Andy lost that fight, though. The phrase, "The Supreme Court has made their decision, now let them enforce it" became famous, but he ultimately had to back down and accept their ruling.
*Everybody* being closed on Sunday costs less (to the merchants) than everyone open. Thus more profitable.
If Sunday openings were allowed, it would make sense for the first business to open on Sunday, thus taking enough sales away from competitors' Monday sales to pay for being open. More profitable for that business.
Then the rest open in self-defense, the only way to keep their sales up.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advise. Put down the bottle and see an attorney in your jurisdiction (preferably one who has also put down the bottle).
The repeal of prohibition is actually a grant of federal power to the states (and there are a couple more, such as the appointment of electors, notwithstanding what you were told in high school civics).
States have carte blanche to regulate alcohol, even if such regulations would normally violate other provisions of the Constitution. Prior to this decision, the only regulation that I can recall ever being struck down was the use of different drinking ages by gender (lower for women).
The states that banned out of state shipments, however, weren't regulating alcohol. They were granting favorable treatment to in-state wineries. Please note that the regulations were not of the "no wine shipments" variety but rather "no wine shipments from out of state wineries, but in-state wineries can."
Nothing in this ruling stops states from banning all wine deliveries--they just have to have the same rules for other states as their own.
Aside from such cases, states can make their alcohol laws as moronic as they want--witness Ohio, Pennslyvania, and Utah . ..
Yeah, but by *that* logic, even disco isn't wrong . ..
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>It's doubtful that the Apple III got hot enough to unseat the chips.
That would make it difficult to explain why Apple recommended lifting the machine two inches and dropping it to reseat them . . . you can argue for a different cuase, but that was Apple's explanation back then . ..
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The processor was a 16 MHz 68000, which was double the speed of the mainstream desktop Macs at the time, and equivalent to the clock speed on the Mac II.
But it *was* a concession--it took a lot less power than the 68030 that they would have preferred to use.
IIRC, Sony manufactured the PowerBook 100 models for them.
Sony took the MacPortable design, shrunk it, and produced it. The 100 wasn't part of the 1xx series . ..
hawk, who still has his backlit macportable, and once injured his shoulder carrying it through an airport (and had to explain to security that no, it couldn't produce a c: prompt . . . !)
For years, we've been able to launch new browser windows by middle-click. Firefox hijacks that to open tabs instead. Eventually I found the setting to change to make it work "right."
A good start. I was about to suggest a good de-dorktype-inator, but then realized that I've never seen anything that used it that I ever wanted to read . ..
If the advertising isn't intrusive, I really don't see it as offensive, or even why people would bother to block it (I said "intrusive"--this includes popups, blinking, noticable delays to the page loading, blinking, launching more windows, blinking, taking up large amounts of space, blinking, audio effects, blinking, appearing in front of text, blinking, and, most importantly, blinking).
I don't usually pay attention to them, though occasionally I find a useful one. They pay for some of the content I'd like.
Then again, sometimes I stop my tivo's fast-forward to see an ad for something that interests me.
Whether it says so in the license or not, Linux isn't really GPL, but QGPL (quasi-GPL). There has been long-standing permission for binary, closed source drivers. Nearly all of the codee has been contributed during this period. The actions of the authors supercede the letter of the license.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. I am encouraging you to get some from someone licensed in your jurisdiction, however.
*If* you can show that you returned it, properly (by credit reporting agency standards) disputed it, and that it's still showing, you should be talking to an attorney who handles credit report problems.
They love these.
There probably won't even be a consultation fee . ..
I was able to crash a Linux box by doing some severely stupid things inside of a driver I was working on
A bit over four years ago, I found that you could crash both then-current linux and FreeBSD by loading a file larger than virtual memory into a binary editor (beav?).
Yes, setting your resource limits will solve this, but still . ..
I vaguely seem to recall some older IBM machines that were BCD to the point of only having BCD addresses for memory--which would indeed give such numbers.
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Andy lost that fight, though. The phrase, "The Supreme Court has made their decision, now let them enforce it" became famous, but he ultimately had to back down and accept their ruling.
hawk
*Everybody* being closed on Sunday costs less (to the merchants) than everyone open. Thus more profitable.
If Sunday openings were allowed, it would make sense for the first business to open on Sunday, thus taking enough sales away from competitors' Monday sales to pay for being open. More profitable for that business.
Then the rest open in self-defense, the only way to keep their sales up.
Look up "prisoners' dilema"
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advise. Put down the bottle and see an attorney in your jurisdiction (preferably one who has also put down the bottle).
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The repeal of prohibition is actually a grant of federal power to the states (and there are a couple more, such as the appointment of electors, notwithstanding what you were told in high school civics).
States have carte blanche to regulate alcohol, even if such regulations would normally violate other provisions of the Constitution. Prior to this decision, the only regulation that I can recall ever being struck down was the use of different drinking ages by gender (lower for women).
The states that banned out of state shipments, however, weren't regulating alcohol. They were granting favorable treatment to in-state wineries. Please note that the regulations were not of the "no wine shipments" variety but rather "no wine shipments from out of state wineries, but in-state wineries can."
Nothing in this ruling stops states from banning all wine deliveries--they just have to have the same rules for other states as their own.
Aside from such cases, states can make their alcohol laws as moronic as they want--witness Ohio, Pennslyvania, and Utah . .
hawk, esq.
Yeah, but by *that* logic, even disco isn't wrong . . .
hawk, shuddering
>It's doubtful that the Apple III got hot enough to unseat the chips.
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That would make it difficult to explain why Apple recommended lifting the machine two inches and dropping it to reseat them . . . you can argue for a different cuase, but that was Apple's explanation back then . .
hawk
The processor was a 16 MHz 68000, which was double the speed of the mainstream desktop Macs at the time, and equivalent to the clock speed on the Mac II.
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But it *was* a concession--it took a lot less power than the 68030 that they would have preferred to use.
IIRC, Sony manufactured the PowerBook 100 models for them.
Sony took the MacPortable design, shrunk it, and produced it. The 100 wasn't part of the 1xx series . .
hawk, who still has his backlit macportable, and once injured his shoulder carrying it through an airport (and had to explain to security that no, it couldn't produce a c: prompt . . . !)
OK, then, so they're *needed* for the next generation of Intel CPU's :)
hawk
*someone* took all the beowolf jokes a *bit* too far this time . . .
hawk
>Am I missing something?
Yes. Middle-click.
For years, we've been able to launch new browser windows by middle-click. Firefox hijacks that to open tabs instead. Eventually I found the setting to change to make it work "right."
hawk
They didn't "prevent" in any normal sense of the word (such as when it was used above to describe the check for dr-dos in the pre-release of windows).
Apple failed to provide proprietary information and free engineering to Be.
There *is* a difference.
hawk
We could have spent this much closer to home, examining vehicles that only moved a few feet since april on LA freeways!
hawk
Yep, lots of profit in stealing the identity of high school students . .
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What's the point?
If the advertising isn't intrusive, I really don't see it as offensive, or even why people would bother to block it (I said "intrusive"--this includes popups, blinking, noticable delays to the page loading, blinking, launching more windows, blinking, taking up large amounts of space, blinking, audio effects, blinking, appearing in front of text, blinking, and, most importantly, blinking).
I don't usually pay attention to them, though occasionally I find a useful one. They pay for some of the content I'd like.
Then again, sometimes I stop my tivo's fast-forward to see an ad for something that interests me.
hawk
Wow. I hadn't even realized they were dating!
Maybe they'll make a movie together, and I can miss both at once!
hawk
Whether it says so in the license or not, Linux isn't really GPL, but QGPL (quasi-GPL). There has been long-standing permission for binary, closed source drivers. Nearly all of the codee has been contributed during this period. The actions of the authors supercede the letter of the license.
hawk, esq.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. I am encouraging you to get some from someone licensed in your jurisdiction, however.
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*If* you can show that you returned it, properly (by credit reporting agency standards) disputed it, and that it's still showing, you should be talking to an attorney who handles credit report problems.
They love these.
There probably won't even be a consultation fee . .
hawk, esq.
hawk
So if I get some, do I just hang the tape from one, or do I do I still need a VCR?
hawk
In mozilla (or netscape), you middle click each one as you pass, launching new window for each.
I *prefer* extra windows, and thoroughly dislike the tabs.
hawk
>I'm not sure why there are still programs that expect you to reboot after install
Well, there's the XP installer, which takes multiple reboots (but I think it's down to two or three)
hawk
I was able to crash a Linux box by doing some severely stupid things inside of a driver I was working on
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A bit over four years ago, I found that you could crash both then-current linux and FreeBSD by loading a file larger than virtual memory into a binary editor (beav?).
Yes, setting your resource limits will solve this, but still . .
hawk
I vaguely seem to recall some older IBM machines that were BCD to the point of only having BCD addresses for memory--which would indeed give such numbers.
hawk
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