Except that the People's Republic doesn't have absolute control. The provincial governments actually have a lot of control, and outside of Beijing the central government has difficulty enforcing its edicts. China actually has some of the most stringest environmental laws in the world, but the central government can't enforce them.
2. The FEC gives voters the idea that money corrupts government. Government corrupts due to unlimited power to control, not because of voter donations. If our federal government ran beneath their constitutional boundaries, no amount of bribery or donations would make one difference. Russian could give every Congressman a billion dollars a piece, but the Constitutional would not allow any Congressman to give Russia (or any group or individual) preferential treatment.
In Soviet Russia, you give Congress preferential treatment!
How isn't this positive? If you think outsourcing programming jobs to India is bad, shouldn't FOSS be even worse? All those programmers who can no longer compete because someone is not only accepting lower wages but is in fact doing things for free?
The argument that "lack of investment" will produce a shortage of talent is clearly ridiculous. How many of the great, truly talented acts we all know and love were the product of "investment" by the music industry?
And you're an idiot, because your response had nothing whatsoever to do with his reasons.
"I'm not going to read your argument but I'm going to refute it anyway la la la"/searches for rolleyes emoticon
Which community? The open-source community, or the "majority of people who actually use computers" community? Because if it's the latter, they are much better served by having code out there that anyone can and will use.
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I suppose you wouldn't think -.44% GDP growth too bad either...
Except that the People's Republic doesn't have absolute control. The provincial governments actually have a lot of control, and outside of Beijing the central government has difficulty enforcing its edicts. China actually has some of the most stringest environmental laws in the world, but the central government can't enforce them.
I think they just hadn't had enough coffee when they thought this up.
Yeah, I'd recommend these balls to any pornographer.
Proof by induction?
In Soviet Russia, you give Congress preferential treatment!
The only problem is, friends don't let friends go to Virginia Tech.
Do you have any fucking clue what a kernel is? Hint: kernel != OS
In the US patents must have an individual's name on them, even if they're owned by a corporation.
At some point would all, say, .fr domains be moved to something like .fr.eu?
How isn't this positive? If you think outsourcing programming jobs to India is bad, shouldn't FOSS be even worse? All those programmers who can no longer compete because someone is not only accepting lower wages but is in fact doing things for free?
Isn't that how it actually works, in Windows?
Surely an integral function of pretty much any desktop is to browse the Internet and view media...
The Pentagon is the worlds largest office building, by floor space I believe.
They would only be blocked once their time limits had run out (if the FCC has warned them at all).
Yes, but you only get decent fps on a 6.8GHz 1TB RAM 2TB HD laptop.
The hand has a large surface area to volume ratio, and a lot of blood circulates through it. This allows it to dissipate a lot of heat into the air.
... Mapquest or Google maps?
The Beatles?
A lot of them, probably most.
And you're an idiot, because your response had nothing whatsoever to do with his reasons. "I'm not going to read your argument but I'm going to refute it anyway la la la" /searches for rolleyes emoticon
So why store it in a separate shed, rather than in a garage attached to the main living quarters?
but what's the deal with "Posting is not permitted for the promotion of raw precious metals"?
Google doesn't want Google Base to be used as a wholesale commodity exchange.
that they've finally found the WMD in Iraq, using Google Earth.
Which community? The open-source community, or the "majority of people who actually use computers" community? Because if it's the latter, they are much better served by having code out there that anyone can and will use.