm not. Darwin is not OS X.
All I am doing is backing up the OP's assertion that Apple forbid installation of OS X on non-Apple hardware.
Whenever I want. Apple's window manager now, that they're pretty sensitive about.
An operating system is more than then kernel - and Quartz is a helluva lot more than a window manager.
Apple bars you from installing their operating system on non-apple devices. End of story.
buy a car *snip* and keeps that car for 20+ years.
According to greencars
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There is a case to be made that replacing a car with a more fuel efficient one is a green move. I am quite sure replacing many cars younger than 20 years with a newer, more efficient model would pay for itself carbon-emissions wise after a few years. I'm not quite sure where that cut off point would be however. Perhaps someone a little more knowledgeable would care to comment?
Currently there is no such thing as UAV's for civilian purposes.
incorrect.
No, I'm just enough of a realist to know that war comes with human misery and that the alternative of continuing to live under Saddam would have been worse for the 2/3'rds of the country that wasn't Sunni.
Do you really believe that life is better for iraqis now than it was under Saddam?
It's funny how your quoted death toll keeps rising the longer we talk. Originally it was 100k. Now it's "hundreds of thousands". I suspect that if we continue this conversation long enough the entire population of Iraq will have died and it will all be George W. Bush's fault.
The documented death toll is approximately 100k - the actual death toll is likely much higher.
In fact, tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians were already dying
Yes - and I assign responsibility for those tens of thousands of deaths to Saddam & the rest of the ba'ath elite.
However, that does not mitigate responsibility for the hundreds of thousands who died following the invasion.
You appear to believe that two wrongs make a right.
It's cute that you say we "caused" the deaths of 100k
*shrug*. Leading to? Indirectly caused by? Semantics.
No matter what word games you play, there is an enormous number of civilians who would be alive if were not for the invasion Iraq.
or called or regime change in Iraq.
There is a big difference between calling for regime change and invading a nation, causing the documented deaths of over 100,000 civilians
the skillz market for hacking phones just went up again. when will these music industries/RIAJ/RIAA/etc ever learn from Amazon/Ebay/etc? Its all about customer experience. This may be the same reason why top100 music generally licks balls.
Ebay and Customer service in the same paragraph? Incorrect..
Ebay and generally licks balls in the same paragraph? Correct.
I smell another LKML flamewar coming....
A flamewar on the LKML? Pfffffffffffft. Impossible. Never happened, never will happen.
I've yet to be impressed by any of them, for any use, with any hardware.
I've yet to be impressed by your comment, which contains no reason for your opinion.
Care to give us some examples of your uses & hardware?
While choosing your diet to make your shit smell less is indeed rather stupid (is that the only argument for vegetarianism they made?), from wikipedia's feces article:
Vegetarian diets produce feces with less odor from the standpoint of human perception than diets containing large amounts of meat, in both human beings and animals; for example, the odor of feces produced by carnivores such as lions or tigers tends to be much stronger than that of feces produced by herbivores such as horses or cows
You noticed the difference between the smell of dog shit & cow shit?
Gazelles, they would be dead. But they're cows.
You've hopelessly romanticized Gazelles & the effect domestication has had on cattle.
You just smell bad because you biked 10 miles to work and haven't had a chance to shower.
In more civilized parts of the world, workplaces have showers. Not out of altruism either - a healthy worker takes less sick days.
In 1999 I was on slashdot from a computer not much different from this one.
Yes, but in 1999 did you have twitter? Facebook? Now that's progress.
Why - just think, by 2029, you might be able to let everyone know the consistency of your latest shit, just by thinking about it!
using the software without a valid license. This means a breach of copyright
No. Breach of contract is not the same as copyright infringement.
Here's an example of a lawsuit where someone declined an EULA & was not prosecuted for copyright infringement (and in fact was allowed to resell the software as per normal copyright laws, etc).
Can you find me an example that backs up your point? Or are you just talking shit?
its still infringement of copyright, so err, yes.
No, it's not. It may be breach of contract, but it most certainly is not infringement of copyright.
You're not making a copy after all. You do realise that's what copyright is about don't you? The err right to err copy?
You numpty.