You forget the part where you need to convince developers to port their applications to your OS so your OS is good for something other than being a doorstop.
You realize you're talking about pretty much everyone that has a mutual fund in their 401K, right?
Corporations exist to increase shareholder value. Governments (should) exist to provide for the general welfare. Why you're ragging on the people that are doing their job is beyond me. Maybe you should rag on the whores in DC that aren't doing their jobs.
They had an article in the "Dallas Morning News" a week or two on the federal courthouse in Marshall, Texas. The reason so many companies go there for IP cases is because the judges there have become experts at IP law and they do not fuck around. A case will go through their docket in a few months instead of dragging on for years. And they usually find in favor of the plaintiff because, well, usually the defendant is guilty.
One of my friends used to work at a medical startup; was worth quite a bit in options. Some other company started stealing their IP and they didn't have the resources to fight them for years in court. They went belly up about a year ago.
Good Lord. You actually answer your own question. You see the phrase "above-mentioned persons" at the end of the 2nd paragraph? Please note the above-mentioned persons consist of a) non-combatants and b) members of armed forces that have laid down their arms.
Insurgents and terrorists belong to neither category. Feel free to use the genital clamps on them. It's bad PR, but it doesn't violate the Geneva Conventions.
Since when have the Geneva Conventions applied to fighters not wearing uniforms? If you're in a war, and someone dressed as a civilian shoots at you, it's OK to kill them. And if you capture them instead, you can hang them on the spot.
Well, the Japanese attacked the US in WWII when it was obvious to anyone with a brain they'd get their ass kicked. Only about 10% of the US war effort went to the Pacific front. Sometimes nations are ruled by utter nutjobs.
Hate to break it to you, but most of the people on this planet kill their own meat. My grandparents were butchers. We used to have chickens when I was little; I've watched my dad wring their necks. I think you live in a part of the country where there's not a lot of hunters; you'd be surprised at how many people in the US kill animals for sport.
My brother used to work on our pig farm. Several times, recent immigrants to the US would come by in a pickup, buy a pig, and slaughter it in the bed of the truck.
*You* may have a problem with killing animals, but humans in general are perfectly copacetic with it.
Well-cooked pork is perfectly safe. Pork is a lot leaner now than it was twenty years ago (I grew up on a pig farm, and about ten years my dad had to replace all his breeding animals because the slaughterhouses started not accepting hogs if they had more than a certain bodyfat percentage). And trichonosis has pretty much been eradicated in the US except for some wild pigs. You aren't going to get it (or tapeworm) from something you buy in a store.
Yeah, we should go back in time four years and just use sanctions. *That* didn't kill any innocent civilians. Saddam didn't kill any innocent civilians, either.
My parents spend the winters in south Texas. They go across the border for dental work. Their dentist is an American who commutes to his office in Mexico to work on mostly American patients. His costs are so much cheaper there.
Supposedly, about four billion years ago something the size of Mars hit the proto-Earth. Their metal cores (mostly) merged and the rocky outer layers flew all over the place and mostly coalesced into the moon. Earth ended up with a relatively thin rock crust, where the moon is mostly rock and if it's got a metal core, it's pretty small.
If that hadn't have happened, Earth's crust would be like Venus's crust, would be too thick to have plate tectonics to release stress, and every hundred million years or so huge lava flows would cover the planet, rendering life as we know it impossible.
You could read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It was published in the early 1900's and was set in Chicago's meat-packing industry. It was a best seller and it led to the creation of the FDA because of the horrible conditions it exposed.
We read the book in high school. The teacher casually mentioned we didn't have to read the last chapter. So I did. That's where the main character attends a Communist Party meeting and sees the light (Upton Sinclair was a Commie).
There's a reason a lot of intelligent people back then were communists; it was hard for someone with any brains to believe that capitalism could create a system where life wouldn't totally suck for most of the population.
Communists are idiots. Libertarians are idiots. Government's main purpose is to f*ck with people that need to be f*cked with. The trick is to decide who needs to be f*cked with and how much they need to be f*cked. Communism f*cks with everyone. Libertarianism doesn't f*ck nearly enough of the people that need to be f*cked.
Or if they decide to change by running off with another man? Or if they join a cult? Both of which happened to guys I know who married women who, at the time, I thought the world of and could have never imagined doing things like that.
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Don't know about you, but everything *I* need to know about the universe was summed up in "The Cold Equations".
The universe just really doesn't give a damn. It's incapable of giving a damn. We're on our own.
A far more effective way would be to not give welfare to anybody that hasn't had a vasectomy or had their tubes tied.
You forget the part where you need to convince developers to port their applications to your OS so your OS is good for something other than being a doorstop.
You realize you're talking about pretty much everyone that has a mutual fund in their 401K, right?
Corporations exist to increase shareholder value. Governments (should) exist to provide for the general welfare. Why you're ragging on the people that are doing their job is beyond me. Maybe you should rag on the whores in DC that aren't doing their jobs.
They had an article in the "Dallas Morning News" a week or two on the federal courthouse in Marshall, Texas. The reason so many companies go there for IP cases is because the judges there have become experts at IP law and they do not fuck around. A case will go through their docket in a few months instead of dragging on for years. And they usually find in favor of the plaintiff because, well, usually the defendant is guilty.
One of my friends used to work at a medical startup; was worth quite a bit in options. Some other company started stealing their IP and they didn't have the resources to fight them for years in court. They went belly up about a year ago.
Or, maybe they're buying King Kong at Best Buy, and buying Brokeback Mountain on Amazon where nobody's looking at 'em like they're gay ;)
They're not hookers, they're hoors. Tousands und tousands of hoors. It *is* the moon, after all.
Uh, not dying?
The option to live as long as you want would be nice. And with enough time, maybe the finite complexity/capability could be addressed.
What do you mean? The USA is great at four things: movies, music, software and pizza delivery technology.
He means he's not going to buy any Treasury bills :)
Good Lord. You actually answer your own question. You see the phrase "above-mentioned persons" at the end of the 2nd paragraph? Please note the above-mentioned persons consist of a) non-combatants and b) members of armed forces that have laid down their arms.
Insurgents and terrorists belong to neither category. Feel free to use the genital clamps on them. It's bad PR, but it doesn't violate the Geneva Conventions.
Since when have the Geneva Conventions applied to fighters not wearing uniforms? If you're in a war, and someone dressed as a civilian shoots at you, it's OK to kill them. And if you capture them instead, you can hang them on the spot.
Well, the Japanese attacked the US in WWII when it was obvious to anyone with a brain they'd get their ass kicked. Only about 10% of the US war effort went to the Pacific front. Sometimes nations are ruled by utter nutjobs.
Hate to break it to you, but most of the people on this planet kill their own meat. My grandparents were butchers. We used to have chickens when I was little; I've watched my dad wring their necks. I think you live in a part of the country where there's not a lot of hunters; you'd be surprised at how many people in the US kill animals for sport.
My brother used to work on our pig farm. Several times, recent immigrants to the US would come by in a pickup, buy a pig, and slaughter it in the bed of the truck.
*You* may have a problem with killing animals, but humans in general are perfectly copacetic with it.
Uh, you can ranch cattle in places where it's not feasible to grow crops.
George Forman (Foreman?) grill. Quick, convenient, easy to clean up. Mmmm, good. May have to pick up some salmon or pork loin on the way home . . .
Well-cooked pork is perfectly safe. Pork is a lot leaner now than it was twenty years ago (I grew up on a pig farm, and about ten years my dad had to replace all his breeding animals because the slaughterhouses started not accepting hogs if they had more than a certain bodyfat percentage). And trichonosis has pretty much been eradicated in the US except for some wild pigs. You aren't going to get it (or tapeworm) from something you buy in a store.
An' change yer name to Bruce. It's less confusin' that way.
If you're trying to get rid of IE, why the *fsck* would you be using Outlook? :)
Christopher Hitchens also wrote a book that painted Mother Theresa in a not-so-favorable light.
Yeah, we should go back in time four years and just use sanctions. *That* didn't kill any innocent civilians. Saddam didn't kill any innocent civilians, either.
My parents spend the winters in south Texas. They go across the border for dental work. Their dentist is an American who commutes to his office in Mexico to work on mostly American patients. His costs are so much cheaper there.
Supposedly, about four billion years ago something the size of Mars hit the proto-Earth. Their metal cores (mostly) merged and the rocky outer layers flew all over the place and mostly coalesced into the moon. Earth ended up with a relatively thin rock crust, where the moon is mostly rock and if it's got a metal core, it's pretty small.
If that hadn't have happened, Earth's crust would be like Venus's crust, would be too thick to have plate tectonics to release stress, and every hundred million years or so huge lava flows would cover the planet, rendering life as we know it impossible.
You could read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It was published in the early 1900's and was set in Chicago's meat-packing industry. It was a best seller and it led to the creation of the FDA because of the horrible conditions it exposed.
We read the book in high school. The teacher casually mentioned we didn't have to read the last chapter. So I did. That's where the main character attends a Communist Party meeting and sees the light (Upton Sinclair was a Commie).
There's a reason a lot of intelligent people back then were communists; it was hard for someone with any brains to believe that capitalism could create a system where life wouldn't totally suck for most of the population.
Communists are idiots. Libertarians are idiots. Government's main purpose is to f*ck with people that need to be f*cked with. The trick is to decide who needs to be f*cked with and how much they need to be f*cked. Communism f*cks with everyone. Libertarianism doesn't f*ck nearly enough of the people that need to be f*cked.
Or if they decide to change by running off with another man? Or if they join a cult? Both of which happened to guys I know who married women who, at the time, I thought the world of and could have never imagined doing things like that.