There is NO contract that would/could/should require anybody to have to pay attention to anything.
Even in ol' SOVIET UNION you could IGNORE anyone.
And that's what we should be fighting for. Our right to go out of this world as ignorant as the day we came into it, for free.
Information saturation is NOT an 'all or nothing' toggle. We MUST have our hands on the switch, otherwise we'd be so busy watching useless ads that we'd be unable to work.
catalog and out-of-pring things they don't even stock on the shelf so that THEY can't even make money off of it.
Personally, I'm all for public libraries. I borrow and I buy and they aren't incompatible because what I borrow is stuff I'd pass on to a friend to read anyway.
Of course I buy all of my reference material and school books (I could tell you horror stories about revision X being identical to revision X-1 except for a few minor editing changes which move the page #s around.)
"the rural spread of our population makes market penetration quite difficult, thus resulting in countries with higher population densities pulling ahead."
Well, since Canada has 1/10 the population and a larger land mass, they should be even more 'disadvantaged' and they should be using tin cans tied with bits of string.
As Mark Twain once said, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." He forgot to mention greed from the wireless phone services who feel threatened by anybody putting up an antenna for any reason.
"I don't buy the argument that Apple will never release an x86 version of Mac OS X."
You can bet your ass they won't because it would waste their time competing for razor thin margins. You could forget about them ever being able to afford to do cool shit like OS X ever again.
Hell! Dell (whoever has taken over from Michael Dell,) is buying Intel chips and boards and other OEM shit because its simpler and cheaper to let Intel do the bleeding edge stuff, like laying tape, and then slapping XP in the box. He thinks that anybody who does any R&D is an idiot.
Its easy to put a cheap box together with Linux on it.
I've got one as my server, it works, all the time, and it cost me less than the Mac Mini.
But I'm still buying a Mac Mini because it works, its cool (literally as well as style-wise) and I can afford it.
and it keeping tabs on you, everything you own, buy, sell, do, travel from and to.
(No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society [Hardcover]) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg /detail/-/0743 254805/102-7468784-0711321?v=glance
Since they have, unsuccesfullly, fought EVERYTHING to do with data reproduction ever since the invention of the player piano, I expect them to 'see brown' for the foreseeable future.
Suburbia is a wasteland where everything is far. You need a pack mule and a sherpa to pick up milk in Colorado. Elsewhere it requires a drivers licence.
Of course you get it delivered. The alternative is roadside chaos.
Would the fact that you CAN pickup the paper have something to do with it.
In fact, surround the danger with a 3D grid and s/he can dance up an orchestra with gestural tone 'shaping'. (Idea adapted from one by Spider Robinson's wife Jean.)
which acounts for emergent behavior and the like read Society of Mind by Marvin Minski ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671 657135/102-0534525-9042506?v=glance )
ID theft is bad enough (believe me, I know first hand,) in one country with one set of laws and one court system.
Trying to clear up foreign debts may be beyond the ability of anyone. And with the bankruptcy laws being tightened, you may get served with papers from Lower Slobbovia that you knew nothing about and that will have you reaching for a tall glass of 'Kool-Aid.'
Ever read the EULA 'shirk'-wrapped piece of butt-wipe that you have to go through in order to use it?
Did you just click through in order to get to the software?
Are you sure it was just some provisions on the software. How about not holding the bank responsable for identity theft related problems...? For all you know, you've already bent over and told 'em to start fuckin...
and if you are rich now (What the fuck are you doing wasting your time on/. when you could be doing some thing useful like [bond]coupon clipping?) you are going to do okay (maybe) but if you owe any money, on a mortgage or on a car or a credit card or... you are so fucked.
99% of us aren't independantly wealthy. Hell we aren't making over $200K/year (okay, some of us are for now but it doesn't last worth a damn. One year, rich, the next year, unfunded) and all that does is give you access to more credit than you could ever repay.
I used to be an H1-B and I paid taxes & SS
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what's more, until I got a green card, I had no hope of ever seeing any of that money back should I need it.
WTF is this goober talking about? The only way you get to send money home without paying taxes is if you're paid under the table. And that's usually crap jobs doing crap for crappy people.
If you have an H1-B (or any other kind of visa) you can't slip under the radar and expect to get away with it.
if you knew anything about military procurement, you'd know that they get the source of everything they use unless they don't want it, not the other way around.
Its the only way they can potentially ensure the security of what they use.
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There is NO contract that would/could/should require anybody to have to pay attention to anything.
Even in ol' SOVIET UNION you could IGNORE anyone.
And that's what we should be fighting for. Our right to go out of this world as ignorant as the day we came into it, for free.
Information saturation is NOT an 'all or nothing' toggle. We MUST have our hands on the switch, otherwise we'd be so busy watching useless ads that we'd be unable to work.
catalog and out-of-pring things they don't even stock on the shelf so that THEY can't even make money off of it.
Personally, I'm all for public libraries. I borrow and I buy and they aren't incompatible because what I borrow is stuff I'd pass on to a friend to read anyway.
Of course I buy all of my reference material and school books (I could tell you horror stories about revision X being identical to revision X-1 except for a few minor editing changes which move the page #s around.)
"the rural spread of our population makes market penetration quite difficult, thus resulting in countries with higher population densities pulling ahead."
Well, since Canada has 1/10 the population and a larger land mass, they should be even more 'disadvantaged' and they should be using tin cans tied with bits of string.
As Mark Twain once said, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." He forgot to mention greed from the wireless phone services who feel threatened by anybody putting up an antenna for any reason.
I'm on the Apple site finding nothing about it. (I'm a stoont too. :)
But I'm at an eeevilll Microsoft supporting college. (MCNY) But I'm not the only Apple owning stoont.
Couldn't even splurge on one last drink. Cheap bastard...
playing in Bill Gates' sandbox.
"I don't buy the argument that Apple will never release an x86 version of Mac OS X."
You can bet your ass they won't because it would waste their time competing for razor thin margins. You could forget about them ever being able to afford to do cool shit like OS X ever again.
Hell! Dell (whoever has taken over from Michael Dell,) is buying Intel chips and boards and other OEM shit because its simpler and cheaper to let Intel do the bleeding edge stuff, like laying tape, and then slapping XP in the box. He thinks that anybody who does any R&D is an idiot.
Its easy to put a cheap box together with Linux on it.
I've got one as my server, it works, all the time, and it cost me less than the Mac Mini.
But I'm still buying a Mac Mini because it works, its cool (literally as well as style-wise) and I can afford it.
and it keeping tabs on you, everything you own, buy, sell, do, travel from and to.
g /detail/-/0743 254805/102-7468784-0711321?v=glance
(No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society [Hardcover])
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t
Sorry man, you have to update your sig.
And getting their heads out of their ass-holes.
Since they have, unsuccesfullly, fought EVERYTHING to do with data reproduction ever since the invention of the player piano, I expect them to 'see brown' for the foreseeable future.
Suburbia is a wasteland where everything is far. You need a pack mule and a sherpa to pick up milk in Colorado. Elsewhere it requires a drivers licence.
Of course you get it delivered. The alternative is roadside chaos.
Would the fact that you CAN pickup the paper have something to do with it.
hands.
:-)
Now if only I can harness this it'll really help me bullshit my way through my papers.
With fava beans?
How have you been Clarisse?
but you might get something as comprensible as some papers written by post modernists on epistomology and phenomenology.
Like WOW! Talk about opaque!
In fact, surround the danger with a 3D grid and s/he can dance up an orchestra with gestural tone 'shaping'. (Idea adapted from one by Spider Robinson's wife Jean.)
which acounts for emergent behavior and the like read Society of Mind by Marvin Minski ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671 657135/102-0534525-9042506?v=glance )
would just stop. Enough already.
They aren't competing in the same space at all. (except for the XServers.)
Apple is a hardware company that makes great hardware some of which has a great OS and some of which needs no accessible OS.
This 'over a lan' (specially a wireless LAN) implementation of ZeroConf is the great thing since sliced bread.
Why don't I read more about ZeroConf here?
I love being able to print to any printer that's hooked up to any machine.
I love being able to get my tunes from and to any machine that's running iTunes (2 Macs and a Win2k, [my Linux box is deficient there.])
RevdezVous is great use of the technology.
Because YOU'LL have to pay them back.
ID theft is bad enough (believe me, I know first hand,) in one country with one set of laws and one court system.
Trying to clear up foreign debts may be beyond the ability of anyone. And with the bankruptcy laws being tightened, you may get served with papers from Lower Slobbovia that you knew nothing about and that will have you reaching for a tall glass of 'Kool-Aid.'
Ever read the EULA 'shirk'-wrapped piece of butt-wipe that you have to go through in order to use it?
Did you just click through in order to get to the software?
Are you sure it was just some provisions on the software. How about not holding the bank responsable for identity theft related problems...? For all you know, you've already bent over and told 'em to start fuckin...
and if you are rich now (What the fuck are you doing wasting your time on /. when you could be doing some thing useful like [bond]coupon clipping?) you are going to do okay (maybe) but if you owe any money, on a mortgage or on a car or a credit card or... you are so fucked.
99% of us aren't independantly wealthy. Hell we aren't making over $200K/year (okay, some of us are for now but it doesn't last worth a damn. One year, rich, the next year, unfunded) and all that does is give you access to more credit than you could ever repay.
what's more, until I got a green card, I had no hope of ever seeing any of that money back should I need it.
WTF is this goober talking about? The only way you get to send money home without paying taxes is if you're paid under the table. And that's usually crap jobs doing crap for crappy people.
If you have an H1-B (or any other kind of visa) you can't slip under the radar and expect to get away with it.
if you knew anything about military procurement, you'd know that they get the source of everything they use unless they don't want it, not the other way around.
Its the only way they can potentially ensure the security of what they use.
Not for clemency but so that we can get our hands on him.
He may discover that he doesn't want to appeal.
Then again, maybe its apache.
I mean, what are the stats on these things? Then again, maybe I'd rather not know.
If you're a farmer, you don't give a shit what the clock says. The cows need milking when he cows need milking.
The servers don't care what time it is either. The number is just a number and it keeps right on incrementing.
World adoption of flextime could save far more energy than getting up in the friggin dark.
What's all the fuss about?
I suspect that the joke was a little more low-brow than what you thought.