Whatever. Too bad you haven't got a sense of humor. I think it's just as funny in Cockney, or Redneck, or Elmer Fudd, or Swedish Chef, or Moron, or Pig Latin.
If you've got a problem with it, then read The Dialectizer's Not Discriminatory statement. If you still got a problem, don't bitch at me - I didn't write the program. Bitch at Samuel Stoddard, who did write it, at his feedback address.
You want to see something really funny? I ran the page through The Dialectizer. It won't work from The Dialectizer page, something about Mindcraft's server not being standard. So I make a copy of the page and dialectized it. You can view the result here.
One of you legal types out there please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the author of a piece of correspondence automatically becomes the copyright holder. This is why literary editors have to get permission not from the letter's recipient, but from the writer or his estate.
If this is indeed the case, then Mindcraft may be violating copyright law by posting these letters on their web site. Thus it would be a good idea to document the existence of this page for future legal action...
However, IANAL, so someone who does know, please elaborate on this.
READ the original article before you moderate. If you had done this, you would have noticed that Jack Bryar misquoted this quote and misattributed it to Oliver Wendall Holmes.
Therefore this posting is not offtopic, as it is a response to the original article being discussed.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of LITTLE minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do..."
I would say that your analogies are pretty accurate.
As a matter of fact, my experience is that many students and practitioners of Magick and other spiritual paths are also hackers, though of course the reverse does not hold. Out of the 9 people I know who are running Linux, 7 of them are also studying Magick.
There is even an online bookstore, Ibis Books which specializes in Magick, and is running on Linux.
Actually, EULAs have been upheld in court. The judge, however, seems to have made enforceability dependent on three conditions. One of those conditions is that a refund must be available for those who don't agree to the terms. I forget what the other two are. You will find links to the case and an analysis of it at http://www.metasystema.org/dell.mhtml. The links I refer to are near the bottom of the page.
I think they have done themselves in. I've been browsing the source tree, and find that the module headers themselves are GPLed. Doesn't this mean that ALL the source code must be GPL, since their module must use their own headers?
Thank you so much for supporting my post. Obviously, if this passage were taken literally, it would refer only to the building of the temple. Taken figuratively, however, it could be read as encouraging those who have been freely given intelligence by God to freely give of the products of that intelligence when participating in any great communal work.
My teacher, Shimon Ba'al HaNotzah Shel Emet, a contemporary kabbalist, has the following commentary:
153 is also the value of the phrase: LHTIB LTVBIM '(in order) to bring well-being to the good'
Aholiab is spelled: Aleph - Heh - Lamed - Yod - Aleph - Beth (1+5+30+10+1+2 = 49).
49 is also the value of the word: LIDH 'a bringing forth, birth, nativity' or 'a delivering, a freeing'
Thus Aholiab and Bezaleel refer to 'a bringing forth or freeing of something to be used for the common good'.
Just amazing, I think. My teacher also suggested that there is a hidden relation between the words Moses and Mosix, but being but a poor student, I can't for the life of me figure out how Mosix is spelled in Hebrew.
And Bezaleel and Aholiab shall work with everyone wise of heart to whom Adonai has given wisdom and intelligence, to know how to do every work of the service of the holy place, concerning all which Adonai had commanded.
And Moses called to Bezaleel, and to Aholiab, and to everyone wise of heart, to whom Adonai had given a heart of wisdom, everyone whose heart had lifted him up to come near the work, to do it.
And they took every offering before Moses which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service in the holy place, to do it. And they brought him still more willing offerings morning by morning.
--Exodus, Chapter 36, verses 1-3.
And the Lord Adonai saith, "Let my Source go Free". And the wise of heart considered, and willingly gave freely unto the Lord.
By an ISP trying to get me to switch from my (much better) ISP! You'd think they would have known better. And the return address was valid too. You better believe I flamed 'em (and forwarded a copy to the RBL).
What if someone put up a site listing, say, web sites that they didn't like, portraying them as crimes against the art of proper web site design, or for whatever reason. And then some other people started hacking those sites.
Why doesn't somebody start www.hack-these-sites.org, we could put this disgusting little site on the top of the list?
Too true. The courts have always frowned on "contracts" which have not actually been negotiated between the two parties involved. It's been suggested that before you first boot Windows, you take a pen and modify the agreement, then get it notarized. That should have as good a chance of standing up in courts as the original EULA.
On Friday, I called Dell. I spoke to Sean in customer service. I asked if I could return Windows for a refund. He said YES!!. I asked how much the refund would be. He said $199!! Me thinks he's gonna lose his job. But it's been said!
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Whatever. Too bad you haven't got a sense of humor. I think it's just as funny in Cockney, or Redneck, or Elmer Fudd, or Swedish Chef, or Moron, or Pig Latin.
If you've got a problem with it, then read The Dialectizer's Not Discriminatory statement. If you still got a problem, don't bitch at me - I didn't write the program. Bitch at Samuel Stoddard, who did write it, at his feedback address.
Please try to have a nice day!
You want to see something really funny? I ran the page through The Dialectizer. It won't work from The Dialectizer page, something about Mindcraft's server not being standard. So I make a copy of the page and dialectized it. You can view the result here.
One of you legal types out there please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the author of a piece of correspondence automatically becomes the copyright holder. This is why literary editors have to get permission not from the letter's recipient, but from the writer or his estate.
If this is indeed the case, then Mindcraft may be violating copyright law by posting these letters on their web site. Thus it would be a good idea to document the existence of this page for future legal action...
However, IANAL, so someone who does know, please elaborate on this.
To the idiot moderator who marked this offtopic:
READ the original article before you moderate. If you had done this, you would have noticed that Jack Bryar misquoted this quote and misattributed it to Oliver Wendall Holmes.
Therefore this posting is not offtopic, as it is a response to the original article being discussed.
It was RALPH WALDO EMERSON who said:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of LITTLE minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do..."
I would say that your analogies are pretty accurate.
As a matter of fact, my experience is that many students and practitioners of Magick and other spiritual paths are also hackers, though of course the reverse does not hold. Out of the 9 people I know who are running Linux, 7 of them are also studying Magick.
There is even an online bookstore, Ibis Books which specializes in Magick, and is running on Linux.
You might want to start with the comp.speech FAQ:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/
In particular, take a look at:
http://www.speech.cs.cm u.edu/comp.speech/Section5/Q5.5.html
Two speech synthesis programs I have played with are:
rsynth: ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/ pub/comp.speech/synthesis/
Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/f estival.html
To prove that code is "free speech":
Record yourself speaking the code, complete with "open paren", "open brace", "comma", etc.
Put this on an audio file and create a link to it on your web site.
Did you bother to do a whois on this before posting? Somebody in Massachussetts already has apotheosis.com. Besides, Internic is gone, gone....
which would be found at http://www.toms.net/rb/.
Actually, EULAs have been upheld in court. The judge, however, seems to have made enforceability dependent on three conditions. One of those conditions is that a refund must be available for those who don't agree to the terms. I forget what the other two are. You will find links to the case and an analysis of it at http://www.metasystema.org/dell.mhtml. The links I refer to are near the bottom of the page.
I think they have done themselves in. I've been browsing the source tree, and find that the module headers themselves are GPLed. Doesn't this mean that ALL the source code must be GPL, since their module must use their own headers?
Thank you so much for supporting my post. Obviously, if this passage were taken literally, it would refer only to the building of the temple. Taken figuratively, however, it could be read as encouraging those who have been freely given intelligence by God to freely give of the products of that intelligence when participating in any great communal work.
My teacher, Shimon Ba'al HaNotzah Shel Emet, a contemporary kabbalist, has the following commentary:
Bezaleel is spelled: Beth - Tzaddi - Lamed - Aleph - Lamed (2+90+30+1+30 = 153).
153 is also the value of the phrase: LHTIB LTVBIM '(in order) to bring well-being to the good'
Aholiab is spelled: Aleph - Heh - Lamed - Yod - Aleph - Beth (1+5+30+10+1+2 = 49).
49 is also the value of the word: LIDH 'a bringing forth, birth, nativity' or 'a delivering, a freeing'
Thus Aholiab and Bezaleel refer to 'a bringing forth or freeing of something to be used for the common good'.
Just amazing, I think. My teacher also suggested that there is a hidden relation between the words Moses and Mosix, but being but a poor student, I can't for the life of me figure out how Mosix is spelled in Hebrew.
And Bezaleel and Aholiab shall work with everyone wise of heart to whom Adonai has given wisdom and intelligence, to know how to do every work of the service of the holy place, concerning all which Adonai had commanded.
And Moses called to Bezaleel, and to Aholiab, and to everyone wise of heart, to whom Adonai had given a heart of wisdom, everyone whose heart had lifted him up to come near the work, to do it.
And they took every offering before Moses which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service in the holy place, to do it. And they brought him still more willing offerings morning by morning.
--Exodus, Chapter 36, verses 1-3.
And the Lord Adonai saith, "Let my Source go Free". And the wise of heart considered, and willingly gave freely unto the Lord.
--Linux, Kernel 2.2.2, Module MO6.
Actually, there's a great service that will sort through the headers for you, and notify the right abuse or postmaster address.
It's........Spam Cop.
By an ISP trying to get me to switch from my (much better) ISP! You'd think they would have known better. And the return address was valid too. You better believe I flamed 'em (and forwarded a copy to the RBL).
Well, it's clear to me that MS is just approaching the trial the same way they approach writing software.
They just rushed the beta version to court thinking it was a finished product, and that they could just debug it later.
Uh, did you try the STAIRS?
I agree that people need to go directly to the Manufacturer.
I have a page set up specifically for Dell at
http://ibis.home.texas.net/dell.html.
Well, this would seem to have some implications.
What if someone put up a site listing, say, web sites that they didn't like, portraying them as crimes against the art of proper web site design, or for whatever reason. And then some other people started hacking those sites.
Why doesn't somebody start www.hack-these-sites.org, we could put this disgusting little site on the top of the list?
Too true. The courts have always frowned on "contracts"
which have not actually been negotiated between the two parties involved.
It's been suggested that before you first boot Windows,
you take a pen and modify the agreement, then get it notarized.
That should have as good a chance of standing up in courts as the original EULA.
Of course, even better is to install any other OS and return Windows.
Sean at Dell said that the refund would be $199.
This way in is paved with good inteNTions.
On Friday, I called Dell. I spoke to Sean in customer service.
I asked if I could return Windows for a refund. He said YES!!.
I asked how much the refund would be. He said $199!!
Me thinks he's gonna lose his job. But it's been said!
I've transcibed the conversation at http://ibis.home.texas.net/dell.html.