Except from Monsanto's perspective the neighboring farmer doesn't own the seed -- he just licenses it.
What are terms of the license? The farmer is just using (inadvertently) products of licensed technology. If I get a Nokia phone, I'm not getting a license on Nokia's technology.
Why is that modded "+5 Funny"? Every office printer these days has only one button. You press it briefly to do make a copy, you press it 5 seconds to clean the cache, you press it 10 seconds to print a test page.... There is also only one LED to helpfully indicate various error codes such as paper jam, out of toner, no paper in tray. Clearly it must be the most ergonomic interface ever, because every printer vendor does this. I don't see why this would not work for desktop UI?
I have no problem to admit that you are right about US prices. Googling a representative data is quite difficult because of big variation between locations and quality of the property. However the point is that when you say "the prices in East Europe are a fraction of US prices" then we are not talking about fractions like 1/100 nor 1/10. If I take the prices property from a sibling post at level 2000$/m2 (which is at about 1500EUR/m2) then we talk abut ratio of 4/5. That is technically a fraction but it shifts the meaning a little bit.
Yes, the property prices looked suspicious to me, that's why I included the links. Also I would be hard pressed to find a city of size of LA here. However the point is proven. East Europe
became comparably expensive to developed countries. With East Europe I mean Slovakia, Czech, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. Don't know about Ukraine, Belarus or Romania for example.
or Eastern Europe where the cost of living is a fraction of yours.
You know, things have changed in East Europe during last decades. Electricity 0.14 EUR/kWh here vs. 0.15$/kWh in USA. Gas 1.4 EUR/l vs 1$/l in USA (caused mostly by taxes but that doesn't matter). Chicken meat 2 EUR/kg vs 2$/kg in USA. House property 1300EUR/m2 in Slovakia vs 200$/m2 in USA.
Perhaps I've picked wrong sources or wrong goods. I challenge you to provide your numbers and I'll tell you the prices here (where the average income is less than 800EUR/month). I'm damn sure, that cost of living here is NOT a fraction of cost of living in US.
Actually that reminds me of a comment by a fellow/. reader:
I thought in a free country, "because I want to" was sufficient reason to be allowed to do anything, provided it doesn't infringe on the rights of o
thers. -- kreyg
Interesting. How do you prove then, that you are an US citizen trying to get back to US? In my country that's done by passport (or ID card which is not there in US).
One of my profs once laughed at me when I said his code had a goto and we shouldn't do it that way (because that's what we'd been taught in class).
There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying: "What is appropriate for the master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before transcending structure". -- Tao of programming 3.2
If have an enemy standing against you with a weapon in the hand, then yeah, go ahead. Fight him, hurt him and kill him if necessary. If you don't do that, then it will happen the other way around. Do you find that equivalent to the incident in TFA? Because only if they are equivalent, then we should judge them equally, and if they are not equivalent, then it is not hypocritical to judge them differently.
People die horribly all the time in these areas, and yet for some reason the thing that always outrages the moral cowards at home is when someone is humiliated.
In a war you have to shoot the enemy to prevent him shooting you. Or you have to shoot him to defend your positions. Or you have to kill to free hostages. All that brings death, wounds, amputated limbs and other horrible things. But I can understand it. I don't understand why would someone humiliate somebody? To wage a psychological war perhaps? Is that what's going on?
Most likely, they are not worth protection, because they are generally crap. Journalism is a dying art. All you get is poorly translated blurbs from AP/AFP/Reuters. With population of 5 millions is not worth attention of foreign reporters and the only case where I've seen local reporters to get to the bottom of the issue are some consumer-protection cases. Never in science, politics or corruption, etc. But who cares. Most people just want tabloid, so they get that.
I get better news coverage here, than from newspaper articles.
Say I want to log in to a particular site on a friend's computer.
Either my friend (and his system) is trustworthy and security-aware and they have KeePass already installed. More likely I'm not going to type in a sensitive password on that system.
Vote for a third party, if you must, but better yet, vote for the less bad candidate.
Last ~10 elections (basically since this place got a elections with multiple choices) I was forced to pick "less bad candidate". I'm tired of it. I don't get to vote for someone but rather have to vote for lesser evil. So I'm considering to propose a new voting system: we should indeed get to vote against someone. The candidate, that get's least votes, wins. Let's stop pretending that we give someone our vote, when we, in fact, don't want to do that.
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What are terms of the license? The farmer is just using (inadvertently) products of licensed technology. If I get a Nokia phone, I'm not getting a license on Nokia's technology.
You haven't been through a divorce, have you? ;-)
Why is that modded "+5 Funny"? Every office printer these days has only one button. You press it briefly to do make a copy, you press it 5 seconds to clean the cache, you press it 10 seconds to print a test page .... There is also only one LED to helpfully indicate various error codes such as paper jam, out of toner, no paper in tray. Clearly it must be the most ergonomic interface ever, because every printer vendor does this. I don't see why this would not work for desktop UI?
Good luck convincing someone that you did NOT look at the files.
So it depends on whether you have OEM or full license?
These definitions vary.
Do you also believe that a car that is a unification of bus, lorry, hatchback, motorcycle and tuk-tuk would be a best automobile ever?
I have no problem to admit that you are right about US prices. Googling a representative data is quite difficult because of big variation between locations and quality of the property. However the point is that when you say "the prices in East Europe are a fraction of US prices" then we are not talking about fractions like 1/100 nor 1/10. If I take the prices property from a sibling post at level 2000$/m2 (which is at about 1500EUR/m2) then we talk abut ratio of 4/5. That is technically a fraction but it shifts the meaning a little bit.
Yes, the property prices looked suspicious to me, that's why I included the links. Also I would be hard pressed to find a city of size of LA here. However the point is proven. East Europe became comparably expensive to developed countries. With East Europe I mean Slovakia, Czech, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. Don't know about Ukraine, Belarus or Romania for example.
You know, things have changed in East Europe during last decades. Electricity 0.14 EUR/kWh here vs. 0.15$/kWh in USA. Gas 1.4 EUR/l vs 1$/l in USA (caused mostly by taxes but that doesn't matter). Chicken meat 2 EUR/kg vs 2$/kg in USA. House property 1300EUR/m2 in Slovakia vs 200$/m2 in USA.
Perhaps I've picked wrong sources or wrong goods. I challenge you to provide your numbers and I'll tell you the prices here (where the average income is less than 800EUR/month). I'm damn sure, that cost of living here is NOT a fraction of cost of living in US.
On the other hand Mr. Bryan officially achieved the title "The Man That Could Destroy America (if they just let him in)".
Interesting. How do you prove then, that you are an US citizen trying to get back to US? In my country that's done by passport (or ID card which is not there in US).
At that amount, I guess, the manufacturer will be willing to produce ping pong ... cubes.
Spot on. The political system in US needs an overhaul.
You misspelled 'politicians'.
There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying: "What is appropriate for the master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before transcending structure". -- Tao of programming 3.2
If have an enemy standing against you with a weapon in the hand, then yeah, go ahead. Fight him, hurt him and kill him if necessary. If you don't do that, then it will happen the other way around. Do you find that equivalent to the incident in TFA? Because only if they are equivalent, then we should judge them equally, and if they are not equivalent, then it is not hypocritical to judge them differently.
In a war you have to shoot the enemy to prevent him shooting you. Or you have to shoot him to defend your positions. Or you have to kill to free hostages. All that brings death, wounds, amputated limbs and other horrible things. But I can understand it. I don't understand why would someone humiliate somebody? To wage a psychological war perhaps? Is that what's going on?
Yeah. There is also gold and stock.
Most likely, they are not worth protection, because they are generally crap. Journalism is a dying art. All you get is poorly translated blurbs from AP/AFP/Reuters. With population of 5 millions is not worth attention of foreign reporters and the only case where I've seen local reporters to get to the bottom of the issue are some consumer-protection cases. Never in science, politics or corruption, etc. But who cares. Most people just want tabloid, so they get that.
I get better news coverage here, than from newspaper articles.
I fully agree. It's a pity that the timezone is almost never mentioned in this kind of articles.
Either my friend (and his system) is trustworthy and security-aware and they have KeePass already installed. More likely I'm not going to type in a sensitive password on that system.
Every e-mail I send from my gmail account shows up in the recipient's inbox as From: ....@gmail.com. Am I doing free advertising for them or what?
Last ~10 elections (basically since this place got a elections with multiple choices) I was forced to pick "less bad candidate". I'm tired of it. I don't get to vote for someone but rather have to vote for lesser evil. So I'm considering to propose a new voting system: we should indeed get to vote against someone. The candidate, that get's least votes, wins. Let's stop pretending that we give someone our vote, when we, in fact, don't want to do that.