ofmg profit = evil. Why is exchanging your goods for money suddenly more evil than keeping it at your house? Who really cares about a camera that was used 40 years ago then kept in some guys closet.

It should lose its classification when it is public knowledge. There is no point in classifying material published in the new york times, or otherwise available to anyone on the planet.

Nearly every non disclosure agreement I've ever seen releases responsibility to keep things secret if the covered information becomes public knowledge through disclosure by others.

Keeping public information "classified" is a 1984-ish way to make everyone a criminal for discussing or "disclosing" state secrets. Now we can all be criminals and be prosecuted arbitrarily at any time.

I've been there. These methods work, and are practical for a reasonably large number of drives:

1) put them in a fire in your fireplace. Most of the thin aluminum will melt leaving just some metallic debris. 100% destroyed. I've done this, it is simple and very effective.

2) drill some holes in them with a drill press, so that holes pass through the platters. Theoretically some data could be recovered although it is very unlikely.

Stanford is in California.

exactly my point - if you *spend* money (thus helping the economy) you get a deduction (or it reduces profit, or taxable income). If you stuff it in your mattress/coffers you don't.

So if taxes are lower you have more money to spend on buying stuff - which helps other businesses and employment in general.

wrong. you can't escape any taxes through investment or stuffing money into matresses. Once you get the money you pay corporate tax on it. You do that before you "lock it away".

shareholders expect a year-on-year return, so businesses need to spend money to grow to make them happy. the spending can be in many area - e.g. building new stores, acquiring other companies etc. Companies that don't spend are generally forced by shareholders to disburse any excess cash holdings to the investors, as dividends since most companies are't in business to hoard cash - they are in business to make money for investors (or owners).

Reagan et al thought that this means that they should lower taxes to make more money in taxes

the concept is that lower taxes encourage business growth, which results in net increase in tax income, from increased profits, and increasing payroll taxes. There is some evidence for this effect.

The key concept is that the economy isn't a "zero sum" game - the economy grows through businesses creating value. For example the microcomputer industry resulted in a huge economic net gain.

no, you must use "one of" the methods in section 6, which include 6c- an offer to give it on request.

please refer to GPL, section 6, part c. There is no obligation to bundle source with the object/binary distribution.

one of the acceptable methods of distributing source code is :

c) Accompany the work with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give the same user the materials specified in Subsection 6a, above, for a charge no more than the cost of performing this distribution.

used it for years, but migrated away. prone to corruption, and not totally compatible with all softwares because it doesn't support all low-level io functions. The client kernel modules are also a headache and the Windoze one is unreliable. I think the idea is great, and it has some cool features, but now with other volume-management tools it is not a front-runner.

cost: Fireworks $299
                ImageMagick: priceless!

i don't have to resize them, then export them. I just have to resize them. I'll be done before your software finishes loading.

ok, you can win by defining "editing" to be something that you can only do with a gui.

just last week. resized a whole directory of photos with this:

          $ for i in *.jpg; do mogrify -geometry 400 $i; done

yup, faster than any gui program 100 images resized.

your troll-fu no good.

You can do a lot more complex things on a single line than a screen-sized dialog filled with widgets.
just looking at my history from today:

          grep [0-9] results.csv | sort -r -n -k 2 | uniq -c

what kind of gui is good to make that happen?

it is hard because of of the people trying to stop you from doing it. those people being the guys with their in-house systems that can't compete on their own merits.