That's an interesting story, and one I hadn't heard before. However, I can't help but wonder how the hell you burn down a marble building?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/08/are_ancient_ruins_flammable.html
tl;dr: heat
-- MarkusQ
Doesn't it get absurdly expensive to "own" the music?
Oh wait, you meant own a copy of the music. Or is it own a license (non-transferable) to a single physical copy...well, there's fair use of course.
I am so glad no one has gotten to the point of trying to build business models around breathing.
-- MarkusQ
I very much doubt that any organization would be allowed to review Windows kernel source code (regardless of budget), but we might just have to agree to disagree there.
From personal professional experience I can think of at least two organizations (both rather large) that have access to the full MS Windows source, and suspect there are quite a few I don't know of. Both maintain considerable organizational controls around access to the source (contractually obligated, I suspect). I'm not sure what my non-disclosure agreements say about the two cases I know of, but a quick google turns up several other examples (that I personally know nothing of) such as:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operating_systems/225400063
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/2010/07/08/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-secret-service-40089481/
...and even a link to how you ask for it yourself:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/enterprise-source-licensing.aspx
The radius of the observable universe is about 14Gly, not 14Gpc; only off by a factor of Pi (not exact, but a handy mnemonic), but still, like the old saying goes "Off by a factor of Pi is still wrong."
--MarkusQ
Only if there is no scrubber at the power plant. Modern coal power plants are quite clean.
Wrong. Scrubbers don't stop the release of radioactivity from a coal fired power plant. You'd essentially have to go to CO2 sequestration for that.
--MarkusQ
soft skills are perceived as more valuable in a manager than technical expertise. To me, that's something that's stupendously obvious.
I agree. Soft skills are perceived as more valuable than technical expertise. Further, your arguments have convinced me that you not only share this perception but do indeed think it is stupendously obvious. If we were having this chat in person I would offer to buy you a drink and suggest we play a diverting little game of chance I happen to know in which soft skills are more valuable that technical expertise.
-- MarkusQ
*sigh*
Let me walk you through this:
-- MarkusQ
With your bare hands?!?