If he exists, your god is a monster. The kind of child-battering paedophilic monster that some of us are unfortunate enough to have as parents. Put your Bible away in the cupboard with all your childhood fairy tales and grow up. Accept a universe which has no special place for us and you will find life far more satisfying. Most of all, just remember that this life is all there is. There is no resurrection, no heaven and hell and no reincarnation. If you live for some kind of afterlife you're throwing away all that you have.
Fucking hell - do you yanks actually believe that agit-prop? It was the USA that lobbied hard for the Berne Convention in the first place in particular the very long copyright lifetimes. Typical bloody American behaviour - connive away and then blame it all on the Europeans.
Trouble is, Americans only believe in the one world law and that is that of the USA. Any deviation from that is commie^H^H^H^H^Hterrorist and must be erased. Europe is continually putting up with pressure from across the Atlantic to conform to what the US corporations have paid the US federal government to make law.
Currently Condie Rice is trying to spanner the ICC wrt Darfur genocides.
There was and unbelievable amount of flip-flopping over what the government's policy was.
Congratulations! You have caught the FlipFlop memetic virus. You probably caught it by listening to a right-wing shock-jock or watching Republican adverts on Fox. But you might have caught it from chatting to a buddy. This is a mild virus compared with Republicanism or Creationism but you should probably get it treated anyway. Please proceed to the nearest clinic for a full checkup and inoculation against further brain viruses. (Please note that some people are memetically prone to catching such viruses - this is known as an inability to think for yourself.)
he United States is not this big evil nation out to do everyone in and make itself godly. real people live there too, the same as you, they bleed, they work hard, they live life. we're just a nation working as a nation with a government that is working as it is, albeit not always as well as everyone hopes, but it still is the government we americans choose to use. if you truly believe that what a some people in a government, a very tiny percentage of a population, for a very shot period (4 to 8 years)
Sorry mate, but that tiny percentage controls most of your wealth and power and is using it in very unpleasant ways round the rest of the globe. Sure most USAians just want the nice life but at what cost to everyone else? And at the end of the day you're a democracy. If you elect bastards be prepared to be judged as bastards.
Huh? In what sense are things sour between India and the EU? The UK in particular has a good relationship with India and always has done despite a rocky patch after Independence.
And if you think India is under-industrialised and that this is an opportunity for the EU to buy cheap. India has far more wealth than you realise.
And perhaps you should visit some of the humanist, post-enlightenment countries in Europe. Then you'll realise the degree to which the USA really is christian fundie.
I don't want to be a wet blanket here and I do believe that IBM is doing this for good social as well as commercial reasons (or more precisely they are encouraging a social climate that will be good for their business as opposed to M$), BUT has anyone actually looked at the patents made available?
There's a lot of hardware patents dealing with pretty basic processor and system stuff such as:
Pipelined two-cycle branch target address cache
High performance multichannel DMA controller for a PCI host bridge with a
built-in cache
On the software side, are OS/2 patents much use:
Quick loading of run time dynamic link library for OS/2
There are many useful things in there but they're all pretty basic and I would have thought hard to defend - these are US patents and I've been told many times by US patent attorneys that getting a patent is easy, defending it in court can be very hard and many if not most are overturned on appeal.
Seems to me that IBM has had a bit of a clear out of its patent closet and decided to make all the old, lame and stale patents that are past their sell-by-date available to the FOSS community instead of putting them in the bin. I suspect that even for proprietary s/ware IBM would not challenge the use of any of these patents.
We Brits also tend to talk about companies (from the Norman French, same root as companion) rather than corporations (from the Latin corpus). Curiously we use corporation for public bodies - "the mayor and corporation" or the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Re your second point: I wish more people recognised that the public grants licences to companies via the state and that companies/corporations do not have a natural right in themselves. This is still the form used in the Companies Act in England & Wales dating back to Elizabeth I.
So, free trade is not enough for you? You also have to define the terms of that trade. Not all nations (including the USA historically) recognise the abstract notion of property that goes with copyright. What is worse is when the USA then demands that the rest of us treat this property in the same terms (length of copyright etc) and now wishes to dictate the penalties for breaching this.
Sorry, but you're trolling. Just what is the difference between the US Republican Party and the USSR Communist Party? Nothing. They're both about undiluted power.
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It's more - think about how you take the "u" out of it when speaking. Americans seem to pronounce honour more as on/orr whereas brits tend to pronounce honour as on/ur.
Ben Franklin didn't like some English spellings so just to be different after the colonies seceded he spelt things like grey and colour as gray and color. Honour is originally French anyway (damn Normans) so should be honeur anyway.
And finally, what's so wrong about "revenge" anyway? If someone commits the absolute most heinous crime imaginable, raping and murdering your daughter, is it really so unreasonable of the parent to feel vengeful? If the perpetrator wasn't prepared for an eye-for-an-eye punishment, then perhaps they shouldn't have done the crime.
The parent may indeed feel vengeful. But it is for the state to act humanely and compassionately. Here in Britain, prison is for protection of the public, rehabiliation and only a small element of punishment (deprival of freedom). Our prisons are not the hell-holes tha you USAians devise for each other but shamefully neither are they the civilised environments of Scandinavia.
Why should this matter? The USA as well as incarcerating more of its population for longer also has one of the highest rates of recidivism, far higher than ours which is in turn higher than much of Scandinavia.
Theft is theft, fraud is fraud, and pedophilia is pedophilia.
I understand the other two, but what do you have against foot fetishists? Pedophilia = love of feet (think pedestrian for the latin challenged). Perhaps you meant Paedophilia = love of children;-)
You have to modify you code alot in Java to get it to work in both Windows and Linux.
You do? That's news to me and a lot of other Java developers. Quit the FUD, Java really does do what it says on the packet about write once run anywhere. I regularly write on Windows and run on Linux for server code. Or write on Windows and run on Mac for GUI code. Hell I've even had little apps run without translation on a Palm and on a desktop.
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Add in the JINI family - and the lovely little TINI from DalSemi which I'm writing an embedded web server on (can't tell you what for, though sysadmins will love it when it ships). This thing runs a reasonable JVM with several serial, ethernet, etc on an 8051 (the thing they put in keyboards as microcontrollers)!
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Every disk drive I get is bigger than the last one. Usually the contents of the old one ends up as ~/old/ on the new drive. I now have ~/old/old/old/... a good few levels deep.
Apart from the standard collection of MP3s (the only ripped off stuff being old radio series like The Burkiss Way - not cos I'm precious about copyright, but cos I can't be arsed with p2p most of the time) it's all freeware. I love trying out little apps that I can d/l over the net. I collect source code - just to have a look at most of the time, but often with a view to incorporating into projects of my own.
Oh and then there's the games... HL2 needed 9Gb. The predecessor disk drive to my current one was 8Gb!!
The basic point is that this country will still operate without new computer components/jeans/t-shirts/rice from china. This country will not operate without oil from the middle east.
Clearly I did not understand what you meant by key strategic resources. However I think you're quite wrong to claim computer components are not key strategic resources. I suspect most of the US citizens when confronted with sky high rises in street prices would realise that even jeans and t-shirts are key strategic resources. I stand by my claim that the US will fall fast without China's trade. You should read some history and learn why Britain was in India so long (hint: cotton).
However, none of the Iraqui people being shot are being killed because of their political beliefs
The former Baathists would disagree with you most strongly. Or if you happen to be an Arab journalist (Al-Jazeera). Or if you happen to be a doctor, nurse or aid worker in Falluja and might be counting the number of Iraqi casualties. You might want to read this for details.
If you truly feel that the political leadership of America is simply that evil, why aren't you forming a resistance movement to stop it?
I am, but the US govt won't let me into the US to do that;-)
Your worldview seems to be very polarized. There are other colors besided balck and white, you know.
Agreed whole-heartedly! But in Iraq you'll find some very dark greys...
So you're saying that if I were to express an unpopular opinion, it's all right if I'm physically attacked?
No. I was only trying to explain why the reaction over here can be so extreme. Remember it was mostly London pubs in which those NORAID funded bombs went off. I should have pointed out that I don't hold such opinions myself.
From how it sounds, it seems like the parent was almost killed by a group of idiot Brits. That's just unacceptable. That's beyond unacceptable: it's reprehensible and inhuman. I don't care how much you don't like someone's opinion, you don't attack them. Grow up.
Yeah. Right. I can tell you that your countrymen are just as reprehensible and inhuman. Worse you guys carry guns. I hadn't seen a gun for 15 years until I had one pulled on me for expressing views re 9/11 that maybe the US could learn some foreign discretion. Both of our countries are full of brain dead idiots who will beat the crap out of foreigners - patriotism is just an easy excuse.
Very well put. But I feel compelled to point out that much of what you say is equally true of the USA. The USA has had a massive immigration over the last 100 years or so, all bringing with them their own cultures, beliefs and legal traditions. The USA therefore needs the 'American Dream' to unify all this disparate peoples into a single nation without which the race riots of the past would seem like petty local squabbles. Hence Hollywood and the TV channels are continually bigging up this vision of America as the beacon of democracy and freedom, a shining example for all to follow. To the immigrant: now that you're here this is what you're supposed to do. This is further backed by Fox, the government and is probably why GWB got in again, because the neo-cons know this and are shamelessly manipulating people with no less force and determination and with no different intent (universal hegemony) than the 'communists' of China and the old USSR.
This is of course pure propaganda and anyone with half a brain who has seen the USA can see that the truth is more complex, that the democracy of the US is highly flawed, that the freedoms are mostly negative (the state doesn't stop people doing things, but doesn't help them either) and so forth.
They see an episode of Cops or The Bachelor and then they think we are a brutal police state where everybody gets married on TV shows.
Yeah, the trouble is, your cops watch it too and some of them definitely seem to think the same judging by one encounter I had - and that was just overrunning a stop line. It's letting them carry guns that does it y'know.
This is still a country with a Communist government (modified, granted, but still not democratic)
Oh come on, just because your govt calls it communist does not make it so. Many Chinese I have met say China was never communist it was only ever China. Mao called it communist to get the Russians on his side and to alienate the bourgeouis classes backed by the British and the Americans - those that Chang Kai Shek ended up retreating to Taiwan with.
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If he exists, your god is a monster. The kind of child-battering paedophilic monster that some of us are unfortunate enough to have as parents. Put your Bible away in the cupboard with all your childhood fairy tales and grow up. Accept a universe which has no special place for us and you will find life far more satisfying. Most of all, just remember that this life is all there is. There is no resurrection, no heaven and hell and no reincarnation. If you live for some kind of afterlife you're throwing away all that you have.
Fucking hell - do you yanks actually believe that agit-prop? It was the USA that lobbied hard for the Berne Convention in the first place in particular the very long copyright lifetimes. Typical bloody American behaviour - connive away and then blame it all on the Europeans.
Trouble is, Americans only believe in the one world law and that is that of the USA. Any deviation from that is commie^H^H^H^H^Hterrorist and must be erased. Europe is continually putting up with pressure from across the Atlantic to conform to what the US corporations have paid the US federal government to make law. Currently Condie Rice is trying to spanner the ICC wrt Darfur genocides.
Congratulations! You have caught the FlipFlop memetic virus. You probably caught it by listening to a right-wing shock-jock or watching Republican adverts on Fox. But you might have caught it from chatting to a buddy. This is a mild virus compared with Republicanism or Creationism but you should probably get it treated anyway. Please proceed to the nearest clinic for a full checkup and inoculation against further brain viruses. (Please note that some people are memetically prone to catching such viruses - this is known as an inability to think for yourself.)
And if you think India is under-industrialised and that this is an opportunity for the EU to buy cheap. India has far more wealth than you realise.
And perhaps you should visit some of the humanist, post-enlightenment countries in Europe. Then you'll realise the degree to which the USA really is christian fundie.
There's a lot of hardware patents dealing with pretty basic processor and system stuff such as:
- Pipelined two-cycle branch target address cache
- High performance multichannel DMA controller for a PCI host bridge with a
built-in cache
On the software side, are OS/2 patents much use:- Quick loading of run time dynamic link library for OS/2
There are many useful things in there but they're all pretty basic and I would have thought hard to defend - these are US patents and I've been told many times by US patent attorneys that getting a patent is easy, defending it in court can be very hard and many if not most are overturned on appeal.Seems to me that IBM has had a bit of a clear out of its patent closet and decided to make all the old, lame and stale patents that are past their sell-by-date available to the FOSS community instead of putting them in the bin. I suspect that even for proprietary s/ware IBM would not challenge the use of any of these patents.
Re your second point: I wish more people recognised that the public grants licences to companies via the state and that companies/corporations do not have a natural right in themselves. This is still the form used in the Companies Act in England & Wales dating back to Elizabeth I.
So, free trade is not enough for you? You also have to define the terms of that trade. Not all nations (including the USA historically) recognise the abstract notion of property that goes with copyright. What is worse is when the USA then demands that the rest of us treat this property in the same terms (length of copyright etc) and now wishes to dictate the penalties for breaching this.
To the untrained eye of this for'ner, no! One party, two party, same party. What difference!
Sorry, but you're trolling. Just what is the difference between the US Republican Party and the USSR Communist Party? Nothing. They're both about undiluted power.
Ben Franklin didn't like some English spellings so just to be different after the colonies seceded he spelt things like grey and colour as gray and color. Honour is originally French anyway (damn Normans) so should be honeur anyway.
The parent may indeed feel vengeful. But it is for the state to act humanely and compassionately. Here in Britain, prison is for protection of the public, rehabiliation and only a small element of punishment (deprival of freedom). Our prisons are not the hell-holes tha you USAians devise for each other but shamefully neither are they the civilised environments of Scandinavia.
Why should this matter? The USA as well as incarcerating more of its population for longer also has one of the highest rates of recidivism, far higher than ours which is in turn higher than much of Scandinavia.
I understand the other two, but what do you have against foot fetishists? Pedophilia = love of feet (think pedestrian for the latin challenged). Perhaps you meant Paedophilia = love of children ;-)
You do? That's news to me and a lot of other Java developers. Quit the FUD, Java really does do what it says on the packet about write once run anywhere. I regularly write on Windows and run on Linux for server code. Or write on Windows and run on Mac for GUI code. Hell I've even had little apps run without translation on a Palm and on a desktop.
Add in the JINI family - and the lovely little TINI from DalSemi which I'm writing an embedded web server on (can't tell you what for, though sysadmins will love it when it ships). This thing runs a reasonable JVM with several serial, ethernet, etc on an 8051 (the thing they put in keyboards as microcontrollers)!
Apart from the standard collection of MP3s (the only ripped off stuff being old radio series like The Burkiss Way - not cos I'm precious about copyright, but cos I can't be arsed with p2p most of the time) it's all freeware. I love trying out little apps that I can d/l over the net. I collect source code - just to have a look at most of the time, but often with a view to incorporating into projects of my own.
Oh and then there's the games... HL2 needed 9Gb. The predecessor disk drive to my current one was 8Gb!!
Clearly I did not understand what you meant by key strategic resources. However I think you're quite wrong to claim computer components are not key strategic resources. I suspect most of the US citizens when confronted with sky high rises in street prices would realise that even jeans and t-shirts are key strategic resources. I stand by my claim that the US will fall fast without China's trade. You should read some history and learn why Britain was in India so long (hint: cotton).
The former Baathists would disagree with you most strongly. Or if you happen to be an Arab journalist (Al-Jazeera). Or if you happen to be a doctor, nurse or aid worker in Falluja and might be counting the number of Iraqi casualties. You might want to read this for details.
If you truly feel that the political leadership of America is simply that evil, why aren't you forming a resistance movement to stop it?
I am, but the US govt won't let me into the US to do that ;-)
Your worldview seems to be very polarized. There are other colors besided balck and white, you know.
Agreed whole-heartedly! But in Iraq you'll find some very dark greys...
No. I was only trying to explain why the reaction over here can be so extreme. Remember it was mostly London pubs in which those NORAID funded bombs went off. I should have pointed out that I don't hold such opinions myself.
From how it sounds, it seems like the parent was almost killed by a group of idiot Brits. That's just unacceptable. That's beyond unacceptable: it's reprehensible and inhuman. I don't care how much you don't like someone's opinion, you don't attack them. Grow up.
Yeah. Right. I can tell you that your countrymen are just as reprehensible and inhuman. Worse you guys carry guns. I hadn't seen a gun for 15 years until I had one pulled on me for expressing views re 9/11 that maybe the US could learn some foreign discretion. Both of our countries are full of brain dead idiots who will beat the crap out of foreigners - patriotism is just an easy excuse.
This is of course pure propaganda and anyone with half a brain who has seen the USA can see that the truth is more complex, that the democracy of the US is highly flawed, that the freedoms are mostly negative (the state doesn't stop people doing things, but doesn't help them either) and so forth.
Rubbish. Where's your computer components made? Where're your jeans and T-shirts made? Where do you get your rice from?
You take on China, you're in for a whole world of hardship you never knew existed.
Yeah, the trouble is, your cops watch it too and some of them definitely seem to think the same judging by one encounter I had - and that was just overrunning a stop line. It's letting them carry guns that does it y'know.
Oh come on, just because your govt calls it communist does not make it so. Many Chinese I have met say China was never communist it was only ever China. Mao called it communist to get the Russians on his side and to alienate the bourgeouis classes backed by the British and the Americans - those that Chang Kai Shek ended up retreating to Taiwan with.
The opposite of democracy is not communism.