You write it as WalM*rt because Slashdot doesn't support the (tm) sign and because WalMart(TM) will stomp you into the ground if you use their name unlawfully.
We work about 25% more per year than do most Europeans.
And you still have to shop at Wal*Mart.
Think about it. It's not like Europeans have a low standard of living. They get paid well, they get great vacations, they get great social benefits. WTF are you thinking, working harder for less?! Something is wrong in America.
Hmmm. I'd have thought the obvious place for a storage site would be... at the uranium mine. Same-same, really. New uranium goes out, used uranium comes back in, neatly sealed and ready for stacking.
There are two types of border in this world: political and corporate. The two are becoming ever closer to one.
Within our generation I anticipate that your legal rights and responsibilities will be defined by the Venn intersection of the corporate influences in your physical location.
Coca-Cola will own the territory of Vancouver, for instance. City council will be paid to pass law that makes possession of Pepsi illegal. You will not be able to purchase nor import Pepsi products in that city. Ho-Chi brand marijuana, on the other hand, will be readily available, due to the political influence weilded by that ex-gang (now legit) grower.
Across the border in Seattle, it will be quite the reverse: Pepsi will have landed the municipal softdrink contract, and the DEA will have successfully established themselves as the drug industry top dog. Supplies of Columbian cocaine will be readily available, but BC pot will be banned.
Political borders will continue to exist as a public deception, but the corporate borders will be what really affects one on a day-to-day basis.
LCDs are manufactured using an resource-intensive process, AFAIK, with large volumes of contanimated water as a waste product, and large volumes of dangerous chemicals being used/reused/disposed in the process.
The same goes for CCDs and the electronic guts.
How the fuck can anyone conceive this as a good idea? What an utter disregard for the inheritance of our children!
That said, I want one, just to hack. But, shit, surely we humans have *got* to get a clue one of these days.
There is also plenty of common-good work done in charities, in political action groups, and in schools.
There is also a lot of community work done in house building, sports facilities, special events, and so on.
And, finally, there are many cooperatives in which members work toward... well, all sorts of things.
People are social animals. It should surprise no one that people are naturally socialist animals: the limit is bound only by greed, jealousy, resentment, and other negative emotions; and by survival limits.
no one can own a particular frequency of spectrum in the same way no one can own a particular color of light
You can "own" colors, no problem.
See this short article explaining how the courts have favoured/denied color trademarking.
I believe Coke owns their colour of red, IBM blue, KPN (Dutch Telco) green, etc.
As long as the color is not indicative of "function" (ie. isn't associated with a particular "message", ie. blue is cold, red is hot, green is environmental, etc), you have a shot at getting it trademarked.
When trademarked, competitors in your marketspace/mindshare can't use that same colour.
Which means you effectively "own" the wavelength of light that is that colour!
Insurance ratess in BC are based primarily on one thing: whether you have been liable for an accident.
That's it. If you cause an accident, you pay through the nose. You drive safely, you get whopping discounts.
Doesn't matter if your male or female, young or old. I defy you to find a private insurer where that's not a consideration.
You get steep discounts for safe driving. You get steep increases for unsafe driving. I'm at 18yrs safe driving discount: that gives me 40% off the base rate plus accident forgiveness plus some bonus services (roadside assist, I think, and perhaps a courtesy car).
There's some variation in rates based on location (big, Type-A cities get charged more than laid-back little towns) and on vehicle type (cars with integrated rear signal lenses cost more to repair than cars with individual lenses). Outside of the two main cities, the regional variation is small; and I don't recall there being any huge increase due to car model.
So for my sporty T-top coupe, I pay about $600/yr for comprehensive insurance and some extra coverage for running my friend's kids around. Makes me happy: I love our public insurance company!
Oh -- and even better, the Insurance Corporation of BC is involved in improving road safety. Up in Kamloops they helped pay for the installation of a highway de-icing system. In my town, they help pay for improvements to intersections. All over the place, they provide school safety demonstrations, drinking-driving campaigns, etcetera.
It is one helluva wonderful system. Everyone should be rallying their provincial/state government to do the same. It works best!
I must have signed a damned EULA when I was given life! No freakin' recourse should my heart need a reboot! Too bad, so sad, guess ya shoulda read the fine print.
Don't be silly. The system should be based on an OS that is proven hard-core stable and real-time, like QNX, Microware OS-9/9k, etc.
There are a ton of good OSes out there for specialty applications and, surprise!, most of them don't involve Linux! Linux is not the be-all and end-all of OSes.
For human-life-critical applications, you should be using something that is demonstrably proven.
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Not only that, but you've just given them a free loan plus you dollars lose value due to inflation!
A giftcard is okay if it's going to be spent in a few weeks. It's absolutely retarded to let the cash stay in the card for any longer period of time.
You write it as WalM*rt because Slashdot doesn't support the (tm) sign and because WalMart(TM) will stomp you into the ground if you use their name unlawfully.
WTF? Talk about cutting off your nose in spite of your face.
It doesn't help that executive pay is so insanely high, either. What is it this year, 600x average salary? WTF?!
I would think it's fair to say that on average a worker makes 1.5 trips to the bathroom per day. ... My God! Something has to be done!
Yah! Send search parties after those poor bastards who made a half-trip... they must have fallen down the hole!
We work about 25% more per year than do most Europeans.
And you still have to shop at Wal*Mart.
Think about it. It's not like Europeans have a low standard of living. They get paid well, they get great vacations, they get great social benefits. WTF are you thinking, working harder for less?! Something is wrong in America.
Not 7Zip, use IZArc. More formats.
Hmmm. I'd have thought the obvious place for a storage site would be... at the uranium mine. Same-same, really. New uranium goes out, used uranium comes back in, neatly sealed and ready for stacking.
Or email, for that matter. Create an alias that has all your best friends' email addresses and badumboom, badumbing, they know.
You think this isn't happening already?
There are two types of border in this world: political and corporate. The two are becoming ever closer to one.
Within our generation I anticipate that your legal rights and responsibilities will be defined by the Venn intersection of the corporate influences in your physical location.
Coca-Cola will own the territory of Vancouver, for instance. City council will be paid to pass law that makes possession of Pepsi illegal. You will not be able to purchase nor import Pepsi products in that city. Ho-Chi brand marijuana, on the other hand, will be readily available, due to the political influence weilded by that ex-gang (now legit) grower.
Across the border in Seattle, it will be quite the reverse: Pepsi will have landed the municipal softdrink contract, and the DEA will have successfully established themselves as the drug industry top dog. Supplies of Columbian cocaine will be readily available, but BC pot will be banned.
Political borders will continue to exist as a public deception, but the corporate borders will be what really affects one on a day-to-day basis.
Jesus Christ, I do need to drink my coffee in the morning. Talk about a complete brainfart.
I'd like to thank the first responder for being sensible and polite.
Fuck the rest of you.
LCDs are manufactured using an resource-intensive process, AFAIK, with large volumes of contanimated water as a waste product, and large volumes of dangerous chemicals being used/reused/disposed in the process.
The same goes for CCDs and the electronic guts.
How the fuck can anyone conceive this as a good idea? What an utter disregard for the inheritance of our children!
That said, I want one, just to hack. But, shit, surely we humans have *got* to get a clue one of these days.
There is also plenty of common-good work done in charities, in political action groups, and in schools.
There is also a lot of community work done in house building, sports facilities, special events, and so on.
And, finally, there are many cooperatives in which members work toward... well, all sorts of things.
People are social animals. It should surprise no one that people are naturally socialist animals: the limit is bound only by greed, jealousy, resentment, and other negative emotions; and by survival limits.
OMG.
Patent that idea.
Seriously.
I can copy the file to all my devices.
The encode quality is top-notch.
There are no expirations or other gotchas.
The artists still get paid.
Mea culpa. Good catch.
Does anyone know where to get the old Kerio?
I don't much like the new interface, either, and I've disabled all the frills beyond basic firewalling, so I'd much rather the old version.
no one can own a particular frequency of spectrum in the same way no one can own a particular color of light
You can "own" colors, no problem.
See this short article explaining how the courts have favoured/denied color trademarking.
I believe Coke owns their colour of red, IBM blue, KPN (Dutch Telco) green, etc.
As long as the color is not indicative of "function" (ie. isn't associated with a particular "message", ie. blue is cold, red is hot, green is environmental, etc), you have a shot at getting it trademarked.
When trademarked, competitors in your marketspace/mindshare can't use that same colour.
Which means you effectively "own" the wavelength of light that is that colour!
I say it's a damn fine thing.
Insurance ratess in BC are based primarily on one thing: whether you have been liable for an accident.
That's it. If you cause an accident, you pay through the nose. You drive safely, you get whopping discounts.
Doesn't matter if your male or female, young or old. I defy you to find a private insurer where that's not a consideration.
You get steep discounts for safe driving. You get steep increases for unsafe driving. I'm at 18yrs safe driving discount: that gives me 40% off the base rate plus accident forgiveness plus some bonus services (roadside assist, I think, and perhaps a courtesy car).
There's some variation in rates based on location (big, Type-A cities get charged more than laid-back little towns) and on vehicle type (cars with integrated rear signal lenses cost more to repair than cars with individual lenses). Outside of the two main cities, the regional variation is small; and I don't recall there being any huge increase due to car model.
So for my sporty T-top coupe, I pay about $600/yr for comprehensive insurance and some extra coverage for running my friend's kids around. Makes me happy: I love our public insurance company!
Oh -- and even better, the Insurance Corporation of BC is involved in improving road safety. Up in Kamloops they helped pay for the installation of a highway de-icing system. In my town, they help pay for improvements to intersections. All over the place, they provide school safety demonstrations, drinking-driving campaigns, etcetera.
It is one helluva wonderful system. Everyone should be rallying their provincial/state government to do the same. It works best!
That's the problem!
I must have signed a damned EULA when I was given life! No freakin' recourse should my heart need a reboot! Too bad, so sad, guess ya shoulda read the fine print.
God is a lawyer, damn him!
And doesn't Wx have the lead by, oooh, must be about five years?
Of course, the biggest flaw with Wx is that its lead developer doesn't have the cojones to submit a Slashdot story as if he were an impartial user...
Don't be silly. The system should be based on an OS that is proven hard-core stable and real-time, like QNX, Microware OS-9/9k, etc.
There are a ton of good OSes out there for specialty applications and, surprise!, most of them don't involve Linux! Linux is not the be-all and end-all of OSes.
For human-life-critical applications, you should be using something that is demonstrably proven.
Perhaps the solution to this madness of patenting algorithms, genes, etcetera... is to burn down the patent office again!
Just want to say THIS IS WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!
Y'all see how easy it is to become an activist and make changes for the better? It takes so very little effort, and makes such a big difference!
Nothing inadvertant about what I said. Sheesh.