There are a couple things one must understand about Norwegian (Scandinavian, for that matter) justice system, is that there are limits (not hard, though) on the amount of damages that may be awarded by the court, and you may not sue without a good reason (and you better back it up with facts).
Now, since the court does not award insanely high awards, we have ambulance chasers and similar parasites at much, much lower level than in USA.
And yes, suing. I believe that the second most common threat an US citizen will give (after "I'll kill you!") is : "I'll sue you!". Beeing sued in USA is tantamount to personal financial ruin, so the mere threat of it might make one cave in. Just witness the US RIAA suing 13 old children, and harassing with impunity.
The US justice system is one very much fucked up system, so much that even lawyers that profit on it is concerned.
What is funny is that EVERY TIME an article about EU/MS pops up, someone says this. They then tend to get modded to +5 insightful whereupon the following thread turns into a US vs EU flamefest.
Indeed, some moderators think (?) that "Insightful" is the same as "Ignorant".
So, the OpenBSD guys are wasting their time rewriting software that already exists in a free form, and you're questioning the benefit of the GNU/KFreeBSD project?
The point is : They don't see GPL as free enough. And since OpenBSD, like other BSD, is not just a kernel, they have to care about licenses for all program shipped with their OS. Go check
OpenBSD Copyright Policy
Many things are not as they were originally some ancient time ago. The OpenBSD ksh does not by default use ESC twice for path completion, and only an ignorant will claim that OpenBSD are GNU-lovin' hippies.
You are aware that OpenBSD is working hard to get rid of all GPL code from userland since they don't concider GPL to be free enough? Similar sentiments you may find in the other *BSD.
I see little benefit of this project, except trying to shove GPL down the troat of those that think that BSD license is good enough.
Now if we just had an O(1) way to squash *BSD trolls, Slashdot would be saved.
There are fewer *BSD trolls than people inhabiting this planet. Thus there is indeed an O(1) way to squash them, albeith with a high coefficient baked into the O(1).
However, the weak point of the above argument is the implicit assumption that trolls are people. Well, in a way they are, but they are somehow more like rabbits. And as we all know, a rabbit population is modelled by a Fibonacci serie, that, alas, is not even linear.
Oh dear, he just disproved his theorem, you think. But no! It all depends how we count trolls. There is no reason to count a troll more than once; we don't say there are four 3's just because "3=2+1=1+2=1+1+1". It's quite simply meaningless. For this reason we have equivalence classes, as I'm sure you all remember from a discrete math course. To count number of trolls is thus reduced to create equivalence classes, and count the number of such classes.
Looking through some *BSD troll posts, we clearly see that they are highly repetitive and sadly lacking in imagination. This leads us to the conclusion that even though the posts may have been made by different biological entities, the entities are so alike that we may only discern few equivalence classes (caused by excessive inbreeding). Thus there is indeed an O(1) algorithm to kill of the *BSD trolls.
However, I do propose an O(0) algorithm : Just let them inbreed themselves to extinction.
Obviously you've never used a real Unix like BSD or Solaris, and are spoiled on BASH. That is how the shells are supposed to work, dope.
Pray tell me, why does the OpenBSD ksh have tab-completion while SFU does not?
Windows Services for UNIX also suffers from the same problem, it also tries to be POSIX complaint, but its POSIX defficiencies match neither Linux nor Cygwin.
Erhm, is SFU more or less POSIX compliant than Linux? You make it sound as a POSIX defficiency is a good thing;-)
...just got a whole lot less useful.;)
SFY 3.5 is a deficient product, and probably made so. It won't uninstall cleanly (leaving files only deletable by SYSTEM, making it a pain to remove them), and the shells (ksh and chs) misses tab-completion in emacs mode. I use Cygwin mostly for it's shell and utilities, and SFU is no replacement for this.
It's only in recent years started becoming common for standards documents to be available free. Still, even now most ANSI and ISO standards for instance still costs money.
Indeed, and this makes it harder to write man pages to be distributed with free OS. Note that only the Linux project have a license, not everyone elses. Like Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD says :
POSIX license
> Having POSIX in man page form might be a good thing.
Let us stay realistic. They did not make their documentation free.
They gave someone a free license. That is not the same.
Do your homework, and pay closer attention, and you will find that the reason is simple: Iraq brokered an 11th hour deal to once again allow unfettered UN inspections
Heard that on Fox "News"? May I suggest that you don't swallow all and any propaganda/lies you hear.
To the sorrow of many, US is not know for supporting democracy and human rights in the Middle East. So to give a quote from the historian Gabriel Kolko
in the aptly named
Hoping for Amnesia :
"The United Stares supplied Iraq with intelligence throughout the war [with Iran] and provided it with more than $US5 billion in food credits, technology, and industrial products, most coming after it began to use mustard, cyanide, and nerve gases against both Iranians and dissident Iraqi Kurds."
And for the prospect of a public and fair trial (yes, even horrendous criminals has that right in a state ruled by Law) :
It is hard to believe that either Washington or London would relish the prospect of an open trial. They would not want Saddam to adumbrate their support for him - credit-by-credit, pathogen-by-pathogen, weapon-by-weapon - during the 12 years before he became an official enemy by invading Kuwait in August 1990.
So you see, some of the very members of the current administration was supporting Saddam at the height of his crimes. Do you know understand why so many are quite cynical about Bush'es declaration of democracy and human rights for all?
"[M]y story is not an allegory of Atomic power, but of Power (exerted for domination)," wrote Tolkien in 1956. "Nuclear physics can be used for that purpose. But they need not be. They need not be used at all... If there is any contemporary reference in my story at all it is to what seems to me the most widespread assumption of our time: that if a thing can be done, it must be done. This seems to me wholly false.
The greatest examples of the action of the spirit and of reason are in abnegation."
The power to deny deadly power. The power of refusal.
what? we shouldent even try to do anything to protect ourselves?
Is this REALLY about protection of US citizens? Then why does the current administration act the way it does, if this is the goal? I sure don't feel more secure, rather the opposite.
We are without question in greater danger of terrorist attacks today than we were on September 11 two years ago. Afghanistan has descended into an anarchy comparable to that which prevailed before the rise of the ruthless but religiously motivated Taliban.
And the effects are not one might like :
The United States will feel the blowback from this ill-advised and poorly prepared military adventure for decades. The war in Iraq has already had the unintended consequences of seriously fracturing the Western democratic alliance; eliminating any potentiality for British leadership of the European Union; grievously weakening international law, including the Charter of the United Nations; and destroying the credibility of the president, vice president, secretary of state, and other officials as a result of their lying to the international community and the American people.
yes it's invasive, yes it tacks on an additional 15 seconds, no we don't care if you don't like it
Oh yeah, the administration sendt that message too:
Most important, the unsanctioned military assault on Iraq communicated to the world that the United States was unwilling to seek a modus vivendi with Islamic nations and was therefore an appropriate, even necessary, target for further terrorist attacks.
And remember, once the GPL, MPL, Artistic License, etc, have been cleared through legal, anything under those licenses is no longer barred from downloading.
Yep, viruses/worms think they are already cleared due to their premissive distribution license and saves you the bother of downloading/distributing it yourself.
Do they have anything on that frivolous lawsuit where someone spilled hot coffee on their own lap and sued McDonald's over it? If outrages like this can happen, no wonder the tech world is also full of utterly frivolous lawsuits.
I'm sure an AC like you can use the search facilities on the site and find out for yourself. In case you don't manage to find the prominent "Search" link to the upper left, I'll even hand it out for you :
Search
I read an article on Foxnews about this, the plan was development to deter the USSR from sending troops to help Muslim State with the war with Isreal.
US high alert for one week during Israel-Arab war, while the plan to invade and occupy some Arab countries was in case of a second Israel-Arab war and new oil restrictions. I suggest that you don't read quite as fast.
And it makes refrence that British Intel thought it would be likely that the US would invade, not that they were planning a direct attack. Its kind of a misleading headline.
Oh my, when an US Secretary of Defence tell a British diplomat that "it was no longer obvious to him that the United States could not use force.", it shows serious consideration at the highest US political levels of military agression.
One reason for not attacking, was the response from USSR. This was in the cold war, and USSR would be involved in one way or another, in particular since the region was important to USSR as well. A conflict involving USSR could easily escalate out of hand. So the Sectretary of Defence said that they might not be restrained by the possible reaction from USSR.
There is only one real fact in the piece: The British ambassador to Washington said that the American secretary of defense told him that "it was no longer obvious to him that the United States could not use force." Earthshaking, huh?
Remember that diplomats don't talk like raving Slashdot trolls. So, in the context context of the Cold War (perhaps you are old enough to remember it), the US was giving serious consideration to military agression that would seriously upset USSR. That is what the US Secretary of defence said, whom, I'm sure, had the Cuba crisis fresh in mind.
The operating system is the lowest level software api that abracts the software from the hardware.
Huh? On Debian You'll find a much better definition of an OS : "An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run."
Therefore the operating system is Linux. The Linux operating system includes absolutely no gnu software whatsoever. It doesn't even require an equivelent to the function of any gnu software.
Linux is quite simply just a kernel that requires other programs (like ls) to be useful, or even bootable. Since many of those basic programs comes from GNU, some prefer to say "GNU/Linux" and call that an OS.
If that's true, then it's illegal for a US citizen to contribute to the 2.6.0 kernel too, since that has crypto in it.
Indeed, export of cryptographic technology from USA is hampered with strong restrictions. So many Open Source projects are quite careful to avoid breaking laws by having (much) development done outside USA, and also letting release builds be done outside US as well.
For instance, OpenBSD has offered strong encryption for several years. The OpenBSD project is located in Canada, and a lot of development/release builds are done outside US.
As
Integrated Crypto
shows :
Hence the OpenBSD project has embedded cryptography into numerous places in the operating system. We require that the cryptographic software we use be freely available and with good licenses. We do not directly use cryptography with nasty patents. We also require that such software is from countries with useful export licenses because we do not wish to break the laws of any country. The cryptographic software components which we use currently were written in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Norway, and Sweden.
When we create OpenBSD releases or snapshots we build our release binaries in free countries to assure that the sources and binaries we provide to users are free of tainting. In the past our release binary builds have been done in Canada, Sweden, and Germany.
Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age.
Ice ages and hot periodes are cyclic, natural events. Question is just when.
So what you are asking are what effect human activities (air/sea pollution, cutting down rain forests) have on current climate, and on the climate in the next few decades. Most scientists, except Bush croonies paid by the oil industry, agrees that pollution has increased temperature.
Most likely, it'll be your grandchildren that will see the worst of the effect. Except, of course, countries that is very flat on just above sea level, like Bangladesh, are already hit. But then again, poor people in the third world does not matter, eh?
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Now, since the court does not award insanely high awards, we have ambulance chasers and similar parasites at much, much lower level than in USA.
And yes, suing. I believe that the second most common threat an US citizen will give (after "I'll kill you!") is : "I'll sue you!". Beeing sued in USA is tantamount to personal financial ruin, so the mere threat of it might make one cave in. Just witness the US RIAA suing 13 old children, and harassing with impunity.
The US justice system is one very much fucked up system, so much that even lawyers that profit on it is concerned.
If you did not post as AC, we might take you somewhat seriously.
Indeed, some moderators think (?) that "Insightful" is the same as "Ignorant".
The point is : They don't see GPL as free enough. And since OpenBSD, like other BSD, is not just a kernel, they have to care about licenses for all program shipped with their OS. Go check OpenBSD Copyright Policy
Is holding the office of President of United States a punhisment?
Many things are not as they were originally some ancient time ago. The OpenBSD ksh does not by default use ESC twice for path completion, and only an ignorant will claim that OpenBSD are GNU-lovin' hippies.
I see little benefit of this project, except trying to shove GPL down the troat of those that think that BSD license is good enough.
There are fewer *BSD trolls than people inhabiting this planet. Thus there is indeed an O(1) way to squash them, albeith with a high coefficient baked into the O(1).
However, the weak point of the above argument is the implicit assumption that trolls are people. Well, in a way they are, but they are somehow more like rabbits. And as we all know, a rabbit population is modelled by a Fibonacci serie, that, alas, is not even linear.
Oh dear, he just disproved his theorem, you think. But no! It all depends how we count trolls. There is no reason to count a troll more than once; we don't say there are four 3's just because "3=2+1=1+2=1+1+1". It's quite simply meaningless. For this reason we have equivalence classes, as I'm sure you all remember from a discrete math course. To count number of trolls is thus reduced to create equivalence classes, and count the number of such classes.
Looking through some *BSD troll posts, we clearly see that they are highly repetitive and sadly lacking in imagination. This leads us to the conclusion that even though the posts may have been made by different biological entities, the entities are so alike that we may only discern few equivalence classes (caused by excessive inbreeding). Thus there is indeed an O(1) algorithm to kill of the *BSD trolls.
However, I do propose an O(0) algorithm : Just let them inbreed themselves to extinction.
Obviously you've never used a real Unix like BSD or Solaris, and are spoiled on BASH. That is how the shells are supposed to work, dope. Pray tell me, why does the OpenBSD ksh have tab-completion while SFU does not?
Erhm, is SFU more or less POSIX compliant than Linux? You make it sound as a POSIX defficiency is a good thing ;-)
Indeed, and this makes it harder to write man pages to be distributed with free OS. Note that only the Linux project have a license, not everyone elses. Like Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD says : POSIX license
Heard that on Fox "News"? May I suggest that you don't swallow all and any propaganda/lies you hear.
Indeed. Outside of Kabhul and a few other areas, Afghanistan is ruled by brutal war lords. And they are feuding among themselves.
And for the prospect of a public and fair trial (yes, even horrendous criminals has that right in a state ruled by Law) :
So you see, some of the very members of the current administration was supporting Saddam at the height of his crimes. Do you know understand why so many are quite cynical about Bush'es declaration of democracy and human rights for all?
In Tasks For Our Times: remember, refuse, resist there is a quote from Tolkien of the spirit of refusal :
Is this REALLY about protection of US citizens? Then why does the current administration act the way it does, if this is the goal? I sure don't feel more secure, rather the opposite.
From Sorrows of Empire: An Interview we see that the administration is undermining security :
And the effects are not one might like :
yes it's invasive, yes it tacks on an additional 15 seconds, no we don't care if you don't like it
Oh yeah, the administration sendt that message too:
Yep, viruses/worms think they are already cleared due to their premissive distribution license and saves you the bother of downloading/distributing it yourself.
I'm sure an AC like you can use the search facilities on the site and find out for yourself. In case you don't manage to find the prominent "Search" link to the upper left, I'll even hand it out for you : Search
US high alert for one week during Israel-Arab war, while the plan to invade and occupy some Arab countries was in case of a second Israel-Arab war and new oil restrictions. I suggest that you don't read quite as fast.
Oh my, when an US Secretary of Defence tell a British diplomat that "it was no longer obvious to him that the United States could not use force.", it shows serious consideration at the highest US political levels of military agression.
One reason for not attacking, was the response from USSR. This was in the cold war, and USSR would be involved in one way or another, in particular since the region was important to USSR as well. A conflict involving USSR could easily escalate out of hand. So the Sectretary of Defence said that they might not be restrained by the possible reaction from USSR.
Remember that diplomats don't talk like raving Slashdot trolls. So, in the context context of the Cold War (perhaps you are old enough to remember it), the US was giving serious consideration to military agression that would seriously upset USSR. That is what the US Secretary of defence said, whom, I'm sure, had the Cuba crisis fresh in mind.
Huh? On Debian You'll find a much better definition of an OS : "An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run."
Therefore the operating system is Linux. The Linux operating system includes absolutely no gnu software whatsoever. It doesn't even require an equivelent to the function of any gnu software.
Linux is quite simply just a kernel that requires other programs (like ls) to be useful, or even bootable. Since many of those basic programs comes from GNU, some prefer to say "GNU/Linux" and call that an OS.
Indeed, export of cryptographic technology from USA is hampered with strong restrictions. So many Open Source projects are quite careful to avoid breaking laws by having (much) development done outside USA, and also letting release builds be done outside US as well.
For instance, OpenBSD has offered strong encryption for several years. The OpenBSD project is located in Canada, and a lot of development/release builds are done outside US. As Integrated Crypto shows :
So what you are asking are what effect human activities (air/sea pollution, cutting down rain forests) have on current climate, and on the climate in the next few decades. Most scientists, except Bush croonies paid by the oil industry, agrees that pollution has increased temperature.
Most likely, it'll be your grandchildren that will see the worst of the effect. Except, of course, countries that is very flat on just above sea level, like Bangladesh, are already hit. But then again, poor people in the third world does not matter, eh?