> Can't have the lifetime costs built into everything - that would make just about everything price-prohibitive. - EatHam
It would make unsustainable consumption prohibitive - that's the idea! While you might think it's a great idea to sacrifice our only habitat for short term finanacial gain, the people who'd like to leave something for future humans disagree.
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Henry David Thoreau
"Only after the last tree has been cut down; only after the last fish has been caught; only after the last river has been poisoned; only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian proverb
I really would like to donate, but
not through PayPal. Could you please offer some other method of payment like the Amazon Honour System [...] - Jucius Maximus
"Aaaaargh! Their license is offensive to me, they must think themselves better than me, because, erm, many people do... Yeah, that's it! How dare they waste their time by writing something I disagree with! Just because they like writing idealistic licenses, doesn't mean that they should. Instead they should stop wasting their time, and do what I think is the RIGHT THING TO DO!!1"
"You won't allow the King to use your shields? Grow up, there will always be divinely mandated Kings with armies who will use whatever shields they want, and everyone except you likes the King, so shut up!"
Seriously tho, I disagree with many of the things listed in this license, but why shouldn't they write a license for the software they write, and for those who agree with them? If you all disagree so much, why not try and change the hacktivists' minds with rational arguments instead?
Wait, I thought we were using the European definition. Because, well, you Americans [sic] don't know the first thing about human rights...you still have executions. Our definition of human rights is correct.
Please use unique names for your programs. You can't imagine the hassles is causes when a word used in the area you are researching gets used by a popular game or app. Please make up something new, and if the big dictionaries, encyclopedias, and search engines can't recognize it, use that instead.
a copyright law that was drafted a few hundred years ago cannot be relevant today without any change. - chamenos
Why not? Other laws, drafted hundreds of years ago, are just as relevant today as they were then with no changes at all. What makes copyright law so different? - Twirlip
Michael Graaf and Karen Read from eThekwini EcoPeace gets the same salary as the minimum payed to Durban municipal workers. They donate the rest to the party, which uses it for local projects like permaculture, manfacturing, recycling, and theatre. They also oppose the idea of career politicians, which is why they rotate councillors according to their proportional representation party list - losing 21 days of pay when they do so.
Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Cape Town Greens, a constitutional association of the Green Party of South Africa.
*cough* Plotkin mug shot at the bottom of the article. *cough*:)
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> SatireWire may be all of these things, but the name 'gives it away' - by clearly saying "It's a joke! Funny!", the joke's impact is lessened. - kafka93
SatireWire was originally named FNWire, but had to change because people kept thinking the articles were real.
It still happens tho, see
Americans annoyed by "all this international shit" on Internet:
"Editor's Note: It seems that after reading this entirely fictional story, some investors/customers of Net Nanny believed the company actually was going to produce NetNarrow software. As a result, Net Nanny asked SatireWire to please assure people that this is not the case. No, really."
> you don't want the probes to survive longer than planned... However, due to uncertainty, you engineer in a margin of safety. A 30 year margin doesn't indicate good design, it indicates a MASSIVE misjudgemnt of the tolerances involved. - jovlinger
5 years so far, not 30.
Some of the best science comes from things you didn't expect - the longer Pioneer keeps going and makes it possible to find out new stuff, the better.
> We have a spider that comes crawling around our cubes every now and then. We don't kill him, figuring he helps keep the other bug populations inside down. We call him our little web developer
...and if you don't want him to crawl on your PC you just put an ASCII art picture of robots on a nearby folder?
Sometimes my programs display rounded numbers, but I still use the actual values to do calculations:
If the displayed 2s were both 1.5 (both the banker (commercial) and engineering (scientific) rounding methods shows 1.5 as 2), then the result should add the original 1.5s and get 3. If the original 2s were both 2.5 (and the display rounded them using the banker (commercial) rounding method, showing 2.5 as 2), then the result should add the original 2.5s and get 5.
> I don't understand psychologically what makes it so important to compel others to swear allegiance to their particular God. It sounds rather...Taliban...to me. Or suggests a kind of self-doubt and paranoia allayed only by consensus, the assuredness of hearing many others pledge allegiance to a God you have some kind of doubt about. - quag7
"Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, "yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it." - Dan Barker
> You're asking for government to be allowed to step in and say: 'you can't do that anymore' to private individuals and organizations. That's exactly the kind of thing the Constitution was drafted to prevent. - SN74S181
"The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institution and monied incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling and riding over the plundered plowman and the begger in the omenry." - Thomas Jefferson, 1816
"We're going to need to have these corporations redefined as instruments of public service because they have the resources, they have the reach, they have the skill base, and maybe there's a new generation coming up that wants to achieve meaning in that context and have an impact, and that may be a more efficient way to deal with society's problems than governments." - Plutocrat Gerald Levin's testimony before the USA Congress.
dghcasp wrote: No woman on earth is impressed by your "Mozilla 1.0" Tee Shirt... Pants come in other fabrics than Denim. Shoes should have laces, not velcro or buckles, and cover your whole foot. Mixing and Matching Rules: Solid+Solid or Stripe+Solid or Pattern+ [bore dump]
Why'd I want to impress girls who'd be impressed by something as superficial as clothes?
Dilbert: I want a 10% raise.
PHB: There's no budget for raises.
D: I have an offer from another company that will pay 15% more.
PHB: I'll give you 20% if you stay.
D: I thought you said there's no budget for raises.
PHB: Well... it's supposed to be a secret but... our policy is to give big raises to people who spend their time interviewing for other jobs.
D (to Alice and Wally): Good news! The secret company policy is to reward disloyalty!
A: Yippee!
W: Yes!
D: Woo-woo-woo
W: What's the reword for leaving work early?
D: He wouldn't show me the price list.
I've put the contact details of who should take over the stuff I run (and the required passwords) in my testament. The only hassle is updating it regularly.
Accepting images from 207.38.1.164 killing Mozilla
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Viewing some of the linked pages will introduce you to a bug which effectively kills Mozilla if you want to enable or disable certain sites from showing images (goodbye banner ads) that have shitty scripts. The easiest workarounds is to temporarily disable JavaScript, accept or decline that troublesome site, enable again.
Are you saying there shouldn't be as many licences and especially that the ability customize one to your own needs would create chaos, but then linking to one you're creating to suit your custom needs?
"global warming may be the single largest threat to our planet. For decades human factories and cars have spewed billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere" - EO
Communists! All of them! These are the same kinda people who argue that the Earth is a globe, who pray to that demon Darwin, and who kill our unborn babies! Burn them!
Slashdot Mirror
1 terabyte (10^12) has 99 511 627 776 less bytes than 1 tebibyte (2^40).
It would make unsustainable consumption prohibitive - that's the idea! While you might think it's a great idea to sacrifice our only habitat for short term finanacial gain, the people who'd like to leave something for future humans disagree.
True cost pricing, Green taxes.
"You won't allow the King to use your shields? Grow up, there will always be divinely mandated Kings with armies who will use whatever shields they want, and everyone except you likes the King, so shut up!"
Seriously tho, I disagree with many of the things listed in this license, but why shouldn't they write a license for the software they write, and for those who agree with them? If you all disagree so much, why not try and change the hacktivists' minds with rational arguments instead?
Please use unique names for your programs. You can't imagine the hassles is causes when a word used in the area you are researching gets used by a popular game or app. Please make up something new, and if the big dictionaries, encyclopedias, and search engines can't recognize it, use that instead.
about 397 000
sims (on Usenet)
about 611 000
sims
about 2 850 000
mozilla (on Usenet)
about 1 170 000
mozilla
about 5 400 000
Mozilla fans, verging-on-obsessive, upset that Jimmy Guterman wrote: "How many of you use Mozilla as your Web browser? OK, both of you can put down your hands."
more than bloody two!
Above? Are you sure?
Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Cape Town Greens, a constitutional association of the Green Party of South Africa.
*cough* Plotkin mug shot at the bottom of the article. *cough* :)
Slick vs commercials, ads, teasers, plugs (or just the image if you don't want to see the site's ads).
SatireWire was originally named FNWire, but had to change because people kept thinking the articles were real.
It still happens tho, see Americans annoyed by "all this international shit" on Internet: "Editor's Note: It seems that after reading this entirely fictional story, some investors/customers of Net Nanny believed the company actually was going to produce NetNarrow software. As a result, Net Nanny asked SatireWire to please assure people that this is not the case. No, really."
5 years so far, not 30.
Some of the best science comes from things you didn't expect - the longer Pioneer keeps going and makes it possible to find out new stuff, the better.
The techies who know the passwords here are going for an extended lunch after powering down the servers :)
() http://arc.pasp.de/
Sometimes my programs display rounded numbers, but I still use the actual values to do calculations:
If the displayed 2s were both 1.5 (both the banker (commercial) and engineering (scientific) rounding methods shows 1.5 as 2), then the result should add the original 1.5s and get 3. If the original 2s were both 2.5 (and the display rounded them using the banker (commercial) rounding method, showing 2.5 as 2), then the result should add the original 2.5s and get 5.
"Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, "yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it." - Dan Barker
"The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institution and monied incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling and riding over the plundered plowman and the begger in the omenry." - Thomas Jefferson, 1816
"We're going to need to have these corporations redefined as instruments of public service because they have the resources, they have the reach, they have the skill base, and maybe there's a new generation coming up that wants to achieve meaning in that context and have an impact, and that may be a more efficient way to deal with society's problems than governments." - Plutocrat Gerald Levin's testimony before the USA Congress.
Why'd I want to impress girls who'd be impressed by something as superficial as clothes?
Dilbert: I want a 10% raise.
PHB: There's no budget for raises.
D: I have an offer from another company that will pay 15% more.
PHB: I'll give you 20% if you stay.
D: I thought you said there's no budget for raises.
PHB: Well... it's supposed to be a secret but... our policy is to give big raises to people who spend their time interviewing for other jobs.
D (to Alice and Wally): Good news! The secret company policy is to reward disloyalty!
A: Yippee!
W: Yes!
D: Woo-woo-woo
W: What's the reword for leaving work early?
D: He wouldn't show me the price list.
I've put the contact details of who should take over the stuff I run (and the required passwords) in my testament. The only hassle is updating it regularly.
Ook! no link...
Are you saying there shouldn't be as many licences and especially that the ability customize one to your own needs would create chaos, but then linking to one you're creating to suit your custom needs?
Communists! All of them! These are the same kinda people who argue that the Earth is a globe, who pray to that demon Darwin, and who kill our unborn babies! Burn them!