Oh yeah, I forgot, Clinton bombed and starved Iraq for 8 years. Which is perfectly fine with all of us who opposed the war, because we think that Clinton, unlike Bush, is an infallible all-perfect being.
Anyway, it's well known by now that Bush planned to invade Iraq long before the UN Inspection process was re-started in 2002.
The whole inspections process was an empty ritual that going to be declared a failure by Bush & Co. no matter what Iraq did : the point of the process was to give a wrapper of legitimacy to the foreordained invasion.
So what *did* happen to the wood elves that didn't depart to the West? Did they just "dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget or be forgotten", as Galadriel says?
Any Windows developer will tell you about the time they spent four days tracking down a bug because, say, they thought that the memory size returned by LocalSize would be the same as the memory size they originally requested with LocalAlloc, or some similar bug they could have fixed in ten minutes if they could see the source code of the library.
I'm curious if you come across things like that if you develop for MS Windows...
I was pretty surprised just how many folks with redhat.com email addresses are in the source code of these projects. The KDE sample I took had a much smaller list than the GNOME sample (gtk+) but still they're there.
The point to draw from the above is that Redhat actually paid to write the software they are selling.
However, I would agree with you if you are saying that MS pays to write a higher percentage of software in its OS distribution than Redhat pays to write for its distribution, though I have no way of verifying that assumption since I don't have the source code for Windows. Where do you get the over 95% figure, and more importantly what conclusion do you draw from the difference in percentages?
There are no Microsoft Trolls here, there are only realists. Set your threshold to -1; they are there.
I agree with the ultimate goal of spending the money locally, but one can't do this through protectionist measures designed to prop up inefficient modes of production.
Every advanced capitalist country practiced protectionism to reach the point of development it has reached now. It is this high point of development and dominance of the international markets that gives them their espoused preference for "free trade" - but, of course, they only practice this in the industries that they dominate the market in already. Take a look at some economic history before you claim that protection is somehow less "efficient".
the term efficiency needs to be examined as well. The claim (fromo your parent poster) that free software would be 3 times as expensive is thrown out with no explanation. Are we to believe that spending, let us say $1,000,000 of Brazil's taxpayers' money on Microsoft software is somehow more "efficient" than spending the same amount on Brazi's native software? Efficient for transferring wealth out of Brazil, perhaps.
This FOSS move will set back their progress by a good 5-10 years or more, just as the similar computing laws they passed in the 1980's to encourage hardware manufacturing in country set back their progress.
Again you may want to look at some of the economic policies of countries that are the main hardware developers : South Korea, Taiwan, China and other Asian state-managed capitalisms. Especially in comparison with the more "free market" policies forced on Latin America in the past few decades.
What do you suppose the script writer's actual intent was? That is, what was the script supposed to accomplish, had it not had the bug that caused it to get away from them?
Hey, thanks for clearing that up. The US doesn't need Iraq's oil...well, at least it doesn't until it starts yet another war, in which case it would need it.
Hey, the US can't even pacify Iraq, never mind Saudia Arabia. If you wanted to invade Saudi Arabia, you should have thought of that before getting yourselves bogged down in Iraq.
Oh, it was supposed to be a cakewalk, right? The Iraqis would be happily liberated and the US would install a friendly government and be out in a few months. Oops...
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Oh yeah, I forgot, Clinton bombed and starved Iraq for 8 years. Which is perfectly fine with all of us who opposed the war, because we think that Clinton, unlike Bush, is an infallible all-perfect being.
The whole inspections process was an empty ritual that going to be declared a failure by Bush & Co. no matter what Iraq did : the point of the process was to give a wrapper of legitimacy to the foreordained invasion.
You had boxes? We had to go into orbit and use space as our vacuum!
AND(a,b) = XOR(XOR(a,b),OR(a,b))
You might be right about the cost of gates; I have no idea. Ok, it was a dumb joke.
Luxury! In my day we had to make our own AND gates out of OR and XOR gates!
Anything that makes the spammer spend more time and effort per spam is good. Anything which raises the cost-per-spam is a victory! :)
I believe it was WC Fields who said,
"You can't cheat an honest man."
Republicans convienently forget the following:
I don't give a fuck what Clinton or Albright think or thought!
AND I'm against the war and the occupation!
What a fucking combination huh?
So what *did* happen to the wood elves that didn't depart to the West? Did they just "dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget or be forgotten", as Galadriel says?
Wasn't Galadriel a tree-elf too (since she was the queen of Lorien)?
mod up - +1 funny
I'm curious if you come across things like that if you develop for MS Windows...
oops sorry, wrong link; try this one
OMG that is shocking news..More information available here
"She got pushed down, and they walked over her like a herd of elephants," said her sister, Linda Ellzey.
*sniff*, things like this always make me remember what's important about Christmas..
getting trampled by overweight shoppers!
"Kernel"
:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test10/CREDITS
do
grep -e "E: [^@]*@redhat"
"all of the GNU tools"
for gcc (for example), do
find gcc-3.2.2 -name "*.[h|c]*" -exec grep -H -i \
"redhat\." '{}' ';'
"KDE"
find kdebase-3.1.4 -name "*.[h|c]*" -exec grep -H -i "redhat\." '{}' ';'
"GNOME"
find gtk+-2.2.4 -name "*.[h|c]*" -exec grep -H -i "redhat\." '{}' ';'
I was pretty surprised just how many folks with redhat.com email addresses are in the source code of these projects. The KDE sample I took had a much smaller list than the GNOME sample (gtk+) but still they're there.
The point to draw from the above is that Redhat actually paid to write the software they are selling.
However, I would agree with you if you are saying that MS pays to write a higher percentage of software in its OS distribution than Redhat pays to write for its distribution, though I have no way of verifying that assumption since I don't have the source code for Windows. Where do you get the over 95% figure, and more importantly what conclusion do you draw from the difference in percentages?
"Microsoft actually paid to write the software they are selling, "
are you saying Redhat didn't pay to write the software they are selling?
Set your threshold to -1; they are there.
I agree with the ultimate goal of spending the money locally, but one can't do this through protectionist measures designed to prop up inefficient modes of production.
Every advanced capitalist country practiced protectionism to reach the point of development it has reached now. It is this high point of development and dominance of the international markets that gives them their espoused preference for "free trade" - but, of course, they only practice this in the industries that they dominate the market in already.
Take a look at some economic history before you claim that protection is somehow less "efficient".
the term efficiency needs to be examined as well. The claim (fromo your parent poster) that free software would be 3 times as expensive is thrown out with no explanation. Are we to believe that spending, let us say $1,000,000 of Brazil's taxpayers' money on Microsoft software is somehow more "efficient" than spending the same amount on Brazi's native software? Efficient for transferring wealth out of Brazil, perhaps.
This FOSS move will set back their progress by a good 5-10 years or more, just as the similar computing laws they passed in the 1980's to encourage hardware manufacturing in country set back their progress.
Again you may want to look at some of the economic policies of countries that are the main hardware developers : South Korea, Taiwan, China and other Asian state-managed capitalisms. Especially in comparison with the more "free market" policies forced on Latin America in the past few decades.
"I'm sorry, but I outgrew this advocacy bullshit about 10 years ago."
And you've been trolling on slashdot ever since!
link
What do you suppose the script writer's actual intent was? That is, what was the script supposed to accomplish, had it not had the bug that caused it to get away from them?
Hey, the US can't even pacify Iraq, never mind Saudia Arabia. If you wanted to invade Saudi Arabia, you should have thought of that before getting yourselves bogged down in Iraq.
Oh, it was supposed to be a cakewalk, right? The Iraqis would be happily liberated and the US would install a friendly government and be out in a few months. Oops...
I do bite my thumb, but I do not bite my thumb at you sir.
In Soviet Russia, the Wehrmacht invades YOU!
"I am the Lorax," he said. "I speak for the Trees!"
"I am busy," I said. "Shut up, if you please."