even if a work is in public domain, if someone has put it behind any sort of access control -- say, a dumb ROT13 password scheme -- it is illegal to access the mateial (despite your legal right to copy it)
heck I am having trouble getting backups off 15 floppies from 1990. I can't imagine after 20 years I not only had to find the tool but a tool that wasn't even supposed to exist!
In all honesty, I doubt things would change that much if we have 8300 representatives vs. 435. yea, but can you image bribing 4151 representatives? I think even companies would be hard pressed to make a dent...
I know Bush is the pom pom queen for the economy, but if his past successes are good predictors of future success, our economy is doomed.
The skeletons in his closet are busted companies and state shortfalls in the billions.
It's easy to cut taxes, but I'd like to see some cuts in spending too.
(end rant)
Sorry, it just ticks me off that the economy sucks and Bush is asking for more money to go piss off other countries.
On another note, if I was in Iran, I'd be worried. I can imagine how worried I'd feel if some foreign country invaded Mexico and Canada...
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General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
You and your conspiracy theories are stagnant. Everyone knows it's a terrorist plot! Just ask Bush.
Thank goodness for Bush's moral convictions. We'll fight all the loonies at once and get this over with quick. 2 front, 3 front, NO a 7 front war on Terrorism!
To avoid differing versions, costly rewrites and so on, most publishers give their books to a few select committees in Texas (and California) for approval and only if they pass there do they go on to the rest of the country. Woo, Texas, where the right-wing trolls control the education system.
Anyone else sick of this damn state too?
I'm from Texas and there use to be a time when I would say I'm from Texas before saying I am an American. I think the show Dallas gave Texas a good reputation at least in Europe. I do not think that is true any longer.
I still love Texas. I just wish politicans who were raised elsewhere would stop claiming to be from our state. *cough* Bush sr. and *cough* Shrub.
Neat, a different view. I had not thought of it like Buck Rogers, but I guess it is a bit.
The reason I liked it was because it reminded me of the BBC's Blake's 7, a bunch of space criminals with one person with high morals. Of course I never did like the high morals. Avon was my favorite in Blake's 7 which probably explains why I like Rygel and Scorpius so much.
Next time you're driving around, note the number of cars driving like idiots, barely running, NOT running, and with dents.......now put them above your house.
You wanna keep them on the ground now don't you?
If you take humans out of the equation, then I can see flying 'cars.' I don't think any human could keep up with rush hour in a 3d space and parking garages, please show me the human that can day in and day out fly into a parking garage without hitting something.
FIX FIRST, meet later. It's an entirely different attitude, and it allows me to do my job more efficently. It works.
Gosh the exact opposite of that reminds me of NASA in the early 90s. A problem would happen. We'd have a meeting about the problem only to realize we needed another meeting to discuss the problem. Between the meetings to discuss the problem, we'd have a meeting to discuss the format for the next meeting. Of course in each meeting various contracting companies would be represented. The problem was always the fault of either A) the person or contract company not present at any of the meetings (hence why they have so many meetings) or B) the person to the left while seating around a table.
I never knew how the problems were solved. I never saw any solutions at the meetings. It's my belief that NASA has trained MICE doing the repairs for slices of cheese.
So we're gonna have blue lasers as well as red ones now? Good, then I'll finally be able to tell apart the good guys from the bad guys;)
I know what you're thinking, because right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why, oh why didn't I take the blue (pill)?...
Correct, but I wish file types were more standard. It is silly that I get a WORD document, print it out under WordPerfect (I support a legal department)and the formating is not the same because it had to be converted.
I'd say there are alternatives to WORD when there are no formating differences between different applications.
Using Homeowners Associations as an example, you'd think congress would realize how much people hate neighbor against neighbor policies. When the chief enforcement comes from neighbor's tips and spying, a free society suffers. Let the police do their job and trust your neighbor.
Of course a Homeowners Associations primary focus is to keep land value up, and the Congress's (under direction from RIAA) goal is to keep CD prices...well I guess they are very similar.
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even if a work is in public domain, if someone has put it behind any sort of access control -- say, a dumb ROT13 password scheme -- it is illegal to access the mateial (despite your legal right to copy it)
heck I am having trouble getting backups off 15 floppies from 1990. I can't imagine after 20 years I not only had to find the tool but a tool that wasn't even supposed to exist!
I think my 01 Teamster boss robot will take issue with this article.
01 says everything is fine.
I have a friend that says 'he's too rich to be a Democrat.'
It would be very annoying to see these commercials offered on TIVO.
If the commercials aren't offered on the TIVO by TIVO, why again would I watch a commercial?
or just tell people to go to www.peacefire.org
In all honesty, I doubt things would change that much if we have 8300 representatives vs. 435.
yea, but can you image bribing 4151 representatives? I think even companies would be hard pressed to make a dent...
Hmm...didn't humans come up with some chemical compound that would kill the lizards? I thought we had already won.
Because of air currents, there were areas where the lizards could live.
Why lizard didn't bomb the humans with rocks from space to keep us in the stone age, I'll never know. I'm sure after a few rocks we'd make great pets.
9/11 certanly didn't boost the economy
I guess it depends on what sector of the economy you are in. I'd say security and defense got a major shot in the arm.
Ah the old saying: If all you've got is a hammer, everthing begins to look like a nail.
The sad part is politicans have access to a variety of hammars, but continue to pound the 'people' nail with the 'tax' hammar.
actually it sounds like Joe Nievelt got a better deal. He was facing the 97.8 billion:
97.7 billion / 150K = 652000 files
652000/$17k = about 38 cents a file.
That is why we need a "None of the above" choice on the ballot too
:( he's probably right.
Everytime I hear the 'None of the above' issue, I remember a judge out west denying a guy a request for a name change.....to "None of the above"
It seems he was planning on running for office and he thought the name change would help.
Geek is about to score, music runs out,
girl reconsiders. Geek then starts programming
project to make him COOLER???
Hey if the Matrix existed before AI, then the above is in the correct order of events. It would happen.
Great, now we know where Grim's Fairy Tales come from!
Of course some of us already knew this from watching the 10th Kingdom.
Just wait. When the troll armies march in and take over New York, you'll remember this theory.
I know Bush is the pom pom queen for the economy, but if his past successes are good predictors of future success, our economy is doomed.
The skeletons in his closet are busted companies and state shortfalls in the billions.
It's easy to cut taxes, but I'd like to see some cuts in spending too.
(end rant)
Sorry, it just ticks me off that the economy sucks and Bush is asking for more money to go piss off other countries.
On another note, if I was in Iran, I'd be worried. I can imagine how worried I'd feel if some foreign country invaded Mexico and Canada...
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
You and your conspiracy theories are stagnant. Everyone knows it's a terrorist plot! Just ask Bush.
Thank goodness for Bush's moral convictions. We'll fight all the loonies at once and get this over with quick. 2 front, 3 front, NO a 7 front war on Terrorism!
We'll start with the tooth fairy.
To avoid differing versions, costly rewrites and so on, most publishers give their books to a few select committees in Texas (and California) for approval and only if they pass there do they go on to the rest of the country.
Woo, Texas, where the right-wing trolls control the education system.
Anyone else sick of this damn state too?
I'm from Texas and there use to be a time when I would say I'm from Texas before saying I am an American. I think the show Dallas gave Texas a good reputation at least in Europe. I do not think that is true any longer.
I still love Texas. I just wish politicans who were raised elsewhere would stop claiming to be from our state. *cough* Bush sr. and *cough* Shrub.
It's something like Buck Rogers
Neat, a different view. I had not thought of it like Buck Rogers, but I guess it is a bit.
The reason I liked it was because it reminded me of the BBC's Blake's 7, a bunch of space criminals with one person with high morals. Of course I never did like the high morals. Avon was my favorite in Blake's 7 which probably explains why I like Rygel and Scorpius so much.
If people live longer, approaching forever, they will be MORE worried about the various things that can snuff out life.
That might be true of some, but I know some people who would get bored living forever. Those people would seek out risk.
Of course there are all those religious fanatics who should take some risks otherwise they might never meet their maker.
Ah, and if I were truly evil, I'd price the prosthesis so high, they'd have to make the corporation (Lilith Inc.) the power of attorney.
ah souls, get them before they die...
(seriously offtopic: I'm POA of my parents, but can companies or trusts be POA of individuals?)
Next time you're driving around, note the number of cars driving like idiots, barely running, NOT running, and with dents.... ...now put them above your house.
You wanna keep them on the ground now don't you?
If you take humans out of the equation, then I can see flying 'cars.' I don't think any human could keep up with rush hour in a 3d space and parking garages, please show me the human that can day in and day out fly into a parking garage without hitting something.
FIX FIRST, meet later. It's an entirely different attitude, and it allows me to do my job more efficently. It works.
Gosh the exact opposite of that reminds me of NASA in the early 90s. A problem would happen. We'd have a meeting about the problem only to realize we needed another meeting to discuss the problem. Between the meetings to discuss the problem, we'd have a meeting to discuss the format for the next meeting. Of course in each meeting various contracting companies would be represented. The problem was always the fault of either A) the person or contract company not present at any of the meetings (hence why they have so many meetings) or B) the person to the left while seating around a table.
I never knew how the problems were solved. I never saw any solutions at the meetings. It's my belief that NASA has trained MICE doing the repairs for slices of cheese.
So we're gonna have blue lasers as well as red ones now? Good, then I'll finally be able to tell apart the good guys from the bad guys ;)
I know what you're thinking, because right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why, oh why didn't I take the blue (pill)?...
Correct, but I wish file types were more standard. It is silly that I get a WORD document, print it out under WordPerfect (I support a legal department)and the formating is not the same because it had to be converted.
I'd say there are alternatives to WORD when there are no formating differences between different applications.
Using Homeowners Associations as an example, you'd think congress would realize how much people hate neighbor against neighbor policies. When the chief enforcement comes from neighbor's tips and spying, a free society suffers. Let the police do their job and trust your neighbor.
Of course a Homeowners Associations primary focus is to keep land value up, and the Congress's (under direction from RIAA) goal is to keep CD prices...well I guess they are very similar.
we can't have the riff raff coming in...
a totally flat light source which might give traditional LED's a run for their money."
I had to reread the begining because I thought totally flat was 2d and my mind couldn't wrap itself around 2d light. How am I going to see it?