I'll probably get modded down for going against the anti-American groupthink of the day, but here goes.
I do science in the UK, which is far further to the left on that graph, and I have to say that no serious scientist here considers even the UK's scientific output to be comparable to that U.S., let alone India. And if you actually read the balanced Nature article instead of selectively picking one graph to prove your point (naughty boy;-]), you would see that the US comes out on top in most of those graphs and tables, followed by Europe as a whole or the UK individually.
American science funding and infrastructure is our envy here and many of us would do anything to have a similar system--even go work in the U.S. I'm seriously considering doing just that in a few years.
So in terms of scientific spending, America really is the greatest country on earth, followed by the UK;-) but they aren't "the greatest country on earth per capita wealth." I think that's kind of a narrow way to define who is greatest, but I imagine most people could live with that.
People who put up illegal handbills advertising a service by phone number get called every 30 seconds by an auto-dialer telling themselves to turn themselves into the police to be fined. Either they go in or they have to cancel the phone number. Either way, justice is served.
Yes, it is a contract case. If you read their legal complaint or have been following Groklaw on a daily basis, it is quite clear that it is fundamentally a contract case. Read their complaint and then you will see. The causes of action are clearly spelled out (even if they are frivolous).
First SCO claimed it was a contract dispute;
SCO still claims it is a contract dispute. That is the core of this case. It is not a tort.
then they claimed Linux developers stole their code (i.e., theft - a statutory offense);
You cannot file a civil suit for the crime of "theft," and SCO has not sued for conversion.
then they claimed that they suffered damage due to negligence on the part of IBM (a tort - civil wrong unrelated to their contract dispute);
SCO has not now, nor in any of their previous filings accused IBM of negligence. To the contrary, they have claimed that harms IBM has allegedly caused to SCO were intentional.
today, it is 'claim de jur'.
Don't confuse your prejudices and others' comments in Slashdot with the reality of the case. Despite their ever-changing statements to the press, SCO has not amended their complaint in over 18 months, and it is unlikely that they will be allowed to.
If you have some evidence that SCO has actually landed on a legal theory for their case, please present it before thrashing others for their objection to SCO's abuse of the legal system.
I also object to SCO's abuse of the legal process. But you will get nowhere in fixing the legal system if you do not understand the problems. Since the alleged problems here do not arrive from a tort case, you cannot fix them with "tort reform."
I would like to see comprehensive legal reform that accommodates both business and consumer interests.
If you want to accomplish that, you should understand that it is different from tort reform. No tort reform proposal would have stopped this case.
"A negligent or intentional civil wrong not arising out of a contract or statute."
This is fundamentally a contract case. By the definition you used it is the opposite of a tort. I suppose the kind of change you want is "contract suit reform" but I'm personally unaware of a pervasive problem with the way courts enforce contracts.
This is a fundamentally a contract case. The law of torts deals ONLY with liability outside the realm of contracts.
Instead of repeating a term that politicians bandy about with no idea what it means, why don't you list some concrete changes you would make in the law?
Yes, this comment is a dupe, but so is the ignorance.
This is a fundamentally a contract case. The law of torts deals ONLY with liability outside the realm of contracts.
Instead of repeating a term that politicians bandy about with no idea what it means, why don't you list some concrete changes you would make in the law?
Well, there are two reasons. One is that the McDonald Observatory, and the largest telescope in the continental U.S. is out there, and their Light Pollution Program has successfully reduced stray light for hundreds of miles.
The other reason is that there just ain't that much stuff out in West Texas.;-)
They are talking about a historical French unit. Immediately after the part you quoted it says:
By 1875 the unit of mass had been redefined as the "kilogram", embodied by a new artefact whose mass was essentially the same as the kilogram of the archives.
From the First General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1889 thereon, the spelling "kilogram" has been used exclusively in the English text of resolutions defining the unit of mass by the CGPM.
Next up, metres and kilogrammes (you can spell them American if you really want).
I should point out that kilogram is spelled just that way in the international standards. And living in England as I do, I must report seeing "kilograms" more often than "kilogramme."
PostScript points are 1/72 inch. Other kinds of typographic points are slightly different--TeX is 1/72.27 in, and the traditional American point system was 996 pt/35 cm. Not to mention European Didot points.
What's really annoying is applications that don't support that one since they will end up deleting your text instead. This is worse when it is not undoable.
Like Palm Desktop, which has helped me destroyed many a Memo entry accidentally. Not only does it delete the text instead of cutting it, it deletes the whole memo! Thanks, Palm Desktop. You suck!
True, the core Python community isn't planning a switch yet, but if someday down the road the standard Parrot distribution comes with a Python frontend, people might start flocking to it for the one-stop convenience.
Yeah, but you said Python plans to use Parrot. Which is simply not true, as you admit.
I'm not sure what "strong rumblings in the Python community" means and the link you provided is even more confusing. But here's a hint: Dan Sugalski is not commonly recognized as a member of the "Python community" yet, but I am looking forward to seeing his finished work on Parrot, and Python integration.
The only official source for that was an April Fool's Day Press Release.
The Parrot implementors plan for it to be able to run Python, but the current Python implementors have no current plans to switch development from C to Parrot.
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I'll probably get modded down for going against the anti-American groupthink of the day, but here goes.
;-]), you would see that the US comes out on top in most of those graphs and tables, followed by Europe as a whole or the UK individually.
;-) but they aren't "the greatest country on earth per capita wealth." I think that's kind of a narrow way to define who is greatest, but I imagine most people could live with that.
I do science in the UK, which is far further to the left on that graph, and I have to say that no serious scientist here considers even the UK's scientific output to be comparable to that U.S., let alone India. And if you actually read the balanced Nature article instead of selectively picking one graph to prove your point (naughty boy
American science funding and infrastructure is our envy here and many of us would do anything to have a similar system--even go work in the U.S. I'm seriously considering doing just that in a few years.
So in terms of scientific spending, America really is the greatest country on earth, followed by the UK
...of opposing Slashdot groupthink. Your punishment is to be rated troll. May CmdrTaco have mercy on your soul.
People who put up illegal handbills advertising a service by phone number get called every 30 seconds by an auto-dialer telling themselves to turn themselves into the police to be fined. Either they go in or they have to cancel the phone number. Either way, justice is served.
Yes, it is a contract case. If you read their legal complaint or have been following Groklaw on a daily basis, it is quite clear that it is fundamentally a contract case. Read their complaint and then you will see. The causes of action are clearly spelled out (even if they are frivolous).
First SCO claimed it was a contract dispute;
SCO still claims it is a contract dispute. That is the core of this case. It is not a tort.
then they claimed Linux developers stole their code (i.e., theft - a statutory offense);
You cannot file a civil suit for the crime of "theft," and SCO has not sued for conversion.
then they claimed that they suffered damage due to negligence on the part of IBM (a tort - civil wrong unrelated to their contract dispute);
SCO has not now, nor in any of their previous filings accused IBM of negligence. To the contrary, they have claimed that harms IBM has allegedly caused to SCO were intentional.
today, it is 'claim de jur'.
Don't confuse your prejudices and others' comments in Slashdot with the reality of the case. Despite their ever-changing statements to the press, SCO has not amended their complaint in over 18 months, and it is unlikely that they will be allowed to.
If you have some evidence that SCO has actually landed on a legal theory for their case, please present it before thrashing others for their objection to SCO's abuse of the legal system.
I also object to SCO's abuse of the legal process. But you will get nowhere in fixing the legal system if you do not understand the problems. Since the alleged problems here do not arrive from a tort case, you cannot fix them with "tort reform."
I would like to see comprehensive legal reform that accommodates both business and consumer interests.
If you want to accomplish that, you should understand that it is different from tort reform. No tort reform proposal would have stopped this case.
We are all on the same side here.
"A negligent or intentional civil wrong not arising out of a contract or statute."
This is fundamentally a contract case. By the definition you used it is the opposite of a tort. I suppose the kind of change you want is "contract suit reform" but I'm personally unaware of a pervasive problem with the way courts enforce contracts.
There's definitely no SFW filter--try searching for goatse.
This is a fundamentally a contract case. The law of torts deals ONLY with liability outside the realm of contracts.
Instead of repeating a term that politicians bandy about with no idea what it means, why don't you list some concrete changes you would make in the law?
Yes, this comment is a dupe, but so is the ignorance.
This is a fundamentally a contract case. The law of torts deals ONLY with liability outside the realm of contracts.
Instead of repeating a term that politicians bandy about with no idea what it means, why don't you list some concrete changes you would make in the law?
What other kinds of patents are there?
This is not true. Any input that contains no alphabetic characters will result in identical outputs. ;)
T-Mobile is no newer than AT&T Wireless or Verizon Wireless, being the subsidiary of telecom dinosaur Deutsche Telekom.
How much does he have to pay to keep IE? In real money?
As far as in hassle, this guy has obviously decided that the hassle of installing Firefox on 2500 computers is not worth the eliminated hassle of IE.
Well, there are two reasons. One is that the McDonald Observatory, and the largest telescope in the continental U.S. is out there, and their Light Pollution Program has successfully reduced stray light for hundreds of miles.
;-)
The other reason is that there just ain't that much stuff out in West Texas.
Its use does not exactly inspire confidence in an author.
The concept is hardly "completely new from the ground up" even if the implementation is.
From the First General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1889 thereon, the spelling "kilogram" has been used exclusively in the English text of resolutions defining the unit of mass by the CGPM.
If you install something and don't restart, it reminds you every five minutes. Very annoying.
Sprint didn't stand for anything, although it was an offshoot of the southern Pacific Railway.
PostScript points are 1/72 inch. Other kinds of typographic points are slightly different--TeX is 1/72.27 in, and the traditional American point system was 996 pt/35 cm. Not to mention European Didot points.
Don't you mean to ask why does KDE always reinvent the KWheel?
What's really annoying is applications that don't support that one since they will end up deleting your text instead. This is worse when it is not undoable.
Like Palm Desktop, which has helped me destroyed many a Memo entry accidentally. Not only does it delete the text instead of cutting it, it deletes the whole memo! Thanks, Palm Desktop. You suck!
Yeah, but you said Python plans to use Parrot. Which is simply not true, as you admit.
I'm not sure what "strong rumblings in the Python community" means and the link you provided is even more confusing. But here's a hint: Dan Sugalski is not commonly recognized as a member of the "Python community" yet, but I am looking forward to seeing his finished work on Parrot, and Python integration.
The only official source for that was an April Fool's Day Press Release.
The Parrot implementors plan for it to be able to run Python, but the current Python implementors have no current plans to switch development from C to Parrot.
It was when I first saw what they had planned for Perl 6 that I decided to switch.