A number of years ago I inhereted a good chunk of the guitar oriented sheet music collection of a music teacher. Among my haul I was rather surprised to find a page torn out of a magazine with a Tom Lehrer song on one side (of the top of my head I don't remember which one, I think it was The Irish Ballad) -- and a picture of a girl on a pony on the other.
No, I'm not making this up, not even the bit about the pony.
It's something of a major geeky knick-knack, Tom Lehrer and pornography in one, but there are really only a few select people I can even show it to.
Once upon a time I had a psychology professor who started talking about how hard it was growing up in a predominantly Finnish neighborhood in, as I recall, Gary, Indiana ( Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana. ..oh, sorry), because the Finns hated Americans.
Someone in the class asked him, "If they hate Americans, why did the come here?"
>>.....and BonziBuddy doesn't run on it. >> >Not Yet!
Ya ever hear people complaining that it can be difficult to install some new software on Linux, what with permissions, dependencies and every distro arranging things differently and all?
What happens when it comes time for my annual reinstall?
You put in the 'rescue' disk and click on "Yes".
There, not so hard, is it?
Not that I've ever had to do a reinstall of Linux for maintenance purposes. It doesn't fragment, crud up or slow down and BonziBuddy doesn't run on it.
One of the odd things about the virtual world is that can you "steal" and buy exactly the same item, just as you can "murder" someone and bring them back to life with the push of a button.
Yeah, that one was a bit obscure. What I was refering to was the way the movie Pearl Harbor extended to cover the Dolittle raid just so the movie could end looking like we were the winners of that go 'round.
Modded as funny, but actually describes the suits against Daimler-Chrysler and Autozone.
This is precisely the reason that if they had anything I was actually interested in I still wouldn't go near them. Who needs to deal with the ever present threat that they might sue you if you simply chose to use or switch to a competing product?
At this point I'd need a contract specifying that they wouldn't sue me, ever, for any reason, even if I burned down their headquarters.
I hardly think I'm alone, so just who do they expect to market their products too?
More specifically, it is a euphamism that is commonly refered to as "newspeak."
It is deliberately misleading. Defense is peace, brother. We've refined Orwell's famous phrase to the point that it is now not merely misleading, but actually logically true at the same time, taken on its face, making it virtually impossible to refute. Or even think about the fact that it might need refuting.
There's also no such thing as a purely defensive weapon and the America's intercontinental missle system was also billed as "defensive" spending. That's the only kind of military spending we officially admit to.
Remember, they changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and all of our wars of agression have been billed as prophylatically defensive. Indeed, such wars are current policy.
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Black boxes record only enough data to determine what caused an accident to happen.
Which does nothing for the victims of those accidents.
Your emotional response to tragedy is making you ascribe magical properties to devices.
KFG
Are there any IT professionals out there who don't want to log stuff when things go wrong?
In my car? Abso-fuckin-lutely!
KFG
It's easy to install, upgrade and remove the applications provided by the distrobution.
Which distribution provides BonziBuddy?
KFG
A number of years ago I inhereted a good chunk of the guitar oriented sheet music collection of a music teacher. Among my haul I was rather surprised to find a page torn out of a magazine with a Tom Lehrer song on one side (of the top of my head I don't remember which one, I think it was The Irish Ballad) -- and a picture of a girl on a pony on the other.
No, I'm not making this up, not even the bit about the pony.
It's something of a major geeky knick-knack, Tom Lehrer and pornography in one, but there are really only a few select people I can even show it to.
KFG
Once upon a time I had a psychology professor who started talking about how hard it was growing up in a predominantly Finnish neighborhood in, as I recall, Gary, Indiana ( Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana. . .oh, sorry), because the Finns hated Americans.
Someone in the class asked him, "If they hate Americans, why did the come here?"
The answer?
"Because they hate Russians even more."
KFG
I finally got through the 503s. . .to a 500.
KFG
>> .....and BonziBuddy doesn't run on it.
>>
>Not Yet!
Ya ever hear people complaining that it can be difficult to install some new software on Linux, what with permissions, dependencies and every distro arranging things differently and all?
As it turns out, there's also an upside to that.
KFG
What happens when it comes time for my annual reinstall?
You put in the 'rescue' disk and click on "Yes".
There, not so hard, is it?
Not that I've ever had to do a reinstall of Linux for maintenance purposes. It doesn't fragment, crud up or slow down and BonziBuddy doesn't run on it.
KFG
Invited? They're demanding a $699 fee from every attendee under the claim that they own the Expo because it has the word "Linux" in the title.
KFG
You can only own works that are produced.
When you put pen to paper you have produced a work of writing covered by copyright. You have produced no invention.
KFG
I'm really curious as to what world he is living in that could justify that price as "relatively low".
Microsoftworld.
KFG
One of the odd things about the virtual world is that can you "steal" and buy exactly the same item, just as you can "murder" someone and bring them back to life with the push of a button.
KFG
What's the actual legal status of that though, should your prime publisher find out?
Using a psuedonym to disguise your identity to intentionally avoid legal consequences of this sort is legally a form of fraud.
If you get away with it, well and good, and many actually do. Perhaps even most.
But if you don't you've just upped the ante from civil to criminal.
KFG
Therefore they own the HPV I designed, built myself and payed for?
KFG
Tell it to the patent office.
KFG
Right.
It won't do you a bit of good to review math.
KFG
Yeah, that one was a bit obscure. What I was refering to was the way the movie Pearl Harbor extended to cover the Dolittle raid just so the movie could end looking like we were the winners of that go 'round.
KFG
Addition is commutative.
KFG
Modded as funny, but actually describes the suits against Daimler-Chrysler and Autozone.
This is precisely the reason that if they had anything I was actually interested in I still wouldn't go near them. Who needs to deal with the ever present threat that they might sue you if you simply chose to use or switch to a competing product?
At this point I'd need a contract specifying that they wouldn't sue me, ever, for any reason, even if I burned down their headquarters.
I hardly think I'm alone, so just who do they expect to market their products too?
KFG
Didn't you know? It's GPL Tuesday. Hug your Linux guru.
I believe the traditional gifts are Jolt and Doritos.
KFG
More specifically, it is a euphamism that is commonly refered to as "newspeak."
It is deliberately misleading. Defense is peace, brother. We've refined Orwell's famous phrase to the point that it is now not merely misleading, but actually logically true at the same time, taken on its face, making it virtually impossible to refute. Or even think about the fact that it might need refuting.
KFG
I could explain about firemen too, but you surely get the idea...
You don't need to. I read the papers. A number of firemen have been caught setting fires.
KFG
. . .nobody's gonna wanna fight us.
Ave! Pax Americana.
There's also no such thing as a purely defensive weapon and the America's intercontinental missle system was also billed as "defensive" spending. That's the only kind of military spending we officially admit to.
Remember, they changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and all of our wars of agression have been billed as prophylatically defensive. Indeed, such wars are current policy.
KFG
. . .if they couldn't do it right, they shouldn't have done it at all...
Not exactly Hollywood's core philosophy.
KFG
It may well be required by law. You aren't under the impression that liability lawyers actually want people to not get injured, are you?
That would be bad for business.
KFG