Capitalism only tends toward Monopoly because of Government intervention. Patents and Copyrights encourage Monopolies to form, remove those restrictions and a Monopoly is impossible.
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer. Your average Joe maybe, and then they will complain to us that their computer is so slow...
Actually, only 1 carrier. AT&T and TMobile have different spectrum allocations for UTMS, so you wouldn't be able to take the iPhone over to TMobile anyhow...
I police officer can use anything in plain view as evidence for a constitutionally valid search of the vehicle (in the US). So if a police officer sees a car unlocked, he could legally open it and lock the vehicle.
Unless there is a miracle and Software Patents are deemed illegal, Firefox will never support H.264. Being tri-licensed at least the GPL/LGPL would prevent Mozilla from licensing H.264.
This is where the Federal Government actually has the authority per the Constitution to step in and regulate interstate commerce. Congress needs to dictate ONE tax rate for all Internet purchases.
All NCLB is, is an excuse to close down public schools in favor of private schools. What we should be pushing is not a greater centralization of our schools, but is to decentralize our schools further through the use of vouchers or tax credits to enable parents to CHOOSE where they send there kids. There is no reason why a child should be locked into failing schools based on geography.
Of course, the NEA would resist that, they are the other part of the problem...
You do know that Steve Jobs is a majority share holder of Pixar/Disney, right?
Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock.[11] Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger.
When I read this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution I see no mention of basic scientific research being named as a responsibility of the Federal Government. Actually, according to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution, the Federal Government is suppose:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Yep, IP is included in the US Constitution as a means to advance the Science and useful arts, not confiscatory taxes going toward basic research.
Seeing that the US is one of the few countries that have Software Patents, Ballmer might want to reconsider. Currently the EU does not have Software Patents, and hopefully never will. Seeing that Microsoft's strategy lately is to patent everything and spread FUD about Linux infringing on it's patent portfolio, threating to move the company outside of the US would mean there would be less of an incentive for the US to maintain it's position on Software Patents.
This seems to be what happens when you introduce greed into a system. If education was free and universities were more specialised it may reduce this, still, the greed factor will always affect the system.
Maybe I'm too altruistic and this clouds my judgment of others, but I'd like to think that if there was equality of education there'd be less chance of greed in the system.
If education where free? You do know that there is no such thing as a free lunch? You have to pay teachers, administrators salaries and benefits, and that money has to come from somewhere. In the case of people how advocate for 'free' education, this inevitably leads to the government providing the education, and the government has to get that money from somewhere, and that somewhere is called taxation. Which again, does not make it free, it just appears to be that way.
If they use that justification, than I want to be able to have torrent(any) traffic that stays inside their network not classified against my cap either.
Pretty much every teacher I know (my wife being one of them) HATE NCLB and want it abolished. Of course they still want more of the same, more money, and will fight any kind of school choice programs tooth and nail.
Parents should have a choice of what school they can send their school to, and the money should follow the child NOT the school.
I don't know where you live, but the NEA pretty much controls the public schools in the USA, and always pushes for some kind of Tenure for their teachers.
This means that no matter how bad a teacher gets, once they're tenure, it becomes extremely hard to fire them.
I hear those textbooks from Indiana tell you PI is exactly 3...
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If you make a change to their code that is under the GPL, you are required to make those changes available under the GPL. Perhaps that is what that sentence is inferring...
"...the Nevada Supreme Court had held that the Nevada statute required only that the suspect divulge his name; presumably, he could do so without handing over any documents whatsoever. As long as the suspect tells the officer his name, he has satisfied the dictates of the Nevada stop-and-identify law."
Moral of the story is, if you leave in one of those states mentioned above that has a stop and identify statute, yes, you can be arrested and charged with a crime.
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Capitalism only tends toward Monopoly because of Government intervention. Patents and Copyrights encourage Monopolies to form, remove those restrictions and a Monopoly is impossible.
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer. Your average Joe maybe, and then they will complain to us that their computer is so slow...
Actually, only 1 carrier. AT&T and TMobile have different spectrum allocations for UTMS, so you wouldn't be able to take the iPhone over to TMobile anyhow...
I police officer can use anything in plain view as evidence for a constitutionally valid search of the vehicle (in the US). So if a police officer sees a car unlocked, he could legally open it and lock the vehicle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_view_doctrine
Google is OSS'ing the source, so you will be free to compile a version for PPC ;-)
Unless there is a miracle and Software Patents are deemed illegal, Firefox will never support H.264. Being tri-licensed at least the GPL/LGPL would prevent Mozilla from licensing H.264.
This is where the Federal Government actually has the authority per the Constitution to step in and regulate interstate commerce. Congress needs to dictate ONE tax rate for all Internet purchases.
All NCLB is, is an excuse to close down public schools in favor of private schools. What we should be pushing is not a greater centralization of our schools, but is to decentralize our schools further through the use of vouchers or tax credits to enable parents to CHOOSE where they send there kids. There is no reason why a child should be locked into failing schools based on geography.
Of course, the NEA would resist that, they are the other part of the problem...
You do know that Steve Jobs is a majority share holder of Pixar/Disney, right?
Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock.[11] Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Pixar_and_Disney
When I read this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution I see no mention of basic scientific research being named as a responsibility of the Federal Government. Actually, according to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution, the Federal Government is suppose:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Yep, IP is included in the US Constitution as a means to advance the Science and useful arts, not confiscatory taxes going toward basic research.
Only a 3 megapixel camera? Decent lens? Light source for indoor? 480/320 screen? lame
Fixed that for you
Seeing that the US is one of the few countries that have Software Patents, Ballmer might want to reconsider. Currently the EU does not have Software Patents, and hopefully never will. Seeing that Microsoft's strategy lately is to patent everything and spread FUD about Linux infringing on it's patent portfolio, threating to move the company outside of the US would mean there would be less of an incentive for the US to maintain it's position on Software Patents.
This seems to be what happens when you introduce greed into a system. If education was free and universities were more specialised it may reduce this, still, the greed factor will always affect the system.
Maybe I'm too altruistic and this clouds my judgment of others, but I'd like to think that if there was equality of education there'd be less chance of greed in the system.
If education where free? You do know that there is no such thing as a free lunch? You have to pay teachers, administrators salaries and benefits, and that money has to come from somewhere. In the case of people how advocate for 'free' education, this inevitably leads to the government providing the education, and the government has to get that money from somewhere, and that somewhere is called taxation. Which again, does not make it free, it just appears to be that way.
Isn't that the point? If they where forced to use those channels for data, wouldn't that mean they would have even more capacity?
What are you going to switch to? AT&T and Verizon are doing, or will be doing the same thing.
If they use that justification, than I want to be able to have torrent(any) traffic that stays inside their network not classified against my cap either.
Pretty much every teacher I know (my wife being one of them) HATE NCLB and want it abolished. Of course they still want more of the same, more money, and will fight any kind of school choice programs tooth and nail.
Parents should have a choice of what school they can send their school to, and the money should follow the child NOT the school.
See Stupid in America.
I don't know where you live, but the NEA pretty much controls the public schools in the USA, and always pushes for some kind of Tenure for their teachers.
This means that no matter how bad a teacher gets, once they're tenure, it becomes extremely hard to fire them.
I hear those textbooks from Indiana tell you PI is exactly 3...
If you make a change to their code that is under the GPL, you are required to make those changes available under the GPL. Perhaps that is what that sentence is inferring...
If you want to a) cut the budget massively, b) have a net positive effect on peoples health, then get rid of the FDR Farm subsidies.
Farm subsidies just encourage food manufacturers in this country to use high fructose corn syrup instead of other, healthier, forms of sweetener.
RTFA
"...the Nevada Supreme Court had held that the Nevada statute required only that the suspect divulge his name; presumably, he could do so without handing over any documents whatsoever. As long as the suspect tells the officer his name, he has satisfied the dictates of the Nevada stop-and-identify law."
IANAL, but if you refuse to ID yourself, and your state has a Stop and Identify law, then yes, the police can arrest you.
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada it was ascertained that you do have to disclose your name to a peace officer if your state has a stop and identify law, which Nevada does.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_Identify_statutes Washington state does not have a stop and identify law, so if that was correct, he didn't have to even ID himself verbally to the police.
Moral of the story is, if you leave in one of those states mentioned above that has a stop and identify statute, yes, you can be arrested and charged with a crime.
Can we also make MSNBC and CNN pay per view too? Those are just as biased as Fox News.
What do IBM's lawyers have to do with Hollywood and the RIAA?