When it comes down to it, oh dear reader, there isn't much difference between the millicents and the droogies - except the millicents can tolchock you in the yarbles legitimately.
Just off for some moloko plus and a quick bit of the old in-out with this little davotchka I picked up in the record shop.
I've got to make a trip to Liverpool next Saturday to pick up my 9-year old stepdaughter for the Easter holidays - even with a fairly economical car, that's a 400 mile round trip, and is going to set me back 60 quid, of which at least 50 goes to those leeches in Whitehall.
When they start to invest all that tax in efficient public transport, wake me up and I'll agree that it's reasonable.
Until then, it's just gouging by the parasites who are allowed to spend 22 grand feathering their second home knocking shops.
When I see proper fuel duty on airline fuel, then I'll believe that there's a green agenda - at the moment it's just institutionalised theft.
Well, they were good enough for Saddam Hussein's supergun (and from TFA that's what the steel company specialised in before nucular containment vessels) - so why not give Sheffield Forgemasters a call?
Damascene swords were flexible, strong and kept their edge due to a) the method of forging used, and b) the presence of very hard carbide bands in the steel.
You might as well claim that they kept their edge due to the influence of a pyramid.
Incidentally, there is a Japanese equivalent, 'watered steel', that was commonly used for sword making.
That's what distress keycodes were invented for - some fingerprint implementations even allow you to choose a 'distress finger' for use in that situation - it will still open the door, but will also flag an alert to security staff.
I think it's more a German cultural thing - I have noticed that Germans tend to be a lot more up-front with their language than either Brits or Yanks, and I personally find it refreshing.
It's nice to know exactly where you stand when dealing with somebody, and not to have to peel off layer after layer of euphemism.
The company itself went tits-up in 2002, having failed to find a market for their $1500 multimedia appliance.
What we see now is the product of a shell company set up by one of their executives that has pursued the patent claim without attempting to produce a product in the intervening period.
How this isn't trolling is unclear to me - the successor company has had 6 years to come up with a product, and has done precisely nothing.
The original investors in ZipMedia might be interested in what has become of the assets that were transferred in 2002 - it looks like the new incarnation of the company has been formed solely to try to capitalise on this idiotic patent.
It looks like ZapMedia itself was wound up in 2002 (having burnt through $28 million in venture capital), with its assets being transferred to a shell company called Blue Dingo, run by a former ZapMedia executive named Van Roosendal.
Those investors who lost out when ZapMedia folded should think hard as to whether they should have a stake in this dubious patent - how Frohwein is involved is a bit murky, but he and Van Roosendal probably have a few questions to answer about the asset transfer.
Actually, it's more likely to be research aimed at supplying the buoyant Japanese whale meat market with product without having to hunt whales in the wild - being able to produce whales in a farmed environment would likely piss Greenpeace off slightly less than harpooning the creatures in the Antarctic in defiance of the majority of the civilised world.
Here in the UK, there's currently a debate over whether to allow wiretap evidence in the trials of 'terrorists' for precisely that reason - if the evidence were to be introduced, details of how it was gathered would have to be released to the defence, and the worry is that those details might allow a determined adversary to circumvent the evidence gathering.
How much of this argument is total hooey is left as an exercise for the reader - the fact remains that wiretapping is widespread in the UK, every well organised group knows this and takes appropriate countermeasures, and the only people likely to be incriminated by wiretap evidence are rank amateurs whose chances of a successful attack are minimal.
Poor little student - what better way to learn than to reimplement the algorithms?
If you want to make money, put the work in!
What this study highlights to me is that despite the protestations of the patent / copyright lobbies, free software promotes innovation, rather than the profit motive.
As I say - if you want to charge, then put the work in - it's not as though it's hard.
I hardly see.NET system calls as a massive innovation - extended stored procedures have been in SQL Server since Microsoft bought it off Sybase - all anyone needed to do was write a DLL, expose the calls they wanted to, and any variety of system functionality was available.
I hate Windows because it's a massive bloated kludge, not for any ideological reasons - I have had to develop for Windows too much over the past decade to see it any other way.
I like Linux because it's lean, elegant and relatively standards compliant, and while I agree that greater interoperability with the market leader is desirable, there's nothing wrong with trying to get Windows and Windows applications to follow standards to ease the goal of interoperability.
America seems to like the poor struggling Israelis to the tune of billions of dollars a year - perhaps relocating them all to Idaho or somewhere, keeping the appropriate subsidies to regenerate the local economy, might just work.
Tongue in cheek maybe, but it's a solution that would work:P
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Just off for some moloko plus and a quick bit of the old in-out with this little davotchka I picked up in the record shop.
Don't get me started.
I've got to make a trip to Liverpool next Saturday to pick up my 9-year old stepdaughter for the Easter holidays - even with a fairly economical car, that's a 400 mile round trip, and is going to set me back 60 quid, of which at least 50 goes to those leeches in Whitehall.
When they start to invest all that tax in efficient public transport, wake me up and I'll agree that it's reasonable.
Until then, it's just gouging by the parasites who are allowed to spend 22 grand feathering their second home knocking shops.
When I see proper fuel duty on airline fuel, then I'll believe that there's a green agenda - at the moment it's just institutionalised theft.
Sort of like a DIY store for Home Secretaries?
Well, they were good enough for Saddam Hussein's supergun (and from TFA that's what the steel company specialised in before nucular containment vessels) - so why not give Sheffield Forgemasters a call?
Damascene swords were flexible, strong and kept their edge due to a) the method of forging used, and b) the presence of very hard carbide bands in the steel.
You might as well claim that they kept their edge due to the influence of a pyramid.
Incidentally, there is a Japanese equivalent, 'watered steel', that was commonly used for sword making.
For sure.
I'll be checking out uncyclopedia over the weekend - thanks for making me grin!
That kind of activity isn't to be tolerated in any community, online or not - whether 'really tolerated' or virtually :P
It's nice to know exactly where you stand when dealing with somebody, and not to have to peel off layer after layer of euphemism.
What we see now is the product of a shell company set up by one of their executives that has pursued the patent claim without attempting to produce a product in the intervening period.
How this isn't trolling is unclear to me - the successor company has had 6 years to come up with a product, and has done precisely nothing.
The original investors in ZipMedia might be interested in what has become of the assets that were transferred in 2002 - it looks like the new incarnation of the company has been formed solely to try to capitalise on this idiotic patent.
Those investors who lost out when ZapMedia folded should think hard as to whether they should have a stake in this dubious patent - how Frohwein is involved is a bit murky, but he and Van Roosendal probably have a few questions to answer about the asset transfer.
Hawkwind have prior art dating back to 1977 :o)
Unless of course the name is Valerie Plame, and the 'national interest' is defined narrowly as 'Cheney's vindictiveness'.
How much of this argument is total hooey is left as an exercise for the reader - the fact remains that wiretapping is widespread in the UK, every well organised group knows this and takes appropriate countermeasures, and the only people likely to be incriminated by wiretap evidence are rank amateurs whose chances of a successful attack are minimal.
In the better houses in the UK, we use silver spoons, and thus have no sense of irony whatsoever :P
Slashdot pedants: they're like really clever, man - it's all "my linguistic dick is bigger than thine, and I can look up shit on the Internet."
Nothing ironic in my statement - pure sarcasm needs no irony, merely a scathing contradiction expressed negatively.
Oh, and I'm old enough not to need dictionaries any more :P
No simians required (or should that be: we don't need no steenking simians?).
If you want to make money, put the work in!
What this study highlights to me is that despite the protestations of the patent / copyright lobbies, free software promotes innovation, rather than the profit motive.
As I say - if you want to charge, then put the work in - it's not as though it's hard.
I hate Windows because it's a massive bloated kludge, not for any ideological reasons - I have had to develop for Windows too much over the past decade to see it any other way.
I like Linux because it's lean, elegant and relatively standards compliant, and while I agree that greater interoperability with the market leader is desirable, there's nothing wrong with trying to get Windows and Windows applications to follow standards to ease the goal of interoperability.
Sderot isn't a settlement - it's a town in Israel proper (i.e. inside the pre-1967 borders).
Article 49 only applies to the settlements on the West Bank (now that those in Gaza have been evacuated).
I'm rabidly anti-Zionist, but even I know where Sderot is.
America seems to like the poor struggling Israelis to the tune of billions of dollars a year - perhaps relocating them all to Idaho or somewhere, keeping the appropriate subsidies to regenerate the local economy, might just work.
Tongue in cheek maybe, but it's a solution that would work :P
And that would be a bad thing how?
Don't you remember the stickers from the 70s?