You go back in time to kill your grandfather. Your grandfather lived in a time when you didn't need to register a firearm and wait days. He kills you. No paradox.
Mars was hit early on in its development my a large asteroid or proto-planet according to prevailing theories. Mars also does not have a strong magnetic field which would boil away its atmosphere by the solar wind. These are not things that were caused by life. If you can't prove CO2 caused the global heating or that the increased CO2 is harmful. Especially since CO2 is a weak greenhouse producing gas and saturates meaning after a certain threshold is reached increased volume mixing ration produces no increase in greenhouse effect. Then is it right to starve economies based on a week theory? I work in climate research, here is a clue our models aren't perfect. Not even close, please don't use them to justify anything. The fact is we don't know enough, the climate is a very chaotic system. The models are only as good as the inputs. And we still haven't quite grasped everything. The models are continuously being refined you will have better luck producing the perfect Operating System.
For example increased polar mesosphere clouds were attributed to global warming and was sited as proof. Statements that pointed to that possible connection was used to get the AIM satellite funded. Unfortunately, the AIM satellite measure pointed to increased aerosols in which the clouds could form. We didn't see that in the models. This was not CO2, but man does contribute airplane exhausts. There have been over 600 papers sighting evidence of causes other than CO2. What is needed is funding that isn't politically motivated either way. And study the problem without having to make up tenuous ties to "Global Warming" as defined by Al Gore and company to get funded.
Everything man does to some extend produces CO2, even breathing. Maybe the problem then is too many humans. How many would you propose to kill to make the temperature go down one degree? Would you like to be the first to fall on your sword to save the earth? You would feel pretty bad if the temperature increased after a billion people were removed. But then you could just point the blame to the model. I propose I should be the one flying around the world in a private jet selling carbon credits. I may not be helping but hey if Al can do it why not me?
How much power over you would I have if I could tax even the air you exhale, energy you consume etc ? I could even have power over what you build your home with, how many children you have, what you eat.
I have a drivers license that says I'm a US citizen. I can also produce a birth certificate. I have produced both in the past to gain employment. I also carry a military ID card. When in other countries I always carry a passport. I have never complained about providing evidence of citizenship. Go cry elsewhere.
It is a federal crime to be here illegally, the only thing different is in Arizona its a state crime too. It still a crime!
By that measure then no need for Toyota to recall anything. You paid for the current version of the vehicle so they can just charge to fix your death trap. As long as its reasonable, labor, parts of course! I'm waiting for someone to set a legal precedent here. The day a software company becomes liable for negligence will forever change IT. I can see it happening at a hospital where access to vital information was lost and someone dies.
Your talking about local government services, not federal. Would you prefer the US military patrolling the streets giving out traffic fines? The health care bill does not even provide any service. If that were the case they would be hiring 15000 doctors not IRS agents. Most federal programs are used to protect lobbyists and organizations. Farm subsidies, banking industries, auto company bail outs. This bill will only line the pockets of the insurance companies. Because now you have to buy insurance. At least in auto insurance you have the choice not to drive!
How much of your per capita income goes to defense? Humanitarian assistance to Africa, Haiti, etc.? Now aren't many of the EU economies on the verge of insolvency?
Greece comes to mind, Spain is soon to follow. Now many medical breakthroughs has Belgium made in the last 50 years? Your economies have been subsidized by the US indirectly through NATO. Look around at all the Muslim immigrants, you need them desperately. To prop up your failing economies. Why? because all social programs require a continuously increasing population. Without more people paying then receiving, the whole pyramid scheme collapses. Maybe when Belgium gets to 300 million people you'll figure it out.
And if your from Belgium what the hell business is it of yours if we have universal health care or a patriot act? Maybe the US should come tell you how to live and how to run your country? We already have the NATO HQ there, would you prefer we just annex you? That way you can pay taxes to us and actually have a valid reason to be in this discussion!
I would go further, write a haiku for your signature, register the copyright, put a copy right notice in the message and encrypt all of your mail. Decrypting a copyrighted work and making multiple copies, runs a foul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other copyright laws.
Having crossed that border many times in my life. I wonder what the security camera's truth is. The city of Port Huron has installed thousands of CCTV cameras since 9/11. There are 4 of them I know of at the border check point before the bridge.
KDE 4.3 works fine for me. Add an ATI or NVIDIA card, it works perfectly. You can't blame KDE because other cards aren't releasing Linux drivers. You can get a decent one for less than $100. If you buy a system that can't support the OS and desktop you want to run on it, you don't give the manufacturer any incentive to release proper drivers for you. I won't buy a laptop that uses anything else for the display.
I'd go MAC first.
In this case turning a vase you own into a bong would be illegal. Even if it were to be used only for tobacco. There are soo many holes in the logic behind the DCMA, the parent poster could drive a bomb laden truck through it. It amazes me how money can keep such a stupid law on the books.
Maybe we should start a fund to buy our very own set of lawmakers. They come in sets of two, republican and democrats.
You assume that Windows 7 when it is released will be better. I used to fooled into believing the pre-release hype. Remember how great "Longhorn/Vista" was supposed to be? Then when released it was crap! I know someone who downgraded to XP and is happy to be rid of vista, but then turned around pre-ordered Windows 7. I can't wait to see how that works out!
Whenever I'm on my workplace network I have cron job that uses rsync to sync my Documents directory between my linux desktop & mac laptop. This way the latest file is always on both machines. The Desktop is also rsync'd to a backup server daily, and weekly for off site storage at bank vault. And the Laptop uses Time Machine at my home. This allows me the flexibility of grabbing older files if I need them. For mail I use imap with SSL. So short of a nuclear holocaust, it would be pretty hard to lose a file.
I didn't gather from his post that he meant the US. The printing press was long before that. So before you go off on another rant. Read and comprehend what was written. 'We' could have meant meant western civilization when talking about the time scale involved. The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440. The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention (or Constitutional Congress) in Philadelphia. So over 300 years later copyright was established here in the US. I suggest you watch reruns of Saturday Night Live, the one with Gilda Radner playing 'Rossana Rosanna Dana'. She would go of on a flawed premise and then when corrected sheepishly say "Never Mind!"
Exactly, market yourself! What a label can offer an artist is up front production cost and marketing. That makes them a powerful force. But technology has made it possible to promote your self. But you have to be creative! First issue, production, it is now possible to create a complete studio digital master in a home studio. But you need to learn how to use the tools and proper recording techniques. Second marketing, in a word play. Everywhere, anywhere generate a local following. Be out there and accessible. Third, use media technology. Produce videos, put them on YouTube. Make them original get them noticed. A singing cat can get more hits than a band. So make a video that is funny tells a story whatever and use your music as a back drop and have the end fade to your web address. There are many ways to market yourself. But it takes commitment! Don't be shy! If you believe your great show us. Don't expect pirate bay to do your work for you.
I would agree with that except that the US tax system doesn't allow for innocent mistakes. My employer didn't take out enough taxes one year. I filed my taxes and had to ask to make payments. The interest and penalties that were charged on a simple mistake almost made me homeless. If the value of the home wasn't highly inflated just prior to the bubble bursting I would have been totally screwed. I was able to sell it at a profit enough to pay the taxes and get a new home. Timothy Geithner waited 2 years, yet only paid simple interest (much lower than the 20% I was charged not including the penalties!) with no penalties. So don't tell me that there isn't a double standard here. And my tax bill was 1/8 of what he owed.
Good post! I spent 20 years in the AF as an electronic warfare technician. I retired in 1999 but I got out exactly what I put into it. I came in a high school graduate. I came out with 3 college degrees, paid for by the Air force. I have lived in or visited about 15 different countries, married and raised 2 kids.
I walked directly into a job working as a software engineer for nasa as a contractor making twice the pay even with benefits. Not to mention an additional retirement check every month. If I were still in Michigan I would probably be working for the auto companies or some factory as my father, two uncles and grandfather did. All in all, the Air Force did right by me. This doesn't mean I didn't have to deal with some real a-holes along the way. But really, aren't everywhere?
And every dime made should go to the kids who's lives were ruined. I would make those judges pay the 2.6 million and the company running the center 10 times that.
The good news (for them) is that you provided them a getting-started point with all your work so they didn't have to put all that time (and money, since time is money) into getting it off the ground.
SUN didn't do any work creating MySQL. It purchased it. It was already open source and MySQL wouldn't be worth a dime without all the improvements made by the community. SUN knew what it was purchasing. Major companies want support from a company they trust. There is value in that. And SUN can always roll the communities code into its version. Without cost I might add. So what's the beef?
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You go back in time to kill your grandfather. Your grandfather lived in a time when you didn't need to register a firearm and wait days. He kills you. No paradox.
I propose O, the language will be slick and propose a new paradigm change in computing. But in actual use it will fail to deliver.
Mars was hit early on in its development my a large asteroid or proto-planet according to prevailing theories. Mars also does not have a strong magnetic field which would boil away its atmosphere by the solar wind. These are not things that were caused by life. If you can't prove CO2 caused the global heating or that the increased CO2 is harmful. Especially since CO2 is a weak greenhouse producing gas and saturates meaning after a certain threshold is reached increased volume mixing ration produces no increase in greenhouse effect. Then is it right to starve economies based on a week theory? I work in climate research, here is a clue our models aren't perfect. Not even close, please don't use them to justify anything. The fact is we don't know enough, the climate is a very chaotic system. The models are only as good as the inputs. And we still haven't quite grasped everything. The models are continuously being refined you will have better luck producing the perfect Operating System. For example increased polar mesosphere clouds were attributed to global warming and was sited as proof. Statements that pointed to that possible connection was used to get the AIM satellite funded. Unfortunately, the AIM satellite measure pointed to increased aerosols in which the clouds could form. We didn't see that in the models. This was not CO2, but man does contribute airplane exhausts. There have been over 600 papers sighting evidence of causes other than CO2. What is needed is funding that isn't politically motivated either way. And study the problem without having to make up tenuous ties to "Global Warming" as defined by Al Gore and company to get funded. Everything man does to some extend produces CO2, even breathing. Maybe the problem then is too many humans. How many would you propose to kill to make the temperature go down one degree? Would you like to be the first to fall on your sword to save the earth? You would feel pretty bad if the temperature increased after a billion people were removed. But then you could just point the blame to the model. I propose I should be the one flying around the world in a private jet selling carbon credits. I may not be helping but hey if Al can do it why not me? How much power over you would I have if I could tax even the air you exhale, energy you consume etc ? I could even have power over what you build your home with, how many children you have, what you eat.
IPv6, which is a new internet protocol due to replace the current IPv4
My grand kids will probably be saying that to their grand kids.
His name was the first one on the ballot. Many people just pick the top one. No scandal, human nature, get over it.
I have a drivers license that says I'm a US citizen. I can also produce a birth certificate. I have produced both in the past to gain employment. I also carry a military ID card. When in other countries I always carry a passport. I have never complained about providing evidence of citizenship. Go cry elsewhere. It is a federal crime to be here illegally, the only thing different is in Arizona its a state crime too. It still a crime!
By that measure then no need for Toyota to recall anything. You paid for the current version of the vehicle so they can just charge to fix your death trap. As long as its reasonable, labor, parts of course! I'm waiting for someone to set a legal precedent here. The day a software company becomes liable for negligence will forever change IT. I can see it happening at a hospital where access to vital information was lost and someone dies.
Your talking about local government services, not federal. Would you prefer the US military patrolling the streets giving out traffic fines? The health care bill does not even provide any service. If that were the case they would be hiring 15000 doctors not IRS agents. Most federal programs are used to protect lobbyists and organizations. Farm subsidies, banking industries, auto company bail outs. This bill will only line the pockets of the insurance companies. Because now you have to buy insurance. At least in auto insurance you have the choice not to drive!
How much of your per capita income goes to defense? Humanitarian assistance to Africa, Haiti, etc.? Now aren't many of the EU economies on the verge of insolvency? Greece comes to mind, Spain is soon to follow. Now many medical breakthroughs has Belgium made in the last 50 years? Your economies have been subsidized by the US indirectly through NATO. Look around at all the Muslim immigrants, you need them desperately. To prop up your failing economies. Why? because all social programs require a continuously increasing population. Without more people paying then receiving, the whole pyramid scheme collapses. Maybe when Belgium gets to 300 million people you'll figure it out. And if your from Belgium what the hell business is it of yours if we have universal health care or a patriot act? Maybe the US should come tell you how to live and how to run your country? We already have the NATO HQ there, would you prefer we just annex you? That way you can pay taxes to us and actually have a valid reason to be in this discussion!
I would go further, write a haiku for your signature, register the copyright, put a copy right notice in the message and encrypt all of your mail. Decrypting a copyrighted work and making multiple copies, runs a foul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other copyright laws.
Having crossed that border many times in my life. I wonder what the security camera's truth is. The city of Port Huron has installed thousands of CCTV cameras since 9/11. There are 4 of them I know of at the border check point before the bridge.
KDE 4.3 works fine for me. Add an ATI or NVIDIA card, it works perfectly. You can't blame KDE because other cards aren't releasing Linux drivers. You can get a decent one for less than $100. If you buy a system that can't support the OS and desktop you want to run on it, you don't give the manufacturer any incentive to release proper drivers for you. I won't buy a laptop that uses anything else for the display. I'd go MAC first.
In chemistry for their work with Mentos & Cola. Also: Michael Moore - Literature Nancy Pelosi - medicine Osama Bin Laden - Peace Bill Nye - physics
Buy an airline power adapter and quit whining. http://www.buy.com/prod/lind-automobile-airline-laptop-power-adapter-lind-automobile-airline/q/loc/101/10392022.html
In this case turning a vase you own into a bong would be illegal. Even if it were to be used only for tobacco. There are soo many holes in the logic behind the DCMA, the parent poster could drive a bomb laden truck through it. It amazes me how money can keep such a stupid law on the books. Maybe we should start a fund to buy our very own set of lawmakers. They come in sets of two, republican and democrats.
You assume that Windows 7 when it is released will be better. I used to fooled into believing the pre-release hype. Remember how great "Longhorn/Vista" was supposed to be? Then when released it was crap! I know someone who downgraded to XP and is happy to be rid of vista, but then turned around pre-ordered Windows 7. I can't wait to see how that works out!
Whenever I'm on my workplace network I have cron job that uses rsync to sync my Documents directory between my linux desktop & mac laptop. This way the latest file is always on both machines. The Desktop is also rsync'd to a backup server daily, and weekly for off site storage at bank vault. And the Laptop uses Time Machine at my home. This allows me the flexibility of grabbing older files if I need them. For mail I use imap with SSL. So short of a nuclear holocaust, it would be pretty hard to lose a file.
I didn't gather from his post that he meant the US. The printing press was long before that. So before you go off on another rant. Read and comprehend what was written. 'We' could have meant meant western civilization when talking about the time scale involved. The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440. The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention (or Constitutional Congress) in Philadelphia. So over 300 years later copyright was established here in the US. I suggest you watch reruns of Saturday Night Live, the one with Gilda Radner playing 'Rossana Rosanna Dana'. She would go of on a flawed premise and then when corrected sheepishly say "Never Mind!"
Exactly, market yourself! What a label can offer an artist is up front production cost and marketing. That makes them a powerful force. But technology has made it possible to promote your self. But you have to be creative! First issue, production, it is now possible to create a complete studio digital master in a home studio. But you need to learn how to use the tools and proper recording techniques. Second marketing, in a word play. Everywhere, anywhere generate a local following. Be out there and accessible. Third, use media technology. Produce videos, put them on YouTube. Make them original get them noticed. A singing cat can get more hits than a band. So make a video that is funny tells a story whatever and use your music as a back drop and have the end fade to your web address. There are many ways to market yourself. But it takes commitment! Don't be shy! If you believe your great show us. Don't expect pirate bay to do your work for you.
I would agree with that except that the US tax system doesn't allow for innocent mistakes. My employer didn't take out enough taxes one year. I filed my taxes and had to ask to make payments. The interest and penalties that were charged on a simple mistake almost made me homeless. If the value of the home wasn't highly inflated just prior to the bubble bursting I would have been totally screwed. I was able to sell it at a profit enough to pay the taxes and get a new home. Timothy Geithner waited 2 years, yet only paid simple interest (much lower than the 20% I was charged not including the penalties!) with no penalties. So don't tell me that there isn't a double standard here. And my tax bill was 1/8 of what he owed.
Actually, its mostly Pakistani now.
Good post! I spent 20 years in the AF as an electronic warfare technician. I retired in 1999 but I got out exactly what I put into it. I came in a high school graduate. I came out with 3 college degrees, paid for by the Air force. I have lived in or visited about 15 different countries, married and raised 2 kids. I walked directly into a job working as a software engineer for nasa as a contractor making twice the pay even with benefits. Not to mention an additional retirement check every month. If I were still in Michigan I would probably be working for the auto companies or some factory as my father, two uncles and grandfather did. All in all, the Air Force did right by me. This doesn't mean I didn't have to deal with some real a-holes along the way. But really, aren't everywhere?
And every dime made should go to the kids who's lives were ruined. I would make those judges pay the 2.6 million and the company running the center 10 times that.
I couldn't have said it better. Bush is gone, now everyone please shut up and move on.
The good news (for them) is that you provided them a getting-started point with all your work so they didn't have to put all that time (and money, since time is money) into getting it off the ground.
SUN didn't do any work creating MySQL. It purchased it. It was already open source and MySQL wouldn't be worth a dime without all the improvements made by the community. SUN knew what it was purchasing. Major companies want support from a company they trust. There is value in that. And SUN can always roll the communities code into its version. Without cost I might add. So what's the beef?