Just because you release one product as open source doesn't mean that you have to release all you works or future versions under the same license. Just as long as you don't mislead anyone about old and new license terms and do not try to harass developers who have forked off your old version and are possibly duplicating your closed source extensions.
Well, if I was on a jury in a criminal or civil court, someone evading creditors would be enough evidence to me that he/she didn't make the loan in good faith to start with. As it is, you got away with taking other people's money and because of you other Capital One cardholders had to pay higher interest on their accounts instead of taking care of THEIR families. You were just not important enough for the bank to utilize all the legally available resources to track you done. You can be legally obliged to appear in court by making several attempts to serve you in person and then just posting a notice in local newspaper. Your friends and relatives can be compelled to testify about your whereabouts or go to prison for contempt of court. A private detective can follow you after you pick up mail from your post box.
Your creditors can call you in for a 'debtors examination' to find out where you work or bank and you are required to answer truthfully -- but what's true at 12pm doesn't still have to be true at 5pm -- and they can generally only demand you attend a DE once a year (depending on your state laws). and
There is no law that says I can't vanish from my creditors. You seem to be so determined to run away from your obligations that you are confusing legality with the fact that you can delay the inevitable for a while or perhaps you are a small potato that is not worth the effort of the creditors or law enforcement. Yes, you don't have to update everyone with your minute-by-minute whereabouts. But eventually creditors can call you to a debtor examination. At this point they will know where you are and so will anyone who can show a legitimate concern. If you were a subject of missing person's report, police will know where you are from your credit report, although you can probably ask them not to make your place of residence public.
You should have just faced the music and declared bankruptcy or worked out a payment plan. What you actually did could not have been any better for your credit rating or financial bottom line. If you were mistreated by law, you should explain your case rather than talking about the general situation.
Well, let's start with that a randomly chosen person either is or has a child under 18 years of age and can not legally go missing. The rest of us have bills to pay and responsibilities such as filing tax returns, registering for selective service and appearing for jury duty. I would say that the efforts to free oneself from all legal responsibilities are extensive enough that it will be obvious to authorities that the person is missing voluntarily. If for example you showed up in Caymen islands US embassy to resign your citizenship, a missing person report is probably not warranted.
Well, if you are still paying your cell phone bill and filing tax returns, police can ascertain that you are not a victim or perpetrator of a client. You better obtain your new identity through a legal court-approved name/SSN change that will again satisfy law enforcement regarding your safety. Buying a fake birth certificate in chinatown doesn't count.
We don't have debtors prisons here. They are called fraudster prisons. You will not be put there if you intended to pay back at the time of making a loan and do not attempt to evade court orders such as wage garnishment. Vanishing casts serious doubt on both of these issues and gives police a probable cause to investigate a crime. Living under an assumed identity puts you in a proven violation of financial and other laws.
If you think any debt is not criminal, try repeatedly writing bad checks.
How do you decide i have been missing against my will? Well, I could note that you a) under 18 and can not legally consent to be missing, b) not paying child support for 3 kids you left behind, c) did not file your tax report (with legally changed name and SSN if required by your personal privacy concerns) or d) neglected your credit card bills.
Most warrants are issued when there is no proof of criminal activity, only a realistic possibility ("probable cause") that it may be occurring. Think of it, if a crime is already proven, why waste time and money searching for more evidence?
If a person is missing without living a reasonable explanation, it's more likely than not that a crime has been committed. Most people at least leave a note or make a phone call if they run away from their spouse. Running away as a minor, from your own children or from a debt is a crime by itself. Given the massive loss of public resources otherwise, the law should probably require a signed note, without indication of new address needed, if someone just wants to be left alone.
Until then, if an adult with no outstanding obligation is found by police but does not wish to go back to his/her family, their whereabouts should not be revealed to any private citizens and their cell phone records should not be examined without a probable cause for investigating other crimes.
I am not quite sure what Jesus Christ really did. I suspect he was badly misrepresented by the Church to serve needs of various ruling elites, including present US government, for thousands of years.
However, if you claim to follow Garry Kasparov, you better be a good chess player. If you claim to follow Jesus, you better show inborn and consistent aversion to violence, spend time talking to prostitutes and tax collectors and avoid judging others. Otherwise, be proud of your own life choices, but do not claim to be someone you are not.
I'm sure you never faltered in your moral direction when you were an adolescent, right? I resisted tremendous government, parent and peer pressure in childhood and adolescence, yes. Granted it was in Soviet Union rather than Nazi Germany. But still, thousands of German teenagers resisted Nazis and paid with their life or were tortured in concentration camp, many for religious reasons. I do not fault the pope as a person, however catholic church had uncountable candidates who showed more dedication to the cause.
But if you stop at mysticism - you're no better than those parents that let their kid die because they used prayer instead of medical attention. He is no better than parents who prayed with their children for good health in addition to give them best available medical attention.
That being said, the Nazi deal just doesn't stick. He was basically forced into the Hitler Youth, and he ran away when they tried to enlist him in the army. Yes, while thousands of young people of the time, including Jehovah's Witnesses, gave their life or were forced into concentration camps for refusing to have anything to do with fascism. And that he encourages people in places like China and Iran to practice forbidden religion. I guess the Pope did nothing wrong as an ordinary German citizen, but he just doesn't measure up as the leading follower of Jesus Christ in the world. As it shows in his actions.
Other countries to follow up with laws that prohibit their companies from following US laws. Like controlling lead content in toys or blocking Al Quida terrorist training material.
If you stop consuming more government services than average people do, the case can be made that you also should not pay more tax. As a wealthy person, you either own all or a share of a business or at least rely on your employer to be successful. Your business relies heavily on the public road system and low gas prices secured by international treaties. Your employees are educated free of cost in public schools. Your family and corporate property are prime targets for kidnapping, extortion and theft. Should FBI stop fighting the mafia to keep such occurrences at bay, when they are no threat to an average working person? As someone working on a technology field you are relying on intellectual property laws that are not in the interest of majority of US population. Your company, your 10 bedroom home and your Corvette generate many times more pollution than an average family, necessitating expansive abatement and conservation by everyone else.
If you well off in the society, it is in large part due to the tax, volunteer and civil service investments made by everyone else to make the society safe, educated, stable and conductive to business. It's reasonable for you to now return the favor to make sure others also get the same opportunities. If you don't agree, go ahead and renounce your US citizenship and live in a society that is more to your taste.
In fact, I challenge Darl to find one book talking about programming UNIX in general written in last 10 years for a dozen dedicated to Linux programming. There are just too many platform-specific libraries and tools (such as Qt, gcc, python) needed to create any useful application. Also, readers of UNIX programming books would do best to practice their skills on a Mac or a Sun workstation, as neither Linux nor SCO are certified against current UNIX standard and entitled to claim that they are selling UNIX.
I don't see one hard drive manufacturer who ignores the standard bodies here. Even if they did, I don't see how confirming to the standard warrants a lawsuit, even if it is to your advantage. Furthermore, the difference between 2^30 and 10^9 is too small to make a realistic difference to potential users, while confusion for users who didn't learn math in a C.Sci class is considerable when powers of 2 are used as a measurement unit.
So should they also take your filesystem overhead into account to somehow come out with 2^30 bytes of formatted capacity? If not, how do you know it is not 2^30 bytes internally, including 70MB for remapping bad sectors?
According to the most accepted definition K == 10^3, M = 10^6, G = 10^9, T = 10^12. Why should consumer product manufacturers use definitions only understood by technical professionals, that will confuse their average customer and are unflattering to the product?
The ones that really jerk my chain are the people who have zero competence and zero experience who are constantly getting stuck on mountains, lost in national parks, stranded in the ocean, etc, etc, etc. They need to be held accountable for their lack of planning. "We seem to have gotten a little lost on our Grand Canyon hike, but we can not afford the cost of a rescue helicopter. Let's just ignore our thirst and try to make it our ourselves. All it is is a little sunshine. What's the worst thing that could happen?"
It makes sense because that's about the time the kids are gone, and they can devote time to their passion again. So I have to wait until 55 to start a company. Shit! And I here thought I am a couple of months away from initial product release. Provided of course that my daughter doesn't burp on my MacBook Pro at an inopportune time.
Ah, but where maintainers of the fork contributing much to the original project? And by contributing, I mean not only adding a checkbox to preferences but participating in platform ports, code coverage, support forums and so on. If not, they don't have much to say to original developers. Supporting X different UI customization options was not feasible with N developers, but it may be feasible with M+N developers. Either that, or the forkers will soon get tired of doing so much work to maintain a few tweaks over the original release and fall so behind on fundamental features that nobody will use their stuff.
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Just because you release one product as open source doesn't mean that you have to release all you works or future versions under the same license. Just as long as you don't mislead anyone about old and new license terms and do not try to harass developers who have forked off your old version and are possibly duplicating your closed source extensions.
Well, if I was on a jury in a criminal or civil court, someone evading creditors would be enough evidence to me that he/she didn't make the loan in good faith to start with. As it is, you got away with taking other people's money and because of you other Capital One cardholders had to pay higher interest on their accounts instead of taking care of THEIR families. You were just not important enough for the bank to utilize all the legally available resources to track you done. You can be legally obliged to appear in court by making several attempts to serve you in person and then just posting a notice in local newspaper. Your friends and relatives can be compelled to testify about your whereabouts or go to prison for contempt of court. A private detective can follow you after you pick up mail from your post box.
You should have just faced the music and declared bankruptcy or worked out a payment plan. What you actually did could not have been any better for your credit rating or financial bottom line. If you were mistreated by law, you should explain your case rather than talking about the general situation.
Well, let's start with that a randomly chosen person either is or has a child under 18 years of age and can not legally go missing. The rest of us have bills to pay and responsibilities such as filing tax returns, registering for selective service and appearing for jury duty. I would say that the efforts to free oneself from all legal responsibilities are extensive enough that it will be obvious to authorities that the person is missing voluntarily. If for example you showed up in Caymen islands US embassy to resign your citizenship, a missing person report is probably not warranted.
Well, if you are still paying your cell phone bill and filing tax returns, police can ascertain that you are not a victim or perpetrator of a client. You better obtain your new identity through a legal court-approved name/SSN change that will again satisfy law enforcement regarding your safety. Buying a fake birth certificate in chinatown doesn't count.
If you think any debt is not criminal, try repeatedly writing bad checks.
Most warrants are issued when there is no proof of criminal activity, only a realistic possibility ("probable cause") that it may be occurring. Think of it, if a crime is already proven, why waste time and money searching for more evidence?
If a person is missing without living a reasonable explanation, it's more likely than not that a crime has been committed. Most people at least leave a note or make a phone call if they run away from their spouse. Running away as a minor, from your own children or from a debt is a crime by itself. Given the massive loss of public resources otherwise, the law should probably require a signed note, without indication of new address needed, if someone just wants to be left alone.
Until then, if an adult with no outstanding obligation is found by police but does not wish to go back to his/her family, their whereabouts should not be revealed to any private citizens and their cell phone records should not be examined without a probable cause for investigating other crimes.
I am not quite sure what Jesus Christ really did. I suspect he was badly misrepresented by the Church to serve needs of various ruling elites, including present US government, for thousands of years.
However, if you claim to follow Garry Kasparov, you better be a good chess player. If you claim to follow Jesus, you better show inborn and consistent aversion to violence, spend time talking to prostitutes and tax collectors and avoid judging others. Otherwise, be proud of your own life choices, but do not claim to be someone you are not.
Yeah, and it's 16Mpg in city driving. "Brilliant design" indeed. My car gets 3 times that.
Other countries to follow up with laws that prohibit their companies from following US laws. Like controlling lead content in toys or blocking Al Quida terrorist training material.
If you stop consuming more government services than average people do, the case can be made that you also should not pay more tax. As a wealthy person, you either own all or a share of a business or at least rely on your employer to be successful. Your business relies heavily on the public road system and low gas prices secured by international treaties. Your employees are educated free of cost in public schools. Your family and corporate property are prime targets for kidnapping, extortion and theft. Should FBI stop fighting the mafia to keep such occurrences at bay, when they are no threat to an average working person? As someone working on a technology field you are relying on intellectual property laws that are not in the interest of majority of US population. Your company, your 10 bedroom home and your Corvette generate many times more pollution than an average family, necessitating expansive abatement and conservation by everyone else.
If you well off in the society, it is in large part due to the tax, volunteer and civil service investments made by everyone else to make the society safe, educated, stable and conductive to business. It's reasonable for you to now return the favor to make sure others also get the same opportunities. If you don't agree, go ahead and renounce your US citizenship and live in a society that is more to your taste.
In fact, I challenge Darl to find one book talking about programming UNIX in general written in last 10 years for a dozen dedicated to Linux programming. There are just too many platform-specific libraries and tools (such as Qt, gcc, python) needed to create any useful application. Also, readers of UNIX programming books would do best to practice their skills on a Mac or a Sun workstation, as neither Linux nor SCO are certified against current UNIX standard and entitled to claim that they are selling UNIX.
I don't see one hard drive manufacturer who ignores the standard bodies here. Even if they did, I don't see how confirming to the standard warrants a lawsuit, even if it is to your advantage. Furthermore, the difference between 2^30 and 10^9 is too small to make a realistic difference to potential users, while confusion for users who didn't learn math in a C.Sci class is considerable when powers of 2 are used as a measurement unit.
So should they also take your filesystem overhead into account to somehow come out with 2^30 bytes of formatted capacity? If not, how do you know it is not 2^30 bytes internally, including 70MB for remapping bad sectors?
According to the most accepted definition K == 10^3, M = 10^6, G = 10^9, T = 10^12. Why should consumer product manufacturers use definitions only understood by technical professionals, that will confuse their average customer and are unflattering to the product?
No, but it's as simple as -
1. Idea
2. ???
3. Profit
Ask their kids to look into power line networking. Much better MMORG frame rates this way.
Ah, but where maintainers of the fork contributing much to the original project? And by contributing, I mean not only adding a checkbox to preferences but participating in platform ports, code coverage, support forums and so on. If not, they don't have much to say to original developers. Supporting X different UI customization options was not feasible with N developers, but it may be feasible with M+N developers. Either that, or the forkers will soon get tired of doing so much work to maintain a few tweaks over the original release and fall so behind on fundamental features that nobody will use their stuff.
You have a week to either
a) Build a beige-painted bicycle shed.
or
b) Build an unpainted bicycle shed and stitch two interchangeable covers that the users can apply to make the shed blue or pink.
Which shed will satisfy the most users visually? Which one is more likely to crash in an earthquake?