The linked gif "http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2013/20131128_ison_lasco-c2_20131129_0013_c2_1024.gif" seems to show the debris "tail" mostly flowing back along the comet's direction of travel, with some off-axis blow evident in the later post-encounter image. I would have expected the "tail" to always be pointing *away* from the sun as it made this fly-by. Derp?
The lack of journalistic professionalism aside, I found this all a bit odd from a marketing/demographic point of view as well. IF you consider that a much larger percentage of the BBC readership probably uses Linux in some capacity rather than an SCO product (Unixware on the desktop, anyone?), why then was this venomous editorial slant given to the piece? Perhaps a new, darker knight is descending over the BBC.
This is all a little strange. It seems to me that the IBM case would have to be set on hold until after the Novell case is settled. I mean how can you finish suing IBM for misuse/misappropration of IP until you've settled who the actual owner of the copyrighted material is?
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Shouldn't affect the IBM case at all, as that dispute is over a supposed contract problem between the parties (IBM is accused of contributing their own original code into Linux, code which was once possibly in the same room with the letters SCO).
Well, are you suggesting that the only reason that one should have weapons in their home is to immediately have access to one should they be drafted into a militia? Defend their home?
=========== Again, there is an implied acknowledgement that the posession of firearms is a *right* in my reading of the 2nd, and the references to the militia seems to positively affirm that this pre-existing right of posession is a good and useful thing in terms of its *potential* utility to a nation/government in need. This seems to be a justification for the instruction to congress to leave this right unhindered, and in no way suggests it is the ONLY utility or justification for this right; just a mention of one important way this right is useful to the maintenance of a "free state". I would think any other uses of firearms are covered by the ninth amendmenmant.
Indeed, your logic is beyond flawed.
Sorry. The quicksand of hypoberle trodden in with exhausted feet and brain.
Regarding eligibility vs membership in a militia: I don't see that the lack of government interest in organizing contemporary citizen's militias in any way negates the 2nd amendment, or that there is anything implicit in the word "militia" that would specify that any weapons "used" for duty in a militia are only to be issued from government stocks kept under exclusive government control. If you own a personal firearm, you are that "potential" member of a militia, should the need arise. Once upon a time, there was a civilian marksmanship program to offer some basic instruction toward that end.
The original definition, the second amendment, to which this is all regarding, _does_ state that the right to bear arms is reserved only for those in military service or in a militia, not for those eligible to do so. Your definistion of the word militia, is irrelevant.
-------------- Revisionist Tripe. Please bear in mind that the "army" of the *revolutionary* period was made in part of "minute men" who employed their own personal weapons, kept in their own homes = Instant militia. I wonder why the disarming of the populace did not commence with the ratification of the new constitution? Or why we are just now "deciding" they never meant for the individual to own firearms?
I read the 2nd amendment to:
**Acknowledge the desirability of an armed populace as a supplemental resource for the armed forces to draw upon in urgent times of need; **And therefore congress is instructed never to infringe the RIGHT of the People to keep and bear arms.
I think the authors of this document were perfectly capable of stating "Firearms are prohibited to the individual citizen, and their use and posession is limited strictly to the agencies of the government" if that was their intent. If you are so persistantly hostile to the rights affirmed in our constitution, you are welcome to attempt its overthrow directly, at your own peril, should you find the forthright courage of your own conviction up to the task. However, I must admit the strategy of stacking our courts with cunning bolshevik shysters which can "rule" by non-legislated fiat does seem to be working out very well for your group. Jefferson foresaw this flaw, predicting that if the courts were the only bodies empowered to interpret the constitution, eventually they would interpret it to say whatever they wished it to say.
...goes something like "we'll only use these new laws and powers to go after offender type [x].." Its absolutely hilarious every time the public falls for it. You put these 'powers' on the books, the feds *will* use them as they find convenient, with every county dog catcher eventually wanting to apply these new/anti-terrorist/drug lord/$whatever/ laws to your mother-in-law.
...one way of looking at it is to consider that if all this robotics crap catches on, you will be removing a bunch of "fries with that" employment catagories and replacing them with some nice clean-room assembly type jobs...which are easier to export to Indonesia.
Many really nice older CNC vertical mills (vertical machining centers) are *reasonably priced* and available from shops that had to upgrade to get higher spindle speeds etc. Your main cost is tooling (You usually get a buck nekkid machine) & rigging (moving something that weighs maybe 10,000lbs plus) and the wiring and transformers...(440v 3-phase is common)....G-codes are not that hard, you can play with a program like CamExpert (Linux!) to make your drawings and generate 2-D G-codes....the more modern controllers have proprietary interfaces that sort of hide the ugly details in a menu-driven graphical format...long as you know what all that stuff is called and actually does. Prepare to feel really stupid for a while. A CNC *crash* is much more violent than a PC crash.
The qwerty layout was a requirement of the old mechanical typewriters. Certain common key combos would jam the character arms together if they swung in their little arcs at nearly the same time..... DC
Obviously a simple case of broken and disjointed latin; a possible translation is *wannabe*. This frequently happens when the highest modded questions are submitted on crumbling parchment.
After AOL gets all their dialup drones on RR, and clogs the lines with all the *cough* content they provide, you can forget about calling cable modems a fast connection.
Ramsey might have made legal products with legitimate uses, but they also made illegal products to be used for violating people's basic human right to privacy.
============== The Fed's main interest in these devices is that you may have a disguised video camera which catches them on film while planting a surveillance device on your premises.
In case you haven't noticed, $17,000 is a huge amount of money for most of the world. Per-capita annual income in many sub-Saharan countries and the likes of Bangladesh is under $100 per year. That is true, grinding poverty.
Depends on the point of view, eh. In the U.S., it costs a family of four about $17K a year to have next to nothing.
> When the US was a republic we were much more free.
We are STILL a Republic. We elect representatives from any political party or faction we choose, who then rubber stamp any funding or policy the Federal Government wants. So anything they want is totally free! And they are completely free to do exactly as they like with us! How could you improve on that?
How can you resolve such ethics when you 'abort' thousands of potential people every time you shower? Where do you draw the line? ----------------- It indeed is complicity to murder on the part of our society to allow any female to complete her monthly cycle without taking every possible technological effort to ensure that the potential unborn life is not lost. This life can be rescued, at this point, by the application of a commonly available biological medicinal agent; (MonsantoSpermTM, which they will be contractually obligated to harvest from third world farmers in exchange for other viable seed). To stand by and do nothing, when the ability to intervene is readily at hand, is an aborogation of our responsibilities as a nation. Since the individual cannot be trusted with life and death matters of this gravity, the state should step in and harvest all viable human eggs upon the moment of maturity, by force if needed. The extreme urgency of stopping a potential murder justifies the minor inconvenience to the males and female in question. As the state's responsibility ends with the act of preventing the death of the unborn, the cured new life will be returned to the vessel from whence it was rescued, again by force if needed, to be incubated lawfully, as is His will. Any sinfull attempts by the female to disregard her civil duty will lead to her being restrained in a state morality cloister for a minimum of nine months. Ah, the pleasure of a clear consience! How wondrous that religion can work hand in hand with government to ensure our freedom and salvation.
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There is a cynicism upgrade available which will restart the modules.
....as an integrated component of systemd.
The linked gif "http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2013/20131128_ison_lasco-c2_20131129_0013_c2_1024.gif" seems to show the debris "tail" mostly flowing back along the comet's direction of travel, with some off-axis blow evident in the later post-encounter image. I would have expected the "tail" to always be pointing *away* from the sun as it made this fly-by. Derp?
-DC
And how's the empire doing these days?
Promiscuity did that? Drink your water from lead pipes for a hundred years or so and get back to me.
-DC
Who on earth cares what McNugget tells a paid stooge of Lyon's caliber? So now its AIX that contains....
'millions of lines of line-for-line copied code'.
Paint up the stock price and dump those shares, boys. See any insiders buying this turnip?
BFD.
SH
Actually, the 9th amendment is explicit about that. It gets very little airtime, though.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment09/
-DC
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Your parsing of the statement does make the SCO theory of derivatives more.... accessible? though.
And everyone thought the AYB jokes were...jokes.
DC
The lack of journalistic professionalism aside, I found this all a bit odd from a marketing/demographic point of view as well. IF you consider that a much larger percentage of the BBC readership probably uses Linux in some capacity rather than an SCO product (Unixware on the desktop, anyone?), why then was this venomous editorial slant given to the piece? Perhaps a new, darker knight is descending over the BBC.
DC
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Shouldn't affect the IBM case at all, as that dispute is over a supposed contract problem between the parties (IBM is accused of contributing their own original code into Linux, code which was once possibly in the same room with the letters SCO).
DC
Well, are you suggesting that the only reason that one should have weapons in their home is to immediately have access to one should they be drafted into a militia? Defend their home?
===========
Again, there is an implied acknowledgement that the posession of firearms is a *right* in my reading of the 2nd, and the references to the militia seems to positively affirm that this pre-existing right of posession is a good and useful thing in terms of its *potential* utility to a nation/government in need. This seems to be a justification for the instruction to congress to leave this right unhindered, and in no way suggests it is the ONLY utility or justification for this right; just a mention of one important way this right is useful to the maintenance of a "free state". I would think any other uses of firearms are covered by the ninth amendmenmant.
Indeed, your logic is beyond flawed.
Sorry. The quicksand of hypoberle trodden in with exhausted feet and brain.
Regarding eligibility vs membership in a militia: I don't see that the lack of government interest in organizing contemporary citizen's militias in any way negates the 2nd amendment, or that there is anything implicit in the word "militia" that would specify that any weapons "used" for duty in a militia are only to be issued from government stocks kept under exclusive government control. If you own a personal firearm, you are that "potential" member of a militia, should the need arise. Once upon a time, there was a civilian marksmanship program to offer some basic instruction toward that end.
DC
The original definition, the second amendment, to which this is all regarding, _does_ state that the right to bear arms is reserved only for those in military service or in a militia, not for those eligible to do so. Your definistion of the word militia, is irrelevant.
--------------
Revisionist Tripe. Please bear in mind that the "army" of the *revolutionary* period was made in part of "minute men" who employed their own personal weapons, kept in their own homes = Instant militia. I wonder why the disarming of the populace did not commence with the ratification of the new constitution? Or why we are just now "deciding" they never meant for the individual to own firearms?
I read the 2nd amendment to:
**Acknowledge the desirability of an armed populace as a supplemental resource for the armed forces to draw upon in urgent times of need;
**And therefore congress is instructed never to infringe the RIGHT of the People to keep and bear arms.
I think the authors of this document were perfectly capable of stating "Firearms are prohibited to the individual citizen, and their use and posession is limited strictly to the agencies of the government" if that was their intent.
If you are so persistantly hostile to the rights affirmed in our constitution, you are welcome to attempt its overthrow directly, at your own peril, should you find the forthright courage of your own conviction up to the task. However, I must admit the strategy of stacking our courts with cunning bolshevik shysters which can "rule" by non-legislated fiat does seem to be working out very well for your group. Jefferson foresaw this flaw, predicting that if the courts were the only bodies empowered to interpret the constitution, eventually they would interpret it to say whatever they wished it to say.
DC
...goes something like "we'll only use these new laws and powers to go after offender type [x].." Its absolutely hilarious every time the public falls for it. You put these 'powers' on the books, the feds *will* use them as they find convenient, with every county dog catcher eventually wanting to apply these new /anti-terrorist/drug lord/$whatever/ laws to your mother-in-law.
Hide & Watch.
DC
...one way of looking at it is to consider that if all this robotics crap catches on, you will be removing a bunch of "fries with that" employment catagories and replacing them with some nice clean-room assembly type jobs...which are easier to export to Indonesia.
DC
Alcohol, Prescription Drugs and Illicit Drugs kill the people using them, they (usually) aren't used to kill others.
...who frequently deserve it. There are scads of situations where a well placed shot from a .45 is the appropriate response.
Lord, that statement certainly takes the what-rock-have-you-been-under award.
If it was (usually) true, I would have nothing at all against morons drinking/doping and driving.
Nothing at all.
Guns kill other people.
DC
Do a search on "used machine tools"
Many really nice older CNC vertical mills (vertical machining centers) are *reasonably priced* and available from shops that had to upgrade to get higher spindle speeds etc. Your main cost is tooling (You usually get a buck nekkid machine) & rigging (moving something that weighs maybe 10,000lbs plus) and the wiring and transformers...(440v 3-phase is common)....G-codes are not that hard, you can play with a program like CamExpert (Linux!) to make your drawings and generate 2-D G-codes....the more modern controllers have proprietary interfaces that sort of hide the ugly details in a menu-driven graphical format...long as you know what all that stuff is called and actually does. Prepare to feel really stupid for a while. A CNC *crash* is much more violent than a PC crash.
DC
The qwerty layout was a requirement of the old mechanical typewriters. Certain common key combos would jam the character arms together if they swung in their little arcs at nearly the same time.....
DC
Obviously a simple case of broken and disjointed latin; a possible translation is *wannabe*. This frequently happens when the highest modded questions are submitted on crumbling parchment.
DC
I downloaded mainsoft's converted ms solitare program and it uses a whopping 33% of memeory!
33% of how much memory?
1001011000
Remus Shepherd penned:
We killed millions of people so that we could have a Democratic system, rather than a fascist one.
[snip]
We killed millions so OUR leader's totalitarian vision of the coming new age would not be pre-empted by THEIR leader's premature implementation.
DC
My Top Two:
1. Niebelung
2. Debian
DC.
After AOL gets all their dialup drones on RR, and clogs the lines with all the *cough* content they provide, you can forget about calling cable modems a fast connection.
DonC.
Skyshadow writes:
Ramsey might have made legal products with legitimate uses, but they also made illegal products to be used for violating
people's basic human right to privacy.
==============
The Fed's main interest in these devices is that you may have a disguised video camera which catches them on film while planting a surveillance device on your premises.
DC
In case you haven't noticed, $17,000 is a huge amount of money for most of the world. Per-capita annual income in many sub-Saharan countries and the likes of Bangladesh is under $100 per year. That is true, grinding poverty.
Depends on the point of view, eh. In the U.S., it costs a family of four about $17K a year to have next to nothing.
DC
> When the US was a republic we were much more free.
We are STILL a Republic. We elect representatives from any political party or faction we choose, who then rubber stamp any funding or policy the Federal Government wants. So anything they want is totally free! And they are completely free to do exactly as they like with us! How could you improve on that?
DonC.
How can you resolve such ethics when you 'abort' thousands of potential people every time you shower? Where do you draw the line?
-----------------
It indeed is complicity to murder on the part of our society to allow any female to complete her monthly cycle without taking every possible technological effort to ensure that the potential unborn life is not lost. This life can be rescued, at this point, by the application of a commonly available biological medicinal agent; (MonsantoSpermTM, which they will be contractually obligated to harvest from third world farmers in exchange for other viable seed). To stand by and do nothing, when the ability to intervene is readily at hand, is an aborogation of our responsibilities as a nation. Since the individual cannot be trusted with life and death matters of this gravity, the state should step in and harvest all viable human eggs upon the moment of maturity, by force if needed. The extreme urgency of stopping a potential murder justifies the minor inconvenience to the males and female in question. As the state's responsibility ends with the act of preventing the death of the unborn, the cured new life will be returned to the vessel from whence it was rescued, again by force if needed, to be incubated lawfully, as is His will. Any sinfull attempts by the female to disregard her civil duty will lead to her being restrained in a state morality cloister for a minimum of nine months. Ah, the pleasure of a clear consience! How wondrous that religion can work hand in hand with government to ensure our freedom and salvation.
DonC.