I work, occasionally, for a small ISP and we have quite a few people who's domains we "own". We charge them about $10 a year extra to handle registration tasks and such. Lots of people figure that $10 is a bargain. If and when they want to change hosts we transfer them to the new host in whatever manner the customer desires. It's called customer service. If you as a company rip someone's domain off they'll tell 30 or 40 people a year about their bad experience. If you as a company provide someone good service they will mention that good service and sometimes even come back to you, which some of them have.
AT&T was also there back in 67-8. At that time it wasn't fiber optics it was sending signals via lasers. The problem with sending signals via laser was atmospheric interference, which was taken care of by sending the signal through a glass fiber. How do I know this? I was at a demonstration at my junior high school by a guy from AT&T when it was THE phone company. This was, of course back in the 67-8 school year.
I'd liken it to "colored" protesters back in the 60's who sat in the "whites only" sections fully intending to be arrested or to mothers who congregate and all breastfeed their babies together at a restaurant that bans breastfeeding everywhere except in the restroom stalls.
Protesting racial segregation laws is fine. Protesting against rules that a private business sets for behavior on their own property is a ridiculous idea. You are free not to go to their games if you don't like their rules (I don't know what "Southeastern Conference" is, but for I'm assuming it's a private business of some sort) just like breastfeeding feminists are free not to go to restaurants that don't allow breastfeeding. You have no more right to come to my property and act in a way that I disallow just because you happen to think it should be allowed than I have to come to your house and take a dump on your carpet just because I happen to think that's ok.
Most of the schools in the SEC are public owned universities. The ones that aren't owned by the various states take plenty of public money in the form of student loans and other grants. A case could be made, I'd think, that all of the rights for the various activities are owned by the people of the various localities. I doubt that anyone has tried arguing it but there could be a case. The SEC is an sports association that the various member schools join. It is mostly a sports marketing organization dedicated to making as much money to run the sports teams as possible. Supposedly the money goes to scholarships for students. IMHO it usually goes back into the athletic department. We are talking billions of dollars a year here so it's not a minor thing to the people who own these rights.
As first, a band/music geek then switching to computers in middle age who is married to an accountant and has been for 35 years I have a little advice.
When you fight, and you will, fight fair. Don't ever go for those things that a spouse knows about that can really hurt the feelings of your partner. Remember even when you are angry that you love this person and you really don't want to hurt their feelings. Also don't ever bring a lawyer, or even worse two, into your marriage. It is my experience that any mention of lawyers in a marriage totally destroys the trust in the relationship.
Surveys of politician's promises and the actual votes and/or bills introduced by successful candidates indicate that most of the time successful politicians do carry out their promises. Article in support here: http://www.fandm.edu/x3989
I can't help thinking about the plane itself. OK it was wood and wooden planes worked so well during WWII. There was the Mosquito made by the aluminum poor British. It just kept falling apart in midair.
The US was working on the Northrup flying wing. The Air Force decided that it was just too unstable to try to fly it. It wasn't until computer controls that the B2 was made that such an unstable aircraft was flyable.
How about making it so all telemarketers have to register a certain caller ID that say would be (C)*insert name of company here*, then it would be trivial to block all corporate calls. Thus making it easy to have a caller ID filter to purchase to block all telemarketer calls. This would be a lot easier than the do not call list, more effective and wouldn't censor anyone.
How about because they were spoofing their phone numbers to make it hard to trace them. These guys just didn't care about the law. They were flouting the DNC list, they were spoofing numbers they were robo calling. They weren't following the law and now their assets will be seized and they will go to jail, as they should.
The problem for people like Daschle, Killefer and Solis is that there is exactly 0% chance that they did their own taxes. There are always some deductions in a large return that can be taken or not depending on how aggressive the accountant wants to be in claiming deductions. In the 35 years that I've been married to a tax accountant I've heard all the stories, minus the names of course, of the outright cheats to the people that just had all of their legitimate deductions disallowed. Fortunately that doesn't seem to happen very often any more. People with large returns just sign what the accountant hands them. Very few of them understand what they are signing.
It couldn't possibly be that 8.5% of children are so completely bored out of their skulls by school that they lie about doing their homework so that they can play games now could it?
When I was a kid back in the '60s I Neeeeever lied to my mom about homework so I could go outside and play. So I wasn't addicted to playing outside. You see we didn't have video games so we had to go out and amuse ourselves. OK now we've got a study with a, probably at least, plus or minus 5% error rate that finds that 8.5% of kids have a certain problem.
I think we can file this one with all of the other junk science.
It's called job security. I like Linux, which I assume you are talking about. I use it on lots of servers and make some money from it. However Windows vulnerabilities, viruses and such have kept me in my lavish lifestyle for the past ten years.
Many organizations do not enable automatic updates because often they do not work with other necessicary software.
If an update stops work for a couple of days that sort of shoots down productivity for that organization.
Usually in these sort of organizations the system administrators test updates in sand boxes, a mini network that isn't connected to the rest of the network, to see if they will interfere with network or computer functions.
AG
"About the National Guard
The National Guard, the oldest component of the Armed Forces of the United States and one of the nation's longest-enduring institutions, celebrated its 370th birthday on December 13, 2006." http://www.ngb.army.mil/About/default.aspx
Under intense time pressure to work with previously theoretical isotopes that just might save tens of thousands of American lives?
At the cost of hundreds of thousands of civilian Japanese lives.
And said Japanese lives would have been lost anyway. Look at the history of the defense of Okinawa. Women jumped off cliffs to avoid being near American soldiers.
They also threw their children off those same cliffs.
The Japanese military had plans to mobilize the entire population of Japan to repel the American invasion. Estimates were that 2 to 3 million American soldiers would have died and even more civilians.
The Japanese islands would have pretty much been depopulated.
Since I was in the IT department that wasn't a problem for me most of the time.
It was a slight problem in that I often knew of a better way and couldn't use it because or that regulation.
We just kept the build room busy re-imaging computers that had unauthorized software on them.
That is a huge change. When I was working for the Arkansas National Guard it was against army regulation, 25-2 if I remember correctly, to use any open source software on government computers.
I'd like to have just.05% of the money that my state, Arkansas, makes from rice, which is a billion dollar a year crop.
Every thing you eat and much that you wear comes from a farm and though much is imported from other countries much of it is grown here in the US.
AG
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I work, occasionally, for a small ISP and we have quite a few people who's domains we "own". We charge them about $10 a year extra to handle registration tasks and such.
Lots of people figure that $10 is a bargain.
If and when they want to change hosts we transfer them to the new host in whatever manner the customer desires. It's called customer service. If you as a company rip someone's domain off they'll tell 30 or 40 people a year about their bad experience.
If you as a company provide someone good service they will mention that good service and sometimes even come back to you, which some of them have.
AT&T was also there back in 67-8. At that time it wasn't fiber optics it was sending signals via lasers. The problem with sending signals via laser was atmospheric interference, which was taken care of by sending the signal through a glass fiber.
How do I know this? I was at a demonstration at my junior high school by a guy from AT&T when it was THE phone company. This was, of course back in the 67-8 school year.
AG
I'd liken it to "colored" protesters back in the 60's who sat in the "whites only" sections fully intending to be arrested or to mothers who congregate and all breastfeed their babies together at a restaurant that bans breastfeeding everywhere except in the restroom stalls.
Protesting racial segregation laws is fine. Protesting against rules that a private business sets for behavior on their own property is a ridiculous idea. You are free not to go to their games if you don't like their rules (I don't know what "Southeastern Conference" is, but for I'm assuming it's a private business of some sort) just like breastfeeding feminists are free not to go to restaurants that don't allow breastfeeding. You have no more right to come to my property and act in a way that I disallow just because you happen to think it should be allowed than I have to come to your house and take a dump on your carpet just because I happen to think that's ok.
Most of the schools in the SEC are public owned universities. The ones that aren't owned by the various states take plenty of public money in the form of student loans and other grants.
A case could be made, I'd think, that all of the rights for the various activities are owned by the people of the various localities.
I doubt that anyone has tried arguing it but there could be a case.
The SEC is an sports association that the various member schools join. It is mostly a sports marketing organization dedicated to making as much money to run the sports teams as possible.
Supposedly the money goes to scholarships for students. IMHO it usually goes back into the athletic department. We are talking billions of dollars a year here so it's not a minor thing to the people who own these rights.
AG
As first, a band/music geek then switching to computers in middle age who is married to an accountant and has been for 35 years I have a little advice.
When you fight, and you will, fight fair. Don't ever go for those things that a spouse knows about that can really hurt the feelings of your partner.
Remember even when you are angry that you love this person and you really don't want to hurt their feelings.
Also don't ever bring a lawyer, or even worse two, into your marriage. It is my experience that any mention of lawyers in a marriage totally destroys the trust in the relationship.
AG
The problem with building ANYTHING in the Panhandle is the same problem that T Boone Pickens had with building wind farms there. There's no infrastructure out there.
Pickens' problem was no transmission lines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/business/energy-environment/08wind.html
Exactly what data lines are they going to connect to their server farm?
AG
Surveys of politician's promises and the actual votes and/or bills introduced by successful candidates indicate that most of the time successful politicians do carry out their promises.
Article in support here:
http://www.fandm.edu/x3989
AG
A good reason not to post the names of my pets on the internet.
It's too late for my kids names since they are on Facebook.
AG
I don't remember seeing any of those movies on TV since the 60's. I'm 54 BTW.
AG
You're just not an old enough fart.
AG
I can't help thinking about the plane itself. OK it was wood and wooden planes worked so well during WWII. There was the Mosquito made by the aluminum poor British. It just kept falling apart in midair.
The US was working on the Northrup flying wing. The Air Force decided that it was just too unstable to try to fly it. It wasn't until computer controls that the B2 was made that such an unstable aircraft was flyable.
AG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6cIy_s8pQ
Mythbusters test roaches, flour beetles and fruit flies for radiation resistance. Roaches don't win...
AG
How about making it so all telemarketers have to register a certain caller ID that say would be (C)*insert name of company here*, then it would be trivial to block all corporate calls. Thus making it easy to have a caller ID filter to purchase to block all telemarketer calls. This would be a lot easier than the do not call list, more effective and wouldn't censor anyone.
How about because they were spoofing their phone numbers to make it hard to trace them. These guys just didn't care about the law. They were flouting the DNC list, they were spoofing numbers they were robo calling. They weren't following the law and now their assets will be seized and they will go to jail, as they should.
AG
Uke is in the name too but nobody is talking about that.
AG
He can't possibly do that because the information is still classified.
AG
The problem for people like Daschle, Killefer and Solis is that there is exactly 0% chance that they did their own taxes. There are always some deductions in a large return that can be taken or not depending on how aggressive the accountant wants to be in claiming deductions.
In the 35 years that I've been married to a tax accountant I've heard all the stories, minus the names of course, of the outright cheats to the people that just had all of their legitimate deductions disallowed. Fortunately that doesn't seem to happen very often any more.
People with large returns just sign what the accountant hands them. Very few of them understand what they are signing.
AG
The subject says it all.
AG
It couldn't possibly be that 8.5% of children are so completely bored out of their skulls by school that they lie about doing their homework so that they can play games now could it?
When I was a kid back in the '60s I Neeeeever lied to my mom about homework so I could go outside and play. So I wasn't addicted to playing outside. You see we didn't have video games so we had to go out and amuse ourselves.
OK now we've got a study with a, probably at least, plus or minus 5% error rate that finds that 8.5% of kids have a certain problem.
I think we can file this one with all of the other junk science.
AG
It's called job security. I like Linux, which I assume you are talking about. I use it on lots of servers and make some money from it.
However Windows vulnerabilities, viruses and such have kept me in my lavish lifestyle for the past ten years.
AG
Many organizations do not enable automatic updates because often they do not work with other necessicary software. If an update stops work for a couple of days that sort of shoots down productivity for that organization. Usually in these sort of organizations the system administrators test updates in sand boxes, a mini network that isn't connected to the rest of the network, to see if they will interfere with network or computer functions. AG
"About the National Guard The National Guard, the oldest component of the Armed Forces of the United States and one of the nation's longest-enduring institutions, celebrated its 370th birthday on December 13, 2006." http://www.ngb.army.mil/About/default.aspx
Under intense time pressure to work with previously theoretical isotopes that just might save tens of thousands of American lives?
At the cost of hundreds of thousands of civilian Japanese lives.
And said Japanese lives would have been lost anyway. Look at the history of the defense of Okinawa. Women jumped off cliffs to avoid being near American soldiers.
They also threw their children off those same cliffs.
The Japanese military had plans to mobilize the entire population of Japan to repel the American invasion. Estimates were that 2 to 3 million American soldiers would have died and even more civilians.
The Japanese islands would have pretty much been depopulated.
AG
Since I was in the IT department that wasn't a problem for me most of the time. It was a slight problem in that I often knew of a better way and couldn't use it because or that regulation. We just kept the build room busy re-imaging computers that had unauthorized software on them.
That is a huge change. When I was working for the Arkansas National Guard it was against army regulation, 25-2 if I remember correctly, to use any open source software on government computers.
Does anyone else find it ironic that when I visited this page there was an ad for MS Visual Studio under the article? AG
I'd like to have just .05% of the money that my state, Arkansas, makes from rice, which is a billion dollar a year crop.
Every thing you eat and much that you wear comes from a farm and though much is imported from other countries much of it is grown here in the US.
AG