No one is saying to do away with Capitalism. They are saying to reduce Corporatism.
Where large corporations put up large artificial barriers to anyone wishing to compete with them or even modify their products to fit one's lifestyle . Or where they get to enact laws that are clearly in their interest and ignore those that are not.
That noisy 1% of Copyright holders tend to own over 99% of the pertinent copyrights.
Sorta like small business vs big business.
A writer often looses the copyright over their book when it is sold to a publisher. Only some writer's who have already made a name for themselves keep their copyrights. The Harry Potter books are one of a handful where the author was able to keep her hold on the copyright.
Good luck getting a large publishing house to allow you to use something they own for free.
SCO was already heading to its coffin *before* it started its anti-open source binge. That "war" was an attempt to keep the company afloat and allow some people to sell off shares while they still had some value.
MS is not in that situation. Though this might be them hedging their bets. This position prepares them, should they loose the OS war, they can switch more easily and quickly to making/maintaining dominant applications on Linux.
Or it could be an attempt by MS management to better understand how open source makes superior products so quickly/easily and apply these lessons to their own teams.
And they get some good press with the OSS community and have a tid-bit they can twist while preaching in M$ literature.
No. lol I must agree with parent and say, he isn't flame baiting.
Wikipedia works well as one of the first sites to go to for information. But it is no Silver Bullet and should never be one's only source.
I believe a newspaper writer based an article on information in a Wikipedia article only to discover (after it was published) that the Wiki had been vandalized. The most the most amusing modification stated that the person they were writing about had died. I'm sure the writer was surprised when he got an angry phone call from his supposedly deceased subject matter.
A watched article is safer, but still not something that should be blindly trusted.
* Alas, the box is locked. Honestly, just break the box. Once you get your mits on the keys to the universe... you could surely get another box delivered.
I think everyone I talked to (who cares) firmly supports Empire as the best Star Wars movie. This is my view as well.
Then Georgie, skunk head, Lucas had a great idea for the 3rd movie. A bunch of teddy/care bears take out a legion of the The Empire's best Storm Troopers?...wtf? (When I was a kid this didn't bother... I feel dirty when I think of that.)
Now if I watch Return of the Jedi I skip most of the Endor battle, stopping only for the Ewoke deaths, and the Space Battle. (Still one of the best space battles of all time.)
Bravo and ouch, the Phantom Menace actually wins that round.
Though the delta between Highland 1 and 2 is smaller than between Star Wars and Phantom Menace.
Phantom gets extra points for crapping on a major part of my childhood, but it's still a better movie than Highlander 2. On the other hand, if you rewatch Highland 1, you might notice it's a pretty dumb film (Though it does have it moments).
Actually, since they fall under the heading of incapacitating weapons, we're talking stun damage
There have been a several confirmed deaths from the use of Rubber and Plastic rounds, as well as serious injuries.
So while the likely result of a properly trained solder using a rubber/plastic round is knocking someone down and making them have no wish to get back up. There significant chance of a more serious injury and a slight chance of fatality.
"stun damage" it makes it sound like "Oh, gee I can't move" when the reality is that the weapon causes so much pain that you can barely move. It is more pain then most people have ever experienced.
Paul, I currently trying to guess witch roleplaying game rule book you quoted for your post.;P
And yes, if you got that, you're also going to hell, chummer.
The problem is, it takes a lot more justification to fire a bullet than it does to use one of these.
One of these and 2 or 3 people can effectively fight a crowd of thousands. In fact there is no reason for any government NOT to use these to quell their population and keep them goose stepping in line... except for morals.
Furthermore, if a group or government is willing to use a cheap bullet in a situation they would be highly unlikely to purchase, train crews, and deploy these expensive non-lethal weapons.
While these weapons definitely have their uses, they can also easily be abused. Perhaps even more easily than lethal weapons, since there is supposedly no lasting damage done. (Unlike rubber or plastic bullets which cause moderate too severe damage, can be deadly and are inaccurate.) I expect China to get a lot of use out of their purchase from now on.
And on a final note, a lot of these weapons CAN be adjust to cause permanent damage. A lot of the R&D for these weapons was to design a targeting system to keep them from doing that. Change some settings and depending on the weapon large portions of a targeted crowd may never hear again or may never see again.
When I posted, parent was at 1. Parent has link to a great article about what happened and deserved a higher rating. So I did the standard "mod parent up" post one uses when one has no mod points left. Instead of leaving my post alone, someone modded it down. Did I break some secret rule here? I'm honestly confused as to why I got modded down?
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Somehow clicked AC
Lost all chance for Karma whoring.
Oh, my poor Haiku.
And smart people fear stupid people even more.
Did you say border? Papers please...
I see the Holyland, I see the shit, but no matter how hard I look you'd have to be pretty twisted to see fucking in a story about dog poo.
On a side note: Dear god I wish they'd do this in NYC.
No one is saying to do away with Capitalism. They are saying to reduce Corporatism.
Where large corporations put up large artificial barriers to anyone wishing to compete with them or even modify their products to fit one's lifestyle . Or where they get to enact laws that are clearly in their interest and ignore those that are not.
Awe common, you guys are too rough.
Parent had a somewhat vaguely pertinent comment.
You know Seagate named a line of harddrives Barracuda; just so they'd have a bunch of jokes on hand when someone asked about missing bites.
Here's to hoping I used the ; properly, probably not, since I'm just guessing.
That noisy 1% of Copyright holders tend to own over 99% of the pertinent copyrights.
Sorta like small business vs big business.
A writer often looses the copyright over their book when it is sold to a publisher. Only some writer's who have already made a name for themselves keep their copyrights. The Harry Potter books are one of a handful where the author was able to keep her hold on the copyright.
Good luck getting a large publishing house to allow you to use something they own for free.
SCO was already heading to its coffin *before* it started its anti-open source binge. That "war" was an attempt to keep the company afloat and allow some people to sell off shares while they still had some value.
MS is not in that situation. Though this might be them hedging their bets. This position prepares them, should they loose the OS war, they can switch more easily and quickly to making/maintaining dominant applications on Linux.
Or it could be an attempt by MS management to better understand how open source makes superior products so quickly/easily and apply these lessons to their own teams.
And they get some good press with the OSS community and have a tid-bit they can twist while preaching in M$ literature.
Yup, barrels of oil haven't gotten more expensive, the US dollar has gotten a LOT weaker.
That's what happens when you recklessly spend many times more on your credit card then what you are able to earn.
...if you're not participating in the system, THE SYSTEM CANNOT CONTROL YOU.
That's exactly why I refuse to vote. [/joke]No. lol I must agree with parent and say, he isn't flame baiting.
Wikipedia works well as one of the first sites to go to for information. But it is no Silver Bullet and should never be one's only source.
I believe a newspaper writer based an article on information in a Wikipedia article only to discover (after it was published) that the Wiki had been vandalized. The most the most amusing modification stated that the person they were writing about had died. I'm sure the writer was surprised when he got an angry phone call from his supposedly deceased subject matter.
A watched article is safer, but still not something that should be blindly trusted.
But, but... we have the force.
Just send star wars kid.
* Alas, the box is locked. Honestly, just break the box. Once you get your mits on the keys to the universe... you could surely get another box delivered.
I think everyone I talked to (who cares) firmly supports Empire as the best Star Wars movie. This is my view as well.
...wtf?
Then Georgie, skunk head, Lucas had a great idea for the 3rd movie. A bunch of teddy/care bears take out a legion of the The Empire's best Storm Troopers?
(When I was a kid this didn't bother... I feel dirty when I think of that.)
Now if I watch Return of the Jedi I skip most of the Endor battle, stopping only for the Ewoke deaths, and the Space Battle. (Still one of the best space battles of all time.)
Bravo and ouch, the Phantom Menace actually wins that round.
Though the delta between Highland 1 and 2 is smaller than between Star Wars and Phantom Menace.
Phantom gets extra points for crapping on a major part of my childhood, but it's still a better movie than Highlander 2. On the other hand, if you rewatch Highland 1, you might notice it's a pretty dumb film (Though it does have it moments).
There have been a several confirmed deaths from the use of Rubber and Plastic rounds, as well as serious injuries.
So while the likely result of a properly trained solder using a rubber/plastic round is knocking someone down and making them have no wish to get back up. There significant chance of a more serious injury and a slight chance of fatality.
"stun damage" it makes it sound like "Oh, gee I can't move" when the reality is that the weapon causes so much pain that you can barely move. It is more pain then most people have ever experienced.
Paul, I currently trying to guess witch roleplaying game rule book you quoted for your post.
I am going to hell. T.T
The problem is, it takes a lot more justification to fire a bullet than it does to use one of these.
One of these and 2 or 3 people can effectively fight a crowd of thousands. In fact there is no reason for any government NOT to use these to quell their population and keep them goose stepping in line... except for morals.
Furthermore, if a group or government is willing to use a cheap bullet in a situation they would be highly unlikely to purchase, train crews, and deploy these expensive non-lethal weapons.
While these weapons definitely have their uses, they can also easily be abused. Perhaps even more easily than lethal weapons, since there is supposedly no lasting damage done. (Unlike rubber or plastic bullets which cause moderate too severe damage, can be deadly and are inaccurate.) I expect China to get a lot of use out of their purchase from now on.
And on a final note, a lot of these weapons CAN be adjust to cause permanent damage. A lot of the R&D for these weapons was to design a targeting system to keep them from doing that. Change some settings and depending on the weapon large portions of a targeted crowd may never hear again or may never see again.
Now watch me get modded (Score: -5, Impertinent).
Yes we have plenty of nukes. But rockets that can propel something out of Earth's orbit are in very short supply.
When I posted, parent was at 1. Parent has link to a great article about what happened and deserved a higher rating. So I did the standard "mod parent up" post one uses when one has no mod points left. Instead of leaving my post alone, someone modded it down. Did I break some secret rule here? I'm honestly confused as to why I got modded down?
Mod parent up.
That's what parent was saying. He just wrote his post rather poorly.
Read the title of his post and the first sentence of his post as one sentence.
Does that hold true for Presidents as well?
;P
Don't worry, I'm the rare breed of troll that comes with his own bridge.
There, fixed your post for you.
Coming soon! AK@home