I don't know of a single person who doesn't want to keep more $$$ in their pocket.
I could call a bank and get $50,000 cash today from a home equity line of credit. Given that we have a $500 billion deficit this year, that's exactly what cutting taxes does.
Oh, except there is a difference. The people who pay taxes now are borrowing money, but it's the people who will pay taxes in the future who will pay for that borrowing. Just as current taxpayers are now paying for the heavy borrowing of the last 25 years. What's the stat? Something like the income taxes paid by everyone west of the Mississippi goes for debt servicing from the last 25 years of borrowing, if I remember rightly.
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
It does sound a lot like iPhoto, which has the Mac reasonably well covered. (Not to mention Adobe Photoshop Album, so Adobe may be worried this morning.) Has Google ever dabbled in open source software? Who knows, perhaps they'd be willing to open it up for Linux/BSD devotees. I wasn't able to find anything on Sourceforge for photo collection managemente when I last checked.
I'm not so sure the NY Times is outlandish in their pricing for archived articles.
It's not so much outlandish as out of date. The old article prices made sense when few people wanted them, so overhead was high. Now, with the web, you have a vast audience of potential viewers. As a business venture, it certainly seems to an outside observer that it would make more sense for the NYT et al to make their profits off of advertising revenues from lots of views, rather than per-copy payments for a small amount of views or archive sales.
100+ years of racial and religious discrimination in the U.S. says your supposition is wrong. Want those "No dogs, no Jews" signs back? Water fountains for whites and for coloreds?
Frankly, its no one's business if I want to code my own site to be inaccessible to anyone I want.
If you choose to incorporate, why the frell not? Society's giving you that liability limitation, the least the corporation can do is provide reasonable accomodations to all. Corporate status is not a god-given right.
Uhm, I have news for Mr Gates: Video on demand has been the "next big thing" for at least the last 10 years.
Looking at the Yahoo article, that isn't what Gates says at all. He could be talking about mass storage within devices as well as on-demand. It's already practical to do this for music; with iPods and computers, there's no removable media whatsoever, and there's a lot of stuff on iTMS et al already. CDs are pretty much one-use for me already, and I've considered getting a good-sized hard drive or two and doing the same for my DVD collection.
An advantage of this system, BTW, is that Florida-style disputes would probably be less of an issue, as only two votes would have swayed on such a close election. A possible disadvantage is that in a very close election, there might be several dozen areas of contention due to close votes. It would force significant changes in campaign visits, as many states would be battleground states, not just a few.
But who's to say that Aesop's Fable is the final arbiter? Clearly the original poster meant <%100, and many of us understood it that way. If we use actual lions as the basis (which existed long before Aesop), we'll find that the lion doesn't eat everything of a large kill, as swift, sneaky types will take a small piece and run or fly off with it, or they'll eat some before the lion gets there and steals the kill.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
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I think you misinterpret the parent post. For a passenger with a laptop, having an AP nearby is a Good Thing.
In Southern Ontario, the climate is actually a little more moderate than American cities on the opposite site of the Great Lakes, like Buffalo.
Now that's what I call a backhanded compliment! That's like telling a woman a place is a better place to meet guys than San Francisco's Castro district...
When you go to a store and buy something, the conditions of that sale are generally covered (in the U.S. at least) by the Uniform Commercial Code. That covers things like a sale of music or software not implying a right to public performance or distribution. As such, it serves as an explicitly spelled out condition of the purchase contract, and the details are available to be known prior to that purchase.
Going back to the house purchase analogy, this would be equivalent to the local building codes required for the property. They aren't spelled out in the purchasing contract, but they apply to all home purchases.
Counter BS. EULAs violate the fundamental principles of contract law, with the meeting of minds, exchange of value, et al. Those principles call for the terms of the contract to be presented to both sides up front, at which point the two sides indicate their consent. I can't sell you a house and then, as you're moving in, tell you that you can't ever cut down those big oak trees on the left side, even if I do offer to give you your money back (but not moving expenses, et al) if you don't agree to the restriction. EULAs are the software equivalent of doing just that, adding conditions *after* a contractual agreement has been reached.
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But yeah, for those that can't see my strange point, I'd just really like to know what the driving force behind SCO's lawyers are.
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In fact, we have more trees today than we had 70 years ago.
That's because large, heavily forested Alaska became a state ~44 years ago. Gotta love the lies wrapped in a truth.
Might be worth 40k not to have this guy chasing you around with those...
Hey, don't you know the dangers of running with scissors?!
I don't know of a single person who doesn't want to keep more $$$ in their pocket.
I could call a bank and get $50,000 cash today from a home equity line of credit. Given that we have a $500 billion deficit this year, that's exactly what cutting taxes does.
Oh, except there is a difference. The people who pay taxes now are borrowing money, but it's the people who will pay taxes in the future who will pay for that borrowing. Just as current taxpayers are now paying for the heavy borrowing of the last 25 years. What's the stat? Something like the income taxes paid by everyone west of the Mississippi goes for debt servicing from the last 25 years of borrowing, if I remember rightly.
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
It does sound a lot like iPhoto, which has the Mac reasonably well covered. (Not to mention Adobe Photoshop Album, so Adobe may be worried this morning.) Has Google ever dabbled in open source software? Who knows, perhaps they'd be willing to open it up for Linux/BSD devotees. I wasn't able to find anything on Sourceforge for photo collection managemente when I last checked.
I dunno, did you kill your television set?
I'm not so sure the NY Times is outlandish in their pricing for archived articles.
It's not so much outlandish as out of date. The old article prices made sense when few people wanted them, so overhead was high. Now, with the web, you have a vast audience of potential viewers. As a business venture, it certainly seems to an outside observer that it would make more sense for the NYT et al to make their profits off of advertising revenues from lots of views, rather than per-copy payments for a small amount of views or archive sales.
It is exactly the government's business to regulate corporations!
100+ years of racial and religious discrimination in the U.S. says your supposition is wrong. Want those "No dogs, no Jews" signs back? Water fountains for whites and for coloreds?
Frankly, its no one's business if I want to code my own site to be inaccessible to anyone I want.
If you choose to incorporate, why the frell not? Society's giving you that liability limitation, the least the corporation can do is provide reasonable accomodations to all. Corporate status is not a god-given right.
Uhm, I have news for Mr Gates: Video on demand has been the "next big thing" for at least the last 10 years.
Looking at the Yahoo article, that isn't what Gates says at all. He could be talking about mass storage within devices as well as on-demand. It's already practical to do this for music; with iPods and computers, there's no removable media whatsoever, and there's a lot of stuff on iTMS et al already. CDs are pretty much one-use for me already, and I've considered getting a good-sized hard drive or two and doing the same for my DVD collection.
There are, of course, a host of other factors that influence climate - for example, episodes of warming related to methane releases.
[Indignant look] Well it wasn't me...
Some analysts said the move could eventually sideline conventional Linux and Unix operating systems.
Yep, because you know people are only using Linux for the applications...
An advantage of this system, BTW, is that Florida-style disputes would probably be less of an issue, as only two votes would have swayed on such a close election. A possible disadvantage is that in a very close election, there might be several dozen areas of contention due to close votes. It would force significant changes in campaign visits, as many states would be battleground states, not just a few.
Those statistics ignore social security and other taxes, which are actually greater than the standard income tax on lower-income wage earners.
But who's to say that Aesop's Fable is the final arbiter? Clearly the original poster meant <%100, and many of us understood it that way. If we use actual lions as the basis (which existed long before Aesop), we'll find that the lion doesn't eat everything of a large kill, as swift, sneaky types will take a small piece and run or fly off with it, or they'll eat some before the lion gets there and steals the kill.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
I think you misinterpret the parent post. For a passenger with a laptop, having an AP nearby is a Good Thing.
Ya gotta wonder how much more popular open source software would be if not for widespread piracy.
In Southern Ontario, the climate is actually a little more moderate than American cities on the opposite site of the Great Lakes, like Buffalo.
Now that's what I call a backhanded compliment! That's like telling a woman a place is a better place to meet guys than San Francisco's Castro district...
Exactly, given that many spammers have more explicit language and imagery than an obscene phone call.
"High Court" means Supreme Court, passed down from English tradition, I b'leeve. Regardless, the first article linked says Supreme Court.
You do realize the Corvette and CTS-V are $10-15K more than the GTO, right?
He must work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Which one?
When you go to a store and buy something, the conditions of that sale are generally covered (in the U.S. at least) by the Uniform Commercial Code. That covers things like a sale of music or software not implying a right to public performance or distribution. As such, it serves as an explicitly spelled out condition of the purchase contract, and the details are available to be known prior to that purchase.
Going back to the house purchase analogy, this would be equivalent to the local building codes required for the property. They aren't spelled out in the purchasing contract, but they apply to all home purchases.
Counter BS. EULAs violate the fundamental principles of contract law, with the meeting of minds, exchange of value, et al. Those principles call for the terms of the contract to be presented to both sides up front, at which point the two sides indicate their consent. I can't sell you a house and then, as you're moving in, tell you that you can't ever cut down those big oak trees on the left side, even if I do offer to give you your money back (but not moving expenses, et al) if you don't agree to the restriction. EULAs are the software equivalent of doing just that, adding conditions *after* a contractual agreement has been reached.