"This case is yet another reason why the rest of the world needs to band together to curb the lawlessness of the current US administration."
The most effective (actually the only) way to do this is by a worldwide boycott of all American products and brands. Yes that means not watching American movies, listening to american songs, not drinking coke or pepsi, not wearing nike or addidas even if you favorite soccer player or movie star tells you to.
More people protested George Bush then any figure in history. There were organized worldwide efforts where millions of people took to the streets. Did GW give a rat's ass? No he did not.
Do you know what would make him give a rat's ass? The CEO of nike calling him up and giving him the riot act because worldwide sales have fallen by 10% that's what.
GW does not care what the rest of the world thinks, hell he doesn't care what half of america thinks. He does care about his donors and he sure as hell will change his actions and words if he thinks the money flow into the republican party will slow down.
As a bonus if the boycott is successful you can cause lasting damage to the US economy which *might* cause them to spend a little less on military misadventures.
When both Bill Gates and Stever Ballmer were asked about the rapidly increasing MS patent warchest, when they were asked point blank whether they plan to sue other people they both replied with the company line. "We intend to defend our intellectual property". That's CEO speak for "yes we intend to sue".
Again you faith is MS is misplaced. It's not like they are an honest ethical company who always tries to do right thing.
Microsoft has initiated other kinds of IP lawsuits against other companies and there is no reason to think that they won't iniate a patent lawsuit as well. Both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have made public statements about "defending our intellectual property".
The people have been pretty much programmed to buy whatever the television is selling.
It strikes me as ironic that the govt is fighting to put the ten commandments in schools and public places. I wonder what will happen to a generation of students who walk by a sign that says "thou shall not covet" every day. I wonder if it would make a difference in the consumer society?
Probably not, it's not like anybody really pays attention to that crap. If they did the streets would be empty on sunday.
The people with a lot of capital will be able to move their capital offshore before declaring bankrupcy. The middle class and the poor do not have the knowhow or the means to hide their assets and will suffer.
What do you mean socialist? Do you mean socialist as in creating the largest govt department socialist or socialist as in giving people free perscription drugs socialist. Perhaps you mean socialist as in giving increased benefits to veterans socialist or maybe even enacting steel and softwood tarrifs socialist.
I am curious to see what your definition of socialist is, mainly because I suspect your definition of socialist includes george bush.
Apple is introducing a new application in tiger. It's called automator (I was wrong about contructor). Automator is a RAD environment for applescript. Applescript in turn is an english like scripting language for the mac.
If apple provides hook into coreimage for applescript it will allow ordinary people to extraordinary things with images and video.
MS in turn is going to go the way of avalon and xaml.
So is avalon as good as or better then coreimage? Is it easier to use xaml or applescript (or python)? I don't think so.
I tried groove and I just don't see what the big deal was. The only way I can see MS make this work would be to integrate it with outlook which would make outlook even a bigger pig then it is right now.
Groove just didn't integrate with my email and let's face it 90% of my involvement with other people involves email.
There is no groupware without email and IM. There just isnt.
I know it's an API. If apple makes hooks into it available for scripting with applescript or python then it will indeed blow away avalon. Would you rather design your gui using XML or python?
They could buy VMS. They would get stability, security, scalibility, and clusterability unmatched by any other operating system. HP would love to sell it because they are floundering anyway. It might take a year or so to port the gui portion windows on top of VMS but that's it.
I am not saying they would do it, just that they could.
COmments are best when they explain WHY you are doing something, not just explaining WHAT you are doing.
For example a comment that says "we have to make exceptions for clients whose names start with A because sales promised them a price cut" is very useful when somebody is scratching their head asking why there is a goofy if statement sitting there.
If you have a small decentralized and poor army attacking hardened military targets would be useless execize. For terrorists it just makes sense to attack civillian economic targets. If anything it causes even more damage and of course increases the amount of terror. As a bonus it also forces undustry to implement extra security measures which increases their costs and erodes their competitiveness.
The idea is to weaken the entire country and hurt/scare the general population who will eventually give in. I say eventually because terrorists are usually thinking in timespans that take generations.
Whether it works or not is debatable. Terrorism was a key component of the establishment of Israel as a state. It also worked in Afghanistan against russia. In other places the record is spotty at best.
Where I work they buy the worst toilet paper in the world to save money. This stuff is like sandpaper. Mind you this is a company worth around a billion dollars.
So don't make fun of providing toilet paper, especially if it's nice and soft. Hell I'd switch companies if somebody offered me the same pay but better toilet paper.
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"This case is yet another reason why the rest of the world needs to band together to curb the lawlessness of the current US administration."
The most effective (actually the only) way to do this is by a worldwide boycott of all American products and brands. Yes that means not watching American movies, listening to american songs, not drinking coke or pepsi, not wearing nike or addidas even if you favorite soccer player or movie star tells you to.
More people protested George Bush then any figure in history. There were organized worldwide efforts where millions of people took to the streets. Did GW give a rat's ass? No he did not.
Do you know what would make him give a rat's ass? The CEO of nike calling him up and giving him the riot act because worldwide sales have fallen by 10% that's what.
GW does not care what the rest of the world thinks, hell he doesn't care what half of america thinks. He does care about his donors and he sure as hell will change his actions and words if he thinks the money flow into the republican party will slow down.
As a bonus if the boycott is successful you can cause lasting damage to the US economy which *might* cause them to spend a little less on military misadventures.
When both Bill Gates and Stever Ballmer were asked about the rapidly increasing MS patent warchest, when they were asked point blank whether they plan to sue other people they both replied with the company line. "We intend to defend our intellectual property". That's CEO speak for "yes we intend to sue".
Again you faith is MS is misplaced. It's not like they are an honest ethical company who always tries to do right thing.
Microsoft has initiated other kinds of IP lawsuits against other companies and there is no reason to think that they won't iniate a patent lawsuit as well. Both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have made public statements about "defending our intellectual property".
I think your faith in MS is misplaced.
The people have been pretty much programmed to buy whatever the television is selling.
It strikes me as ironic that the govt is fighting to put the ten commandments in schools and public places. I wonder what will happen to a generation of students who walk by a sign that says "thou shall not covet" every day. I wonder if it would make a difference in the consumer society?
Probably not, it's not like anybody really pays attention to that crap. If they did the streets would be empty on sunday.
The people with a lot of capital will be able to move their capital offshore before declaring bankrupcy. The middle class and the poor do not have the knowhow or the means to hide their assets and will suffer.
That's what this bill is all about.
What do you mean socialist? Do you mean socialist as in creating the largest govt department socialist or socialist as in giving people free perscription drugs socialist. Perhaps you mean socialist as in giving increased benefits to veterans socialist or maybe even enacting steel and softwood tarrifs socialist.
I am curious to see what your definition of socialist is, mainly because I suspect your definition of socialist includes george bush.
Liberal pretty much means the same thing here in the US too. It's an english word after all.
If ozzie as the CTO of MS decides to downplay email MS will doom itself.
Apple is introducing a new application in tiger. It's called automator (I was wrong about contructor). Automator is a RAD environment for applescript. Applescript in turn is an english like scripting language for the mac.
If apple provides hook into coreimage for applescript it will allow ordinary people to extraordinary things with images and video.
MS in turn is going to go the way of avalon and xaml.
So is avalon as good as or better then coreimage? Is it easier to use xaml or applescript (or python)? I don't think so.
I am talking about their product, I think it's called constructor or something like that.
We have several people to admin just exchange. It apparently requires a lot of handholding.
I tried groove and I just don't see what the big deal was. The only way I can see MS make this work would be to integrate it with outlook which would make outlook even a bigger pig then it is right now.
Groove just didn't integrate with my email and let's face it 90% of my involvement with other people involves email.
There is no groupware without email and IM. There just isnt.
" On the Mac we use native programming toolkits, not piss-poor imitations."
Is that why tiger has an applescript RAD? Is that why virtually every engineer at apple knows and uses python?
I know it's an API. If apple makes hooks into it available for scripting with applescript or python then it will indeed blow away avalon. Would you rather design your gui using XML or python?
The question is can coreimage be scripted? If it can it will blow away avalon.
They could buy VMS. They would get stability, security, scalibility, and clusterability unmatched by any other operating system. HP would love to sell it because they are floundering anyway. It might take a year or so to port the gui portion windows on top of VMS but that's it.
I am not saying they would do it, just that they could.
Er... Um... Yes.... But...
HURD!
COmments are best when they explain WHY you are doing something, not just explaining WHAT you are doing.
For example a comment that says "we have to make exceptions for clients whose names start with A because sales promised them a price cut" is very useful when somebody is scratching their head asking why there is a goofy if statement sitting there.
Numerous mosques were bombed during the reign of Begin.
If you have a small decentralized and poor army attacking hardened military targets would be useless execize. For terrorists it just makes sense to attack civillian economic targets. If anything it causes even more damage and of course increases the amount of terror. As a bonus it also forces undustry to implement extra security measures which increases their costs and erodes their competitiveness.
The idea is to weaken the entire country and hurt/scare the general population who will eventually give in. I say eventually because terrorists are usually thinking in timespans that take generations.
Whether it works or not is debatable. Terrorism was a key component of the establishment of Israel as a state. It also worked in Afghanistan against russia. In other places the record is spotty at best.
Well I guess insulting the people who you are begging for features will get a lot done right?
I am just happy there is a race finally.
Where I work they buy the worst toilet paper in the world to save money. This stuff is like sandpaper. Mind you this is a company worth around a billion dollars.
So don't make fun of providing toilet paper, especially if it's nice and soft. Hell I'd switch companies if somebody offered me the same pay but better toilet paper.
rekall
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Now get to work, they need help
Microsoft was convicted of abusing their monopoly. By the lower courts and then by unanious opinion of the appeals court.