* We can't even cloth/feed/house our own people. Why not that first?
* The ________________ nation doesn't even have running water (electricity, enough food, etc) for everyone. Why spend resources on space?
You wanna know why?
Because exploring space and ensuring a future for the human genome is WAAAAAAY more important than all of that. Period. There is no debate. Any argument that you make that says, "Don't do Space Exploration because XXXX is more important, " can easily be shown to be silly by the simple statement:
"If human beings remained confined to this planet they will become extinct."
People are just trying to make it seem like it's getting more complicated. It's actually quite straight-forward.
If something is under BSD license. You CAN re-license it under the terms of the GPL provided you maintain the list of copyright holders, warranty disclaimer, and do not use the names of the copyright holders for purposes of advertisement or promotion.
So, I can take a BSD licensed code, keep the BSD warranty disclaimer, keep the list of copyright holders, and add the GPL license notice. All future modifications from that source base (not the original) are now required to meet the requirements of the GPL.
If it's dual-licensed, I can simply drop all mention of the BSD license and it's requirements. I am CHOOSING to distribute under the terms of the GPL then in that case.
Where do I contribute to his Defense Fund! This is crap! It must be fought at all cost. We cannot allow corporations (or any entity for that matter) have this kind of control over our personal computing resources (or otherwise).
If stuff like this continues to become the norm, then, perhaps it is time for a revolution.
The GPL3 doesn't affect MS unless MS copies, modifies, AND distributes software published under the GPL3. If they do, then they either agree to the conditions or they can get sued for copyright infringement. My guess is that under many conditions they would be more willing to pay the costs of losing a copyright suit than abide by the GPL3. It won't be clear that they get off the hook for automatic patent licences and the like until court cases and appeals create precendents.
There, fixed that for you! Important to remember. The GPL ONLY only applies when you MODIFY AND COPY AND DISTRIBUTE (the last being the really key point). You must make modifications AND distribute them in order to be bound by the terms of the GPL.
I just don't buy the whole thing about all this "important" data in Word documents and Spreadsheets and such. It's nonsense. I'm sure there are a "few" cases in the grand scheme of things. But 99% of the usage of MS-Office is simplistic, poorly formatted, and information of little long-term value. The stuff that does have long-term value, the value is in the content, not the formatting. You could do a straight text-extraction and have everything that is really valuable. The formatting has no value whatsoever. I call BULLSHIT!
I'm not British, but, I do know my biology: Knock Off => Get Off => "Get Off Work" => that is, "...what time can I pick you up?" (to waitress pouring beer).
Sorry, you fail at evolution. You are wrong! I go *exactly* the speed limit in the FAST lane (as you like to call it), and I have assholes like you climbing up my ass. Why? You shouldn't need to go any faster. In fact, if you are, you are breaking the law. JACKASS!
Why are stereotypes of poor, hard-working people from Appalachia (mostly coal miners and the like) accepted without a bat of an eye?
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However, it's more realistic that nVidia and ATI have their own proprietary IP and patents that could severely hurt their business if competitors got their hands on them.
OK, which is it, Patented IP or Trade-Secrets? Can't be both you know. If it's patent, then it is required to be published for the "...advancement of useful arts and sciences...". If it's a trade secret, then FLOSS (or anyone else) is free to reverse engineer it.
Where are these fictional DBA's who know how to write advanced SQL or procedural code? I've never met them. All the DBA's I've met are marginally competent clowns. Of course, so are most of the software developers I've met (aside from Open Source).
Seriously....not a joke. I'd like to check this out but it doesn't run on Linux. I guess us Linux users aren't good enough for them. I guess my money smells bad or something.
Take and aspirin and stop whining. I can't believe how much of cry-babies we've become in this country. It doesn't matter in the least though. Soon the Chinese and other less "Whiny" people will ascend to become the dominant nation/culture and all us Whiny, Cry-Baby Americans will become second-class citizens in a world dominated by people who display the kind of "Pioneer Spirit" that are forefathers had.
We're becoming a nation of pussies and cry-babies! It's pathetic! No wonder the world despises us.
I'm so sick of hearing about stuff like this. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
If you get an injury from using a mouse you are pathetic. PERIOD!
Makes me want to puke. Deal with the pain a little. Christ...as you age you have aches and pains. It's normal. Stop bitching and moaning about it.
Hmmm.....I think you make some very valid points. Maybe it's good that we have "Hysterical Twits" on both sides of the issue. Maybe that is what helps to maintain a balance. Kind of like Yin-Yang? Think about it. Maybe we need extremists on both sides of an issue just to maintain "Balance in the Force".
So what if he is retarded? Borderline? A good percentage of criminals are border-line mentally retarded. I don't buy the whole non-culpable because of emotional disturbance or mental retardation or whatever. Who cares? This is nonsense. We as society have to put up with crap like this 'cause someone is mentally inept or unstable? I call bullshit! This is one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on people. We're supposed to give someone a pass because they are inept, retarded, and/or emotionally disturbed? I don't think this is right. Don't bother telling me I'm wrong. I could care less for your bleeding heart arguments on this one. There is not a single example you can produce to which I'll agree that culpability should be ignored.
People who can't permit "Free Speech" and call for violence must have unlimited and unrelentless violence visited upon them. If the West Kowtows to these Fuckers it is the end of our civilization. Fuck religious zealots (and that includes the Christians, Jews, Hindus, or whatever the fuck other nutcases are out there). We have a duty to uphold the rights of free speech or watch our civilization crumble in ignorance.
Amen Brother! I grew up without having learned anything about music. I couldn't read music. Never sang formerly. Never learned to play an instrument. Heck, I didn't even have much of a stereo or radio until my late teens. Never owned much of a music collection...couldn't afford it.
About 2 years ago (now that I'm a *cough* successful *cough* software developer) I took up guitar as a hobby. I taught myself to read music and the basics myself (from books) then I started taking lessons after about a year. I haven't looked back. My love for music just gets better and better every day.
I find the relaxation gained from making your own music far surpasses anything one can get elsewhere. Everyone should just try making a little music. Don't be a passive consumer. Be and active participant. Screw the RIAA.
Stupid ass filter won't let me capitalize the above without a bunch of junk in lower-case to balance it out. Yes, I know it's like YELLING! That's the POINT!
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...Exploration someone trumps in with:
* What about the starving children?
* Maybe we should cure cancer first?
* What about AIDS?
* We can't even cloth/feed/house our own people. Why not that first?
* The ________________ nation doesn't even have running water (electricity, enough food, etc) for everyone. Why spend resources on space?
You wanna know why?
Because exploring space and ensuring a future for the human genome is WAAAAAAY more important than all of that. Period. There is no debate. Any argument that you make that says, "Don't do Space Exploration because XXXX is more important, " can easily be shown to be silly by the simple statement:
"If human beings remained confined to this planet they will become extinct."
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People are just trying to make it seem like it's getting more complicated. It's actually quite straight-forward.
If something is under BSD license. You CAN re-license it under the terms of the GPL provided you maintain the list of copyright holders, warranty disclaimer, and do not use the names of the copyright holders for purposes of advertisement or promotion.
So, I can take a BSD licensed code, keep the BSD warranty disclaimer, keep the list of copyright holders, and add the GPL license notice. All future modifications from that source base (not the original) are now required to meet the requirements of the GPL.
If it's dual-licensed, I can simply drop all mention of the BSD license and it's requirements. I am CHOOSING to distribute under the terms of the GPL then in that case.
Simple. Not complicated. Anything else is FUD!
...are full of shit! Union YES! Now, what we need are unions in the IT industry. If you say "No", then you're really full of SHIT!
Where do I contribute to his Defense Fund! This is crap! It must be fought at all cost. We cannot allow corporations (or any entity for that matter) have this kind of control over our personal computing resources (or otherwise). If stuff like this continues to become the norm, then, perhaps it is time for a revolution.
There, fixed that for you! Important to remember. The GPL ONLY only applies when you MODIFY AND COPY AND DISTRIBUTE (the last being the really key point). You must make modifications AND distribute them in order to be bound by the terms of the GPL.
Stop spreading FUD!
I just don't buy the whole thing about all this "important" data in Word documents and Spreadsheets and such. It's nonsense. I'm sure there are a "few" cases in the grand scheme of things. But 99% of the usage of MS-Office is simplistic, poorly formatted, and information of little long-term value. The stuff that does have long-term value, the value is in the content, not the formatting. You could do a straight text-extraction and have everything that is really valuable. The formatting has no value whatsoever. I call BULLSHIT!
'nough said!
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Why?
Since we're picking on different ethnicities, don't forget:
1. The dirty, greedy, selfish, oven-roasted Kike-Jews
2. Those fucking terrorist, Muhammed ass-lickers the Muslims (or Moslims or whatever)
3. Those slant-eyed Chinks
4. Those filthy Japs
5. Those filthy, stinky Afro-American Hairdo NIGGERS
6. Pole Riding Fags
7. Cunt Licking Lesbos
8. Fuckin' Beaner Mexicans
9. Filthy, third-worlder South American, half-nigger, half-tomahawk chuckin' Latinos
10. Red headed step-child GINGER kid Irish niggers
11. Moronic Poles
12. Lazy-Ass Russkies
13. North-African Sand-Niggers
14. Anorexic Ethiopian/Somalian filth lovin' desert trash niggers
15. etc.
16. etc.
I'm not British, but, I do know my biology: Knock Off => Get Off => "Get Off Work" => that is, "...what time can I pick you up?" (to waitress pouring beer).
Sorry, you fail at evolution. You are wrong! I go *exactly* the speed limit in the FAST lane (as you like to call it), and I have assholes like you climbing up my ass. Why? You shouldn't need to go any faster. In fact, if you are, you are breaking the law. JACKASS!
I think he mean "Carte Blanche" (sorry, don't know how to get the accents right).
Why are stereotypes of poor, hard-working people from Appalachia (mostly coal miners and the like) accepted without a bat of an eye? Folk Music Forever! http://www.folkalley.com/ (Public Radio at it's Best!)
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Where are these fictional DBA's who know how to write advanced SQL or procedural code? I've never met them. All the DBA's I've met are marginally competent clowns. Of course, so are most of the software developers I've met (aside from Open Source).
Seriously....not a joke. I'd like to check this out but it doesn't run on Linux. I guess us Linux users aren't good enough for them. I guess my money smells bad or something.
Take and aspirin and stop whining. I can't believe how much of cry-babies we've become in this country. It doesn't matter in the least though. Soon the Chinese and other less "Whiny" people will ascend to become the dominant nation/culture and all us Whiny, Cry-Baby Americans will become second-class citizens in a world dominated by people who display the kind of "Pioneer Spirit" that are forefathers had.
We're becoming a nation of pussies and cry-babies! It's pathetic! No wonder the world despises us.
I'm so sick of hearing about stuff like this. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
If you get an injury from using a mouse you are pathetic. PERIOD!
Makes me want to puke. Deal with the pain a little. Christ...as you age you have aches and pains. It's normal. Stop bitching and moaning about it.
Lame ass!
Word was 1990's thing. Noone said "Word" in the '80's. Get a clue!
Hmmm.....I think you make some very valid points. Maybe it's good that we have "Hysterical Twits" on both sides of the issue. Maybe that is what helps to maintain a balance. Kind of like Yin-Yang? Think about it. Maybe we need extremists on both sides of an issue just to maintain "Balance in the Force".
So what if he is retarded? Borderline? A good percentage of criminals are border-line mentally retarded. I don't buy the whole non-culpable because of emotional disturbance or mental retardation or whatever. Who cares? This is nonsense. We as society have to put up with crap like this 'cause someone is mentally inept or unstable? I call bullshit! This is one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on people. We're supposed to give someone a pass because they are inept, retarded, and/or emotionally disturbed? I don't think this is right. Don't bother telling me I'm wrong. I could care less for your bleeding heart arguments on this one. There is not a single example you can produce to which I'll agree that culpability should be ignored.
People who can't permit "Free Speech" and call for violence must have unlimited and unrelentless violence visited upon them. If the West Kowtows to these Fuckers it is the end of our civilization. Fuck religious zealots (and that includes the Christians, Jews, Hindus, or whatever the fuck other nutcases are out there). We have a duty to uphold the rights of free speech or watch our civilization crumble in ignorance.
Amen Brother! I grew up without having learned anything about music. I couldn't read music. Never sang formerly. Never learned to play an instrument. Heck, I didn't even have much of a stereo or radio until my late teens. Never owned much of a music collection...couldn't afford it. About 2 years ago (now that I'm a *cough* successful *cough* software developer) I took up guitar as a hobby. I taught myself to read music and the basics myself (from books) then I started taking lessons after about a year. I haven't looked back. My love for music just gets better and better every day. I find the relaxation gained from making your own music far surpasses anything one can get elsewhere. Everyone should just try making a little music. Don't be a passive consumer. Be and active participant. Screw the RIAA.
able to have GREEN EGGS AND HAM! Yeah!
Stupid ass filter won't let me capitalize the above without a bunch of junk in lower-case to balance it out. Yes, I know it's like YELLING! That's the POINT!