Agreed. Which is why she doesn't go along with the Doctor's dog-n-pony show (which both she and I agree are really more for them to fill their coffers than to bring awareness to heart desease).
My main point was to show that heart desease isn't in and of itself caused by irresponsible behavior but rather that it can still afflict those who are otherwise in perfect health.
Sorry, the cure for Heard Disease is good excercise, not epileptic-like spasms and shakes.
Tell that to my wife (a victim of heart desease for the past four years) who suffered her fate due to myocarditis brought on by a normal case of the flu... and not a poor diet or lack of excercise. Except for her failing heart (now pumping at a whopping 30%) she's the picture of perfect health. Her doctors keep wanting to use her as a poster-child to inform otherwise healthy women of their risks.
Nice try... but, car accidents at 140mph are usually quite catastorphic and fatal. I fail to see how you could use either word (lessorfewer) in reference to that.
I'm sorry... but this is probably my worst pet peeve:
If everyone was going 140 in the same direction, we'd have less car accidents than we do now.
Since car accidents is plural and quantifiable, the proper reduction modifier should be fewer and not less (regardless of what the sign over the express lane at your local Wal-Mart might say).
I present this simple Google Search as confirmation.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled, righteously indignant, Microsoft bashing:-)
I take it you've never tried to drive I-35 during rush hour through San Antonio, Austin or Dallas have you? Imagine the BQE at 8AM.... now, tripple it (or more) for each city.
Maybe not.... but I bet Perry's buddies over at Brown-n-Root will make a killing off this deal. Say.... what's the starting salary for a lobbiest for Haliburton these days? Maybe I should consider a career change...
That's because (for some ungodly reason) many Houston drivers seem to want to ride the far right lane and zig-zag on and off the feeder road. Man, some days I just wanted to follow one of those morons to work and smack them in the head for causing most of the slowdowns on 59N (especially back when it was only four lanes all the way from Kingwood to downtown)
Life (and traffic) is so much better now in Austin where my daily commute is 7 minutes down the Ranch Road.
[Note: for those not in the know... in Texas, a "Ranch Road" can be anything from two-lanes and gravel... to an 8-lane freeway. Luckily, mine is closer to the latter.]
Your logic fails in that one should never assume that anything Microsoft does is above board... especially when their behavior seems a little odd. They have proven time and again that their view of right and wrong is very different from the rest of humanity (save for perhaps the confused yet powerful few from the Project for a New American Century who feel compelled to impose their twisted version of American values on the rest of the world).
Microsoft would never do anything like this unless they firmly believed that they had an ace up their sleeve that they could later use to crush anyone who got in the way of their grand vision of One World, One Operating System, One Vendor.
Finally... if you actually believe that you can win in a court of law against Microsoft just because you're right... you've got another thing coming. Justice is a myth. Most court battles are won by the party who outspends their opponent... and Microsoft can outspend just about everybody.
Hmmm.... I'm not quite sure where you're from, but... virtually everywhere I know of, truency laws do not apply to anyone 18 or over. And... last I checked, you had to be 18 to vote. Therefore, the set of people compelled by truency laws to be at a certain place at a certain time is, by its very nature, mututally exclusive from the set of people whose votes may be influenced by a GOTV rally.
Finally, I think when these people said the rally was at school, school was defined as college.
Thus, your argument is declared void; please go to the back of the line.
The Science Channel (ne Discovery Science) used to show a number of Connections episodes every day (there for a while I tuned in religiously for the 1AM viewing)... but, I haven't seen them on recently. It appears they've been replaced by Understanding instead.
As for Nova, I doubt I've ever seen it syndicated beyond PBS... damn shame too (even though they too have recently fallen victim to the human interrest type shows).
P.S. I still think it's amazing that I can post to Slashdot while sitting on the crapper...:)
But.... doing that would hinder the airline's god-given-right to maximize their profit. Isn't that unconstitutional? Much better to treat everyone as a criminal... that's what the record companies do and it works wonders for them.
</sarcasm>
Hmmm.... since the 9/11 commission has declared that there was zero connection between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks... that date is irrelevant to your argument.
...and... hide-and-go-seek of what? All those weapons of mass destruction that the US just had to hurry up and get over there to find?
Sound a lot like double entendre to me. Logic tells us that interpretation implies an enherant dynamic nature and since the job of The Court is to interpret the Consitution as it applies to the cases before it... I see no other way for them to perform their duties.
In other words... if there were no "dynamic" interpretation (as you call it) then there would be no need for The Court whatsoever.
It sounds more like you're merely bitter over a handful of decisions that you didn't agree with. Trust me, there are plenty of cases that went the other way as well.
Ya know... not too long ago, a prospective employer would have to get your permission before they were allowed to run a background check on you. But, in these days of the Patriot Act et. al... loss of personal privacy is just another one of those things all those whiney, tree-hugging liberals seem to always complain about.
P.S. The above was, of couse, in jest... as I too consider myself one of those "whiney, tree-hugging liberals".
P.P.S. I'd sure like to figure out a way to make the word liberal lose its negative connotation...
But this part is definately not (or at least confused and misleading):
and later Renamed it to SCO Unix System V
Xenix and System V are completely different beasts. Xenix (1980) is an offshoot of Unix V7 (1979). System V sprang from the USG fork (1977). There was an injection of SysV technology back into the Xenix fork around 1884 and SCO did release a Xenix System V (and later a SCO Unix System V) but these were still under license from AT&T.
The System V that's in question here (the only one that really matters with respect to intellectual property claims) is the true-blue reference System V that was directly owned by AT&T (who beget USL (which was sold to Novell (which made some sort of Unixy relationship with the Santa Cruz Operation (which sold their soul to Caldara (which assumed the identity of SCO (apparently to muddy the waters regarding their IP claims)))))).
When you claim that "SCO renamed it to System IV" [sic] (in reference to their Xenix product) you implied that this is the same as the System V which IBM is accused of infinging upon.
It is not.
IBM is accused of taking pieces of AIX (and also Sequent's Dynix) and contributing them to Linux. AIX is an offshoot of Unix System V Release 2 (forked after the injection of SysV into Xenix by the way) and the relationship between AIX and Xenix is trivial at best.
The fact that the true-blue Unix (System V) was allegedly purchased by SCO and that SCO once had a product which was licensed to use System V technology (Xenix)... is purely coincidental. Your post implied otherwise and was therefor, by definition, wrong.
The fact of the matter is that every unix-like operating system in existance (save a small handful (Linux, the contemporary BSDs, etc...)) are offshoots at one point or another from the real AT&T Unix and exist solely under license from AT&T or their sucessor in interrest (which The SCO Group claims to be). The Santa Cruz Operation's Xenix/Unix System V products owe their very existance to licensing agreements with the rightful owner of the original Unix copyrights.
Finally... since the original SCO Xenix/Unix products now belong to Tarantula and not The SCO Group (ne Caldera) they have zero bearing on the issues currently before the court.
Wow... I can't believe you could get it so wrong!!
While it is true that OS/2 was originally developed as a joint projects by MS and IBM, and it is also true that the Santa Cruz Operation's Xenix was originally a MS product... the two projects were over a decade apart at MS and Xenix was written under license from AT&T.
Unix System IV -- and later, System V (ultimately SVR4) -- and Xenix have completely separate lineage. You can check this history diagram for yourself. Of course, there's no mention of OS/2 there.
The current SCO Group (ne Caldera) only has a fleeting and coincidental relationship with OS/2 (via MS and Xenix) through their purchase of the Santa Cruz Operation (which purchased something Unix related from Novell (who really bought Unix from USL (which was born out of AT&T))).
Now that I've clarified all of that... and looking at the mindless drivel that spouts from SCOX... I wouldn't put it past them to make some sort of twisted claim against the JFS from OS/2. But, if they did that... they might as well stake claim to NT and Win2K as well (following the same logic). Of course SCOX's puppet master would never let that happen... now would they.
Except that the original JFS was scrapped in favor of a port of the OS/2 JFS to AIX (from a totally separate code base). This is the JFS that was later contributed to Linux.
I'm loath to understand how OS/2 source code could ever be considered a derivative of SysV.
(That is, if SCOX even has a right to enforce the contract with IBM given their relationship with Novel)
How long before they make a patch like this mandatory? (well, as mandatory as they can make it.... like, bundling it in with a critical security update). Hmmm.... maybe that was their plan all along while they kept releasing all of their hole ridden tripe...
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My main point was to show that heart desease isn't in and of itself caused by irresponsible behavior but rather that it can still afflict those who are otherwise in perfect health.
Tell that to my wife (a victim of heart desease for the past four years) who suffered her fate due to myocarditis brought on by a normal case of the flu... and not a poor diet or lack of excercise. Except for her failing heart (now pumping at a whopping 30%) she's the picture of perfect health. Her doctors keep wanting to use her as a poster-child to inform otherwise healthy women of their risks.
Oh well...
- If everyone was going 140 in the same direction, we'd have less car accidents than we do now.
Since car accidents is plural and quantifiable, the proper reduction modifier should be fewer and not less (regardless of what the sign over the express lane at your local Wal-Mart might say).I present this simple Google Search as confirmation.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled, righteously indignant, Microsoft bashing :-)
Now... if only Microsoft could do that (yeah, right).
Of course... SCO will find some way to say its illegal or immoral or unconstitutional or something.
Isn't that usually how it goes?
I take it you've never tried to drive I-35 during rush hour through San Antonio, Austin or Dallas have you? Imagine the BQE at 8AM.... now, tripple it (or more) for each city.
Maybe not.... but I bet Perry's buddies over at Brown-n-Root will make a killing off this deal. Say.... what's the starting salary for a lobbiest for Haliburton these days? Maybe I should consider a career change...
Life (and traffic) is so much better now in Austin where my daily commute is 7 minutes down the Ranch Road.
[Note: for those not in the know... in Texas, a "Ranch Road" can be anything from two-lanes and gravel... to an 8-lane freeway. Luckily, mine is closer to the latter.]
Microsoft would never do anything like this unless they firmly believed that they had an ace up their sleeve that they could later use to crush anyone who got in the way of their grand vision of One World, One Operating System, One Vendor.
Finally... if you actually believe that you can win in a court of law against Microsoft just because you're right... you've got another thing coming. Justice is a myth. Most court battles are won by the party who outspends their opponent... and Microsoft can outspend just about everybody.
Remember... if you don't vote, don't complain.
Finally, I think when these people said the rally was at school, school was defined as college.
Thus, your argument is declared void; please go to the back of the line.
I'm not sure how you can say this... since half the people out there are of above average intelligence.
As for Nova, I doubt I've ever seen it syndicated beyond PBS... damn shame too (even though they too have recently fallen victim to the human interrest type shows).
P.S. I still think it's amazing that I can post to Slashdot while sitting on the crapper... :)
You mean, like mine? :)
Historically... Oracle was developed on Solaris... but times have changed.
That said... Solaris is still the better choice if you need a big honkin' machine with 128 CPUs and a bagilion gig of storage.
But.... doing that would hinder the airline's god-given-right to maximize their profit. Isn't that unconstitutional? Much better to treat everyone as a criminal... that's what the record companies do and it works wonders for them.
</sarcasm>
Sound a lot like double entendre to me. Logic tells us that interpretation implies an enherant dynamic nature and since the job of The Court is to interpret the Consitution as it applies to the cases before it... I see no other way for them to perform their duties.
In other words... if there were no "dynamic" interpretation (as you call it) then there would be no need for The Court whatsoever.
It sounds more like you're merely bitter over a handful of decisions that you didn't agree with. Trust me, there are plenty of cases that went the other way as well.
P.S. The above was, of couse, in jest... as I too consider myself one of those "whiney, tree-hugging liberals".
P.P.S. I'd sure like to figure out a way to make the word liberal lose its negative connotation...
SCO aquired the Xenix from MS
But this part is definately not (or at least confused and misleading):
and later Renamed it to SCO Unix System V
Xenix and System V are completely different beasts. Xenix (1980) is an offshoot of Unix V7 (1979). System V sprang from the USG fork (1977). There was an injection of SysV technology back into the Xenix fork around 1884 and SCO did release a Xenix System V (and later a SCO Unix System V) but these were still under license from AT&T.
The System V that's in question here (the only one that really matters with respect to intellectual property claims) is the true-blue reference System V that was directly owned by AT&T (who beget USL (which was sold to Novell (which made some sort of Unixy relationship with the Santa Cruz Operation (which sold their soul to Caldara (which assumed the identity of SCO (apparently to muddy the waters regarding their IP claims)))))).
When you claim that "SCO renamed it to System IV" [sic] (in reference to their Xenix product) you implied that this is the same as the System V which IBM is accused of infinging upon.
It is not.
IBM is accused of taking pieces of AIX (and also Sequent's Dynix) and contributing them to Linux. AIX is an offshoot of Unix System V Release 2 (forked after the injection of SysV into Xenix by the way) and the relationship between AIX and Xenix is trivial at best.
The fact that the true-blue Unix (System V) was allegedly purchased by SCO and that SCO once had a product which was licensed to use System V technology (Xenix)... is purely coincidental. Your post implied otherwise and was therefor, by definition, wrong.
The fact of the matter is that every unix-like operating system in existance (save a small handful (Linux, the contemporary BSDs, etc...)) are offshoots at one point or another from the real AT&T Unix and exist solely under license from AT&T or their sucessor in interrest (which The SCO Group claims to be). The Santa Cruz Operation's Xenix/Unix System V products owe their very existance to licensing agreements with the rightful owner of the original Unix copyrights.
Finally... since the original SCO Xenix/Unix products now belong to Tarantula and not The SCO Group (ne Caldera) they have zero bearing on the issues currently before the court.
While it is true that OS/2 was originally developed as a joint projects by MS and IBM, and it is also true that the Santa Cruz Operation's Xenix was originally a MS product... the two projects were over a decade apart at MS and Xenix was written under license from AT&T.
Unix System IV -- and later, System V (ultimately SVR4) -- and Xenix have completely separate lineage. You can check this history diagram for yourself. Of course, there's no mention of OS/2 there.
The current SCO Group (ne Caldera) only has a fleeting and coincidental relationship with OS/2 (via MS and Xenix) through their purchase of the Santa Cruz Operation (which purchased something Unix related from Novell (who really bought Unix from USL (which was born out of AT&T))).
Now that I've clarified all of that... and looking at the mindless drivel that spouts from SCOX... I wouldn't put it past them to make some sort of twisted claim against the JFS from OS/2. But, if they did that... they might as well stake claim to NT and Win2K as well (following the same logic). Of course SCOX's puppet master would never let that happen... now would they.
Yeah... and all the Python programmers are saying, "Braces... Braces... we don't need no stinking braces!"
I'm loath to understand how OS/2 source code could ever be considered a derivative of SysV.
(That is, if SCOX even has a right to enforce the contract with IBM given their relationship with Novel)
Oh what a tangled web SCOX weaves...
How long before they make a patch like this mandatory? (well, as mandatory as they can make it.... like, bundling it in with a critical security update). Hmmm.... maybe that was their plan all along while they kept releasing all of their hole ridden tripe...