Or they could, you know, NOT USE THOSE SEEDS, and instead continue using the strains they've been using for the last few thousand years or so. But then we wouldn't have our little whole-cloth pretext for a little political bashing, would we?
If you forgot, there was a war in Iraq recently. Your little Free Market example doesn't apply when the economy has collapsed, many of the seed stocks are depleted and US was unable to protect the irrigation systems.
If they choose not to use the seeds, they may very well be unable to plan enough crops to support their livelyhood.
Be it software or grain, the rules are the same - if you don't like the license, don't use the product - use a competing product with a license you can accept.
You seem to have forgotton about the war in Iraq and the chaos that followed "Mission accomplished".
There aren't many seeds.
Many of the fields have withered and died because there hasn't been enough irrigation, or money to pay the labor to support the fields. Grain houses have been destroyed. Crops have been contaminated. The agricultural economy has collapsed... hard to sell your produce when there are warplanes bombing your village.
The US solution to this problem is to provide GMO seeds, which require a license to use. The Iraqis don't have much choice in the matter... the economy has been devistated, and they need to take whatever they can get.
I hope the Iraqi's enjoy this new "Freedom". I wonder why the US isn't using more non-GMO seeds 3which don't have the IP restrictions?
How ironic, The root of most civilizations comes from the so-called "Cradle of Civilization" which is a region of Iraq located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
How far do you think we would have progressed if the creators of these technologies demanded we use Their technologies and pay a license fee to use those technologies?
Can someone please point me to the place where they give jobs like this out, to come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this?
Sadly, stupid ideas like this are commonplace in Fortune 500 companies.
I swear, they pay people good money to waste the companies money on poorly planned projects.
My dotcom company was aquired by a big Fortune 500 company. They want to replace our product with their own product. Fair enough.
Huge chunks of this technical project were planned, and the entire budget was allocated, without input from a single technical person! Their initial plan? We can do this in 2 months for $2 million dollars.
That was 5 months ago. Today, they are millions of dollars into the project, millions over budget, and the deadline is now a year away. They payed $1.5 million to IBM for the DB2, Websphere and some special 'portal software'.
One of the executives behind this decision is sitting there grinning like a baffoon... the other one is sitting on a beach after he cashed out his $3 Million in stock.
But don't blame me, we warned them that their idea was going to fail... but haha, they can't get rid of the legacy sites until they replace 'em with the new sites so I still have a job for the time being.
I think the 60 million number os a little more contraversial-- not all of it can be assigned just to Stalin, since many of the dead were people who lived right in the middle of the warzone on the contested grounds between Moscow and occupied Europe.
Historians never really talk about the area, as if it was a vast empty are without any people.
For the record, I'm half Slav and half Estonian. My Grandmother was 9 months pregnant with my mother in Tallinn when the Soviets arrived and she was forced to flee. Many of her relatives were among those 60 million, including my Grandfather.
After all they and their leaders, though acts of war, mass-murder and colonialism have managed to kill millions of people of the last 100 years.
Sounds amazingly like our own country! Millions dead in Korea, millions dead in Vietnam, crushed democracies, puppet governments, and support of ruthless killers such as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein!
PS, You forgot Spain and Japan.
Although, I don't think the Germans have killed many people since Hitler was removed.
Very true, but I think that is part of the point behind the HSA-- your put in your money, and your employeer might contribute to your HSA if you get a health plan with a high deductable.
But I'm not sure that the HSA is enough to put a dent in the high prices.
But it's way better then the previous plan, those Flexable Spending Accounts where you lost all of the money if you didn't use it by years end. What a scam.
We are considering the HSA. My employeer (a Fortune 500 health company who will benefit greatly from this sort of consumer-oriented healthcare) ironically won't contribute to the plan probably until 2006 or later.
The HSA seems like a good deal, especially since I can roll it out from year to year.
One big downside to the HSA: With homeowner and auto insurance, I can increase my deductable to reduce my total costs, but I basically have the same coverage. I can't do that with any of my health plans, in order to get a higher deductable, I would need to switch plans, which means switching to a plan with substandard coverage.
Another big downside is that the costs come out of my own pocket, even if I do save on taxes. And good doctors are still really expensive (Several hundred dollars for a typical visit to the Pediatrition, including labs, shots, etc), so I still need help from an insurance company to help with my baby's basic coverage (not to mention the actual birth).
But I'm at the point now where my family needs more extensive medical coverage, and HSA only helps me to save taxes on some items.
I can move to another health plan or tier in my same health plan, but that also (I can't select my own doctor, out-of-network coverage is much worse). My company also won't give us money to opt-out of insurance (They're getting rid of that option in 2005).
HSA is great for a young healty individual or young couple who don't need extensive coverage anyways. Catastrophic insurance for real emergencies, HSA to help with smaller stuff.
And I think that the consumer-oriented healthcare will hopefully help to control the costs. Once people see how much they are actually paying for healthcare, maybe that will help to push the prices down.
Aren't you enjoying your $100 a month tax cut? That's some serious cash man.
Yes, and they go straight into paying for all the things that have gotten more expensive in the last few years.
Unfortunately my health care costs have gone up more then $100 per month. Starting next year, my employeer and I will be paying over $12,000 combined for my health insurance (Two adults, one infant, middle tier coverage), just for medical, not including dental, glasses, life insurance, etc.
And my insurance is actually cheaper then what many of my friends pay.
IE is like having un-protected sex with 15 donkeys
Hey, well using Firefox is like having sex in public...
"No, you're doing that wrong! Here, do it this way instead." "Haha, look at his exploit!" "Err... it would be much more efficient if you stuck that thing over here instead." "Hey hey hey, at least he's using protection! If you suspect that something is wrong, we can always audit them!"
Thank you Mr. Know-it-all... I think we know where the startup scripts live. What was your purpose in telling us this piece of trivia? Showing off your knowledge, are you?
Yes even with 20 servers a good Admin can bring those machines in 20 minutes max..
Let me guess, you work in sales. It's clear you misunderstand the nature of the problem, and you exagurate your ability to fix the problem to make you look macho. I'd hate to work with your pompous ass...
It wasn't just a matter of writing up some init scripts and you're done. It takes a bit of time to investigate the problem. This server was last rebooted 18 months ago and pretty much all of the processes have changed since then, the documentation was wrong and several of the processes required a number of funky tweaks.
Unix itself is pretty reliable. I was actually referring to the reliability at the Datacenter. As far as we can tell, the powerstrip was flakey--- several other machines on the same strip had problems. We replaced the strips, and no problems since then (but the Database machine died when they were testing the powerstrips to the OTHER computers... arg! Test one thing something else breaks...)
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Do you have any evidence for this claim,
Er, the second part of his post backs it up...
Think its a conspiracy theory? It's already happening. IN CANADA
its tresspassing, plain and simple.
If the person tresspassing on your land is an American agent from Monsanto, shooting them may get you labeled as a terrorist.
Or they could, you know, NOT USE THOSE SEEDS, and instead continue using the strains they've been using for the last few thousand years or so. But then we wouldn't have our little whole-cloth pretext for a little political bashing, would we?
If you forgot, there was a war in Iraq recently. Your little Free Market example doesn't apply when
the economy has collapsed, many of the seed stocks are depleted and US was unable to protect the irrigation systems.
If they choose not to use the seeds, they may very well be unable to plan enough crops to support their livelyhood.
Be it software or grain, the rules are the same - if you don't like the license, don't use the product - use a competing product with a license you can accept.
You seem to have forgotton about the war in Iraq and the chaos that followed "Mission accomplished".
There aren't many seeds.
Many of the fields have withered and died because there hasn't been enough irrigation, or money to pay the labor to support the fields. Grain houses have been destroyed. Crops have been contaminated. The agricultural economy has collapsed... hard to sell your produce when there are warplanes bombing your village.
The US solution to this problem is to provide GMO seeds, which require a license to use. The Iraqis don't have much choice in the matter... the economy has been devistated, and they need to take whatever they can get.
I hope the Iraqi's enjoy this new "Freedom". I wonder why the US isn't using more non-GMO seeds 3which don't have the IP restrictions?
How ironic, The root of most civilizations comes from the so-called "Cradle of Civilization" which is a region of Iraq located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
How far do you think we would have progressed if the creators of these technologies demanded we use Their technologies and pay a license fee to use those technologies?
It's a dumb troll though... usually you should troll to make people think a bit-- it's why I have this account...
I heard that it's because Americans would have trouble if they sold just DVDs.
That has to be one of the dumbest anti-American rants I've ever read. Somehow, I think you posted just so you could snipe at America...
What's your point?
If not, I really can't see where a Libertarian party that would waste Ohio taxpayers' money on this silliness has any value at all.
Having a fair and accurat vote count is worth quite a bit.
Can someone please point me to the place where they give jobs like this out, to come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this?
Sadly, stupid ideas like this are commonplace in Fortune 500 companies.
I swear, they pay people good money to waste the companies money on poorly planned projects.
My dotcom company was aquired by a big Fortune 500 company. They want to replace our product with their own product. Fair enough.
Huge chunks of this technical project were planned, and the entire budget was allocated, without input from a single technical person! Their initial plan? We can do this in 2 months for $2 million dollars.
That was 5 months ago. Today, they are millions of dollars into the project, millions over budget, and the deadline is now a year away. They payed $1.5 million to IBM for the DB2, Websphere and some special 'portal software'.
One of the executives behind this decision is sitting there grinning like a baffoon... the other one is sitting on a beach after he cashed out his $3 Million in stock.
But don't blame me, we warned them that their idea was going to fail... but haha, they can't get rid of the legacy sites until they replace 'em with the new sites so I still have a job for the time being.
And when *I* dream, I have a pony.
That poor, poor pony...
I think the 60 million number os a little more contraversial-- not all of it can be assigned just to Stalin, since many of the dead were people who lived right in the middle of the warzone on the contested grounds between Moscow and occupied Europe.
Historians never really talk about the area, as if it was a vast empty are without any people.
For the record, I'm half Slav and half Estonian. My Grandmother was 9 months pregnant with my mother in Tallinn when the Soviets arrived and she was forced to flee. Many of her relatives were among those 60 million, including my Grandfather.
Hey they are blocking the standard BitTorrent tracker ports, can't you just change ports?
Or are they blocking the port for outgoing traffic to an external IP?
C'mon editors, fess up. Nobody here really cares about "I Love Bees"-- just look at the numer and quality of posts to each story.
Yet Bees it is the the most frequent topic posted by you guys.
Fess up, this is an advertisement. How much did they pay you?
After all they and their leaders, though acts of war, mass-murder and colonialism have managed to kill millions of people of the last 100 years.
Sounds amazingly like our own country! Millions dead in Korea, millions dead in Vietnam, crushed democracies, puppet governments, and support of ruthless killers such as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein!
PS, You forgot Spain and Japan.
Although, I don't think the Germans have killed many people since Hitler was removed.
Dear Bush Supporters,
Rewriting history doesn't change history. We know the truth, regardless of the shiny, happy propoganda you put forth.
History will be the ultimate judge. If you want a preview, ask the citizens who have been our allies for decades what they think of our President.
Thanks,
An Angry American
first person shooter games will change workplace dynamics
You mean like people running around the office shooting anything that moves? Or when Management runs around and fires anyone who complains?
Sounds like Baaaad workplace dynamics... I'd uninstall it if I were you.
Very true, but I think that is part of the point behind the HSA-- your put in your money, and your employeer might contribute to your HSA if you get a health plan with a high deductable.
But I'm not sure that the HSA is enough to put a dent in the high prices.
But it's way better then the previous plan, those Flexable Spending Accounts where you lost all of the money if you didn't use it by years end. What a scam.
Try FreeBSD 5.
Don't like your bathroom? Purchase a new house!
We are considering the HSA. My employeer (a Fortune 500 health company who will benefit greatly from this sort of consumer-oriented healthcare) ironically won't contribute to the plan probably until 2006 or later.
The HSA seems like a good deal, especially since I can roll it out from year to year.
One big downside to the HSA: With homeowner and auto insurance, I can increase my deductable to reduce my total costs, but I basically have the same coverage. I can't do that with any of my health plans, in order to get a higher deductable, I would need to switch plans, which means switching to a plan with substandard coverage.
Another big downside is that the costs come out of my own pocket, even if I do save on taxes. And good doctors are still really expensive (Several hundred dollars for a typical visit to the Pediatrition, including labs, shots, etc), so I still need help from an insurance company to help with my baby's basic coverage (not to mention the actual birth).
But I'm at the point now where my family needs more extensive medical coverage, and HSA only helps me to save taxes on some items.
I can move to another health plan or tier in my same health plan, but that also (I can't select my own doctor, out-of-network coverage is much worse). My company also won't give us money to opt-out of insurance (They're getting rid of that option in 2005).
HSA is great for a young healty individual or young couple who don't need extensive coverage anyways. Catastrophic insurance for real emergencies, HSA to help with smaller stuff.
And I think that the consumer-oriented healthcare will hopefully help to control the costs. Once people see how much they are actually paying for healthcare, maybe that will help to push the prices down.
Aren't you enjoying your $100 a month tax cut? That's some serious cash man.
Yes, and they go straight into paying for all the things that have gotten more expensive in the last few years.
Unfortunately my health care costs have gone up more then $100 per month. Starting next year, my employeer and I will be paying over $12,000 combined for my health insurance (Two adults, one infant, middle tier coverage), just for medical, not including dental, glasses, life insurance, etc.
And my insurance is actually cheaper then what many of my friends pay.
IE is like having un-protected sex with 15 donkeys
Hey, well using Firefox is like having sex in public...
"No, you're doing that wrong! Here, do it this way instead."
"Haha, look at his exploit!"
"Err... it would be much more efficient if you stuck that thing over here instead."
"Hey hey hey, at least he's using protection! If you suspect that something is wrong, we can always audit them!"
You forgot the 5th unit, which is more important then the rest.
It's the "Me too!" unit.
-= Stefan
By the way, what's the big deal with gays wanting to get married anyway?
I don't know. What's the big deal with straight folks wanting to get married anyways?
init scripts (rc2.d or /etc/init.d)
... I think we know where the startup scripts live. What was your purpose in telling us this piece of trivia? Showing off your knowledge, are you?
Thank you Mr. Know-it-all
Yes even with 20 servers a good Admin can bring those machines in 20 minutes max..
Let me guess, you work in sales. It's clear you misunderstand the nature of the problem, and you exagurate your ability to fix the problem to make you look macho. I'd hate to work with your pompous ass...
It wasn't just a matter of writing up some init scripts and you're done. It takes a bit of time to investigate the problem. This server was last rebooted 18 months ago and pretty much all of the processes have changed since then, the documentation was wrong and several of the processes required a number of funky tweaks.
A sudden power loss can FUBAR most things....
Unix itself is pretty reliable. I was actually referring to the reliability at the Datacenter. As far as we can tell, the powerstrip was flakey--- several other machines on the same strip had problems. We replaced the strips, and no problems since then (but the Database machine died when they were testing the powerstrips to the OTHER computers... arg! Test one thing something else breaks...)