Ever hear of I.G. Farben, Siemens, Krupp, Daimler (Mercedes)/Chryslter/Mercedes/Berlemanns/Barnes and Noble/BMG/Random House/Every publishing company that isn't AOL/Time Warner?
You're thinking of communism where the goverment runs industry.
how much would you pay to have a Douglas Fir tree in your yard? I know a guy who'd pay you $5000 to take it from you. And when he's done with them, someone else will pay more for the lumber made from it. And you know what, you'll probably shell out a quarter million dollars for a house made from the lumber.
Wealth = Capital + Investment.
The investment is time, labor, experience, skill.
Scarcity is only part of the equation. And granted, lumber is so expesive because trees are getting scarce, and a good chunk of that house payment is because you don't want to live next to a black man or oriental.
But you know what? If you spent the time and effort and grew some trees, you could solve all these problems. They wouldn't appear out of thin air, but a couple seeds, some water, some dirt, a little effort and a lot of time would do it.
knowingly killed people, poisoned wells, caused disease, sold addictive drugs to teenagers, or spilled a billion tons of toxic sludge in somebodies back yard...
Not firestone, not exxon, not Union Carbide, no airline, no car manufacturer no cigarette maker
Whew, what a relief!
For a minute there I thought you were talking about the U.S.A., Incorporated.
You'd better take another look at history if you think revolutions make the bad men go away. I can only think of one time it actually worked. And you'd better take another look at reality if you think elections change a government. You can assassinate a CEO as easily as a president, and it accomplishes as much. Sometimes that might be a lot, other times, not so much.
publicly funded (not by donation) AIDS research outspends Microsoft and what do we have to show for it? Private companies with patents on rat poison medicines that don't really work, who watch millions die because they won't share their research.
science isn't art, either.
but I guess semantics is.
anyway, *scientists* now generally agree that Newton was full of shit and relativity is the spelling of the everlasting gospel. It is a mere coincidence that Newton's theories give accurate results ninety nine point infinity minus one percent of the time. that's what you get for using empirical data, gentleman and ladies.
When I first heard about this story, I thought, "Cool, its about time NASA's monopoly gets broken." And then I thought, "Maybe he should try a Sputnik first." And then I read the bit about the FAA wanting a "flight plan" and then I thought about North Korea trying to fire their own rockets. And then I noticed it was the New York Post and it all made sense.
Follow the link at the bottom of the article and read a couple of other articles if you've never heard of the NY Post
If this were still early in the election campaign last you, you might be able to convince Sen. Orinn Hatch from Utah to show up.
(he was running for president, and has spoken, if not favorably of napster, at least in defense of the principles are are being broken in prosecuting it)
Has he ever had his car serviced, his house repaired, or tried anything involving a government agency?
hell, grocery store pricing is more devious than shrink wrap licenses and click through agreements (club membership only, limit 3, must purchase 2 or more, not subject to other promotions, must present advertizement --not a coupon-- before purchase, may not be available, subject to...)
Slackware 3.5 was my first Linux to get on the net (RH 4.2 my first install, 5.1 my first X session) I left slackware at 7.0 for hardware reasons. Now I'm sick of redhat (xinetd was the last straw) and I can't get past the political shit every time I try debian (and apt-get scares me). SuSE uses YaST, Mandrake is for kids, and Novell sucks.
If Patrick could concentrate on making the slack installation a little easier to customize, there could be a ton of slack-based distros a la Mandrake, Stormix, etc. I'm not talking about an arrow when you're installing, I mean pluggable components and a fully fledged scripting language to glue it together. It's almost there already.
And as much of a fan I am of the xvzf installer, it just isn't practical over the long run. Neither is RPM, but it could be if done right.
maybe the fuckscking standard is wrong if it breaks so much code. Did you ever think of that?
Something like sizeof(const int) is something a compiler *can* figure out. And it does in c. Just because someone decided it wasn't "proper" c++ doesn't mean tons of code should need to be rewritten just to use c++ wrappers.
Bero's a good guy, but yall Redhat got to see the source for the trees. Or something like that.
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Ever hear of I.G. Farben, Siemens, Krupp, Daimler (Mercedes)/Chryslter/Mercedes/Berlemanns/Barnes and Noble/BMG/Random House/Every publishing company that isn't AOL/Time Warner?
You're thinking of communism where the goverment runs industry.
Wealth = Capital + Investment.
The investment is time, labor, experience, skill.
Scarcity is only part of the equation. And granted, lumber is so expesive because trees are getting scarce, and a good chunk of that house payment is because you don't want to live next to a black man or oriental.
But you know what? If you spent the time and effort and grew some trees, you could solve all these problems. They wouldn't appear out of thin air, but a couple seeds, some water, some dirt, a little effort and a lot of time would do it.
How many power companies are there left in California?
Why don't we hear much criticism of Big Coal?
does anyone know why Newt Gingrich wanted to cut funding for PBS?
How can you tell when GE buys more shares of Westinghouse?
When cast members from Survivor show up on the Today show.
Where your vote counts
Not firestone, not exxon, not Union Carbide, no airline, no car manufacturer no cigarette maker
Whew, what a relief!
For a minute there I thought you were talking about the U.S.A., Incorporated.
corporations don't have guns (yet)
You'd better take another look at history if you think revolutions make the bad men go away. I can only think of one time it actually worked. And you'd better take another look at reality if you think elections change a government. You can assassinate a CEO as easily as a president, and it accomplishes as much. Sometimes that might be a lot, other times, not so much.
and anywhere that you can get packages delivered from there.
if you use MD5 checksums, and wear the shirt to Tijuana, you could be busted for munitions as well as DCMA violation.
maybe someone could make an interpretive dance or long haiku out of it.
publicly funded (not by donation) AIDS research outspends Microsoft and what do we have to show for it? Private companies with patents on rat poison medicines that don't really work, who watch millions die because they won't share their research.
No, he said that Microsoft's "shared source" policy and internal review is on par or better than open source, and provides "most of the benefits"
They dug up tyler, and guess what, no poison cherries.
but I guess semantics is.
anyway, *scientists* now generally agree that Newton was full of shit and relativity is the spelling of the everlasting gospel. It is a mere coincidence that Newton's theories give accurate results ninety nine point infinity minus one percent of the time. that's what you get for using empirical data, gentleman and ladies.
Follow the link at the bottom of the article and read a couple of other articles if you've never heard of the NY Post
what does the L stand for then?
(he was running for president, and has spoken, if not favorably of napster, at least in defense of the principles are are being broken in prosecuting it)
hell, grocery store pricing is more devious than shrink wrap licenses and click through agreements (club membership only, limit 3, must purchase 2 or more, not subject to other promotions, must present advertizement --not a coupon-- before purchase, may not be available, subject to ...)
Unless they patent the advisories.
New York doesn't eat without bumpkin Idaho
Slackware 3.5 was my first Linux to get on the net (RH 4.2 my first install, 5.1 my first X session) I left slackware at 7.0 for hardware reasons. Now I'm sick of redhat (xinetd was the last straw) and I can't get past the political shit every time I try debian (and apt-get scares me). SuSE uses YaST, Mandrake is for kids, and Novell sucks. If Patrick could concentrate on making the slack installation a little easier to customize, there could be a ton of slack-based distros a la Mandrake, Stormix, etc. I'm not talking about an arrow when you're installing, I mean pluggable components and a fully fledged scripting language to glue it together. It's almost there already. And as much of a fan I am of the xvzf installer, it just isn't practical over the long run. Neither is RPM, but it could be if done right.
I think I'll go click on the ads in the newpaper.
Something like sizeof(const int) is something a compiler *can* figure out. And it does in c. Just because someone decided it wasn't "proper" c++ doesn't mean tons of code should need to be rewritten just to use c++ wrappers.
Bero's a good guy, but yall Redhat got to see the source for the trees. Or something like that.
Anyone know some killer backcountry with no tracks, fresh powder, no lines, and you don't have to hike?
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If you'd have waited a year, you could have got that $450 chip for $50.