yeah - it was mainly an economic war, the Emancipation Proclimation was made late in the war and didn't even free slaves in the Northern states so as not to lose the border states' support:)
The Army had been officially freeing slaves for two years by that time (since August 1861). Our articles of war forbade returning slaves to owners. Slavery had been abolished in DC and all territories. Lincoln (conservative on the subject) had promised aid/compensation to all loyal slave states which undertook emancipation voluntarily.In July 1862, Lincoln told them that if they did not undertake voluntary emancipation it would "be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion--by the mere incidents of the war." On the southern side, slavery was the only issue. Read the documents of secession.
Eh? The Civil War wasn't about slavery. Slavery was abolished more as a punitive measure against the Southern states than as a goal of the war. Lincoln stated flatly that his goal was to preserve the Union -- whether with such preservation every slave was freed, some slaves were freed, or no slaves were freed.
The war most certainly was about slavery. Exactly why do you think the southern states seceeded from the union? Luckily we don't have to guess about this, as the South Carolina legislature made is abundantly clear in the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina From the Federal Union.. After a long list of precedents supporting the right of secession, the only reason they give for such an act is Federal interference in slavery.
Likewise, the Confederate constitution stipulates "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."
"The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."
and, "No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due."
In total, this seven article document refers to slavery ten times. The idea that the Civil War was not about slavery is a reactionary construct of the post reconstruction racist backlash. Nice of you to parrot it for us though.
while your post was both provocative and reactionary, it would best be categorized it as absolutely f*cking retarted.
after any change as major as abolition there is going to be a transitional period. just be glad it began in 1870 and not 1970.
I think you missed his point. He is not espousing the Confederate cause, merely pointing out that it took a mere 11 years for the forces of reaction and racism to completely undermine the 13th and 14th amendments. Then it took nearly another century for Congress to provide statutory means of enforcing them. The gap between the 1878 withdrawal of the last Federal troops (part of the deal the Republicans struck to secure the presidency for Rutherford B. Hayes) from the south and the 1964/65 civil/voting rights acts is not even remotely an acceptable "transitional period." And make no mistake about it, after the demise of the reconstruction governments, slavery returned to the south full force, albeit in the guise of debt peonage.
His comment is a criticism of the US and the Republican party, not a commendation of the Confederacy and the Democratic party.
BTW, I once visited the Laura plantation in Louisiana. It is one of the few to provide any history of slavery. The guide told us that the slave quarters, open bare wood shacks slightly larger than my veal pen at work, housed field workers continuously until 1977. She also read excerts from the owner's diary describing how debt peonage was functionally slavery. Interesting place.
What people seem to be forgeting is that there was, and to a point, is, a version of OSX on x86. Its called OpenStep and NextStep. Most of the cool stuff in OSX is there. When it was released for X86 in the early 90's it developed a niche following, but not more that that.
Actually, you are forgetting the current *Step generation, GNUStep.
"GNUstep's objectives include short-term and long-term goals. The short-term goal is to create a development environment based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT Computer Inc. (now Apple Computer Inc.). Apple has continued to update this specification, and there is no hope of GNUstep guaranteeing that we will maintain compatibility with an Apple API that is constantly changing. We will endeavor, however, to follow as closely as possible the additions that Apple has made so that we may provide interface compatibility with programs written for the Mac OS X system."
It's entertaining, but a little worrying to see how military lawyers interpret things like the Geneva Convention and other documents supposedly governing the acceptable conduct of war. One example is the use of White Phosphorous, a powerful incendiary distributed over a target area using explosives.
How about their interpretation of the 1925 Geneva language banning the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices? According to the US governement during the Vietnam war that didn't include CN and CS gas, as well as several airborne herbicides known to be poisonous and mutagenic. They claimed CN and CS were not deadly, although they obviously were when you pumped them under pressure into tunnels. What a way to die, being tear gassed to death.
Interestingly, the Nuremberg tribunal convicted several German officers of ecocide for their involvement in Polish deforestation. So Geneva aside, there was precedent banning mass deforestation.
Cruise missles are more accurate than a soldier with a gun. Tell a soldier to hit a 0.5m target that is more than 1-2 km away, and he probably can't do it withot some pretty specialized weaponry. A TLAM-C can hit a 0.5m target from over 1000km.
Or it can miss the country entirely, as four of the Tomahawks Clinton fired at Al Quaeda bases in 1998 did. They landed in Pakistan. Two were essentially intact, giving that nuclear nation, and her ally China, access to some of our most current delivery technology.
Really, do we have a CEO appreciaton day for all their hard work?
Yes. Every freaking day they climb into the company jet, or the stock goes up a tiny bit and they are worth millions more, all the catered lunches, just about every freaking moment.
I think, in fact, a CEO non-appreciation day would be quite the event, where a CEO is treated just like any other employee. He has to get his own coffee. Field his own calls. Make his own travel reservations and fly coach to his luxurious golf trip / business meetings.
De facto immunity from prosecution is a big show of appreciation. How many indictments has the DOJ disbursed to Enron execs? When Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton they changed their accounting procedures to count cost overruns as revenue. That's right, they were counting expenditures as revenue! Black is white (don't get me started on Thomas White)! And yet the SEC has not even interviewed Cheney. Likewise, when the SEC "investigated" George W. Bush 's $848,560.00 stock sale at Harken, they never interviewed him or any other board member. Of course, that may have been due to the fact that an old family friend was chaiman of the SEC and the man whose job it was to decide whether or not to indict was previously George W. Bush's own lawyer.
The Paris crash was actually caused by a French Air Force fighter interfering in the Tupolev's flight path. The Russian pilot (a highly regarded test pilot) overstressed his plane while trying to avoid hitting the Dassault Mirage, which was not supposed to be there.
I don't think Tupolev ever planned to offer the 144 on the open market.
Most of the asessments I have seen seem to think that the Tupolev in its final form had a superior airframe design overall, but terrible engines.
NASA purchased a TU-144 as a test platform. Last I heard, that unit was for sale The asking price was $10, 000,000 IIRC. I believe it is the only currentl flying 144, although there are eight complete airframes in existence.
If you mean making it freely available to everyone who may cross your path, that is quite illegal, as Napster (and soon
Gnutella and Kazaa) learned.
How is a protocol supposed to learn that, or anything else for that matter?
Copyright, right or wrong, exists and prohibits the kind of file sharing that P2P networks makes easy. Your violation of copyright is a violation of the law. You can justify it to yourself however you like...What I do seem to have is a mature sense of right and wrong which anyone who tries to legitimize piracy simply doesn't yet possess.
What facile and invalid logic. Copyright violation is wrong because it is illegal? Aiding escaped slaves was once illegal. Was that wrong too?
I suspect the reason they used third party Gigabit cards is because Sun wouldn't sell them a GigE/copper card. As recently as three weeks ago my Sun rep told me they did not make such an animal. Turns out they had recently introduced them.
As for the whole concept of GigE/copper, that is what the target customers run.
I mean as far as a breakdown by mzh apple did great almost twice as many requests per mhz. however when the price/performance breakdown was computed apple came out with a price problem, it cost almost twice as much...
Hmm... my experience at work has been that once a scientist has finished decking out a dual Athlon whitebox with decent components, it costs about the same our 2 x 1Ghz G4 price of $2500. Of course, as an IT department it then costs us nothing, because we won't support it unless they buy an off the rack Dell or Mac. Users get to support it themselves out their grant money.
Actually, luring the USSR into a war in Afghanistan was a planned policy of the Carter Administration. Zbigniew Brzezinski called it the "Afghan trap."
The five year contract was a one time deal to give Apple the cash to get back on their feet.
Your observations are correct, however I would point out that cash was not the issue in the stock deal. Apple had already issued a convertible debenture that raised something like $6 billion, IIRC. They had also sold off a number of capital assets. The actual deal was an MS commitment to five years of Office development in exchange for Apple dropping some outstanding legal claims. The stock deal was essentially window dressing to show solidarity and MS confidence. That said, MS received amazingly favorable terms on the purchase. The bought the stock, which after three years became convertible to common shares at 4:1, for just under the common share market value of about $16. Unlike Apple common stock, this preferred stock paid a dividend as well!
Conspicuously absent from the deal was an MS commitment to port Office to OS X, which is what Gil Amelio had been holding out for. Luckily for Apple, MS decided to go that route of their own free will.
1) MS was not that major a stockholder, about $100 million in non-voting, non-transferable, dividend bearing preferred stock in a company with a market cap of $7billion.
2) MS sold the stock at a huge profit not long after it became convertible to common stock at 4:1.
3) You can't steal control of BSD code.
4) PARC did not create most of the ideas you claim Apple stole from them. However, Apple did unsuccessfully try to make them proprietary.
Sorta. An Iraqi Mig-29 pilot shot down his wingman this way during the Gulf War. But the hyper maneuverability of the R-73 (AA-11) Archer missile was probably a bigger factor there, That and the total lack pilot training. I doubt the Germans have that problem with their Mig pilots.
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Likewise, the Confederate constitution stipulates "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."
"The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."
and, "No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due."
In total, this seven article document refers to slavery ten times. The idea that the Civil War was not about slavery is a reactionary construct of the post reconstruction racist backlash. Nice of you to parrot it for us though.
His comment is a criticism of the US and the Republican party, not a commendation of the Confederacy and the Democratic party.
BTW, I once visited the Laura plantation in Louisiana. It is one of the few to provide any history of slavery. The guide told us that the slave quarters, open bare wood shacks slightly larger than my veal pen at work, housed field workers continuously until 1977. She also read excerts from the owner's diary describing how debt peonage was functionally slavery. Interesting place.
"GNUstep's objectives include short-term and long-term goals. The short-term goal is to create a development environment based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT Computer Inc. (now Apple Computer Inc.). Apple has continued to update this specification, and there is no hope of GNUstep guaranteeing that we will maintain compatibility with an Apple API that is constantly changing. We will endeavor, however, to follow as closely as possible the additions that Apple has made so that we may provide interface compatibility with programs written for the Mac OS X system."
Interestingly, the Nuremberg tribunal convicted several German officers of ecocide for their involvement in Polish deforestation. So Geneva aside, there was precedent banning mass deforestation.
The Paris crash was actually caused by a French Air Force fighter interfering in the Tupolev's flight path. The Russian pilot (a highly regarded test pilot) overstressed his plane while trying to avoid hitting the Dassault Mirage, which was not supposed to be there.
I don't think Tupolev ever planned to offer the 144 on the open market.
Most of the asessments I have seen seem to think that the Tupolev in its final form had a superior airframe design overall, but terrible engines. NASA purchased a TU-144 as a test platform. Last I heard, that unit was for sale The asking price was $10, 000,000 IIRC. I believe it is the only currentl flying 144, although there are eight complete airframes in existence.
How is a protocol supposed to learn that, or anything else for that matter?
What facile and invalid logic. Copyright violation is wrong because it is illegal? Aiding escaped slaves was once illegal. Was that wrong too?
I would use rsync inside ssh to automatically sync to a referance machine.
Apple won't like that. They already strong armed mediafour out of using that name for Xplay.
I suspect the reason they used third party Gigabit cards is because Sun wouldn't sell them a GigE/copper card. As recently as three weeks ago my Sun rep told me they did not make such an animal. Turns out they had recently introduced them. As for the whole concept of GigE/copper, that is what the target customers run.
Actually, luring the USSR into a war in Afghanistan was a planned policy of the Carter Administration. Zbigniew Brzezinski called it the "Afghan trap."
http://www.tao.ca/~solidarity/s11/brzezinski.html
Unfortunately, in the case of the HURD, the glass is half full of nothing.
The five year contract was a one time deal to give Apple the cash to get back on their feet.
Your observations are correct, however I would point out that cash was not the issue in the stock deal. Apple had already issued a convertible debenture that raised something like $6 billion, IIRC. They had also sold off a number of capital assets. The actual deal was an MS commitment to five years of Office development in exchange for Apple dropping some outstanding legal claims. The stock deal was essentially window dressing to show solidarity and MS confidence. That said, MS received amazingly favorable terms on the purchase. The bought the stock, which after three years became convertible to common shares at 4:1, for just under the common share market value of about $16. Unlike Apple common stock, this preferred stock paid a dividend as well! Conspicuously absent from the deal was an MS commitment to port Office to OS X, which is what Gil Amelio had been holding out for. Luckily for Apple, MS decided to go that route of their own free will.
1) MS was not that major a stockholder, about $100 million in non-voting, non-transferable, dividend bearing preferred stock in a company with a market cap of $7billion. 2) MS sold the stock at a huge profit not long after it became convertible to common stock at 4:1. 3) You can't steal control of BSD code. 4) PARC did not create most of the ideas you claim Apple stole from them. However, Apple did unsuccessfully try to make them proprietary.
Sorta. An Iraqi Mig-29 pilot shot down his wingman this way during the Gulf War. But the hyper maneuverability of the R-73 (AA-11) Archer missile was probably a bigger factor there, That and the total lack pilot training. I doubt the Germans have that problem with their Mig pilots.