This is a great lesson in a new problem we'll all increasingly face. How do I know, when I buy a copy of some content (movie, song, app, OS, whatever) that it's "legitimate"? How do I know it's not bootlegged?
You don't, and what's more, none of us ever did. Even if you buy directly from the artist it's perfectly possible that you're buying a bootleg from a bootlegger unless the artist is a true independent.
You sure that the smaller buildings were simply not more robust and able to survive the centuries?
The buildings are not smaller. Their doors were shorter.
One reason is that given already, to withhold heat, but another is security. They're often intentionally shorter than people by a head.
While it may be a bit annoying to stoop to enter and leave your home it isn't any big deal really, but someone trying to storm your home is either going to get a knock on the head or be forced to crouch on entry (slows you down and exposes your neck/head as a target as you pass through).
They may have eaten puddings and greasy burgers, but how often?
Every time they ate. We called that stuff: "food." Eating was considered a way to keep the essential fires burning. Highly recommended for health. My mother grew up on a farm, surrounded by cows and chickens. Do you think she ate lemongrass? We used to keep something, right on the table, to which people could help themselves, called the: "Sugar bowl."
Just because we added the sugar to our oatmeal ourselves doesn't mean the sugar wasn't there.
There was also the butter plate. For a family of four you'd want a half pound of butter on that puppy.
If you want to consider something you probably shouldn't be putting in your body, consider something that most people who are weight/health concious today very likely eat EVERY SINGLE DAY:
Zero calorie "food."
And some people wonder why there are forehead shaped dents all over my walls: and why "they" hate us.
. ..the weight of fast food (har har) holding them back.
Have you never heard the phrase "greasy spoon"?
As a baby boomer let me inform you that McDonald's started serving fried burgers because that's where the demand already was. In fact, their food is a damned sight less greasy than was typical in prior times. Many older people go so far as to bemoan the fact that they can't get a properly greasy burger anymore, only that McDonald's crap.
We used to use butter as a staple. The five gallon can of lard/Crisco could be found in nearly any home's pantry. Fat puddings were revered. Colonel Sanders did not invent fried chicken.
Don't believe everything you read in the papers. If you'd ever been interviewed by one you'd know they're full of shit.
Oh, hey, thanks for the link. It reminded me that if I don't go out and get some more WD-40 pretty soon my house is in distinct danger of imploding into a singularity.
Please forgive if I have given offense. The jibe was directed only against those specific computer scientists who can use the phrase "data mining unstructured text" without bursting into fits of giggles.
You'll have to forgive them, these are computer scientists. Until now they have been completely unaware that natural language has grammar, syntax and that even individual words have structure and meaning; despite the complete absence of a metatag blizzard to inform them that [color]red is a [/color].
This may or may not be a temporary situation, but the state obviously hasn't reached the level of control that Big Brother did in 1984.
The time to oppose black cars coming to take you away in the middle of the night is not when they arrive at your doorstep, but rather before they are given the authority to do so.
We have already passed that point. The rest of the story is just commentary.
. . . the reason Microsoft was so successful in the first place was that their OS and software gave their customers the freedom to assemble and use their own hardware.
Actually, that would be Compaq's BIOS. Without that its likely that Microsoft never would have amounted to much more than just another IBM lapdog.
Is there some sort of prizes for most ridiculous alleged "invention"
In the Been There; Done That catagory - Peanut butter sandwich still in the lead, with the cat exercise "device" following closely and putting toys out for kids to play with coming up in third.
Microsoft will have to work in seamonkeys somehow if they want a shot at standing on the podium.
. . . the first shots will produce enough smoke to interfer with the later shooters.
If you mass your men together to fire volleys.
You mean that one tree with the pall of smoke around it.
I don't keep firing from behind the same tree, silly; and your guys can't see me move, because they're in a pall of volley smoke (of course I can't see them too good at this point either). Welcome to Beamis Heights. Have a nice day. If you ever move in close that pointy bit's going start making me a bit nervous though.
Size has nothing to do with time scales. It's all about financing. That is what determines your time scale, no matter the size of the business.
Nor is the size of a company any indicator of its potential for success. A one man outfit can get filthy stinking rich on a single transaction, a large firm can go broke on a billion transactions. It's about profit margins, not sales.
None of which has any relevance to the wisdom of a bookseller in the red going into the movie business.
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This is a great lesson in a new problem we'll all increasingly face. How do I know, when I buy a copy of some content (movie, song, app, OS, whatever) that it's "legitimate"? How do I know it's not bootlegged?
You don't, and what's more, none of us ever did. Even if you buy directly from the artist it's perfectly possible that you're buying a bootleg from a bootlegger unless the artist is a true independent.
KFG
Ba-rooomp-boomp!
KFG
Many times you don't see insurgents firing back
How does one "insurge" against a foreign invader?
KFG
I'm generally a grammar and spelling Nazi.
I'm generally not, glass houses and all of that, but:
I have a really, really hard time resisting a straight line.
KFG
So I probably shouldn't ask whether he prefers nightcrawlers or red wigglers?
KFG
You sure that the smaller buildings were simply not more robust and able to survive the centuries?
The buildings are not smaller. Their doors were shorter.
One reason is that given already, to withhold heat, but another is security. They're often intentionally shorter than people by a head.
While it may be a bit annoying to stoop to enter and leave your home it isn't any big deal really, but someone trying to storm your home is either going to get a knock on the head or be forced to crouch on entry (slows you down and exposes your neck/head as a target as you pass through).
KFG
Or you're using too much duct tape.
A heretic!
KFG
They may have eaten puddings and greasy burgers, but how often?
Every time they ate. We called that stuff: "food." Eating was considered a way to keep the essential fires burning. Highly recommended for health. My mother grew up on a farm, surrounded by cows and chickens. Do you think she ate lemongrass? We used to keep something, right on the table, to which people could help themselves, called the: "Sugar bowl."
Just because we added the sugar to our oatmeal ourselves doesn't mean the sugar wasn't there.
There was also the butter plate. For a family of four you'd want a half pound of butter on that puppy.
If you want to consider something you probably shouldn't be putting in your body, consider something that most people who are weight/health concious today very likely eat EVERY SINGLE DAY:
Zero calorie "food."
And some people wonder why there are forehead shaped dents all over my walls: and why "they" hate us.
KFG
. . .we just eat more often.
Aha!
Perhaps the bigger factor is that people historically used their bodies a lot harder.
Aha^2!
KFG
. . .how much their working the data to get thier conclusions . . .body mass index which just relies on weight and height
Thus making it one of the great statistical frauds, since it assumes statistical inferences before it's even used to make statistical inferences.
So toss the pizza and cigarettes, unplug the computer and take a hike.
And perhaps by doing so increase your BMI . . . because you're not already fat and lazy.
KFG
. . .the weight of fast food (har har) holding them back.
Have you never heard the phrase "greasy spoon"?
As a baby boomer let me inform you that McDonald's started serving fried burgers because that's where the demand already was. In fact, their food is a damned sight less greasy than was typical in prior times. Many older people go so far as to bemoan the fact that they can't get a properly greasy burger anymore, only that McDonald's crap.
We used to use butter as a staple. The five gallon can of lard/Crisco could be found in nearly any home's pantry. Fat puddings were revered. Colonel Sanders did not invent fried chicken.
Don't believe everything you read in the papers. If you'd ever been interviewed by one you'd know they're full of shit.
KFG
Now run by people optimized for taking form based tests.
KFG
Oh, hey, thanks for the link. It reminded me that if I don't go out and get some more WD-40 pretty soon my house is in distinct danger of imploding into a singularity.
KFG
Please forgive if I have given offense. The jibe was directed only against those specific computer scientists who can use the phrase "data mining unstructured text" without bursting into fits of giggles.
KFG
You'll have to forgive them, these are computer scientists. Until now they have been completely unaware that natural language has grammar, syntax and that even individual words have structure and meaning; despite the complete absence of a metatag blizzard to inform them that [color]red is a [/color].
KFG
It's the Tour de France, silly. Ya'll left out the most important word:
Texas!
KFG
This may or may not be a temporary situation, but the state obviously hasn't reached the level of control that Big Brother did in 1984.
The time to oppose black cars coming to take you away in the middle of the night is not when they arrive at your doorstep, but rather before they are given the authority to do so.
We have already passed that point. The rest of the story is just commentary.
KFG
Most people in the position to be doing important secret 1984-type dealings are smart.
But only smart enough to do them.
KFG
When I used to buy cigarettes in NJ, they'd card me and jot down my license.
That's cigarettes, not ammo. Cigarettes kill; and not even just the people who use them. Get with the program.
KFG
. . . the reason Microsoft was so successful in the first place was that their OS and software gave their customers the freedom to assemble and use their own hardware.
Actually, that would be Compaq's BIOS. Without that its likely that Microsoft never would have amounted to much more than just another IBM lapdog.
KFG
Yeah they want to be a "a service provider . . .
Go read it again. That's not what they said.
What Microsoft wants is to own intellectual property in services, so that anytime anyone does anything, they get a check.
They wish to be a direct deposit bank account.
KFG
Is there some sort of prizes for most ridiculous alleged "invention"
In the Been There; Done That catagory - Peanut butter sandwich still in the lead, with the cat exercise "device" following closely and putting toys out for kids to play with coming up in third.
Microsoft will have to work in seamonkeys somehow if they want a shot at standing on the podium.
KFG
It isn't circular logic, it's feedback.
KFG
. . . the first shots will produce enough smoke to interfer with the later shooters.
If you mass your men together to fire volleys.
You mean that one tree with the pall of smoke around it.
I don't keep firing from behind the same tree, silly; and your guys can't see me move, because they're in a pall of volley smoke (of course I can't see them too good at this point either). Welcome to Beamis Heights. Have a nice day. If you ever move in close that pointy bit's going start making me a bit nervous though.
KFG
Size has nothing to do with time scales. It's all about financing. That is what determines your time scale, no matter the size of the business.
Nor is the size of a company any indicator of its potential for success. A one man outfit can get filthy stinking rich on a single transaction, a large firm can go broke on a billion transactions. It's about profit margins, not sales.
None of which has any relevance to the wisdom of a bookseller in the red going into the movie business.
Love your handle though.
KFG