"Grabbing" enough of the atmosphere to slow the entry vehicle down is not what an airbag does. It's what a parachute does.The airbag that deploys in your car doesn't work because of the properties of the surrounding atmosphere. These things have nothing to do with each other.
Because Americans and Europeans are more productive per unit of pollution than "anyone else"?
That seems like a non-sequitur to me, unless you can demonstrate that it is not we, ourselves, who are the primary consumers of all that productivity. Otherwise, you're just using the lavish American standard of living as justification for consuming the lion's share of the planet's resources.
If you vote for my candidate, then bring me your slip with the private key so I can verify it online, I'll pay you $20. You misspelled "let you keep your job".
I hated Clinton. I think he was one of the worst presidents we've had. In fact, in the last 25 years, only George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan were worse.
I guess that's technically correct. The second best (by your account) president we've had in the last 25 years is, technically speaking, "one of the worst".
Reminds me of an old joke about a Soviet newspaper headline reporting a chess match lost by a Russian to an American: "Russia takes second place. American finishes next to last."
One by one they are taking away the tools that President Bush needs to fight terrorisim at home and abroad
Only those that he shouldn't have in the first place, like being able to wiretap anybody without a warrant, and to illegally detain American citizens indefinitely with no more burden or due process than merely saying they're enemy combatants. We'll still leave a few tools behind, like having your adminitration listen to your predecessor's administration when they tell you that Bin Laden will be your most serious concern, and reading your Presidential Daily Briefings, and not going on vacation for a month when someone tells you "Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S.", and implementing your predecessor's plan for rooting out Al Qaeda, and not ignoring Richard Clark for 7 months while he's ranting and raving about the Al Qeada threat, despite the fact that he's a member of your own administration.
Clinton pursued and convicted Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first WTC bombing.
Note that he didn't prevent the attack, he reacted to an attack that had already happened.
Very astute observation. Clinton definitely dropped the ball on that one. Because even though he didn't already have the hindsight provided by the embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole (not to mention the first WTC bombing itself), nor the Presidential Daily Briefing detailing the threat right in his face, nor the previous administration warning him about Al Qaeda, there's no excuse for wandering around the White House for the full 38 days between his inauguration and the bombing and not having acquired the insight to predict that. After all, Bush was on vacation for longer than that during the mere 7 months of his presidency that he had before the 9/11 attacks, so at least he had a valid excuse.
China and India pollute substantially less per person than any EU country or the US.
So? They're growing at a much, much faster rate.
The next time you get pulled over for doing 70 in a 55 mph zone, be sure to tell the cop, "Hey, that guy on the on-ramp doing 35 is accelerating much harder than I am! Why don't you pull him over?"
(Note to slashcode guys: em inside blockquote isn't working. But strong inside blockquote does.)
Theft is already illegal, why do we need yet another law? Just enforce the ones we have now!
Legislation can do more than simply make something illegal. It can provide additional means of enforcement (e.g. PATRIOT act (I don't like it, but it's an example)), or make it more difficult to commit the crime in the first place (e.g. Brady Bill).
No, gravity is an observation. Theories explain observations. General Relativity theory explains gravity. Evolution by natural selection explains the diversity yet commonality among various life forms on earth. The round-earth theory explains why we don't fall off the edge. These are all exceptionally well-confirmed theories.
... what the price/performance ratio would be if you took an ordinary 200GB 7200 RPM HDD, dropped the speed down to 4500 RPM, and put in, say, 4 GB of level-2 cache (on top of the 2-8 MB DRAM cache) in flash memory.
Richard would rather that there were no copyright law.
If there were no copyright law, all his work would be in the public domain. If that were the case, I could take it, modify it in a neat and innovative (i.e. valuable) way, and sell DRM-laden binaries without having to redistribute either his original source or my patches. If this is the way RMS would rather it be, he's certainly free to put all his work in the public domain, isn't he?
"So, Microsoft is actively participating in distribution of the GPL2 software today, and must have assented to GPL 2 to do that, because any distribution without assent to GPL2 would be infringement. Under GPL 2, they have already given away the rights to use Microsoft patents that are applied in the Novell distribution, for any use in any GPL software, by anyone, forever," Perens said.
You then further clarify:
What Microsoft is giving out is paid-up Novell licenses which Microsoft pays for.
So, Microsoft buys a product from Party A, and gives it to Party B, and in so doing, Microsoft gives up any claims to their patent IP that may have slipped in to Party A's product? Isn't this stretching the definition of "distribution" a bit? I mean, suppose Party A infringes some source code owned by United Parcel Service. I buy a GPL'd product from Party A and have them ship it to me via UPS. In delivering the product to me, has UPS "distributed" their copyrighted work to me under the GPL, thereby forever rendering it a GPL product and ligitimizing the original infringing distribution by Party A?
what exactly, did the state of the purchaser do, or provide to deserve 'their share'
The same thing the state of the purchaser does to deserve their share of the purchaser's income, or assessed property value.
I can see a state requiring businesses to pay sales tax based on their location
Ahh, here's the source of your confusion. Businesses don't pay sales tax. Consumers pay sales tax. The state imposes the tax on the purchaser. Businesses are merely required to *collect* it on *behalf* of the purchaser. The state taxes its residents' purchases, and it doesn't care where the resident makes those purchases.
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I'm going to send that university a letter telling them I'm not hiring any of their graduates because of their asinine behavior.
Fight fire with fire, I always say.
"Grabbing" enough of the atmosphere to slow the entry vehicle down is not what an airbag does. It's what a parachute does.The airbag that deploys in your car doesn't work because of the properties of the surrounding atmosphere. These things have nothing to do with each other.
(making a profit from either side means he no longer met the legal definition of an 'agent')
I wish somebody had told me this before I paid my real estate agent 6%.
I'm amazed that when some people get called for jury duty, they think that means they can appoint themselves Supreme Court Justice.
Because Americans and Europeans are more productive per unit of pollution than "anyone else"?
That seems like a non-sequitur to me, unless you can demonstrate that it is not we, ourselves, who are the primary consumers of all that productivity. Otherwise, you're just using the lavish American standard of living as justification for consuming the lion's share of the planet's resources.
Cheney, for example, always demands to be quoted as "a senior Bush administration official."
Wait, doesn't that, by his own admission, make him part of the executive branch?
(BTW, it's "corps")
After all, old habits die hard.
Thanks a lot. The fourth movie's not even out yet, and you reveal the fifth movie's title, you insensitive clod.
I guess that's technically correct. The second best (by your account) president we've had in the last 25 years is, technically speaking, "one of the worst".
Reminds me of an old joke about a Soviet newspaper headline reporting a chess match lost by a Russian to an American: "Russia takes second place. American finishes next to last."
One by one they are taking away the tools that President Bush needs to fight terrorisim at home and abroad
Only those that he shouldn't have in the first place, like being able to wiretap anybody without a warrant, and to illegally detain American citizens indefinitely with no more burden or due process than merely saying they're enemy combatants. We'll still leave a few tools behind, like having your adminitration listen to your predecessor's administration when they tell you that Bin Laden will be your most serious concern, and reading your Presidential Daily Briefings, and not going on vacation for a month when someone tells you "Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S.", and implementing your predecessor's plan for rooting out Al Qaeda, and not ignoring Richard Clark for 7 months while he's ranting and raving about the Al Qeada threat, despite the fact that he's a member of your own administration.
From thesaurus.reference.com:
do you have to pay fuel tax on whatever you had for breakfast?
As a huge Beatles and McCartney fan, I echo the bewilderment.
(Note to slashcode guys: em inside blockquote isn't working. But strong inside blockquote does.)
Theft is already illegal, why do we need yet another law? Just enforce the ones we have now!
Legislation can do more than simply make something illegal. It can provide additional means of enforcement (e.g. PATRIOT act (I don't like it, but it's an example)), or make it more difficult to commit the crime in the first place (e.g. Brady Bill).
No, gravity is an observation. Theories explain observations. General Relativity theory explains gravity. Evolution by natural selection explains the diversity yet commonality among various life forms on earth. The round-earth theory explains why we don't fall off the edge. These are all exceptionally well-confirmed theories.
Send Over Nine Tons of Nuts to CBS
For a minute there I thought they packaged up the entire Westboro Baptist Church.
Actually, no.
256 shades of red, 256 shades of blue, 256 shades of green.
Everything else is dithered.
It seems to be. I wasn't previously aware of ReadyBoost. Thanks for the link.
... what the price/performance ratio would be if you took an ordinary 200GB 7200 RPM HDD, dropped the speed down to 4500 RPM, and put in, say, 4 GB of level-2 cache (on top of the 2-8 MB DRAM cache) in flash memory.
Richard would rather that there were no copyright law.
If there were no copyright law, all his work would be in the public domain. If that were the case, I could take it, modify it in a neat and innovative (i.e. valuable) way, and sell DRM-laden binaries without having to redistribute either his original source or my patches. If this is the way RMS would rather it be, he's certainly free to put all his work in the public domain, isn't he?
Your original statement says:
You then further clarify:
So, Microsoft buys a product from Party A, and gives it to Party B, and in so doing, Microsoft gives up any claims to their patent IP that may have slipped in to Party A's product? Isn't this stretching the definition of "distribution" a bit? I mean, suppose Party A infringes some source code owned by United Parcel Service. I buy a GPL'd product from Party A and have them ship it to me via UPS. In delivering the product to me, has UPS "distributed" their copyrighted work to me under the GPL, thereby forever rendering it a GPL product and ligitimizing the original infringing distribution by Party A?
what exactly, did the state of the purchaser do, or provide to deserve 'their share'
The same thing the state of the purchaser does to deserve their share of the purchaser's income, or assessed property value.
I can see a state requiring businesses to pay sales tax based on their location
Ahh, here's the source of your confusion. Businesses don't pay sales tax. Consumers pay sales tax. The state imposes the tax on the purchaser. Businesses are merely required to *collect* it on *behalf* of the purchaser. The state taxes its residents' purchases, and it doesn't care where the resident makes those purchases.