I was in the U.K. in the early '80's, with pals having an unlicensed television in their squat. The detector-van spotted the operation of their set, and dispatched license-fee collector to the addresss.
My mates, upon recieving the notice for license payment and fine collection, tried to demonstrate that the set in question was in disrepair, and could only receive broadcast signal from ITV. The license, it was argued, was a subscription subsidy for the two BBC channels - which they were not privileged to enjoy.
The argument did not carry water with the myrmidon from television licensing, and funds were managed, to the disadvantage of an off-license that week.
As NetBSD has changed its logo, and FreeBSD announced a contest to change theirs. Are there mow separate "Logos" and "Mascots"? Can a portrait of Kirk McKusick be put on a flag?
before it gets better with regards to all of this. Everyone should be writing their rep's, running for office, something so we don't start going down that 'slippery slope'.
That slope you refer to is in the rearview mirror.
I like the war on Drugs. I think it's the best hundred billion we ever spent! Now, no one can get drugs, anymore. Well, I mean no seniors can get them. That's a pretty good measure of success - we started at the top!
I can't wait until this war on Terrorism really gets rolling! That's so much better an idea than having a war on Murder, which is far too broad a category of behavior. I just hope they don't expand the Terror war into the war on Lustful Glances!
Is plausable - except for the dominance of MCA as an architecture. PS/2 was already a market loser, without OS support.
Compaq and friends succesfully pushed EISA, while AST was moderately confusing things with "Cupid32". Others were doing the same.
The standards and the market were ripe for Intel to capitalize on a bus standard. This was part of a big strategy to unify the market, towards the aim of capturing a significant section of OEM chipsets and motherboards.
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I wonder, where were the Young Ones were supposed to be squatting?
Well, I can wait, young man. I can wait all day, and when that telly comes out, you're all in trouble!
Makes for some reading.
He could run 'em on hot air, for free!
I was in the U.K. in the early '80's, with pals having an unlicensed television in their squat. The detector-van spotted the operation of their set, and dispatched license-fee collector to the addresss.
My mates, upon recieving the notice for license payment and fine collection, tried to demonstrate that the set in question was in disrepair, and could only receive broadcast signal from ITV. The license, it was argued, was a subscription subsidy for the two BBC channels - which they were not privileged to enjoy.
The argument did not carry water with the myrmidon from television licensing, and funds were managed, to the disadvantage of an off-license that week.
Seems to me that they're taxing the wrong folks, the wrong amounts.
Because a formerly unacknowleged agency now publishes it's "mission' publicly?
"Yes, we Secret Police have now abandoned our culture of secrecy!" Publishing this is a great cover.
"It was in the New York Times, all the news that's fit to print!"
Reading this thread is like watching denizens of the Matrix, speculating on the meaning of the things they read.
Frustrate the courts. Frustrate the people.
I like Mondegreens from obsure Donovan B-Sides.
'Course I meant Arthur Anderson.
The tax and audit guys.
'Nuff said, about forever.
Of course there is also a Blowfish and a Firefly.
I can't wait until this war on Terrorism really gets rolling! That's so much better an idea than having a war on Murder, which is far too broad a category of behavior. I just hope they don't expand the Terror war into the war on Lustful Glances!
A picture of Kirk McKusick?
You're Fired!
A C++ Library? If this can be described as an innovation, then the term is far more debased than ever I imagined!
I managed a 35% reduction in price + free shipping and a printer last time.
We found it. It didn't have anyone's name on it.
She's back on, this morning!
Outlaw people, not software. :-)
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Down for almost a week now.
Compaq and friends succesfully pushed EISA, while AST was moderately confusing things with "Cupid32". Others were doing the same.
The standards and the market were ripe for Intel to capitalize on a bus standard. This was part of a big strategy to unify the market, towards the aim of capturing a significant section of OEM chipsets and motherboards.
And it worked.
It's the future, and you're living it today!
Astrophysics is math, talking about math. "But look! We can see that there is consistancy in the application and the result!"
It tells you more about mathemematics as an instrument, than it does about the nature of the universe.
Bloody materialists! Worse than Libertarians! :-)