350 Mhz are not enough to play a movie? Well yes, in my Ultra 5. Besides that the IDE controller is one of those infamous "CMD640 chipset bugfix/support" ones. --
And would anyone please explain why heroin is worse than junk-faxes?
Heroin is a highly addictive barbiturate. Some people want to consume that. By themselves. Then they get addicted. My Bad. I'm smoking tobacco and got addicted too. So there.
Now please tell me how drugging yourself is worse than harrassing other people? --
Contrary to your belief, "Zen" is not a religion, but more some kind of philosophy or state of mind. So you'd better expect the Dell "Materialism", the Apple "Enligthenment" or the IBM "Sekpticism".
Of course the name is stupid. But then, it is not.;) --
I first noticed these about a year ago, with my favourite MMORPG. Its about swearing. The company has a "don't swear in public"-policy in place. If you do, you might end up being thrown out of the game. banned.
Maybe this makes it a friendlier place for some, it definitly makes it a more hostile place for non-US inhabitants.
Why is that? Apart from the US and some very rigid religious countries, the whole world swears. Europe swears, from spain to turkey, from italy to norway. Everybody swears, and not just in his mother-tongue, but also in foreign languages. Even university-professors will say "fuck". Not only in private, but in the auditorium.
Given this culture of swearing, a ban of swearwords in online-games amounts to having the whole rest of the world to have something like scissors in your head, constantly censoring yourself (I suspect, however, that US-inhabitants do actually the same, maybe even without noticing). It's not funny. It's hostile.
Name things by its name. It's "fuck", and its not spelled "f*ck" or any other atrocity you do to the language in the name of bigotry and hipocrisy.
To be frank, such a ban friggin sucks and is a sure sign of some screwed-up state of mind, forcing the very same bigotry you're guilty of upon the rest of us. This is orwellian newspeak at its best. Congratulations, you're already half-way there. Fuck you. --
No, its not pedantic. Its important to call things by its name, and not by some propaganda-term like "theft" (which implies the victim hasn't the work anymore) or "piracy" (which implies that copyright-infringement is a violent robbery at sea involving murder) --
Zero to seven? I think not. I played most Lego (and bought most, and won a Lego-competition with a one-meter Lego-Yacht) just before I stopped playing with it. At age 12, roughly. So I'd suggest, go for 6-12. After age 12, people play roleplaying-games anyway;).
No actually, because the USA cheated -- they had the chance to get him and let him go, since Pakistan did not want their secret agents to be shot.. And besides, the Ex(?)-CIA-Agent Bin Laden is much more useful as a "Madman running free". --
Yay, that's different than in europe. Here I would have called the police as soon as I would have gotten an invoice -- extortion. Possibily even earlier, as soon as the pattern between SEC-filings and press releases became apparent. And I wouldn't have any need to sue them or present much evidence, because, as with a robbery, the police would have to investigate. --
Dear Critter. Cable theft is when you steal the cable (don't laugh, its quite common in Africa, and a real problem).
The words "cable theft" for unsanctioned use of a service is itself a piece of demagogy, like comparing people who illegally copy software to "pirates". In german there's a better word for it, its called "schwarzsehen" (analogous to "schwarzfahren", which is riding the bus without a ticket). There's even "schwarzkopieren" for illegal copying (of software; downloading mp3's and movies is legal).
(Meybe there is in english too? freerider/freeloader... Dunno.) --
I wholeheartedly agree. 99% of my searches are for information, not because I want to buy something. And moreover: If you got the guts to turn up on one of my searches for information with some stupid sales-site containing _no_ information, you're dead. I won't buy anything from you. Ever. --
Who knows. The UN has done some serious good stuff, and some horrible things (The UN Drug Office, http://www.unodc.org/ springs to mind, whose board members in the 80ies consisted nearly solely of Ex-Nazis. Not that the US wasn't responsible for their appointment..). --
Thank you for your work. Still I can't see this as a victory.
In contrast to the "software is not patentable" we had beforehand, this is worse. Now each and every formerly illegal patent will have to be examined whether its maybe illegal?
No, dismissal of the whole thing would be a battle won. And a criminal investigation against patent offices for illegally granting software-patents, _that_ would be victory. --
His line of thinking is 'good for corporations = good for the economy = good for the people'.
I'd be glad if that would be his line of thinking. It isn't; because software patents are bad for the economy. So either he is a complete dork, or he has a different agenda than "good for the economy".
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I don't understand it neither. Here in Europe, if I had gotten one of those letters, I'd have gone to the nearest police-department and turned them in for extortion. Not opening a lawsuit myself, but turn them in, so the police would have to investigate by themselves and arrest the SCO-staff for extortion.
I did this in 1996, in an otherwise netware-and-windows 3.11-shop. They were especially amazed about my mars-nwe (a netware-server in 15 minutes, incredible). Well, the linux wasn't shut down, but I wasn't allowed to use mars-nwe anymore, since it confused the users. --
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350 Mhz are not enough to play a movie? Well yes, in my Ultra 5. Besides that the IDE controller is one of those infamous "CMD640 chipset bugfix/support" ones.
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And would anyone please explain why heroin is worse than junk-faxes?
Heroin is a highly addictive barbiturate. Some people want to consume that. By themselves. Then they get addicted. My Bad. I'm smoking tobacco and got addicted too. So there.
Now please tell me how drugging yourself is worse than harrassing other people?
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Contrary to your belief, "Zen" is not a religion, but more some kind of philosophy or state of mind. So you'd better expect the Dell "Materialism", the Apple "Enligthenment" or the IBM "Sekpticism".
;)
Of course the name is stupid. But then, it is not.
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I first noticed these about a year ago, with my favourite MMORPG. Its about swearing. The company has a "don't swear in public"-policy in place. If you do, you might end up being thrown out of the game. banned.
Maybe this makes it a friendlier place for some, it definitly makes it a more hostile place for non-US inhabitants.
Why is that? Apart from the US and some very rigid religious countries, the whole world swears. Europe swears, from spain to turkey, from italy to norway. Everybody swears, and not just in his mother-tongue, but also in foreign languages. Even university-professors will say "fuck". Not only in private, but in the auditorium.
Given this culture of swearing, a ban of swearwords in online-games amounts to having the whole rest of the world to have something like scissors in your head, constantly censoring yourself (I suspect, however, that US-inhabitants do actually the same, maybe even without noticing). It's not funny. It's hostile.
Name things by its name. It's "fuck", and its not spelled "f*ck" or any other atrocity you do to the language in the name of bigotry and hipocrisy.
To be frank, such a ban friggin sucks and is a sure sign of some screwed-up state of mind, forcing the very same bigotry you're guilty of upon the rest of us. This is orwellian newspeak at its best. Congratulations, you're already half-way there.
Fuck you.
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No, its not pedantic. Its important to call things by its name, and not by some propaganda-term like "theft" (which implies the victim hasn't the work anymore) or "piracy" (which implies that copyright-infringement is a violent robbery at sea involving murder)
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Zero to seven? I think not. I played most Lego (and bought most, and won a Lego-competition with a one-meter Lego-Yacht) just before I stopped playing with it. At age 12, roughly. So I'd suggest, go for 6-12. After age 12, people play roleplaying-games anyway ;).
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Of course not, since you don't even try to run one.
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Yes, that one took me by surprise. And its the darnest fine piece of a pirate-movie ever since the crimson corsair set sail. Yarrr!
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No actually, because the USA cheated -- they had the chance to get him and let him go, since Pakistan did not want their secret agents to be shot.. And besides, the Ex(?)-CIA-Agent Bin Laden is much more useful as a "Madman running free".
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Yay, that's different than in europe. Here I would have called the police as soon as I would have gotten an invoice -- extortion. Possibily even earlier, as soon as the pattern between SEC-filings and press releases became apparent. And I wouldn't have any need to sue them or present much evidence, because, as with a robbery, the police would have to investigate.
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Dear Critter. Cable theft is when you steal the cable (don't laugh, its quite common in Africa, and a real problem).
The words "cable theft" for unsanctioned use of a service is itself a piece of demagogy, like comparing people who illegally copy software to "pirates". In german there's a better word for it, its called "schwarzsehen" (analogous to "schwarzfahren", which is riding the bus without a ticket). There's even "schwarzkopieren" for illegal copying (of software; downloading mp3's and movies is legal).
(Meybe there is in english too? freerider/freeloader... Dunno.)
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Yea. Actually only criminals have cruise missiles right now. Apart from that one guy in NZ maybe.
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I wholeheartedly agree. 99% of my searches are for information, not because I want to buy something. And moreover: If you got the guts to turn up on one of my searches for information with some stupid sales-site containing _no_ information, you're dead. I won't buy anything from you. Ever.
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Who knows. The UN has done some serious good stuff, and some horrible things (The UN Drug Office, http://www.unodc.org/ springs to mind, whose board members in the 80ies consisted nearly solely of Ex-Nazis. Not that the US wasn't responsible for their appointment..).
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I don't know, but here I'd call the police because SCO is doing illegal distribution of software.
Can't you do this in the USA? Call the police and they do a raid and crack down the software-pirates?
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Anyone who deals with firearms and reloading.
No, any American or Brit who deals with firearms and reloading. The rest of the world uses metric.
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That guy behind the cannon built it too: Cannon And this Bombard as well: Bombard Yes, they're replica of medieval (1470) cannons.
Now, don't come with some stupid metal tube.
Thank you for your work. Still I can't see this as a victory.
In contrast to the "software is not patentable" we had beforehand, this is worse. Now each and every formerly illegal patent will have to be examined whether its maybe illegal?
No, dismissal of the whole thing would be a battle won. And a criminal investigation against patent offices for illegally granting software-patents, _that_ would be victory.
--
I'd be glad if that would be his line of thinking. It isn't; because software patents are bad for the economy. So either he is a complete dork, or he has a different agenda than "good for the economy".
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I don't understand it neither. Here in Europe, if I had gotten one of those letters, I'd have gone to the nearest police-department and turned them in for extortion. Not opening a lawsuit myself, but turn them in, so the police would have to investigate by themselves and arrest the SCO-staff for extortion.
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Maybe they should them give badges to be worn all the times, so the homeless can be recognized on sight?
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I second that. We run our Oracle also on Debian; because all of our 20 servers run Debian, and we won't change that just because of some Oracle.
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This is an eye-opener. Thank you.
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Yes, would you please overthrow your government then?
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I did this in 1996, in an otherwise netware-and-windows 3.11-shop. They were especially amazed about my mars-nwe (a netware-server in 15 minutes, incredible). Well, the linux wasn't shut down, but I wasn't allowed to use mars-nwe anymore, since it confused the users.
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