Take your technological solution to a social problem idea, and all that freedom-degrading, corruption-enhancing, abuse-inviting, wont-work-anyway gadgetry you just developed and shove it straight up your ass. I'm glad as hell you don't live in my country, we've got enough petit-tyrants wandering around inventing new ways to milk everyday people out of every penny they can get a mindless bureaucratic system to squeeze from us.
You cannot dispense justice from a vending machine.
I stopped trying to keep track halfway through and just focused on the universal human drama of having to decide whether to kill the guy that died in your kitchen next Tuesday.
My girlfriend designed the logo for Nupedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia
She got an official t-shirt out of it. It's probably worth a fortune, maybe even $20.00, on eBay now.
Perhaps the Malaysian government would like me to send them back the nesi lemak I had for lunch today, since they claim it is theirs? I expect it to be ready to... ummmm... "ship" by morning.
I embed all my documents in porn and post them on various web forums. The recovery procedure involves spidering my spam folder. I recently found my high school history term paper in a jpg of Marylin Chambers.
Legal issues are very black and white, very binary. If the criterion is "all", and "all" is invalidated - even by one exception - then the whole proposition is out. "Any" by itself leaves "all" as optional. "All that apply" is what "any and all" means in legalese, except that "that apply" is not left to your own interpretation, but instead means something like "all that are not barred by superseding legal restrictions or obligations". They could use that phrase, but using "any and all", which phrases it as a positive obligation, instead shifts the burden on you to prove that something is barred, instead of them to prove that something isn't.
All of this hyper-parsed language is, of course, just a substitute for honest communication. It is, in fact, intended to avoid communication and understanding, while at the same time locking in the consequences as tightly as possible.
BTW, IANAL, and I am making this all up as I go along. I bet its pretty close to correct. Of course, any and all of it could be flat out wrong.
OK, now take that back into context with this agreement. "Please list any and all sites" has no additional meaning than "Please list all sites", right? This isn't a declaration of fact, it's a request.
Its a demand to be complied with. Lets say you have ten accounts, but one of them carries some legal prohibition on revealing it (setting aside the larger problems with the whole idea, we're being fine-print pedantic here...). If you can show that you are not required to provide that one account, "list all..." by itself means that you can now list none and be in full compliance. "Any and all" means that you still have to list the other nine.
In other words, it is the legal way of saying don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, just in case the demand for "all" becomes invalidated.
What does the phrase "any and all" add that the word "all" lacks by itself?
"All your base are belong to us" legally implies that if even one base is found to not belong to us, then it is possible that none of them do - the statement is false in its entirety. "Any and all of your base belong to us" means that if we accidentally let one of your bases slip through our fingers, the remainder still belong to us. To a lawyer, internet memes are full of loopholes and thus not binding.
Pull out, already, Steve. America's asshole is sore enough.
On the other hand, Steve himself is a good candidate for the title "America's Asshole". I'm all for anyone with financial clout standing up to Obama and congress, but the enemy of my enemy is not automatically my friend.
Northeast was out of the question for a lot of people, plus the voting was suspicious, so the western folks broke off and chose Wyoming. Its nominally led by the author Boston T Party, and his book "Molon Labe" is loosely based on a hypothetical plan for the FSW. http://www.freestatewyoming.org/ Don't be fooled by it looking dead, hit the forums link (you have to register to see most of it).
I grew up in MT; been in SoCal for 25 years; now trying to move back.
I'm looking at Wyoming, myself. The Free State Project's western offshoot is there. I'm looking at Casper or maybe the Big Horn Valley. If the latter, Billings would by the nearest "big" city. I've been up to Wyoming a few times, and I really like the place. Arizona is getting too Californicated.
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Take your technological solution to a social problem idea, and all that freedom-degrading, corruption-enhancing, abuse-inviting, wont-work-anyway gadgetry you just developed and shove it straight up your ass. I'm glad as hell you don't live in my country, we've got enough petit-tyrants wandering around inventing new ways to milk everyday people out of every penny they can get a mindless bureaucratic system to squeeze from us. You cannot dispense justice from a vending machine.
I stopped trying to keep track halfway through and just focused on the universal human drama of having to decide whether to kill the guy that died in your kitchen next Tuesday.
The movie "Primer" had an interesting take on avoiding paradoxes. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3909854615539675694# (entire movie online)
"...would be called Red Dwarf." No, that's what people call Dear Leader when they get drunk.
My girlfriend designed the logo for Nupedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia She got an official t-shirt out of it. It's probably worth a fortune, maybe even $20.00, on eBay now.
I take it that means there is a 95% chance that this report is bogus, or malicious?
Since when is Semantics a Slashdot category?
"Think about what it was doing while you weren't watching. Think about it!!!"
Well, it does have 4 right hands. That leaves 4 left hands to type with.
Video, or it didn't happen.
Are these couples in this video? If so, maybe it's a clue that they're going straight after Apple on the next release, and naming the OS "Cougar".
Perhaps the Malaysian government would like me to send them back the nesi lemak I had for lunch today, since they claim it is theirs? I expect it to be ready to... ummmm... "ship" by morning.
Ikea office furniture floats. Noted for future reference.
... me pack the car for vacation.
I embed all my documents in porn and post them on various web forums. The recovery procedure involves spidering my spam folder. I recently found my high school history term paper in a jpg of Marylin Chambers.
Lawyers should be barred from using any and all phrases that mean something different in the court than they do in normal speech.
And wording such a ban so that it cannot be gamed, loopholed, or turned on its ass - without using legalese - would be an interesting exercise.
BTW, IANAL, and I am making this all up as I go along. I bet its pretty close to correct. Of course, any and all of it could be flat out wrong.
OK, now take that back into context with this agreement. "Please list any and all sites" has no additional meaning than "Please list all sites", right? This isn't a declaration of fact, it's a request.
Its a demand to be complied with. Lets say you have ten accounts, but one of them carries some legal prohibition on revealing it (setting aside the larger problems with the whole idea, we're being fine-print pedantic here...). If you can show that you are not required to provide that one account, "list all..." by itself means that you can now list none and be in full compliance. "Any and all" means that you still have to list the other nine. In other words, it is the legal way of saying don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, just in case the demand for "all" becomes invalidated.
What does the phrase "any and all" add that the word "all" lacks by itself?
"All your base are belong to us" legally implies that if even one base is found to not belong to us, then it is possible that none of them do - the statement is false in its entirety. "Any and all of your base belong to us" means that if we accidentally let one of your bases slip through our fingers, the remainder still belong to us. To a lawyer, internet memes are full of loopholes and thus not binding.
But It's Not Google
by decomposing things to be simpler, you don't need open source.
Let's see.... you could meet a beautiful girl and fall madly in love and have sex for free for the rest of your life...
Or... you could meet Ray the Pimp and pay $50 bucks for a night with his "best" girl, Grizelda. She even has most of her teeth!
And then you find out at the last minute that she'll sell you condoms for $200 each. No, the one in your wallet is not "compatible".
Sure Microsoft is the simple choice. In the same sense as the simplicity of Winston Smith's television viewing choices.
On the other hand, Steve himself is a good candidate for the title "America's Asshole". I'm all for anyone with financial clout standing up to Obama and congress, but the enemy of my enemy is not automatically my friend.
Is there a way to send private messages here?
I grew up in MT; been in SoCal for 25 years; now trying to move back.
I'm looking at Wyoming, myself. The Free State Project's western offshoot is there. I'm looking at Casper or maybe the Big Horn Valley. If the latter, Billings would by the nearest "big" city. I've been up to Wyoming a few times, and I really like the place. Arizona is getting too Californicated.
Some have the balls, some don't. Nature and events will eventually sort them out, one way or another.
I like to refer to it as "The Department of Fatherland Security", at the risk of Godwining this conversation.