This was due to the piss poor delivery method and the small amounts. The intent was to cause fear, not to kill. Someone who knows what they are doing, with the right equipment, and a fair amount of anthrax, could cause a rather large amount of deaths.
I mean, really, with all these great freedom of speech protections in law, why are the US media so often the most saturated with bullshit (not counting reports coming from the Iraqi information minister, and such)?
Simple, the US media thrives on the policy of "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." Bullshit sells.
Downloading songs is wrong? Sorry, I was under the impression that under copyright law the user also has rights, not just the producer of media. I have a right to go and download a copy of a song I already own, as backup copies for personal use are fine. Also, fine are songs that are given away free by the artists themselves. Not all free downloading of music is wrong, regardless of what RIAA says.
No, really, it is obvious. Which makes a patent on it legally bogus. Should never have been issued in the first place. It would be thrown out of court without a second thought if challenged. I don't think anyone has to worry about violating this patent.
This area may be rural, but agriculture and it's huge glut of government subsidies are not the biggest parts of the local economy. Most people around here aren't farmers, or even work in agriculture. They work in factories, small businesses, the oil industry (as in working in the oil fields, servicing tanks and equipment, driving oil trucks) or in some other areas the coal industry, working in machine shops to provide services to those local industries, Walmart, various small tourist traps and local entertainments, in some areas they service the commercial river barge traffic or crew them, and transportation is a major industry around here, a lot of truck drivers. Only a very small part of our local economy is directly subsidized by the government.
For those who were brought up in rural areas, the "aliens" conspiracy is most widespread.
I live in a rural area...and everyone around here knows the government cannot be trusted (duh). And there are very few "alien conspiracy" theories. So I'm kinda wondering about this data of yours. if anything, most of the UFO crazies, especially the nuttiest of the bunch, that I have heard about...have come from cities.
All this baloney about ethnic separation, and poverty, causing riots gives me mental indigestion. I was brought up in a slum in Scotland and I never had any inclination to do any looting , burning or stealing. I did have a lot of incentive to get out of the poverty and nannying that goes on in the U.K.. When will we all realize that there is a war going on in the world today. Yes, it is a religious war which is being waged against Western civilization.
Well, you're part right. The riots have nothing to do with ethnic seperation and poverty. Nothing to do with living in crappy public housing (I did myself as a child) and bad neighborhoods full of poverty and drugs and who knows what all else....been there done that myself. And you are right that the root causes of the riots in France have to do with religion... But you fall on your face when you connect it with the kind of religious extremism that has spawned terrorism, oppressive theocratic regimes, and other such insanity. The violence in France today is a result of [i]religious intolerence and discriminatory laws and practices[/i] on the part of the French government, against it's Islamic citizenry. Islamic people in France has, slowly, over a period of several years, been getting a "second class citizen" treatment. This has built up a great deal of resentment and anger over there, until finally a trigger event set off the riots. In the end though, it was the French government's policies that brought this on the French nation...nobody to blame but themselves.
This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world
Yep, this just about sums it up. Poor kids, getting a substandard education, and getting religion pounded into their head in place of science in science class.
I never said they didn't attempt it. Just that the system was designed more as an admin's workstation than a general desktop. Redhat has never been one of the better desktop Linux companies. Mandriva, SuSE/Novell, and others have pretty much always been much better at designing a distro that works well as a desktop system.
When the CEO of redhat doesn't use linux on his primary box at work, i think that says a lot. You'd think redhat could buy from a linux vendor. I saw him interviewed a few years ago on a pbs money show and he admitted that he used windows AND that linux wasn't ready for the desktop. He thought linux was only good for servers.
Probably because Redhat has never been a "desktop linux" company. Hell, I always had pity for anyone who said they used Redhat as their distro on the desktop...as it was designed as a server and admin system, and not for general desktop use. I've understood when they've said they've had problems.....and shook my head when they've said that "Linux isn't quite ready." Redhat, as a company, simply doesn't know how to do desktops right. So the CEO of Redhat isn't exactly the best person to use as an example here...
I don't see a lot of difference on a new install with fresh software, in fact Windows has the advantage because it usually installs and just plain works with no treaking.
You're joking right? Or are you counting "dragging out all your driver disks and installing them after you've freshly installed Windows" to simply be part of "installing Windows"? Then there is the fact that there is hardware that gives Windows machines trouble and simply won't work, or won't work well, and that this is an increasingly common problem. You bring up the occasional Linux hardware problem (which is increasingly rare) but simply ignore those faults that Windows has. Rather unfair if you ask me. And then there's the relative lack of software on a fresh Windows install...compared to a Linux install it's incredibly limited. Maybe you should change "just plain works with no treaking (tweaking?)" to "just barely works with nothing to work with."
Until GNU/Linux and other Free Software programs can provide the same quality of service for "Normal people", (that is to say your Mum or your Granddad)
Does for my Granddad...has for years. He used to use SuSE, now he runs a Mepis box. And no, he's not a techie, he's a fairly typical clueless user.
Yes, it takes massive amounts of raw materials to get Helium-3. Luckily we don't actually need much Helium-3 (in theory). The overall mining operations will be small compared to a great number of Earth based mining operations. Even on the side facing Earth...you wouldn't be able to see mine pits from Earth.
On top of that, the UN isn't a government....it's a loose diplomatic and sometimes military alliance. A very corrupt one at that. It's also one that often has zero respect for the sovereign rights of nations, and the rights of their people. Well...most specifically the US and it's people. The UN has repeatedly tried to push through treaties and projects calling for serious violations of the rights of the people of the US, such as demands for civilian disarmament (as much as some other nations may find it distasteful....we do consider it a civil right for the populace to be armed), or repeated demands to violate the property rights of US citizens in attempts to confiscate property for various reasons (in one case, a proposed project to seize roughly 50% of the land in the US to create wildlife preserves devoid of all human activity). There are reasons for increasing distrust of the UN by US citizens, and the US government.
I feel the internet is rather save in us hands. At least better than in that of Cuba and Iran. And even in Eurpean countries, some politicians don't always understand that freedom is always the freedom of different opinions (or sexual preferences and tastes).
True, for instance...censorship is rife in Europe. For example, in Germany and other countries many books, images, and films concerning Nazism are banned...even ones of purely historical and academic interest. In some other countries in Europe...a similar situation exists with regards to materials regarding Communism. Britain has a long history of book banning. In certain countries in Europe, certain speech is banned, and certain political parties are banned. A German guy I know once described his idea of Free Speech as...let me see if I can remember it exactly right...it was something like, "People should be able to say whatever they like as long as it's not harmful to the state." I of course, pointed out that my country was founded on speech considered harmful to the state. I think there's much more free speech and press in the USA, even if our society is considered a bit more prudish than some.
And for those who say the UN and EU control over the root servers has nothing to do with censorship....this conflicts with their own stated goals about what they see as a greater need for monitoring and control over the internet. Give control over to the UN, and censorship will follow. By the same people that put Libya in charge of human rights.
BTW, my apologies to any Germans who may read this and be offended, by my use of the term "Nazi", as appairently it is such an offensive, evil term that no matter what the context, it's considered so offensive as to merit censorship in your country. Pardon my filthy language. I'm sure that when the internet is yours to command, you'll be able to blot out my horrible, horrible words.
It's fairly traditional in the US to simply ignore the USPTO (of course...this may result in law suits...but properly argued that can be to your benefit, if you're willing to spend the cash). Most of the time the courts have had no problems with that, even helping by throwing out bogus patents pretty much any time one is brought to the attention of the courts. The courts have repeatedly said that only the truely important, innovative, and groundbreaking new inventions are meant to be patented in the first place, and that the people in the patent office have had no business issueing most of the patents they have in fact issued. The US courts have been saying, for decades, that the US patent system is broken... The Chief Executive (as the patent office is Executive Branch) needs to seriously clean house.
The kinds of tactics I am talking about...dragging candidates into courts, rigged elections, and so forth, happen much more often at the local level. There have even been moments where intimidation tactics have been used to scare away candidates, dirty tricks with regards to debates (such as refusing third party debates....but showing up at the last minute at third party specific debates to steal away the press attention onto themselves), and all sorts of other nastiness. Saying "well confine yourselves to local elections then" doesn't solve the problem. Also...how is anyone expected to even try to effect change at the national level with that attitude!
And let's not forget....Libetarians have been elected to Federal positions many times before. And there has even been a third-party President once upon a time... It's not utterly hopeless there. Just exceedingly difficult due to the unfair system.
And the Republicans AND Democrats have way more money than every other political party...where's the laws bringing that into balance? Oh wait, we third party people don't even argue about that... We just want elections that are fair where when we get on the ballot we don't get dragged into local courts by the big parties with them arguing we should be taken off because we have no chance to win...because we aren't them... where our Presidential candidates, if they are on enough ballots to (in theory) get enough electoral votes to win, can participate in Presidential debates...where the ballot boxes aren't stuffed and voting machines aren't rigged (both big parties guilty of this)... In other words, we want Free and Democratic elections in the United States (well....everyone sems to want them for Iraq, or this or that third world piss poor country, only fair we should want them here.) That would be election reform. Who gives a shit about "campaign finance" at a stage where everything else is broken?
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This was due to the piss poor delivery method and the small amounts. The intent was to cause fear, not to kill. Someone who knows what they are doing, with the right equipment, and a fair amount of anthrax, could cause a rather large amount of deaths.
So...in Canada....it's guilty until proven innocent. Gotcha.
Downloading songs is wrong? Sorry, I was under the impression that under copyright law the user also has rights, not just the producer of media. I have a right to go and download a copy of a song I already own, as backup copies for personal use are fine. Also, fine are songs that are given away free by the artists themselves. Not all free downloading of music is wrong, regardless of what RIAA says.
No, really, it is obvious. Which makes a patent on it legally bogus. Should never have been issued in the first place. It would be thrown out of court without a second thought if challenged. I don't think anyone has to worry about violating this patent.
This area may be rural, but agriculture and it's huge glut of government subsidies are not the biggest parts of the local economy. Most people around here aren't farmers, or even work in agriculture. They work in factories, small businesses, the oil industry (as in working in the oil fields, servicing tanks and equipment, driving oil trucks) or in some other areas the coal industry, working in machine shops to provide services to those local industries, Walmart, various small tourist traps and local entertainments, in some areas they service the commercial river barge traffic or crew them, and transportation is a major industry around here, a lot of truck drivers. Only a very small part of our local economy is directly subsidized by the government.
I can't believe I used the wrong coding...and I missed it previewing. Damn I'm slipping...
It's "Manga" ever since the English language adopted the term to mean that particular style of comics.
Especially considering the U.N's membership.
I never said they didn't attempt it. Just that the system was designed more as an admin's workstation than a general desktop. Redhat has never been one of the better desktop Linux companies. Mandriva, SuSE/Novell, and others have pretty much always been much better at designing a distro that works well as a desktop system.
Yes, it takes massive amounts of raw materials to get Helium-3. Luckily we don't actually need much Helium-3 (in theory). The overall mining operations will be small compared to a great number of Earth based mining operations. Even on the side facing Earth...you wouldn't be able to see mine pits from Earth.
On top of that, the UN isn't a government....it's a loose diplomatic and sometimes military alliance. A very corrupt one at that. It's also one that often has zero respect for the sovereign rights of nations, and the rights of their people. Well...most specifically the US and it's people. The UN has repeatedly tried to push through treaties and projects calling for serious violations of the rights of the people of the US, such as demands for civilian disarmament (as much as some other nations may find it distasteful....we do consider it a civil right for the populace to be armed), or repeated demands to violate the property rights of US citizens in attempts to confiscate property for various reasons (in one case, a proposed project to seize roughly 50% of the land in the US to create wildlife preserves devoid of all human activity). There are reasons for increasing distrust of the UN by US citizens, and the US government.
True, for instance...censorship is rife in Europe. For example, in Germany and other countries many books, images, and films concerning Nazism are banned...even ones of purely historical and academic interest. In some other countries in Europe...a similar situation exists with regards to materials regarding Communism. Britain has a long history of book banning. In certain countries in Europe, certain speech is banned, and certain political parties are banned. A German guy I know once described his idea of Free Speech as...let me see if I can remember it exactly right...it was something like, "People should be able to say whatever they like as long as it's not harmful to the state." I of course, pointed out that my country was founded on speech considered harmful to the state. I think there's much more free speech and press in the USA, even if our society is considered a bit more prudish than some.
And for those who say the UN and EU control over the root servers has nothing to do with censorship....this conflicts with their own stated goals about what they see as a greater need for monitoring and control over the internet. Give control over to the UN, and censorship will follow. By the same people that put Libya in charge of human rights.
BTW, my apologies to any Germans who may read this and be offended, by my use of the term "Nazi", as appairently it is such an offensive, evil term that no matter what the context, it's considered so offensive as to merit censorship in your country. Pardon my filthy language. I'm sure that when the internet is yours to command, you'll be able to blot out my horrible, horrible words.
It's fairly traditional in the US to simply ignore the USPTO (of course...this may result in law suits...but properly argued that can be to your benefit, if you're willing to spend the cash). Most of the time the courts have had no problems with that, even helping by throwing out bogus patents pretty much any time one is brought to the attention of the courts. The courts have repeatedly said that only the truely important, innovative, and groundbreaking new inventions are meant to be patented in the first place, and that the people in the patent office have had no business issueing most of the patents they have in fact issued. The US courts have been saying, for decades, that the US patent system is broken... The Chief Executive (as the patent office is Executive Branch) needs to seriously clean house.
The kinds of tactics I am talking about...dragging candidates into courts, rigged elections, and so forth, happen much more often at the local level. There have even been moments where intimidation tactics have been used to scare away candidates, dirty tricks with regards to debates (such as refusing third party debates....but showing up at the last minute at third party specific debates to steal away the press attention onto themselves), and all sorts of other nastiness. Saying "well confine yourselves to local elections then" doesn't solve the problem. Also...how is anyone expected to even try to effect change at the national level with that attitude!
And let's not forget....Libetarians have been elected to Federal positions many times before. And there has even been a third-party President once upon a time... It's not utterly hopeless there. Just exceedingly difficult due to the unfair system.
And the Republicans AND Democrats have way more money than every other political party...where's the laws bringing that into balance? Oh wait, we third party people don't even argue about that... We just want elections that are fair where when we get on the ballot we don't get dragged into local courts by the big parties with them arguing we should be taken off because we have no chance to win...because we aren't them... where our Presidential candidates, if they are on enough ballots to (in theory) get enough electoral votes to win, can participate in Presidential debates...where the ballot boxes aren't stuffed and voting machines aren't rigged (both big parties guilty of this)... In other words, we want Free and Democratic elections in the United States (well....everyone sems to want them for Iraq, or this or that third world piss poor country, only fair we should want them here.) That would be election reform. Who gives a shit about "campaign finance" at a stage where everything else is broken?