My wife works at Origin Austin. According to her, another division in the company (actually an EA division) is working on a Snowcrash based MMORPG. FWIW, YMMV.
... and there are other states where possession of a single viable cannabis seed is a felony worth 10 years in prison (first offence too...) By the way, this is the same state where you can legally wager all your money away on a game you have virtually no chance of winning, and then the same day drive 20 miles outside of town and legally pay a person to have sexual intercourse with you. What a world.
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toxins... like tomatoes? Oh, that's right, the only people growing any plants indoors must be growing that toxic, noxious weed that kills so many thousands of people every day... hahaha....
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He hasn't stolen (yet, and as far as we know.) however, Bill is whining that he's not allowed to steal by the terms of GPL. He is indicating that he would steal, and he is crying that the legal instruments which prevent him from doing so are some how "unfair." BTW, in case you weren't paying attention, these are the same legal instruments that he uses to charge $800 for a cardbox box with a few leaflets and a CDROM in it. ---
Dear idiot, it's fine if Bill doesn't want to share, to "give away his hard work for nothing" [buying other companies and their technology sure is hard work!], but all the GPL says is, "That's fine, just don't steal the work I did without giving back."
If Bill wants to reverse engineer GNU, writing his own version of it from scratch, that's fine. But he can't just appropriate parts of it that he likes, and refuse to give back. How does asking for fairness compare to a "wonderful fairyland?" It's simply asking for what's fair, and under the exact same premesis that Bill is able to compare people who make unauthorized backups of his software to thieves and murderers on the high seas.
Part of the dilemma is that the govt will not use any extra revenue from drug taxes on inner-city education. They will blow it on $6000 toilet seats and other appropriations-committee-crack-smoking. ---
Can you please point to a single NORML publication where they "advocate making drugs availible to everyone?" That is a really absurd statement. But hardly suprising considering the uninformed tone of the rest of your message. Free clue: alcohol is a Drug that can be abused. And try substituting "hemp" for "tobacco" in your statement that "it [tobacco] is a neccesary evil to many farmers" and see how it sounds. ---
b) If you move control blocks horizontally (e.g. after removing a preceeding conditional), your editor (EMACS with python-mode for me) may introduce subtle errors when re-tabbing.
Nah. Not if you have emacs configured correctly. Unfortunately I'm in Windows right now (long story) so I can't refer to my own Emacs settings. If you have a non-ancient version of Python mode, Emacs actually handles the Python whitespace rather well.
And make sure when you move a block horizontally you make the block the emacs region then hit (I think) Ctrl-C then < or >. It's also on the Python mode menu.
One good tip for maintaining sanity in a professional Python dev shop is to have EVERYONE USE TABS, always, all the time. One tab character == 1 Python indentation level. Then each person can set their tabs to 4 or 8 or whatever space for visual display, and everyones happy. Just make sure peoples editors are set to keep those as tabs and not convert back to spaces. If you set up Emacs properly (very easy) then this becomes a no-brainer. Hitting Tab on a line should (almost always) produce the right indentatin for a given context.
Mixing up 4-spaces-as-indentation and tabs in a single file is a recipie for disaster (subtle bugs.) Aside from these issues, I actually like Pythons use of whitespace. I find it easier for long term maintainability not to mention the initial conceptualization / prototyping.
Email me if you need those.emacs settings to work with Python and tabs properly.
Then maybe I will finally get a chance to listen to all of the hundreds of unprotected CDs I have already aquired (bought, borrowed, or burned) but barely enjoyed over the years.
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Sorry, my friend. if you don't know what it is, you have no business using it in a meeting or in any other way, for that matter. for great justice.
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I wasn't aware that anyone had the "right" to sell information. Anyway, freely copying doesn't take away the "right" to sell information, only the percieved market value. you can still sell if you can find a buyer. Muahahaha...
And your welfare comment was just retarted. No one is talking about welfare here. ---
if you had thought about this for more than a split second you would have realized your analogy is flawed because when you take away someone's constitutional rights, they no longer have them. When you copy something, you are doing exactly that... making a copy. The original owner continues to have his copy. ---
We are actually using this in my company. Our product is a completely web based system. However some clients need to be able to enter data while on the road and whatnot, so I was asked to implement this. The user fills out the forms and can hit a button to activate some javascript to save the data in a local cookie. And when the user is done with the form, he hits 'submit' and it does the FORM ACTION="mailto:...". (The mail sits in their outbox until they sync up with the internet.)
The interesting part is that all browsers handle this mailto a little differently. Some (MSIE5) put the encoded form as a quopri MIME attachment. Netscape for Mac just slaps it right in the body of the mail. I haven't even tried Opera and more esoteric browsers yet. But I did have to write a Python MIME/mail processing module that can hopefully handle 99% of formats out there. I think we can open source it soon! Yay! ---
Thank you for the clarification of dBs. At any rate, it seems the volume out sound being output by the Navy devices is sufficient to significantly disrupt marine animal communication and hunting.
Finally, the loudest underwater noise source is Mother Nature (earthquakes, underwater volcanoes, and to a lesser degree,
lightning strikes).
It bears noting that these are basically "one time events", not a continuous 24/7 stream of sound. It has been suggested that Navy tests of these devices have been responsible for mass whale beachings recently in Hawaii and other areas. ---
Now I'm not normally a rabid environmentallist, but this concerns me very much. Apparently the US Navy is planning to deploy a low-frequency-sound based submarine detection system over much of the world's oceans. These devices use 200 decibel (!!) constant blasts of sound to detect ships. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of making hundreds of square miles around each sensor site completely uninhabitable to dolphins, whales, and other sea life that relies on sound for life. Do you have any idea how much 200 decibels is? Decibel is a logarithmic scale (like the Richter scale). 120 db is a very loud rock concert. 150+ is permament hearing damage in humans. I can't believe this plan is seemingly going forward! It will be disaster for Earth's sea life!!! Well I guess thats not important to the Navy or our "national security." Just wanted to bring this to people's attention. If you want I can find more references / links to this issue.
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Beware! That stuff can really mess you up! I knew a guy who started taking it every once in a while, usually after he exercised or exerted himself. Pretty soon he was quaffing whole bottles of the stuff, uncut, morning noon and night. Stay away from this one, folks. ---
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Why would they want to risk ruining their very profitable business and investments, even if the new technology does take off? Not to mention all those roads, service stations, mechanics and dealerships, petroleum (I'm guessing this IT thing doesn't run on oil...) That's a lot of pissed off industries with a lot of power. If they could, a consortium would buy any I.P. associated with this thing and then "knife the baby."
It seems like this thing is some kind of Individual Transportation device. It probably runs on a new kind of super-fuel-cell or possibly some revolutionary power source. The vehicle itself is probably something like a large, sturdy tricycle (if it indeed uses wheels at all...) Possibly even smaller, something like "jet powered rollerblades" hopefully with a few more safety features;-) ---
The problem is that there is plenty of 'common sense' in lawmaking, if you look at it from the perspective of those in power. The laws do what they were designed to do: keep the governing elites in power. ---
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My wife works at Origin Austin. According to her, another division in the company (actually an EA division) is working on a Snowcrash based MMORPG. FWIW, YMMV.
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... and there are other states where possession of a single viable cannabis seed is a felony worth 10 years in prison (first offence too...) By the way, this is the same state where you can legally wager all your money away on a game you have virtually no chance of winning, and then the same day drive 20 miles outside of town and legally pay a person to have sexual intercourse with you. What a world.
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People who have opinions contrary to mine deserve to be shot in the back of a head in front of a crudely dug trench. You're first up, asshole.
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fucking racist idiots get out of slashdot!
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toxins... like tomatoes? Oh, that's right, the only people growing any plants indoors must be growing that toxic, noxious weed that kills so many thousands of people every day... hahaha....
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He hasn't stolen (yet, and as far as we know.) however, Bill is whining that he's not allowed to steal by the terms of GPL. He is indicating that he would steal, and he is crying that the legal instruments which prevent him from doing so are some how "unfair." BTW, in case you weren't paying attention, these are the same legal instruments that he uses to charge $800 for a cardbox box with a few leaflets and a CDROM in it.
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If Bill wants to reverse engineer GNU, writing his own version of it from scratch, that's fine. But he can't just appropriate parts of it that he likes, and refuse to give back. How does asking for fairness compare to a "wonderful fairyland?" It's simply asking for what's fair, and under the exact same premesis that Bill is able to compare people who make unauthorized backups of his software to thieves and murderers on the high seas.
That karma, it'll get you every time!
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Part of the dilemma is that the govt will not use any extra revenue from drug taxes on inner-city education. They will blow it on $6000 toilet seats and other appropriations-committee-crack-smoking.
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Can you please point to a single NORML publication where they "advocate making drugs availible to everyone?" That is a really absurd statement. But hardly suprising considering the uninformed tone of the rest of your message. Free clue: alcohol is a Drug that can be abused. And try substituting "hemp" for "tobacco" in your statement that "it [tobacco] is a neccesary evil to many farmers" and see how it sounds.
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Nah. Not if you have emacs configured correctly. Unfortunately I'm in Windows right now (long story) so I can't refer to my own Emacs settings. If you have a non-ancient version of Python mode, Emacs actually handles the Python whitespace rather well.
And make sure when you move a block horizontally you make the block the emacs region then hit (I think) Ctrl-C then < or >. It's also on the Python mode menu.
One good tip for maintaining sanity in a professional Python dev shop is to have EVERYONE USE TABS, always, all the time. One tab character == 1 Python indentation level. Then each person can set their tabs to 4 or 8 or whatever space for visual display, and everyones happy. Just make sure peoples editors are set to keep those as tabs and not convert back to spaces. If you set up Emacs properly (very easy) then this becomes a no-brainer. Hitting Tab on a line should (almost always) produce the right indentatin for a given context.
Mixing up 4-spaces-as-indentation and tabs in a single file is a recipie for disaster (subtle bugs.) Aside from these issues, I actually like Pythons use of whitespace. I find it easier for long term maintainability not to mention the initial conceptualization / prototyping.
Email me if you need those .emacs settings to work with Python and tabs properly.
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What on earth makes you think I listen to 'pop' music? The music I like is timeless.
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Then maybe I will finally get a chance to listen to all of the hundreds of unprotected CDs I have already aquired (bought, borrowed, or burned) but barely enjoyed over the years.
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If everything the US govt produces is non-copywriteable, then how can they have a proprietary system?
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Sorry, my friend. if you don't know what it is, you have no business using it in a meeting or in any other way, for that matter. for great justice.
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And your welfare comment was just retarted. No one is talking about welfare here.
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if you had thought about this for more than a split second you would have realized your analogy is flawed because when you take away someone's constitutional rights, they no longer have them. When you copy something, you are doing exactly that... making a copy. The original owner continues to have his copy.
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http://www.norml.org.nz/norml/Marijuana/Driving.ht m
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The interesting part is that all browsers handle this mailto a little differently. Some (MSIE5) put the encoded form as a quopri MIME attachment. Netscape for Mac just slaps it right in the body of the mail. I haven't even tried Opera and more esoteric browsers yet. But I did have to write a Python MIME/mail processing module that can hopefully handle 99% of formats out there. I think we can open source it soon! Yay!
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Finally, the loudest underwater noise source is Mother Nature (earthquakes, underwater volcanoes, and to a lesser degree, lightning strikes).
It bears noting that these are basically "one time events", not a continuous 24/7 stream of sound. It has been suggested that Navy tests of these devices have been responsible for mass whale beachings recently in Hawaii and other areas.
---
Now I'm not normally a rabid environmentallist, but this concerns me very much. Apparently the US Navy is planning to deploy a low-frequency-sound based submarine detection system over much of the world's oceans. These devices use 200 decibel (!!) constant blasts of sound to detect ships. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of making hundreds of square miles around each sensor site completely uninhabitable to dolphins, whales, and other sea life that relies on sound for life. Do you have any idea how much 200 decibels is? Decibel is a logarithmic scale (like the Richter scale). 120 db is a very loud rock concert. 150+ is permament hearing damage in humans. I can't believe this plan is seemingly going forward! It will be disaster for Earth's sea life!!! Well I guess thats not important to the Navy or our "national security." Just wanted to bring this to people's attention. If you want I can find more references / links to this issue.
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Beware! That stuff can really mess you up! I knew a guy who started taking it every once in a while, usually after he exercised or exerted himself. Pretty soon he was quaffing whole bottles of the stuff, uncut, morning noon and night. Stay away from this one, folks.
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Individual
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It seems like this thing is some kind of Individual Transportation device. It probably runs on a new kind of super-fuel-cell or possibly some revolutionary power source. The vehicle itself is probably something like a large, sturdy tricycle (if it indeed uses wheels at all...) Possibly even smaller, something like "jet powered rollerblades" hopefully with a few more safety features ;-)
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The problem is that there is plenty of 'common sense' in lawmaking, if you look at it from the perspective of those in power. The laws do what they were designed to do: keep the governing elites in power.
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