someone flying jetliners without a pilot's license is a horrendously scary thing to contemplate
He didn't fly the jetliners (I assume, not having read the book), he just flew for free. Aircraft have jumpseats in the cockpit for trainers and FAA inspectors. You can ride up there if the seat isn't in use, if you're authorized to be in the cockpit. In the US, you have to be a commercial pilot, and airlines have courtesy agreements by which other airlines' pilots can jumpseat for free. So if you show up with a real-looking ID, you're in. (At least until an FAA inspector comes along and bumps you.) Even today, computers and all, I don't think an airline can check to see if a particular individual really is employed by another airline without calling up their Crew Scheduling department and asking... which they'd be highly unlikely to do unless they had a reason to suspect something.
In no case are you ever actually doing anything related to flying the plane (unless there's an emergency in which one of the on-duty crewmembers needs to be replaced). But he probably was convincing enough with his cockpit chatter that he convinced the pilots who were driving.
That's probably true. If you think about the amount of nonprofits in the U.S. and their average sizes, you will realize that most will never have use for 15 computers at once.
This fits with my experience. A lot of npo's don't even have full-time staff, and a lot more middle-sized ones are absolutely starved for professional assistance - not just technotypes, but accountants, lawyers, that kind of thing. Plumbers, even.
It's a whole lot easier to get people (or governments) to give cash than it is to get them to give a little time. And the cash doesn't go far when you're paying three-digit hourly rates.
if you don't pay, according to Yahoo you don't exist.
I'd prefer that, actually. As it is, according to Yahoo I used to exist but now don't if I don't continue to pay my *old* web provider to maintain a forwarding page. (Okay, so I'm not actually paying them for that right now because I'm paying them for something else and they're doing that gratis, but still.) If they took me out altogether, at least someone who was explicitly searching for the site would fall through to the (correct) Google entry.
However, in the US, the expression is 'you've got another thing coming'. That's just the way it is...
It is?
Must be a different US than the one I'm from. Hereabouts, the expression is, "If that's what you think, you've got another think coming." It makes more sense that way, don't you... um... think?
A lot of yahoo's categories have 404's and sites that have been discontinued as well as sites without descriptions.
Yeah, and if you've got a site listed there and you change your address, you can't get them to correct it for love nor money. After two years of trying, I finally just put up a forwarding page at the old site with a snide message about Yahoo's lack of currency. Feh.
I used punch cards on while learning PL/1 for a 370 back at Washington University (home of the FTP-Daemon) back in '80 and '81.
Circa '83, punch cards were still in use on the 370 at Wichita State; CRT terminals were also available, but with the high (funny-money) cost and limited number, it was easier for the slower typists to do the initial data entry into a deck and then debug a saved version thereafter. I think I still have a couple of decks of cards with the (really ugly) Shocker logo on them...
24 states require that the elector vote as they were elected.
Sort of. They can impose penalties if the elector doesn't, but the penalties may or may not be upheld by the Supreme, and the state law can't actually force the elector to vote the "right" way, or invalidate his vote if he doesn't.
I've got one better: the security system at the bank I worked for used electronic keycards. Not the magstripe kind, the kind you wave in the general direction of the sensor.
Well, the keycard set those things off. Apparently I profile as An Honest Person, though, because the security person would usually wake up from their doze, I'd shrug at them, maybe wave my keychain-with-the-card-on-it, they'd wave me through. Never got stopped. Go figure.
The answer.. YES! I use NetBank.Com and love them.
Ditto, except I think their money-market accounts are mythical. At least, they've lost our app twice, and their tech-support's response to notifying them of this is to send us a boilerplate How To Open A Moneymarket message. Our trust is eroding slightly. It's not as if they've lost our money or anything, though.
LucasFilms cannot restrict parody, that fair use right has been upheld by the supreme court.
This is just plain not correct.
Fair use is copyright law. You can use copyrighted material in a parody all you want. However, trademarks are still protected. Sometimes they can be used in parodies, sometimes not. If you're diluting the trademark, you can't. If you don't meet the "contradictory message" standard, you can't.
you need some serious hardware to store and process all these messages.
This would account for why Hotmail accounts regularly get tossed from mailing lists... they bounce with a 554 ("Permanent" disk full) every few weeks. It's gotten to where my disconnect notice has a special piece for Hotmail users explaining why they should switch.
It's popular in flyover country. 'Course, here it's sausage gravy, which a lot of Yankees, myself included, really don't get. Up North, we throw grease away.
(Aside: I found http://www.tx7.com/fries/docs/poutine.html this site to be handy in figuring out the difference between Canadian and don't-call-'em-Yankees versions. Alas, I don't know of a comparable version explaining ours to Canadian viewers...)
Here's why: I was in a Sam's Club (another branch of the Walton Empire) when I was down in Bentonville (home of same) visiting my mom. We passed the software racks, and there was a distro with Tux on it. Mandrake, if memory serves, although this was last year. I picked it up out of curiosity, having never seen a distro in the retail wild before, and Mom said "Hey, what is that program?"
Now, I was pretty proud of Mom when she graduated from AOL to a real ISP, but I didn't really think she was ready for a real OS, so I attempted to explain this to her.
Turns out what she really wanted to know was, what was that penguin logo, on account of she'd gotten an embroidery pattern for her Husqvarna (which can download patterns from a PC), and that was it. It had a funny filename, she said: tux.hus.
Ah ha, I said, and pointed out to her that it would make my husband really happy to get something (other than a tie...) with Tux on it. So he got a Tux-embroidered sweatshirt for Christmas.
Which (along with a Linuxmall T-shirt from my sister, who did recognize Tux when Mom mentioned it to her) resulted in his boss recommending him for the committee that was looking into "that open-source stuff," and whether any of it should be used in their little bitty company, which some of you may have heard of: Boeing.
Cheese, nothing. Behold the power of penguins.
(I'm sure I could tie the Boeing/plane thing in with the penguins/tipping thread somehow, but I've had too much cold medicine and not enough sleep, so someone else will have to do it.)
Sometimes Bell will just decide to disconnect a line we are using
Last company I worked for, we developed a hypothesis: Bell (SWBT/SBC, in our area) doesn't buy new wire anymore. Ever. They come in someplace to install a new line (voice, DSL, it doesn't matter), and it needs wire, they just pull it off a random other line. They come out to fix that one, and they do it again. Eventually, they pull one off a line that isn't used (although it may still be live and billed), and the cycle ends.
I suppose it's environmentally friendlier, aside from the impact of the extra mileage...
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He didn't fly the jetliners (I assume, not having read the book), he just flew for free. Aircraft have jumpseats in the cockpit for trainers and FAA inspectors. You can ride up there if the seat isn't in use, if you're authorized to be in the cockpit. In the US, you have to be a commercial pilot, and airlines have courtesy agreements by which other airlines' pilots can jumpseat for free. So if you show up with a real-looking ID, you're in. (At least until an FAA inspector comes along and bumps you.) Even today, computers and all, I don't think an airline can check to see if a particular individual really is employed by another airline without calling up their Crew Scheduling department and asking... which they'd be highly unlikely to do unless they had a reason to suspect something.
In no case are you ever actually doing anything related to flying the plane (unless there's an emergency in which one of the on-duty crewmembers needs to be replaced). But he probably was convincing enough with his cockpit chatter that he convinced the pilots who were driving.
This fits with my experience. A lot of npo's don't even have full-time staff, and a lot more middle-sized ones are absolutely starved for professional assistance - not just technotypes, but accountants, lawyers, that kind of thing. Plumbers, even.
It's a whole lot easier to get people (or governments) to give cash than it is to get them to give a little time. And the cash doesn't go far when you're paying three-digit hourly rates.
I'd prefer that, actually. As it is, according to Yahoo I used to exist but now don't if I don't continue to pay my *old* web provider to maintain a forwarding page. (Okay, so I'm not actually paying them for that right now because I'm paying them for something else and they're doing that gratis, but still.) If they took me out altogether, at least someone who was explicitly searching for the site would fall through to the (correct) Google entry.
It is?
Must be a different US than the one I'm from. Hereabouts, the expression is, "If that's what you think, you've got another think coming." It makes more sense that way, don't you... um... think?
Yeah, and if you've got a site listed there and you change your address, you can't get them to correct it for love nor money. After two years of trying, I finally just put up a forwarding page at the old site with a snide message about Yahoo's lack of currency. Feh.
Circa '83, punch cards were still in use on the 370 at Wichita State; CRT terminals were also available, but with the high (funny-money) cost and limited number, it was easier for the slower typists to do the initial data entry into a deck and then debug a saved version thereafter. I think I still have a couple of decks of cards with the (really ugly) Shocker logo on them...
Betcher bottom dollar that's registered voter turnout. There are a lot of people who are eligible but not registered.
Sort of. They can impose penalties if the elector doesn't, but the penalties may or may not be upheld by the Supreme, and the state law can't actually force the elector to vote the "right" way, or invalidate his vote if he doesn't.
Such as? Copyright/license violation is generally civil. (Which is not to say it's polite.) It's not usually a crime.
I've got one better: the security system at the bank I worked for used electronic keycards. Not the magstripe kind, the kind you wave in the general direction of the sensor.
Well, the keycard set those things off. Apparently I profile as An Honest Person, though, because the security person would usually wake up from their doze, I'd shrug at them, maybe wave my keychain-with-the-card-on-it, they'd wave me through. Never got stopped. Go figure.
We turned out in relative droves. A high percentage of registered voters is not the same as a high percentage of eligible voters.
This came up on alt.folklore.urban, and I believe that no one could come up with a cite.
Given the percentage of non-voters, no one ever has the mandate anymore.
Ditto, except I think their money-market accounts are mythical. At least, they've lost our app twice, and their tech-support's response to notifying them of this is to send us a boilerplate How To Open A Moneymarket message. Our trust is eroding slightly. It's not as if they've lost our money or anything, though.
This is just plain not correct.
Fair use is copyright law. You can use copyrighted material in a parody all you want. However, trademarks are still protected. Sometimes they can be used in parodies, sometimes not. If you're diluting the trademark, you can't. If you don't meet the "contradictory message" standard, you can't.
There is no "fair use" for trademarks. Fair use is copyright.
It probably is.
While parody is properly exempt from the usual copyright restrictions, trademark isn't.
There's a pretty good explanation of it here. Googling for "trademark parody" will get a lot more.
Could be worse. I get them, and I'm female.
This would account for why Hotmail accounts regularly get tossed from mailing lists... they bounce with a 554 ("Permanent" disk full) every few weeks. It's gotten to where my disconnect notice has a special piece for Hotmail users explaining why they should switch.
Silver's Law: Any online discussion eventually degenerates into lame spelling flames.
It's popular in flyover country. 'Course, here it's sausage gravy, which a lot of Yankees, myself included, really don't get. Up North, we throw grease away.
(Aside: I found http://www.tx7.com/fries/docs/poutine.html this site to be handy in figuring out the difference between Canadian and don't-call-'em-Yankees versions. Alas, I don't know of a comparable version explaining ours to Canadian viewers...)
Either that, or it's a place where chickens get educated. Or maybe where you go to learn about chickens.
Here's why: I was in a Sam's Club (another branch of the Walton Empire) when I was down in Bentonville (home of same) visiting my mom. We passed the software racks, and there was a distro with Tux on it. Mandrake, if memory serves, although this was last year. I picked it up out of curiosity, having never seen a distro in the retail wild before, and Mom said "Hey, what is that program?"
Now, I was pretty proud of Mom when she graduated from AOL to a real ISP, but I didn't really think she was ready for a real OS, so I attempted to explain this to her.
Turns out what she really wanted to know was, what was that penguin logo, on account of she'd gotten an embroidery pattern for her Husqvarna (which can download patterns from a PC), and that was it. It had a funny filename, she said: tux.hus.
Ah ha, I said, and pointed out to her that it would make my husband really happy to get something (other than a tie...) with Tux on it. So he got a Tux-embroidered sweatshirt for Christmas.
Which (along with a Linuxmall T-shirt from my sister, who did recognize Tux when Mom mentioned it to her) resulted in his boss recommending him for the committee that was looking into "that open-source stuff," and whether any of it should be used in their little bitty company, which some of you may have heard of: Boeing.
Cheese, nothing. Behold the power of penguins.
(I'm sure I could tie the Boeing/plane thing in with the penguins/tipping thread somehow, but I've had too much cold medicine and not enough sleep, so someone else will have to do it.)
In theory. Not in practice, though.
Last company I worked for, we developed a hypothesis: Bell (SWBT/SBC, in our area) doesn't buy new wire anymore. Ever. They come in someplace to install a new line (voice, DSL, it doesn't matter), and it needs wire, they just pull it off a random other line. They come out to fix that one, and they do it again. Eventually, they pull one off a line that isn't used (although it may still be live and billed), and the cycle ends.
I suppose it's environmentally friendlier, aside from the impact of the extra mileage...