For example the Roman Catholic church reformed in the 60's to become much more liberal by normal Christian attitudes. Basically they say that if the Bible says "the Earth is flat" and then someone proves that it isn't, then the Bible was wrong.
Did they have a choice? If they went on saying that the earth was still flat in the face of "proof" they'd be written off as crazies(arguably as they should).
To semi-quote Neil Stephenson in Snowcrash - "Most smart people come to realize that 90% of the Bible is crap. The problem is they assume that the whole thing is crap, when that 10% is very important."
I dunno about you but if 90% of something is irrelevant/untrue I consider the rest of it to be highly suspect. Eventually when we have eroded 99% of what is in the bible there will be a few hold outs saying that the last 1% is true. How much do they need to concede is untrue before people say hey, this entire document is largely innaccurate/untrue?
I guess my point is that you can't look to the bible for anything that NATIONAL POLICY is based on as we have already shown 90% to be untrue(by your own admission). With that in mind, anyone who bases decisions based on something so overwhelmingly innaccurate is foolish indeed. Basing your policies on the bible is akin to basing your views of gun culture/president bush on Michael Moore's documentaries.
some lame-ass computer virus that magically works on both Mac and Alien Ship OS!
BLAST! I knew Steve Jobs was a telepathic alien whose sole purpose is to take over the world(only to be defeated by Will Smith and... that other guy.. you know the white one with the dark hair and the funny eyebrows..).
What ammusement park do you go to? It takes 3 hours to get on a ride where I come from, and I'm pretty sure I can't stay in the park for 75 hours for one days admission.
Well I assume that law applies to everybody and basic property rights are respected. Which was the case in early american history. The best example of this is that before we had laws that governed minimum wages, maximum hours in work week, overtime and safety the meat packing industry completely crushed its employees. The atrocities that they committed were all legal but because we had little regulation they could get away with it. Union's existed but were ineffective, when union strikes took place they would fire all the workers and hire new ones at reduced wages. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is an excellent read that exposes what life was like for an immigrant working in a meat packing plant. It is not isolated to that industry however, railroads, textiles, steel, and coal all abused workers safety, health and then fired them when they complained or if they were injured(injured workers could no longer work and would be promptly fired). All the industries used children to their fullest as well.
I don't want you to get the idea that I hate libertarians, if it were merely social debate i'd say the libertarians are the most intelligent and in the right. However, its clear that we need some regulation in order to protect people from coporations. Without regulation unions, workers have no power. It is my opinion that the problem lies in the fact that coporations have the same rights as citizens, they shouldnt, they should have less rights than citizens.
A libertarian would also say the government has no business owning a utility like power, water, phone, etc.
Republicans and Libertarians have very similiar economic ideas. Libertarians are a big more extreme when it comes to free trade philosophy since Republicans have noticed that some regulation is required, Libertarians have yet to admit this which despite any Libertarian arguing is fact. History has demonstrated time and time again that completely free trade creates bigger rifts between higher and lower classes while being horrible for consumers all around.
While the Republicans are interested in privatizing some aspects of government controlled holdings they are by no means interested in privatizing ALL of it. The libertarians on the otherhand do want to privatize all of it. Furthermore, republican notions of privatizing and deregulation have for the most part become republican ideas because they are adopting the popular Libertarian economic ideas in order to keep up the interest in the Republican party. The major parties have consistently adopted ideas of the fledgling third parties for years in order to concede to demand of the people to have certain changes take place.
This is why it is very hard for a third party to take the place of one of the 2 major parties. Although its been done in the past, as Republicans and Democrats weren't always the two major parties. Republicans seem to be soaking up alot of Libertarian economic ideas and some Democrats appear to be soaking up Libertarian social policies.
There are two states that currently have proportional electoral voting: Maine and Nebraska. They seem to be doing fine, I believe rallys are still held in those states despite some of the FUD thats uttered here about how if colorado does this it will be ignored by candidates. Those states do however become a little less important, since they cannot block the other candidate from getting the votes by getting 51%. I think it would make some sense to have smalls states do winner take all and the big states do proportional voting. This way we depreciate the value of the huger high population states and increase the value of the smaller states. Then again I'm for CT having equal say with CA about who should become president. I guess notions of state government importance have gone the way of the dodo however.
This is a prime example of how public utilities for services is extremely beneficial to the consumer and to the community. Just another example of how the libertarian idea that privatizing removes corruption is just foolish and wrong. I for one would rather have local community leaders controlling my power,phone, and water services. Since it ain't hard to affect local politics, running for city council is WAY easier than running for congress or the senate. Especially since in some city's people running for the council positions have no opponents.
Clearly The best solution is to have a public utility and a private company offering the same services for a community. This way you force them to compete and since they are different animals they will be very unlikely to make some kind of alliance to hike prices.
A private mail exchange system is an awesome Idea, I'm sure tons of companies have home grown solutions already using email systems configured to not receive/send mail to people outside the company. This looks very intriguing to companys whose individual employees need to send lots of mail to eachother but not outside the company. Not only does it fight spam/viruses, but it helps keep documents confidential by not allowing employees to mail sensitive data around the net, it helps curb use of company resources for personal interests, and it decreases the amount of intervention IT staff will have in the daily operations of its employees. Less viruses mean less visits from IT staff which means more productivity accross the board. What can you be disgusted about when there is already a demand for the product? They arent trying to force something unwanted to anyone, they are recognizing legitimate need and demand and catering to it. Bravo.
When for the most part someone can be trained to do the tasks your talking about in 10 minutes I'm hardly excited about taking such low skill jobs.
Network cables don't magicaly worm their way through walls and networks don't subnet themselves.
I hardly classify this as a tech job as when companies have this done they hire electricians. Now the guy who designs the network infastructure and tells those electricians what they need to do by sending them specs and plans doesn't have to ever come onsite. So that could be easily outsourced. And since most network management is done remotely, somebody in India, pakistan or iraq could take care of all net config on the switchs/routers.
Desktop support can't be sent overseas and without it (ie. strike) companies can go to the shitter pretty quickly, especialy during the next sasser outbreak.
I know where I work you get an email from the head IT guy when new defs come out, you click on the link it installs the new defs and then it runs the virus scanner on scedule as usual and will clean you right up. Since all our IT guy does is send emails, I'm confident someone in india could do that. This method works very well, no one has been signifigantly infected with a virus here in a damn long time.
Furthermore, when someone calls the help desk with a problem the first thing they ask is, Did you run spybot/adaware and your AV client? If not then do that and call back. We expect our employees to handle those simple tasks. Furthermore most of the desktop troubleshooting that does take place is via a support call to dell/ibm/apple depending on what machine your working on. The tech gets walked through the process each time by the support agent on the phone. Again something a monkey could be trained to do in 10 mins.
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't care that help desk stuff will still be available, help desk is a 0-skill job. What I want is to make sure that my programming job is going to be around, since it requires a specialized skillset and can command high wages.
Bush had nearly no criticism right after 9/11 and during the lead up to the war. Since then people have kind of woke up a bit and come out of their shell. Partly because of Michael Moore. Some media figures had come out an apologized for that lack of criticism about the arguments for going to war. Most of the rabid hater's of Moore's film point out minor inconsistencies that demonstrate how everything he said is half truths. I'm not going to say that this is an unbiased documentary. What I am going to say is that it was superbly well done and whether or not you agree with it he has a right to say it.
Michael Moore does not even pretend to give the other side a say and edits out anything that might make you at least understand where the other side comes from.
He doesn't have to.
Criticism is needed in the media, but Moore does not offer criticism. He offers nothing but propaganda.
He offers a hell of alot of criticism. People who watch that movie will say to themselves is this true? and then go do some research on that. While they won't find Moores allusions to be true, they find that alot of his claims had some merit. What moore does is inflame people like you to go out and find out exactly whats going on. You research and look at multiple sources critically and determine how much of what Moore says is true. Moore's gamble is that the truth which is somewhere in between what he and Bush say is still on the side of Moore.
Moore has done an excellent job getting people to discuss, think critically, and research the issues. For those that cared about the issues before its appalling but I now have a whole new group of people to talk politics with(on both sides) that previously couldn't give a rats ass about voting/politics. Moore has been the biggest player in getting rid of some of that apathy in young people. MTV couldnt do it, a pile of boring bearucrats couldn't do it.. but Moore seems to have.
That Moore will instead be seeking the best picture nomination. Doubtful it will win but would be extremely interesting to see a documentary win best picture. Considering the competition I don't think it would be completely impossible either.
Its obvious to me at least that he will have to edit out portions of the film in order to be aired on TV. I fully expect it to showed on AMC(american movie channel). I wouldn't be surprised if many stations picked it up. Its sure to draw a large group of viewers. Whether or not any advertisers will buy time slots during it is another question all together.
Lastly I'd like to add that while some call it emotive and propaganda and claim it would be detrimental to our political process I'm going to have to dissagree. While the film is over the top and largely misleading it is still the only thing out there that questions effectively our presidents leadership. Which NEEDS to be called into question in order for democracy to work. War time or not, leaders need to be questioned. Even if there is no basis or ground for questioning them. They need to explain themselves adequately and constantly otherwise we have no accountability.
It's like the old joke about lotteries they're just a tax on people who are bad at math.
A statistician once told me, "If you have a chance of winning a astronomical amount of money no matter how small that chance may be and all it costs you is a trivial amount of money, one dollar in most cases, you have no reason not to take it and every reason to take it." What is a dollar a week even over a huge period of time that still doesnt amount to very much at all. Even a dollar a day I would consider trivial. Hell a dollar barely gets me a coke.
a technology that transforms real-time audio into video and performs audio effect processing
My first instinct was that they just wrote a set of tools that run on the bare hardware of the GPU. From what I understand now this is actually much more creative, as the audio data is translated into "video data" and then the GPU processes/renders it. Does this mean that your audio effects would be coded as though they are visual transformations? This could be a rather interesting and innovative way to think about audio.
On a side note its about time something cool has happened to audio. Computer audio hardware has been very stagnant with neither real nor theoretical advancements in an awful long time. In fact my Diamond Monster MX300 still cuts it although the contacts are getting somewhat worn.
Your character being affected by your actions is nothing revolutionary. Dungeons and Dragons has had a system of alignment(good/evil and anywhere inbetween) since the early days. Invariably this is where all todays good/evil ideas in games(video or otherwise) come from. I think the fact that it affects your physical appearance is rather nonsensical, and trivializes the concept of good/evil. Then again I'm an RPG fanboy and love my D&D so I might be biased.
your argument: 9/11! 9/11! listen to me because I say those magic words. 9/11 happened because of our meddling not because of our apathy...
in the world you live in, you spend all of your time making sure your hedges are trimmed all neat and tidy every day, but then they are burnt down because the house next door is crackhouse and the meth lab blew up
Chinese free speech aint gonna burn my damn house down. North Korean nuclear weapons on the otherhand might. Some things require more concern than others. Free speech for some society across the globe aint my concern. We have a hard enough time keeping our own free speech rights without worrying about somebody elses.
Your entire tirade is in my opinion filled with propaganda. You shout the magic word(s) of 9/11, which for some reason if someone invokes no one would argue against. Your suggestion that I am at fault for 9/11 is completely foolish, it is on the otherhand the likes of you convinced that you should be meddling and then after you start your grand campaign you grow weary of your actions once lives are at stake. Thusly your kind pulls out and abandons the people you were trying to help. Its high time people like yourself realize that foreign governmetns don't last forever(and neither will the US or UK) and that some of them must run their course without external political intervention. Whether or not a government is a bad one the innocent people will still have animosity towards your actions. Western governments have shown themselves to be terrible at reform in foreign countries with the exception of Japan.
I notice you failed to address my assertion that when we help it is often times more damaging than helpful and my example was Cuba. Its clear your response rather than driven by intelligence is driven by propaganda so again shout 9/11! 9/11!
but it's not, its driven by media interest and propaganda, and not by intelligence
It would seem you would rather I pay no attention to the domestic workings of the country in which I reside. Would you also suggest that if your faucet has a leak it should not be fixed until the neighbor of yours has a cracked foundation fixed? That you should abandon your concern with your leaky faucet and instead use your money and time to fix his foundation? Without any concern at all for the business of your own household?
You may find this analogy simple but I do believe its accurate. Furthermore how can you suggest that western children should take up "arms" in order to help other countries when they don't vote or care about their own country enough to be informed about the things that affect them on a daily basis?
On the contrary it is you who have attacked the west by saying western children have acted improperly and should instead help the rest of the world. It is you who are suggesting that the west is currently committing some great evil act(that of apathy). I on the other hand only sought to make sure we are ever mindful that freedoms can be taken away all the time. You can never sit back and enjoy your freedom you must struggle constantly to keep it and to use it.
Whether it be a molehill or a mountain its still a blemish that should be dealt with, I for one advocate the removal of said blemish by that countries native inhabitants. Of course there are exceptions such as when lethal force is being used against a population in order to keep it in check. But to suggest that it is imperitive that I act to help china is rediculous. Times change and perhaps in 20-50 years that government will fall and the possibility for a more free one will arise.
Also when the west does act to help free a people we generally cause more damage than if we had left them to their own devices(I will not use Iraq as an example of this but Cuba is a perfect example, the US blockade and restrictions has done nothing besides starve and deprive Cubans of necessary goods like medicine).
The point in all this is that its not true that freedoms are granted by governments. The people grant governments specific powers and this is just one of the many places where a government has over stepped its boundaries. West, East, South it doesn't matter we need to be mindful of this all the time.
There are already some laws in place that prevent US citizens from viewing foreign content, concerning security patches etc. on some foreign software.
The DMCA is one instance of a law that prohibits import of certain types of software(this includes source code, which should be considered free speech), specifically that which circumvents copyright protection on digital media. What I was originally refering to with security patches had to do with the laws that govern encryption strength and export(which also restrict import, usually at the same strength). I remember an article which unfortunately I am unable to find which was discussing how a security patch that was released(forget what for, possibly openbsd) would fall under this category and that such a law prohibited importing its source but somehow allowed it in binary form. If I find the article ill post a link as a reply.
Damn impressive proof of concept for the US/UK governments. Lets hope they don't get any ideas. There are already some laws in place that prevent US citizens from viewing foreign content, concerning security patches etc. on some foreign software. Perhaps they could use the chinese method for filtering that out or any other unlikable for that matter.
Smashing Hashing, Hashing Smashing... My nursery school taunt in the face of such a discovery has left me with a sour taste in my mouth, and also a horrible lisp that I seem unable to shake.
When they spend all $31 Million and a settlement is still not coming what will the lawyers do then? I highly doubt they are going to keep working. My bet is the second that $31 mil is gone the lawyers are going to walk away and watch the company die. Perhaps SCO just dictated how and when it will fall.
I think it comes down to Open Source not translating well to purely creative projects. Games, Movies, Music etc. In a system where the best technical solution reigns supreme open source works beautifully. I think the reason why we don't see very many creative open source games is simply because of differences in tastes regarding a new game design. In a controlled closed-source company someone can make a decision and force coders to work on it even though many of them would rather do it differently. When you put the storyline and game design in the hands of coders who will ultimately argue over it and not resolve anything(there is no right or wrong here unlike in technical problems) you will get dissillusionment and eventual disbandment of the project. Cloning a older game is much different however, all the creative is decided upon and people who love that came come together to (re)make it.
My mistake... http://www.retrofuture.com/spacefood.html While NASA did not develop Tang it appears as though they were using it on space missions and had asked General Foods to make more space friendly foods. Naturaly General Foods marketed Tang as space-food to sell more, that marketing ploy is likely where I got confused.
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Because that technology was designed by there space program, doesn't mean that the space program has to waste time manufacturering it or using resources in order to put it in antartica. For instance, I doubt NASA is currently involved in the manufacture of Tang even though they developed the stuff. This won't waste any money of the space programs its just using technologies they developed(plans, documentation and practices on how to make that etc etc.)
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Did they have a choice? If they went on saying that the earth was still flat in the face of "proof" they'd be written off as crazies(arguably as they should).
To semi-quote Neil Stephenson in Snowcrash - "Most smart people come to realize that 90% of the Bible is crap. The problem is they assume that the whole thing is crap, when that 10% is very important."
I dunno about you but if 90% of something is irrelevant/untrue I consider the rest of it to be highly suspect. Eventually when we have eroded 99% of what is in the bible there will be a few hold outs saying that the last 1% is true. How much do they need to concede is untrue before people say hey, this entire document is largely innaccurate/untrue?
I guess my point is that you can't look to the bible for anything that NATIONAL POLICY is based on as we have already shown 90% to be untrue(by your own admission). With that in mind, anyone who bases decisions based on something so overwhelmingly innaccurate is foolish indeed. Basing your policies on the bible is akin to basing your views of gun culture/president bush on Michael Moore's documentaries.
BLAST! I knew Steve Jobs was a telepathic alien whose sole purpose is to take over the world(only to be defeated by Will Smith and... that other guy.. you know the white one with the dark hair and the funny eyebrows..).
What ammusement park do you go to? It takes 3 hours to get on a ride where I come from, and I'm pretty sure I can't stay in the park for 75 hours for one days admission.
I don't want you to get the idea that I hate libertarians, if it were merely social debate i'd say the libertarians are the most intelligent and in the right. However, its clear that we need some regulation in order to protect people from coporations. Without regulation unions, workers have no power. It is my opinion that the problem lies in the fact that coporations have the same rights as citizens, they shouldnt, they should have less rights than citizens.
Republicans and Libertarians have very similiar economic ideas. Libertarians are a big more extreme when it comes to free trade philosophy since Republicans have noticed that some regulation is required, Libertarians have yet to admit this which despite any Libertarian arguing is fact. History has demonstrated time and time again that completely free trade creates bigger rifts between higher and lower classes while being horrible for consumers all around.
While the Republicans are interested in privatizing some aspects of government controlled holdings they are by no means interested in privatizing ALL of it. The libertarians on the otherhand do want to privatize all of it. Furthermore, republican notions of privatizing and deregulation have for the most part become republican ideas because they are adopting the popular Libertarian economic ideas in order to keep up the interest in the Republican party. The major parties have consistently adopted ideas of the fledgling third parties for years in order to concede to demand of the people to have certain changes take place.
This is why it is very hard for a third party to take the place of one of the 2 major parties. Although its been done in the past, as Republicans and Democrats weren't always the two major parties. Republicans seem to be soaking up alot of Libertarian economic ideas and some Democrats appear to be soaking up Libertarian social policies.
I'm from Connecticut first, America second.
Clearly The best solution is to have a public utility and a private company offering the same services for a community. This way you force them to compete and since they are different animals they will be very unlikely to make some kind of alliance to hike prices.
A private mail exchange system is an awesome Idea, I'm sure tons of companies have home grown solutions already using email systems configured to not receive/send mail to people outside the company. This looks very intriguing to companys whose individual employees need to send lots of mail to eachother but not outside the company. Not only does it fight spam/viruses, but it helps keep documents confidential by not allowing employees to mail sensitive data around the net, it helps curb use of company resources for personal interests, and it decreases the amount of intervention IT staff will have in the daily operations of its employees. Less viruses mean less visits from IT staff which means more productivity accross the board. What can you be disgusted about when there is already a demand for the product? They arent trying to force something unwanted to anyone, they are recognizing legitimate need and demand and catering to it. Bravo.
Network cables don't magicaly worm their way through walls and networks don't subnet themselves.
I hardly classify this as a tech job as when companies have this done they hire electricians. Now the guy who designs the network infastructure and tells those electricians what they need to do by sending them specs and plans doesn't have to ever come onsite. So that could be easily outsourced. And since most network management is done remotely, somebody in India, pakistan or iraq could take care of all net config on the switchs/routers.
Desktop support can't be sent overseas and without it (ie. strike) companies can go to the shitter pretty quickly, especialy during the next sasser outbreak.
I know where I work you get an email from the head IT guy when new defs come out, you click on the link it installs the new defs and then it runs the virus scanner on scedule as usual and will clean you right up. Since all our IT guy does is send emails, I'm confident someone in india could do that. This method works very well, no one has been signifigantly infected with a virus here in a damn long time.
Furthermore, when someone calls the help desk with a problem the first thing they ask is, Did you run spybot/adaware and your AV client? If not then do that and call back. We expect our employees to handle those simple tasks. Furthermore most of the desktop troubleshooting that does take place is via a support call to dell/ibm/apple depending on what machine your working on. The tech gets walked through the process each time by the support agent on the phone. Again something a monkey could be trained to do in 10 mins.
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't care that help desk stuff will still be available, help desk is a 0-skill job. What I want is to make sure that my programming job is going to be around, since it requires a specialized skillset and can command high wages.
Michael Moore does not even pretend to give the other side a say and edits out anything that might make you at least understand where the other side comes from.
He doesn't have to.
Criticism is needed in the media, but Moore does not offer criticism. He offers nothing but propaganda.
He offers a hell of alot of criticism. People who watch that movie will say to themselves is this true? and then go do some research on that. While they won't find Moores allusions to be true, they find that alot of his claims had some merit. What moore does is inflame people like you to go out and find out exactly whats going on. You research and look at multiple sources critically and determine how much of what Moore says is true. Moore's gamble is that the truth which is somewhere in between what he and Bush say is still on the side of Moore.
Moore has done an excellent job getting people to discuss, think critically, and research the issues. For those that cared about the issues before its appalling but I now have a whole new group of people to talk politics with(on both sides) that previously couldn't give a rats ass about voting/politics. Moore has been the biggest player in getting rid of some of that apathy in young people. MTV couldnt do it, a pile of boring bearucrats couldn't do it.. but Moore seems to have.
Its obvious to me at least that he will have to edit out portions of the film in order to be aired on TV. I fully expect it to showed on AMC(american movie channel). I wouldn't be surprised if many stations picked it up. Its sure to draw a large group of viewers. Whether or not any advertisers will buy time slots during it is another question all together.
Lastly I'd like to add that while some call it emotive and propaganda and claim it would be detrimental to our political process I'm going to have to dissagree. While the film is over the top and largely misleading it is still the only thing out there that questions effectively our presidents leadership. Which NEEDS to be called into question in order for democracy to work. War time or not, leaders need to be questioned. Even if there is no basis or ground for questioning them. They need to explain themselves adequately and constantly otherwise we have no accountability.
A statistician once told me, "If you have a chance of winning a astronomical amount of money no matter how small that chance may be and all it costs you is a trivial amount of money, one dollar in most cases, you have no reason not to take it and every reason to take it." What is a dollar a week even over a huge period of time that still doesnt amount to very much at all. Even a dollar a day I would consider trivial. Hell a dollar barely gets me a coke.
My first instinct was that they just wrote a set of tools that run on the bare hardware of the GPU. From what I understand now this is actually much more creative, as the audio data is translated into "video data" and then the GPU processes/renders it. Does this mean that your audio effects would be coded as though they are visual transformations? This could be a rather interesting and innovative way to think about audio.
On a side note its about time something cool has happened to audio. Computer audio hardware has been very stagnant with neither real nor theoretical advancements in an awful long time. In fact my Diamond Monster MX300 still cuts it although the contacts are getting somewhat worn.
The chopped top of the american flag is an accurate representation. It mirrors how our freedoms are being stripped away bit by bit.
Your character being affected by your actions is nothing revolutionary. Dungeons and Dragons has had a system of alignment(good/evil and anywhere inbetween) since the early days. Invariably this is where all todays good/evil ideas in games(video or otherwise) come from. I think the fact that it affects your physical appearance is rather nonsensical, and trivializes the concept of good/evil. Then again I'm an RPG fanboy and love my D&D so I might be biased.
in the world you live in, you spend all of your time making sure your hedges are trimmed all neat and tidy every day, but then they are burnt down because the house next door is crackhouse and the meth lab blew up
Chinese free speech aint gonna burn my damn house down. North Korean nuclear weapons on the otherhand might. Some things require more concern than others. Free speech for some society across the globe aint my concern. We have a hard enough time keeping our own free speech rights without worrying about somebody elses.
Your entire tirade is in my opinion filled with propaganda. You shout the magic word(s) of 9/11, which for some reason if someone invokes no one would argue against. Your suggestion that I am at fault for 9/11 is completely foolish, it is on the otherhand the likes of you convinced that you should be meddling and then after you start your grand campaign you grow weary of your actions once lives are at stake. Thusly your kind pulls out and abandons the people you were trying to help. Its high time people like yourself realize that foreign governmetns don't last forever(and neither will the US or UK) and that some of them must run their course without external political intervention. Whether or not a government is a bad one the innocent people will still have animosity towards your actions. Western governments have shown themselves to be terrible at reform in foreign countries with the exception of Japan.
I notice you failed to address my assertion that when we help it is often times more damaging than helpful and my example was Cuba. Its clear your response rather than driven by intelligence is driven by propaganda so again shout 9/11! 9/11!
but it's not, its driven by media interest and propaganda, and not by intelligence
You may find this analogy simple but I do believe its accurate. Furthermore how can you suggest that western children should take up "arms" in order to help other countries when they don't vote or care about their own country enough to be informed about the things that affect them on a daily basis?
On the contrary it is you who have attacked the west by saying western children have acted improperly and should instead help the rest of the world. It is you who are suggesting that the west is currently committing some great evil act(that of apathy). I on the other hand only sought to make sure we are ever mindful that freedoms can be taken away all the time. You can never sit back and enjoy your freedom you must struggle constantly to keep it and to use it.
Whether it be a molehill or a mountain its still a blemish that should be dealt with, I for one advocate the removal of said blemish by that countries native inhabitants. Of course there are exceptions such as when lethal force is being used against a population in order to keep it in check. But to suggest that it is imperitive that I act to help china is rediculous. Times change and perhaps in 20-50 years that government will fall and the possibility for a more free one will arise.
Also when the west does act to help free a people we generally cause more damage than if we had left them to their own devices(I will not use Iraq as an example of this but Cuba is a perfect example, the US blockade and restrictions has done nothing besides starve and deprive Cubans of necessary goods like medicine).
The point in all this is that its not true that freedoms are granted by governments. The people grant governments specific powers and this is just one of the many places where a government has over stepped its boundaries. West, East, South it doesn't matter we need to be mindful of this all the time.
There are already some laws in place that prevent US citizens from viewing foreign content, concerning security patches etc. on some foreign software.
The DMCA is one instance of a law that prohibits import of certain types of software(this includes source code, which should be considered free speech), specifically that which circumvents copyright protection on digital media. What I was originally refering to with security patches had to do with the laws that govern encryption strength and export(which also restrict import, usually at the same strength). I remember an article which unfortunately I am unable to find which was discussing how a security patch that was released(forget what for, possibly openbsd) would fall under this category and that such a law prohibited importing its source but somehow allowed it in binary form. If I find the article ill post a link as a reply.
Damn impressive proof of concept for the US/UK governments. Lets hope they don't get any ideas. There are already some laws in place that prevent US citizens from viewing foreign content, concerning security patches etc. on some foreign software. Perhaps they could use the chinese method for filtering that out or any other unlikable for that matter.
Smashing Hashing, Hashing Smashing... My nursery school taunt in the face of such a discovery has left me with a sour taste in my mouth, and also a horrible lisp that I seem unable to shake.
When they spend all $31 Million and a settlement is still not coming what will the lawyers do then? I highly doubt they are going to keep working. My bet is the second that $31 mil is gone the lawyers are going to walk away and watch the company die. Perhaps SCO just dictated how and when it will fall.
I think it comes down to Open Source not translating well to purely creative projects. Games, Movies, Music etc. In a system where the best technical solution reigns supreme open source works beautifully. I think the reason why we don't see very many creative open source games is simply because of differences in tastes regarding a new game design. In a controlled closed-source company someone can make a decision and force coders to work on it even though many of them would rather do it differently. When you put the storyline and game design in the hands of coders who will ultimately argue over it and not resolve anything(there is no right or wrong here unlike in technical problems) you will get dissillusionment and eventual disbandment of the project. Cloning a older game is much different however, all the creative is decided upon and people who love that came come together to (re)make it.
My mistake... http://www.retrofuture.com/spacefood.html While NASA did not develop Tang it appears as though they were using it on space missions and had asked General Foods to make more space friendly foods. Naturaly General Foods marketed Tang as space-food to sell more, that marketing ploy is likely where I got confused.
Because that technology was designed by there space program, doesn't mean that the space program has to waste time manufacturering it or using resources in order to put it in antartica. For instance, I doubt NASA is currently involved in the manufacture of Tang even though they developed the stuff. This won't waste any money of the space programs its just using technologies they developed(plans, documentation and practices on how to make that etc etc.)
* note: not actually random, void where prohibited...