With the productivity gains that the U.S. loves to brag about, you'd think at least some of that extra productivity could've gone to decreasing the work week from 40 to say 37. Thats what Denmark did.
> I don't like minimum wage hikes because typical minimum > wage jobs are not intended for wage earners but for high- > school kids earning spending money
Right wing fallacy. Only ~32% of all people earning minimum wage are teenagers.
Whoa whoa whoa. You're totally wrong there. Hunter-gatherer societies have laws but no concept of property. Or perhaps a hazy concept of tribal property more akin to national territory that is communally owned by the tribe.
I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your philosophy but you had better not base it on the idea that the law emerged from property holding.
1) Assloads of publicity from suing Apple. Suing the fruity one always gets you some attention no matter how frivolous.
2) The precedent of defending their trademark. So if another catalog retailer ever comes along with a name that really does infringe, they can't say that TigerDirect failed to protect their TM.
In an e-mail, a leading Apple browser developer suggested that architects of the KHTML rendering engine -- the heart of a browser -- consider abandoning the KHTML code base, or "tree," in favour of Apple's version, called WebCore. KHTML was originally written to work on top of KDE (the K Desktop Environment), an interface for Linux and Unix operating systems.
"One thing you may want to consider eventually is back-porting (WebCore) to work on top of (KDE), and merging your changes into that," Apple engineer Maciej Stachowiak wrote in an e-mail dated May 5. "I think the Apple trees have seen a lot more change since the two trees diverged, although both have useful changes. We'd be open to making our tree multi-platform." So is anyone working on this? I'm primarily a Mac developer but I'd be willing to contribute.
Does the article say anything about the individuals being excluded because of any actual politicking "outside the border"? Or was the sole reason which candidate was donated to?
A neo-conservative Washington-based organization known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), funded by three foundations closely tied to Persian Gulf oil and weapons and defense industries, drafted the war plan for U.S. global domination through military power.
The PNAC was founded in the spring of 1997 by the well-known neo-conservatives Robert Kagan and William Kristol of The Weekly Standard.
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz signed a Statement of Principles of the PNAC on June 3, 1997, along with many of the other current members of Bush's "war cabinet."
The 90-page PNAC document from September 2000 says: "The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
"Even should Saddam pass from the scene," the plan says U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain, despite domestic opposition in the Gulf states to the permanent stationing of U.S. troops. Iran, it says, "may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests as Iraq has."
A "core mission" for the transformed U.S. military is to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," according to the PNAC.
The strategic "transformation" of the U.S. military into an imperialistic force of global domination would require a huge increase in defense spending to "a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually," the PNAC plan said.
"The process of transformation," the plan said, "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event--like a new Pearl Harbor."
Veteran journalist John Pilger recently wrote about one of PNAC's founding members, Richard Perle: "I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan, and when he spoke about 'total war,' I mistakenly dismissed him as mad," Pilger wrote. "He recently used the term again in describing America's 'war on terror.' 'No stages,' he said. 'This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now.' "
"This is garbage from think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks," Dalyell said, "men who have never seen the horror of war but are in love with the idea of war.
This was definitely my experience. I bought my wife an iBook to use while she was on rotations. On OSX, I could not find a way to keep a god damn "drive mapped", or whatever the hell you call it, across a sleep. It would just disappear when it woke up. I tried both SMB and NFS to an export on my Linux system. I posted in several forums, and no one had an answer. On Windows, this "just works".
The way I would do this is to add "Favorites" (/Library/Favorites/) to my sidebar, then add an alias to the server to my Favorites folder (Just drag the icon of the server onto the Favorites icon in the sidebar - may have to use the icon from the titlebar of the finder window). When I want to access it, just click Favorites, then click the server icon. It will automount if necessary.
Another way to do it would be to add it to/etc/fstab or open NetInfo manager and add it to/mounts.
The European commission has just passed its directive on software patents, violating democratic rules and procedures to the sole benefit of big non-European corporation and Ireland
Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain why Ireland benefits from software patents?
It isn't a question of DRM vs. no DRM, its a question of 2 or 3 companies wanting to force Apple to allow them to encode FairPlay DRM'ed files. E.g. buy a song from Napster that has FairPlay and is playable on your iPod.
You won't be getting plain old MP3s from any of the commercial downloaders.
(notwithstanding the Russians, who apparently have a loophole in their laws)
What the hell? You mean to say that you believe that companies should be able to tell potential customers whatever the hell they want and hope they dupe some percentage of them? What is the logical conclusion of this approach? Rolling back odometers on used cars? Selling returned products as new? No, we have laws about what companies can and can't do or say, and enforcing the law is the AG's f'ing job.
I mean is it really too much to ask that companies state their intentions in plain english? If their ad campaign said "New 7 day grace period on returns" no one would be complaining. No fees means NO fees.
I'm getting a little tired of the U.S. attitude that companies should be able to get away with anything they want as long as it turns a profit. This attitude is new in the last 20 years and its disturbing. No wonder companies feel like they are divinely entitled to their profits.
You're an Anonymous Coward so I shouldn't even bother, but here goes:
- they all used their real names - they all passed a background check - they all had actual educations in journalism - none of them worked for GOPUSA or any other official arm of a political party - they all worked for well known news organizations, not some website that was online for all of 96 hours before getting a white house press pass - none of them were plants by the administration (you know the people that pay off journalists for positive press) - (this one is just for the ironic humor) none of them ran gay porn sites on the side, while writing gay-bashing screeds for their 'news' items
The fact that the neocons will defend this bull crap just shows that they are a bunch of unprincipled dillweeds that will say or do anything to keep power.
Libraries aren't free. They are paid for by the citizens in their districts. Think of municipal wireless as an extension of that system.
(oh, and internet cafes aren't free)
The poor have telephone service, and the government didn't buy it for them
Are you kidding? I seriously can't tell if you're just joking now. There are lots and lots of municipalities that have a government run telco. Mostly in rural areas, these days, because the for-profit phone cos. don't want to bother with them.
I see the classic fake libertarian mindset at work. Are you willing to subject your roads, sewers, electricity, phones, etc. to this 'don't take anything from me' attitude? I don't know your background but I'm willing to bet you make a living at whatever you do thanks to the public infrastructure that surrounds you. Public = society = people, us, you and me.
Access to information is coming to be a vital service, and should not be denied to anyone, even the poor. When the internet becomes the primary means of communication with your local government, it is a utility, not a luxury.
We aren't there yet, but the day is coming when digital communications replace the telephone as the preferred communication mechanism.
The infrastructure necessary to schedule an appointment with the water department, pay your taxes, download forms, etc. should not be left to profiteers.
It is also understood to apply to pre-existing Establishments of Religion. E.g. Christianity is a religious establishment.
Congress shall make no law [treating, honoring, or showing respect for] an establishment of religion [such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.], or prohibit the free exercise thereof [and showing legal favoritism for one is implicitly prohibiting in some form the free exercise of all others]
An official state exhibition of a religion such as displaying the Ten Commandments in a courtroom can be seen as prejudicial against those who practice a religion other than Christianity (or Judaism I guess?)
Pan around in that demo. There is a screenshot (right under "THE Related", on the right) of his idea of a text editor. You hit a special function key and a semi-transparent gray window pops over the document, you type a command, hit return, and the result of the command is then printed in the gray box. In that screenshot, it says "Command S DONE". Presumably the user hit the function key, typed S, then hit return. So yes it is very much like vi.
The zooming in and out is the storage mechanism.
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Who exactly are we defending them from? The Canadians and Europeans I mean... They don't need defending from any of the 4 you mentioned. And in the case of the Balkans there were European peacekeepers involved, its not like the U.S. was flying solo on that one.
What are the MPAA and RIAA doing so wrong by protecting themselves? They are in the legal and moral right here.
Whatever else may or may not be true, they certainly are not in the right when they infect people's computers with viruses. This is called vigilante justice and is most certainly NOT legally OR morally acceptable.
We have a justice system that includes such concepts as due process, and the **AA organizations have not proven themselves to be strangers to the courts up to this point.
Anyways copyright infringement is a civil matter while virus spreading is a felony. Big bad trumps little bad.
We will eventually get off our asses and get serious about alternatives to fossil fuel-internal combustion. But I can't ever see Americans giving up personal transportation. It's just too ingrained in the culture.
I really hope a biomass fuel cell powered Vette is in my future;-)
Incorrect. English is not part of the Indo-Iranian family ('aryan' is not preferred due to association with nazi propaganda). English is a member of the Germanic family. they are basically distant cousins. Definitely related but non-intelligible.
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With the productivity gains that the U.S. loves to brag about, you'd think at least some of that extra productivity could've gone to decreasing the work week from 40 to say 37. Thats what Denmark did.
http://www.web.net/32hours/denmark.htm
> I don't like minimum wage hikes because typical minimum
> wage jobs are not intended for wage earners but for high-
> school kids earning spending money
Right wing fallacy. Only ~32% of all people earning minimum wage are teenagers.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200405020007
> Property came first, and the law followed.
Whoa whoa whoa. You're totally wrong there. Hunter-gatherer societies have laws but no concept of property. Or perhaps a hazy concept of tribal property more akin to national territory that is communally owned by the tribe.
I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your philosophy but you had better not base it on the idea that the law emerged from property holding.
1) Assloads of publicity from suing Apple. Suing the fruity one always gets you some attention no matter how frivolous.
2) The precedent of defending their trademark. So if another catalog retailer ever comes along with a name that really does infringe, they can't say that TigerDirect failed to protect their TM.
In an e-mail, a leading Apple browser developer suggested that architects of the KHTML rendering engine -- the heart of a browser -- consider abandoning the KHTML code base, or "tree," in favour of Apple's version, called WebCore. KHTML was originally written to work on top of KDE (the K Desktop Environment), an interface for Linux and Unix operating systems.
"One thing you may want to consider eventually is back-porting (WebCore) to work on top of (KDE), and merging your changes into that," Apple engineer Maciej Stachowiak wrote in an e-mail dated May 5. "I think the Apple trees have seen a lot more change since the two trees diverged, although both have useful changes. We'd be open to making our tree multi-platform."
So is anyone working on this? I'm primarily a Mac developer but I'd be willing to contribute.
Someone should get a rumor going that Apple is buying Sun.
Then Steve can make a remark to a journalist that the only reason to buy Sun would be for the office space in the Valley.
Old wound but I'm still bitter about that one...
Does the article say anything about the individuals being excluded because of any actual politicking "outside the border"? Or was the sole reason which candidate was donated to?
-- America Pearl Harbored
This was definitely my experience. I bought my wife an iBook to use while she was on rotations. On OSX, I could not find a way to keep a god damn "drive mapped", or whatever the hell you call it, across a sleep. It would just disappear when it woke up. I tried both SMB and NFS to an export on my Linux system. I posted in several forums, and no one had an answer. On Windows, this "just works".
/etc/fstab or open NetInfo manager and add it to /mounts.
The way I would do this is to add "Favorites" (/Library/Favorites/) to my sidebar, then add an alias to the server to my Favorites folder (Just drag the icon of the server onto the Favorites icon in the sidebar - may have to use the icon from the titlebar of the finder window). When I want to access it, just click Favorites, then click the server icon. It will automount if necessary.
Another way to do it would be to add it to
Google for "NetInfo automount".
pstudent12, you have a history of posting this sort of tripe.
The IE language group did not originate in India (or Europe). The Wikipedia entry on indo-european is a good place to start.
Something for you to ponder: an IE language had reached Europe roughly a millennium before it reached the Indian subcontinent.
The European commission has just passed its directive on software patents, violating democratic rules and procedures to the sole benefit of big non-European corporation and Ireland
Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain why Ireland benefits from software patents?
It isn't a question of DRM vs. no DRM, its a question of 2 or 3 companies wanting to force Apple to allow them to encode FairPlay DRM'ed files. E.g. buy a song from Napster that has FairPlay and is playable on your iPod.
You won't be getting plain old MP3s from any of the commercial downloaders.
(notwithstanding the Russians, who apparently have a loophole in their laws)
Government regulation == free markets deciding now?
Is there anything this congress can't turn upside down?
No, this product certainly isn't intended to cause any!
What the hell? You mean to say that you believe that companies should be able to tell potential customers whatever the hell they want and hope they dupe some percentage of them? What is the logical conclusion of this approach? Rolling back odometers on used cars? Selling returned products as new? No, we have laws about what companies can and can't do or say, and enforcing the law is the AG's f'ing job.
I mean is it really too much to ask that companies state their intentions in plain english? If their ad campaign said "New 7 day grace period on returns" no one would be complaining. No fees means NO fees.
I'm getting a little tired of the U.S. attitude that companies should be able to get away with anything they want as long as it turns a profit. This attitude is new in the last 20 years and its disturbing. No wonder companies feel like they are divinely entitled to their profits.
You're an Anonymous Coward so I shouldn't even bother, but here goes:
- they all used their real names
- they all passed a background check
- they all had actual educations in journalism
- none of them worked for GOPUSA or any other official arm of a political party
- they all worked for well known news organizations, not some website that was online for all of 96 hours before getting a white house press pass
- none of them were plants by the administration (you know the people that pay off journalists for positive press)
- (this one is just for the ironic humor) none of them ran gay porn sites on the side, while writing gay-bashing screeds for their 'news' items
The fact that the neocons will defend this bull crap just shows that they are a bunch of unprincipled dillweeds that will say or do anything to keep power.
You seem to misunderstand the word "free".
libraries that provide FREE internet access
Libraries aren't free. They are paid for by the citizens in their districts. Think of municipal wireless as an extension of that system.
(oh, and internet cafes aren't free)
The poor have telephone service, and the government didn't buy it for them
Are you kidding? I seriously can't tell if you're just joking now. There are lots and lots of municipalities that have a government run telco. Mostly in rural areas, these days, because the for-profit phone cos. don't want to bother with them.
I see the classic fake libertarian mindset at work. Are you willing to subject your roads, sewers, electricity, phones, etc. to this 'don't take anything from me' attitude? I don't know your background but I'm willing to bet you make a living at whatever you do thanks to the public infrastructure that surrounds you. Public = society = people, us, you and me.
Access to information is coming to be a vital service, and should not be denied to anyone, even the poor. When the internet becomes the primary means of communication with your local government, it is a utility, not a luxury.
We aren't there yet, but the day is coming when digital communications replace the telephone as the preferred communication mechanism.
The infrastructure necessary to schedule an appointment with the water department, pay your taxes, download forms, etc. should not be left to profiteers.
It is also understood to apply to pre-existing Establishments of Religion. E.g. Christianity is a religious establishment.
Congress shall make no law [treating, honoring, or showing respect for] an establishment of religion [such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.], or prohibit the free exercise thereof [and showing legal favoritism for one is implicitly prohibiting in some form the free exercise of all others]
An official state exhibition of a religion such as displaying the Ten Commandments in a courtroom can be seen as prejudicial against those who practice a religion other than Christianity (or Judaism I guess?)
The Mini is Apple's next step in the direction PCs have already been taking.
NeXT Cube
Pan around in that demo. There is a screenshot (right under "THE Related", on the right) of his idea of a text editor. You hit a special function key and a semi-transparent gray window pops over the document, you type a command, hit return, and the result of the command is then printed in the gray box. In that screenshot, it says "Command S DONE". Presumably the user hit the function key, typed S, then hit return. So yes it is very much like vi.
The zooming in and out is the storage mechanism.
Who exactly are we defending them from? The Canadians and Europeans I mean... They don't need defending from any of the 4 you mentioned. And in the case of the Balkans there were European peacekeepers involved, its not like the U.S. was flying solo on that one.
What are the MPAA and RIAA doing so wrong by protecting themselves? They are in the legal and moral right here.
Whatever else may or may not be true, they certainly are not in the right when they infect people's computers with viruses. This is called vigilante justice and is most certainly NOT legally OR morally acceptable.
We have a justice system that includes such concepts as due process, and the **AA organizations have not proven themselves to be strangers to the courts up to this point.
Anyways copyright infringement is a civil matter while virus spreading is a felony. Big bad trumps little bad.
We will eventually get off our asses and get serious about alternatives to fossil fuel-internal combustion. But I can't ever see Americans giving up personal transportation. It's just too ingrained in the culture.
;-)
I really hope a biomass fuel cell powered Vette is in my future
Incorrect. English is not part of the Indo-Iranian family ('aryan' is not preferred due to association with nazi propaganda). English is a member of the Germanic family. they are basically distant cousins. Definitely related but non-intelligible.