I think the manager of the farm will have strong control over the options available on the 12 decisions a month. 300k pounds a year could really convince me to put a question out like "What color should we paint the barn?" or "Should we plant 15 or 20 acres of x crop?"
Win? Except for the real-life farm which will go under fast (if not subsidized from, say, education funds)
Umm... It is subsidized by 300,000 pounds (~$500,000 in my head) a year by enrollment fees. Secondly, I'm sure the person running the farm can rig the voting system to keep out the really bad decisions. I'm pretty sure options will be much more along the lines of "Should we use organic fertilizer or standard fertilizer?" not things like "Should we burn down all the crops tomorrow?"
+1 Insightful
Agreed, if access to a site is fully blocked, a ISP shouldn't be able to advertise as and ISP. "RWP" or "RSP" (Restricted Service Provider") works fine for me.
The question remains, what should happen if they decided to give priority to a given content provider and all other competing providers at "best effort" or "worst effort". (Best effort means, I will try to comply with your request if I'm not "too busy". Worst effort means I will comply with your request if I have nothing better to do. Both valid computing and networking preferences.)
While you may prefer to call "TalkTalk" "Bye-Bye". I may enjoy the discount I receive from my ISP accepting the low priority of sites that don't wish to pay the toll. It may even be possible that I receive free RSP or RWP service due to the number of content providers that are willing to pay the toll. I may even receive free ISP access, although, I won't hold my breath.
I agree with you, truth in advertising. Please agree with me, don't restrict my informed choices.
Plants get a lot of their carbon from CO2. That part of the process would be carbon neutral. If the farmers supplement the soil from other sources then its not completely carbon neutral. Plants harvest atmospheric CO2 to make oxygen. If you grow a plant from purely atmospheric CO2 then burn it, you are completely carbon neutral.
If nothing else it is more carbon balanced than simply using fossil fuels.
Patents are only valid for a fixed period of time. So if you have a patent improvment based on an expired patent then you don't need to license the change. If the previous patent is still valid then you need to obtain the license. Since your improvement came after the orgional then there will probably be at least a short period of time where you have your improvement without licensing fees.
Have you ever eaten a Habanero? The unpleasentness doesn't end after it hits your mouth.
I can only imagine what it would be like to eat 3 of them 3 times a week. Hell my intestins can only handle about a quater of one a day without it severly disrupitng the continunity of my work.
That is how the economy works for an individual but not on larger scales. If a job is out sourced and a company is more profitable much of the time that saved money is reinvested into the company and other jobs are created. Even if that company choses to pay dividends to shareholders with the profit, the shareholders will then often invest that money into other companies thus creating other jobs.
Empirically, most of the time when jobs are outsourced form one country to another the country that is having jobs oursourced winds up with more jobs. The problem is the created jobs are typically higher level and require more education. Provided Amercia is willing to continue to have people with more and more education working in this country then we will be able to continue to capatalize on the benefits of outsourcing.
If we had stoped outsourcing with car manafactures then we would still be a country with a large auto industry and we wouldn't have had the resources(human) to capatalize on the information technologies or bio-technology.
At that point the person is not lying, they are delusional.
The question becomes can I force myself to become delusional. If I have a reliable method to make myself delusional then I can lie successfully with premedatated ideas and get past the test.
Personally, I LIKE having the world's largest information store and community center available at my fingertips, and I wouldn't go back to DOS 5.0, dial-up BBSes at 9600k, or long walks to the library to look up simple facts for any amount of money.
I believe you missed the orgional posters idea completly. Most users wonder why one day thier web browser is working and the next it fails. Having access to data and the fact things are getting better does not make it a good experience. I agree that I like my Pentimum 4 or my G4 running Fedora Core 1 or OSX repsectivly much more than I enjoyed Windows 3.1 on a 486DX33 or Mac OS (version 1 or however it was versioned back then) but the user interface still has a LONG way to go before it bacomes acceptable. Even for a printer what the hell does "PC load letter" mean. I won't get started on some crypic errors in Linux but why should I think that "ls" will print the files in a directory unless I look though boxes of documentation or someone tells me. On Windows why does it report hex values on the blue screen of death. That means nothing and confuses users. Why is it there at all?
My point is computers are nice but the UI on them still needs a lot of work.
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There are sevearl bands with podcast of concerts that can be downloaded for free. It's not exactly the same as one song (it's an entire set) but its still free music on my iPod through the Podcast section of iTunes.
It's not exactly what you are talking about but its pretty close.
Is it illegal for me to walk into a resturant that refuses to serve me with many of my friends and sit down until we are all served?
On another note:
Maybe what he did was wrong and maybe technically a felony but throwing the book at a student is hardly the right thing to do. There is room for the city officals to use the right laws at the right time and this is too much overkill. Suspend him for a couple of days and tell him not to do it again. Throwing him in jail is just a horrible miscarrage of justice.
Libel laws might not be used however the SEC will have something to say about it if you do it too effectivly. Think a typicaly stock market pump and dump scheme. Juniper is too big of a company to pratically be victom of a pump and dump.
If it is licensed under the GPL then you don't even have to change a byte. You have complete rights to resell or give away the software. Although any derative works have to be sold under the GPL so anyone you give it do can resell or give it away.
Because Wal-mart hires unskilled workers at market price does not mean that they are still not hiring people and giving jobs to the community by providing a service. No one is forced to have a job at Wal-mart and no one is froced to shop at Wal-mart. Many people find it worth while to shop there and to be empolyed there. If not for the Waltons then people would not have the option to shop there or work there. The Waltons might have gotten rich but they got rich honestly. Because of the Waltons the world is a better place to live and the cost to society of them having wealth is far offset by the benefit they provided to socity.
You will see several Waltons on the Forbes 500 but I wish to point out that much of that weath is on paper. Not to say these people are going to be poor anytime soon but if Wal-mart stock crashes then the Walton family will no longer be as high up as they are now. Since thier money is invested they are not really living off the vast majority of it and the employees of Wal-mart and it's customers are the current beneficiaries of most of that money. In other words their money is currently out in society doing good for society. If Wal-mart get tax breaks and it causes the big corperation to hire more people or lower prices (both of which Wal-mart has done in spades) then society benefits from those tax breaks. Compared to the amount of money that Wal-mart has generated for society (both in the form of employment and lower prices) the amout the Waltons have taken is a mear pitance. I would much rather have choice between several big corperations then be forced to deal with big goverment. If someone happens to get rich in the process good for them. If they start trying to get too rich and charge me too much then provided there isn't a monopoly (goverment action may be necessary) then I chose to go somewhere else. Thus society and myself are better off. Once again just because someone else benefits more than I do does not mean I am hurt.
I consider myself a conservatives and sometimes listen to Bill O'Reilly and his veiws are actually fairly centerist (he leans to the right though). He is a closemined, self-important, pompus asshole but he is not as far right as the rest of Fox News. Although Fox News is right, MSNBC and CNN are fairly far left. I figure "unbaised" news is impossible by the Heisenberg principle so I make an effort to listen to right and left biased to try and get a more complete picture. If nothing else listening to the left gives me a good scouting report on the enemy.
I just claimed to be a consertive on slashdot... There goes my karma.
The senior FBI official said those cases not referred to the oversight board generally involve missed deadlines of 30 days or fewer with no potential infringement of the civil rights of U.S. persons, who are defined as either citizens or legal U.S. resident aliens.
I realize that this is trusting the fox to guard the hen house but this article doesn't have evidence of serious infractions. That is not to say that serious infractions arn't occuring or they couldn't occour or, even worse, we have no way of knowing that the occured.
All the comments I see about abuse of power and corruption might hold true but the evidence presented in this article does not fundamentally support that arguement.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
This is with the implied arguement that the manner I distribute the binary in is "a medium customarily used for software interchange". The person distributing has other choices to satsify the requirement but if I download a binary from the internet and they are only willing to sell me a CD with attached shipping and handling, I could plausably argue that a shipped CD is not "a medium customarily used for software interchange".
It's not a perfect fit and I probably should have stated similar manner instead of the same manner but my claim is that if I charge an expensive amount to burn and ship a CD of binaries then I can charge the same expensive amount again to ship a CD of the source. In my understanding that means someone can charge twice as much for getting the binaries and source instead of just getting the binaries, with the claim that this is what it costs to have someone available to burn CD's. This becomes even more cut and dry in my opinion if the source is on the same medium. Once someone has distributed a copy there is nothing to stop others from redistributing it for free.
IANAL and I am in no way able to give a real opinion but this is how I read the GPL.
Acutally as I understand it, if they sell you a CD with binaries on it they don't have to make the source available until you request the source. Once you request the source since you recived a CD they can choose to give you another CD with means they can charge you for the cost of burning the CD and shipping & handleing.
If they put the binaries out for download the source has to be available for download, upon request. Basically the source has to be available in the same manner that the binaries were available. Thus if they charge you for the basic delivery of the binaries, they can charge you for the delivery of the source.
This is to the best of my understanding and I'm sure I'll hear about it if I am wrong.
Have you ever seen a government spec for work done? Do you realize that if you take goverment employee that can't be fired for almost any reason, and gets massive benefits to write a basic program you will be looking at a much more massive cost? Do you really think bigger goverment is the solution to this? Next you will argue that the goverment should hire individuals to build roads, staff hospitals, build military equiptment, run goverment farms, run goverment stores, run universities, run all manafacturing facalites and make sure everyone has an equal share.
I am no fan of big business but big goverment is even worse. I know big business will screw me to make a dollar however big goverment will screw me for a dollar and screw my wife just for fun. Buisnesses need to be kept on a leash. When was the last time you saw the goverment take powers away from itself?
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I think the manager of the farm will have strong control over the options available on the 12 decisions a month. 300k pounds a year could really convince me to put a question out like "What color should we paint the barn?" or "Should we plant 15 or 20 acres of x crop?"
Win? Except for the real-life farm which will go under fast (if not subsidized from, say, education funds)
Umm... It is subsidized by 300,000 pounds (~$500,000 in my head) a year by enrollment fees. Secondly, I'm sure the person running the farm can rig the voting system to keep out the really bad decisions. I'm pretty sure options will be much more along the lines of "Should we use organic fertilizer or standard fertilizer?" not things like "Should we burn down all the crops tomorrow?"
+1 Insightful Agreed, if access to a site is fully blocked, a ISP shouldn't be able to advertise as and ISP. "RWP" or "RSP" (Restricted Service Provider") works fine for me.
The question remains, what should happen if they decided to give priority to a given content provider and all other competing providers at "best effort" or "worst effort". (Best effort means, I will try to comply with your request if I'm not "too busy". Worst effort means I will comply with your request if I have nothing better to do. Both valid computing and networking preferences.)
While you may prefer to call "TalkTalk" "Bye-Bye". I may enjoy the discount I receive from my ISP accepting the low priority of sites that don't wish to pay the toll. It may even be possible that I receive free RSP or RWP service due to the number of content providers that are willing to pay the toll. I may even receive free ISP access, although, I won't hold my breath. I agree with you, truth in advertising. Please agree with me, don't restrict my informed choices.
and the boxes of software mean I can play Sim City although without the manual the ancient DRM causes my city to get destroy after 10 minutes.
Plants get a lot of their carbon from CO2. That part of the process would be carbon neutral. If the farmers supplement the soil from other sources then its not completely carbon neutral. Plants harvest atmospheric CO2 to make oxygen. If you grow a plant from purely atmospheric CO2 then burn it, you are completely carbon neutral.
If nothing else it is more carbon balanced than simply using fossil fuels.
Patents are only valid for a fixed period of time. So if you have a patent improvment based on an expired patent then you don't need to license the change. If the previous patent is still valid then you need to obtain the license. Since your improvement came after the orgional then there will probably be at least a short period of time where you have your improvement without licensing fees.
In my reading of the article the artist is also the bar owner. So the copyright violation is aginst the bar owner who just happens to be the artist.
Have you ever eaten a Habanero? The unpleasentness doesn't end after it hits your mouth.
I can only imagine what it would be like to eat 3 of them 3 times a week. Hell my intestins can only handle about a quater of one a day without it severly disrupitng the continunity of my work.
That is how the economy works for an individual but not on larger scales. If a job is out sourced and a company is more profitable much of the time that saved money is reinvested into the company and other jobs are created. Even if that company choses to pay dividends to shareholders with the profit, the shareholders will then often invest that money into other companies thus creating other jobs.
Empirically, most of the time when jobs are outsourced form one country to another the country that is having jobs oursourced winds up with more jobs. The problem is the created jobs are typically higher level and require more education. Provided Amercia is willing to continue to have people with more and more education working in this country then we will be able to continue to capatalize on the benefits of outsourcing.
If we had stoped outsourcing with car manafactures then we would still be a country with a large auto industry and we wouldn't have had the resources(human) to capatalize on the information technologies or bio-technology.
At that point the person is not lying, they are delusional.
The question becomes can I force myself to become delusional. If I have a reliable method to make myself delusional then I can lie successfully with premedatated ideas and get past the test.
Personally, I LIKE having the world's largest information store and community center available at my fingertips, and I wouldn't go back to DOS 5.0, dial-up BBSes at 9600k, or long walks to the library to look up simple facts for any amount of money.
I believe you missed the orgional posters idea completly. Most users wonder why one day thier web browser is working and the next it fails. Having access to data and the fact things are getting better does not make it a good experience. I agree that I like my Pentimum 4 or my G4 running Fedora Core 1 or OSX repsectivly much more than I enjoyed Windows 3.1 on a 486DX33 or Mac OS (version 1 or however it was versioned back then) but the user interface still has a LONG way to go before it bacomes acceptable. Even for a printer what the hell does "PC load letter" mean. I won't get started on some crypic errors in Linux but why should I think that "ls" will print the files in a directory unless I look though boxes of documentation or someone tells me. On Windows why does it report hex values on the blue screen of death. That means nothing and confuses users. Why is it there at all?
My point is computers are nice but the UI on them still needs a lot of work.
There are sevearl bands with podcast of concerts that can be downloaded for free. It's not exactly the same as one song (it's an entire set) but its still free music on my iPod through the Podcast section of iTunes.
It's not exactly what you are talking about but its pretty close.
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Is it illegal for me to walk into a resturant that refuses to serve me with many of my friends and sit down until we are all served?
On another note:
Maybe what he did was wrong and maybe technically a felony but throwing the book at a student is hardly the right thing to do. There is room for the city officals to use the right laws at the right time and this is too much overkill. Suspend him for a couple of days and tell him not to do it again. Throwing him in jail is just a horrible miscarrage of justice.
then put your thumbprint in the corner,
Voting is supposted to anoymous. If I can be identified back to my ballot then I can be pursuaded to vote by a corrupt official.
Libel laws might not be used however the SEC will have something to say about it if you do it too effectivly. Think a typicaly stock market pump and dump scheme. Juniper is too big of a company to pratically be victom of a pump and dump.
Bottom line you can get in trouble for it.
If it is licensed under the GPL then you don't even have to change a byte. You have complete rights to resell or give away the software. Although any derative works have to be sold under the GPL so anyone you give it do can resell or give it away.
Because Wal-mart hires unskilled workers at market price does not mean that they are still not hiring people and giving jobs to the community by providing a service. No one is forced to have a job at Wal-mart and no one is froced to shop at Wal-mart. Many people find it worth while to shop there and to be empolyed there. If not for the Waltons then people would not have the option to shop there or work there. The Waltons might have gotten rich but they got rich honestly. Because of the Waltons the world is a better place to live and the cost to society of them having wealth is far offset by the benefit they provided to socity.
You will see several Waltons on the Forbes 500 but I wish to point out that much of that weath is on paper. Not to say these people are going to be poor anytime soon but if Wal-mart stock crashes then the Walton family will no longer be as high up as they are now. Since thier money is invested they are not really living off the vast majority of it and the employees of Wal-mart and it's customers are the current beneficiaries of most of that money. In other words their money is currently out in society doing good for society. If Wal-mart get tax breaks and it causes the big corperation to hire more people or lower prices (both of which Wal-mart has done in spades) then society benefits from those tax breaks. Compared to the amount of money that Wal-mart has generated for society (both in the form of employment and lower prices) the amout the Waltons have taken is a mear pitance. I would much rather have choice between several big corperations then be forced to deal with big goverment. If someone happens to get rich in the process good for them. If they start trying to get too rich and charge me too much then provided there isn't a monopoly (goverment action may be necessary) then I chose to go somewhere else. Thus society and myself are better off. Once again just because someone else benefits more than I do does not mean I am hurt.
Life is not a zero sum game.
I consider myself a conservatives and sometimes listen to Bill O'Reilly and his veiws are actually fairly centerist (he leans to the right though). He is a closemined, self-important, pompus asshole but he is not as far right as the rest of Fox News.
Although Fox News is right, MSNBC and CNN are fairly far left. I figure "unbaised" news is impossible by the Heisenberg principle so I make an effort to listen to right and left biased to try and get a more complete picture. If nothing else listening to the left gives me a good scouting report on the enemy.
I just claimed to be a consertive on slashdot... There goes my karma.
I would like to give a preemptive screw you to all the developers of Civ IV for my failing grades during finals week.
I blame you developers.
The senior FBI official said those cases not referred to the oversight board generally involve missed deadlines of 30 days or fewer with no potential infringement of the civil rights of U.S. persons, who are defined as either citizens or legal U.S. resident aliens. I realize that this is trusting the fox to guard the hen house but this article doesn't have evidence of serious infractions. That is not to say that serious infractions arn't occuring or they couldn't occour or, even worse, we have no way of knowing that the occured. All the comments I see about abuse of power and corruption might hold true but the evidence presented in this article does not fundamentally support that arguement.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
This is with the implied arguement that the manner I distribute the binary in is "a medium customarily used for software interchange". The person distributing has other choices to satsify the requirement but if I download a binary from the internet and they are only willing to sell me a CD with attached shipping and handling, I could plausably argue that a shipped CD is not "a medium customarily used for software interchange".
It's not a perfect fit and I probably should have stated similar manner instead of the same manner but my claim is that if I charge an expensive amount to burn and ship a CD of binaries then I can charge the same expensive amount again to ship a CD of the source. In my understanding that means someone can charge twice as much for getting the binaries and source instead of just getting the binaries, with the claim that this is what it costs to have someone available to burn CD's. This becomes even more cut and dry in my opinion if the source is on the same medium. Once someone has distributed a copy there is nothing to stop others from redistributing it for free.
IANAL and I am in no way able to give a real opinion but this is how I read the GPL.
Acutally as I understand it, if they sell you a CD with binaries on it they don't have to make the source available until you request the source. Once you request the source since you recived a CD they can choose to give you another CD with means they can charge you for the cost of burning the CD and shipping & handleing.
If they put the binaries out for download the source has to be available for download, upon request. Basically the source has to be available in the same manner that the binaries were available. Thus if they charge you for the basic delivery of the binaries, they can charge you for the delivery of the source.
This is to the best of my understanding and I'm sure I'll hear about it if I am wrong.
Have you ever seen a government spec for work done? Do you realize that if you take goverment employee that can't be fired for almost any reason, and gets massive benefits to write a basic program you will be looking at a much more massive cost? Do you really think bigger goverment is the solution to this? Next you will argue that the goverment should hire individuals to build roads, staff hospitals, build military equiptment, run goverment farms, run goverment stores, run universities, run all manafacturing facalites and make sure everyone has an equal share.
I am no fan of big business but big goverment is even worse. I know big business will screw me to make a dollar however big goverment will screw me for a dollar and screw my wife just for fun. Buisnesses need to be kept on a leash. When was the last time you saw the goverment take powers away from itself?
I disagree I have done some of my best coding after a couple of beers.