Nah. The local paper needs a copy of the letter. It does wonders for political careers when the paper has to note that it cannot include the entire letter sent from a school board member to a citizen because "he wrote things that can't be printed in a family newspaper" . ..
"The City" is known to mean San Francisco by all educated persons. The *real* question is why SF is involved in this. Was it infiltrating Battle Creek? Having dealt with California agencies while practicing law in Nevada, and being aware of their imperial pretensions, I want to know (and so should the residents of Battle Creek!).
:)
hawk, watching for californians under his bed . . .
while we're at it: color in freebsd nethack?
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I thought I had it working forever ago, and I know I used to have it on console (but not xterm) with debian.
Not that I've ever had a tendency to move into my cat or any such thing . ..
anyone know how to do this?
hawk, who still needs to file the bug report in freebsd for nethack being a port rather than the base system (but will face the mkdir/rmdir spelling error bug first!)
>Thankfully, most of the web sites I use only send me their own spam
I suppose that after reading dilbert off and on for years I should have expected it, but within a week of signing to have it mailed daily, and marking/unmarking every box to the "don't send" category, I discovered
1) the site carring the daily cartoon to which the email links is down about 80% of the time. 2) It took less than a week to spam me for rugrats . ..
>For a while, apple had the right idea. They tried >IBM's strategy of making the platform open, then >they chicken shitted out and went back to making >their own boxes. I can't recall the manufacturers >name, but there was PPC boards made by other >manufacturers for a while. Why apple did an about >face on this issue I will never know.
That's not quite what happened . ..
The clone-makers relied on apple almost entirely for engineering. Not only did they use apples OS, the motherboards were apple designed as well.
Also, apple did not simply pull the plug. The clone-makers were competing with high-end macs, while paying royalties based on the low end. Apple told them, when license renewal time came up, that they would have to pay royalties reflecting their share of the R&D costs--which for Apple, come to hundreds of dollars per machine (at least for the high-end, which bear the brunt of the load). None of the cloners were willing to do so--they wanted to use the apple design at windows costs, pushing the development costs entirely to apple-branded machines, which they could then undercut by hundreds of dollars.
QUite often, it was possible to get a faster accelerator card (for either mac or amiga) than was shipping from Apple/Commodore. It plain and simply took longer for a large volume operation to design, test, and obtain sufficient quantities of the latest & greatest parts--whether faster cpu, larger harddrives, faster memory, etc. Accordingly, it is often (usually?) possible to buy enhancements faster that what currently ships as original equipment.
Three mile island was a far worse accident than chernobyl; it was about as bad as they get--but it was contained.
To repeat a folkloric figure that I can't back up, a coal plant releases more radiation in a day than the entire three mile island accident. My third-hand source for this ran across it when he was writing a paper. He went out to both a nuclear plant and a coal plant with a geiger counter. He accidentally left it on, and it was going nuts by the time he reached the gate of the coal plant. He refused to go any farther . ..
three mile island did, of course, waste billions of dollars, and everyone within a couple of thousand miles blamed everything bad that happened to them for the next couple of years on the radiation . ..
Speaking from experience as an attorney, there are plenty of people just that stupid. I represented one who was the getaway driver for a casion robbery--and sat out front in *her* car as the getaway vehicle while his friends robbed *her* casino--and screwed up and hit *her* cage.
The police had trouble with them during interrogation. They knew that they'd collected $80,000, and they each got $7,000 after an equal six way split. . ..
so, yes, there are people this stupid. There is no lower bound to human intelligence.
I'm an attorney; this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact a laywer licensed in your jurisdiction.
> You have the right in this country to face your accuser
The *only* way to get a person as the plaintiff in a criminal case is to bring back a monarch who is synonymous with the state--and most of us are unwilling to do that just to satisfy sophomoric claims like this twit makes . ..
hawk That would be the person accusing you of the crime, namely the witnesses.
Since 1776, cases are brought by the state, and not an individual. For some reason, ever since we through off his shackles, the King of England has been unwilling to prosecute cases, thus the change from "Rex v. Defendant" to "U.S. v. Defendant," or "State of Confusion v. Defendant".
>You caught me. But it's not fair.. you're a doctor.:P
:) But I learned this as an undergraduate--before I picked up the philosophy minor . ..
>And is picking at nit's healthy?
yes . ..
> I was always told if you don't leave it alone it won't heal.
I think those are "zits.":)
Nits are the eggs of lice, which get picked from your hair . . . they're tiny, and tough to see.
>I haven't yet read the symposium (Finished
>apology phaedo, and crito, Fell asleep halfway through the republic)..
it happens. It took me over 20 years to get through "The Two Towers." Then a few weeks ago, my wife decided she wasn't likely to be able to go to Fellowship of the Ring with me, and on Thursday suggested to my 10 year old that I would take her. I pointed out that she hadn't read the book yet (though she'd read the Hobbit). By late sunday morning, she'd finished . . . and then finished the Two Towers in a couple of weeks . ..
>dell gateway and etc cant they signed a contract >to distribute windows OEMs and as such they have >to pay for windows on every computer they build
This plain and simply isn't true. In fact, one of the terms of the earlier consent decree prohibits this type of license, and this past behavior was part of the $.5B settlment with DRI (or whoever owned CPM-86/DR-DOS/Fred/Novell-DOS that week).
There are specific lines and models for which such licences exist, but it is quite possible to buy a Dell without windows. In fact, I've done it . ..
Seat belt usage is up to something like 75% here. The manufacturors have wanted to use adjustable airbags for years, but until quite recently,. that's been illegal . . . so they're all set for adult males without belts.
>Repeating wat they hear, and not looking into why >or how is one of my biggest pet peeves.
I can't resist. Do you realize what the Platonic relationship is?
It comes from "Symposium," in which, at the symposium (drinking party), the leading citizens of Athens are debating the highest form of love.
After the rest speak, Socrates (Plato's mouthpiece in the dialogs) explains that the highest form of love is for the "lover" to be a middle aged man of property, and for the "beloved" to be a boy just coming into his beard. In modern english: pedophilia.
Somehow, in popular culture, this has been switched around (perhaps because the actual meaning couldn't be brought up in polite culture . . .:) to a non-romantic relationship between a man and a woman.
This dialog also gives rise to mondern symposia, including the occasional "symposium on alcohol abuse". The opening lines are a discussion on the rules for mixing and drinking the wine that night, with the conclusion that since they were all still hung over from the previous night, each would only drink as much as he desired . ..
hawk, who wishes he were making some of this up . . .
>but would they be called "windows" in a windowing >system if "Windows" (the MS program) did not >exist to give them that name?
MS Windows did *not* give them that name!
Go get a manual for the Apple II. It tells you how to use windows on the screen (poke the margins into addresses 12-15). This is hardly the first usage; it was common by the timje apploe did that . ..
>they could say the "Lindows" is a parody. >That would give them legal protection.
I'm not sure. Since windows is already a parody of Multifinder (system 5) from 1987, a parody of a parody may be a double negative.
If so, Lindows needs to move the litigation to a romance language country, rather than an english speaking country, so that a double negative will remain a negative, rather than cancelling out as in english . ..
hawk, esq., setting new frontiers in forum shopping . . .
>What's more, my company is trying to learn from >MS's mistake. We are soon going to release a >product with the name "XYZ Genericword."
That's *exactly* what Microsoft did. Way back when, because "Windows" was clearly too genericd to trademark, and the word too widely in use in the computer indusry (X and the Apple II both come to mind), they made a big fuss about the trademark being for "Microsft Windows," and pointing out that this would stop, say "DRI Windows," or "Desqview Windows" from being produced.
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Nah. The local paper needs a copy of the letter. It does wonders for political careers when the paper has to note that it cannot include the entire letter sent from a school board member to a citizen because "he wrote things that can't be printed in a family newspaper" . .
hawk
:)
hawk, watching for californians under his bed . . .
Not that I've ever had a tendency to move into my cat or any such thing . .
anyone know how to do this?
hawk, who still needs to file the bug report in freebsd for nethack being a port rather than the base system (but will face the mkdir/rmdir spelling error bug first!)
hawk, who benefitted massively from eight years of Jesuit education
I suppose that after reading dilbert off and on for years I should have expected it, but within a week of signing to have it mailed daily, and marking/unmarking every box to the "don't send" category, I discovered
1) the site carring the daily cartoon to which the email links is down about 80% of the time.
2) It took less than a week to spam me for rugrats . .
*sigh*
hawk
>IBM's strategy of making the platform open, then
>they chicken shitted out and went back to making >their own boxes. I can't recall the manufacturers
>name, but there was PPC boards made by other >manufacturers for a while. Why apple did an about >face on this issue I will never know.
That's not quite what happened . .
The clone-makers relied on apple almost entirely for engineering. Not only did they use apples OS, the motherboards were apple designed as well.
Also, apple did not simply pull the plug. The clone-makers were competing with high-end macs, while paying royalties based on the low end. Apple told them, when license renewal time came up, that they would have to pay royalties reflecting their share of the R&D costs--which for Apple, come to hundreds of dollars per machine (at least for the high-end, which bear the brunt of the load). None of the cloners were willing to do so--they wanted to use the apple design at windows costs, pushing the development costs entirely to apple-branded machines, which they could then undercut by hundreds of dollars.
hawk
hawk
To repeat a folkloric figure that I can't back up, a coal plant releases more radiation in a day than the entire three mile island accident. My third-hand source for this ran across it when he was writing a paper. He went out to both a nuclear plant and a coal plant with a geiger counter. He accidentally left it on, and it was going nuts by the time he reached the gate of the coal plant. He refused to go any farther . .
three mile island did, of course, waste billions of dollars, and everyone within a couple of thousand miles blamed everything bad that happened to them for the next couple of years on the radiation . .
hawk
The police had trouble with them during interrogation. They knew that they'd collected $80,000, and they each got $7,000 after an equal six way split. . .
so, yes, there are people this stupid. There is no lower bound to human intelligence.
hawk, esq.
hawk, esq.
hawk, esq.
I'm an attorney; this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact a laywer licensed in your jurisdiction.
> You have the right in this country to face your accuser
The *only* way to get a person as the plaintiff in a criminal case is to bring back a monarch who is synonymous with the state--and most of us are unwilling to do that just to satisfy sophomoric claims like this twit makes . .
hawk
That would be the person accusing you of the crime, namely the witnesses.
Since 1776, cases are brought by the state, and not an individual. For some reason, ever since we through off his shackles, the King of England has been unwilling to prosecute cases, thus the change from "Rex v. Defendant" to "U.S. v. Defendant," or "State of Confusion v. Defendant".
This *is*, of course, the first rule of litigation . .
hawk, esq.
hawk
hawk, who wouldn't dairy to act in such a manner
>the show space, equipment rental, and
>hotel rooms.
And just *how much* would it cost them to buy advertising comparable to the press they're getting over this?
hawk
:)
But I learned this as an undergraduate--before I picked up the philosophy minor . .
>And is picking at nit's healthy?
yes . .
> I was always told if you don't leave it alone it won't heal.
I think those are "zits."
Nits are the eggs of lice, which get picked from your hair . . . they're tiny, and tough to see.
>I haven't yet read the symposium (Finished
>apology phaedo, and crito, Fell asleep halfway through the republic)..
it happens. It took me over 20 years to get through "The Two Towers." Then a few weeks ago, my wife decided she wasn't likely to be able to go to Fellowship of the Ring with me, and on Thursday suggested to my 10 year old that I would take her. I pointed out that she hadn't read the book yet (though she'd read the Hobbit). By late sunday morning, she'd finished . . . and then finished the Two Towers in a couple of weeks . .
hawk
hawk
>to distribute windows OEMs and as such they have
>to pay for windows on every computer they build
This plain and simply isn't true. In fact, one of the terms of the earlier consent decree prohibits this type of license, and this past behavior was part of the $.5B settlment with DRI (or whoever owned CPM-86/DR-DOS/Fred/Novell-DOS that week).
There are specific lines and models for which such licences exist, but it is quite possible to buy a Dell without windows. In fact, I've done it . .
hawk
Seat belt usage is up to something like 75% here. The manufacturors have wanted to use adjustable airbags for years, but until quite recently,. that's been illegal . . . so they're all set for adult males without belts.
hawk
uh, oh . .
>Repeating wat they hear, and not looking into why
>or how is one of my biggest pet peeves.
I can't resist. Do you realize what the Platonic relationship is?
It comes from "Symposium," in which, at the symposium (drinking party), the leading citizens of Athens are debating the highest form of love.
After the rest speak, Socrates (Plato's mouthpiece in the dialogs) explains that the highest form of love is for the "lover" to be a middle aged man of property, and for the "beloved" to be a boy just coming into his beard. In modern english: pedophilia.
Somehow, in popular culture, this has been switched around (perhaps because the actual meaning couldn't be brought up in polite culture . . .
This dialog also gives rise to mondern symposia, including the occasional "symposium on alcohol abuse". The opening lines are a discussion on the rules for mixing and drinking the wine that night, with the conclusion that since they were all still hung over from the previous night, each would only drink as much as he desired . .
hawk, who wishes he were making some of this up . . .
>system if "Windows" (the MS program) did not
>exist to give them that name?
MS Windows did *not* give them that name!
Go get a manual for the Apple II. It tells you how to use windows on the screen (poke the margins into addresses 12-15). This is hardly the first usage; it was common by the timje apploe did that . .
hawk
>That would give them legal protection.
I'm not sure. Since windows is already a parody of Multifinder (system 5) from 1987, a parody of a parody may be a double negative.
If so, Lindows needs to move the litigation to a romance language country, rather than an english speaking country, so that a double negative will remain a negative, rather than cancelling out as in english . .
hawk, esq., setting new frontiers in forum shopping . . .
>It's doing something else. It's saying "We run
>Windows applications better than Windows
>does. [etc.]
Given the scope of the trademark, they can go as far as saying that their windows can do it better than Microsoft Windows.
Using "Lindows" rather than "Linux Windows" (or whatever) just makes it a bit more clear.
hawk
>MS's mistake. We are soon going to release a
>product with the name "XYZ Genericword."
That's *exactly* what Microsoft did. Way back when, because "Windows" was clearly too genericd to trademark, and the word too widely in use in the computer indusry (X and the Apple II both come to mind), they made a big fuss about the trademark being for "Microsft Windows," and pointing out that this would stop, say "DRI Windows," or "Desqview Windows" from being produced.
hawk