What Microsoft are you talking about? If Google announced plans to sacrifice puppies, MS would announce plans to sacrifice at least twice as may puppies, with the goal of cornering the puppy-slaughter market.
Just read the comments at the blog you linked to. Many of the finance wonks (or wankers, I can't tell which), made it clear they thought that there was something more than a "coding error" in the ratings, most likely fraud involved. No one made an open accusation, though. Meanwhile, Moody's stock has taken it's biggest loss in 9 years since this came out.
The modding is really lame for Mapkinase's posts. He is not flamebaiting or trolling. He is calmly explaining what his beliefs are as a Muslim. He doesn't care whether we agree or not, or think he is stupid, or anything else. He is telling us what he believes, not trolling or kidding. Mapkinase accurately reflects the true beliefs and nature of Islam. He doesn't sugar coat it.
In another post he says:
It is true that we will come to your country with war, whether you want it or not. That is how we did in the past: we proposed 3 choices: accept Islam, pay jizya tax and be protected or war with us. And that is the Islamic way.
Note that there is no door number 4, and never has been one. When Islam is not strong enough to prevail in a war, it may offer a truce. A truce not peace, for there can be no peace for unbelievers who refuse to either accept Islam or, at the very least, its supremacy.
He is not kidding, either, these things are consistent with the history and practice of Islam, wherever it is dominant. If we think otherwise, we are kidding and trolling yourselves. If his beliefs and plans don't make you uneasy, you and/or your children are doomed to be a Muslim's slave.
One more thing: we have been put on notice, if I recall correctly, anything goes in Islam's war on us, if we refuse to submit.
My guess is that they will only support one command, e.g., dummy@dodo:~# rm -rf
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The rules? Haven't you heard of the Golden Rule: "He who had the gold makes the rules!" This is the "new and improved" ISO, aptly described by someone at Groklaw:
Personally, I'm still holding out for Ellen to be the final Cylon. She was too much of a mess otherwise.
Same thing occurred to me while watching the Season 1 DVD. When Ellen showed up, she said something like, she came to consciousness while already on the refugee fleet and had no idea of how she got there. Hmmh.... Furthermore, if Ellen and Tigh are both Cylons, it would help to explain why they had no children either, because two Cylons can't reproduce sexually for some reason. Finally, IIRC, it seems like D'Anna Biers/Three was absolutely shocked when she realized who the Final Cylon was. YMMV
MS has made it plain that this is an offer that Yahoo! can't refuse. As soon as I heard about MS's intent to force it, I closed my Yahoo! e-mail acct. I'd only opened it a day or two before MS made this offer, so there was nothing important there, anyway. Since MS is going to force this on Yahoo! it is only a matter of time. Plus, I'd expect that the first order of business after a takeover would be to make using Yahoo's services intolerable for BSD and Linux users, which I am. Why wait?
Not only that, but the star is 8000 light years distant, and the danger-zone was cited as 6500 light years. Even allowing for a 10% error in both figures...
There's some serious xenophobia going on here and it's hard not to sympathize with the cylons, especially the Six is custody who's constantly told that she's a worthless pile of bolts.. that must be causing some serious psychological damage, and I can't help but keep that abuse in mind when watching the "light" parts of the episodes.. as if I'm supposed to sympathize with the humans? They're more vicious than the cylons..
Would that be the same Cylons who nuked and killed several billion humans from orbit? Who set up baby farms on Caprica afterwards? Even before the attack Baltar's Six, a.k.a. Caprica Six, snapped a newborn's neck just because she felt like it and could get away with it.
The real problem, aside from patents themselves, is that patent trolls are immune to retaliation. Think about it. They have complete immunity. John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog magazine in the 1960s and 1970s had an interesting take on immunity and corruption. The old saw has it that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Campbell suggested that was wrong, that it is not power that corrupts, but immunity: "immunity corrupts and absolute immunity corrupts absolutely." If I can do anything whatsoever that comes into my head, without there being any any chance of retribution, what is there to stop me?... Nothing. Nothing at all.
Unless some way is found to make patent trolls seriously liable to massive (and probably personal) financial retribution, they will continue to sink further into parasitism and corruption... absolute corruption.
The companies who collect it from the customer (YOU & me)will need to collect more for the overhead. think 100% to 200%, so the acyual increase will be more like 1% to 2%. Adds up fast over 10s or 100s of millions of customers. Troll's investment in the research, marketing, and development? 0%, %0.00. Why is being a parasite encouraged?
Perhaps there are problems with how polls are conducted. This statistician's Jan 9 blog entry points out that pollsters routinely throw out the results of the interviews with people they consider to be unlikely voters. How do they determine likelihood?... by some formula. Thinking about it, polls are usually reported as "XY.z% of likely voters favor Sen. Lardbottom." Gelman suggests that Obama may never have actually been ahead among all voters only among the "likely" voters. Who watches the watchers?
what's a nice distro for KDE power users and developers?
Since you are a Debian user already, have you looked into Sidux? It is based on Debian Sid, but has been fairly solid for me, even though I'm no developer, or even a power user. I've used it for most of the year, since the release of "Tartaros" in May. Now, I have had problems with X breakage, but these seem to have been due to the ATI video card rather than Sid/Sidux, and I' am posting from a Sidux install. If you are a Debian power-user, you should have a fairly smooth flow down a nice stream.
Otherwise Slackware, or possibly Mepis, the latter of which is based on Debian Lenny, IIRC.
I found out about this story yesterday on (ta-da!) Google News. A little more searching (again via Google) led me to their web site. Interestingly, I could not find any information there about who constitutes the ASCAP membership. The ACAP site lacks a search tool... (surprise, surprise) so back to... Google for more searching which eventually leads to this page. No doubt Yahoo or MSN search would have led to the same findings. The Wikipedia article has a short list of the main suspects doubtless there are others like AP.
I just want to know who to add to my/etc/hosts file so that I don't accidentally view any of their sacred content. They don't want me to be able to find their stuff? Fine, I'll be happy to give 'em what they want.
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The sky is full of flying pigs! ... or... I'm hallucinating. What's the catch?
You got it right. It about more power for Big Brother, not manners. MS quit being about empowering little guys years ago.
What Microsoft are you talking about? If Google announced plans to sacrifice puppies, MS would announce plans to sacrifice at least twice as may puppies, with the goal of cornering the puppy-slaughter market.
A friend of mine used to go to this bar in his hometown. There was a sign on the mirror saying: Free Beer Tomorrow
... Tomorrow. Open Standards ... Tomorrow.
...tomorrow.
Of course there was never any free beer, and whenever he asked the bartender where the free beer was, he would just point to the sign behind him.
MS proclaims: Interoperability
And if you believe any of that, there this bar where there's going to be free beer
Just read the comments at the blog you linked to. Many of the finance wonks (or wankers, I can't tell which), made it clear they thought that there was something more than a "coding error" in the ratings, most likely fraud involved. No one made an open accusation, though. Meanwhile, Moody's stock has taken it's biggest loss in 9 years since this came out.
MacAfee, Symantec, TrendMicro, and Kaspersky get sued!
In another post he says: Note that there is no door number 4, and never has been one. When Islam is not strong enough to prevail in a war, it may offer a truce. A truce not peace, for there can be no peace for unbelievers who refuse to either accept Islam or, at the very least, its supremacy.
He is not kidding, either, these things are consistent with the history and practice of Islam, wherever it is dominant. If we think otherwise, we are kidding and trolling yourselves. If his beliefs and plans don't make you uneasy, you and/or your children are doomed to be a Muslim's slave.
One more thing: we have been put on notice, if I recall correctly, anything goes in Islam's war on us, if we refuse to submit.
Mapkinase should be modded +5 informative.
Thank you, Mapkinase. You are an honorable enemy.
Bingo. I was starting to think I was the only one awake here. Gothmolly is pulling our legs. Hmmh ... Goth... Molly ... whaddaya suppose she looks like?
My guess is that they will only support one command, e.g., dummy@dodo:~# rm -rf
8-(
The rules? Haven't you heard of the Golden Rule: "He who had the gold makes the rules!" This is the "new and improved" ISO, aptly described by someone at Groklaw:
I = I
S = Sold
O = Out
MS has made it plain that this is an offer that Yahoo! can't refuse. As soon as I heard about MS's intent to force it, I closed my Yahoo! e-mail acct. I'd only opened it a day or two before MS made this offer, so there was nothing important there, anyway. Since MS is going to force this on Yahoo! it is only a matter of time. Plus, I'd expect that the first order of business after a takeover would be to make using Yahoo's services intolerable for BSD and Linux users, which I am. Why wait?
Not only that, but the star is 8000 light years distant, and the danger-zone was cited as 6500 light years. Even allowing for a 10% error in both figures...
Paid your .docx patent tax yet? Mmm-hmmm. Got a receipt? I thought not! =\
The real problem, aside from patents themselves, is that patent trolls are immune to retaliation. Think about it. They have complete immunity. John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog magazine in the 1960s and 1970s had an interesting take on immunity and corruption. The old saw has it that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Campbell suggested that was wrong, that it is not power that corrupts, but immunity: "immunity corrupts and absolute immunity corrupts absolutely." If I can do anything whatsoever that comes into my head, without there being any any chance of retribution, what is there to stop me? ... Nothing. Nothing at all.
... absolute corruption.
Unless some way is found to make patent trolls seriously liable to massive (and probably personal) financial retribution, they will continue to sink further into parasitism and corruption
The companies who collect it from the customer (YOU & me)will need to collect more for the overhead. think 100% to 200%, so the acyual increase will be more like 1% to 2%. Adds up fast over 10s or 100s of millions of customers. Troll's investment in the research, marketing, and development? 0%, %0.00. Why is being a parasite encouraged?
more like "Zippos at five paces." Shockingly polite disagreements at that.
Interesting discussion here. Along with a couple low-temp flame-squabbles.
Perhaps there are problems with how polls are conducted. This statistician's Jan 9 blog entry points out that pollsters routinely throw out the results of the interviews with people they consider to be unlikely voters. How do they determine likelihood? ... by some formula. Thinking about it, polls are usually reported as "XY.z% of likely voters favor Sen. Lardbottom." Gelman suggests that Obama may never have actually been ahead among all voters only among the "likely" voters. Who watches the watchers?
Wasn't MS supposed to have released Lamehorn aka VISTA three--or was it four--years ago instead of last year?!!
Otherwise Slackware, or possibly Mepis, the latter of which is based on Debian Lenny, IIRC.
That was my thought, too. When their shills are making catcalls, they've stepped on it. You should be modded up.
I found out about this story yesterday on (ta-da!) Google News. A little more searching (again via Google) led me to their web site. Interestingly, I could not find any information there about who constitutes the ASCAP membership. The ACAP site lacks a search tool ... (surprise, surprise) so back to ... Google for more searching which eventually leads to this page. No doubt Yahoo or MSN search would have led to the same findings. The Wikipedia article has a short list of the main suspects doubtless there are others like AP.
/etc/hosts file so that I don't accidentally view any of their sacred content. They don't want me to be able to find their stuff? Fine, I'll be happy to give 'em what they want.
I just want to know who to add to my
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.