Lesse, 10^-6 x 10^-9 x 3.00 x 10^8 equals... (six plus 9, er 15, minus 8, um 7, negate, -7): 3.00x10^-7 metres, 3.00x10^-4 millimetres, or a little over a ten thousandth of an inch, but less than two ten thousandths of an inch.
i can't begin to count the number of times ginger's tits, hips, and pouty lips got me off.
Perhaps, but it was Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) that usually wore the tighter tops and shorts (and was better endowed in the "top" department, IIRC), though Ginger (Tina Louise) played the part of the flirtatious movie star.
I have had nothing but positive Ebay experiences. Frankly, while I generally value my privacy, I have no qualms about having financial information about the auctions in which I participate freely available.
Of course, caveat emptor. I have checked out sellers carefully: When I spent around US$1100 for a pair of used B&G Radia 520 speakers, from a local seller, I insisted to pay COD, and offered to pay him what would be a reasonable shipping expense on top of byu winning bid. That way, I got to try before I paid. We both ended up happy: I got my speakers, and he got a small premium for a 60 mile drive.
Since then, I've made purchases in the $100-$300 range, with no problems. But, do check out the sellers.
How often do you get to watch pr0n legitimately at work, anyway?
Often.
Legitimately.
And, more than "once".
It gets real old, real fast, actually.
See, I work for a three-letter company that makes system on chip components for set-top boxes (as well as more common PC graphics cards). The set-top boxes can include analog and digital television tuners, and we sometimes have to test integrated system functions, like channel changing. We thus have a local feed for this purpose, and one of the channels was, at one time, a soft-core porn channel. I don't know if it still is available. Frankly, I don't care.
Now, if it were my job to monitor this on a regular basis, I'd have the monitor turned away from the hallway along the cubicles, since some might find such content offensive or disturbing. But, the person who's regular job this was had it in full view from outside his cube, and, as far as I know, no one in the mixed-gender environment complained.
It was legitimate work: people watch TV, they channel surf, and some channels contain porn.
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I find the comparison of propaganda techniques used by SCO and the Nazi Minister of Propaganda not subject to Godwin's law, and actually, rather telling about the character of the players at SCO.
It is not a comparison between SCO and a Nazi regime (which would come under the thread-pruning of Godwin's Law).
In fact, I think that a propaganda technique that was effective in promoting genocide would be even more effective in helping to perpetuate a lesser crime (all other crimes, arguably, being lesser crimes than genocide).
As others have noted, SCO's propaga^H^H^H^H^Hess releases get significant exposure whereas reasoned responses from the likes of ESR, BP, et. al. get relatively little.
If you leave your car on my property I can do anything I like to it.
Er, while IANAL, I would think not.
In most jurisdictions, you are responsible for reasonable care for another's property precisely because it is not your own.
Now, you could probably have the car towed to an impound lot (where it will be safe), at the owner's expense (proper signage indicating this is generally required for areas that may be confused with public parking lots). You don't have to suffer it's presence on your property.
But, in general, you can't just treat it as your own.Of course, this is not legal advice, and you should seek the advice of council if this situation applies to you.
Heck, I've been doing this for years, generally in the area of test automation.
There are usually two cases:
1. The need to automate the generation of some type of code or script for a large number of test cases, where the scripts would otherwise be generated manually.
2. The need to generate tests to excercise implementations from what can best be described as a machine readable description of interfaces and exchanged data types.
The second case is rather interesting in that all the information in most client/server IDLs is usually sufficient to describe the objects that can be passed (via the building of the stubs for their marshalling/demarshalling), as well as the interfaces themselves.
Of course, compilers for more traditional languages generally the structural information for object classes directly, and could output this for the benefit of automaticallly generating test clients for a particular interface, but getting that data out of the compiler's symbol table is often like pulling teeth.
When I had DSL service, with a static IP address, in Allen, TX (a suburb of Dallas -- damn I miss living in Texas), my ISP made it clear to me that I should damn well get a firewall. Of course, (a) I knew this, (b) let them know, (c) told them I appreciated their efforts to educate their customers.
Now, this wasn't perfect, as they didn't require me to use a firewall, but it was better than nothing.
My ISP in Whitby, ON (Canada) (a suburb of Toronto -- damn I miss living in Texas), went a bit further: they were willing to provide me with a static IP address, if I could justify it to them. I let them know that (a) I liked to sink my own email with a backup MX if the connection went down and I did not run an open relay; (b) wanted to administer my home network remotely via ssh; (c) was planning to install a hardware firewall.
Interestingly, this ISP saved me the trouble of picking a firewall: they required that I use a particular brand of firewall/DSL modem. Unfortunately, it came configured wide open, but that was easy to fix. (amazing the traffic posting "crack past this firewall" to #2600 generates).
Who thinks you can't yell that there's a fire when there is one?
A lot of people, who misread or misunderstood that decision, would think this. The fact remains that speech, at least in the U.S.A. is not, by itself, considered harmful.
None will take an mpeg stream and decode it entirely.
ATI's Xilleon chipsets will do dual HD MPEG2 decoding, overlay, and display. They do have graphics overlay capabilities as well, but are primarlily designed for Set top boxes.
For the "official" word, search ATI's website for "Xilleon".
Look at this for example. It is a compiled discography of most of my, my wife's, and our children's music, with interesting links to.pls playlist files for xmms.
Of course the/media/music root of all the referenced.shn files won't resolve except on my home LAN, or a machine with a secure tunnel to same. I am not sharing these files.
It would not be a stretch to have included other meta-data, like ID tags, so others could compare if their copy of Handel's Messiah was likely the same version as mine (i.e. recorded by the same orchestra and choir).
The bottom like is that, while ID tags might lead to a reasonable suspicion that I had, and may still have, the associated audio files, they don't necessarily mean that I am sharing those files. A human could verify this quite easily, but I doubt the RIAA's bots are sufficiently sophisticated to make that determination.
On an interesting side note... when I returned to Canada from the U.S.A., I took essentials, like my computer, with copies of all our music, with me, with other stuff to follow later, including all the original CDs. Making copies for personal use of digital media is legal in Canada, AFAIK, though, if push came to shove, there would have been a short period of time when I could not prove I had the original CDs from which the copies were made. Even if I could, would the fact that I was not in immediate possession have been a legal problem? I think not, but they way this witchhunt is going, one can't be too careful.
These rights are not "American", per se. They belong to all. Americans just happened to recognize them first (and best) in modern history.
The greatest challenge is to appropriately restrain the use of individual force against those that would abridge such rights, whereever in the world they may be, until such time, as maximum effect can be had.
One of the worst things about Canada is that Canadian socialist attitudes tend to filter south and poison the minds of those that live in the shade of the tree of liberty (not that they haven't been poisioned by home-grown drivel). That alone should be reason enough to have Canada "Iraqued".
I truely detest this place and would turn traitor the second American troops would invade. You could argue I already have.
Guess what? That's exactly what happens with the US constitution and your right to go around yelling 'FIRE!' in crowded areas
This has got to be the most misreferenced legal decision in the U.S.A.
You have every right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded area, if indeed, there is a fire. Even though, the resulting panic might cause people to die -- the presumption is that it is no worse than what they would suffer if they remained and burned to death.
What you do not have the right to do is to shout "FIRE!" when there, is, in fact none, as the resulting panic can be expected to result in people being harmed, for no good reason.
Funny, I found the U.S. far more tolerant of dissent than Canada -- not so much government, as much as ordinary people -- Canadians strike me as scared of their government, so they toe the line, and act like low-level functionaries in a Naziesque regime: not necessarily supporting the status quo, but finding it more comfortable for themselves to not rock the boat.
FWIW, I had lived in a small northwest suburb of Chicago (pop. about 17,000), as well as a north suburb of of Dallas -- what struck me the most about Texas was the peaceful live and let live attitude, and respect for others' person and property. Equally stunning was the apparent racial harmony I observed (biased, no doubt, by my white honkey ass) I saw in Texas, when compared to Chicago, Montreal, or Toronto.
I stand by my assertion, that Canadians, for the most part, and particularly when compared to Americans, are either rats, scurrying to position themselves as part of the largest group to subdue others, or sheep who have given up fighting for simple civil liberties. All countries have their share of rats, the U.S. being no exception (and undergoing a particularly currupt time right now), but the sheer fraction of "sheep" in Canada is stunning -- more reminiscent of frightened Germans in Nazi Germany, or Russians in Stalin's Soviet Union, that citizens of a free country.
May your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders, as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
For future reference, that tends to happen when you start out with lies, unverifiable testimonials, and a 'failed dot-commer's' interpretation of the Charter, and follow it up with insulting 100% of the people in a given country.
Lies? I prefer "unverified allegations". As for "unverifiable testimonials", that is what recounted experiences are.
I would expect, however, that someone with a law degree would not (a) be so cowardly as to hide behind an anonymous posting; (b) not have to resort to ad attacks in response -- surely such an educated person would have better command of the language and could respond with something like:
"These unverified allegations, and twisted interpretations of the law are a farce. Surely, no own can take such a warped rant from a sorry excuse of a member of the citizenry seriously. For example..."
and cite chapter and verse of misinterpreted law.
Failure to do this, having to result to simple name calling, defamation (calling me a liar, instead of misinformed, or mistaken), and anonymous posting, all add up to a weak response, clearly triggered by my "striking a nerve".
Of course, I offended and insulted Canadians. Half of them deserve far worse for their crimes, and the other half need to wake up and see the socialist sham they live.
But, there would be no chance in hell that cop would actually arrest you for discussing private vs socialized health care debates. He'd find some sort of other random bullshit by-law to fine you with, but very unlikely to arrest you. Unless you were causing some sort of scene on private property and you were asked to leave.
I would have very much liked to test the theory that I would not, in fact, have been arrested, but having two children to mind, and the task of waiting for my wife, this was not a practical option.
The general tone was that of, "In Canada, we are polite, you do not complain, or say things that might be offensive." While perhaps not grounds for arrest and prosecution, the threat of this, if one does not, in fact, "shut up" is very real -- at the least, one's life is made very inconvenient by the powers that be if one objects to the way things are. Whereas, in the U.S.A., even incoherent "bitching" in public is tolerated, so long as it remains peaceful, and not overly boisterous. In fact, it is almost looked upon as a civic duty. I think that is a far healthier attitude, even though it draws the KKK and neo-Nazi groups out of the woodwork (who's OTHER activities might very well warrant arrest).
Surprisingly, I have found older Canadians, who remember when Canada was not the welfare state it is now, generally in agreement with many of my criticisms of the status quo, denouncing it as a fraud and a sham. Though, a large proportion are quick to utter, "Shh! 'They'll' make life difficult if you complain." That is NOT the way of a free country.
try going to any London pub and giving an honest opinion about northern Ireland...you will be lucky to escape death
Ah yes, this is the "raping her is O.K. because killing her would be worse" defense. Neither is acceptable, and the horror of one does not diminish the repugnance of the other.
Try holding a seminar in the USA on how to covertly build a home-brew nuclear weapon and sneak it into public buildings.
Point noted (though I happen to think that should be permitted -- how else are security weakness to be identified and corrected?).
However, that is a far cry from: "In the U.S. hospitals have to compete for patients and so strive to provide the best ER care possible. In Canada, there is no incentive to do so." I was threatened over providing this explanation to my 10 year old, who could not understand why (a) her mother did not get a printed diagnosis after diagnosis, and (b) had to wait four hours to see a doctor.
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Fscking, bloody, tiny.
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
IOW, .... DUH!
I wish they had this service in Canada -- I had to return in 2002 (though I still use PayTrust for U.S. originated bills).
Something drives people to buy lottery tickets too, and it sure isn't the odds.
It's hope... the chance that somehow, you will beat the odds.
Perhaps, but it was Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) that usually wore the tighter tops and shorts (and was better endowed in the "top" department, IIRC), though Ginger (Tina Louise) played the part of the flirtatious movie star.
Of course, caveat emptor. I have checked out sellers carefully: When I spent around US$1100 for a pair of used B&G Radia 520 speakers, from a local seller, I insisted to pay COD, and offered to pay him what would be a reasonable shipping expense on top of byu winning bid. That way, I got to try before I paid. We both ended up happy: I got my speakers, and he got a small premium for a 60 mile drive.
Since then, I've made purchases in the $100-$300 range, with no problems. But, do check out the sellers.
Often.
Legitimately.
And, more than "once".
It gets real old, real fast, actually.
See, I work for a three-letter company that makes system on chip components for set-top boxes (as well as more common PC graphics cards). The set-top boxes can include analog and digital television tuners, and we sometimes have to test integrated system functions, like channel changing. We thus have a local feed for this purpose, and one of the channels was, at one time, a soft-core porn channel. I don't know if it still is available. Frankly, I don't care.
Now, if it were my job to monitor this on a regular basis, I'd have the monitor turned away from the hallway along the cubicles, since some might find such content offensive or disturbing. But, the person who's regular job this was had it in full view from outside his cube, and, as far as I know, no one in the mixed-gender environment complained.
It was legitimate work: people watch TV, they channel surf, and some channels contain porn.
It is not a comparison between SCO and a Nazi regime (which would come under the thread-pruning of Godwin's Law).
In fact, I think that a propaganda technique that was effective in promoting genocide would be even more effective in helping to perpetuate a lesser crime (all other crimes, arguably, being lesser crimes than genocide).
As others have noted, SCO's propaga^H^H^H^H^Hess releases get significant exposure whereas reasoned responses from the likes of ESR, BP, et. al. get relatively little.
Apparently, 640 KB is not enough for everybody.
Though, I would have never expected that it was Linux for which it would not be enough.
Er, while IANAL, I would think not.
In most jurisdictions, you are responsible for reasonable care for another's property precisely because it is not your own.
Now, you could probably have the car towed to an impound lot (where it will be safe), at the owner's expense (proper signage indicating this is generally required for areas that may be confused with public parking lots). You don't have to suffer it's presence on your property.
But, in general, you can't just treat it as your own.Of course, this is not legal advice, and you should seek the advice of council if this situation applies to you.
Either we come out ahead, or we wind up dead as the ultimate punishment for trying.
But, it is better to die a noble death in defense of liberty and justice than to prostitute one's morals before the tyrants of the day.
Eventualy some of us will come out ahead and perhaps they might remember our sacrifices for our common goal.
There are usually two cases:
1. The need to automate the generation of some type of code or script for a large number of test cases, where the scripts would otherwise be generated manually.
2. The need to generate tests to excercise implementations from what can best be described as a machine readable description of interfaces and exchanged data types.
The second case is rather interesting in that all the information in most client/server IDLs is usually sufficient to describe the objects that can be passed (via the building of the stubs for their marshalling/demarshalling), as well as the interfaces themselves.
Of course, compilers for more traditional languages generally the structural information for object classes directly, and could output this for the benefit of automaticallly generating test clients for a particular interface, but getting that data out of the compiler's symbol table is often like pulling teeth.
Now, this wasn't perfect, as they didn't require me to use a firewall, but it was better than nothing.
My ISP in Whitby, ON (Canada) (a suburb of Toronto -- damn I miss living in Texas), went a bit further: they were willing to provide me with a static IP address, if I could justify it to them. I let them know that (a) I liked to sink my own email with a backup MX if the connection went down and I did not run an open relay; (b) wanted to administer my home network remotely via ssh; (c) was planning to install a hardware firewall.
Interestingly, this ISP saved me the trouble of picking a firewall: they required that I use a particular brand of firewall/DSL modem. Unfortunately, it came configured wide open, but that was easy to fix. (amazing the traffic posting "crack past this firewall" to #2600 generates).
A lot of people, who misread or misunderstood that decision, would think this. The fact remains that speech, at least in the U.S.A. is not, by itself, considered harmful.
ATI's Xilleon chipsets will do dual HD MPEG2 decoding, overlay, and display. They do have graphics overlay capabilities as well, but are primarlily designed for Set top boxes.
For the "official" word, search ATI's website for "Xilleon".
Not necessarily.
Look at this for example. It is a compiled discography of most of my, my wife's, and our children's music, with interesting links to .pls playlist files for xmms.
Of course the /media/music root of all the referenced .shn files won't resolve except on my home LAN, or a machine with a secure tunnel to same. I am not sharing these files.
It would not be a stretch to have included other meta-data, like ID tags, so others could compare if their copy of Handel's Messiah was likely the same version as mine (i.e. recorded by the same orchestra and choir).
The bottom like is that, while ID tags might lead to a reasonable suspicion that I had, and may still have, the associated audio files, they don't necessarily mean that I am sharing those files. A human could verify this quite easily, but I doubt the RIAA's bots are sufficiently sophisticated to make that determination.
On an interesting side note... when I returned to Canada from the U.S.A., I took essentials, like my computer, with copies of all our music, with me, with other stuff to follow later, including all the original CDs. Making copies for personal use of digital media is legal in Canada, AFAIK, though, if push came to shove, there would have been a short period of time when I could not prove I had the original CDs from which the copies were made. Even if I could, would the fact that I was not in immediate possession have been a legal problem? I think not, but they way this witchhunt is going, one can't be too careful.
These rights are not "American", per se. They belong to all. Americans just happened to recognize them first (and best) in modern history.
The greatest challenge is to appropriately restrain the use of individual force against those that would abridge such rights, whereever in the world they may be, until such time, as maximum effect can be had.
One of the worst things about Canada is that Canadian socialist attitudes tend to filter south and poison the minds of those that live in the shade of the tree of liberty (not that they haven't been poisioned by home-grown drivel). That alone should be reason enough to have Canada "Iraqued".
I truely detest this place and would turn traitor the second American troops would invade. You could argue I already have.
This has got to be the most misreferenced legal decision in the U.S.A.
You have every right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded area, if indeed, there is a fire. Even though, the resulting panic might cause people to die -- the presumption is that it is no worse than what they would suffer if they remained and burned to death.
What you do not have the right to do is to shout "FIRE!" when there, is, in fact none, as the resulting panic can be expected to result in people being harmed, for no good reason.
FWIW, I had lived in a small northwest suburb of Chicago (pop. about 17,000), as well as a north suburb of of Dallas -- what struck me the most about Texas was the peaceful live and let live attitude, and respect for others' person and property. Equally stunning was the apparent racial harmony I observed (biased, no doubt, by my white honkey ass) I saw in Texas, when compared to Chicago, Montreal, or Toronto.
I stand by my assertion, that Canadians, for the most part, and particularly when compared to Americans, are either rats, scurrying to position themselves as part of the largest group to subdue others, or sheep who have given up fighting for simple civil liberties. All countries have their share of rats, the U.S. being no exception (and undergoing a particularly currupt time right now), but the sheer fraction of "sheep" in Canada is stunning -- more reminiscent of frightened Germans in Nazi Germany, or Russians in Stalin's Soviet Union, that citizens of a free country.
May your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders, as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
For future reference, that tends to happen when you start out with lies, unverifiable testimonials, and a 'failed dot-commer's' interpretation of the Charter, and follow it up with insulting 100% of the people in a given country.
Lies? I prefer "unverified allegations". As for "unverifiable testimonials", that is what recounted experiences are.
I would expect, however, that someone with a law degree would not (a) be so cowardly as to hide behind an anonymous posting; (b) not have to resort to ad attacks in response -- surely such an educated person would have better command of the language and could respond with something like:
"These unverified allegations, and twisted interpretations of the law are a farce. Surely, no own can take such a warped rant from a sorry excuse of a member of the citizenry seriously. For example..."
and cite chapter and verse of misinterpreted law.
Failure to do this, having to result to simple name calling, defamation (calling me a liar, instead of misinformed, or mistaken), and anonymous posting, all add up to a weak response, clearly triggered by my "striking a nerve".
Of course, I offended and insulted Canadians. Half of them deserve far worse for their crimes, and the other half need to wake up and see the socialist sham they live.
I would have very much liked to test the theory that I would not, in fact, have been arrested, but having two children to mind, and the task of waiting for my wife, this was not a practical option.
The general tone was that of, "In Canada, we are polite, you do not complain, or say things that might be offensive." While perhaps not grounds for arrest and prosecution, the threat of this, if one does not, in fact, "shut up" is very real -- at the least, one's life is made very inconvenient by the powers that be if one objects to the way things are. Whereas, in the U.S.A., even incoherent "bitching" in public is tolerated, so long as it remains peaceful, and not overly boisterous. In fact, it is almost looked upon as a civic duty. I think that is a far healthier attitude, even though it draws the KKK and neo-Nazi groups out of the woodwork (who's OTHER activities might very well warrant arrest).
Surprisingly, I have found older Canadians, who remember when Canada was not the welfare state it is now, generally in agreement with many of my criticisms of the status quo, denouncing it as a fraud and a sham. Though, a large proportion are quick to utter, "Shh! 'They'll' make life difficult if you complain." That is NOT the way of a free country.
try going to any London pub and giving an honest opinion about northern Ireland. ..you will be lucky to escape death
Ah yes, this is the "raping her is O.K. because killing her would be worse" defense. Neither is acceptable, and the horror of one does not diminish the repugnance of the other.
Oooh, I must have struck a nerve.]
Once you've tasted American-style freedom, you're never satisfied with less. It's a pity Americans do not realize this.
Point noted (though I happen to think that should be permitted -- how else are security weakness to be identified and corrected?).
However, that is a far cry from: "In the U.S. hospitals have to compete for patients and so strive to provide the best ER care possible. In Canada, there is no incentive to do so." I was threatened over providing this explanation to my 10 year old, who could not understand why (a) her mother did not get a printed diagnosis after diagnosis, and (b) had to wait four hours to see a doctor.
When "some nut job" is an armed police officer... yes.