Because people with 14-16 year old daughters who shack up with some manipulative scumbag will tend to turn to vigilantism if the police don't do something about it.
I'm from the UK, where the age of consent is 16. Now you could argue that this was an arbitrary line. I think it's more or less right though, this guy dug up the some studies
12 - when you can physically have sex - when women reach puberty 16 - when you're intellectually mature - people under 16 score quite badly on intelligence tests 25 - when you have some kind of emotional maturity - people under that age don't have proper self regulatory systems
Which is a bit like a boot sequence when you think of it - I particularly like the way there's ten years between 16 and 25 where you're smart but clueless.
As he puts it -
I'd draw the object line at 12, the cognitive line at 16, and the self-regulatory line at 25. I'd lock up anyone who went after a 5-year-old. I'd come down hard on a 38-year-old who married a 15-year-old. And if I ran a college, I'd discipline professors for sleeping with freshmen. When you're 35, "she's legal" isn't good enough.
What I wouldn't do is slap a mandatory sentence on a 17-year-old, even if his nominal girlfriend were 12.
Now 16 is the age of consent in the UK. And I wouldn't date anyone under 25, so his lines seem reasonable to me. 18, the age of consent in the US seems a bit high, but I don't see a problem with that. Actually one thing about the US that I definitely don't agree with is criminalizing sex between two under 18 year olds. I personally don't think it is good thing for under 18 year olds to be having sex with each other, but I don't think it should be illegal.
But an age of consent of 14 in places like Serbia is probably the reason that there are so many trafficked East European girls working as prostitutes in the UK. 14 year olds are way to young to know whether their new, older boyfriend in a sports car who promised them a job as a dancer in London is a pimp or not.
The Big 3 pay $73 bucks per hour compared to Toyota's $48. Even Toyota is paying people way above the US average for manufacturing workers ($31). Now if that extra cash bought extra productivity, it would be OK. My guess is that at Toyota, it probably does more than at the Big 3.
In which case the Big 3 have two problems. One is the management, which is famously incompetent and unable to react to trends like more fuel economy. The other is the workers who have essentially used the unions to extort far more money out of the employer than they are worth.
So you end up with with cars that are not ideal for the market and cost way to much to make competing with Toyotas which are better tuned and cheaper to build. At that point, you're pretty much guaranteed to hear things like traitor from the Big 3 unions and the politicians they own. Oh and a request for a bailout.
This is totally non standard of course, essentially Apple have their own way of detecting an official Apple USB charger, or more to the point not working with a standard one.
Actually I think there's an argument for drawing power off the bus, and only limiting current such that the 5V line stays in spec, i.e 5V±5%. That way you could safely draw more than 500mA from a USB wallwart which could supply it but did not enumerate.
Hmm, it turns out there is a standard way to detect wallwarts
Actually I worked for a company that made things that charge of USB once and I talked to the person who decided such things. He explained the "not allowed to draw more the 100mA before enumeration" rationale. I showed him my USB hard disk. It has two plugs, one of which is just to leach power, so it manages to draw 500mA from each plug. And actually most USB widgets are dumb - no microcontroller - and draw more than 100mA. And I've never seen them fail to work on any USB host.
I couldn't convince him to make the device charge without a driver though, even though enforcing the spec like this probably just pisses people off. Actually it's worse than that, there are wallwarts that supply 5V (often at 1000mA or more) to a USB connection but don't have a USB host. Devices that refuse to charge before enumeration won't work with those either.
Actually I think there's an argument for drawing power off the bus, and only limiting current such that the 5V line stays in spec, i.e 5V±5%. That way you could safely draw more than 500mA from a USB wallwart which could supply it but did not enumerate.
In practice you can do all that stuff even with copyright law. And back in the old days people did disassemble - CPM was cloned into QDOS, ancestor of MSDOS. Big chunks of MSDOS were reverse engineered into DRDOS.
But over the years, that's got a lot harder. Wine is still a long way behind Windows. NTFS support basically sucks on any OS but Windows. And it would be almost impossible to reverse engineer something which is released frequently. So if RedHat stopped releasing code, because copyright didn't apply, it seems as if reverse engineering wouldn't be able to make up the gap.
Click on permissions, add the ones you want (i.e. your username has Full Control). Local admin does let you do that. The only difference between Vista and XP is that you don't have write access to Program Files and any users files except your own, only the TrustedInstaller account does. But being local admin does let you override that, maybe after going through a UAC prompt. Still being local admin you could turn off UAC and give yourself write access to every file on the disk. Right click on C:\, click permissions and give yourself Full Control and let it apply the change recursively.
Mind you, if you do that don't complain if malware nukes your machine since it will be run as you and have write access to everything too. Still the idea that users who are admin are somehow prevented from accessing their files by "DRM" doesn't make any sense to anyone who understands security. Local admin is the root authority, and can in principle do anything to the machine, even to the point of disabling all security.
These 'hackers' should learn about this stuff rather than claiming DRM stops them. DRM means encypting media content, it's nothing to do with the principle of least privilege, which is the reason that a user who is local admin has to jump through hoops to do potentially damaging things on Vista and Windows 7. But if you're a local admin, you're one UAC prompt away from having total power over any file.
Why don't you do something about it You call yourself Pictish Prince but you sit around moaning about stuff on/. Shouldn't you get all William Wallace on the oligarchy or something?
"They can away the built in Admin account's right to write to Local Settings, but they can't take our Freedom!"
Or for that matter the built in Admin account's right to change the permissions on Local Settings. Hint Hint.
Makes you wonder if the tail is really the *AAs and perhaps not some other group or agency that has friends in high places. Of course, it's conspiratorial for me to say anything like that.
The Pirate Bay is about theft, plain and simple. [...] but the propaganda is propaganda on both sides.
It would appear that one side's propaganda is working. There is no theft in piracy. Unauthorized copying, yes, but no theft. This has been explained countless times here. I find it saddening that even here on slashdot, we hear people who bought the "theft" propagands from the *IAAs.
I dunno, I like tossing around the word theft in these discussions because it's funny to see people like you who know nothing about law try to explain how downloading shitty Hollywood movies from TPB rather than paying to buy or rent them is some sort of Ghandian passive resistance against The Man whereas taking stuff from GPL projects and using it in a closed source application is OMG THEFT!!1
Whatever happened to the days when musicians made money by PERFORMING LIVE.
Well, the venues were bought out by huge corporations so things like the food and drinks costs went higher (and lets face it, they weren't exactly reasonable to begin with) and the tickets for those venues are all sold by a monopolistic ticket sales company with plenty of service charges, convenience charges, and whatever else they sneak in there now.
Musicians most likely get a cut of the ticket sales and not the $40 worth of extra charges that get tacked on.
Oh noes! The corporations are doing corporationing things. On the upside that makes it perfectly fine for the rest of us to steal shit from the artists.
It's also worth pointing out that if there was no copyright, the RIAA would just sell records with the artist's songs on them like now, but not bother to pay the artists.
It's copyright law that allows the artists to perform a song whilst still retaining property rights to it. Saying that you pirate to force a reform in copyright law which will be better for the artists in the long run is nonsense.
If there is no copyright law I can steal GPL code and make a closed source application - I don't need to worry about the GPL telling me to keep the code open because it is a copyright license.
If you knew anything at all about the history of copyright and patents, you'd know that the original reason for them was to allow people to publish things whilst still retatining some rights to them.
If there was no copyright then the only protection people have is to not publish things, i.e. keep the source code closed.
What like how we won the Battle of Agincourt on St Crispin's Day in 1415? Or how Shakespeare wrote this wonderful speech about it
This day is called the Feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a-tiptoe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this day and live t'old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian": Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day." Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. (IV, iii)
Or how we invented the computer, Doctor Who, VX Nervegas, Concentration Camps, Strategic Bombing and being a sinister closet case villain in the colonies?
I'd feel more sympathy for this position if 75% of drugs being marketed weren't designed directly to compete against another companies drugs. Viagra vs Cialis for example.
So it would be better if one drug company had a monopoly on treatment of each disease?
I'm also curious how GSK will react regarding importing of these cheap drugs back into the US market via web pharmacies and their like. Corporations the size of GSK do not make altruistic moves unless they're getting something back in return, so expect someone to be putting forward a bill to eliminate drug imports into the US soon.
Now this I can agree with. There should be free imports of prescription drugs from the rest of the world to the US. It would make them cheaper there. Of course it would dissuade market segmentation like this, since GSK wouldn't be able to sell drugs cheaply in poor countries and expensive in rich ones. Still I live in rich country, so I'm in favour of allowing arbitrage.
HMS VANGUARD Launched in 1992 One of four British submarines carrying Trident nuclear missiles Displacement (submerged) 16,000 tonnes, 150m (492ft) long Can carry 48 nuclear warheads on a maximum of 16 missiles A two-year refit was completed in 2007 as part of a £5bn contract Maximum submerged speed of 25 knots Due to be replaced in 2024
LE TRIOMPHANT Launched in 1994 One of four French ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarines (SSBN) Displacement (submerged) 14,000 tonnes, 138m (452ft) long Can carry 16 ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads 110 crew, including 15 officers Submerged speed over 25 knots
Our subs were lauched first and are bigger and longer. In your face, snail eaters.
* PortAsm/68K for ColdFire is a source-level translation tool which is designed to help you port 680x0 assembly-language programs to ColdFire. It can be used to target any member of the ColdFire family, provides good performance, and is the recommended solution for porting a large body of 680x0 assembler code where you have access to the original source-code files.
* CF68KLib is an emulation library which provides exception handlers to implement those 680x0 instuctions and addressing modes which are missing in the ColdFire architecture. It thus allows 680x0 object-code (whether written in assembler or in a high-level language) to run on a ColdFire processor (Version 3 core or later only). It is available to run either user-level code only, or user- and supervisor-level code. CF68KLib allows you to run 680x0 code with minimal modification under ColdFire, although there is a performance penalty associated with the need to trap out and emulate missing instructions.
And, best of all, thanks to a special agreement between MicroAPL and Freescale Semiconductor, PortAsm/68K for ColdFire and CF68KLib are both available for download free of charge! Just click here to download full, unrestricted version of these products, together with full documentation. (Usage of the software is subject to the PortAsm/68Kfor ColdFire license agreement or CF68KLib license agreement, as appropriate).
On the other hand, if you read the PDF for CF68KLib it says that some instructions set the overflow bit differently on CF compared to 68K. These instructions don't trap, so it's not possible to emulate the difference.
Then again, if you really want to run 68K code, you'd just keep buying 68Ks instead of CFs.
The Medieval Warm Period was a time of warm weather around 800-1300 AD during the European Medieval period. Initial research on the MWP and the following Little Ice Age (LIA) was largely done in Europe, where the phenomenon was most obvious and clearly documented. It was initially believed that the temperature changes were global. However, this view has been questioned; the 2001 IPCC report summarises this research, saying "...current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this time frame, and the conventional terms of 'Little Ice Age' and 'Medieval Warm Period' appear to have limited utility in describing trends in hemispheric or global mean temperature changes in past centuries". The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that the "idea of a global or hemispheric "Medieval Warm Period" that was warmer than today however, has turned out to be incorrect" and that what those "records that do exist show is that there was no multi-century periods when global or hemispheric temperatures were the same or warmer than in the 20th century". Indeed, global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that, taken globally, the Earth actually averaged slightly cooler (by 0.03 degrees Celsius) during the 'Medieval Warm Period' than in the early- and mid-20th century
Of course if you scroll down you to the By World Region bit of the article you find
North Atlantic
The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage in the church of Hvalsey â" today the best-preserved of the Norse ruins.
A radiocarbon-dated box core in the Sargasso Sea shows that the sea surface temperature was approximately 1 ÂC (1.8 ÂF) cooler than today approximately 400 years ago (the Little Ice Age) and 1700 years ago, and approximately 1 ÂC warmer than today 1000 years ago (the Medieval Warm Period).[6]
During the MWP wine grapes were grown in Europe as far north as southern Britain
i.e. the MWP seems to be quite real in the North Atlantic and Europe.
North America
The Vikings took advantage of ice-free seas to colonize Greenland and other outlying lands of the far north.[11] The MWP was followed by the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling that lasted until the 19th century, and the Viking settlements eventually died out. In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found large temperature excursions during the Medieval Warm Period (about 800â"1300) and the Little Ice Age (about 1400â"1850), possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation.[12] Sediments in Piermont Marsh of the lower Hudson Valley show a dry Medieval Warm period from AD 800â"1300.
So the MWP and LIA seems quite real in North America.
and if you read Other Regions, it seems to be real there in Africa, the Antarctic, Japan and the Pacific Ocean too. All of which disagrees with the IPCC/NOAA quotes in the summary.
I think that the people that work in them need to have proper contractual rights. Right now they don't - the factory can close for a few weeks and leave everyone unpaid. And people routinely don't get paid for the work they actually did, or get money docked from their wages in violation of their contracts.
This is a fundamental problem in China. The justice system is expliciitly not independent - it is controlled by the Party. If the Party is paid off by factory owners or if senior Party members are the factory owners, it can lean on the courts and stop them investigating this stuff. There's a massive conflict of interest in owning both the factories and the courts.
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Because people with 14-16 year old daughters who shack up with some manipulative scumbag will tend to turn to vigilantism if the police don't do something about it.
I'm from the UK, where the age of consent is 16. Now you could argue that this was an arbitrary line. I think it's more or less right though, this guy dug up the some studies
http://www.slate.com/id/2174841
He proposes three boundary ages
12 - when you can physically have sex - when women reach puberty
16 - when you're intellectually mature - people under 16 score quite badly on intelligence tests
25 - when you have some kind of emotional maturity - people under that age don't have proper self regulatory systems
Which is a bit like a boot sequence when you think of it - I particularly like the way there's ten years between 16 and 25 where you're smart but clueless.
As he puts it -
I'd draw the object line at 12, the cognitive line at 16, and the self-regulatory line at 25. I'd lock up anyone who went after a 5-year-old. I'd come down hard on a 38-year-old who married a 15-year-old. And if I ran a college, I'd discipline professors for sleeping with freshmen. When you're 35, "she's legal" isn't good enough.
What I wouldn't do is slap a mandatory sentence on a 17-year-old, even if his nominal girlfriend were 12.
Now 16 is the age of consent in the UK. And I wouldn't date anyone under 25, so his lines seem reasonable to me. 18, the age of consent in the US seems a bit high, but I don't see a problem with that. Actually one thing about the US that I definitely don't agree with is criminalizing sex between two under 18 year olds. I personally don't think it is good thing for under 18 year olds to be having sex with each other, but I don't think it should be illegal.
But an age of consent of 14 in places like Serbia is probably the reason that there are so many trafficked East European girls working as prostitutes in the UK. 14 year olds are way to young to know whether their new, older boyfriend in a sports car who promised them a job as a dancer in London is a pimp or not.
People toss around words like traitor because it's all they have left. Look at this
http://seekingalpha.com/article/105061-should-we-really-bail-out-the-big-three-automakers-with-73-20-per-hour-labor
The Big 3 pay $73 bucks per hour compared to Toyota's $48. Even Toyota is paying people way above the US average for manufacturing workers ($31). Now if that extra cash bought extra productivity, it would be OK. My guess is that at Toyota, it probably does more than at the Big 3.
In which case the Big 3 have two problems. One is the management, which is famously incompetent and unable to react to trends like more fuel economy. The other is the workers who have essentially used the unions to extort far more money out of the employer than they are worth.
So you end up with with cars that are not ideal for the market and cost way to much to make competing with Toyotas which are better tuned and cheaper to build. At that point, you're pretty much guaranteed to hear things like traitor from the Big 3 unions and the politicians they own. Oh and a request for a bailout.
If you click on kdawson, select properties and uncheck the "Suck" box his submissions get better.
Yeah, I know it's a questionable default. Still easy fix.
Well if that's the case why not let the damn phone charge at 500mA before the driver loads?
The iPod Touch will charge from a wallwart if it sees the right voltages on both D+ and D-
http://tzywen.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=696
This is totally non standard of course, essentially Apple have their own way of detecting an official Apple USB charger, or more to the point not working with a standard one.
Actually I think there's an argument for drawing power off the bus, and only limiting current such that the 5V line stays in spec, i.e 5V±5%. That way you could safely draw more than 500mA from a USB wallwart which could supply it but did not enumerate.
Hmm, it turns out there is a standard way to detect wallwarts
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/batt_charging_1_0.zip
Basically host chargers short D+ and D-. If a device detects this it can draw a higher current.
The USB device driver does a Set Configuration
And the max power (in specified in milliamps, freakin' software engineers) is part of the configuration descriptor.
http://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb5.htm#ConfigurationDescriptors
So the spec says you can draw upto 100mA until it gets a SET_CONFIGURATION request, and that is done by the device driver.
Actually I worked for a company that made things that charge of USB once and I talked to the person who decided such things. He explained the "not allowed to draw more the 100mA before enumeration" rationale. I showed him my USB hard disk. It has two plugs, one of which is just to leach power, so it manages to draw 500mA from each plug. And actually most USB widgets are dumb - no microcontroller - and draw more than 100mA. And I've never seen them fail to work on any USB host.
I couldn't convince him to make the device charge without a driver though, even though enforcing the spec like this probably just pisses people off. Actually it's worse than that, there are wallwarts that supply 5V (often at 1000mA or more) to a USB connection but don't have a USB host. Devices that refuse to charge before enumeration won't work with those either.
Actually I think there's an argument for drawing power off the bus, and only limiting current such that the 5V line stays in spec, i.e 5V±5%. That way you could safely draw more than 500mA from a USB wallwart which could supply it but did not enumerate.
In practice you can do all that stuff even with copyright law. And back in the old days people did disassemble - CPM was cloned into QDOS, ancestor of MSDOS. Big chunks of MSDOS were reverse engineered into DRDOS.
But over the years, that's got a lot harder. Wine is still a long way behind Windows. NTFS support basically sucks on any OS but Windows. And it would be almost impossible to reverse engineer something which is released frequently. So if RedHat stopped releasing code, because copyright didn't apply, it seems as if reverse engineering wouldn't be able to make up the gap.
Click on permissions, add the ones you want (i.e. your username has Full Control). Local admin does let you do that. The only difference between Vista and XP is that you don't have write access to Program Files and any users files except your own, only the TrustedInstaller account does. But being local admin does let you override that, maybe after going through a UAC prompt. Still being local admin you could turn off UAC and give yourself write access to every file on the disk. Right click on C:\, click permissions and give yourself Full Control and let it apply the change recursively.
Mind you, if you do that don't complain if malware nukes your machine since it will be run as you and have write access to everything too. Still the idea that users who are admin are somehow prevented from accessing their files by "DRM" doesn't make any sense to anyone who understands security. Local admin is the root authority, and can in principle do anything to the machine, even to the point of disabling all security.
These 'hackers' should learn about this stuff rather than claiming DRM stops them. DRM means encypting media content, it's nothing to do with the principle of least privilege, which is the reason that a user who is local admin has to jump through hoops to do potentially damaging things on Vista and Windows 7. But if you're a local admin, you're one UAC prompt away from having total power over any file.
Why don't you do something about it You call yourself Pictish Prince but you sit around moaning about stuff on /. Shouldn't you get all William Wallace on the oligarchy or something?
"They can away the built in Admin account's right to write to Local Settings, but they can't take our Freedom!"
Or for that matter the built in Admin account's right to change the permissions on Local Settings. Hint Hint.
Makes you wonder if the tail is really the *AAs and perhaps not some other group or agency that has friends in high places. Of course, it's conspiratorial for me to say anything like that.
It's the lizards. It's always the lizards.
The Pirate Bay is about theft, plain and simple. [...] but the propaganda is propaganda on both sides.
It would appear that one side's propaganda is working. There is no theft in piracy. Unauthorized copying, yes, but no theft. This has been explained countless times here. I find it saddening that even here on slashdot, we hear people who bought the "theft" propagands from the *IAAs.
I dunno, I like tossing around the word theft in these discussions because it's funny to see people like you who know nothing about law try to explain how downloading shitty Hollywood movies from TPB rather than paying to buy or rent them is some sort of Ghandian passive resistance against The Man whereas taking stuff from GPL projects and using it in a closed source application is OMG THEFT!!1
Whatever happened to the days when musicians made money by PERFORMING LIVE.
Well, the venues were bought out by huge corporations so things like the food and drinks costs went higher (and lets face it, they weren't exactly reasonable to begin with) and the tickets for those venues are all sold by a monopolistic ticket sales company with plenty of service charges, convenience charges, and whatever else they sneak in there now.
Musicians most likely get a cut of the ticket sales and not the $40 worth of extra charges that get tacked on.
Oh noes! The corporations are doing corporationing things. On the upside that makes it perfectly fine for the rest of us to steal shit from the artists.
It's also worth pointing out that if there was no copyright, the RIAA would just sell records with the artist's songs on them like now, but not bother to pay the artists.
It's copyright law that allows the artists to perform a song whilst still retaining property rights to it. Saying that you pirate to force a reform in copyright law which will be better for the artists in the long run is nonsense.
Bzzt. Wrong.
If there is no copyright law I can steal GPL code and make a closed source application - I don't need to worry about the GPL telling me to keep the code open because it is a copyright license.
If you knew anything at all about the history of copyright and patents, you'd know that the original reason for them was to allow people to publish things whilst still retatining some rights to them.
If there was no copyright then the only protection people have is to not publish things, i.e. keep the source code closed.
It seems that the problem was that Windows was cooperating with the app vendor to lock out such hacking attempts.
Who owns your computer? You or the ISV's?
More likely these guys don't know what they hell they're doing.
HINT: If you have local admin rights, you completely own the machine.
Ya missing some facts there don't ya think?
What like how we won the Battle of Agincourt on St Crispin's Day in 1415? Or how Shakespeare wrote this wonderful speech about it
This day is called the Feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a-tiptoe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall see this day and live t'old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian":
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. (IV, iii)
Or how we invented the computer, Doctor Who, VX Nervegas, Concentration Camps, Strategic Bombing and being a sinister closet case villain in the colonies?
England! Well said, my good man.
I think a first order derivative would be more useful right now, eg "d shitholiness / d time is large and positive, repeat large and positive!"
I'd feel more sympathy for this position if 75% of drugs being marketed weren't designed directly to compete against another companies drugs. Viagra vs Cialis for example.
So it would be better if one drug company had a monopoly on treatment of each disease?
I'm also curious how GSK will react regarding importing of these cheap drugs back into the US market via web pharmacies and their like. Corporations the size of GSK do not make altruistic moves unless they're getting something back in return, so expect someone to be putting forward a bill to eliminate drug imports into the US soon.
Now this I can agree with. There should be free imports of prescription drugs from the rest of the world to the US. It would make them cheaper there. Of course it would dissuade market segmentation like this, since GSK wouldn't be able to sell drugs cheaply in poor countries and expensive in rich ones. Still I live in rich country, so I'm in favour of allowing arbitrage.
Yeah but look
HMS VANGUARD
Launched in 1992
One of four British submarines carrying Trident nuclear missiles
Displacement (submerged) 16,000 tonnes, 150m (492ft) long
Can carry 48 nuclear warheads on a maximum of 16 missiles
A two-year refit was completed in 2007 as part of a £5bn contract
Maximum submerged speed of 25 knots
Due to be replaced in 2024
LE TRIOMPHANT
Launched in 1994
One of four French ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarines (SSBN)
Displacement (submerged) 14,000 tonnes, 138m (452ft) long
Can carry 16 ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads
110 crew, including 15 officers
Submerged speed over 25 knots
Our subs were lauched first and are bigger and longer. In your face, snail eaters.
It is in so called 'quote marks' because it is a quotation.
Actually I think it is, so long as the missing instructions cause an exception
These people seem to offer a CF68KLib which does just that
http://www.microapl.co.uk/Porting/ColdFire/
* PortAsm/68K for ColdFire is a source-level translation tool which is designed to help you port 680x0 assembly-language programs to ColdFire. It can be used to target any member of the ColdFire family, provides good performance, and is the recommended solution for porting a large body of 680x0 assembler code where you have access to the original source-code files.
* CF68KLib is an emulation library which provides exception handlers to implement those 680x0 instuctions and addressing modes which are missing in the ColdFire architecture. It thus allows 680x0 object-code (whether written in assembler or in a high-level language) to run on a ColdFire processor (Version 3 core or later only). It is available to run either user-level code only, or user- and supervisor-level code. CF68KLib allows you to run 680x0 code with minimal modification under ColdFire, although there is a performance penalty associated with the need to trap out and emulate missing instructions.
And, best of all, thanks to a special agreement between MicroAPL and Freescale Semiconductor, PortAsm/68K for ColdFire and CF68KLib are both available for download free of charge! Just click here to download full, unrestricted version of these products, together with full documentation. (Usage of the software is subject to the PortAsm/68Kfor ColdFire license agreement or CF68KLib license agreement, as appropriate).
On the other hand, if you read the PDF for CF68KLib it says that some instructions set the overflow bit differently on CF compared to 68K. These instructions don't trap, so it's not possible to emulate the difference.
Then again, if you really want to run 68K code, you'd just keep buying 68Ks instead of CFs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
Initial research
The Medieval Warm Period was a time of warm weather around 800-1300 AD during the European Medieval period. Initial research on the MWP and the following Little Ice Age (LIA) was largely done in Europe, where the phenomenon was most obvious and clearly documented. It was initially believed that the temperature changes were global. However, this view has been questioned; the 2001 IPCC report summarises this research, saying "...current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this time frame, and the conventional terms of 'Little Ice Age' and 'Medieval Warm Period' appear to have limited utility in describing trends in hemispheric or global mean temperature changes in past centuries". The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that the "idea of a global or hemispheric "Medieval Warm Period" that was warmer than today however, has turned out to be incorrect" and that what those "records that do exist show is that there was no multi-century periods when global or hemispheric temperatures were the same or warmer than in the 20th century". Indeed, global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that, taken globally, the Earth actually averaged slightly cooler (by 0.03 degrees Celsius) during the 'Medieval Warm Period' than in the early- and mid-20th century
Of course if you scroll down you to the By World Region bit of the article you find
North Atlantic
The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage in the church of Hvalsey â" today the best-preserved of the Norse ruins.
A radiocarbon-dated box core in the Sargasso Sea shows that the sea surface temperature was approximately 1 ÂC (1.8 ÂF) cooler than today approximately 400 years ago (the Little Ice Age) and 1700 years ago, and approximately 1 ÂC warmer than today 1000 years ago (the Medieval Warm Period).[6]
During the MWP wine grapes were grown in Europe as far north as southern Britain
i.e. the MWP seems to be quite real in the North Atlantic and Europe.
North America
The Vikings took advantage of ice-free seas to colonize Greenland and other outlying lands of the far north.[11] The MWP was followed by the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling that lasted until the 19th century, and the Viking settlements eventually died out. In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found large temperature excursions during the Medieval Warm Period (about 800â"1300) and the Little Ice Age (about 1400â"1850), possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation.[12] Sediments in Piermont Marsh of the lower Hudson Valley show a dry Medieval Warm period from AD 800â"1300.
So the MWP and LIA seems quite real in North America.
and if you read Other Regions, it seems to be real there in Africa, the Antarctic, Japan and the Pacific Ocean too. All of which disagrees with the IPCC/NOAA quotes in the summary.
I think that the people that work in them need to have proper contractual rights. Right now they don't - the factory can close for a few weeks and leave everyone unpaid. And people routinely don't get paid for the work they actually did, or get money docked from their wages in violation of their contracts.
This is a fundamental problem in China. The justice system is expliciitly not independent - it is controlled by the Party. If the Party is paid off by factory owners or if senior Party members are the factory owners, it can lean on the courts and stop them investigating this stuff. There's a massive conflict of interest in owning both the factories and the courts.