Actually, if you have a laptop with a TV card, you have to pay for the privilege. Unless the laptop isn't receiving power from the mains. So if you run it on battery, no licence fee is due.
I feel embarrassed responding to such an obvious troll. However, in politics the best and most troll-like of opinions. are genuinely held by many.
The US obviously wants oil. That was never doubted. The US never claimed not to want oil. Especially not in the context of the oil for food programme. That was the whole advantage of the programme. The US does (dubiously?) claim that this conflict in Iraq was not about oil. Very well. You can't argue that Saddam should have been suspicious because the oil for food programme suggested the US might want oil. It doesn't fly.
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Why should we have our source code reviewed by an attorney before publication? If publishing it creates prior art, we have an indisputable argument (albeit defensive) against a large company asserting intellectual property rights.
Furthermore, being able to create an offensive right destroys the very idea of open source. It's about sharing code. What if wine had patented their procedure and sued winex?
A bit of context is always important. In verse 9, Elisha (the 'old bald head') asks for all the power of another prophet who had gone before, Elijah. He gets it.
Then follows a lesson in the use of power--at least, that's how I read it. In verses 13-18, he gives in to his equivalent of peer pressure. It fails. In 19-22, he follows wise advice and a good result comes of it. Finally, 23-24 is an example of what bad comes from careless use of power. It's pretty much your own fault if you carry a drawn knife around with you, and then stab someone in a fit of anger.
Basically, the story tells a very true lesson: power is not the answer, unless it's bound by some sort of moral control. In these days that is more important than ever.
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Actually, if you have a laptop with a TV card, you have to pay for the privilege. Unless the laptop isn't receiving power from the mains. So if you run it on battery, no licence fee is due.
I feel embarrassed responding to such an obvious troll. However, in politics the best and most troll-like of opinions. are genuinely held by many. The US obviously wants oil. That was never doubted. The US never claimed not to want oil. Especially not in the context of the oil for food programme. That was the whole advantage of the programme. The US does (dubiously?) claim that this conflict in Iraq was not about oil. Very well. You can't argue that Saddam should have been suspicious because the oil for food programme suggested the US might want oil. It doesn't fly. regards
Why should we have our source code reviewed by an attorney before publication? If publishing it creates prior art, we have an indisputable argument (albeit defensive) against a large company asserting intellectual property rights.
Furthermore, being able to create an offensive right destroys the very idea of open source. It's about sharing code. What if wine had patented their procedure and sued winex?
Actually, there does seem to have been some knifing going on.
A bit of context is always important. In verse 9, Elisha (the 'old bald head') asks for all the power of another prophet who had gone before, Elijah. He gets it.
Then follows a lesson in the use of power--at least, that's how I read it. In verses 13-18, he gives in to his equivalent of peer pressure. It fails. In 19-22, he follows wise advice and a good result comes of it. Finally, 23-24 is an example of what bad comes from careless use of power. It's pretty much your own fault if you carry a drawn knife around with you, and then stab someone in a fit of anger.
Basically, the story tells a very true lesson: power is not the answer, unless it's bound by some sort of moral control. In these days that is more important than ever.