The problem doesn't exist; some kooks think the problem does exist; we give them a law which won't change anything, but looks to them as though it will; they go away happy, we stay happy. What's not to like?
It encourages the kooks.
Then they come back and you have to pass more laws. Sooner or later, you'll be passing laws to appease the kooks which actually do things. Then you're in trouble: that's where you get mysterious stickers inside the covers of biology textbooks, and censored plaques on spaceprobes.
But of those 25 countries, ten are relatively poor ex-Communist states, and a lot are just plain small - Ireland's very prosperous, for instance, but there are only about three million people there. IIRC, the Californian economy is larger than any European economy except Britain, France and Germany.
Bush won by having less than 60% of eligible voters vote and then only a marginal majority of those choose him.
No, a marginal minority of those chose him. Gore got more votes, but didn't have a conveniently placed brother.
They've found a... creature... embedded in the ice. Nobody's entirely certain what it is, but it's really big, it's been there for a long, long time and it's still alive. I believe Professor Katsuragi has some interesting ideas on the matter, but I haven't been able to find out any details. I just hope they don't do anything foolish down there.
Why do you do it? Do you think that servers and bandwidth pay for themselves? How do you expect sites to put up impartial (read: not sponsored) content without some way for the site owners to make enough money to pay the bills?
I don't care. I figure there are enough suckers out there who don't block ads. The advertisers can pay for their eyeballs, and I get a free ride. Prisoner's Dilemma.
Of course if the ratio of blockers to suckers gets too high, the ad revenue dries up and the site goes down. Too bad; move on, it's a big internet and there are plenty more sites out there.
The little lightbulb thing in OOo is almost as annoying, so don't worry about missing the paperclip...
Incidentally, it was a happy day when I found out how to control the Office Assistant from VBA. There were some truly warped macros in some of my spreadsheets that week;-)
Exactly which term of the GPL was breached by SCO?
When they started trying to charge people $699 for using code they've been distributing themselves under the GPL for years, you don't think that was maybe a breach of some kind?
No, but the contest ran out of money just before the last two fights, so all the robots were replaced by squiggles.
I'm told the sponsors have now put up money for a one-off rematch. Apparently the reigning champion will take on nine robots at once in a spectacular exhibition bout.
You know the case no need to recap here but why would them releasing disputed code make them "stuffed". Please elaborate.
Because they released it under the GPL. IBM can point to the GPL licence attached to the Linux kernel they downloaded from SCO's own site, and say that this gives them all the rights they need to redistribute the code therein.
Even if they offer a "download" of the disputed code, how do we know they didn't just copy some random code which did exist in the kernel?
If they offered their disputed code for download as part of SCO Linux, then they put it under the GPL themselves.
Their get-out for this is 'we didn't know our code was in Linux!', which might have been a case for them... if they didn't carry on making Linux available after they supposedly discovered their code in it.
By leaving SCO Linux available for download under the GPL after they knew their alleged property was in it, they've GPL'd that property. Hence, they're stuffed.
Running Windows '95 on a 486SX-25? Dear me no. Painful. I recommend you upgrade to at least a DX2-66 with eight megs of RAM before you even consider that.
My suggestion to mend this dilema has always been to uncapitalize "God" thereby removing the association with the Judeo-Christian supreme being. Hell, I'd even be for making it plural... One nation, under gods, indivisible...
Suppose it said 'one nation, watching football'. Some guys who don't watch football and think the game's pretty silly really argue that this should be taken off, since it violates the separation of sport and state.
Now suppose it is argued that football does not necessarily mean gridiron: it's a generic term, which could equally well mean soccer or rugby or Aussie rules or Gaelic football... It's very inclusive, referring to a generic ball game and not any particular form of football that a particular group might adhere to. Great.
But what if you prefer cricket? Sucks to be you, I suppose... And as for those nerds who don't follow any sports at all, well, I don't know that they should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation watching football.
Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely. Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth.
Oh, unshielded, you say? Well, let's just lift off away that convective zone there and see what 'unshielded' really means... You got your factor three billion sunblock handy, mortals?
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It encourages the kooks.
Then they come back and you have to pass more laws. Sooner or later, you'll be passing laws to appease the kooks which actually do things. Then you're in trouble: that's where you get mysterious stickers inside the covers of biology textbooks, and censored plaques on spaceprobes.
If you happen to live in Detroit, maybe it's nice to know where your job is.
But of those 25 countries, ten are relatively poor ex-Communist states, and a lot are just plain small - Ireland's very prosperous, for instance, but there are only about three million people there. IIRC, the Californian economy is larger than any European economy except Britain, France and Germany.
We've got Steve Linford, and we're quite happy with that state of affairs ;-)
Bush won by having less than 60% of eligible voters vote and then only a marginal majority of those choose him. No, a marginal minority of those chose him. Gore got more votes, but didn't have a conveniently placed brother.
They've found a... creature... embedded in the ice. Nobody's entirely certain what it is, but it's really big, it's been there for a long, long time and it's still alive. I believe Professor Katsuragi has some interesting ideas on the matter, but I haven't been able to find out any details. I just hope they don't do anything foolish down there.
I don't care. I figure there are enough suckers out there who don't block ads. The advertisers can pay for their eyeballs, and I get a free ride. Prisoner's Dilemma.
Of course if the ratio of blockers to suckers gets too high, the ad revenue dries up and the site goes down. Too bad; move on, it's a big internet and there are plenty more sites out there.
Incidentally, it was a happy day when I found out how to control the Office Assistant from VBA. There were some truly warped macros in some of my spreadsheets that week ;-)
There's worse, though; every time I hear some fucking PHB say 'action' when they mean 'do' it's like fingernails on a blackboard.
When they started trying to charge people $699 for using code they've been distributing themselves under the GPL for years, you don't think that was maybe a breach of some kind?
We sure will... all our autopilots are robots!
Fightingo Roboto-san, surely?
I'm told the sponsors have now put up money for a one-off rematch. Apparently the reigning champion will take on nine robots at once in a spectacular exhibition bout.
Nine in Baator, and a possibly infinite number in the Abyss, IIRC.
Because they released it under the GPL. IBM can point to the GPL licence attached to the Linux kernel they downloaded from SCO's own site, and say that this gives them all the rights they need to redistribute the code therein.
If they offered their disputed code for download as part of SCO Linux, then they put it under the GPL themselves.
Their get-out for this is 'we didn't know our code was in Linux!', which might have been a case for them... if they didn't carry on making Linux available after they supposedly discovered their code in it.
By leaving SCO Linux available for download under the GPL after they knew their alleged property was in it, they've GPL'd that property. Hence, they're stuffed.
Stuff beach volleyball. I'm following the Japanese womens' gymnastics team...
Running Windows '95 on a 486SX-25? Dear me no. Painful. I recommend you upgrade to at least a DX2-66 with eight megs of RAM before you even consider that.
Suppose it said 'one nation, watching football'. Some guys who don't watch football and think the game's pretty silly really argue that this should be taken off, since it violates the separation of sport and state.
Now suppose it is argued that football does not necessarily mean gridiron: it's a generic term, which could equally well mean soccer or rugby or Aussie rules or Gaelic football... It's very inclusive, referring to a generic ball game and not any particular form of football that a particular group might adhere to. Great.
But what if you prefer cricket? Sucks to be you, I suppose... And as for those nerds who don't follow any sports at all, well, I don't know that they should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation watching football.
Suits me. A lot of the stuff found in nature kills you quickly, but not so quickly that you don't spend a couple of days in unspeakable agony first...
Don't cheer either one of them. The winner will emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt.
But Hollywood cannot fight Redmond, unless it first obtains the Mandatory DRM Act...
-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
"The Centauri Monopoly"
We're using about a two-billionth of the Sun's power. I think that counts as 'barely even exploiting it'.
-- J. Hover, chief stellar engineer, Sirius Sector
And it's a damn good idea. I wonder how programmable this is? Maybe the next xscreensaver will have options for controlling the case lights...