Studies have already linked tight fitting pants to a lack of sperm motility.
So just tell your boss that wearing pants infringes on your right to reproduce. ..altough I can't say I recommend doing so on company time. Clinton might have some advice along that line.
You are missing the fact that the "e" stands for electronic, not network.
Your are, no doubt, mislead by the concept of e-mail which, by its nature, is networked, but there's nothing in "e" which implies Internet or any other form of networking.
For instance, my articles for print publication are written in purely electronic digital form. They are "e" documents, as opposed to dead tree documents, even if they never see a network.
"They'd have no monopoly if they weren't big to begin with -- they certainly weren't a government granted monopoly like AT&T once was."
Nah, AT&T didn't become a monopoly by government grant. They earned it the same way MS has. The guarunteed monopoly wasn't granted until AT&T had already nailed down well over 90% of the market. The monopoly was just to make their market share unassaillable.
Yeah, well, but that's only because you're civilzed and shit.
Here in the classless, egalitarian colonial republic where all men are created equal we still know how to make a lesser person on the social scale scrape and bow for a living.
Yes, 22 lbs. is what my steel Mountain bike weighs as well. My sweetie's cheap hybrid comes in at 25 lbs. though.
My steel road bikes are a bit lighter.
The first 10 lb. track bike was made of steel for Major Taylor. ..in the late 1800s. Since then track bikes under 7 lbs. have been made.
You weren't paying attention when I said that it takes very little steel to make a bike, were you?
KFG
Bamboo bikes have existed for over 100 years
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Particularly in the orient, but in other places as well when times were either hard or when metals were subject to civilian restriction, such as during WWII. Wooden bikes have also been used at times.
They don't work very well. Bamboo is strong, but it's also very flexible. This is also the reason that molded plastic bikes ( as opposed to fiber reineforced plastic bikes) have never worked. If a plastic is ridid enough to make a good bike frame it's also to brittle.
Aluminum is energy intensive to originally produce, but the cheapest and easiest metal to recycle. It also doesn't rust away to unusable oxide, making aluminum the most green of the metals in the long run.
In any case you'll still find most bikes made of steel, because iron is common, easy to smelt, easy to turn into high quality steel, easy to recycle, cheap, and, while not necessarily the highest performing material for a bike frame in any particular measurment, it is, nonetheless, in the top 90 percentile in every attribute needed to make a good bike frame.
What's more, you need very little steel to make a bike whose usable lifespan may be measured in decades. I have two ridable children's trikes over 100 years old.
There's simply nothing about bamboo bikes that make them more sustainable than a steel bike, and they're nowhere near as good.
There's another reason. Libraries taken in total buy a lot of books and magazines. In some genres library sales actually constitute the majority.
Large publishing houses have a real love/hate relationship with libraries, on the one hand marketing to them heavily and on the other wishing they'd dry up and blow away.
Small publishers love the shit out of them, some of them making a living doing nothing but marketing to libraries.
"I swear, I cringe everytime I hear anything done or said by a New Ager. They break the credibility of so many religions before those religions can even start to do good in our society."
These are the people that G.K. Chesterton once described as, "Since they believe nothing they will believe anything."
I would add that they like to believe everything, simultaneously and with a complete lack of understanding.
Yoga and meditation are not inherently New Age and certainly aren't clap-trap. That doesn't mean that New Agers don't mess up the field something fierce. I was once considering selling T-Shirts that said, "Blow the New Age out your ass."
That being said you are absolutely correct. Giving people the opportunity to take a relax and stretch without harassing them about their "productivity" would certainly be one thing they could do to treat employees with respect.
This isn't what typically happens though. It gets applied just like any other buzz word compliant band-aid program that makes them feel like they're respecting their employees while actually treating them with disdain and just as much like mere productivity machines as they ever did.
Thus meditation becomes demeaning for many.
On the whole they could do more good by letting people listen to music of their choice while they work and not having a coniption fit if they walk to the watercooler a time or two.
Meditation cannot be applied as a paliative for keyboard logging.
Ok, like, don't go really far out of your way to do this. There's nothing really to see or do, other than walk the same streets that were walked by Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Charles Stienmetz and Hans Bethe.
The same streets were also walked by Geo. Washington and LaFeyette. Stories such as The Last of the Mohicans and Drums Along the Mohawk took place here. It's smack dab in the middle of old colonial America.
And I guess thats part of the point too. Don't forget to see America while you're here. NY State isn't NY City. Get out into the millions of acres that are still forest inhabited by lions, bobcats and bears. Places where the American equivilent of Steve Irwin ( and Red Green) actually exist "in the wild."
Kill them. Kill them a lot. Kill them slowly and painfully with a death by 1000 lawyers. Drain their monetary life's blood a dollar at a time in such a way that they see it going and know they can't get it back.
Publicly humiliate every SCO executive who had anything to do with this. Make them such social piriahs within the community that they won't even be able to get jobs working a tech support desk. Turn the shareholders into a pack of sharks hungry to feed on their flesh, perhaps by suing them each personally for their losses.
Do not do anything that could be construed as setting a precedent for the viability of SCO's tactics.
Millions for defence. Not one damned cent for tribute.
Then when they are dead, with a silver bullet and a stake in their miserable little whatever it is that passes for a heart in them, pick the corpse for UNIX rights. . . and give them away to the community.
Isn't it ironic that many Europeans emmigrated to the US in the first place to avoid the corporate monopolies and oppresive trade guild system that had almost completely paralized Europe and its colonies?
The original poster here is falling into the trap, which the software companies want you to fall into, of believing that the license legally determines the terms of use and that the copyright holder has complete control over the code.
This simply isn't true. The terms of a license are written under the contract, business and even criminal laws of a particular jurisdiction. Any license term in violation of such laws is void and not part of the license agreement.
The people who write EULAs throw in everything they want under every possible jurisdiction. You aren't bound by it if it contravenes law in your jurisdiction.
The writers of EULAs also often throw in things that aren't valid in any jurisdiction and rely on your impression that you have to follow that term.
My advice? Don't be a rube.
You know that bit at the end of nearly every civil legal document that says "if any part of this contract is invalid the other terms remain valid"? This is what that term is about. Without it one contralegal term could invalidate the entire contract and not just the illegal componant.
Dear copyright holders. You have the right of copy,, not the right of total control.
Dear copyright licensees. If the copyright holder claims he has bound you to a non or contra legal contract tell him to get bent.
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I fooled them all. I simply stopped paying.
Problem solved.
KFG
Studies have already linked tight fitting pants to a lack of sperm motility.
.altough I can't say I recommend doing so on company time. Clinton might have some advice along that line.
So just tell your boss that wearing pants infringes on your right to reproduce. .
KFG
the heads of state refering to a trusted advisor, who reads the chicken entrails?
It worked for centuries and this is clearly a technological development of that, so I'm sure it will work nearly as well.
KFG
You are missing the fact that the "e" stands for electronic, not network.
Your are, no doubt, mislead by the concept of e-mail which, by its nature, is networked, but there's nothing in "e" which implies Internet or any other form of networking.
For instance, my articles for print publication are written in purely electronic digital form. They are "e" documents, as opposed to dead tree documents, even if they never see a network.
KFG
"They'd have no monopoly if they weren't big to begin with -- they certainly weren't a government granted monopoly like AT&T once was."
Nah, AT&T didn't become a monopoly by government grant. They earned it the same way MS has. The guarunteed monopoly wasn't granted until AT&T had already nailed down well over 90% of the market. The monopoly was just to make their market share unassaillable.
KFG
Yeah, well, but that's only because you're civilzed and shit.
Here in the classless, egalitarian colonial republic where all men are created equal we still know how to make a lesser person on the social scale scrape and bow for a living.
KFG
Ok, but do I have to tip the handset?
KFG
This very line of reasoning resulted in Judge Dredd.
KFG
Yes, 22 lbs. is what my steel Mountain bike weighs as well. My sweetie's cheap hybrid comes in at 25 lbs. though.
.in the late 1800s. Since then track bikes under 7 lbs. have been made.
My steel road bikes are a bit lighter.
The first 10 lb. track bike was made of steel for Major Taylor. .
You weren't paying attention when I said that it takes very little steel to make a bike, were you?
KFG
Particularly in the orient, but in other places as well when times were either hard or when metals were subject to civilian restriction, such as during WWII. Wooden bikes have also been used at times.
They don't work very well. Bamboo is strong, but it's also very flexible. This is also the reason that molded plastic bikes ( as opposed to fiber reineforced plastic bikes) have never worked. If a plastic is ridid enough to make a good bike frame it's also to brittle.
Aluminum is energy intensive to originally produce, but the cheapest and easiest metal to recycle. It also doesn't rust away to unusable oxide, making aluminum the most green of the metals in the long run.
In any case you'll still find most bikes made of steel, because iron is common, easy to smelt, easy to turn into high quality steel, easy to recycle, cheap, and, while not necessarily the highest performing material for a bike frame in any particular measurment, it is, nonetheless, in the top 90 percentile in every attribute needed to make a good bike frame.
What's more, you need very little steel to make a bike whose usable lifespan may be measured in decades. I have two ridable children's trikes over 100 years old.
There's simply nothing about bamboo bikes that make them more sustainable than a steel bike, and they're nowhere near as good.
KFG
And if the RIAA manages to shut them all down they will still be traded.
The KGB couldn't stop samizdat. Now I know that the RIAA is more powerful and pervasive than the KGB, but even they can't stop samizdat like networks.
Avoiding prosecution by the RIAA is easy, use humanware P2P networking.
KFG
There's another reason. Libraries taken in total buy a lot of books and magazines. In some genres library sales actually constitute the majority.
Large publishing houses have a real love/hate relationship with libraries, on the one hand marketing to them heavily and on the other wishing they'd dry up and blow away.
Small publishers love the shit out of them, some of them making a living doing nothing but marketing to libraries.
KFG
Dude, like, I'm a Buddhist. MMMmmkay?
KFG
"I swear, I cringe everytime I hear anything done or said by a New Ager. They break the credibility of so many religions before those religions can even start to do good in our society."
These are the people that G.K. Chesterton once described as, "Since they believe nothing they will believe anything."
I would add that they like to believe everything, simultaneously and with a complete lack of understanding.
KFG
Yoga and meditation are not inherently New Age and certainly aren't clap-trap. That doesn't mean that New Agers don't mess up the field something fierce. I was once considering selling T-Shirts that said, "Blow the New Age out your ass."
That being said you are absolutely correct. Giving people the opportunity to take a relax and stretch without harassing them about their "productivity" would certainly be one thing they could do to treat employees with respect.
This isn't what typically happens though. It gets applied just like any other buzz word compliant band-aid program that makes them feel like they're respecting their employees while actually treating them with disdain and just as much like mere productivity machines as they ever did.
Thus meditation becomes demeaning for many.
On the whole they could do more good by letting people listen to music of their choice while they work and not having a coniption fit if they walk to the watercooler a time or two.
Meditation cannot be applied as a paliative for keyboard logging.
KFG
The bastards even had the gall to beat us to the westernmost extremes of our own contitnent.
I'll bet about 1945 they started wishing they'd only rented without lease instead of selling us the place.
KFG
Prove? What a quaint little concept.
KFG
Ok, like, don't go really far out of your way to do this. There's nothing really to see or do, other than walk the same streets that were walked by Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Charles Stienmetz and Hans Bethe.
The same streets were also walked by Geo. Washington and LaFeyette. Stories such as The Last of the Mohicans and Drums Along the Mohawk took place here. It's smack dab in the middle of old colonial America.
And I guess thats part of the point too. Don't forget to see America while you're here. NY State isn't NY City. Get out into the millions of acres that are still forest inhabited by lions, bobcats and bears. Places where the American equivilent of Steve Irwin ( and Red Green) actually exist "in the wild."
See the country, not just the cities and bars.
KFG
Kill them. Kill them a lot. Kill them slowly and painfully with a death by 1000 lawyers. Drain their monetary life's blood a dollar at a time in such a way that they see it going and know they can't get it back.
Publicly humiliate every SCO executive who had anything to do with this. Make them such social piriahs within the community that they won't even be able to get jobs working a tech support desk. Turn the shareholders into a pack of sharks hungry to feed on their flesh, perhaps by suing them each personally for their losses.
Do not do anything that could be construed as setting a precedent for the viability of SCO's tactics.
Millions for defence. Not one damned cent for tribute.
Then when they are dead, with a silver bullet and a stake in their miserable little whatever it is that passes for a heart in them, pick the corpse for UNIX rights. . . and give them away to the community.
KFG
I don't know. Aiiiiiiiiiigh! You cracked my encryption scheme.
KFG
Already been done. It's called a Theremin.
http://www.thereminworld.com/learn.asp
KFG
Don't strangle him. Just commit "hairy kairy."
KFG
Isn't it ironic that many Europeans emmigrated to the US in the first place to avoid the corporate monopolies and oppresive trade guild system that had almost completely paralized Europe and its colonies?
KFG
The original poster here is falling into the trap, which the software companies want you to fall into, of believing that the license legally determines the terms of use and that the copyright holder has complete control over the code.
This simply isn't true. The terms of a license are written under the contract, business and even criminal laws of a particular jurisdiction. Any license term in violation of such laws is void and not part of the license agreement.
The people who write EULAs throw in everything they want under every possible jurisdiction. You aren't bound by it if it contravenes law in your jurisdiction.
The writers of EULAs also often throw in things that aren't valid in any jurisdiction and rely on your impression that you have to follow that term.
My advice? Don't be a rube.
You know that bit at the end of nearly every civil legal document that says "if any part of this contract is invalid the other terms remain valid"? This is what that term is about. Without it one contralegal term could invalidate the entire contract and not just the illegal componant.
Dear copyright holders. You have the right of copy,, not the right of total control.
Dear copyright licensees. If the copyright holder claims he has bound you to a non or contra legal contract tell him to get bent.
That's what Alan just did.
KFG
What do you think "satire" is, you flamebaiting trollish AC?
Hint, it doesn't come on a car, e.g., "That sawheel and that satire."
Hey, maybe you just protest too much. You wouldn't be a little bit mutant yourself now, would you?
We know how to deal with your kind. I saw it in a CGI movie once.
KFG