Luckily, the patent office finally stopped one mechanism of severe patent abuse and started the clock ticking on the date of application rather than the date of issue. There were some people who extended their time between application and issue into decades to both get patent-pending and then patent protection.
I do have to get the old Atari 800XL (64K, 2MHz) back out of storage and running though. Some cool old games on there that are just so much more fun in the original instead of emulation.
I've always bought Lamys since my first one. My collection now includes the thin aluminum pen/pencil set that looks like the air barrel cooler on a submachine gun. We got a fountain pen Lamy that only cost $25, and it wrote better than a $100 Parker.
Being in Heidelberg it was always easy to find parts and ink. I'm reading other comments to find them now that I'm in the U.S. again.
It is not the Patriot act! It is the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" or USA PATRIOT Act, or PATRIOT Act for short.
Congress chose this misnomer acronym for a reason, so that whenever people referred to it, they'd think patriotism, as in saving our country from the bad guys. Of course it's really just a laundry list of powers that the DOJ has been drooling over for years ("Hey, dictatorships have them, why can't we"). I'm sure John Ashcroft is poring through his cum-soaked copy daily looking for new ways to use it.
Anyway, this patriotism theme is somewhat perpetuated when people write it "Patriot" (as if it had anything to do with patriotism) instead of the colder, more severe PATRIOT acronym. Actually, probably should write it P.A.T.R.I.O.T.
It's working on us here, too, because it's referenced as "PATRIOT" 30 something times in the discussion, and "Patriot" 50+, including the title of the article.
Looks interesting. When the RIAA used the program, they agreed to some things. Some of these are privacy based: not to "Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users," or " Collect or store personal data about other users."
Plus, if one person downloaded once and installed it on multiple computers in order to do their big search, he's breaking the license just as I would be if I bought a copy of Windows and installed it on all 50 computers in a company: "This Licence does not permit you to install the Software on more than one computer at a time"
And the one that wraps it up: "It is you responsibility to comply with the terms of this Licence...Your rights under this Licence will terminate immediately and without prior notice if : you violate any term of this License..."
So they did one of the things in the first two paragraphs, they violate the terms of the license and are no longer legal to run Kazaa -- they might as well be caught with a pirate copy of Windows. And KazaaLite, if they were using it, says absolutely no commercial use allowed.
This is the same man that when a member of the House tried to stop Wiccans from practicing their religion on military posts although the chaplains had no problem with it. Basically, if you were not in his list of acceptable religions, you shouldn't be allowed to practice, 1st Amendment be damned.
Seems that being out of Congress has turned this guy 180.
Did you really think Congress would put something in the DMCA that so well protected the consumer from abuse? I don't think so.
The perjury provisions in the DMCA only say that you must represent the company or copyright owner you say you're representing. In other words, I can't write a warez site and say I represent Microsoft and please remove that copy of Windows.
The DMCA does not require the copyright infringement claim to have any validity, and provides no punishment for even blatantly erroneous claims.
What quality were the commercial photos, what time and place? I kind of learned to read these photos during my time with that analyst. I'd like to see them.
In a war such as this, there is no tactical or strategic reason to attack residential areas. In fact, it would be especially counter-productive in this case since Bush wanted the Iraqi people to like us and see us as liberators.
The only reason bombs were dropped in residential areas was because Saddam positioned weaponry and C3 bunkers there. Even if there were a tactical need to position AAA in those neighborhoods, it's not hard to put it out in the park by some trees rather than in the courtyard of a school.
As for Saddam's "strategy", it did not require any effort on his part to make everyone see that it was a completely unprovoked attack
But an unprovoked attack producing almost completely military casualties doesn't look as good on the 6 o'clock news as women and 5 year olds. Saddam knew this.
Why do you think that when those human shields ("useful idiots") went to Iraq to protect schools and hospitals, Saddam sent them to refineries and military installations. His people are expendable to him.
Iraq had quite a good income during the sanctions days, more than enough for Saddam to feed his people and keep hospitals supplied. This doesn't even include the billions he made with the illegal pipeline he had.
Of course, he decided to spend that money on rebuilding multiple palaces, supporting his security apparatus to stay in power, continuing WMD programs and building Chinese fiber-optic C3 networks.
Besides, a bunch of healthy five year olds on TV doesn't make for good anti-US propaganda, does it?
From the article: Tritonal, a silvery solid of TNT mixed with a dollop of aluminum for stability.
Wrong, except for the "silvery solid" part.
First, Tritonal doesn't have a "dollop" of aluminum, but 20%. Second, TNT is very stable so doesn't need a stabilizer. The aluminum improves the brisance, a.k.a., the speed at which the TNT develops maximum pressure after being ignited. Tritonal, because of the aluminum, is about 18% more powerful than TNT.
Like when the Israelis bombed Iraq's French-built nuclear plant back in the 80s, causing only one death -- their spy who didn't get out in time after directing the attack.
That is what the Western world epitomizes.
9/11 is what the fundamentalist Muslims seem to epitomize -- 100% civilian casualties.
"Wernher Von Braun" by Tom Lehrer (accompanied by Tom on piano)
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown "Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun
Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Some have harsh words for this man of renown But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude Like the widows and cripples in old London town Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun
You too may be a big hero Once you've learned to count backwards to zero "In German oder English I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun
To get Saddam to comply with Weapons Inspections, of course, he did that, soo....
Saddam: "I absolutely do not have any ordnance that violates UN resolutions!" Inspector: "What about these medium-range Al-Hussein missiles?" Saddam: "Those don't violate resolutions. I will not dispose of them." Inspector: "Yes they do, and if you don't, the US will probably invade you next week." Saddam: "Okay, okay, I'll get rid of them."
This was played on for years, with the exception that earlier there was no threat of US action, so Saddam usually didn't get rid of the ordnance.
"I'm not gonna fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt." - George W. Bush
So he's saying the tent's empty, yet there's a camel in it to waiting be hit by the missile, forgetting that an Arab would never keep a camel in a tent in the first place.
Check out the US military installations. They are also surrounded by neighbors.
All or most of the installations near civilians were either built away from cities but the cities grew into them, or are simply takeovers of old German installations, or both. I know of one U.S. installation custom-built relatively recently, and the 1975-78 construction of LDCK Kaserne in Garlstedt was out in the middle of nowhere. But I can see in another 30 years, nearby Osterholz-Scharmbeck may grow out to be near it. Doesn't matter though since we closed it in 1992.
The same is often true in the U.S. where a post such as Fort Sill was established a hundred miles from nowhere, but a city grew around it.
This is as opposed to putting AAA in the backyard of a school or mosque.
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Meanwhile, there is photographic evidence that the military lied.
Between the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and the CIA and other intelligence assets, you have a huge, diverse organization that has to act in almost real time. Mistakes happen, and intelligence gets misinterpreted.
And even when they get it right, it often gets to a public that can't interpret correctly. I've pored over battlefield satellite photos and could discern almost nothing. However, the recon expert next to me was able to point out everything. It's a special skill.
First of all, there usually isn't much to damage around the bunker, that does not happen to be another target.
Except for when Saddam decides to put his AAA in schoolyards and C3 bunkers under housing complexes and hotels. You forget that Saddam's entire strategy concerning this war was to cause as many civilian casualties as possible in order to force international pressure on the U.S. to stop.
Eliminating plea bargains is a restriction on the conduct of prosecutors and judges, not on the conduct of defendants.
But what if a person knows he's guilty, and that there's a good chance he'll be found guilty. He may want to plea to get a lesser sentence in exchange for information that may help police catch the "bigger fish." Everybody benefits.
I agree that some sort of systems should be set up to prevent abuse, but it still should be allowed.
If they'd planned enough in advance before bringing these suits, it would make sense to set a preordered sell for just a bit after the suits hit so the stock would be higher.
My hopes are that they just sold without a pre-arranged agreement with their brokers. That won't look good. And from the history you linked to, I don't think they did.
It used to be thought that maybe they were killed or something of that sort, but these days you never know if the government is holding your loved one. So, here's a lesson learned:
If someone disappears, immediately file a writ of habeas corpus with state, and then federal authorities. If the person you're looking for fails to appear quickly and it later turns out that he was being held, bring a big bucks civil rights suit against the government.
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"iTunes doesn't do our Windows Media format, so it's no good."
Personally, I'm going to be looking for devices that don't have WMA on them because I don't like the format.
Funny, "Fester" is the name of my pug.
Luckily, the patent office finally stopped one mechanism of severe patent abuse and started the clock ticking on the date of application rather than the date of issue. There were some people who extended their time between application and issue into decades to both get patent-pending and then patent protection.
My Atari 1040ST, 1MB, 8MHz, is running just fine.
I do have to get the old Atari 800XL (64K, 2MHz) back out of storage and running though. Some cool old games on there that are just so much more fun in the original instead of emulation.
I've always bought Lamys since my first one. My collection now includes the thin aluminum pen/pencil set that looks like the air barrel cooler on a submachine gun. We got a fountain pen Lamy that only cost $25, and it wrote better than a $100 Parker.
Being in Heidelberg it was always easy to find parts and ink. I'm reading other comments to find them now that I'm in the U.S. again.
It is not the Patriot act! It is the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" or USA PATRIOT Act, or PATRIOT Act for short.
Congress chose this misnomer acronym for a reason, so that whenever people referred to it, they'd think patriotism, as in saving our country from the bad guys. Of course it's really just a laundry list of powers that the DOJ has been drooling over for years ("Hey, dictatorships have them, why can't we"). I'm sure John Ashcroft is poring through his cum-soaked copy daily looking for new ways to use it.
Anyway, this patriotism theme is somewhat perpetuated when people write it "Patriot" (as if it had anything to do with patriotism) instead of the colder, more severe PATRIOT acronym. Actually, probably should write it P.A.T.R.I.O.T.
It's working on us here, too, because it's referenced as "PATRIOT" 30 something times in the discussion, and "Patriot" 50+, including the title of the article.
The FBI has already admitted to several cases of using the PATRIOT (a.k.a. TREASON) act to prosecute mundane crimes with no relation to terrorism.
In fact, they run seminars for prosecutors to tell them how to subvert the intent of the law.
Time to call your reps and make sure TREASON II isn't passed.
Looks interesting. When the RIAA used the program, they agreed to some things. Some of these are privacy based: not to "Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users," or " Collect or store personal data about other users."
Plus, if one person downloaded once and installed it on multiple computers in order to do their big search, he's breaking the license just as I would be if I bought a copy of Windows and installed it on all 50 computers in a company: "This Licence does not permit you to install the Software on more than one computer at a time"
And the one that wraps it up: "It is you responsibility to comply with the terms of this Licence...Your rights under this Licence will terminate immediately and without prior notice if : you violate any term of this License..."
So they did one of the things in the first two paragraphs, they violate the terms of the license and are no longer legal to run Kazaa -- they might as well be caught with a pirate copy of Windows. And KazaaLite, if they were using it, says absolutely no commercial use allowed.
This is the same man that when a member of the House tried to stop Wiccans from practicing their religion on military posts although the chaplains had no problem with it. Basically, if you were not in his list of acceptable religions, you shouldn't be allowed to practice, 1st Amendment be damned.
Seems that being out of Congress has turned this guy 180.
If the PATRIOT Act was so bad, then why did the majority of Democrats vote for it?
That's easy:
1) It was rushed through so fast that few actually had a chance to read it.
2) In the immediate post-9/11 environment it would have been near political suicide to vote against it.
That's why you are now finding lots of public debate and congressional criticism of PATRIOT II while there was none for v.1.
Did you really think Congress would put something in the DMCA that so well protected the consumer from abuse? I don't think so.
The perjury provisions in the DMCA only say that you must represent the company or copyright owner you say you're representing. In other words, I can't write a warez site and say I represent Microsoft and please remove that copy of Windows.
The DMCA does not require the copyright infringement claim to have any validity, and provides no punishment for even blatantly erroneous claims.
What quality were the commercial photos, what time and place? I kind of learned to read these photos during my time with that analyst. I'd like to see them.
In a war such as this, there is no tactical or strategic reason to attack residential areas. In fact, it would be especially counter-productive in this case since Bush wanted the Iraqi people to like us and see us as liberators.
The only reason bombs were dropped in residential areas was because Saddam positioned weaponry and C3 bunkers there. Even if there were a tactical need to position AAA in those neighborhoods, it's not hard to put it out in the park by some trees rather than in the courtyard of a school.
As for Saddam's "strategy", it did not require any effort on his part to make everyone see that it was a completely unprovoked attack
But an unprovoked attack producing almost completely military casualties doesn't look as good on the 6 o'clock news as women and 5 year olds. Saddam knew this.
Why do you think that when those human shields ("useful idiots") went to Iraq to protect schools and hospitals, Saddam sent them to refineries and military installations. His people are expendable to him.
Iraq had quite a good income during the sanctions days, more than enough for Saddam to feed his people and keep hospitals supplied. This doesn't even include the billions he made with the illegal pipeline he had.
Of course, he decided to spend that money on rebuilding multiple palaces, supporting his security apparatus to stay in power, continuing WMD programs and building Chinese fiber-optic C3 networks.
Besides, a bunch of healthy five year olds on TV doesn't make for good anti-US propaganda, does it?
From the article: Tritonal, a silvery solid of TNT mixed with a dollop of aluminum for stability.
Wrong, except for the "silvery solid" part.
First, Tritonal doesn't have a "dollop" of aluminum, but 20%. Second, TNT is very stable so doesn't need a stabilizer. The aluminum improves the brisance, a.k.a., the speed at which the TNT develops maximum pressure after being ignited. Tritonal, because of the aluminum, is about 18% more powerful than TNT.
How many other facts did they screw up?
Like when the Israelis bombed Iraq's French-built nuclear plant back in the 80s, causing only one death -- their spy who didn't get out in time after directing the attack.
That is what the Western world epitomizes.
9/11 is what the fundamentalist Muslims seem to epitomize -- 100% civilian casualties.
"Wernher Von Braun" by Tom Lehrer
(accompanied by Tom on piano)
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun
You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German oder English I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun
To get Saddam to comply with Weapons Inspections, of course, he did that, soo....
Saddam: "I absolutely do not have any ordnance that violates UN resolutions!"
Inspector: "What about these medium-range Al-Hussein missiles?"
Saddam: "Those don't violate resolutions. I will not dispose of them."
Inspector: "Yes they do, and if you don't, the US will probably invade you next week."
Saddam: "Okay, okay, I'll get rid of them."
This was played on for years, with the exception that earlier there was no threat of US action, so Saddam usually didn't get rid of the ordnance.
"I'm not gonna fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt." - George W. Bush
So he's saying the tent's empty, yet there's a camel in it to waiting be hit by the missile, forgetting that an Arab would never keep a camel in a tent in the first place.
Yep, that sounds like good ole GW.
Check out the US military installations. They are also surrounded by neighbors.
All or most of the installations near civilians were either built away from cities but the cities grew into them, or are simply takeovers of old German installations, or both. I know of one U.S. installation custom-built relatively recently, and the 1975-78 construction of LDCK Kaserne in Garlstedt was out in the middle of nowhere. But I can see in another 30 years, nearby Osterholz-Scharmbeck may grow out to be near it. Doesn't matter though since we closed it in 1992.
The same is often true in the U.S. where a post such as Fort Sill was established a hundred miles from nowhere, but a city grew around it.
This is as opposed to putting AAA in the backyard of a school or mosque.
Meanwhile, there is photographic evidence that the military lied.
Between the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and the CIA and other intelligence assets, you have a huge, diverse organization that has to act in almost real time. Mistakes happen, and intelligence gets misinterpreted.
And even when they get it right, it often gets to a public that can't interpret correctly. I've pored over battlefield satellite photos and could discern almost nothing. However, the recon expert next to me was able to point out everything. It's a special skill.
First of all, there usually isn't much to damage around the bunker, that does not happen to be another target.
Except for when Saddam decides to put his AAA in schoolyards and C3 bunkers under housing complexes and hotels. You forget that Saddam's entire strategy concerning this war was to cause as many civilian casualties as possible in order to force international pressure on the U.S. to stop.
500 tons of bombs in London killed 1,500 people, while about 20,000 tons of munitions in Iraq with how many killed this time? We're doing much better.
Of course there's no excuse for Dresden.
Eliminating plea bargains is a restriction on the conduct of prosecutors and judges, not on the conduct of defendants.
But what if a person knows he's guilty, and that there's a good chance he'll be found guilty. He may want to plea to get a lesser sentence in exchange for information that may help police catch the "bigger fish." Everybody benefits.
I agree that some sort of systems should be set up to prevent abuse, but it still should be allowed.
If they'd planned enough in advance before bringing these suits, it would make sense to set a preordered sell for just a bit after the suits hit so the stock would be higher.
My hopes are that they just sold without a pre-arranged agreement with their brokers. That won't look good. And from the history you linked to, I don't think they did.
It used to be thought that maybe they were killed or something of that sort, but these days you never know if the government is holding your loved one. So, here's a lesson learned:
If someone disappears, immediately file a writ of habeas corpus with state, and then federal authorities. If the person you're looking for fails to appear quickly and it later turns out that he was being held, bring a big bucks civil rights suit against the government.