>Don't forget that instead of universal health care he got us a universal requirement to purchase private insurance.
Which was a Republican Idea (TM).
This is how it works:
Republicans come up with something on their own. Democrats come up with something on their own. Republicans vehemently oppose the Democrats' ideas. Democrats cave, and adopt a Republican idea Republicans vehemently oppose the Democrats' Idea (formerly republican) because there are "points to score" Democrats get the formerly Republican idea through and signed and call it victory. Republicans wail and gnash their teeth calling Obama a Communist Nazi Jew (Go back to Canada) etc. for passing a Republican idea.
... and Obama has disappointed me at nearly every turn.
The problem is, the alternatives on the other side just suck. Look at who's got irons in the fire on the Republican side for the Presidential nomination in 2012. Sorry, but I can't go there. Completely unacceptable.
We lefties have a choice between right of Reagan, and the Republicans. Third parties are a joke, because right now, all of them have really loopy things in their platforms, like the Greens with their anti-nuke contingent (currently inflating the Japan tragedy into something it isn't).
It's funny how the current batch of Republicans worship the Ghost of Reagan. Reagan would be called a RINO in today's GOP.
This Leftie thinks that the only decently left place in the US is Vermont.
Because it's another "lol, look at those dumb americans" slur. That's why.
Excuse me for standing up and telling some jerk to stop being a jerk. After seeing slurs like that nearly every day since I've participated in international networks (fidonet, wwivnet, remember those?) It's not funny anymore. It's old and not funny anymore.
"If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease. "
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off There's another on my brother, whack it off There's a dozen on my cousin's I can hear the bastards buzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off - John Valby
Sung by Boy Scouts around campfires everywhere since 1960
The market cap is the share price times the number of outstanding shares. The share price is just over 3 cents.
And if you buy anything on the pink sheets, your official name is "Bag Holder."
As for knowing all there is to know about SCO from Groklaw, there are other places on the net to get information. One of them is the SCOX.PQ group on Investor Village (formerly of the Yahoo board), who PJ always steers people away from because she's paranoid. She has a particular dislike for one of our members, because he bought some shares (Al Petrofsky) just so he could participate in the quarterly conference calls, and raise hell about the expense reports, 10Ks and 8Ks. He bought 100 shares when it dropped below 3 bux, I believe. For shits and giggles and to have a printed and framed stock certificate.
Half of the group are lawyers and retired lawyers, and the other half are computer professionals and random geeks like me. Some of us post informative stuff on Groklaw as anonymous. I'm anonymous there but I always sign as the same I do here. For instance someone (I forget who it was) exposed the Skyline Cowboy as Darl himself.
More like Skyline Hat if you ask me, all hat and no cattle.
Darl used to make appearances on IV, and his wife (alias=Snowshoes) would show up to defend him, and Jeff Merkey of "lol, my kids smashed this hard disk, not me" fame.
I hope PJ writes her book. It should be interesting.
With copyrights, you can write around the infringing part et voila, you no longer infringe. You can do this a lot easier than writing around a patented algorithm which may lay at the core of your software.
SCO brought up many busted hypotheses why Linux infringed on SCO IP, up to and including "negative knowledge" - i.e., "don't do it that way". None of it stuck. "Similarity" is not enough. Header files are not enough. Some evidence of word-for-word copying in the source code must be there for the accusation of copyright infringement to stick at all. And even then, it's proportional to the amount of infringement. And *even then* courts want you to hammer it out privately before ever going to trial. Courts frown upon plaintiffs going to court without letting the defendant try to mitigate what might be wrong.
And to this day, they have still not shown any copied code from Unix in Linux, on their path to their "utter destruction" as Darl McBride so succinctly put it. And Linux has come out only stronger because of the ordeal while SCO's entire market cap is 2.1 million on the pink sheets.
Apple sued Microsoft over UI for "copyright" and lost - just because it looks similar doesn't mean it's the *same*.
Patents are more difficult to defend against. Because these days, patents cover ideas and general mock-ups (design patents) with no regard for prior art or obviousness in the eyes of someone skilled in the art. That last bit has especially been removed from the "obviousness" test. It seems like patent examiners lowered the bar to "Dumb and Dumberer" for obviousness.
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No problem with guns.
They did, however, pass Single Payer just the other week, which made me at least a little happy.
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No, it was a Mitt Romney idea.
Wow, the doublethink in your head must be staggering.
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And boots.
Nokian studded bicycle tires can't be beat for riding on ice.
I think the only business they'll have left is their rubber products
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They forgot.
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They're going to release it on Veterans' Day (Armistice Day, Remembrance Day)
This seems... odd.
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Someone mod parent up, plox.
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>Don't forget that instead of universal health care he got us a universal requirement to purchase private insurance.
Which was a Republican Idea (TM).
This is how it works:
Republicans come up with something on their own.
Democrats come up with something on their own.
Republicans vehemently oppose the Democrats' ideas.
Democrats cave, and adopt a Republican idea
Republicans vehemently oppose the Democrats' Idea (formerly republican) because there are "points to score"
Democrats get the formerly Republican idea through and signed and call it victory.
Republicans wail and gnash their teeth calling Obama a Communist Nazi Jew (Go back to Canada) etc. for passing a Republican idea.
This country is fucked.
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... and Obama has disappointed me at nearly every turn.
The problem is, the alternatives on the other side just suck. Look at who's got irons in the fire on the Republican side for the Presidential nomination in 2012. Sorry, but I can't go there. Completely unacceptable.
We lefties have a choice between right of Reagan, and the Republicans. Third parties are a joke, because right now, all of them have really loopy things in their platforms, like the Greens with their anti-nuke contingent (currently inflating the Japan tragedy into something it isn't).
It's funny how the current batch of Republicans worship the Ghost of Reagan. Reagan would be called a RINO in today's GOP.
This Leftie thinks that the only decently left place in the US is Vermont.
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bah. editing fail, but you get the idea.
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Because it's another "lol, look at those dumb americans" slur. That's why.
Excuse me for standing up and telling some jerk to stop being a jerk. After seeing slurs like that nearly every day since I've participated in international networks (fidonet, wwivnet, remember those?) It's not funny anymore. It's old and not funny anymore.
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I didn't need any defending, but thanks. Really well written.
>If you really are that petrified about radiation and the possible implications for you in the future I suggest never getting out of bed,
Or eat a banana, or have to go to the hospital.
Heh.
And by the way, I would be more afraid of parasites drinking from any random stream than radionuclides.
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I grew up a mile from a research reactor (University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography).
I've been in it.
Now shut up and go away.
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You know, I was going to flame you, but I just don't care anymore.
Grow up.
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They roll up the windows and lock the doors as they fly by.
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"Nukular" hysteria will kill it.
Remember when we launched Cassini with a radioisotope thermo-electric generator?
"OH GOD IT'S GOING TO SPLODE AND KILL EVERYONE!!!111ONE"
Every time I see shit like that, I want to slap people.
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"If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease. "
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off
There's another on my brother, whack it off
There's a dozen on my cousin's
I can hear the bastards buzzin'
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off
- John Valby
Sung by Boy Scouts around campfires everywhere since 1960
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... composed entirely of water heaters with the safety features defeated.
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Darl was just a stooge hired by Ralph Yarro.
Smart enough to follow through with a plan. Too dumb to question the plan - same for Kevin.
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>moron
>hand in your geek card
>simply unforgivable on an news for nerds site.
>an news
Really?
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>I came out of the closet: I'm a Dittohead!!!
This is nothing to be proud of.
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2 million for a market cap is a pittance.
The market cap is the share price times the number of outstanding shares. The share price is just over 3 cents.
And if you buy anything on the pink sheets, your official name is "Bag Holder."
As for knowing all there is to know about SCO from Groklaw, there are other places on the net to get information. One of them is the SCOX.PQ group on Investor Village (formerly of the Yahoo board), who PJ always steers people away from because she's paranoid. She has a particular dislike for one of our members, because he bought some shares (Al Petrofsky) just so he could participate in the quarterly conference calls, and raise hell about the expense reports, 10Ks and 8Ks. He bought 100 shares when it dropped below 3 bux, I believe. For shits and giggles and to have a printed and framed stock certificate.
Half of the group are lawyers and retired lawyers, and the other half are computer professionals and random geeks like me. Some of us post informative stuff on Groklaw as anonymous. I'm anonymous there but I always sign as the same I do here. For instance someone (I forget who it was) exposed the Skyline Cowboy as Darl himself.
More like Skyline Hat if you ask me, all hat and no cattle.
Darl used to make appearances on IV, and his wife (alias=Snowshoes) would show up to defend him, and Jeff Merkey of "lol, my kids smashed this hard disk, not me" fame.
I hope PJ writes her book. It should be interesting.
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No, we won't evolve them, we'll build them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyZGZRnQb4
Perfect for emacs.
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With copyrights, you can write around the infringing part et voila, you no longer infringe. You can do this a lot easier than writing around a patented algorithm which may lay at the core of your software.
SCO brought up many busted hypotheses why Linux infringed on SCO IP, up to and including "negative knowledge" - i.e., "don't do it that way". None of it stuck. "Similarity" is not enough. Header files are not enough. Some evidence of word-for-word copying in the source code must be there for the accusation of copyright infringement to stick at all. And even then, it's proportional to the amount of infringement. And *even then* courts want you to hammer it out privately before ever going to trial. Courts frown upon plaintiffs going to court without letting the defendant try to mitigate what might be wrong.
And to this day, they have still not shown any copied code from Unix in Linux, on their path to their "utter destruction" as Darl McBride so succinctly put it. And Linux has come out only stronger because of the ordeal while SCO's entire market cap is 2.1 million on the pink sheets.
http://www.smallcapdirectory.com/Listing.aspx?CompanyId=21987&Mode=Profile
Apple sued Microsoft over UI for "copyright" and lost - just because it looks similar doesn't mean it's the *same*.
Patents are more difficult to defend against. Because these days, patents cover ideas and general mock-ups (design patents) with no regard for prior art or obviousness in the eyes of someone skilled in the art. That last bit has especially been removed from the "obviousness" test. It seems like patent examiners lowered the bar to "Dumb and Dumberer" for obviousness.
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And the Brits got it from Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz06t7PGD-E
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Heh. I didn't see that one. I'll have to dl it later. My bro is a bigger Simpsons fan.
There's a lot more bad history (wars) between Sweden and Denmark than Denmark and the Netherlands.
http://satwcomic.com/pacifist
http://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
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