I so hate it when people who *actually know about something* sre ignored by the/. crowd just because they're not 'in the flow' of whatever parochial, or paranoid discussion happens to be taking place at the time.
funded by progressively high filing fees based on the damages sought after. SOMETHING has to be done to balance the power. If Megacorp A goes after littleguy B, and littleguy B is assigned Some Huge Lawyer by the court, and Megacorp would have to cough up a filing fee so large as to cover the costs of Huge Lawyer's bond against the action, then maybe we might see far less of this bullshit. Just a thought.
Much better that Steve and Garry were! That show was much about negative space (silences), similar to what Howard (Blecch!) Stern does. BORING! R&G have wonderful repartee' going every single day. They're not poseurs, and it shows.Their news guy is easily as funny as either one of them, but keeps it in his pants, when he's not on vacation (Hi,.Jim!). They're utterly genuine. you can listen to them at: http://play.rbn.com/?url=abcradiog2/wlsam/g2d emand / ls_dbclk.smil&proto=rtsp&ads=1 check them out!
No shit! This sort of thing is just a small scale example of the corruption of values that brought Enron down, and will shortly end Worldcom. 'MEMEMEMEME!' bullshit. Let's slap those puppies down. They're no better than spammers. d00dz! You HAVE TO HAVE AND EMBRACE A SET OF VALUES THAT ACTUALLY WORK! Otherwise this great place that we know as 'the Net' is gonna go away. The commons! We can't afford to lose that! Police your buds. Be relentless. I pray that made sense, as I have a buzz on...
Not being a formally trained physicist, I gotta confess that my eyes watered a bit reading that FAQ, but if I infer correctly.. Breaks in Lorentz and CPT symmetry would provide clues as to why time flows in only one direction? And perhaps cough up data useful to extremely large scale cosmology?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, or not, but if you are, you're wrong. Termites produce an astounding amount of methane, and they are not alone. Any insect that processes cellulose outputs methanes, and their species are legion. The sheer weight of the insects busily eating plants (cellulose) on this planet every day marginalises all of the activity that we mere mammals engage in.
I didn't mean to be a jerk. Your post really worked. The notion of it seeming clueless to the/. unwashed really bothered me, since it WAS a smart comment. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference round these parts..
If going to work could be as rich and variable, as, say, going to the library, this could be very cool! Imagine! No office cliques, since there'd be no fixed offices! Good thing, IMHO. Cliques are for idiots. You 'rub elbows' with many folk that you don't know! [duffman!] Ohyeah! [/duffman!] Excellent foundry for mating opportunities! You don't have to deal *every fscking day* with that drooling moron in the next cube that thinks large eyed velvet painting child images of the early 70's constitute 'high art'. I'm liking this more and more.
Termites and other similar insects are probably the most prolific producers of greenhouse gasses on the planet, easily outstripping cattle, and motorvehicles. Perhaps we could call all of their colonic (heh) Queens into some room somewhere, and demand that they chill for a while? No? Didn't think so. Duh.
Social Security taxes should be harvested via the normal, and visible system that we all see, every day. A 'Since WE *raised* you ASSHOLES!' tax would suit my fancy just fine.
But remember that they don't pay FICA (over e certain amount) or any other of those other regressive taxes us regular shmoes have to cough up. Plus 'unearned', IE: investment income is taxed at a lower rate (no FICA) than the 'regular' income you actually have to WORK for! (IMHO, ALL income should be taxed to support the social security system. The rates could be reduced dramatically. We wouldn't be getting hit with what is, effectively, a 15% tax off the top.) The system is fscked, folks. No two ways about it!
Heh. While I agree with you on this one, I just gotta say... MAN, does that site suck donkey balls or what? Objectivity? Wuzzat? So many bozos.. so little time...
The viewpoint that a clump of predifferentiated cells constitutes an actual *person* is pure superstition, and should *not* be enshrined in law. Gawd Himself sheds these things all the time. It often occurs during normal Menstruation. Or, later, (MUCH later) miscarriage. Our legislators seriously need to get a clue. But you already knew that:)
Another reason that this will never fly is that the aggregate costs of implementation will far exceed any losses recovered. In fact, it will cost more to implement this moronic idea than all of the revenue these companies make *combined*! It's an unfunded mandate, folks. If these assholes want this so bad, let *them* pay for each and every instance of the hardware/software required to conform. The *AA's would be bankrupt overnight. Morons. Furrfu!
I'm wondering where I could acquire the knowledge necessary to *fully* comprehend stuff like particle physics, quantum phenomena, etc. I'd rather not school for it, since I don't trust the quality of even the best Uni education. I'd rather read. Anyone got a good 'get up to speed' reading list?
Dude.. You made a good point.. really. I hate being a prig (not prick; that's different) but WHOA do you need to learn to spell! Bad spelling makes you seem a luser(tm). Don't do that.
I'll concur with the others commenting on your.sig. It voices a gut feeling I've had for a veeery long time. Those who favor a BSD style license are, in general, freeloaders whose avarice eclipses even that of the worst of Napster abusers. At least Napster users were only 'stealing' the PRODUCT. BSD supporters believe that it's OK to steal all of the effort behind the PRODUCT as well. (I pray that makes sense:) The reason the GPL is viral is that, over time, all of the cool stuff created by GPL authors will, by cross synergy, eclipse that created by old guard IP holders. Hence, the patent/copyright assult we're seeng currently. The landed gentry are afraid, my people. Let our resolve never, ever flag!
So what I think is happening here is the equivalent of what happened to encyclopedia salesmen with encarta. They were so locked in to a large existing sales network with high production costs that they could not bring themselves to cannibalise their own networks to maintain sales. This nearly destroyed the companies (such as britannica) before they finally did a U turn. People were happy to buy an inferior (M$ Encarta - not that it was bad, just less information) product because it was so much cheaper, and almost as good.
Encarta is an abomination even worse that World Book (Bleaah!) by comparison with Brittanica! Brittanica was/could-still-be the gold standard of Encyclopediae. No Joke.
Friggin kids these dayz...(mutter mutter) HEY! GET OFF MY LAWN!
Here's a guy who reflects our collective instincts, yet defends his stance towards Ellison (one which I agree with, BTW). I'm a bit to the right, he's a bit to the left, but you know what? He's cool all the same. Incidentally.. If I'm conservative, why do I like Christopher Hitchens? (sp?) Perhaps because he's BullShit Free. He believes what he says. And also has Reasons for believing those things. Maybe we all *can* get along.. If we try.
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I so hate it when people who *actually know about something* sre ignored by the /. crowd just because they're not 'in the flow' of whatever parochial, or paranoid discussion happens to be taking place at the time.
funded by progressively high filing fees based on the damages sought after.
SOMETHING has to be done to balance the power.
If Megacorp A goes after littleguy B, and littleguy B is assigned Some Huge Lawyer by the court, and Megacorp would have to cough up a filing fee so large as to cover the costs of Huge Lawyer's bond against the action, then maybe we might see far less of this bullshit.
Just a thought.
Much better that Steve and Garry were!d emand / ls_dbclk.smil&proto=rtsp&ads=1
That show was much about negative space (silences), similar to what Howard (Blecch!) Stern does.
BORING!
R&G have wonderful repartee' going every single day. They're not poseurs, and it shows.Their news guy is easily as funny as either one of them, but keeps it in his pants, when he's not on vacation (Hi,.Jim!).
They're utterly genuine.
you can listen to them at:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=abcradiog2/wlsam/g2
check them out!
No shit!
This sort of thing is just a small scale example of the corruption of values that brought Enron down, and will shortly end Worldcom.
'MEMEMEMEME!' bullshit. Let's slap those puppies down. They're no better than spammers.
d00dz!
You HAVE TO HAVE AND EMBRACE A SET OF VALUES THAT ACTUALLY WORK!
Otherwise this great place that we know as 'the Net' is gonna go away. The commons! We can't afford to lose that!
Police your buds. Be relentless.
I pray that made sense, as I have a buzz on...
Whoa!
Obscure, yet penetrating comment!
Wish I had mod points right now!
Not being a formally trained physicist, I gotta confess that my eyes watered a bit reading that FAQ, but if I infer correctly..
Breaks in Lorentz and CPT symmetry would provide clues as to why time flows in only one direction?
And perhaps cough up data useful to extremely large scale cosmology?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, or not, but if you are, you're wrong.
Termites produce an astounding amount of methane, and they are not alone.
Any insect that processes cellulose outputs methanes, and their species are legion.
The sheer weight of the insects busily eating plants (cellulose) on this planet every day marginalises all of the activity that we mere mammals engage in.
I didn't mean to be a jerk. /. unwashed really bothered me, since it WAS a smart comment.
Your post really worked. The notion of it seeming clueless to the
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference round these parts..
Dehuminizing?
Try 'Dehumanising'.
I know. Brit spelling.
So shoot me.
I just hate when an otherwise intelligent post loses 'it'.
If going to work could be as rich and variable, as, say, going to the library, this could be very cool!
Imagine! No office cliques, since there'd be no fixed offices!
Good thing, IMHO.
Cliques are for idiots.
You 'rub elbows' with many folk that you don't know! [duffman!] Ohyeah! [/duffman!]
Excellent foundry for mating opportunities!
You don't have to deal *every fscking day* with that drooling moron in the next cube that thinks large eyed velvet painting child images of the early 70's constitute 'high art'.
I'm liking this more and more.
Termites and other similar insects are probably the most prolific producers of greenhouse gasses on the planet, easily outstripping cattle, and motorvehicles.
Perhaps we could call all of their colonic (heh) Queens into some room somewhere, and demand that they chill for a while?
No? Didn't think so.
Duh.
Social Security taxes should be harvested via the normal, and visible system that we all see, every day.
A 'Since WE *raised* you ASSHOLES!' tax would suit my fancy just fine.
Does noone have a clue about Navigation?
Striking a Theme?
I'm wondering about the quality of this program, folks.
Oops..
Should have mentioned..
Yes, 33$ of *income taxes*, but far less when you add in all the other stuff normal folks pay.
But remember that they don't pay FICA (over e certain amount) or any other of those other regressive taxes us regular shmoes have to cough up.
Plus 'unearned', IE: investment income is taxed at a lower rate (no FICA) than the 'regular' income you actually have to WORK for!
(IMHO, ALL income should be taxed to support the social security system. The rates could be reduced dramatically. We wouldn't be getting hit with what is, effectively, a 15% tax off the top.)
The system is fscked, folks. No two ways about it!
Heh.
While I agree with you on this one, I just gotta say...
MAN, does that site suck donkey balls or what?
Objectivity? Wuzzat?
So many bozos.. so little time...
I think Dr. J. Mengele fled to Argentina.
Oh so clever.
I'm a proud owner of a Mensa membership card.
From a CrackerJack box, I assume?
The viewpoint that a clump of predifferentiated cells constitutes an actual *person* is pure superstition, and should *not* be enshrined in law. :)
Gawd Himself sheds these things all the time.
It often occurs during normal Menstruation. Or, later, (MUCH later) miscarriage.
Our legislators seriously need to get a clue.
But you already knew that
Another reason that this will never fly is that the aggregate costs of implementation will far exceed any losses recovered. In fact, it will cost more to implement this moronic idea than all of the revenue these companies make *combined*!
It's an unfunded mandate, folks.
If these assholes want this so bad, let *them* pay for each and every instance of the hardware/software required to conform.
The *AA's would be bankrupt overnight.
Morons. Furrfu!
Oh, baby!
Thanks for reminding me what a luxurious pleasure it is to read his stuff!
Yum!
I'm wondering where I could acquire the knowledge necessary to *fully* comprehend stuff like particle physics, quantum phenomena, etc.
I'd rather not school for it, since I don't trust the quality of even the best Uni education.
I'd rather read. Anyone got a good 'get up to speed' reading list?
Dude..
You made a good point.. really.
I hate being a prig (not prick; that's different) but WHOA do you need to learn to spell!
Bad spelling makes you seem a luser(tm). Don't do that.
I'll concur with the others commenting on your .sig. :)
It voices a gut feeling I've had for a veeery long time.
Those who favor a BSD style license are, in general, freeloaders whose avarice eclipses even that of the worst of Napster abusers.
At least Napster users were only 'stealing' the PRODUCT. BSD supporters believe that it's OK to steal all of the effort behind the PRODUCT as well.
(I pray that makes sense
The reason the GPL is viral is that, over time, all of the cool stuff created by GPL authors will, by cross synergy, eclipse that created by old guard IP holders. Hence, the patent/copyright assult we're seeng currently.
The landed gentry are afraid, my people.
Let our resolve never, ever flag!
So what I think is happening here is the equivalent of what happened to encyclopedia salesmen with encarta. They were so locked in to a large existing sales network with high production costs that they could not bring themselves to cannibalise their own networks to maintain sales. This nearly destroyed the companies (such as britannica) before they finally did a U turn. People were happy to buy an inferior (M$ Encarta - not that it was bad, just less information) product because it was so much cheaper, and almost as good.
Encarta is an abomination even worse that World Book (Bleaah!) by comparison with Brittanica!
Brittanica was/could-still-be the gold standard of Encyclopediae. No Joke.
Friggin kids these dayz...(mutter mutter)
HEY! GET OFF MY LAWN!
Here's a guy who reflects our collective instincts, yet defends his stance towards Ellison (one which I agree with, BTW).
I'm a bit to the right, he's a bit to the left, but you know what? He's cool all the same.
Incidentally..
If I'm conservative, why do I like Christopher Hitchens? (sp?)
Perhaps because he's BullShit Free. He believes what he says. And also has Reasons for believing those things.
Maybe we all *can* get along.. If we try.