Arizona actually has a fair amount of solar energy development going on. They were taking advantage of those subsidies that this crew is trying to prevent. I know because the company I work for sold a lot of solar inverters there.
I have the opposite problem. I find typos and grammatical errors so distracting at times that I can't concentrate on the actual content of whatever I'm reading.
Since MSFT takes no responsibility above the actual price of the software when their own products screw up, this is all irrelevant. Why should they be indemnified when the customer is not?
Your point about it not depending on scarcity is important. The complaints about "freeloaders" remind me of the RIAA complaints about file sharers, counting every download as a lost sale, instead of recognizing that file-sharing is a great way to drive up interest in an artist and finding a way to use that to get people to buy something.
When the marginal cost of distribution is so low, why does anyone care if there are freeloaders? These people will probably at the very least help others to become more familiar with FOSS software and thereby drive up adoption by other people who may find ways of contributing.
How can you have read that article and come away with the idea that he was arguing against "dot-Communism"? I got the clerar impression that he thought the rise of community was a good thing.
No, the point I made is that the UAW has nothing to do with what the shareholders get. Shareholders generally are not senior debt anyway, they made a bet and lost. Did you actually read the link? If you are not talking about shareholders, which is what the pension funds are, what are you talking about? The money the UAW gets POST-BANKRUPTCY would not be there at all if not for government intervention, so the senior debt holders wouldn't have gotten it anyway.
Andrew Leonard has an interview with a corporate finance law professor who points out that the money going to the union would not be there at all in a normal bankruptcy proceeding. The government is providing that money to the newly reorganized Chrysler to pay off the union members for making contract concessions, but if that money were not there the company would still have had to declare bankruptcy and reorganize and the pension shareholders would still have to take some loss, regardless of whatever happens with the union.
I was stuck in the public schools for twelve years of my life, and it came close to killing me. It was only when I got out of school and could spend my time with more mature people who had no reason to bully me that I was able to develop any social skills at all, because my "peers" were no help there. If all you have in common with people is age, that doesn't make them peers.
Well, when I meta-moderate I usually call troll mods unfair, unless in my opinion the person was actually trolling, but I can't in good conscience meta-moderate it as unfair when someone mods comments as informative or insightful that I believe are stupid or just plain wrong. I usually just don't pick either fair or unfair for those, though I wish I could go back and argue with them.
The letter clearly refers to "official communications", not opinion, and merely talks about providing hosting for video outside the House.gov site for linking to videos from the Congressperson's website. The reference to "franking" should be your clue that the rules referred to have to do with the attempt to separate political campaign materials from materials meant to keep constituents informed. Granted the distinction can be pretty murky. The point is that incumbents have huge advantages over challengers, but they are not allowed to mix campaigning for office with reporting on their official actions at the taxpayers' expense.
I'd agree with this, but what's with his inclusion of Dungeon Keeper? That's a strategy game, all about resource management and attack and defense of territory.
If they don't want to release their additions to code that was written by others and licensed under the GPL, then they shouldn't have used GPL code, or they shouldn't be distributing it. It's really that simple. If they want to keep it closed they should write their own.
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Arizona actually has a fair amount of solar energy development going on. They were taking advantage of those subsidies that this crew is trying to prevent. I know because the company I work for sold a lot of solar inverters there.
I have the opposite problem. I find typos and grammatical errors so distracting at times that I can't concentrate on the actual content of whatever I'm reading.
Whoever modded you offtopic has no sense of humor.
I think this went under your head.
So I'm actually getting limited un-broadband. That explains a lot.
There's more of us than you think.
Stealing back their own natural resources, when the Anglo-Iranian company refused to split the profits with them. What did they expect would happen?
Since MSFT takes no responsibility above the actual price of the software when their own products screw up, this is all irrelevant. Why should they be indemnified when the customer is not?
Your point about it not depending on scarcity is important. The complaints about "freeloaders" remind me of the RIAA complaints about file sharers, counting every download as a lost sale, instead of recognizing that file-sharing is a great way to drive up interest in an artist and finding a way to use that to get people to buy something.
When the marginal cost of distribution is so low, why does anyone care if there are freeloaders? These people will probably at the very least help others to become more familiar with FOSS software and thereby drive up adoption by other people who may find ways of contributing.
How can you have read that article and come away with the idea that he was arguing against "dot-Communism"? I got the clerar impression that he thought the rise of community was a good thing.
No, the point I made is that the UAW has nothing to do with what the shareholders get. Shareholders generally are not senior debt anyway, they made a bet and lost. Did you actually read the link? If you are not talking about shareholders, which is what the pension funds are, what are you talking about? The money the UAW gets POST-BANKRUPTCY would not be there at all if not for government intervention, so the senior debt holders wouldn't have gotten it anyway.
Andrew Leonard has an interview with a corporate finance law professor who points out that the money going to the union would not be there at all in a normal bankruptcy proceeding. The government is providing that money to the newly reorganized Chrysler to pay off the union members for making contract concessions, but if that money were not there the company would still have had to declare bankruptcy and reorganize and the pension shareholders would still have to take some loss, regardless of whatever happens with the union.
I have been one of those at times in the past. Books are good places to hide.
and spelled "schwein".
So is intelligibly, which is what should have been used there.
The name itself is Latin, so I guess it must have come from Latin criticism of Greek plays.
I was stuck in the public schools for twelve years of my life, and it came close to killing me. It was only when I got out of school and could spend my time with more mature people who had no reason to bully me that I was able to develop any social skills at all, because my "peers" were no help there. If all you have in common with people is age, that doesn't make them peers.
You really need to tune up your sarcasm detector.
I don't know about him, but I use Neo-office because I don't want to have to use X11. The Aqua version is still in Beta.
Well, when I meta-moderate I usually call troll mods unfair, unless in my opinion the person was actually trolling, but I can't in good conscience meta-moderate it as unfair when someone mods comments as informative or insightful that I believe are stupid or just plain wrong. I usually just don't pick either fair or unfair for those, though I wish I could go back and argue with them.
I just watched "Network" the other day, and it's almost not funny anymore because of how close to current reality what used to be satire is.
Probably not, but neither does this recommended action. Did you even READ the letter?
The letter clearly refers to "official communications", not opinion, and merely talks about providing hosting for video outside the House.gov site for linking to videos from the Congressperson's website. The reference to "franking" should be your clue that the rules referred to have to do with the attempt to separate political campaign materials from materials meant to keep constituents informed. Granted the distinction can be pretty murky. The point is that incumbents have huge advantages over challengers, but they are not allowed to mix campaigning for office with reporting on their official actions at the taxpayers' expense.
I'd agree with this, but what's with his inclusion of Dungeon Keeper? That's a strategy game, all about resource management and attack and defense of territory.
If they don't want to release their additions to code that was written by others and licensed under the GPL, then they shouldn't have used GPL code, or they shouldn't be distributing it. It's really that simple. If they want to keep it closed they should write their own.