"If they don't have a case, simply refuse the offer and see them in court (if they at all try)."
It's like the schoolyard bully who threatens to beat you up if you don't give him your lunch money.
You can give him your lunch money; you lose, he becomes even more brazen. You can tell him no; you get beaten up and have your lunch money stolen. You can give your money to someone else to *try* to protect you; your money's gone and you might still get clobbered. Or you can join forces with others who are in the same boat and teach the bully a lesson. Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense.
Not only do I hope they send a strong message to DirecTV, I hope DirecTV's legal staff faces some consequences with the bar association.
"Are you saying that the Bush family have a secret love affair with war and oil?"
Among other things, yes. It's no secret. You should read some more about their whole stinking clan. Samuel, Prescott, George H.W., George W, Neil Bush and then decide just how prejudiced you think i really am.
"great great great great great"
Why did you add 5 extra generations of separation in your example? Could it be that you see some validity to what I said?
I'm not ready to let go of a hierarchical organization to the fs, but I am anxious to see it extended.
Let it be relational, just make it so the metadata for every file is required to have a "pathname" attribute. If you don't want to assign a pathname explicitly, then it should default to something analogous to $PWD/inode_number.
It's a pretty low degree of stereotyping at worst. I don't judge Bush by his father or grandfather, but i'd be dumb to deny that there was some cause and effect.
And for the record here, i'm talking about nurture, not nature.
a snippet from Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:
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There was an amphibious car called Amphicar back in the 60's and they were convertibles (every one i ever saw anyway). They still show up at the car shows once in a while.
"With this release (0.2), I have no typing speed/latency issues. The box is not that great, either -- an Athlon 1.533 with 256 MB."
Yeah, 1.5 Ghz sounds like a bare minimum for running an email program. Plan on buying a dual processor if you want to play minesweeper at the same time.
"Secondly, this type of copy-protection is a clear violation of the rights of any person who buys such a CD."
Here's where that argument breaks down. You have no rights. Rights in this country are granted by congress. You can't afford to outbribe industry lobbyists, so the laws are being made in their favor.
Many of the new laws go against the fundamental concepts of American freedom that we had drilled into our heads in public school. We want to believe that the government is "for the people", but what we see is a bunch of fatcats who don't give a damn about the Constitution and who cannot relate to the other 90% of the population.
One psychobabble term for the way all of this makes us feel is 'cognitive dissonance'. The choices for coping with it are
a) fix the problem. b) give up your old beliefs. c) find some new beliefs that are more important than the old ones.
Our feckless fuckwads in the whorehouse and the war department know they can't convince people to give up the beliefs that we should live free, that we're innocent until proven guilty, etc. They sure as hell don't want us to fix the problem, because that would mean putting Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe in front of a firing squad. Their method is to give us some new things to believe in.
In other words, due to 9/11 our rights are not important. Due to 9/11 we must go occupy Iraq. To protect the economy (what economy?) we must allow big business to run roughshod over American citizens.
Gates is probably telling Bush "see, this is why we need trusted computing." Bush will declare that either you are with him, or you are with the terrorists.
"So if you want to call it mismanagement, it can only be due to the administrative decision to fly Space Shuttles at all."
That's the extreme. It's just my opinion from listening and reading to a range of expert opinions that they let got sloppier with each mission. After Challenger, they should have learned not to push the envelope. Actually, I think they did learn it, and then forgot.
If the standards for ensuring the integrity of the heat shield had stayed as high as they were in the beginning, then they would have had to fix the foam, or prove that they can't fix it and stay on earth. They were lucky enough to discover the potential failure mode without actually having a catastrophe and they failed to address it.
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But has Sun nailed it to the perch?
"If they don't have a case, simply refuse the offer and see them in court (if they at all try)."
It's like the schoolyard bully who threatens to beat you up if you don't give him your lunch money.
You can give him your lunch money; you lose, he becomes even more brazen. You can tell him no; you get beaten up and have your lunch money stolen. You can give your money to someone else to *try* to protect you; your money's gone and you might still get clobbered. Or you can join forces with others who are in the same boat and teach the bully a lesson. Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense.
Not only do I hope they send a strong message to DirecTV, I hope DirecTV's legal staff faces some consequences with the bar association.
"Are you saying that the Bush family have a secret love affair with war and oil?"
Among other things, yes. It's no secret. You should read some more about their whole stinking clan. Samuel, Prescott, George H.W., George W, Neil Bush and then decide just how prejudiced you think i really am.
"great great great great great"
Why did you add 5 extra generations of separation in your example? Could it be that you see some validity to what I said?
"Wireless Fidelity"
Remember Victor record label with the dog staring into the horn of a victrola? This one should be staring into a pringles can.
I'm not ready to let go of a hierarchical organization to the fs, but I am anxious to see it extended.
Let it be relational, just make it so the metadata for every file is required to have a "pathname" attribute. If you don't want to assign a pathname explicitly, then it should default to something analogous to $PWD/inode_number.
SET welcome = TRUE
WHERE name = 'PostgreSQL';
never mind
Hmm, i thought space invaders did that (and preceded asteroids).
It's a pretty low degree of stereotyping at worst. I don't judge Bush by his father or grandfather, but i'd be dumb to deny that there was some cause and effect.
And for the record here, i'm talking about nurture, not nature.
"a lot more at the system level"
But only within the credentials of the process, right? (excluding dos-win)
"...which definitely outnumbers five."
If you use 5 different distros, and some fairly unusual apps, then gee, I guess you're right.
You should change to your handle to Overly Simplistic Guy.
gobbo said it right.
But as for Time Magazine, what's *your* point?
a snippet from
Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:
"they can hear you now."
"they can hear you now."
The only time i remember 007 using a turn signal was when they were in the submerged Lotus.
There was an amphibious car called Amphicar back in the 60's and they were convertibles (every one i ever saw anyway). They still show up at the car shows once in a while.
Look up some info on granddaddy Prescott Bush. He thought Adolf Hitler was the greatest thing since the time when it was legal to own slaves.
Looks like it's time to update /etc/units.dat
elephantweight 6 tons
hurricaneweight 40 million elephantweight
You have: 1 hurricaneweight
You want: scruples
* 1.68e+13
/ 5.952381e-14
"But where are the people reverse engineering the EARLY kids' consoles, like the Socrates?"
When I was about ten I "reverse engineered" my kid brother's interactive eduational robot called 2XL. Conclusion: It was an 8-track player.
I guess I should have published my work to save these guys the trouble.
"With this release (0.2), I have no typing speed/latency issues. The box is not that great, either -- an Athlon 1.533 with 256 MB."
Yeah, 1.5 Ghz sounds like a bare minimum for running an email program. Plan on buying a dual processor if you want to play minesweeper at the same time.
What are you smoking?
Phoenix was also the name of a car. It was the Pontiac version of a Chevy Citation (~1980).
Will they try to bully Ebay into killing the auction? Will Ebay bow to them?
"Secondly, this type of copy-protection is a clear violation of the rights of any person who buys such a CD."
Here's where that argument breaks down. You have no rights. Rights in this country are granted by congress. You can't afford to outbribe industry lobbyists, so the laws are being made in their favor.
Many of the new laws go against the fundamental concepts of American freedom that we had drilled into our heads in public school. We want to believe that the government is "for the people", but what we see is a bunch of fatcats who don't give a damn about the Constitution and who cannot relate to the other 90% of the population.
One psychobabble term for the way all of this makes us feel is 'cognitive dissonance'. The choices for coping with it are
a) fix the problem.
b) give up your old beliefs.
c) find some new beliefs that are more important than the old ones.
Our feckless fuckwads in the whorehouse and the war department know they can't convince people to give up the beliefs that we should live free, that we're innocent until proven guilty, etc. They sure as hell don't want us to fix the problem, because that would mean putting Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe in front of a firing squad. Their method is to give us some new things to believe in.
In other words, due to 9/11 our rights are not important. Due to 9/11 we must go occupy Iraq. To protect the economy (what economy?) we must allow big business to run roughshod over American citizens.
Damn, i need a drink. I guess that's option d).
Gates is probably telling Bush "see, this is why we need trusted computing." Bush will declare that either you are with him, or you are with the terrorists.
"Google is an 'enabler', a willing gateway to property crime."
George Carlin said "Mother's milk leads to everything."
"So if you want to call it mismanagement, it can only be due to the administrative decision to fly Space Shuttles at all."
That's the extreme. It's just my opinion from listening and reading to a range of expert opinions that they let got sloppier with each mission. After Challenger, they should have learned not to push the envelope. Actually, I think they did learn it, and then forgot.
If the standards for ensuring the integrity of the heat shield had stayed as high as they were in the beginning, then they would have had to fix the foam, or prove that they can't fix it and stay on earth. They were lucky enough to discover the potential failure mode without actually having a catastrophe and they failed to address it.