typing in Word OSX sometimes slows to the point that it appears on screen 'word at a time' rather than each letter as I type it, and I'm not even a particularly quick typist.
Nothing new there. Word 1.0 did that, too (and all later versions I used through 5.1). Whatever it does with the characters in the meantime is beyond me, but putting them out a word at a time instead of a character at at time is progress.
I think I even got past its typeahead once or tiwce, but it's been twenty years, so . ..
At least giving you a word at a time rather than a character at a time is progress!
Getting or giving oral sex for fun is not "predatory" behavior.
Uhmm, did someone say it was? The general pattern of behavior on both of their parts, not thiat specific relationship, establishes their credentials.
Trying to redefine another english word for political advantage again?
Huh? No. Feeling a knee-jerk need to defend someone from everything said about him, whether or not it's true, or politically relevant (or even damaging, for that matter)?
is equivalent to rape,
Huh?
if Rush says it is so.
What in the world does that have to do with anything?
I read one of those "it happened" tupe of news articles, probably fifteen or twnety years ago, in which a small town police chief found himself at the wrong end of an FBI probe. He arrested the undercover agent for attempted bribery, and then refused to return the agent to the FBI when requested, insisting that he stand trial for the crime committed.
Or in a similar vein, think back to Bill & Monica: now we know what happens when a pair of sexual predators encounter each other . ..
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction rather than reading the above nonsense.
This is wrong on so many labels that it's tough to decide where to start.
It is well established that advertising is not an offer to sell, but a statement of terms on which the merchant is willing to do buisiness. In those cases, the offere is found to be by the customer, not the ad.
A machine is clearly not authorized to entertain offers, nor to accept or reject them.
No reasonable person can maintain that he thought the cashier was authorized to accept terms that he deliberately hid from the cashier . ..
But even if we get past this idiocy, both the doctrines for unilateral and mutual mistake come into play.
The crook, err, putative customer not only *should* know that the other party is making a mistake, but has *actual knowledge* of this fact. Furthermore, the crook is not innocent in this matter.
Mutual mistake would also set aside the contract, as the actual item and the purported item were inconsistent.
And then there's the matter of fraud; the presentation of the item for checkout is sufficient for a statement, which is known to be untrue, with the intent that the other party rely upon it, causing damage.
There's no "probably" legal here at all; it's not even arguable.
I wonder how they came up with the "most popular" stories.
Obviously, it's all a plot to draw attention away from the interplanetary war started by NASA with all those missles, err, probes, that we slammed intto Mars.
A patent is a type of property (whether you agree with the principle or not). It includes the usual rights of control. When that property is sold, the new owner has the right to control it and receive any revenue from it.
What was suggested above was the outright purchase of the right to receive proceeds from litigation, rather than the transfer of a property interest. This has been illegal since the earliset days of the common law, and remains so.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get legal advice from slashdot, your other troubles are far more serious than your legal ones, anyway!
>Also, I've seen a few law firms send out spams >offering to represent me in the class action >against Merck.
They're on television, too, now.
>Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised to also see >people investing in the lawsuit by buying out >others' share of the class; in this way, they >could get in on the lawsuit despite never having >Vioxx pass their lips.
Err, no. Even though we're the only Common Law (English speaking) in which taking a contingency fee is not a crime, buying an interest in litigation still is.
In fact, this situation hasn't changed much since Microsoft first deigned to publicly not notice Linux. At the time, Linux had virtually no desktop presence, and Microsoft a negligible share of the server market. While both have grown over the past few years, MS's share in servers has grown far more than the Linux desktop share.
>The Salon article did a classic right winger >technique of refuted everyone of this claims with >some absurd parallel claim:
Since when is this a right wing behavior? Does the left really use it any less than the right?
For that matter, those of us on the classic liberal up use it as well (especially the extremists known as "libertarian") . ..
For that matter, it's tough to find anyone who used it as much as the laregly defunct down (Bolsheviks, etc. ... )
hawk
Are they good for anything?
on
Mr Anti-Google
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I set an exception to allow google cookies--with no apparent result. I had *assumed* that this would allow me to keep the settings I use every time (100 results; english) every time.
> we just laugh that a sport like baseball could >have been so popular in the first place.
Hmm, maybe there *is* something to the old soviet claim that Russian's invented baseball; it clearly has a lot in common with russian novels . . . although I'm not quite sure what the analogy to committing suicide by jumping off your manuscript is . ..
Slashdot Mirror
It's garbage like this that shows how sorry mainstream media is. It's slanted and poorly researched
.
poorly done, indeed.
Consider the portion of the "occupied" by an aircraft at the altitudes involved here. Now calculate the chance of hitting it with a "random." beam.
Yes, it's possible that a random beam hits it--but compare those odds to being struch by lightning . .
hawk
it makes no difference to the user whether these devices run Linux or not.
Yeah.
Years of crashing computers have prepared customers for televisions that crash in the midd
Hams are often stereotyped as old, fat, geeky, hygenically-challenged white guys
.
1) You forgot the pony tail
2) They can't *all* be unix gurus . .
hawk
I was at the dinner table meeting my wife-to-be's (we've since married) cousins. /me nods.
:)
South Carolina, huh?
hawk
Then it just becomes a point of finding hardware to use it on,
.
Yeah, just go tell NASA how simple that is. If you can convince them, they'll throw millions at you . .
hawk
Finally, a use for 80's music!
.
Now wait a minute, younster. 80's music already performed one of the most important feats in history: the end of Disco . .
hawk, who remembers the horror
typing in Word OSX sometimes slows to the point that it appears on screen 'word at a time' rather than each letter as I type it, and I'm not even a particularly quick typist.
.
Nothing new there. Word 1.0 did that, too (and all later versions I used through 5.1). Whatever it does with the characters in the meantime is beyond me, but putting them out a word at a time instead of a character at at time is progress.
I think I even got past its typeahead once or tiwce, but it's been twenty years, so . .
At least giving you a word at a time rather than a character at a time is progress!
hawk
Getting or giving oral sex for fun is not "predatory" behavior.
Uhmm, did someone say it was? The general pattern of behavior on both of their parts, not thiat specific relationship, establishes their credentials.
Trying to redefine another english word for political advantage again?
Huh? No. Feeling a knee-jerk need to defend someone from everything said about him, whether or not it's true, or politically relevant (or even damaging, for that matter)?
is equivalent to rape,
Huh?
if Rush says it is so.
What in the world does that have to do with anything?
hawk
I read one of those "it happened" tupe of news articles, probably fifteen or twnety years ago, in which a small town police chief found himself at the wrong end of an FBI probe. He arrested the undercover agent for attempted bribery, and then refused to return the agent to the FBI when requested, insisting that he stand trial for the crime committed.
.
Or in a similar vein, think back to Bill & Monica: now we know what happens when a pair of sexual predators encounter each other . .
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction rather than reading the above nonsense.
.
This is wrong on so many labels that it's tough to decide where to start.
It is well established that advertising is not an offer to sell, but a statement of terms on which the merchant is willing to do buisiness. In those cases, the offere is found to be by the customer, not the ad.
A machine is clearly not authorized to entertain offers, nor to accept or reject them.
No reasonable person can maintain that he thought the cashier was authorized to accept terms that he deliberately hid from the cashier . .
But even if we get past this idiocy, both the doctrines for unilateral and mutual mistake come into play.
The crook, err, putative customer not only *should* know that the other party is making a mistake, but has *actual knowledge* of this fact. Furthermore, the crook is not innocent in this matter.
Mutual mistake would also set aside the contract, as the actual item and the purported item were inconsistent.
And then there's the matter of fraud; the presentation of the item for checkout is sufficient for a statement, which is known to be untrue, with the intent that the other party rely upon it, causing damage.
There's no "probably" legal here at all; it's not even arguable.
hawk, esq
I wonder how they came up with the "most popular" stories.
Obviously, it's all a plot to draw attention away from the interplanetary war started by NASA with all those missles, err, probes, that we slammed intto Mars.
hawk
(this still isn't legal advice)
A patent is a type of property (whether you agree with the principle or not). It includes the usual rights of control. When that property is sold, the new owner has the right to control it and receive any revenue from it.
What was suggested above was the outright purchase of the right to receive proceeds from litigation, rather than the transfer of a property interest. This has been illegal since the earliset days of the common law, and remains so.
hawk, esq
And you thought that earth-bound roommates were a hassle . . .
hawk
Damnit.
A stake, a stake! My kingdom for a stake!
Die, damnit, die!
And this time, stay dead.
hawk, noting that Amiga has taken long to die than Apple has to go out of business . . .
And now, we can hardly go anywhere without needing to holler, "Turn that damned thing down!" :)
hawk
"Never attribute to spam that which can be adequately explained by viruses"
Or something like that.
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get legal advice from slashdot, your other troubles are far more serious than your legal ones, anyway!
>Also, I've seen a few law firms send out spams
>offering to represent me in the class action
>against Merck.
They're on television, too, now.
>Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised to also see
>people investing in the lawsuit by buying out
>others' share of the class; in this way, they
>could get in on the lawsuit despite never having
>Vioxx pass their lips.
Err, no. Even though we're the only Common Law (English speaking) in which taking a contingency fee is not a crime, buying an interest in litigation still is.
hawk, esq.
You need to consider what they're copying, err, innovating. Why, the 1987 Macintosh interface alone took until 1995 . . . :)
hawk
In fact, this situation hasn't changed much since Microsoft first deigned to publicly not notice Linux.
At the time, Linux had virtually no desktop presence, and Microsoft a negligible share of the server market.
While both have grown over the past few years, MS's share in servers has grown far more than the Linux desktop share.
Unfortunately, my household doesn't stock them any more, and my screen is dirty
hawk
>preferences such as their search language,
>SafeSearch settings, the number of results per
>page, etc.
YEs, they *could*. Realizing that, I let theirs through. With or without proxies, on netscape and mozilla, I have yet to see a preference saved . .
hawk
Since when is this a right wing behavior? Does the left really use it any less than the right?
For that matter, those of us on the classic liberal up use it as well (especially the extremists known as "libertarian") . .
For that matter, it's tough to find anyone who used it as much as the laregly defunct down (Bolsheviks, etc. .
hawk
They're no longer unblocked . .
hawk
hawk
>have been so popular in the first place.
Hmm, maybe there *is* something to the old soviet claim that Russian's invented baseball; it clearly has a lot in common with russian novels . . . although I'm not quite sure what the analogy to committing suicide by jumping off your manuscript is . .
hawk