Yeah, that's the pesky thing about "bringing democracy" to a place like Iraq, getting the people to elect a government that is "favorable" to US interests.
Um, the US did bring democracy to Iraq in the form of an Iraqi-elected government that is relatively favorable to US interests. The daily body count there is attributable to the insurgents. The Baghdad skyline would be an eyesore of construction cranes if it weren't for these fellows. Maybe these fellows aren't quite the heros that most Slashdotters think they are.
these guys keep giving the community a great big "FUCK YOU"
I suspect that, like with Novell, the deal is that a struggling company takes a big pay-day from Microsoft without doing anything. I hereby dub my copy of Fedora 7 as Citizen of Earth's Linux Distribution, Release 1.0 and indicate to Microsoft that I am open to accepting $BOATLOADS from them in an 'interoperability' agreement.
And finally when the suits came for Ubuntu,
there was no one left to speak out.
These corporate deals have no force of legal precedence, so they are irrelevant w.r.t. Linux being defended in any potential court cases. It's more about Microsoft paying for advertising and corporations paying for blue-sky warm fuzzies.
If you don't believe in magic, religious or otherwise, then there is nothing magical about the birth process, and a fetus a minute before is the same as a baby the minute after.
While I agree that there is nothing magical about the birth process, there are numerous developmental milestones that other people may gravitate to as being significant. For instance, a zygote, having only a single cell, has no brain cells and therefore no mind or consciousness (where it seems clear that animals have consciousness, emotions, and some limited abilities to reason). After a fetus has a nervous system, there must be some point at which it becomes vaguely conscious, and some other point at which it can have coherent perceptions. There is also a point at which the fetus becomes capable of surviving outside its mother (with a great deal of outside help). There is another point at which the mind is coherent enough to form memories. What is your earliest memory?
Tehrefore, abortion = homicide, and it's either okay or it's not.
Killing animals, something we do millions of times each day, is not considered homocide. How many religious fundamentalists are vegans (i.e., plant killers)? It's either okay to kill or it's not.
Only a minor fan. However, the question before you is whether intelligent non-human beings, if they existed, should be considered to be "people". In your and other people's flood of false assumptions and ad-hominem attacks, no one addressed this issue. Referring to properties of fictional characters is an example of applying abstract reasoning, something that "people" have the power to do. And any intelligent person realizes that extraterrestrial intelligence almost certainly exists. It's also likely, whether in 200 years or 10000, that "intelligent" machines will be devised.
It's DNA is what differentiates it from an animal, not an environmentally supplied set of behaviors.
We all shed millions of skin cells every day that have homo-sapiens (not a plural) DNA in them. According to your view, those skin cells are people. Do you regard it as a crime to vacuum them up?
and I could argue that you are obviously not as competent as a 'person/human' in today's society should be.
I have a Ph.D. and a genius-level IQ. My ability to think rationally is not limited; perhaps yours is. Are you religious? Should Lt. Cmdr. Data from Star Trek be considered a "person"? He does not have human DNA. Should intelligent extraterrestrials? They won't have human DNA either.
A fetus may be human, but it is not a person. I would argue that a baby shouldn't be considered to be a person until its behaviour differentiates itself from animals.
So the fisherman will destroy his chance of eating tomorrow so he won't starve today. I can see how the mistake is made.
When the fish are all gone, the fisherman can just get a different job. In this example, it's not illogical for him to maximize his profits in the short term.
dont cheer yet, filing counterclaims is not the same as winning the case agaisnt the RIAA
Still, it'll be fun to watch them crap their pants and try to settle with the person for megabucks. If they flinch, their extortion plans are all over, as getting hit with a lawsuit from them will be like winning the lottery.
They are undoubtedly talking about the still-only-theoretical Higgs boson
The fools! Most type-13 planets destroy themselves when they attempt to determine the mass of the Higgs boson and accidentally shrink the planet to the size of a pea.
Threatening "something bad" is just business unless the "something bad" is criminal.
Disparaging your competitors or their products without offering any evidence is illegal. It's unfair competition, tortious interference, fraud, antitrust violations, and false advertising. Red Hat, IBM, etc. could sue Microsoft and force it to show its cards. Perhaps they are waiting until after they are protected by the GPLv3.
Spike: I just can't take all this mamby pamby boo-hooing about the bloody Indians.
Willow: The preferred term is...
Spike: You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not going around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it." The history of the world isn't people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.
attitude that afflicts the Natives is born and bred on the reserves and brought about through a lifetime of having a silver spoon in their mouth.
I don't know about a silver spoon, but they are completely bought into the cycle of welfare dependency. Any pretense that they are living their traditional lives is a farce; they are welfare bums. The most merciful thing that a first-world nation can do for them is to annex all of their land and end their special welfare status. This would force them to join the first world instead of continuing to live in third-world squalor and corrupt tribal "governments".
The cops also need to step up to the plate and bust these idiots whenever they commit criminal offenses like blocking roads and railroad lines.
In a free market economy, the governments ONLY job is to make sure that competition thrives. They got NO other business in the economy.
Governments also have a responsibility to moderate the pace of the economy, to heat up a cold economy and cool down a hot one. If it doesn't do this, you get large boom-bust cycles that remove efficiency from the market (and ruin lives).
I hope that doesn't happen, I want to see SCO lose in court on everything they have claimed.
If SCO put took up a collection to keep their lawsuits alive, they would probably receive a lot of donations from open-source advocates. SCO's public service has been greatly under-appreciated.
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Um, the US did bring democracy to Iraq in the form of an Iraqi-elected government that is relatively favorable to US interests. The daily body count there is attributable to the insurgents. The Baghdad skyline would be an eyesore of construction cranes if it weren't for these fellows. Maybe these fellows aren't quite the heros that most Slashdotters think they are.
I'm sure she would, after adjusting her model after the invasion.
Any sincere Pacifist would disagree with this.
I just looked at the logs of my own web site (a bit nerdy), and the figures are a little surprising:
The bulk of the rest of the entries are from web crawlers. I would have expected the string "MSIE" to do a little better than 26%.
And if disobeying God was evil, and they were incapable of evil, then how could they do it?
I suspect that, like with Novell, the deal is that a struggling company takes a big pay-day from Microsoft without doing anything. I hereby dub my copy of Fedora 7 as Citizen of Earth's Linux Distribution, Release 1.0 and indicate to Microsoft that I am open to accepting $BOATLOADS from them in an 'interoperability' agreement.
These corporate deals have no force of legal precedence, so they are irrelevant w.r.t. Linux being defended in any potential court cases. It's more about Microsoft paying for advertising and corporations paying for blue-sky warm fuzzies.
While I agree that there is nothing magical about the birth process, there are numerous developmental milestones that other people may gravitate to as being significant. For instance, a zygote, having only a single cell, has no brain cells and therefore no mind or consciousness (where it seems clear that animals have consciousness, emotions, and some limited abilities to reason). After a fetus has a nervous system, there must be some point at which it becomes vaguely conscious, and some other point at which it can have coherent perceptions. There is also a point at which the fetus becomes capable of surviving outside its mother (with a great deal of outside help). There is another point at which the mind is coherent enough to form memories. What is your earliest memory?
Killing animals, something we do millions of times each day, is not considered homocide. How many religious fundamentalists are vegans (i.e., plant killers)? It's either okay to kill or it's not.
Only a minor fan. However, the question before you is whether intelligent non-human beings, if they existed, should be considered to be "people". In your and other people's flood of false assumptions and ad-hominem attacks, no one addressed this issue. Referring to properties of fictional characters is an example of applying abstract reasoning, something that "people" have the power to do. And any intelligent person realizes that extraterrestrial intelligence almost certainly exists. It's also likely, whether in 200 years or 10000, that "intelligent" machines will be devised.
Shootin' blanks, huh?
We all shed millions of skin cells every day that have homo-sapiens (not a plural) DNA in them. According to your view, those skin cells are people. Do you regard it as a crime to vacuum them up?
I have a Ph.D. and a genius-level IQ. My ability to think rationally is not limited; perhaps yours is. Are you religious? Should Lt. Cmdr. Data from Star Trek be considered a "person"? He does not have human DNA. Should intelligent extraterrestrials? They won't have human DNA either.
A fetus may be human, but it is not a person. I would argue that a baby shouldn't be considered to be a person until its behaviour differentiates itself from animals.
This makes me curious to know what portion of the people who oppose abortion are non-religious.
Maybe if governments didn't keep paying them to sit on their asses.
Now, a single-dog dare I could walk away from...
Your security is awful. I can "ssh 127.0.0.1" right on to your box!
When the fish are all gone, the fisherman can just get a different job. In this example, it's not illogical for him to maximize his profits in the short term.
Yes, settle with the counter-suer for $1M (on condition that the terms are not disclosed).
Still, it'll be fun to watch them crap their pants and try to settle with the person for megabucks. If they flinch, their extortion plans are all over, as getting hit with a lawsuit from them will be like winning the lottery.
But I have heard many times on Slashdot that Java is theoretically faster than C/C++; how could it be too slow to do a good job here?
The fools! Most type-13 planets destroy themselves when they attempt to determine the mass of the Higgs boson and accidentally shrink the planet to the size of a pea.
Disparaging your competitors or their products without offering any evidence is illegal. It's unfair competition, tortious interference, fraud, antitrust violations, and false advertising. Red Hat, IBM, etc. could sue Microsoft and force it to show its cards. Perhaps they are waiting until after they are protected by the GPLv3.
Spike: I just can't take all this mamby pamby boo-hooing about the bloody Indians.
Willow: The preferred term is...
Spike: You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not going around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it." The history of the world isn't people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.
I don't know about a silver spoon, but they are completely bought into the cycle of welfare dependency. Any pretense that they are living their traditional lives is a farce; they are welfare bums. The most merciful thing that a first-world nation can do for them is to annex all of their land and end their special welfare status. This would force them to join the first world instead of continuing to live in third-world squalor and corrupt tribal "governments".
The cops also need to step up to the plate and bust these idiots whenever they commit criminal offenses like blocking roads and railroad lines.
Governments also have a responsibility to moderate the pace of the economy, to heat up a cold economy and cool down a hot one. If it doesn't do this, you get large boom-bust cycles that remove efficiency from the market (and ruin lives).
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.” — Knuth
If SCO put took up a collection to keep their lawsuits alive, they would probably receive a lot of donations from open-source advocates. SCO's public service has been greatly under-appreciated.