I would gladly strangle anybody who proudly told me that they had an abortion, or support the "rights" of people who do.
gladly strangle? Last I checked killing someone because they legally did something you disagree with is murder. If abortion is murder, I expect that in your belief system god has the job of judging, not you. At the very least, you might want to say that you would remorsefully strangle a majority of the population.
Howard Dean was the front runner until Faux News and CNN put his "scream" on a continuous loop. They've both since stated that they may have overdone it.
This is why media consolidation is the enemy. The media is not biased to either left or right. The media is biased to easy profits.
The Sheriff has taken a what should be a simple civil matter and denied Richard of his liberty and property. In my opinion, one of these guys should be behind bars, and it's not Richard.
That's funny... my hosting company does the exact same thing to me when I don't pay them... they return my service to me promptly after getting their money. Should I sue them for extortion?
No, you should throw them in jail and impound their equipment!
No he didn't take anything away from the sheriff, the web site was his property. If the sheriff valued the web site, he should have had a contract that spelled out ownership. Since he hadn't given any money for the site, how can he claim ownership? It shows that the sheriff valued the site a $0.
I have no love for SCO or M$, but this is obviously a forgery. When was the last time that anybody you know wrote a "smoking-gun" memo, that spells out M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T in every instance it's used? Everybody shorthands it to MS (or M$), unless your motive is to provide a paper trail.
If anybody wants to request this memo in discovery, they'd better bury it in a stack of other stuff, or much will be made of the fact that it doesn't. If the $86 mil does exist, there has got to be much better proof than this memo.
IANAL, but I believe you have misinterpreted the article you cite. Those people were fired, not something that requires due process in a court of law.
Both slander and libel require due process in a court of law, and are statutory, not constitutional, meaning that congress has enacted a law. The 1st amendment starts with "congress shall enact no law". If you and I have a business relationship (employment), you are free to cancel it for what I might say or write. If you want to force me to take back my words, you're going to have to take me to court where we'll we get into that constitutional laws trump statutory laws thing.
In winter in Michigan we put salt on our roads to melt the ice. This causes cars to rust out in a very few years. Used cars from warm dry places like New Mexico sell for a premium. I'm looking forward to whole bunch of nice used cars around 2009.
I work for my money, so I pay 28% income tax, plus 12.4% social security payroll tax. For an effective rate of 40.4% (federal), plus 4% (state), plus 6% sales tax. The wealthy get their money from dividends and interest. They pay 20% income tax and effectively no SS tax since it phases out at $80,000 for earned income and doesn't apply to dividends and interest. Why do poor people pay have a rate twice as high as the rich? They should pay more. They have benefited more from our society than most. They have more to protect. They send lobbyists to Washington to make sure they get more benefits from the system.
No wonder your frame of reference is so narrow: You tell those who disagree with you to "shutup". If your taxes have given you the benefit of a public education, your teacher probably did.
Most people I talked to believe government is the only hope; that egovernment and other government projects are the only way to develop a sustainable local IT sector.
Next question (asked by Indians I spoke to): "Where is the government going to get the money?"
I was asked to pose this one to Slashdot readers. Consider it posed. Plenty of Indians would like to know the answer.
Do it the way we americans do: Tax cuts for the wealthy!
Seriously, I'm not sure now is the right time to ask the USA how to use government projects to fund things.
Open Source IS what you want to sell. Start with the proprietary licenses, you'll be amazed what you find if you're actually able to read what it is that you've bought (a license). Example: One of the arguments you'll hear against OSS is lack of warranty, yet most proprietary licenses exclude warranty of merchantability.
Include the story of Ernie Ball, a great example of one of the risks of proprietary software.
Get a few copies of Revolution OS to pass around. Those who can't sit still long enough to read may be able to be captivated by TV.
Open protocols are more important than open source. Avoid vendor lock-in. If your information is in a proprietary protocol, who really owns it?
This article is overly simplistic. There are more than 2 types of meetings (off the top of my head):
We're here to tell you something you already know.
We're here to tell you something you can't possibly know.
We're here so you can tell us something.
We're here to make a profound decision.
We're here to change someone's behavior.
Hybrid meeting.
Reading the article, I came away with the feeling that a class (meeting), and departmental status meeting fall into the same category.
Most of us are in the communications business. As DeMarco and Lister pointed out, most of the problems we deal with are sociological, not technical. This cynicism expressed in this article will not help you solve your sociological problems.
When I glanced at the headline I thought (hoped) it said: "NPR Dumping Car Talk". At least it's got all the right words in the the headline, with the exception of "RealMedia" (not one of the right words).
These people are supposed to running our fscking country not trading dirty secrets about how to screw the president out of a judicial nominee.
You mean like the energy policy? The radical right-wingers have closed everyone who is not idealogically aligned with them from all power, failing to even discus it with them. This was Democratic strategy, not national policy!
The real scam on rebates is sales tax. I read the ads and they'll say a product is $19.95. In the small print it says "after rebate". So I end up paying $19.95 + tax plus tax on $40.00 in rebates ($2.40 overcharge in Michigan). Do the stores pay the $2.40 to the state or do they pocket it?
Any lawyers out there care to tell me why nobody has sued for false advertising?
How about we stop allowing them to pay off these lawmakers with huge donations (even through other channels) and they stop being able to throw their weight around.
The complicated way to do this is to have a law passed (that is sure to be filled w/ loopholes). The easy way to do this is to not give them any money. Buy music only from indie labels (I haven't bought an RIAA CD in years). Movies are tougher; who can resist going to see LOTR the weekend it comes out.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot editors seem to be the types that only pick a party because someone told them they could get laid.
Dude, tell me what party to join!
I would gladly strangle anybody who proudly told me that they had an abortion, or support the "rights" of people who do.
gladly strangle? Last I checked killing someone because they legally did something you disagree with is murder. If abortion is murder, I expect that in your belief system god has the job of judging, not you. At the very least, you might want to say that you would remorsefully strangle a majority of the population.
Might as well have called flaimbait.slashdot.org.
What is different about this "wartime footing" is that we are at war with tactic, not a specific enemy. How will we know when the war is over?
Will catching OBL end the war? Nope, somebody just exploded a bomb somewhere so we still have terrorists.
After that there's the war on drugs etc.
If our culture is headed down the path of having high esteem for people who appear and do successfully on game shows--boy are we screwed.
Yeah, we need to get back to the traditional values of throwing a ball and running fast.
Howard Dean was the front runner until Faux News and CNN put his "scream" on a continuous loop. They've both since stated that they may have overdone it.
This is why media consolidation is the enemy. The media is not biased to either left or right. The media is biased to easy profits.
Since when did domain squating become criminal?
The Sheriff has taken a what should be a simple civil matter and denied Richard of his liberty and property. In my opinion, one of these guys should be behind bars, and it's not Richard.
That's funny... my hosting company does the exact same thing to me when I don't pay them... they return my service to me promptly after getting their money. Should I sue them for extortion?
No, you should throw them in jail and impound their equipment!
It's criminal now. The sheriff should be doing hard time.
No he didn't take anything away from the sheriff, the web site was his property. If the sheriff valued the web site, he should have had a contract that spelled out ownership. Since he hadn't given any money for the site, how can he claim ownership? It shows that the sheriff valued the site a $0.
It's the sheriff who unjustly took property away.
I'm sick of giving you free stuff.
What? If I don't continue you'll throw me in jail? Well then I want $1,000,000. What do you mean your taking my stuff?
Come on, the sheriff is the one who ought to be in jail for abuse of power!
I have no love for SCO or M$, but this is obviously a forgery. When was the last time that anybody you know wrote a "smoking-gun" memo, that spells out M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T in every instance it's used? Everybody shorthands it to MS (or M$), unless your motive is to provide a paper trail.
If anybody wants to request this memo in discovery, they'd better bury it in a stack of other stuff, or much will be made of the fact that it doesn't. If the $86 mil does exist, there has got to be much better proof than this memo.
IANAL, but I believe you have misinterpreted the article you cite. Those people were fired, not something that requires due process in a court of law.
Both slander and libel require due process in a court of law, and are statutory, not constitutional, meaning that congress has enacted a law. The 1st amendment starts with "congress shall enact no law". If you and I have a business relationship (employment), you are free to cancel it for what I might say or write. If you want to force me to take back my words, you're going to have to take me to court where we'll we get into that constitutional laws trump statutory laws thing.
In winter in Michigan we put salt on our roads to melt the ice. This causes cars to rust out in a very few years. Used cars from warm dry places like New Mexico sell for a premium. I'm looking forward to whole bunch of nice used cars around 2009.
I work for my money, so I pay 28% income tax, plus 12.4% social security payroll tax. For an effective rate of 40.4% (federal), plus 4% (state), plus 6% sales tax. The wealthy get their money from dividends and interest. They pay 20% income tax and effectively no SS tax since it phases out at $80,000 for earned income and doesn't apply to dividends and interest. Why do poor people pay have a rate twice as high as the rich? They should pay more. They have benefited more from our society than most. They have more to protect. They send lobbyists to Washington to make sure they get more benefits from the system.
No wonder your frame of reference is so narrow: You tell those who disagree with you to "shutup". If your taxes have given you the benefit of a public education, your teacher probably did.
Most people I talked to believe government is the only hope; that egovernment and other government projects are the only way to develop a sustainable local IT sector.
Next question (asked by Indians I spoke to): "Where is the government going to get the money?"
I was asked to pose this one to Slashdot readers. Consider it posed. Plenty of Indians would like to know the answer.
Do it the way we americans do: Tax cuts for the wealthy!
Seriously, I'm not sure now is the right time to ask the USA how to use government projects to fund things.
Open Source IS what you want to sell. Start with the proprietary licenses, you'll be amazed what you find if you're actually able to read what it is that you've bought (a license). Example: One of the arguments you'll hear against OSS is lack of warranty, yet most proprietary licenses exclude warranty of merchantability.
Include the story of Ernie Ball, a great example of one of the risks of proprietary software.
Get a few copies of Revolution OS to pass around. Those who can't sit still long enough to read may be able to be captivated by TV.
Open protocols are more important than open source. Avoid vendor lock-in. If your information is in a proprietary protocol, who really owns it?
That's why a NDA is required.
Sounds like they're going to have an opening.
Reading the article, I came away with the feeling that a class (meeting), and departmental status meeting fall into the same category.
Most of us are in the communications business. As DeMarco and Lister pointed out, most of the problems we deal with are sociological, not technical. This cynicism expressed in this article will not help you solve your sociological problems.
When I glanced at the headline I thought (hoped) it said: "NPR Dumping Car Talk". At least it's got all the right words in the the headline, with the exception of "RealMedia" (not one of the right words).
Democrats get sodomized.
Didn't the last president get in trouble for something like this?
These people are supposed to running our fscking country not trading dirty secrets about how to screw the president out of a judicial nominee.
You mean like the energy policy? The radical right-wingers have closed everyone who is not idealogically aligned with them from all power, failing to even discus it with them. This was Democratic strategy, not national policy!
It's not like anybody got a BJ or anything.
The real scam on rebates is sales tax. I read the ads and they'll say a product is $19.95. In the small print it says "after rebate". So I end up paying $19.95 + tax plus tax on $40.00 in rebates ($2.40 overcharge in Michigan). Do the stores pay the $2.40 to the state or do they pocket it?
Any lawyers out there care to tell me why nobody has sued for false advertising?
How about we stop allowing them to pay off these lawmakers with huge donations (even through other channels) and they stop being able to throw their weight around.
The complicated way to do this is to have a law passed (that is sure to be filled w/ loopholes). The easy way to do this is to not give them any money. Buy music only from indie labels (I haven't bought an RIAA CD in years). Movies are tougher; who can resist going to see LOTR the weekend it comes out.