He cited a recent case of nine-year-olds who scanned dollar bills into a computer, printed out the fakes and used them to buy snacks at their school's cafeteria.
This only proves that cafeteria staff was composed of idiots. It doesn't take a genius to tell the difference between a genuine bank note and a computer printout.
Somehow, without reading TFA, I was soo sure the study was about papers in medicine. I only wonder how these guys defined what paper is 'weak'. If we do statistics, we should have a clear definition what we're measuring. I smell bullshit.
Speaking of WWII, there were extreme brutalities of Russians toward many innocent other countries, which we ignored. Even when the leadership of the Nazi party was gone, the allied commanders forced the German who took over after Hitler, who was a very decent German, to prolong the war for 18 months, just to try to bring his armies back from the Russian front to avoid surrender to the Russians, who had slaughtered millions long before the Nazi Party started exterminating the Jews.
What is this rubbish? War ended in 1945, Hitler died in 1945. Where is the 18 month period? And the Germans never wanted to 'return from the East Front'. They were beaten up there and pushed out by force. If you're asking why German POWs were treated so harshly by the Russians, read up on the treatmen Soviet POWs got in German custody. The Russians committed a lot of war crimes (Katyn comes to mind), but your whitewashing of the Nazis is just funny.
All war crimes are bad, even those the current white house and its current allies are guilty of. Just ask Vietnamese, Iraqis, citizens of American WMD, shock and awe, fire storm, etc. terror-based attacks, etc.
Mass bombing of cities was never considered a war crime. It's a very brutal tactic, but all wars are brutal. That's why we shouldn't start wars without a good moral reason.
Here's the deal -- I don't care about most of this. Bottom line is that Bush has kept the homeland free of terrorism for the past 4 years or so. What happens in Smellistan is just noise.
Believe it or not, this sort of attitude from the rich countries of the West ("we look after our interest, and what happens to some poor bastards far away is just noise") is one of the things which breed terrorists and hatred towards Western civilization. I'm not a Pakistani, so I didn't take your post emotionally. Were I one, I'd probably like to spit in your face for your arrogance and stupidity.
If you think that 'homeland' will be kept free from fear for ever by using such tactics (pushing troubles abroad, to some Smellistans or Fuckraqs), you're just soo wrong and invite a repeat of 9/11.
I don't want to dispute Vietnam and Iraq, but I have a few points to make about the use of atomic bombs.
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki prevented an even bigger slaughter of Japanese civilians and American soldiers, which would have occurred after the land invasion on the Japanese Islands. Please remember, that Japan was run at the time by a bunch of military madmen, who didn't want to acknowledge they were being beaten all the way from Midway. They would starve their nation in order to protect their 'honour'. Each day the war went on, Japanese army was killing civilians in Asia. The Japanese were committing mass murder in China since the thirties. They attacked America and killed a lot of American soldiers. The USA wanted to stop this, to make Japan surrender. Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was arguably the cheapest way, in terms of human lives lost, to achieve this goal. Going the conventional way would have briought much more casualties. Japan had quite a lot of POWs which could have been murdered had the invading forces validated the 'sanctity of the Japanese Islands'. There would massive starvation of the Japanese population.
There is no 'clean' way to wage a war. That's why countries should not attack each other wantonly. Japan forgot this in 1941 and received a harsh lesson. It surely cured Japan from extreme militarism, which was a ruling ideology at the time in Japan.
My God! I mean, you have to use a compiler switch to generate optimized code?! Outrageous! P-o-s-i-t-i-v-e-l-y o-u-t-r-a-g-e-o-u-s!!! I mean, all these years I used GCC and I never had to use any switches to generate the fastest code possible. We're suing the bastards!!
But people (even adult) are known not to practice self-restraint. That's why we have drug addicts, alcoholics, adultery, theft, etc. etc. It's not the publisher's fault and he is not required to correct other people's lives. The publisher is protecting his books from theft -- hence the steel crates -- and wants to have a single release date. What's wrong with it? It's their books, they're selling it. Get over it.
The difference is that tabloids lie abut not very important topics (like Ms Spears). Newspapers like 'Pravda' used to convince readers that being hungry and poor is better than being well-fed and wealthy.
So the burden of proof is on those who say that lack of US-style software patents is inadequate patent protection. A topic for an interesting legal discussion.
The list linked to is very nice, but it tells only a part of the picture. Another part is when WTO helped to fight blatant protectionism, like with steel tariffs in the USA. Besides, what do patents have to do with trade?
However, all is not lost for SkyOS. While the fact that it is closed-source is a disadvantage at one side, it is also an advantage on the other side. Because it is closed-source, they will more easily be able to focus on their goals. When something needs to be done, there won't be endless mailing-list threads and forum discussions before someone actually writes down some code. When the SkyOS team decides that feature X must go in, it goes in. That is a major advantage over open development constructions because it can speed up the development process.
The authors are confused. Being a closed-source project does not automatically mean having faster development process. However, having a team of full-time developers and sound financial base certainly will. But there's nothing to prevent an open-source application from being developed that way. There is also nothing in the open source principle which makes "endless mailing-list threads and forum discussions" inevitable. It's all a matter of organization.
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The Soviets built some nuclear-powered ice breakers.
He cited a recent case of nine-year-olds who scanned dollar bills into a computer, printed out the fakes and used them to buy snacks at their school's cafeteria.
This only proves that cafeteria staff was composed of idiots. It doesn't take a genius to tell the difference between a genuine bank note and a computer printout.
Somehow, without reading TFA, I was soo sure the study was about papers in medicine. I only wonder how these guys defined what paper is 'weak'. If we do statistics, we should have a clear definition what we're measuring. I smell bullshit.
There is no simple answer. Other countries bear a lot of blame as well.
Your comparison is flawed.
OK, OK. I was just making fun.
It's Lagrange, for the love of God.
Speaking of WWII, there were extreme brutalities of Russians toward many innocent other countries, which we ignored. Even when the leadership of the Nazi party was gone, the allied commanders forced the German who took over after Hitler, who was a very decent German, to prolong the war for 18 months, just to try to bring his armies back from the Russian front to avoid surrender to the Russians, who had slaughtered millions long before the Nazi Party started exterminating the Jews.
What is this rubbish? War ended in 1945, Hitler died in 1945. Where is the 18 month period? And the Germans never wanted to 'return from the East Front'. They were beaten up there and pushed out by force. If you're asking why German POWs were treated so harshly by the Russians, read up on the treatmen Soviet POWs got in German custody. The Russians committed a lot of war crimes (Katyn comes to mind), but your whitewashing of the Nazis is just funny.
All war crimes are bad, even those the current white house and its current allies are guilty of. Just ask Vietnamese, Iraqis, citizens of American WMD, shock and awe, fire storm, etc. terror-based attacks, etc.
Mass bombing of cities was never considered a war crime. It's a very brutal tactic, but all wars are brutal. That's why we shouldn't start wars without a good moral reason.
Here's the deal -- I don't care about most of this. Bottom line is that Bush has kept the homeland free of terrorism for the past 4 years or so. What happens in Smellistan is just noise.
Believe it or not, this sort of attitude from the rich countries of the West ("we look after our interest, and what happens to some poor bastards far away is just noise") is one of the things which breed terrorists and hatred towards Western civilization. I'm not a Pakistani, so I didn't take your post emotionally. Were I one, I'd probably like to spit in your face for your arrogance and stupidity.
If you think that 'homeland' will be kept free from fear for ever by using such tactics (pushing troubles abroad, to some Smellistans or Fuckraqs), you're just soo wrong and invite a repeat of 9/11.
I don't want to dispute Vietnam and Iraq, but I have a few points to make about the use of atomic bombs.
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki prevented an even bigger slaughter of Japanese civilians and American soldiers, which would have occurred after the land invasion on the Japanese Islands. Please remember, that Japan was run at the time by a bunch of military madmen, who didn't want to acknowledge they were being beaten all the way from Midway. They would starve their nation in order to protect their 'honour'. Each day the war went on, Japanese army was killing civilians in Asia. The Japanese were committing mass murder in China since the thirties. They attacked America and killed a lot of American soldiers. The USA wanted to stop this, to make Japan surrender. Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was arguably the cheapest way, in terms of human lives lost, to achieve this goal. Going the conventional way would have briought much more casualties. Japan had quite a lot of POWs which could have been murdered had the invading forces validated the 'sanctity of the Japanese Islands'. There would massive starvation of the Japanese population.
There is no 'clean' way to wage a war. That's why countries should not attack each other wantonly. Japan forgot this in 1941 and received a harsh lesson. It surely cured Japan from extreme militarism, which was a ruling ideology at the time in Japan.
My God! I mean, you have to use a compiler switch to generate optimized code?! Outrageous! P-o-s-i-t-i-v-e-l-y o-u-t-r-a-g-e-o-u-s!!! I mean, all these years I used GCC and I never had to use any switches to generate the fastest code possible. We're suing the bastards!!
1. It's much more complicated than your mind thinks.
2. It's offtopic.
W/r to Wikipedia: if you want to see why wikipedia cannot be used as a solid reference source, look up 'Stalinism' and see the history of changes.
Is Corel really dead?
Israel is reputed to stop 80% of wannabe-suicide bombers.
But people (even adult) are known not to practice self-restraint. That's why we have drug addicts, alcoholics, adultery, theft, etc. etc. It's not the publisher's fault and he is not required to correct other people's lives. The publisher is protecting his books from theft -- hence the steel crates -- and wants to have a single release date. What's wrong with it? It's their books, they're selling it. Get over it.
The difference is that tabloids lie abut not very important topics (like Ms Spears). Newspapers like 'Pravda' used to convince readers that being hungry and poor is better than being well-fed and wealthy.
This is not funny, this is retarded.
So the burden of proof is on those who say that lack of US-style software patents is inadequate patent protection. A topic for an interesting legal discussion.
The list linked to is very nice, but it tells only a part of the picture. Another part is when WTO helped to fight blatant protectionism, like with steel tariffs in the USA. Besides, what do patents have to do with trade?
I think the answer easy: if we had the new Constitution, the Parliament would have been stronger than it is now.
If the EU passes a common directive banning the software patents, then even the WTO is not going to have it easy, forcing the EU to comply.
However, all is not lost for SkyOS. While the fact that it is closed-source is a disadvantage at one side, it is also an advantage on the other side. Because it is closed-source, they will more easily be able to focus on their goals. When something needs to be done, there won't be endless mailing-list threads and forum discussions before someone actually writes down some code. When the SkyOS team decides that feature X must go in, it goes in. That is a major advantage over open development constructions because it can speed up the development process.
The authors are confused. Being a closed-source project does not automatically mean having faster development process. However, having a team of full-time developers and sound financial base certainly will. But there's nothing to prevent an open-source application from being developed that way. There is also nothing in the open source principle which makes "endless mailing-list threads and forum discussions" inevitable. It's all a matter of organization.
in the USA, if no one says it's illegal, then it ISN'T.
Not only in the USA. It's common in all democratic countries.
A short quiz: what piece of literature probably inspired the 2nd?