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It's the War, Stupid
James Joyner · Monday, September 13, 2004 · 5 comments
Michael Tomasky's opener in today's Prospect:
It's still possible that John Kerry could win — although, of course, anytime a liberal columnist opens his column with a phrase like that, it's not a good sign.
No kidding. Given months of conventional wisdom that the race was essentially a toss-up but George Bush was nonetheless in dire trouble, we suddenly are at a point in the race where it looks as if he will coast to re-election. Certainly, the news hasn't gone Kerry's way in quite some time, what with a no bounce convention, a surprisingly effective insurgent advertising campaign by the Swift Boat vets, a much higher than expected Bush bounce from the GOP convention, and now the Rather fiasco, Kerry can't catch a break.
Tomasky sees an odd paradox at work:
The problem begins with the fact that majorities of the public tend to agree with Democrats on the issues. This isn't universally true, of course, but it's true with regard to more issues (perhaps many more issues) than not. On health care, the environment, investment, education, just about everything except national defense, majorities lean toward the Democratic position.
This sounds like a good thing. But in fact, it's an incredibly bad thing, because it leads Democrats to believe that they can win on the issues.
He argues that, in reality, Democrats get pummeled because Republicans are inordinately skilled at turning attention away from substantive policy discussions and into a referendum on character. He goes on, in sum detail, to explain how the GOP created–falsely, in his view–an impression of Kerry the Flip-Flopper.
Kevin Drum spots the rather glaring hole in this argument:
Hmmm. "Everything except national defense." Does that suggest something?
It should. Yes, Bill Clinton was unusually articulate and charismatic, but he also ran in a pair of elections in which national defense wasn't an issue. During the 80s, when the Cold War was uppermost in people's minds, Republican candidates won three elections in a row. And in 2000, George Bush won a squeaker only by convincing people he was a compassionate centrist who was practically a Democrat himself.
As brilliant a campaigner as Bill Clinton was, he would not have been able to defeat Bush–a horrible campaigner–in 1992 had the Cold War still been underway. The GOP didn't grasp until far too late that nobody cared that Clinton had dodged the draft, since the commander-in-chief role was hardly uppermost in their minds. Bush 41 was a solid wartime president but did not inspire confidence in his ability to manage the economy, the role that became paramount in that election. In 1992, Clinton convinced people he was no Michael Dukakis and in 2000 the future Bush 43 convinced people he was no Newt Gingrich.
It's all about 9/11, Iraq, terrorism, and national security, baby. This election is going to be won on that issue, and Kerry needs to convince the country that he can handle it better than Bush. And really, considering the botch Bush has made of national security, that shouldn't be all that hard.
Bottom line: Republicans aren't avoiding the issues. It's just that their signature issue happens to be the one people care most about this year. Democrats had better figure that out pronto.
Agreed. Tomasky is correct that the Bush campaign has managed to cherrypick Kerry's record to make Kerry's past inconsistencies appear more stark than they really are. But that's hardly unusual; it's what campaigns do. But Kerry has been amazingly accomodating in doing everything he can to reinforce that image with respect to the Iraq War. Ironically, Kerry's position papers on the war (and foreign policy in general) are quite reasonable, if largely indistinguishable from the Bush policy. Yet, his on again, off again support for the war effort is the most bizarre effort I've ever seen in a major party nominee on the central issue of the day.
FILED UNDER: Environment, Terrorism, Uncategorized, 9/11, advertising, Bill Clinton, Cold War, elections, Iraq, John Kerry, Kevin Drum, Michael Dukakis, Michael Tomasky, Newt Gingrich, Swift Boat
Bithead says:
Monday, 13 September 2004 at 16:06
Clinton made it clear he was about sending money used for the military elsewhere… the ' peace dividend'. He was quite proud, during his campaign, that he knew comparatively little about international politics. (International affairs, however, were perhaps another topic)
Clinton of course went on, once elected on that premise, despite cutting the military budgets and manpower, to send the Military on more missions than any of his predesessors had.
No great wonder, then, that the subsequent Gore and Kerry campaigns, trying to play up the same kind of Anti-Military meme, didn't play quite so well with the voters.. who apparently don't have as short a memory as had been thought.
As to cherry picking, it should perhaps be said that the Bush Campaign has had to work less hard in that effort, than his father's campaign had to work against Dukakis'.
The GOP's problem in 92 was not identifying that nobody cared that Clinton had dodged the draft, but WHY. The reason was simple; Ronald Reagan's successes. The end of the cold war brought with it the argument that we didn't need the military, or a military minded man in the WH.
In the GOP mindset, and I think correctly, the import of a strong military never goes away. The argument was in 92 that the destruction of the USSR left us more vulnerable, not less, given that there would now be new threats coming to the fore, and likely less manageable than the Soviets were.
And eight years of Bill Clinton later, (plus a couple months) we found out that line of thinking was the correct one.
If there's anything out of all of this that is suprising it's that the vast majority of Americans seemingly understand this, if we're to take the polls with any seriousness.
Kerry cannot now, nor, given his history, could he have EVER convinced the electorate that he could have dealt with this situation any better.
(Can YOU say 'more sensitive war'?)
Actually, Kerry has idenified from the beginning that Iraq and how the President handles the issue, would be the key to this election, which is why he's trying to paint himself as a war hero.
But as I say, his anti-war, anti-military history keeps getting in his way.
It also doesn't help Kerry that over half of his base is also anti-war, anti-military. The more he plays up the 'look at me in uniform' bit, he tees off his biggest block of suporters.
Dodd says:
The Democrats love to assert that Americans largely agree with them on the issues. But they never prove it, they just assert it. It's awfully materialistic of them, since they seem convinced that "values" issues shouldn't matter more to any voter than "economic interest" – nor do they give the voters any credit for having the perspicacity to see that Democrat "economics" is not necessarily in their interest either.
IOW, they delude themselves. And we don't call them on it often enough.
Elrod says:
Tuesday, 14 September 2004 at 00:36
Interesting commentary on the commentary on the commentary. Ah, I love the blogs. Anyway, to quote the normally buffoonish Dick Morris, "In order to run as a war president you have to win the war". Morris is absolutely right here. Joe Klein pointed out in a recent piece that Kerry's criticism of the war over the cost is just idiotic for many reasons – numbers mean nothing, and voters will pay anything if it means defending the nation. A smarter and more effective critique would be on the conduct of the war. And a great place to hit the President is the handling of Fallujah. The incidents there in April are everything Bush said was disastrous about Vietnam – politicians making military decisions and then meddling at the worst times. The decision to attack – and then retreat halfway through – in Fallujah was disastrous as a number of recent stories point out. Kerry should challenge Bush in a direct manner and say, "Fight this war to win, or get the hell out". Sure, everybody will point out how Kerry's own positions are this way and that way but a statement of this sort will turn the attention back on a significant failure in an area of Bush's greatest political strength – as Commander in Chief. Kerry should also begin quoting regularly from the recent CSIS report detailing how the situation is getting worse on every level in Iraq. Not to talk down the war or the justness of it, but to say that the President's leadership has been lacking. The CSIS report is a perfect roadmap for Kerry to establish his bona fides in the Iraq War. And while the CSIS report offers lots of pragmatic, wonkish solutions to the near term in Iraq, it's also a rather blunt document. Bungling around the way he has will only allow Bush to continue talking in generalities about the War on Terror without having to discuss the nasty little details, many of which are very unpleasant for the President.
Beldar says:
I can't claim to have studied Kerry's position papers on foreign policy. But I've heard his guru and likely secretary of state Holbrooke, whose key meme is that Kerry will repeal the "Bush Doctrine" of taking preemptive action, including using military force, to fight the war on terrorism. That's a pretty major difference between the two. And if one agrees — as I do with you, Dr. Joyner, and (gasp) with Kevin Drum, that the war on terror is what the election is likely to be decided upon — it's a solid, substantive basis for picking between the two candidates.
NONAME says:
I never understand the assertion made that Bush has badly bungled national security. How can you have fewer than ZERO attacks on US soil since 9/11? Who could beat that record? And why don't we call them on that assertion whenever they make it?
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What the international community can do to support LGBTQ Ugandans
Country's homophobic laws a legacy of British colonialism
Dan Glass
(Photo courtesy of Matthew Docherty)
Less than 24 hours after an LGBTQIA+ sexual freedom solidarity delegation I was honored to be part of finished in Kampala this spring, the homophobic heat intensified. The "Sexual Offenses Bill" that criminalizes consensual same sex acts, was approved by the Ugandan Parliament on May 3, 2021.
Now the dust has settled, what can the international community do?
Decolonize
Uganda's homophobic laws are near duplicates of British colonial legislation; one of the British empire's most notorious exports. The "Public Nuisance Act", the "Rogue and Vagabond Act", the "Anti Pornography Act" and the "Anti Miniskirt Act" are all inspired by Thatcher's deadly Section 28 law that prohibited "the promotion of homosexuality in public institutions" in the U.K. and still digs its claws in tightly throughout life in Uganda today.
Whilst the "Sexual Offenses Bill" criminalizes "LGBTQIA propaganda," it cannot stop LGBT+ movements safeguarding communities on the ground. For the last five years Shawn has been training as a community caregiver and pioneered a unique nature-based self-help project in Uganda called 'FAMACE' to support queer individuals to heal from trauma. Using Farming, Art, Mindset change, Advocacy, Collaboration and Ethical human-centered design to improve well-being and promote sustainable livelihoods.
Contrary to the 2012 BBC documentary "Uganda — the worst place in the world to be gay," for Shawn, Uganda is"the best place in the world to be queer, I tell you, the story here in Uganda is beautiful."
"What would solidarity from the UK activists look like, Shawn?" I ask. "An honest call on your government to end and ban the use of colonial laws in former colonial states is the only way."
Create a roadmap to freedom
Five years ago Shawn was part of the Pride Kampala organizing team. In the months running up to Pride, brutal police raids on LGBTQI+ spaces resulted in the arrests of 16 human rights defenders, followed by mass assaults on 200 people attending the Pride show. One member of the LGBT community nearly lost his life when he jumped from a four-story building to escape from police.
After that night it would be easy to assume everyone would go underground, but it only made them fight harder. Shawn continues,"When movements started receiving international aid funding, entrenched cycles of dependency spiralled. Ultimately, we have forgotten that the land beneath us connects us all, the signposts that catalyse community transformation. We need to begin here, right now, in beginning our own queer village."
Choose visibility: Mobilize the Kuchus!
Morgan was there too that night. In 2010 he started Youth on Rock Foundation "so we can be rocks with unshakable perseverance, because as a society we have to 'Mobilise the Kuchus!'"The organization grew like wildfire and gained international attention. Their house doors are regularly knocked on by people seeking sanctuary.
Cultivate creativity
After the "Anti Homosexuality Act" and the savagery provoked through mass media outings, Edgar and his friends started Kuchu Times, an online platform providing a voice for Africa's LGBTQIA+ community.
Kasia, another founding member, thought"let's give it back!' We made the magazine glossy and incorporated local languages and included referral pathways of local support groups. We opened gates for people to emerge themselves. It's everywhere now, they cannot burn it just like they cannot burn us. You have to do it all with a lot of PASSION POLITICS."
Hajjara Ssanyu Batte is Director of "Lady Mermaids Empowerment Center," the largest sex workers and feminist network in Uganda. Hajjara recently infamously walked the streets naked carrying the coffin of one of her murdered friends. Now she sits in front of me beaming in the most incredible rainbow diamante sparkling heels.
What's your most memorable protest I ask?
"I have many. Recently, alongside our male allies in high heels, we protested outside the Uganda Human Rights Commission everyday for two weeks. I proudly wore my miniskirt because it's our bodies, we can do what we want with our bodies, it not only affects us but our mothers, grandmothers, sons and daughters."
Since then, Lady Mermaid's protests have helped overturned the "Pornography Act." The tide is turning.
(Photo courtesy of Shawn Mugisha)
Become a love generator
By digesting the bitter tinctures of life, they have metabolized poisons into medicines to establish sacred connections between each and every one of us.
As I was leaving, Shawn reached for my hand. "Please come back and see us at 'Lavender Acres,' the name of our trans-led permaculture community. By then I will have finished training a new generation of bee-keepers and will have plenty of queer sweet honey for you."
Now back home, the real work begins. Lady Phyll, executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust, a U.K.-based charity working to uphold the human rights of LGBT+ people across the world, and co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride, Europe's largest Pride celebration for LGBTQI+ people of color, reminds us "the activists in Uganda and around the world, who are fighting tooth and nail against homophobia and violence, deserve our unreserved and unequivocal support — and right now."
(Photo courtesy of Corinne Cumming)
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Resolve to support our queer spaces in 2022
Isaac Amend
This New Year, I hope you wish for more lesbian bars across the country. The story of lesbian bars in the U.S. has been slightly tragic of late: as of January 2021, there were only 15 clubs or bars dedicated to queer women across the country.
That's right—only 15. Across all 50 states.
In Washington, D.C., my hometown, A League of Her Own stands out as the only lesbian bar in the city, dedicated to queer women. Located in Adams Morgan, A League of Her Own, also known as ALOHO, is a small mecca for queer ladies to pass through, socialize, and flirt. ALOHO is a chic gathering point for all queer folk, with posters of softball players dotting the walls and gender neutral signs lying about.
Several years ago, another lesbian bar called Phase 1 existed in Southeast, where queer women could slam eight balls in pool games and engage in raunchy yet ever-so-hot jello wrestling competitions.
Unfortunately, Phase 1 shut its doors in 2016.
So what explains the closure of so many lesbian bars, while bars for gay men continue to flourish? Perhaps many queer women view gay bars as a space for their own as well, whereas gay men view lesbian bars as less of a place for them to socialize.
Either way, we need to give support to lesbian bars now more than ever. Tokens of support can take many forms.
For one, make sure to socialize in spaces dedicated to queer ladies. There are three lesbian bars in New York City: Cubbyhole (281 W. 12th St.), Gingers in Brooklyn (363 5th Ave.), and Henrietta Hudson (438 Hudson St.). Next time you visit the Big Apple, make sure to give these three spots some love. Maybe drag your experimenting bi friend to these locations. Or your pansexual roommate.
Back in D.C., you can buy unisex shirts in A League of Her Own's merchandise store, available online.
Proceeds will go toward funding the bar, and making sure it stays afloat, especially during this COVID economy.
Most of all, I hope you encourage your queer lady friends to keep on frequenting queer lady destinations. After all, there is only one thing that will keep lesbian bars afloat—and that is attendance.
I, for one, will be frequenting many lesbian destinations this new year.
Isaac Amend is a Yale graduate and participated in National Geographic's 'Gender Revolution' documentary. He also is a member of the LGBT Democrats of Virginia, and contributes regularly to the Blade. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @isaacamend.
Amy Schneider's run inspires us all
Amy Schneider (Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Television)
"When was the last time anybody said 'wow!'" a friend asked me.
I couldn't remember the last time anyone I know (including me) had any "Wow!" moments. Until I heard about trans woman and software engineering manager Amy Schneider's 29-game winning streak on "Jeopardy."
You wouldn't think anything could dispel our COVID exhaustion and political divisiveness. Yet, news about a champion on "Jeopardy," a quiz show that has been on TV since 1964, has broken through our gloom.
In our culture, there are few things that everyone loves. But, "Jeopardy" is beloved by many, from theater geeks to 80-year-old sports nuts. A progressive friend was over the moon when his brother was a "Jeopardy" contestant. A buddy, a hetero (non-Trump) Republican, is a "Jeopardy" fanatic and a gay librarian pal is a "Jeopardy" freak.
Many of us daydream about being on "Jeopardy." But we know that we wouldn't have a chance on this legendary quiz show with its deceptively simple format: You give the answer to the (often incredibly hard) clues in the form of a question. You have to have a strategic military commander's and a world-class athlete's coordination: so you can press the buzzer to answer the clue.
The game's categories run the gamut from opera to mountain ranges. Most of us, mere mortals, would be lucky to know even one category in the first round of the game. Let alone in the "Double Jeopardy" round or the "Final Jeopardy" clue. I might jump on clues about Katharine Hepburn movies or M&Ms. But that would be it for me.
It's exciting to watch a "Jeopardy" contestant become a long-running champion. You marvel at the player's intelligence, endurance, and nerve. It's thrilling when the contestant on a winning-streak is part of your community.
Many of us LGBTQ "Jeopardy" fans are thrilled by Schneider's record-setting winning streak. As I write this, Schneider has won more than $1 million in 29 games of "Jeopardy." She is the fifth millionaire in "Jeopardy" history, and only the fourth player to reach this milestone in the regular season. She has won more than any other female "Jeopardy" contestant.
Schneider, like so many of us, doesn't want to be defined by her gender identity or sexuality. Schneider's life is multi-faceted; she has many interests. Schneider lives with her girlfriend Genevieve. They have a cat named Meep.
Yet, Schneider doesn't want to hide that she's trans. On "Jeopardy," Schneider brilliantly dealt with this dilemma. She didn't make a big deal about being out. She just wore the trans Pride flag pin.
"It was something that I wanted to get out there and to show my pride in while not making it the focus of what I was doing there," Schneider told the New York Times. "Because I was just there to answer trivia questions and win money."
As a cisgender lesbian, I can't speak to how Schneider's record-setting "Jeopardy" streak feels to transgender people.
But, as a trans ally, I'm cheering for Schneider. Kudos for her bravery! At a time when many states are passing anti-trans laws, it takes guts to be out on TV and the Internet.
Few things are as mainstream as "Jeopardy." I bet that many "Jeopardy" viewers who are frightened at the idea of trans people, will become more comfortable with transgender people after watching Schneider on the popular quiz show. Because folks on TV come into our living and bedrooms and we feel as if we know them after watching them for a while.
"Amy looks like everybody else," my neighbor said when I told her Schneider was trans. "She doesn't act odd. She's not strange."
Transgender people encounter violence and discrimination in everything from housing to health care to employment.
I know Schneider's "Jeopardy" triumph won't end transphobia. But her winning streak will go a long way toward jumpstarting a change in hearts and minds.
Kathi Wolfe, a writer and a poet, is a regular contributor to the Blade.
Cruz bows down, kisses ring of Fox host
Tucker Carlson (Screen capture via Fox on YouTube)
The Republican Party has sunk to a new low, hard to do, when a sleazebag like Tucker Carlson is now their conscience. Seeing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) groveling before him is laughable, disgusting, and frightening all at the same time.
As reported in Rolling Stone, Cruz said, "We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week. It is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage, incredible bravery, risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this Capitol." Then "Cruz was lambasted by Tucker Carlson that night, prompting him to hop on Carlson's show Thursday and beg for forgiveness. "The way I phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb," Cruz said before Carlson cut him off and said he didn't believe him. Cruz took it up a notch, stammering through an absurd bit about how he wasn't talking about the "patriots across the country supporting President Trump," only those who assaulted police officers, and that he's always described anyone who assaults a cop as a terrorist.
Carlson has made a career of being a pompous commentator. Interestingly he worked at CNN, PBS, and MSNBC, before finally landing at Fox in 2009. According to his Wikipedia page he went to Trinity College where he earned a bachelor's degree and Carlson's Trinity yearbook describes him as a member of the "Dan White Society," an apparent reference to the American political assassin who murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. After college, Carlson tried to join the CIA, but his application was denied, after which he decided to pursue a career in journalism with the encouragement of his father, who advised him that "they'll take anybody." Reading this clearly raised my opinion of the CIA and based on what we see in some media today I agree with Carlson's father on his view of journalism.
When you have a moment of silence in the House of Representatives to honor those who lost their lives on Jan. 6 and only two Republicans show up, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and her father Dick Cheney, the former vice president, one understands the influence Carlson has on the GOP. The rest were afraid of being criticized on-air by him or lambasted by Trump.
Dick Cheney remarked on the GOP, "It's not a leadership that resembles any of the folks I knew when I was here for 10 years." He spoke to ABC News saying, "I'm deeply disappointed we don't have better leadership in the Republican Party to restore the Constitution."
There is a leadership void in the Republican Party today. Their so-called leaders are afraid to say what they think if it differs in any way from Trumpism or Carlson's view of the world, which requires total fealty to Trump. He found a home on Fox where he can lie with impunity and have millions believe his lies.
President Biden said, in what many think was the best speech of his presidency so far, these people are "holding a dagger to the neck of democracy." He went on to say, "For the first time in our history, a president not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol."
Tucker Carlson and his ilk have never bothered to answer a question the president threw at them, which is how they can accept all their down ballot victories, governors, and members of Congress, which occurred on the same ballots, cast by the same people, on the same day, as those for president. Of course, Carlson has no need to make sense, tell the truth, or speak rationally because of his platform on Fox, which doesn't require that.
My question is whether Carlson is as dumb as he makes himself sound or is he brilliant and this is all a big act? Either way the acolytes that follow Trump don't seem to care and are bowing down to Carlson's big audience. It's as if he can tell any Republican senator or congressperson, or Republican candidate for those jobs, to just 'bend over and take it' and they do. All we can do is mourn for the GOP of Lincoln and Eisenhower. Non-Trumpers will have to work hard and speak out if they ever want to resurrect a GOP that can be respected.
Peter Rosenstein is a longtime LGBTQ rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.

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Patriots Spotlight: Gary Guyton
While rookie Jerod Mayo is deservedly garnering national headlines for his astounding play this year, another first-year player is quietly building an impressive presence for the Patriots. Gary Guyton, an undrafted free-agent from Georgia Tech, played in just over half of the defensive snaps during Monday's win against the Denver Broncos. Guyton was in on 31 of 60 snaps, while Tedy Bruschi was in on only 29. Guyton tied his career high with 4 tackles, and now has 11 total on the year.
Guyton has excelled in the nickel, dime, and speed packages that the Patriots have employed this year, as covering tight ends and running backs isn't too much to ask for the former Yellow Jacket.
Typically for the Patriots, college DE's end up playing OLB in New England, while college OLB's end up playing ILB. After running a 4.45 forty yard dash, best at the NFL Combine for linebackers, the Patriots knew that they would have a speedy prospect that had the ability to play inside. When Tedy Bruschi decides to ride off into the sunset, expect Guyton to be there to replace him.
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Good to hear Pamela, thanks for the insight.
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Gary Guyton is one of the greatest role models that has come out of Hinesville, GA. I have had the pleasure of watching him play football throughout his high school and college career. I son played football with Gary and I found him to be a wonderful young man that is dedicated to himself, his team, his family, and his community.
Guyton is the man


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For Alon Levy, the Future Is Not Retro, but It Might Still Surprise
"The Future is not Retro," declares a recent Pedestrian Observation post that has been my metaphorical pea under the mattress for the last several weeks. Its tone is so bombastic and cavalier that the piece is difficult to take entirely seriously—much like another Alon Levy hot take, "The NTSB Wants American Trains to Be Less Safe," or that infamous Market Urbanism tweet about rebuilding Notre Dame as a contemporary mixed-use skyscraper—but as an indicator of the way we urban planning nerds think and talk about cities, it should be taken very seriously, indeed.
Much of the post details Levy's vision for the future of urban development, which goes something like this: In a few decades from now, the cities of the West—the largest of them, anyway—will look increasingly like the crowded, transit-oriented metropolises of East Asia. They will be crisscrossed by driver-less metros, whose stations will be surrounded by clusters of high-rise offices and residential towers, and be linked together by high-speed rail for zero-emissions, long-distance travel. Vacations will entail a bullet train ride to San Francisco or Miami instead of a road trip to some bygone natural wonder. (As for mid-to-lower tier cities, and the National Park Service, the outlook is rather grim—Levy fully expects those to shrivel up and die.)
Transit Advocacy Is Not Urbanism
It's not too often I attempt to write a justification for my existence, but here goes.
Few people in Austin are willing to talk about public transportation right now, which seems odd given the major developments in Connections 2025 (now branded "Cap Remap") and Project Connect. This is a gap I've tried to fill with my new transit blog, the Austin Metro Journal.
Capital Metro's board meetings draw a small cohort of regular critics, but they focus on individual service planning and customer service issues ("I don't like the way y'all cut service to my neighborhood post office") and thereby miss the bigger picture. I'd put Austin's light rail boosters in the same camp. These folks have the best intentions, but they're narrowly focused on building a specific transit technology.
On the flip side, you have Austin's "urbanists" and policy wonks, comprised mostly of millennials and techies, who see public transit as a stepping-stone to a New Urbanist utopia complete with Vision Zero, universal cycle tracks, and—let's be honest—Manhattan-like densities. Urbanists certainly value public transit, but it's not their main focus. They care about transit insofar as it paves the way for their starry-eyed visions.
And then you have me, the guy who's interested in critiquing Capital Metro and advocating for better service for Austin transit riders.
On Austin's Conspicuous Lack of Quality Public Space
I've been a Longhorn for three years now, but in all that time, Austin's never felt like a proper city to me. Not even when hanging out downtown, watching the boisterous nightlife unfold in the shadow of the Austonian and the Frost Bank Tower.
Undoubtedly, a major factor is the soulless character of Austin's urban form, dominated by subdivisions, strip malls, and warehouses. I first recognized that in the dawn of my freshman year, when my mom and I glided swiftly under the tall, lonely streetlights of North Lamar in our move-in rental car. I'm reminded of it each time I venture outside the confines of the university to buy groceries at the super-sized H-E-B and toiletries at the Wal-Mart Supercenter.
But I think I've realized what makes Austin feel especially desolate: its strange lack of quality public space. In much of the city, you'd be hard-pressed to find nearby parks, plazas, government centers, and other places where citizens can gather to socialize, organize, or just enjoy the scenery. And where such places can be found, they are often in decrepit condition.
Downtown Bakersfield, an Urbanist Perspective
Of all places, is downtown Bakersfield in the midst of an urban renaissance?
Ten years ago, that claim would have been laughable. Bakersfield's economic future was clearly to the far west, where affluent new strip malls, subdivisions, and high schools were sprawling incessantly in the direction of Interstate 5. Any neighborhoods east of State Route 99 had been left on the dusty shoulder of Edison Highway, while downtown itself was on life support in Memorial Hospital.
When I was a boy, my father used to drive me down to the Kern Island Canal on 21st Street, where we fed pieces of bread to the ducks. (I shudder now at the ecological devastation that probably caused.) It was an unremarkable dirt-lined ditch back then, a relic of the nineteenth century rush to harness the Kern River, surrounded by derelict low-rise factories and warehouses. As late as the 80s, there was also a large Southern Pacific railyard nearby that occupied several city blocks.
Then, in the twenty-first century, things began to change.
A Murky Future for Self-Driving Cars
Feet-first into fire! This short essay was written in response to the 2016 Report of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) for CS 343H, Artificial Intelligence Honors.
Although I am ostensibly a student of computer science, I am also an urban studies minor, transportation geek, and public transit advocate. Thus, the One Hundred Year Study is of special interest to me, and its analysis of urban transportation doubly so.
Placemaking in the World of Grand Theft Auto
Several weeks ago, I came across a lovely article on Kotaku about the opening act of Grand Theft Auto IV, in which immigrant protagonist Niko Bellic first arrives in a fictionalized United States and explores his newly adopted home of Liberty City.
As the author Kirk Hamilton explains, it's a rather slow start for a GTA game. Niko undertakes some decidedly ordinary tasks — defending his cousin Roman from loan sharks, driving for his cab company, going out on a date — that ease us into the game's driving and shooting mechanics. In the process, we are gradually introduced to Niko's new social circle — a girlfriend, criminals to do business for, and Russian mobsters — and his surroundings, the run-down industrial neighborhood of "Hove Beach."
While GTA IV was cautious and restrained, other Grand Theft Auto games thrust you immediately into the action. Just after the opening credits of Grand Theft Auto V, you were stealing a pair of supercars from a wealthy residence, racing through the streets of downtown Los Santos, and then escaping from the police. Similarly, 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas inserted you right in the middle of a gang war, fleeing a drive-by shooting on a BMX bike and then smashing up a local crack den.
In GTA IV, we get a sense of how the Liberty City criminal world operates before we dive into the over-the-top car chases, assassinations, and SWAT shootouts — we see the loan sharks at Roman's throat, the neighborhood crack dealers struggling for turf, and the shopkeepers being extorted for protection money. Taking things slow allows us to connect with Niko's brave new world in a way that the chaotic exposition in San Andreas and GTA V does not, so suggests Hamilton in a brilliant summary of his GTA IV experience:
Each time I return to GTA IV, I want to leave Hove Beach less and less. I know I'll never feel more immersed and attached than I do in those opening hours. Nowhere else in GTA IV feels as real or familiar to me as Hove Beach. Nowhere in GTA V does, either. For all of the newer game's candy-coated indulgences and technical wizardry, it never matched its predecessor's powerful sense of place.
I was struck by the idea that a video game like GTA IV could have a "sense of place" — what I would call a sense of a distinct culture and community within a specific moment, location, and universe. Urbanists, geographers, and sociologists alike speak of the greatest cities as having it. Architects strive for it. As Hamilton has already noted, one way GTA IV achieves a "sense of place" is through its meticulously crafted introduction. But how else does the game outshine GTA V, its universally acclaimed sequel?
A Portrait of Wilmington, Delaware
Take a ride on DART route 11, and by the mere act of considering it, you feel as though you were in some exclusive club.
One glance at the schedule leaves you immediately overwhelmed. A stylized map purports to depict the general layout of route 11, but the geography is so distorted that whether the route traverses Wilmington or some vague recollection of the city, you cannot tell. The tables of departures are populated with enigmatic, inconsistent times and buses that only serve specific portions of the route; lists of cryptic destination signs for each trip add to the confusion. Reading route 11's schedule is an achievement in and of itself.
Take a ride on route 11, and begin your trip in the desolate Wilmington suburbs. A few minutes later than scheduled, the bus pulls up. The driver is curt, but in a hurry. A display next to his dashboard reads "7 minutes behind." Much to your surprise, he pulls away as you are still paying the fare.
The bus speeds down the narrow suburban thoroughfare, lined with humble New England homes with proud grass lawns out front and the forest looming in the back. Route 11 passes underneath the busy Interstate 95, navigates the maze of intersections between its offramps and the local streets, and turns onto the four lonely lanes of the Washington Street Extension, flanked by wilderness on both sides.


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Real Madrid C. F. and Karim Benzema have agreed an extension to the player's contract, binding him to the club until 30 June 2021.
Today, at 2:00pm CEST, Benzema will speak to the media in the press room at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Media wishing to attend the event must do so bearing the relevant professional accreditation or that of their company at gate 55 of the Santiago Bernabéu, located on Calle Padre Damián, from 1:00pm.


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Man climbs electricity pole, electrocuted, police claims cable theft
Ayobolaji Omole November 22, 2021	Leave a comment
A yet-to-be-identified man has died on an electricity pole in the Kobape area of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
It was learnt that residents woke up on Sunday to his lifeless body on the pole.
No one could tell when or why the victim climbed the pole, as he was not an official of the electricity distribution company.
A source said the deceased might have climbed the pole to commit suicide or steal cables.
"We woke up this morning (Sunday) to see the corpse. The death is mysterious," the source added.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, adding that he was a suspected cable thief.
He said "The man climbed the pole, possibly he wanted to steal wires. I don't think he wanted to commit suicide, because he had cut some of the wires. If he wanted to commit suicide, he only needed to climb the pole and hold the naked wire.
"But according to the information at my disposal, he had cut some of the wires. Maybe there was sudden power supply when he was cutting the cables."
He disclosed that the corpse had been removed by the police, adding that the case was still being investigated.
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Eunice says, "Adding a little flair to a pair of simple shoes is a piece of cake. I wanted really fabulous shoes, but at the same time wanted to be able to dance well into the evening without hobbling. Unfortunately, I found that really exciting flats -- or even kitten heels -- were not so easy to come by." The solution was a simple pair of very Audrey Hepburn-esque gold flats from Steve Madden and a pair of vintage rhinestone shoe clips found at the local flea market. Vintage shoe clips are available at lots of sources, but if you aren't finding anything you like, or if you want to create yours yourself, this is an easy do-it-yourself project.
There are endless possibilities here: a ribbon bow, a pretty button, vintage millinery flowers, a cool buckle. All can be used to transform a Plain Jane shoe into something that is one of a kind and extra fabulous!
You can find shoe clips on Etsy (one source there is Toii), at vintage shops, or on eBay, but it's also quite easy to make your own from vintage earrings (one Etsy source is Hollywood Spotlight) or cabochons (from sellers like Snapcrafty), a bit of ribbon, shoe-clip blanks, and a glue gun.
If the earrings are big and flashy enough, you can use them as is -- just clip off the posts or pry off the clips, and attach them to some shoe-clip blanks (some good sources: Ornamental Beads; Craft-Supplies-Online.com; the Etsy shop of The Creative Seed; and M&J Trimming, 1-800-965-8746, ext. 377, item #13689). The clips of clip-on earrings are not flat enough to slip over your shoes while they're on your feet, so you might find them to be quite uncomfortable. If the earrings need a little additional girth, or they look too small against your shoes, you can easily add a ribbon rosette or bow behind them to increase their size so they are proportionate to your shoe.
1. Fill out the labels.
Download Eunice's label design, and open it using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Fill in your information. (You will need to install the fonts Rosewood and Buckle-Bold, available from MyFonts, on your computer. If you don't have them, a default font will be used.) The software will automatically duplicate your text in every label.
Print out the labels on your ink-jet printer. Be sure to set the printer so that it prints at full size, instead of shrinking to fit the printable area.
Use the craft knife and ruler to cut out the individual labels, aligning ruler with crop marks. Do not cut all the way to the edges of the paper; this will leave the crop marks intact for subsequent cuts.
Round all four corners on each label with a corner-rounding punch.
Peel the backing from each label, and apply to the center of the insole of each slipper (Eunice applied the label to cover up the branding on the slipper's insole).


Ronald Phillip Zeni, 76, of Barrackville, WV, passed away due to complications from pancreatitis which he fought valiantly for over two months until Wednesday, January 23, 2019 surrounded by his family at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. He was born May 26, 1942 in Fairmont a son of the late Silvio and Wanda Drazba Zeni. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Frances Emrick Zeni of Barrackville.
Ron was a member of St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church in Fairmont. He was a 1960 graduate of St. Peter High School and later attended the IBM school in Youngstown, OH, as well as the culinary Vo-tech school in Morgantown, WV in 1995. Ron retired in 1998 from the Beth Energy Mine #108 in Center, WV as a coal miner, he had previously worked at the Beth Energy Mine #41 in Barrackville from 1966 until 1982.
Ron enjoyed hunting, playing horseshoes, cooking, gardening, and bowling. He loved riding his Harley Davidson and his favorite yellow CAN-AM Spyder. Ron enjoyed playing Bocci with the Knights of Columbus and was a member of the Marion County mixed bowling league for over 30 years. Ron and Frances often enjoyed taking a long ride together. They enjoyed traveling to visit his cousins in Chicago, IL, as well as several times to Italy as recently as 2013. He also traveled with Frances for special "get-aways" which often included Rocky Gap, MD. He was blessed to enjoy a very active and healthy life until this past Thanksgiving. He enjoyed his camp at Little Elk Creek Road in Harrison County, WV and he loved playing music on his guitar.
Friends and family may visit the Ford Funeral Home, 201 Columbia Street, Fairmont on Sunday, January 27, 2019 from 2PM until 8PM and on Monday, January 28, 2019 from 10 AM until 11AM. The funeral will be held in the funeral home on Monday, January 28, 2019 at 11AM with Deacon David Lester officiating. Entombment will follow at the Grandview Memorial Gardens in Fairmont. Online condolences may be made to www.fordfuneralhomes.com.


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CSE to Participate in Klamath Basin Clean Energy Series
September 13, 2018 September 13, 2018 by Nicholas Caleb
In Fall 2018, the Oregon Renewable Energy Center and Population Health Management Research Center at the Oregon Institute of Technology are teaming up to host top experts in renewable energy and energy efficiency from throughout the Pacific Northwest. Guests will present on strategies for the Klamath Basin to achieve its full potential and become a clean energy leader. Nicholas Caleb, CSE's Staff Attorney helped to organize the event series and will speak on Sept. 20th about the potential for a 100% renewable energy powered future.
"We are very excited to bring this workshop series and experts in renewable energy and energy efficiency to the Klamath Basin," said Nicholas Caleb, grant recipient from the Oregon Renewable Energy Center and co-organizer of the Klamath Basin Clean Energy Series. "We believe — as do many others in the Pacific Northwest — that the Klamath Basin is ripe for a clean energy transition that will stimulate the local economy, improve public health, lower energy costs, allow the community a large degree of energy independence, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
The series is part of a larger project that aims to set the stage for sustainable economic development planning that takes into account the impact of energy choices on community health. The project brings together areas of business, economics, sociology, renewable energy, engineering, and population health management.
Dr. Sophie Nathenson, Director of the Population Health Management Research Center and co-lead on the project said, "the Clean Energy Series will set the stage for innovative, strategic planning that will connect the dots between energy efficiency, economic development, and health. The connections are there, and being able to learn from others, build on our local strengths, and set up a structure to include health impact into the mix is can have long lasting benefits to our wellbeing." The Population Health Management Research Center is a hub of student learning-by-doing, working on projects for local organizations advancing the health of the region covering areas of education, food systems, and prevention. The research center will also host a course this fall for students of all majors at Oregon Tech on sustainable economic development.
"Having such a distinguished and diverse group of experts coming together for this workshop series, sharing their knowledge and experiences across the spectrum of energy efficiency, cleantech, sustainability, economic policy, and health highlights how a collaborative multidisciplinary approach not only enables, but enhances what can be done to provide sustainable economic growth to rural communities through the natural assets that these communities have," said Dr. Mason Terry, Director of the Oregon Renewable Energy Center. "The Klamath Basin has tremendous potential to be a pillar in our energy infrastructure as our state, regional, and national energy generation mix shifts to renewable sources purely based on the economics and return on investment."
Many significant changes are rapidly taking place in energy markets, technology, and policy. The Oregon Public Utility Commission recently adopted rules for a Community Solar Program that will bring smaller scale projects (under 3 MegaWatts) to the Basin while the Oregon legislature will consider Clean Energy Jobs legislation in 2019 that could change the landscape for renewable energy development. With abundant solar and geothermal energy potential as well as the expertise of the Oregon Institute of Technology, organized community support for a renewable energy and energy efficiency transition could be transformative for individuals, families, and communities throughout the Basin.
The Clean Energy Series will take place on 4 evenings in Fall 2018 — Sept. 20, Oct. 25, Nov. 15, Dec. 6 — from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Gaucho Collective in Klamath Falls. The workshops are open to the public and participants are encouraged to RSVP in advance.
Dates: Sept. 20, Oct. 25, Nov. 15, Dec. 6
Place: Gaucho Collective, 1038 Main St, Klamath Falls, OR 97603
Workshops are open to the public.
RSVP in advance because space is limited!
RSVP here: https://goo.gl/ebQxAp
Full Calendar, Topics, and Speakers:
100% Renewable Energy is Achievable
Leah Parks, Co-Author of 'All Electric America' & VP of Business Development at Op Connect
Nicholas Caleb, Staff Attorney at the Center for Sustainable Economy
Local Clean Energy Strategies
Hannah Sohl, Director at Rogue Climate
Jaimes Valdez, Policy Manager at Spark Northwest
Nuts and Bolts of New Energy Projects
Jennifer Rouda, Founder of 7Skyline, LLC
Bridget Callahan, Sustainable Northwest
Community Energy Planning
Michael Colgrove, Director at Energy Trust of Oregon
Marla Harvey, Former Energy Plan Coordinator for Hood River County
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The gaming industry has grown to support specialism and thus new business models. From specialist indie studios to technical services providers, we are beginning to see a transition towards the new world of gaming, where there is an increasing need for specialists to manage the explosion in new, rich and complex content.
Global publishers such as EA, Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft are finding long-term value with specialist providers, and we are seeing adoption of strategic partnerships (eg Sperasoft, a Keywords company, co-developing Assassin's Creed, a Ubisoft title) leading to higher-quality titles and a migration away from the old world of fully self-developed games.
The trend towards digital consumption is also a major factor in the gaming space, as traditional brick-and-mortar business models experience pressure from sales through online platforms such as Steam, giving physical stores (Game, GameStop) a lower share of revenue, leaving more for the publisher.


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Thank you for joining us in Denver for the 120th National Western Mining Conference & Exhibition.
The 2018 CMA conference was a success! More than 400 attendees and exhibitors came to the Colorado Convention Center for three days of the latest updates and innovations in the mining industry. View highlights and photos!
Be sure to mark your calendar for the combined 2019 SME Annual Conference & Expo and CMA 121st National Western Mining Conference in Denver, February 24-27 at the Colorado Convention Center. Interested in exhibiting? View the interactive floor plan and select "click here" at the right of the floor plan for the Space Application Contract, then click "I need space." Blue spaces are available; tan spaces are sold. Make sure the contact name and email is the "Official Contact" for SME show management to send pertinent show information. After completion, the contact will receive a confirmation email from Map Your Show (MYS). Before reserving booths 10x20 or larger, please contact SME Exhibit Sales & Operations at exhibits@smenet.org.


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Can I hyperlink source code of Qt instead of distributing it with my installer?
CAD_coding last edited by
I want to develop a closed source application for commercial purposes, and want to use the LGPL v3 license of Qt.
I am not changing any Qt code, and am dynamic linking the Qt libs.
I am also redistributing the Qt libs with my installer.
The whole size of instaler size would be <100 MB, and it would be too much to also distribute the 350MB source code of Qt.
Can I just provide the link of source code zip files from qt website instead of having to distribute these files with my application?
Alternatively, can I upload the source code to my Google Drive and just provide the link of the Drive folder instead?
If I have to attribute it anywhere I can do that.
I am charging a very small fee for my users and using the hugely costly commercial license of Qt is not an option for me.
ambershark Moderators last edited by @CAD_coding
@CAD_coding You don't even need a link to the code as far as I know. You're not linking statically and not modifying any Qt code, so you should be fine.
I like to mention Qt in my documentation and About box with a link to Qt, but really I don't think you even need to do that.
I've purchased multiple Qt licenses over the years and done multiple projects that were closed source but using L-GPL style license. And even a few that were open source with L-GPL. To me it sounds like what you have so far is just fine.
And you most definitely do not need to distribute the code to Qt.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, so you can confirm with one if you're really paranoid. :)
Eeli K last edited by @CAD_coding
@CAD_coding I don't completely agree with @ambershark. If you distribute Qt binaries you have to give the recipient the possibility to get the corresponding source code from you. It doesn't have to be in the same package with the binaries (installer); see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites and https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#HowCanIMakeSureEachDownloadGetsSource. Especially, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic says "if you yourself convey the executable LGPL'd library along with your application, whether linked with statically or dynamically, you must also convey the library's sources, in one of the ways for which the LGPL provides."
Section 6.d. of GPL3 (which is part of LGPL3):
"d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements."
So, you don't have to include the source code but you have to "maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source" and you "remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements."
The Qt's own FAQ https://www.qt.io/faq/#_Toc_3_7 says:
"You will need to deliver the complete source code of Qt (including all modifications you did or applied) to your users/customers. [...] Please also note that this has to be under your control, so a link to the source code provided by the Qt Project or Qt Company is not sufficient."
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@Eeli-K Good points, you are absolutely correct. In the cases I distributed binary builds of Qt libs or linked statically I was using a commercial license so I didn't worry about it much.
@CAD_coding From reading those excerpts I would say just to include them in the about box/documentation like I did, but also add a file in the libs directory that details where to grab the source and a link to the L-GPL license.
Since the license says the source can be on a 3rd party server as long as you have explicit instructions in obtaining the source, I would say giving details on grabbing Qt's source from Qt's website would be sufficient to stay within the license. You could simply give the git url with git clone instructions in a file in the libs directory or in the about box and you should be covered.
Since it has to stay available for the life of your product, I would assume Qt's own source repository would be the best for that. If Qt went away your project would be out of date quite quickly as well. And if not you can always grab a copy of the source and host it on your own webserver. Realistically nobody is going to get it from your server, so it won't even cause any traffic.
@Eeli-K Thank you for your detailed response!
From the question https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnchangedJustBinary I understand that I have to distribute the source along with the Qt libs.
@ambershark you can provide link of the source if you are not redistributing the Qt libs, which is when the installer would be downloading them from Qt server during installation.
Now my rant about this weird rule:
This is really a huge turn off IMHO as distributing 350MB of source code that 99% of my users wouldn't even care about would unnecessarily increase the size of installer since my application's executable is around 20MB only.
@Eeli-K said in Can I hyperlink source code of Qt instead of distributing it with my installer?:
the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source.
According to this you don't need to actually distribute the source. Just give access to it. So like I said above just give a git clone path to Qt's source, or you can provide your own copy of the source and built binaries on your server. Again though a link is fine. It does not have to be part of the actual distribution package.
Also from the faq you linked above... this pretty much tells you it's ok to just provide the link (or location to download the source).. This is for GPL though, the L-GPL is usually much looser on this but I haven't dug in detail to determine if this is an area it's looser. So just follow this by including the link and you'll be fine.
I want to distribute binaries via physical media without accompanying sources. Can I provide source code by FTP? (#DistributeWithSourceOnInternet)
Version 3 of the GPL allows this; see option 6(b) for the full details. Under version 2, you're certainly free to offer source via FTP, and most users will get it from there. However, if any of them would rather get the source on physical media by mail, you are required to provide that.
If you distribute binaries via FTP, you should distribute source via FTP.
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LGPL isn't much looser, it just adds an exception for linking non-free code dynamically. It's a huge exception but doesn't make obligations for "conveying" the source code of LGPL'ed library any looser. But yes, you don't have to include the Qt source code in your installer or binary distribution package. Put the Qt source code package in a server. Then give the directions and the link in your installer package (README file and LICENCING file or something similar should be enough, it doesn't need to be in the installer user interface) and also in the web page where you give similar directions and link to your binary installer package. Then there's no question about legality.
@CAD_coding Just to make this sure: distributing the Qt source code doesn't have to be done in the same package with the binaries. If that would be the case, e.g. almost all Linux distributions would be illegal. Most Linux distributions offer the binaries and sources in two different packages. They both can be downloaded and installed from the same servers by similar means.
Thanks guys for your detailed responses.
I think I got it now, but I will still summarize:
If I am distributing Qt libs (like QtCore5.dll, etc) along with my application in an installer,
I do not have to distribute the source code of Qt with the installer.
I have to make a copy of the source available on any server (Github, Google Drive, etc) and provide instructions on downloading this source code along with the installer via readme.txt license.txt
Thanks again guys!!!
ambershark Moderators last edited by ambershark @CAD_coding
@CAD_coding Yep. You don't really need to use github or anything though. You can link straight to the git repo that the Qt devs use.
Just provide the instructions to clone the code in your README/LICENSE file.
Here's the link for the Qt source: https://github.com/qt/qt5.git, it just happens to already be on github. ;)
Eeli K last edited by @ambershark
@ambershark Based on the licence text itself and GPL FAQ I would like to interpret it as you said ("You can link straight to the git repo that the Qt devs use"), but according to the Qt FAQ "this has to be under your control, so a link to the source code provided by the Qt Project or Qt Company is not sufficient". This I interpret to mean that if for some reason the original place is down the source code isn't available there anymore and you can't affect it in any way and you're violating the licence by continuing to distribute the binaries. In a theoretical case (not Qt, nor any real project) there's only one source and the binary distributors link to that place . The original developer takes the source away and deletes all the copies. Nobody has the source code anymore. This is just theoretical, but the spirit of the GNU licences is to advance maximum availability of source code. Linking to someone else's code base doesn't do that.
Then again, IANAL.
ambershark Moderators last edited by @Eeli K
@Eeli-K That would mean you can't use github at all then since it isn't under your control. If github is considered "under your control" you can just fork Qt to your github account though.
I mean along these lines though no web server you don't actually own is truly under your control. And even then you are at the mercy of your internet provider even if it is physically your system. My company has quite a few web servers, but since things like AWS came around I don't buy actual hardware any more. AWS is not technically under my control even though I have root access to all the systems that are "mine".
You're right though. I don't think it would really be an issue, but people have sued over smaller things. The safe way is definitely throw up a copy on your own web server. Knowing it will never be downloaded by anyone just seems to make it such a waste of resources though.
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This highly regarded company was established in 1858 by Jean Baptiste Dor, a doctor living in Jarnac. But it was his son Amedée Eduard Dor who thirty years later named the company AE Dor. It was his life-long passion to strive for high-quality cognacs and he arduously searched for the very best and old cognacs in the region. It earned him the nickname by his contemporaries: "l'Antiquaire du Cognac".
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Pure evaporation
From 1922 till 1972 the company was managed by Jean Baptiste's son-in-law, who in 1951 received permission to sell his cognacs below 40% ABV. Noël was able to prove that his cognacs had reached this lower alcohol level by pure evaporation alone and until today A.E. Dor is the only company allowed to do so.
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After 1972 AE Dor became the property of the Bénédictine group of the Legrand family. During this period the company was led by Philippe Mitterand, brother of the former French president, François Mitterand. The Bénédictine company, however, showed little interest in the brand and it was very fortuitous that in 1982 Jacques Rivière, assumedly urged by his wife Odile Rivière, decided to buy the company.
Although she did not know the trade, she learned very fast and from the best to become a top-notch cellar master, arguably one of the best in her time and highly respected by her colleagues. She instantly recognized the immense treasure that was lying in the cellars, going back to the pre-phylloxera era, that is to say: of before 1874. Within a decade she made her name. Sadly she died too young in a car crash in 1992. But her legacy is famous and people around the world search after the blends by her hand, notably the Vieille reserve cognacs numbers 9, 10 and 11.
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After her tragic death, Jacques Rivière decided to continue her work in honor of her achievement. She almost single-handedly managed to revive a brand that seemed to have been left to die. Soon after, his son Pierre-Antoine Rivière joined him and together with Béatrice Coussy as a cellar master they now still make grande cognacs, even though in 2015 they became part of Unicognac.
AE Dor, first of all, is a merchant, but throughout the times they also almost always have had vineyards of their own. Around 25 acres and they are mostly in the grande and petite champagne districts with a little bit in the fins bois. A related distillery, in Chateauneuf-sur-Charente, distills the yields of these farmlands. They also have almost 200 acres under contract. Besides blends, they make a fair amount of grande champagne, petite champagne, and fine champagne cognacs.
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You can find AE Dor in some of the best restaurants throughout the world. Their famous cognacs are the numbers 1 till 6: no. 1 Age d'Or (1893), no. 2 Excellence (1889), no. 3 Prince Impérial (1875), no. 4 Napoléon III (1858), no. 5 Louis Philippe (1840). An 1805 Soleil d'Austerlitz of 30% ABV and an 1811 Roi de Rome of 31% ABV (Fins bois). The numbers 9 till 11, grande champagnes blended by Odile Rivière and the numbers 6 till 8, grande champagnes blended by Jacques Rivière.
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