The Iraq war at least had four or five good days in the beginning, which is four or five more than the Vietnam war ever had. We handcuff our troops and send them over to fight and die for some worthless "humanitarian" mission like restoring democracy (how many people ever died to make a mark on a ballot?) and then we don't even let them pursue an actual victory for political reasons. By 2010, Iraq will be yet another "Islamic Republic" (almost as much a republic as a "People's Republic", and we still won't do anything about Iran, which is where we should have gone in the first place.
This seems to be a fairly common POV, but just to play devil's advocate, those 'middlemen' assume considerable financial risk in order to let some film-school dropout cokehead put his 'artistic vision' in a theater near me.
Sweden is a signatory to TRIPS and the Berne Convention. I don't see how in the hell copyright infringement could possibly be 'legal' there. AFAIK, the only nation that has completely repudiated US copyrights is Iran.
That, I feel, is the only moral way to go. Don't like having to pay the record companies and the RIAA 20 bucks for a CD? Try listening to something from Jamendo. It's the people who want to eat their cake and have it too that really get under my skin.
Usually in a bodyless murder case, the prosecution and jury have to take it upon themselves to decide whether a person would have left of their own volition. If there are children involved, such as in this case, it is generally assumed their mother wouldn't have left them behind.
In the US, only Texas requires the presence of a body to begin a murder prosecution (although if there's special circumstances such as an amount of blood a person could not possibly lose and live present, that can be waived). Everywhere else, it's just a matter of evidence to convict. I think if Nina Reiser was still alive, she'd probably be in Russia, and that would have been the first thing police would have looked for.
Well, for one thing, 'his' house was the one he had moved to since the divorce, and the prosecutors stated that his wife wouldn't have willingly gotten into a car with him. Not to mention that the passenger seat to his car is missing, with a 40 piece socket set bought right around the time of her disappearance. As for her running off, I really can't see it. She had two young children, and was in the middle of a custody battle with Hans. 99 times out of 100 when that happens, it usually means 'face down in a ditch somewhere'.
Not to mention that ReiserFS was in 'maintenance mode' before all this shit started, and Reiser4 will probably not be in the kernel tree for some time (or ever, since Hans has to sell Namesys to pay his legal bills).
IIRC, any amount of Nina's DNA in Reiser's car was suspect, because she never would have willingly entered his vehicle (not sure if he owned the same vehicle before the divorce or not). Not to mention that the passenger seat hasn't been found.
Well, hell, if health care is "too vital" for a free market, what about food? What about water? When is someone going to end Aquafina's "profiteering"? How long before some crackpot declares he has a "right" to electrical power?
The way I see it you're pretty much boned either way. ATI/nVidia aren't going to give up the current approach, and Intel is only "freer" in the sense that it's undocumented, incomprehensible, vendor-supplied source code instead of an undocumented, incomprehensible, vensor-supplied binary.
Ok, so if people aren't putting money into the system (free as in beer), their bug reports can't be trusted (binary-only crap in the kernel) and they're useless for putting pressure on hardware designers (same), what's the point of having them? Enlarging the userbase is a good means to certain ends, but as an end in and of itself it's pointless.
Just out of curiosity, how is an undocumented, vendor-supplied source code driver better than a binary-only one? Either way, if it breaks, you can't fix it.
No. Instead they involve artificially reduced prices, with the bulk borne by taxpayers. And with price controls inevitably come shortages. (I'd rather have expensive drugs when I need them rather than cheap drugs that might arrive in 6-8 months because everyone and their grandmother went out and got a prescription at the earliest possible moment).The question of whether $1000 in my pocket is worth some African boy's life is ultimately a decision to be made by me, not by almighty Government.
A substantial portion of the "AIDS research" is in fact done by private companies, more so than say, government-funded health institutes.
And why is malaria such a killer? A bunch of governments buy into some scare story about DDT, banish the stuff more or less worldwide, and now you expect taxpayers to dole out billions for the deaths caused by government incompetence?
So the fact that musicians can make money elsewhere gives you the right to redistribute their work as you wish?
I'm not going to argue whether or not the financial aspects of the music business would go kaput if something like this were implemented; it's ultimately a doomed argument because it assumes the same thing that you (in a collective sense, not *you* personally) do: that the output of a man's mind is just another public good to be distributed to all. I don't accept that, and I don't think that I can ever accept that. If James Hetfield or Paul McCartney wants 20 USD a CD, I grumble, but I pay it or listen to something else, simply because it's their prerogative. Not mine, not yours, not the Norwegian Parliament's.
First of all, Transgaming really doesn't have much in the way of changes to contribute. They license, rather than develop in-house.
CrossOver/Codeweavers is Wine, more or less. They bankroll the thing and have all the key developers on their payroll.
The only game I use wine for is WoW, and that one seems to work fine on FreeBSD (although I didn't install it there, just copied it from a Fedora partition).
But you look at the cities that are experiencing growth, and they're all sprawling Sunbelt cities. Oklahoma City is booming again, and you can't tell where city ends and suburb begins.
I thought it was to bail out a bunch of corn farmers (particularly in Iowa, given that state's importance in presidential elections) who don't have a clue about operating a profitable business...
Hurd has gone nowhere because imho, it lacks a central genius like Linus. Hurd has gone nowhere because it's a dead end. We've got our free *nix kernel, thanks for playing.
BSD gets 1/10 the development effort of Linux (if that). Many developers are willing to work with a BSD license but most aren't. Most people aren't willing to publish their hard work just so some big company can sell it back to them.
Oddly enough, with that 1/10 split across five major development projects, the BSD kernels largely hold their own against Linux, and the userland tools are IMO nicer, less bloated and better documented. The real reason for the lack of BSD marketshare is the AT&T lawsuit. By the time it was settled in 1994, Red Hat and Caldera were both selling commercial products and there were a number of 'hobbyist' distros.
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The Iraq war at least had four or five good days in the beginning, which is four or five more than the Vietnam war ever had. We handcuff our troops and send them over to fight and die for some worthless "humanitarian" mission like restoring democracy (how many people ever died to make a mark on a ballot?) and then we don't even let them pursue an actual victory for political reasons. By 2010, Iraq will be yet another "Islamic Republic" (almost as much a republic as a "People's Republic", and we still won't do anything about Iran, which is where we should have gone in the first place.
This seems to be a fairly common POV, but just to play devil's advocate, those 'middlemen' assume considerable financial risk in order to let some film-school dropout cokehead put his 'artistic vision' in a theater near me.
Sweden is a signatory to TRIPS and the Berne Convention. I don't see how in the hell copyright infringement could possibly be 'legal' there. AFAIK, the only nation that has completely repudiated US copyrights is Iran.
More power to you, but it's hypocrisy to advocate this and then scream when the lawsuits hit.
That, I feel, is the only moral way to go. Don't like having to pay the record companies and the RIAA 20 bucks for a CD? Try listening to something from Jamendo. It's the people who want to eat their cake and have it too that really get under my skin.
Usually in a bodyless murder case, the prosecution and jury have to take it upon themselves to decide whether a person would have left of their own volition. If there are children involved, such as in this case, it is generally assumed their mother wouldn't have left them behind.
In the US, only Texas requires the presence of a body to begin a murder prosecution (although if there's special circumstances such as an amount of blood a person could not possibly lose and live present, that can be waived). Everywhere else, it's just a matter of evidence to convict. I think if Nina Reiser was still alive, she'd probably be in Russia, and that would have been the first thing police would have looked for.
Well, for one thing, 'his' house was the one he had moved to since the divorce, and the prosecutors stated that his wife wouldn't have willingly gotten into a car with him. Not to mention that the passenger seat to his car is missing, with a 40 piece socket set bought right around the time of her disappearance. As for her running off, I really can't see it. She had two young children, and was in the middle of a custody battle with Hans. 99 times out of 100 when that happens, it usually means 'face down in a ditch somewhere'.
Not to mention that ReiserFS was in 'maintenance mode' before all this shit started, and Reiser4 will probably not be in the kernel tree for some time (or ever, since Hans has to sell Namesys to pay his legal bills).
IIRC, any amount of Nina's DNA in Reiser's car was suspect, because she never would have willingly entered his vehicle (not sure if he owned the same vehicle before the divorce or not). Not to mention that the passenger seat hasn't been found.
Well, hell, if health care is "too vital" for a free market, what about food? What about water? When is someone going to end Aquafina's "profiteering"? How long before some crackpot declares he has a "right" to electrical power?
How long is the waiting list to see a doc in Britain or Canada now?
The way I see it you're pretty much boned either way. ATI/nVidia aren't going to give up the current approach, and Intel is only "freer" in the sense that it's undocumented, incomprehensible, vendor-supplied source code instead of an undocumented, incomprehensible, vensor-supplied binary.
Ok, so if people aren't putting money into the system (free as in beer), their bug reports can't be trusted (binary-only crap in the kernel) and they're useless for putting pressure on hardware designers (same), what's the point of having them? Enlarging the userbase is a good means to certain ends, but as an end in and of itself it's pointless.
Just out of curiosity, how is an undocumented, vendor-supplied source code driver better than a binary-only one? Either way, if it breaks, you can't fix it.
linux-restricted-modules, unless they've changed that with this release.
No. Instead they involve artificially reduced prices, with the bulk borne by taxpayers. And with price controls inevitably come shortages. (I'd rather have expensive drugs when I need them rather than cheap drugs that might arrive in 6-8 months because everyone and their grandmother went out and got a prescription at the earliest possible moment).The question of whether $1000 in my pocket is worth some African boy's life is ultimately a decision to be made by me, not by almighty Government.
A substantial portion of the "AIDS research" is in fact done by private companies, more so than say, government-funded health institutes. And why is malaria such a killer? A bunch of governments buy into some scare story about DDT, banish the stuff more or less worldwide, and now you expect taxpayers to dole out billions for the deaths caused by government incompetence?
So the fact that musicians can make money elsewhere gives you the right to redistribute their work as you wish?
I'm not going to argue whether or not the financial aspects of the music business would go kaput if something like this were implemented; it's ultimately a doomed argument because it assumes the same thing that you (in a collective sense, not *you* personally) do: that the output of a man's mind is just another public good to be distributed to all. I don't accept that, and I don't think that I can ever accept that. If James Hetfield or Paul McCartney wants 20 USD a CD, I grumble, but I pay it or listen to something else, simply because it's their prerogative. Not mine, not yours, not the Norwegian Parliament's.
First of all, Transgaming really doesn't have much in the way of changes to contribute. They license, rather than develop in-house. CrossOver/Codeweavers is Wine, more or less. They bankroll the thing and have all the key developers on their payroll.
The only game I use wine for is WoW, and that one seems to work fine on FreeBSD (although I didn't install it there, just copied it from a Fedora partition).
But you look at the cities that are experiencing growth, and they're all sprawling Sunbelt cities. Oklahoma City is booming again, and you can't tell where city ends and suburb begins.
I thought it was to bail out a bunch of corn farmers (particularly in Iowa, given that state's importance in presidential elections) who don't have a clue about operating a profitable business...
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"I think we're parked, man."
BSD gets 1/10 the development effort of Linux (if that). Many developers are willing to work with a BSD license but most aren't. Most people aren't willing to publish their hard work just so some big company can sell it back to them.
Oddly enough, with that 1/10 split across five major development projects, the BSD kernels largely hold their own against Linux, and the userland tools are IMO nicer, less bloated and better documented. The real reason for the lack of BSD marketshare is the AT&T lawsuit. By the time it was settled in 1994, Red Hat and Caldera were both selling commercial products and there were a number of 'hobbyist' distros.