No I didn't. That's the cause of a default judgement. I didn't even address that particular issue because it wasn't relevant to the point.
No matter if she was right or not, she gave the middle finger to the judicial system and they broke it off for her.
She was in disaster survivor housing in Texas when the summons was returned from her effectively nonexistant house in Louisiana. The case was heard in Florida. She had already spent what little money she had attempting to answer the claim. Even if she had known the trial date she had no means to travel to Florida to answer the complaint, let alone the means to do so effectively.
She did not "give her finger" to the judicial system, she didn't have the power to do so.
Was the default judgement legally sound? Under the circumstances, given the knowledge available to the judge, yes. He really had no option.
Did the jury find the defendent guilty of libel, the issue to which I responded? No, they did not. Nobody did.
She was found liable by default. There was no opinion on the validity of the claim.
With more and more embedded computers, and easier and faster networks, datacenters could become more important than ever.
Bingo! Just as with more and more books being more widely distributed the need for public libraries as a central repository grows, not shrinks.
Now the fact is that most datacenters, as they are spoke, are almost literal clusterfucks, but it is most often because the data technology clueless CEOs make decisions about issues they know nothing about. Even relying on the technologists no longer works in most cases, because most of the technologists are now "trained" at the bequest of . ..CEOs, who belittle "theory" in favor of "pragmatism."
So how clueless is this particular CEO? Let us examine the record:
". ..the feature most requested by buyers in their fastest growing geography (India) was an LED flashlight. Edison would never have guessed (obviously). Nor that electricity would one day be on airplanes, lunar landers or deep sea submarines. "
The fuck he wouldn't have. Edison made flashlight bulbs, batteries and portable generators: a novel was published (perhaps you've heard of it) in 1870, when Edison was only 23 years old, that had an electric submarine as its primary subject. Edison built submarine engines and electric generators for WWI. The First Men in the Moon was published in 1901, the protagonists relaying their situation back to Earth by radio; and it became a commerical movie, using Edison technology, in 1919, more than a decade before Edison's death.
Good Lord, Edison not only guessed these things, he was instrumental in making them happen. That's why we know his name.
I don't care what company Schwartz is the CEO of (how are they doing, by the way?), he's either clueless, selling something . ..or both.
The jury decided that this was slander/libel . ..The jury must have found that the plaintiff provided the services according to the contract with the defendant.
No, they didn't, because there was no trial. No evidence, no arguments, no nothing but a default ruling by the judge.
The jury was left with no task other than deciding the amount of the award and the only thing they had before them to consider was the complaint; which, for whatever reason, they chose to take at face value.
But a complaint is just that, a complaint. An unsubstantiated claim. It isn't evidence.
The "investors" aren't playing against the viability of the company, they are playing against each other, trying to snatch money from each other's pockets.
The company is just a vector for the flow of money between traders.
I love the way that I can move my mail to a new computer just by copying the Eudora folder to the new install. I doubt that'll work in the new version.
You could do that because Eudora uses the standard UNIX mail format. It's just a directory full of ASCII text, so to "import" or "export" you just copy the directory.
Thunderbird uses . ..the "Eudora" mail format, as does nearly every non Microsoft based mail app in the known universe. You can read your "Eudora" mail from a Linux console. If you're hard core you can use ed to do it.
Not equivilent - "proper." In the USA that would be the Consumer Protection Safety Commission. From their website:
"The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children."
I'm not sure the image issues that can cause headaches (like, ooooh, film projection. Worst vomiting and wishing I could just curl up and die migraine I've ever had came from a badly shot movie) fall under their mandate. A headache is not actually an injury.
But then their mandate is actually only to regulate consumer items used by children. In the late 70s they made a power grab by noting that anything and everything can be used by children and that thus they have the power to deny things that are unsafe for children to adults. That's why you can't by Jarts and just keep them away from your kids. They started with bicycles. They're the people who mandated all the reflectors and such that must come on bikes, actually declaring that there was no such thing as a bicycle made for adult use (don't bitch at me, that's what they said. It so happens I make bikes exclusively for adults).
"The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals. .."
Toys, cribs and . ..power tools. See how it works? Your lighter is largely unusable to protect the children. You can't open a can of turpentine to protect the children.
Think of the children, control the adults.
Me, I know how to make bicycles . . . and Jarts. It's a F451 kinda thing.
I'm not sure I could make one of these TVs though. I don't have ready access to enough sharks these days.
Well no, not exactly. He was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife. That means he's being held in custody against his will for questioning, to prevent flight and to let the lab boys free reign to go over his house with a fine lensed microscope.
Presumably they are not even questioning him yet, which is why his attorney is being prevented from seeing him. He's in isolation. Perhaps as a means of putting psychological pressure on him.
They may be looking for a confession, a plea bargain or enough evidence to actually go forward with a charge and indictment, but at the moment he's simply in custody and may even have to be released again, even though still the prime suspect and still under investigation.
There is little that we actually know at this point, but chief among those things are that there has been only circumstantial evidence that a murder has even taken place, if that happened it happened after the last time they were seen together and that she was seen alone after that.
If he didn't "do it" this has to be a royal bitch for Hans. If he did, well, it's still a royal bitch for Hans, because he's on the way to getting "nabbed" for it, but he hasn't actually been charged with anything yet.
It's your money and to each his own, but I like spend my time in my heated living room, where a brown truck will bring the shit right to me, for a hundred dollars off.
Before we begin, let me point out that I'm with the first poster, with the addition that much of the food comes from my field and that's the way I like it, however:
Artificial preservatives and flavourings were the bees knees apprently when they hit the shelves first until it turned out many were carcinogens. ..
Show me one of these preservatives and flavourings that has been shown to have a relative risk of greater than 2. 3 would be a lot better. Now show me that this translates into a real risk of greater than 0.1%
I'm not sure you can do it. Most of the "studies" that show increased risk have relative risk factors on the order of 1.5 and real risks on the order of hundreths of a percent.
In other words, they claim to be measuring the immeasurably small. Guessing at fractions of a millimeter out of a kilometer by using an unmarked meter stick.
Even if they are right the numbers do not predict "streams" of cancer patients, but an extra few per hundred thousand beyond the natural rate. "Suspected carcinogen" does not mean "it will give you cancer.
Carcinogens are the new demons and boogeymen. People, even "scientists," see them in every dust mote, whether they are there or not. We can neither explain nor predict cancer, so the "devil" must be doing it; and the devil is everywhere.
Sometimes all you're really afraid of is fear itself.
Compare to the number of people who are harmed and die from food without preservatives. Our ancestors didn't eschew water for wine and beer because they were inveterate drunkards (even if they were.) They drank alchoholic beverages because water was likely to kill you.
Now look at the consumer demand for organically grown and prepared food.
Now look at the consumer demand for astrology, homeopothy, faith healing (but I repeat myself), images of Mary on toast, rocks that make their stereo sound better, bracelets that "cure" arthritis and tickets on Jesus' golden flying saucer.
Consumer demand is a demonically self-possessed ass.
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You seem to have missed that part.
No I didn't. That's the cause of a default judgement. I didn't even address that particular issue because it wasn't relevant to the point.
No matter if she was right or not, she gave the middle finger to the judicial system and they broke it off for her.
She was in disaster survivor housing in Texas when the summons was returned from her effectively nonexistant house in Louisiana. The case was heard in Florida. She had already spent what little money she had attempting to answer the claim. Even if she had known the trial date she had no means to travel to Florida to answer the complaint, let alone the means to do so effectively.
She did not "give her finger" to the judicial system, she didn't have the power to do so.
Was the default judgement legally sound? Under the circumstances, given the knowledge available to the judge, yes. He really had no option.
Did the jury find the defendent guilty of libel, the issue to which I responded? No, they did not. Nobody did.
She was found liable by default. There was no opinion on the validity of the claim.
KFG
With more and more embedded computers, and easier and faster networks, datacenters could become more important than ever.
.CEOs, who belittle "theory" in favor of "pragmatism."
.the feature most requested by buyers in their fastest growing geography (India) was an LED flashlight. Edison would never have guessed (obviously). Nor that electricity would one day be on airplanes, lunar landers or deep sea submarines. "
.or both.
Bingo! Just as with more and more books being more widely distributed the need for public libraries as a central repository grows, not shrinks.
Now the fact is that most datacenters, as they are spoke, are almost literal clusterfucks, but it is most often because the data technology clueless CEOs make decisions about issues they know nothing about. Even relying on the technologists no longer works in most cases, because most of the technologists are now "trained" at the bequest of . .
So how clueless is this particular CEO? Let us examine the record:
". .
The fuck he wouldn't have. Edison made flashlight bulbs, batteries and portable generators: a novel was published (perhaps you've heard of it) in 1870, when Edison was only 23 years old, that had an electric submarine as its primary subject. Edison built submarine engines and electric generators for WWI. The First Men in the Moon was published in 1901, the protagonists relaying their situation back to Earth by radio; and it became a commerical movie, using Edison technology, in 1919, more than a decade before Edison's death.
Good Lord, Edison not only guessed these things, he was instrumental in making them happen. That's why we know his name.
I don't care what company Schwartz is the CEO of (how are they doing, by the way?), he's either clueless, selling something . .
KFG
The jury decided that this was slander/libel . . .The jury must have found that the plaintiff provided the services according to the contract with the defendant.
No, they didn't, because there was no trial. No evidence, no arguments, no nothing but a default ruling by the judge.
The jury was left with no task other than deciding the amount of the award and the only thing they had before them to consider was the complaint; which, for whatever reason, they chose to take at face value.
But a complaint is just that, a complaint. An unsubstantiated claim. It isn't evidence.
KFG
The "investors" aren't playing against the viability of the company, they are playing against each other, trying to snatch money from each other's pockets.
The company is just a vector for the flow of money between traders.
KFG
I love the way that I can move my mail to a new computer just by copying the Eudora folder to the new install. I doubt that'll work in the new version.
.the "Eudora" mail format, as does nearly every non Microsoft based mail app in the known universe. You can read your "Eudora" mail from a Linux console. If you're hard core you can use ed to do it.
You could do that because Eudora uses the standard UNIX mail format. It's just a directory full of ASCII text, so to "import" or "export" you just copy the directory.
Thunderbird uses . .
KFG
. . .equivalent regulatory organizaiton.
."
.power tools. See how it works? Your lighter is largely unusable to protect the children. You can't open a can of turpentine to protect the children.
Not equivilent - "proper." In the USA that would be the Consumer Protection Safety Commission. From their website:
"The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children."
I'm not sure the image issues that can cause headaches (like, ooooh, film projection. Worst vomiting and wishing I could just curl up and die migraine I've ever had came from a badly shot movie) fall under their mandate. A headache is not actually an injury.
But then their mandate is actually only to regulate consumer items used by children. In the late 70s they made a power grab by noting that anything and everything can be used by children and that thus they have the power to deny things that are unsafe for children to adults. That's why you can't by Jarts and just keep them away from your kids. They started with bicycles. They're the people who mandated all the reflectors and such that must come on bikes, actually declaring that there was no such thing as a bicycle made for adult use (don't bitch at me, that's what they said. It so happens I make bikes exclusively for adults).
"The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals. .
Toys, cribs and . .
Think of the children, control the adults.
Me, I know how to make bicycles . . . and Jarts. It's a F451 kinda thing.
I'm not sure I could make one of these TVs though. I don't have ready access to enough sharks these days.
KFG
He's arrested for killing his wife. . .
Well no, not exactly. He was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife. That means he's being held in custody against his will for questioning, to prevent flight and to let the lab boys free reign to go over his house with a fine lensed microscope.
Presumably they are not even questioning him yet, which is why his attorney is being prevented from seeing him. He's in isolation. Perhaps as a means of putting psychological pressure on him.
They may be looking for a confession, a plea bargain or enough evidence to actually go forward with a charge and indictment, but at the moment he's simply in custody and may even have to be released again, even though still the prime suspect and still under investigation.
There is little that we actually know at this point, but chief among those things are that there has been only circumstantial evidence that a murder has even taken place, if that happened it happened after the last time they were seen together and that she was seen alone after that.
If he didn't "do it" this has to be a royal bitch for Hans. If he did, well, it's still a royal bitch for Hans, because he's on the way to getting "nabbed" for it, but he hasn't actually been charged with anything yet.
KFG
So you can now read syslogs in Lucinda Console [wikipedia.org], huh?
Only on a fussy system.
KFG
Wow, what can you add to "Iceweasel?"
I myself welcome our new Iceweasel on Wildebeest/Lucinda overlords.
KFG
It's your money and to each his own, but I like spend my time in my heated living room, where a brown truck will bring the shit right to me, for a hundred dollars off.
KFG
No this is not neat>, this is just stupid.
This is not stupid, this is marketing.
Oh, wait. I guess you're right after all. Nevermind.
However, as I've already noted once today, there's a lot of money to be "made" in stupid.
KFG
.. Just go to Their Space[MySpace.com]
Arrrrrrrrrgh! My eyes! My eyes!
KFG
I'll not argue issues of taste. To each his own.
The key point, however, is not to wire them. Do not even let them get within wireless range or they will sync on their own.
You do not want to be near a cluster of synced, PMS enabled teen age girls; and this is a standard feature on most current models.
KFG
. . .india ran on salt, and by taxing it the British controlled it. . . It makes me wonder if they have even read their history.
Why yes, yes they have.
KFG
Unfortunately, the networking overhead causes the computation power of the group to be significantly less than that of any given individual.
And the output is psuedorandom - at best.
KFG
teen girls? please?
Trust me on this, what you want is a desktop, personal teen girl.
When you cluster them the output is beyond what the mind of mortal man can bear.
KFG
Of course. How do you think you learned to manipulate objects with your hands? It's called "biofeedback."
KFG
Can you make a Beowulf cluster of... teens?
Just go to a mall and observe.
KFG
So I say this, if you had to have one book for games programmers to read, and not 10, which would it be?
Halliday & Resnick; Fundamentals of Physics, which isn't even on the list of 50.
KFG
Before we begin, let me point out that I'm with the first poster, with the addition that much of the food comes from my field and that's the way I like it, however:
.
Artificial preservatives and flavourings were the bees knees apprently when they hit the shelves first until it turned out many were carcinogens. .
Show me one of these preservatives and flavourings that has been shown to have a relative risk of greater than 2. 3 would be a lot better. Now show me that this translates into a real risk of greater than 0.1%
I'm not sure you can do it. Most of the "studies" that show increased risk have relative risk factors on the order of 1.5 and real risks on the order of hundreths of a percent.
In other words, they claim to be measuring the immeasurably small. Guessing at fractions of a millimeter out of a kilometer by using an unmarked meter stick.
Even if they are right the numbers do not predict "streams" of cancer patients, but an extra few per hundred thousand beyond the natural rate. "Suspected carcinogen" does not mean "it will give you cancer.
Carcinogens are the new demons and boogeymen. People, even "scientists," see them in every dust mote, whether they are there or not. We can neither explain nor predict cancer, so the "devil" must be doing it; and the devil is everywhere.
Sometimes all you're really afraid of is fear itself.
Compare to the number of people who are harmed and die from food without preservatives. Our ancestors didn't eschew water for wine and beer because they were inveterate drunkards (even if they were.) They drank alchoholic beverages because water was likely to kill you.
Now look at the consumer demand for organically grown and prepared food.
Now look at the consumer demand for astrology, homeopothy, faith healing (but I repeat myself), images of Mary on toast, rocks that make their stereo sound better, bracelets that "cure" arthritis and tickets on Jesus' golden flying saucer.
Consumer demand is a demonically self-possessed ass.
And there's good money in that.
KFG
What if this 1 mm becomes 1,000 mm?
All you have to do is figure out how to focus Arecibo on it.
Now just stand still while we suspend you a couple miles above Puerto Rico.
KFG
It seems that device is similar to WebTV or a more enchanced version.
No. It's similar to a keyboard and mouse. Throw in a TV tray and it is a keyboard and mouse.
KFG
Because there's one born every minute?
KFG
Wow that's a weird metaphor.
Wait for metaV.0
KFG
It's like a 17 year old nude virgin visiting the octoberfest and expecting to come away 'unscathed'
What if I'm hoping to get 'scathed'?
KFG