unless you have some way becoming male or female without genes?
let's be consistent here - if you can't discriminate based on sex or race (both passed by genetic information) why discriminate based on some other genes?
It's like saying "we'll cover you for stuff on chromosome 11, but not chromosome 12"
blanketly outlawing discrimination based on ones genes seems such a no-brainer to me - it encompasses discrimination by race, sex, height, beauty, dumbness, maybe even sexual-orientation - forget all those other laws let's just call it what it is - if you're different because your genes are different you should be treated equally with everyone else
ahem.... blender had all the annoying hot keys back when it was a pay-to-use app... it was just as annoying back then, and it had nothing to do with Open Source, it has to do with being blender... but enough people liked it and used it and depended on it that when its owners decided they had better things to do its users all chipped in and freed it...
as other have pointed out rape did occur there - I must admit that I was aiming at more than the recent actions of the US military though (that was just a particularly bad and public example everyone is familiar with) but rather more the common attitude I often hear expressed in the US "you'll get what you deserve in prison" as if rape is acceptable anywhere - which of course it is not.
If you do think it's an appropriate punishment, then you need to change the law so that judges can include it in a sentence, otherwise it's a basic human rights violation
well my comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek... but you're right the only way to think of wireless is open - it's by definition outside your corporate fire wall even if the hardware is physically inside your building - you have to treat it always as such - so WEP to make it hard to get in but a VPN of some sort as real security
Next step will be a gross overreaction by the govt and Homeland Security, monitoring of convenience store purchase and the midnight roundups of the owners of pringles resulting in a one way trip to a Cuban internment camp
you may be able to buy the parts - my point is that the development systems don't last that long (the marketting guys want you to get the dev system for the fancy new generation with the better margins....)
well there's nothing wrong with an open source FPGA project - more power to them - remember that these days chip design is really just software - frozen and made real - others can use their source and make their own.
IMHO the big problem is choosing an FPGA dev system - whatever they choose it probably wont be available a year from now when the FPGA designers release their next generation and want to push that
that's not my point I don't want to know how much band X will cost - I want to know how they can set a price on a track from a band they don't yet know the existence of - or is there just some fixed scale that users of my music can use to make an end-run around my pricing of my music - I might want to charge 1/10 of the RIAA price (in order to push demand) or 10 times (to rake it in) - surely if I own my music I get to choose the selling price
suppose I want to sell my song at $100 per play (maybe its 12 hours long, or maybe Chevy wants to use it for an online ad on their 'internet radio') - can someone go around me and just pay some generic 0.99c fee to soundexchange - how can soundexchange possibly know how much each and every indie wants to charge for their songs?
want to become THE Indie radio - just set it up so that Indie bands can sign up and grant you one-click licenses - sign up each and every garage band, even ifthey make it big you have that contract sitting in your closet (and I guess can;t sign with soundexchange)
Satellite companies do exactly this today - supporting multiple dishes for multiple satellites (or elliptical dishes with multiple LNBs) and switching between them on the fly as you switch channels - both DiSH and DirectTV do this. Just like the old cable TV plants used to have limited bandwidth (500MHz before they upgraded the current plant to 900MHz) satellite companies are limited to bandwidth per orbital slot (what freqs they can use and where) which they also work on with multiple spot beams on the same freqs - 2 transponders on the same freq but one aimed at the east coast with east coast local stations, the other at the midwest with their locals - while a 3rd transponder might send HBO and ESPN to everyone
in my experience (twice now) Dell will honor their warranty if you run Linux (but then I always return the laptop without the hard drive), but both times I told them I ran linux
I mean they are basically saying "we're in the wrong business" - great way to drive your stock price down and end up with a whole bunch of investor law suits....
I'd believe it if similar gene pools showed the same breakdown - here in NZ it's more 50-50 - so maybe there are different 'evolutionary pressures'....
More likely it's social pressure - the Monty Python/'Every Sperm is Sacred' school of thought - if you've got the pope saying 'fuck like bunnies because god says so' vs. the atheists saying 'smaller families are better for the planet, and we can afford better education for our kids, and...' stands to reason you're going to get more kids indoctrinated into religion - think of it as a memetic advantage rather than a genetic one...
back then it did just mean 'etc' and it's contents have changed around a lot since then (/etc/rc?/etc/rc.d/init.d?/etc/init.d?.....). Any thing else is something someone's made up for their own amusement
However even back then people argued over how to pronounce it 'etsi' or 'et cetera'.... can't remember exactly it might have been an eastcoast/west coast thing too (I do weem to remember 'etsi' being in use at Bell Labs)
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let's be consistent here - if you can't discriminate based on sex or race (both passed by genetic information) why discriminate based on some other genes?
It's like saying "we'll cover you for stuff on chromosome 11, but not chromosome 12"
blanketly outlawing discrimination based on ones genes seems such a no-brainer to me - it encompasses discrimination by race, sex, height, beauty, dumbness, maybe even sexual-orientation - forget all those other laws let's just call it what it is - if you're different because your genes are different you should be treated equally with everyone else
ahem .... blender had all the annoying hot keys back when it was a pay-to-use app ... it was just as annoying back then, and it had nothing to do with Open Source, it has to do with being blender ... but enough people liked it and used it and depended on it that when its owners decided they had better things to do its users all chipped in and freed it ...
If you do think it's an appropriate punishment, then you need to change the law so that judges can include it in a sentence, otherwise it's a basic human rights violation
well my comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek ... but you're right the only way to think of wireless is open - it's by definition outside your corporate fire wall even if the hardware is physically inside your building - you have to treat it always as such - so WEP to make it hard to get in but a VPN of some sort as real security
Next step will be a gross overreaction by the govt and Homeland Security, monitoring of convenience store purchase and the midnight roundups of the owners of pringles resulting in a one way trip to a Cuban internment camp
while I agree with your sentiment your words offend me .... rape should never be a punishment - that way lies Abu Gharib and a medieval world view
you may be able to buy the parts - my point is that the development systems don't last that long (the marketting guys want you to get the dev system for the fancy new generation with the better margins ....)
you're going to OJ for your next FS?
IMHO the big problem is choosing an FPGA dev system - whatever they choose it probably wont be available a year from now when the FPGA designers release their next generation and want to push that
Here in New Zealand I see low end Dells in "the Warehouse" a vaguely costco-like warehouse chain
that's not my point I don't want to know how much band X will cost - I want to know how they can set a price on a track from a band they don't yet know the existence of - or is there just some fixed scale that users of my music can use to make an end-run around my pricing of my music - I might want to charge 1/10 of the RIAA price (in order to push demand) or 10 times (to rake it in) - surely if I own my music I get to choose the selling price
suppose I want to sell my song at $100 per play (maybe its 12 hours long, or maybe Chevy wants to use it for an online ad on their 'internet radio') - can someone go around me and just pay some generic 0.99c fee to soundexchange - how can soundexchange possibly know how much each and every indie wants to charge for their songs?
want to become THE Indie radio - just set it up so that Indie bands can sign up and grant you one-click licenses - sign up each and every garage band, even ifthey make it big you have that contract sitting in your closet (and I guess can;t sign with soundexchange)
Satellite companies do exactly this today - supporting multiple dishes for multiple satellites (or elliptical dishes with multiple LNBs) and switching between them on the fly as you switch channels - both DiSH and DirectTV do this. Just like the old cable TV plants used to have limited bandwidth (500MHz before they upgraded the current plant to 900MHz) satellite companies are limited to bandwidth per orbital slot (what freqs they can use and where) which they also work on with multiple spot beams on the same freqs - 2 transponders on the same freq but one aimed at the east coast with east coast local stations, the other at the midwest with their locals - while a 3rd transponder might send HBO and ESPN to everyone
VC money is not 'free' any more than a pact with the devil just lets him rent your soul
"15 new stamps featuring Star Wars characters at Grauman's Chinese theater" - you mean this Chewbacca at Grauman's Chinese theater? he gets a stamp?
apparently they've done away with an "r" ....
in my experience (twice now) Dell will honor their warranty if you run Linux (but then I always return the laptop without the hard drive), but both times I told them I ran linux
On the other hand I find myself needing to break into assembly once or twice a month - but I do embedded systems of one type or another
I mean they are basically saying "we're in the wrong business" - great way to drive your stock price down and end up with a whole bunch of investor law suits ....
More likely it's social pressure - the Monty Python/'Every Sperm is Sacred' school of thought - if you've got the pope saying 'fuck like bunnies because god says so' vs. the atheists saying 'smaller families are better for the planet, and we can afford better education for our kids, and ...' stands to reason you're going to get more kids indoctrinated into religion - think of it as a memetic advantage rather than a genetic one ...
However even back then people argued over how to pronounce it 'etsi' or 'et cetera' .... can't remember exactly it might have been an eastcoast/west coast thing too (I do weem to remember 'etsi' being in use at Bell Labs)
just fly the other way around ....
makes CO2 (greenhouse gas) - if you want to burn it you need to find a way to sequester the carbon