Brilliant!. Amazing!. I bet no climatalogist every thought of that!. You my man are a genious. You have caught what every single egghead PHD has missed. While their heads are full of useless knowledge like physics, chemistry and math you have amazing powers of obrservation.
This proves once and for all tha the CO2 levels are not rising. Anybody who says so is fooled by artificially high readings next to a volcano.
Thanks to your amazing insight we can safely dismiss what all those scientists are saying. Clearly they don't have the brains you do.
"Can anyone send me some FACTS as to why I shouldn't be voting for Kerry?"
Duh haven't you been watching television. If you vote for Kerry Al quada will come into the united states and kill YOU. Al quada hates you and the only thing that has prevented them from killing you and your familiy is George Bush. Al quada is afraid of George Bush.
"How does the man not go insane from mind-shattering cognitive dissonance?"
He really doesn't think about it that much. Gos speaks to him and he does what God tells him to do.
I know this because he said so. He never questions what God is telling him to do. If you have a problem you should take it up with his God. He is simply a servant of God. Oh and God speaks though him too.
Since he has repeatedly said that he will go to war with anybody anytime he feels like they *might* be a threat to *american interests* the chances of him starting another war are pretty good.
If he gets re-elected I fully expect him to attack syria, iran or North Korea. I don't think he is fully satiated yet.
Nice bit of lying there. Very clever of you to add up the incomes of Kerry and His wife and then average them out. Kerry only made about 400K of that 6.8 million. The rest was all Theresa and was capital gains so therefore was taxed at very low rates.
Bush is for reducing the capital gains taxes even more. If he wins the kerry's will pay even less taxes. More tax cuts for the Rich!.
" The parent poster was probably thinking of Kerry's wife, who has the Heinz fortune but pays a relatively small percentage of tax given her income level. "
Probably due the fact that almost all of her income is capital gains. The irony is that if Bush gets re-elected and cuts capital gains tax even more then she will be paying even less taxes.
Same with drugs. He was the only one willing to call the war on a drugs a failure.
The Bush comments especially seemed out of character except the ones about faith. Unfortunately they were the scariest answers of the bunch. Nader did slam him pretty good though on his zealotry.
IBM is countersuing SCO about violating IBM patents. In this case SCO is one actually being accused of violating patents.
It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sick. BTW what does this tell you about the so called journalists working at info-world. It may be time to write them a letter.
That's a patent on a thing. The proper analogy is if the razor company patented the process of shaving with the upwards stroke, or shaving the soul patch.
Since they own a linux distribution and since they own ximian and since they are betting their entire business on linux and OSS I think it's safe to assume they would regard all attacks on OSS as being in their "material interest"
Software piracy is not theft. Unlike theft it's not a criminal offence. It's a civil offense because it's merely a breaking of contract.
To you it may not seem significant but in the eyes of the law it is.
BTW in a similar vein reading the newspaper at your local coffee shop is not theft, watching cable TV in the bar is not theft, walking by a store and not buying what is in there is not theft.
The chain of patents or infringement is irrelevent in this case. What they are saying is that if they (or anybody who distributes linux) is sued for patent infringment then novell will sue them in turn.
This has nothing to with fundemtal problems of patents and OSS (as if there was such a thing). It's using the patent law as it exists today agains the people who invoke it.
Too bad this industry is hellbent on re-inventing things every ten years or so.
Was there any need to invent new languages after smalltalk, lisp and C? It's amazing how much those languages got right how much more "modern" languages mess up in trying to re-invent those langauges.
"This means that things like Department of Justice orders from *previous* administrations don't count."
Kind of makes a mockery of the word "justice" doesn't it? When Justice depends on who is in office then the dept of justice is nothing but orwellian doublespeak.
Please people make it a point to re-read 1984 before the election.
Is that fun? Pretending somebody made an argument and then rebutting it? It sounds like fun. Maybe you can pretend I made other arguments and rebut them too!.
"I say that the "asphalt effect" still holds true."
Brilliant!. I bet nobody has thought of that before. This just goes prove that you are the most insightful person who ever lived. Those fancy pants climatologist would have never thought of that.
"Which tends to be erratic and at different areas."
Stunning!. Two completely innovative ideas in one post. I bet nobody ever figured out that the tempratures are different at different areas of the world. I bet as ships move they probably record different temptratures too!. You my man are a genious!.
"And theories are just that."
I am awed by your brilliant destruction of the global warming hypothesis. By this one sentense you have completely negated all work done by all scientists everywhere. What a shocking turn of events your post will be in the annals of history. All theories can now be safely thrown out. Theory of gravity, evolution, relativity, atoms etc have all been proved false beyond any doubt by your devestating argument.
Congratulations my man. Your sheer genious has put to shame all those scientists. All that elite intellectualism is now dead. You have proved all of them to be frauds.
Say do you have a school or something where I too can learn to think like you?
As has been said many times on this topic. There are allways "authorities" or people who claim to be authorities even though they have no formal training in the field who are willing to take a contrarian position. There are physicist who claim we are being visited by aliens, there are biologists who claim God created the world in seven days etc.
You have chosen to ignore 99% of the scientists who claim that global warming is happeing and decided to believe the 1% who claim otherwise.
This is exacly what is wrong with the media coverage of this issue. In order to present a semblance of balance the media tracks down the 1% of the contrarian scientists and presents them as if the scientific community is split 50/50.
If had a show about physics of space travel would it be fair to invite a phyisicist who believes in faster then light travel and alien visitation and pretend that his point of view is shared widely?
" The problem with Arguing by Authority is that there are so many authorities."
So what is the alternative? Are you going to the antartic and drill your own core samples and analyze them yourself? You probably can't even read the papers that climatologists present let alone write your own.
You can't go along pretending that you can know everything there is to know based on some sort of a bullshit buzzer you think you have.
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Bah! They all look alike.
Mmm is there something in there about profiting from the sale?
Brilliant!. Amazing!. I bet no climatalogist every thought of that!. You my man are a genious. You have caught what every single egghead PHD has missed. While their heads are full of useless knowledge like physics, chemistry and math you have amazing powers of obrservation.
This proves once and for all tha the CO2 levels are not rising. Anybody who says so is fooled by artificially high readings next to a volcano.
Thanks to your amazing insight we can safely dismiss what all those scientists are saying. Clearly they don't have the brains you do.
"Can anyone send me some FACTS as to why I shouldn't be voting for Kerry?"
Duh haven't you been watching television. If you vote for Kerry Al quada will come into the united states and kill YOU. Al quada hates you and the only thing that has prevented them from killing you and your familiy is George Bush. Al quada is afraid of George Bush.
"How does the man not go insane from mind-shattering cognitive dissonance?"
He really doesn't think about it that much. Gos speaks to him and he does what God tells him to do.
I know this because he said so. He never questions what God is telling him to do. If you have a problem you should take it up with his God. He is simply a servant of God. Oh and God speaks though him too.
Since he has repeatedly said that he will go to war with anybody anytime he feels like they *might* be a threat to *american interests* the chances of him starting another war are pretty good.
If he gets re-elected I fully expect him to attack syria, iran or North Korea. I don't think he is fully satiated yet.
Nice bit of lying there. Very clever of you to add up the incomes of Kerry and His wife and then average them out. Kerry only made about 400K of that 6.8 million. The rest was all Theresa and was capital gains so therefore was taxed at very low rates.
Bush is for reducing the capital gains taxes even more. If he wins the kerry's will pay even less taxes. More tax cuts for the Rich!.
" The parent poster was probably thinking of Kerry's wife, who has the Heinz fortune but pays a relatively small percentage of tax given her income level. "
Probably due the fact that almost all of her income is capital gains. The irony is that if Bush gets re-elected and cuts capital gains tax even more then she will be paying even less taxes.
Same with drugs. He was the only one willing to call the war on a drugs a failure.
The Bush comments especially seemed out of character except the ones about faith. Unfortunately they were the scariest answers of the bunch. Nader did slam him pretty good though on his zealotry.
Forbes is porn for capitalists. Every issue they have extrememly rich people so you can gawk at them and lust after their riches.
IBM is countersuing SCO about violating IBM patents. In this case SCO is one actually being accused of violating patents.
It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sick. BTW what does this tell you about the so called journalists working at info-world. It may be time to write them a letter.
That's a patent on a thing. The proper analogy is if the razor company patented the process of shaving with the upwards stroke, or shaving the soul patch.
IS software piracy a criminal offense yes or no?
Wha? That's all the argument you have?
Since they own a linux distribution and since they own ximian and since they are betting their entire business on linux and OSS I think it's safe to assume they would regard all attacks on OSS as being in their "material interest"
Software piracy is not theft. Unlike theft it's not a criminal offence. It's a civil offense because it's merely a breaking of contract.
To you it may not seem significant but in the eyes of the law it is.
BTW in a similar vein reading the newspaper at your local coffee shop is not theft, watching cable TV in the bar is not theft, walking by a store and not buying what is in there is not theft.
The chain of patents or infringement is irrelevent in this case. What they are saying is that if they (or anybody who distributes linux) is sued for patent infringment then novell will sue them in turn.
This has nothing to with fundemtal problems of patents and OSS (as if there was such a thing). It's using the patent law as it exists today agains the people who invoke it.
Simple. You sue us we will sue you.
Since nobody has any any kind of a hysterical reaction to CO2 then I guess you really were arguing against something you yourself made up.
I know nothing of forth except that it's very old and has proven itself to be quite capable over the years.
I messed with oberon once and wasn't really impressed all that much. Same with Eiffel which seemed derivative and not innovative.
It's a VM. Just like any other VM.
Too bad this industry is hellbent on re-inventing things every ten years or so.
Was there any need to invent new languages after smalltalk, lisp and C? It's amazing how much those languages got right how much more "modern" languages mess up in trying to re-invent those langauges.
"This means that things like Department of Justice orders from *previous* administrations don't count."
Kind of makes a mockery of the word "justice" doesn't it? When Justice depends on who is in office then the dept of justice is nothing but orwellian doublespeak.
Please people make it a point to re-read 1984 before the election.
Is that fun? Pretending somebody made an argument and then rebutting it? It sounds like fun. Maybe you can pretend I made other arguments and rebut them too!.
"I say that the "asphalt effect" still holds true."
Brilliant!. I bet nobody has thought of that before. This just goes prove that you are the most insightful person who ever lived. Those fancy pants climatologist would have never thought of that.
"Which tends to be erratic and at different areas."
Stunning!. Two completely innovative ideas in one post. I bet nobody ever figured out that the tempratures are different at different areas of the world. I bet as ships move they probably record different temptratures too!. You my man are a genious!.
"And theories are just that."
I am awed by your brilliant destruction of the global warming hypothesis. By this one sentense you have completely negated all work done by all scientists everywhere. What a shocking turn of events your post will be in the annals of history. All theories can now be safely thrown out. Theory of gravity, evolution, relativity, atoms etc have all been proved false beyond any doubt by your devestating argument.
Congratulations my man. Your sheer genious has put to shame all those scientists. All that elite intellectualism is now dead. You have proved all of them to be frauds.
Say do you have a school or something where I too can learn to think like you?
As has been said many times on this topic. There are allways "authorities" or people who claim to be authorities even though they have no formal training in the field who are willing to take a contrarian position. There are physicist who claim we are being visited by aliens, there are biologists who claim God created the world in seven days etc.
You have chosen to ignore 99% of the scientists who claim that global warming is happeing and decided to believe the 1% who claim otherwise.
This is exacly what is wrong with the media coverage of this issue. In order to present a semblance of balance the media tracks down the 1% of the contrarian scientists and presents them as if the scientific community is split 50/50.
If had a show about physics of space travel would it be fair to invite a phyisicist who believes in faster then light travel and alien visitation and pretend that his point of view is shared widely?
"
The problem with Arguing by Authority is that there are so many authorities."
So what is the alternative? Are you going to the antartic and drill your own core samples and analyze them yourself? You probably can't even read the papers that climatologists present let alone write your own.
You can't go along pretending that you can know everything there is to know based on some sort of a bullshit buzzer you think you have.