Dig out the blueprints, put them into a CAD/CAM program, and modernize it, and they could have a RELIABLE heavy launch vehicle soon.
It's not that simple. Flying a Saturn rocket today would be much harder than building a new vehicle from scratch. Imagine trying to build the Cutty Sark today: we just don't have the people with those skills anymore.
The other 40% doesn't have any interest in fixing it
None of them do. Neither side of the Ruling Party has even suggested cutting back the amount of interference by federal and state governments in the medical care and insurance industries. The AMA and the insurance companies have regulations that they've bought and paid for that exclude competition, drive consolidation into larger and larger corporations, prohibit re-importation of their own products from other countries at lower prices, and even prohibit inter-state competition for insurance coverage (which is exactly what the commerce clause was supposed to prevent.)
On those occasions when I've been reviewing resumes for an open job requirement, it's rare for even one in fifty applicants to be female. I don't see anyone trying to keep them out, I just don't see them trying to get in.
If you don't like the jobs you're offered, then start your own business. if you can be replaced that easily, then you haven't been keeping your skills ahead of the curve. Nobody owes you a job.
Many of the 'regular' guys never went to university, and it is them who are diluting the wages.
I'm calling bullshit on that. I didn't get a degree, and neither did a lot of other people I know who are pulling in higher-level salaries. I've seen plenty of Java monkeys who got their ticket punched but were at a complete loss to write something that had nothing to do with their coursework, though.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seems quite plain to me that someone's address book is part of a person's "papers and effects", and therefore would require a warrant to search.
The jcr conspiracy theory is hilarious on this one: the $150 million investment by Microsoft in the late '90s was because of MS stealing code from Apple, and a way to stop Apple "getting MS executives sent to jail".
You can pretend otherwise, but MS was caught red-handed with Apple's code in Windows Media. If Apple had chosen to pursue it, that was a criminal copyright infringement.
A pre-release version of Windows 3.1 had code to prevent it loading on non MS-DOS systems.
That was considerably later. I'm referring to the original theft of CP/M code that went into PC-DOS 1.0. IBM did an expert job of screwing DR out of their property, by pretending that DR would be able to sell CP/M-86 on basically the same terms as MS-DOS, and then setting the price for CP/M-86 far higher.
You may be right about stacker, it's been a pretty long time and I didn't follow that case too closely at the time, but as I recall, MS had gained access to Stacker's code by pretending that they intended to cut a deal with Stacker to bundle Stacker's product with Windows.
The Apple code theft I'm referring to is the Quicktime code that they stole to start Windows Media. Jobs gave Gates and Ballmer a "get out of jail for $150M and a promise to keep shipping Office on the Mac" deal.
It's not a single incident. There were many instances of local resistance to federal laws in the free states. Tom Woods and Thomas DiLorenzo have written at some length about the secessionist sentiment in the north during the war of 1812, and at various other times when the south won legislative battles.
I'm not sure where you're working, but where I come from a private office is considered essential to being able to concentrate on writing code. On those few occasions where my employer was unable to provide an office, I wrote my code at home.
You mean the lawsuit that Microsoft won, by proving that their product was built differently from Apple's and did not duplicate or resemble any Apple code?
Your memory is a bit fuzzy there. Microsoft won that suit because the license Sculley gave them, which was supposed to permit them to use Apple's IP for products that Microsoft shipped on the Mac was poorly worded, and didn't restrict them from using Apple's IP anywhere else.
Once a significant portion of the population ceases to believe the police are in fact on their side, to protect and to serve, the rule of law is lost....as we saw in the LA riots.
So the proper measure of whether a citizen is in compliance with the law is whether he wins a contest of force with the police?
No, that's for a jury to decide after the fact. The ability of the people to resist the government by force if necessary, is a crucial limit on the power of the state. The state has a different set of options available to it when the people are armed, than it does if the people are unarmed. I suggest that you go and read The Gulag Archipelago, and pay particular attention to the chapter entitled "the arrest".
Solzhenitsyn makes the point that the thugs who took people to the gulag had no fear at all that they might meet any forcible resistance. Neither, for that matter, did the thugs who rounded up the Japanese-Americans in California to take them to FDR's concentration camps. Compare this to the attempts by federal troops to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. In Vermont, for example, they were met at the state line by militia who told them to fuck off home, because the Fugitive Slave Act was null and void in their state.
Allowing people to "defend" themselves against the police because they think they are in the right is not one compatible with the rule of law.
Bullshit. It's the ultimate way to confine the government to the rule of law. If the state obtains a monopoly on the use of deadly force, then all the laws you can write won't amount to anything.
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Dig out the blueprints, put them into a CAD/CAM program, and modernize it, and they could have a RELIABLE heavy launch vehicle soon.
It's not that simple. Flying a Saturn rocket today would be much harder than building a new vehicle from scratch. Imagine trying to build the Cutty Sark today: we just don't have the people with those skills anymore.
-jcr
The other 40% doesn't have any interest in fixing it
None of them do. Neither side of the Ruling Party has even suggested cutting back the amount of interference by federal and state governments in the medical care and insurance industries. The AMA and the insurance companies have regulations that they've bought and paid for that exclude competition, drive consolidation into larger and larger corporations, prohibit re-importation of their own products from other countries at lower prices, and even prohibit inter-state competition for insurance coverage (which is exactly what the commerce clause was supposed to prevent.)
-jcr
Logic is also critical in the practice of law, and women outnumber men in law schools.
-jcr
On those occasions when I've been reviewing resumes for an open job requirement, it's rare for even one in fifty applicants to be female. I don't see anyone trying to keep them out, I just don't see them trying to get in.
-jcr
If you don't like the jobs you're offered, then start your own business. if you can be replaced that easily, then you haven't been keeping your skills ahead of the curve. Nobody owes you a job.
-jcr
Many of the 'regular' guys never went to university, and it is them who are diluting the wages.
I'm calling bullshit on that. I didn't get a degree, and neither did a lot of other people I know who are pulling in higher-level salaries. I've seen plenty of Java monkeys who got their ticket punched but were at a complete loss to write something that had nothing to do with their coursework, though.
-jcr
So, only the "base metal slugs" count?
No, they don't count either. They're made to resemble money, but what they are is counterfeit slugs. The USA quit minting money in the 1960s.
-jcr
In other words, they have cash: physical tokens that can be used as payment.
Nope, coinage is cash. What they have is irredeemable bearer bonds.
-jcr
I'll shit bricks when they outlaw cash.
That happened in the 20th century. Britons, like most people in the world, only have fiat notes and base-metal slugs now.
-jcr
This is true. Anything built for racing is going to have much slimmer safety margins to trade off strength for weight.
-jcr
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seems quite plain to me that someone's address book is part of a person's "papers and effects", and therefore would require a warrant to search.
-jcr
Nobody has even attempted to prove that any copying has occured.
I don't know why you want to pretend that MS isn't a criminal organization, but come on, dude.. It's not hard to find this stuff.
-jcr
So how did he steal anything?
If I lock up your house and prevent you from entering it, I've deprived you of the use of your property.
-jcr
The jcr conspiracy theory is hilarious on this one: the $150 million investment by Microsoft in the late '90s was because of MS stealing code from Apple, and a way to stop Apple "getting MS executives sent to jail".
Don't have to take my word for it. Read and learn.
You can pretend otherwise, but MS was caught red-handed with Apple's code in Windows Media. If Apple had chosen to pursue it, that was a criminal copyright infringement.
-jcr
A pre-release version of Windows 3.1 had code to prevent it loading on non MS-DOS systems.
That was considerably later. I'm referring to the original theft of CP/M code that went into PC-DOS 1.0. IBM did an expert job of screwing DR out of their property, by pretending that DR would be able to sell CP/M-86 on basically the same terms as MS-DOS, and then setting the price for CP/M-86 far higher.
You may be right about stacker, it's been a pretty long time and I didn't follow that case too closely at the time, but as I recall, MS had gained access to Stacker's code by pretending that they intended to cut a deal with Stacker to bundle Stacker's product with Windows.
The Apple code theft I'm referring to is the Quicktime code that they stole to start Windows Media. Jobs gave Gates and Ballmer a "get out of jail for $150M and a promise to keep shipping Office on the Mac" deal.
-jcr
In the past, MS has been caught red-handed stealing code from DR, from Stacker, and from Apple. IBM showed them how to buy their way out of jail.
-jcr
A person with the skills in question can do productive work in the private sector, instead of being a tax-sucker.
-jcr
It's not a single incident. There were many instances of local resistance to federal laws in the free states. Tom Woods and Thomas DiLorenzo have written at some length about the secessionist sentiment in the north during the war of 1812, and at various other times when the south won legislative battles.
-jcr
most development teams i know prefer an open plan
I'm not sure where you're working, but where I come from a private office is considered essential to being able to concentrate on writing code. On those few occasions where my employer was unable to provide an office, I wrote my code at home.
-jcr
Use your remaining time before the company goes belly-up to find a new job.
-jcr
You mean the lawsuit that Microsoft won, by proving that their product was built differently from Apple's and did not duplicate or resemble any Apple code?
Your memory is a bit fuzzy there. Microsoft won that suit because the license Sculley gave them, which was supposed to permit them to use Apple's IP for products that Microsoft shipped on the Mac was poorly worded, and didn't restrict them from using Apple's IP anywhere else.
-jcr
Once a significant portion of the population ceases to believe the police are in fact on their side, to protect and to serve, the rule of law is lost. ...as we saw in the LA riots.
-jcr
This probably is a horrible abuse of power... but you never know with these things.
I'd say there's obviously enough here to charge the border guards. Let the jury decide.
-jcr
So the proper measure of whether a citizen is in compliance with the law is whether he wins a contest of force with the police?
No, that's for a jury to decide after the fact. The ability of the people to resist the government by force if necessary, is a crucial limit on the power of the state. The state has a different set of options available to it when the people are armed, than it does if the people are unarmed. I suggest that you go and read The Gulag Archipelago, and pay particular attention to the chapter entitled "the arrest".
Solzhenitsyn makes the point that the thugs who took people to the gulag had no fear at all that they might meet any forcible resistance. Neither, for that matter, did the thugs who rounded up the Japanese-Americans in California to take them to FDR's concentration camps. Compare this to the attempts by federal troops to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. In Vermont, for example, they were met at the state line by militia who told them to fuck off home, because the Fugitive Slave Act was null and void in their state.
-jcr
Allowing people to "defend" themselves against the police because they think they are in the right is not one compatible with the rule of law.
Bullshit. It's the ultimate way to confine the government to the rule of law. If the state obtains a monopoly on the use of deadly force, then all the laws you can write won't amount to anything.
-jcr