I don't think they gave him anything that wouldn't have been accepted as just peachy during the first two world wars or even during the Korean or Vietnam wars. WMD is a modern buzzword used by the UN and the Bush administration. Some of the US's larger munitions are probably 10x more effective on the battle field than any of the "WMD" that Saddam ever had. The only true WMD are bombs of the nuclear variety. Chemical and biological weapons are horrible things, but politicians have lumped them in with nukes so they can convince people that anyone with "WMD" has the power to obliterate cities when they certainly do not.
Some people I know thought that if a large (this one is indeed BIG) hydrogen tank at the nearest (coal burning) power plant was hit by terrorists, the entire mountain (this is in the Appalachians) would be *vaporized* in what I must assume they thought would be some kind of supersized thermonuclear explosion.
If they don't have knowledge to perform the job because CISCO is changing the job, CISCO will lay them off and they will collect unemployment until they get another job. Firing them over it brings lawsuits and possibly of the class-action variety if you fired the entire department.
Actually, as long as people continue to use SHA-1 for more than 3 years and they can keep the machine running, they can continue to work a lot more problems.;)
If I wanted to get modded into the next life I might even say Bill Gates is a modern Robin Hood using his bloated software prices to rob from the rich (corporations and governments) and give to the poor!
Sorry, but the ciggies are being imported across state lines. That is the very definition of interstate commerce. Your state may be breaking the law by taxing interstate commerce.
There is probably only a use tax on out of state goods since in-state goods are probably being charged at sale. If the state is NOT charging EXTRA for in-state buyers, then the use tax is probably nothing but a sales tax in disguise to circumvent the Constitution of the United States. I would like to see those states smacked down in Federal Court and sued for violating the rights of thousands.
The last thing I heard was some disks went missing that never existed and before that, there were some spent rods "missing" that were actually in the pool they were supposed to be in.
And you are only entitled to support (patches etc) if you're using the product on a supported system. MS doesn't officially support WINE so they can take steps to make sure you don't install a patch on unsupported systems. They don't want people calling them to whine that they installed a patch on WINE unstable development build with über-PantherManPatch v6.9 with the SuperDuperWINEturbo v0.12579327 running on a Gentoo Linux x64 development build with custom "optimizations" that give wrong answers faster and their Office doesn't work anymore.;)
The idea is that the original door locks were flawed and the automaker decides they should be changed. If they aren't a monopoly, changing them is fine, but if they are, they should be barred from fixing the flaw? How far would that go? Should they be barred from fixing a problem that cause their vehicles to roll-over if another company is selling a "solution" for thousands of dollars? Just because they are a monopoly?
By that same token, shouldn't Microsoft be hauled into court for just patching flaws in Windows since those are potential markets for anti-virus companies? $20 for Symantec Anti-BlasterVulnerability, $20 for McAffee Anti-SasserHole and so on? $5 for every TrendMicro addon that blocks one of a dozen buffer overflows in IE?
I think he grabbed an OFFICER's weapon. Basically he was thinking "I'm screwed, I gotta get outta here..." and then grabbed a gun and shot the place up.
My question for you obvious troll on our culture is:
How many of those gun deaths would've resulted from some other instrument anyway? How many were suicides where a gun was just the easiest way to do the deed and how many were pre-meditated murders where some other weapon would've been used if their wasn't a gun available? I think there are other issues in our culture that cause us to have a high rate of murders that isn't guns.
"Gun deaths" is too raw a number to draw any useful conclusion. Not to mention it's offtopic for this subject since the gun was that of a policeman.
I think they said he's 18 now and the crime was in 2003 and he was under 17 when he bought the game. I'm going to guess he was either 16 or 17 when he killed those people. I can't imagine anyone over 13 not being able to differentiate between being at his game console or being in a police station grabbing an officer's gun. He was just trying to get off the hook in a completely stupid way. I'm sure there are plenty of criminals that have done the same thing while never even seeing a TV let alone a video game. This lawsuit is a money grab, that is all.
Which is why some schools send kids to Bible school and they come back hating Jews. I'm sorry, some kids spend more time in school than with their parents because it is becoming the case where 2 incomes are needed and employers don't care if you never see your kids again as long as they make a buck.
Patches are a SUPPORT issue. If Microsoft doesn't support users of their products on pirated OSes or in emulated environments that are out of their control or not developed by a reputable company, that's tough luck.
I'd like to see a commercial GPL that only required modifications or extensions (a new method in a GPLed class for example) to the GPL code to be contributed back rather than try to force the opening of any software it's embedded in.
A truly BSD-like license would probably let him put the code directly into his sources and avoid the hassle of linking at all. If they don't let him do that, I'd say they aren't BSD-like.
If an automobile company sold vehicles that were easy to break into and some third party sold replacement door locks to fix it, would that third party be allowed to sue the auto company for fixing the flaw in factory built vehicles? The Windows operating systems are so ridden with spyware and viruses primarily due to flaws in the OS. I can't believe we can even entertain the idea that Microsoft should be stopped from trying to alleviate the problem. If Microsoft actually fixed the core of the OS making it completely immune without addons, would the anti-spyware and anti-virus companies also be allowed to sue?
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I don't think they gave him anything that wouldn't have been accepted as just peachy during the first two world wars or even during the Korean or Vietnam wars. WMD is a modern buzzword used by the UN and the Bush administration. Some of the US's larger munitions are probably 10x more effective on the battle field than any of the "WMD" that Saddam ever had. The only true WMD are bombs of the nuclear variety. Chemical and biological weapons are horrible things, but politicians have lumped them in with nukes so they can convince people that anyone with "WMD" has the power to obliterate cities when they certainly do not.
Why did the UN feel the need to use Sudan as a political tool to force the US to accept the ICC?
I think that was the government that they dismantled and beheaded that did the bailing out ;p
He's included someone else's copyrighted logo graphic in the trademark application. You can't trademark someone else's copyrighted logo.
Some people I know thought that if a large (this one is indeed BIG) hydrogen tank at the nearest (coal burning) power plant was hit by terrorists, the entire mountain (this is in the Appalachians) would be *vaporized* in what I must assume they thought would be some kind of supersized thermonuclear explosion.
If they don't have knowledge to perform the job because CISCO is changing the job, CISCO will lay them off and they will collect unemployment until they get another job. Firing them over it brings lawsuits and possibly of the class-action variety if you fired the entire department.
and if it looked like the US was favoring Kerry, the rest of the world would've probably thought he was trouble instead :)
Depends on the desired precision. :D
Actually, as long as people continue to use SHA-1 for more than 3 years and they can keep the machine running, they can continue to work a lot more problems. ;)
If I wanted to get modded into the next life I might even say Bill Gates is a modern Robin Hood using his bloated software prices to rob from the rich (corporations and governments) and give to the poor!
Sorry, but the ciggies are being imported across state lines. That is the very definition of interstate commerce. Your state may be breaking the law by taxing interstate commerce.
There is probably only a use tax on out of state goods since in-state goods are probably being charged at sale. If the state is NOT charging EXTRA for in-state buyers, then the use tax is probably nothing but a sales tax in disguise to circumvent the Constitution of the United States. I would like to see those states smacked down in Federal Court and sued for violating the rights of thousands.
The last thing I heard was some disks went missing that never existed and before that, there were some spent rods "missing" that were actually in the pool they were supposed to be in.
And you are only entitled to support (patches etc) if you're using the product on a supported system. MS doesn't officially support WINE so they can take steps to make sure you don't install a patch on unsupported systems. They don't want people calling them to whine that they installed a patch on WINE unstable development build with über-PantherManPatch v6.9 with the SuperDuperWINEturbo v0.12579327 running on a Gentoo Linux x64 development build with custom "optimizations" that give wrong answers faster and their Office doesn't work anymore. ;)
No, it'll work, but they've never said it'll work flawlessly and 100% securely.
The idea is that the original door locks were flawed and the automaker decides they should be changed. If they aren't a monopoly, changing them is fine, but if they are, they should be barred from fixing the flaw? How far would that go? Should they be barred from fixing a problem that cause their vehicles to roll-over if another company is selling a "solution" for thousands of dollars? Just because they are a monopoly?
By that same token, shouldn't Microsoft be hauled into court for just patching flaws in Windows since those are potential markets for anti-virus companies? $20 for Symantec Anti-BlasterVulnerability, $20 for McAffee Anti-SasserHole and so on? $5 for every TrendMicro addon that blocks one of a dozen buffer overflows in IE?
I think he grabbed an OFFICER's weapon. Basically he was thinking "I'm screwed, I gotta get outta here..." and then grabbed a gun and shot the place up.
My question for you obvious troll on our culture is: How many of those gun deaths would've resulted from some other instrument anyway? How many were suicides where a gun was just the easiest way to do the deed and how many were pre-meditated murders where some other weapon would've been used if their wasn't a gun available? I think there are other issues in our culture that cause us to have a high rate of murders that isn't guns.
"Gun deaths" is too raw a number to draw any useful conclusion. Not to mention it's offtopic for this subject since the gun was that of a policeman.
I think they said he's 18 now and the crime was in 2003 and he was under 17 when he bought the game. I'm going to guess he was either 16 or 17 when he killed those people. I can't imagine anyone over 13 not being able to differentiate between being at his game console or being in a police station grabbing an officer's gun. He was just trying to get off the hook in a completely stupid way. I'm sure there are plenty of criminals that have done the same thing while never even seeing a TV let alone a video game. This lawsuit is a money grab, that is all.
Which is why some schools send kids to Bible school and they come back hating Jews. I'm sorry, some kids spend more time in school than with their parents because it is becoming the case where 2 incomes are needed and employers don't care if you never see your kids again as long as they make a buck.
Patches are a SUPPORT issue. If Microsoft doesn't support users of their products on pirated OSes or in emulated environments that are out of their control or not developed by a reputable company, that's tough luck.
Repeat after me: "Microsoft does not support Office under WINE, Office under pirated Windows or updating Office on either WINE or pirated Windows."
I'd like to see a commercial GPL that only required modifications or extensions (a new method in a GPLed class for example) to the GPL code to be contributed back rather than try to force the opening of any software it's embedded in.
A truly BSD-like license would probably let him put the code directly into his sources and avoid the hassle of linking at all. If they don't let him do that, I'd say they aren't BSD-like.
Derivative work eh? Isn't that the same thing SCO is trying to claim ownership of all Unices and Linux with?
If an automobile company sold vehicles that were easy to break into and some third party sold replacement door locks to fix it, would that third party be allowed to sue the auto company for fixing the flaw in factory built vehicles? The Windows operating systems are so ridden with spyware and viruses primarily due to flaws in the OS. I can't believe we can even entertain the idea that Microsoft should be stopped from trying to alleviate the problem. If Microsoft actually fixed the core of the OS making it completely immune without addons, would the anti-spyware and anti-virus companies also be allowed to sue?