Ahh the "Let's-fight-'fair'-so-our-forces- will-be-annihilated-in-an-instant" strategy. Sounds brilliant.
Sorry bub. "Honor" in warfare only exists when your side has a chance of winning while being "honorable". What we're seeing is asymmetrical warfare in all of its hideous glory.
Those people were murdered by atheists, in the name of atheism.
Bollocks!! They were murdered in the name of the State in order to advance the State. The fact that Stalin & Pol Pot were atheists is not relevant.
The fact that they were megalomaniacal tyrants is!.
Marx was pretty memorable in his condemnation of religion
Yes, but he certainly didn't advocate replacing religion with demogougery. He condemned religion because it taught people to be content with being economically repressed. Stalinism taught people to not speak out about being economically repressed. Not much of a difference. And I'm sure Marx himself would be appalled to see how his theories turned out in practice.
First: Medical-industrial complex? Sounds like somebody needs to lay off the crack.
No, somebody needs to do their research before they make accusations of narcotic addiction. Corporate medical insurance and Corporate hospitals are *ruining* health care in America. They are placing profits over patients, as well as using spreadsheets to second-guess physician's diagnoses.
^ Arguably, that's exactly how he went from an "also-ran" in August to winning the nomination. He stayed under the radar while Guillani, Thompson, Romney, and Huckabee were fighting for the lead. After the smoke cleared, McCain was the only one who emerged unscathed.
It's hard to think of a part of my late childhood and young adulthood that *hasn't* been touched by fantasy gaming. All of my longest and closest friends were gamers. My computer career was started in no small way by my love of the SSI Gold Box games. DM'ing helped to teach me to think quickly and creatively on the spot. As a player, I learned not only teamwork, but how to approach a problem from alternate perspectives (part of the joy of being a Chaotic Neutral thief or a Lawful Good Paladin). Even my wedding was medieval themed.
The world has become a little sadder, and a little smaller today...
I believe this demonstration had the slow car traveling in the center lane. This caused cars following to switch lanes to both the right and left, effectively choking all three.
However, the notion that any commercial products are having a hard time "competing with free" is bass ackwards.
I've been doing enterprise Java development for 10 years now, and couldn't disagree with you more. In the late 90's - early 00's, it would cost a company thousands, if not tens-of-thousands in software licenses to develop and roll out an enterprise Java app. A good Java IDE like JBuilder Enterprise or VisualAge could cost upwards of $2,000 per developer. And then, you'd need your App server (WebSphere, IPlanet, WebLogic) and datbase (Oracle, DB2), which could cost upwards of $10,000 per cpu! And unfortunately, on the app server side, most vendor J2EE implementations were utter crap. Missing features, broken compliance, proprietary (read: non-portable) features, etc. Plus, you'd get crappy frameworks like EJB 1.1 that provided little more than revenue to the App server providers, and perpetual headaches to the poor developer who had to code against it, and huge expenses for the customer who wanted to run it. But in 1999, no-one cared about cost, because the Internet was going to make us all Rich regardless of how backwards our balance sheets looked.
Once the bubble burst, however, the lack of IT funding forced many surviving companies to look at lower-cost alternatives. OSS J2EE servers like JBoss and Apache Tomcat gained much momentum based not only on cost, but on quality. Companies that didn't need the infinite scalability of Oracle running on Solaris found that they would be much better served with a couple of MySql boxes running on commodity hardware. And today, I can be an order of magnitude more productive developing on Eclipse than I could ever be using JBuilder. The J2EE server market has been reduced from a dozen players to about three. And the EJB 3.0 spec (driven strongly by JBoss) is the first release of the technology that doesn't resemble abject insanity.
So, at least in the Java world, OSS did break the backs of many inefficient vendors. Those who survived are forced to compete on a basis of quality and value, not empty promises and flashy brochures.
But the statute itself doesn't change. The new law wouldn't change the penalty for the crime. It would alter how the law was enforced under certain conditions. Now, I agree that retroactive immunity to the Telcos is a horrible idea, I just don't see how a law like this, were it to pass, could be constitutionally challenged. The winning move is not to put it on the books in the first place.
^ This wouldn't be an ex post facto law. Immunity doesn't mean "a crime didn't occur". It means "there will be no prosecution or civil judgments for this crime".
If the Justice Department refuses to enforce the law, there are two options.
A Judge can order the justice department to act
Congress can move forward with inherent contept proceedings. From Wikipedia:
Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation.)
It bugged me for years that Star Wars would include something as incorrect as using 'parsec' as a unit of time. I tried to rationalize it by imagining that the Kessel run was some sort of shortest-path optimization task, but that was unsatisfactory.
Actually, you're absolutely correct here.;) The Kessel Run (if my memory is correct). involves a smuggler transporting contraband between a number of ships moving away from each other across the galaxy. The faster you finish, the closer the ships will be to each other, and the shorter the distance you had to travel.
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Ahh the "Let's-fight-'fair'-so-our-forces- will-be-annihilated-in-an-instant" strategy. Sounds brilliant.
Sorry bub. "Honor" in warfare only exists when your side has a chance of winning while being "honorable". What we're seeing is asymmetrical warfare in all of its hideous glory.
"What if "C-a-t", really spelled "Dog"?
Great! Schroder worked out the math. Now how does he explain the magical fruit and the talking snake?
^ Arguably, that's exactly how he went from an "also-ran" in August to winning the nomination. He stayed under the radar while Guillani, Thompson, Romney, and Huckabee were fighting for the lead. After the smoke cleared, McCain was the only one who emerged unscathed.
It's hard to think of a part of my late childhood and young adulthood that *hasn't* been touched by fantasy gaming. All of my longest and closest friends were gamers. My computer career was started in no small way by my love of the SSI Gold Box games. DM'ing helped to teach me to think quickly and creatively on the spot. As a player, I learned not only teamwork, but how to approach a problem from alternate perspectives (part of the joy of being a Chaotic Neutral thief or a Lawful Good Paladin). Even my wedding was medieval themed. The world has become a little sadder, and a little smaller today...
FAIL!
There are 9 levels to Hell.
Avernus
Dis
Minauros
Phlegethos
Stygia
Malbolge
Maladomini
Cania
Nessus
I think you need to actually research the controversy behind NCLB. Hint: it has little or nothing to do with standardization.
^ Mod -10,000,000: dumbshit.
I believe this demonstration had the slow car traveling in the center lane. This caused cars following to switch lanes to both the right and left, effectively choking all three.
Gentlemen, behold!!
CORN!!!
Once the bubble burst, however, the lack of IT funding forced many surviving companies to look at lower-cost alternatives. OSS J2EE servers like JBoss and Apache Tomcat gained much momentum based not only on cost, but on quality. Companies that didn't need the infinite scalability of Oracle running on Solaris found that they would be much better served with a couple of MySql boxes running on commodity hardware. And today, I can be an order of magnitude more productive developing on Eclipse than I could ever be using JBuilder. The J2EE server market has been reduced from a dozen players to about three. And the EJB 3.0 spec (driven strongly by JBoss) is the first release of the technology that doesn't resemble abject insanity.
So, at least in the Java world, OSS did break the backs of many inefficient vendors. Those who survived are forced to compete on a basis of quality and value, not empty promises and flashy brochures.
You just described just about every arcade game that was released in the U.S. in the 80's...
You *do* realize that most systems that read/write xml also read/write gzipped xml, dont'cha?
I'll take an Ant XML build file over an "is that a tab or a space" Makefile any day...
But the statute itself doesn't change. The new law wouldn't change the penalty for the crime. It would alter how the law was enforced under certain conditions. Now, I agree that retroactive immunity to the Telcos is a horrible idea, I just don't see how a law like this, were it to pass, could be constitutionally challenged. The winning move is not to put it on the books in the first place.
^ This wouldn't be an ex post facto law. Immunity doesn't mean "a crime didn't occur". It means "there will be no prosecution or civil judgments for this crime".
Yes, you did. And no, they didn't. :)
Dooku didn't leave the Jedi and fall to the Dark Side until after the Battle of Naboo. Maul was already dead before Dooku turned.
No, it was 10 years between eps 1 & 2. I believe there were about 3 years between 2 & 3.
Yes, but this was thousands of years before Darth Bane established the "Rule of Two."