Freedom from federal income tax (which is alleged to never have been legislated).
The follwing is offtopic and I will give the OP the benefit of the doubt on this since the comment seems to indicate that the poster is not a citizen of the United States. Here is the text for the 16th amendment to the US Constitution.
AMENDMENT XVI
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
And let us not forget Theora (http://www.theora.org/). VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) allows you to easily transcode into Ogg Theora and IPTV shows from revision3 (http://revision3.com/) are distributed using Ogg Theora. I have experimented with it a litte bit and I like the results over Xvid (for the same bit-rate), but I have switched to using x264 (developers.videolan.org/x264.html) but since it is also MPEG-4, it could be in trouble.
The second "is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at zero kelvins." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second
There is a shift, currently, to move all the fundamental constants (most importantly the kilogram) to be based on natural phenomena instead of, for example, a block of platinum-iridium sitting in a vault in France. The definition of a meter is already based on the speed of light.
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The people at the Ubuntu forums recommend you use "aptitude" instead of "apt-get". The thread should be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=37736, but it appears the Ubuntu forums are being pounded. Here is the google cache: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:425l937tFkYJ:u buntuforums.org/showthread.php%3Ft%3D37736+ubuntu+ use+aptitude+not+apt-get&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4.
Freedom from federal income tax (which is alleged to never have been legislated).
The follwing is offtopic and I will give the OP the benefit of the doubt on this since the comment seems to indicate that the poster is not a citizen of the United States. Here is the text for the 16th amendment to the US Constitution.
AMENDMENT XVI
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Just download VLC player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). It has more features that WMP, is smaller profile, and is multiplatform.
A professor of mine once said, "If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand the human brain."
And let us not forget Theora (http://www.theora.org/). VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) allows you to easily transcode into Ogg Theora and IPTV shows from revision3 (http://revision3.com/) are distributed using Ogg Theora. I have experimented with it a litte bit and I like the results over Xvid (for the same bit-rate), but I have switched to using x264 (developers.videolan.org/x264.html) but since it is also MPEG-4, it could be in trouble.
"5, Informative" It should have been "5, Funny".
The Register seems to agree that this story has been misreported.
_ apple_patent/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/10/microsoft
The second "is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at zero kelvins." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second
There is a shift, currently, to move all the fundamental constants (most importantly the kilogram) to be based on natural phenomena instead of, for example, a block of platinum-iridium sitting in a vault in France. The definition of a meter is already based on the speed of light.
Oops!
Forget the last slash:
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=freedom
Distrowatch has a page discussing the "freeness" (I know, not a word) of various linux distros:
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=freedom/
Linspire is listed under "4".
I agree with most of the parent statment, but I see this mistake occurring too often:
chemotherapy != radiation treatment.