For national defense and self-sufficiency, it's considered desirable that food be produced domestically.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree, I'm just saying that that's behind a lot of government policy.
As a consequence, when it seems that markets are not going to take sufficiently good care of farmers for one reason or another, the federal government tends to step in.
You're not distinguishing between the questionable issue ad ban and the long-overdue soft money ban, referring to them both as "CFR". The two are logically and legally separate, they just happen to be part of the same bill.
I don't think that this is such bad behavior on the part of the author's guild. They're putting pressure on Amazon in order to protect their own economic interests. That's selfish, but that's capitalism.
The important thing is that the author's guild is not abusing monopoly power, they're not abusing the law... they're just using voluntary community organizing.
Microsoft is just trying to ensure that should anyone write an implementation that's better than theirs, they can grab it and include it in their own products.
(I'm kidding, but Microsoft's behavior is often
stranger than fiction, so who knows.)
Many ftp daemons chroot to ftp's home directory when an anonymous user logs in. Subdirectories of ~ftp are then pub/, incoming/, etc/, bin/, etc. bin/ and bin/ls are there so that the server can run ls when the user asks for a directory listing. etc/passwd is there so that ls can translate numeric UIDs into usernames.
The point of competition is to get consumers the best goods and services at the best prices. If municipalities can provide internet service cheaper and more effectively than private industry, then they ought to do it.
Where do I go to complain about how difficult it is to use Bugzilla? It's developer-oriented to the point that an ordinary customer is likely to get confused and give up.
Firewalls cause lots of problems. IMO there's a more solid engineering rationale for firewalls than for NAT, but they're definitely also an ugly hack.
There is something to what you say. NAT exposes problems in certain poorly-designed protocols. For example, it interacts badly with the layering violations in FTP. But even if all other protocols were designed well, NAT would be a poor long-term solution. It destroys the end-to-end transparency of the network. It makes troubleshooting difficult. It introduces points of failure.
The CompUSA employee probably thought, "Why should I give a toss?" He probably harbors no special affection for Microsoft nor CompUSA -- and maybe he figured the kid wasn't going to buy a license anyway, so there was no potential commission being lost.
No company is "nice", the category isn't applicable. Apple's spending money on developers for OS X, so if they want to charge money for it, I don't see why they shouldn't. Do you think software designs, implements, integrates, tests and ships itself? Sheesh.
There are legal structures that encourage litigiousness and structures that discourage it. Maybe it's part national character, but it's also part the way the system is designed.
It still wouldn't be "viri", because "virus" is not
the type of noun that is pluralized with an 'i' in
Latin. So "viri", like "virii", is incorrect in
Latin *and* in English.
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For national defense and self-sufficiency, it's
considered desirable that food be produced
domestically.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree, I'm just saying
that that's behind a lot of government policy.
As a consequence, when it seems that markets are
not going to take sufficiently good care of farmers
for one reason or another, the federal government
tends to step in.
The reason is that OmniWeb has anti-aliased text.
I've found
a build of Mozilla that uses it, but
it's very buggy, relative to the normal build.
That's pretty likely.
You're not distinguishing between the questionable
issue ad ban and the long-overdue soft money ban,
referring to them both as "CFR". The two are
logically and legally separate, they just happen to
be part of the same bill.
I don't think that this is such bad behavior on the
... they're just using voluntary community
part of the author's guild. They're putting pressure
on Amazon in order to protect their own economic
interests. That's selfish, but that's capitalism.
The important thing is that the author's guild is
not abusing monopoly power, they're not abusing the
law
organizing.
I hope Mr. Leggett wasn't serious.
You can't bankrupt "Samba". It's a piece of
software, not an organization.
Microsoft is just trying to ensure that should
anyone write an implementation that's better than
theirs, they can grab it and include it in their
own products.
(I'm kidding, but Microsoft's behavior is often
stranger than fiction, so who knows.)
Many ftp daemons chroot to ftp's home directory
when an anonymous user logs in. Subdirectories of
~ftp are then pub/, incoming/, etc/, bin/, etc.
bin/ and bin/ls are there so that the server can
run ls when the user asks for a directory listing.
etc/passwd is there so that ls can translate
numeric UIDs into usernames.
The point of competition is to get consumers the
best goods and services at the best prices. If
municipalities can provide internet service cheaper
and more effectively than private industry, then
they ought to do it.
Fair enough, I guess.
I went and reported my favorite bug, and it seems
there's now a front-end to bugzilla that makes
things easier. Thanks for that.
Where do I go to complain about how difficult it is
to use Bugzilla? It's developer-oriented to the
point that an ordinary customer is likely to get
confused and give up.
Well, you could say those things. Some people
would even agree with you, though I'd ask you to
be more specific.
I have been known to mutter imprecations at NNTP/NNRP.
Firewalls cause lots of problems. IMO there's a
more solid engineering rationale for firewalls
than for NAT, but they're definitely also an ugly
hack.
There is something to what you say. NAT exposes
problems in certain poorly-designed protocols.
For example, it interacts badly with the layering
violations in FTP. But even if all other protocols
were designed well, NAT would be a poor long-term
solution. It destroys the end-to-end transparency
of the network. It makes troubleshooting difficult.
It introduces points of failure.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard!
NAT causes a lot of problems. It's an ugly hack,
not a solution to the world's ills.
The CompUSA employee probably thought, "Why should
I give a toss?" He probably harbors no special
affection for Microsoft nor CompUSA -- and maybe
he figured the kid wasn't going to buy a license
anyway, so there was no potential commission being
lost.
No company is "nice", the category isn't applicable.
Apple's spending money on developers for OS X, so if
they want to charge money for it, I don't see why
they shouldn't. Do you think software designs,
implements, integrates, tests and ships itself?
Sheesh.
There are legal structures that encourage
litigiousness and structures that discourage
it. Maybe it's part national character, but
it's also part the way the system is designed.
That will happen right after the next time they\
release a unix. (Yes, I know about SCO.)
Java was initially targetted for the embedded market.
It seems to me that briefs written by industry
lawyers would likely be filed directly with the
court rather than sent in as comments.
Where in the Constitution are corporations granted
any rights at all?
You could just download the small (~200 MB)
install ISO and then get anything else you need
once the system is up.
If you catch anyone using "viri" as the genitive ;-)
singular of "virus" in English, do drop me a line,
please.
It still wouldn't be "viri", because "virus" is not
the type of noun that is pluralized with an 'i' in
Latin. So "viri", like "virii", is incorrect in
Latin *and* in English.
Furrfu.