If this were Apple, they would already have found the leaker and would have sued him into oblivion. In an instance like this, it's probably a good thing that Microsoft has generally been more lax than Apple.
Slander and libel are not crimes, they are torts. The police don't care, won't contact MySpace, and will quite possibly be upset at having their time wasted listening to ridiculous demands. The principal would have to have the relevant MySpace information subpoenaed.
Agriculture? Well, the US has a lot of agriculture, no doubt. Still, it is highly dependent on imports and the exports don't mean a lot (especially with lots of them going to countries that won't ever pay). The U.S. has a surplus of agriculture, and our subsidization of unnecessary production (and even of non-production) distorts the terms of trade in our favor. The protected agricultural exports of developed countries have been one of the major points of contention that led to the collapse of the Doha round of WTO talks in Cancún. The U.S. is only "highly dependent on imports" in agriculture in the sense that actually the opposite is true and you couldn't possibly be any more wrong.
Playing back highly compressed video really is sheer number-crunching, unlike a bloated OS layer, and the fundamental computational intensity simply requires a certain amount of computational power to achieve real-time speed.
Hypocrisy itself is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, doing bad things and advocating good things is better than doing bad things and advocating bad things.
European "countries" I don't think you actually know much about the European Union. While it is arguably a sort of sui generis entity given that it isn't really an IGO, nor a super-state, claiming that the sovereignty of individual European countries is merely nominal, or even close to such a thing, or even that a significant number of politicians seriously consider that sometime in the foreseeable future such a state of events might come to pass, is insane. It is far more likely that the South is going to rise again and that all 192 United Nations member states are going to recognize the Confederate States of America by the end of next week.
You replied to someone who claimed that OS X is not BSD because it is not a BSD kernel. Such a claim may be broad, but it is not vague; it is in fact rather concise. I agree that calling OS X a BSD makes sense, but your reply was to a very specific claim. Your reply neither addressed how XNU might be considered a BSD kernel, nor how the kernel might not be the deciding factor in whether OS X is BSD. Your premises and conclusion are true, but your argument was invalid, so you really should have written this reply (or a much shorter version of it) initially instead.
XNU has BSD code in it, but it is not BSD anymore than it is I/O Kit, and its foundation is based on Mach. Perhaps you think that the operating system is more important than the kernel, but if that's the case, you should say so instead of erroneously attacking the correct assertion that OS X does not use a BSD kernel.
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She may or she may not be, but that there's an unreferenced claim on Wikipedia that this is false doesn't tell us less gullible people much. I am afraid to inform you sir, that you are decidedly not one of the less gullible people.
If you want a date, it would probably be March 1, 1989, when the U.S. adopted the Berne Convention. They were actually a little late, as it was first adopted by many European nations in 1886. In fact, the U.S. was once in some respects a sort of haven for piracy like China is today.
Actually, Tonga annexed the Minerva Reefs before Fiji spoke up, and Tongan troops have evicted American-Minervans; Fiji only later laid territorial claim to the Minerva Reefs, which are still disputed by Tonga and Fiji (and also allegedly by a Principality of Minerva claiming to succeed the original Republic of Minerva, though no one has even recognized them as a party to the dispute).
Can someone, please.. explain to me why something *must* be licensed and copyrighted to be included in free OS distributions Perhaps it is because in the U.S. there is no statutory definition of how to dedicate works to the public domain.
But this was a NATO action. We were committed by treaty and from force outside our leaders control. We chose to bomb instead of using military forces in a way that could have ended it sooner. Oh, the poor weak U.S., being bullied by all of those more powerful countries what with their greater clout in NATO. Whose idea was it to go through NATO instead of the UN to avoid a Russian veto, again? It must have been Iceland; if only Clinton had the balls he should've, or at least used what he had to stand up to Reyjavík instead of blowing a load on a blue dress!
Whether he did too much or not enough is certainly an opinion, but whether he was the driving force behind military campaigns is not. To some, he did too much, even. Whether you like Clinton or hate him, being a dove was neither a virtue nor a vice of his.
Calling a thing "art" does not imply a judgement about its merits; likewise, calling a person an artist simply means that they produce art, not that they necessarily produce good art. To call musicians artists is a positive statement, but to claim that some musicians should not be called artists is a normative statement. It makes more sense to accept a statement grounded in fact, such as the RIAA's statement that musicians are artists, than a value judgement, such as your claim that they are not.
I don't live in the US, but that probably works the the same way like in other coutries: taxes are applied at fixed ratios (say 20%, 23%, 25%, 28%, 30% etc.) instead of using a complex function of the income, so if you get a raise and for example step from 25% to 30% taxation you may end up with less money than before the raise. A better way wold be to use a function which raises the taxation in a continuous way (ie no steps) depending on the income, expenses and other factors like min,max and average earnings in the country.
I'm no expert though, comments welcome. Actually, it is progressive. Let's say the tax rate for up to $10,000 is 20%, and for $10,000-$20,000 is 25%. If you make $20,000, you pay 20% taxes on the first $10,000, and 25% taxes on the second $10,000, so the tax burden for a $20,000 income would be $4500, not $5000.
They had been let out of classes and were accompanied by their teachers. The "they" in that sentence does not include Frederick, as he did not attend class that day. Furthermore, while the students were accompanied by students, they were not being supervised by them as they had been let out of school for the day. Essentially the school's argument is that they can regulate a student's behavior outside of school if teachers and other students are present. By this reasoning, the school could "sponsor" say, a concert, and punish students for violating school rules there.
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If this were Apple, they would already have found the leaker and would have sued him into oblivion. In an instance like this, it's probably a good thing that Microsoft has generally been more lax than Apple.
Slander and libel are not crimes, they are torts. The police don't care, won't contact MySpace, and will quite possibly be upset at having their time wasted listening to ridiculous demands. The principal would have to have the relevant MySpace information subpoenaed.
Playing back highly compressed video really is sheer number-crunching, unlike a bloated OS layer, and the fundamental computational intensity simply requires a certain amount of computational power to achieve real-time speed.
Hypocrisy itself is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, doing bad things and advocating good things is better than doing bad things and advocating bad things.
You replied to someone who claimed that OS X is not BSD because it is not a BSD kernel. Such a claim may be broad, but it is not vague; it is in fact rather concise. I agree that calling OS X a BSD makes sense, but your reply was to a very specific claim. Your reply neither addressed how XNU might be considered a BSD kernel, nor how the kernel might not be the deciding factor in whether OS X is BSD. Your premises and conclusion are true, but your argument was invalid, so you really should have written this reply (or a much shorter version of it) initially instead.
XNU has BSD code in it, but it is not BSD anymore than it is I/O Kit, and its foundation is based on Mach. Perhaps you think that the operating system is more important than the kernel, but if that's the case, you should say so instead of erroneously attacking the correct assertion that OS X does not use a BSD kernel.
Stop trolling.
I once dreamed that I was an IBM lawyer, but the dream was so vivid that I cannot be sure if I am not now an IBM lawyer dreaming that I am posting on /.
I guess Oil-for-food cancels out the successes of the UNDP, CSD, UNESCO, WHO, FAO, IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, ICSID, IFAD, and UNICEF, doesn't it?
If you want a date, it would probably be March 1, 1989, when the U.S. adopted the Berne Convention. They were actually a little late, as it was first adopted by many European nations in 1886. In fact, the U.S. was once in some respects a sort of haven for piracy like China is today.
Actually, Tonga annexed the Minerva Reefs before Fiji spoke up, and Tongan troops have evicted American-Minervans; Fiji only later laid territorial claim to the Minerva Reefs, which are still disputed by Tonga and Fiji (and also allegedly by a Principality of Minerva claiming to succeed the original Republic of Minerva, though no one has even recognized them as a party to the dispute).
I agree that religion is given too much credit for encouraging evil, but it is likewise given too much credit for encouraging good.
There is even a reflective cover so that you can see yourself in the magazine, so there's really only one question to ask:
Are you a Lebowski achiever?
Whether he did too much or not enough is certainly an opinion, but whether he was the driving force behind military campaigns is not. To some, he did too much, even. Whether you like Clinton or hate him, being a dove was neither a virtue nor a vice of his.
I'm no Clinton fan, but accusing him of being a dove is ridiculous. Have you heard of Bosnia or Kosovo or Iraq?
Calling a thing "art" does not imply a judgement about its merits; likewise, calling a person an artist simply means that they produce art, not that they necessarily produce good art. To call musicians artists is a positive statement, but to claim that some musicians should not be called artists is a normative statement. It makes more sense to accept a statement grounded in fact, such as the RIAA's statement that musicians are artists, than a value judgement, such as your claim that they are not.
I'm no expert though, comments welcome.
Actually, it is progressive. Let's say the tax rate for up to $10,000 is 20%, and for $10,000-$20,000 is 25%. If you make $20,000, you pay 20% taxes on the first $10,000, and 25% taxes on the second $10,000, so the tax burden for a $20,000 income would be $4500, not $5000.
It is possible that earning more will disqualify one for an Earned Income Credit since it isn't treated as a negative income tax.