On the other hand, one thing YOU US citizens reading about your lost Constitutional rights on/. can do, is to physically destroy or disable the electronic-voting machines on the presidential elections' day next year.
Come early that day, and don't fear the consequences. You can disable them electrically, which is discreet (just report the machine as "dead" and give your best sheepish glaze) or you can crash the thing on the ground for extra attention-grabbing effect.
When there are little to no electronic-voting machines running in the country the message will eventually get across.
Will they sue me for copyright infringement if my GloFishes breed ? I'm pretty sure Monstanto would (they already do over grain).
I can see the "SCO sues over GloFishes' IP" jokes already. But think about it: med labs will eventually come up with gene therapies for more common genetic illnesses (glaucoma, some forms of diabetes, etc...). That would mean patients treated with such therapies would hold some the labs' copyrighted DNA in their body, which would get replicated on ARN and transmitted, etc... Will they have to pay lifelong royalties ? SHOULD they have to ?
This guy should have formulated his threats in a Official-sounding, Religious kind of way. Like:
I, Jesrad, Pope of the DIscordian Church of Kalliste, Hereby demand that your company removes Me from whatever email lists it maintains. Failure to comply will result in [enter list of gruesome curses and obscene tortures in a ritual kind of procedure].
In the name of our Lady of Confusion, [dated, signed]
This way your threats can pass off as protected religious practices. Goddess knows my religious practices often pass off as threatening, so the opposite shouldn't be that hard.
There's no pleasing you... At least this will stop (legit) US businesses from spamming. Remember that the biggest spammers are just selling their "service", not products.
The asteroids could be placed in GEO and LEO, and used for interorbital transport with tethers. Bringing one asteroid down from GEO to LEO could in return pull millions of spacecraft up from LEO to GEO and beyond. They could be used as a cheap replacement for the space elevator, at least for slinging spacecraft FAST to Mars or the Asteroid Belt.
And we could "recharge" them with a ground based beam, pushing them back up slowly.
Perens said that one block of code was removed since it did not belong there, and that the other has a valid (BSD) license. The block removed was SGI's property, AFAICR.
That's where the biggest risk for Linux and OSS lies in the SCO case: Don't Underestimate Your Opponent, Ever. Darl McBride demonstrates in this article and interview a fantastic mastery at FUD'ing and outright distorting facts and testimonies to support his warped view of reality. We should NOT attempt to fight him on that ground. He really knows Lying-Fu.
It is funny that you mention your cockatiels reacting to Silbo Gomero, mine didn't react to it at all... But on the other hand, since they do not seem very keen on learning my language, I started trying to learn theirs;-)
Attendee: Critics have said SCO previously participated in open source. Did SCO give its own code away? McBride: From a legal standpoint, this is not an issue, but its a PR issue.
Nice dodge, we'll see if it works as well in court.
Yet Another Contradiction to the Standard Model. It's about time somebody came up with a Theory of Anything that unifies quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics and all known interactions and particles.
But I thought it was the technologies from the alien spacecraft that were kept out of the public's reach, like the inertia-less drive and zero point generator ? The Government's mind-control rays are confusing me ! [/tin-foil hat]
So it's not a lack of technology, but a lack of energy ? Hey, if we had the technology to tap into all the energy around us, all this could very well be a reality. It all comes down to the lack of good energy tech.
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If this doesn't wake Apple up, nothing will
Ah-hem.
This was announced before this website was up.
... Steve Jobs is choking and fuming because he wasn't able to fit G5s in PowerBooks and sell the "first 64-bit laptops".
On the other hand, one thing YOU US citizens reading about your lost Constitutional rights on /. can do, is to physically destroy or disable the electronic-voting machines on the presidential elections' day next year.
Come early that day, and don't fear the consequences. You can disable them electrically, which is discreet (just report the machine as "dead" and give your best sheepish glaze) or you can crash the thing on the ground for extra attention-grabbing effect.
When there are little to no electronic-voting machines running in the country the message will eventually get across.
Will they sue me for copyright infringement if my GloFishes breed ? I'm pretty sure Monstanto would (they already do over grain).
I can see the "SCO sues over GloFishes' IP" jokes already. But think about it: med labs will eventually come up with gene therapies for more common genetic illnesses (glaucoma, some forms of diabetes, etc...). That would mean patients treated with such therapies would hold some the labs' copyrighted DNA in their body, which would get replicated on ARN and transmitted, etc... Will they have to pay lifelong royalties ? SHOULD they have to ?
This guy should have formulated his threats in a Official-sounding, Religious kind of way. Like:
I, Jesrad, Pope of the DIscordian Church of Kalliste, Hereby demand that your company removes Me from whatever email lists it maintains. Failure to comply will result in [enter list of gruesome curses and obscene tortures in a ritual kind of procedure].
In the name of our Lady of Confusion, [dated, signed]
This way your threats can pass off as protected religious practices. Goddess knows my religious practices often pass off as threatening, so the opposite shouldn't be that hard.
Because, as everyone knows, DNA controls opinion, and people can't be brainwashed without changing their DNA *cough*Pattyhearst*cough*.
Or were you trying to be funny ? (which you failed)
There's no pleasing you... At least this will stop (legit) US businesses from spamming. Remember that the biggest spammers are just selling their "service", not products.
And all this time I thought I was letting people "snoop" on what I was listening by setting the volume all the way up...
As a Mac-user and on behalf of the DIscordian Church of Kalliste, Thank You Sir, but We Also Happen to be Even at times.
Yes, God forbid he tried running Linux on the G5, I guess.
I believe this weapon is called a supersonic boom. It is already mounted on many of the planes of the US Air Force.
Answer: Saving 20% off the price of the 2GHz G5, while keeping 90% of the performance.
The asteroids could be placed in GEO and LEO, and used for interorbital transport with tethers. Bringing one asteroid down from GEO to LEO could in return pull millions of spacecraft up from LEO to GEO and beyond. They could be used as a cheap replacement for the space elevator, at least for slinging spacecraft FAST to Mars or the Asteroid Belt.
And we could "recharge" them with a ground based beam, pushing them back up slowly.
Perens said that one block of code was removed since it did not belong there, and that the other has a valid (BSD) license. The block removed was SGI's property, AFAICR.
That's where the biggest risk for Linux and OSS lies in the SCO case: Don't Underestimate Your Opponent, Ever. Darl McBride demonstrates in this article and interview a fantastic mastery at FUD'ing and outright distorting facts and testimonies to support his warped view of reality. We should NOT attempt to fight him on that ground. He really knows Lying-Fu.
It is funny that you mention your cockatiels reacting to Silbo Gomero, mine didn't react to it at all... But on the other hand, since they do not seem very keen on learning my language, I started trying to learn theirs ;-)
Attendee: Critics have said SCO previously participated in open source. Did SCO give its own code away?
McBride: From a legal standpoint, this is not an issue, but its a PR issue.
Nice dodge, we'll see if it works as well in court.
Dear Coward,
I never said you were not trying, just that you have not yet been successfull.
AFAIK the Standard Model does not predict accurately the spin of protons.
Yet Another Contradiction to the Standard Model. It's about time somebody came up with a Theory of Anything that unifies quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics and all known interactions and particles.
But I thought it was the technologies from the alien spacecraft that were kept out of the public's reach, like the inertia-less drive and zero point generator ? The Government's mind-control rays are confusing me !
[/tin-foil hat]
Agreed. I should have limited my original post to _energy_ technologies.
Mal ! Where's your "DOOM"* sign ? What have you been doing all this time ? You've let Emperor Norton die !
And those lands on that far far saway island called "Australia" are useless, it's not profitable to start establishing there...
We've heard this argument, oh, continuously in history ? And it was disproved every single time.
So it's not a lack of technology, but a lack of energy ? Hey, if we had the technology to tap into all the energy around us, all this could very well be a reality. It all comes down to the lack of good energy tech.