And I thought I got a lot of credit solicitations.
Shredders are for bulk document destruction. I've got these things called "matches" that are simpler, cheaper, easier to use and can even be used in the dark when the power is out.
They work a treat. Not every task requires an expensive electrical gadget and hammers are still the right tool if the task at hand is driving a couple of nails.
If for some reason you're fire averse a pair of scissors properly applied for about 10 seconds will prove sufficient to defeat the roll of tape.
Come on, get with your own program or we'll get you banned you for handle fraud. I mean really, what the hell to do you thing we put up with you for anyway?
My uncle left specifically over the patent issue. He was their chief Lexan dude at the time. Couple dozen patents, but the patents were all filed just under the name "GE."
I live a just a few blocks from the original plant. When I was born 60,000 people worked there, in a city of just over 60,000. Now it's 3,000 and about half of those are executive types.
They sold off all the good product lines to the dipshits at Tyco
Their nuclear research division has recently gone to Lockheed-Martin. The company is on a mission to transform itself into a pure financial institution. All they wish to make these days is paper.
I believe it was actually Westinghouse that Edison was trash-talking on AC vs DC.
Tesla worked for Edison, but left him to work for Westinghouse. Our entire system of electrical power generation and distribution is pretty much the work of a single mind. Tesla's.
A complaint was lodged at the time that Tesla had left nothing for anyone else to do, although Steinmetz managed to come up with a trick or two.
And speaking of Steinmetz:
Murdock doesn't have 1100 patents, for one.
Neither did Edison, really. His company did. People like Tesla and Steinmetz did most of the real inventing and Edison tacked his name onto the patent application. It was work for hire, just as it is today when working for GE.
And Murdock is talking about publishing, which is, like, his field and shit. Until recently they didn't even give patents for things like "a method for arrangeing text in columns."
The Gestapo had a secret branch whose facilities were not well known. They were, in fact, secret.
There was also a secret police not allied with the Gestapo, because the watchers needed to be afraid of someone as well. These were completely secret police who answered only to Hitler and/or Goering.
Yes, the Gestapo also had a public facing branch, if only because in order to rat out your neighbor you needed someplace to go to do it.
Perhaps the CIA, rather than being remiss in their duties for having a publicly accessable branch, actually have some clue as to what they are doing by having offices and phones that the general public are perfectly aware of.
And, of course, in America, the people watching the watchers are supposed to be "The People."
I wonder whether the people who work for MPAA style companies are stupid, or whether they simply are from some alternate universe where logic actually works that way.
Due to urbanization and habitat destruction, there are only really two types of region left for animals - the virtually surrounded and the utterly remote.
You left out a group:
The thoroughly urbanized. Pigeons,sparrows, squirrels, rats, mice, cockroaches, etc. I actually had to deal with a racoon infestation inside the walls of my commercial building once upon a time. Urbanized animals tend to be overlooked because they're "just part of the scenery," but I think you should think about meat locker mice; and think about them really hard.
Woodworking tools are cheap, ubiquitous and far more capable than what was available 20, 40 or 60 years ago.
Well, with the possible exception of the power router I might argue with this, but I think I'll just restrain myself to the opinion that musical composition would be a better example.
Nowadays you don't even have to bother learning to play even a simple instrument to compose. Just type some ABC notation (plain, tagfree ASCII text) into a computer and let the computer convert it to midi.
Anyone can compose now, with only a few minutes of "training," and much of the music sounds like it.
The tool might very well do the work, but it doesn't know the job.
Well, lessee . ..among the issues that came up during the antitrust trial were the fact that Microsoft twisted Dell's arm, overcharged IBM for refusing to have its arm twisted and making sure that even though Hitachis came off the self to dual boot Windows and BeOS Hitachi didn't feel like they could even tell their customers that without getting the "IBM treatment."
My guess, however, is that Michael is telling the strict truth, but the subtle lie.
The word Linux never specifically comes up during license negotiations, but everyone knows what the code language actually employed really means.
And honestly, once you've been playing ball for awhile you get to know the rules of the game without being told. Most industries run by explicit rules that you had better not cross if you know what's good for your company, without anyone ever having to explicitly lay them out, nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean? KFG
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And I thought I got a lot of credit solicitations.
Shredders are for bulk document destruction. I've got these things called "matches" that are simpler, cheaper, easier to use and can even be used in the dark when the power is out.
They work a treat. Not every task requires an expensive electrical gadget and hammers are still the right tool if the task at hand is driving a couple of nails.
If for some reason you're fire averse a pair of scissors properly applied for about 10 seconds will prove sufficient to defeat the roll of tape.
KFG
Jeezum Crow! I just read my post again and about all I can do is plead no contest and throw myself on my keyboard.
Not exactly hara kiri, but I'm sure it'll leave some nasty red spots for several seconds.
KFG
It means I committed a dyslexic double typo.
So sue me.
KFG
That's a mediocre irony, not a bad analogy.
Come on, get with your own program or we'll get you banned you for handle fraud. I mean really, what the hell to do you thing we put up with you for anyway?
KFG
First off, if the coroner had indeed provided the system's password, wasn't he the one contravening security policy (if not the law)?
See The Pentagon Papers.
KFG
. . . if someone steals your computer, they steal your backup too.
If you're silly enough to keep your solitary backup in your frickin' computer.
Go tell your friend that God has invented external drives. Then tell him that you'll keep his if he'll keep yours.
KFG
People work for GE?
My uncle left specifically over the patent issue. He was their chief Lexan dude at the time. Couple dozen patents, but the patents were all filed just under the name "GE."
I live a just a few blocks from the original plant. When I was born 60,000 people worked there, in a city of just over 60,000. Now it's 3,000 and about half of those are executive types.
They sold off all the good product lines to the dipshits at Tyco
Their nuclear research division has recently gone to Lockheed-Martin. The company is on a mission to transform itself into a pure financial institution. All they wish to make these days is paper.
May they rest in peace.
KFG
So why did Jordy have to wear that stupid visor?
For the same reason the NCC-1701 had clocks made out of spinning cylinders.
KFG
Sure, someone can build a tin box by hand, but is the time worth it when you are making a few hundred of the things yourself?
Of course not. That's why God invented the local tinwork shop. You only hand build oneoffs and prototypes. The rest you farm out.
KFG
I believe it was actually Westinghouse that Edison was trash-talking on AC vs DC.
Tesla worked for Edison, but left him to work for Westinghouse. Our entire system of electrical power generation and distribution is pretty much the work of a single mind. Tesla's.
A complaint was lodged at the time that Tesla had left nothing for anyone else to do, although Steinmetz managed to come up with a trick or two.
And speaking of Steinmetz:
Murdock doesn't have 1100 patents, for one.
Neither did Edison, really. His company did. People like Tesla and Steinmetz did most of the real inventing and Edison tacked his name onto the patent application. It was work for hire, just as it is today when working for GE.
And Murdock is talking about publishing, which is, like, his field and shit. Until recently they didn't even give patents for things like "a method for arrangeing text in columns."
KFG
. . .you could build your own case... however, that requires a whole mess of tools and costs and time too.
.a box.
And who really wants to be an inventor if it means having to deal with a whole mess of tools and building shit, like . .
Maybe they just don't make inventors and engineers like they used to, but we used to be able to handle making a tin box pretty good.
KFG
The Gestapo had a secret branch whose facilities were not well known. They were, in fact, secret.
There was also a secret police not allied with the Gestapo, because the watchers needed to be afraid of someone as well. These were completely secret police who answered only to Hitler and/or Goering.
Yes, the Gestapo also had a public facing branch, if only because in order to rat out your neighbor you needed someplace to go to do it.
Perhaps the CIA, rather than being remiss in their duties for having a publicly accessable branch, actually have some clue as to what they are doing by having offices and phones that the general public are perfectly aware of.
And, of course, in America, the people watching the watchers are supposed to be "The People."
KFG
You would prefer that they were really a completely secret police?
KFG
I wonder whether the people who work for MPAA style companies are stupid, or whether they simply are from some alternate universe where logic actually works that way.
Yes.
KFG
Due to urbanization and habitat destruction, there are only really two types of region left for animals - the virtually surrounded and the utterly remote.
You left out a group:
The thoroughly urbanized. Pigeons,sparrows, squirrels, rats, mice, cockroaches, etc. I actually had to deal with a racoon infestation inside the walls of my commercial building once upon a time. Urbanized animals tend to be overlooked because they're "just part of the scenery," but I think you should think about meat locker mice; and think about them really hard.
KFG
Biscuit joiners?
Well, yeah, ok. Mine is my God. So sue me.
KFG
Woodworking tools are cheap, ubiquitous and far more capable than what was available 20, 40 or 60 years ago.
Well, with the possible exception of the power router I might argue with this, but I think I'll just restrain myself to the opinion that musical composition would be a better example.
Nowadays you don't even have to bother learning to play even a simple instrument to compose. Just type some ABC notation (plain, tagfree ASCII text) into a computer and let the computer convert it to midi.
Anyone can compose now, with only a few minutes of "training," and much of the music sounds like it.
The tool might very well do the work, but it doesn't know the job.
KFG
How is deliberate obstruction determined in a case like this?
Oh, that's easy enough. It doesn't enter into it at all.
KFG
But is that what a software license about?
Which part of "by identity" did you fail to understand?
KFG
For them, free software is less about open source and open development and more about a form of political agenda.
Dude, copyright and patents are a political agenda by identity.
KFG
Don't shit where you sleep, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
The base concepts are pretty simple.
KFG
No, petrol. Closed system.
KFG
Well, lessee . . .among the issues that came up during the antitrust trial were the fact that Microsoft twisted Dell's arm, overcharged IBM for refusing to have its arm twisted and making sure that even though Hitachis came off the self to dual boot Windows and BeOS Hitachi didn't feel like they could even tell their customers that without getting the "IBM treatment."
My guess, however, is that Michael is telling the strict truth, but the subtle lie.
The word Linux never specifically comes up during license negotiations, but everyone knows what the code language actually employed really means.
And honestly, once you've been playing ball for awhile you get to know the rules of the game without being told. Most industries run by explicit rules that you had better not cross if you know what's good for your company, without anyone ever having to explicitly lay them out, nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?
KFG
In The Beginning Was The Command Line"
KFG
He gave you several uses.
I know how hundreds of blogs are used.
I only the use of a small number.
KFG