Is it `giving' to hand a university money to put up a `Bill Gates Building' or is it simply a commercial exchange?
Since he's cooking the books to avoid paying income taxes on over $15,000,000,000.00 a year, have you contra'ed those taxes against even those commercial exchanges?
Ignoring all of the above considerations, it has been truly said thay Trey Gates gives less, pro rata, to charity than the average single mother.
WHG3 is greedy, and AFAICT has always been greedy. The above items are just the tip of the iceberg of greed.
It's always heartening to see people suggesting stuff that they're eager to try out on themselves before sending the technology to someone else's backyard!
In 2002, I plant natural corn, using seed kept from last year's harvest. My neighbour upwind plants GM corn bought from Monsanto. During the year, pollen from his corn blows across my field. My harvest at the end of the year seems normal, but in 2003, 1/3 of the corn I plant does not grow, and a small percentage of what does grow produces grossly deformed kernels which I cannot sell, and would have to locate and remove by hand if I wanted to make my massively reduced corn crop saleable.
Note that, not including the cost of removing deformed kernels, my costs have not changed but my take is down 30%. If my margin was 20%, I just made a minus 10% profit that year. Since it's not economical to hand-pick deformed kernels, I just made considerably less.
If these `hot bar chicks' are just a little careless about getting lubricated so they can better play their role, they might become `laid advertising'.
He: `Why do your knickers have `ADVERTISEMENT' written across them?' She: `Hush, now. Keep your mind on your driving... ohhhhh... yes...' Would that count as `phone sex'?
...whether `decoding' the position of a `stealth' aircraft constitutes a DMCA violation.
The Chinese antennas look very similar for a variety of reasons. One obvious one is that there are only so many reasonable configurations that work well, another is that some of Jindalee's technology was public while the Chinese were building theirs. While I don't think conspiracy is necessary explanation, it wouldn't shock me if the Chinese picked up some other information covertly.
Their OTH performs differently to Jindalee (some things better, some worse), but never mind, either installation sees much more than countries like the USA, Russia or Germany are happy about. (-:
One thing that neither site makes clear is that multiple bounces are routine. Jindalee can actually see itself by looking around the globe, and IIRC in practice has enough range/resolution to see around 2 and a half times. When I mentioned diong ATC in the US, I wasn't kidding. The resolution is good enough to manage (for example) JFK's traffic, although I imagine many pilots would be startled by the Aussie accents.
Vegemite has an interesting history; it was actually invented by a Seventh-day Adventist named John Harvey Kellog (Kellog company of cereal fame was started by a relative of his), Catholic-owned Kraft then stole the recipe and after manufacturing it for a while, turned around and sued JHK's company for using `their' recipe. Yes, JHK was a Yank. (-:
I actually prefer Promite, but will accept Marmite as a fallback. Then again, I'm a weird Aussie, I don't like beer or watermelon.
In answer to the tourist questions, the only kangaroos hopping down the main street are bronze, prawns on the barbie are very rare (and a bad idea) - usually it's steak and/or `snaggers' (sausages), and it takes over two days of nonstop (except for fuel) driving at the speed limit (110km/h in WA, 100km/h SA and NSW) to get to Sydney from here in a taxi (sorry about all the parentheses).
This could do air traffic control in the USA if we wanted it to. (-:
This can't see quite as far, but does pick out nearby* stealth aircraft in stark relief without any apparent effort (`bombers flying at low altitude' includes B1s and B2s). And there are about 70 Chinese in China for every Australian in Australia...
* on the first bounce, ie, out to just shy of 1000km away.
...and you'll see that this idea is not from the tinfoil hat brigade. And if you can't be bothered even looking, many will be asking, why did you bother to post?
Actually, as long as war is going to happen, I'd rather it be over there than over here.
Yah, and `over there' would rather it happened on US soil. Who has the most right to say where a war should happen, `them' or `us'?
But why should we assume that war is going to happen?
Because they actually do. There are two main reasons for this:
Basic human nature
The existence of corporations which amplify the greed of the greediest few among us - note: this is a subset of all corporations, but a large subset
Most wars are completely preventable. Reducing the power of arms corporations over the government would be a big first step to doing so.
Agree. However, bear in mind that armaments corporations are far from the biggest beneficiaries in a war.
Think about World War II, in which companies like Ford and Bayer made money from selling to both sides of the war at once. Except where things got out of hand and their facilities were destroyed*, oil companies, steel companies, banks and many others all showed that in one way or another they thought of the war as a Godsend. Many Swiss banks, for example, did a roaring trade even in what were to all appearances financially destitute circumstances.
Consequentially, what you're basically looking for are two things:
Answers to human greed
Ways of preventing greed from being enthroned by corporations without catastrophic threat to the underlying supply lines
...and good luck. But if you do acghieve even a small measure of these aims, you'll be absolute heroes, regardless of what the Press has to say about you.
* Krupp's factories, for example, seemed suspiciously immune to Allied bombing.
If the majority of audits are that difficult, it will become uneconomical for them. It's got nothing to do with the sucker(s) that they rope into doing the actual audits. You can't go into a job like that with a clean heart anyway.
The harping lets them know that if they come down hard on you, you're out of there.
You might make a point of mentioning at the last moment that if you do jump ship, one of the Linux publications (e.g. SlashDot, but no need to be specific) has expressed interest in writing up your story.
If done right, this motivates them to tread lightly. If botched, you'd better start planning that article, 'coz it's gonna be a doozy.
One of the things about Open Source is that very little is done in a corner. Certainly it will make a mark if (maybe post-writeup) the policy is adopted by a significant number of corporations worldwide. Kind of like OneMillionDads but for software.
Konqueror will do fine. In the menus: Location, Print..., choose `Print to File (PDF/Acrobat)', choose a filename and paper specs, awaaaay we go. Or use any other browser likewise. Outside KDE, you can print to PostScript (e.g. in Mozilla or Netscape) and then ps2pdf that (or just ship it); even in Windows you can install a PostScript printer definition and save-to-file the output (then ps2pdf it on a Linux box if required).
Most printers are deleriously happy with PostScript and PDFs, especially given that (1) much of their machinery thrives on PostScript anyway and (2) some people hand them things like XLSes, PUBs and WKSs to deal with.
Um, I'm using KDE 3.0.1 here, it may be different in an earlier (or later) version.
They do not have the intention of ripping off the public.
That's debatable. What isn't debatable is that the vast majority of their income is derived from the huge fines etc that they levy even if their victim then buys a site licence.
The motivation is all wrong: the BSA (and in Oz, the BSAA) stand to make more from hurting people than from helping software companies.
Here in Oz at least, when they send an audit demand, the correct answer is `ummm...' followed by some hurried quick checking. If the checking ain't too disastrous, you proceed to `OK, send your guys around when you're ready' - you see, the EULA gives them the right to audit, not the right to force you to audit.
If they do bother to come around, you make everything as difficult as possible, e.g. by only allowing them to audit a machine when the user is present (privacy regulations, you see), then arranging for a skeleton staff when they do arrive so that the minimum number of computers are available for checking, and make finding out who `owns' a computer as difficult as possible. Meanwhile, all the time, so sorry, wish we could hurry things along a little but can't break these rules.
Depending on your situation, you should be able to cut them down to six computers a day or less. Over 3 working man-weeks to audit a hundred-screen shop. Make them earn their fines. And keep harping on about your reliable Linux servers, your bulletproof OpenBSD network machines, and how you're testing Linux Terminal Server technology for your desktops and wondering whether it's worthwhile cutting over to it...
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
For an example from science, it's been obvious for the better part of a century that the universe is galactocentric - and becoming more obvious with each new, more precise set of measurements - but despite being obvious and a clear winner in `trial by Occam's Razor', that's the one proposal you won't see proposed in Nature or Science as an explanation for the data since it is the one proposal which most offends the religious convictions of many of the scientific Powers That be (and to be specific: including but not limited to the editors of Nature and Science).
If evidence in such a clear, unambiguous realm can be blind-eyed so completely, what hope has evidence from fuzzier fields like politics and psychology?
Time to memorise a 2048-bit key so that you can encrypt your hard drive.
If you let the SR-71's engines get wildly out of sync (say, pop a nose cone) the time from hale and hearty airframe to very expensive and very small confetti is about twenty milliseconds.
It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the F22's case was similar, ie, control system death becomes unrecoverable situation or structural damage in tens of milliseconds. The thing basically looks like a large set of anti-turbulence vanes with a fuselage holding them together, and probably wouldn't take kindly to an actual stall.
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Is it `giving' to hand a university money to put up a `Bill Gates Building' or is it simply a commercial exchange?
Since he's cooking the books to avoid paying income taxes on over $15,000,000,000.00 a year, have you contra'ed those taxes against even those commercial exchanges?
Ignoring all of the above considerations, it has been truly said thay Trey Gates gives less, pro rata, to charity than the average single mother.
WHG3 is greedy, and AFAICT has always been greedy. The above items are just the tip of the iceberg of greed.
It's always heartening to see people suggesting stuff that they're eager to try out on themselves before sending the technology to someone else's backyard!
...and you're not an economist?
In 2002, I plant natural corn, using seed kept from last year's harvest. My neighbour upwind plants GM corn bought from Monsanto. During the year, pollen from his corn blows across my field. My harvest at the end of the year seems normal, but in 2003, 1/3 of the corn I plant does not grow, and a small percentage of what does grow produces grossly deformed kernels which I cannot sell, and would have to locate and remove by hand if I wanted to make my massively reduced corn crop saleable.
Note that, not including the cost of removing deformed kernels, my costs have not changed but my take is down 30%. If my margin was 20%, I just made a minus 10% profit that year. Since it's not economical to hand-pick deformed kernels, I just made considerably less.
Oh... wait...
If these `hot bar chicks' are just a little careless about getting lubricated so they can better play their role, they might become `laid advertising'.
He: `Why do your knickers have `ADVERTISEMENT' written across them?' She: `Hush, now. Keep your mind on your driving... ohhhhh... yes...' Would that count as `phone sex'?
...whether `decoding' the position of a `stealth' aircraft constitutes a DMCA violation.
The Chinese antennas look very similar for a variety of reasons. One obvious one is that there are only so many reasonable configurations that work well, another is that some of Jindalee's technology was public while the Chinese were building theirs. While I don't think conspiracy is necessary explanation, it wouldn't shock me if the Chinese picked up some other information covertly.
Their OTH performs differently to Jindalee (some things better, some worse), but never mind, either installation sees much more than countries like the USA, Russia or Germany are happy about. (-:
One thing that neither site makes clear is that multiple bounces are routine. Jindalee can actually see itself by looking around the globe, and IIRC in practice has enough range/resolution to see around 2 and a half times. When I mentioned diong ATC in the US, I wasn't kidding. The resolution is good enough to manage (for example) JFK's traffic, although I imagine many pilots would be startled by the Aussie accents.
I prefer the juice before it goes rotten. Ambrosia!
The French or people near them actually invented most kinds of wine, but it took Australians to get the recipe right... (-:
Vegemite has an interesting history; it was actually invented by a Seventh-day Adventist named John Harvey Kellog (Kellog company of cereal fame was started by a relative of his), Catholic-owned Kraft then stole the recipe and after manufacturing it for a while, turned around and sued JHK's company for using `their' recipe. Yes, JHK was a Yank. (-:
I actually prefer Promite, but will accept Marmite as a fallback. Then again, I'm a weird Aussie, I don't like beer or watermelon.
In answer to the tourist questions, the only kangaroos hopping down the main street are bronze, prawns on the barbie are very rare (and a bad idea) - usually it's steak and/or `snaggers' (sausages), and it takes over two days of nonstop (except for fuel) driving at the speed limit (110km/h in WA, 100km/h SA and NSW) to get to Sydney from here in a taxi (sorry about all the parentheses).
`Oh, now _this_ is fair!'
...and now they're scanning the desert looking for pieces of Woomera...?
EMACS will display text/plain just dandy.
This could do air traffic control in the USA if we wanted it to. (-:
This can't see quite as far, but does pick out nearby* stealth aircraft in stark relief without any apparent effort (`bombers flying at low altitude' includes B1s and B2s). And there are about 70 Chinese in China for every Australian in Australia...
* on the first bounce, ie, out to just shy of 1000km away.
...LCA2003, and now working scramjet engines! Australia seems to invent the best of everything. (-:
The hyperlink into Mama appears to be broken, try this one instead.
...and you'll see that this idea is not from the tinfoil hat brigade. And if you can't be bothered even looking, many will be asking, why did you bother to post?
Yah, and `over there' would rather it happened on US soil. Who has the most right to say where a war should happen, `them' or `us'?
Because they actually do. There are two main reasons for this:
Agree. However, bear in mind that armaments corporations are far from the biggest beneficiaries in a war.
Think about World War II, in which companies like Ford and Bayer made money from selling to both sides of the war at once. Except where things got out of hand and their facilities were destroyed*, oil companies, steel companies, banks and many others all showed that in one way or another they thought of the war as a Godsend. Many Swiss banks, for example, did a roaring trade even in what were to all appearances financially destitute circumstances.
Consequentially, what you're basically looking for are two things:
* Krupp's factories, for example, seemed suspiciously immune to Allied bombing.
Or are they like our regular religious callers, returning to base for doctrinal drenchings after each visit?
If the majority of audits are that difficult, it will become uneconomical for them. It's got nothing to do with the sucker(s) that they rope into doing the actual audits. You can't go into a job like that with a clean heart anyway.
The harping lets them know that if they come down hard on you, you're out of there.
You might make a point of mentioning at the last moment that if you do jump ship, one of the Linux publications (e.g. SlashDot, but no need to be specific) has expressed interest in writing up your story.
If done right, this motivates them to tread lightly. If botched, you'd better start planning that article, 'coz it's gonna be a doozy.
One of the things about Open Source is that very little is done in a corner. Certainly it will make a mark if (maybe post-writeup) the policy is adopted by a significant number of corporations worldwide. Kind of like OneMillionDads but for software.
...I think you'd have to have signs up warning people, at least here in Oz, but they could be _small_ signs. (-:
Konqueror will do fine. In the menus: Location, Print..., choose `Print to File (PDF/Acrobat)', choose a filename and paper specs, awaaaay we go. Or use any other browser likewise. Outside KDE, you can print to PostScript (e.g. in Mozilla or Netscape) and then ps2pdf that (or just ship it); even in Windows you can install a PostScript printer definition and save-to-file the output (then ps2pdf it on a Linux box if required).
Most printers are deleriously happy with PostScript and PDFs, especially given that (1) much of their machinery thrives on PostScript anyway and (2) some people hand them things like XLSes, PUBs and WKSs to deal with.
Um, I'm using KDE 3.0.1 here, it may be different in an earlier (or later) version.
That's debatable. What isn't debatable is that the vast majority of their income is derived from the huge fines etc that they levy even if their victim then buys a site licence.
The motivation is all wrong: the BSA (and in Oz, the BSAA) stand to make more from hurting people than from helping software companies.
Here in Oz at least, when they send an audit demand, the correct answer is `ummm...' followed by some hurried quick checking. If the checking ain't too disastrous, you proceed to `OK, send your guys around when you're ready' - you see, the EULA gives them the right to audit, not the right to force you to audit.
If they do bother to come around, you make everything as difficult as possible, e.g. by only allowing them to audit a machine when the user is present (privacy regulations, you see), then arranging for a skeleton staff when they do arrive so that the minimum number of computers are available for checking, and make finding out who `owns' a computer as difficult as possible. Meanwhile, all the time, so sorry, wish we could hurry things along a little but can't break these rules.
Depending on your situation, you should be able to cut them down to six computers a day or less. Over 3 working man-weeks to audit a hundred-screen shop. Make them earn their fines. And keep harping on about your reliable Linux servers, your bulletproof OpenBSD network machines, and how you're testing Linux Terminal Server technology for your desktops and wondering whether it's worthwhile cutting over to it...
The problem is this:
Word and everything else understands that, and if you want formatting features that HTML4 doesn't have, you're almost certainly doing it wrong.
And what does reality have to do with this? (-:
For an example from science, it's been obvious for the better part of a century that the universe is galactocentric - and becoming more obvious with each new, more precise set of measurements - but despite being obvious and a clear winner in `trial by Occam's Razor', that's the one proposal you won't see proposed in Nature or Science as an explanation for the data since it is the one proposal which most offends the religious convictions of many of the scientific Powers That be (and to be specific: including but not limited to the editors of Nature and Science).
If evidence in such a clear, unambiguous realm can be blind-eyed so completely, what hope has evidence from fuzzier fields like politics and psychology?
Time to memorise a 2048-bit key so that you can encrypt your hard drive.
Ah, so if I want my program to recover from a `kill -KILL' I need to write it in Ada? (-:
If you let the SR-71's engines get wildly out of sync (say, pop a nose cone) the time from hale and hearty airframe to very expensive and very small confetti is about twenty milliseconds.
It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the F22's case was similar, ie, control system death becomes unrecoverable situation or structural damage in tens of milliseconds. The thing basically looks like a large set of anti-turbulence vanes with a fuselage holding them together, and probably wouldn't take kindly to an actual stall.