There was another that was a knockoff of Space Invaders, in the same vein. Words were falling and you had to type them correctly to kill them. The words got longer and longer, and a 10-letter word you missed could take out most of your defenses.
When it comes to rights, we're increasingly a nation of cowards. When it comes to money, we're bulldog/velociraptor crosses. This will not fly, for the same reason we can't balance our budget.
I've gotten that in Ubuntu Feisty though. "This disk cannot be unmounted because a file on it is in use." When the only stuff on it is media that's not open.
Don't worry, I've got a cunning plan.
We'll get a thousand monkeys to transcribe all the videos and post them on our own website.
____
Where will we get a thousand monkeys? I'm not even sure you count as one, Baldrick.
You've got to pick your battles. Greater market share for Linux or steadfastness against DRM. It is entirely possible that those two goals are mutually exclusive. You clearly favor the latter, but that's not obviously the correct answer.
I buy loads of CDs. I doubt, however, that the sales of John Inchingham, Tourdion, Echo's Children, John Ap Wynne, and Brobdingnagian Bards CDs made it into that figure.
Yep, I've left the RIAA and buy only from local bands/bands involving people I know. My music consumption has actually gone up.
Insurance companies are in a sufficiently strong position that tort reform wouldn't actually benefit them. They're already able to pass on the costs of paying out damages to their policyholders. Tort reform would, in the presence of a competitive insurance market, lower insurance rates while keeping insurance companies' profits as obscene as they are now.
This has limits, of course--if litigation was twice as expensive as it is now, say, insurance companies wouldn't be able to pass on the costs like they do. Medical malpractice insurance is reaching that limit, and we're starting to see doctors decline to pay the assigned premiums and move/go out of business. In that case, either insurance profits, damages awarded, or number of doctors must go down.
That's what you get when your business is protecting people from absolute ruin--eventually, you get in a position where you can take them for (absolute ruin-$1).
Here is the article I was referring to with the car one. Is there some other explanation for this?
I'm not saying the USA is perfect--much US policy frankly sucks--but these petty assaults upon basic dignity are rare here, and when they happen often lead to political career-ending scandal.
You guys in the UK have cops who arrest people yelling at trespassers, who take people's cars off the streets and crush them for no reason, your schools refuse to teach the crusades or holocaust for fear of offending Muslims...what you need is a good revolution. I'm not surprised what happened to you happened to you, or that you can't do anything about it, but I am appalled and saddened.
I hadn't realized that. I guess that shows that he really was pretending to not know the telephone--he wasn't afraid of his subordinates recording his words.
For that matter, on the german side General Von Kluck, at crucial points in the campaign, made his headquarters in pretty captured French villas without telephone access. Cars delivering messages got lost on the way, with predictable results.
It's not bullshit at all--the telegraph is a poor medium for conducting real-time debates. Joffre couldn't order the British, he had to convince them, and for that he needed to argue back and forth. That required telephone or face-to-face communications.
In 1914 General Joffre, commander of the French forces, refused to use the telephone, claiming he "didn't understand the mechanism." Therefore he spent hours driving back and forth to the British army headquarters in the middle of a desperate campaign to stop the Germans.
It is believed that he feared his words being recorded on the other end without his knowledge.
The $600 hammer was explained thusly: A box of miscellaneous parts, including some very expensive high-tech items and some cheap low-tech ones (like hammers), was shipped. By the accounting rules, each item is assigned an identical part of the shipping and processing costs. So the hammer cost like $10, plus $590 in processing, while there were $5000 items in there that also had $590 in processing assigned to them.
Some idiot soldier opened the box, saw the invoice, and called his congressman.
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There was another that was a knockoff of Space Invaders, in the same vein. Words were falling and you had to type them correctly to kill them. The words got longer and longer, and a 10-letter word you missed could take out most of your defenses.
When it comes to rights, we're increasingly a nation of cowards. When it comes to money, we're bulldog/velociraptor crosses. This will not fly, for the same reason we can't balance our budget.
Learn how to use a gorram apostrophe. This is pathetic. States is plural, the headline should read "The United States' Space Arsenal."
That's the one that addresses piracy?
I've gotten that in Ubuntu Feisty though. "This disk cannot be unmounted because a file on it is in use." When the only stuff on it is media that's not open.
I am a beowulf cluster of these, you insenstive clod!
Don't worry, I've got a cunning plan. We'll get a thousand monkeys to transcribe all the videos and post them on our own website. ____ Where will we get a thousand monkeys? I'm not even sure you count as one, Baldrick.
You've got to pick your battles. Greater market share for Linux or steadfastness against DRM. It is entirely possible that those two goals are mutually exclusive. You clearly favor the latter, but that's not obviously the correct answer.
I buy loads of CDs. I doubt, however, that the sales of John Inchingham, Tourdion, Echo's Children, John Ap Wynne, and Brobdingnagian Bards CDs made it into that figure. Yep, I've left the RIAA and buy only from local bands/bands involving people I know. My music consumption has actually gone up.
There are lots of geeks on facebook. If the article writer couldn't find them, it's because he wasn't invited to their networks.
Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Bwa ha ha...If you're not gambling online, violating copyright, or arbitrarily arrested, the USA is in fact far freer than Europe.
Insurance companies are in a sufficiently strong position that tort reform wouldn't actually benefit them. They're already able to pass on the costs of paying out damages to their policyholders. Tort reform would, in the presence of a competitive insurance market, lower insurance rates while keeping insurance companies' profits as obscene as they are now. This has limits, of course--if litigation was twice as expensive as it is now, say, insurance companies wouldn't be able to pass on the costs like they do. Medical malpractice insurance is reaching that limit, and we're starting to see doctors decline to pay the assigned premiums and move/go out of business. In that case, either insurance profits, damages awarded, or number of doctors must go down. That's what you get when your business is protecting people from absolute ruin--eventually, you get in a position where you can take them for (absolute ruin-$1).
Here is the article I was referring to with the car one. Is there some other explanation for this? I'm not saying the USA is perfect--much US policy frankly sucks--but these petty assaults upon basic dignity are rare here, and when they happen often lead to political career-ending scandal.
I, for one, welcome our fruit-picking robot migrant workers.
You guys in the UK have cops who arrest people yelling at trespassers, who take people's cars off the streets and crush them for no reason, your schools refuse to teach the crusades or holocaust for fear of offending Muslims...what you need is a good revolution. I'm not surprised what happened to you happened to you, or that you can't do anything about it, but I am appalled and saddened.
I hadn't realized that. I guess that shows that he really was pretending to not know the telephone--he wasn't afraid of his subordinates recording his words.
It's not bullshit at all--the telegraph is a poor medium for conducting real-time debates. Joffre couldn't order the British, he had to convince them, and for that he needed to argue back and forth. That required telephone or face-to-face communications.
I'm getting this information from Barbara Tuchmann's 'The Guns of August.' Pick it up, it's a good read and makes World War I make sense, which no amount of schooling I recieved could do.
In soviet russia, emails don't use you!
I am a low-tech person, you insensitive clod! (I'm actually posting this via telephone)
In 1914 General Joffre, commander of the French forces, refused to use the telephone, claiming he "didn't understand the mechanism." Therefore he spent hours driving back and forth to the British army headquarters in the middle of a desperate campaign to stop the Germans. It is believed that he feared his words being recorded on the other end without his knowledge.
The $600 hammer was explained thusly: A box of miscellaneous parts, including some very expensive high-tech items and some cheap low-tech ones (like hammers), was shipped. By the accounting rules, each item is assigned an identical part of the shipping and processing costs. So the hammer cost like $10, plus $590 in processing, while there were $5000 items in there that also had $590 in processing assigned to them. Some idiot soldier opened the box, saw the invoice, and called his congressman.
It was a British judge who didn't know what websites were.
Do you know anything about selection bias? Then stfu.