. ..if an entire family has been impacted, it's not normal.
Are you honestly trying to tell me you've never run into people with religious beliefs before?
In any case, three issues give the key to the problem being entirely psychological. The first is that it began with a psychological trauma, and one that didn't effect them directly at that.
The second is that they blame all maladies and ills that have happened since that time on being bombared with radiation, even though these ills have nothing to do with each other and/or no known connection to exposure to EMR.
The third is that the supposed bombarding by their neighbors has no justification in reality. They believe it, but they have no actuall grounds for that belief, nor even any grounds for believing they have grounds. They just "know."
They were frightened by the attack on the WTC. They are responding by sublimating their fears into patholgogical actions.
Basically they're scared shitless over the boogey man hiding under their bed and blame him for everything bad that ever happens to them. Good, old fashioned demonism.
These devices are like using a bandsaw to rough shape an electric guitar body, surfboard, fiddle neck, whatever.
They save labor, but the final work is still left to be done by hand if you want it done right. They are labor saving devices in the right hands, but they cannot replace labor . . . as yet.
The Adam Sandler-Chris Rock remake of "The Longest Yard"
I'm going to have to skip this one, no matter how much it pains me. I'm saving my money to stand in line for the Carrot Top-Pauly Shore remake of "Cool Hand Luke."
Now we need a story about a website, about a guy who made a video, of people in costumes, waiting to see a movie, including an interview of the guy in the line, making a video, about the people waiting to see the movie, and his website.
Holding back by a few hours until vendors can merge the fixes with any customizations they have done actually equalizes the users. ..
No, it egalitarianises the users. You can try to make a case for that if you want, but if that's what I wanted I likely wouldn't be running Linux in the first place.
You are correct, however, things get a bit more complicated when a company takes the trouble to invent a unique word to be their mark.
Exxon, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.
Coining a new word makes the mark stronger, because it begins its life innately attached to the company/product; and nothing else, as opposed to, say, "Bob's Garage."
Standard Oil even went to considerable trouble and expense to make sure their Exxon mark didn't have negative conotations anywhere in the world.
If you look down you'll find that Hormel is actually being rather reasonable about the whole thing, given the situation. They're defending their mark, as they must if they don't wish to loose it, but they really just aren't being dickheads about it. They accept that their mark, a word they invented just to be associated with their product, now has a new and second meaning.
But their concerns that in future people might wonder why they named their potted meat product after junk email are perfectly valid.
For the answer to your question get thee hence and read The Name of the Rose.
For the answer to the question that doing so will bring to mind the name of the rose is. .."rose." Just thought I'd get that out of the way so you can read the book properly.
The fact that a reboot may show up a problem is a reason to reboot, not a reason not to.
Verse: Hey guys. We're going to reboot this live box, which as far as anyone knows is working perfectly, but we just want to see if the reboot causes any problems. If it does the whole eastern seaboard will go dark for, ohhhhhh, anywhere from ten minutes to a couple of days. Anyone got a problem with that?
The Great Plains division would love to know about your million dollar DOS using friend, that's their bread-n-butter.
Who they cannot extract any money from. Period. His system is free/paid for. He has decades of personal experience maintaining it. It works.
They would have to pay him a great deal of money and offer him license terms they cannot, because that is not their bread and butter. Great Plains is perfectly aware that people like my friend exist, but cannot waste time and money finding and targeting him directly, because the payback is too small to nonexistant, so they have to rely on indirect, mass marketing techniques.
Like FUD campaigns, which don't work agaisnt people like my friend, because he knows his system works.
On the flip side, of course, I haven't been able to interest him in switching to a free Linux, with some free support, because. ..he knows his system works and he knows his system and it is already free as in beer.
In salesman speak he is not a qualified customer. Marketing may go after him (because that's their job), but sales isn't going to waste its time pursuing a commission they know up front they aren't likely to realize and will be small, less than expenses, if they do.
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. . .for when our shit don't work. It'll save your butterfly's arse. What would you like to boot that actually runs today?
KFG
It's a non-profit .org - they
don't need a "successful business model".
You've never run a non-profit, have you?
KFG
"Google has shown that it's feasable. . ."
As well as showing about the only place that its viable.
KFG
I'm inclined to believe you have a point. At least they don't report they're doing this because of the voices in their heads.
KFG
Your answer is cogent only to that portion of my post you did not quote.
KFG
. . .if an entire family has been impacted, it's not normal.
Are you honestly trying to tell me you've never run into people with religious beliefs before?
In any case, three issues give the key to the problem being entirely psychological. The first is that it began with a psychological trauma, and one that didn't effect them directly at that.
The second is that they blame all maladies and ills that have happened since that time on being bombared with radiation, even though these ills have nothing to do with each other and/or no known connection to exposure to EMR.
The third is that the supposed bombarding by their neighbors has no justification in reality. They believe it, but they have no actuall grounds for that belief, nor even any grounds for believing they have grounds. They just "know."
They were frightened by the attack on the WTC. They are responding by sublimating their fears into patholgogical actions.
Basically they're scared shitless over the boogey man hiding under their bed and blame him for everything bad that ever happens to them. Good, old fashioned demonism.
KFG
. . .why don't they just seek proper psychiatric help?
Because if they knew they needed it they wouldn't need it.
KFG
These devices are like using a bandsaw to rough shape an electric guitar body, surfboard, fiddle neck, whatever.
They save labor, but the final work is still left to be done by hand if you want it done right. They are labor saving devices in the right hands, but they cannot replace labor . . . as yet.
KFG
He means the top half...
Cue Silverstein's "The Mermaid."
KFG
. . .he's either got cajones the size of bowling balls or his job absolutely sucked.
It's a floor wax!
It's a dessert topping!
Wait! You're both right.
Tastes great, and look at that shine.
KFG
Morgan Webb
You're half right
Interesting. For your math to work out that means you only like one of them. So, are you into the right or the left?
KFG
The Adam Sandler-Chris Rock remake of "The Longest Yard"
I'm going to have to skip this one, no matter how much it pains me. I'm saving my money to stand in line for the Carrot Top-Pauly Shore remake of "Cool Hand Luke."
KFG
Now we need a story about a website, about a guy who made a video, of people in costumes, waiting to see a movie, including an interview of the guy in the line, making a video, about the people waiting to see the movie, and his website.
KFG
And we certainly had no idea what you were talking about.
Yes, that is the sad part. Not for him, mind you.
KFG
Go ahead, you try to buy Ted Turner and keep him bought.
KFG
I suspect you were modded insightful simply for verbing a word the moderator did not understand in the first place.
Could well be. It happens. Either that or he speaks jive.
KFG
Seriously, we should dedicate more energy to the mobile power problem.
I canna change the laws of physics, Crimson.
KFG
Nobody expects a TV without a phone!
KFG
Four cords. You forgot his DVD player, and his amplifier. . .
Ok, amongst the cords he would have to plug in are. . . I'll post again.
KFG
Holding back by a few hours until vendors can merge the fixes with any customizations they have done actually equalizes the users. . .
No, it egalitarianises the users. You can try to make a case for that if you want, but if that's what I wanted I likely wouldn't be running Linux in the first place.
KFG
You are correct, however, things get a bit more complicated when a company takes the trouble to invent a unique word to be their mark.
Exxon, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.
Coining a new word makes the mark stronger, because it begins its life innately attached to the company/product; and nothing else, as opposed to, say, "Bob's Garage."
Standard Oil even went to considerable trouble and expense to make sure their Exxon mark didn't have negative conotations anywhere in the world.
If you look down you'll find that Hormel is actually being rather reasonable about the whole thing, given the situation. They're defending their mark, as they must if they don't wish to loose it, but they really just aren't being dickheads about it. They accept that their mark, a word they invented just to be associated with their product, now has a new and second meaning.
But their concerns that in future people might wonder why they named their potted meat product after junk email are perfectly valid.
KFG
That leaves number 4. Is there anything that can be done against that or must this be seen as 'collateral damage'?
Yes, just as using envelopes and wrapping paper must be seen as causing similar "collateral damage" during use of the postal system.
KFG
For the answer to your question get thee hence and read The Name of the Rose.
."rose." Just thought I'd get that out of the way so you can read the book properly.
For the answer to the question that doing so will bring to mind the name of the rose is. .
KFG
The fact that a reboot may show up a problem is a reason to reboot, not a reason not to.
Verse: Hey guys. We're going to reboot this live box, which as far as anyone knows is working perfectly, but we just want to see if the reboot causes any problems. If it does the whole eastern seaboard will go dark for, ohhhhhh, anywhere from ten minutes to a couple of days. Anyone got a problem with that?
Chorus: Yes!
KFG
The Great Plains division would love to know about your million dollar DOS using friend, that's their bread-n-butter.
.he knows his system works and he knows his system and it is already free as in beer.
Who they cannot extract any money from. Period. His system is free/paid for. He has decades of personal experience maintaining it. It works.
They would have to pay him a great deal of money and offer him license terms they cannot, because that is not their bread and butter. Great Plains is perfectly aware that people like my friend exist, but cannot waste time and money finding and targeting him directly, because the payback is too small to nonexistant, so they have to rely on indirect, mass marketing techniques.
Like FUD campaigns, which don't work agaisnt people like my friend, because he knows his system works.
On the flip side, of course, I haven't been able to interest him in switching to a free Linux, with some free support, because. .
In salesman speak he is not a qualified customer. Marketing may go after him (because that's their job), but sales isn't going to waste its time pursuing a commission they know up front they aren't likely to realize and will be small, less than expenses, if they do.
KFG