Look at what those Liberal Arts bastards are doing to Science! Shoo Shoo! Out of the lab, all of you, stop sniffing those chemicals, put that down! If one more of you even suggests that gravity is just the man keeping us down I will kill each and every one of you!
Exactly! I mean really now...where are the articles about the rights of slave owners too! I mean we talk about freeing the slaves and all this, but what about the people who paid for those slaves! They have rights!
Seems to me we have been down this road of the "rights" of the abusive assholes in the past. More often than not it doesn't end well for the abusive asshole. Unfortunately a great deal of people get abused before it ends. Company Towns is another good example...
1. The commander can not declare illegal things legal. They can make more restrictions, not less. Illegal is illegal, and while it is a bit of a stretch to compare this to the torture, your statement is applicable. Just because the torture was commander sanctioned does not make it legal. This is where the whole concept of an illegal order comes from. So no, commanders do NOT have some magical power of "I do what I want".
2. Can't say that I am thrilled about it, but that is the locals not the military so not my issue. However, I do have a problem with the plethora of morons that go buy electronic gadgets there and then use them. 2 way radios, thumb drives, software, etc. I have seriously seen morons buy those stupid 2 way radios and then after an attack sit and talk about the fucking attack on those instead of the secure radios provided. Its like they want to get themselves killed. "Here, because you guys can't really see what you hit because you had to launch and run, we are going to go ahead and broadcast the damage report for you so you can pick up the same brand radio from your friends selling them and know exactly where to shoot next time". I'm sorry, but this is a war, not a fucking playground.
3. Because when you play the same 5Meg mp3 18 times in a day it copies that 5M 18 times. Now multiply that out by everyone doing it all day long. So yes, it uses a huge amount of bandwidth. The network is there to be used for military operations. Swapping movies, music, and cracked games is NOT its intended use. Nevermind the tremendous security issue in using cracked software. Cuz you know, those warez folks never put anything nefarious in, they are such fine upstanding law abiding citizens and all. And all virus scanning software is miracle stuff that can actually detect all custom written code without signatures and so on...I have heard all this nonsense before.
I suppose you would let the two local arabic guys on base with the big metal drum because they said they just want to bring a keg in for the troops right? I mean its all in good fun and we are there to enjoy ourselves, not actually, you know, complete any missions or anything. Its all good, the commander said we can ignore general order 1. And hey, look, they even brought us some pirate DVDs, nothing has ever infected a computer on a DVD right? I mean after all, the locals of the country we are occupying said it was ok when they gave it to us. As we all know terrorists, their associates, and the people they coerce are all clearly labeled and easily identified as people that want to help do bad things to us. Wait...maybe I have that backwards...maybe we are the ones that are all clearly labeled with our uniforms and such and THEY are the ones that are hiding in the civilian populace and nearly impossible to detect until it is too late... I could be confused I guess...
That sounds pretty much exactly like what I said. Users don't do what they are supposed to. I am sure if I really felt the need I could go find the regs that prohibited that stuff dated from years ago. As far as the "In Iraq" thing the legality of that media server is about 0. Now, with that server existing on a government network not only are you violating the law, you are violating a fist full of regulations. These are just examples of shit not operating the way it was intended, not that it wasn't intended to be that way.
I was that asshole that would go unplug the network cable of the media server to watch all the HDD lights go out...and then wait 5-10 minutes and plug it back in and watch all the lights light up. It was amusing because noone could "officially" complain "Hey, that illegal stuff I was doing...you aren't letting me do it anymore". I just got sick of everyone playing the movies and music off the damned server instead of copying it. If you are going to make my life hell due to the legality and security because you managed to whine at my boss enough the least you could do is not fuck up the network while doing it.
1. If the administration was as clueless and incompetent as you claim would they have succeeded in all of their nefarious agendas? Clearly, they are not clueless and incompetent, just assholes that managed to con a bunch of people into going along. Go watch The Usual Suspects, clueless and incompetent or genious con man. Who is Kaiser Sose?!
2. The second part is more important to my point of them being mutually exclusive. You are right in that they aren't really mutually exclusive so long as you admit that the people getting screwed by the evil plans and deception are in fact even more clueless and incompetent than the ones doing the decieving. Now, I am ready and willing to accept that. However, it still leaves you in a situation with extreme idiots calling moderate idiots the "evil and incompetent ones", when it was the extreme idiots that allowed the moderate idiots to be in charge. This forces you to accept that the extreme idiot is somehow more qualified to make intelligent observations than the moderate idiot, which pretty much turns the whole damned thing upside down.
3. The Bush administration is not military. In fact, pretty much all of those worthless pricks managed to weasel out of real military service. The military even tried to give Dubya the boot long before the extreme idiots that are now bitching put him in charge of the military.
Slashdot bans vague sensationalist stories from Wired and Fox.
There is nothing about this story that is really news. Viruses and the like are always a problem. Bad user behavior is always a problem. And this "unprecedented ban" is nonsense. Now, maybe actually enforcing it for the Army may be news, but external media on government networks has been a big nono for a long time unless it was purchased by the government for government use. That whole bring your own crap from home has always been something you weren't supposed to do. The DoD has had the deal for government employees to get free anti-virus software for ages to help curb these types of problems for ages.
God I hate Wired stories about the military. I am convinced that the first time Wired actually has a story relating to military networks that has more than a 10% basis in reality without all of their typical bullshit hand waving the 7th seal of hell will open and demons will come to devour the Earth. I am also a little surprised to see a link to Fox news on front page slashdot. Remember people, these are the same assholes that had hackers making van's explode. Now suddenly they are worthy of front page links on a geek news page?
The record will show that not even the military really claimed him until the voters said they had to call him boss.
Military tried to kick him out.
The populace gave him the highest job in the land.
Listening to the populace blame the military and call them stupid...priceless.
I can't for the life of me figure that anti-military nonsense out. How the hell can people maintain 1. The military is a huge evil system hell bent on massive deception and evil lies while also maintaining 2. The military is a bunch of clueless incompetents that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The only thing I can get out of this is the people trying to maintian this kind of nonsense are actually saying "We are the biggest bunch of braindead morons for being so easily decieved by a bunch of incompentent fools".
Honestly, from my experience I would almost expect things to have gone the other direction from what you lay out. The Captain/Major says "We need a photo of Gen Whosits, but she is too busy for us. Go dig up a picture of her and make it look like a nice handout picture". Given that you can walk into almost any government building and see pictures of the entire chain of command for that organization all the way up to the President, and almost every one of those photos are identical with the person sitting in front of a flag with perfect lighting etc... My guess it was downward directed because the Gen was too busy to actually stop to have one of these pictures done so they found an existing picture and turned it into one of these.
For all their college education so many of the stupid ideas come from the officers...poor enlisted folk just get blamed for the execution of such goofball ideas.
Clayton act is indeed the act that was meant to deal with the tying issue. It just is very specific about the situations where it applies and this is certainly not one of them. The contracts refered to in the Sherman Act deal specifically with "trusts". Not contracts deailing with sales like this. In fact, it isn't even meant to stop monopolies. Only monopolies that use their position to artificially maintain their position through anticompetitive behavior. Again...absolutely no application to Apples behavior here.
Personally I am not thrilled that Apple has chosen this route. However, in light of the constant bashing MS gets for their shitty OS I can see why. Most Windows problems are related to shitty device drivers. So...by saying "You can only use our hardware" they largely skip the whole problem of shitty 3rd party bullshit drivers causing your OS to flake out. This makes their OS look WAY better in terms of stability because it doesn't have so many driver issues. So the loss in sales they suffer by not allowing it to run on cheap PC hardware is probably made up in their image of reliability. Apple is not doing anything even remotely illegal by saying you can only use their hardware. If they really wanted to be anal retentive assholes they could make it a royal pain in the ass to purchase their software by proving you own their hardware. Cisco is under no obligation to give me copies of their IOS unless I own their hardware. Apple is just kind enough to put the disk in a box and slap a sticker on it and put it on a shelf so their customers can get their upgrades easily. But people like Psystar insisting that they can trample on the rights of Apple because they want to make a quick buck force Apple to either defend their rights in court, or retract and make getting your OS upgrades as much of a pain in the dick as MS does with keys and authentications and activations and all of that other silly bullshit. In case you aren't aware OSX doesn't ask for silly bullshit key codes and activations and all that. They would be well within their right to force activation to prove that it is running on Apple hardware, but they don't.
Go buy a Cisco switch...take the copy of IOS and make it run on a cheap HP Procurve device. Then sell that Procurve for a fraction of the cost of a real Cisco device while advertising that it is running Cisco software. You let me know how fast the Cisco lawyers show up and how far they manage to stretch your entrails out when they pull your spine out of your ass in the court room. Hey, after all, all you have to do is get your hands on a Cisco support contract that authorizes you IOS upgrades right?
Part of the OSX cost is rolled into the Apple hardware you purchased to run it, so when you are buying an upgrade that is all you are buying, an upgrade to the OS that you purchased with your hardware. What Psystar is doing isn't much different than purchasing Windows Upgrade disks and selling them as full OSs and then screaming about how its their right to steal from Apple to make a quick buck. Again...this is all masked by Apple not being complete douches to their customers and forcing you to store and enter a half dozen product activation codes and other such bullshit. Look at what you are actually purchasing when you buy an OS X package. You aren't buyin a full OS, but that is what Psystar is claiming. Go compare the price between the Single User and Family Pack OS X upgrades. You can't honestly tell me that you believe that they would sell a full rights OS for $110 and then let you buy 4 more copies for $70 more. It is nothing more than a license to upgrade your OS that you got with your Apple hardware and a nice disk without activation bullshit to make your life easy. So either buy a Mac so you can have OSX or buy a PC with the understanding that Apple does not sell an OS for your hardware.
Either way, no anti-trust laws even begin to apply to what Apple is doing. They aren't a monopoly. They aren't doing things to artificially maintain their position. If they want to do business that way then they can. The anti-trust laws even explicitely state that monopolies that arise because they were the best are perfectly legit.
Go read the Clayton Act. The tying stuff is not illegal. It is only a problem when it lessens competition. If anything, Apple tying their OS to their Hardware increases competition because it limits the number of places OSX can actually compete and their hardware is nothing terribly unique in terms of capabilities. They don't have anywhere near enough of a market share to be have anyone but a zealot convinced that their tying is hurting competition. Tying also typically only comes into play with unrelated goods. Them saying that you have to use their hardware to run their OS is quite a stretch to consider that a tying arrangement as far as legal problems go. If anything the non Apple market is more guilty of that because in most cases I am forced to purchase the undesired Windows install if I want to purchase a PC.
Now...again, the licensing thing is a bit different. When you purchase a book you are effectively licensing the material of that book. Sure, you have a physical book that you can loan, sell, rent, share, whatever. Without getting into stupid exceptions like reading over shoulders, only one person can make use of said book at any given time. This all works perfectly naturally with software as well and is ultimately what that First Sale business with AutoCAD was about. The original owner can indeed transfer those rights to a new owner. Big deal. However, when you purchase a book you do not own the contents of that book. That is where copyright comes in. You cannot sell tapes of you reading the book. You cannot reproduce the book and distribute copies. So again no, you can't do whatever you want with anything you purchase. Now I agree that many businesses try to abuse that and wind up treating their customers like criminals, but it is a bunch of self absorbed consumers that believe the whole "I do what I want" crap. Consumers need to be protected for a market to work, but so do businesses. A market can't function when noone is willing to sell to a bunch of shit head consumers out to screw them.
It is most certainly not using an illegal tying arrangement. They get to dictate the terms of usage for their creation. The price that they sell it for is a direct reflection of their hardware restrictions. If you don't like their terms, don't buy their stuff. They make no secret that it requires Apple hardware. They are up front, this is simple contract law. You do not get to just scream and cry "illegal" because you don't like the terms. It just means you don't enter the contract. That simple. Noone is holding a gun to your head saying "You have to use OSX, and you have to buy Apple gear to do it!". I am so sick of this modern whiney bullshit like everyone owes you something. Don't like their terms? Tell them to screw off by not purchasing their stuff.
I suspect you would bitch and moan if they sold an OS X install box for $2000 that said "Because you insist on using this on unsupported hardware you will be paying out the ass for our risk to reputation by your crybaby crap when it doesn't work as advertised ON OUR HARDWARE. Please do not call support because you are not eligble. We are a hardware company that has built software to help sell that hardware. We are not interested in supporting your use of our software on hardware that wasn't built by us. Have a nice day".
Their hardware. Their Software. Their Rules. Don't like them? Don't give them YOUR money. But just becaues you don't like how they do business does not give you some inherent right to steal their shit. And in fact...you are wrong about your Clorox. Go look at the labels for those household chemicals. Almost ALL of them state very clearly that your ass can be held liable for not using them in ways consistent with the labeling.
I blame all of my hardware problems on software too...
Seriously, going through that list I see. Fire, lots of fires. Two instances of computer failure due to faulty hardware. A few landing gear hardware problems. A dash of pilot error or otherwise bad luck. And a rather unfortunate bird strike on a weak section of a wing (that was later redesigned because of this event IIRC).
I am curious as to what you are trying to insinuate by linking to crashes due to these issues next to the software....
Let me explain this as clear as I possibly can. These guys DO check for rings. The ring indicates that they are more likely to have a no hastle sexual encounter if they can get one. Infidelity is so popular these days and your fellow women have done such a fantastic job of showing that a ring really does mean little more than indicate a lack of hastle after the fact.
That said, I am generally more likely to chat with the women I work with for different reasons. First, with the plethora of such high caliber guys *cough* they frequently need a friend that isn't going to be trying to sleep with them. It also makes for coworkers you can trust a bit more with being team players and mutual goals. Also, having the perspective of a female that you aren't sleeping with can be a fairly valuable thing for dealing with the female you are sleeping with. Now, I will readily admit that eye candy is nice (don't bitch, we are genetically wired that way), but it doesn't exactly take a whole lot of self control to not be a creepy prick about it. I have also learned that a women comfortable in her work place can easily be just as disturbing or dirty as any guy around. I think the oversensitive treatment of women in the workplace leads to part of these problems in the first place. Even outside of not having been single in a long while, getting involved with coworkers is a patently bad idea anyways. I think the other problem is even the non creepy guys will still often hold women they work with as a possibility.
Ok now I can tell you are just a pirate shill. First you admit that you are a pirate in the first place. Then you try and talk dirty about Starforce claiming one pirated copy was multiple lost sales. Here is some news for you asshole, one pirated copy IS multiple lost sales. You dirty pirates don't have to buy new copies of the game after your online activations are used up, you don't have to buy new copies of the game if it gets scratched and it can't validate the CD. So yes...one pirated copy IS multiple lost sales.
Just because you are some kind of communist hippy douche waiting for handouts for giving out your "creations" for free doesn't mean the rest of us are interested. My primary motivation is that I enjoy having food, clothing, and shelter. Of those I only ever see those commie hippies even come close to getting one of those right, they grow stuff, but it usually isn't food.
Everyone should be thrilled with DRM! It keeps us paying $50 for $20 games instead of paying $100 for $20 games because those poor starving developers are having their works stolen from them!
Yes...instead our anus is next to our sex organs which ALSO double as waste disposal. I think this clearly shows that the Bible is indeed true and that we were made in the dark. Thankfully he is a kinda and merciful God and our arms are long enough to reach those organs. Further proof is in that women got the whole multiple orgasm thing, NOTHING would ever get done if men had that.
THANK YOU! My perspective on this has always been that man wrote the Bible. Regardless of whether it was inspired by God or not, it was man that did the writing. So...even assuming that there is some God that told some individual what to write for the whole Genesis business you have to look at it from a different angle. Have you ever tried explaining molecular biology, advanced physics, and geology to a 3 yr old? It wasn't even until recently that we even had a workable idea on the geologic processes that drive our little spinning blue ball.
Genesis just boils down a very long and complex "creation" process into "Yes, I made it all, and then you, and then you started doing the nasty and made more of you. Look how smart I am that I made a mechanism that you can continue making more of you without me getting more dirt together to do it each time."
The funniest thing is all the bitching I hear about science crying about the religions saying "we were made from dust". THAT IS TRUE! It is scientifically true. Our wonderful little skin sacks are made of predominately the same elements that dirt is. Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, etc. Almost EVERYTHING in any religions creation myths can be tied to scientific explanations written in terribly simplistic form. It is just the literalists on both sides that insist on interpreting it in children's story book mode. It frightens me when so many "scientists" are so unable to read literature and examine it in terms of cultural and historical contexts and apply scientific interpretations to it. I expect that out of fundamentalists, not people who are supposed to be educated.
Most of the rules for the Jewish people handed down by God are seem fairly simple to explain. Disease was not disease then, it was punishment by God. So...when you did things that made you sick you were being punished by God for doing them. Eating the wrong things. Preparing food the wrong way. Sticking things in dirty places. Before antibacterial soap and regular bathing sodomy was a great way to pick up a wonderful array of disease like E.Coli. So...back door = get sick and die translates into God doesn't approve.
1. Because most of my post deals with nature, the "hollywood asshole" piece was only to address that whiney bleeding heart crap that tries to deny that nature is a cruel survival game where there is never a winner and losing is death.
2. Those "hollywood assholes" are more practiced liars and to claim what they do is "research" is stretching it pretty far. Anecdotal evidence is weak, but claiming hollywood does research and doesn't make their money by being lying hypocritical assholes is laughable at best.
No...The modern Democratic party can trace its roots to the Democratic-Republican which isn't quite the same thing. Besides that, my point has to do with the party name based voting rather than any particular claimed ideals or history of a party. So how the parties evolved has nothing to do with the fact that people these days team vote based on a name rather than individual performance.
Well as your other responder posted the charge was led by a DEMOCRAT. Again, I have no love for Republicans, especially the modern neocon type. However, your mindless hatred is getting in the way of your judgement of the truth and that kind of "oh it's all their fault" behavior is what dooms us to continue to elect the same idiot assholes to run the show based on what letter they tack on to their name. So yes...let us all run out and vote for the other idiot assholes because they have a different letter. Pay no attention to the fact that they have just as much of a nightmarish track record.
Eisenhower and Truman were two of our greatest presidents. A Republican and a Democrat.
Bush Jr and Carter have been two of our worst presidents. A Republican and a Democrat.
Thomas Jefferson was one of our greatets politicians and presidents. A Democratic-Republican (Holy shit! Both letters!?)
Can we please get over this party line bullshit now?
Now, to a degree I can sympathize, but survival of the fittest! I bet you don't take the same bleeding heart approach towards the myraid of viruses that can wipe out huge swathes of our population with little notice and have done so over the past. Thus far we have survived these onslaughts and either outright destroyed the competing lifeform or contained it. The universe is not some shiney happy place where man, chicken, and cow all hold hands and sing kumbaya while they all starve to death because they are too upset to eat anything that is alive. Nature is a vicious vicious thing. Go look at sea creatures that have had a much longer time to compete in their environment. The deadliest toxins in the world are from sea critters. A jelly fish the size of your fingernail can kill you in a frighteningly short time span. Humans developed technology to fill the evolutionary gap of things like not having necrotic claws, venomous bites, stingers, etc. You either adapt and survive or die. Humans are not immune to this law.
This does not justify treating animals like shit because we eat them. But every time some hippy shit points out that stupid hollywood asshole's movie about farms I want to beat their heads in with a cattle prod. I have been around a great number of farms growing up and NONE of them were like that. I have no doubt that there are shitty commercial farms that do behave that way, but it is most certainly not the norm.
Raising animals to be eaten is not even remotely the same thing as animal cruelty. Even come slaughter time most of those animals are treated more humanely than they would be in the wild. We at least give them a quick death. I seriously doubt that pack of wolves cares much about how long it takes the animal to die or how much it suffers while they start tearing its flesh off.
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Look at what those Liberal Arts bastards are doing to Science! Shoo Shoo! Out of the lab, all of you, stop sniffing those chemicals, put that down! If one more of you even suggests that gravity is just the man keeping us down I will kill each and every one of you!
Well duh, of course cell phones are not made this way, which is why the iPhone is so superior.
Clearly you have not installed Vista Ultimate if you have never seen a computer make a power-grab.
Exactly! I mean really now...where are the articles about the rights of slave owners too! I mean we talk about freeing the slaves and all this, but what about the people who paid for those slaves! They have rights!
Seems to me we have been down this road of the "rights" of the abusive assholes in the past. More often than not it doesn't end well for the abusive asshole. Unfortunately a great deal of people get abused before it ends. Company Towns is another good example...
You have been chosen to be executed in the most disturbing and painful way possible for crimes against humanity.
1. The commander can not declare illegal things legal. They can make more restrictions, not less. Illegal is illegal, and while it is a bit of a stretch to compare this to the torture, your statement is applicable. Just because the torture was commander sanctioned does not make it legal. This is where the whole concept of an illegal order comes from. So no, commanders do NOT have some magical power of "I do what I want".
2. Can't say that I am thrilled about it, but that is the locals not the military so not my issue. However, I do have a problem with the plethora of morons that go buy electronic gadgets there and then use them. 2 way radios, thumb drives, software, etc. I have seriously seen morons buy those stupid 2 way radios and then after an attack sit and talk about the fucking attack on those instead of the secure radios provided. Its like they want to get themselves killed. "Here, because you guys can't really see what you hit because you had to launch and run, we are going to go ahead and broadcast the damage report for you so you can pick up the same brand radio from your friends selling them and know exactly where to shoot next time". I'm sorry, but this is a war, not a fucking playground.
3. Because when you play the same 5Meg mp3 18 times in a day it copies that 5M 18 times. Now multiply that out by everyone doing it all day long. So yes, it uses a huge amount of bandwidth. The network is there to be used for military operations. Swapping movies, music, and cracked games is NOT its intended use. Nevermind the tremendous security issue in using cracked software. Cuz you know, those warez folks never put anything nefarious in, they are such fine upstanding law abiding citizens and all. And all virus scanning software is miracle stuff that can actually detect all custom written code without signatures and so on...I have heard all this nonsense before.
I suppose you would let the two local arabic guys on base with the big metal drum because they said they just want to bring a keg in for the troops right? I mean its all in good fun and we are there to enjoy ourselves, not actually, you know, complete any missions or anything. Its all good, the commander said we can ignore general order 1. And hey, look, they even brought us some pirate DVDs, nothing has ever infected a computer on a DVD right? I mean after all, the locals of the country we are occupying said it was ok when they gave it to us. As we all know terrorists, their associates, and the people they coerce are all clearly labeled and easily identified as people that want to help do bad things to us. Wait...maybe I have that backwards...maybe we are the ones that are all clearly labeled with our uniforms and such and THEY are the ones that are hiding in the civilian populace and nearly impossible to detect until it is too late... I could be confused I guess...
That sounds pretty much exactly like what I said. Users don't do what they are supposed to. I am sure if I really felt the need I could go find the regs that prohibited that stuff dated from years ago. As far as the "In Iraq" thing the legality of that media server is about 0. Now, with that server existing on a government network not only are you violating the law, you are violating a fist full of regulations. These are just examples of shit not operating the way it was intended, not that it wasn't intended to be that way.
I was that asshole that would go unplug the network cable of the media server to watch all the HDD lights go out...and then wait 5-10 minutes and plug it back in and watch all the lights light up. It was amusing because noone could "officially" complain "Hey, that illegal stuff I was doing...you aren't letting me do it anymore". I just got sick of everyone playing the movies and music off the damned server instead of copying it. If you are going to make my life hell due to the legality and security because you managed to whine at my boss enough the least you could do is not fuck up the network while doing it.
1. If the administration was as clueless and incompetent as you claim would they have succeeded in all of their nefarious agendas? Clearly, they are not clueless and incompetent, just assholes that managed to con a bunch of people into going along. Go watch The Usual Suspects, clueless and incompetent or genious con man. Who is Kaiser Sose?!
2. The second part is more important to my point of them being mutually exclusive. You are right in that they aren't really mutually exclusive so long as you admit that the people getting screwed by the evil plans and deception are in fact even more clueless and incompetent than the ones doing the decieving. Now, I am ready and willing to accept that. However, it still leaves you in a situation with extreme idiots calling moderate idiots the "evil and incompetent ones", when it was the extreme idiots that allowed the moderate idiots to be in charge. This forces you to accept that the extreme idiot is somehow more qualified to make intelligent observations than the moderate idiot, which pretty much turns the whole damned thing upside down.
3. The Bush administration is not military. In fact, pretty much all of those worthless pricks managed to weasel out of real military service. The military even tried to give Dubya the boot long before the extreme idiots that are now bitching put him in charge of the military.
Slashdot bans vague sensationalist stories from Wired and Fox.
There is nothing about this story that is really news. Viruses and the like are always a problem. Bad user behavior is always a problem. And this "unprecedented ban" is nonsense. Now, maybe actually enforcing it for the Army may be news, but external media on government networks has been a big nono for a long time unless it was purchased by the government for government use. That whole bring your own crap from home has always been something you weren't supposed to do. The DoD has had the deal for government employees to get free anti-virus software for ages to help curb these types of problems for ages.
God I hate Wired stories about the military. I am convinced that the first time Wired actually has a story relating to military networks that has more than a 10% basis in reality without all of their typical bullshit hand waving the 7th seal of hell will open and demons will come to devour the Earth. I am also a little surprised to see a link to Fox news on front page slashdot. Remember people, these are the same assholes that had hackers making van's explode. Now suddenly they are worthy of front page links on a geek news page?
The record will show that not even the military really claimed him until the voters said they had to call him boss.
Military tried to kick him out.
The populace gave him the highest job in the land.
Listening to the populace blame the military and call them stupid...priceless.
I can't for the life of me figure that anti-military nonsense out. How the hell can people maintain 1. The military is a huge evil system hell bent on massive deception and evil lies while also maintaining 2. The military is a bunch of clueless incompetents that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The only thing I can get out of this is the people trying to maintian this kind of nonsense are actually saying "We are the biggest bunch of braindead morons for being so easily decieved by a bunch of incompentent fools".
Honestly, from my experience I would almost expect things to have gone the other direction from what you lay out. The Captain/Major says "We need a photo of Gen Whosits, but she is too busy for us. Go dig up a picture of her and make it look like a nice handout picture". Given that you can walk into almost any government building and see pictures of the entire chain of command for that organization all the way up to the President, and almost every one of those photos are identical with the person sitting in front of a flag with perfect lighting etc... My guess it was downward directed because the Gen was too busy to actually stop to have one of these pictures done so they found an existing picture and turned it into one of these.
For all their college education so many of the stupid ideas come from the officers...poor enlisted folk just get blamed for the execution of such goofball ideas.
Clayton act is indeed the act that was meant to deal with the tying issue. It just is very specific about the situations where it applies and this is certainly not one of them. The contracts refered to in the Sherman Act deal specifically with "trusts". Not contracts deailing with sales like this. In fact, it isn't even meant to stop monopolies. Only monopolies that use their position to artificially maintain their position through anticompetitive behavior. Again...absolutely no application to Apples behavior here.
Personally I am not thrilled that Apple has chosen this route. However, in light of the constant bashing MS gets for their shitty OS I can see why. Most Windows problems are related to shitty device drivers. So...by saying "You can only use our hardware" they largely skip the whole problem of shitty 3rd party bullshit drivers causing your OS to flake out. This makes their OS look WAY better in terms of stability because it doesn't have so many driver issues. So the loss in sales they suffer by not allowing it to run on cheap PC hardware is probably made up in their image of reliability. Apple is not doing anything even remotely illegal by saying you can only use their hardware. If they really wanted to be anal retentive assholes they could make it a royal pain in the ass to purchase their software by proving you own their hardware. Cisco is under no obligation to give me copies of their IOS unless I own their hardware. Apple is just kind enough to put the disk in a box and slap a sticker on it and put it on a shelf so their customers can get their upgrades easily. But people like Psystar insisting that they can trample on the rights of Apple because they want to make a quick buck force Apple to either defend their rights in court, or retract and make getting your OS upgrades as much of a pain in the dick as MS does with keys and authentications and activations and all of that other silly bullshit. In case you aren't aware OSX doesn't ask for silly bullshit key codes and activations and all that. They would be well within their right to force activation to prove that it is running on Apple hardware, but they don't.
Go buy a Cisco switch...take the copy of IOS and make it run on a cheap HP Procurve device. Then sell that Procurve for a fraction of the cost of a real Cisco device while advertising that it is running Cisco software. You let me know how fast the Cisco lawyers show up and how far they manage to stretch your entrails out when they pull your spine out of your ass in the court room. Hey, after all, all you have to do is get your hands on a Cisco support contract that authorizes you IOS upgrades right?
Part of the OSX cost is rolled into the Apple hardware you purchased to run it, so when you are buying an upgrade that is all you are buying, an upgrade to the OS that you purchased with your hardware. What Psystar is doing isn't much different than purchasing Windows Upgrade disks and selling them as full OSs and then screaming about how its their right to steal from Apple to make a quick buck. Again...this is all masked by Apple not being complete douches to their customers and forcing you to store and enter a half dozen product activation codes and other such bullshit. Look at what you are actually purchasing when you buy an OS X package. You aren't buyin a full OS, but that is what Psystar is claiming. Go compare the price between the Single User and Family Pack OS X upgrades. You can't honestly tell me that you believe that they would sell a full rights OS for $110 and then let you buy 4 more copies for $70 more. It is nothing more than a license to upgrade your OS that you got with your Apple hardware and a nice disk without activation bullshit to make your life easy. So either buy a Mac so you can have OSX or buy a PC with the understanding that Apple does not sell an OS for your hardware.
Either way, no anti-trust laws even begin to apply to what Apple is doing. They aren't a monopoly. They aren't doing things to artificially maintain their position. If they want to do business that way then they can. The anti-trust laws even explicitely state that monopolies that arise because they were the best are perfectly legit.
Go read the Clayton Act. The tying stuff is not illegal. It is only a problem when it lessens competition. If anything, Apple tying their OS to their Hardware increases competition because it limits the number of places OSX can actually compete and their hardware is nothing terribly unique in terms of capabilities. They don't have anywhere near enough of a market share to be have anyone but a zealot convinced that their tying is hurting competition. Tying also typically only comes into play with unrelated goods. Them saying that you have to use their hardware to run their OS is quite a stretch to consider that a tying arrangement as far as legal problems go. If anything the non Apple market is more guilty of that because in most cases I am forced to purchase the undesired Windows install if I want to purchase a PC.
Now...again, the licensing thing is a bit different. When you purchase a book you are effectively licensing the material of that book. Sure, you have a physical book that you can loan, sell, rent, share, whatever. Without getting into stupid exceptions like reading over shoulders, only one person can make use of said book at any given time. This all works perfectly naturally with software as well and is ultimately what that First Sale business with AutoCAD was about. The original owner can indeed transfer those rights to a new owner. Big deal. However, when you purchase a book you do not own the contents of that book. That is where copyright comes in. You cannot sell tapes of you reading the book. You cannot reproduce the book and distribute copies. So again no, you can't do whatever you want with anything you purchase. Now I agree that many businesses try to abuse that and wind up treating their customers like criminals, but it is a bunch of self absorbed consumers that believe the whole "I do what I want" crap. Consumers need to be protected for a market to work, but so do businesses. A market can't function when noone is willing to sell to a bunch of shit head consumers out to screw them.
IIRC that guy was using government stationary to print his bribing price list. That takes some serious balls.
It is most certainly not using an illegal tying arrangement. They get to dictate the terms of usage for their creation. The price that they sell it for is a direct reflection of their hardware restrictions. If you don't like their terms, don't buy their stuff. They make no secret that it requires Apple hardware. They are up front, this is simple contract law. You do not get to just scream and cry "illegal" because you don't like the terms. It just means you don't enter the contract. That simple. Noone is holding a gun to your head saying "You have to use OSX, and you have to buy Apple gear to do it!". I am so sick of this modern whiney bullshit like everyone owes you something. Don't like their terms? Tell them to screw off by not purchasing their stuff.
I suspect you would bitch and moan if they sold an OS X install box for $2000 that said "Because you insist on using this on unsupported hardware you will be paying out the ass for our risk to reputation by your crybaby crap when it doesn't work as advertised ON OUR HARDWARE. Please do not call support because you are not eligble. We are a hardware company that has built software to help sell that hardware. We are not interested in supporting your use of our software on hardware that wasn't built by us. Have a nice day".
Their hardware. Their Software. Their Rules. Don't like them? Don't give them YOUR money. But just becaues you don't like how they do business does not give you some inherent right to steal their shit. And in fact...you are wrong about your Clorox. Go look at the labels for those household chemicals. Almost ALL of them state very clearly that your ass can be held liable for not using them in ways consistent with the labeling.
I blame all of my hardware problems on software too...
Seriously, going through that list I see. Fire, lots of fires. Two instances of computer failure due to faulty hardware. A few landing gear hardware problems. A dash of pilot error or otherwise bad luck. And a rather unfortunate bird strike on a weak section of a wing (that was later redesigned because of this event IIRC).
I am curious as to what you are trying to insinuate by linking to crashes due to these issues next to the software....
Let me explain this as clear as I possibly can. These guys DO check for rings. The ring indicates that they are more likely to have a no hastle sexual encounter if they can get one. Infidelity is so popular these days and your fellow women have done such a fantastic job of showing that a ring really does mean little more than indicate a lack of hastle after the fact.
That said, I am generally more likely to chat with the women I work with for different reasons. First, with the plethora of such high caliber guys *cough* they frequently need a friend that isn't going to be trying to sleep with them. It also makes for coworkers you can trust a bit more with being team players and mutual goals. Also, having the perspective of a female that you aren't sleeping with can be a fairly valuable thing for dealing with the female you are sleeping with. Now, I will readily admit that eye candy is nice (don't bitch, we are genetically wired that way), but it doesn't exactly take a whole lot of self control to not be a creepy prick about it. I have also learned that a women comfortable in her work place can easily be just as disturbing or dirty as any guy around. I think the oversensitive treatment of women in the workplace leads to part of these problems in the first place. Even outside of not having been single in a long while, getting involved with coworkers is a patently bad idea anyways. I think the other problem is even the non creepy guys will still often hold women they work with as a possibility.
Ok now I can tell you are just a pirate shill. First you admit that you are a pirate in the first place. Then you try and talk dirty about Starforce claiming one pirated copy was multiple lost sales. Here is some news for you asshole, one pirated copy IS multiple lost sales. You dirty pirates don't have to buy new copies of the game after your online activations are used up, you don't have to buy new copies of the game if it gets scratched and it can't validate the CD. So yes...one pirated copy IS multiple lost sales.
Just because you are some kind of communist hippy douche waiting for handouts for giving out your "creations" for free doesn't mean the rest of us are interested. My primary motivation is that I enjoy having food, clothing, and shelter. Of those I only ever see those commie hippies even come close to getting one of those right, they grow stuff, but it usually isn't food.
Everyone should be thrilled with DRM! It keeps us paying $50 for $20 games instead of paying $100 for $20 games because those poor starving developers are having their works stolen from them!
Yes...instead our anus is next to our sex organs which ALSO double as waste disposal. I think this clearly shows that the Bible is indeed true and that we were made in the dark. Thankfully he is a kinda and merciful God and our arms are long enough to reach those organs. Further proof is in that women got the whole multiple orgasm thing, NOTHING would ever get done if men had that.
Then how the hell are we going to get anyone elected?
THANK YOU! My perspective on this has always been that man wrote the Bible. Regardless of whether it was inspired by God or not, it was man that did the writing. So...even assuming that there is some God that told some individual what to write for the whole Genesis business you have to look at it from a different angle. Have you ever tried explaining molecular biology, advanced physics, and geology to a 3 yr old? It wasn't even until recently that we even had a workable idea on the geologic processes that drive our little spinning blue ball.
Genesis just boils down a very long and complex "creation" process into "Yes, I made it all, and then you, and then you started doing the nasty and made more of you. Look how smart I am that I made a mechanism that you can continue making more of you without me getting more dirt together to do it each time."
The funniest thing is all the bitching I hear about science crying about the religions saying "we were made from dust". THAT IS TRUE! It is scientifically true. Our wonderful little skin sacks are made of predominately the same elements that dirt is. Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, etc. Almost EVERYTHING in any religions creation myths can be tied to scientific explanations written in terribly simplistic form. It is just the literalists on both sides that insist on interpreting it in children's story book mode. It frightens me when so many "scientists" are so unable to read literature and examine it in terms of cultural and historical contexts and apply scientific interpretations to it. I expect that out of fundamentalists, not people who are supposed to be educated.
Most of the rules for the Jewish people handed down by God are seem fairly simple to explain. Disease was not disease then, it was punishment by God. So...when you did things that made you sick you were being punished by God for doing them. Eating the wrong things. Preparing food the wrong way. Sticking things in dirty places. Before antibacterial soap and regular bathing sodomy was a great way to pick up a wonderful array of disease like E.Coli. So...back door = get sick and die translates into God doesn't approve.
1. Because most of my post deals with nature, the "hollywood asshole" piece was only to address that whiney bleeding heart crap that tries to deny that nature is a cruel survival game where there is never a winner and losing is death.
2. Those "hollywood assholes" are more practiced liars and to claim what they do is "research" is stretching it pretty far. Anecdotal evidence is weak, but claiming hollywood does research and doesn't make their money by being lying hypocritical assholes is laughable at best.
No...The modern Democratic party can trace its roots to the Democratic-Republican which isn't quite the same thing. Besides that, my point has to do with the party name based voting rather than any particular claimed ideals or history of a party. So how the parties evolved has nothing to do with the fact that people these days team vote based on a name rather than individual performance.
Well as your other responder posted the charge was led by a DEMOCRAT. Again, I have no love for Republicans, especially the modern neocon type. However, your mindless hatred is getting in the way of your judgement of the truth and that kind of "oh it's all their fault" behavior is what dooms us to continue to elect the same idiot assholes to run the show based on what letter they tack on to their name. So yes...let us all run out and vote for the other idiot assholes because they have a different letter. Pay no attention to the fact that they have just as much of a nightmarish track record.
Eisenhower and Truman were two of our greatest presidents. A Republican and a Democrat.
Bush Jr and Carter have been two of our worst presidents. A Republican and a Democrat.
Thomas Jefferson was one of our greatets politicians and presidents. A Democratic-Republican (Holy shit! Both letters!?)
Can we please get over this party line bullshit now?
Now, to a degree I can sympathize, but survival of the fittest! I bet you don't take the same bleeding heart approach towards the myraid of viruses that can wipe out huge swathes of our population with little notice and have done so over the past. Thus far we have survived these onslaughts and either outright destroyed the competing lifeform or contained it. The universe is not some shiney happy place where man, chicken, and cow all hold hands and sing kumbaya while they all starve to death because they are too upset to eat anything that is alive. Nature is a vicious vicious thing. Go look at sea creatures that have had a much longer time to compete in their environment. The deadliest toxins in the world are from sea critters. A jelly fish the size of your fingernail can kill you in a frighteningly short time span. Humans developed technology to fill the evolutionary gap of things like not having necrotic claws, venomous bites, stingers, etc. You either adapt and survive or die. Humans are not immune to this law.
This does not justify treating animals like shit because we eat them. But every time some hippy shit points out that stupid hollywood asshole's movie about farms I want to beat their heads in with a cattle prod. I have been around a great number of farms growing up and NONE of them were like that. I have no doubt that there are shitty commercial farms that do behave that way, but it is most certainly not the norm.
Raising animals to be eaten is not even remotely the same thing as animal cruelty. Even come slaughter time most of those animals are treated more humanely than they would be in the wild. We at least give them a quick death. I seriously doubt that pack of wolves cares much about how long it takes the animal to die or how much it suffers while they start tearing its flesh off.