OTOH, the US has ramped up their military expenses for the war in Iraq, which is one of the reasons for your current economic crisis. More of the same doesn't sound like a good way out of trouble.
The USA may have quite a lot of weapons, but then again, Russia and China have enough as well. Any of these countries has enough weaponry to fuck up the world ten times over.
No. Most of these weapons will likely never get used. They are useful as a means of intimidation, but not much more; once someone, somewhere, uses that kind of weaponry, all hell will break loose. That would be of no use to anyone.
China will not destroy the US economy... yet.
They will only choose to do so when thir short-term losses from the US market are offset by the cheap labor force they will gain from tanking your economy. China is slowly losing the status of the country where it is dirt-cheap to manufacture stuff, and as the prices and their own manufacturing needs rise, they might want to tank an industrialized economy and turn the tables on you.
Now, that sounds interesting. I would like to hear a legal opinion on that matter, though.
OTOH, wasn't there something about this kind of hack making copy protection "inadequate" and therefore unenforceable, i.e. legally circumventable in Finland?
"Oh, we're fine, you have nothing to worry about" when everything seems to be going fine is rather different from "We think we will benefit from the crap everyone has gotten themselves into" when nothing seems to be going fine.
I don't seem to have the option of using my remaining mod point and deleting my post, perhaps because you have replied. But would I would definitely like to.
Alas, it is and has been for a long time that you can only post and thus undo your moderation, and not the other way round. What you post, stays posted no matter what.
I must say it pleases me that you have found that comment worthwhile; most of the time, something random I say gets modded up, and stuff I find significant gets ignored.
I've said it many times, I will say it again: we need to start selling people Ubuntu CDs.
Once they can fathom something like that can be free, just tell them you'd billed them for education.
Most folks I deal with have learned the best way to get a hold of me is to send me an email, if we need to have a conversation we can arrange it that way.
And thus we are come to a full circle.
A long, long time ago, a phone was not something everyone had or used. Phone calls were often arranged in advance, in person: you would tell someone you would call them on a specified day, at a specified time; that person would be expecting your call.
Then technology became cheap, and now everyone had a phone. Making a call ceased to be a social occasion, and became a mere convenience. Previously, you'd never have called someone after dinner; nowadays, people don't mind very much even waking you up at 3 a.m.
So we think up ways to make this "convenience" a bit less convenient and revert to pre-arranging our phonecalls.
Wasn't it just the other day that Red Hat announced they were feeling just fine and dandy in this economic crisis, as many companies are looking to lower their expenses by going open source?
Anyone else read that as "Magic Levitating Trains" ?
Not really. Though now you reminded me of Hogwarts Express.
To make it worse, I had to concentrate so I wouldn't type "Hogswatch Express", which would have been pretty embarr... oh, never mind.
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How would NYCL react to his being cast as Jack Nicholson?
I don't really care who they cast as me, as long as they give me a nice fee -- like maybe 5% of what Jack Nicholson gets for a movie.
Still, I'm sure you wouldn't like to remain in the minds of most people looking like Tom Cruise.
Get the guy from a a few good men and set it up in a court-martial over a case like this.
How would NYCL react to his being cast as Jack Nicholson?
No worries. I live in Europe; as long as he's not a marathon swimmer, I should be fine.
Besides, it wasn't I that called him a freedom fighter.
They mine those machines
Haven't you heard about data mining before?
Sure I have. But laptop mining? That's a first.
Besides, if firefighters fight fires, and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
They mine those machines?
Those are some damn good mines the Chinese have...
I smell a meme in the making.
Religion was designed? They must have been using MS Paint.
Nope.
They used MS FrontPage.
As Sgt. Detritus would surely tell you, trolls count like that: one, two, many, lots. Base-4.
Remember, remember, the 5th of November...
Scarier than ever.
OTOH, the US has ramped up their military expenses for the war in Iraq, which is one of the reasons for your current economic crisis. More of the same doesn't sound like a good way out of trouble.
Wars are expensive.
The USA may have quite a lot of weapons, but then again, Russia and China have enough as well. Any of these countries has enough weaponry to fuck up the world ten times over.
No. Most of these weapons will likely never get used. They are useful as a means of intimidation, but not much more; once someone, somewhere, uses that kind of weaponry, all hell will break loose. That would be of no use to anyone.
China will not destroy the US economy... yet.
They will only choose to do so when thir short-term losses from the US market are offset by the cheap labor force they will gain from tanking your economy. China is slowly losing the status of the country where it is dirt-cheap to manufacture stuff, and as the prices and their own manufacturing needs rise, they might want to tank an industrialized economy and turn the tables on you.
I trow knot.
Now, that sounds interesting. I would like to hear a legal opinion on that matter, though.
OTOH, wasn't there something about this kind of hack making copy protection "inadequate" and therefore unenforceable, i.e. legally circumventable in Finland?
As Robin Williams put it: Puritans – people so uptight that the British kicked them out.
Mars-tralia.
Why does that sound like Norstrilia to my ears?
"Oh, we're fine, you have nothing to worry about" when everything seems to be going fine is rather different from "We think we will benefit from the crap everyone has gotten themselves into" when nothing seems to be going fine.
Kind of.
Then again, so does Harry Potter. Not just Hermione, but all the Ravenclaw girls as well.
Though she does qualify as a geek (CSI dwarf), her name is Cheery, later modified to Cheri.
I don't seem to have the option of using my remaining mod point and deleting my post, perhaps because you have replied. But would I would definitely like to.
Alas, it is and has been for a long time that you can only post and thus undo your moderation, and not the other way round. What you post, stays posted no matter what.
I must say it pleases me that you have found that comment worthwhile; most of the time, something random I say gets modded up, and stuff I find significant gets ignored.
I've said it many times, I will say it again: we need to start selling people Ubuntu CDs.
Once they can fathom something like that can be free, just tell them you'd billed them for education.
Most folks I deal with have learned the best way to get a hold of me is to send me an email, if we need to have a conversation we can arrange it that way.
And thus we are come to a full circle.
A long, long time ago, a phone was not something everyone had or used. Phone calls were often arranged in advance, in person: you would tell someone you would call them on a specified day, at a specified time; that person would be expecting your call.
Then technology became cheap, and now everyone had a phone. Making a call ceased to be a social occasion, and became a mere convenience. Previously, you'd never have called someone after dinner; nowadays, people don't mind very much even waking you up at 3 a.m.
So we think up ways to make this "convenience" a bit less convenient and revert to pre-arranging our phonecalls.
Wasn't it just the other day that Red Hat announced they were feeling just fine and dandy in this economic crisis, as many companies are looking to lower their expenses by going open source?
Anyone else read that as "Magic Levitating Trains" ?
Not really. Though now you reminded me of Hogwarts Express.
To make it worse, I had to concentrate so I wouldn't type "Hogswatch Express", which would have been pretty embarr... oh, never mind.