Dave Cutler wrote Windows NT. What does he know? Nothing. Especially if you look at the history of Unix, since it was certainly not designed by a committee of Ph.D's. It was designed, mostly, by Ken Thompson. One guy is not a committee. Not sure if Ken had a Ph.D at the time either.
It is this kind of partisan willful ignorance on the part of many that has enabled the political agenda among some to drive the notion that the US is in a severe recession caused by the ineptness and reckless irresponsibility of the Bush administration, when the US had nothing but growth in the GDP until only a month ago. If you asked most people how long they thought the economy had been shrinking for negative, they'd probably say things like, "A year? Two years?"
Megadittos.
Here's the thing. What you just said isn't true. One column I read regularly is that of Robert J. Samuelson. He's been writing about economic issues since 1977 and his column is carried several major newspapers such as the Washington Post, Newsweek, the L.A. Times and the Boston Globe. Hardly a non-mainstream guy. Go ahead, read what Samuelson has to say about the recession and its causes. Hell, read this article about the banking collapse. Many of the contributing factors were already in place well before W took office.
Now, I'm no ardent Bush supporter, and I'm definitely not a conservative in the mainstream sense of the word. But I have to agree with Samuelson because if you do the research yourself, you'll find his logic is sound.
This is what the mainstream media has touted, not that it's all Bush's fault. To sit there and play victim is exactly what Republicans and conservatives tend to do when they lose elections. It's predictable.
And why, exactly, does Simon Morris think that he, single-handedly, can do better than the folks at the IETF, most of whom have PhDs in computer science? Seems a bit presumptious, if you ask me.
Microsoft has more cash than Jesus right now. They have nothing to worry about.
Not likely. According to this website, in the year 2000 alone, American evangelical Christians raked in $2.66T (yes, that's trillion, no, that's not a typo.) If, according the site, 9% of these 'born-again' Christians tithed -- contributed 10% of their income -- then that should be about $23.94B in 2000 alone. If we count all 9 years between 2000 and 2008, and people are giving to Jesus at the same rates, I figure since 2000, Jesus must've raked in at least $200 billion or so, probably more. Let's be conservative and say the number is closer $300 billion.
That makes Microsoft's $30 billion or so in current cash (according to Google Finance) seem a bit puny in comparison, huh?
As I understand it, you can't win an appeal on a factual basis, the appeal is instead all about any procedural errors made during the main trial that could be the basis for overturning the result.
Kinda/sorta. Appeals courts don't decide the facts of the case. Appeals are about matters of procedure or law.
And as far as I can tell, the judge did everything possible to follow procedure and give SCO as much rope as they needed to hang themselves. So, on what basis is SCO going to argue their appeal? Are there any possible levers there?
Well, it's possible that SCO could argue that the judge either misinterpreted or otherwise failed to apply the law correctly in any number of areas. As far as I can see, most of these areas would probably relate to evidence that was excluded by the judge before the trial even began -- during the discovery phase.
That's if -- and only if -- SCO has the money to keep the paying the lawyers. And I believe the bankruptcy court still has the right to prevent SCO from filing any appeals until the bankruptcy is fully settled.
But hell, if we're thinking implausible nightmare scenarios, Barack Obama could have a heart attack right now, Biden and Hillary could split, the Republicans could win on that basis, McCain could have a heart attack in a couple of months, and we could be all saying "President Palin" a year from now.
Hey, could happen. Right?
No. Supposing Obama died of cardiac arrest and Biden died or refused to take office, the current sitting Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, would become president until a new president qualifies. (The specifics of how a new president qualifies are unspecified -- this would be left up to Congress)
Yes, I did reconsider Amazon purchases as this went down. But at the end of the day I shop with Amazon for the same reason I shop with WalMart -- I might have philosophical disagreements with the company, but at the end of the day they provide a damned convenient, cheap and effective way of buying what I need/want.
It's the same way I feel about FOSS vs. proprietary software -- I didn't make Linux my primary OS until it met most of my needs. I still use proprietary video drivers because they work best. I run Windows in a virtual machine on the same box because for a few (and increasingly fewer) things there is no practical complete replacement for Corel Draw or Photoshop -- well, you get the idea.
At the end of the day I need to get stuff done. If Amazon does what I need, I set aside my philosophical differences and plunk down my money. Call me a hypocrite.
Agreed. Virtualization gives you the best of all worlds and these days virtualization is cheap. The software is available either cheap (Parallels, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Fusion) or free as in beer (VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Xen) or even free as in speech (Xen, VirtualBox OSE).
As another poster point out, I didn't make any assumptions. You specifically said 'APO'. There's only one kind of post office called an 'APO' and that is a U.S. Army Post Office.;)
Thank you for your fine service to our great nation.
Well, I mentioned Argosy University particularly because my wife attends there and there is someone stationed in Afghanistan who is currently taking the same class she is. Their program is actually only partially online -- there is part that is on-campus as well.
Agreed 100%. Make a video with your webcam and then submit your story to iReport.com. Click the UploadNow! Button. CNN loves to run stories submitted by the men and women in the service. If you're lucky, they'll send Robin Mead.;)
There are members of the U.S. Armed Forces who attend college while enlisted and even while stationed overseas. Certainly you've heard of online degree programs offered by schools such as Argosy University or University of Phoenix?
Congress has the power to "regulate commerce...among the several states...." and also the power "To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
Certainly the bailout is 'provid[ing] for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.'
I have read the document. Show me one place in the document that limits the power of any branch of government from investing money.
Here are the limitations on Congress' power over money, spelled out specifically in the Constitution:
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
The bailouts are from an appropriations bill -- Congress voted to appropriate the money for the bailout. So long as that information is included in the reports of the Congressional Budget office -- well, there you go. They voted on what to spend money on, passed it into law, and then reported it back as public money spent. Right?
Where is the Constitutional violation? Show me the clause in the Constitution that prevents the Congress from doing this.
I wouldn't say that investing tax payer money is unconstitutional in the least. It's done all the time. Public-private partnerships are what bring us toll roads, 'Montesorri'-type schools, public television, public radio, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac;), etc.
Cities invest money in land all the time. How do you think you get parks or public beaches or public marinas? That is investing tax payer money.
Sorry, but there's nothing in the Constitution that precludes government at any level from purchasing anything as a taxpayer investment.
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Dave Cutler wrote Windows NT. What does he know? Nothing. Especially if you look at the history of Unix, since it was certainly not designed by a committee of Ph.D's. It was designed, mostly, by Ken Thompson. One guy is not a committee. Not sure if Ken had a Ph.D at the time either.
It is this kind of partisan willful ignorance on the part of many that has enabled the political agenda among some to drive the notion that the US is in a severe recession caused by the ineptness and reckless irresponsibility of the Bush administration, when the US had nothing but growth in the GDP until only a month ago. If you asked most people how long they thought the economy had been shrinking for negative, they'd probably say things like, "A year? Two years?"
Megadittos.
Here's the thing. What you just said isn't true. One column I read regularly is that of Robert J. Samuelson. He's been writing about economic issues since 1977 and his column is carried several major newspapers such as the Washington Post, Newsweek, the L.A. Times and the Boston Globe. Hardly a non-mainstream guy. Go ahead, read what Samuelson has to say about the recession and its causes. Hell, read this article about the banking collapse. Many of the contributing factors were already in place well before W took office.
Now, I'm no ardent Bush supporter, and I'm definitely not a conservative in the mainstream sense of the word. But I have to agree with Samuelson because if you do the research yourself, you'll find his logic is sound.
This is what the mainstream media has touted, not that it's all Bush's fault. To sit there and play victim is exactly what Republicans and conservatives tend to do when they lose elections. It's predictable.
Reality is something else entirely.
Woooooooosh.
(The single entity, is, of course, Jesus. That's why it's funny. Laugh.)
And why, exactly, does Simon Morris think that he, single-handedly, can do better than the folks at the IETF, most of whom have PhDs in computer science? Seems a bit presumptious, if you ask me.
Touche, sir! You're right. I hadn't thought of that. All right, you redneck wackos! You got two weeks! Get 'er done!
Microsoft has more cash than Jesus right now. They have nothing to worry about.
Not likely. According to this website, in the year 2000 alone, American evangelical Christians raked in $2.66T (yes, that's trillion, no, that's not a typo.) If, according the site, 9% of these 'born-again' Christians tithed -- contributed 10% of their income -- then that should be about $23.94B in 2000 alone. If we count all 9 years between 2000 and 2008, and people are giving to Jesus at the same rates, I figure since 2000, Jesus must've raked in at least $200 billion or so, probably more. Let's be conservative and say the number is closer $300 billion.
That makes Microsoft's $30 billion or so in current cash (according to Google Finance) seem a bit puny in comparison, huh?
As I understand it, you can't win an appeal on a factual basis, the appeal is instead all about any procedural errors made during the main trial that could be the basis for overturning the result.
Kinda/sorta. Appeals courts don't decide the facts of the case. Appeals are about matters of procedure or law.
And as far as I can tell, the judge did everything possible to follow procedure and give SCO as much rope as they needed to hang themselves. So, on what basis is SCO going to argue their appeal? Are there any possible levers there?
Well, it's possible that SCO could argue that the judge either misinterpreted or otherwise failed to apply the law correctly in any number of areas. As far as I can see, most of these areas would probably relate to evidence that was excluded by the judge before the trial even began -- during the discovery phase.
That's if -- and only if -- SCO has the money to keep the paying the lawyers. And I believe the bankruptcy court still has the right to prevent SCO from filing any appeals until the bankruptcy is fully settled.
But hell, if we're thinking implausible nightmare scenarios, Barack Obama could have a heart attack right now, Biden and Hillary could split, the Republicans could win on that basis, McCain could have a heart attack in a couple of months, and we could be all saying "President Palin" a year from now.
Hey, could happen. Right?
No. Supposing Obama died of cardiac arrest and Biden died or refused to take office, the current sitting Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, would become president until a new president qualifies. (The specifics of how a new president qualifies are unspecified -- this would be left up to Congress)
Comments link works for me...
I propose a way to show that Linux is an OS for rebels. Maybe a little guy with horns and a pitchfork to show how we're a little bit evi....
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Oh, come on now. That was obviously a joke. I've had an Amazon account for years now and I buy much more from there than just books.
Does B&N give me the option to buy with 1-click? No! See? Amazon is more convenient! :-P
Huh. And to think here I was starting to wonder what the collectors were going to do to protect their computers.
Wha? I can't be the only person to think this when I read the headline!
Yes, I did reconsider Amazon purchases as this went down. But at the end of the day I shop with Amazon for the same reason I shop with WalMart -- I might have philosophical disagreements with the company, but at the end of the day they provide a damned convenient, cheap and effective way of buying what I need/want.
It's the same way I feel about FOSS vs. proprietary software -- I didn't make Linux my primary OS until it met most of my needs. I still use proprietary video drivers because they work best. I run Windows in a virtual machine on the same box because for a few (and increasingly fewer) things there is no practical complete replacement for Corel Draw or Photoshop -- well, you get the idea.
At the end of the day I need to get stuff done. If Amazon does what I need, I set aside my philosophical differences and plunk down my money. Call me a hypocrite.
Agreed. Virtualization gives you the best of all worlds and these days virtualization is cheap. The software is available either cheap (Parallels, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Fusion) or free as in beer (VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Xen) or even free as in speech (Xen, VirtualBox OSE).
As another poster point out, I didn't make any assumptions. You specifically said 'APO'. There's only one kind of post office called an 'APO' and that is a U.S. Army Post Office. ;)
Thank you for your fine service to our great nation.
Right. But I have to wonder how he submitted a story to Slashdot...
Argosy's psychology program is very reputable.
Well, I mentioned Argosy University particularly because my wife attends there and there is someone stationed in Afghanistan who is currently taking the same class she is. Their program is actually only partially online -- there is part that is on-campus as well.
Agreed 100%. Make a video with your webcam and then submit your story to iReport.com. Click the UploadNow! Button. CNN loves to run stories submitted by the men and women in the service. If you're lucky, they'll send Robin Mead. ;)
There are members of the U.S. Armed Forces who attend college while enlisted and even while stationed overseas. Certainly you've heard of online degree programs offered by schools such as Argosy University or University of Phoenix?
Congress has the power to "regulate commerce...among the several states...." and also the power "To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
Certainly the bailout is 'provid[ing] for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.'
Bah. Python is just Lisp with wacky syntax.
I have read the document. Show me one place in the document that limits the power of any branch of government from investing money.
Here are the limitations on Congress' power over money, spelled out specifically in the Constitution:
The bailouts are from an appropriations bill -- Congress voted to appropriate the money for the bailout. So long as that information is included in the reports of the Congressional Budget office -- well, there you go. They voted on what to spend money on, passed it into law, and then reported it back as public money spent. Right?
Where is the Constitutional violation? Show me the clause in the Constitution that prevents the Congress from doing this.
I wouldn't say that investing tax payer money is unconstitutional in the least. It's done all the time. Public-private partnerships are what bring us toll roads, 'Montesorri'-type schools, public television, public radio, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ;), etc.
Cities invest money in land all the time. How do you think you get parks or public beaches or public marinas? That is investing tax payer money.
Sorry, but there's nothing in the Constitution that precludes government at any level from purchasing anything as a taxpayer investment.