lolll...."or a small spot of geeky notoriety" makes the moral obvious, don't you think? Namely: "Point out the incompetency of an MBA at your own risk...
Me, I check my Gmail accounts with Thunderbird...which provides me rule making abilities limited only by my creativity (not so bad) and my laziness (serious constraint).
Sort of hypocritical to charge someone for terrorist activities for downloading al Qeada material made public by the U.S. government, when anyone who is seriously interested in destroying a nation can download all manner of U.S. government papers on the Bush economic policy without any repercussions whatsoever....
Bzzzt, wrong. Laws are meant to protect corporate and government interests.
Besides that god also said to kill anyone caught working on the sabbath. Should that law also be implemented? All a matter of perspective, isn't it? What if the hypothetical Sabbath law dictated that anyone who attempted to make you work on the Sabbath was to be killed?
...did they consider at all that people might start to see J&J as "the assholes who bullied the Red Cross?" Do you mean, besides me? And the store brands were already cheaper...
This is direct discrimination against the small merchant class in the U.S. of A. who, unlike Bush's core constituency, cannot afford to have offshore accounts in Liechtenstein, dummy corporations in the Caymen Islands, or to simply reincorporate in Dubai as Halliburton did (while they still garner massive, fraud-tainted payments from the U.S. taxpayer) in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Bush's Law: No laws are applicable to those people and entities whose net worth has surpassed $500 million.
Complying with this court's decision will result in ever higher printing costs for dollars that are worth ever less.
Might as well make our dollars in the form of complex Möbius strips, because our beloved Republicans have seen to it that it starts as nothing and - with a few contortions along the way - ends as nothing.
Now is that marketing savvy, or what? Here NBC is in dead last in the ratings wars, so they go out of their way to find new ways to antagonize potential viewers.
Brilliant, I tell you. Brilliant. lolll...let that be a lesson to you: If you want to succeed, keep the lawyers out of your main office.
I really would expect (just a little) a little more tolerance and less assumption from the people involved.
Or at least an intelligent question like: Gee, I wonder if those people who have been trying to get Playboy and Penthouse banned from the PX and BX for decades and decades stumbled upon this as an alternative method?
Nothing like the idea of being able to say "Porn is a threat to national security!" to attract the ramrod-asses...
Oh, and as a tangent, also from experience, driving on actual hallucinogens is also REALLY REALLY bad (although I guess that's probably obvious). Redundant, too, don't you think? I would think that just holding out your arms and picturing yourself in the cockpit with (of?) Danica Patrick would suffice...
I would expect nothing less than stories such as this under this Administration for anything associated with "anti-terrorism" or "Homeland Security".
They have too much power...excessive power yields excessive arrogance which yields excessive carelessness which all too often eventually yields excessive casualties.
Many of these comments, and certainly the article itself, sound like a bunch of "glass house" programmers all whining about how the user shall do it this way and this way only.
lolll...or like those people who always end up on the condominium owner's association because they know exactly what they like and so you will adhere to their desires, and to hell with your children's hope for a sandbox to play in.
Furthermore, I note how quick the people I refer to are to stereotype (yes, I know: "Pot calling the kettle black") others, unsubtly reserving what they view as the most brilliant and capable stereotype for themselves.
My criteria for software is simple:
It shall not crash itself, other software, or the O/S
It shall not unintentionally interfere with or modify the functionality of other software or the O/S
It shall provide the output or action that the end user requires
The end user shall be able to use the software painlessly
It shall meet all of the aforementioned goals in a timely manner
And I don't care how those four items are accomplished.
After reading the "my way or the highway" comments from the OS X (including the article's author) and Windows camps, Linux increases it lead in my eyes as the last refuge of the developer who values "faster and better" over "cookie cutter".
The speedy adoption of the PC out there in userland in the '80s and '90s owes much to that "my way or the highway" attitude that pervaded the "glass house" and stifled creativity, speedy solutions, and innovation...but it would seem that the approach is struggling to return.
lollll...I've always wondered if all of those "glass house" people, in their bitterness over losing their kingdoms, turned to writing virii, worms, and trojans aimed at Windows just so that they could bring such a situation about.
But people are free to investigate and discuss marxism. Anybody can go to the library and find numerous books discussing marxist ideology, and academics can write papers discussing the advantages of marxist systems. What? Where have you been? Go to the library, research marxist ideology - and end up in a Homeland Security database and forever after have problems with the no-fly list?
Gotta love "free trade"...everybody that competes with America doesn't allow themselves to be unncessarily burdened by America's copyright and/or patent laws as the Americans do.
Valdemort appears once again, letting loose a malady upon the world that causes lawyers to metamorphosis into disgusting slugs, putting them in great danger as they must daily run the gauntlet of a new and bizarre recurring weather phenomenon - salt storms.
In desperation they turn to Harry Potter, who struggles valiantly to save their lives (if not their souls).
Just as Harry is beginning to turn the tide, one of the disgusting slugs sues him for allowing his pants to be splashed with salt during an epic battle where Harry is greatly distracted by being forced to risk his life in battle with over 100 different avatars of Valdemort.
In disgust, Harry gives up and turns his back on the lawyers, at which point an ancestor of Obi Wan Kenobi says "Welcome back from the Dark Side, Harry.".
If India's ambitions end at "niche", I'm from the Andromeda galaxy. I still remember a comment on ComputerWorld where a systems analyst from India mentioned how the U.S. was once dominant in things technical, and then stated that India can turn us off any time they want to, now.
...allowing both large media holders and individual content creators to play fairly under the same set of rules
If the objective is fairness, then I would think that every party to litigation should have to draw from the same common pool of lawyers - financed by patent and registration fees and/or some other means such as royalty payments - when and if the time came for a contested registration or patent to come before the courts.
It seems to me to be inherently unfair that the big corporations can command the talents of $100 million law firms, while the small artist/inventor has to use Cousin Vinny who got his degree at night school.
They could stop imprisoning "deadbeat dads" who truly don't have the money, too. The U.S. is one of (the?) last nations on the planet with "debtor's prisons".
See what happens when the staffing decisions made by Federal Agencies is based not upon "expertise" but upon the ability to stay "on message"?
lollll...and I took the high road, given the public's knowledge of this Administration's tendency to modify and even censor data that might alarm the public...I give you global warming.
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lolll...."or a small spot of geeky notoriety" makes the moral obvious, don't you think? Namely: "Point out the incompetency of an MBA at your own risk...
Me, I check my Gmail accounts with Thunderbird...which provides me rule making abilities limited only by my creativity (not so bad) and my laziness (serious constraint).
Sort of hypocritical to charge someone for terrorist activities for downloading al Qeada material made public by the U.S. government, when anyone who is seriously interested in destroying a nation can download all manner of U.S. government papers on the Bush economic policy without any repercussions whatsoever....
...did they consider at all that people might start to see J&J as "the assholes who bullied the Red Cross?" Do you mean, besides me? And the store brands were already cheaper...This is direct discrimination against the small merchant class in the U.S. of A. who, unlike Bush's core constituency, cannot afford to have offshore accounts in Liechtenstein, dummy corporations in the Caymen Islands, or to simply reincorporate in Dubai as Halliburton did (while they still garner massive, fraud-tainted payments from the U.S. taxpayer) in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Bush's Law: No laws are applicable to those people and entities whose net worth has surpassed $500 million.
So if you take nitroglycerin for angina, you can expect to look like a recruiting poster for Blue Man Crew after every flight?
If you can't buy or build a "high-end PC" for less than $1000, you aren't a "professional" - you're a "mark".
Complying with this court's decision will result in ever higher printing costs for dollars that are worth ever less.
Might as well make our dollars in the form of complex Möbius strips, because our beloved Republicans have seen to it that it starts as nothing and - with a few contortions along the way - ends as nothing.
Now is that marketing savvy, or what? Here NBC is in dead last in the ratings wars, so they go out of their way to find new ways to antagonize potential viewers.
Brilliant, I tell you. Brilliant. lolll...let that be a lesson to you: If you want to succeed, keep the lawyers out of your main office.
Or at least an intelligent question like: Gee, I wonder if those people who have been trying to get Playboy and Penthouse banned from the PX and BX for decades and decades stumbled upon this as an alternative method?
Nothing like the idea of being able to say "Porn is a threat to national security!" to attract the ramrod-asses...
I would expect nothing less than stories such as this under this Administration for anything associated with "anti-terrorism" or "Homeland Security".
They have too much power...excessive power yields excessive arrogance which yields excessive carelessness which all too often eventually yields excessive casualties.
"Four" items? Huh...I must have overwritten my counter...
Many of these comments, and certainly the article itself, sound like a bunch of "glass house" programmers all whining about how the user shall do it this way and this way only .
lolll...or like those people who always end up on the condominium owner's association because they know exactly what they like and so you will adhere to their desires, and to hell with your children's hope for a sandbox to play in.
Furthermore, I note how quick the people I refer to are to stereotype (yes, I know: "Pot calling the kettle black") others, unsubtly reserving what they view as the most brilliant and capable stereotype for themselves.
My criteria for software is simple:
And I don't care how those four items are accomplished.
After reading the "my way or the highway" comments from the OS X (including the article's author) and Windows camps, Linux increases it lead in my eyes as the last refuge of the developer who values "faster and better" over "cookie cutter".
The speedy adoption of the PC out there in userland in the '80s and '90s owes much to that "my way or the highway" attitude that pervaded the "glass house" and stifled creativity, speedy solutions, and innovation...but it would seem that the approach is struggling to return.
lollll...I've always wondered if all of those "glass house" people, in their bitterness over losing their kingdoms, turned to writing virii, worms, and trojans aimed at Windows just so that they could bring such a situation about.
The King is dead - long live the King!
Given Cuba's "revolutionary" stance...I was wondering whether it would be:
a) "Windows", the O/S of the proletariat
b) Apple OS/X, the O/S of the bourgeois elite
or
see) Linux, the O/S of the independent and capable thinker - feared by all systems of governance...
Gotta love "free trade"...everybody that competes with America doesn't allow themselves to be unncessarily burdened by America's copyright and/or patent laws as the Americans do.
I would suggest the following theme:
Valdemort appears once again, letting loose a malady upon the world that causes lawyers to metamorphosis into disgusting slugs, putting them in great danger as they must daily run the gauntlet of a new and bizarre recurring weather phenomenon - salt storms.
In desperation they turn to Harry Potter, who struggles valiantly to save their lives (if not their souls).
Just as Harry is beginning to turn the tide, one of the disgusting slugs sues him for allowing his pants to be splashed with salt during an epic battle where Harry is greatly distracted by being forced to risk his life in battle with over 100 different avatars of Valdemort.
In disgust, Harry gives up and turns his back on the lawyers, at which point an ancestor of Obi Wan Kenobi says "Welcome back from the Dark Side, Harry.".
If India's ambitions end at "niche", I'm from the Andromeda galaxy. I still remember a comment on ComputerWorld where a systems analyst from India mentioned how the U.S. was once dominant in things technical, and then stated that India can turn us off any time they want to, now.
...allowing both large media holders and individual content creators to play fairly under the same set of rulesIf the objective is fairness, then I would think that every party to litigation should have to draw from the same common pool of lawyers - financed by patent and registration fees and/or some other means such as royalty payments - when and if the time came for a contested registration or patent to come before the courts.
It seems to me to be inherently unfair that the big corporations can command the talents of $100 million law firms, while the small artist/inventor has to use Cousin Vinny who got his degree at night school.
They could stop imprisoning "deadbeat dads" who truly don't have the money, too. The U.S. is one of (the?) last nations on the planet with "debtor's prisons".
Huh..."Tier 1" is limited to MIT "and to a lesser extent Stanford"? Some Carnegie Mellon folks might beg to differ...although beg is the wrong word.
See what happens when the staffing decisions made by Federal Agencies is based not upon "expertise" but upon the ability to stay "on message"?
lollll...and I took the high road, given the public's knowledge of this Administration's tendency to modify and even censor data that might alarm the public...I give you global warming.
Sure, hammers are cheap - and so are washers, but how does a half-million dollars for shipping sound?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602230.html