Now that hardly seems fair. Shouldn't he have to make multiple polygamy jokes?
:)
ob polygamy oddity: A few years ago, doing legal research in a different law library, I wanted a search that would only give me a couple of hits. I would have used "cannibalism," but I figured Alfred Packard never had an appeal, and this was (I think) before Dahmer--so there would be no hits. So I used "polygamy," expecting a couple of prosecutions to pop up. What I got was a couple of fairly recent law review articles by *women* proposing polygamy as a soultion to the work/family conflict. All from BYU, iirc.
ob weird polygamy 2: at common law, polygamy was a capital crime (as were all felonies). So, to solve the problem of two women claiming the same husband, the solution was to hang him . . .
A conference I was attending used it to total the registration fees onthe client side.
Aside fromthat,every single use of javascript I've seen simply should not have occured. THey're either lazy, incompetent, showing off, or downright anti-user.
and yes, I do *prefer* lynx; I like my information straight, not gussied up with eye-candy.
was originally to keep the riff-raff out, to leave a pure sport for the gentlemen. You wouldn't want to be elbow to elbow sweating with the middle (or even lower!) class, now would you?
they seem to do a bit more hardware detection, but for a running freebsd, the sequence
cd/usr/src
make update
portsdb -uU
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNELCONF=mykernelname
make installkernel KERNELCONF=mykernelnambe
init 1
make installworld
reboot
pkgdb -F
portupgrade -arR
will recompile every last line of the OS, and then fetch source code from the distribution site for every port that has an update available (the -a), check checksums, grab the ports upon which these packages depend (the -R [ok, this is overkill:) ]), compile those, compile the updated packages, and then do all packages which depend upon the freshly compiled packages (the -r).
a really cool process, which eats tons of cpu & banwidth
This could be 10 years out of date, but (10 years ago:), my CPA told me that software purchased with/as part of hardware *must* be depreciated, while later software purchases *must* be expensed (add in the possiblity that this was out of context:)
And another leasing issue. The Commonwealth College of Penn State has switched from "buy new faculty a desktop, and let the future take care of itself" to "lease laptops for three years." I can't help but believe that the availablity of funds somewhere for "oooh, go with laptops!" was better than desktops, but I'm getting the impression from some places that the "go away in 3 years" is actually desired by our campus (not IT) administrators--we've had people with several year old computers; this *forces* the system to keep us up to date. (we have about 3 apple II's still in use, but that's another issue--it's special software that works just fine).
>If you keep it in your cube, or like me, in your >apartment (since I don't
>have a secure garage) a soaked and dripping bike
>becomes a liability.
ehh, just bolt it to something:)
Riding on ice was easy,
Riding on ice is easy, yes. It's those patches where one wheeel is on ice, and not the other, that hurt. The last time I rode on ice, going under an underpass that had been (*duh*) shielded from the freezing ice (mildly supercooled rain that happens in Iowas; it turns into ice sheet on inpact) that had just fallen, the front wheel bit into the dry pavement, while the rear caught up with me. Helmets work:) That's the second one I broke . . .
THen again, I had my wife drop me off one morning due to ice. I stepped out of the car, and there was a sheet of clear ice over the curb. That hurt as bad as if I'd been on the bicycle.
btw, west central PA weather is miserable. Iowa weather sucks!
>In Europe, on the other hand, we have to shape
>our cities to make them fit alongside mountains,
>rivers and coastlines.
You just described Dubois, PA (and many others).
straight roads?
*giggle*
roads run along ridges, and to where things branched for a house 150 years ago, and, in general, you can't get there from here . . .
But *of course* we have barbecues. How in the world can you lead a civilized life without *at least* one on hand. I've got the big weber (which I replaced for next fall, the weather caught up with it), the little weber, the smoker, and a stupid little gas one that's still in its box.
Life wihtout BBQ would be like, well, life without good beer . . .
mmm, and while I'm blasting stereotypes, there are more types and varieties of beer brewed in the U.S. than any other country (and that's counting all of bud/coors/miller as a single type!). There's only a couple of styles that aren't made here (The belgian lambic which depends upon local wild yeat that have never been cultured successfully, and it seems to me thatthere's a Viennese style that is only brewed in one country in South America)
>I travelled in Euroupe a few years back and came
>home feeling like the US was the
>3rd world, the way they can get about with >excellent mass transit
YEs, but compare European population density to U.S. Density. The population isn't all that different, *how many* europes can you fit into the 48 states?
But then, I usually ride in and through snow, too (and was suprised to find that a mid-80's touring bike is a better solution on unploughed good pavement that a hybrid with extra-fat mud tires; it could go through even deeper drifts . ..)
hawk, who rides in any weather condition but icey roads
6000 lbs of metal is appealing. You used to be able to get that from Chevy (e.g., 71 Impala)
Today, you need a Rolls, truck, or SUV to get that.
One of the facts of life is that most of the U.S. population is in areas not dense enough for mass transit to be effective. NY, SF, and Chicago, sure. Other large cities as well. Publicly run mass transit in Las Vegas is worse than a disaster--they used the tax to displace a functioning private bus system, and instead of an unsubsidized route runnning busses with people on it, you got empty buses running where they thought people *should* want to go--and trafic congestion for the first time (not counting when comdex was in town:)
Noone--ok, very few people--are bothered by alternatives being offered (except crack-headed schemes like the vegas one that *interfered* by blocking traffic for near-empty busses). Being forced to use the "alternative" annoys people.
Outside of the very dense cities, the marginal cost of taking a bus/train/rickshaw is higher than driving, and takes 2-4 times as long. 20 minutes and a dollar's worth of gas, or 2 hours, three transfers, and $3--not a hard choice for most people.
SF, NY, and maybe chicago and boston run busses/trains quite regularly, you just go caqtch one. The cities are in grids, so you've got a pretty good chance of getting between them with a single transfer without waiting long for either. This just isn't true in the suburbs.
Would I use mass transit if it was convenient enough? Probably not--I make sure I live within 7 miles or so and bicycle, which is almost faster than mass transit on the same route anyway, and my pulse and blood pressure are perfect--for someone half my age (still below 60, unless someone is about to stick a needle in me--in that case, all bets are off:).
However, when I do drive, it's in a Crown Victoria. No, not by choice, but because the zealots wiped out large cars. It isn't quite large enough for me, the door is too close, and I have 4 kids. I'd trade it for a brand new 71 Impala or LTD without hesitation, and pay for the extra gas and survivability.
The single most important factor in your surviving an accident is the size and mass of your vehicle. If you go to impartial sources (rather than advocates for either side!) you find about 46,000 lost lives from the smaller cars to comply with CAFE. You can make an honest argument that the environmental factors outweigh this (and maybe you're right), but you can't argu thyat you're notsafer in a heavier car.
"Manually or with gripping apparatus, torque is applied to the planar element, causing rotation and positioning orthogonal to the planetary or other gravitational field, effecting removal of tiles,pawns, and other objects."
>A couple weeks ago, I thought up a device that
>makes it much easier to remove the
>tiles from a Deluxe Scrabble board
The claim would be,
"Manually or with a gripping device, torque is applied to the planar element, until said element is orthogonal to the planetary or other gravitational field, effecting removal of tiles, pawns, and other instruments."
The muffin baking industry is a potential licensee.
No, it's that given the circumstances, along with the fact that my machines & software were 100% legal, I could have safely handled the matter myself.
I had enough free time that fighting back against a heavy-handed and abusiive action would have become a hobby--and, ultimately, a profitable one.
I'd be looking for damages in the event of machine confiscation, and on top of that, lining up lawyers to separately represent every single client who had confidential information on the machine. Given the nature of my malpractice carrier (pay real claims quickly, but fight frivolous ones to the end with no settlement offer),I might have been able to get help from them, as well.
There were too many times I had toback down because my client couldn't afford the fight--including someone I had to plead guilty to a sex crime that I'm reasonably confidant that, not only did he not commit it, but that I could show who had manipulated the child.
This would have been payback time for all of those, and I would have loved every second.
>OK, let's say you steal $50,000 from the bank,
>and the police come to your house and
>say "Give us the $50,000 or we'll throw you in
>jail." Is that extortion? Hardly.
Correct. But "prove to us that every single dollar in your house came from a legitimate source or give it to us for having come from the bank robbery, or we will inflict tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses while attempting to collect hundreds of thousandsof dollars from you" is another matter entirely, and far closer to this mass-mailing.
I don't use pirated software, but tracing through years of file cabinets to prove that I purchased everything that I paid for would be intrusive and take many hours.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure that I can even boot *any* of the computers that have any commercial software installed on them. The old macportable needs the power socket soldered on again, and I have no idea where to get the connector for my thinkpad 486 powersupply(a silly d-shape with four conductors). These will yield tetris, word 5.1, excel 4, supercard, pre-fee hypercard, and a few miscellaneous utilities I purchased, while the thinkpad will yield drdos, master of orion,and, uhh, that's all that's on the dos partition. Did I pay for these? yes. Could I find every scrap of documentation in any reasonable amount o time? [*insert maniacal laughter here*]
hawk, who would have *loved* to receive one of these while still practicing law full time
I'm notsure I should admit I read it, but it was before the median slashdot user was born . . .
The Cylons are aliens rather than robots in the novels. They had a program or some such to simulate Starbuck so that they could question it (GIGO suggests that they won't generate new infomration,but that's a side issue . . .
"How many ships do you have?"
"As many as the grains of sand between your toes."
"Cylons don't have toes."
"Than maybe we don't have any ships."
yikes, has it been 3 years since my dissertation already???
Anyway, I had a then-current and very nice 17" magnavox on eyry, my k6, and a 640x480 lcd on a ~94 thinkpad 486 I'd picked up for $400 to write at night.
I found myself frequently copying the dissertation to floppy so that I could edit onthe sharper screen of the laptop--my eyes teared after several hours on the crt.
There's also the bit about being stranded two days with a deadline, and editing the out-of-date copy on the laptop, creating a diff, and patching the desktop copy, but that's another story:) [and another reason to use lyx rather than ms-word]
Was there even a system 2? I remember macwrite jumping from 1 to 3. I vaguely want to recall a system 2 that did nothing notably different other than print bidirectionally.
I believe you could boot from floppy with a regular finder even through system 6. There were hacked-up system 7 boot floppies, but for the regular system, I think you need 6 or lower (and the multifinder appeared with system 5 . ..)
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ob polygamy oddity: A few years ago, doing legal research in a different law library, I wanted a search that would only give me a couple of hits. I would have used "cannibalism," but I figured Alfred Packard never had an appeal, and this was (I think) before Dahmer--so there would be no hits. So I used "polygamy," expecting a couple of prosecutions to pop up. What I got was a couple of fairly recent law review articles by *women* proposing polygamy as a soultion to the work/family conflict. All from BYU, iirc.
ob weird polygamy 2: at common law, polygamy was a capital crime (as were all felonies). So, to solve the problem of two women claiming the same husband, the solution was to hang him . . .
hawk
Aside fromthat,every single use of javascript I've seen simply should not have occured. THey're either lazy, incompetent, showing off, or downright anti-user.
and yes, I do *prefer* lynx; I like my information straight, not gussied up with eye-candy.
hawk
:(
hawk
hawk
>FreeBSD boxes up to date he said he
>did not do that.
did he call the police after you smacked him?
yikes, it's so bloody easy in bsd you can script it . . . (which I'm to paranoid to do . .
hawk
they seem to do a bit more hardware detection, but for a running freebsd, the sequence
cd
make update
portsdb -uU
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNELCONF=mykernelname
make installkernel KERNELCONF=mykernelnambe
init 1
make installworld
reboot
pkgdb -F
portupgrade -arR
will recompile every last line of the OS, and then fetch source code from the distribution site for every port that has an update available (the -a), check checksums, grab the ports upon which these packages depend (the -R [ok, this is overkill:) ]), compile those, compile the updated packages, and then do all packages which depend upon the freshly compiled packages (the -r).
a really cool process, which eats tons of cpu & banwidth
hawk
And another leasing issue. The Commonwealth College of Penn State has switched from "buy new faculty a desktop, and let the future take care of itself" to "lease laptops for three years." I can't help but believe that the availablity of funds somewhere for "oooh, go with laptops!" was better than desktops, but I'm getting the impression from some places that the "go away in 3 years" is actually desired by our campus (not IT) administrators--we've had people with several year old computers; this *forces* the system to keep us up to date. (we have about 3 apple II's still in use, but that's another issue--it's special software that works just fine).
hawk
:)
hawk
>have a secure garage) a soaked and dripping bike
>becomes a liability.
ehh, just bolt it to something
Riding on ice was easy,
Riding on ice is easy, yes. It's those patches where one wheeel is on ice, and not the other, that hurt. The last time I rode on ice, going under an underpass that had been (*duh*) shielded from the freezing ice (mildly supercooled rain that happens in Iowas; it turns into ice sheet on inpact) that had just fallen, the front wheel bit into the dry pavement, while the rear caught up with me. Helmets work
THen again, I had my wife drop me off one morning due to ice. I stepped out of the car, and there was a sheet of clear ice over the curb. That hurt as bad as if I'd been on the bicycle.
btw, west central PA weather is miserable. Iowa weather sucks!
hawk
hawk
>our cities to make them fit alongside mountains,
>rivers and coastlines.
You just described Dubois, PA (and many others).
straight roads?
*giggle*
roads run along ridges, and to where things branched for a house 150 years ago, and, in general, you can't get there from here . . .
But *of course* we have barbecues. How in the world can you lead a civilized life without *at least* one on hand. I've got the big weber (which I replaced for next fall, the weather caught up with it), the little weber, the smoker, and a stupid little gas one that's still in its box.
Life wihtout BBQ would be like, well, life without good beer . . .
mmm, and while I'm blasting stereotypes, there are more types and varieties of beer brewed in the U.S. than any other country (and that's counting all of bud/coors/miller as a single type!). There's only a couple of styles that aren't made here (The belgian lambic which depends upon local wild yeat that have never been cultured successfully, and it seems to me thatthere's a Viennese style that is only brewed in one country in South America)
hawk, who brews his own, anyway
*sigh*
hawk,who's happy when he gets to the counter in a single cart . . .
>home feeling like the US was the
>3rd world, the way they can get about with >excellent mass transit
YEs, but compare European population density to U.S. Density. The population isn't all that different, *how many* europes can you fit into the 48 states?
hawk
Under the circumstances, it was an easy choice.
hawk
??? What do you think raincoats are for???
But then, I usually ride in and through snow, too (and was suprised to find that a mid-80's touring bike is a better solution on unploughed good pavement that a hybrid with extra-fat mud tires; it could go through even deeper drifts . .
hawk, who rides in any weather condition but icey roads
Today, you need a Rolls, truck, or SUV to get that.
One of the facts of life is that most of the U.S. population is in areas not dense enough for mass transit to be effective. NY, SF, and Chicago, sure. Other large cities as well. Publicly run mass transit in Las Vegas is worse than a disaster--they used the tax to displace a functioning private bus system, and instead of an unsubsidized route runnning busses with people on it, you got empty buses running where they thought people *should* want to go--and trafic congestion for the first time (not counting when comdex was in town
Noone--ok, very few people--are bothered by alternatives being offered (except crack-headed schemes like the vegas one that *interfered* by blocking traffic for near-empty busses). Being forced to use the "alternative" annoys people.
Outside of the very dense cities, the marginal cost of taking a bus/train/rickshaw is higher than driving, and takes 2-4 times as long. 20 minutes and a dollar's worth of gas, or 2 hours, three transfers, and $3--not a hard choice for most people.
SF, NY, and maybe chicago and boston run busses/trains quite regularly, you just go caqtch one. The cities are in grids, so you've got a pretty good chance of getting between them with a single transfer without waiting long for either. This just isn't true in the suburbs.
Would I use mass transit if it was convenient enough? Probably not--I make sure I live within 7 miles or so and bicycle, which is almost faster than mass transit on the same route anyway, and my pulse and blood pressure are perfect--for someone half my age (still below 60, unless someone is about to stick a needle in me--in that case, all bets are off
However, when I do drive, it's in a Crown Victoria. No, not by choice, but because the zealots wiped out large cars. It isn't quite large enough for me, the door is too close, and I have 4 kids. I'd trade it for a brand new 71 Impala or LTD without hesitation, and pay for the extra gas and survivability.
The single most important factor in your surviving an accident is the size and mass of your vehicle. If you go to impartial sources (rather than advocates for either side!) you find about 46,000 lost lives from the smaller cars to comply with CAFE. You can make an honest argument that the environmental factors outweigh this (and maybe you're right), but you can't argu thyat you're notsafer in a heavier car.
hawk
The muffin baking industry is a likely licenssee.
hawk
>makes it much easier to remove the
>tiles from a Deluxe Scrabble board
The claim would be,
"Manually or with a gripping device, torque is applied to the planar element, until said element is orthogonal to the planetary or other gravitational field, effecting removal of tiles, pawns, and other instruments."
The muffin baking industry is a potential licensee.
hawk
I had enough free time that fighting back against a heavy-handed and abusiive action would have become a hobby--and, ultimately, a profitable one.
I'd be looking for damages in the event of machine confiscation, and on top of that, lining up lawyers to separately represent every single client who had confidential information on the machine. Given the nature of my malpractice carrier (pay real claims quickly, but fight frivolous ones to the end with no settlement offer),I might have been able to get help from them, as well.
There were too many times I had toback down because my client couldn't afford the fight--including someone I had to plead guilty to a sex crime that I'm reasonably confidant that, not only did he not commit it, but that I could show who had manipulated the child.
This would have been payback time for all of those, and I would have loved every second.
hawk
>and the police come to your house and
>say "Give us the $50,000 or we'll throw you in
>jail." Is that extortion? Hardly.
Correct. But "prove to us that every single dollar in your house came from a legitimate source or give it to us for having come from the bank robbery, or we will inflict tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses while attempting to collect hundreds of thousandsof dollars from you" is another matter entirely, and far closer to this mass-mailing.
I don't use pirated software, but tracing through years of file cabinets to prove that I purchased everything that I paid for would be intrusive and take many hours.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure that I can even boot *any* of the computers that have any commercial software installed on them. The old macportable needs the power socket soldered on again, and I have no idea where to get the connector for my thinkpad 486 powersupply(a silly d-shape with four conductors). These will yield tetris, word 5.1, excel 4, supercard, pre-fee hypercard, and a few miscellaneous utilities I purchased, while the thinkpad will yield drdos, master of orion,and, uhh, that's all that's on the dos partition. Did I pay for these? yes. Could I find every scrap of documentation in any reasonable amount o time? [*insert maniacal laughter here*]
hawk, who would have *loved* to receive one of these while still practicing law full time
yes, I *did* call that illegitimate government "red china"
hawk
The Cylons are aliens rather than robots in the novels. They had a program or some such to simulate Starbuck so that they could question it (GIGO suggests that they won't generate new infomration,but that's a side issue . . .
"How many ships do you have?"
"As many as the grains of sand between your toes."
"Cylons don't have toes."
"Than maybe we don't have any ships."
:)
hawk
Anyway, I had a then-current and very nice 17" magnavox on eyry, my k6, and a 640x480 lcd on a ~94 thinkpad 486 I'd picked up for $400 to write at night.
I found myself frequently copying the dissertation to floppy so that I could edit onthe sharper screen of the laptop--my eyes teared after several hours on the crt.
There's also the bit about being stranded two days with a deadline, and editing the out-of-date copy on the laptop, creating a diff, and patching the desktop copy, but that's another story
hawk
I believe you could boot from floppy with a regular finder even through system 6. There were hacked-up system 7 boot floppies, but for the regular system, I think you need 6 or lower (and the multifinder appeared with system 5 . .
hawk
hawk