Look -- there _has_ to be some downside to intelligence. Neuroses, depression, whatever. Otherwise, the entire human race would have self-selected for some higher intelligence level than IQavg=98 sd=15.
There has been more than enough evolutionary time to estabilsh equilibria during the agriculture phase (5ky), probably also during the industrial phase (150y), but not yet enough during the info phase (50y).
It still smacks of entrapment. Small wonder Swedes themselves consider this a "sexfalla" -- honeypot. Pursuit is easy to prove -- they payed for his transport & other expenses. AIUI, they met him after he spoke to an audience.
I grant you Tony was appalling. A Labour PM marching into war alongside the US! Especially staying after the russians repo'd all the WMD thru Syria. And then putting down three backbencher revolts. Clearly shows the UK as an elected dictatorship.
However, Iraq was a security / military matter wherein the UK has important alliances with the US. Assange is at most a criminal matter, and appears essentially to be pure personal vengence from embarrassed officials.
Failing to tell them to "get stuffed" is to become onesuch.
Granted his behaviour violates Swedish norms. However, he was obviously a foreigner, and these women persued him as such and for his fame. Swedish law might have expectations (ignorance of the law is no excuse), but these women could not reasonably expect automatic local behaviour.
There is a difference between being constrained by others powers in a given area (so cooperating), and surrendering your own when you don't have to. It would be a new bootlicking low, and I wonder if the proud English will stoop so low.
Small point, but last I heard, the highest court in the UK was the House of Lords, where cases are heard by the Law Lords. Not the Supreme Court of the US, Canada or Austrailia (not to be confused with various other "Supreme Courts" which are not supreme at all (Cdn.prov).)
Of course this case has higher public interest. At question is whether Her Majesty will protect her subjects (Assange is.au citizen) and residents against foreign depredation. Assange is wanted for questioning, not even charged, and the alleged offense is a misdemenor in.sw and no offense in most other places. I think the real worry is Sweden has extradition treaties with the US that will used to forward Assange. If the UK renders Assange, they ought at least insist on a guarantee of return irrespective of any other treaty. Otherwise, the UK is shown as Washingtons slave.
Club store for 20+ years, and yes, they often (not always) have good deals.
The data is a wind up doing a lot of my buying at stores with checks (Fry's, BB) and less at stores without (CirCity, OfficeDepot, WalMart). I notice higher prices at the latter places.
Actually, I think they _are_ paying me by offering lower prices and/or higher quality. The exit check is part of the deal. If you don't want it, shop elsewhere.
You do understand exit guards ask for receipts so they can check their _cashiers_, not so much you unless you are working in cahoots.
Of course you can refuse. They can also bar you "don't come back" and have you arrested for trespassing if you return. Receipt checking may also be a part of agreed terms & conditions at warehouse "club" stores.
Certainly I have communicated the counteroffer -- I pressed the "I Accept" button, which I presume indicates the text of the offer which I am accepting. They should adjust the behaviour of their pgm/website accordingly. I'm no Javaskript expert, but I presume they coded their website correctly, or at least that they cannot blame me for any mis-coding. No, I do not modify their JS.
The modifications I make are minor, generally reasonable and could not be reasonable construed as a frivolous counter-offer meant to obviate contract. This is not sophistry.
And yes, pre-paid software is a very different thing. Click-thru's are void since they represent attempting to impose additional terms after contract was established (sale). UCITA did not pass most states.
When the TOS is a modifyable textbox, then it is easy to make changes manually. This once was common, but is increasingly rare.
As for legal standing, IANAL but AFAICS the modification is a counteroffer subject to acceptance. If the pgm installs or service runs, that sure looks like signs of acceptance.
Yes, I'm well aware the GPL allows commercial exploitation. I _like_ it, and believe the GPL encourages ethical coding -- including giving source to people who have paid for code, not just reselling binaries.
The AT&T suit did slow *BSD, but was over long before Linux passed *BSD in installs or coders.
I don't think GNU at all "owns" the concept of a unix-like enironment. Apart from the licence, GNU is principally a series of software projets (find on their website).
If a user chooses a distro with KDE (rather than gnome), she does not run any GNU software directly (emacs, anyone?). KDE & KApps are not GNU.
Yes, bash and other utils used _are_ GNU, but these are hardly unique and quite replaceable by things like tcsh and BSDutils. Frankly, I do not see system identity tied to invisible utils.
re BTW, Linus most certainly built upon gcc and GNUtils. But he doesn't them for popularity. Fighting over credit is discreditable.
I've been on this tracker since 1996, and personally MS-free since 2001. I think its a worthwhile project and reply to the occasional update reminders. A reskin is news?
But it counts all Linux systems, not only those which use GNU. I had an email chat with RMS when this all came out, trying to get some clarification. It was a bit confusing, but he said *BSD is not GNU/*BSD even though they use the GCC compiler extensively. What seems to make Linux "GNU" is its' use of GNUtils. RMS did not claim glibc was enough.
But I have many lightweight systems without GNUtils (often using busybox) and usually with a cut down libc. At the other end of the scale, when I have to use a GUI, I prefer KDE over gnome (and fvwm over both). None of these use much GNU software.
IMHO, RMS is full of it here, and trying to ride Linux' popularity. OTOH, I am quite willing to believe the GPL _is_ absolutely critical to all Linux' development -- it attracted many more developers than the BSDL, most likely those who were concerned about commercial exploitation -- those who wouldn't be proud Apple took their code and hid it in OS/X.
Back at you: the RAMBUS patents cover all RAM currently used, DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 . This is in virtually every electronic device including cell-phones. They receive a slice of the pie, the RAMBUS tax.
"personally" is often used to contrast with "officially". As in, required by my office [position]. Yes, pretentiousness and insanity is likely or at least helpful in career advancement.
I love statements including "honestly" -- it almost always marks a lie. This is tremendously more informative than the truth, provided you already know it. Lies can run in so many different directions and reveal the liars mind. So, yes, yes, I was looking for a good lie.
Movie blockbusters are a human stampede, and occur for ephemeral reasons -- people are going to see a movie, the question is which one, and the answer is mostly the one they can talk about with others.
Choosing assets such as communicating and computing machinery is a much larger investment with much longer usage/payoff period. There is going to be more research, and a longerinitial adoption period. The Wii and especially Android are examples.
Demanding instant success (Wall$t HF junkies) is the same as demanding a never-ending stream of sequels.
That people do not know commands is _data_ . Why becomes speculation. I know all my commands because I'm still a CLI dinosaur. I still use / (no dot:) to find strings because it works on my main tools -- vim, mutt, links and occasionally seamonkey.
I would speculate computer inability is rooted in the whole GUI paradigm -- if it isn't on some menu you cannot do it. Good luck finding it with Microsoft changing their menus, especially the _huge_ change with the MS-Office2007 "ribbon". It might be good (???), but change comes at a cost. Very uncertain there is a payoff.
I _can_ hit wirespeed from my ISP (AT&T DSL), but only during off-peak hours. During rushhour (late afternoon, evening, esp Sunday), I'm lucky to get ~1/4 wirespeed.
I'm sure this is AT&T overselling their infrastructure (Uverse) and has choked the uplink fiber from my DSLAM. YMMV -- not everybody will be choked. But I doubt the FCC measured this congestion.
Perhaps it escaped notice, but grenade launchers have rifled barrels, and typically the launched projectile is spinning at 15,000 rpm. There might be some unrifled police models used for tear gas, but these will have horrible accuracy -- perhaps 100ft CEP at 500ft.
A camera on a parachute could be a useful thing, but stopping 15krpm isn't easy or quick, especially with only air. Maybe some DSP would work through the spin, but it will have to have a lot less shutter lag!:)
BZuck is not alone, many people confound politeness (civil discourse, minimal insults, etc) with the quality of the discussion. They seem to say, if you cannot say it politely, it should not be said at all. Or worse, if you can't be civil, you must shut up.
This unstated warrent is entirely wrong -- it confuses style for content. Perhaps because the believers are incapable of evaluating content.
Fundamentally, communication is about teaching and learning. This is necessarily somewhat uncomfortable as old ideas (generally) have to be abandoned or at least modified by the new message. Often politeness helps this transition, but not always. Some people cannot be polite, others choose not to. Silencing them by banning anonymity is to impose on everyone the shallow value of style-over-content.
This is not necessary, hence is meddling. Rather dictatorial which BZuck can be for Facebook, but not elsewhere. People can choose what to read when they open a book, newspaper, blog or email. Filtering is easy and a necessary skill. But many are those who would impose their values upon others.
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Look -- there _has_ to be some downside to intelligence. Neuroses, depression, whatever. Otherwise, the entire human race would have self-selected for some higher intelligence level than IQavg=98 sd=15 .
There has been more than enough evolutionary time to estabilsh equilibria during the agriculture phase (5ky), probably also during the industrial phase (150y), but not yet enough during the info phase (50y).
It still smacks of entrapment. Small wonder Swedes themselves consider this a "sexfalla" -- honeypot. Pursuit is easy to prove -- they payed for his transport & other expenses. AIUI, they met him after he spoke to an audience.
However, Iraq was a security / military matter wherein the UK has important alliances with the US. Assange is at most a criminal matter, and appears essentially to be pure personal vengence from embarrassed officials.
Failing to tell them to "get stuffed" is to become onesuch.
Granted his behaviour violates Swedish norms. However, he was obviously a foreigner, and these women persued him as such and for his fame. Swedish law might have expectations (ignorance of the law is no excuse), but these women could not reasonably expect automatic local behaviour.
There is a difference between being constrained by others powers in a given area (so cooperating), and surrendering your own when you don't have to. It would be a new bootlicking low, and I wonder if the proud English will stoop so low.
Sorry, I'm behind the times. Thanks for the correction.
Small point, but last I heard, the highest court in the UK was the House of Lords, where cases are heard by the Law Lords. Not the Supreme Court of the US, Canada or Austrailia (not to be confused with various other "Supreme Courts" which are not supreme at all (Cdn.prov).)
Of course this case has higher public interest. At question is whether Her Majesty will protect her subjects (Assange is .au citizen) and residents against foreign depredation. Assange is wanted for questioning, not even charged, and the alleged offense is a misdemenor in .sw and no offense in most other places. I think the real worry is Sweden has extradition treaties with the US that will used to forward Assange. If the UK renders Assange, they ought at least insist on a guarantee of return irrespective of any other treaty. Otherwise, the UK is shown as Washingtons slave.
The data is a wind up doing a lot of my buying at stores with checks (Fry's, BB) and less at stores without (CirCity, OfficeDepot, WalMart). I notice higher prices at the latter places.
Actually, I think they _are_ paying me by offering lower prices and/or higher quality. The exit check is part of the deal. If you don't want it, shop elsewhere.
You do understand exit guards ask for receipts so they can check their _cashiers_, not so much you unless you are working in cahoots.
Of course you can refuse. They can also bar you "don't come back" and have you arrested for trespassing if you return. Receipt checking may also be a part of agreed terms & conditions at warehouse "club" stores.
The modifications I make are minor, generally reasonable and could not be reasonable construed as a frivolous counter-offer meant to obviate contract. This is not sophistry.
And yes, pre-paid software is a very different thing. Click-thru's are void since they represent attempting to impose additional terms after contract was established (sale). UCITA did not pass most states.
When the TOS is a modifyable textbox, then it is easy to make changes manually. This once was common, but is increasingly rare.
As for legal standing, IANAL but AFAICS the modification is a counteroffer subject to acceptance. If the pgm installs or service runs, that sure looks like signs of acceptance.
The AT&T suit did slow *BSD, but was over long before Linux passed *BSD in installs or coders.
If a user chooses a distro with KDE (rather than gnome), she does not run any GNU software directly (emacs, anyone?). KDE & KApps are not GNU.
Yes, bash and other utils used _are_ GNU, but these are hardly unique and quite replaceable by things like tcsh and BSDutils. Frankly, I do not see system identity tied to invisible utils.
re BTW, Linus most certainly built upon gcc and GNUtils. But he doesn't them for popularity. Fighting over credit is discreditable.
I've been on this tracker since 1996, and personally MS-free since 2001. I think its a worthwhile project and reply to the occasional update reminders. A reskin is news?
But it counts all Linux systems, not only those which use GNU. I had an email chat with RMS when this all came out, trying to get some clarification. It was a bit confusing, but he said *BSD is not GNU/*BSD even though they use the GCC compiler extensively. What seems to make Linux "GNU" is its' use of GNUtils. RMS did not claim glibc was enough.
But I have many lightweight systems without GNUtils (often using busybox) and usually with a cut down libc. At the other end of the scale, when I have to use a GUI, I prefer KDE over gnome (and fvwm over both). None of these use much GNU software.
IMHO, RMS is full of it here, and trying to ride Linux' popularity. OTOH, I am quite willing to believe the GPL _is_ absolutely critical to all Linux' development -- it attracted many more developers than the BSDL, most likely those who were concerned about commercial exploitation -- those who wouldn't be proud Apple took their code and hid it in OS/X.
Back at you: the RAMBUS patents cover all RAM currently used, DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 . This is in virtually every electronic device including cell-phones. They receive a slice of the pie, the RAMBUS tax.
Unusually lame and egregiously hypocritical, even for lawyers!
Essentially, Apple's defense is: "our obvious patents on egg-sucking are valid, yours are invalid because they're F/RAND submarines".
I had not heard any court invalidated patents as F/RAND and submarines still live (RAMBUS).
I love statements including "honestly" -- it almost always marks a lie. This is tremendously more informative than the truth, provided you already know it. Lies can run in so many different directions and reveal the liars mind. So, yes, yes, I was looking for a good lie.
Movie blockbusters are a human stampede, and occur for ephemeral reasons -- people are going to see a movie, the question is which one, and the answer is mostly the one they can talk about with others.
Choosing assets such as communicating and computing machinery is a much larger investment with much longer usage/payoff period. There is going to be more research, and a longerinitial adoption period. The Wii and especially Android are examples.
Demanding instant success (Wall$t HF junkies) is the same as demanding a never-ending stream of sequels.
Two sides of the same coin -- GUIs lower the hurdle to start, so more people start. But scale badly and further learning becomes rapidly more complex.
That people do not know commands is _data_ . Why becomes speculation. I know all my commands because I'm still a CLI dinosaur. I still use / (no dot :) to find strings because it works on my main tools -- vim, mutt, links and occasionally seamonkey.
I would speculate computer inability is rooted in the whole GUI paradigm -- if it isn't on some menu you cannot do it. Good luck finding it with Microsoft changing their menus, especially the _huge_ change with the MS-Office2007 "ribbon". It might be good (???), but change comes at a cost. Very uncertain there is a payoff.
I _can_ hit wirespeed from my ISP (AT&T DSL), but only during off-peak hours. During rushhour (late afternoon, evening, esp Sunday), I'm lucky to get ~1/4 wirespeed.
I'm sure this is AT&T overselling their infrastructure (Uverse) and has choked the uplink fiber from my DSLAM. YMMV -- not everybody will be choked. But I doubt the FCC measured this congestion.
Some flares are on parachutes -- longer duration. These would have serious troubles if rifled -- the parachute would twist into uselessness.
Perhaps it escaped notice, but grenade launchers have rifled barrels, and typically the launched projectile is spinning at 15,000 rpm. There might be some unrifled police models used for tear gas, but these will have horrible accuracy -- perhaps 100ft CEP at 500ft.
A camera on a parachute could be a useful thing, but stopping 15krpm isn't easy or quick, especially with only air. Maybe some DSP would work through the spin, but it will have to have a lot less shutter lag! :)
BZuck is not alone, many people confound politeness (civil discourse, minimal insults, etc) with the quality of the discussion. They seem to say, if you cannot say it politely, it should not be said at all. Or worse, if you can't be civil, you must shut up.
This unstated warrent is entirely wrong -- it confuses style for content. Perhaps because the believers are incapable of evaluating content.
Fundamentally, communication is about teaching and learning. This is necessarily somewhat uncomfortable as old ideas (generally) have to be abandoned or at least modified by the new message. Often politeness helps this transition, but not always. Some people cannot be polite, others choose not to. Silencing them by banning anonymity is to impose on everyone the shallow value of style-over-content.
This is not necessary, hence is meddling. Rather dictatorial which BZuck can be for Facebook, but not elsewhere. People can choose what to read when they open a book, newspaper, blog or email. Filtering is easy and a necessary skill. But many are those who would impose their values upon others.