Sec. 21-3. Criminal trespass to real property.
(a)... whoever:
(1) knowingly and without lawful authority enters or remains within or on a building...
commits a Class B misdemeanor.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman, US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26930.html
if Texas was forced to remove the major party candidates from the ballot, it would be like saying that any state, at a whim, could determine their own state's deadline by setting a ballot deadline.
There, fixed that for you.
The Texas law has absolutely nothing to do with national parties' timetables. It has everything to do with Texas parties' timetables.
The Texas GOP had a choice to make: urge the national GOP to name the candidate earlier (by moving the convention, e.g.); certify a candidate before the national GOP did; or not certify a candidate.
What the Texas GOP must not do is flaunt the law, simply because their members happen to be charged with enforcing it.
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What I want to know is how much fuel does it take to travel from San Francisco to New York City by the following methods:
A modern plane -- Between 33MPG and 117MPG per person
"Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you've got." - attributed to Thomas Jefferson Doesn't sound anything like him. Mark Twain perhaps. Would you believe GeraldFord?
OSS typically goes after mature late life cycle applications, such as OS's, Office suites, etc..
I don't think that's true. There are too many OSS counter-examples that *created* their marketplace: B-News, ISC DHCP, Sendmail, X, Mosaic, SSH, WikiWiki, for examples.
Then there are projects that replaced more mature (mid-life?) alternatives: emacs and gcc, for example.
And there are projects that attempt to replace firmly entrenched alternatives: gimp and OO.org, for example.
The point is this: OSS doesn't typically target any particular market segment -- it has been successfully applied across all segments.
There was a time, before Windows, before Linux, when I had to explain to my dad what I did for a living. "I'm a UNIX wizard", says I. "A eunuch's what?" says he.
As many as a third of those surveyed under the age of 30 were unable to recall their home telephone number without resorting to their mobile phones or to notes.
Of course, as many as a third of those surveyed under the age of 30 were, in fact, under the age of 10, and weren't expected to recall their home telephone number.
The question isn't new. From The Gospel of Mark, 12:41-44, New International Version:
The Widow's Offering
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything--all she had to live on."
I don't want to demean what Mr. Buffet did, nor what he has accomplished during his lifetime. Quite the contrary, God bless him for his business acumen and willingness to share, previously and now. Nor do I begrudge Mr. Buffet his glory for having contributed such an astronomical sum. (Of course, if Mr. Buffet or Mr. Six-pack contributed their money in exchange for glory, then their reward has (sadly) already been paid, and this discussion should be about who got the better return on investment.)
But it does pain me to see that most of the charitable contributions receive no such recognition. Smaller contributions, which carry none of the stipulations that Mr. Buffet's did, and which require a greater measure of faith in one's own situation, are overlooked. The previous President Bush described charity not as the purview of a few mega-rich individuals, but as a "thousand points of light". An uncountable collection of individuals which, when taken together, have the capacity and obligation to change the world. On that point, I agree.
If the media (and that includes us Slashdot peanut-gallery types) would publicize more stories of outstanding acheivement of ordinary folk then more ordinary folk would be moved to outstanding acheivement. The resulting postive-feedback loop would dwarf the Gates, Buffet, Ford, Carnegie, etc foundations.
It is obvious to all of us that cheating is unethical from the cheater's perspective. It only hurts yourself, it isnt' fair to the others, yada, yada, yada.
But, is the transaction unethical from the perspective of the industrious coder whom the cheater hires? Does the rent-a-coder have an obligation to look beyond the color of his client's money, and into the content of his character?
From the article, we see that Rent A Coder has "tried but failed to curb the practice before." Is Rent A Coder obliged to try to stop the practice? Are they obliged to try harder?
Fundamentalists (again, that's me) hold to a literal interpretation of Genesis.
That is truly amazing, I had no idea so many Americans had developed the skill to read and understand ancient Hebrew. Or didn't you know that when you read an English Bible you're holding to a literal interpretation of some other human's translation and interpretation of the Bible? Didn't you know that the Bible was culled, edited, and assembled from source texts by humans?
Of course we know the English Bibles are translations. As are the Hebrew and Greek. I believe that NIV, NIRV, KJV, NASB, et al, all contain the literal word of God.
Look at it this way: you have implicitly acknowledged my belief that the original (whatever that means) version was written by God. Is it that much of a stretch to imagine that God protected His word thru each generation of oral tradition, reduction to written word, translation and retranslation?
Or this way: I don't merely believe that God inspired, say, John to write his Gospel. God also inspired the anonymous monks, vicars, committees and secretaries who have touched the word since then.
Do you really want a world where morality is defined as whatever the Holy Spirit tells somebody to do?
Yes. Absolutely and without reservation. I desperately want a world in which each person's morality is defined by their relationship with the Holy Spirit, starting with my own.
"Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me."
Setting the way-back machine to spring, 1985. It's my second full-time job, at Interactive Systems Corporation.
Our customer, IBM, has hired us to port SysIII to some unnamed, secret computer. Security is tight. Computers have to be bolted to the floor; documentation can't leave the building.
I'm assigned to write the tape device driver. The spec from IBM has incredibly complex rules for rewinding, ejecting, etc, based on minor device numbers.
Being young and naive, I assumed that the IBM System Engineer who wrote the spec knew more about computers than I did. I faithfully implemented the incredibly complex rules, including the EIO-after-EOF and rewind-on-close rules.
if you've ever... used the fruits of Government Scientific research (velcro, the internet... etc),...
You might want to check your facts there, Admiral. Velcro was invented by an individual, on his own time, investing his own money, in the expectation of making a profit.
http://www.velcro.com/about/history.html
Slashdot Mirror
I remember ClariNet. I remember thinking "rec.humor.funny has much better jokes."
Who knew that the evil bit had a smell?
Strickly speaking, the data would only have an evil bit while they are being streamed. On disc, the data has no IP header, and thus no evil bit.
I'm unaware of an evil indicator in the DVD / MPEG4 / CSS standards.
Rob
The 9-page brief looks like a very nicely structured ad hominem attack, but that's all it is.
It was the work of an incompetent, untrained lawyer who has no respect for the law, and no understanding of what a lawyer is supposed to be.
Speaking of ad hominem ...
Ray, I'd mod you +1 Ironic if I could.
That's easy to break -- just type in every number!
... the BMW parked in front of my office. That's a machine; no contest.
That would be a Touring machine?
Well, entering is called trespassing when it's a civil offense; it's breaking and entering when it's a criminal offense. paeanblack has it right.
Not in Illinois. 720 ILCS 5/21-3 says, in relevant part:
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman, US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26930.html
... enough EMF to brick your cell phone.
If there's that much EMF, I'd be more worried about bricking my testicles.
Obviously, you'd have to wear a tinfoil, uhm, "hat".
if Texas was forced to remove the major party candidates from the ballot, it would be like saying that any state, at a whim, could determine their own state's deadline by setting a ballot deadline.
There, fixed that for you.
The Texas law has absolutely nothing to do with national parties' timetables. It has everything to do with Texas parties' timetables.
The Texas GOP had a choice to make: urge the national GOP to name the candidate earlier (by moving the convention, e.g.); certify a candidate before the national GOP did; or not certify a candidate. What the Texas GOP must not do is flaunt the law, simply because their members happen to be charged with enforcing it.
What I want to know is how much fuel does it take to travel from San Francisco to New York City by the following methods:
Most of these numbers are from A Green Ride.
Anybody got a link to the actual TRO?).
the actual TRO
My high school math teacher announced, on the first day of class, that he would be willing to take a bribe to give an 'A' to any student.
His price? Significantly more than the present value of all his future earnings for the rest of his life.
I'm not sure if the lesson was one of consequences (you can lose your job for cheating) or math (what is the P.V. of a series of payments?).
I don't think that's true. There are too many OSS counter-examples that *created* their marketplace: B-News, ISC DHCP, Sendmail, X, Mosaic, SSH, WikiWiki, for examples.
Then there are projects that replaced more mature (mid-life?) alternatives: emacs and gcc, for example.
And there are projects that attempt to replace firmly entrenched alternatives: gimp and OO.org, for example.
The point is this: OSS doesn't typically target any particular market segment -- it has been successfully applied across all segments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
It seems that "Gypsy," itself, is a racial slur. The largest "Gypsy" ethnic group are the Romani, of whom there are about 15,000,000.
The question isn't new. From The Gospel of Mark, 12:41-44, New International Version:
The Widow's Offering
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything--all she had to live on."
I don't want to demean what Mr. Buffet did, nor what he has accomplished during his lifetime. Quite the contrary, God bless him for his business acumen and willingness to share, previously and now. Nor do I begrudge Mr. Buffet his glory for having contributed such an astronomical sum. (Of course, if Mr. Buffet or Mr. Six-pack contributed their money in exchange for glory, then their reward has (sadly) already been paid, and this discussion should be about who got the better return on investment.)
But it does pain me to see that most of the charitable contributions receive no such recognition. Smaller contributions, which carry none of the stipulations that Mr. Buffet's did, and which require a greater measure of faith in one's own situation, are overlooked. The previous President Bush described charity not as the purview of a few mega-rich individuals, but as a "thousand points of light". An uncountable collection of individuals which, when taken together, have the capacity and obligation to change the world. On that point, I agree.
If the media (and that includes us Slashdot peanut-gallery types) would publicize more stories of outstanding acheivement of ordinary folk then more ordinary folk would be moved to outstanding acheivement. The resulting postive-feedback loop would dwarf the Gates, Buffet, Ford, Carnegie, etc foundations.
Wow. Three bugs in five lines. Bzzzt.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}
It is obvious to all of us that cheating is unethical from the cheater's perspective. It only hurts yourself, it isnt' fair to the others, yada, yada, yada.
But, is the transaction unethical from the perspective of the industrious coder whom the cheater hires? Does the rent-a-coder have an obligation to look beyond the color of his client's money, and into the content of his character?
From the article, we see that Rent A Coder has "tried but failed to curb the practice before." Is Rent A Coder obliged to try to stop the practice? Are they obliged to try harder?
Fundamentalists (again, that's me) hold to a literal interpretation of Genesis.
That is truly amazing, I had no idea so many Americans had developed the skill to read and understand ancient Hebrew. Or didn't you know that when you read an English Bible you're holding to a literal interpretation of some other human's translation and interpretation of the Bible? Didn't you know that the Bible was culled, edited, and assembled from source texts by humans?
Of course we know the English Bibles are translations. As are the Hebrew and Greek. I believe that NIV, NIRV, KJV, NASB, et al, all contain the literal word of God.
Look at it this way: you have implicitly acknowledged my belief that the original (whatever that means) version was written by God. Is it that much of a stretch to imagine that God protected His word thru each generation of oral tradition, reduction to written word, translation and retranslation?
Or this way: I don't merely believe that God inspired, say, John to write his Gospel. God also inspired the anonymous monks, vicars, committees and secretaries who have touched the word since then.
Rob
Do you really want a world where morality is defined as whatever the Holy Spirit tells somebody to do?
Yes. Absolutely and without reservation. I desperately want a world in which each person's morality is defined by their relationship with the Holy Spirit, starting with my own.
"Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me."
Err, sorry, dude.
Setting the way-back machine to spring, 1985. It's my second full-time job, at Interactive Systems Corporation.
Our customer, IBM, has hired us to port SysIII to some unnamed, secret computer. Security is tight. Computers have to be bolted to the floor; documentation can't leave the building.
I'm assigned to write the tape device driver. The spec from IBM has incredibly complex rules for rewinding, ejecting, etc, based on minor device numbers.
Being young and naive, I assumed that the IBM System Engineer who wrote the spec knew more about computers than I did. I faithfully implemented the incredibly complex rules, including the EIO-after-EOF and rewind-on-close rules.
The rest appears to be history.
Rob
You might want to check your facts there, Admiral. Velcro was invented by an individual, on his own time, investing his own money, in the expectation of making a profit. http://www.velcro.com/about/history.html