Have the US take action? Well, in case you haven't noticed, the political fulcrum for the Clinton administration is just barely to the right of the Russian president, if at all. Eschelon has been doing for years what the Russians want to do. If you want to do something about freedom of the Internet then start here at home. What Uncle Boris and Uncle Sam are doing to destroy the freedom of the internet the big corporations are, with their phony patents to thwart development of free software and their buyout of weak or corrupt politicians in order to destroy consumer rights and redress.
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Your right, Phil! Current technologies are too primative and too expensive. NASA's brute force paradigm was inherited from Von Braun, who extended Goddard's work. Chemically powered impulse engines, or the nuclear powered variety, will not liberate man from the planet Earth in any practical way.
From what I've been reading, seeing and hearing about NASA funded space projects, it seems to me that NASA is being driven by an overwhelming desire to 'prove' that life has evolved on other planets. Why? If your political philosophy says the religion has been a curse to man for thousands of years, and since mainly Fundamentalist Christians believe that God created life only on this planet, finding life on other planets would 'prove' that God doesn't exist, or at least that the Fundamentalist belief is wrong. It doesn't matter that finding life on Mars doesn't prove it evolved there.
It appears that NASA has reached the conclusion that since lunar landings have ruled out the moon as a past host to life, Venus is too hot and the other planets too cold and/or hostile, except for a couple of their moons, Mars remains as the only planet within our buget, environmental range and lifetime that we could hope to land on and find signs of life. So Mars it is, and billions will be wasted on a misdirected space program.
The first step should be a permanent international space station of significant size, not the shoe box going up in the next few years, if at all. This station would be the base of operations from which we could use solar power to salvage the 6000 useless satellites and rocket bodies, presently orbiting the Earth, for their metals, plastics and exotics in order to build a couple more stations and space vehicles.
The second step would be to determine if it really is practical to establish a permanent Lunar base. Landing there is not free and neither is supporting a base there. Lunar space stations which produce an artifical gravity by rotation could turn out to be more practical and economical than a base on the Moon, and could be moved 'behind' the Moon when solar storms or meteor showers threaten. From a station it would be safer to test or use methods and paradigms too dangerous to employ on or near the Earth. And, we will be able to mine the Moon for resources with less of a change of getting 'stuck' there. Other drive paradigms, perhaps electromagnetics, quantum drives or warping space itself, seeing that some theoretical blocks to warp drive have been recently reduced, if not removed, may be tested in a Lunar environment more easily and more safely.
Mars will be a necessary waypoint on our path to the stars, but for a surface base devoted to research into the origins of life. Space stations orbiting Mars will be better than either a Mars surface base, a Moon base or Earth orbiting space stations because the materials for powering our voyages to the stars, if such trips ever take place, will come from the asteroid belt and Jupiter and its moons.
The other view of the future is that interest in space will wane to nothing because the drive for instant gratification at the cheapest possible cost will result in a cloud of comm satellites making manned travel beyond the 'satellite belt' too risky.
It's a little more complicated than that. When CO2 is absorbed by the ocean another equilibrium sets up which relates CO2, HC03 and Ca++ in the water with CaCO3 in the shells of various animals. As the CO2 increase the more CaCO3 is formed and as it diminishes CaCO3 (animals) is broken down. The equilibrium constant remains constant as long as the temperature is constant. The constant doubles for each 10C rise and visa versa. Methanol will react with O2 in the air to form Formaldehyde (embalming agent), which reacts to form Formic acid, the essence of ant sting. NutraSweet (Aspartame) breaks down in warm diet sodas to release Methanol, which accounts for the headaches many people suffer when they drink diet sodas. Some have even died from it because Methanol is carcenogenic and can cause cancer of the liver and brain. Those that are affected by drinking diet sodas often experience memory loss and other symptoms similar to those exhibited by some Desert Storm soldiers. Motorola just announced a marvelous little fuel cell that uses Methanol as a fuel. If they can scale it up to run automobiles then we may be pouring that windsheild washer fluid into our fuelcell tanks. Oh, I forgot to mention that ordinary water vapor (H2O) is seven times as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2. The greenhouse 'problem' is one at all. Satellite data showed that the mean surface temperature deviation of the earth had remained at 0.00 for the twenty year period of the observations -- no observable warming at all. Variations in the earth's mean temperature are better correlated to solar maxima and minima that any contributions to atmosphereic CO2 by man's activity. Even the volcanos contribute more CO2 and SO2 to the atmosphere than man does.
They did everything they could to beef up W2k's performance: rerun tests, reset parameters, etc,. and then they simply put puff descriptions all around descriptions of its performance. Did they recompile Linux to make it i686? No. Did they retune it and Samba? No. Did they compare W2K with SuSE, the Linux distro with the largest sales volume, worldwide? No. A W2K puff piece? Beyond a shawdow of a doubt.
Lawyers admitted to the Bar are officers of the court. Their formal threat letter is a legal document. If they have material misrepresentations of fact they can have their license suspended or removed and they can be fined or imprisoned. As has been pointed out, they are being arbritary and capricious in their choice of targets. All in all, not to good a start to their 'battle', but if their major weapons are bluff and bucks and they pick some fearful poor folk who knows.
"Uh, you could always get 3rd party backup software (or did Linux write all of GNU himself)."
You really know a lot about 'Linux' Torvolds, don't you! I'll bet you've met him in person. rof,l....
We know the real reason why you are lurking on/. and posting M$ FUD.... YOU ARE PLANNING TO SWITCH, and trying to work up your courage. Go ahead, make the jump to hyperspace! All you have to lose is the BSOD and you will also SAVE a ton of cash unless, or course, you enjoy adding to His Lowness's billion dollar kitty. BTW, Linux was begun by Linus Torvolds and many very fine hackers have contributed to it since 1992. That'w one more clue you never had before...
I've noticed something too. The number of media psychophants posting what can only be catagorized as FUD, if not outright disinformation, in support of the court action and the 'piracy' interpretation. I've noticed this phenomena occuring with other hot topics as well. It seems that various free market capitalists, an oxymoron if there ever was one, are sending out paid cyber-brownshirts to harass various OpenSource focal points to promote their special interests. (They have to be paid, only an idiot would freely suppress personal liberties.) With these megamergers we are reading about things are only going to get worse. It's quite a scam they are setting up for themselves. Use dirt cheap slave labor in China to destroy local competition and manufacture schoddy products sold at prices well above their worth. With the major banks already magamerged the consumer must go through phone-menu hell to speak to a human being, IF one can be reached, in another city 1,000 miles away. The megabank, meanwhile, violates usery laws by charging $25 for a $10 overdraft that their own faulty bookkeeping created. The bank CEO's, meanwhile, go golfing with the state and federal legislator just to make sure that the proper legislative FUD remains in place so John Q Public can't get relief from the 50% usery rates the banks enjoy. Don't get me started on the HMOs and their use of the Medicare 'coordination' of benefits to rape the federal treasury while simultaneously jacking health premiums to $500/month levels and reducing benefits to a pitance. Unions? I was driving behind a union boss yesterday. His new Cadillac really stands out nicely against the 10 year old car I was pooling in. The rank and file are surfs like me, the 'bosses' are no different than the CEOs. They run the unions for their own benefit or to push their political agenda, which seems to be nothing more than creating a socialist utopia, aka the USSR. I don't need to re-live 1932, thank you. These 'corporations' (corpus - body) have been given more rights than a real, living body enjoys in the USA under the present body of laws. Their 'creative accounting' misrepresents the truth of their corporate value. They frequently lie in court and like the mafia dons prior to the RICO act use their billions to pay souless lawyers to enforce their corruption. Gates use of his billions to undermine our system of justic is characteristic and his scofflaw attitude (video tape lies!) epitomizes the cancer eating at our economic system. The movie moguls are merely duplicating his process, an act of piracy which they don't mind committing.
If bacteria are found on Mars it is more likely that "billions and billions" of bacteria from Earth, carried by the solar wind, are being blown to Mars and all the other outlying planets, and continually innoculate those planets, than a small patch of Martian 'evolved' cells was carried by ejecta from a random meteor impact and was 'lucky' enough to impact the earth at the South Pole instead of flying into the Sun. But any old story to fund NASA's quest to prove that God doesn't exist will do fine.
mmmm.... Making decisions based on a fourteen generation moving average. That would make it nearly impossible to take advantage of rapidly changing situations or to drop disadvantagous customs. Classic stagnation. The only folks who would submit to a system like that are those in the power structure. But, I wonder, how could a shaman successfully predict seven generations into the future. Have any writings from 1750 accurately predicted current social and technical conditions? Not even Nostradamus. Anyone care to make predictions on what social and technical conditions in the year 2250 will be like?
It has become chic (PC) today to attribute to Indian cultures an environmental respect that never really existed. It is the new urban mythology. They didn't 'live as one' with the land. They hunted several species to extension. They burned off forests to create more grazing land for their prefered food source. They raided other tribes and took slaves. In short, they behave like people everyone, acting for their own advantage and survival.
My wife and I buy beef from cattle grown on range land that has never seen herbicides or pesticides. The meat doesn't have the white marbling running through it. It must be prepared properly or it will be tough and stringy. But, when cook, what fat there is on it become yellow and translucent and the taste of the beef is extraordinary. Love it! JLK
The usefulness of SlashDot....
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is being seriously threatened by an increasing number of off-topic, racist, biggoted, or vulgar postings with no 'socially redeeming value.'
Either the moderating has to improve significantly so these kinds of posts can drop below the radar or this site will become nothing more than an alt.always.trash newsgroup wannabe.
Maybe it's time users of this website register. JLK
and writing a bazaar-based tax package for the FEDS and one for each state, and getting them APPROVED by both the FEDS and each state EACH year prior to Jan 1 would be a monunmental task. It would require efforts from a team of programmers that would number over 50 (the tax packages of states with low populations are just as complicated as those from large population states and would require an equal programming effort). The would have time for coding this and NOTHING ELSE the entire year (so they better make money to feed their spouse and kids). So, would you make a FED program only or add only a few of the states with the larger populations? This isn't a "one size fits all" app.
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Most leftists I've met think Marxism is THE hammer and EVERYTHING ELSE is a nail. Population explosion? Communism is the answer Population decrease? Communism is the answer Food shortages? Communism is the answer Food surplus? Communism is the answer Nuclear Winter? Communism is the answer GreenHouse warming? Communism is the answer Social injustice? Communism is the answer Private ownership? Communism is the answer Too much freedom? Communism is the answer
A perfect example of one dimensional thinking.
Their only problem is we've recently seen the completion of a seventy year experiment in "Communism is the answer" and it left EVEYTHING to be desired. The previous examples "weren't really communism"? Ya, right. Just because you live in denial doesn't mean the rest of us have to bury our heads in the sand next to yours.
"What ever"???? Something is bothering me about your replies, not only to mowa's excellent summary of the principle issue of this matter, but in the flavor of your reponses to other posts concerning KDE, the GPL, and KRN, which you wrote. Are you planning to take an improved version of KRN propriatary as soon as enough people are 'hooked' on the version packaged with KDE? Your defense of Corel's undefensible violation of 'EVERYONE' clause, to say nothing of the SPIRIT of Linux, the GPL and the Open Source movement, suggests so. Say no one challanges Corel on this seemly minor violation (I know you don't think it is a violation but I disagree with you) and they turn the heat up one more notch in their next EULA, and the next, and the next. After they've established a trail of unchallanged violations they can then go for the whole banna. One principal of law is that when you fail to enforce your copyright, trademark or contract then it become unenforceable. Corel WILL enforce theirs, you can be sure of that. You are on the verge of giving away the farm, Roberto, and if that happens you are just another landless peon. JLK
I ran my own computer consulting business for over 15 years and saw many examples at clients sites of salaried workers being exploited merely for the priviledge of not filling out a time sheet and having a fixed income.
After retiring my business I was asked to come to work for my present employer. I am paid hourly, with 1.5 time over 40 or on weekends and double time on holidays. The sick leave and vacation package are important, as is the health benefit.
Equally important is the flextime benefit. We don't punch clocks, all we have to do is get in our 40 hours sometime between Monday at 6:30am and Friday at 6:00pm. Flextime is on the honor system, and we don't cheat either. Other employees would know and resent it if an individual was consistantly working less than 40 hours. News would soon leak back to management and the offending individual would loose flextime previledges, if not their job. Salaried folk don't have to make up missed hours, but if they consistantly miss too many hours they, too, can lose their job. Flextime is a great benefit. It allows me to visit the doctor, get glasses, pick up kids, meet the wife for a long lunch, or do many other things that would be impossible because some things can only be done during business hours. I am much more supportive of company policies when I can see that they are supportive of me.
As far as filling out a time sheet - I wrote the software that makes timesheet generation almost automatic. If one hasn't been sick or hasn't taken a vacation during the last two weeks then a few clicks of the mouse generates the necessary documents. A programmer who can't write software to eliminte the drudgery of office work is worth their wage or salary - and neither is a salaried manager who can't think to use a canned payroll program either.
In 1965 President Johnson and the Demcrat controlled Congress and Sentate pass the "Great Frontier" welfare act. At the time the percentage of citizens in poverty was at its alltime lowest and the percent of literacy was at its alltime highest. After 35 years and 5 trillion dollars of socialist solutions those percentages have experienced sharp reversals and by 1994 we had achieved a 'grate society'. Amazingly, Democrats insisted that even more socialist measures were needed. That caused them to lose botht the House and Sentate after nearly 40 yrs of complete control. Not to worry though, by keeping their finger in the poltical wind (which is controlled by the major media), and not staying with their principles, the Republicans are Democrat wanna-bees, only with just a little less spending. Idiots. A pox on both of them.
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Looks like you will be facing it again, later... (http://www.fipr.org/polarch/draftbill99/index.htm l), but has been withdrawn from there, probably to be reintroduced shortly in a separate "Regulation of Investigatory Powers" bill. (Proposals to extend government power are often secreted in bills with opposite-sounding names.) The country that gave the world the concept of the rights of citizens, of protection from abuse of government power, of the right to remain silent and not be compelled to testify against yourself, is tearing up the concept and throwing it away.
Everyone seems to think that fusion energy will come free of dangerous radioactive byproducts.
Every fusion scheme mentioned on this thread has problems with radioactive waste. Period.
The current batch of 20-year olds will burn up all of the remaining fossil fuels in their lifetime. Long before that fossil fuels will become too expensive to use. We need to begin developing massive solar and hydrogen gas economies now. If they are not on-line when the Carbon based fuels run out we won't have enough trees in the entire country to keep us warm one whole winter. JLK
Another variant are the bombs designed to generate lots of Sodium-22, which is a very short-lived isotope. Set a chain of them on the sea bed along the west coast. When they go off not much physical damage is done but clouds of water containing high levels of Na-22 salt rain down on the west coast, killing everything. A few days later the radioactivity is back to backround counts and troops move in and occupy intact infrastructures. Not a pretty picture.
Except that the our "Hydrogen" bombs are really fission-fusion-fission devices. A Xrays from a fussion trigger are focused onto a polyethylene cylinder which surrounds a cylinder of Lithium which has a Thorium cylinder running down its axis. The polyethylene explosive force, combined with the Xrays triggers the fussion of Lithium, which it turn compresses the Thorium, decreasing its Barns radius, triggering another fission explosion. You dial the explosive force by determining which layer of the multi-dodecahedryl "lens" you will use to trigger the first fission explosion. - At Work In the Fields Of The Bombs, Robert Del Tredict
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"mnidlessly" eh?
And you do proofread?
rof, lol
Have the US take action?
Well, in case you haven't noticed, the political fulcrum for the Clinton
administration is just barely to the right of the Russian president, if at all.
Eschelon has been doing for years what the Russians want to do.
If you want to do something about freedom of the Internet then
start here at home. What Uncle Boris and Uncle Sam are doing to
destroy the freedom of the internet the big corporations are, with their
phony patents to thwart development of free software and their buyout
of weak or corrupt politicians in order to destroy consumer rights and
redress.
Your right, Phil!
Current technologies are too primative and too expensive. NASA's brute force paradigm was inherited from Von Braun, who extended Goddard's work. Chemically powered impulse engines, or the nuclear powered variety, will not liberate man from the planet Earth in any practical way.
From what I've been reading, seeing and hearing about NASA funded space projects, it seems to me that NASA is being driven by an overwhelming desire to 'prove' that life has evolved on other planets. Why? If your political philosophy says the religion has been a curse to man for thousands of years, and since mainly Fundamentalist Christians believe that God created life only on this planet, finding life on other planets would 'prove' that God doesn't exist, or at least that the Fundamentalist belief is wrong. It doesn't matter that finding life on Mars doesn't prove it evolved there.
It appears that NASA has reached the conclusion that since lunar landings have ruled out the moon as a past host to life, Venus is too hot and the other planets too cold and/or hostile, except for a couple of their moons, Mars remains as the only planet within our buget, environmental range and lifetime that we could hope to land on and find signs of life. So Mars it is, and billions will be wasted on a misdirected space program.
The first step should be a permanent international space station of significant size, not the shoe box going up in the next few years, if at all. This station would be the base of operations from which we could use solar power to salvage the 6000 useless satellites and rocket bodies, presently orbiting the Earth, for their metals, plastics and exotics in order to build a couple more stations and space vehicles.
The second step would be to determine if it really is practical to establish a permanent Lunar base. Landing there is not free and neither is supporting a base there. Lunar space stations which produce an artifical gravity by rotation could turn out to be more practical and economical than a base on the Moon, and could be moved 'behind' the Moon when solar storms or meteor showers threaten. From a station it would be safer to test or use methods and paradigms too dangerous to employ on or near the Earth. And, we will be able to mine the Moon for resources with less of a change of getting 'stuck' there. Other drive paradigms, perhaps electromagnetics, quantum drives or warping space itself, seeing that some theoretical blocks to warp drive have been recently reduced, if not removed, may be tested in a Lunar environment more easily and more safely.
Mars will be a necessary waypoint on our path to the stars, but for a surface base devoted to research into the origins of life. Space stations orbiting Mars will be better than either a Mars surface base, a Moon base or Earth orbiting space stations because the materials for powering our voyages to the stars, if such trips ever take place, will come from the asteroid belt and Jupiter and its moons.
The other view of the future is that interest in space will wane to nothing because the drive for instant gratification at the cheapest possible cost will result in a cloud of comm satellites making manned travel beyond the 'satellite belt' too risky.
It's a little more complicated than that. When CO2 is absorbed by the ocean another equilibrium sets up which relates CO2, HC03 and Ca++ in the water with CaCO3 in the shells of various animals.
As the CO2 increase the more CaCO3 is formed and as it diminishes CaCO3 (animals) is broken down. The equilibrium constant remains constant as long as the temperature is constant. The constant doubles for each 10C rise and visa versa.
Methanol will react with O2 in the air to form Formaldehyde (embalming agent), which reacts to form Formic acid, the essence of ant sting.
NutraSweet (Aspartame) breaks down in warm diet sodas to release Methanol, which accounts for the headaches many people suffer when they drink diet sodas. Some have even died from it because Methanol is carcenogenic and can cause cancer of the liver and brain. Those that are affected by drinking diet sodas often experience memory loss and other symptoms similar to those exhibited by some Desert Storm soldiers.
Motorola just announced a marvelous little fuel cell that uses Methanol as a fuel. If they can scale it up to run automobiles then we may be pouring that windsheild washer fluid into our fuelcell tanks.
Oh, I forgot to mention that ordinary water vapor (H2O) is seven times as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2. The greenhouse 'problem' is one at all. Satellite data showed that the mean surface temperature deviation of the earth had remained at 0.00 for the twenty year period of the observations -- no observable warming at all. Variations in the earth's mean temperature are better correlated to solar maxima and minima that any contributions to atmosphereic CO2 by man's activity. Even the volcanos contribute more CO2 and SO2 to the atmosphere than man does.
They did everything they could to beef up W2k's performance: rerun tests, reset parameters, etc,. and then they simply put puff descriptions all around descriptions of its performance.
Did they recompile Linux to make it i686? No.
Did they retune it and Samba? No.
Did they compare W2K with SuSE, the Linux distro with the largest sales volume, worldwide? No.
A W2K puff piece?
Beyond a shawdow of a doubt.
Lawyers admitted to the Bar are officers of the court. Their formal threat letter is a legal document. If they have material misrepresentations of fact they can have their license suspended or removed and they can be fined or imprisoned.
As has been pointed out, they are being arbritary and capricious in their choice of targets.
All in all, not to good a start to their 'battle', but if their major weapons are bluff and bucks and they pick some fearful poor folk who knows.
methodology.
It is obvious the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. That is a management problem, not a staff problem.
Open Source would have caught the units mismatch on the Mars Orbiter.
"Uh, you could always get 3rd party backup software (or did Linux write all of GNU himself)."
/. and posting M$ FUD....
You really know a lot about 'Linux' Torvolds, don't you! I'll bet you've met him in person. rof,l....
We know the real reason why you are lurking on
YOU ARE PLANNING TO SWITCH, and trying to work up your courage. Go ahead, make the jump to hyperspace! All you have to lose is the BSOD and you will also SAVE a ton of cash unless, or course, you enjoy adding to His Lowness's billion dollar kitty.
BTW, Linux was begun by Linus Torvolds and many very fine hackers have contributed to it since 1992. That'w one more clue you never had before...
I've noticed something too.
The number of media psychophants posting what can only be catagorized as FUD, if not outright disinformation, in support of the court action and the 'piracy' interpretation.
I've noticed this phenomena occuring with other hot topics as well. It seems that various free market capitalists, an oxymoron if there ever was one, are sending out paid cyber-brownshirts to harass various OpenSource focal points to promote their special interests. (They have to be paid, only an idiot would freely suppress personal liberties.)
With these megamergers we are reading about things are only going to get worse. It's quite a scam they are setting up for themselves. Use dirt cheap slave labor in China to destroy local competition and manufacture schoddy products sold at prices well above their worth. With the major banks already magamerged the consumer must go through phone-menu hell to speak to a human being, IF one can be reached, in another city 1,000 miles away. The megabank, meanwhile, violates usery laws by charging $25 for a $10 overdraft that their own faulty bookkeeping created. The bank CEO's, meanwhile, go golfing with the state and federal legislator just to make sure that the proper legislative FUD remains in place so John Q Public can't get relief from the 50% usery rates the banks enjoy. Don't get me started on the HMOs and their use of the Medicare 'coordination' of benefits to rape the federal treasury while simultaneously jacking health premiums to $500/month levels and reducing benefits to a pitance. Unions? I was driving behind a union boss yesterday. His new Cadillac really stands out nicely against the 10 year old car I was pooling in. The rank and file are surfs like me, the 'bosses' are no different than the CEOs. They run the unions for their own benefit or to push their political agenda, which seems to be nothing more than creating a socialist utopia, aka the USSR. I don't need to re-live 1932, thank you.
These 'corporations' (corpus - body) have been given more rights than a real, living body enjoys in the USA under the present body of laws. Their 'creative accounting' misrepresents the truth of their corporate value. They frequently lie in court and like the mafia dons prior to the RICO act use their billions to pay souless lawyers to enforce their corruption. Gates use of his billions to undermine our system of justic is characteristic and his scofflaw attitude (video tape lies!) epitomizes the cancer eating at our economic system. The movie moguls are merely duplicating his process, an act of piracy which they don't mind committing.
If bacteria are found on Mars it is more likely that "billions and billions" of bacteria from Earth, carried by the solar wind, are being blown to Mars and all the other outlying planets, and continually innoculate those planets, than a small patch of Martian 'evolved' cells was carried by ejecta from a random meteor impact and was 'lucky' enough to impact the earth at the South Pole instead of flying into the Sun.
But any old story to fund NASA's quest to prove that God doesn't exist will do fine.
HTTPS://www.lite.citifi.com/cgi-bin/citifi/scripts /home/visitor.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes
On my SuSE 6.3 box...
mmmm.... Making decisions based on a fourteen generation moving average. That would make it nearly impossible to take advantage of rapidly changing situations or to drop disadvantagous customs. Classic stagnation. The only folks who would submit to a system like that are those in the power structure.
But, I wonder, how could a shaman successfully predict seven generations into the future. Have any writings from 1750 accurately predicted current social and technical conditions? Not even Nostradamus. Anyone care to make predictions on what social and technical conditions in the year 2250 will be like?
It has become chic (PC) today to attribute to Indian cultures an environmental respect that never really existed. It is the new urban mythology. They didn't 'live as one' with the land. They hunted several species to extension. They burned off forests to create more grazing land for their prefered food source. They raided other tribes and took slaves. In short, they behave like people everyone, acting for their own advantage and survival.
My wife and I buy beef from cattle grown on range land that has never seen herbicides or pesticides. The meat doesn't have the white marbling running through it. It must be prepared properly or it will be tough and stringy. But, when cook, what fat there is on it become yellow and translucent and the taste of the beef is extraordinary.
Love it!
JLK
Where's a spammer when you need one?
is being seriously threatened by an increasing number of off-topic, racist, biggoted, or vulgar postings with no 'socially redeeming value.'
Either the moderating has to improve significantly so these kinds of posts can drop below the radar or this site will become nothing more than an alt.always.trash newsgroup wannabe.
Maybe it's time users of this website register.
JLK
and writing a bazaar-based tax package for the FEDS and one for each state, and getting them APPROVED by both the FEDS and each state EACH year prior to Jan 1 would be a monunmental task. It would require efforts from a team of programmers that would number over 50 (the tax packages of states with low populations are just as complicated as those from large population states and would require an equal programming effort). The would have time for coding this and NOTHING ELSE the entire year (so they better make money to feed their spouse and kids). So, would you make a FED program only or add only a few of the states with the larger populations? This isn't a "one size fits all" app.
Most leftists I've met think Marxism is THE hammer and EVERYTHING ELSE is a nail.
Population explosion? Communism is the answer
Population decrease? Communism is the answer
Food shortages? Communism is the answer
Food surplus? Communism is the answer
Nuclear Winter? Communism is the answer
GreenHouse warming? Communism is the answer
Social injustice? Communism is the answer
Private ownership? Communism is the answer
Too much freedom? Communism is the answer
A perfect example of one dimensional thinking.
Their only problem is we've recently seen the completion of a seventy year experiment in "Communism is the answer" and it left EVEYTHING to be desired. The previous examples "weren't really communism"? Ya, right. Just because you live in denial doesn't mean the rest of us have to bury our heads in the sand next to yours.
Read this analysis and then tell me it is "not our problem".
http://www.rain.org/~openmind/chernob3.htm
"What ever"????
Something is bothering me about your replies, not only to mowa's excellent summary of the principle issue of this matter, but in the flavor of your reponses to other posts concerning KDE, the GPL, and KRN, which you wrote.
Are you planning to take an improved version of KRN propriatary as soon as enough people are 'hooked' on the version packaged with KDE? Your defense of Corel's undefensible violation of 'EVERYONE' clause, to say nothing of the SPIRIT of Linux, the GPL and the Open Source movement, suggests so.
Say no one challanges Corel on this seemly minor violation (I know you don't think it is a violation but I disagree with you) and they turn the heat up one more notch in their next EULA, and the next, and the next. After they've established a trail of unchallanged violations they can then go for the whole banna. One principal of law is that when you fail to enforce your copyright, trademark or contract then it become unenforceable. Corel WILL enforce theirs, you can be sure of that.
You are on the verge of giving away the farm, Roberto, and if that happens you are just another landless peon.
JLK
I ran my own computer consulting business for over 15 years and saw many examples at clients sites of salaried workers being exploited merely for the priviledge of not filling out a time sheet and having a fixed income.
After retiring my business I was asked to come to work for my present employer. I am paid hourly, with 1.5 time over 40 or on weekends and double time on holidays. The sick leave and vacation package are important, as is the health benefit.
Equally important is the flextime benefit. We don't punch clocks, all we have to do is get in our 40 hours sometime between Monday at 6:30am and Friday at 6:00pm. Flextime is on the honor system, and we don't cheat either. Other employees would know and resent it if an individual was consistantly working less than 40 hours. News would soon leak back to management and the offending individual would loose flextime previledges, if not their job. Salaried folk don't have to make up missed hours, but if they consistantly miss too many hours they, too, can lose their job. Flextime is a great benefit. It allows me to visit the doctor, get glasses, pick up kids, meet the wife for a long lunch, or do many other things that would be impossible because some things can only be done during business hours. I am much more supportive of company policies when I can see that they are supportive of me.
As far as filling out a time sheet - I wrote the software that makes timesheet generation almost automatic. If one hasn't been sick or hasn't taken a vacation during the last two weeks then a few clicks of the mouse generates the necessary documents. A programmer who can't write software to eliminte the drudgery of office work is worth their wage or salary - and neither is a salaried manager who can't think to use a canned payroll program either.
In 1965 President Johnson and the Demcrat controlled Congress and Sentate pass the "Great Frontier" welfare act. At the time the percentage of citizens in poverty was at its alltime lowest and the percent of literacy was at its alltime highest. After 35 years and 5 trillion dollars of socialist solutions those percentages have experienced sharp reversals and by 1994 we had achieved a 'grate society'. Amazingly, Democrats insisted that even more socialist measures were needed. That caused them to lose botht the House and Sentate after nearly 40 yrs of complete control. Not to worry though, by keeping their finger in the poltical wind (which is controlled by the major media), and not staying with their principles, the Republicans are Democrat wanna-bees, only with just a little less spending. Idiots. A pox on both of them.
Looks like you will be facing it again, later... (http://www.fipr.org/polarch/draftbill99/index.htm l), but has been withdrawn from there, probably to be reintroduced shortly in a separate "Regulation of Investigatory Powers" bill. (Proposals to extend government power are often secreted in bills with opposite-sounding names.) The country that gave the world the concept of the rights of citizens, of protection from abuse of government power, of the right to remain silent and not be compelled to testify against yourself, is tearing up the concept and throwing it away.
Everyone seems to think that fusion energy will come free of dangerous radioactive byproducts.
Every fusion scheme mentioned on this thread has problems with radioactive waste. Period.
The current batch of 20-year olds will burn up all of the remaining fossil fuels in their lifetime. Long before that fossil fuels will become too expensive to use. We need to begin developing massive solar and hydrogen gas economies now. If they are not on-line when the Carbon based fuels run out we won't have enough trees in the entire country to keep us warm one whole winter.
JLK
Another variant are the bombs designed to generate lots of Sodium-22, which is a very short-lived isotope. Set a chain of them on the sea bed along the west coast. When they go off not much physical damage is done but clouds of water containing high levels of Na-22 salt rain down on the west coast, killing everything. A few days later the radioactivity is back to backround counts and troops move in and occupy intact infrastructures.
Not a pretty picture.
Except that the our "Hydrogen" bombs are really fission-fusion-fission devices. A Xrays from a fussion trigger are focused onto a polyethylene cylinder which surrounds a cylinder of Lithium which has a Thorium cylinder running down its axis. The polyethylene explosive force, combined with the Xrays triggers the fussion of Lithium, which it turn compresses the Thorium, decreasing its Barns radius, triggering another fission explosion. You dial the explosive force by determining which layer of the multi-dodecahedryl "lens" you will use to trigger the first fission explosion.
- At Work In the Fields Of The Bombs, Robert Del Tredict