Yes, all 200 plus national governments over the last thousand years have had this policy.
Rapid communication and reliable transportation have only made this an issue for the past 100 or so.
If there were as many eyewitnesses to a murder, we'd have long since had a hanging. Doctors, lawyers, even US Presidents have reported sightings. Are you really so vain as to think that we are God's, or Nature's greatest creation?
Plus, their interest in us seemed to grow after we started detonating nuclear weapons. The number of sightings after the 1940s was much higher than the number of sightings before.
How would you take motiviation from someone like Saddam, Osama or even Hitler ?
Saddam Hussein- By not leading him to believe that we don't care if he invades Kuwait and then killing his army when he does.
Osama Bin Laden - By not unilaterally supporting Israel in every middle eastern conflict.
Hitler - He was not a terrorist. He was a madman. Terrorists have political motivations. Hitler's only motivation was power. War was the only way to stop him.
I don't know why I took the time to respond to an anonymous troll like yourself, well maybe someone who is capable of thinking about this issue will read my response.
Truthfully, if terrorists try to blow up airplanes again, they're going to do it from the outside or from the cargo hold. They'd time it so the wreckage fell on some big city.
And you know this how?
Terrorists is successful when they succeed at a task that no one thought that they were going to undertake.
We apparently have a problem with understanding how they think. If you believe (and I mean BELIEVE) that your actions are justified, even righteous and you that will be rewarded by God himself, there isn't much that you won't do.
Here in the western world, people have beliefs that they deal with on Sunday. In other parts of the world people live their beliefs for virtually every second of every day. How many western Jews do you know who don't keep Kosher? I know many. I also know western Muslims who eat things that are not Halal. The western mind is not the same as the Middle Eastern mind. Pure and simple.
Salah Johnson and Sol Goldstein who live down the street from you aren't culturally the same as the fundamentalists who come from the other side of the planet.
Until we take away their motivation, we will always face the threat of terrorism.
Oh please. What a strawman. What if I try to boot, say, Mac OS 9 on that iMac? It will work.
On most iMacs(up to the summer 2000 models, the last ones that I'm familiar with), yes it will.
You seem to be under the impression that moving from on processor architecture to another necessitates a total rewrite, which is an extremely odd idea to have.
Not a "total" rewrite, but much of it must be rewritten. Memory management on the M68k architecture is different than memory management on the PPC architecture.
They looked at buying either Be or NeXT, and using their OS as a base to build a next-generation Apple OS. They decided to go with NeXT, and that's exactly what they did.
I was hoping that it would have been Be, because Be had a working OS ready to go. Instead of taking 3 years to take NeXT's work and apply it to their new hardware, it would have taken much less work to turn BeOS into Mac OS 10/X/whatever.
But in the end, I suppose it matters little. Apple chose NeXT, and after working their asses off produced a better OS than they had before.
I forgot, these aliens always make contact in the US. Or do you imply that every nation in the world is part of the cover-up? If so, one must assume then that the aliens already control every government...
There are reports of contact from all over the globe. One doesn't need to conclude that the aliens "control" anything. One only needs to conclude that the governments of earth would prefer to keep control over their people by not causing too much of an uproar.
Well then why does href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ -/0912212268/qid=1073027347//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl 14/002-5609637-9222448?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"> this book, which is endorsed by FEMA have a chapter about dealing with them?
I'm sure we all know how FEMA loves pracitical jokes.
As for the specific shot 41 times incident, I'd hardly call that the work of the Government. The best case scenario is that those cops told the truth (we thought he was reaching for a gun) and acted in self-defense -- the worst case scenario is they were racist bastards and decided to execute him.
Honestly, I think it was a combination of both. Had Mr. Diallo been caucasian, I don't believe that the police would have interpreted his actions as threatening. Perhaps if he had been in a different city, he would have been better off. I have encountered police (and federal agents) who knew me to be armed that didn't get trigger happy when I made a move. Then again, I kept my hands in sight.
The problem lies with the fact that none of the officers lost his job for shooting an unarmed man.
While that's certainly not a "Good Thing" (tm) it's hardly a vast Government conspiracy.
I guess that depends on how you define "vast".
We should be watchful. But we should also not make the mistake of classifying the Government as "them" vs "us". The Government is "us". By the people, for the people.
The government is both "them" and "us". "My" goverment keeps information from "me" and "you" to protect all of "us". It's the nature of the beast.
I've actually heard about that incident. I'm not going to comment on any of your other UFO ramblings -- I've always tended to think that 99% of them are manmade and that the LGMs have better things to do then fly around our military bases
Indulge me for just a moment here. We (humans) go out into rather inhospitable places and tranquilize animals and tag them so that we can track their movements. If we are being visited by other lifeforms, wouldn't it follow that they would be interested in studying us; just as we are interested in studying caribou or kodiak bears?
If those animals have some sort of language, do you think that the other caribou and bears believe them when they tell what happened to them?
The cutting edge of our technology would be located at military bases. Remember what you said about the B2? If you were from a civilization that was far beyond ours, where would you look to see how far humanity has advanced, from a technological standpoint? I suspect that it would be at a military base.
but the problem with the whole UFO subculture is that if the UK does release some useful information and if said information reveals that it was a Soviet spy plane/sat, weather balloon, or any other man-made source they will think "cover-up". They might even be right. The problem is they refuse to acknowledge the fact that they might (and probably are) be wrong.
There is too much history behind the phenomena. Nearly 50,000 years ago people were drawing things in caves that looked an awful lot like the UFOs that people still report seeing today. 800 years ago, someone in Japan wrote of watching a "flying earthenware vessel" fly northeast from a mointain in Kii province.
When papers get released under FoIA requests here in the US, it's not unusual for 80% or more to be redacted. You can't have it both ways. The government can't claim to have no information about UFOs, but at the same time censor information about UFOs because of "national security".
Whereas I have no problem admitting that we might be wrong about Roswell, Rendelsham, Kecksburg, Long Island, Aztec, and countless others. In fact I'll go as far as to say that most of them are probably bunk. I have to stress that they can't all be.
So, even if in 7 years we find out that what landed in Rendelsham was just an experimental UK-US jointly developed aircraft, that's fine. There are still so many others that could prove to be the real McCoy (so to speak).
The US Government still denies the existance of Area 51, even thought there are signed posted all over the place saying that it is US Gov't property and that deadly force is authorized.
I have little doubt that it is "for our own good", but we are lied to every day.
I have a friend who was in the Military back in teh 1960s. He was able to tell me that one of the assignments that he had involved lowering a 200+ foot long antenna from the back of an airplane flying near the Florida Keys. I said, that I assumed that they were listening for something coming out of Cuba. ~40 years later he told me that he could not respond to my comment, that the work was still classified.
In all seriousness, the government may keep things classified long after they are common knowledge, but how many times have you heard of them taking something that is ALREADY public knowledge and then keeping it classified for 50 years?
I'm hesitant to say this here on/., but fuck it I have nothing to hide. 20 years ago I saw several UFOs, I also encountered a Man in Black several months later. Even now, a chill passes through me every time I speak of write about it.
I'm from Pittsburgh, with about an hour of driving you can hear several first hand accounts of people who witnessed something crash in Kecksburg during December 1965, and the military came in to cart away this "nothing" that crashed in the woods. From the descriptions of the object, I'd be more likely to believe that it was a Soviet space craft than anything "Alien".
It's kind of hard to keep a lid on the "big stories" like Roswell. The only way to keep it quiet would have been to kill every witness, but then the strange disappearance would have been a story with its own life. Instead of UFO crash stories, we'd have stories about mass disappearances/murders.
But because it's the Government it must be a conspiracy of some sort.
A large corporation can sue you into bankruptcy, but they can't label you a terrorist or a "hacker" and incarcerate you without trial for several years. SCO can't shoot at Linus 41 times as he reaches for his wallet. We have far more to fear from the government, as such we should be more watchful of the government's activities.
On the positive side, we can hope that in 7 years the UK will release some useful information about what US and UK military personnel encountered in Rendelsham Forest in December 1980
NeXTs two biggest problems were it was ahead of it's time and Jobs refused to cater his company's products or even sell machines to the people who were trying to beat down the doors and buy hardware the first couple of years after the NeXT cubes were released.
NeXT's single biggest problem is the same on that Apple had in the 80s. Steve Jobs is an asshole.
Woz was a great hacker and builder. Jobs was a decent businessman, but he was also an asshole. So many of his decisions are idiotic in retrospect that I am surprised that Apple has done as well as it has.
That's why all the crappy low-budget ads on TV do well. It isn't landing the first sale for that crappy kitchen gadget. It's selling item after item to the moron customer base they build up.
Infomercials aren't so bad. Back when I was a teenager, I used to know the guy who invented DiDi 7. I even beat him at connect 4 once.
But to the point, you can change the channel when an infomercial is on. Pop ups are damned intrusive.
IMHO, pop ups are worse, much worse than spam. I delete spam before I even read it. It takes no time, I spend so much more time closing pop ups than I ever did dealing with spam.
Feh, get a clue. The original Mac OS ran on m68k too, does that mean it can't run on my computer because I have a PowerPC?
It means exactly that. Just TRY to boot System 6.0.8 on your iMac. It isn't going to happen. The needed ROM file isn't a part of the old Mac OS.
From NeXT it draws some other low level stuff and the rest of the kernel, along with a bunch of interface ideas. From Mac OS, it draws inspiration.
From NeXT, X draws mostly inspiration as well. The original Mach kernel can't be run on a PowerPC. It had to be rewritten. NeXT did not code for the PowerPC because the chip did not exist when they were putting out hardware.
As just one minor example, look through any random Cocoa headers, and you'll find #ifdefs for WIN32, which are left over from Yellow Box's Windows NT days.
That whole Yellow Box/Blue Box business went on at Apple, not NeXT.
The early developer releases were basically NeXT with a Mac-looking interface, ported to the PowerPC.
Somewhere stashed away, I have Rhapsody DR 1. I used to run in on a PowerMac 7300.
And NeXT did go somewhere-- into the computer on which I'm typing this post, and those of anyone reading it on a machine running OS X.
Ok, I'm officially tired of hearing this one. NeXT's OS was for an m68k series processor. Your Mac has a Power PC. Maybe inspiration, maybe ideas, maybe even a few snippets of NeXT's code are in your OS, but the vast majority of it was new work done by Apple as it currently exists.
All the fatal flaws for which the Jr. is now renowned were brought up, but the presenters were oblivious. The rest is history.
I worked for Circuit City a little over 5 years ago, after DiVX was announced but before its release. I remember telling several managers why its going to fail and getting nothing but blank stares in response.
I remember one of them, my department manager, Scott saying something to the effect of "This company spent 80 million dollars on this. I don't think they would have done that if they weren't sure this was going to take off"
Well, he was a nice guy but he had no fucking idea of what he was talking about.
I wasn't working for CC when they killed off DiVX, but I have been looking for Scott ever since to tell him "I Told You So!"
Saved by Microsoft? hahaha! Microsoft give them a few mill to say to the courts "look, we encourage competition!!", this fails to show that Apple have BILLIONS stuck away,and Microsoft's contribution maybe brought a new type of coffee into the office vending machines, it's a farse.
Saying that Microsoft saved Apple would be akin to me saying that I prevented the Ocean from drying up when I peed in it.
Microsoft didn't "give" Apple anything. They bought 150 million dollars worth of "non-voting" Apple stock. It was a good faith jesture, Bill Gates is the one man who has a reality distortion field that Steve Jobs can't penetrate.
What are everyone else's personal "WTF were/are they thinking?"
Pop ups, Pop unders, and tracking bugs.
I don't buy nor look at ads that arrive in front of my face via pop ups. I don't know why anyone does. Someone out there MUST be buying X10 cameras and Viagra or else people would use pop ups for advertising.
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the relative laxness of its penalties are also notable.
WHAT?!?! Kiss my ass. 6 months is jail is NOT lax! I don't want to spend 6 hours in the custody of the state.
I> A first offense would be punishable by six months in jail and up to $1,000 fine
First offense drunk drivers don't get 6 months in jail in Ohio.
Just because the pentalties aren't as draconian as California's doesn't mean that they're lax.
LK
You may recall, I wasn't talking about "eye-witnesses" but the total absence of physical evidence despite thousands of "documented" encounters.
Would phisiological differences between people who claim to be abductees and the rest of us be sufficient?
Or how about evidence of implants being seen with MRIs?
We have lots of evidence, just no conclusive proof.
As others have said absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
LK
Yes, all 200 plus national governments over the last thousand years have had this policy.
Rapid communication and reliable transportation have only made this an issue for the past 100 or so.
If there were as many eyewitnesses to a murder, we'd have long since had a hanging. Doctors, lawyers, even US Presidents have reported sightings. Are you really so vain as to think that we are God's, or Nature's greatest creation?
Plus, their interest in us seemed to grow after we started detonating nuclear weapons. The number of sightings after the 1940s was much higher than the number of sightings before.
Oh is that so ?
Yes, it is.
How would you take motiviation from someone like Saddam, Osama or even Hitler ?
Saddam Hussein- By not leading him to believe that we don't care if he invades Kuwait and then killing his army when he does.
Osama Bin Laden - By not unilaterally supporting Israel in every middle eastern conflict.
Hitler - He was not a terrorist. He was a madman. Terrorists have political motivations. Hitler's only motivation was power. War was the only way to stop him.
I don't know why I took the time to respond to an anonymous troll like yourself, well maybe someone who is capable of thinking about this issue will read my response.
LK
Truthfully, if terrorists try to blow up airplanes again, they're going to do it from the outside or from the cargo hold. They'd time it so the wreckage fell on some big city.
And you know this how?
Terrorists is successful when they succeed at a task that no one thought that they were going to undertake.
We apparently have a problem with understanding how they think. If you believe (and I mean BELIEVE) that your actions are justified, even righteous and you that will be rewarded by God himself, there isn't much that you won't do.
Here in the western world, people have beliefs that they deal with on Sunday. In other parts of the world people live their beliefs for virtually every second of every day. How many western Jews do you know who don't keep Kosher? I know many. I also know western Muslims who eat things that are not Halal. The western mind is not the same as the Middle Eastern mind. Pure and simple.
Salah Johnson and Sol Goldstein who live down the street from you aren't culturally the same as the fundamentalists who come from the other side of the planet.
Until we take away their motivation, we will always face the threat of terrorism.
LK
Oh please. What a strawman. What if I try to boot, say, Mac OS 9 on that iMac? It will work.
On most iMacs(up to the summer 2000 models, the last ones that I'm familiar with), yes it will.
You seem to be under the impression that moving from on processor architecture to another necessitates a total rewrite, which is an extremely odd idea to have.
Not a "total" rewrite, but much of it must be rewritten. Memory management on the M68k architecture is different than memory management on the PPC architecture.
They looked at buying either Be or NeXT, and using their OS as a base to build a next-generation Apple OS. They decided to go with NeXT, and that's exactly what they did.
I was hoping that it would have been Be, because Be had a working OS ready to go. Instead of taking 3 years to take NeXT's work and apply it to their new hardware, it would have taken much less work to turn BeOS into Mac OS 10/X/whatever.
But in the end, I suppose it matters little. Apple chose NeXT, and after working their asses off produced a better OS than they had before.
LK
I forgot, these aliens always make contact in the US. Or do you imply that every nation in the world is part of the cover-up? If so, one must assume then that the aliens already control every government...
There are reports of contact from all over the globe. One doesn't need to conclude that the aliens "control" anything. One only needs to conclude that the governments of earth would prefer to keep control over their people by not causing too much of an uproar.
If a flying disc were observed from one side, it would appear to be "cigar shaped"
Sorry I didn't properly clost the tag on the first one...
UFO's are a real laughing matter huh?
Well then why does this book, which is endorsed by FEMA, have a chapter about dealing with them?
I'm sure we all know how FEMA loves pracitical jokes.
LK
UFO's are a real laughing matter huh?
/ -/0912212268/qid=1073027347//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl 14/002-5609637-9222448?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"> this book, which is endorsed by FEMA have a chapter about dealing with them?
Well then why does href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail
I'm sure we all know how FEMA loves pracitical jokes.
LK
As for the specific shot 41 times incident, I'd hardly call that the work of the Government. The best case scenario is that those cops told the truth (we thought he was reaching for a gun) and acted in self-defense -- the worst case scenario is they were racist bastards and decided to execute him.
Honestly, I think it was a combination of both. Had Mr. Diallo been caucasian, I don't believe that the police would have interpreted his actions as threatening. Perhaps if he had been in a different city, he would have been better off. I have encountered police (and federal agents) who knew me to be armed that didn't get trigger happy when I made a move. Then again, I kept my hands in sight.
The problem lies with the fact that none of the officers lost his job for shooting an unarmed man.
While that's certainly not a "Good Thing" (tm) it's hardly a vast Government conspiracy.
I guess that depends on how you define "vast".
We should be watchful. But we should also not make the mistake of classifying the Government as "them" vs "us". The Government is "us". By the people, for the people.
The government is both "them" and "us". "My" goverment keeps information from "me" and "you" to protect all of "us". It's the nature of the beast.
I've actually heard about that incident. I'm not going to comment on any of your other UFO ramblings -- I've always tended to think that 99% of them are manmade and that the LGMs have better things to do then fly around our military bases
Indulge me for just a moment here. We (humans) go out into rather inhospitable places and tranquilize animals and tag them so that we can track their movements. If we are being visited by other lifeforms, wouldn't it follow that they would be interested in studying us; just as we are interested in studying caribou or kodiak bears?
If those animals have some sort of language, do you think that the other caribou and bears believe them when they tell what happened to them?
The cutting edge of our technology would be located at military bases. Remember what you said about the B2? If you were from a civilization that was far beyond ours, where would you look to see how far humanity has advanced, from a technological standpoint? I suspect that it would be at a military base.
but the problem with the whole UFO subculture is that if the UK does release some useful information and if said information reveals that it was a Soviet spy plane/sat, weather balloon, or any other man-made source they will think "cover-up". They might even be right. The problem is they refuse to acknowledge the fact that they might (and probably are) be wrong.
There is too much history behind the phenomena. Nearly 50,000 years ago people were drawing things in caves that looked an awful lot like the UFOs that people still report seeing today. 800 years ago, someone in Japan wrote of watching a "flying earthenware vessel" fly northeast from a mointain in Kii province.
When papers get released under FoIA requests here in the US, it's not unusual for 80% or more to be redacted. You can't have it both ways. The government can't claim to have no information about UFOs, but at the same time censor information about UFOs because of "national security".
Whereas I have no problem admitting that we might be wrong about Roswell, Rendelsham, Kecksburg, Long Island, Aztec, and countless others. In fact I'll go as far as to say that most of them are probably bunk. I have to stress that they can't all be.
So, even if in 7 years we find out that what landed in Rendelsham was just an experimental UK-US jointly developed aircraft, that's fine. There are still so many others that could prove to be the real McCoy (so to speak).
The US Government still denies the existance of Area 51, even thought there are signed posted all over the place saying that it is US Gov't property and that deadly force is authorized.
I have little doubt that it is "for our own good", but we are lied to every day.
LK
I have a friend who was in the Military back in teh 1960s. He was able to tell me that one of the assignments that he had involved lowering a 200+ foot long antenna from the back of an airplane flying near the Florida Keys. I said, that I assumed that they were listening for something coming out of Cuba. ~40 years later he told me that he could not respond to my comment, that the work was still classified.
/., but fuck it I have nothing to hide. 20 years ago I saw several UFOs, I also encountered a Man in Black several months later. Even now, a chill passes through me every time I speak of write about it.
In all seriousness, the government may keep things classified long after they are common knowledge, but how many times have you heard of them taking something that is ALREADY public knowledge and then keeping it classified for 50 years?
I'm hesitant to say this here on
I'm from Pittsburgh, with about an hour of driving you can hear several first hand accounts of people who witnessed something crash in Kecksburg during December 1965, and the military came in to cart away this "nothing" that crashed in the woods. From the descriptions of the object, I'd be more likely to believe that it was a Soviet space craft than anything "Alien".
It's kind of hard to keep a lid on the "big stories" like Roswell. The only way to keep it quiet would have been to kill every witness, but then the strange disappearance would have been a story with its own life. Instead of UFO crash stories, we'd have stories about mass disappearances/murders.
But because it's the Government it must be a conspiracy of some sort.
A large corporation can sue you into bankruptcy, but they can't label you a terrorist or a "hacker" and incarcerate you without trial for several years. SCO can't shoot at Linus 41 times as he reaches for his wallet. We have far more to fear from the government, as such we should be more watchful of the government's activities.
On the positive side, we can hope that in 7 years the UK will release some useful information about what US and UK military personnel encountered in Rendelsham Forest in December 1980
is making me want to go out and really kill a few Hatians.
Relax, it's just a joke
LK
First off, where do you get off that everyone defending the Constitution and the rights enumerated therein is a "liberal?"
Umm, all one has to do is read the last line of your post to know that you're a "liberal".
Haven't we lost enough of our civil liberties in the last two and a half years?
I rest my case.
You have it all wrong. I hate Apple just as much as I hate Microsoft.
I hate lies most of all.
LK
NeXTs two biggest problems were it was ahead of it's time and Jobs refused to cater his company's products or even sell machines to the people who were trying to beat down the doors and buy hardware the first couple of years after the NeXT cubes were released.
NeXT's single biggest problem is the same on that Apple had in the 80s. Steve Jobs is an asshole.
Woz was a great hacker and builder. Jobs was a decent businessman, but he was also an asshole. So many of his decisions are idiotic in retrospect that I am surprised that Apple has done as well as it has.
LK
That's why all the crappy low-budget ads on TV do well. It isn't landing the first sale for that crappy kitchen gadget. It's selling item after item to the moron customer base they build up.
Infomercials aren't so bad. Back when I was a teenager, I used to know the guy who invented DiDi 7. I even beat him at connect 4 once.
But to the point, you can change the channel when an infomercial is on. Pop ups are damned intrusive.
IMHO, pop ups are worse, much worse than spam. I delete spam before I even read it. It takes no time, I spend so much more time closing pop ups than I ever did dealing with spam.
LK
Feh, get a clue. The original Mac OS ran on m68k too, does that mean it can't run on my computer because I have a PowerPC?
It means exactly that. Just TRY to boot System 6.0.8 on your iMac. It isn't going to happen. The needed ROM file isn't a part of the old Mac OS.
From NeXT it draws some other low level stuff and the rest of the kernel, along with a bunch of interface ideas. From Mac OS, it draws inspiration.
From NeXT, X draws mostly inspiration as well. The original Mach kernel can't be run on a PowerPC. It had to be rewritten. NeXT did not code for the PowerPC because the chip did not exist when they were putting out hardware.
As just one minor example, look through any random Cocoa headers, and you'll find #ifdefs for WIN32, which are left over from Yellow Box's Windows NT days.
That whole Yellow Box/Blue Box business went on at Apple, not NeXT.
The early developer releases were basically NeXT with a Mac-looking interface, ported to the PowerPC.
Somewhere stashed away, I have Rhapsody DR 1. I used to run in on a PowerMac 7300.
So the Hindu's have succeeded in naming the project Avatar. I'm sure that the Muslims in India have a lot to say about that.
LK
And NeXT did go somewhere-- into the computer on which I'm typing this post, and those of anyone reading it on a machine running OS X.
Ok, I'm officially tired of hearing this one. NeXT's OS was for an m68k series processor. Your Mac has a Power PC. Maybe inspiration, maybe ideas, maybe even a few snippets of NeXT's code are in your OS, but the vast majority of it was new work done by Apple as it currently exists.
LK
All the fatal flaws for which the Jr. is now renowned were brought up, but the presenters were oblivious. The rest is history.
I worked for Circuit City a little over 5 years ago, after DiVX was announced but before its release. I remember telling several managers why its going to fail and getting nothing but blank stares in response.
I remember one of them, my department manager, Scott saying something to the effect of "This company spent 80 million dollars on this. I don't think they would have done that if they weren't sure this was going to take off"
Well, he was a nice guy but he had no fucking idea of what he was talking about.
I wasn't working for CC when they killed off DiVX, but I have been looking for Scott ever since to tell him "I Told You So!"
LK
Saved by Microsoft? hahaha! Microsoft give them a few mill to say to the courts "look, we encourage competition!!", this fails to show that Apple have BILLIONS stuck away,and Microsoft's contribution maybe brought a new type of coffee into the office vending machines, it's a farse.
Saying that Microsoft saved Apple would be akin to me saying that I prevented the Ocean from drying up when I peed in it.
Microsoft didn't "give" Apple anything. They bought 150 million dollars worth of "non-voting" Apple stock. It was a good faith jesture, Bill Gates is the one man who has a reality distortion field that Steve Jobs can't penetrate.
LK
What are everyone else's personal "WTF were/are they thinking?"
Pop ups, Pop unders, and tracking bugs.
I don't buy nor look at ads that arrive in front of my face via pop ups. I don't know why anyone does. Someone out there MUST be buying X10 cameras and Viagra or else people would use pop ups for advertising.
I think you mean flop 9. The article is about the biggest 8.
The PCjr, Internet Appliances and WebTV are on the list but where is NeXT, Steve Job's bastard child went that went nowhere?
I know one, precisely one, person who owns a NeXT Station. I know many who own WebTVs and Internet Appliances.
Oh, wait a minute... I get it now. There are links to buy iPods on the page. Can't bite the hand that feeds you, I guess.
LK