What a cop out! So, you are sure that it's a bad idea at the federal level, but you would propose that it be "handled" at the state level. I didn't know that Libertarians believed in government solutions at the state or federal level. And they generally believe that government, even state governments, shouldn't regulate our behavior on principled grounds, not just because it wouldn't work.
What I think is really going on here is that you're reluctant to say the truth, that Libertarians believe that there should be no regulation in this area at all. Economic freedom means freedom to spam. If the market can figure out a way to prevent spam, then good, otherwise there's nothing you can or will do about it. Don't pussyfoot around the issue when the conclusion that Libertarianism leads to is not to everyone's liking.
I'm sure a lot of Republicans have more in common with Badnarik's "The market can and will solve all problems" approach than the the Bush administration's combination of big-spending on unnecessary conflicts, corporate welfare for drug companies, and violation of our individual liberties. I would encourage those of you who are Republicans to take a good look at Badnarik.
If there was no copyright agreement between Emir Sakic and Connolly, then the code that Emir Sakic wrote belongs to Sakic. Everything else here is irrelevant. However, it's unclear to me why Sakic would be asking Connolly to put it under GPL. Did Sakic not know that he still owned the code?
It's about time that CMU got a Gates building. Stanford has had one for a while. It doesn't seem that the name is having any inappropriate effect on the students, faculty or administration here, though. The CS curriculum only has one Windows programming course (an elective) and most of the computers in the labs are either Macs or Suns. Even many of the staff use Macs here.
I was hoping that the person who posted this would deign to provide us with some solid information or maybe just a link. As it is, the post just makes this unsupported claim that Bush and Kerry are using copyright to censor and then asserts without proof that they are no different than each other. Could someone please explain to me how something this thin got posted here.
The translation is funny in parts, especially "regular court meal" for "Landgericht Essen". Essen is a city in Germany but the word can also mean "meal".
The original, of course, should be marked informative. What, is text in a language other than English automatically funny? Very parochial.
The head of a company [Diebold] vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
Looks like he's already done his part by building crappy machines with no paper trail. Now all the GOP needs to steal the election is some average-ability hackers.
Talk to me when you give money to charities so that Palestinian children can get eyeglasses and eye surgery. Because that's what Craig is doing with his _own_ money.
If you lived in the Bay Area, you would have. People here find their apartments, their jobs, their furniture, their cars, and their girlfriends/boyfriends on Craigslist. I think it's popular in some other cities in the US, but it's almost essential here.
Good point. I thought it would be more. They certainly don't spend to much on rent either since their offices are the second floor of a house on 9th Ave. in the mostly residential Inner Sunset district of SF.
The $25 million figure is the company's revenue. The employees aren't going to take all of that home, given that there are costs other than wages to running an enormous website. Among other things, I don't suppose the colocation facilities are giving server space and bandwidth away for free.
I guess you didn't read the article, because the founders don't want to go public. In fact the CEO says, "We have no plans to go public." The only one who seems to want an IPO is the author of the article.
The article is a speculation about what might or would happen if Craigslist did go public. The Craislist CEO points out that, "We have no plans to go public." So, I'll be really disappointed if people post things claiming the Craigslist is selling out, because that would mean that you didn't RTFA.
Craig Newmark is an awesome human being. Check out his blog. He's not only an open-source software user (SuSE on a Thinkpad T40) and the creator of the largest and most useful (and OSS-based) community bulletin board in the world, but also a progressive Democrat and all-around humanitarian.
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I don't think you understand. While on Windows you can use Putty to connect with SSH to a remote Unix machine to use a shell on that remote machine, on Linux you can run a local shell and do things on your local machine that you can't do with pointing-and-clicking.
Here are two basic rules of business. These probably apply even more strongly in the software community.
1. Nobody wants to be surprised.
It would have been better for Six Apart to discuss the new pricing scheme while 3.0 was in Beta. Maybe they could have made their case more effectively.
2. Nobody wants to be insulted.
Six Apart shouldn't even offer a free version if they are going to insult the people who use it. "Not willing to pay for Movable Type yet?" Why don't they just say "Wanna be a big jerk and not pay us anything?" If that's how they feel, don't offer the free version.
I've never been so ashamed to be American than now. It really upsets me that Donald Rumsfeld can go to Abu Graaib and make jokes about not reading the newspapers any more. Boy, that's real funny Don. It's like Bush making the "funny" video about not being able to find any weapons of mass destruction. Not everything is a laughing matter. There are some things which aren't laughing matters: our civil rights, the respect and trust of the rest of the world, and the lives of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis.
Looking at these photos has scarred me for life. You really don't want to see someone with a physique like this in a skin-tight leotard.
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I wasn't arguing that Redhat doesn't provide a useful service which people might be interesting in paying for. Having no support is a downside, but it might be worth it for some people.
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What a cop out! So, you are sure that it's a bad idea at the federal level, but you would propose that it be "handled" at the state level. I didn't know that Libertarians believed in government solutions at the state or federal level. And they generally believe that government, even state governments, shouldn't regulate our behavior on principled grounds, not just because it wouldn't work.
What I think is really going on here is that you're reluctant to say the truth, that Libertarians believe that there should be no regulation in this area at all. Economic freedom means freedom to spam. If the market can figure out a way to prevent spam, then good, otherwise there's nothing you can or will do about it. Don't pussyfoot around the issue when the conclusion that Libertarianism leads to is not to everyone's liking.
I'm sure a lot of Republicans have more in common with Badnarik's "The market can and will solve all problems" approach than the the Bush administration's combination of big-spending on unnecessary conflicts, corporate welfare for drug companies, and violation of our individual liberties. I would encourage those of you who are Republicans to take a good look at Badnarik.
If there was no copyright agreement between Emir Sakic and Connolly, then the code that Emir Sakic wrote belongs to Sakic. Everything else here is irrelevant. However, it's unclear to me why Sakic would be asking Connolly to put it under GPL. Did Sakic not know that he still owned the code?
It's about time that CMU got a Gates building. Stanford has had one for a while. It doesn't seem that the name is having any inappropriate effect on the students, faculty or administration here, though. The CS curriculum only has one Windows programming course (an elective) and most of the computers in the labs are either Macs or Suns. Even many of the staff use Macs here.
Let's all hope that Australian Labor Party wins the coming election and kicks out this lap-dog Howard government.
Given the dangerous conditions in US Prisons, it's surprising that civilized countries are still willing to extradite people here.
I was hoping that the person who posted this would deign to provide us with some solid information or maybe just a link. As it is, the post just makes this unsupported claim that Bush and Kerry are using copyright to censor and then asserts without proof that they are no different than each other. Could someone please explain to me how something this thin got posted here.
The original, of course, should be marked informative. What, is text in a language other than English automatically funny? Very parochial.
Looks like he's already done his part by building crappy machines with no paper trail. Now all the GOP needs to steal the election is some average-ability hackers.
I sure see a lot of Repugnicans doing much for the public with their money.
Talk to me when you give money to charities so that Palestinian children can get eyeglasses and eye surgery. Because that's what Craig is doing with his _own_ money.
If you lived in the Bay Area, you would have. People here find their apartments, their jobs, their furniture, their cars, and their girlfriends/boyfriends on Craigslist. I think it's popular in some other cities in the US, but it's almost essential here.
Good point. I thought it would be more. They certainly don't spend to much on rent either since their offices are the second floor of a house on 9th Ave. in the mostly residential Inner Sunset district of SF.
The $25 million figure is the company's revenue. The employees aren't going to take all of that home, given that there are costs other than wages to running an enormous website. Among other things, I don't suppose the colocation facilities are giving server space and bandwidth away for free.
I guess you didn't read the article, because the founders don't want to go public. In fact the CEO says, "We have no plans to go public." The only one who seems to want an IPO is the author of the article.
The article is a speculation about what might or would happen if Craigslist did go public. The Craislist CEO points out that, "We have no plans to go public." So, I'll be really disappointed if people post things claiming the Craigslist is selling out, because that would mean that you didn't RTFA.
Craig Newmark is an awesome human being. Check out his blog. He's not only an open-source software user (SuSE on a Thinkpad T40) and the creator of the largest and most useful (and OSS-based) community bulletin board in the world, but also a progressive Democrat and all-around humanitarian.
I don't think you understand. While on Windows you can use Putty to connect with SSH to a remote Unix machine to use a shell on that remote machine, on Linux you can run a local shell and do things on your local machine that you can't do with pointing-and-clicking.
I guess they would have to install them, because it looks like they didn't have them when the US invaded.
Mac support is coming real soon if the reports a month ago were true. http://www.macnn.com/news/24820
1. Nobody wants to be surprised.
It would have been better for Six Apart to discuss the new pricing scheme while 3.0 was in Beta. Maybe they could have made their case more effectively.
2. Nobody wants to be insulted.
Six Apart shouldn't even offer a free version if they are going to insult the people who use it. "Not willing to pay for Movable Type yet?" Why don't they just say "Wanna be a big jerk and not pay us anything?" If that's how they feel, don't offer the free version.
I've never been so ashamed to be American than now. It really upsets me that Donald Rumsfeld can go to Abu Graaib and make jokes about not reading the newspapers any more. Boy, that's real funny Don. It's like Bush making the "funny" video about not being able to find any weapons of mass destruction. Not everything is a laughing matter. There are some things which aren't laughing matters: our civil rights, the respect and trust of the rest of the world, and the lives of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis.
Just try getting those things to play sound. Even parking meters that ran Windows 95 could find the sound card with no problem.
Looking at these photos has scarred me for life. You really don't want to see someone with a physique like this in a skin-tight leotard.
I wasn't arguing that Redhat doesn't provide a useful service which people might be interesting in paying for. Having no support is a downside, but it might be worth it for some people.