Good job not doing any research at all. Despite the sensational headline a few days ago, Nothing that is Open source in MySql will be close sourced in the future. They will introduce a few add on backup products that will not be open, none of which exist today. So if you are happy with the current MySql, nothing is going to change. You'll still have full access to the course code you have today and any and all improvements that come in the future.
And if you don't like the thought of paying Sun for a MySQL backup solution, you're more than free to write up your own. What's the problem?
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped,or turned back, for their private benefit.
-- The Judge in Life-Line
And yet we see it every day in the latest round of RIAA lawsuits. They're trying to hold onto their profits in the face of changing technology, not by embracing and extending the technology, but by trying to grab it by the neck and strangle it until they can come up with a way of taking total control over it.
If RIAA was using some of the profits from their litigation in coming up with new ways to deliver music instead of using the profits to fund yet the next round of litigation, then they might have something positive going for them. Instead, they're dinosaurs, kicking and screaming and slashing at anything that moves in the attempt to get just one more bite to eat before getting turned into oil. The current legislation in the US Congress is just more of the same, cunningly disguised corporate welfare for an industry that just cannot compete anymore.
The only way that this will work is if the FBI contracts someone else to build it for them and even then the chances of failure are high unless they are willing to deal with criminals (i.e. Russian hackers who write the software for worms and spammers) to get it done which will happen about the same time that hell freezes over.
Take a page from the 'War on Drugs'. A lot of 'anonymous tips' are from paid informants or people who were picked up in a sweep and threatened with prosecution unless they turned informant. The county where I live has a policy of 'Roll on 3, walk away free', in which, you give up the names of 3 'drug users' (or anybody else you can think of) for targetting by police surveillance, and you get out of jail free. Refuse, or can't think fast enough, count on a speedy fair trial followed by a long prison sentence making $30 jeans at 5 cents an hour.
What likely is popular though is teen-fascination which psychiatry has an entirely different definition for. Our society in fact is geared toward that even between cheerleaders and dancers being just short of being nude, Disney channel turning tweens into glamored up pop stars, and shows like Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girls and the like having more adult themes than Desperate Housewives.
'Kiddie porn' is usually defined as images of a possible sexual nature of any person below the age of 18. So, hold off on taking that topless pic of your 17 year old girlfriend the night of her 18th birthday til after midnight.
In the olden days, when I was a kid, we happened into dealing with the F.B.I. Subsequently, I know to engage a large supply of salt anytime I read about any investigation that has been tainted by their crime lab. Think of the children and send more money. Yeah. Knowing their proclivity to abuse/disregard the law, I don't really see the upside to this.
Your personal stock portfolio is simply extremely deficient in companies that profit from the slave labor of the 'prison industrial complex'. More schemes like this are needed to keep the prisons full and the profits flowing.
Don't forget to invest on companies that are outsourced to run prisons. Their stocks are gonna go through the roof.
Considering we're speeding toward the bottom at Warp 9, there's not a lot further to go. I'm thinking, we all might as well line up at the prisons now and serve our time for whatever the government decides is a crime tomorrow and get it over with.
he problem is that small procedural issues are more important than evidence and facts. I've been involved in a couple cases where a tape recorded conversation that clearly showed the guilt in one case, and innocence in another, of the defendant wasn't allowed despite being a legal recording because it was decided that it would bias the jury
Isn't that the point of evidence, to bias a jury toward guilt or innocence?
- definition of "terrorism" to cover groups with the aim of "seriously altering... the political, economic or social structure" of one or more countries and their institutions and includes "urban violence"
I'm wondering if they consider 'free and open elections' to constitute the 'seriously altering' part. I'm thinking, it's just a matter of time before opposition politicians and parties get lumped into that stew...
I coulda swore I read someplace that a theory was, anytime somebody got close to understanding the Universe, it rebooted into something more incomprehemsible.
The theory also mentioned that this has happened a few times already...
Imagine declaring somebody a security risk based on their political, religious, or sexual affiliation. Imagine further, that said 'at risk' persons be removed from the United States and put in a Guantanamo-like facility on the grounds that they might do something the government is declaring a crime against the security of the United States. A bit far-fetched on that last one? Not even close. They're declaring US citizens to be non-citizens and 'enemy combatants' since 2002. Add to this the theory of prevention that's in place in the current incarnation of the Department of Justice.
Now give 'them' the capability to use military-grade technology to surveil these 'security risks'. And take away any restraint by Congressional oversight by means of an executive order declaring that any information gathered is necessary to the security of the nation. Welcome to the United States, void where prohibited by executive order...
Who knows if he'll ignore the Constitution, declare martial law, and try to remain in power until the end of his life? I'm thinking it's a bit late for him to get Congress to repeal the 22nd Amendment, but I wouldn't put it past him to try to do an end run around it by issuing an Executive Order wishing it away.
Personally, I'm still trying to find the section of the Constitution that gives Executive Orders the force of Federal Law.
While great in theory, the practice seems to be rather different.
Congress these days seems to be taking care of its constituents nicely. Its true constituents, the corporations who donate to their re-election campaigns. The citizenry is their product, and we have been delivered to their constituents. Unless you are a massive campaign contributor, they're not listening to you. And I mean 'massive' as in the case of 'borderline illegal'.
You say that they can be voted out, but this is very unlikely. Somebody quoted me a figure of 98% re-election results for a sitting Congresscritter, although I haven't found any links on it, so take that figure with a grain of salt. Even if the figure was as low as 66.67% re-elected, replacing a sitting Congresscritter literally takes an act of Congress. Possible, but you'd have better luck playing the lottery.
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And if you don't like the thought of paying Sun for a MySQL backup solution, you're more than free to write up your own. What's the problem?
And yet we see it every day in the latest round of RIAA lawsuits. They're trying to hold onto their profits in the face of changing technology, not by embracing and extending the technology, but by trying to grab it by the neck and strangle it until they can come up with a way of taking total control over it.
If RIAA was using some of the profits from their litigation in coming up with new ways to deliver music instead of using the profits to fund yet the next round of litigation, then they might have something positive going for them. Instead, they're dinosaurs, kicking and screaming and slashing at anything that moves in the attempt to get just one more bite to eat before getting turned into oil. The current legislation in the US Congress is just more of the same, cunningly disguised corporate welfare for an industry that just cannot compete anymore.
It's Tourist Season already? I thought I had a couple more weekends to get in practice at the range...
I'm still not finding the old 'Barney' mod.
A BSOD? Lemme guess, that patch came from Novell, right?
Take a page from the 'War on Drugs'. A lot of 'anonymous tips' are from paid informants or people who were picked up in a sweep and threatened with prosecution unless they turned informant. The county where I live has a policy of 'Roll on 3, walk away free', in which, you give up the names of 3 'drug users' (or anybody else you can think of) for targetting by police surveillance, and you get out of jail free. Refuse, or can't think fast enough, count on a speedy fair trial followed by a long prison sentence making $30 jeans at 5 cents an hour.
Where men are men, so are the women, and every 'horny 14 yr old virgin' is a Fed. Yup, sounds about right.
'Kiddie porn' is usually defined as images of a possible sexual nature of any person below the age of 18. So, hold off on taking that topless pic of your 17 year old girlfriend the night of her 18th birthday til after midnight.
Your personal stock portfolio is simply extremely deficient in companies that profit from the slave labor of the 'prison industrial complex'. More schemes like this are needed to keep the prisons full and the profits flowing.
Don't forget to invest on companies that are outsourced to run prisons. Their stocks are gonna go through the roof.
Considering we're speeding toward the bottom at Warp 9, there's not a lot further to go. I'm thinking, we all might as well line up at the prisons now and serve our time for whatever the government decides is a crime tomorrow and get it over with.
Isn't that the point of evidence, to bias a jury toward guilt or innocence?
No, I'm just a fossil from the Old Days of the Republic that remembers when bought politicians stayed bought.
Which traitors are we talking about? The FBI agents, or their investegatory targets?
I'm wondering if they consider 'free and open elections' to constitute the 'seriously altering' part. I'm thinking, it's just a matter of time before opposition politicians and parties get lumped into that stew...
Quite right. If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Honest politicians stay bought.
Woulda made a great April Fools prank...
And reboot in 5... 4... 3...
The theory also mentioned that this has happened a few times already...
When was the last time you used Windows? Any version, not just Vista.
Now give 'them' the capability to use military-grade technology to surveil these 'security risks'. And take away any restraint by Congressional oversight by means of an executive order declaring that any information gathered is necessary to the security of the nation. Welcome to the United States, void where prohibited by executive order...
Yet.
Who knows if he'll ignore the Constitution, declare martial law, and try to remain in power until the end of his life? I'm thinking it's a bit late for him to get Congress to repeal the 22nd Amendment, but I wouldn't put it past him to try to do an end run around it by issuing an Executive Order wishing it away.
Personally, I'm still trying to find the section of the Constitution that gives Executive Orders the force of Federal Law.
Congress these days seems to be taking care of its constituents nicely. Its true constituents, the corporations who donate to their re-election campaigns. The citizenry is their product, and we have been delivered to their constituents. Unless you are a massive campaign contributor, they're not listening to you. And I mean 'massive' as in the case of 'borderline illegal'.
You say that they can be voted out, but this is very unlikely. Somebody quoted me a figure of 98% re-election results for a sitting Congresscritter, although I haven't found any links on it, so take that figure with a grain of salt. Even if the figure was as low as 66.67% re-elected, replacing a sitting Congresscritter literally takes an act of Congress. Possible, but you'd have better luck playing the lottery.
No, but you need something there to heat your lunch with...
Did you sharpen your skates and lay in a good supply of back bacon?