No, that's not what the studies have shown. They show there MAY be a benefit for some players. Period. And beyond that, there has not been a lot to even validate such studies. Furthermore, those same studies go out of their way to ignore a huge body of centuries worth of knowledge on economics. So to say they are far from vetted and confirmed, is an understatement.
Realistically, those studies are complete idiocy. The logic works like this. I have money to buy A or B. Before, a consumer would pick A or B. Now, I steal A and buy B. B won. Therefore, since I stole A, B benefited. That's true, but it serves no benefit to society, A lost revenue and was financially harmed. There was no net societal benefit for companies. For pirates, its a win-win. For B, its a win. For A, its a loss. For society, its a loss-loss-win (B's widget).
You're confusing court fine with criminal tort law. But since you're completely ignoring that, there is also another huge difference. Here we have a party interested in prosecution which is largely footing the bill. But ignoring all that, your point really has nothing to do with anything at hand as you are conflating so many things.
Then you need to learn about our entire legal system, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, so on and so on. When you've finished with that, you'll absolutely understand why what you just said is nonsenses.
Which at the end of the day, is exactly why they make every effort to make an example out of anyone and everyone they catch. Its also why the laws continue to become more and more draconian. Its just not realistic for huge companies to go after massive numbers of pirates, let alone individuals and small to medium sized companies. And at the end of the day, its the small companies and individuals which ultimately get hit the hardest by pirates. So for them, its a double whammy with absolutely no hope for justice. Which ultimately means - a huge hit to society.
What she allegedly did caused less harm to society than a parking violation, and that is how it should be treated.
Not true in the least. Companies or individuals are always harmed to some degree when people pirate. The problem comes in that each of those people who potentially pirated are then free to repeat; essentially building a tree of potentially unending pirated copies and as such, potentially unending damages. That's always been part of the problem. Its extremely difficult to evaluate the actual harm (damage). For one pirate for a given song, the damages could be catastrophic. While the harm from another pirate might be no more than the devaluation associated with the simple act of copying.
Now keep in mind, we're only talking damages so far. We've not addressed punitive damages, which are absolutely appropriate for malice and/or willful misconduct. Punitive damages are frequently calculated as some multiple of the damages. Their intent is strictly to punish. In theory, a higher degree of malice or willful misconduct deserves higher financial punishments.
Here's the catch. When its a company faced with punitive damages, no one seems to have a problem. When its someone of wealth, no one seems to have a problem. But when its their pet illicit act, suddenly everyone is upset about how broken the system. In fact, you could actually argue that your reaction actually validates the system is "blind" and working properly in this specific detail.
If you've read any of my comments in the past, I absolutely agree the system is broken. I just don't happen to agree this particular element of the system is broken. Its actually working as designed. After all, if she had wanted to avoid this whole situation, all she need do is to not have pirated the songs - and especially not had offered them up to be re-pirated.
At the end of the day, always remember punitive damages are a bitch and exist only to punish. Depending on the crime, punishment may serve as a minor reprimand (small judgment) to making an example (huge judgment). In this particular case, based on the constantly large judgments, its appears the juries want to make an example out of her because they are time and time again acknowledging the massive harm this does to companies, individuals, and society at large. Notice how that's a stark contrast to your entirely trivial and dismissive attitude, which is not in line at at with the severity of the situation.
A reasonable fine would be on the order of $50 to $100 per song.
How did you come to that number? That number doesn't even include reasonable damages. The entire point is to make it so painful, the party will not want to do so again.
I know its not popular here, but reality is far, far different than the pro-pirate crowd constantly attempts to censor and portray here.
In most states, they can place liens against her property - assuming she has any. They then receive first dibs on any payments associated with the sell of said property.
Bankruptcy may be an option but she may not be able to even escape it there because of he state laws and the legal details surrounding this particular case.
Time and time again the actual use has been dodged. Care to explain what it is that they require a SQL database? Needless to say, I'm extremely doubtful.
The entire point, when seemingly you missed, especially since you seem to directing snide comments, is it isn't likely a desktop environment requires SQL when there are already so many, faster, smaller, lighter solutions.
A major red flag is if users don't require the ability to adhoc query the database, its a really good sign a SQL database is not needed. So please tell me, what is it desktop users need to adhoc directly query from their desktop environment, via SQL and/or ODBC?
Yes, clearly the problem is Harry Potter rather than lousy parenting. If a child wants something that's both impractical and could be damaging to the ecosystem, a responsible parent says, "I'm sorry, but you can't have that."
Part of the problem is that all too often, the "bad" children then gang up on the would be "good" child and then proceed to convince them that the "good" parent is actually a horrible, horrible person/parent for not providing them everything to which they are inherently entitled. The "good" child is then left with a simple decision to which the parent frequently has no idea is going on. Either be accepted by your peers and turn on your parent, or be an outcast and maintain a strong relationship with your parents.
Negative peer pressure from the Entitled Generation can not be under estimated. In this day and age of self entitlement and group-think, all too often the self Entitled Generation just gained another.
In reality, it took been 500-800 bombs to hit a single target during WWII, with low altitude runs. The fact they were dropped from such high altitudes only made the odds of success even more unlikely and misses much, much farther from target. In order to offset such horrible odds, they completely gave up on precision bombing and went the route everyone else had already gone - which was saturation or carpet bombing.
Its extremely well documented that the entirely wrong cities were carpet bombed because of navigation errors. To mislead claiming this didn't happen is to be delusional and well into ignorance or revisionist territory.
Rape was never supported by the Allies and anyone who says otherwise is fully of delusional bullshit.
As for theft of property, this was considered "Spoils of War." This has a long, long, long established history throughout the war. I don't agree with it, but it was in fact, what made many a military commander extremely wealthy over the centuries. It was a commonly accepted fact of war by all parties involved and as such, has absolutely no bearing on the subject matter at hand. The fact you believe it does only underscores you are either completely ignorant of the subject or a delusional nut job.
Your bigotry comments only validate you are a bigoted but job as I never said anything one way or the other - at least not in this post. The simple fact is, I don't disagree one bit with the history books and almost endless facts which support the Jews were horribly murdered and that genocide was the agenda. Which only underlines you are a bigot and a delusional nut job.
I encourage you to actually read some history and learn about the topics to which you are clearly impassioned. Until you do so, you will forever remain and bigoted nut job.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that KDE
Nope. Re-read the thread.
You seem to be under the completely wrong impress that a relational database engine is the only and/or preferred means to store date. Unless there are very specific reasons to justify doing so, it completely smells on incompetence - or pushing a pet project to the detriment of the project.
Perhaps because that would actually be more work than simply using an existing library designed for storing relational data? Just a thought.
Nope. I've yet to hear what is relational that they need a full database for. And secondly, I've yet to hear why the almost endless list of options they could have taken were passed up. Generally there are some very specific criteria which require SQL, let alone a RDBMS.
Obviously I can be wrong here, but it sure smells like someone with a hard on MySQL simply decided to add it simply because they could rather than because it made any real sense to do so. But, speculation is speculation...
The ration risk to fight crews is frequently over stated. Its frequently compared to that of an X-ray. The difference being, density of exposure. And X-ray is highly focused in an extremely short duration, and as such, is far more likely to strike something important in the body. Whereas, the exposure while flying is spread out over a fairly long duration, over the entire body. So while its true the total expose may be higher while flying at certain locations, the odds of something being struck are significantly reduced. And that's why, by in large, you don't hear concerns from those who fly.
How many Americans acknowledge the bombing campaigns against civilian population in Japan and Germany as war crimes
Much revisionist of history.
During WWII, it was frequently difficult to bomb the right city, let alone a specific target, especially in a blacked out city at night. The solution? Saturate an area. Thusly, this is dubbed, saturation bombing.
The reality of the situation is, civilians were not the specific targets. They wanted protection from prosecution because they didn't want to be prosecuted for the realities of fighting a war.
War is hell. That's the truth. The problems come from idiot, anti-War people, who ignorantly believe man is perfect, accidents never happen, soldiers are not human (with emotions), and spur of the moment logic is perfect. As such, when humans do the things humans do, they want to persecute anyone and everyone so they can continue to stand on their ivory tower while thumbing their nose at the rest of humanity. The sad truth is, people like than and presumably you, actually look far more pathetic than those who actually started the damn war in the first place.
Depends on what you need. If you want a crossreferenced, searchable desktop environment with all your files and links in... RDBMS sounds like just the find you need.
There are plenty of solutions in this space which do not require something anywhere near as heavy as MySQL. Which is, after all, the entirely the basis for my rant. Even then, chances are extremely high, even sqlite is needlessly over the top.
Is that even simpler? It's not configuration that is stored, it is mail and stuff like that. Configuration is still in.kde/share/config in a bunch of text files + the places mandated by freedesktop.org.
We're talking application, not desktop environment. If the desktop environment is now mandating application core functionality, again we have absolutely confirmation that someone making important decisions have absolutely not idea what they are doing.
I am not a developer on these things. But I can find plenty of reasons for apps to collaborate.
Collaboration has absolutely nothing to do with relational requisites.
E.g, my mail client could submit the patches I just got to my git repository. Then, when I looked at the change set, I could click a link and get the email back. But I do not want my email client needlessly complicated by having to know about git (or git to grow a nice GUI to view emails). Thus, collaboration would be nice in at least 1 case.
Fine, but none of that has anything to do with the topic at hand.
Wish more people would look into this. A surprisingly large number of people can afford to purchase a small plane. Cost wise, it can be competitive with commercial travel if you typically travel less than 500 miles and especially if you tend to travel to areas without large commercial operators. Even better, you get to travel on your own schedule, travel time can actually be less than commercial operators, and its actually fun.
Also, if you frequently travel for pleasure, when comparing driving versus flying, you can typically do a round trip in less time than it takes to drive one way. Which ultimately means, more time to enjoy your destination.
If you know anyone who owns a fishing boat, or a nice below ground pool, or owns an extra vehicle (car, motorcycle, boat, ATV, etc), then you know someone how can afford to own a plane. Of course, we're talking about a used plane, but planes don't typically age anything like cars.
Also, planes can be financed on fifteen to thirty year loans. Which means, if you have the money to spend on a $25,000 on an extra vehicle (motorcycle, car, or boat) every five years, you can likely afford a $70,000-$90,000 plane. And, like cars and boats, leases are available. Not to mention flying clubs are also available which can dramatically cut the costs of flying.
If I should ever fly again, I'm personally going to go through making as much loud moaning, crying, histrionics and really weird whimpers as I can manage
To make it to such a degree where is actually makes a difference, expect to be charged with creating a public disturbance. Furthermore, others waiting in line are then more likely to refuse the pat down and be scanned. So its a win-win for the TSA. Which is to say, they get to make an example out of your while using you to encourage others to do exactly what they want in the first place.
When you desktop environment requires a RDBMS, you know something is broken.
For what possible reason do they require a true RDBMS rather than something like bdb or even sqlite if you want to get crazy? But frankly, why wouldn't you simply use xml (bottom of the list), flat files, csvs, or some such thing behind a configuration server?
Also, for what reason does one application and/or desktop need to relate to another application and/or desktop? This smells of a classic example of what happens when developers have absolutely no clue what the hell they are doing and needlessly complicate things.
Seriously, why do they need a relational anything?
I've never understood the movement of holocaust denial. What is the aim / benefit of teaching that it didn't happen or what world view does it enable?
Not to mention, the evidence is completely overwhelming and undeniable. The only possibly point of contention is exactly how many millions were murdered. At which point, you're splitting hairs. Does eight million fail to qualify where ten million does - or whatever the actual numbers are? I mean, where exactly is the cut off, where mass murder and genocide on an epic scale no longer qualifies as a holocaust?
And I completely agree with you - what is the benefit of splitting hairs where its a disagreement without a difference.
Genes exist completely independent of man's awareness of them or not. By legal definition they are a discovery, not invention. Again, by legal definition, they do not and never have qualified for patent status. As such, I've never understood why they have ever been allowed in the first place.
Imagine someone patenting oil, air, cotton, atoms, so on and so on. All of these are discoveries, not inventions. Literally, allowing gene patents is the exact same thing as being required to pay a royalty on breathing and yet everyone says that would be completely absurd - and yet, we are all holding our collective breaths here.
Now if only I could patent stupidity in government...
A HUD with targeting/fire control wouldn't prove entirely useful until Friend/Foe systems are worked out to the point of being infallible.
That's not entirely true. "No kill zones", to friendly troop movements, topology overlays, so no and so on, all greatly enhance survivability. You forget we do a lot by radar guidance and remote target acquisition. Targeting by UAV is becoming more prevalent. All of which can be of value to someone on the ground. Especially if they are close to the target area.
Actually, this is about poor judges, not lawyers. The law is pretty clear on this. They are not liable. They are minors. The plaintiffs, on the other hand, do have every right to sue their parents. This is yet another great story which typifies just how the US court system is really completely broken.
This type of idiocy has permeated the US courts before. The solution was for Congress to fire all of the judges (actually terminated their courts) and create new courts with new judges. It needs to be done again! And badly!
Actually, it only says something about survivability when they were alive. This is an entirely different world so we really know nothing about their survivability in today's world; rock star or not.
Its not like there was a shortage of people telling them not to do it. The made a bad decision which was trivially obvious a poor decision - even at the time. Its now time for them to pay for their blind, arrogant, and blatantly dumb decision. Expecting Microsoft to actively support legacy systems would be yet another poor decision.
Why was it obvious? Microsoft chased for monopoly abuse and sorta forced to compete. Web standards were obviously changing and improving and even at the time, Microsoft tended toward poor compliance. Microsoft had established themselves as king of poor Internet security, including in the browser. So on and so on.
Basically, if you are caught now, its because someone in your organization simply closed their eyes, put their fingers in their ears, and wished for the best. In turn, assuming that in that future, Microsoft would rule the world; or at least the Internet.
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No, that's not what the studies have shown. They show there MAY be a benefit for some players. Period. And beyond that, there has not been a lot to even validate such studies. Furthermore, those same studies go out of their way to ignore a huge body of centuries worth of knowledge on economics. So to say they are far from vetted and confirmed, is an understatement.
Realistically, those studies are complete idiocy. The logic works like this. I have money to buy A or B. Before, a consumer would pick A or B. Now, I steal A and buy B. B won. Therefore, since I stole A, B benefited. That's true, but it serves no benefit to society, A lost revenue and was financially harmed. There was no net societal benefit for companies. For pirates, its a win-win. For B, its a win. For A, its a loss. For society, its a loss-loss-win (B's widget).
You're confusing court fine with criminal tort law. But since you're completely ignoring that, there is also another huge difference. Here we have a party interested in prosecution which is largely footing the bill. But ignoring all that, your point really has nothing to do with anything at hand as you are conflating so many things.
If that's the point
Then you need to learn about our entire legal system, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, so on and so on. When you've finished with that, you'll absolutely understand why what you just said is nonsenses.
Which at the end of the day, is exactly why they make every effort to make an example out of anyone and everyone they catch. Its also why the laws continue to become more and more draconian. Its just not realistic for huge companies to go after massive numbers of pirates, let alone individuals and small to medium sized companies. And at the end of the day, its the small companies and individuals which ultimately get hit the hardest by pirates. So for them, its a double whammy with absolutely no hope for justice. Which ultimately means - a huge hit to society.
What she allegedly did caused less harm to society than a parking violation, and that is how it should be treated.
Not true in the least. Companies or individuals are always harmed to some degree when people pirate. The problem comes in that each of those people who potentially pirated are then free to repeat; essentially building a tree of potentially unending pirated copies and as such, potentially unending damages. That's always been part of the problem. Its extremely difficult to evaluate the actual harm (damage). For one pirate for a given song, the damages could be catastrophic. While the harm from another pirate might be no more than the devaluation associated with the simple act of copying.
Now keep in mind, we're only talking damages so far. We've not addressed punitive damages, which are absolutely appropriate for malice and/or willful misconduct. Punitive damages are frequently calculated as some multiple of the damages. Their intent is strictly to punish. In theory, a higher degree of malice or willful misconduct deserves higher financial punishments.
Here's the catch. When its a company faced with punitive damages, no one seems to have a problem. When its someone of wealth, no one seems to have a problem. But when its their pet illicit act, suddenly everyone is upset about how broken the system. In fact, you could actually argue that your reaction actually validates the system is "blind" and working properly in this specific detail.
If you've read any of my comments in the past, I absolutely agree the system is broken. I just don't happen to agree this particular element of the system is broken. Its actually working as designed. After all, if she had wanted to avoid this whole situation, all she need do is to not have pirated the songs - and especially not had offered them up to be re-pirated.
At the end of the day, always remember punitive damages are a bitch and exist only to punish. Depending on the crime, punishment may serve as a minor reprimand (small judgment) to making an example (huge judgment). In this particular case, based on the constantly large judgments, its appears the juries want to make an example out of her because they are time and time again acknowledging the massive harm this does to companies, individuals, and society at large. Notice how that's a stark contrast to your entirely trivial and dismissive attitude, which is not in line at at with the severity of the situation.
I still think a bullet to the head of the RIAA CEO would do a world of good.
Yes, because supporting criminals by means of an even worse crime always makes absolute sense.
A reasonable fine would be on the order of $50 to $100 per song.
How did you come to that number? That number doesn't even include reasonable damages. The entire point is to make it so painful, the party will not want to do so again.
I know its not popular here, but reality is far, far different than the pro-pirate crowd constantly attempts to censor and portray here.
In most states, they can place liens against her property - assuming she has any. They then receive first dibs on any payments associated with the sell of said property.
Bankruptcy may be an option but she may not be able to even escape it there because of he state laws and the legal details surrounding this particular case.
Time and time again the actual use has been dodged. Care to explain what it is that they require a SQL database? Needless to say, I'm extremely doubtful.
The entire point, when seemingly you missed, especially since you seem to directing snide comments, is it isn't likely a desktop environment requires SQL when there are already so many, faster, smaller, lighter solutions.
A major red flag is if users don't require the ability to adhoc query the database, its a really good sign a SQL database is not needed. So please tell me, what is it desktop users need to adhoc directly query from their desktop environment, via SQL and/or ODBC?
Yes, clearly the problem is Harry Potter rather than lousy parenting. If a child wants something that's both impractical and could be damaging to the ecosystem, a responsible parent says, "I'm sorry, but you can't have that."
Part of the problem is that all too often, the "bad" children then gang up on the would be "good" child and then proceed to convince them that the "good" parent is actually a horrible, horrible person/parent for not providing them everything to which they are inherently entitled. The "good" child is then left with a simple decision to which the parent frequently has no idea is going on. Either be accepted by your peers and turn on your parent, or be an outcast and maintain a strong relationship with your parents.
Negative peer pressure from the Entitled Generation can not be under estimated. In this day and age of self entitlement and group-think, all too often the self Entitled Generation just gained another.
Crazy fucking nut job is what you are!
This explains how hard it was to hit a target during Vietnam, where hit ratios were way up from WWII due to more advanced targeting solutions.
In reality, it took been 500-800 bombs to hit a single target during WWII, with low altitude runs. The fact they were dropped from such high altitudes only made the odds of success even more unlikely and misses much, much farther from target. In order to offset such horrible odds, they completely gave up on precision bombing and went the route everyone else had already gone - which was saturation or carpet bombing.
Its extremely well documented that the entirely wrong cities were carpet bombed because of navigation errors. To mislead claiming this didn't happen is to be delusional and well into ignorance or revisionist territory.
Rape was never supported by the Allies and anyone who says otherwise is fully of delusional bullshit.
As for theft of property, this was considered "Spoils of War." This has a long, long, long established history throughout the war. I don't agree with it, but it was in fact, what made many a military commander extremely wealthy over the centuries. It was a commonly accepted fact of war by all parties involved and as such, has absolutely no bearing on the subject matter at hand. The fact you believe it does only underscores you are either completely ignorant of the subject or a delusional nut job.
Your bigotry comments only validate you are a bigoted but job as I never said anything one way or the other - at least not in this post. The simple fact is, I don't disagree one bit with the history books and almost endless facts which support the Jews were horribly murdered and that genocide was the agenda. Which only underlines you are a bigot and a delusional nut job.
I encourage you to actually read some history and learn about the topics to which you are clearly impassioned. Until you do so, you will forever remain and bigoted nut job.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that KDE
Nope. Re-read the thread.
You seem to be under the completely wrong impress that a relational database engine is the only and/or preferred means to store date. Unless there are very specific reasons to justify doing so, it completely smells on incompetence - or pushing a pet project to the detriment of the project.
Perhaps because that would actually be more work than simply using an existing library designed for storing relational data? Just a thought.
Nope. I've yet to hear what is relational that they need a full database for. And secondly, I've yet to hear why the almost endless list of options they could have taken were passed up. Generally there are some very specific criteria which require SQL, let alone a RDBMS.
Obviously I can be wrong here, but it sure smells like someone with a hard on MySQL simply decided to add it simply because they could rather than because it made any real sense to do so. But, speculation is speculation...
The ration risk to fight crews is frequently over stated. Its frequently compared to that of an X-ray. The difference being, density of exposure. And X-ray is highly focused in an extremely short duration, and as such, is far more likely to strike something important in the body. Whereas, the exposure while flying is spread out over a fairly long duration, over the entire body. So while its true the total expose may be higher while flying at certain locations, the odds of something being struck are significantly reduced. And that's why, by in large, you don't hear concerns from those who fly.
How many Americans acknowledge the bombing campaigns against civilian population in Japan and Germany as war crimes
Much revisionist of history.
During WWII, it was frequently difficult to bomb the right city, let alone a specific target, especially in a blacked out city at night. The solution? Saturate an area. Thusly, this is dubbed, saturation bombing.
The reality of the situation is, civilians were not the specific targets. They wanted protection from prosecution because they didn't want to be prosecuted for the realities of fighting a war.
War is hell. That's the truth. The problems come from idiot, anti-War people, who ignorantly believe man is perfect, accidents never happen, soldiers are not human (with emotions), and spur of the moment logic is perfect. As such, when humans do the things humans do, they want to persecute anyone and everyone so they can continue to stand on their ivory tower while thumbing their nose at the rest of humanity. The sad truth is, people like than and presumably you, actually look far more pathetic than those who actually started the damn war in the first place.
Depends on what you need. If you want a crossreferenced, searchable desktop environment with all your files and links in... RDBMS sounds like just the find you need.
There are plenty of solutions in this space which do not require something anywhere near as heavy as MySQL. Which is, after all, the entirely the basis for my rant. Even then, chances are extremely high, even sqlite is needlessly over the top.
Is that even simpler? It's not configuration that is stored, it is mail and stuff like that. Configuration is still in .kde/share/config in a bunch of text files + the places mandated by freedesktop.org.
We're talking application, not desktop environment. If the desktop environment is now mandating application core functionality, again we have absolutely confirmation that someone making important decisions have absolutely not idea what they are doing.
I am not a developer on these things. But I can find plenty of reasons for apps to collaborate.
Collaboration has absolutely nothing to do with relational requisites.
E.g, my mail client could submit the patches I just got to my git repository. Then, when I looked at the change set, I could click a link and get the email back. But I do not want my email client needlessly complicated by having to know about git (or git to grow a nice GUI to view emails). Thus, collaboration would be nice in at least 1 case.
Fine, but none of that has anything to do with the topic at hand.
Wish more people would look into this. A surprisingly large number of people can afford to purchase a small plane. Cost wise, it can be competitive with commercial travel if you typically travel less than 500 miles and especially if you tend to travel to areas without large commercial operators. Even better, you get to travel on your own schedule, travel time can actually be less than commercial operators, and its actually fun.
Also, if you frequently travel for pleasure, when comparing driving versus flying, you can typically do a round trip in less time than it takes to drive one way. Which ultimately means, more time to enjoy your destination.
If you know anyone who owns a fishing boat, or a nice below ground pool, or owns an extra vehicle (car, motorcycle, boat, ATV, etc), then you know someone how can afford to own a plane. Of course, we're talking about a used plane, but planes don't typically age anything like cars.
Also, planes can be financed on fifteen to thirty year loans. Which means, if you have the money to spend on a $25,000 on an extra vehicle (motorcycle, car, or boat) every five years, you can likely afford a $70,000-$90,000 plane. And, like cars and boats, leases are available. Not to mention flying clubs are also available which can dramatically cut the costs of flying.
If I should ever fly again, I'm personally going to go through making as much loud moaning, crying, histrionics and really weird whimpers as I can manage
To make it to such a degree where is actually makes a difference, expect to be charged with creating a public disturbance. Furthermore, others waiting in line are then more likely to refuse the pat down and be scanned. So its a win-win for the TSA. Which is to say, they get to make an example out of your while using you to encourage others to do exactly what they want in the first place.
When you desktop environment requires a RDBMS, you know something is broken.
For what possible reason do they require a true RDBMS rather than something like bdb or even sqlite if you want to get crazy? But frankly, why wouldn't you simply use xml (bottom of the list), flat files, csvs, or some such thing behind a configuration server?
Also, for what reason does one application and/or desktop need to relate to another application and/or desktop? This smells of a classic example of what happens when developers have absolutely no clue what the hell they are doing and needlessly complicate things.
Seriously, why do they need a relational anything?
I've never understood the movement of holocaust denial. What is the aim / benefit of teaching that it didn't happen or what world view does it enable?
Not to mention, the evidence is completely overwhelming and undeniable. The only possibly point of contention is exactly how many millions were murdered. At which point, you're splitting hairs. Does eight million fail to qualify where ten million does - or whatever the actual numbers are? I mean, where exactly is the cut off, where mass murder and genocide on an epic scale no longer qualifies as a holocaust?
And I completely agree with you - what is the benefit of splitting hairs where its a disagreement without a difference.
Genes exist completely independent of man's awareness of them or not. By legal definition they are a discovery, not invention. Again, by legal definition, they do not and never have qualified for patent status. As such, I've never understood why they have ever been allowed in the first place.
Imagine someone patenting oil, air, cotton, atoms, so on and so on. All of these are discoveries, not inventions. Literally, allowing gene patents is the exact same thing as being required to pay a royalty on breathing and yet everyone says that would be completely absurd - and yet, we are all holding our collective breaths here.
Now if only I could patent stupidity in government...
A HUD with targeting/fire control wouldn't prove entirely useful until Friend/Foe systems are worked out to the point of being infallible.
That's not entirely true. "No kill zones", to friendly troop movements, topology overlays, so no and so on, all greatly enhance survivability. You forget we do a lot by radar guidance and remote target acquisition. Targeting by UAV is becoming more prevalent. All of which can be of value to someone on the ground. Especially if they are close to the target area.
Actually, this is about poor judges, not lawyers. The law is pretty clear on this. They are not liable. They are minors. The plaintiffs, on the other hand, do have every right to sue their parents. This is yet another great story which typifies just how the US court system is really completely broken.
This type of idiocy has permeated the US courts before. The solution was for Congress to fire all of the judges (actually terminated their courts) and create new courts with new judges. It needs to be done again! And badly!
Actually, it only says something about survivability when they were alive. This is an entirely different world so we really know nothing about their survivability in today's world; rock star or not.
Its not like there was a shortage of people telling them not to do it. The made a bad decision which was trivially obvious a poor decision - even at the time. Its now time for them to pay for their blind, arrogant, and blatantly dumb decision. Expecting Microsoft to actively support legacy systems would be yet another poor decision.
Why was it obvious? Microsoft chased for monopoly abuse and sorta forced to compete. Web standards were obviously changing and improving and even at the time, Microsoft tended toward poor compliance. Microsoft had established themselves as king of poor Internet security, including in the browser. So on and so on.
Basically, if you are caught now, its because someone in your organization simply closed their eyes, put their fingers in their ears, and wished for the best. In turn, assuming that in that future, Microsoft would rule the world; or at least the Internet.