I'm a right wing free market capitalist who doesn't belive in any form of government regulation whatsoever (if we're allowed to make our statements look more acceptable by lying about the ideology behind them in the preface, mr. "environmentalist"), but if you think the single largest producer of CO2 cutting back presents "no improvements" regardless of what any other country does (unless you're positing that China and India will increase their CO2 production enough to offset American cutbacks, but ONLY if America makes those cutbacks) is just retarded.
I'd agree that Kyoto doesn't go far enough, but implementing it would certainly be better than nothing.
Are you going to argue that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty should be scrapped because it allows the US and Russia to keep building nuclear weapons, and therefore using it to stop Iran to do so isn't worth doing?
This further invalidates your point. If EA's football annual football game releases are not innovative, then their exclusive license to produce them doesn't even stifle innovation in that one sector, as there wasn't any to begin with.
As for software patents, you can assert all you want that there's less innovation in the games industry because of fear of patent suits, but unless you can provide evidence that there's been even one game that's been held back from the market because of patent fears, I'm not going to buy it. You might as well claim that the fear that aliens will blow up the local shopping mall is stifling the retail market.
And really, regardless of what you think about software patents, I think it's hard to argue that copying someone else's idea whether it's patented or not is innovation. I mean, I think it's really dumb that Amazon can try to keep me from implementing one-click purchasing on my web page, but I wouldn't say that they're preventing me from innovating because I can't use this innovative one-click thing I just invented. At worst they're preventing me from doing something that wasn't even innovative when they did it first. You can't really argue that someone's patented idea is both unpatentable because it's obvious and at the same time that it's innovative.
If they didn't intend to do so in the first place, it would be really tricky to have the craft modify itself so it could carry out such a sampling. You can't really extend a mission to do something completely impossible.
Uh, right. Every single company hoping to promote something is going to run out and buy themselves an Emmy.
Even accepting your basic premise that the award is for sale (which I don't), they still only give out one in each category every year. You'd think a massive bidding war to buy an award that no one's really going to care about would attract attention and be a big waste of time and money. Insightful indeed.
Is there some reason why you insist on writing every other word in your comment in English, and only one in Swedish when there's a perfectly good English word for the same thing?
There's a difference between "pedantic" and "stupid".
Oh please. Microsoft was found guilty of violating antitrust law despite the existence of competition. They have as much of a monopoly now as they did then. The only reason they weren't slapped with huge penalties was political; the Justice Department (who was prosecuting them at the time) came under the control of an administration that wasn't interested in punishing big corporations for trying to get bigger.
Microsoft could gain complete control of OS X and every Linux distro, and the Justice Dept. wouldn't make a move against them.
Yeah I find it completly implausible that an armed man would overreact when someone shot and killed his collegue. He must have been ordered by the President to go find a woman holding a baby to kill.
It's sad that there wasn't more media coverage of the thousands of women holding babies that Clinton ordered shot because their husbands were uncooperative. Because we all know that was his reaction to any uncooperative citizen anywhere. Especially the unarmed ones. He loved having them shot.
"Hey why don't you quit whining and start metamoderating? Why are you doing exactly what you are complaing about me doing? And why do you not see how ridiculously hypocritical you are?"
Then you say this
"I deserve flamebait for this one. I'll take my medicine, but it's worth it to point out what a cunt you are."
Hey why don't you quit whining and start metamoderating? Why are you doing exactly what you are complaing about me doing? And why do you not see how ridiculously hypocritical you are?
I can only hope that the shoot first, ask questions later attitude will be moderated now that this guy has a government job.
Ha! Moderated? More likely you'll be dragged off to a federal prison after you post your item on eBay, and when you prove it was really legal, in court, 2 years later, they'll let you go.
Then came the news that we jailed thousands of so-called terrorists suspects, locked them up without the right to a trial or even the right to confront their accusers. Certainly, we would never stand for that.
It surprises you that no one complains about the detention without trial of a few thousand people who are accused of terrorism in a country where no one complained about the dentention of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans who weren't even accused of anything? You obviously have a higher opinion of your fellow citizens than most of them deserve.
Well, the government might have trouble beating Google in terms of brains by being a more attractive employer (although maybe not by much--there's plenty of brainpower to go around and even if Google hires as many people as it wants to from the very top of the talent spectrum, the NSA will still be able to attract plenty of really smart people), but I don't think they're worried about computing power. The NSA was for a long time by far the world's biggest purchaser of supercomputers, and probably still is.
If Google can index the entire web with spiders that have to actually go out and find the data they're indexing, I think it's fairly likely the NSA can process information that's fed directly to them by internet providers.
I'm fairly certain that pi is a greek letter, and should not rhyme with pie regardless of the ethnicity of the speaker.
Then again, I live the Western Pennsylvania, and the French would be appalled at how people here pronounce the names of the towns of North Versailles and Du Bois.
1. Send out millions of spam emails advertising for my competitor.
2. Wait for fines to put them out of business.
3. Steal all of their customers.
4. Profit.
Even more important, how many disasters have government laws stopped? New Orleans? San Fran earthquakes? Mississipi flood basin?
This is possibly the most flawed argument I've ever read on Slashdot. Of course the disasters that happened weren't stopped. The disasters that didn't happen were the ones that were stopped. Obviously, we can't count them. That doesn't mean they weren't prevented.
How many more deaths would their be from earthquakes if building codes on earthquake-prone areas didn't exist? Look at developing countries' mortality rates after earthquakes and compare them to rates in California. How many more people would have been killed in New Orleans without NOAA warning that a major hurricane was coming and that people should leave, and without government-built levees that at least delayed the worst flooding and almost certainly attenuated it to some degree? We can't say for sure, but that doesn't mean these things saved no one.
How many people would die every year in the US from foodborne illnesses if there were no health inspectors? How many murders are prevented because the hypotethical killer is afraid of the consequences of breaking the law? None? I doubt it. Are no fires prevented by electrical codes? Would nuclear power plants all keep from melting down if the industry was allowed just just run them as cheaply as possibly by ignoring safety regulations?
Would there be more morons like you running around if we didn't have compulsory education?
Since Mac is based on Unix, it might also speed up (and increase) the number of "retail" (read: does not need cedega) releases of Linux games as well by decreasing that migration time.
Umm, no. Porting Linux software to OS X, if you're willing to put up with using X Windows instead of Quartz (or, for that matter, the terminal with no GUI) is fairly trivial.
Porting a native Mac application to Linux doesn't get any easier just because they're both unix-based.
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I'd agree that Kyoto doesn't go far enough, but implementing it would certainly be better than nothing.
Are you going to argue that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty should be scrapped because it allows the US and Russia to keep building nuclear weapons, and therefore using it to stop Iran to do so isn't worth doing?
As for software patents, you can assert all you want that there's less innovation in the games industry because of fear of patent suits, but unless you can provide evidence that there's been even one game that's been held back from the market because of patent fears, I'm not going to buy it. You might as well claim that the fear that aliens will blow up the local shopping mall is stifling the retail market.
And really, regardless of what you think about software patents, I think it's hard to argue that copying someone else's idea whether it's patented or not is innovation. I mean, I think it's really dumb that Amazon can try to keep me from implementing one-click purchasing on my web page, but I wouldn't say that they're preventing me from innovating because I can't use this innovative one-click thing I just invented. At worst they're preventing me from doing something that wasn't even innovative when they did it first. You can't really argue that someone's patented idea is both unpatentable because it's obvious and at the same time that it's innovative.
Wait, you mean I'm required to pay tax on the value of the free software I recieved? It's a good thing I still have 5 days to correct my tax return!
I suppose there's also no room for innovation in electronics because you can't build a Blackberry clone without getting slapped with a patent suit.
Fear the consequences of creating Pentium chips? I'm no fan of Intel, myself, but that seems a bit extreme.
If they didn't intend to do so in the first place, it would be really tricky to have the craft modify itself so it could carry out such a sampling. You can't really extend a mission to do something completely impossible.
Even accepting your basic premise that the award is for sale (which I don't), they still only give out one in each category every year. You'd think a massive bidding war to buy an award that no one's really going to care about would attract attention and be a big waste of time and money. Insightful indeed.
There's a difference between "pedantic" and "stupid".
Microsoft could gain complete control of OS X and every Linux distro, and the Justice Dept. wouldn't make a move against them.
Yeah I find it completly implausible that an armed man would overreact when someone shot and killed his collegue. He must have been ordered by the President to go find a woman holding a baby to kill.
It's sad that there wasn't more media coverage of the thousands of women holding babies that Clinton ordered shot because their husbands were uncooperative. Because we all know that was his reaction to any uncooperative citizen anywhere. Especially the unarmed ones. He loved having them shot.
I'm confused. Am I a cunt, or a dick? Maybe you need a better dictionary.
But isn't it funny you say this
"Hey why don't you quit whining and start metamoderating? Why are you doing exactly what you are complaing about me doing? And why do you not see how ridiculously hypocritical you are?"
Then you say this
"I deserve flamebait for this one. I'll take my medicine, but it's worth it to point out what a cunt you are."
Hey why don't you quit whining and start metamoderating? Why are you doing exactly what you are complaing about me doing? And why do you not see how ridiculously hypocritical you are?
Ha! Moderated? More likely you'll be dragged off to a federal prison after you post your item on eBay, and when you prove it was really legal, in court, 2 years later, they'll let you go.
Right. There's no suffering in the world, so if you just identify and sympathize with other people, you're going to be really happy.
Or is part of your plan ignoring those who actually need sympathy?
If you don't like it, quite whining and start metamoderating.
It surprises you that no one complains about the detention without trial of a few thousand people who are accused of terrorism in a country where no one complained about the dentention of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans who weren't even accused of anything? You obviously have a higher opinion of your fellow citizens than most of them deserve.
If Google can index the entire web with spiders that have to actually go out and find the data they're indexing, I think it's fairly likely the NSA can process information that's fed directly to them by internet providers.
Then again, I live the Western Pennsylvania, and the French would be appalled at how people here pronounce the names of the towns of North Versailles and Du Bois.
1. Send out millions of spam emails advertising for my competitor.
2. Wait for fines to put them out of business.
3. Steal all of their customers.
4. Profit.
I don't even need a ??? step.
This is possibly the most flawed argument I've ever read on Slashdot. Of course the disasters that happened weren't stopped. The disasters that didn't happen were the ones that were stopped. Obviously, we can't count them. That doesn't mean they weren't prevented.
How many more deaths would their be from earthquakes if building codes on earthquake-prone areas didn't exist? Look at developing countries' mortality rates after earthquakes and compare them to rates in California. How many more people would have been killed in New Orleans without NOAA warning that a major hurricane was coming and that people should leave, and without government-built levees that at least delayed the worst flooding and almost certainly attenuated it to some degree? We can't say for sure, but that doesn't mean these things saved no one.
How many people would die every year in the US from foodborne illnesses if there were no health inspectors? How many murders are prevented because the hypotethical killer is afraid of the consequences of breaking the law? None? I doubt it. Are no fires prevented by electrical codes? Would nuclear power plants all keep from melting down if the industry was allowed just just run them as cheaply as possibly by ignoring safety regulations?
Would there be more morons like you running around if we didn't have compulsory education?
Not if you want to call yourself a fundamentalist, it's not.
You should go into politics. You're very good at dodging questions when answering them would show that you're a hypocritical moron.
Umm, no. Porting Linux software to OS X, if you're willing to put up with using X Windows instead of Quartz (or, for that matter, the terminal with no GUI) is fairly trivial.
Porting a native Mac application to Linux doesn't get any easier just because they're both unix-based.
Call me when your pants come with pockets big enough to hold a phone that's also a dSLR camera with a 300mm zoom lens.