wow. yea, thats a bright idea.. give everyone a weapon. Sure, it might prevent terrorism, but it will also increase murder, robbery, and gang violence rates. last night i was almost jumped over a cigarette, and if I had a gun, I probably would have shotten that got dumb spick. Where would I be now? Jail.
MAD only worked inthe cold war because Soviet Russia and The United States had intelligent, educated decision makers resisting a catostophe like nuclear war.
You're missing the big picture: he doesnt need the military because he has a bigger prize: controlling the military as CiC. Why would he risk death when he as a chance at re-election?
Frankly ive always felt that unless the cause for war is good enough for the commander in chief to pick up a gun and lead the troops off to battle in the name of truth and honor and whatever else he might be fighting for, then its not a good enough reason to send a single lowly infantryman.
I dont support Bush on any policy, thus far. However, I truely beleive two things about bush when it comes to the war in Iraq:
1. He really believes he was doing it for the freedom of the Iraqis. (what a dilusion) 2. He would fight himself if it were probable, but it's stupid to have someone as important as the President risk death.
Do you see any Generals fighting at the front line? No. Its because decision making officers usually dont risk the vulnurablity of enlistedmen running around with guns and tanks without orders from people who have more intelligence + diplomatic connections.
Tell me, would you really want a war fought with all the people who know what they're doing having the greatest potential of getting killed? Enlisted men understand the risk they take when they go off to bootcamp.
-malocchio (currently applying to OCS with the USMC)
As citizens, we always have to right to say where our money goes. Whether the power structure listens to its citizens is another matter.
Did you even read my post? All you did was repeat what you quoted from what I had to say.
As for Social Security, if you read my post agian, the first line implies that Congress listens to the consituency--so nothing new there either.
It's your right to petition the local school board on matters like these. Personally I think it's a silly petition, but I won't stand in anyone's right to do so.
I agree, it is a silly petition, but I was making the point that people shouldn't bitch about the Government's contract with Mircosoft, just because they happen to prefer an Open Source or Apple solution themselves. I dunno, perhaps my analogy is a little flawed.
You can try contacting your congressmen, but unless you are a constituant with a history of generous campaign donations, your letter will most likely be shredded.
Anyway, even though in theory you should, in reality you have no say as to where your tax money goes--and neither do I--because we are tax payers, not tax redistributers. Unless you hold a position as an elected official, what right do you have to tell the Government how to spend its income? And on a matter like this, that's like petitioning your local school district to start painting all of the schools blue, because it's you favorite color.
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fine then, but when I'm fired i will show my boss this thread, which by Slashdot's merritable reputation for increasing productivity, will excuse my slacking off.
Perhaps i will respond to that challenge with the undefined class..:)
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one word: heh.
well, maybe 2: idiot.
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hah, i haven't read a reply that funny in months.
It's slashdot's fault for my trolling, there were no good articles to argue about, so trolling was my last resort for entertainment at work. I do suppose I could actually work, too....
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would you like to see a scan of my Java cert?:P
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to say, once again: Java still sux.
Its slow, has licensing issues with Sun, and requires the run time env. for people to operate Java programs. For the web it sucks, requiring extra client software. For standalone programs it sucks, it's impossible to code something lightly in Java--too bulky, slow, bloated.
Yes it's stupid to waste your money on cigarettes.
And how might one go about wasting money on cigarettes? A wasted investment is when you don't spend money on an unusable/unused product. So, I guess wasting money on cigarettes would be buying a carton and not smoking them, or throwing them away after you walk out of the store.
On the other hand, I smoke 1 pack of Camels a day, and I enjoy every fucking drag. I hate dicks like you who hide their insecurities with a facade of innocent openness, What I think is stupid is to call other people stupid. You idiot, dont like smoking? Don't smoke. Don't like me smoking? Thats nice, go fuck yourself.
Personally, I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink or smoke. If tabacco and alcohol are out of the picture, theres usually something else more harmful--like obesity, street drugs, or even worse: clinical medication.
indications that film = art? hrmmm.... The Godfather, Ken Burns documentaries, Casablanca, some old westerns, hundreds others... Film, if done correctly, can bring to you everything a novel doesn't only minus literary technique. The combination of an exhilierating audio and visual experience that tells a story, makes an author's point, plays with ideas--how is that not art? If anything, film is the newest, most unmastered and yet most powerful artform that exists today.
Even The Matrix, I have never seen another movie that attempts to bring metaphysics to the big screen.
Self-regulation needs to be supported by strong federal legislation that empowers consumers without threatening the vitality of legitimate e-commerce. Our proposal is to create a regulatory "safe harbor" status for senders who comply with guidelines. The guidelines would be subject to approval by the Federal Trade Commission. Compliance would be confirmed by a self-regulatory body. Senders who do not comply would have to insert an "ADV:" label, for advertisement, in the subject line of all unsolicited commercial e-mail.
Lemme guess, once its approved by the FTC the software will be available for purchase from your spam-hating friends at Microsoft!
I personally dont hate spam enough to subscribe to a national service. And what about non-American email? Would be automatically filtered as and ADV?
It seems only after the west has tried to "modernize" [re: exploit] nations like china that these "sudden problems of infrastructure" have appeared.
and
Both sides have to simultaneously cut off dependencies for this to work.
Let me ask, what would happen if as a post-industrial nation we cut off our dependencies from third world exporters, but gave them aid (ie. financial, humanitarian, and training to rebuild their infrastructure)? Although its unlikely, would this be a merritorius persuit--long term speaking--as if we were ensuring a future trade partner that owed us for helping them out?
I dunno, it sounds a lil' too idealistic to several degrees.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
I agree, neither did I say, nor imply agreement.
From my original post: Now, if patents do infact hurt productivity enough, it would be reasonable to augment/abandon patent laws. Nevertheless, one must keep in sight the nature of patent laws: protection of developers.
Keeping that in mind, what I challenge is mindless bitching about things that aren't fair; I was demanding in my original post for someone to argue why this was wrong and what should be done about it, not just the former.
It seems to make sense, however when you say, "So why not have the US make the chips they themselves need and have other "third world nations" make things they need [infrastructure, food, etc.]" you run into a fundamental problem: Third world countries lack the means of organized production and funding for such production to manufacture the things they need. In the global economy, the only option that exists for them to approach industrialization is to export for x ammount of years until they've allocated enough capital to develop themselves as an industrial state. But when that happens, they rely on some other existing third world country for the raw materials suitable to their particular production.
What I don't get though, aren't US industry leaders also US citizens?
They are, but don't forget social stratification. US industry leaders identify with a class much higher than blue color workers, so it is easy to understand how they might forget about the pains suffered by American workers--not to mention unemployed American workers.
they steal jobs from their neighbours to support slave labour is that this sort of system consequently instigates the Marxist concept of wage-slavery, making domestic workers more and more dependent on their job to survive--taking check advances, bouncing checks, typical "robbing peter to pay paul" elements of lower-middle class family economics-- while the fear of losing their jobs resinates in the backs of their minds!
But the patents are still in place, aren't they? Correct me if I am wrong, but if a patent exists, the patent holder does hold rights to the methods described by that patent. Thus, sueing would be legitmate under the law.
What you are doing is changing the question, challenging "should this patent exist," when infact it does exist.
I'm bloody sick of SHIT made in turd world countries....
Third world countries are defined as being export-only, pre-industrial nation states. If things werent made and exported from third world countries, they wouldn't be third world countries, now would they?
I understand how most people here reject the ideas of patents infringing development, and would automatically argue this is some "unjustice." But, this is a legitimate application of law. It seems this artice was biasly submitted knowing how a "45 year old patent" striking down current development would affect readers.
Now, if patents do infact hurt productivity enough, it would be reasonable to augment/abandon patent laws. Nevertheless, one must keep in sight the nature of patent laws: protection of developers.
But in the new tech center of Bangalore, India, quality experts have been welcomed.
The article attacks buggy code, but has the author ever read any code/used any software that came directly from India without any American modification. Didn't think so.
Jim Kerstetter really ought to collect his thoughts before writing an article and hoping for it to be profound. All four of his "solutions" are seriously flawed.
Delivering software as a service? Yea, Microsoft has tried that with XP, and look how that turned out.
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wow. yea, thats a bright idea.. give everyone a weapon. Sure, it might prevent terrorism, but it will also increase murder, robbery, and gang violence rates. last night i was almost jumped over a cigarette, and if I had a gun, I probably would have shotten that got dumb spick. Where would I be now? Jail.
MAD only worked inthe cold war because Soviet Russia and The United States had intelligent, educated decision makers resisting a catostophe like nuclear war.
at least a few books about 20 century middle easy history.
:)
heh, i couldnt resist!
no need to read books if its so easy.
Mod me down for being stupid!
You're missing the big picture: he doesnt need the military because he has a bigger prize: controlling the military as CiC. Why would he risk death when he as a chance at re-election?
thats just 6 extra lines of code to test every word in the dictionary + triple the amount of combos you have to test.
Inkblots are a stupid idea, because sometimes people can look at the same exact fucking picture 2 weeks apart and see soemthing different.
Frankly ive always felt that unless the cause for war is good enough for the commander in chief to pick up a gun and lead the troops off to battle in the name of truth and honor and whatever else he might be fighting for, then its not a good enough reason to send a single lowly infantryman.
I dont support Bush on any policy, thus far. However, I truely beleive two things about bush when it comes to the war in Iraq:
1. He really believes he was doing it for the freedom of the Iraqis. (what a dilusion)
2. He would fight himself if it were probable, but it's stupid to have someone as important as the President risk death.
Do you see any Generals fighting at the front line? No. Its because decision making officers usually dont risk the vulnurablity of enlistedmen running around with guns and tanks without orders from people who have more intelligence + diplomatic connections.
Tell me, would you really want a war fought with all the people who know what they're doing having the greatest potential of getting killed? Enlisted men understand the risk they take when they go off to bootcamp.
-malocchio (currently applying to OCS with the USMC)
As citizens, we always have to right to say where our money goes. Whether the power structure listens to its citizens is another matter.
Did you even read my post? All you did was repeat what you quoted from what I had to say.
As for Social Security, if you read my post agian, the first line implies that Congress listens to the consituency--so nothing new there either.
It's your right to petition the local school board on matters like these. Personally I think it's a silly petition, but I won't stand in anyone's right to do so.
I agree, it is a silly petition, but I was making the point that people shouldn't bitch about the Government's contract with Mircosoft, just because they happen to prefer an Open Source or Apple solution themselves. I dunno, perhaps my analogy is a little flawed.
You can try contacting your congressmen, but unless you are a constituant with a history of generous campaign donations, your letter will most likely be shredded.
Anyway, even though in theory you should, in reality you have no say as to where your tax money goes--and neither do I--because we are tax payers, not tax redistributers. Unless you hold a position as an elected official, what right do you have to tell the Government how to spend its income? And on a matter like this, that's like petitioning your local school district to start painting all of the schools blue, because it's you favorite color.
fine then, but when I'm fired i will show my boss this thread, which by Slashdot's merritable reputation for increasing productivity, will excuse my slacking off.
:)
Perhaps i will respond to that challenge with the undefined class..
one word: heh.
well, maybe 2: idiot.
hah, i haven't read a reply that funny in months.
It's slashdot's fault for my trolling, there were no good articles to argue about, so trolling was my last resort for entertainment at work. I do suppose I could actually work, too....
would you like to see a scan of my Java cert? :P
to say, once again: Java still sux.
Its slow, has licensing issues with Sun, and requires the run time env. for people to operate Java programs. For the web it sucks, requiring extra client software. For standalone programs it sucks, it's impossible to code something lightly in Java--too bulky, slow, bloated.
meow
Yes it's stupid to waste your money on cigarettes.
And how might one go about wasting money on cigarettes? A wasted investment is when you don't spend money on an unusable/unused product. So, I guess wasting money on cigarettes would be buying a carton and not smoking them, or throwing them away after you walk out of the store.
On the other hand, I smoke 1 pack of Camels a day, and I enjoy every fucking drag. I hate dicks like you who hide their insecurities with a facade of innocent openness, What I think is stupid is to call other people stupid. You idiot, dont like smoking? Don't smoke. Don't like me smoking? Thats nice, go fuck yourself.
Personally, I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink or smoke. If tabacco and alcohol are out of the picture, theres usually something else more harmful--like obesity, street drugs, or even worse: clinical medication.
indications that film = art? hrmmm.... The Godfather, Ken Burns documentaries, Casablanca, some old westerns, hundreds others... Film, if done correctly, can bring to you everything a novel doesn't only minus literary technique. The combination of an exhilierating audio and visual experience that tells a story, makes an author's point, plays with ideas--how is that not art? If anything, film is the newest, most unmastered and yet most powerful artform that exists today.
Even The Matrix, I have never seen another movie that attempts to bring metaphysics to the big screen.
Self-regulation needs to be supported by strong federal legislation that empowers consumers without threatening the vitality of legitimate e-commerce. Our proposal is to create a regulatory "safe harbor" status for senders who comply with guidelines. The guidelines would be subject to approval by the Federal Trade Commission. Compliance would be confirmed by a self-regulatory body. Senders who do not comply would have to insert an "ADV:" label, for advertisement, in the subject line of all unsolicited commercial e-mail.
Lemme guess, once its approved by the FTC the software will be available for purchase from your spam-hating friends at Microsoft!
I personally dont hate spam enough to subscribe to a national service. And what about non-American email? Would be automatically filtered as and ADV?
Nice try, Mr. Gates.
It seems only after the west has tried to "modernize" [re: exploit] nations like china that these "sudden problems of infrastructure" have appeared.
and
Both sides have to simultaneously cut off dependencies for this to work.
Let me ask, what would happen if as a post-industrial nation we cut off our dependencies from third world exporters, but gave them aid (ie. financial, humanitarian, and training to rebuild their infrastructure)? Although its unlikely, would this be a merritorius persuit--long term speaking--as if we were ensuring a future trade partner that owed us for helping them out?
I dunno, it sounds a lil' too idealistic to several degrees.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
I agree, neither did I say, nor imply agreement.
From my original post:
Now, if patents do infact hurt productivity enough, it would be reasonable to augment/abandon patent laws. Nevertheless, one must keep in sight the nature of patent laws: protection of developers.
Keeping that in mind, what I challenge is mindless bitching about things that aren't fair; I was demanding in my original post for someone to argue why this was wrong and what should be done about it, not just the former.
It seems to make sense, however when you say, "So why not have the US make the chips they themselves need and have other "third world nations" make things they need [infrastructure, food, etc.]" you run into a fundamental problem: Third world countries lack the means of organized production and funding for such production to manufacture the things they need. In the global economy, the only option that exists for them to approach industrialization is to export for x ammount of years until they've allocated enough capital to develop themselves as an industrial state. But when that happens, they rely on some other existing third world country for the raw materials suitable to their particular production.
Have any other suggestions?
What I don't get though, aren't US industry leaders also US citizens?
They are, but don't forget social stratification. US industry leaders identify with a class much higher than blue color workers, so it is easy to understand how they might forget about the pains suffered by American workers--not to mention unemployed American workers.
they steal jobs from their neighbours to support slave labour is that this sort of system consequently instigates the Marxist concept of wage-slavery, making domestic workers more and more dependent on their job to survive--taking check advances, bouncing checks, typical "robbing peter to pay paul" elements of lower-middle class family economics-- while the fear of losing their jobs resinates in the backs of their minds!
Its disgustingly unfair, but what would be?
But the patents are still in place, aren't they? Correct me if I am wrong, but if a patent exists, the patent holder does hold rights to the methods described by that patent. Thus, sueing would be legitmate under the law.
What you are doing is changing the question, challenging "should this patent exist," when infact it does exist.
I'm bloody sick of SHIT made in turd world countries....
Third world countries are defined as being export-only, pre-industrial nation states. If things werent made and exported from third world countries, they wouldn't be third world countries, now would they?
Go read a book.
I understand how most people here reject the ideas of patents infringing development, and would automatically argue this is some "unjustice." But, this is a legitimate application of law. It seems this artice was biasly submitted knowing how a "45 year old patent" striking down current development would affect readers.
Now, if patents do infact hurt productivity enough, it would be reasonable to augment/abandon patent laws. Nevertheless, one must keep in sight the nature of patent laws: protection of developers.
But in the new tech center of Bangalore, India, quality experts have been welcomed.
The article attacks buggy code, but has the author ever read any code/used any software that came directly from India without any American modification. Didn't think so.
Jim Kerstetter really ought to collect his thoughts before writing an article and hoping for it to be profound. All four of his "solutions" are seriously flawed.
Delivering software as a service? Yea, Microsoft has tried that with XP, and look how that turned out.
HEH, offtopic?
can't you infer the palpable meaning into my post, that technology such as this is exciting?
sometimes, not saying exactly what you mean says more than you are ever capable of saying.
i was gonna post a comment, but I have to change my underwear first.