As long as nuclear missiles exist that are capable of being used against us, the SLBM is the *BEST* offensive/defense we have to deter the enemy. You can find our land based silo's pretty quick, and with planning, put enough land based terror-bombs nearby to render them ineffective. Same with our aircraft based weapons.
REmember that there's also radio protocol handshaking going on with your local cell towers, stuff that's happening in real time when your phone is already on.
If it's true, and it's an editorial, I don't see how they can be sued. Or rather, how they can win. Yes, I know a lawsuit can be brought by anyone against anyone in this country...
I can count on *one* hand the number of people I know who've bought into MD over the past 5 years. I can count at least the same number who've purchased into D-VHS, which is A) significantly newer, and B) significantly more expensive.
I'd consider MD a slightly less spectacular marketing failure than Betamax. But we can agree to disagree on this one.;-)
Last I checked, there's no right to breath free air in the Constitution either. Doesn't mean I have given up that right.
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Get that, reserved by the people. Nice little catch-all Amendment.
No, but overturning a SCOTUS decision is a major pain in the ass, requiring some 2/3rd's majority of state legistatures to pass an Constitutional amendment. Something that has happened only 17 times in the history of the U.S. (27 amendments, 1 bill of rights).
Right, and the SBSC is the same organization that said, and I quote:
This decision by EU antitrust regulators actually hurts consumers – including the countless number of small businesses that use Microsoft products – by raising costs for the software company and by limiting the firm’s ability to innovate.
and
Microsoft did not gain its market share through some government handout. It earned its place in the market because it served consumers well. And if it fails to do so in the future, the company will most assuredly lose market share to current or future competitors.
Rebuttal:
Raises costs for a company with record margins and cash balances who doesn't have to compete on price because of lockin and predatory licensing schemes.
Monopolized the market because it served consumers well, not because it was found guilty of anti-competitive behavior, predatory OEM licensing schemes, and perjury.
Mmm.. we need a Troll-of-the-Year-Award for these bastards. How do you reason with people who A) feel there's no need to provide sources, and B) rewrite history.
Some of my best role-playing moments were getting shot by yellow citizens who caught me levitating red citizens over pits of fire for traitorous plots against Friend Computer!
no what really pissed me off about working on cars, is that it's often required that I use both Metric and Imperial. Replacing a windshield wiper motor required no less than 5 different sockets to remove it, only 3 of which were metric.
From what I've read, the SSME maintenance rebuilds are the single largest per-launch refurbishment cost. I can't imagine that replacing 20,000 tiles comes anywhere near the complexity of maintaining a powerplant that's routinely driven at 110% of it's rated design power. 3 of them, no less.
More importantly, to me and the companies that I do business with, it is vital that I not put myself at the mercy of a company who could become my competitor.
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It's called jabber, and it's pretty robust. Open source to boot...
Right. Microsoft has a hard enough time doing this, and they wrote the fscking OS...
As long as nuclear missiles exist that are capable of being used against us, the SLBM is the *BEST* offensive/defense we have to deter the enemy. You can find our land based silo's pretty quick, and with planning, put enough land based terror-bombs nearby to render them ineffective. Same with our aircraft based weapons.
You will *NEVER* find all 15 of our submarines.
And why is this a "Good Thing" for steel?
REmember that there's also radio protocol handshaking going on with your local cell towers, stuff that's happening in real time when your phone is already on.
If it's true, and it's an editorial, I don't see how they can be sued. Or rather, how they can win. Yes, I know a lawsuit can be brought by anyone against anyone in this country...
... when it was called X Window System.
I'm not sure if any multiuser graphical windows systems preceded X, I'm not old enough to remember.
Citrix took the X foundation and added useful features like local file and printer sharing.
WTF is NX?
And we'll all go back to using IRC.
Which is the answer anyway.
I can count on *one* hand the number of people I know who've bought into MD over the past 5 years. I can count at least the same number who've purchased into D-VHS, which is A) significantly newer, and B) significantly more expensive.
;-)
I'd consider MD a slightly less spectacular marketing failure than Betamax. But we can agree to disagree on this one.
Last I checked, there's no right to breath free air in the Constitution either. Doesn't mean I have given up that right.
Amendment X:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Get that, reserved by the people. Nice little catch-all Amendment.
A bit naive perhaps...
No, but overturning a SCOTUS decision is a major pain in the ass, requiring some 2/3rd's majority of state legistatures to pass an Constitutional amendment. Something that has happened only 17 times in the history of the U.S. (27 amendments, 1 bill of rights).
Considering that I picked 4 deg. C for just that reason (water is at it's most dense). :-)
Or not. See, that's where the beer comes in. You give me beer, and I'll support your Linux machine. ;-)
So for me, Linux == Free Beer.
If you really think that's true, and you're a U.S. Citizen, I await your voluntary revokation of your citizenship and emigration to some other Nation.
I got a few more.
:-)
DAT, Mini-disc, betamax.
Will they never learn?
Thank you.
1 kg of water (H2O) at 0 deg. C consumes significantly more volume than than 1kg of water at 4 deg. C.
Right, and the SBSC is the same organization that said, and I quote:
This decision by EU antitrust regulators actually hurts consumers – including the countless number of small businesses that use Microsoft products – by raising costs for the software company and by limiting the firm’s ability to innovate.
and
Microsoft did not gain its market share through some government handout. It earned its place in the market because it served consumers well. And if it fails to do so in the future, the company will most assuredly lose market share to current or future competitors.
Rebuttal:
Raises costs for a company with record margins and cash balances who doesn't have to compete on price because of lockin and predatory licensing schemes.
Monopolized the market because it served consumers well, not because it was found guilty of anti-competitive behavior, predatory OEM licensing schemes, and perjury.
Mmm.. we need a Troll-of-the-Year-Award for these bastards. How do you reason with people who A) feel there's no need to provide sources, and B) rewrite history.
Hells yeah!!!!
Some of my best role-playing moments were getting shot by yellow citizens who caught me levitating red citizens over pits of fire for traitorous plots against Friend Computer!
As if an organization called "Center for Moral Defense of Capitalism" can be independent...
no what really pissed me off about working on cars, is that it's often required that I use both Metric and Imperial. Replacing a windshield wiper motor required no less than 5 different sockets to remove it, only 3 of which were metric.
Who'dathunkit?
At what temperature?
Nuclear missiles. I'd very much worry about the French. I surely don't expect them to capitulate as easily (readily) as they did in WWII.
From what I've read, the SSME maintenance rebuilds are the single largest per-launch refurbishment cost. I can't imagine that replacing 20,000 tiles comes anywhere near the complexity of maintaining a powerplant that's routinely driven at 110% of it's rated design power. 3 of them, no less.
More importantly, to me and the companies that I do business with, it is vital that I not put myself at the mercy of a company who could become my competitor.