Debian back out in that area is a stab in the back for any user.
Makes me glad I switched to Gentoo a couple of years ago - I'm using the exact same distro on both x86 and Sparc. For regular, day to day stuff, the two archs are effectively interchangeable. I might have stayed with Redhat, if they'd kept Sparc support. I might have switched to Debian, if I hadn't had a bad experience early on. I'm not compiling everything all the time, trying to squeeze the last few cycles out of my machines, I'm not using bleeding-edge CFLAGS or packages, I just want uniformity across multiple systems.
Longer than ANY other democratic type of government in the past.
Presumably you're not including
Iceland, with a legislative assembly established in 930, or The Six Nations, with their 800+ years of participatory democracy?? Just wondering...
Assume for a moment that it can be made to work. It'll last right up till some public figure gets prosecuted for ignoring it. For example, picture the Governor being hit with a back-tax bill for stuff his kids have downloaded...
So far there are 4 states considering legislation, apparently, and they're all different. So, if I'm in State A, and I'm looking at dating a person in State B, via a dating service based in State C, which State law would apply?? That's what's going to bite True.com in the ass...
That heartburn/acid reflux drug that I'm totally forgetting the name of now (Nexiium?) is a prime example of this... it's been "reformulated" about three times now, each time is 6-10 years of $billions in profit with basically no new R&D.
Claritin / Clarinex apparently fits that description. At least, according to a magazine article I read a little while back at my doctor's office.
The article said that it's done because when the patent expires, any generic pharma company can use it, but not with the same trademarked name. Once the generics are out, any profit on the name-brand original disappears. So, modify the formula slightly - the R&D labs would have been working on the "next generation" drug right from the start, just not patenting the formula until just before the previous patent expires
Even so, a precedent would have been set - that a court would even listen to a patent fight between government and anyone else. Never mind win or lose, just getting into court is a big step.
I always though that was a scam worked on the American public by various supply companies. A US gallon is 3 imperial quarts, so for every 3 imperial gallons imported, they get to sell 4 US gallons.
I thought that was pretty much the whole point behind campaign contributions and lobbying - companies with deep pockets effectively controlling the government by threatening to withdraw support from selected politicians and/or threatening layoffs if their "needs" weren't met.
Sometimes you get the impression they recruit a lot of big names and those people just go there and putter around and never do anything major the rest of their lives, having had their day in the sun and being past their prime.
It's really irrelevant whether those people are past their prime or not. The point to remember is that they are effectively out of circulation. If they *do* come up with something significant while puttering around, Microsoft owns it. If they don't, no possible competitor gets to benefit from massive, or even incremental, improvements in their products. As such, that's a sound investment.
Reminds me of a story I heard a long time back. A new hire asks an old hand at his company why a certain other employee just sits in an office and reads a paper and plays games all day. The response was that the guy had once had a brilliant idea that saved (and/or made) the company an enormous amount of money, so they could afford to pay him to do nothing. And besides, maybe he'd come up with another brilliant innovation...
I think Yahoo had offices on France so, yes, the French police *could* invade and shut down the servers. Don't know if Google has equipment/offices in France.
Loads fast, looks good, and doesn't have the right roads around where I live. There's a whole neighborhood missing... I can't see my house from here...
And they're not in any way influenced by guys in dark suits making 'suggestions', of course.
I'd believe it if the ESRB wasa totally in control of the standards they use to grant ratings, but even then a couple of guys on the standards board could encourage the others to lean in one way or another. It doesn't have to be the government either, it could be anyone with an agenda.
Wasn't it disclosed recently that a very small group of people were responsible for a very large percentage of 'decency' complaints against TV & Radio??
It's not so much that parents need a law to be able to do their job, it's more that some parents just don't have a clue about the more violent games. Having ratings on games and movies means that parents don't *need* to understand anything about the content, just that *someone* suggests it's not suitable material for younger kids. Any parent who *really* thinks they know best can ignore the rating labels, the others will take notice of them.
The chilling thing is that once people accept the labels and abide by them, the standards can slip (up *or* down), providing the government with builtin censor mechanism.
While it's not vey difficult for a minor to get access to a game like Doom 3
True that - you can download the demo version - I haven't looked at the full version, but the demo is fairly graphic. Unreal Tournament is also available in demo versions. Dunno about any others.
They'd better plan on lowering the age for military service as well, then, because there's going to be hordes of frustrated, hormone-laden teenagers just looking for someone to smack around. Get 'em in the military and ship 'em out before they arm themselves and storm the Reichstag...
I've got a couple of Walmart Gift Cards that'll work at both Walmart and Sam's club. I haven't tried using them online yet, but they certainly have a feature where you can verify the balance online, so I wouldn't be surprised if I could use them at Walmart.com.
Same with the Barnes & Noble card I was given for my birthday last year.
Bull. If you're buying a game online, there's NO way for the retailer to verify your age. Unless you believe that little Johnny couldn't possibly lie about his age...
Ridiculous password rules... Tell me about it - around here, we have several different sets of rules, one of which won't allow certain words because they're in a dictionary, but will allow abcd1234. And when that one expired, it let me change it to a1b2c3d4... Sigh.
Our Data Security clowns recently sent out a list of all the machines we're supposedly registered on. I counted them up - 1931 unique systems in the list, mostly without any kind of Single Sign On, so I have to go to each individual system to update my password. On some it's every 30 days, some every 45. Some have paranoid password validators, others allow any damn thing. Some remember old password and won't allow anything remotely similar, others don't care. If it takes about 1 minute per password update, when it rolls around, Password Change Day is going to take about 32 hours. Yes, I've got scripts...
I'd also like for all those nice bits of info that happen right after each package is merged and right before the next one goes to be mailed to me or something, and only once.
I saw this in the forums a couple of days ago, but haven't had time to see how well it works:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1716588
It gives a script that runs emerge for you, captures any of those messages, then optionally writes them to the screen, emails them to you, or saves them in a file.
So that's what was happening today. I was out running some errands and saw enough patrol cars to populate the local PD several times over... I was beginning to wonder if I'd missed a bio-terror alert, or something.
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Do what I do - work nights and sleep through the day...
Makes me glad I switched to Gentoo a couple of years ago - I'm using the exact same distro on both x86 and Sparc. For regular, day to day stuff, the two archs are effectively interchangeable. I might have stayed with Redhat, if they'd kept Sparc support. I might have switched to Debian, if I hadn't had a bad experience early on. I'm not compiling everything all the time, trying to squeeze the last few cycles out of my machines, I'm not using bleeding-edge CFLAGS or packages, I just want uniformity across multiple systems.
Presumably you're not including Iceland, with a legislative assembly established in 930, or The Six Nations, with their 800+ years of participatory democracy?? Just wondering...
Assume for a moment that it can be made to work. It'll last right up till some public figure gets prosecuted for ignoring it. For example, picture the Governor being hit with a back-tax bill for stuff his kids have downloaded...
So far there are 4 states considering legislation, apparently, and they're all different. So, if I'm in State A, and I'm looking at dating a person in State B, via a dating service based in State C, which State law would apply?? That's what's going to bite True.com in the ass...
Claritin / Clarinex apparently fits that description. At least, according to a magazine article I read a little while back at my doctor's office.
The article said that it's done because when the patent expires, any generic pharma company can use it, but not with the same trademarked name. Once the generics are out, any profit on the name-brand original disappears. So, modify the formula slightly - the R&D labs would have been working on the "next generation" drug right from the start, just not patenting the formula until just before the previous patent expires
Even so, a precedent would have been set - that a court would even listen to a patent fight between government and anyone else. Never mind win or lose, just getting into court is a big step.
I always though that was a scam worked on the American public by various supply companies. A US gallon is 3 imperial quarts, so for every 3 imperial gallons imported, they get to sell 4 US gallons.
I thought that was pretty much the whole point behind campaign contributions and lobbying - companies with deep pockets effectively controlling the government by threatening to withdraw support from selected politicians and/or threatening layoffs if their "needs" weren't met.
It's really irrelevant whether those people are past their prime or not. The point to remember is that they are effectively out of circulation. If they *do* come up with something significant while puttering around, Microsoft owns it. If they don't, no possible competitor gets to benefit from massive, or even incremental, improvements in their products. As such, that's a sound investment.
Reminds me of a story I heard a long time back. A new hire asks an old hand at his company why a certain other employee just sits in an office and reads a paper and plays games all day. The response was that the guy had once had a brilliant idea that saved (and/or made) the company an enormous amount of money, so they could afford to pay him to do nothing. And besides, maybe he'd come up with another brilliant innovation...
*cough*SCO*cough*
I think Yahoo had offices on France so, yes, the French police *could* invade and shut down the servers. Don't know if Google has equipment/offices in France.
Loads fast, looks good, and doesn't have the right roads around where I live. There's a whole neighborhood missing... I can't see my house from here...
I'd believe it if the ESRB wasa totally in control of the standards they use to grant ratings, but even then a couple of guys on the standards board could encourage the others to lean in one way or another. It doesn't have to be the government either, it could be anyone with an agenda.
Wasn't it disclosed recently that a very small group of people were responsible for a very large percentage of 'decency' complaints against TV & Radio??
The chilling thing is that once people accept the labels and abide by them, the standards can slip (up *or* down), providing the government with builtin censor mechanism.
True that - you can download the demo version - I haven't looked at the full version, but the demo is fairly graphic. Unreal Tournament is also available in demo versions. Dunno about any others.
They'd better plan on lowering the age for military service as well, then, because there's going to be hordes of frustrated, hormone-laden teenagers just looking for someone to smack around. Get 'em in the military and ship 'em out before they arm themselves and storm the Reichstag...
Same with the Barnes & Noble card I was given for my birthday last year.
Both cards look and work like credit cards.
Bull. If you're buying a game online, there's NO way for the retailer to verify your age. Unless you believe that little Johnny couldn't possibly lie about his age...
Our Data Security clowns recently sent out a list of all the machines we're supposedly registered on. I counted them up - 1931 unique systems in the list, mostly without any kind of Single Sign On, so I have to go to each individual system to update my password. On some it's every 30 days, some every 45. Some have paranoid password validators, others allow any damn thing. Some remember old password and won't allow anything remotely similar, others don't care. If it takes about 1 minute per password update, when it rolls around, Password Change Day is going to take about 32 hours. Yes, I've got scripts...
No, I didn't RTFA... :)
This might help:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=17 16588
I saw this in the forums a couple of days ago, but haven't had time to see how well it works:
It gives a script that runs emerge for you, captures any of those messages, then optionally writes them to the screen, emails them to you, or saves them in a file.
So that's what was happening today. I was out running some errands and saw enough patrol cars to populate the local PD several times over... I was beginning to wonder if I'd missed a bio-terror alert, or something.