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That might not be such a good idea:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sherylcrow/crashand burn.html

But I guess we know who's strong enough to be her man.
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/sheryl_crow/strong-enou gh.html

To paint the lyrics of a particular song by NWA all over the sides of my home!

there starts their Road to Hell

Or their Highway to Hell, even..

The link Slasdot.org

or just the quote below...


Differently seen companies chasing their tails in copyright infringments, trade protocol violations and intellectual property rights are generally the ones which are going to fall pretty soon.

Short on cash and not being able to earn/fund the millions they were used to in the dotgone era they are metamorphosing into scavengers and opportunists ....
SCO is a shining example The crummy economy is bringing out the best in a lot of Companys, their legal team thinks, "we are getting irrelevant (as a team) , lets think up something to make some money and make sure we dont' get laid off," "hmmm... patent # 5551212 seems to be worth looking into" and there starts their Road to Hell [lyricsdepot.com]

Easy money (or so they think) ,lot of publicity (for sure) and a lot of hits on their website , so there's a new concept for you

the legal team is now the marketing team

As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free

But is she a man with a slow hand?

Some women do not understand that there is no substance anywhere in the world, synthetic or natural, that has the extremely effective skin-softening and gravity-defying effects of your love juices.

The term cyberpunk was invented to describe a scifi subgenre that started to bloom in the late seventies to early eighties (around the same time that punk did) that intended to shake scifi out of the tame complacent mode that scifi had gotten itself into. (similar to the rock around the time period punk came along.) The cyperpunk authors were new, and their work had some obvious weaknesses, but if you put aside the analytical criticisms and read it for pure enjoyment, you would get a better story than you would from the authors with decades of work under their belt, or reading their decades old, but really good work yet again(Do I have to keep putting these cyberpunk <-> punk rock comparisons in parenthesis? When I'm talking about the old and out of touch, think Asimov, Baen, Pournelle, Jagger, Townshend, etc. When I'm talking about new and explosive for the day, think of Gibson, Sterling, the Sex Pistols, the clash and the Ramones ) If you think that the term cyberpunk has nothing to do with punk rock, you are the one that is confused.

Both punk movements did their job of shaking up the status quo, and relegated themselves to part of the establishment. What we have for big budget scifi movies are things like The Matrix, not Capt. Kirk Saves Whales From Extinction With Transparent Aluminum. Punk music is now being used for television commercials and television theme songs.

Of course, you could co-opt the word for your own meaning (to some extent, the cyberpunk movement that grew out of the cyberpunk scifi movement already has) then why don't you just steal "hacker". Its already been misused by a large part of the general public for just this purpose.

It's actually Ebin.

Actually, I was referring to an obscure cultural reference.

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a song by They Might be Giants which debates where you are gonna show up for your date if it was supposed to be in Constantinople.

I didn't realize I was that obscure.

I think they learned their lesson when they discontinued Kodachrome 25 a while back.

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!

If you tune your radio antennae in the direction of Mars, maybe you'll hear the following...

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys

Yes, it's a Blur song.

He's Lazy

-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me
I'm lazy when I'm lovin', I'm lazy when I play
I'm lazy with my girlfriend a thousand times a day
I'm lazy when I'm speaking, I'm lazy when I walk
I'm lazy when I'm dancin' and I'm lazy when I talk

I really hope someone managed to get him to put some *serious effort* into this book+DVD, seems like he's recently been dealing with a major motivation problem.

Then again, if PowerPoint is ForDummies, that probably fits nicely with his lazy attitude to things.

I think you've been listening to Radiohead's Palo Alto too much. Lighten up!
And, if you can't get a job, have you thought about making one? Isn't there some skill you have that you could sell to others by setting up in business on your own?

Vertical market monopolies are a modern problem. This is not just coke vs. pepsi. God I wish it were, the cola wars were so much fun. What this is, is Coke if Coke owned refrigerators vs. Pepsi who owned the other half of the refrigerators and you couldn't put coke in pepsi's fridge and pepsi in coke's fridge. You as a consumer are not going to run out and buy one of each. Suddenly because the technology, IM-ware in this case, is "free" it's alright? No.

This is buying an Epson printer when their ink costs Epson .0001 an ounce, but costs you more per ounce that Dom Perignon because they OWN exclusive rights to the ink. Epson spends 20 times the price of the ink to actually implement the patented proprietary controlled crap which manufactures cracked, which Epson has sued over and courts dismissed. This why Microsoft IE is the only browser that doesn't have a prominent feature to block popup ads. This is why Verisign better never get the right to redirect miss-typed urls, this is Bell telephone owning the phones and the lines and you having to "rent" your phone from them, this is Standard Oil buying the train lines to force out it's competitors. You we can't allow the owners of the distribution channels and the content, the protocol and the program, the operating system and the software. The radio station and the record label, the tv station and the movie house. It fundamentally corrupts.

Open source and open standards can't fail here because Open Source developers ARE the users and represent the users needs best and provide the best experience.

They fill a very real need. The very fact that this IM thing is such an issue is proof that Yahoo and MSN's IM-ware are evil and deserve to DIE.

So , NO, open source developers will not bother to stop cracking the standards of proprietary technology until the issue ceases to be a mute point because it's what the client wants. Open Source is not fundamentally the great equalizer, that's not it's purpose, but within it is the space to fill a need to create standards and infrastructures like the national road system, but without the government picking up the tab. This infrastructure will have a tremendous and fundamental long term impact.

As long as the demand for collaboration and standards are there the need will be met. This is open source 101. I am a monkey and this is slashdot. Goo goo g' joob

Ever since I was a young boy,
I've played the silver ball.
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all.
But I ain't seen nothing like it
In any amusement hall...
That two point six ton machine
Sure ain't no damn pin ball !

Horrible quick parody of "The Who"s song Pinball Wizard.

Al, is that you: "Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?"

If they achieve this, they will be teaching kids to conform more, and don't exercise individual choice so much.

Google is your friend

Yes it is.

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/simon-garfunkel/a-simpl e-desultory-philippic.html (From "Bridge over Troubled Water")

or just the quote below...

Differently seen companies chasing their tails in copyright infringments,
trade protocol violations and intellectual property rights
are generally the ones which are going to fall pretty soon.

Short on cash and not being able to earn/fund the millions
they were used to in the dotgone era they are metamorphosing into scavengers and opportunists ....
SCO is a shining example

The crummy economy is bringing out the best in a lot of Companys, their legal team thinks, "we are getting irrelevant (as a team) , lets think up something to make some money and make sure we dont' get laid off," "hmmm... patent # 5551212 seems to be worth looking into" and there starts their Road to Hell

Easy money (or so they think) ,lot of publicity (for sure) and a lot of hits on their website , so there's a new concept for you

the legal team is now the marketing team

Do What Ya Like

Differently seen companies chasing their tails in copyright infringments,
trade protocol violations and intellectual property rights
are generally the ones which are going to fall pretty soon.
Short on cash and not being able to earn/fund the millions they were used to in the dotgone era they are metamorphosing into scavengers and opportunists ....
SCO is a shining example

The crummy economy is bringing out the best in a lot of Companys, their legal team thinks, "we are getting irrelevant (as a team) , lets think up something to make some money and make sure we dont' get laid off," "hmmm... patent # 5551212 seems to be worth looking into"
and there starts their Road to Hell
Easy money (or so they think) ,lot of publicity (for sure) and a lot of hits on their website ,
so there's a new concept for you
the legal team is now the marketing team

I am the Astro-Creep a demolition style hell American freak yeah
I am the crawling dead a phantom in a box shadow in your head
Say acid suicide freedom of the blast read the fucker lies
make me do it again...yeah

more human than human

i am the jigsaw man-I turn the world around with a skeleton hand
say-I am electric head a cannibal core a television said yeah
do not civtimize read the motherfucker-psychoholic lies
into a psychic war I tear my soul apart
and i eat it somr more

more human than human

solo

I am the ripper man a locomotion mind love american style
yeah i am the nexus one i want more life
fucker i ain't done yet

more human than human