Case of the baby Alien eating its mother Alien (in Alien movie saga). I don't think Amazon would sue USPTO, but it would definitely sue Microsoft: for IIS which allows customized 404 pages, and Apple, and Oracle, and IBM. By the time the dust settles in court, Amazon's would have been equally split between Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and IBM. Jeff Bezos's ultra-secret Spacecraft would be sold for undisclosed sum to Virgin Atlantic as a part of court settlement.
Awww... come on dude, is USA a communist / socialist state with Free medicine and care for all?
Only dumb, classless, countries like Britain, France, Soviet Union have[had] such socialist tax funded medical research, where your next door 2-bit no-good neighbor who works as a construction worker gets the same medical care as you[who is a investment banker].
This is good ol' US of A. Where it is finally good to be flithy rich. My money buys me better treatment because i fund the research.
Tax money for research?? What sort of crap is this? Why would i want the benefit of research to be shared amongst every tom, Dick and harry? So that the next door illegal migrant gets treatment while i wait in queue???
No way. I fund the research and my company alone benefits from it. That is why USA has a strong patent system, although some stupid altruists want it to be revoked.
Taxes should be used to subsidise corn growers, steel makers and car producers. Not to fund medical research that benefits illegal migrants.
No, No, and again No. Libel is NOT a crime in USA.
That is precisely why USA was established.
Andrew Jackson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson/ once said about Nullification activists: "They can make speeches and print threats to their hearts content. But if one drop of blood be spilt, i will hang the nearest activist to the nearest tree i can find."
The idea of US as a Democracy is precisely because the right to free speech is in our blood.
What is Libel to you is Free speech to me. I have the right to speech, speak against you, as much as i want as long i don't resort to violence [that is the sole prerogative of the Govt].
If you want to protect yourself against such libel, move to Britain. They still think they are an Empire and an international one at that and protect you from Libel.
I recommend they be sentenced to Max-Security Prison for 48 hours; and that their cell partner be 'Bubba': a 200 lbs neanderthal who has never and will never see sunlight.
Well, at that acceleration, they don't need explosives to detonate the Plutonium.
The acceleration Mach 8 would compress and detonate the plutonium instantly, rendering the Rail Gun into radioactive dust the same instant. An alternative could be to fire a counter-explosive inside the shell, thus rendering the acceleration harmless. However this reduces the acceleration of the shell as a whole thus negating the whole purpose.
Either way nuke shells are not a viable option in this Rail Gun.
Nope. My employer PC has 1 GB RAM and came with Vista Enterrpise Premium installed. It was slow. The IT guy came rushing soon, wiped the HD and installed the corporate edition of XP (somehow they missed shadowing this PC). The XP was and still is faster than Vista.
Hey ! Who modded my comment as Funny? I *seriously* meant that comment. If the legal system could standby and watch one person commit a commit, then it has no right or basis to convict another person of the same crime.
One satisfied broadband customer doesn't make a forest... The fact that you are satisfied means you are not utilizing it fully.
Have you tried viewing more than one YouTube video at same time? Have you tried Windows Update while trying to download videos from iTunes at same time? Have you opened up 2-3 torrents uploading/downloading *linux* at same time?
Better yet have you tried all of the above steps at same time?
If not, then you have no right to be in this forum.
Iceland does *not* have wall street. US does have wall street.
Which is more profitable? Coal/oil burning plant requiring constant maintence and fuel, or some bad-a$$ geothermal plant located in a far corner requiring no further constant flow of money?
Hey, the respondents should point to the highest office (aka President) and declare they followed His example in deleting 180 days of records. Well, if its legal for the president to do so, then it must be OK for me... If the judge asks them why they were so asinine, they can respond saying the judges did not nothing to prevent the president to do so, and hence by condoing a public action, the judges deemed it legal.
DOA. Anything laden with DRM is bound to fail, especially when amazon is considering worldwide release of MP3. Its another company that burns money and dies unheralded.
Forced to listen to ads, plus DRM-laden? My God, what were the promoters thinking??
India is NOT a poverty-ridden country like Ghana or Sudan. And third-world does not mean poor. It means non-aligned. During the soviet-coldwar-era, countries which aligned with US were called first world countries. Countries which aligned with USSR (Poland, Romania) were called Second world countries. Countries like India, Srilanka, which refused to align with any of them were called third-world countries.
Idiot ! The duty of the congress is to get us into this shit first, grab campaign money from corporates, make some changes, get reelected on promising to do more, get more money, make more changes... You asking congress to get us out of this shit now, is equal to EU shouting at Microsoft to stop its monopoly tactics right now.
Actually microsoft hs a better chance of listening to EU since they have financial loss if not done so.
Congress critters on the other hand only lose a few votes and none of the money.
Unfortunately mobile towers have the least redundancy in disaster times. All mobile towers have a 99% utilisation in india. It means if all the mobile users dial at the same time, you get a network busy tone. Heck i get a network busy tone about 30% of the time. During a storm the mobile network is the first to fail.
Meanwhile the landline is the strongest network india has. If the power goes off, the generators in the exchanges run it for 24 hours, and even if they fail, the batteries keep them for another 14 hours. The generators are topped off with fuel almost weekly.
The mobile towers run on batteries for 7 hours max. After that they start dropping off one by one.
Where did she go? To remote no-road villages??? If she had been to cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Poona, Bombay, Madras, Jaipur, Nagpur, Calcutta, and even smaller towns like Solapur, Erode, Cochin, etc., she can buy toilet papers of 4 different brands in packets of one or four. She should visit a shop for that. They don't deliver toilet paper home. How i say this? By experience: I had to travel between half the cities mentioned above, and i could buy it.
An evidence illegally obtained is null by itself. It does not exist in the eyes of the law. Presumed guilty and proven guilty are two different things.
US founders fled europe's persecution and knew well that presumed guilty always led to death or torture. Hence they wanted to make sure of two things: Review by peers which is a jury, and secondly, proven beyond a doubt that the person os criminally guilty.
That is why death-bed confessions can be overturned if evidence misproves it.
Law assumes nothing. Either your evidence is beyond a shadow of doubt, or it isn't.
If tainted evidence were to be accepted in courts even if evidence is correct but the way it was acquired was wrong, then we are no different from Gestapo.
This from a man who ruthlessly cheated DOS original copyright holder to make millions, and stole the GUI from Apple to make more, and sabotaged OS/2 Warp to promote NT, and strong-armed PC makers and sellers to pay for Windows for every PC they shipped whether it shipped with Windows or not, and provided an amnesty bin to its own employees to make them ditch iPods for Zune in turd color, and sicced Windows Me to an unsuspecting public making them scarred for life, and charges money to make its operating system secure when it was delibrately made insecure to earn more money, and spun a Lamborghini into sand on its first trip , and thinks mutiple platforms mean Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows Vista, and stole, robbed, cheated technologies like OLE and memory management from other companies.
And now he calls for a "kinder" capitalism???
Its like Cheney saying tomorrow: "Iam impeaching myself for my lies that led to 3800 deaths of fine soldiers and am putting myself on stand."
How much do we know about virii to safely declare legally that this ebola virus would not leap from monkeys to humans. Don't the scientists know that the original virus leapt from monkeys to humans just like HIV. Hell we can't even classify virus as a living or non-living thing.
And now our irrational scientists like John Hammond think they can tinker...
Although on one hand i support them, ebola is tooo dangerous to escape from the funny farm. if it had been smallpox or something it would be understandable.
This is precisely why Bush hates funding genetic engineering as a whole...
ALL would be too much. That specific copyright should revert to the People (the Government). Secondly, there should be no knowingly or unknowingly clause at all. If i sued you for a copyright violation and the court decides i was wrong, my copyright goes to the government. No if, no buts... Period.
Let us see how many take-down notices do these lawyers print.
Very True. The bank i used to work for still has ATMs running on OS/2 procured specially from NCR.
Open-sourcing OS/2 is out of question legally for IBM, as OS/2 contracts with NCR and other companies specifically prohibit this.
Firstly IBM would be sued by licensees of OS/2 for breach of security. Secondly, if any script kiddie gets hold of the source, deciphers OS/2 to a root level and manages to upload a patch to an ATM... the result would be ugly for IBM (oh, the kid would long be having fun in Gitmo, but that's a different story).
Seriously, if i were IBM, i would smile and wave and refuse to let OS/2 be open-sourced for another 99 years.
According to Reaganomics, if the rich get richer, the poor *can* get richer too, provided the richer trickle down the money in the form of pennies to the guy begging outside.
Economics is a zero sum game. For me to win, you have to lose.
Crating jobs to india does not mean if the jobs were not crated would be available in USA. It is more likely the cost of living would have increased a lot, but so too would have salaries.
Now by crating jobs, we enable the rich to earn more via LBO and IPOs.
EPA was created by congress and the Executive jointly.
EPA submits yearly strategic plan reports to congress under GPRA.
When created, Toxic Nixon called for a Strong independent Agency.
Its budget is approved by Congress yearly.
Legally EPA is answerable to BOTH congress and President. (Two bosses).
Congress should withold funding to EPA unless EPA agrees to release the information. Else congress can sic the GAO on EPA to conduct an ana1 audit of EPA.
Am sure that would make EPA realize in a hurry that they have to release relevant information.
Am talking about a congress with a Spine, not this present spineless corporate critter who would sooner dismember EPA for a few dollars from polluting companies.
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Case of the baby Alien eating its mother Alien (in Alien movie saga).
I don't think Amazon would sue USPTO, but it would definitely sue Microsoft: for IIS which allows customized 404 pages,
and Apple, and Oracle, and IBM.
By the time the dust settles in court, Amazon's would have been equally split between Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and IBM.
Jeff Bezos's ultra-secret Spacecraft would be sold for undisclosed sum to Virgin Atlantic as a part of court settlement.
Awww... come on dude, is USA a communist / socialist state with Free medicine and care for all?
Only dumb, classless, countries like Britain, France, Soviet Union have[had] such socialist tax funded medical research, where your next door 2-bit no-good neighbor who works as a construction worker gets the same medical care as you[who is a investment banker].
This is good ol' US of A. Where it is finally good to be flithy rich.
My money buys me better treatment because i fund the research.
Tax money for research?? What sort of crap is this? Why would i want the benefit of research to be shared amongst every tom, Dick and harry?
So that the next door illegal migrant gets treatment while i wait in queue???
No way. I fund the research and my company alone benefits from it. That is why USA has a strong patent system, although some stupid altruists want it to be revoked.
Taxes should be used to subsidise corn growers, steel makers and car producers. Not to fund medical research that benefits illegal migrants.
No, No, and again No.
Libel is NOT a crime in USA.
That is precisely why USA was established.
Andrew Jackson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson/ once said about Nullification activists: "They can make speeches and print threats to their hearts content. But if one drop of blood be spilt, i will hang the nearest activist to the nearest tree i can find."
The idea of US as a Democracy is precisely because the right to free speech is in our blood.
What is Libel to you is Free speech to me. I have the right to speech, speak against you, as much as i want as long i don't resort to violence [that is the sole prerogative of the Govt].
If you want to protect yourself against such libel, move to Britain. They still think they are an Empire and an international one at that and protect you from Libel.
That's way too harsh.
I recommend they be sentenced to Max-Security Prison for 48 hours; and that their cell partner be 'Bubba': a 200 lbs neanderthal who has never and will never see sunlight.
Well, at that acceleration, they don't need explosives to detonate the Plutonium.
The acceleration Mach 8 would compress and detonate the plutonium instantly, rendering the Rail Gun into radioactive dust the same instant.
An alternative could be to fire a counter-explosive inside the shell, thus rendering the acceleration harmless. However this reduces the acceleration of the shell as a whole thus negating the whole purpose.
Either way nuke shells are not a viable option in this Rail Gun.
I agree with you. It completely hosed my XP when i tried to uninstall.
I did a reinstall of XP,drivers,games, etc., and i went out and bought Kaspersky Suite.
Kaspersky does a better job and second its russian, so no danger of DHS NSA trojans.
Nope.
My employer PC has 1 GB RAM and came with Vista Enterrpise Premium installed.
It was slow.
The IT guy came rushing soon, wiped the HD and installed the corporate edition of XP (somehow they missed shadowing this PC).
The XP was and still is faster than Vista.
Hey ! Who modded my comment as Funny? I *seriously* meant that comment.
If the legal system could standby and watch one person commit a commit, then it has no right or basis to convict another person of the same crime.
One satisfied broadband customer doesn't make a forest...
The fact that you are satisfied means you are not utilizing it fully.
Have you tried viewing more than one YouTube video at same time?
Have you tried Windows Update while trying to download videos from iTunes at same time?
Have you opened up 2-3 torrents uploading/downloading *linux* at same time?
Better yet have you tried all of the above steps at same time?
If not, then you have no right to be in this forum.
Iceland does *not* have wall street.
US does have wall street.
Which is more profitable? Coal/oil burning plant requiring constant maintence and fuel, or some bad-a$$ geothermal plant located in a far corner requiring no further constant flow of money?
Hey, the respondents should point to the highest office (aka President) and declare they followed His example in deleting 180 days of records.
Well, if its legal for the president to do so, then it must be OK for me...
If the judge asks them why they were so asinine, they can respond saying the judges did not nothing to prevent the president to do so, and hence by condoing a public action, the judges deemed it legal.
DOA. Anything laden with DRM is bound to fail, especially when amazon is considering worldwide release of MP3.
Its another company that burns money and dies unheralded.
Forced to listen to ads, plus DRM-laden? My God, what were the promoters thinking??
India is NOT a poverty-ridden country like Ghana or Sudan.
And third-world does not mean poor. It means non-aligned. During the soviet-coldwar-era, countries which aligned with US were called first world countries. Countries which aligned with USSR (Poland, Romania) were called Second world countries. Countries like India, Srilanka, which refused to align with any of them were called third-world countries.
Idiot ! The duty of the congress is to get us into this shit first, grab campaign money from corporates, make some changes, get reelected on promising to do more, get more money, make more changes...
You asking congress to get us out of this shit now, is equal to EU shouting at Microsoft to stop its monopoly tactics right now.
Actually microsoft hs a better chance of listening to EU since they have financial loss if not done so.
Congress critters on the other hand only lose a few votes and none of the money.
Unfortunately mobile towers have the least redundancy in disaster times.
All mobile towers have a 99% utilisation in india.
It means if all the mobile users dial at the same time, you get a network busy tone. Heck i get a network busy tone about 30% of the time.
During a storm the mobile network is the first to fail.
Meanwhile the landline is the strongest network india has.
If the power goes off, the generators in the exchanges run it for 24 hours, and even if they fail, the batteries keep them for another 14 hours.
The generators are topped off with fuel almost weekly.
The mobile towers run on batteries for 7 hours max. After that they start dropping off one by one.
Where did she go? To remote no-road villages??? If she had been to cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Poona, Bombay, Madras, Jaipur, Nagpur, Calcutta, and even smaller towns like Solapur, Erode, Cochin, etc., she can buy toilet papers of 4 different brands in packets of one or four.
She should visit a shop for that. They don't deliver toilet paper home.
How i say this?
By experience: I had to travel between half the cities mentioned above, and i could buy it.
An evidence illegally obtained is null by itself. It does not exist in the eyes of the law.
Presumed guilty and proven guilty are two different things.
US founders fled europe's persecution and knew well that presumed guilty always led to death or torture.
Hence they wanted to make sure of two things: Review by peers which is a jury, and secondly, proven beyond a doubt that the person os criminally guilty.
That is why death-bed confessions can be overturned if evidence misproves it.
Law assumes nothing. Either your evidence is beyond a shadow of doubt, or it isn't.
If tainted evidence were to be accepted in courts even if evidence is correct but the way it was acquired was wrong, then we are no different from Gestapo.
Papers please....
This from a man who ruthlessly cheated DOS original copyright holder to make millions,
and stole the GUI from Apple to make more,
and sabotaged OS/2 Warp to promote NT,
and strong-armed PC makers and sellers to pay for Windows for every PC they shipped whether it shipped with Windows or not,
and provided an amnesty bin to its own employees to make them ditch iPods for Zune in turd color,
and sicced Windows Me to an unsuspecting public making them scarred for life,
and charges money to make its operating system secure when it was delibrately made insecure to earn more money,
and spun a Lamborghini into sand on its first trip ,
and thinks mutiple platforms mean Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows Vista,
and stole, robbed, cheated technologies like OLE and memory management from other companies.
And now he calls for a "kinder" capitalism???
Its like Cheney saying tomorrow: "Iam impeaching myself for my lies that led to 3800 deaths of fine soldiers and am putting myself on stand."
That WAS a funny post. Exactly how a conservative like McCain or Bush would argue...
How much do we know about virii to safely declare legally that this ebola virus would not leap from monkeys to humans.
Don't the scientists know that the original virus leapt from monkeys to humans just like HIV.
Hell we can't even classify virus as a living or non-living thing.
And now our irrational scientists like John Hammond think they can tinker...
Although on one hand i support them, ebola is tooo dangerous to escape from the funny farm. if it had been smallpox or something it would be understandable.
This is precisely why Bush hates funding genetic engineering as a whole...
ALL would be too much.
That specific copyright should revert to the People (the Government).
Secondly, there should be no knowingly or unknowingly clause at all.
If i sued you for a copyright violation and the court decides i was wrong, my copyright goes to the government.
No if, no buts...
Period.
Let us see how many take-down notices do these lawyers print.
None of Sun's crown jewels run ATMs or unattended cash machines.
IBM's OS/2 still does run.
That's a vast difference.
Open sourcing Eclipse is enough.
ZFS does not belong to Sun alone.
Very True.
The bank i used to work for still has ATMs running on OS/2 procured specially from NCR.
Open-sourcing OS/2 is out of question legally for IBM, as OS/2 contracts with NCR and other companies specifically prohibit this.
Firstly IBM would be sued by licensees of OS/2 for breach of security.
Secondly, if any script kiddie gets hold of the source, deciphers OS/2 to a root level and manages to upload a patch to an ATM... the result would be ugly for IBM (oh, the kid would long be having fun in Gitmo, but that's a different story).
Seriously, if i were IBM, i would smile and wave and refuse to let OS/2 be open-sourced for another 99 years.
According to Reaganomics, if the rich get richer, the poor *can* get richer too, provided the richer trickle down the money in the form of pennies to the guy begging outside.
Economics is a zero sum game. For me to win, you have to lose.
Crating jobs to india does not mean if the jobs were not crated would be available in USA. It is more likely the cost of living would have increased a lot, but so too would have salaries.
Now by crating jobs, we enable the rich to earn more via LBO and IPOs.
EPA was created by congress and the Executive jointly.
EPA submits yearly strategic plan reports to congress under GPRA.
When created, Toxic Nixon called for a Strong independent Agency.
Its budget is approved by Congress yearly.
Legally EPA is answerable to BOTH congress and President. (Two bosses).
Congress should withold funding to EPA unless EPA agrees to release the information.
Else congress can sic the GAO on EPA to conduct an ana1 audit of EPA.
Am sure that would make EPA realize in a hurry that they have to release relevant information.
Am talking about a congress with a Spine, not this present spineless corporate critter who would sooner dismember EPA for a few dollars from polluting companies.