Voters won't raise existing taxes so the way to get them to do that is to propose something they are going to like even less.
Then here's how to make it simple (plus it saves all the hassle with technical consulting fees and such). The lawmakers create a ballot that looks like so:
Please select A) or B):
A) Everybody gets a wet pinky in the ear. or,
B) Increase the gas tax to 7%.
Isn't it possible that AOL knows the genie's out of the bottle (and doesn't really *care*), but wants some good plausible deniability in case of a lawsuit?
So they can say: "Hey, don't look at us! We *told* them don't grab that source code and run with it..."
I seem to recall from somewhere that you can't do it. You can prove life exists elsewhere in the universe, if you can find and verify it.
However, you cannot prove that life does not exist elsewhere, since to do so would mean a very thorough examination of every planet, asteroid, and other assorted bits scattered throughout the cosmos.
I can imagine trying to get the grant money for that.
Remember the time before planets around other suns was merely a theoretical possibility? Now we take this for granted. Religion did not crumble as a result. The same will be true for when (not if) we discover life elsewhere.
If I'm not mistaken, based upon what I remember from high school and college, the energy in oil ultimately comes from the sun.
Oil is just ancient sunlight that causes smog.
And from watching "Cosmos", nuclear materials, as well as all elements above hydrogen in the chart, owe their existence to supernovas. Thus, in Carl Sagan's words, we are "star stuff."
Point is, all planetary sources of energy can be traced back to solar energy (oil, natural gas, etc.) and nuclear (geothermal, uh, nuclear, uh, etc.)
For organizations like the RIAA, the MPAA, or monopolies like Microsoft, profit takes a big back seat to power. The free market is of no interest whatsoever to these folks; in fact, the less free, the better.
They'd stab democracy in the back if it served their needs. And I'm not sure they haven't already...
First time I ever made it (and it is an "acquired" taste), I borrowed a bottle capper from a dude who had already done it.
After I finished the first batch, I gave a few bottles to this guy in appreciation. As it turned out, he should have refused, thanks, but no.
What had happened, was, I put too much sugar in each of the bottles (this is what gives the beer a head).
So, this guy is lying on his couch, watching tv, chilling. The bottles, full of overcharged beer, are sitting on his kitchen counter, next to his coffee maker.
They exploded. They threw broken glass all over the kitchen, and chipped his coffee maker. Luckily, the couch shielded him from the shrapnel.
Moral of the story: never accept homemade beer from a first-timer.
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So you think your job sucks. Then you read something like this.
Only a few months?!?! Hell, I wouldn't last til lunch. So this is what migrant workers are for...
Suicide is legal, pumping gas is illegal
Anybody who votes this in deserves what they get.
Then here's how to make it simple (plus it saves all the hassle with technical consulting fees and such).
The lawmakers create a ballot that looks like so:
Please select A) or B):
A) Everybody gets a wet pinky in the ear. or,
B) Increase the gas tax to 7%.
...but I have not been keeping up the payments on my Senator, and he got reposessed.
So they can say: "Hey, don't look at us! We *told* them don't grab that source code and run with it..."
It think this is like SCO. Just wait til sundown.
The Godfather-- On Ice!
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid-- On Ice!
Tango & Cash-- On Ice!
Willow-- On Ice!
The Iceman...
ahh, I got nothing.
However, you cannot prove that life does not exist elsewhere, since to do so would mean a very thorough examination of every planet, asteroid, and other assorted bits scattered throughout the cosmos.
I can imagine trying to get the grant money for that.
Remember the time before planets around other suns was merely a theoretical possibility? Now we take this for granted. Religion did not crumble as a result. The same will be true for when (not if) we discover life elsewhere.
Religion will just expand to the new reality.
Oil is just ancient sunlight that causes smog.
And from watching "Cosmos", nuclear materials, as well as all elements above hydrogen in the chart, owe their existence to supernovas. Thus, in Carl Sagan's words, we are "star stuff."
Point is, all planetary sources of energy can be traced back to solar energy (oil, natural gas, etc.) and nuclear (geothermal, uh, nuclear, uh, etc.)
If it's all the same to you, I'll just keep having that cup of coffee, and avoid that cup of plutonium.
And this would be different, how? ;)
Seriously, all props to your mom, but I just could not resist...
Penicillin will clear that right up.
Just avoid plowing into a sacred cow. That'll put you into deep doo-doo...
hehe. only for bosses with prickly personalities...
Who knows what the Martians might get up to if they took this the wrong way...
Remember those other Martian probes that just disappeared? Uh-huh, that was them...
They'd stab democracy in the back if it served their needs. And I'm not sure they haven't already...
Wish upon them bitter days and bitter defeat.
I wonder how many jobs are being outsourced over yonder.
After I finished the first batch, I gave a few bottles to this guy in appreciation. As it turned out, he should have refused, thanks, but no.
What had happened, was, I put too much sugar in each of the bottles (this is what gives the beer a head).
So, this guy is lying on his couch, watching tv, chilling. The bottles, full of overcharged beer, are sitting on his kitchen counter, next to his coffee maker.
They exploded. They threw broken glass all over the kitchen, and chipped his coffee maker. Luckily, the couch shielded him from the shrapnel.
Moral of the story: never accept homemade beer from a first-timer.
They take one of the coolest pics ever, and they do it with a grayscale camera...
*rolls eyes*
And if you were real lucky, you had a good selection in your local calling area.
Ah, those were the days...
Actually, I had it on my to-do list for today, but then decided... nahhhh.
...or does this seem like the plot to the next big John Grisham novel? (and/or Robin Cook genetic thriller?)
Yeah, some people might think that, but it really seems more like something the Skarrans would use.
Great. Now I have to line my whole suit with tinfoil, not just my hat.