"is it kind of thin? I mean, multiple drug busts, the last one involving a firearm? I'll be the last one to criticize him for smoking dope, but it's not like it helps his credibility."
I saw Frontline last night and thought that the documentary contained some good interviews and some insights, but ultimately it didn't really tie everything together. A lot of the show was spent following Velvet Revolver and a wannabe Avril Lavigne. You're time is probably best spent reading the interviews, particularly David Crosby and Melinda Newman.
This might be a good time to mention other Frontline shows online that are excellent: The Jesus Factor and the Man who knew. Those deserve some good on line viewing time.
I know that this story hints at the biggest issue of the last few days in a coy way, but I have to say something. Karma be damned.
One day far from now Rumsfeld will be close to meeting his Maker, reflecting on his life. At some point I hope he realizes that there was a reason that the Geneva Convention was created. He might note that it protects our troops from torture, and that torture is an ineffective tool to gain information. He might also, for one moment, actually re-evaluate the decisions he has made over the last few years and ask: why?
But perhaps not, a man who shakes hands with Saddam months after he uses chemical weapons on the Kurds obviously sleeps well at night for some twisted reason.
Ringworld: Nebula Award 1970 (Best Novel), Hugo Award 1971 (Best Novel), Locus Award 1970 (Best Novel), and the Australian Ditmar 1972 (Best Novel).
The setting certainly was important and sparked conferences, debates and papers (including some thoughts from Freeman Dyson).
But the characters and civilizations certainly were deep, this was the first in-depth look at the Kzinti who became the centre of many later novels written by other authors. There have been a series of (at least) ten novels on the time of the man-kzin wars, Poul Anderson anyone?
As for stereotypical characters:
-A two hunded year old Asian man who travels deep in to space every few decades when he gets bored.
-A female lead who is charmed by sucessive generations of fertility lotteries.
-A diplomat from a race of eight-foot Lion people.
-An emmisary from a race of herbivors who are fleeing the galaxy in a convoy of five planets that rotate around each other.
CHAPEL HILL, NC--Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers--as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
Above: Jonathan Green, who tells as many people as possible that he is "fully weaned off the glass teat."
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."
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This must set the record for the largest file ever linked to on Slashdot.
I'm not so sure about the numbers being thrown around here, $86 million? ESR says $100 million with $68 million left. So how much money did SCO get and what is their current cash/debt/equity situation?
I think it's extremely hard to tell, I have a background in finance and econ, and I still can't make sense of the numbers being thrown around both in yesterday's conference call and in this email. As World Com and Enron have shown us the statements made by public companies can often be _extremely_ deceiving, and quite often just pulled out of a hat.
First off, SCO changed it's accounting practices to the 'generally accepted' variety for this report. That changes almost everything. Remember that they have some financial and acounting wizards (orcs?) working for them, and with these lesser standards it's much easier to claim monies that have not been accrued as 'accrued'. I find it interesting that in the conference call yesterday Darl said that expenses from SCO Source had been moved to general expense or something (can't remember deleted the mp3 about an hour before this story came out).
I disagree with one part of ESR's interpretation, Anderer writes:
Microsoft will have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar. The next deal we should be able to get from $16-20,
ESR writes:
This is the smoking gun. We now know that Microsoft raised at least $86 million for SCO, but according to the SCO conference call this morning (03 Mar 2004) their cash reserves were $68.5 million. If not for Microsoft, SCO would be at least $15 million in debt today.
I think what Anderer means is that Microsoft refered a customer, and thus SCO may have made money from that. That's different from 'raising' money or 'funneling'. I have some doubts that the deal with Baystar played out like Anderer said. In Darl's concluding remarks yesterday he said that they had just 'missed' some deals late last quarter in the 'tens of millions', but that they could be available in the future (sorry investors, the fish got away, the dog ate my homework).
This email is an interesting snapshot, and hopefully is enough to start a real investigation, my guess is that it would take a team of forensic accountants months to get a real picture of what's going on, and what the real relationship is with Microsoft.
One point ESR missed:
Baystar is easy as they were just a Microsoft referral and would be 2% 2) Any licensing deal would be at 5%
2% 5% what is this? the amount that a licensee would have to pay? Microsoft's finders fee? anyone know?
...for US diplomatic efforts. For those who keep up with multilateral treaties, the State Department under bush has been pretty effective at disrupting international negotiations, such as the Small Arms Convention.
The line taken by the Under Secretary of State was that the US constitution forbids negotiating a treaty to limit small arms. Apparently the Second Amendment also covers child soldiers in Africa, and gun runners in Colombia.
The behaviour at the conference mentioned in the article is actually very reminicent of the Reagan administration's withdrawl from UNESCO in the 80s (corrected by George W) when it became clear that UNESCO favoured state-run and public media over private control of the press and airwaves.
UNESCO was interested in creating shared media and information networks, and that was apparently scary (they're headquartered in Paris!).
I'm not sure that that story illustrates Trickle Down economics, or any sort of macroeconomic theory.
Trickle Down is also known as "supply side", money is spent by the government to give to industry or investors so that the economy will grow, either through tax-cuts, spending or subsidy. The instance that is alluded to here is fiscal policy under Reagan in the 80s, where money was spent on weapons, tax cuts for investors. The goal is to increase the supply of production
The flip side is "demand side economics", this is classic Keynesian policy where money is put in the hands of consumers through pension payments, government services, entitlements or by creating state companies to give out jobs (ie the Hoover Dam). This is used in lots of places, but Keynes' theories were based on Roosevelt in the 30s.
This story actually seems more indicative of demand side economics, or "trickle up" economics.
But let me guess... you don't care.
India needs a little of both these policies, but promarily it needs to focus on reducing corruption, encouraging fair Foreign Direct Investment and a good education system. All of which are aided through the outsourcing described in the article.
Snarky is right, and the quality of the letter is very poor:
- No salutation (Dear Sir, Dear Mr. McNealy).
- First sentence has a gerund and is in the passive voice.
- Dodgy syntax throughout "...spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy"
- An unnecessary personal attack "But the casual equation between 'open source' and 'zero revenue' suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about"
- And finally an over the top historical allusion "Mr. CEO, tear down that wall."
This is of course leaving out his generalizations about Sun, his misinterpretation of the meaning of stock price and his huberis in pretending to speak for the "Open Source Community".
Maybe ESR has had a bad Valentine's Day, but he should definitely get a proofreader.
I've been looking around various sites, but mostly keeping up with news about Spirit through google news. What is THE best site for up to the minute reports?
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"is it kind of thin? I mean, multiple drug busts, the last one involving a firearm? I'll be the last one to criticize him for smoking dope, but it's not like it helps his credibility."
You sir just defined an ad hominem argument.
I saw Frontline last night and thought that the documentary contained some good interviews and some insights, but ultimately it didn't really tie everything together. A lot of the show was spent following Velvet Revolver and a wannabe Avril Lavigne. You're time is probably best spent reading the interviews, particularly David Crosby and Melinda Newman.
This might be a good time to mention other Frontline shows online that are excellent: The Jesus Factor and the Man who knew. Those deserve some good on line viewing time.
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I know that this story hints at the biggest issue of the last few days in a coy way, but I have to say something. Karma be damned.
One day far from now Rumsfeld will be close to meeting his Maker, reflecting on his life. At some point I hope he realizes that there was a reason that the Geneva Convention was created. He might note that it protects our troops from torture, and that torture is an ineffective tool to gain information. He might also, for one moment, actually re-evaluate the decisions he has made over the last few years and ask: why?
But perhaps not, a man who shakes hands with Saddam months after he uses chemical weapons on the Kurds obviously sleeps well at night for some twisted reason.
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I'm sure this is flamebait but...
Ringworld: Nebula Award 1970 (Best Novel), Hugo Award 1971 (Best Novel), Locus Award 1970 (Best Novel), and the Australian Ditmar 1972 (Best Novel).
The setting certainly was important and sparked conferences, debates and papers (including some thoughts from Freeman Dyson).
But the characters and civilizations certainly were deep, this was the first in-depth look at the Kzinti who became the centre of many later novels written by other authors. There have been a series of (at least) ten novels on the time of the man-kzin wars, Poul Anderson anyone?
As for stereotypical characters:
-A two hunded year old Asian man who travels deep in to space every few decades when he gets bored.
-A female lead who is charmed by sucessive generations of fertility lotteries.
-A diplomat from a race of eight-foot Lion people.
-An emmisary from a race of herbivors who are fleeing the galaxy in a convoy of five planets that rotate around each other.
so cliche
http://www.theonion.com/onion3604/doesnt_own_telev ision.html
From the Onion
CHAPEL HILL, NC--Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers--as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
Above: Jonathan Green, who tells as many people as possible that he is "fully weaned off the glass teat."
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."
This must set the record for the largest file ever linked to on Slashdot.
156 megs! I used to have a hard drive that size.
Follow the money indeed...
I'm not so sure about the numbers being thrown around here, $86 million? ESR says $100 million with $68 million left. So how much money did SCO get and what is their current cash/debt/equity situation?
I think it's extremely hard to tell, I have a background in finance and econ, and I still can't make sense of the numbers being thrown around both in yesterday's conference call and in this email. As World Com and Enron have shown us the statements made by public companies can often be _extremely_ deceiving, and quite often just pulled out of a hat.
First off, SCO changed it's accounting practices to the 'generally accepted' variety for this report. That changes almost everything. Remember that they have some financial and acounting wizards (orcs?) working for them, and with these lesser standards it's much easier to claim monies that have not been accrued as 'accrued'. I find it interesting that in the conference call yesterday Darl said that expenses from SCO Source had been moved to general expense or something (can't remember deleted the mp3 about an hour before this story came out).
I disagree with one part of ESR's interpretation, Anderer writes:
Microsoft will have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar. The next deal we should be able to get from $16-20,
ESR writes:
This is the smoking gun. We now know that Microsoft raised at least $86 million for SCO, but according to the SCO conference call this morning (03 Mar 2004) their cash reserves were $68.5 million. If not for Microsoft, SCO would be at least $15 million in debt today.
I think what Anderer means is that Microsoft refered a customer, and thus SCO may have made money from that. That's different from 'raising' money or 'funneling'. I have some doubts that the deal with Baystar played out like Anderer said. In Darl's concluding remarks yesterday he said that they had just 'missed' some deals late last quarter in the 'tens of millions', but that they could be available in the future (sorry investors, the fish got away, the dog ate my homework).
This email is an interesting snapshot, and hopefully is enough to start a real investigation, my guess is that it would take a team of forensic accountants months to get a real picture of what's going on, and what the real relationship is with Microsoft.
One point ESR missed:
Baystar is easy as they were just a Microsoft referral and would be 2%
2) Any licensing deal would be at 5%
2% 5% what is this? the amount that a licensee would have to pay? Microsoft's finders fee? anyone know?
...for US diplomatic efforts. For those who keep up with multilateral treaties, the State Department under bush has been pretty effective at disrupting international negotiations, such as the Small Arms Convention.
The line taken by the Under Secretary of State was that the US constitution forbids negotiating a treaty to limit small arms. Apparently the Second Amendment also covers child soldiers in Africa, and gun runners in Colombia.
The behaviour at the conference mentioned in the article is actually very reminicent of the Reagan administration's withdrawl from UNESCO in the 80s (corrected by George W) when it became clear that UNESCO favoured state-run and public media over private control of the press and airwaves.
UNESCO was interested in creating shared media and
information networks, and that was apparently scary (they're headquartered in Paris!).
I'm not sure that that story illustrates Trickle Down economics, or any sort of macroeconomic theory.
Trickle Down is also known as "supply side", money is spent by the government to give to industry or investors so that the economy will grow, either through tax-cuts, spending or subsidy. The instance that is alluded to here is fiscal policy under Reagan in the 80s, where money was spent on weapons, tax cuts for investors. The goal is to increase the supply of production
The flip side is "demand side economics", this is classic Keynesian policy where money is put in the hands of consumers through pension payments, government services, entitlements or by creating state companies to give out jobs (ie the Hoover Dam). This is used in lots of places, but Keynes' theories were based on Roosevelt in the 30s.
This story actually seems more indicative of demand side economics, or "trickle up" economics.
But let me guess... you don't care.
India needs a little of both these policies, but promarily it needs to focus on reducing corruption, encouraging fair Foreign Direct Investment and a good education system. All of which are aided through the outsourcing described in the article.
Cobra: the less fizzy lager, low carbonation is an asset when eating spicy stuff. www.cobrabeer.com
Kingfisher: low cal, and good in hot weather.
Snarky is right, and the quality of the letter is very poor:
- No salutation (Dear Sir, Dear Mr. McNealy).
- First sentence has a gerund and is in the passive voice.
- Dodgy syntax throughout "...spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy"
- An unnecessary personal attack "But the casual equation between 'open source' and 'zero revenue' suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about"
- And finally an over the top historical allusion "Mr. CEO, tear down that wall."
This is of course leaving out his generalizations about Sun, his misinterpretation of the meaning of stock price and his huberis in pretending to speak for the "Open Source Community".
Maybe ESR has had a bad Valentine's Day, but he should definitely get a proofreader.
I've been looking around various sites, but mostly keeping up with news about Spirit through google news. What is THE best site for up to the minute reports?