Ok a soccer team (international football) wants a.com TLD and finds someone else has it quoting a line from the Bible.... Oh wait... the team spells it's name DIFFRENTLY... It's a local team...
So if this is valid.....
ComTech... we are suing the whole.com TLD space..... and Sun Microsystems
I'd think Slashdot would probably still be outraged.
It's a local sports team going for an international domain.. DotCom... There is the additional gaul of it being an AMERICAN locality going after the domain (It's come up before in the chatter.. it's got a reason but people don't like it)
In this case it's still local and not an American locality (no "But the Internet started in the united states" excuse).
I don't have a problem with suing for domains when there is a clear trademark violation... But... when the trademark has a commen meaning then it should be up for grabs... Who gets www.hello.com first? Hello Technologys? Hello Electronics? Hello Public Relations? Or the 13 year old girl who got the domain first...
Just becouse there is a trademark dosn't mean you automaticly have a right to the domain.
www.cokeacola.com yes... unique... www.coke.com NO... generic www.IBM.com yes unique www.Igqlibmszk.com no unique but not "IBM" just a bunch of random letters that contain IBM randomly.
www.wenndys.com No girls name www.barbie.com no girls name www.satan.com no... thow it would be fitting.. "Satanic computing sues the CBN for Satan.com"
www.tv.com no.... generic... www.sim.com generic
I could go on and on but you get the idea.
But today the standard is.... Got a TM? Ok you got the domain....
> there is also an interview with hillary rosen on news.com where she specifically says that they are not just randomly suing people.
Actions speek louder than words...
Google is a smart search that cuts out garbage using it's own logic... Score uses a compleatly diffrent logic that leads it to link directly to MP3s....
Same results however... you wanted MP3s.. you got MP3s... Just like AltaVista...
Only Score and Google give you lagit sources... AltaVista sends you to pirate websites...
Yes score makes a GREAT piracy tool... so dose Napster... so dose copy on dos... and hard disks... and CD burnners.... Sue Sony, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and basicly the whole consumer hardware industry... hay sue the music industry too for setting "set to pirate" standards....
It just so happends... and yes... it's at random...
Is this invalid? Hay... Maybe score is ignoring someones Robot.txt... that changes things quite a bit
>ps: A common thing to hear is "well, it's your fault for doing business with Ibill." If someone will provide me with the name of an alternative processor who has a good track record (2+ years in business), is financially stable (no late payments, ever, no retroactive chargebacks), and has stronger anti-spam policies, I'll gladly switch. Hint: None of Ibill's three main competitors meet those criteria.
In my experence a strong antiSpam policy dosn't prevent you from getting on the RBL... So... Is there any way to be sure a busness won't make it on the RBL? As far as I can tell no one is immune...
I'd dance on the graves
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From what I have read on K5 and Slashdot ORBS is a very nasty organisation. From my own experences MAPS is horrable.
ORBS sends larg bodys of probes to servers. This eats bandwith and/or crashes (unstable) e-mail servers.
MAPS uses a complaint process that is less than reliable rarely handled properly and often MAPS is down right sloppy. An innocent victom has a better chance of making it on the MAPS list than a Spammer. MAPS allows AboveNet to use MAPS filter list for a packet filter. This means any random user may end up having his packets filtered by AboveNet based on MAPS. No matter what.
It's been said that you don't have to have your data routed by AboveNet... To this I say... how do I prevent my web surfing, e-mail etc from being filtered... what do I do to prevent this filtering. Even if I COULD do something (and I can not) thats an OPT OUT filter... kinda like OPT OUT spam...
It matters not... I don't want Spam, I don't want to be filtered by MAPS[Vea AboveNet] and I don't want my e-mail server to be bombed by ORBS.
I can filter spam with procmail... What can I do about ORBS and MAPS?
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He wasn't using OSM as an excuse... The posts in question aren't from OSM
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I visted the artical on K5 and the bulk of the posts are talking about how and why Slashdot/Andover are supressing this story. Only a few posts are accually on topic...
I just said K5s moderation was better than Slashdots.. but it just occured to me... all thies K5 attacks on Slashdot would be moderted down as off-topic.... It dosn't happen on K5... Maybe I was wrong
Re:Conspiracies everywhere...
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Seems Kuro5hin is censoring this story it dosn't come up.. CONSPERICY... Aliens in my underware.
Kuro5hin has a better moderation system and Slashdot has a better news filter. At least in my opinion..
Example... Slashdot could hold off on this story to see whats going on. Many times Slashdot storys are put on hold to be checked out and confermed like any good news agentcy should. Kuro5hin has no such process leaving it to the public to deside if a story is valid...
This leaves Kuro5hin to the standard of "Sounds valid" and Slashdot to the standard of "The facts match up" (Vs my little site where the standard is "Psyco brain on a rampage") In my opinion your not going to get good news reporting done the Kuro5hin way...
>and certainly everyone should upgrade when the fix is made available.
Just being an asshole here:) Everyone? But how am I goina apply it to my Linux box?
The point is good thow...
I want to scream when ever I hear someone say "But the user never upgrades"... Thats the users defect... bugs happen... user dosn't bugfix he is SOL. Hay I mean where the hell do companys like Microsoft make money when people don't upgrade?
>Of course, it is true that this is simply a bug, and it could have happened to anyone. But it didn't happen to anyone, it happened to Microsoft, and they deserve some measure of condemnation for it.
Anyone who introduces a defect deserves some amount of ribbing for it. The more people trust the code the more they desevre the ribbing... Note I said "Trust" not "Use" or "made to use". Microsoft catches hell for bad code enough to cover any given bug found. And no one accually trusts Microsofts code... or if they do they deserve what they get.
I think Microsoft should catch it for an "it could NEVER happen here" addatude they keep pushing.
This is the kind of bug a collage student makes. But... being a profesional programmer dosn't preclude the defect. It happends becouse it slips our minds at the moment we are writing code. It hasn't happend to me yet... but quite a few times I ALLMOST released code with such a bug.
Microsoft has such a department and uses it to market how Microsoft is better than Linux. "We have have profesionals checking our code" Yet those profesionals miss the kind of bugs any hobby coder would catch.
This isn't even a "many eyes" issue it is purely an issue of a flawed develupment process internal to Microsoft and found no place else.
Buffer overflows are normal bugs. Meaning they are very easy to make. They are also easy to find and fix.
Here is where my gripe starts... Apple, Sun, Linux etc all can be forgiven if they have an occasional overflow defect. It's pritty normal and they do eventually catch and fix those bugs.
Microsoft unlike the rest lives in a "it works ship it" world. This gripe of course is nowhere near issolated to this one issue. However this is where it gets more blatent than others. One programmer could miss this bug and pass it on. Microsoft has people checking code for this sort of thing. If that phase was worth anything this bug would have been cought. However so many other bugs would have been cought as well. But this one is far to easy to catch. In the end the bug trap phase of MS Windows is worthless.
This dose not prove MsWindows is garbage. It's a normal bug. It can happen to anyone. It proves that the bugtrap phase is really a rubber stamp phase. It says Microsoft has a department purely so they can say they produce better than the open source "many eyes". But this kind of bug dosn't need many eyes to find and fix. It only needs one pair of eyes. Microsoft has those eyes... they are closed...
It's a normal bug... it can happen to Linux, MacOS, BSD or Solarus. But it can also be removed. Those who have bug trap dapartments can be reasonably sure such a bug would never see the light of day. Those in the open source can be fairly sure such a bug will have a short life span.
Apple issues threats over revealing Apple "secrets" Heres a clue for Apple... When the photos are bogus (As AppleInsiders are) you can't sue... Thies photos are clearly AppleInsiders property not Apples... Now Apple can be sued for legal harrasment...
This is why people don't run around suing for this stuff... You can only conferm rummers this way as you CAN NOT send threatoning letters unless the rummor is REAL. Apple however has taken to threatoning anyone reporting to have pictures of rummored hardware even if the pictures are totall bogus.
This is bad legalisticly... MacJunkie may wish to sue (As they said the box Mac was fake...) AppleInsider would probably want to crawl under a rock and die first
I'd rather have an open source Aqua for Linux
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I'd like to have something that works more effectively than Xfree86. Yes networked X11 is neat but thats from a of Unix mainframes. X11 is not an effective DeskTop GUI. Aqua is... And if Apple dosn't want to give out Aqua.. Fine.. then something else... I guess it dosn't matter as long as it runs well on Unix, Linux and MacOs/X
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Thanks for prepetuating the myth that Macs aren't useful.
He did say she was a graphics designner. That is some heavy lifting and it's being done on a Mac.
(Personally I find graphics designe harder than coding and website maintanence but then I don't run a high load website like Slashdot)
BTW I use Linux and prefer it to all other operating systems... and I do catch it for mentioning that Mac is "The Computer for the rest of us" (Bash Apple for that one kiddys.. they are the ones who gave Mac that image) thow I never said (or even hinted) that Macs arn't powerful.
And on a side note... I'm trying to pry Windows out of my GFs hands... My only hope is an iMac... I tried (and failed) to get her to install Linux
Quite enough has been said about sitting idly by while... so just insert all that here...:)
Quite a few anti-Microsoft people (We arn't talking Linux here... a good amount of Mac, OS/2 and Unix people fit in this catagory) see Microsoft as nessisary as the black pleage.
Many antiMicrosoft types DO NOT wish government intervention seeing the track record.
Many Linux advocates are FAR more intrested in premoting Linux than caring about Microsoft.
The Linux vs Microsoft war is really just.. a bunch of people want to see Microsoft go away and a lot of people want to see Linux in mainstream use. It only overlaps becouse of how many there are. Example.... so many drink sodas and so many drive cars you are bound to find a lot of people who drink sodas and drive cars. One dosn't lead to the other.
Quite a few want to see Microsoft go away they just don't want a government agentcy to do the durty work. Thats not good. Government agentcys have a bad habbit of running amuck.
AppleInsider - "Look at new Mac Cube" Mac Junkie - "Pictures are bogus" Apple Computers "Remove pictures NOW"
I don't care if the computers are for real. It's just funny to see this happen.
What ever Apples reasons for suing everyone it's not a smart busness move... (Isn't Apples law sute spree how Apple became "The bad guy" of the 1980s?)
I don't want Apple to be the bad guy... I want Apple to be around to pick up the user side. [Mac is a power system but it's a better Newbe system than Linux and Mac dose the job better than Windows]
Anyway... this is a bit silly.... and Apple is just making things more surreal by throwing lawyers around
Welcome to Slashdot today the date is July 18 2035 In a bold move The United Nations has passed a resolution prohbiting entertaining subject matter within a child reach. This is an extention to a resolution passed last year restricting non-edicational matereal... UN spokesmen Behanu who has lived in SanFransisco California all his life says "We found far to much entertainment in eductaion sence then we had to do something about it"
Protesters object clamming childhood should not be booring... Behanu shot back "Parents who let kids play wildly are poor parents. This is a time for them to learn and dam it I'm gona cram as much learnning into childhood as I can"
In related news the rebelion has gainned three more nations. The surendering nations clame the latest policys are the reason.
For a historical note.. the UN gainned the power it has today just 10 years ago. It happend when United States policys failled to have any impact due to the Internet. They asked the UN to take charg and in a few short years the UN was granted the power to do just that.
Many clame it's first mandate... Restricting the Display of Violent Games... was extream... This eventually banned games like American Foot Ball... International FoodBall (Known in the United States as Soccer) and Golf.
Reading Slashdot lissening to Geeks In Space and reading CmdrTacos website I'd say first and formost Rob Mulda is a prankster. If she can't take that level of ribbing I doult the relationship would have lasted long anyway.
I suspect she got worse many times over AND she got him quite a few times herself (Hay maybe this color sceam was HER FAULT):)
Anyway it's not gona distory the relationship... How ever it may earn CmdrTaco a pants full of hot gritz...
Slashdot Mirror
Ok a soccer team (international football) wants a .com TLD and finds someone else has it quoting a line from the Bible....
.com TLD space.....
Oh wait... the team spells it's name DIFFRENTLY...
It's a local team...
So if this is valid.....
ComTech... we are suing the whole
and Sun Microsystems
I'd think Slashdot would probably still be outraged.
It's a local sports team going for an international domain.. DotCom...
There is the additional gaul of it being an AMERICAN locality going after the domain (It's come up before in the chatter.. it's got a reason but people don't like it)
In this case it's still local and not an American locality (no "But the Internet started in the united states" excuse).
I don't have a problem with suing for domains when there is a clear trademark violation...
But... when the trademark has a commen meaning then it should be up for grabs...
Who gets www.hello.com first? Hello Technologys? Hello Electronics? Hello Public Relations? Or the 13 year old girl who got the domain first...
Just becouse there is a trademark dosn't mean you automaticly have a right to the domain.
www.cokeacola.com yes... unique...
www.coke.com NO... generic
www.IBM.com yes unique
www.Igqlibmszk.com no unique but not "IBM" just a bunch of random letters that contain IBM randomly.
www.wenndys.com No girls name
www.barbie.com no girls name
www.satan.com no... thow it would be fitting.. "Satanic computing sues the CBN for Satan.com"
www.tv.com no.... generic...
www.sim.com generic
I could go on and on but you get the idea.
But today the standard is....
Got a TM? Ok you got the domain....
> there is also an interview with hillary rosen on news.com where she specifically says that they are not just randomly suing people.
Actions speek louder than words...
Google is a smart search that cuts out garbage using it's own logic...
Score uses a compleatly diffrent logic that leads it to link directly to MP3s....
Same results however... you wanted MP3s.. you got MP3s...
Just like AltaVista...
Only Score and Google give you lagit sources... AltaVista sends you to pirate websites...
Yes score makes a GREAT piracy tool... so dose Napster... so dose copy on dos... and hard disks... and CD burnners....
Sue Sony, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and basicly the whole consumer hardware industry...
hay sue the music industry too for setting "set to pirate" standards....
It just so happends... and yes... it's at random...
Is this invalid?
Hay... Maybe score is ignoring someones Robot.txt... that changes things quite a bit
Slashdot is often mistaken for an advocacy site.
It started as a website for news that intrests CmdrTaco. Thats all it ever has been or will be.
Thats good in a way... It means the Slashdot editors accually know and understand what they are posting.
There isn't a single legal expert amoung the Slashdot editors... so don't expect legal news...
RBL dosn't folow this criteria...
MAPS staff do not allways validate complaints...
MAPS staff do not allways contact offenders
MAPS staff do not allways return phone calls.
MAPS staff are volitears not employees and enter with an addatude. They are the layer that make it easy to get on the list and hard to get off.
Managment at times dosn't know an offending ISP has made contact unless the offending ISP sues...
If the above case is real it's pure abuse...
Meaning the person who has something against the victom is MAPS staff
This could make life a specall hell
Not only do Spammers and Blacklists go after each other.
But Spammers attack Spammers
Blacklists attack Blacklists...
Yes... it's the SpamWars RPG....
The SysAdmins nightmare....
>ps: A common thing to hear is "well, it's your fault for doing business with Ibill." If someone will provide me with the name of an alternative processor who has a good track record (2+ years in business), is financially stable (no late payments, ever, no retroactive chargebacks), and has stronger anti-spam policies, I'll gladly switch. Hint: None of Ibill's three main competitors meet those criteria.
In my experence a strong antiSpam policy dosn't prevent you from getting on the RBL...
So...
Is there any way to be sure a busness won't make it on the RBL?
As far as I can tell no one is immune...
From what I have read on K5 and Slashdot ORBS is a very nasty organisation.
From my own experences MAPS is horrable.
ORBS sends larg bodys of probes to servers. This eats bandwith and/or crashes (unstable) e-mail servers.
MAPS uses a complaint process that is less than reliable rarely handled properly and often MAPS is down right sloppy. An innocent victom has a better chance of making it on the MAPS list than a Spammer.
MAPS allows AboveNet to use MAPS filter list for a packet filter. This means any random user may end up having his packets filtered by AboveNet based on MAPS. No matter what.
It's been said that you don't have to have your data routed by AboveNet... To this I say... how do I prevent my web surfing, e-mail etc from being filtered... what do I do to prevent this filtering.
Even if I COULD do something (and I can not) thats an OPT OUT filter... kinda like OPT OUT spam...
It matters not... I don't want Spam, I don't want to be filtered by MAPS[Vea AboveNet] and I don't want my e-mail server to be bombed by ORBS.
I can filter spam with procmail...
What can I do about ORBS and MAPS?
He wasn't using OSM as an excuse...
The posts in question aren't from OSM
I visted the artical on K5 and the bulk of the posts are talking about how and why Slashdot/Andover are supressing this story.
Only a few posts are accually on topic...
I just said K5s moderation was better than Slashdots.. but it just occured to me... all thies K5 attacks on Slashdot would be moderted down as off-topic.... It dosn't happen on K5... Maybe I was wrong
Seems Kuro5hin is censoring this story it dosn't come up.. CONSPERICY... Aliens in my underware.
Kuro5hin has a better moderation system and Slashdot has a better news filter.
At least in my opinion..
Example... Slashdot could hold off on this story to see whats going on.
Many times Slashdot storys are put on hold to be checked out and confermed like any good news agentcy should.
Kuro5hin has no such process leaving it to the public to deside if a story is valid...
This leaves Kuro5hin to the standard of "Sounds valid" and Slashdot to the standard of "The facts match up"
(Vs my little site where the standard is "Psyco brain on a rampage")
In my opinion your not going to get good news reporting done the Kuro5hin way...
>and certainly everyone should upgrade when the fix is made available.
:)
Just being an asshole here
Everyone? But how am I goina apply it to my Linux box?
The point is good thow...
I want to scream when ever I hear someone say "But the user never upgrades"...
Thats the users defect... bugs happen... user dosn't bugfix he is SOL.
Hay I mean where the hell do companys like Microsoft make money when people don't upgrade?
>Of course, it is true that this is simply a bug, and it could have happened to anyone. But it didn't happen to anyone, it happened to Microsoft, and they deserve some measure of condemnation for it.
Anyone who introduces a defect deserves some amount of ribbing for it.
The more people trust the code the more they desevre the ribbing...
Note I said "Trust" not "Use" or "made to use".
Microsoft catches hell for bad code enough to cover any given bug found.
And no one accually trusts Microsofts code... or if they do they deserve what they get.
I think Microsoft should catch it for an "it could NEVER happen here" addatude they keep pushing.
This is the kind of bug a collage student makes.
But... being a profesional programmer dosn't preclude the defect. It happends becouse it slips our minds at the moment we are writing code.
It hasn't happend to me yet... but quite a few times I ALLMOST released code with such a bug.
Microsoft has such a department and uses it to market how Microsoft is better than Linux.
"We have have profesionals checking our code"
Yet those profesionals miss the kind of bugs any hobby coder would catch.
This isn't even a "many eyes" issue it is purely an issue of a flawed develupment process internal to Microsoft and found no place else.
Buffer overflows are normal bugs. Meaning they are very easy to make.
They are also easy to find and fix.
Here is where my gripe starts...
Apple, Sun, Linux etc all can be forgiven if they have an occasional overflow defect. It's pritty normal and they do eventually catch and fix those bugs.
Microsoft unlike the rest lives in a "it works ship it" world. This gripe of course is nowhere near issolated to this one issue.
However this is where it gets more blatent than others.
One programmer could miss this bug and pass it on. Microsoft has people checking code for this sort of thing. If that phase was worth anything this bug would have been cought. However so many other bugs would have been cought as well. But this one is far to easy to catch.
In the end the bug trap phase of MS Windows is worthless.
This dose not prove MsWindows is garbage. It's a normal bug. It can happen to anyone. It proves that the bugtrap phase is really a rubber stamp phase. It says Microsoft has a department purely so they can say they produce better than the open source "many eyes".
But this kind of bug dosn't need many eyes to find and fix. It only needs one pair of eyes.
Microsoft has those eyes... they are closed...
It's a normal bug... it can happen to Linux, MacOS, BSD or Solarus. But it can also be removed. Those who have bug trap dapartments can be reasonably sure such a bug would never see the light of day. Those in the open source can be fairly sure such a bug will have a short life span.
In the case of the Cube... It gave them a chance to pick apart the pictures that AppleInsider whipped up...
Yeah apples just throwing out those legal threats and this could get apple in trouble.
This is why legal experts are used to write thies letters but then legal experts usually know better that to make no-case threats...
Apple issues threats over revealing Apple "secrets"
Heres a clue for Apple... When the photos are bogus (As AppleInsiders are) you can't sue...
Thies photos are clearly AppleInsiders property not Apples...
Now Apple can be sued for legal harrasment...
This is why people don't run around suing for this stuff... You can only conferm rummers this way as you CAN NOT send threatoning letters unless the rummor is REAL.
Apple however has taken to threatoning anyone reporting to have pictures of rummored hardware even if the pictures are totall bogus.
This is bad legalisticly...
MacJunkie may wish to sue (As they said the box Mac was fake...) AppleInsider would probably want to crawl under a rock and die first
I'd like to have something that works more effectively than Xfree86.
Yes networked X11 is neat but thats from a of Unix mainframes. X11 is not an effective DeskTop GUI.
Aqua is...
And if Apple dosn't want to give out Aqua.. Fine.. then something else...
I guess it dosn't matter as long as it runs well on Unix, Linux and MacOs/X
Thanks for prepetuating the myth that Macs aren't useful.
He did say she was a graphics designner. That is some heavy lifting and it's being done on a Mac.
(Personally I find graphics designe harder than coding and website maintanence but then I don't run a high load website like Slashdot)
BTW I use Linux and prefer it to all other operating systems... and I do catch it for mentioning that Mac is "The Computer for the rest of us" (Bash Apple for that one kiddys.. they are the ones who gave Mac that image) thow I never said (or even hinted) that Macs arn't powerful.
And on a side note... I'm trying to pry Windows out of my GFs hands... My only hope is an iMac... I tried (and failed) to get her to install Linux
Note... it's only an infrengment on Apples trade secrets IF such a box exists...
If none exists Apple could be sued...
Quite enough has been said about sitting idly by while... so just insert all that here... :)
Quite a few anti-Microsoft people (We arn't talking Linux here... a good amount of Mac, OS/2 and Unix people fit in this catagory) see Microsoft as nessisary as the black pleage.
Many antiMicrosoft types DO NOT wish government intervention seeing the track record.
Many Linux advocates are FAR more intrested in premoting Linux than caring about Microsoft.
The Linux vs Microsoft war is really just.. a bunch of people want to see Microsoft go away and a lot of people want to see Linux in mainstream use. It only overlaps becouse of how many there are.
Example.... so many drink sodas and so many drive cars you are bound to find a lot of people who drink sodas and drive cars. One dosn't lead to the other.
Quite a few want to see Microsoft go away they just don't want a government agentcy to do the durty work. Thats not good. Government agentcys have a bad habbit of running amuck.
AppleInsider - "Look at new Mac Cube"
Mac Junkie - "Pictures are bogus"
Apple Computers "Remove pictures NOW"
I don't care if the computers are for real. It's just funny to see this happen.
What ever Apples reasons for suing everyone it's not a smart busness move...
(Isn't Apples law sute spree how Apple became "The bad guy" of the 1980s?)
I don't want Apple to be the bad guy... I want Apple to be around to pick up the user side.
[Mac is a power system but it's a better Newbe system than Linux and Mac dose the job better than Windows]
Anyway... this is a bit silly.... and Apple is just making things more surreal by throwing lawyers around
>I take it, then, that you've never seen the words "Patent Pending" stamped on a product?
You CAN do this.. it's not recomended...
It means BTW that you FILED for a patent. Your not waiting around for the patent process to finish.
You can file the stupid thing during the R&D phase as well as all the trademarks etc.
Patents are going to take longer than TradeMarks.
On a side note... You should get better legal advice... I doupt you could get or hold a TM in any nation that is so ready to void a TradeMark.
Publication on a website dosn't count as public domain...
Welcome to Slashdot today the date is July 18 2035
In a bold move The United Nations has passed a resolution prohbiting entertaining subject matter within a child reach.
This is an extention to a resolution passed last year restricting non-edicational matereal...
UN spokesmen Behanu who has lived in SanFransisco California all his life says "We found far to much entertainment in eductaion sence then we had to do something about it"
Protesters object clamming childhood should not be booring...
Behanu shot back "Parents who let kids play wildly are poor parents. This is a time for them to learn and dam it I'm gona cram as much learnning into childhood as I can"
In related news the rebelion has gainned three more nations.
The surendering nations clame the latest policys are the reason.
For a historical note.. the UN gainned the power it has today just 10 years ago.
It happend when United States policys failled to have any impact due to the Internet.
They asked the UN to take charg and in a few short years the UN was granted the power to do just that.
Many clame it's first mandate... Restricting the Display of Violent Games... was extream...
This eventually banned games like American Foot Ball... International FoodBall (Known in the United States as Soccer) and Golf.
Reading Slashdot lissening to Geeks In Space and reading CmdrTacos website I'd say first and formost Rob Mulda is a prankster.
:)
If she can't take that level of ribbing I doult the relationship would have lasted long anyway.
I suspect she got worse many times over AND she got him quite a few times herself (Hay maybe this color sceam was HER FAULT)
Anyway it's not gona distory the relationship...
How ever it may earn CmdrTaco a pants full of hot gritz...