So they didn't say how likely people are to have an accident and walk away when high on marijuana? Studies here on traffic stops for dangerous driving showed that a disproportionate number were high on marijuana, impaired by alcohol or both. Different geographic areas and/or countries will show different results.
I know people that *weren't even aware they were driving like a total idiot* while impaired by marijuana. If you've read the side affects of the stuff, you'd know that there's no way in hell someone *couldn't* be impaired. The fact is, the person that is impaired may not even be aware he's impaired just like a drunk isn't aware he can't drive. I know people that think they drive better drunk. That tells you how much you can trust someone who is impaired to give an objective opinion on their ability to drive.
I don't have to install software for my refrigerator, microwave, TV, DVD/VCR player, toaster or my car to work. Why should I *have* to install anything on a brand new PC to get anything other then uncommon or little used functionality?
We haven't yet abolished elections so that isn't ever happening. Even the US President always has his party clenching his stones wanting to be (re)elected in the next election (state, congress or other).
I believe they intend commercial use of the source to be binary only sourceless distributions with proprietary changes by the customer. The GPL doesn't allow this but the copyright holder has the power to sanction such activities under whatever terms they choose.
In the US, full grown adults used to sue (and win against) their own parents because their psychiatrist, via hypnotism(!), had found that the parents had abused them when they were just little babies thus causing their children not to succeed in life and have emotional and psychological problems. Lawsuits happening 18 years after a supposed crime isn't something that surprises me in the US legal system.
Loser pays would just encourage corporations and doctors to threaten to hire dozens of high priced lawyers costing millions of dollars to stop people from even thinking of bringing even valid suits against them. People do lose legitimate suits (quite often actually). The courts aren't always right.
Most stock is held by those that fall in the category of wealthy. While the Bush administration is busy helping out corporations, those corporations are busy moving operations overseas into underdeveloped countries that don't have laws that keep them from maiming their workers and replacing them like livestock as American corporations did during the American Industrial Revolution.
How would MS fix someone else's app besides not improving security in the operating system? To call MS's security model broken and at the same time rant when they start fixing it is a bit odd...
The statistic of "wealth" seems to fluctuate. At one point 5% of the population owned OVER 80% of the nation's wealth. In 2000, 10% owned ~70% of the nation's wealth. 60% owned virtually all of the nation's wealth.
The top 5% of the population (in 1998) owned 74.9% of stock in US corporations. (this is not wealth).
The shift in wealth is probably due to the lower (the next 10-15%) tier wealthy becoming wealthier faster than the top 5%. There's *probably* also an accompanying shrinkage of % wealth among the lowest tiers (the middle class and lower class) since we peons generally don't get wealthier at all (usually goes the other way when it does change).
Between Nov 03 and Dec 03, the participation rate went from 66.2% to 66.0%, unemployment rate thus went from 5.9% to 5.7% and everyone hooted and hollered over it. The reason for the drop in unemployment was a net of ~538,000 people dropping out of the work force. The size of the work force and thus the enemployment rate grew between Dec 03 and Jan 04.
Not being a lawyer doesn't matter. We're talking about China here. They will and do tell their citizens (*factors of production) what they may or may not do.
If it is just Windows XP + SP1 + SP2 then an interim release *NOT* pushed as an upgrade to XP would make perfect sense:p At least XP users will probably get SP2 for free download.
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So they didn't say how likely people are to have an accident and walk away when high on marijuana? Studies here on traffic stops for dangerous driving showed that a disproportionate number were high on marijuana, impaired by alcohol or both. Different geographic areas and/or countries will show different results.
I know people that *weren't even aware they were driving like a total idiot* while impaired by marijuana. If you've read the side affects of the stuff, you'd know that there's no way in hell someone *couldn't* be impaired. The fact is, the person that is impaired may not even be aware he's impaired just like a drunk isn't aware he can't drive. I know people that think they drive better drunk. That tells you how much you can trust someone who is impaired to give an objective opinion on their ability to drive.
I don't have to install software for my refrigerator, microwave, TV, DVD/VCR player, toaster or my car to work. Why should I *have* to install anything on a brand new PC to get anything other then uncommon or little used functionality?
Cheaper version of Windows? I think it will be funny if MS sells the new version for the same price and just tells them the player was a freebie.
I really doubt he needs anymore.
We haven't yet abolished elections so that isn't ever happening. Even the US President always has his party clenching his stones wanting to be (re)elected in the next election (state, congress or other).
I believe they intend commercial use of the source to be binary only sourceless distributions with proprietary changes by the customer. The GPL doesn't allow this but the copyright holder has the power to sanction such activities under whatever terms they choose.
More like people who signed up for it for the sole purpose of the upgrades *feel* as if they got screwed.
In the US, full grown adults used to sue (and win against) their own parents because their psychiatrist, via hypnotism(!), had found that the parents had abused them when they were just little babies thus causing their children not to succeed in life and have emotional and psychological problems. Lawsuits happening 18 years after a supposed crime isn't something that surprises me in the US legal system.
Loser pays would just encourage corporations and doctors to threaten to hire dozens of high priced lawyers costing millions of dollars to stop people from even thinking of bringing even valid suits against them. People do lose legitimate suits (quite often actually). The courts aren't always right.
And if you can't find an "ethical" doctor?
Is this while at the same time they put "(for internal use only)" and such on their admission applications? :p
Most stock is held by those that fall in the category of wealthy. While the Bush administration is busy helping out corporations, those corporations are busy moving operations overseas into underdeveloped countries that don't have laws that keep them from maiming their workers and replacing them like livestock as American corporations did during the American Industrial Revolution.
Wasn't the federal court's decision that Microsoft was violating the Eolas patent and not that it was valid?
How would MS fix someone else's app besides not improving security in the operating system? To call MS's security model broken and at the same time rant when they start fixing it is a bit odd...
They attacked and partitioned Poland.
The statistic of "wealth" seems to fluctuate. At one point 5% of the population owned OVER 80% of the nation's wealth. In 2000, 10% owned ~70% of the nation's wealth. 60% owned virtually all of the nation's wealth.
The top 5% of the population (in 1998) owned 74.9% of stock in US corporations. (this is not wealth).
The shift in wealth is probably due to the lower (the next 10-15%) tier wealthy becoming wealthier faster than the top 5%. There's *probably* also an accompanying shrinkage of % wealth among the lowest tiers (the middle class and lower class) since we peons generally don't get wealthier at all (usually goes the other way when it does change).
I'm not sure how much you think SS pays, but it's not a lot. About enough to pay for utilities, but that's about it. I guess they don't need to eat...
People thinking I'm the greatest geek alive for donating my time to OSS projects doesn't
:p
1. Put food in my stomach
2. Pay car insurance
3. Pay the rent
4. Pay back the college loans
Yeah, yeah, I'm working on a project that will be GPLed right now, but the idea still stands
Doesn't Chimera use the Mozilla rendering engine?
Between Nov 03 and Dec 03, the participation rate went from 66.2% to 66.0%, unemployment rate thus went from 5.9% to 5.7% and everyone hooted and hollered over it. The reason for the drop in unemployment was a net of ~538,000 people dropping out of the work force. The size of the work force and thus the enemployment rate grew between Dec 03 and Jan 04.
The scenario pointed out does happen.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Not being a lawyer doesn't matter. We're talking about China here. They will and do tell their citizens (*factors of production) what they may or may not do.
The *US* federal judge's judgement only applies to the US. MS may or may not have a monopoly in China or anywhere ele. That is for them to decide.
I wonder if MS actually got paid for the operating systems that comprise their "monopoly" in China...
If it is just Windows XP + SP1 + SP2 then an interim release *NOT* pushed as an upgrade to XP would make perfect sense :p At least XP users will probably get SP2 for free download.
Insightful? What the hell? Was the moderator "one of those dads"? :P