I would expect some people would be deeply offended by that clip, any display of humanity, no matter how tangential, will make a "normal" viewer feel sympathy/empathy for a character they see as pure evil. People don't want to see OBL enjoying a game of volleyball, they want to rip his mask off and expose the reptile hidden beneath the skin.
I think one of the most underrated discoveries about ourselves of all time would have to be the Stanford prison experiment. It goes a long way to explaining how it is possible for an otherwise "normal" person to treat Jewish children as a vermin problem and their own children like....well...their own children. Such extreme moral contradictions do take their toll on a person's psyche, the soldiers flying attack drones from downtown office buildings are said to suffer from an unusually high rate of mental breakdowns even though their society sees them as "normal people".
Drones or not, there is no evil in the modern world that goes quite as far as Mr H did, and despite the hyperbole plastered all over the internet there is certainly nothing like it on today's political horizon. Having said that Rwanda managed a smaller feat of evil with much more efficiency, they slaughtered one million people in one week with little more than religious AM shock jocks for inspiration and hand tools for implementation.
If for one second you (the reader) have thought to yourself "my people" wouldn't do that, then you really do need to stop thinking about other people's behavior for a while, instead, take some time to study yourself and your species in light of the discovery mentioned above. - Needless to say YMMV.
What "biosphere adaptation" do you think is going to happen that humanity hasn't already readily adapted to at numerous times in the past?
The whole of humanity has not faced global problems together, past civilizations faced regional catastrophes including human induced environmental problems. However to answer your question with a few examples - the total collapse of Northern hemisphere fish stocks, not enough fish in any ocean, an open arctic ocean, Venice like streets ans Amsterdam style dykes on a global scale.
So, the only period that "provably" allows civilizations to flourish is the same as the only one that is "provably static for a long period of time within our current temperature envelope". - Thanks for the laugh captain obvious.;)
The Victorian electricity market is broken into wholesale and retail electricity companies, 2 out of 3 salesmen who knock on my door want me to swap retail providers. Competition is so fierce (and generally fucking annoying) that the state government muttered something about outlawing door to door electricity salesmen earlier this year. Adding the smart meters allows home owners to sell power they generate to "the network".
You don't have a choice, they just turn up and install it. It's modern infrastructure not a moral dilemma, the obvious way for government/society to control the electricity industry is to control the distribution network, every house in Victoria will get a government funded smart meter that can operate in reverse so now the electricity lobbyists can't bitch about the cost of implementing net metering when the electricity companies are told THEY have no choice about buying back electricity generated by their customers solar panels and what-not. Installing these meters is opening up the electricity industry to the common man far beyond the current role of minority shareholder. If you believe in a free market economy this is exactly the kind of "free market"** the government should be building.
Aside from the direct employment the project creates, when combined with recent government rebates on solar panels and solar hot water there has also been a boom in new business selling, installing and maintaining these small systems. Ironically the political scare tactics on the carbon tax have also helped fuel those new solar business' over the last year or so. Seems a more productive use of an ex-meter reader's time than trampling other people's gardens all day to collect pennies for Mr Burns. The only "losers" here are the monolithic electricity companies, sure they get a short term profit boost from liquidating thier army of meter readers but they are also being forced (and paid) to install the infrastructure that will turn their captive customers into a million small competitors. Worse still, for the electricity companies, is that householders will receive 60c KW/hr for excess electricity they generate (roughly 3X the current retail price), this gives householders the incentive to buy an extra panel or two upfront.
**"free market" - "Free" as in anyone can participate. "Market" as in a set of laws governing the generation and trade of electricity. Electricity companies have been fighting net metering laws for decades, they ran out of technological excuses before the fight even started in earnest, now they have no political excuses except for the cost of stiff competition.
Yes, also 12K yrs ago (this is from my faulty memory), the Nile ran west across the Sahara and nomadic humans inhabited the area in large numbers, a geological shift in the mountains where the Nile originates made it turn North along it's present course, creating a desert and dispersing the nomads but at the same time forming the fertile Nile valley. Another similar large scale river movement in Pakistan also dispersed the vast civilization that had arisen around it.
Here in Australia many of the dairy farmers along the Murray-Darling basin deliberately flood their land using a system of dams and channels, they control the mini-flood and their pasture is both watered and fertilized. Of course the Basin is stretched to it's agricultural limits and they can't do this in drought years. When overdone it does cause horrendous problems downstream, when no water is left at the mouth (as is often the case for most of the worlds developed rivers) saltwater creeps inland and kills everything.
Look up "Hadley cells" and the effect AGW has on them, there is very little doubt the Sahara and the rest of the sub-tropical deserts will continue to expand. This is despite the fact that on a global scale rainfall will increase, in fact it probably already has since global average humidity has already risen 4% in the last 4 decades. We are going to have a rough time watching the deserts bite into the grain belts as they expand poleward. Possibly we can redistribute the water but there will also be floods since there is now more rain to fall but (globally) a smaller overall area where conditions are right for it to fall. According to NOAA something like 30,000 norther hemisphere species have been observed adapting to AGW by shifting their normal range pole ward in the last few decades.
From personal experience I have seen the bird species here in Oz move southward since I was a kid in the 60's. I'm sure the biosphere will adapt, and in the long run out live us. It's interesting to look at it like feedback, in that even though it is we humans that are driving the rate of those adaptations I'm not sure that humans can keep pace with the biosphere's adaptations. We are the (macro) species most capable of doing so and "all we have to do" is stop, or at least significantly slow, our efforts to set fire to every last ounce of the already sequestrated carbon. In other words, over the next century the adaptation humans will be forced to make as a species will be to aquire the gene that stops them from in their own nest.
That's an astute observation. Personally I think the ideal is to have the cowboys knock up the prototypes and the engineers turn it into something that people can actually use, or at least something that the infrastructure group won't try and nuke from orbit. But ultimately it's a fight against human nature, people simply don't like waiting when they are the one with their wallet out.
My experience as a developer tells me that computers don't lie, people do. So it's kind of obvious that "evil programmers" write the tools that enable these "evil marketers".
My missus happens to have a Phd in marketing and has taught it at university for almost 20yrs now, there is nothing "evil" about it. What slashdoter's almost universally refer to as "marketing" is actually advertising, marketing is a methodology for running a business, advertising is a way to attract attention and the best advert of all is a genuine low price, high quality product. A marketer who can only write ads is like a programmer who can only write batch files.
Dogs sleeping with cats - We tease each other, I tell her about all the dumb shit marketing does at work, and she tells me all the dumb shit IT do at her workplace. It's funniest when it backfires: our marketers came up with a logo that consisted of three cogs arranged in a triangle with each cog touching the other two, in picture form any engineering type just laughs because they instantly realize the cogs are grid locked. She passed the "marketer test" on that one, after a minute or more of deep inspection, not a clue what was wrong.
I'm not saying that IP is a godsend but I do think "crime against humanity" is overstating the problem relative to the other shit that goes on around the world. On the flip side of the IP/medicine thing, Africa is overrun with fake medicine usually manufactured in India, a lot of people die because the fake stuff has no active ingredient. In some places hospitals even have problems getting saline solutions made to appropriate standards, again because of fakes.
Besides, you didn't say "donate to someone fighting the unintended consequences of patents in a capitalist system", you suggested donating to TPB. How does donating to TPB do anything to fight pharmaceutical companies gouging prices via medical patents? - The battle that TPB are waging is against copyright and has nothing to do with patents, medical or otherwise.
Also, while saving a life is good in the short term, the war on culture causes damage that will last for thousands of years.
Right, so ignoring the fact that it's a false dichotomy, you're saying you would personally choose physical death over cultural death?
He did an entire show claiming to be supporting a democrat candidate.
He's a clown alright and perhaps I have misjudged him from the few clips I have seen here in Oz. Maybe he's like Clarkson from Top Gear and I'm simply not "getting it" because...well...I'm not an American. However from what I have see he does portray himself, and is followed by some, as a court jester. Unfortunately the term "court jester" is not well understood in the US, so to clarify I would nominate John Stewart as the current US court jester, And no, it's not the obvious red vs blue difference that sets them apart.
"In ancient times courts employed fools and by the Middle Ages the jester was a familiar figure. In Renaissance times, aristocratic households in Britain employed licensed fools or jesters, who sometimes dressed as other servants were dressed, but generally wore a motley (i.e. parti-coloured) coat, hood with ass's (i.e. donkey) ears* or a red-flannel coxcomb and bells. Regarded as pets or mascots, they served not simply to amuse but to criticise their master or mistress and their guests. Queen Elizabeth (reigned 1558-1603) is said to have rebuked one of her fools for being insufficiently severe with her. Excessive behaviour, however, could lead to a fool being whipped, as Lear threatens to whip his fool."
* My emphasis; In other words, I don't think Rush is clever enough to be the modern day equivalent of "ass hat" material.;)
Again, maybe I have misjudged him, as an English born Aussie who emigrated in the early 60's, there are a lot of things I don't understand about US style right-wing political humour, Rush maybe just one more of those things?
Copyright may be a "crime against humanity" in your world, but I think the technological gift of a functioning water pump/bore for a dry village would have far more impact on people lives. It's not that these people don't have, or are not allowed to use, modern drilling techniques for fear of trespassing on someone's intellectual property, it's that they don't have the cash to make use of it. In a similar vein I have a good idea of how to build a Saturn V rocket, however it's almost a certainty I will never have the means to do so.
As for TFA, I won't offer a suggestion since the thread is full of charities far more worthy than the pirate bay. Instead I will offer a rough algorithm by which to compare the many excellent suggestions you will receive.
Rate 1 - 5 the following.
1. The "fit" of the charity's work to your charitable aims. Obviously the hard part is defining your aims and separating charitable talk from charitable work.
2. The transparency of the charity's accounts.
3. The charity's track record, which of their past projects worked, which one's failed and why.
Speaking of charity, I recently watched John Stewart interviewing Bill Clinton on his charitable organization, which among other things is supporting clever technology such as bamboo bicycles. I'm not suggesting you do or don't donate to Clinton's organization, but I did find it interesting from the POV of how large charities operate and the problems they face. Regardless of your politics, listening to people who have "been there and done that" is always a wise move.
The label "home user" does not by itself tell you if compatibility is a concern. The compatibility requirement depends on what "home users" actually use an office suite at home to do. I would hazard a guess that the main uses for a "home user" are aimed at communicating with a business, government, NGO's, etc. If that's not what a particular home user is doing then a lack of MSO compatibility is not preventing them from using whatever tools they like to accomplish the task.
I know it's hard for us geeks to understand but most people use their computers as a tool to perform tasks, they will use the best tool from their own POV as to what is "best". In other words they really don't give a flying fuck who makes the hammer as long as it drives the nails home, if they have to rent the "best" hammer for a $100, so be it.
Depends on what you are doing at home, if you want it seen by a publisher, corporation, government, or a HR department then it pretty much has to be MSO (or PDF). If it's something for yourself or your suicide cult then it doesn't matter what you use so long as the people you want to see it can see it.
I'm a developer and work from home regularly, I have LO on my computer but very rarely use it because the other 175,000 people who work for the same corporation have MSO on their PC and most are not even allowed to install software on their work PC. Even if workers did have control over their SEO PC's (as is common for software developers) you still have the inertia inherent in asking the recipient to download a software suite just to read it, if you are a "home user" who wants HR to look at your CV then you need to make it easy for them, that almost always means MSO or PDF format.
It is somewhat similar to the layout of keys on a standard keyboard, it's just a case of first in best dressed. MSO were the first in (on a large scale), they are no better or worse than LO but they have the advantage of being the devil you (and everyone else) knows. For this reason open source office style software will find it difficult to make any noticeable inroads into the business world until it can read and write MSO formats flawlessly. It needs to be able to replace every MSO function before CIO's can even think about killing MSO. MS is unlikely to just roll over and allow that to happen. Here in Australia MS regularly offer MSO versions for as little as $40 to corporate workers and students, it's a smart move for an incumbent to not only hook the corporation but also the workers within the corporation and the students who will join it in the near future.
Having said that, when I work at home I tunnel through to my own work PC where MSO is installed by default.
Here's a comprehension clue for you, the GP is not talking about the act itself, he is talking about the morality of someone else covering them up to "protect" the institution. In TFA it was members of WP themselves who blew the whistle and took action, whereas the church has done everything it can to ignore the whistle, blame the victims, and shield the priests from the law. That an encyclopedia has more moral fiber than the Catholic Church should be a concern to everyone.
No you're an astroturfer because you said something that the responder could not digest, it's inconceivable that someone could be so stupid as to have a different opinion, therefore somebody must be paying you.
They'd never allow little guys like you and I to patent such a thing.
Of course they will, there is nothing personal in this, matter of fact there is a garden variety solicitor here in Melbourne who (as a joke) applied for and obtained a patent on the wheel in the late 90's. The patent office will stamp virtually anything you put in front of it, there is no incentive for them to take any care in the process because they don't have to clean up their own mess, just stamp it, collect the filing fees, and dump the real work into the lap of the judicial branch. Now when it does get to court people will spend both a fortune and an eternity to debate said patent. It would cost a fraction of that to do the job properly in the first place, perhaps if judges had the power to throw this stuff back at the patent office and order them to do a proper job it would be less disruptive to everyone else.
People who yell the loudest often have the most to hide. He's simply a drug addict who hates himself, his ego won't allow that so he projects his behavior onto others.
Good god man, what you describe is refered to as a "gold digger". Seriously, you don't have to buy women, but if you really think it is necassary then a hooker is far, far, cheaper than a gold digger.
Let me guess, all the shop stewards must also be employees? You don't have the choice to elect a processional shop steward employed by the union because he's not an employee of the company, right?
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I would expect some people would be deeply offended by that clip, any display of humanity, no matter how tangential, will make a "normal" viewer feel sympathy/empathy for a character they see as pure evil. People don't want to see OBL enjoying a game of volleyball, they want to rip his mask off and expose the reptile hidden beneath the skin.
I think one of the most underrated discoveries about ourselves of all time would have to be the Stanford prison experiment. It goes a long way to explaining how it is possible for an otherwise "normal" person to treat Jewish children as a vermin problem and their own children like....well...their own children. Such extreme moral contradictions do take their toll on a person's psyche, the soldiers flying attack drones from downtown office buildings are said to suffer from an unusually high rate of mental breakdowns even though their society sees them as "normal people".
Drones or not, there is no evil in the modern world that goes quite as far as Mr H did, and despite the hyperbole plastered all over the internet there is certainly nothing like it on today's political horizon. Having said that Rwanda managed a smaller feat of evil with much more efficiency, they slaughtered one million people in one week with little more than religious AM shock jocks for inspiration and hand tools for implementation.
If for one second you (the reader) have thought to yourself "my people" wouldn't do that, then you really do need to stop thinking about other people's behavior for a while, instead, take some time to study yourself and your species in light of the discovery mentioned above. - Needless to say YMMV.
What "biosphere adaptation" do you think is going to happen that humanity hasn't already readily adapted to at numerous times in the past?
The whole of humanity has not faced global problems together, past civilizations faced regional catastrophes including human induced environmental problems. However to answer your question with a few examples - the total collapse of Northern hemisphere fish stocks, not enough fish in any ocean, an open arctic ocean, Venice like streets ans Amsterdam style dykes on a global scale.
So, the only period that "provably" allows civilizations to flourish is the same as the only one that is "provably static for a long period of time within our current temperature envelope". - Thanks for the laugh captain obvious. ;)
The Victorian electricity market is broken into wholesale and retail electricity companies, 2 out of 3 salesmen who knock on my door want me to swap retail providers. Competition is so fierce (and generally fucking annoying) that the state government muttered something about outlawing door to door electricity salesmen earlier this year. Adding the smart meters allows home owners to sell power they generate to "the network".
You don't have a choice, they just turn up and install it. It's modern infrastructure not a moral dilemma, the obvious way for government/society to control the electricity industry is to control the distribution network, every house in Victoria will get a government funded smart meter that can operate in reverse so now the electricity lobbyists can't bitch about the cost of implementing net metering when the electricity companies are told THEY have no choice about buying back electricity generated by their customers solar panels and what-not. Installing these meters is opening up the electricity industry to the common man far beyond the current role of minority shareholder. If you believe in a free market economy this is exactly the kind of "free market"** the government should be building.
Aside from the direct employment the project creates, when combined with recent government rebates on solar panels and solar hot water there has also been a boom in new business selling, installing and maintaining these small systems. Ironically the political scare tactics on the carbon tax have also helped fuel those new solar business' over the last year or so. Seems a more productive use of an ex-meter reader's time than trampling other people's gardens all day to collect pennies for Mr Burns. The only "losers" here are the monolithic electricity companies, sure they get a short term profit boost from liquidating thier army of meter readers but they are also being forced (and paid) to install the infrastructure that will turn their captive customers into a million small competitors. Worse still, for the electricity companies, is that householders will receive 60c KW/hr for excess electricity they generate (roughly 3X the current retail price), this gives householders the incentive to buy an extra panel or two upfront.
**"free market" - "Free" as in anyone can participate. "Market" as in a set of laws governing the generation and trade of electricity. Electricity companies have been fighting net metering laws for decades, they ran out of technological excuses before the fight even started in earnest, now they have no political excuses except for the cost of stiff competition.
Yes, also 12K yrs ago (this is from my faulty memory), the Nile ran west across the Sahara and nomadic humans inhabited the area in large numbers, a geological shift in the mountains where the Nile originates made it turn North along it's present course, creating a desert and dispersing the nomads but at the same time forming the fertile Nile valley. Another similar large scale river movement in Pakistan also dispersed the vast civilization that had arisen around it.
Here in Australia many of the dairy farmers along the Murray-Darling basin deliberately flood their land using a system of dams and channels, they control the mini-flood and their pasture is both watered and fertilized. Of course the Basin is stretched to it's agricultural limits and they can't do this in drought years. When overdone it does cause horrendous problems downstream, when no water is left at the mouth (as is often the case for most of the worlds developed rivers) saltwater creeps inland and kills everything.
Look up "Hadley cells" and the effect AGW has on them, there is very little doubt the Sahara and the rest of the sub-tropical deserts will continue to expand. This is despite the fact that on a global scale rainfall will increase, in fact it probably already has since global average humidity has already risen 4% in the last 4 decades. We are going to have a rough time watching the deserts bite into the grain belts as they expand poleward. Possibly we can redistribute the water but there will also be floods since there is now more rain to fall but (globally) a smaller overall area where conditions are right for it to fall. According to NOAA something like 30,000 norther hemisphere species have been observed adapting to AGW by shifting their normal range pole ward in the last few decades.
From personal experience I have seen the bird species here in Oz move southward since I was a kid in the 60's. I'm sure the biosphere will adapt, and in the long run out live us. It's interesting to look at it like feedback, in that even though it is we humans that are driving the rate of those adaptations I'm not sure that humans can keep pace with the biosphere's adaptations. We are the (macro) species most capable of doing so and "all we have to do" is stop, or at least significantly slow, our efforts to set fire to every last ounce of the already sequestrated carbon. In other words, over the next century the adaptation humans will be forced to make as a species will be to aquire the gene that stops them from in their own nest.
That's an astute observation. Personally I think the ideal is to have the cowboys knock up the prototypes and the engineers turn it into something that people can actually use, or at least something that the infrastructure group won't try and nuke from orbit. But ultimately it's a fight against human nature, people simply don't like waiting when they are the one with their wallet out.
Me: sigh, I'll see what I can do...
Not only you, that one line succinctly summaries every member of a large organization, from presidents and CEO's all the way down to the mail boy.
My experience as a developer tells me that computers don't lie, people do. So it's kind of obvious that "evil programmers" write the tools that enable these "evil marketers".
My missus happens to have a Phd in marketing and has taught it at university for almost 20yrs now, there is nothing "evil" about it. What slashdoter's almost universally refer to as "marketing" is actually advertising, marketing is a methodology for running a business, advertising is a way to attract attention and the best advert of all is a genuine low price, high quality product. A marketer who can only write ads is like a programmer who can only write batch files.
Dogs sleeping with cats - We tease each other, I tell her about all the dumb shit marketing does at work, and she tells me all the dumb shit IT do at her workplace. It's funniest when it backfires: our marketers came up with a logo that consisted of three cogs arranged in a triangle with each cog touching the other two, in picture form any engineering type just laughs because they instantly realize the cogs are grid locked. She passed the "marketer test" on that one, after a minute or more of deep inspection, not a clue what was wrong.
Besides, you didn't say "donate to someone fighting the unintended consequences of patents in a capitalist system", you suggested donating to TPB. How does donating to TPB do anything to fight pharmaceutical companies gouging prices via medical patents? - The battle that TPB are waging is against copyright and has nothing to do with patents, medical or otherwise.
Also, while saving a life is good in the short term, the war on culture causes damage that will last for thousands of years.
Right, so ignoring the fact that it's a false dichotomy, you're saying you would personally choose physical death over cultural death?
He did an entire show claiming to be supporting a democrat candidate.
He's a clown alright and perhaps I have misjudged him from the few clips I have seen here in Oz. Maybe he's like Clarkson from Top Gear and I'm simply not "getting it" because...well...I'm not an American. However from what I have see he does portray himself, and is followed by some, as a court jester. Unfortunately the term "court jester" is not well understood in the US, so to clarify I would nominate John Stewart as the current US court jester, And no, it's not the obvious red vs blue difference that sets them apart.
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Shamelessly cut and paste from the obig WP link:
"In ancient times courts employed fools and by the Middle Ages the jester was a familiar figure. In Renaissance times, aristocratic households in Britain employed licensed fools or jesters, who sometimes dressed as other servants were dressed, but generally wore a motley (i.e. parti-coloured) coat, hood with ass's (i.e. donkey) ears* or a red-flannel coxcomb and bells. Regarded as pets or mascots, they served not simply to amuse but to criticise their master or mistress and their guests. Queen Elizabeth (reigned 1558-1603) is said to have rebuked one of her fools for being insufficiently severe with her. Excessive behaviour, however, could lead to a fool being whipped, as Lear threatens to whip his fool."
* My emphasis; In other words, I don't think Rush is clever enough to be the modern day equivalent of "ass hat" material.
Again, maybe I have misjudged him, as an English born Aussie who emigrated in the early 60's, there are a lot of things I don't understand about US style right-wing political humour, Rush maybe just one more of those things?
Caught by whom? Themselves?
Thanks, couldn't have put it more eloquently myself. ;)
Copyright may be a "crime against humanity" in your world, but I think the technological gift of a functioning water pump/bore for a dry village would have far more impact on people lives. It's not that these people don't have, or are not allowed to use, modern drilling techniques for fear of trespassing on someone's intellectual property, it's that they don't have the cash to make use of it. In a similar vein I have a good idea of how to build a Saturn V rocket, however it's almost a certainty I will never have the means to do so.
As for TFA, I won't offer a suggestion since the thread is full of charities far more worthy than the pirate bay. Instead I will offer a rough algorithm by which to compare the many excellent suggestions you will receive.
Rate 1 - 5 the following.
1. The "fit" of the charity's work to your charitable aims. Obviously the hard part is defining your aims and separating charitable talk from charitable work.
2. The transparency of the charity's accounts.
3. The charity's track record, which of their past projects worked, which one's failed and why.
Speaking of charity, I recently watched John Stewart interviewing Bill Clinton on his charitable organization, which among other things is supporting clever technology such as bamboo bicycles. I'm not suggesting you do or don't donate to Clinton's organization, but I did find it interesting from the POV of how large charities operate and the problems they face. Regardless of your politics, listening to people who have "been there and done that" is always a wise move.
The label "home user" does not by itself tell you if compatibility is a concern. The compatibility requirement depends on what "home users" actually use an office suite at home to do. I would hazard a guess that the main uses for a "home user" are aimed at communicating with a business, government, NGO's, etc. If that's not what a particular home user is doing then a lack of MSO compatibility is not preventing them from using whatever tools they like to accomplish the task.
I know it's hard for us geeks to understand but most people use their computers as a tool to perform tasks, they will use the best tool from their own POV as to what is "best". In other words they really don't give a flying fuck who makes the hammer as long as it drives the nails home, if they have to rent the "best" hammer for a $100, so be it.
Depends on what you are doing at home, if you want it seen by a publisher, corporation, government, or a HR department then it pretty much has to be MSO (or PDF). If it's something for yourself or your suicide cult then it doesn't matter what you use so long as the people you want to see it can see it.
I'm a developer and work from home regularly, I have LO on my computer but very rarely use it because the other 175,000 people who work for the same corporation have MSO on their PC and most are not even allowed to install software on their work PC. Even if workers did have control over their SEO PC's (as is common for software developers) you still have the inertia inherent in asking the recipient to download a software suite just to read it, if you are a "home user" who wants HR to look at your CV then you need to make it easy for them, that almost always means MSO or PDF format.
It is somewhat similar to the layout of keys on a standard keyboard, it's just a case of first in best dressed. MSO were the first in (on a large scale), they are no better or worse than LO but they have the advantage of being the devil you (and everyone else) knows. For this reason open source office style software will find it difficult to make any noticeable inroads into the business world until it can read and write MSO formats flawlessly. It needs to be able to replace every MSO function before CIO's can even think about killing MSO. MS is unlikely to just roll over and allow that to happen. Here in Australia MS regularly offer MSO versions for as little as $40 to corporate workers and students, it's a smart move for an incumbent to not only hook the corporation but also the workers within the corporation and the students who will join it in the near future.
Having said that, when I work at home I tunnel through to my own work PC where MSO is installed by default.
seriously? That's what you got from the post?
Here's a comprehension clue for you, the GP is not talking about the act itself, he is talking about the morality of someone else covering them up to "protect" the institution. In TFA it was members of WP themselves who blew the whistle and took action, whereas the church has done everything it can to ignore the whistle, blame the victims, and shield the priests from the law. That an encyclopedia has more moral fiber than the Catholic Church should be a concern to everyone.
Not a dog owner, huh? As for TFA, Wikipedians are keeping their own house in order, this is a good thing.
No you're an astroturfer because you said something that the responder could not digest, it's inconceivable that someone could be so stupid as to have a different opinion, therefore somebody must be paying you.
They'd never allow little guys like you and I to patent such a thing.
Of course they will, there is nothing personal in this, matter of fact there is a garden variety solicitor here in Melbourne who (as a joke) applied for and obtained a patent on the wheel in the late 90's. The patent office will stamp virtually anything you put in front of it, there is no incentive for them to take any care in the process because they don't have to clean up their own mess, just stamp it, collect the filing fees, and dump the real work into the lap of the judicial branch. Now when it does get to court people will spend both a fortune and an eternity to debate said patent. It would cost a fraction of that to do the job properly in the first place, perhaps if judges had the power to throw this stuff back at the patent office and order them to do a proper job it would be less disruptive to everyone else.
People who yell the loudest often have the most to hide. He's simply a drug addict who hates himself, his ego won't allow that so he projects his behavior onto others.
I'm curious as to why you think that article points to a "cover up"?
Good god man, what you describe is refered to as a "gold digger". Seriously, you don't have to buy women, but if you really think it is necassary then a hooker is far, far, cheaper than a gold digger.
Let me guess, all the shop stewards must also be employees? You don't have the choice to elect a processional shop steward employed by the union because he's not an employee of the company, right?