So after reading the Snopes piece, I'm confused how they came up with a False for this piece. They go to great lengths to say that it's true, but it's not a big deal. I don't care if it's a big deal or not, if it's true mark true. Don't mark it false because of your political beliefs.
Or am I reading it wrong? Here's a blurb:
The three votes cited -- regarding S. 3189 (1990), H.R. 5803 (1990), and H.R. 2126 (1995) -- were bills covering fiscal year Department of Defense appropriations, all of which Senator Kerry voted against. (Two of those three votes were not technically on defense appropriations per se, but on House-Senate conference committee reports for defense appropriations bills.)
So I don't know if these bills covered those techs or not.
Then the Snopes article goes on to attack Republicans :
The inclusion of some of the items listed here is all the more ridiculous given that they were weapons systems that a previous Republican administration advocated eliminating.
Methinks someone at Snopes is perhaps a bit biased.
Not to be too nitpicky, but Congress does not oversee criminal cases. Here's a bit of 6th grade social studies. Hope I get it right.
Congress - passes laws
Executive - enforces laws
Judicial - well, not entirely sure what to put here. They are supposed to look at the facts and decide if someone broke the law (in criminal cases, when the executive branch brings the charges, and civil cases when the citizen brings the charges.) On occassion, they seem to interpret the laws, but I'm not sure that they are supposed to. Obviously I'm not a lawyer and I haven't been through 6th grade social studies for a loooooong time. heh
And in this case we are talking about, isn't the lawyer accusing them of libel? By doing so, isn't he saying they are breaking the law? And isn't the first amendment sort of a law? So how can it not apply? Isn't there a legal definition of libel that the courts can rule on? Do laws not apply in civil cases? Can a civilian sue me for owning a gun and the second amendment not apply?
I think your argument is flawed. But I'm not sure I'm savvy enough about how the gubment works to pick it apart fully. It was just so flawed on the surface that I figured I'd chime in with my 2 cents.
Uh, are you sure that Dell can do this? I mean, do you know the contract between Dell and MS? I had friends who worked at Dell who came in one day to find out they were not allowed to have Netscape on their computers anymore. And this was back in the IE 3 days when IE was a POS. This was because of the relationship between Dell and MS. I doubt Dell can put their browser of choice on the system.
If memory serves me correct, it used to be that OEMs would add Netscape to the desktop and remove the IE icon.
Microsoft would then force these companies through strongarm tactics to leave the IE icon there and not put Netscape on the systems even though Netscape was superior at the time. I think this got brought up at the anti-trust hearings. Or maybe I'm mistaken.
What advertising? I don't think I get any when I use the native client. I don't let their crappy insider thing load, and I normally just minimize the client to the task tray when using Windows (I normally only use the native client in Windows,and then it's for voice or video stuff.)
Seems like a bad thing for Yahoo.
BTW - has anyone here ever gotten SPIM? I think the only time I ever got SPIM was in the days of ICQ.
What on earth makes you think this would be any different if a democrat gets elected next year? Most of the new laws that were passed to extend protections for IP and copyrights were passed under a democrat. The democrats are just as bad, if not worse, than the republicans.
Who cares how much money the tea company makes? So tea is cheaper? Making money != popularity in all cases. Tea is incredibly cheap, and, I bet if we don't include all the other drinks that Coke and Pepsi own, tea is likely much more popular than Coke or Pepsi, even in the US.
It sounded more like the lawsuit is about derivative code, not exact duplicates of SCO code. When Darl says that they have found hundreds of thousands of lines of "their" code, I think he means derivative code that SCO considers to be theirs.
You might find some of the code with this method, but not if they are talking primarily (or even solely) about derivative code.
You'd be better of with a source copy of AIX and look for similarities there.
These new VAIOs really weren't too expensive when I was in Tokyo this summer. They cost about 1100 US, and were full featured PCs. I almost bought one, but didn't have the resources.
I found a few used in Shinjuku for as low as 800. If only I had more money....
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Or am I reading it wrong? Here's a blurb
So I don't know if these bills covered those techs or not.
Then the Snopes article goes on to attack Republicans :
Methinks someone at Snopes is perhaps a bit biased.
Not to be too nitpicky, but Congress does not oversee criminal cases. Here's a bit of 6th grade social studies. Hope I get it right.
Congress - passes laws
Executive - enforces laws
Judicial - well, not entirely sure what to put here. They are supposed to look at the facts and decide if someone broke the law (in criminal cases, when the executive branch brings the charges, and civil cases when the citizen brings the charges.) On occassion, they seem to interpret the laws, but I'm not sure that they are supposed to. Obviously I'm not a lawyer and I haven't been through 6th grade social studies for a loooooong time. heh
And in this case we are talking about, isn't the lawyer accusing them of libel? By doing so, isn't he saying they are breaking the law? And isn't the first amendment sort of a law? So how can it not apply? Isn't there a legal definition of libel that the courts can rule on? Do laws not apply in civil cases? Can a civilian sue me for owning a gun and the second amendment not apply?
I think your argument is flawed. But I'm not sure I'm savvy enough about how the gubment works to pick it apart fully. It was just so flawed on the surface that I figured I'd chime in with my 2 cents.
Uh, are you sure that Dell can do this? I mean, do you know the contract between Dell and MS? I had friends who worked at Dell who came in one day to find out they were not allowed to have Netscape on their computers anymore. And this was back in the IE 3 days when IE was a POS. This was because of the relationship between Dell and MS. I doubt Dell can put their browser of choice on the system.
If memory serves me correct, it used to be that OEMs would add Netscape to the desktop and remove the IE icon.
Microsoft would then force these companies through strongarm tactics to leave the IE icon there and not put Netscape on the systems even though Netscape was superior at the time. I think this got brought up at the anti-trust hearings. Or maybe I'm mistaken.
What advertising? I don't think I get any when I use the native client. I don't let their crappy insider thing load, and I normally just minimize the client to the task tray when using Windows (I normally only use the native client in Windows ,and then it's for voice or video stuff.)
Seems like a bad thing for Yahoo.
BTW - has anyone here ever gotten SPIM? I think the only time I ever got SPIM was in the days of ICQ.
What on earth makes you think this would be any different if a democrat gets elected next year? Most of the new laws that were passed to extend protections for IP and copyrights were passed under a democrat. The democrats are just as bad, if not worse, than the republicans.
Who cares how much money the tea company makes? So tea is cheaper? Making money != popularity in all cases. Tea is incredibly cheap, and, I bet if we don't include all the other drinks that Coke and Pepsi own, tea is likely much more popular than Coke or Pepsi, even in the US.
It sounded more like the lawsuit is about derivative code, not exact duplicates of SCO code. When Darl says that they have found hundreds of thousands of lines of "their" code, I think he means derivative code that SCO considers to be theirs.
You might find some of the code with this method, but not if they are talking primarily (or even solely) about derivative code.
You'd be better of with a source copy of AIX and look for similarities there.
These new VAIOs really weren't too expensive when I was in Tokyo this summer. They cost about 1100 US, and were full featured PCs. I almost bought one, but didn't have the resources. I found a few used in Shinjuku for as low as 800. If only I had more money....