A huge chunk of Saudi exports come from one gigantic field. This means our eggs are in this one basket. Here's an article that discusses that field, and the chance that the Saudis might have screwed it by over-extracting. If you do that, you limit how much you can get out later; you might lose the reserves. [I'm guessing you might damage it, but that some future technology might make it recoverable -- just at a higher cost]
If you moved to whitelist only email, some clever guy would write something to deactivate the whitelist mechanism -- whatever that took -- and then he'd be sending out highly-effective phishing spam.
Some of it would get through, and the people who'd get it would be far more likely to trust it, as their expectation of trust would be higher.
Similarly, if you get on a plane in the US, the window-dressing security probably makes you less safe: resources are pointlessly consumed when they could be spent on real security, and people "go to sleep" as they figure the security has already been taken care of.
Sleepycat's new management could revoke the license for the stuff they wrote. Other people would retain any copyrights to derivative works, but they'd be pretty useless without the original stuff.
E.g. I make some songs. You make a compilation. Then I take by the license to the songs. You are left with the copyright to your playlist.
There is no historical precedent for what you are describing, "open source style" licensing is a new concept.
The concept of a contract, with exchange of value and mutual obligations, is what our legal system runs one. Not one party making an irrevocable grant to people he doens't even know -- that's a new concept.
Wouldn't it be neat if the new company revoked the open source license for the DB?
The company owns the Copyright. Supposedly it can revoke the open source license whenever it changes its mind, which means, whenever Oracle changes its mind. Everyone using it would suddenly be without a license.
But given the offering, Microsoft will probably price it in the basement, so that people who don't have Blackberry stuff just get it at very low cost, with their standard load of Microsoft.
All they'll have to do is buy phones with Microsoft software and will will all work (sort of).
That's how you kill of Blackberry - make it a non-event to get started with the Microsoft version. No more new interest in Blackberry, given its cost.
That's the model for obsoleting WordPerfect, VisiCalc, Netscape, and so on.
If you can find a good, smaller ISP, they'll let you do what you want.
Perhaps MSN doesn't allow you to run a server, but the smaller folks don't care.
Basically, the phone company forwards them the packets. If you run your own server, that's less work for them. As long as your modem can connect, via the phone system, to their network, their job is essentially complete.
Also, users that are savvy enough to run their own server typically don't have all the bullshit Windows problems, so they are constantly calling with some malware/shitware related problem.
It is clear that if they win this case, they have a chance of getting fess.
Pro bono my black ass!
In any case, if they get a precedent, they open up a whole new field of litigation: suing online forum operators. That gravy train will have a long life.
If you got rid of the Civil Rights Act, the different states in the union would come up with their own policies, which would make us all more free. It isn't right for the feds to impose the Civil Rights Act on the USA. There is no way the commerce clause of the constitution applies here, if it ever did.
And finally, the implementation of the Civil Rights Act is flawed: it is used as a club against whites, and not against Jews, blacks, hispanics, Chinese or other groups that are more discriminatory, on average, than white people.
The Civil Rights Act might as well be called the "Shlomo's way to Kill Whitey Act".
Right now the big growth areas are rural areas: productive people are moving out of suburbs entirely. That's tough on rural areas: they don't have sewer/water systems for those people, and the school systems are too small for their kids. Raise the property taxes and long term residents are hurt.
It is even worse than you describe - but you probably know about this already: anti-discrimination laws are responsible for urban/suburban sprawl, as productive people flee the unproductive, criminal class.
Anti-discrimination laws mean it impossible to reach any stasis, so there is a continual process of expansion and buliding out of densely populated suburbs.
Before the riots in Detroit, it looked like a European city: densely populated, developed, excellent transportation systems. Now everything is in the constantly expanding suburbs, and the quality of transpotation services is much lower, in the sense that roads/cars are expensive, and there is no decent public transportation.
If oil ever becomes expensive, look for discrimination to be made legal, or some other legal "trick" to deal with the fact that productive, non-criminal people will be forced, by high oil prices, to live close to unproductive, criminal people.
It is a case of some desperate, moneygrubbing lawyers - trying to make something off of Craig.
One option people are not talking about would be to get rid of the fair housing act, which would allow property owners the freedom to do with their property as they wish.
One problem with the current regime is that the federal housing authority usually only goes after white people discriminating against non-whites. That's stupid because these days, in places like New York or LA, most of the discrimination is taking place between different non-white groups. E.g. hispanics only renting to hispanics (and not blacks).
When I think of the Saudis I remember how they only got upset about terror when Al Qaeda struck in Saudi Arabia, and actually killed some Arabs. When it was just crusaders, Jews and other infidels getting hurt/killed, they acquiesced.
So let's see the moderate muslims come out and try to bring some peace and understanding. I'd expect more of them to speak up if it is hitting them in the pocketbook.
In our lifetime, they'll sell all their oil. The other way they made money (historically) was as traders between China and Europe, when trade went over land. There's no money in that anymore though.
So they are looking at a future where they won't have much income.
The oil wealth has gone into a few pockets. They'll invest that in Europe/China/USA/Japan. It will not benefit the other guys.
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Here's the site devoted to peakoil: http://www.peakoil.net/
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A huge chunk of Saudi exports come from one gigantic field. This means our eggs are in this one basket. Here's an article that discusses that field, and the chance that the Saudis might have screwed it by over-extracting. If you do that, you limit how much you can get out later; you might lose the reserves. [I'm guessing you might damage it, but that some future technology might make it recoverable -- just at a higher cost]
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80C89E7E-1
If you moved to whitelist only email, some clever guy would write something to deactivate the whitelist mechanism -- whatever that took -- and then he'd be sending out highly-effective phishing spam.
Some of it would get through, and the people who'd get it would be far more likely to trust it, as their expectation of trust would be higher.
Similarly, if you get on a plane in the US, the window-dressing security probably makes you less safe: resources are pointlessly consumed when they could be spent on real security, and people "go to sleep" as they figure the security has already been taken care of.
Here's a cool documentary on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JG6X/002-77 57987-7540014?v=glance&n=130
Here's something on RSA and their patent: http://www.cyberlaw.com/rsa.html
That's the work this guy is famous for.
Sleepycat's new management could revoke the license for the stuff they wrote. Other people would retain any copyrights to derivative works, but they'd be pretty useless without the original stuff. E.g. I make some songs. You make a compilation. Then I take by the license to the songs. You are left with the copyright to your playlist.
Isn't mwave.com better than Newegg?
I thought their customer service was supposed to be better.
If you'd like to learn more of the legal details, please look at this:
http://rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch04.pdf
That's from a book by a lawyer about open source licenses.
There is no historical precedent for what you are describing, "open source style" licensing is a new concept.
The concept of a contract, with exchange of value and mutual obligations, is what our legal system runs one. Not one party making an irrevocable grant to people he doens't even know -- that's a new concept.
It isn't a matter of going back in time. The point is, unless you have a contract with the Copyright holder, he can change the license.
Please see p.56 here: http://rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch04.pdf
That's from a book by a lawyer about open source licenses.
Wouldn't it be neat if the new company revoked the open source license for the DB? The company owns the Copyright. Supposedly it can revoke the open source license whenever it changes its mind, which means, whenever Oracle changes its mind. Everyone using it would suddenly be without a license.
Excellent points.
But given the offering, Microsoft will probably price it in the basement, so that people who don't have Blackberry stuff just get it at very low cost, with their standard load of Microsoft.
All they'll have to do is buy phones with Microsoft software and will will all work (sort of).
That's how you kill of Blackberry - make it a non-event to get started with the Microsoft version. No more new interest in Blackberry, given its cost.
That's the model for obsoleting WordPerfect, VisiCalc, Netscape, and so on.
If you can find a good, smaller ISP, they'll let you do what you want.
Perhaps MSN doesn't allow you to run a server, but the smaller folks don't care.
Basically, the phone company forwards them the packets. If you run your own server, that's less work for them. As long as your modem can connect, via the phone system, to their network, their job is essentially complete.
Also, users that are savvy enough to run their own server typically don't have all the bullshit Windows problems, so they are constantly calling with some malware/shitware related problem.
Spyware companies have already sued for having their stuff labeled "bad", so you can expect Microsoft to get in legal trouble over this.
Not that it will matter to them, given their position in the market.
Here's more on this, from the parasites themselves: http://www.lawyerscomm.org/2005website/probono/pro bono.html
Go to the bottom. You'll see the stuff about collecting the fees.
So they get to "tikkun olam" and get paid! Great.
Read here: http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/summer04/sourcebook.h tml
It is clear that if they win this case, they have a chance of getting fess.
Pro bono my black ass!
In any case, if they get a precedent, they open up a whole new field of litigation: suing online forum operators. That gravy train will have a long life.
You don't think they'll move to get their fees (at the end)?
If they win the case, they'll get paid their fees.
Civil Rights lawyering is big business. It really pays. Just ask Jesse "baby daddy" Jackson.
If you got rid of the Civil Rights Act, the different states in the union would come up with their own policies, which would make us all more free. It isn't right for the feds to impose the Civil Rights Act on the USA. There is no way the commerce clause of the constitution applies here, if it ever did.
And finally, the implementation of the Civil Rights Act is flawed: it is used as a club against whites, and not against Jews, blacks, hispanics, Chinese or other groups that are more discriminatory, on average, than white people.
The Civil Rights Act might as well be called the "Shlomo's way to Kill Whitey Act".
Ooops -- that's sparsely populated suburbs.
Right now the big growth areas are rural areas: productive people are moving out of suburbs entirely. That's tough on rural areas: they don't have sewer/water systems for those people, and the school systems are too small for their kids. Raise the property taxes and long term residents are hurt.
It is even worse than you describe - but you probably know about this already: anti-discrimination laws are responsible for urban/suburban sprawl, as productive people flee the unproductive, criminal class.
Anti-discrimination laws mean it impossible to reach any stasis, so there is a continual process of expansion and buliding out of densely populated suburbs.
Before the riots in Detroit, it looked like a European city: densely populated, developed, excellent transportation systems. Now everything is in the constantly expanding suburbs, and the quality of transpotation services is much lower, in the sense that roads/cars are expensive, and there is no decent public transportation.
If oil ever becomes expensive, look for discrimination to be made legal, or some other legal "trick" to deal with the fact that productive, non-criminal people will be forced, by high oil prices, to live close to unproductive, criminal people.
More preceisely, some are white, and some are Jews.
Just imagine a soccer-game/war/contest between Israel and the US. The whites will (justa bout) all want the US to win. The Jews may or may not.
Here are the lawyers that are suing Craig: http://www.clccrul.org/list.htm
It is a case of some desperate, moneygrubbing lawyers - trying to make something off of Craig.
One option people are not talking about would be to get rid of the fair housing act, which would allow property owners the freedom to do with their property as they wish.
One problem with the current regime is that the federal housing authority usually only goes after white people discriminating against non-whites. That's stupid because these days, in places like New York or LA, most of the discrimination is taking place between different non-white groups. E.g. hispanics only renting to hispanics (and not blacks).
When I think of the Saudis I remember how they only got upset about terror when Al Qaeda struck in Saudi Arabia, and actually killed some Arabs. When it was just crusaders, Jews and other infidels getting hurt/killed, they acquiesced. So let's see the moderate muslims come out and try to bring some peace and understanding. I'd expect more of them to speak up if it is hitting them in the pocketbook.
I'd be dishonest if I said that getting to watch the arrogant muslims suffer the consequences of their ineptitude won't be a little consolation.
You mean to say they are being a bunch of liars?
Well this will be fun when it gets out.
In our lifetime, they'll sell all their oil. The other way they made money (historically) was as traders between China and Europe, when trade went over land. There's no money in that anymore though.
So they are looking at a future where they won't have much income.
The oil wealth has gone into a few pockets. They'll invest that in Europe/China/USA/Japan. It will not benefit the other guys.