Well I didn't say that there weren't. Although undoubtedly in the US it may be different, not many other ISP's here in the UK do, and none other than AOL spend anywhere near as much publicising it. I know AOL is far from perfect, that their customer service sucks, but then that's just the industry standard. I had Compu$erve & AOL accounts a while back, I used them when I was travelling between the UK and US. That was another factor in my choice, being able to use the same access in the UK and abroad. I guess some othe ISP's must offer that too, but again, its not obvious from their literature that they do.
Isn't it a bit bizarre to take that stance? The word "Gay" traditionally meant "Cheerful and lighthearted, Bright or lively (esp. in colour) with the implication of triviality." In the USA (and hence later the rest of the world), homosexuals adopted the term to refer to themselves. The use of the word 'gay' to mean something of questionable taste or value us more closely related to the original meaning than its more contemporary, co-opted one. The simple truth behind all this PC nonesense is that words mean what the speaker/writer intended and not what other meanings you might like to read into them. The word 'nigger' is considered offensive by most coloured people, although my African friends often use it to refer to eachother in an affectionate way. In the same way that you referred to yourself as 'queer' but might be offended if someone you didn't know did the same. It's because what is said is not the same as what is meant. If someone wishes to be offensive, they can do so without resulting to curses or insults; likewise is someone uses those words to you they are not necessarily being offensive. In case you're wondering, yes, I do know what it's like to be picked on because of my appearance and lifestyle. For most of my life I have been overweight, and I am a Goth, so from time to time I get called names in the street, when I was younger 'cool' guys would think it funny to pick on me, and now I'm older people just think I'm strange.. But I make my choices, and I live with them. It is sad that increasingly the world is becoming more and more superficial in every aspect of life; looking at the surface, and being unconcerned with the deeper truths. The most alarming thing about the tide of PC crap that society has been engulfed in since the 60's is that it focusses peoples attention on their outward behaviour and not on their inner attitudes, and it is the latter that does all the damage; it is the latter that gives rise to bigotry, hatred, intolerance and violence.
Well, to some people, maybe AOL does 'rock'. My last GF had 3 kids, different ages, and was able to give access to the 2 older kids at a level that was appropriate to their age - and (on the whole) they were not subjected to too much of the detrietus that the internet served up. AOL has a lot of content that is interesting to kids. I don't have Broadband, but she did. Yes, it was great. But then I'm not at home a lot, so an always-on connection is of limited value to me, and for the couple of times a month I download something big I don't think it'd be worth it. My internet access is mainly a bit of browsing of an evening, getting email and sometimes chatting to people on Jabber. If I end up with more free time, maybe that might change, but until then I'll just use my modem.. I once downloaded over 1.2 gigs over my modem, over a couple of days.. Thanks to the guys that designed restarting transfers on FTP!!
Hmm well dividing the message into groups of four, then using the initials of the first 3 words and the fourth word, we get: MS a crock, CB H devastate, JBF Igor, BTT discordant, Nab agnostic PCR referee DEA can BCI congressman IMB antigen THS convent firewall
So the words say 'Firewall convent antigen, Congressman can referee agnostic discordant, Igor devastate Crock'. The first sentance says 'MS A crock' which sounds good to me, so maybe this secret group, the 'Firewall convent antigen' are being told by the congressman that they can referee the discord between the agnostic discordants and ensure 'Igor' (whoever that is) devestates Microsoft.
"Ecuas Yrrebnarc" is well known as the freedom slogan of the Latbavarian slaves, cried mournfully in the midst of the night from the moon-gilt slopes of the Ytterbrius mountains, calling for their gods to save them from the penuary of slavery. But I never knew they had e-mail!
So this is presumably the French one, reassembled, but at the British side?:-/
Yeah, I think it'd be hard to do a 3 point turn in this baby and take it back to France! It was probably quicker to dismantle and pull the bits over to Britain.
Your point (5) is really the most important. I think it should be possible to apply to have a patent revoked if you can submit the right evidence
Software patents are a ridiculous concept anyway; software is adequately covered by copyright. Patenting software makes as much sense as patenting the storyline in a book.
I also feel that in order to maintain the spirit of the legislation, a patent holder should have to show that they have attempted to use the patent to exploit the invention - i.e. licenced it to someone to develop, sought funding, sold a product using the invention. Patent squatting should not be a valid business model. Intellectual property should not be a commodity; that was never the intention of those that instantiated the patent and copyright laws.
Having read the linked article, I must say that's the single most amusing thing I've seen in ages!! I say we should translate all of the linux kernel into SPL - that would shove it up Darl's nose bigtime. Introduce him to the list of characters and we can all have fun making up negative constants.....
Back when my Atari 800XL with it's 1050 drive was bleeding edge tech (!) I bought a little hand-punch to punch the holes & make my single sided disks double sided.. worked well. I rarely got any failures other than the odd disk that failed to format directly after being punched.
Not strictly true, human rights are covered by the UN declaration of Human Rights, to which the UK is a signatory, which states:
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Following months of testing their search engine results, Yahoo has now launched their search algorithm and replaced the Google results they had been using.
As someone who runs karaoke's from time to time, believe me the artists get compensated. Here in the UK to DJ or host Karaoke you have to have a performing rights licence, the proceeds from which are distributed to artists, and the special karaoke disks that you use include royalties for the artists/composers, which is why they are expensive (from UKP 14..22, that is 25..$42), which is only from 12 to 18 tracks. Most Karaoke hosts have at least 3,000 tracks, my colleage has nearly 11,000.. do the maths!
I had to smile when I read this one - because that's what I do. I mean, without the copyright warnings, trailers and stuff, I'd miss the beginning of every movie while the other half directs me to nuke the popcorn and which particular combination of lights she wants on/off that evening...
You'll probably laugh, but I never knew google had a hyperdictionary. Just goes to show how much attention I pay to what's on their screen. I did try typing 'pork barrel' into google proper, but it just turned up a lot of places where it was used. I kind of got the idea it was something to do with crap spending by government, but just wondered what it really meant.. now I know!
One more step in the Americanisation of an old Brit..
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Well I didn't say that there weren't. Although undoubtedly in the US it may be different, not many other ISP's here in the UK do, and none other than AOL spend anywhere near as much publicising it.
I know AOL is far from perfect, that their customer service sucks, but then that's just the industry standard.
I had Compu$erve & AOL accounts a while back, I used them when I was travelling between the UK and US. That was another factor in my choice, being able to use the same access in the UK and abroad. I guess some othe ISP's must offer that too, but again, its not obvious from their literature that they do.
Isn't it a bit bizarre to take that stance? The word "Gay" traditionally meant "Cheerful and lighthearted, Bright or lively (esp. in colour) with the implication of triviality." In the USA (and hence later the rest of the world), homosexuals adopted the term to refer to themselves. The use of the word 'gay' to mean something of questionable taste or value us more closely related to the original meaning than its more contemporary, co-opted one.
The simple truth behind all this PC nonesense is that words mean what the speaker/writer intended and not what other meanings you might like to read into them. The word 'nigger' is considered offensive by most coloured people, although my African friends often use it to refer to eachother in an affectionate way. In the same way that you referred to yourself as 'queer' but might be offended if someone you didn't know did the same. It's because what is said is not the same as what is meant. If someone wishes to be offensive, they can do so without resulting to curses or insults; likewise is someone uses those words to you they are not necessarily being offensive.
In case you're wondering, yes, I do know what it's like to be picked on because of my appearance and lifestyle. For most of my life I have been overweight, and I am a Goth, so from time to time I get called names in the street, when I was younger 'cool' guys would think it funny to pick on me, and now I'm older people just think I'm strange.. But I make my choices, and I live with them.
It is sad that increasingly the world is becoming more and more superficial in every aspect of life; looking at the surface, and being unconcerned with the deeper truths. The most alarming thing about the tide of PC crap that society has been engulfed in since the 60's is that it focusses peoples attention on their outward behaviour and not on their inner attitudes, and it is the latter that does all the damage; it is the latter that gives rise to bigotry, hatred, intolerance and violence.
Well, to some people, maybe AOL does 'rock'. My last GF had 3 kids, different ages, and was able to give access to the 2 older kids at a level that was appropriate to their age - and (on the whole) they were not subjected to too much of the detrietus that the internet served up. AOL has a lot of content that is interesting to kids.
I don't have Broadband, but she did. Yes, it was great. But then I'm not at home a lot, so an always-on connection is of limited value to me, and for the couple of times a month I download something big I don't think it'd be worth it. My internet access is mainly a bit of browsing of an evening, getting email and sometimes chatting to people on Jabber.
If I end up with more free time, maybe that might change, but until then I'll just use my modem.. I once downloaded over 1.2 gigs over my modem, over a couple of days.. Thanks to the guys that designed restarting transfers on FTP!!
Hmm well dividing the message into groups of four, then using the initials of the first 3 words and the fourth word, we get:
MS a crock,
CB H devastate,
JBF Igor,
BTT discordant,
Nab agnostic
PCR referee
DEA can
BCI congressman
IMB antigen
THS convent
firewall
So the words say 'Firewall convent antigen, Congressman can referee agnostic discordant, Igor devastate Crock'. The first sentance says 'MS A crock' which sounds good to me, so maybe this secret group, the 'Firewall convent antigen' are being told by the congressman that they can referee the discord between the agnostic discordants and ensure 'Igor' (whoever that is) devestates Microsoft.
Or maybe I'm making it all up!
"Ecuas Yrrebnarc" is well known as the freedom slogan of the Latbavarian slaves, cried mournfully in the midst of the night from the moon-gilt slopes of the Ytterbrius mountains, calling for their gods to save them from the penuary of slavery.
But I never knew they had e-mail!
France! It was probably quicker to dismantle and pull the bits over to Britain.
Would that be a Flesh Gordon Quote?
I was going to do the 'chicken kiev' joke but someone got there first
I have a 'settee at home'.. and it has contributed to my sexual enjoyment at times...
lol
Wang... Donkeys... F'nar f'nar f'nar!!!
*leans on walking stick*
When I where a lad, 'twere called "vertical markets".
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Valid concept, but I think it's just specialisation of market with new clothes.
Ah, but All Your Bass Are Belong To Me!
- Your point (5) is really the most important. I think it should be possible to apply to have a patent revoked if you can submit the right evidence
- Software patents are a ridiculous concept anyway; software is adequately covered by copyright. Patenting software makes as much sense as patenting the storyline in a book.
I also feel that in order to maintain the spirit of the legislation, a patent holder should have to show that they have attempted to use the patent to exploit the invention - i.e. licenced it to someone to develop, sought funding, sold a product using the invention. Patent squatting should not be a valid business model. Intellectual property should not be a commodity; that was never the intention of those that instantiated the patent and copyright laws.Just my UKP0.02 worth!
Having read the linked article, I must say that's the single most amusing thing I've seen in ages!! I say we should translate all of the linux kernel into SPL - that would shove it up Darl's nose bigtime. Introduce him to the list of characters and we can all have fun making up negative constants.....
Back when my Atari 800XL with it's 1050 drive was bleeding edge tech (!) I bought a little hand-punch to punch the holes & make my single sided disks double sided.. worked well. I rarely got any failures other than the odd disk that failed to format directly after being punched.
What? So does that mean Martians are blonde?
Mmm and everyone knows that to cook pasta you need brine.
So the moon is made of cheese, and mars is made of pasta. I suppose that's why the earth is populated by carbonara based life forms..
*bom-chi*
UN declaration of Human Rights, to which the UK is a signatory, which states:I would have thought that this would cover it.
So you are way out of touch, I'm afraid
As someone who runs karaoke's from time to time, believe me the artists get compensated. Here in the UK to DJ or host Karaoke you have to have a performing rights licence, the proceeds from which are distributed to artists, and the special karaoke disks that you use include royalties for the artists/composers, which is why they are expensive (from UKP 14..22, that is 25..$42), which is only from 12 to 18 tracks. Most Karaoke hosts have at least 3,000 tracks, my colleage has nearly 11,000.. do the maths!
Man you're not old. I was born in '63...
Damn, my PC at University was an Atari 400. You think I'm joking? I'm not! It was way back in '81...
I still have it somewhere (I think).
I had to smile when I read this one - because that's what I do. I mean, without the copyright warnings, trailers and stuff, I'd miss the beginning of every movie while the other half directs me to nuke the popcorn and which particular combination of lights she wants on/off that evening...
You'll probably laugh, but I never knew google had a hyperdictionary. Just goes to show how much attention I pay to what's on their screen.
I did try typing 'pork barrel' into google proper, but it just turned up a lot of places where it was used. I kind of got the idea it was something to do with crap spending by government, but just wondered what it really meant.. now I know!
One more step in the Americanisation of an old Brit..