The problem with that is that the battles weren't really ever out of anybody's backyard. You had to take cities and towns to get anywhere- and people still died either defending or taking them.
I'll concede that reducing the number of rulers getting involved in pissing contests with one another probably had a beneficial effect. I would chalk the flourishing of Europe to more than just the consolidations of power.
Whups, no I'm not! I somehow forgot the World Wars. I would say those were probably the stupidest and most wasteful wars ever and they both had European theaters.
Unify the country? Why is that considered a good thing? I think it's because partisan politics in the States revolves more around mudslinging and villifying people who disagree with you and less around, perhaps, coming to agreements and bipartisan cooperation. It's typical American political "problemsolving": identify a problem and propose a boneheaded solution that won't fix anything. Instead of settling down and being civilized about the other party, why don't we just get rid of bothersome "other" parties?
Monarchy totally did _not_ move European wars overseas. The stupidest and most wasteful European wars have been nothing more than petty spats between two feuding European monarchs. See the Hundred Years' War, The War of Two Peters, The War of the Roses and the English Civil War for just a few examples of idiots fighting for the monarchy (With the exception of the English CW, it was a fight to establish a commonwealth which degenerated into a protectorate). Monarchies just supersized the stupid wars.
Monarchs weren't even decent domestic governors. You can thank Ferdinand and Isabella for the Spanish Inquisition, which set back Spain by hundreds of years. Speaking of the Church, lots and lots of European monarchs were only too happy to waste untold resources and let untold numbers of their citizens die fighting stupid Crusades to "take back" Jerusalem, or kill the wicked Cathar heretics, or what-have-you.
In fact, you didn't see things settling down and stabilizing in Europe until people began to put checks against the power of the monarchy.
Unless Apple has sneakily upgraded their Macbook line in the last couple of days, you, my friend, are making things up. You don't get multi-touch on a $1099 Macbook. If you pony several hundred dollars more for an Air or a Pro you enjoy multitouch. Not the plain-ol' Macbook.
--A prospective Macbook owner who's researched the product.
"Because the government is the people. Joe Blow did find this information - he paid the government to do it."
And what about Jane Blow who does not want to pay the government to find out that information? What choice does she have? It's a bit beside the point the GP was making. Mrs. Blow paid for the census, it's just doubly fucking her over if she can't even access the results.
Amazon is required to post the source code to their GPL'ed components; this would include the Linux kernel and any modifications they made to it.
However, using a GPL'ed kernel with non-GPL'ed userland is totally fine in most cases. (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#PortProgramToGL). Assuming you meant more than just the Kindle's now kinda-rickety-looking 2.6.10 kernel (Source: Wikipedia), which looks like it was uploaded in 2004 when you said "Kindle's code", you're probably SOL. I don't know what Kindle's userland looks like but I'd be surprised if the interesting parts were GPL.
Besides we can (and do) already DO this. We've had these hydrophilic absorbent pads for years. Have one in the bilge of my boat right now. They work great (even when wet which is supposedly one of the advantages of this new thing).
In fact, the US Coast Guard gets pretty annoyed if you don't have some method of cleaning up spills. From TFA, this stuff is supposed to work "better" - tastes great, less filling, picks up more stuff, won't absorb water. Likely it will cost lots more (bad idea, the stuff we have is reasonably expensive). The reusable but is interesting - I'm not sure how you would get the hydrocarbon out of the fabric without creating more of a mess or environmental issue than you already have. If you CAN do this, you have one leg up on the big boy versions of these products that are used to contain actual oil spills. These get recycled in the dump. AFAIK, it's always been possible to recycle the oil from the commercial booms, just not easy, environmentally friendly (think of the detergent that the spill containment people dump out to break up the heavier oil products) nor economically feasible.
We'll see, if it ever gets out of the lab.
According to the article, all one has to do to recover the oil is to heat the pad beyond the boiling point of oil. The pad remains intact but the oil evaporates.
LoEG and VFV were more hijackings of his work than they were good adaptations. I'm not saying he's necessarily good on screen, but those two films, I don't think, could be said to be representative of Moore's translatability to film.
The graphic novel of VFV was very different from what ended up on-screen. There were themes and ideas which just got exorcised altogether (check out the way the fascists are portrayed in the book v. movie, if you want an example; V's role in the book was pretty different, too) and, I think, diminished the movie as a whole.
In fact, Moore was so pissed off by the adaptation he had his name struck from the credits (he also tried to get his name struck from the book because he felt like the movie just ruined the whole thing for him, but it didn't happen.)
Sorry to feed the troll, but the point of the GPL is not to increase adoption. Your absolutely right to say that other licenses will lead to greater adoption- but this is adoption by people who may take, take, take and not give back.
The company I work for sells closed source software. We also use some open source software (not GPL) in the product.
We contribute back to the open source we use because it's more sensible. Adding the same features back in again and again would be counterproductive. We'd rather they get added to the open source project permanently.
We have a blanket ban on using GPL'd source, though. We can't afford to GPL our entire 20 million line software stack, which would be the result of using even a tiny bit of GPL code.
Try to understand that not everyone loves the GPL and not everyone that doesn't love the GPL is a troll.
Now it's my turn to get modded into oblivion for not being fond of the GPL. Sigh.
Is that really so? I thought the GPL only "infected" if you had to link against the GPL'ed code. Or is your codebase that... interconnected? And what about LGPL? Inquiring minds want to know!
Not trolling/flaming/trying to make point, but I remember reading about the creation of Corbett Tiger Reserve in Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, and it basically happened that Indians did some cutting, but the English got really excited about the area and basically cut everything down, and it was only until a conservationist governor got into power in (I think!) the late 30's that it was scaled back at all.
Do you have evidence that indicates the existence of a luminiferous ether but would contradict the predictions of GR? People tried to find ether for a long time.
Without a single exception (that I'm aware of) they failed spectacularly. Move on. Michelson and Morley did.
Maybe red for blood and green for money? The upshot of the letter is that Strauss is spreading violence in exchange for money.
Or maybe he really is a complete nutbag and thinks that Santa Claus kills people for money or something.
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers' children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is "a Boy Scout, everybody knows that." I'd love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons. This guy's got some fucking chutzpah, and not the good kind. This is out-and-out harassment.
Wouldn't it make more sense to deal with it while the death toll is only 20 people and not, say, 20% of China's population? 20 people is still a _lot_ of people dead.
If you think DSL is amazingly original then you should try SliTaz. ( http://www.slitaz.org/en/ ). They've crammed a working desktop into half the space of DSL, and it's a damn sight more functional, too. It's one of the most unique distro's I've tried so far.
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The problem with that is that the battles weren't really ever out of anybody's backyard. You had to take cities and towns to get anywhere- and people still died either defending or taking them.
I'll concede that reducing the number of rulers getting involved in pissing contests with one another probably had a beneficial effect. I would chalk the flourishing of Europe to more than just the consolidations of power.
Whups, no I'm not! I somehow forgot the World Wars. I would say those were probably the stupidest and most wasteful wars ever and they both had European theaters.
Monarchy totally did _not_ move European wars overseas. The stupidest and most wasteful European wars have been nothing more than petty spats between two feuding European monarchs. See the Hundred Years' War, The War of Two Peters, The War of the Roses and the English Civil War for just a few examples of idiots fighting for the monarchy (With the exception of the English CW, it was a fight to establish a commonwealth which degenerated into a protectorate). Monarchies just supersized the stupid wars.
Monarchs weren't even decent domestic governors. You can thank Ferdinand and Isabella for the Spanish Inquisition, which set back Spain by hundreds of years. Speaking of the Church, lots and lots of European monarchs were only too happy to waste untold resources and let untold numbers of their citizens die fighting stupid Crusades to "take back" Jerusalem, or kill the wicked Cathar heretics, or what-have-you.
In fact, you didn't see things settling down and stabilizing in Europe until people began to put checks against the power of the monarchy.
Then I humbly retract the charge that you're making things up and look forward to testing it for myself when I get my own Macbook.
--A prospective Macbook owner who's researched the product.
Assuming you're not trolling, it depends.
Amazon is required to post the source code to their GPL'ed components; this would include the Linux kernel and any modifications they made to it.
However, using a GPL'ed kernel with non-GPL'ed userland is totally fine in most cases. (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#PortProgramToGL). Assuming you meant more than just the Kindle's now kinda-rickety-looking 2.6.10 kernel (Source: Wikipedia), which looks like it was uploaded in 2004 when you said "Kindle's code", you're probably SOL. I don't know what Kindle's userland looks like but I'd be surprised if the interesting parts were GPL.
That's a good point. What I'm wondering is: what is the energy input required to boil oil compared to refining it anew?
Why is parent being modded down? They're totally right.
Check it: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites
In fact, the US Coast Guard gets pretty annoyed if you don't have some method of cleaning up spills. From TFA, this stuff is supposed to work "better" - tastes great, less filling, picks up more stuff, won't absorb water. Likely it will cost lots more (bad idea, the stuff we have is reasonably expensive). The reusable but is interesting - I'm not sure how you would get the hydrocarbon out of the fabric without creating more of a mess or environmental issue than you already have. If you CAN do this, you have one leg up on the big boy versions of these products that are used to contain actual oil spills. These get recycled in the dump. AFAIK, it's always been possible to recycle the oil from the commercial booms, just not easy, environmentally friendly (think of the detergent that the spill containment people dump out to break up the heavier oil products) nor economically feasible.
We'll see, if it ever gets out of the lab.
According to the article, all one has to do to recover the oil is to heat the pad beyond the boiling point of oil. The pad remains intact but the oil evaporates.I don't think "sold" is the right word. IIRC, the deal with DC was that all rights reverted to Moore 18 months after DC stopped printing the work.
DC is just not done printing his work yet.
LoEG and VFV were more hijackings of his work than they were good adaptations. I'm not saying he's necessarily good on screen, but those two films, I don't think, could be said to be representative of Moore's translatability to film.
The graphic novel of VFV was very different from what ended up on-screen. There were themes and ideas which just got exorcised altogether (check out the way the fascists are portrayed in the book v. movie, if you want an example; V's role in the book was pretty different, too) and, I think, diminished the movie as a whole.
In fact, Moore was so pissed off by the adaptation he had his name struck from the credits (he also tried to get his name struck from the book because he felt like the movie just ruined the whole thing for him, but it didn't happen.)
The company I work for sells closed source software. We also use some open source software (not GPL) in the product.
We contribute back to the open source we use because it's more sensible. Adding the same features back in again and again would be counterproductive. We'd rather they get added to the open source project permanently.
We have a blanket ban on using GPL'd source, though. We can't afford to GPL our entire 20 million line software stack, which would be the result of using even a tiny bit of GPL code.
Try to understand that not everyone loves the GPL and not everyone that doesn't love the GPL is a troll.
Now it's my turn to get modded into oblivion for not being fond of the GPL. Sigh.
Is that really so? I thought the GPL only "infected" if you had to link against the GPL'ed code. Or is your codebase that... interconnected? And what about LGPL? Inquiring minds want to know!Was it Indians or British who raped the forests?
Not trolling/flaming/trying to make point, but I remember reading about the creation of Corbett Tiger Reserve in Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, and it basically happened that Indians did some cutting, but the English got really excited about the area and basically cut everything down, and it was only until a conservationist governor got into power in (I think!) the late 30's that it was scaled back at all.
Do you have evidence that indicates the existence of a luminiferous ether but would contradict the predictions of GR? People tried to find ether for a long time.
Without a single exception (that I'm aware of) they failed spectacularly. Move on. Michelson and Morley did.
The GNOME project provides a Windows build for Aisleriot Solitaire- which has Spider and a few score other solitaires.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/Windows
Hairsplitting. You know what it means that a hotel is US-owned, or you ought to.
Reading the title would have helped answer your first question:
"China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet"
Maybe red for blood and green for money? The upshot of the letter is that Strauss is spreading violence in exchange for money. Or maybe he really is a complete nutbag and thinks that Santa Claus kills people for money or something.
Wouldn't it make more sense to deal with it while the death toll is only 20 people and not, say, 20% of China's population? 20 people is still a _lot_ of people dead.
If you think DSL is amazingly original then you should try SliTaz. ( http://www.slitaz.org/en/ ). They've crammed a working desktop into half the space of DSL, and it's a damn sight more functional, too. It's one of the most unique distro's I've tried so far.
It's not hard to lose two words in 70,000 years of shit happening.