>"Governments should concentrate on driving science and technology, and that can be done more cheaply and much more effectively by having unmanned space programs."
Oh, puleez... who drove the tech you're using right now? Whose R&D led us to the level of technology we're at? Who bought ALL of the ICs that were being made for a while?
And if you want to drag "race cars" into it, what do you think Ferrari spends on their F1 program yearly?
Oh, and I (currently) live on this planet and know others who also do... lots of them that have a "compelling interest" in space travel.
That is a biblical quote... and the "eye of the needle" was a term referring to some kind of small or narrow opening into a town or some such... I can't remember exactly.
So, here's hoping it's really harder than that for SCO!
The FSF point is that by distributing the kernel, SCO has NOT protected its trade secrets that it claims are at the heart of the violation by IBM. Therefore the trade secrets... aren't.
> While it does include Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) It also includes such
You know Hollings is often an embarrassment to those of us who vote for him, but in my home town paper today, the front page headline is about him railing against this ruling. If it's okay to complain like hell when he's wrong on things, it should be okay to point out that he's right from time to time... for whatever reason.
Of course if you'd rather, we could (probably will) send another neo-facist Republican to the senate next election cycle.
Big Deal! Back in my day we did the same thing running over uucp on Amigas. I wrote an ugly little hack called rmx that would create a "remote execute" file on the other end that uuxqt would process. Security? Hah!;-)
Well unless you have NASA Television or go out of your way to find out stuff about NASA, you're excused for not knowing. NASA, unfortunately, seems to only get press when it's bad press.
As for myself, I spend waaaaay too much time watching NASA TV;-)
> Out of these two political systems, my choice is the latter. > Communism has never worked, and will never work. Perhaps a > mix a la Sweden is nirvana? Just prepare yourself in paying > the taxes to keep it running.
I believe you're confusing ECONOMIC systems with POLITICAL systems. But, you've hit the jackpot on what is the root of many of our (USA) problems... the economic system is RUNNING the political system, hence we live in a corporatist society.
Totalitarianism is the enemy... doesn't matter what economic system is pushing it.
> Also trademarks, at least originally, were tied to both product area > (hence you have both Apple Computers and Apple Records) and geography.
True, but I believe you'll find that Apple Computers made a licensing arrangement of some sort with Apple records. I think it was recently mentioned when some of Apple's multimedia tools/features were thought to maybe violate the "non music" clause in the original agreement... then again, I could be wrong.
> Note that the user agent strings in most browsers say "Mozilla." For > example, IE 6 on.NET Server says, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; > Windows NT 5.2;.NET CLR 1.0.3705)."
Also, does this not go all the way back to the first incarnations of NetScape? Maybe even further? Why do they wait til now to bitch?
> Bill Thompson is such an asshole that if you ordered a train load of > assholes and only he showed up, you wouldn't complain.
Nice paraphrase of the Robert Mitchum quote: "I'll tell you what kind of guy I was. If you ordered a boxcar full of sons-of-bitches and opened the door and only found me inside, you could consider the order filled."
Really? As much as I'd like to believe that, I seem to recall some federal money being handed out to the airline industry less than a year ago... a LOT of money.
> I thought all we had to do was sing "God Bless America" at the top of > every hour and stick some "Power of Pride" stickers on our cars and > everything would turn out all right, just like they in the movies.
Speaking of which, anyone know where I can get some "Power of Envy" bumper stickers? Or any other of the 7 deadly sins?
Damn, I said I wasn't going to get drawn into this... sigh, but it's difficult for me to tolerate these "moral indignation" and "self-righteousness" attitudes.
What was the North's source of "cheap labor" at the time? Immigrants that worked in slave-like settings? Children? I don't condone slavery in any of its forms. Those were vastly different times... I don't know that any of us (historians included) can understand exactly all of the dynamics that led to that war or how things would have worked out had it not occurred.
I'd also argue that the worst racially motivated riots in the last 40+ years occurred not in the south, rather in California (take your pick) and Boston.
But the very worst of it all, IMHO, is that "we" have really won. Our national government is dominated by "states rights" Republicans that favor today's version of plantation owners, NASCAR (gag) has taken over the country, and "country" music (not to be confused with REAL rural music) is every-frickin'-where.
So yeah, the North won the battle (War Between the States), but I'm afraid the worst part of our southern culture has been victorious in the end.
"Hey Poindexter, bring me the flame retardant suit!"
Thank you for saving me from having to write a response to that moron. I love using Mozilla and knowing that my work will look fine in any browser when it looks right in Mozilla.
I'm sick of these small-minded "IE is the standard" self-appointed web-development gurus.
I have to agree with you. I dont buy this "Honda was working toward different goals" argument. I see things like this to be "funding hunts"... not that I'm not pro-NASA and pro-research, but ASIMO is way ahead of this thing.
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>"Governments should concentrate on driving science and technology, and that can be done more cheaply and much more effectively by having unmanned space programs."
Oh, puleez... who drove the tech you're using right now? Whose R&D led us to the level of technology we're at? Who bought ALL of the ICs that were being made for a while?
And if you want to drag "race cars" into it, what do you think Ferrari spends on their F1 program yearly?
Oh, and I (currently) live on this planet and know others who also do... lots of them that have a "compelling interest" in space travel.
How can the parent of this post not be modded "Funny"?
That is a biblical quote... and the "eye of the needle" was a term referring to some kind of small or narrow opening into a town or some such... I can't remember exactly.
So, here's hoping it's really harder than that for SCO!
The FSF point is that by distributing the kernel, SCO has NOT protected its trade secrets that it claims are at the heart of the violation by IBM. ... aren't.
Therefore the trade secrets
> While it does include Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) It also includes such
You know Hollings is often an embarrassment to those of us who vote for him, but in my home town paper today, the front page headline is about him railing against this ruling. If it's okay to complain like hell when he's wrong on things, it should be okay to point out that he's right from time to time... for whatever reason.
Of course if you'd rather, we could (probably will) send another neo-facist Republican to the senate next election cycle.
Big Deal! Back in my day we did the same thing running over uucp on Amigas. I wrote an ugly little hack called rmx that would create a "remote execute" file on the other end that uuxqt would process. Security? Hah! ;-)
Well unless you have NASA Television or go out of your way to find out stuff about NASA, you're excused for not knowing. NASA, unfortunately, seems to only get press when it's bad press.
;-)
As for myself, I spend waaaaay too much time watching NASA TV
And where is Dan Goldin now? Ever heard of Sean O'Keefe?
Heck who needs a new Vic-20? I still got the one I bought 20 years ago... ;-) No really, I do.
> Out of these two political systems, my choice is the latter.
> Communism has never worked, and will never work. Perhaps a
> mix a la Sweden is nirvana? Just prepare yourself in paying
> the taxes to keep it running.
I believe you're confusing ECONOMIC systems with POLITICAL systems. But, you've hit the jackpot on what is the root of many of our (USA) problems... the economic system is RUNNING the political system, hence we live in a corporatist society.
Totalitarianism is the enemy... doesn't matter what economic system is pushing it.
I'd say your question could be moot... after all the hipaadvisory site is "already compromised".
> Also trademarks, at least originally, were tied to both product area
> (hence you have both Apple Computers and Apple Records) and geography.
True, but I believe you'll find that Apple Computers made a licensing arrangement of some sort with Apple records. I think it was recently mentioned when some of Apple's multimedia tools/features were thought to maybe violate the "non music" clause in the original agreement... then again, I could be wrong.
Holy cow! 680 sites?! I wonder if there are any 'zilla combinations left out there?
> Note that the user agent strings in most browsers say "Mozilla." For .NET Server says, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)."
> example, IE 6 on
> Windows NT 5.2;
Also, does this not go all the way back to the first incarnations of NetScape? Maybe even further? Why do they wait til now to bitch?
> Bill Thompson is such an asshole that if you ordered a train load of
> assholes and only he showed up, you wouldn't complain.
Nice paraphrase of the Robert Mitchum quote:
"I'll tell you what kind of guy I was. If you ordered a boxcar full of sons-of-bitches and opened the door and only found me inside, you could consider the order filled."
I have a copy pinned to my wall.
> The days of government bailouts are over.
Really? As much as I'd like to believe that, I seem to recall some federal money being handed out to the airline industry less than a year ago... a LOT of money.
> I thought all we had to do was sing "God Bless America" at the top of
> every hour and stick some "Power of Pride" stickers on our cars and
> everything would turn out all right, just like they in the movies.
Speaking of which, anyone know where I can get some "Power of Envy" bumper stickers? Or any other of the 7 deadly sins?
> make them radically rethink their opinions on and compliance with
> Microsoft?
I'd conjecture that most of them haven't thought about it once and will therefore hardly "rethink" it.
'cause it's helpin' Dubya fight "terroism".
PS: I know how to spell it... I spelled it the way I hear TOO many people pronounce it... they make it rhyme with heroism.
PPS: On topic since these bots run Linux.
> They only would have suceeded in seceding from the Union.
Er, I do believe that was their intent.
Damn, I said I wasn't going to get drawn into this... sigh, but it's difficult for me to tolerate these "moral indignation" and "self-righteousness" attitudes.
What was the North's source of "cheap labor" at the time? Immigrants that worked in slave-like settings? Children? I don't condone slavery in any of its forms. Those were vastly different times... I don't know that any of us (historians included) can understand exactly all of the dynamics that led to that war or how things would have worked out had it not occurred.
I'd also argue that the worst racially motivated riots in the last 40+ years occurred not in the south, rather in California (take your pick) and Boston.
But the very worst of it all, IMHO, is that "we" have really won. Our national government is dominated by "states rights" Republicans that favor today's version of plantation owners, NASCAR (gag) has taken over the country, and "country" music (not to be confused with REAL rural music) is every-frickin'-where.
So yeah, the North won the battle (War Between the States), but I'm afraid the worst part of our southern culture has been victorious in the end.
"Hey Poindexter, bring me the flame retardant suit!"
> And of course, since file-sharing doesn't mean piracy, .
> CowboyNeal owns the CDs, doesn't he..
Well, actually no... according to the RIAA, he only bought licenses to play the music on the CD's that he owns, right?
Thank you for saving me from having to write a response to that moron. I love using Mozilla and knowing that my work will look fine in any browser when it looks right in Mozilla.
I'm sick of these small-minded "IE is the standard" self-appointed web-development gurus.
I believe he was referring to installing NEW hardware and not doing a scratch install on a box.
KDE, Gnome, etc. could use a better "control panel" type tool to configure/troubleshoot new hardware additions.
I don't have experience with SuSE, but the last several RedHat distros I've used have installed much easier from scratch than windows does.
I have to agree with you. I dont buy this "Honda was working toward different goals" argument. I see things like this to be "funding hunts"... not that I'm not pro-NASA and pro-research, but ASIMO is way ahead of this thing.