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I think I’ve made this remark previously in related threads, but I think this is the absolute wrong way to go about this. At the heart of this case is the question if a corporation can inherit specific traits and views from it’s owners. It would create a precedent where future courts could find that corporate entities can be tainted by any number of traits that it’s owners have. And once that barrier is breached, it’s not too far-fetched that the government find the reverse to be true too: that owners inherit liabilities from the corporation. The IRS might for instance see this as a way to shift corporate tax liability onto the owners if they have a hard time collecting. Courts could likewise decide they can shift criminal and civil liabilities between corporate entities and their owners by the same reasoning. It can quickly become a quagmire.

Whatever political victory and gain this may offer in halting Obamacare, it will set precedents that has much more far-reaching consequences. It cuts to the core and goes against the very foundation of our capitalist, private-enterprise system: that a corporation and it’s owners are separate entities without any shared liability. Our economic system would not exist unless investors are assured that when they invest money in a company, their risk is limited to losing the money they invest.

Gotta have some nerve to use words like “lawful head of state” when your citizens are lying dead in the streets with sniper-bullets in them.

I think Russia will have a hard time throwing any serious support behind him. He just went too far, even for Putin and his lot. Russia will rattle their guns a bit to remind Ukraine they’re still the big dog. But I don’t think Ukraine is worth a showdown with Germany and the EU. Fracking is picking up momentum in countries like Poland, Slovakia and Czech republic so European dependence on Russian gas is diminishing. Russia needs Europe more than Europe needs Russia.

This is a bad idea and it’s not the right way to go about dismantling Obamacare. If the court rules in favor of this, they are basically saying that a corporation can “inherit” the rights of its owners. That sets a very dangerous precedent and blurs the line between the person and the corporate entity. It’s at best a short term minor victory traded for a huge future risk.

Rights always comes with responsibilities, and if a corporation can inherit the rights of its owner, its a very short leap to saying that the owner inherits the responsibilities of the corporation. That means the IRS can hit up individual owners for corporate tax, it means creditors can force payment out of shareholders for debt taken out by a company. It also means the government can hunt down owners for legal or regulatory infractions made by a company.

You don’t fight big government by introducing precedent that allows for even bigger and more intrusive government in the future. The concept of the limited liability corporation is at the root of our entire capitalist, free-market economic system. If we weaken that, business as we know it will cease.

Now, if only there was stricter controls on matches and lighters, this tragedy might never have happened! (yes, sarcasm).

Technically, no. In the context of the license, a website is not considered a distribution of a derived work, but the output of a derived work. A such, it's not required under GPL that the source-code of the website be made available. It' a fine line, but an established one.

There are other open source licenses that explicitly states that a strong copy-left requirement extends to websites as well, forcing disclosure of source-code for any site using a component distributed under that license. GPL is not that forbidding though.

Indeed.

It’s embarrassing to see though. Any developer worth their salt should know these things. Especially in this day and age where open-source components are so ubiquitous, especially in web development. And anyone developing a public site should (and usually does) have a license compliance step in their architecture cycle. If not for the fact that open source advocates and non-profits like the BSD and Free Software (GNU) foundations have actually started to enforce and go after companies that violate software under their open source licenses.

Makes me wonder what kind of no-bid clowns they got to develop this. But I guess we know that already...

The copyright heading is not the issue, it's removing the license header. One of the specific things the GPLv2 and BSD licenses mandate is that you must always retain the license header if you use or derive from the object under license.

That's one of the beauties of the GPL license, if you like open source - once something is released under GPL license, it can never be "un-licensed" and all derived work will also automatically become GPL licensed. It's free, open source. The price is that whatever you create using it also has to be free, open source.

It's a moot point though, as it seems they updated the JS file in question on healthcare.gov to now include the full license header.

No way I’m going to root for the Russians, nor trust anything they say.

I agree. He needs a padded room and someone to talk to.

Logical fallacy. The money IN THE ACCOUNT has been taxed already. The INTEREST you accrue has NOT been taxed previously, and is thus subject to taxation. I mean, I see the point you're trying to make, it's just not a valid example.

Not at all surprising. A hybrid car in non-hybrid mode gets very bad MPG because:
a: extra weight from batteries
b: the (gasoline) engine in a hybrid is typically smaller and less powerful than the engine in a non-hybrid car which means it will have to work a lot harder when the electric-motor is not helping, causing it to consume a lot more gas than a more powerful engine would.

Especially the second point is easily demonstrated by driving aggressively, on a track for instance. A hybrid will get worse MPG than a sports-car because it's just not optimized for it. Top-gear did a funny segment on this when they pitted a Prius against a BMW M3 on a track and the M3 got lower fuel-consumption.

A lot of people don't realize this however. A hybrid does not magically get you better MPG, it just enables a different driving style that, when executed properly, will improve mileage.

That's very good advice. If your folks gave you a good upbringing and helped set you on the path to forging your own life, they did all you are entitled to expect from them.

If, on the day my own parents pass away, there is not one dime in their estate because they decided to spend it all in their golden years, I say good on them. And I pray that I can be so graceful on that sad day. I've spoken about this with my brother and sisters and they feel the same way.

I don’t care what this “anonymous” is or isn’t or if this guy is alone or if there are a thousand of them. Bad guys kidnapped his friend and instead of trusting some corrupt government or dirty bunch of cops, he’s trying to get him back himself - knowing these people are lunatic killers.

Balls. We should all hope to have friends as good as this guy.

PCB was indicated to be potentially hazardous in 1966 and banned only 6 years later (and has been banned for almost 30 years). DDT is PERFECTLY safe for humans, but lethal to mosquitoes, bearing diseases like malaria. The hysteria around and consequent banning of DDT has caused millions and millions of deaths of adults and children worldwide.

Agent Orange was conceived, produced and employed as a weapon of war so the question of "safety" would be fairly moot, at least as far as Monsanto is concerned.

I'm sorry, but is this more and more starting to sound like something the Soviets would cook up? Thought-crime, coming soon to a police-state near you!

Never tried it, but it sounds like it could be good!

In Sweden we have the “blodpudding” (similar to the english black pudding, except the blood is mixed with flour and baked), which I love.

Or walking down the street in Riyadh wearing a priest's collar...

Theoretical, but very unlikely. Swedish constitution is based on "negative parliamentarism", meaning the sitting cabinet remains after the election unless either the prime minister resigns (which dissolves the cabinet), or an explicit vote of no confidence passes the parliament with absolute majority. As it stands, this would require all opposing parties uniting in a no-confidence vote, which is highly unlikely. Since there is no other viable constellation of parties that could form a cabinet, that would force a new election and hopefully the opposition is not crazy enough to invite that kind of chaos.

Depending on how far out “in the sticks” you live, you might want to see if there is any mobile internet (3G/W-CDMA) coverage in your area. The bandwith is likely to be lower than your satellite, but it should offer lower latency.

In short, you have a downlink from the satelite which is capable of piping a lot of data at the same time (aka bandwith), but the time it takes each individual piece of data to travel from the server to your computer is very long (aka latency). So you will see a how download-rate on large files, but a long wait-time for small, individual requests (like surfing the web). Since I assume you are using a dial-up for the upstream traffic, this exacerbates the problem further since you will be hit with the limitations of your dial-up when making a request (or posting data) to a web-server.

I wish I could offer you a solution, but unfortunately there is none. This is just the reality with satelite internet - very high latency. My best suggestion, look into DSL, cable or some other (wired) internet hookup.