Off the top of my head, unisex names of people I have known from France or Quebec: Jean, Jolie, Jules, Michele, Noel, Patrice, Rene, Sacha, and Sidney.
Some people spend $500+ for a video card, or two, for a home system. How valuable is your data? Archives are very important to me. The most expensive part will be the tape unit whether it is DAT, LTO, AIT, or VXA. My home server is using a DDS3, which cost me $600 in 2004. The DDS3 replaced a DDS1 I had been using since 1994. You could go with DAT72 ($600) or DAT160 ($900). Far cheaper for the DAT drive than LTO4, but you will spend more per GB on each cassette: ~$0.50 for DAT72 or DAT160 vs ~$0.10 for LTO4.
Do not forget the fire safe if you have no off-site storage.
The discussion is about REAL artists, not the Disney and Nickelodeon created/marketed/forced down our kids throats 'artists'. When bands like the Foo Fighters, or even Radiohead chime in, their opinion is important because they actually have spent considerable time developing their talents and 'making it'.
I was responding to that statement. I do not see how making it defines a person an artist and I an not sure what real artist means. I would like to infer that the parent was talking about people that create art for themselves without the need for third party approval (or compensation). Rather, I believe the author is saying, "I hate her music and the marketing of her music." In that case, Spears is an artist in the same context as the Foo Fighters. Techincal talent and artistic talent are two vastly different things. Artistic talent cannot be measured because it is subjective.
Done does not mean a snapshot of the the development branch that can be tested. Eight years later and it still has not been released as 6.0. The world waiting for a release candidate.
That would exclude 99.999% of all people that create art to entertain and/or make money. The Foo Fighters and Radiohead are in it for the money and admiration too. Is there a cabal that makes a talent checklist?
Yahoo has always been a content company. Their first service was a directory that was manually compiled. Search was added later, both in-house and using third parties such as Inktomi (which they bought).
Except most people in the U.S. live in urbanized metro areas. The classic suburb is often medium density with lots of infill. The vast majority of land in the U.S. is dead space.
There is an enourmous amount of fiber capacity for SONET backbones, with most of it unused.
The claim was made that DynDNS was unethical (and unreliable) because they failed to deliver on their promise. I would like to find out what they promised. I can tell you they have no promise of any service unless you get the optional SLA (available for CustomDNS and SecondaryDNS).
Let me guess, you have a copy of the terms of service for every website you've ever signed up for at the time of signup
I have copies of the ToS for all the services where I pay money.
Please, stop now. You are turning an anthill into a molehill. I have used DynDNS as a paying customer for years and the service has worked great. Your free service was working for 8 years and then went south.
honour ones word
Produce the guarantee of service. If DynDNS was unethical they must have promised something. The reality is they promised nothing. Not even the CustomDNS service has a promise of reliability.
Obviously you aren't as familiar with the DynDNS service offerings
I have used them since they opened the doors. I passed on the DynamicDNS offerings and took the CustomDNS. I did read your post. Parhaps I was being a bit too sarcastic. I apologize for that.
Remember: *they* offered the staticdns service as a valid option for their customers
You are not their customer.
My initial reply about depending on a free service still stands. People that depend on a free service from a business, no matter what the past operational status was like, have no right to compain when it fails for whatever reason. I would lump all these offerings into the best effort category.
If DynDNS was taking your money and doing nothing, then you would be a customer with a gripe.
The common law model is not broken. You are confusing democracy and a system of law. You can have a common law system function just fine in a dictorship or oligarchy.
Are you asserting that democracy is broken...
I am not asserting to anything about the U.S. The power is still held by the people and there are still free elections. We have a free press, the right to assemble, and the right to dissent.
The damage to society is worth it.
That is debatable. Think very carefully about the ramifications of shutting down multinational corporations and liquidating their assests.
Lexis is quite helpful. Ultimately, it comes down to knowing key cases and codes in your field of study. I leaned to employment and contract law to help me in my business. Much of law school is memorization. Beyond that, it is all creativity in framing your argument (and whether others will buy into it).
Yes you shut it down.
Are the damages to the society worth it?
If they kept the system essentially as is, but dropped pressident as essentially binding, I'd be happier.
You depended on a free service that had limitations for a critical function of your web and email. I am not sure why you decided to use the DynamicDNS service instead of CustomDNS unless you did not want to pay for your own domain. I can understand not wanting to spend any money but you got exactly what the service offers. DynamicDNS has always had the 30 day rule. That is what the word dynamic means. An update client could have been used; the IP address does not have to change but the record needs to be refreshed. You needed to upgrade to the premium level in order to remove the auto expire, and the upgrade was a onetime fee many years ago. Did you not read the account details before signing up?
The old ml.org asked for donations, which did not work out too well. The premium level is how DynDNS was going to make some cash in the begining because it actually costs money to host servers.
Good thing a company is a person (in the eyes of the law).
An organization is treated as a person for certain rights. The perjury statue does not take that into account. A collective cannot take a legal oath, only a representative of that collective.
I understand your complaints about the common law model. It is an enourmous task to know the statutes, rules, and case laws. That is why there is Lexis. It may seem to be a mess and courts will rule in different directions, often on very related matters (including SCOTUS). The common law system predates our country and it is what we use. Is it better than civil law? I cannot say. Will it ever change? Highly unlikely.
Coming back to your frustation of corporate liability in the U.S. There are estabilished procedures on the state and federal level, both civil and criminal, to handling liability issues. The corporate veil can be breached. A company cannot be sent to jail as it does not have a physical body. Do you shut it down? You end up hurting the employees and shareholders, people that are not connected with the wrongdoing. There are pros and cons to any penalty. There are a number of articles on this subject in several law journals. I do not subscribe to American Criminal Law Review but it is a great source of information if criminal law is your primary interest.
Brings back good times. Notes was not that bad, pre-1995. By Notes, I am talking about the document/workflow system not the mail system they bolted on.
Let me add to my comment on civil penalties. I realize they are rather low in the U.S. The answer is to raise them, providing financial pain. Many EU countries have penalties based on percentage of revenue.
If you can't punish a company for perjury, then an agent of the company can't be punished.
Incorrect.
... That's not perjury, that's an error.
I never said it was perjury.
So the "company" committed perjury.
Incorrect. A non-person cannot commit perjury.
But companies get a free ticket to break any laws they want with no real repercussions
Companies face civil penalties all the time.
Listen, I highly recommend going to law school. It will be a fascinating study. Many people, like myself, go without any intention of becoming lawyers.
You should have gotten your own domain, not the host sitting on their domain, and used the CustomDNS service. I have an account that has been inactive for over a year and it is still there. CustomDNS domains will never expire if you have been with them since the begining when they were free; all those domains were grandfathered and remain free of charge.
Totally unimpressed, I would never, ever touch them for things I cared about again.
With the free DynamicDNS service, you get what you pay for. If the infrastructure is that important to you, pay for the account.
It is a federal perjury charge, which is rarely prosecuted by the DoJ. The maximum penalty is five years in prison. Perjury is usually added to existing charges or used as a stick to elicit testimony. The DoJ does not have enough resources to investigate and prosecute cases. The exception is perjruy in grand jury or court proceedings, where the rate of prosecution is high unless the person is already serving a term in prison or has cooperated with the government.
now they're trying to retry them under double jeopardy!
Do you pull this shit out of your ass? I would recommened actually reading the article you provided. The jury failed to provide a verdict on some charges, of either guilty or not guilty. The government is going to retry them on the charges. There is no double jeopardy.
You can get unlimited plans but they cost more money. I think what you want is an unlimited everything, worldwide plan for $20. I would like bread to cost a dime. I do not see that happening.
The fact is that phone companies make it WAY to easy to run up HUGE bills. It isn't like you have any choice - every company does it.
The world worked fine without mobile phones when I was a child. None of my daughters have a mobile phone. I told them they can get a phone and prepaid plan with money they earn from their job when they reach 16.
Disclosure isn't enough.
There is nothing wrong with the data rate. They signed the contract. The rates are clearly on display on the website. I have no sympathy.
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Off the top of my head, unisex names of people I have known from France or Quebec: Jean, Jolie, Jules, Michele, Noel, Patrice, Rene, Sacha, and Sidney.
Some people spend $500+ for a video card, or two, for a home system. How valuable is your data? Archives are very important to me. The most expensive part will be the tape unit whether it is DAT, LTO, AIT, or VXA. My home server is using a DDS3, which cost me $600 in 2004. The DDS3 replaced a DDS1 I had been using since 1994. You could go with DAT72 ($600) or DAT160 ($900). Far cheaper for the DAT drive than LTO4, but you will spend more per GB on each cassette: ~$0.50 for DAT72 or DAT160 vs ~$0.10 for LTO4.
Do not forget the fire safe if you have no off-site storage.
The discussion is about REAL artists, not the Disney and Nickelodeon created/marketed/forced down our kids throats 'artists'. When bands like the Foo Fighters, or even Radiohead chime in, their opinion is important because they actually have spent considerable time developing their talents and 'making it'.
I was responding to that statement. I do not see how making it defines a person an artist and I an not sure what real artist means. I would like to infer that the parent was talking about people that create art for themselves without the need for third party approval (or compensation). Rather, I believe the author is saying, "I hate her music and the marketing of her music." In that case, Spears is an artist in the same context as the Foo Fighters. Techincal talent and artistic talent are two vastly different things. Artistic talent cannot be measured because it is subjective.
perl6 is done
Done does not mean a snapshot of the the development branch that can be tested. Eight years later and it still has not been released as 6.0. The world waiting for a release candidate.
That would exclude 99.999% of all people that create art to entertain and/or make money. The Foo Fighters and Radiohead are in it for the money and admiration too. Is there a cabal that makes a talent checklist?
Tape is not that expensive. A single LTO4 drive costs ~$3500. The cassette is $0.10 per GB. The big money will be if you invest in a library.
Yahoo is primarily a content company nowadays.
Yahoo has always been a content company. Their first service was a directory that was manually compiled. Search was added later, both in-house and using third parties such as Inktomi (which they bought).
Except most people in the U.S. live in urbanized metro areas. The classic suburb is often medium density with lots of infill. The vast majority of land in the U.S. is dead space.
There is an enourmous amount of fiber capacity for SONET backbones, with most of it unused.
The last resort of the desperate.
The claim was made that DynDNS was unethical (and unreliable) because they failed to deliver on their promise. I would like to find out what they promised. I can tell you they have no promise of any service unless you get the optional SLA (available for CustomDNS and SecondaryDNS).
Let me guess, you have a copy of the terms of service for every website you've ever signed up for at the time of signup
I have copies of the ToS for all the services where I pay money.
Please, stop now. You are turning an anthill into a molehill. I have used DynDNS as a paying customer for years and the service has worked great. Your free service was working for 8 years and then went south.
honour ones word
Produce the guarantee of service. If DynDNS was unethical they must have promised something. The reality is they promised nothing. Not even the CustomDNS service has a promise of reliability.
Obviously you aren't as familiar with the DynDNS service offerings
I have used them since they opened the doors. I passed on the DynamicDNS offerings and took the CustomDNS. I did read your post. Parhaps I was being a bit too sarcastic. I apologize for that.
Remember: *they* offered the staticdns service as a valid option for their customers
You are not their customer.
My initial reply about depending on a free service still stands. People that depend on a free service from a business, no matter what the past operational status was like, have no right to compain when it fails for whatever reason. I would lump all these offerings into the best effort category.
If DynDNS was taking your money and doing nothing, then you would be a customer with a gripe.
...so if something is broken...
The common law model is not broken. You are confusing democracy and a system of law. You can have a common law system function just fine in a dictorship or oligarchy.
Are you asserting that democracy is broken...
I am not asserting to anything about the U.S. The power is still held by the people and there are still free elections. We have a free press, the right to assemble, and the right to dissent.
The damage to society is worth it.
That is debatable. Think very carefully about the ramifications of shutting down multinational corporations and liquidating their assests.
Can China collect taxes when her citizens travel to Las Vegas to gamble?
Yes, it is called a tax on income.
Lexis is quite helpful. Ultimately, it comes down to knowing key cases and codes in your field of study. I leaned to employment and contract law to help me in my business. Much of law school is memorization. Beyond that, it is all creativity in framing your argument (and whether others will buy into it).
Yes you shut it down.
Are the damages to the society worth it?
If they kept the system essentially as is, but dropped pressident as essentially binding, I'd be happier.
Move to France.
You depended on a free service that had limitations for a critical function of your web and email. I am not sure why you decided to use the DynamicDNS service instead of CustomDNS unless you did not want to pay for your own domain. I can understand not wanting to spend any money but you got exactly what the service offers. DynamicDNS has always had the 30 day rule. That is what the word dynamic means. An update client could have been used; the IP address does not have to change but the record needs to be refreshed. You needed to upgrade to the premium level in order to remove the auto expire, and the upgrade was a onetime fee many years ago. Did you not read the account details before signing up?
The old ml.org asked for donations, which did not work out too well. The premium level is how DynDNS was going to make some cash in the begining because it actually costs money to host servers.
What law school did you attend?
Golden Gate University.
Good thing a company is a person (in the eyes of the law).
An organization is treated as a person for certain rights. The perjury statue does not take that into account. A collective cannot take a legal oath, only a representative of that collective.
I understand your complaints about the common law model. It is an enourmous task to know the statutes, rules, and case laws. That is why there is Lexis. It may seem to be a mess and courts will rule in different directions, often on very related matters (including SCOTUS). The common law system predates our country and it is what we use. Is it better than civil law? I cannot say. Will it ever change? Highly unlikely.
Coming back to your frustation of corporate liability in the U.S. There are estabilished procedures on the state and federal level, both civil and criminal, to handling liability issues. The corporate veil can be breached. A company cannot be sent to jail as it does not have a physical body. Do you shut it down? You end up hurting the employees and shareholders, people that are not connected with the wrongdoing. There are pros and cons to any penalty. There are a number of articles on this subject in several law journals. I do not subscribe to American Criminal Law Review but it is a great source of information if criminal law is your primary interest.
Brings back good times. Notes was not that bad, pre-1995. By Notes, I am talking about the document/workflow system not the mail system they bolted on.
Let me add to my comment on civil penalties. I realize they are rather low in the U.S. The answer is to raise them, providing financial pain. Many EU countries have penalties based on percentage of revenue.
If you can't punish a company for perjury, then an agent of the company can't be punished.
Incorrect.
... That's not perjury, that's an error.
I never said it was perjury.
So the "company" committed perjury.
Incorrect. A non-person cannot commit perjury.
But companies get a free ticket to break any laws they want with no real repercussions
Companies face civil penalties all the time.
Listen, I highly recommend going to law school. It will be a fascinating study. Many people, like myself, go without any intention of becoming lawyers.
You should have gotten your own domain, not the host sitting on their domain, and used the CustomDNS service. I have an account that has been inactive for over a year and it is still there. CustomDNS domains will never expire if you have been with them since the begining when they were free; all those domains were grandfathered and remain free of charge.
Totally unimpressed, I would never, ever touch them for things I cared about again.
With the free DynamicDNS service, you get what you pay for. If the infrastructure is that important to you, pay for the account.
You can't fit the company in prison
Only a person can commit perjury. Either an agent or employee makes the sworn statement against perjury.
It is a federal perjury charge, which is rarely prosecuted by the DoJ. The maximum penalty is five years in prison. Perjury is usually added to existing charges or used as a stick to elicit testimony. The DoJ does not have enough resources to investigate and prosecute cases. The exception is perjruy in grand jury or court proceedings, where the rate of prosecution is high unless the person is already serving a term in prison or has cooperated with the government.
now they're trying to retry them under double jeopardy!
Do you pull this shit out of your ass? I would recommened actually reading the article you provided. The jury failed to provide a verdict on some charges, of either guilty or not guilty. The government is going to retry them on the charges. There is no double jeopardy.
You can get unlimited plans but they cost more money. I think what you want is an unlimited everything, worldwide plan for $20. I would like bread to cost a dime. I do not see that happening.
The fact is that phone companies make it WAY to easy to run up HUGE bills. It isn't like you have any choice - every company does it.
The world worked fine without mobile phones when I was a child. None of my daughters have a mobile phone. I told them they can get a phone and prepaid plan with money they earn from their job when they reach 16.
Disclosure isn't enough.
There is nothing wrong with the data rate. They signed the contract. The rates are clearly on display on the website. I have no sympathy.