. ..the first amendment starting to get the kind of respect that the second has enjoyed for so long.
The irony, of course, is that the fact that he was prosecuted by the government is a stronger indictment of that government than whatever was on his page.
Could I claim I hold copyrights to code in, say, Photoshop or Windows, refuse to substantiate those claims, then extort money from users of those programs? People I don't even have a business relationship with? People who aren't even infringing on my (supposed) copyrights, but are merely using the software under license from a third party.
That has to qualify as racketeering. It just has to.
Hm. Don't recall covering any of that in HS. Damn public schools.
I re-read the article and don't see the info that you alluded to anywhere. Damn reading comprehesion skills.
Anyway, since you are clearly an expert, will they just be able to deploy the 'chute at the apex of the flight? When you say 100k do you mean 100,000 ft? Seems like they could, since there is still a fair amount of atmosphere there.
Now, if this guy has the same 280 Million British Pounds to invest in building a plant[. ..]
Thanks for reading the article.
The major point would seem to be that he intends to shift most of this startup cost to his suppliers.
-Peter
Re:I've read the article. Here's a summary.
on
Build-to-Order Cars?
·
· Score: 1
His plan is actually very much like Dell.
He intends to come up with a fair amount of standardization for car parts (at least for his cars). This isn't like Dell, but it is like the market conditions that made Dell possible.
Then he wants to co-locate with part vendors and just do assembly and "integration." This is exactly what Dell does.
I guess most people don't know how Dell operates. Dell buys very small lots of parts from various vendors many times per day. This works out to a huge advantage because they don't have inventory sitting around depreciating.
The advantage in this case would seem to be startup and some manufacturing costs.
I wish him luck . . . especially if he really releases full, unencumbered plans, as stated in the article.
Un-reconstructed southerners are always interesting.
Be that as it may, I was born in Delaware and raised right here in Denver, Colorado.
But I'll give you half credit. I spent some time in the South with the Army, and six years married to a Southerner.
In 1861 these United States went to war to find out if Calhoun was right.
He wasn't.
Wow, you have really opened my eyes. All these years living on this Earth and I never realized that war was about who is right . ..
Or, it could be interpreted that freedom lost a counter-revolution.
Thanks (in no small part) to our pal . . . Andrew Jackson (a Southerner!).
But to roll back the clock to the era of Hamilton and Jefferson isn't going to happen.
Probably not in our lifetimes. King George might have said that rolling back to the era of democracy of the Greeks wasn't going to happen.
And now, since I have the floor, a somewhat extended excerpt from the famous "tree of liberty" letter, which shows that the statement was not meant in the abstract.
god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. [. ..] & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. [. ..] what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.
I have to go now. I think it is the ATF at the door.
Finally, imagine that the people making the decisions are overworked folks getting massive quantities of information and trying to adequately represent the voters who put them in office.
Thomas Jefferson wasn't overwhelmed by his need to be an expert on farming, ranching, textile manufacture, etc. because he was wise enough to realize that it was none of his business as a member of the Union government.
My heart fails to bleed for poor elected officials who can barely make the time to stick their fingers in every pie out there.
The Union mandate is what? Provide for the common defense, leverage the collective bargaining power of the several States in diplomatic matters, and settle disputes amongst the States.
The fact that the largest police organization in the country is hung on the interstate commerce clause alone is clenching proof that the government is a farce that exists for no reason but to enrich itself.
I can't imagine how digesting the latest Congressional clap-trap could alter this truth.
-Peter
PS: Extra points to whoever can give me an accurate count of the number of occurrences of the word "Federal" in the Constitution of the United States of America (as drafted).
How could they keep this plot from unraveling when the person who submitted/checked in the code is identified and MS refuses to take any action against him?
Or do you think that MS is such a Goliath that they would take action against him, and can just burn people to that degree with impunity?
How's it any worse than sending grassroots support form letters from the deceased?
Uh, because dead people don't realize they have been burned and call a newspaper?
Had a little edit error there. Split an awkward sentence and lost the word "comment."
"You are a fascist" ad-hominem slippery slope
Nice try, but the discussion revolves around people's take on civil liberties (viz the Bill of Rights). I never called anyone a Fascist (straw man, since we seem to be playing "rational fallicy bingo") but I did commit the mortal sin of drawing attention to the fact that someone's (even a dyed-in-the-wool "liberal's") beliefs can be (gasp) wrong.
If you don't support ALL of the Bill of Rights for ALL citizens you are fucking wrong. That doesn't mean that I think you are (necessarily) a Fascist, Nazi, or dog fucker. It does mean that I think you are a shithead.
Thank you, and good night.
-Peter
PS: Comment for posterity: This message is in reply to "josh crawley (537561)" a.k.a. dogfucker@yahoo.com.
Then all the code in question will be intentionally and unambigously GPLed by SCO. Unless they intened to impinge on the copyrights of the hundreds (?) of copyright holders who have GPLed their kernel code.
As if any of this matters, since they (presumably) distributed that same code under the GPL as part of their GNU/Linux distribution . ..
At the risk of provoking the invocation of Godwin what you have just described is a recipie for holocaust*.
I don't know what your political leanings are, but that is something that I would personally like to avoid.
-Peter
*Historical note. IMO the first "event" of the rise of the Third Reich was not the burning of the Reichstag, but the registration of firearms by the Kaiser.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't say anything about peaceful speech. I guarantees the right to all speech. It also guarantees the right of peaceful assembly.
But that little fact aside, he was linking not bombing.
Last I checked . . . links weren't capable of violence.
Furthermore, bombs aren't capable of violence. Though they do make spectacular instruments of violence. Links much less so.
Finally, the Union government has no authority over the private possession of materials or substances, to include bombs.
But thanks for your input.
-Peter
. . .the first amendment starting to get the kind of respect that the second has enjoyed for so long.
The irony, of course, is that the fact that he was prosecuted by the government is a stronger indictment of that government than whatever was on his page.
-Peter
Could I claim I hold copyrights to code in, say, Photoshop or Windows, refuse to substantiate those claims, then extort money from users of those programs? People I don't even have a business relationship with? People who aren't even infringing on my (supposed) copyrights, but are merely using the software under license from a third party.
That has to qualify as racketeering. It just has to.
-Peter
They must not teach standard SI abbrivations at your fucking wiz-bang school.
k = prefix meaning 1000 (kilo)
m = linear unit meter
km = linear unit kilometer
I won't blame you for failing to detect the sarcasm, I understand that is very difficult do do in a non-native language.
-Peter
Hm. Don't recall covering any of that in HS. Damn public schools.
I re-read the article and don't see the info that you alluded to anywhere. Damn reading comprehesion skills.
Anyway, since you are clearly an expert, will they just be able to deploy the 'chute at the apex of the flight? When you say 100k do you mean 100,000 ft? Seems like they could, since there is still a fair amount of atmosphere there.
-Peter
Anyone know how they plan to slow it from orbital speed to a speed where they and safely deploy the 'chute?
This would seem to be the second hardest part. (Hardest being geting the thing orbial in the first place.)
-Peter
Thanks for reading the article.
The major point would seem to be that he intends to shift most of this startup cost to his suppliers.
-Peter
His plan is actually very much like Dell.
He intends to come up with a fair amount of standardization for car parts (at least for his cars). This isn't like Dell, but it is like the market conditions that made Dell possible.
Then he wants to co-locate with part vendors and just do assembly and "integration." This is exactly what Dell does.
I guess most people don't know how Dell operates. Dell buys very small lots of parts from various vendors many times per day. This works out to a huge advantage because they don't have inventory sitting around depreciating.
The advantage in this case would seem to be startup and some manufacturing costs.
I wish him luck . . . especially if he really releases full, unencumbered plans, as stated in the article.
-Peter
But you can't get the full effect without the scratch-n-sniff card.
-Peter
PS: The Secret of Monkey Island is the best game ever. I'd gladly pay LucasArts $50 for a "SCUMMpack" of all those games.
-Peter
That's pretty shaky, as there was no "attack" as such. (Defense would seem to require an attack.)
The fight against Japan in WWII is probably a better example, since there was an actual attack.
But I think my point is made.
-Peter
The miltary's mission is to 1. kill people 2. break things.
The government is meant to use this tool as a means to the end of defending the country.
-Peter
PS: For extra credit, name two times that the (U.S.) military has defended the country.
-P
Consider ammending to "the head of a gavel, the tip of a sabre and the barrel of a musket."
Is it a secret what state you are in?
-Peter
Damn, I let you totally distract me from the point.
The question at hand, really, is where does the "Federal" government get the mandate (and/or the authority) to do 90%+ of the stuff it does?
Don't let me put words in your mouth, but the inference I draw from your reply is "A the tip of a sabre and the barrel of a musket."
Sad.
-Peter
Why not:
$grep -i federal us-const.txt | wc
?
Oh, and the sly devils are the ones that had you thinking it might be there.
-Peter
Be that as it may, I was born in Delaware and raised right here in Denver, Colorado.
But I'll give you half credit. I spent some time in the South with the Army, and six years married to a Southerner.
Wow, you have really opened my eyes. All these years living on this Earth and I never realized that war was about who is right . .
Or, it could be interpreted that freedom lost a counter-revolution.
Thanks (in no small part) to our pal . . . Andrew Jackson (a Southerner!).
Probably not in our lifetimes. King George might have said that rolling back to the era of democracy of the Greeks wasn't going to happen.
And now, since I have the floor, a somewhat extended excerpt from the famous "tree of liberty" letter, which shows that the statement was not meant in the abstract.
I have to go now. I think it is the ATF at the door.
-Peter
Thomas Jefferson wasn't overwhelmed by his need to be an expert on farming, ranching, textile manufacture, etc. because he was wise enough to realize that it was none of his business as a member of the Union government.
My heart fails to bleed for poor elected officials who can barely make the time to stick their fingers in every pie out there.
The Union mandate is what? Provide for the common defense, leverage the collective bargaining power of the several States in diplomatic matters, and settle disputes amongst the States.
The fact that the largest police organization in the country is hung on the interstate commerce clause alone is clenching proof that the government is a farce that exists for no reason but to enrich itself.
I can't imagine how digesting the latest Congressional clap-trap could alter this truth.
-Peter
PS: Extra points to whoever can give me an accurate count of the number of occurrences of the word "Federal" in the Constitution of the United States of America (as drafted).
-P
Or do you think that MS is such a Goliath that they would take action against him, and can just burn people to that degree with impunity?
Uh, because dead people don't realize they have been burned and call a newspaper?
-Peter
In what way would relicensing some of their own code under a Free or OSS license be harmful to the project?
Or are you just saying that their code itself is poision?
Or are you saying they have convinced some fall guy to "steal" MS code and add it to these projects?
Or do you fundamentally fail to realize how these licenses work?
-Peter
Someone remind me what geo- means . . .
-Peter
Next time you talk to your Grandma can you do me a favor?
Ask her to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LEFT LANE!!
-Peter
Coca can not be grown in the US.
Crack can be purchased on any street corner in any city in the US for, what? Three bucks or head?
Prohibition made Al Capone a very rich man. Oh, and JFK's pop too.
Making something illegal only makes it unobtainable to those unwilling to break the law.
Welcome to reality. I hope you enjoy your stay.
-Peter
Nice try, but the discussion revolves around people's take on civil liberties (viz the Bill of Rights). I never called anyone a Fascist (straw man, since we seem to be playing "rational fallicy bingo") but I did commit the mortal sin of drawing attention to the fact that someone's (even a dyed-in-the-wool "liberal's") beliefs can be (gasp) wrong.
If you don't support ALL of the Bill of Rights for ALL citizens you are fucking wrong. That doesn't mean that I think you are (necessarily) a Fascist, Nazi, or dog fucker. It does mean that I think you are a shithead.
Thank you, and good night.
-Peter
PS: Comment for posterity: This message is in reply to "josh crawley (537561)" a.k.a. dogfucker@yahoo.com.
Quick, someone buy a license!
.
Then all the code in question will be intentionally and unambigously GPLed by SCO. Unless they intened to impinge on the copyrights of the hundreds (?) of copyright holders who have GPLed their kernel code.
As if any of this matters, since they (presumably) distributed that same code under the GPL as part of their GNU/Linux distribution . .
Yawn.
-Peter
The term is "racketeering."
-Peter
At the risk of provoking the invocation of Godwin what you have just described is a recipie for holocaust*.
I don't know what your political leanings are, but that is something that I would personally like to avoid.
-Peter
*Historical note. IMO the first "event" of the rise of the Third Reich was not the burning of the Reichstag, but the registration of firearms by the Kaiser.