You can't buy an index or good weather either, but you can buy options and futures on them, on Wall Street as well as in the City.
If that's investment, so is this. As a matter of fact, this is a good way of hedging your bets if you are trading in a marked which is strongly influenced by acts of terrorism. The Israeli real-estate market for instance or Afgan oil...
Except when it's C:\Program\ as it is in some international versions, or if you are dual booting DOS and NT (yes, I'm a sick fschk, but old Mircoprose games won't run in emulation mode) D:\Program\ or D:\Program Files\
IMO, the King James versions still suffer from their poisioned past. The NIV makes a good effort, but I disagree with some of the interpretations they make (although I do agree with the need to draw those interpretations).
Many modern translations suffer immensly from their past. Especially Lutheran/Protestant translations, since they almoast always and still derrive from Martin Luther's 16th century German translation of the Roman Catholic Latin Bible.
Take, for example, the two bibles in my bookshelf: One is the 1917 official Swedish translation, which is a fourth reworking of the original Swedish translation, which, in turn, is a direct translation of Luther's German translation. The other is the so called "Bible 2000" (It was published in 2000). It is a proper translation into modern Swedish of the original Hebrew, Aramenic and Greek texts. It took a government commission of academics, priests and writers 30 years to translate it all. Reading some passages, it is somethimes difficult to realise they are supposedly the same book...
It's funny when the Beafeaters at the Tower of London tell the Australian tourists "Welcome back!" before showing you the dungeons.
Here is another actulay funny example of the theme: The British prisons are filling up. Survivor and Big Brother are very popular TV shows. Why not kill two birds with one stone and do Inmate Survival: Put a bunch of convicts on a desert island and the one who survives get's pardoned? When I suggested this to my British collegues, they replied: "We tried that. We called it Australia, and now they beat us at cricket!"
Now listen, If you take a piece of GPL code and modify it, the resulting code and binaries must be distributed either under the GPL or not at all. If you include sections of GPL code in your code, your code and binaries must be distributed either under the GPL or not at all. Full Stop! If, however, your code links to a LGPL library, you may distribute your code and binaries under any license you see fit, provided that the library is distributed separately and under the LGPL.
If you take a knife, and stab it into your chest, the knife has not *infected* your chest; you put it there of your own free will, knowing exactly what it would do.
Yes, but that doesn't mean your children will have to stab themselves too. If it did, I would say that that would seem like a pretty infectious and/or hereditary condition.
If you include GPL code or derive your code from GPL code, your code and all future derivatives of it will have to be GPL too.
Maybe inheritance is a better description of the propagation of GPL that infection? But ofcourse, it is a less derogatory one...
Mind you, I am all for Free Software and have no problem with the hereditary properties of the GPL.
Guy Fawlkes' day is not a public(bank) holiday. AAMOF, England only has 8 bank holidays: Chrismas day, boxing day, New Years day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, spring bank holiday, early summer bank holiday and late summer bank holiday. It also isn't the English "National Day". That's St George's, when the English celebrate a Turkish saint and indulge in a bizzare tradition called "morris dancing"...
Usually an anti-government, pro-business standpoint is not so much liberal as it is conservative
No, that's liberal. Liberal as in free. Free from regulation. Market/capitalist liberal. As most countries/economies are quite heavily regulated (even the USA), an anti regualtion stand-point is (market/capitalist) liberal.
As for conservativism, it depends on what you are conserving. In Soviet Russia, comunism was conservative. With a "middle way" government, getting attacked by opposition from both sides, what one side would find conservative, the other would find liberal or socialist (or what ever...).
Actually, capitalism and market economy has very little to do with each other. As a matter of fact, capitalists (those who own the means of production and reap the profit) prefer as little competition as possible...
I bet to the British, Monty Python's skit about the person who doesn't want SPAM was funny because they couldn't believe there was someone that actually didn't like SPAM.
Yes, to the British.
The rest of the civilized world loaths it because it is made from sub-standard, machanically recovered meat that no nutritionally aware person in their right mind would even feed to their dog (not that it'd eat it, anyway). The same goes for corned beaf...
Sorry if I offended any of you Brits? I like your beer though...
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1. Set up an exchange
2. By a future
3. Invade a small country
4. Profit!
There are no commodities being purchased...
You can't buy an index or good weather either, but you can buy options and futures on them, on Wall Street as well as in the City.
If that's investment, so is this. As a matter of fact, this is a good way of hedging your bets if you are trading in a marked which is strongly influenced by acts of terrorism. The Israeli real-estate market for instance or Afgan oil...
Actually, it is a fine idea to debate the merits before taking a big risk...
Except when it comes to invading soverigin nations and violating other peoples human rights..?
Who do you think?
,-)
They just outsorce it to an Indian software house, like everyone else!
Except when it's C:\Program\ as it is in some international versions, or if you are dual booting DOS and NT (yes, I'm a sick fschk, but old Mircoprose games won't run in emulation mode) D:\Program\ or D:\Program Files\
The only dictionary that matter is The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language - everything else is just dialect...
IMO, the King James versions still suffer from their poisioned past. The NIV makes a good effort, but I disagree with some of the interpretations they make (although I do agree with the need to draw those interpretations).
Many modern translations suffer immensly from their past. Especially Lutheran/Protestant translations, since they almoast always and still derrive from Martin Luther's 16th century German translation of the Roman Catholic Latin Bible.
Take, for example, the two bibles in my bookshelf: One is the 1917 official Swedish translation, which is a fourth reworking of the original Swedish translation, which, in turn, is a direct translation of Luther's German translation.
The other is the so called "Bible 2000" (It was published in 2000). It is a proper translation into modern Swedish of the original Hebrew, Aramenic and Greek texts. It took a government commission of academics, priests and writers 30 years to translate it all.
Reading some passages, it is somethimes difficult to realise they are supposedly the same book...
It's funny when the Beafeaters at the Tower of London tell the Australian tourists "Welcome back!" before showing you the dungeons.
Here is another actulay funny example of the theme:
The British prisons are filling up.
Survivor and Big Brother are very popular TV shows.
Why not kill two birds with one stone and do Inmate Survival: Put a bunch of convicts on a desert island and the one who survives get's pardoned?
When I suggested this to my British collegues, they replied: "We tried that. We called it Australia, and now they beat us at cricket!"
For the record, I'm neither Aussie nor Britt...
...someone else's GPL code, ofcourse!
The case of taking your own previously GPLed code is completely academic.
IANAL, but you obviously are...
Protect your Citibank account in case you become unemployed or disabled
Funny you should mention that exact example... ;-)
Now listen,
If you take a piece of GPL code and modify it, the resulting code and binaries must be distributed either under the GPL or not at all.
If you include sections of GPL code in your code, your code and binaries must be distributed either under the GPL or not at all.
Full Stop!
If, however, your code links to a LGPL library, you may distribute your code and binaries under any license you see fit, provided that the library is distributed separately and under the LGPL.
Just my 0.2c
If you take a knife, and stab it into your chest, the knife has not *infected* your chest; you put it there of your own free will, knowing exactly what it would do.
Yes, but that doesn't mean your children will have to stab themselves too. If it did, I would say that that would seem like a pretty infectious and/or hereditary condition.
If you include GPL code or derive your code from GPL code, your code and all future derivatives of it will have to be GPL too.
Maybe inheritance is a better description of the propagation of GPL that infection? But ofcourse, it is a less derogatory one...
Mind you, I am all for Free Software and have no problem with the hereditary properties of the GPL.
Let's stop trying to re-define terms so that we can explain why the last 20 years were the dark-ages. They simply were not.
Funny thing you should say that. As a matter of fact, neither were the Dark Ages...
Guy Fawlkes' day is more analogous to December 7, 1941 ("a date that will live in infamy"), the day that the Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor, HI.
Except Guy Fawlkes' never did blow up the Houses of Parliament, but there you go...
I would!
But not the other way around...
Guy Fawlkes' day is not a public(bank) holiday.
AAMOF, England only has 8 bank holidays: Chrismas day, boxing day, New Years day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, spring bank holiday, early summer bank holiday and late summer bank holiday.
It also isn't the English "National Day". That's St George's, when the English celebrate a Turkish saint and indulge in a bizzare tradition called "morris dancing"...
Usually an anti-government, pro-business standpoint is not so much liberal as it is conservative
No, that's liberal. Liberal as in free. Free from regulation. Market/capitalist liberal. As most countries/economies are quite heavily regulated (even the USA), an anti regualtion stand-point is (market/capitalist) liberal.
As for conservativism, it depends on what you are conserving. In Soviet Russia, comunism was conservative. With a "middle way" government, getting attacked by opposition from both sides, what one side would find conservative, the other would find liberal or socialist (or what ever...).
Just my 0.2c
You want a liberal market economy?
Horny straight men have more money!
You can't both have the cake and eat it...
Actually, capitalism and market economy has very little to do with each other.
As a matter of fact, capitalists (those who own the means of production and reap the profit) prefer as little competition as possible...
Except the English police will wack you senseless with their extendable batons if you don't do what they say...
$0.25 a gallon? Wow, where do you get gas from?
Half a liter bottle of water in a high street Pret a Manger: 75p (£1.50p/l)
One liter of unleaded petrol at the pummp: 85p
Going blind from drinking petrol: Priceless!
It's only that the radiation is not absorbed and re-emitted - it is reflected!
IOW, his way of reasoning is fundamentally flawed...
China is light years away from launching Mars exploration programmes
I didn't know China was in a different solar system(!).
Would that be Alpha Centauri or Ursa Minor Beta..?
Should we capitulate to the Brits at this late date?
I wouldn't mind... ;-)
I bet to the British, Monty Python's skit about the person who doesn't want SPAM was funny because they couldn't believe there was someone that actually didn't like SPAM.
Yes, to the British.
The rest of the civilized world loaths it because it is made from sub-standard, machanically recovered meat that no nutritionally aware person in their right mind would even feed to their dog (not that it'd eat it, anyway). The same goes for corned beaf...
Sorry if I offended any of you Brits? I like your beer though...