Man, I can't see myself sticking to a product put out by a (fiscally and morally) bankrupt outfit like SCO if I wasn't being threatened by guys with no necks in shiny suits.
I guess Derle is going to pursue this crap-fest until not even an insane disbarred legal-aid shyster would be willing to take it on because there are little old ladies with scalded laps taking on McDonald's who have better cases.
What a joke this is making of the entire legal profession. They ARE shysters.
There are hundreds of applicants for every vacancy.
They can always say that another applicant was better qualified, whether he was or not.
My resume gets pre-selected into the circular file on the basis that I might cause other employees health insurance premiums to go up by people without any medical training.
Its easier not to hire me, despite the fact that I am utterly non-contagious and I put no one at risk (if anything they put me at risk.)
Now I'm looking at changing profession.
Hey, the guy who invented the Altair switched and became a doctor and had a happy life.
'food' processors. I put food in quotes because it is now so chemically and biologically treated that the stuff we eat from the grocery stores barely resembles what we used to eat even thirty years ago. (I'm 55 years old and I no longer shop at a supermarket because I can't.)
For example, McDonald's burgers and fries don't taste the same because the beef and the potatoes used aren't grown the same, aren't processed and aren't treated the same with the same additives as they used to be.
The crap they serve now all tastes like cardboard.
Its the triumph of packaging over the content.
Now agribusiness may consider that its saved the world by giving us the equivalent of Soilent, but at what a cost?
The epidemic of diabetes, obesity, childhood diseases like dislexia, asthma, (I'm not going to go through the Merck Index,) all have their root in the explosion in profitability by Monsanto and Cargill after the second world war.
There has been a cozy little bed made between the FDA and Agribusiness.
And if you think that big business hasn't got in bed with the various government agencies before, for their profits and much to your detriment, look at what happened to the L.A. public transit system and elsewhere.
Ford, Chrysler, G.M., Goodyear, General Tire and DuPont bought off the civil authorities to tear up the tracks, not just pave them over but to actually tear them up, so we couldn't use them again when shit like the various oil shocks tore through the fabric of the western world.
The insurance companies are companies first and health takes a distant back seat.
They aren't in the business of keeping you healthy.
They aren't in the business of paying for your needs when the shit you buy from agribusiness makes you sick.
They are in the business of making money and ONLY pay when they can't legally get away with NOT paying.
Health care is a COST to them.
The sooner you get sick, become unemployed and unemployable, fall off the rolls of insured and die, the better off they are.
The next election is going to be so much fun to watch now that corporations will be able to buy the politicians directly.
I predict that it will immediately become a cacophony of naked greed.
Government of the sheeple, by the corporations, for their own profit.
Look at how the rates are climbing even as their profits are.
They are squeezing the last drop from your wallet because they know a single payer system is inevitable.
If you're going to be sick, you'd better not do it in the 'States. Its no place for you if you flinch at the thought of suing somebody who's only sin was being weak once (as we ALL are at least 15% of our lives.)
Other countries' health care systems may not be perfect but at least they exist.
The 'States have nothing even resembling a humane health care system.
and unit specification early on in my career with a documentation technique which let me specify the order of as well as the limits of the API (whether human or systemic components were involved.)
My success and income over the years was derived from the work doe in 1983-84, printer in Computer Language Magazine in 1990 and released into the wild in 2007.
An unguided rock fragment expelled from several light years away?
Odds are that we'd get missed since the diameter of the earth's gravity well is a vanishingly small arc within the solar system, never mind to a nearby system.
It will star a Navvi' lawyer who gains fame suing the entire planet earth for deforestation of his planet and other environmental disasters caused by by 'drive by' visits by earthlings.
Budget for this mix of "Philadelhia" meet "Avatar" is estimated at over 330,000,000 and will use up the worlds' entire supply of "green screen" drop cloths, as soon as he learns how Cristo wrapped the Reichstag.
"Two Fingerz Ronnie" and he calls you into the back of the place, so he can slip you a shiv between da ribs an' he don' have to walk as far to dispose of da body in the alley 'round back.
I'd trust MS about as much as I'd trust "Two Fingerz."
They like to embrace, extend, fuck you up, go back on standards, steal your technology and leave you bleeding in a back alley. (Remember J-Script? Not JavaScript, J-Script. They couldn't call it JavaScript. But they tried.)
The "right to privacy", even the concept of privacy itself, is something that is very recent (that explains those TVs and radios left on all day. Imagine them just working in both directions,)
As long as its not INTRUSIVE, OBSTRUCTIVE or PUNITIVE, most surveillance is tolerated.
The fact that some people actually want and need an omnipresent, omniscient deity looming over them means that the possibility exists for a TIA initiative to actually succeed, just so long as its not obtrusive or judgmental. (How you likin' Google now, suckahs?)
The problem most governments have is that they want to have omnipotent powers too. That they can't ever have.
Look at Burma/Myanmar if you want to know what's wrong with governments who think they have omnipotence.
Omnipotence tends to think it can do without omnipresence and omniscience.
Realists DON'T WANT omnipresence and omniscience because they wants to exercise omnipotence without any backlash. (Or they get caught with a "wide-footed stance" in airport bathroom stalls. [Their hypocrisy is costing you billions every year, in so many ways.])
The lights get covered with snow because of the cover of the lower bulbs.
In a bad storm, one with a snow fall greater than the thermal capacity of the lights to heat up the bulb shield, snow piles up.
Now that municipalities are using LED lights, the thermal capacity in almost nil.
BUT LEDs are's subject to the omni-directionality of the incandescent bulbs they're replacing so the shields aren't required.
Its a problem of retrofitting without having considered that the replacement LEDs need to be sunk in, covered with a glass plate and come flush with the edge of the old light box.
I'd be delighted if they tried to continue their fight for the desktop.
Businesses will delightedly pay $0.00 for OpenOffice and buy cheaper Linux boxes because they don't come with the Windows tax. Gates & Balmer are going to find that they're stuck on the desktop and that businesses aren't the loving, loyal customers that they thought they were. Businesses are cheap as hell when the time for upgrades comes around. That should distract the Hell out of Microsoft.
Meanwhile, Microsoft will be totally missing the consumer who is going to buy cheap Linux boxes and Apple Mac Minis, MacBook laptops, iPods of all stripes, iPhones, the upcoming iTablet, and leave Microsoft to choke down its own vomit.
Microsoft will ALWAYS be playing catch up to Apple' designs and they'll be doing it with their existing base of box makers, people who are too broke to take a chance on a new design and haven't got the design acumen to try it.
What do you do with a consumer who prefers Microsoft's industrial designs? Poison his dog and steal his white cane?
Nah, it's not even worth the bother. Just point and laugh.
All that you need to do is encrypt the data portion with a key that's generated from two one-time pads of 256-bit random keys, and then wipe out all traces of the pads.
cleaner robots to latch onto the speeding flotsam and slow it down until gravity can take care of it naturally.
Each "clean-up-crew" robot can even slow the jetsam magnetically in lots of cases and use the exchange in momentum to pick up velocity and extend its own useful lifetime, before it uses its on-board fuel to slow itself down to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
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He doesn't use a seat either. OUCH!!!
I do wish you hadn't used the example where the end result is the "EOL" for breeding.
Pick the example of Transposons a.k.a. "jumping genes" instead.
Its closer to the actual mechanism anyway.
I'd say that about covers it.
A system designed to protect the small inventor puts itself out of reach of the pocket book of the small inventor.
Being small is being, uh, dis-incentivized.
The positive feedback loop will take care of crushing the small inventor into a thin red paste under the soles of gummint and big corporations.
The argument is on THAT level. Don't like it, buy another brand of car...
Apple wins, DOJ looks dumb.
Man, I can't see myself sticking to a product put out by a (fiscally and morally) bankrupt outfit like SCO if I wasn't being threatened by guys with no necks in shiny suits.
I guess Derle is going to pursue this crap-fest until not even an insane disbarred legal-aid shyster would be willing to take it on because there are little old ladies with scalded laps taking on McDonald's who have better cases.
What a joke this is making of the entire legal profession. They ARE shysters.
Derle McBride isn't even allowed in the building anymore.
Somebody disbar that lawyer out of common sense.
In case you hadn't noticed, there's a recession.
There are hundreds of applicants for every vacancy.
They can always say that another applicant was better qualified, whether he was or not.
My resume gets pre-selected into the circular file on the basis that I might cause other employees health insurance premiums to go up by people without any medical training.
Its easier not to hire me, despite the fact that I am utterly non-contagious and I put no one at risk (if anything they put me at risk.)
Now I'm looking at changing profession.
Hey, the guy who invented the Altair switched and became a doctor and had a happy life.
Don't feel too bad for me. I feel bad for you.
I swear these c*cks*ckers shred your resume as soon as they can when they find out you can't dance the Charleston.
Donald Knuth couldn't get a job nowadays cause he too old and Nicolas Wirth couldn't either because "he talks funny."
'food' processors. I put food in quotes because it is now so chemically and biologically treated that the stuff we eat from the grocery stores barely resembles what we used to eat even thirty years ago. (I'm 55 years old and I no longer shop at a supermarket because I can't.)
For example, McDonald's burgers and fries don't taste the same because the beef and the potatoes used aren't grown the same, aren't processed and aren't treated the same with the same additives as they used to be.
The crap they serve now all tastes like cardboard.
Its the triumph of packaging over the content.
Now agribusiness may consider that its saved the world by giving us the equivalent of Soilent, but at what a cost?
The epidemic of diabetes, obesity, childhood diseases like dislexia, asthma, (I'm not going to go through the Merck Index,) all have their root in the explosion in profitability by Monsanto and Cargill after the second world war.
There has been a cozy little bed made between the FDA and Agribusiness.
And if you think that big business hasn't got in bed with the various government agencies before, for their profits and much to your detriment, look at what happened to the L.A. public transit system and elsewhere.
Ford, Chrysler, G.M., Goodyear, General Tire and DuPont bought off the civil authorities to tear up the tracks, not just pave them over but to actually tear them up, so we couldn't use them again when shit like the various oil shocks tore through the fabric of the western world.
The insurance companies are companies first and health takes a distant back seat.
They aren't in the business of keeping you healthy.
They aren't in the business of paying for your needs when the shit you buy from agribusiness makes you sick.
They are in the business of making money and ONLY pay when they can't legally get away with NOT paying.
Health care is a COST to them.
The sooner you get sick, become unemployed and unemployable, fall off the rolls of insured and die, the better off they are.
The next election is going to be so much fun to watch now that corporations will be able to buy the politicians directly.
I predict that it will immediately become a cacophony of naked greed.
Government of the sheeple, by the corporations, for their own profit.
The insurance companies hold all the cards.
Look at how the rates are climbing even as their profits are.
They are squeezing the last drop from your wallet because they know a single payer system is inevitable.
If you're going to be sick, you'd better not do it in the 'States. Its no place for you if you flinch at the thought of suing somebody who's only sin was being weak once (as we ALL are at least 15% of our lives.)
Other countries' health care systems may not be perfect but at least they exist.
The 'States have nothing even resembling a humane health care system.
What they have is health-don't-care systems.
Health care for profit is an oxymoron.
and unit specification early on in my career with a documentation technique which let me specify the order of as well as the limits of the API (whether human or systemic components were involved.)
My success and income over the years was derived from the work doe in 1983-84, printer in Computer Language Magazine in 1990 and released into the wild in 2007.
Check out http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/msb-0195_Rovira_Diagrams_PDF_Test.pdf
Nearby is still light years away.
An unguided rock fragment expelled from several light years away?
Odds are that we'd get missed since the diameter of the earth's gravity well is a vanishingly small arc within the solar system, never mind to a nearby system.
Nah...
There's no such thing as a patient New Yorker. Not a living one anyway.
That was charmingly innocent (and very dumb. :-)
It will star a Navvi' lawyer who gains fame suing the entire planet earth for deforestation of his planet and other environmental disasters caused by by 'drive by' visits by earthlings.
Budget for this mix of "Philadelhia" meet "Avatar" is estimated at over 330,000,000 and will use up the worlds' entire supply of "green screen" drop cloths, as soon as he learns how Cristo wrapped the Reichstag.
Someone should tell Balmer that he can KILL any technology by getting behind it.
Like the Zune is a tremendous success, right?
Like we all bought Vista, right?
Like MS hasn't been found guilty of anti-trust violation. (He's not sitting in jail because we're all waiting for him to pull a "Ken Lay".)
"Two Fingerz Ronnie" and he calls you into the back of the place, so he can slip you a shiv between da ribs an' he don' have to walk as far to dispose of da body in the alley 'round back.
I'd trust MS about as much as I'd trust "Two Fingerz."
They like to embrace, extend, fuck you up, go back on standards, steal your technology and leave you bleeding in a back alley. (Remember J-Script? Not JavaScript, J-Script. They couldn't call it JavaScript. But they tried.)
MS has NEVER played straight with ANYBODY.
The "right to privacy", even the concept of privacy itself, is something that is very recent (that explains those TVs and radios left on all day. Imagine them just working in both directions,)
As long as its not INTRUSIVE, OBSTRUCTIVE or PUNITIVE, most surveillance is tolerated.
The fact that some people actually want and need an omnipresent, omniscient deity looming over them means that the possibility exists for a TIA initiative to actually succeed, just so long as its not obtrusive or judgmental. (How you likin' Google now, suckahs?)
The problem most governments have is that they want to have omnipotent powers too. That they can't ever have.
Look at Burma/Myanmar if you want to know what's wrong with governments who think they have omnipotence.
Omnipotence tends to think it can do without omnipresence and omniscience.
Realists DON'T WANT omnipresence and omniscience because they wants to exercise omnipotence without any backlash. (Or they get caught with a "wide-footed stance" in airport bathroom stalls. [Their hypocrisy is costing you billions every year, in so many ways.])
Now if their detectors were really good, they'd provide biometric tagging, be able to gauge your health and update your medical records too.
That way we'd know the identity of everybody OR you CANT FLY!
is the biggest killer in history.
More people died getting TO the front that AT that front.
I think that an online, constantly updated "Cause/mortality bar chart" would be an extremely helpful/useful thing.
Maybe Google should do a little research project, with that "result page" on the data mining processes required to get those figures.
The problem with DRM is that its a vehicle for insuring that the RECORD COMPANIES get paid.
A far as I know, no accountant from any record company has ever composed any music that I'd want to listen to.
When DRM get implemented such that the ARTISTS get the money, then I'll have respect for it.
The lights get covered with snow because of the cover of the lower bulbs.
In a bad storm, one with a snow fall greater than the thermal capacity of the lights to heat up the bulb shield, snow piles up.
Now that municipalities are using LED lights, the thermal capacity in almost nil.
BUT LEDs are's subject to the omni-directionality of the incandescent bulbs they're replacing so the shields aren't required.
Its a problem of retrofitting without having considered that the replacement LEDs need to be sunk in, covered with a glass plate and come flush with the edge of the old light box.
I'd be delighted if they tried to continue their fight for the desktop.
Businesses will delightedly pay $0.00 for OpenOffice and buy cheaper Linux boxes because they don't come with the Windows tax. Gates & Balmer are going to find that they're stuck on the desktop and that businesses aren't the loving, loyal customers that they thought they were. Businesses are cheap as hell when the time for upgrades comes around. That should distract the Hell out of Microsoft.
Meanwhile, Microsoft will be totally missing the consumer who is going to buy cheap Linux boxes and Apple Mac Minis, MacBook laptops, iPods of all stripes, iPhones, the upcoming iTablet, and leave Microsoft to choke down its own vomit.
Microsoft will ALWAYS be playing catch up to Apple' designs and they'll be doing it with their existing base of box makers, people who are too broke to take a chance on a new design and haven't got the design acumen to try it.
What do you do with a consumer who prefers Microsoft's industrial designs? Poison his dog and steal his white cane?
Nah, it's not even worth the bother. Just point and laugh.
All that you need to do is encrypt the data portion with a key that's generated from two one-time pads of 256-bit random keys, and then wipe out all traces of the pads.
They the data will be secure, even from you. :-)
cleaner robots to latch onto the speeding flotsam and slow it down until gravity can take care of it naturally.
Each "clean-up-crew" robot can even slow the jetsam magnetically in lots of cases and use the exchange in momentum to pick up velocity and extend its own useful lifetime, before it uses its on-board fuel to slow itself down to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.