And why must reducing gas emission equate to job loss? Couldn't companies be more efficient instead?
If they could be more efficient without raising costs, they would be already. Implementing new ways to reduce emissions would cost money. This would raise the cost of the product, which would in turn cause people to buy less of it. As people buy less, the company will need to produce less, and would not need/be able to pay as many workers. Thus the lay-offs.
Economics 101. Not that I'm supporting America's decision, as I think a few thousand jobs lost temporarily are a relatively small price to pay for the future of our planet, but the fact that jobs will be lost is hard to argue. Even the approximate number of jobs lost is relatively trivial to calculate.
This is pretty insightful. I'm glad it got modded to +4, I felt that last touch about admitting it while in France made it extra intense.
I, for one, am not voting because USian vote forbids me to do so, with me not being an American and everything. Can I get a +3 interesting for sharing that, at least?
Does anyone else have an issue with GDS not 1) un-indexing files which are no longer on the computer and 2) being utterly useless for the times when you want to search for a filename which has a common name, as you get a gazillion results of text-files?
I had the same problem, and so in order to save everyone else the experience, I'll blatantly karma-whore and post the article.
IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code October 22, 2004
Summary
In federal court in Utah this week, magistrate judge Brooke Wells ordered IBM to get affidavits from IBM management, reports Maureen O'Gara, including CEO Sam Palmisano, attesting that nothing more exists in their files regarding IBM's Linux activities. She reserved any final decision
SCO and IBM met in federal court in Utah again Tuesday for another go-round over the discovery that IBM hasn't produced in SCO's $5 billion lawsuit against it.
At the hearing, one of SCO's lawyers, another young thing from Boies, Schiller & Flexner whose footwork was smooth enough to impress even Groklaw's IBM-dazzled observers, mentioned the little matter of SCO's days-old Third Amended Complaint, which, alas, is under seal reportedly because it's based on some e-mail that turned up during discovery that IBM now claims is privileged though there's supposedly no hint of attorney-client communication about it.
Anyway, the sealed Third Amended Complaint has to do with SCO's contention that - to compete against Sun - IBM put SCO-owned SVR4 code in System 3-based AIX for its proprietary Power chip architecture - and one of the supposedly compromising IBM e-mails - that SCO just happened to read out loud in court the other day - suggests that IBM was conscious that it had overstepped the bounds of its Project Monterey contract with SCO, which was intended to produce only a version of AIX for Intel's Itanium chip (CSN No 564).
Well, during the Third Amended Complaint discussion, SCO's lawyer held up a piece of paper - that was duplicated on a projection screen that only the magistrate judge, Brooke Wells, could see - that listed all of the AIX code that IBM has and hasn't turned over to SCO. And SCO's lawyer pointed out that the only piece of code that IBM hasn't come up with - which was highlighted in red - was the AIX-on-Power code - to which IBM's lawyer replied that IBM "can't find it."
Shades of the Compuware suit. They "can't find it."
Makes one wonders whether IBM looked in that closet in Australia where it said a few weeks ago it just happened to stumble over the source code - the source code it swore - literally swore in court for two years - didn't exist - the code that it was supposed to produce during the court-ordered discovery phase of the suit that Compuware brought against IBM for, well, for stealing its source code.
IBM only managed to find the code after discovery had closed and the trial was about to start, a situation that it got its ears boxed for by the District Court for Eastern Michigan, which called its behavior "gross negligence."
Magistrate Wells has yet to cross that bridge, however.
After listening to what everybody had to say - and all the reasons why IBM shouldn't have to produce all the rest of the stuff that SCO wants - particularly the IBM Configuration Management and Version Control System (CMVC) and Revision Control System (RCS) that SCO thinks is the key to its case - she reserved any final decision so she could go off and have a think about it - and probably confer with her staff and her colleague Judge Dale Kimball, who's hearing IBM's motion for a partial summary judgment - a decision, IBM pointed out, that might make her ruling moot.
However, she did give IBM and SCO 30 days to exchange so-called privilege logs listing all of the discovery that they're not providing each other because it's allegedly privileged.
She also told IBM to get affidavits from IBM management, including CEO Sam Palmisano, the CTO of IBM's Unix/Linux interests Irving Wladawsky-Berger and IBM's board of directors, attesting that nothing more exists in their files regarding IBM's Linux activities.
See, IBM - having produced one single PowerPoint presentation - contends that there are no other e-mails, memos, business plans or presentations about Linux anywhere in the joint, evidently proving that not only can elephants dance, but that they really do have good memories.
Unfair at Any Volume: Fox News Channels' Unbalancing Act by Shaun Richman (from The Torch, Spring 2001)
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel is the current buzz in TV journalism. Riding high in the news ratings and unsettling the venerated CNN and the more established MSNBC, Fox News has established a reputation for brash and exciting, in-your-face conservative news. Murdoch's experiment in openly biased TV journalism has been rewarded with a loyal fan base and surprising clout in Washington. But the success of this right-wing news media organization, which cloaks itself in buzzwords like "fair and balanced", raises some troubling questions about meaningful political balance and diversity in television journalism.
Rupert Murdoch was very specific about his picks for his Fox News team, and it shows in their credentials. His choice of network president was Roger Ailes, a veteran of CNBC and MSNBC, who spent his earlier career as advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and the senior President Bush. The network's high-profile anchors, Brit Hume, Catherine Crier and Neil Cavuto were well-known conservatives at the major news networks. Crier, in fact, began her career as a Republican judge in Texas, a job description that impossibly inspires less faith in "fairness" than "Fox News Anchor."
The network's clear star, Bill O'Reilly, is an arch-conservative who made his career on the sleazy tabloid show Inside Edition. Murdoch also found room for Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol, the gruesome twosome of McLaughlin Group-ers who hail from Murdoch's own conservative journal, The Weekly Standard. Other hires include Tony Snow, a syndicated columnist and former chief speechwriter for Bush the elder; syndicated columnist Monica Crowley, a former assistant to President Nixon; Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton, a former staffer for Presidents Reagan and Bush; John Podhoretz, editorial page editor of the New York Post and a former Reagan speechwriter. Notice a pattern? And, oh yes, the network hired Bush cousin John Ellis as an election analyst and "number cruncher," who spent much of election night on the phone with his cousins, the governors of Texas and Florida, and was responsible for Fox News Channel's being the first to declare George W. Bush winner of Florida's electoral votes.
The slogan, "We report. You Decide," is Fox News' laughable effort to hide its right-wing agenda. Rupert Murdoch "has never been known for giving balanced news in his newspapers or broadcasts," counters author Ben Bagdikian, whose book, The Media Monopoly, was the first to call attention to the troubling trend of media mergers -- nearly twenty years ago! "If he has had a religious experience, we have yet to see the results."
Actually, Fox News doesn't claim to be balanced in itself. They insist that they're simply a counter-balance to the rest of the industry's obvious liberal bias. "Bias + bias = balance" goes the defense, and it's one that socialists should subscribe to. Better an open bias than a covert agenda. Europe excels at this, with a diverse ideological media that covers the spectrum from socialist to liberal to moderate to conservative to fascist!
But exactly what bias does Fox claim to balance? The mainstream media's own neo-liberal, pro-business politics? Hey, what a coincidence! That's Fox's bias too! Give them credit. Fox sure does a good job of fostering the impression of a vast difference. "Finally both sides are being presented," gloated Fox News chief, Roger Ailes to the Washington Post, "Al Gore liked the old system where only side was presented."
Thank goodness for that Punch and Judy show we call the two-party system! Without it's cheap Democrat-bashing, what would make Fox News Channel special? No wonder Fox's "balancing act" has won a fan in Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who proclaimed after the election controversy, "During the past two months, if it hadn't been for Fox, I don't know what I would have done for the news."
Units placed farther out in the solar system would use nuclear power to create the ionized plasma; those closer to the sun would be able to use electricity generated by solar panels
The one over there would be the one with the solar panels.
Google says: Q: I can't find webpages I viewed with Mozilla Firefox.
A: Google Desktop Search is only partially compatible with Mozilla Firefox. If you install Desktop Search and open a Firefox browser window, you'll see a 'Desktop' link appear on the Google homepage. You can click this link to go to the Desktop Search homepage whenever you want to search with Desktop Search.
Web pages which you view in Firefox aren't added to your Desktop Search index, however, so you won't be able to find them with Desktop Search.
We realize that many of our users use Mozilla Firefox as their primary browser, and we may consider adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search.
That's why it wants to close firefox, but it doesn't fully integrate with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Economics 101. Not that I'm supporting America's decision, as I think a few thousand jobs lost temporarily are a relatively small price to pay for the future of our planet, but the fact that jobs will be lost is hard to argue. Even the approximate number of jobs lost is relatively trivial to calculate.
If abusing patents is living by the sword, in most cases the saying should be "Live by the sword, live a good long life!"
Amazon has a bad karma?
Do you really want your saftey to be in the hands of a company whose only goal is profit?
#1, They are not at all statistically similar. CNN adjusted them to remove this little embarrassment. That's why they currently mirror the results.
what
This is pretty insightful. I'm glad it got modded to +4, I felt that last touch about admitting it while in France made it extra intense.
I, for one, am not voting because USian vote forbids me to do so, with me not being an American and everything. Can I get a +3 interesting for sharing that, at least?
I remember having read this 'ipod-killer' story before...
DAMN THOSE EDITORS!!!
they aren't really g-mail invites, if you were wondering.
Does anyone else have an issue with GDS not 1) un-indexing files which are no longer on the computer and 2) being utterly useless for the times when you want to search for a filename which has a common name, as you get a gazillion results of text-files?
IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code
October 22, 2004
SCO and IBM met in federal court in Utah again Tuesday for another go-round over the discovery that IBM hasn't produced in SCO's $5 billion lawsuit against it.
At the hearing, one of SCO's lawyers, another young thing from Boies, Schiller & Flexner whose footwork was smooth enough to impress even Groklaw's IBM-dazzled observers, mentioned the little matter of SCO's days-old Third Amended Complaint, which, alas, is under seal reportedly because it's based on some e-mail that turned up during discovery that IBM now claims is privileged though there's supposedly no hint of attorney-client communication about it.
Anyway, the sealed Third Amended Complaint has to do with SCO's contention that - to compete against Sun - IBM put SCO-owned SVR4 code in System 3-based AIX for its proprietary Power chip architecture - and one of the supposedly compromising IBM e-mails - that SCO just happened to read out loud in court the other day - suggests that IBM was conscious that it had overstepped the bounds of its Project Monterey contract with SCO, which was intended to produce only a version of AIX for Intel's Itanium chip (CSN No 564).
Well, during the Third Amended Complaint discussion, SCO's lawyer held up a piece of paper - that was duplicated on a projection screen that only the magistrate judge, Brooke Wells, could see - that listed all of the AIX code that IBM has and hasn't turned over to SCO. And SCO's lawyer pointed out that the only piece of code that IBM hasn't come up with - which was highlighted in red - was the AIX-on-Power code - to which IBM's lawyer replied that IBM "can't find it."
Shades of the Compuware suit. They "can't find it."
Makes one wonders whether IBM looked in that closet in Australia where it said a few weeks ago it just happened to stumble over the source code - the source code it swore - literally swore in court for two years - didn't exist - the code that it was supposed to produce during the court-ordered discovery phase of the suit that Compuware brought against IBM for, well, for stealing its source code.
IBM only managed to find the code after discovery had closed and the trial was about to start, a situation that it got its ears boxed for by the District Court for Eastern Michigan, which called its behavior "gross negligence."
Magistrate Wells has yet to cross that bridge, however.
After listening to what everybody had to say - and all the reasons why IBM shouldn't have to produce all the rest of the stuff that SCO wants - particularly the IBM Configuration Management and Version Control System (CMVC) and Revision Control System (RCS) that SCO thinks is the key to its case - she reserved any final decision so she could go off and have a think about it - and probably confer with her staff and her colleague Judge Dale Kimball, who's hearing IBM's motion for a partial summary judgment - a decision, IBM pointed out, that might make her ruling moot.
However, she did give IBM and SCO 30 days to exchange so-called privilege logs listing all of the discovery that they're not providing each other because it's allegedly privileged.
She also told IBM to get affidavits from IBM management, including CEO Sam Palmisano, the CTO of IBM's Unix/Linux interests Irving Wladawsky-Berger and IBM's board of directors, attesting that nothing more exists in their files regarding IBM's Linux activities.
See, IBM - having produced one single PowerPoint presentation - contends that there are no other e-mails, memos, business plans or presentations about Linux anywhere in the joint, evidently proving that not only can elephants dance, but that they really do have good memories.
We tax everything at enormous, ridiculous rates.
May I suggest you, sir, move to Scandinavia before you complain about taxes. Thank you.
Unfair at Any Volume: Fox News Channels' Unbalancing Act
by Shaun Richman (from The Torch, Spring 2001)
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel is the current buzz in TV journalism. Riding high in the news ratings and unsettling the venerated CNN and the more established MSNBC, Fox News has established a reputation for brash and exciting, in-your-face conservative news. Murdoch's experiment in openly biased TV journalism has been rewarded with a loyal fan base and surprising clout in Washington. But the success of this right-wing news media organization, which cloaks itself in buzzwords like "fair and balanced", raises some troubling questions about meaningful political balance and diversity in television journalism.
Rupert Murdoch was very specific about his picks for his Fox News team, and it shows in their credentials. His choice of network president was Roger Ailes, a veteran of CNBC and MSNBC, who spent his earlier career as advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and the senior President Bush. The network's high-profile anchors, Brit Hume, Catherine Crier and Neil Cavuto were well-known conservatives at the major news networks. Crier, in fact, began her career as a Republican judge in Texas, a job description that impossibly inspires less faith in "fairness" than "Fox News Anchor."
The network's clear star, Bill O'Reilly, is an arch-conservative who made his career on the sleazy tabloid show Inside Edition. Murdoch also found room for Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol, the gruesome twosome of McLaughlin Group-ers who hail from Murdoch's own conservative journal, The Weekly Standard. Other hires include Tony Snow, a syndicated columnist and former chief speechwriter for Bush the elder; syndicated columnist Monica Crowley, a former assistant to President Nixon; Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton, a former staffer for Presidents Reagan and Bush; John Podhoretz, editorial page editor of the New York Post and a former Reagan speechwriter. Notice a pattern? And, oh yes, the network hired Bush cousin John Ellis as an election analyst and "number cruncher," who spent much of election night on the phone with his cousins, the governors of Texas and Florida, and was responsible for Fox News Channel's being the first to declare George W. Bush winner of Florida's electoral votes.
The slogan, "We report. You Decide," is Fox News' laughable effort to hide its right-wing agenda. Rupert Murdoch "has never been known for giving balanced news in his newspapers or broadcasts," counters author Ben Bagdikian, whose book, The Media Monopoly, was the first to call attention to the troubling trend of media mergers -- nearly twenty years ago! "If he has had a religious experience, we have yet to see the results."
Actually, Fox News doesn't claim to be balanced in itself. They insist that they're simply a counter-balance to the rest of the industry's obvious liberal bias. "Bias + bias = balance" goes the defense, and it's one that socialists should subscribe to. Better an open bias than a covert agenda. Europe excels at this, with a diverse ideological media that covers the spectrum from socialist to liberal to moderate to conservative to fascist!
But exactly what bias does Fox claim to balance? The mainstream media's own neo-liberal, pro-business politics? Hey, what a coincidence! That's Fox's bias too! Give them credit. Fox sure does a good job of fostering the impression of a vast difference. "Finally both sides are being presented," gloated Fox News chief, Roger Ailes to the Washington Post, "Al Gore liked the old system where only side was presented."
Thank goodness for that Punch and Judy show we call the two-party system! Without it's cheap Democrat-bashing, what would make Fox News Channel special? No wonder Fox's "balancing act" has won a fan in Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who proclaimed after the election controversy, "During the past two months, if it hadn't been for Fox, I don't know what I would have done for the news."
The problem with Fox, howev
They also have huge unpopulated territories to the west.
Did mr P. just link to his own weblog?
If ogg gathers support, Apple can create a firmware update for the iPod and it will be back to square one.
Then why not use mirrordot for mirroring purposes?
I know someone whose Star Wars Galaxies character is called Ayebe Leef-uhafmysta'plr.
How long until they name some beetle or other after him? =)
I remember having read this story before... Damn those editors!
There is only the matrix.
The one over there would be the one with the solar panels.
Once you get the thing up there, plasma is basically 'free'. You can beam plasma the opposite direction thus keeping the thing stable.
What materials does it have? Care to provide a link?
Google says:
Q: I can't find webpages I viewed with Mozilla Firefox.
A: Google Desktop Search is only partially compatible with Mozilla Firefox. If you install Desktop Search and open a Firefox browser window, you'll see a 'Desktop' link appear on the Google homepage. You can click this link to go to the Desktop Search homepage whenever you want to search with Desktop Search.
Web pages which you view in Firefox aren't added to your Desktop Search index, however, so you won't be able to find them with Desktop Search.
We realize that many of our users use Mozilla Firefox as their primary browser, and we may consider adding increased Firefox support in a future version of Desktop Search.
That's why it wants to close firefox, but it doesn't fully integrate with it.