McFact #1: The coffee was 180-190 degrees. It would have been quickly vaporized at 270.
McFact #3: She initially tried to settle for $20,000 -- her medical costs. McDonald's ignored her.
McFact #4: She received 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body. How did you think she would have spilled a cup of coffee over most of her body? Did she pour it over her head?
She was awarded $160,000 in actual damages. She was awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equates to 2 days of McDonald's coffee sales. The $2.7 million was further reduced to $480,000.
McFact #5: Since the lawsuit, McDonald's has reduced the temperature of their coffee from 185 degrees to 158 degrees. They knew 185 wasn't safe before, but served the coffee at those temperatures anyway. This is precisely why we have punitive damages.
Yes, GPL software is freer than public domain, in the sense that the source code can never be taken proprietary (other than by the original author) and redistributed.
That's just plainly not true. You cannot take something entirely free and make it freer by restricting its use. The point of the GPL is that it restricts certain individual freedoms, while protecting common freedom. But make no mistake: public domain software is freer.
It's an issue of sematics, yes. But an important distinction.
"I feel that the guideline which prohibits me from mentioning more than one musical influence is ludicrous, inducing to false advertising, an unnecessary obstacle to my ability to describe my product or compare it to others within the advertisement I am paying for, and a violation of my constitutional rights."
I am so sick and tired of people who claim their "Constitutional rights" have been violated when some group won't let them speak their mind.
Excuse me? Did I miss the ammendment which gives me the right to say whatever I want on eBay?
Freedom of Speech does not give you the right to say whatever you want everywhere you want to say it, George. It gives you the right to say it without government interference. And that's it.
...But have you considered moving to a datacenter which provides conditioned power? After all, stacking UPS' in your rack is not very efficient. Especially when you're running powerstrips off them.
Many datacenters now provide fully conditioned, bus-sized UPS-backed power. Some even let you control individual power outlets from an SSL/password-protected web interface (Which is extremely useful if/when a server hard locks). Even if the datacenter doesn't provide the web-based outlet management, you can pick up a 1u, 8-outlet APC power switch for $300. 5 of them would provide power for the whole rack (Assuming single power supply), and only cost $500.
I've had to cut down on blogging lately, lest I get fired. But my daily routine is:
news.google.com (Used to be news.yahoo.com - I like Google better). http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=in dex2&cid=9 65 - Yahoo! News Most Popular Slashdot.org (Where I come to flame, troll, be trolled, etc) Kuro5hin.org (For thoughtful debate) Salon.com (+5, Insightful) Plastic.com (+5, Funny) portland.indymedia.org (Check on the local anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters) www.indymedia.org (Check on the global anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
What a brilliant idea. I just did it. Hopefully, the email address which I used was indeed correct. (I've previously sent mail to it, but have not received a reply. I'm fairly confident it's correct though).
Interesting though. I wonder then, why it is that the U.S. is criss-crossed with fiber, most of it not lit-up? Why is it that the United States has more laid fiber than any other country in the world?
Why did the Bells spend billions laying the fiber if they're not going to make any more money? The point that they laid it is indisputable - It comes into my office.
Are you completely out of your mind? I don't know about cable modem rates, but a T3 in Taiwan costs fully *****40x***** what it does in the United States. Yes, a T3 in Taiwan will cost you around $750,000/month.
The market forces in the United States have driven a huge expansion of bandwidth in this country - I can get an SLA-backed T1 to my door for $600/month if I wanted to. Billions of dollars of fiber has been laid all across this country.
Why are mega corporations more efficient that governments? Because they have to be. Because their shareholders demand it. Because it's in their interests to be. Because in the end, a single person is responsible for the management of the company. There aren't hundreds of equal voices, each with different ideas.
Yes, the key word being civil. Note that the Jeopardy clause says no person shall be "twice put in jeopardy of life of limb." Being made to pay 30-million dollars + your life's earning doesn't double jeopardy make.
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Actually, after the first witness has given testimeony, jeoparady attaches. There are only 2 circumstances where a mistrial without prejudice will be granted, a deadlocked jury and/or jury tampering by the defense.
When I was in boy scouts, 15 years ago or so, we never had any pinewood derby races - full scale, anyway. What we did have were little 1/20th scale 5-inch pinewood racers with pre-made everything. In fact, all I recall doing for the event is marking a block of pinewood with a pencil, and handing it off to one of the dad's who cut the slope and drilled the holes.
I blame this rather banal memory on trial lawyers:P
This long time Linux user is very fond of XP. It's very stable and packed-full with great features. I won't be running it on my servers anytime soon, but it makes a very nice desktop.
Ha-ha. Now you won't be able to use that "I have heard NOTHING good about XP" line ever again.
That's terrible advice. Do you really want to to be on the phone with a Level I tech while your entire website is down? If a service is truly critical to you, and you're basing your decision on the speed of support, you've done something wrong in the design of your network.
A much better solution would be to make everything redundant and failover automatically.
Umm, no nitwit, it has everything to do with DNS. While it certainly may be true that some browsers do their own freaky things, it's most certainyl a DNS feature:P
Search prefix:P Look in/etc/resolv.conf (Or your OS' equivalent).
In/etc/resolv.conf, you can type 'search yahoo.com' at the top. Then, 'nslookup www' will resolve www.yahoo.com'
the way (I think) most people work with tools like rpm is to just install packages off the cd or rpmfind.net, without ever really looking at what you're doing. when you have to actually compile traceroute, as with gentoo for example, you know much more about your system, its components dependencies, etc.
Hmm...Because it takes so much more skill to `emerge traceroute` than it does to `rpm -Uvh traceroute-major-minor.rpm` or `apt-get install traceroute`?:)
Nonsense. Windows XP with updates and antiviral software is fine. Like previous posters have said, it's a good idea to filter out any inbound traffic not originating from within the network - But then, it's a good idea to do that with ANY operating system.
I've *never* bought the "security risk" argument of Windows boxen creeping onto the network. If it's possible for someone to harm your network by harming a Windows box, there's something wrong with your network. You should be concerned about someone walking in to your facility with a laptop computer and plugging in.
The only valid complaint is that it's not supported by the IT department. Thus, either the users get no support, no PDCs, no Active Directory, no Exchange, etc - They just stick to peer-to-peer, like emailing meeting requests and direct file transfers - Or the IT department spends a lot of time and energy (and money) to support them. That's really a management call - If it's worth the money to let those users be more productive, then no harm, no foul.
Yes, our contract basically grants 'unlimited use' of the code to the client in the event of insolvency, but specifically prohibits selling. Thus, the escrow doesn't obviate the ability of the company to list the code as an asset in Chapter 7.
If your company has no problem with opening the code to your clients/before/ insolvency then the issue is even simpler. I fail to see why whatever standard 'use license' you use currently wouldn't work...
We have a similar situation where I work - We've handled it by putting the code in the hands of a third-party escrow service. If we disappear, they get the code. Otherwise, they don't get to look at it.
If Salon has decided to take this route, why not allow micropayments? I don't have a subscription to Salon, because I don't read it very often. But I do sometimes find 'premium' stories I'd like to read...Just not enough to get a subscription. If I could pay 25 cents or whatever to read the story, I gladly would.
I realize there are problems with accepting micropayments via credit card, but certainly something like PayPal could be used.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. The Republicans hold an incredibly small control over the US Senate. If any supreme court justices do resign in the next 2 years, Bush will be forced to nominate a moderate to the post (More of a Sandra Day Occonor, as opposed to Clarence Thomas).
Why? Because you can only truly control the US Senate with 60 votes. A simple majority won't do. The Democrats (Or indeed, any single senator) can stop and legislation dead in it's tracks with the filibuster.
The only exception has to do with laws concerning revenues. Senate rules allow a simple majority to stop a filibuster w/ laws concerning revenues. But clearly, a Supreme Court confirmation does not meet that test.
It's never good for parents to impose their religious values on their children. Expose them to different options, and let them make the choice for themselves.
Don't deprive your child of vi. Hell, who knows, maybe he'll grow up to be a nano user:P
Hmmmm...Would you mind if a burried your home in a half-billion banana peels? Of course I would mind if my home was buried in RDID tags:P But that's not the point. I don't care if a landfill is.
Who cares if has personally identifiable information on which products I buy? So do the store receipts I get which I throw away in the same trash basket. And once it gets into the landfill, I need not worry about people looking through it - it's mixed in with the swarming masses trash.
We're talking about Gillette razors here - not nuclear launch codes.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, while UPC's are barcodes, the reverse is not necessarily true. I said UPC codes weren't used outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Silicon doesn't contain toxins. It's completely non-toxic, and appears widely in nature (Especially in the ocean).
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Not quite.
McFact #1: The coffee was 180-190 degrees. It would have been quickly vaporized at 270.
McFact #3: She initially tried to settle for $20,000 -- her medical costs. McDonald's ignored her.
McFact #4: She received 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body. How did you think she would have spilled a cup of coffee over most of her body? Did she pour it over her head?
She was awarded $160,000 in actual damages. She was awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equates to 2 days of McDonald's coffee sales. The $2.7 million was further reduced to $480,000.
McFact #5: Since the lawsuit, McDonald's has reduced the temperature of their coffee from 185 degrees to 158 degrees. They knew 185 wasn't safe before, but served the coffee at those temperatures anyway. This is precisely why we have punitive damages.
That's just plainly not true. You cannot take something entirely free and make it freer by restricting its use. The point of the GPL is that it restricts certain individual freedoms, while protecting common freedom. But make no mistake: public domain software is freer.
It's an issue of sematics, yes. But an important distinction.
"I feel that the guideline which prohibits me from mentioning more than one musical influence is ludicrous, inducing to false advertising, an unnecessary obstacle to my ability to describe my product or compare it to others within the advertisement I am paying for, and a violation of my constitutional rights."
I am so sick and tired of people who claim their "Constitutional rights" have been violated when some group won't let them speak their mind.
Excuse me? Did I miss the ammendment which gives me the right to say whatever I want on eBay?
Freedom of Speech does not give you the right to say whatever you want everywhere you want to say it, George. It gives you the right to say it without government interference. And that's it.
...But have you considered moving to a datacenter which provides conditioned power? After all, stacking UPS' in your rack is not very efficient. Especially when you're running powerstrips off them.
Many datacenters now provide fully conditioned, bus-sized UPS-backed power. Some even let you control individual power outlets from an SSL/password-protected web interface (Which is extremely useful if/when a server hard locks). Even if the datacenter doesn't provide the web-based outlet management, you can pick up a 1u, 8-outlet APC power switch for $300. 5 of them would provide power for the whole rack (Assuming single power supply), and only cost $500.
I've had to cut down on blogging lately, lest I get fired. But my daily routine is:
n dex2&cid=9 65 - Yahoo! News Most Popular
news.google.com (Used to be news.yahoo.com - I like Google better).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=i
Slashdot.org (Where I come to flame, troll, be trolled, etc)
Kuro5hin.org (For thoughtful debate)
Salon.com (+5, Insightful)
Plastic.com (+5, Funny)
portland.indymedia.org (Check on the local anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
www.indymedia.org (Check on the global anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
What a brilliant idea. I just did it. Hopefully, the email address which I used was indeed correct. (I've previously sent mail to it, but have not received a reply. I'm fairly confident it's correct though).
Interesting though. I wonder then, why it is that the U.S. is criss-crossed with fiber, most of it not lit-up? Why is it that the United States has more laid fiber than any other country in the world?
Why did the Bells spend billions laying the fiber if they're not going to make any more money? The point that they laid it is indisputable - It comes into my office.
-1, Communist undertones.
Are you completely out of your mind? I don't know about cable modem rates, but a T3 in Taiwan costs fully *****40x***** what it does in the United States. Yes, a T3 in Taiwan will cost you around $750,000/month.
The market forces in the United States have driven a huge expansion of bandwidth in this country - I can get an SLA-backed T1 to my door for $600/month if I wanted to. Billions of dollars of fiber has been laid all across this country.
Why are mega corporations more efficient that governments? Because they have to be. Because their shareholders demand it. Because it's in their interests to be. Because in the end, a single person is responsible for the management of the company. There aren't hundreds of equal voices, each with different ideas.
Yes, the key word being civil. Note that the Jeopardy clause says no person shall be "twice put in jeopardy of life of limb." Being made to pay 30-million dollars + your life's earning doesn't double jeopardy make.
Actually, after the first witness has given testimeony, jeoparady attaches. There are only 2 circumstances where a mistrial without prejudice will be granted, a deadlocked jury and/or jury tampering by the defense.
When I was in boy scouts, 15 years ago or so, we never had any pinewood derby races - full scale, anyway. What we did have were little 1/20th scale 5-inch pinewood racers with pre-made everything. In fact, all I recall doing for the event is marking a block of pinewood with a pencil, and handing it off to one of the dad's who cut the slope and drilled the holes.
I blame this rather banal memory on trial lawyers:P
This long time Linux user is very fond of XP. It's very stable and packed-full with great features. I won't be running it on my servers anytime soon, but it makes a very nice desktop.
Ha-ha. Now you won't be able to use that "I have heard NOTHING good about XP" line ever again.
As others have said, that's a huge leap.
It certainly is protected (albeit, commercial) speech to put a note in your mailbox alluding to "Dirty Cheap Viagra."
It's little more than an annoyance.
That's terrible advice. Do you really want to to be on the phone with a Level I tech while your entire website is down? If a service is truly critical to you, and you're basing your decision on the speed of support, you've done something wrong in the design of your network.
A much better solution would be to make everything redundant and failover automatically.
Heh, my bad.
Only read the comment, not the posting:P
Dirty habbit.
Umm, no nitwit, it has everything to do with DNS. While it certainly may be true that some browsers do their own freaky things, it's most certainyl a DNS feature:P
/etc/resolv.conf (Or your OS' equivalent).
/etc/resolv.conf, you can type 'search yahoo.com' at the top. Then, 'nslookup www' will resolve www.yahoo.com'
Search prefix:P Look in
In
Hmm...Because it takes so much more skill to `emerge traceroute` than it does to `rpm -Uvh traceroute-major-minor.rpm` or `apt-get install traceroute`?
Nonsense. Windows XP with updates and antiviral software is fine. Like previous posters have said, it's a good idea to filter out any inbound traffic not originating from within the network - But then, it's a good idea to do that with ANY operating system.
I've *never* bought the "security risk" argument of Windows boxen creeping onto the network. If it's possible for someone to harm your network by harming a Windows box, there's something wrong with your network. You should be concerned about someone walking in to your facility with a laptop computer and plugging in.
The only valid complaint is that it's not supported by the IT department. Thus, either the users get no support, no PDCs, no Active Directory, no Exchange, etc - They just stick to peer-to-peer, like emailing meeting requests and direct file transfers - Or the IT department spends a lot of time and energy (and money) to support them. That's really a management call - If it's worth the money to let those users be more productive, then no harm, no foul.
Yes, our contract basically grants 'unlimited use' of the code to the client in the event of insolvency, but specifically prohibits selling. Thus, the escrow doesn't obviate the ability of the company to list the code as an asset in Chapter 7.
/before/ insolvency then the issue is even simpler. I fail to see why whatever standard 'use license' you use currently wouldn't work...
If your company has no problem with opening the code to your clients
We have a similar situation where I work - We've handled it by putting the code in the hands of a third-party escrow service. If we disappear, they get the code. Otherwise, they don't get to look at it.
If Salon has decided to take this route, why not allow micropayments? I don't have a subscription to Salon, because I don't read it very often. But I do sometimes find 'premium' stories I'd like to read...Just not enough to get a subscription. If I could pay 25 cents or whatever to read the story, I gladly would.
I realize there are problems with accepting micropayments via credit card, but certainly something like PayPal could be used.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. The Republicans hold an incredibly small control over the US Senate. If any supreme court justices do resign in the next 2 years, Bush will be forced to nominate a moderate to the post (More of a Sandra Day Occonor, as opposed to Clarence Thomas).
Why? Because you can only truly control the US Senate with 60 votes. A simple majority won't do. The Democrats (Or indeed, any single senator) can stop and legislation dead in it's tracks with the filibuster.
The only exception has to do with laws concerning revenues. Senate rules allow a simple majority to stop a filibuster w/ laws concerning revenues. But clearly, a Supreme Court confirmation does not meet that test.
It's never good for parents to impose their religious values on their children. Expose them to different options, and let them make the choice for themselves.
Don't deprive your child of vi. Hell, who knows, maybe he'll grow up to be a nano user:P
Hmmmm...Would you mind if a burried your home in a half-billion banana peels? Of course I would mind if my home was buried in RDID tags:P But that's not the point. I don't care if a landfill is.
Who cares if has personally identifiable information on which products I buy? So do the store receipts I get which I throw away in the same trash basket. And once it gets into the landfill, I need not worry about people looking through it - it's mixed in with the swarming masses trash.
We're talking about Gillette razors here - not nuclear launch codes.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, while UPC's are barcodes, the reverse is not necessarily true. I said UPC codes weren't used outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Silicon doesn't contain toxins. It's completely non-toxic, and appears widely in nature (Especially in the ocean).