Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread BillyGOTO
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 11:17 AM 1/6/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-407043,curpg-3.cms Moreover, it is found out that the Americans are shying away from the challenges of math and science. A recent

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread BillyGOTO
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:52:57AM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: If it is a historical drama in which the Symbols appear this seems to be permissible as well. If you put one on your jacket though and walk around with it in the streets they can get you. I guess The Producers will never make it

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread BillyGOTO
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:18:04PM +, Jim Dixon wrote: Relevant numbers from the Times today, quoting Air Force Monthly, January 2003: from 1980 to 1990 Iraq imported 28.9 billion pounds worth of weapons. 19% by value were from France; 57% from the Soviet Union (ie Russia), East Germany,

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread BillyGOTO
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen guilty anyone? This is the basis for the enlightened western

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread BillyGOTO
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:26:18PM -0800, Tim May wrote: (I fully support vote buying and selling, needless to say. Simple right to make a contract.) What's your take on this situation, then: BOSS: Get in that booth and vote Kennedy or I'll fire you. Take this expensive camera with

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread BillyGOTO
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:18:42AM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Nov 26, 2003, at 8:10 AM, BillyGOTO wrote: I have no problem with this free choice contract. You can't sell your vote for the same reason that Djinni don't grant wishes for more wishes. A silly comment. I take it you're saying

LOC DMCA Exemptions Posted

2003-10-30 Thread BillyGOTO
White smoke from the chimney of the L of C... As of now, it is now explicitly legal to decrypt the blacklists of NetNanny - style applications. As of now, it is now explicitly legal to RevEng abandonware dongles. Also legal to break copy-restriction schemes on abandonware. The most surprising

Re: If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!

2003-10-24 Thread BillyGOTO
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Major Variola writes: What *is* a library? 1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state entity. 2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is that I own a license to

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-29 Thread BillyGOTO
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:21:08PM -0700, Sarad AV wrote: hi, Let ~ represents a relation. If a~b and b~a,then a~a (by transitivity) is an incorrect argument. By definition of transitivity, if a~b and b~c implies that a~c. right. I was asking on the same lines if

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-28 Thread BillyGOTO
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:14:20AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote: hi, Table shown is completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. *|a|b|c|d - a|a|b|c|d - b|b|a|c|d - c|c|d|c|d - d|d|c|c|d The operation * is associative iff

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

2003-08-18 Thread BillyGOTO
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:04:53PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: Both of these these stories lack plausibility as far as I'm concerned. 2. WTC: If you have the ability to insert tower-busting bombs into the WTC towers, why the hell would you go to the trouble of doing the plane thing? It tooks

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-14 Thread BillyGOTO
-[ $i ] [ $op-[$j][$k] ] ) { return 0; } } } } return 1; } On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:04:41PM -0400, BillyGOTO wrote: For my ally is Perl, and a powerful ally it is. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:06:43AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote: hi, how do we complete this table

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-14 Thread BillyGOTO
For my ally is Perl, and a powerful ally it is. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:06:43AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote: hi, how do we complete this table Table shown may be completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. Assume this is possible and compute the missing entries