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Comment: Re:False Dichotomy (Score 1) 1151

No it means that 100 million people have been taught by parents and peers that one of the doctrines of their faith is that Evolution is false

Nothing can be done to persuade them otherwise, the do not know or care what evolution is or what evidence there is for or against it they just know that is and must be false because that's what they are repeatedly told by people they trust ...

Comment: Re:GPL, Creative Commons, GNU, Public Domain, WTF? (Score 1) 108

...and they can still charge for a CD of Goldberg Variations and charge for it's use in a movie soundtrack ... Just not this one

There is also copyright on a performance, the score might be opensource and free to use but any particular performance is still copyright until someone declares otherwise ...

Comment: Re:Open Street Maps vs Commercial Maps.... (Score 1) 340

by JasterBobaMereel (#40141001) Attached to: TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap

OK I just checked out my local area on OSM - The Local supermarket car park is mapped out with it's internal one way system!

But 10+ year old industrial estate I work in, is missing completely .....(It's on Google Maps and even on StreetView)

Having said that the industrial estate is also missing off most SatNav's as well ...

Comment: Re:Who cares, except Captain Obvious? (Score 1) 340

by JasterBobaMereel (#40140947) Attached to: TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap

TomTom - all the mapping they can cram into the device ...so limited detail/coverage

Google/Bing Maps - All the mapping they can get hold of ... so much much more comprehensive - but too big for a device - you need an internet connection to use

OpenStreetMap - all the mapping people could be bothered to contribute - might be more might be less than the above depends where you are and is downloadable to a device so the advantages of both ...

Comment: Re:Why Forbes name Ballmer one of the worst CEO? (Score 1) 460

Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, QuickBooks, MS Office - all run on Mac OSX ... and so could be ported to Linux relatively easily if the manufactures decided there was a market ...

this is purely another case of they don't run on Linux because there is not a market, and there is not a market because they don't run on Linux ....It is a commercial decision not a technical one

 

Comment: Re:Priorities (Score 1) 82

In the UK we have the Civil Service... I assume the USA has an equivalent body of people who make up the people who actually draft and implement government policy and remain (mostly) the same people regardless of who is in power at the moment... did it never occur to you that these people are the problem they are a huge force of inertia on government policy and the reason that nothing every really changes between administrations ....

Comment: Re:How does it taste? (Score 2) 236

Do you think anyone capable of getting themselves selected as the republican or democrat candidate and so being even likely to be president would not have done exactly the same ....?

If you don't you are sadly deluded, you have a two party system where the two parties by necessity are very similar, and on many policies are exactly the same

The Osmonds! You are all Osmonds!! Throwing up on a freeway at dawn!!!

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