The money is in software, licensing agreements, user base, support, etc. I don't know about using free software for this. When time comes to upgrade, linux will run on whatever hardware is cheapest at the moment. No need to retrain your users/admins.
I've never owned a car in my life. I can't drive due to a medical condition. I've managed to get around using public transportation here in the US. Other countries have better systems of public transport.
Cars are a very dangerous form of transportation. We need better ways of addressing these issues. From the article, we have developed ridiculously complicated ways of dealing with part of the problem. Storing the cars. Other parts of the problem include traffic. (When will automated devices begin to lift cars onto seperate freeways or freeway lanes, in order to help traffic congestion?) Then there's the oil thing. But no one wants to use electric cars. I guess "hybrids" are a tiny baby step in the right direction.
When you have to drive 90 minutes from an area you can afford, into an area where you are employed, there is a serious problem and the fancy automobile is not the answer. (apparently public transit isn't the answer either the way it currently works. Some people in california drive 3 hours to get to work.)
So we are able to store the beasts in a way in which they could not be stored before, and the motivation was lack of space... Something is wrong here.
However, one has to start thinking that something is fundamentally wrong when so much time, effort and money go in to something which produces absolutely nothing.
(I'm not going to focus on who's to blame, the lawyers who do the work, the CEOs who want it done... etc)
If you follow the thread of a somewhat less eloquent poster who replied to this, I suggest there may be other alternatives (those I state none specifically) but I think we need to start looking at things in our legal system and change a lot of how we currently do things. (granted this may take another hundred or thousand years or more, if we're able to survive that long.)
I'm just saying there is a problem. I don't have the answers, but we need to acknowledge this as a first step anyway.
If you look closely at my posts in this thread, you might notice that I never said we should do away with lawyers. You (or perhaps some other Anonymous Coward) attempted to put those words in my mouth with a ridiculous hypothetical situation. (Which was riddled with flawed logic, I might add.)
I simply pointed out the problems with this hypothetical.
There are several instances in our current legal system which need lawyers. There are also instances in which lawyers waste a lot of people's time and money. (Some might use a different word than waste.)
I would also suggest that there may be a better way of going about these things without lawyers as we know them today. Some huge shifts in how government and society operates could be discussed. This seems out of scope for this discussion. And if you are the same Anonymous Coward who replied to my original post, you would probably just flame me and make personal attacks if I even initiated such a discussion. (I base this on empirical evidence, of course. I could be wrong.)
This is a glib oversimplification, but I'll bite within the 2 seconds before you get modded as a troll.
Pretending the world is as simple as your post implies, then:
"Lawyers are also here to defend people who are going to get fucked by other lawyers, so maybe you should be glad they are around."
So if they were not around, I would not have to worry about getting "fucked by other lawyers."
So why again should I be glad they are around?
From the linked site: "It must be sectarian village, one of the sect where brothers have been marrying sisters and they all used to have one last name."
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The money is in software, licensing agreements, user base, support, etc. I don't know about using free software for this. When time comes to upgrade, linux will run on whatever hardware is cheapest at the moment. No need to retrain your users/admins.
How about: In Soviet Russia, plans for space exploration fabricate you.
It's plonedap.
(May cause emphysema, diarreah, blood clot, stroke or intestinal disorder. Check with your doctor before using.)
On the contrary, I believe the drones should have minds.
No. That doesn't sound like it would be very beneficial to the community.
Create a web server in the California desert which handles high amounts of web traffic.
I'll get modded down for this, but here goes:
I've never owned a car in my life. I can't drive due to a medical condition. I've managed to get around using public transportation here in the US. Other countries have better systems of public transport.
Cars are a very dangerous form of transportation. We need better ways of addressing these issues. From the article, we have developed ridiculously complicated ways of dealing with part of the problem. Storing the cars. Other parts of the problem include traffic. (When will automated devices begin to lift cars onto seperate freeways or freeway lanes, in order to help traffic congestion?) Then there's the oil thing. But no one wants to use electric cars. I guess "hybrids" are a tiny baby step in the right direction.
When you have to drive 90 minutes from an area you can afford, into an area where you are employed, there is a serious problem and the fancy automobile is not the answer. (apparently public transit isn't the answer either the way it currently works. Some people in california drive 3 hours to get to work.)
So we are able to store the beasts in a way in which they could not be stored before, and the motivation was lack of space... Something is wrong here.
But he's not even _your_ big brother.
Maybe they could offer the tourists a copy of the photo in a lovely decorated cardboard frame as a memento of their trip.
"steroids"
More like amped up on those goofballs Wiggum is always trying to find.
This is very safe.
This goes against everything Civ ever taught me.
"Nasa scientists say their experimental X-43A jet has the potential to make the world a much smaller place."
Somehow I find it difficult to believe that NASA scientists said their experimental jet will alter the size of thw world.
Because I was not a SCO user...
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak up to.
Wait what am I talking about?
Why do we even have a bottle? Will someone please tell me?
Agreed.
However, one has to start thinking that something is fundamentally wrong when so much time, effort and money go in to something which produces absolutely nothing.
(I'm not going to focus on who's to blame, the lawyers who do the work, the CEOs who want it done... etc)
If you follow the thread of a somewhat less eloquent poster who replied to this, I suggest there may be other alternatives (those I state none specifically) but I think we need to start looking at things in our legal system and change a lot of how we currently do things. (granted this may take another hundred or thousand years or more, if we're able to survive that long.)
I'm just saying there is a problem. I don't have the answers, but we need to acknowledge this as a first step anyway.
If you look closely at my posts in this thread, you might notice that I never said we should do away with lawyers. You (or perhaps some other Anonymous Coward) attempted to put those words in my mouth with a ridiculous hypothetical situation. (Which was riddled with flawed logic, I might add.)
I simply pointed out the problems with this hypothetical.
There are several instances in our current legal system which need lawyers. There are also instances in which lawyers waste a lot of people's time and money. (Some might use a different word than waste.)
I would also suggest that there may be a better way of going about these things without lawyers as we know them today. Some huge shifts in how government and society operates could be discussed. This seems out of scope for this discussion. And if you are the same Anonymous Coward who replied to my original post, you would probably just flame me and make personal attacks if I even initiated such a discussion. (I base this on empirical evidence, of course. I could be wrong.)
This is a glib oversimplification, but I'll bite within the 2 seconds before you get modded as a troll. Pretending the world is as simple as your post implies, then: "Lawyers are also here to defend people who are going to get fucked by other lawyers, so maybe you should be glad they are around." So if they were not around, I would not have to worry about getting "fucked by other lawyers." So why again should I be glad they are around?
The lawyers.
aria for the record industry.
And put your mouse on the other side.
A fella' could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that criticism.
This is the war room.
By *here* I meant on earth...
This can't be good.
Are we soon going to have large populations of mutant radioactive animals here?
...that gets you, it's the radiation.
From the linked site: "It must be sectarian village, one of the sect where brothers have been marrying sisters and they all used to have one last name."
Good.