To promote domestic stability, wealth and expertise, by securing for domestic workers the limited preference of employment over foreign labor
Why would this article be any better or worse than the one about patents, other than you happen to be a patent agent rather than an IT admin? Surely both would achive their objective, to some degree, and both have severe anti-capitalist implications. If I invented something through my own work, why should I give you money just because you happened to file a peace of paper first?
I have a right to move to Banglore and you have a right to keep your inventions secret - or choose to disclose it to "public good". Why should only one of us get government protection?
You are for unrestricted capitalism, but you are a patent agent? Dissonance indeed! If I can produce a copy og Windows XP for $1 by copying a CD-R, I should have a right to do it and compete with your $129 CD, just like I have a right to find the cheapest labor. Or if I happen to have any knowledge, I can use it to make my stuff, and why should I pay you?
Also, you do realize that a few countries in the world will make abortion legal for the whole 9 months, that field of medicine will be outsourced and all your socially conservative laws will end up useless? If you are against that, why can't other people do something about sweatshop labor in today's outsourced facilities?
I started working for a mostly chinese startup on a visa and was always paid at least the "prevailing wage" however the government defined it. Later the startup was bought by a big company and the lawyer said the prevailing wage has increased and they need to give me a raise - no problem. Later I got raises on my own merit and ended up payed higher than any of my american coworkers. All of the time I was buying stuff in Fry's, spending money on travel, eating good food and so on.
I don't see how I was preventing an American from getting a programming job, as they could get the same skill as me, work for the same salary as me and have a higher standard of living than most other american jobs at that time. As far as I know, most of decent programmers did. Yes, some tiny companies underpayed H1 workers, but they never amounted to even 1% of total job market or software revenues.
With all the outrage about immigrants in Y2K, I don't understand how people are sitting on their hands now and not getting ready to tell Bush what they think about outsourcing in a few weeks.
Ah, but CO2 is good for life, just not too much of it at once. Plants will recapture it if it escapes slowly, indeed farms above the deposit would get a good harvest from a kind of furtilizer. Also, if you bury under the ocean, much of what escapes will react with alkaline water and end up as some mineral deposits.
That's just a defence against RIAA. I doubt most P2P developers view copying music or software strongly immoral. They are more worried about this situation I think.
As for Kittridge, I hope is is not prosecuted legally not for his own sake, but as it will open the door to jail P2P authors and Linux DVD player writters. Morally he is sure responsible for spamming, but probably not for identity theft if he didn't specifically market his program for that purpose. As far as corporate moral responsibility in US, I agree with his last sentence:
Because of outsourcing [of software and system administration jobs], it's one of the only ways a hacker can make money
So if any presidential candidate wants to appear tough on crime, maybe he can talk about nipping it in the bud for the rest of this month...
EULAs are not tested in court. If this one was, the judge might decide it's unfair for Apple to show up at your home and investigate your personal use of the product you payed for. Hardly a slam dunk.
If the emulator is really comparable in speed to Mac hardware, Apple's game is up. They would still be able to compete on better designs (go emulate a 30' cinema display!), faster hardware, cuter notebook design and so on. But they wouldn't be able to sell Macs just because people can't run usable OSX on PCs. Fortunately for Apple, I suspect the story is totally bogus and emulator either doesn't exist or has similar performance to PearPC, even if they didn't rip off the code.
No, they are just concerned about people seeing their credit cards lying on the table and making fraudulant charges. Given that there are many other ways to get CC#s, it makes full sense to punish the criminals responsible in addition and possibly as a higher priority than closing the blinds.
The whole point of search engines is to index publically available information. If I click on a link and have to pay to see the match of my search, the power of casual research on Internet is gone.
Let them put that in sponsored results if they want, but I don't think anyone will buy the stuff.How do I know the books is good if I can not look at portions of it I consider important in a bookstore?
About how the world would be a better place with german carmakers, french cooks, british policemen and italian lovers. As opposed to french carmakers, german cooks, italian policeman and beg your pardon british lovers. Why do you think Renault no longer sells in US? I used to have a used one and I never encountered a car with more problems.
You would however have trouble inhaling or injesting them before they attract those pesky electones. I do believe you referred to eating plutonium and to alpha particicles not penetrating skin, but then you can not refer to both of them as "it" in the same sentence:-)
Wow, you must be browsing some seriously bloated sites. Most web browsing is viewing text and images, and for those alternative browsers offer much better experience like tabs, easy zoom and stylesheets. If I hit a broken page I just move on without thinking about the reason.
I don't really "browse" my bank's website or Javascript games, rather I only go there directly when I need something. So I don't mind making a shortcut that launches an IE window with the site and close it once I am done. If my bank gets infected and sends me an exploit, they will likely settle with me because they don't want bad publicity of being suid for negligence. And if heaven forbid they install spyware...
Do you mean US is killing innocent civilians for no other reason but to intimidate the rest of the population? Care to give some links? Or if not, find a correct name for what you don't like, but don't call it terrorism.
Why flamebait? Speak up for yourself! Do you really think Palestinian suicide bombers or Chechnyan child-murderers helped the cause they claim to represent? You might want to read this website before commenting or moderating.
Hmm, then I might vote for some of their county contenders. But Green Party presidential candidate has definitely cast his mind about nuclear energy and genetic engineering. Too bad, because these technologies can preserve environment today before Green Party's ideals of solar energy and I guess family farming/population control become feasable.
Even their name implies they only care about vegies, not people. A real presidential candidate needs to have a vision for more than a single issue.
I know it's silly to expect reply from AC, but which enemies are you referring to? Sept 11 terrorists? Bin Laden? Saddam Hussein? Palenstenian suicide bombers? Do you think any of those have achived better life for their people rather than complete lack of sympathy from the world for their cause. If Palestinians had a leader like Martin Luther King, now I would be symphasise with them and perhaps donate money to support their rights. As it is, I completely understand why Israel would want to build fences for this kind of people.
Well, with absolute soveringty comes absolute responsibility. Would you rather US invade your country because a private company is unknowingly providing real time photos to terrorists about to commence another Sept 11 style attack? Or would you prefer they just shoot the sattelite and later pay or not pay compensation depending on how responsible you appear to be for the situation?
Otherwise, you can always make an agreement that if your sattelites are being used by terrorists or dictators, you would restrict the access or shut them down alltogether for the duration of the conflict. Let's face it, Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden don't deserve your help, even if the war against them should have been different. If US attacks good guys, its another story.
The problem is not a nuclear war between US, Russia and China. We would duke it out in conventional warfare even though we have nukes, because nobody wants nuclear winter, extinction of human race and world domination by cockroaches.
But what do you do with a Saddam Hussein wannabe who manages to build one nuke and is free to terrorise his own people and neighbors because nobody will dare to take him out?
I guess one solution is for UN to own a small number of nukes in exchange for individual members giving up their own. Then if someone builds a facility to develop nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, they get a warning, two weeks of grace period and then a low-yield nuke to the area if UN inspectors are not overseeing its dismantlement.
Hmm.. In many countries like Taiwan you are not supposed to take pictures from a commercial airplane lest you disclose some military secrets. Since in US it's not the case and there are private airplanes, I bet any country has more accurate legally obtained images of US then what US obtained secretly of them. I remember Barbara Striesend had an issue with a private photographer, what of trained spies?
Also I bet hundreds of other countries' sattelites are passing over US and what they are doing is known only to their owners.
I guess it's fortunate you are a software engineer instead. Even Saddam wasn't such a hothead. Get at least thousands of people killed because of an unmanned machine? I don't think so.
I would however demand compensation for the cost of a new launch and lost service and work on some kind of cooperation agreement so that I can deny service to agreed upon bad guys rather than just having my stuff shot down.
It's fine to oppose nuclear energy or genetic engineering as an informed choice, but he should be prepared to change his mind when presented with rational evidence. I would love to have this guy as a senator to throw a wrench into Bush'es oil drilling plans, for example. But a president must be able to make a decision against his own beliefs if that's the right thing to do.
Uh.. then why so much of donation money goes to building fancy churches, converting other people to the religion or political lobbying? Why does Vatican have billions in wealth? If people met at each other's houses/appartments to pray and directly contributed 1/10th of their income to feeding hungry people, great things would happen. Or if our taxes were well spent...
I got a cheap 17' CRT from Fry's once and it worked perfectly fine under Windows. Then when I tried it under Linux with my XFree86.conf, it just went blank and started clicking and that's all it did after that. I assumed it was just a faulty monitor, went to exchange it and guess what? Fortunately they still let me return the second one and get a different model.
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Say tomorrow the constitution will say:
To promote domestic stability, wealth and expertise, by securing for domestic workers the limited preference of employment over foreign labor
Why would this article be any better or worse than the one about patents, other than you happen to be a patent agent rather than an IT admin? Surely both would achive their objective, to some degree, and both have severe anti-capitalist implications. If I invented something through my own work, why should I give you money just because you happened to file a peace of paper first?
I have a right to move to Banglore and you have a right to keep your inventions secret - or choose to disclose it to "public good". Why should only one of us get government protection?
You are for unrestricted capitalism, but you are a patent agent? Dissonance indeed! If I can produce a copy og Windows XP for $1 by copying a CD-R, I should have a right to do it and compete with your $129 CD, just like I have a right to find the cheapest labor. Or if I happen to have any knowledge, I can use it to make my stuff, and why should I pay you?
Also, you do realize that a few countries in the world will make abortion legal for the whole 9 months, that field of medicine will be outsourced and all your socially conservative laws will end up useless? If you are against that, why can't other people do something about sweatshop labor in today's outsourced facilities?
I started working for a mostly chinese startup on a visa and was always paid at least the "prevailing wage" however the government defined it. Later the startup was bought by a big company and the lawyer said the prevailing wage has increased and they need to give me a raise - no problem. Later I got raises on my own merit and ended up payed higher than any of my american coworkers. All of the time I was buying stuff in Fry's, spending money on travel, eating good food and so on.
I don't see how I was preventing an American from getting a programming job, as they could get the same skill as me, work for the same salary as me and have a higher standard of living than most other american jobs at that time. As far as I know, most of decent programmers did. Yes, some tiny companies underpayed H1 workers, but they never amounted to even 1% of total job market or software revenues.
With all the outrage about immigrants in Y2K, I don't understand how people are sitting on their hands now and not getting ready to tell Bush what they think about outsourcing in a few weeks.
Ah, but CO2 is good for life, just not too much of it at once. Plants will recapture it if it escapes slowly, indeed farms above the deposit would get a good harvest from a kind of furtilizer. Also, if you bury under the ocean, much of what escapes will react with alkaline water and end up as some mineral deposits.
That's just a defence against RIAA. I doubt most P2P developers view copying music or software strongly immoral. They are more worried about this situation I think.
As for Kittridge, I hope is is not prosecuted legally not for his own sake, but as it will open the door to jail P2P authors and Linux DVD player writters. Morally he is sure responsible for spamming, but probably not for identity theft if he didn't specifically market his program for that purpose. As far as corporate moral responsibility in US, I agree with his last sentence:
Because of outsourcing [of software and system administration jobs], it's one of the only ways a hacker can make money
So if any presidential candidate wants to appear tough on crime, maybe he can talk about nipping it in the bud for the rest of this month...
If Apple's EULA is valid
EULAs are not tested in court. If this one was, the judge might decide it's unfair for Apple to show up at your home and investigate your personal use of the product you payed for. Hardly a slam dunk.
If the emulator is really comparable in speed to Mac hardware, Apple's game is up. They would still be able to compete on better designs (go emulate a 30' cinema display!), faster hardware, cuter notebook design and so on. But they wouldn't be able to sell Macs just because people can't run usable OSX on PCs. Fortunately for Apple, I suspect the story is totally bogus and emulator either doesn't exist or has similar performance to PearPC, even if they didn't rip off the code.
No, they are just concerned about people seeing their credit
cards lying on the table and making fraudulant charges. Given that there are many other ways to get CC#s, it makes full sense to punish the criminals responsible in addition and possibly as a higher priority than closing the blinds.
The whole point of search engines is to index publically available information. If I click on a link and have to pay to see the match of my search, the power of casual research on Internet is gone.
Let them put that in sponsored results if they want, but I don't think anyone will buy the stuff.How do I know the books is good if I can not look at portions of it I consider important in a bookstore?
About how the world would be a better place with german carmakers, french cooks, british policemen and italian lovers. As opposed to french carmakers, german cooks, italian policeman and beg your pardon british lovers. Why do you think Renault no longer sells in US? I used to have a used one and I never encountered a car with more problems.
You would however have trouble inhaling or injesting them before they attract those pesky electones. I do believe you referred to eating plutonium and to alpha particicles not penetrating skin, but then you can not refer to both of them as "it" in the same sentence :-)
Wow, killer helium that finishes you off if you inhale or digest it. Almost as bad as Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Wow, you must be browsing some seriously bloated sites. Most web browsing is viewing text and images, and for those alternative browsers offer much better experience like tabs, easy zoom and stylesheets. If I hit a broken page I just move on without thinking about the reason.
I don't really "browse" my bank's website or Javascript games, rather I only go there directly when I need something. So I don't mind making a shortcut that launches an IE window with the site and close it once I am done. If my bank gets infected and sends me an exploit, they will likely settle with me because they don't want bad publicity of being suid for negligence. And if heaven forbid they install spyware...
Do you mean US is killing innocent civilians for no other reason but to intimidate the rest of the population? Care to give some links? Or if not, find a correct name for what you don't like, but don't call it terrorism.
Why flamebait? Speak up for yourself! Do you really think Palestinian suicide bombers or Chechnyan child-murderers helped the cause they claim to represent? You might want to read this website before commenting or moderating.
Hmm, then I might vote for some of their county contenders. But Green Party presidential candidate has definitely cast his mind about nuclear energy and genetic engineering. Too bad, because these technologies can preserve environment today before Green Party's ideals of solar energy and I guess family farming/population control become feasable.
Even their name implies they only care about vegies, not people. A real presidential candidate needs to have a vision for more than a single issue.
I know it's silly to expect reply from AC, but which enemies are you referring to? Sept 11 terrorists? Bin Laden? Saddam Hussein? Palenstenian suicide bombers? Do you think any of those have achived better life for their people rather than complete lack of sympathy from the world for their cause. If Palestinians had a leader like Martin Luther King, now I would be symphasise with them and perhaps donate money to support their rights. As it is, I completely understand why Israel would want to build fences for this kind of people.
Well, with absolute soveringty comes absolute responsibility. Would you rather US invade your country because a private company is unknowingly providing real time photos to terrorists about to commence another Sept 11 style attack? Or would you prefer they just shoot the sattelite and later pay or not pay compensation depending on how responsible you appear to be for the situation?
Otherwise, you can always make an agreement that if your sattelites are being used by terrorists or dictators, you would restrict the access or shut them down alltogether for the duration of the conflict. Let's face it, Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden don't deserve your help, even if the war against them should have been different. If US attacks good guys, its another story.
The problem is not a nuclear war between US, Russia and China. We would duke it out in conventional warfare even though we have nukes, because nobody wants nuclear winter, extinction of human race and world domination by cockroaches.
But what do you do with a Saddam Hussein wannabe who manages to build one nuke and is free to terrorise his own people and neighbors because nobody will dare to take him out?
I guess one solution is for UN to own a small number of nukes in exchange for individual members giving up their own. Then if someone builds a facility to develop nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, they get a warning, two weeks of grace period and then a low-yield nuke to the area if UN inspectors are not overseeing its dismantlement.
Hmm.. In many countries like Taiwan you are not supposed to take pictures from a commercial airplane lest you disclose some military secrets. Since in US it's not the case and there are private airplanes, I bet any country has more accurate legally obtained images of US then what US obtained secretly of them. I remember Barbara Striesend had an issue with a private photographer, what of trained spies?
Also I bet hundreds of other countries' sattelites are passing over US and what they are doing is known only to their owners.
I guess it's fortunate you are a software engineer instead. Even Saddam wasn't such a hothead. Get at least thousands of people killed because of an unmanned machine? I don't think so.
I would however demand compensation for the cost of a new launch and lost service and work on some kind of cooperation agreement so that I can deny service to agreed upon bad guys rather than just having my stuff shot down.
It's fine to oppose nuclear energy or genetic engineering as an informed choice, but he should be prepared to change his mind when presented with rational evidence. I would love to have this guy as a senator to throw a wrench into Bush'es oil drilling plans, for example. But a president must be able to make a decision against his own beliefs if that's the right thing to do.
Uh.. then why so much of donation money goes to building fancy churches, converting other people to the religion or political lobbying? Why does Vatican have billions in wealth? If people met at each other's houses/appartments to pray and directly contributed 1/10th of their income to feeding hungry people, great things would happen. Or if our taxes were well spent...
I got a cheap 17' CRT from Fry's once and it worked perfectly fine under Windows. Then when I tried it under Linux with my XFree86.conf, it just went blank and started clicking and that's all it did after that. I assumed it was just a faulty monitor, went to exchange it and guess what? Fortunately they still let me return the second one and get a different model.
Yeah, you should see Planet of the Apes sometime. Apes getting smarter and humans getting dumber, I guess the first stage is already happening.
I take it videos of donkeys and elephants are coming. Also bulls and bears hacking electronic trading systems.