Business nature (at least, in the U.S. and I suspect in other countries as well) is as much an artifact of the laws that govern corporate behavior as it is of human nature. Whether those laws are the result of our human failings is another question.
Since businesses are run by and staffed by humans, how can "business nature" be anything but human nature?
Don't be brainless. Even states that have passed enlightened "shoot the burglar" laws recognize that the intruder has revealed his intentions by being in your house.
Doesn't *matter* if he'd been robbed, he still killed somebody. He set out intending to shoot and kill a person, which in pretty much *any* country is murder.
No.
In some US states, anyone who breaks into your domicile (that includes house or vehicle) can be shot, even if no other crime has been committed.
IOW, just the mere fact that a stranger is in the house w/o permission from the owner is justification for shoot-to-kill.
Anti-gun activists in Louisiana brayed that the streets would run red with blood if such a law were passed, and the law was passed, and, of course, blood hasn't run down the streets...
Brady types tried to spread the same fear about a concealed-carry weapon law, and the same lack of blood in the street occured.
Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but wouldn't this be as easy as removing the USB mass storage driver from the kernel? It sure would be easy to do in linux...
Do people ever read the articles?
Bigco's and the gov't are not worried about people plugging in their iPods and listening to music.
They are worried about someone plugging in a 40GB iPod, and then writing 40GB of secret data onto said iPod, walking out the door and then selling it to the highest bidder.
"...prevent data from being written to USB devices...." This means you could still READ from sucha device, including an iPod, without the risk of writing sensitive information to the device. Sure...good job microsoft.
Sigh. Did you really read the article, or just skim it, looking for anti-MS drivel?
The point of the article is that companies don't want nefarious people to be able to insert USB sticks into machines and then walk away with 256MB of corporate/gov't secrets that was quickly flashed onto said USB stick.
95% of Linux systems (everything using apt, red carpet, yum, up2date, etc) recieve binary updates. On Debian unstable, my apt-get dist-upgrade after a month vacation runs about 200MB. Even over my crappy DSL, that's a few hours. If that could be reduced (and of course it could, often it's downloading all 50MB of OpenOffice for what was maybe a 50KB source patch), that'd save me a lot of time.
The problem is that 2 or three "dash versions" of packages may have been released in that month. Thus, the number of patches would be number_of_packages * number_of_versions (a very large number) and managing those packages would be a nightmare.
So, the Debian Developers have deemed that the cost of "release early, release often" applied to a distro's worth of packages is too high, regarding binary diffs.
In folks who're allergic to shellfish, which part is it that triggers the reaction? Peanut and shellfish allergies never seem to be mild, and while this is a wonderful lifesaving development, I wonder whether other methods should be kept handy in case this particular one would kill a particular person.
Allergic reactions get triggered by eating shellfish, not touching them...
Correction: the said co-owner does not have a heart (otherwise he would not be making such a killing with those exclusive overpriced bandages) and thus his little chest-stabbing PR stunt resulted in only a minor self-inflicted cutaneous injury.
You self-righteous, brainless shit.
John Holcomb has been working on this for 12 years, with no big company that has other income streams to fund the research.
Also, do you know how diffucult it is to create these bandages? Neither do I. Maybe it costs $70/bandage to specially refine the chemical and create the bandage. After all, if it were easy, it wouldn't have taken 12 years.
Besides, the Pentagon probably thinks that a $90 silver bullet to reduce the mortality rate by 10% is an incredible bargain. And these bandages will reduce the amount of work that doctors will have to do to repair wounds, meaning that they can treat more personnel, and less blood loss means that there will be less systemic damage, and less need for blood transfusions, people will heal quicker, etc, etc, etc...
maybe you missed that little "incident" where an air force pilot dropped a bomb on a canadian training exercise... it's insulting that you didn't even get the reference.
I got the reference. It's still totally clueless for anyone to treat Fahrenheit: 9/11 as anything other than propaganda. Goebbels would be proud of MM's techniques.
Er, you *do* realize the whole *point* of Scouting is to familiarize youth with military culture, don't you? Why do you think that had you wear pseudo-military uniforms, with patches indicating your rank, and why you were organized as *troops* for crying out loud?
As a former Boy Scout, I can firmly & truthfully state that you are wildly exagerating this point.
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Movie sets account for a good chunk of that.
Also, in big-budget films, the salaries of the marquee actors takes up a huge chunk.
The studios would much rather have CG actors than have to pay $10-25 million dollars to actors.
I wouldn't be surprised if, in 5 years, meat-bag actors are only in small to mid-sized films.
Oh, puleeze. That's more bogus (boguser?) than a Dan Rather news report.
Do you even know what BIOSs did on CP/M systems?
18 years ago, in 1976.
Business nature (at least, in the U.S. and I suspect in other countries as well) is as much an artifact of the laws that govern corporate behavior as it is of human nature. Whether those laws are the result of our human failings is another question.
Since businesses are run by and staffed by humans, how can "business nature" be anything but human nature?
rock salt in place of standard shot
But will the small granules of salt penetrate leather or heavy cloth?
Oh my god! he's coming right at me! [Toddler toddles ever closer...]
:)
Are biting ankles and puking on you considered a clear threat to person?
Shooting doesn't mean killing.
Never point a gun at someone unless you are emotionally willing and able to kill the person.
On your property,
Don't be brainless. Even states that have passed enlightened "shoot the burglar" laws recognize that the intruder has revealed his intentions by being in your house .
Leftists who repeat the military-industrial complex mantra conviently forget another quote from that speech:
We recognize the imperative need for this development.
Doesn't *matter* if he'd been robbed, he still killed somebody. He set out intending to shoot and kill a person, which in pretty much *any* country is murder.
No.
In some US states, anyone who breaks into your domicile (that includes house or vehicle) can be shot, even if no other crime has been committed.
IOW, just the mere fact that a stranger is in the house w/o permission from the owner is justification for shoot-to-kill.
Anti-gun activists in Louisiana brayed that the streets would run red with blood if such a law were passed, and the law was passed, and, of course, blood hasn't run down the streets...
Brady types tried to spread the same fear about a concealed-carry weapon law, and the same lack of blood in the street occured.
Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but wouldn't this be as easy as removing the USB mass storage driver from the kernel? It sure would be easy to do in linux...
Do people ever read the articles?
Bigco's and the gov't are not worried about people plugging in their iPods and listening to music.
They are worried about someone plugging in a 40GB iPod, and then writing 40GB of secret data onto said iPod, walking out the door and then selling it to the highest bidder.
"...prevent data from being written to USB devices...." This means you could still READ from sucha device, including an iPod, without the risk of writing sensitive information to the device. Sure...good job microsoft.
Sigh. Did you really read the article, or just skim it, looking for anti-MS drivel?
The point of the article is that companies don't want nefarious people to be able to insert USB sticks into machines and then walk away with 256MB of corporate/gov't secrets that was quickly flashed onto said USB stick.
95% of Linux systems (everything using apt, red carpet, yum, up2date, etc) recieve binary updates. On Debian unstable, my apt-get dist-upgrade after a month vacation runs about 200MB. Even over my crappy DSL, that's a few hours. If that could be reduced (and of course it could, often it's downloading all 50MB of OpenOffice for what was maybe a 50KB source patch), that'd save me a lot of time.
The problem is that 2 or three "dash versions" of packages may have been released in that month. Thus, the number of patches would be number_of_packages * number_of_versions (a very large number) and managing those packages would be a nightmare.
So, the Debian Developers have deemed that the cost of "release early, release often" applied to a distro's worth of packages is too high, regarding binary diffs.
Because other people's wishes about their own property are only worth respecting if they're willing to punish you for not respecting them?
Amen, brother.
In folks who're allergic to shellfish, which part is it that triggers the reaction? Peanut and shellfish allergies never seem to be mild, and while this is a wonderful lifesaving development, I wonder whether other methods should be kept handy in case this particular one would kill a particular person.
Allergic reactions get triggered by eating shellfish, not touching them...
You self-righteous, brainless shit.
John Holcomb has been working on this for 12 years, with no big company that has other income streams to fund the research.
Also, do you know how diffucult it is to create these bandages? Neither do I. Maybe it costs $70/bandage to specially refine the chemical and create the bandage. After all, if it were easy, it wouldn't have taken 12 years.
Besides, the Pentagon probably thinks that a $90 silver bullet to reduce the mortality rate by 10% is an incredible bargain. And these bandages will reduce the amount of work that doctors will have to do to repair wounds, meaning that they can treat more personnel, and less blood loss means that there will be less systemic damage, and less need for blood transfusions, people will heal quicker, etc, etc, etc...
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Didn't Dan Quayle get in trouble for this?
how about some Cajun seasoning? Will that stop bleeding?
Gash yourself, then pour salt and cayenne on the would, and get back to us, ok?
I knew a former Marine who talked about using the shrimp-based bandages for wounds.
Someone doesn't know the difference between the Army and the Marines. Or didn't ask the pertinent question: "Only the Army???"
You have to understand that America is as large as half of Europe as it is
Huh? Did you drop a word or two?
Specifically, though, it is a thousand crow-flies miles further from Los Angeles to Boston than it is from London to Moscow. (2605 vs. 1559)
The US is a really, really big country...
maybe you missed that little "incident" where an air force pilot dropped a bomb on a canadian training exercise... it's insulting that you didn't even get the reference.
I got the reference. It's still totally clueless for anyone to treat Fahrenheit: 9/11 as anything other than propaganda. Goebbels would be proud of MM's techniques.
Er, you *do* realize the whole *point* of Scouting is to familiarize youth with military culture, don't you? Why do you think that had you wear pseudo-military uniforms, with patches indicating your rank, and why you were organized as *troops* for crying out loud?
As a former Boy Scout, I can firmly & truthfully state that you are wildly exagerating this point.
An Iraqi defending his or her own country from invasion by foreign forces is no terrorist.
Too true. However, there are more than just poor, downtrodden Iraqis fighting against the Americans.
Since "they" don't wear uniforms, and one of the tactics that "they" use is to target civillians, they are, in fact, terrorists.
Sure. It's done all the time.
Give an actuary or economist these data points, and he'll tell you what the price of that person's life is:
The army isn't about simply sending waves and waves of your men at the enemy
It was in The Great War.
Chekoslovokia has oil?
There is no such country as Chekoslovokia.