Belco had the chance to bid on the contract, and decided to side-step everything to try and take over. If this had been an American company that tried to do it, you'd be screaming for freaking head off. Sorry, but mark this one down as yet another troll.
No, I'm not arguing that at all. Other people implied that. I'm saying don't let other people do your thinking for you, which is exactly what this device does. THAT is a bullshit philosophy, and too many people do that already.
Bush the liar....PLEASE, give me a break, and grind your axe elsewhere. If you'd rather have women being raped, mass graves, children in prison, when admit that someone should have gone in there a long time ago to save those people, then just say that.
There's some revisionist history happening in that article. UUNET didn't cause UUCPnet to disappear. It was around for a looooong time after UUNET got started.
This is exactly my point. If you dig deep enough, someone did something that'll piss someone off. If someone tried to use a device like this to be "socially correct", they'd never buy anything.
If you're actually an informed consumer, then it's NOT a problem. People should know what kind of companies they're buying from, what sort of ethical biases their news sources have, etc.
This is merely an attempt by someone to impose their ethics on everyone else.
I bet it would beep and buzz at nearly every single product out there. Someone, somewhere, considers just about any product you can name un-ethical, and they are PISSED about it.
Any company that uses meat of any kind would be on PETAs list, all energy companies would be on the list, any company that uses plastics would be on the list (evil petroleum used to make plastics, you know), and the lists go on and on.
I stand by what I said... And Bush has a helluva lot more guts than any liberal these days, even people that get the bums rush into a war they didn't volunteer or expect to get into. If you'd volunteered to get in, that's one thing. Getting swept into a war you weren't expecting isn't gonna earn you any merit badges.
Liberals today would rather turn a blind eye to what's going on in the world than do the right thing for the people they supposedly care about. The horrors in Iraq would have continued if it was up to them. The Democratic Presidents of the past would have been sickened by today's "liberals".
Right, just like they stood up against Saddam, all the tin-pan dictators in the world. If liberals had their way, Saddam would still be dumping bodies into mass graves.
Conservatives fight for their country, liberals just bitch about it.
The real way to tell if it's biased or not is to change the group of people that you're against to the group of people you're for.... If it seems outlandish reading it that way, then it's a biased article.
And, in this case, I'd say it was pretty damn biased.
The thing I remember the most was that they called it for someone, but before the polls were officially closed in the state. Florida isn't entirely on Eastern time, and when the state was called by the media, most of the panhandle hadn't finished voting. There were numerous reports of people turning around and NOT voting because of that.
Actually, if you're a democrat, you only blame the gunmakers, NOT the users or the file-sharing systems. The user not taking responsibility for their own actions is the foundation of being a Democrat these days.
Sun is telling people they don't have to worry about SCO suing them. They can't be sued because of prior agreements made long ago, when they licensed the technology. Licensed, like so many other companies do, for all kinds of software products. Bashing Sun for this is stupid, since they're not the ones threatening lawsuits.
SCO can't touch them...or, IMHO, anyone else either. It's just SCO in the death throws.
Anyone bashing Sun for this already hated Sun in the first place....so their opinion doesn't really matter.
Whoa there bud....Sun paid that licensing fee a long time ago, before SCO started this crap. Companies license stuff like this ALL the time.
What they don't realize: 'spooked technology buyers' are actually spooked by proprietary software and these for-profit games. This nonsense will backfire.
That's a major logical leap. They're not spooked by proprietary software. If they were, no one would ever buy Microsoft products.
The SCO nonsense will backfire...you're right about that.
Dude, you're so lucky that worked.... 'course, you probably new that it would work with that boss. I've had plenty of bosses that would have shown someone the door for trying that.
If a union employee is doing a bad job at work, it's nearly impossible to fire them. They can be incredibly abusive to everyone, and the company can't do a thing about it.
Before you go spouting off about what you think unions are, you should go work in a car factory for a while as a supervisor. You'll change your tune quickly.
A mortgage is about that? A car payment is half that? Where's this car and house? My mortgage is a touch over $1000, and the car payment is about $250.
Actually, it's not a silly perspective. Being a veteran of many layoffs, I can tell you that some of the first people to go in bad times are the ones that the company had to fork out some bucks to keep in the good times. The company wants loyalty (yeah, I know..."ha ha, what's that"...but they do), and one of the things they look at is whether the people they keep during the bad times are going to be the ones that stay. If someone's already thought of leaving, and they know it, they'll help them out the door, unless it's a REALLY key person.
And don't assume that since YOU think you're a key person, that you ARE a key person. I've seen a lot of "key people" surprised when they get a pink slip.
You know, NEWS.com should stick to news, not editorials masked as real news. Check this out:
Sun hasn't been ashamed to try to profit from the effects of that suit. It jumped at the chance to declare itself a safe haven for spooked technology buyers: "Sun's complete line of Solaris and Linux products...are covered by Sun's portfolio of Unix licensing agreements. Solaris and Sun Linux represent safe choices for those companies that develop and deploy services based on Unix systems," Sun declared the day SCO filed suit against IBM.
Profiting? No, what they're actually doing is telling customers (current and future) that while SCO is wielding that axe trying to find someone to hit and profit from, Sun has already got all the licenses in place (since 1994) and people with Sun products don't have to worry.
Remember, SCO is running around telling people that even buying and running Linux will get you sued. Sun's just trying to say "whoa...none of our customers are going to get sued for things they've been running for quite some time now.
Look, if you don't read the trade rags or the consumer mags and haven't seen it, I can't help ya. Just because YOU weren't paying attention didn't mean it wasn't there. I stand by my original statement.
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Belco had the chance to bid on the contract, and decided to side-step everything to try and take over. If this had been an American company that tried to do it, you'd be screaming for freaking head off. Sorry, but mark this one down as yet another troll.
No, I'm not arguing that at all. Other people implied that. I'm saying don't let other people do your thinking for you, which is exactly what this device does. THAT is a bullshit philosophy, and too many people do that already.
Bush the liar....PLEASE, give me a break, and grind your axe elsewhere. If you'd rather have women being raped, mass graves, children in prison, when admit that someone should have gone in there a long time ago to save those people, then just say that.
There's some revisionist history happening in that article. UUNET didn't cause UUCPnet to disappear. It was around for a looooong time after UUNET got started.
This is exactly my point. If you dig deep enough, someone did something that'll piss someone off. If someone tried to use a device like this to be "socially correct", they'd never buy anything.
If you're actually an informed consumer, then it's NOT a problem. People should know what kind of companies they're buying from, what sort of ethical biases their news sources have, etc.
This is merely an attempt by someone to impose their ethics on everyone else.
I bet it would beep and buzz at nearly every single product out there. Someone, somewhere, considers just about any product you can name un-ethical, and they are PISSED about it.
Any company that uses meat of any kind would be on PETAs list, all energy companies would be on the list, any company that uses plastics would be on the list (evil petroleum used to make plastics, you know), and the lists go on and on.
Someone will just put them on Kazaa, and then the copyrights won't matter, just like everything else up there.
this is it
Don't know if this is the same chair person or not, but her term under Clinton expired in 2001, and she refused to leave.
You should read more.
I stand by what I said... And Bush has a helluva lot more guts than any liberal these days, even people that get the bums rush into a war they didn't volunteer or expect to get into. If you'd volunteered to get in, that's one thing. Getting swept into a war you weren't expecting isn't gonna earn you any merit badges.
Liberals today would rather turn a blind eye to what's going on in the world than do the right thing for the people they supposedly care about. The horrors in Iraq would have continued if it was up to them. The Democratic Presidents of the past would have been sickened by today's "liberals".
Right, just like they stood up against Saddam, all the tin-pan dictators in the world. If liberals had their way, Saddam would still be dumping bodies into mass graves.
Conservatives fight for their country, liberals just bitch about it.
The real way to tell if it's biased or not is to change the group of people that you're against to the group of people you're for.... If it seems outlandish reading it that way, then it's a biased article.
And, in this case, I'd say it was pretty damn biased.
Is that the same Civil Rights commission that has a chairperson that refused to leave her post when her successor was assigned?
The thing I remember the most was that they called it for someone, but before the polls were officially closed in the state. Florida isn't entirely on Eastern time, and when the state was called by the media, most of the panhandle hadn't finished voting. There were numerous reports of people turning around and NOT voting because of that.
Actually, if you're a democrat, you only blame the gunmakers, NOT the users or the file-sharing systems. The user not taking responsibility for their own actions is the foundation of being a Democrat these days.
Right on all the other points though.
That's garbage.
Sun is telling people they don't have to worry about SCO suing them. They can't be sued because of prior agreements made long ago, when they licensed the technology. Licensed, like so many other companies do, for all kinds of software products. Bashing Sun for this is stupid, since they're not the ones threatening lawsuits.
SCO can't touch them...or, IMHO, anyone else either. It's just SCO in the death throws.
Anyone bashing Sun for this already hated Sun in the first place....so their opinion doesn't really matter.
That's a major logical leap. They're not spooked by proprietary software. If they were, no one would ever buy Microsoft products.
The SCO nonsense will backfire...you're right about that.
Dude, you're so lucky that worked.... 'course, you probably new that it would work with that boss. I've had plenty of bosses that would have shown someone the door for trying that.
Glad it worked for ya though.
Unions and union leaders are thugs.
If a union employee is doing a bad job at work, it's nearly impossible to fire them. They can be incredibly abusive to everyone, and the company can't do a thing about it.
Before you go spouting off about what you think unions are, you should go work in a car factory for a while as a supervisor. You'll change your tune quickly.
A mortgage is about that? A car payment is half that? Where's this car and house? My mortgage is a touch over $1000, and the car payment is about $250.
Actually, it's not a silly perspective. Being a veteran of many layoffs, I can tell you that some of the first people to go in bad times are the ones that the company had to fork out some bucks to keep in the good times. The company wants loyalty (yeah, I know..."ha ha, what's that"...but they do), and one of the things they look at is whether the people they keep during the bad times are going to be the ones that stay. If someone's already thought of leaving, and they know it, they'll help them out the door, unless it's a REALLY key person.
And don't assume that since YOU think you're a key person, that you ARE a key person. I've seen a lot of "key people" surprised when they get a pink slip.
Profiting? No, what they're actually doing is telling customers (current and future) that while SCO is wielding that axe trying to find someone to hit and profit from, Sun has already got all the licenses in place (since 1994) and people with Sun products don't have to worry.
Remember, SCO is running around telling people that even buying and running Linux will get you sued. Sun's just trying to say "whoa...none of our customers are going to get sued for things they've been running for quite some time now.
Sorry, but this is complete FUD. Sun has a Linux product and promotes it. It's RedHat under the covers. Click here for the page
Look, if you don't read the trade rags or the consumer mags and haven't seen it, I can't help ya. Just because YOU weren't paying attention didn't mean it wasn't there. I stand by my original statement.
Computer gaming world, and damn near any gaming magazine since at least last year, if not before.
Plus the last two E3s.