This happens. I think board/video games will be the next wave of things they appropriate because they weren't able to come up with any original ideas.
Not that they haven't started already (Doom, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, etc.), but I think we're going to see a lot more. Expect "Connect Four: The Movie" to premier in summer 2012. I'm sure Michael Bay will be happy to direct it.
So Murdoch conspired with Cameron, the FBI, Gucci, Twitter and Terry Jacks to create a fictitious organization so they could arrest teenagers for selling counterfeit purses on eBay?
Their stance is that PayPal should be boycotted because the FBI is catching up to Anons and LulzSec folks who participated in a DDoS against them. The DDoS, if memory serves, was performed on ideological grounds in response to the Wikileaks fiasco. So, there's a barely coherent, strongly infantile ideological stance here ("Have us arrested for attacking your website, will you? We'll show you!"), but it is present(ish) nevertheless.
Sun offered Google a Java License for $100M. Google then declined that offer and opted instead to use Java without paying Sun. At the time, Google must have thought either:
a) "We're not violating Sun's patents"
or
b) "We'll get away with violating Sun's patents"
Now, I'm never one to side with Oracle, but lately I haven't seen Google denying the charges, just the damages. I'm not a code monkey, and not familiar with the intimate details of Java and what Oracle claims they infringed upon, but it seems almost like Google has decided that they're guilty of violating Sun/Oracle's IP, and now they're trying to minimize the loss to their bottom line?
Also, whose brilliant idea was it to tell the court "Yeah, Sun told us years ago that we should pay them $100M to use Java. We didn't feel like doing that." It seems a bit like willful infringement.
And another thing: Anecdotal evidence suggesting that your family has a history of caring for dogs responsibly means exactly dick in this conversation. If everyone treated their animals like you apparently do, the pet industry would have nothing to fear.
So, because some people are irresponsible, those of us that are great pet owners should suffer too?
I was responding specifically to the absurdity of this statement:
I dunno what the problem is here at all.
Hell, when I was growing up, the dogs usually got treated better in the family than *I* did...and my dogs are spoiled rotten too.
If you do not see the problem with the concept that there is no larger problem because a family treats their pets well, well I'm afraid I can't help you.
I am a pet owner myself, and I treat my animals extremely well. I also mentioned earlier in this thread that I think this will unfairly penalize breeders who use humane practices and breed their animals responsibly.
And another thing: Anecdotal evidence suggesting that your family has a history of caring for dogs responsibly means exactly dick in this conversation. If everyone treated their animals like you apparently do, the pet industry would have nothing to fear.
I worked in a pet store in college. In my capacity there, I helped to adopt out unwanted or abused rodents, reptiles and other small animals, and also saw some of the horrible injuries that had been visited upon some of the shelter dogs that we hosted during major adoption events. I can say with complete certainty that while your experience may be typical, it is not universal.
Who said you couldn't take your dogs? This is about banning the sale of animals. You can bring dogs in, adopt a dog at the Humane Society shelter or go about getting a dog in whatever kind of way you like as long as it doesn't involve a breeder.
That said, I know that this is aimed at the pet stores that are stocked with puppy mill puppies. While I like the idea of discouraging that practice, that will also discourage (or outlaw) legitimate breeders that use humane practices and breed responsibly.
"Freedom Fighters" do not try to invoke fear in a civilian population. Freedom Fighters do not target civilian populations.
So there you have it, Israel is a terrorist nation.
If we simply must derail this topic with politically divisive, completely unrelated stuff then I suppose we must also call out their Palestinian opponents as terrorists.
Curses! You beat me to it. I've got no problem with criminalizing Karaoke. There are other elements in the bill that might be bad, but we've got to look for the silver lining here.
Look, I'm sure articles on by priests "catholicexchange.com" should be taken into consideration on matters of morals or ethics, after all, the church's record is sterling in that regard. But really, the Monsignor's argument appears to be:
1. Allow terminally ill people to die (relatively) painlessly in a sterile, comfortable environment.
2. ????
3. Logan's Run.
I'm sorry, perhaps I was unclear. There are hosting companies in other states that they could pay to host the site. These hosting companies, due to their location, lack the bandwidth constraints mentioned in TFA.
What if they lose the files? Well, they just ftp them from Alaska again. We are talking about emails here. They're sitting on a tape somewhere in Juneau. Even if the hosting company's servers explode, those files still exist somewhere.
It's definitely true that in legal cases the standard is paper format, but there is a substantial difference between a FOIA response and a subpoena ducas tecam. Additionally, the Alaska Legislature has encouraged that FOIA requests be filled electronically when reasonably possible. As many have pointed out, print to PDF would have been easier and less expensive.
FTFY.
(a) Notwithstanding AS 40.25.110 (b) - (d) to the contrary, upon request and payment of a fee established under (b) of this section, a public agency may provide electronic services and products involving public records to members of the public. A public agency is encouraged to make information available in usable electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible . The activities authorized under this section may not take priority over the primary responsibilities of a public agency.
(a) Notwithstanding AS 40.25.110 (b) - (d) to the contrary, upon request and payment of a fee established under (b) of this section, a public agency may provide electronic services and products involving public records to members of the public. A public agency is encouraged to make information available in usable electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible . The activities authorized under this section may not take priority over the primary responsibilities of a public agency.
Encouraged != Required
From a technological standpoint, it's silly not to publish the stuff electronically, but I don't see the legal problem here.
There's also no reason why they have to host them in Alaska. Why not dish out a bit of cash and have some other state with more bandwidth take the beating?
I've been installing my Fedora KDE spin from live disks since early in 13. I expect this is going to be an inconvenience for future installs, but hardly insurmountable. Finding the install image instead of the live image will be the worst part.
Of course, this won't be a problem for current installs, as I'm certain `preupgrade` won't be reformatting anything.
It goes on to explain those numbers and why Bing has the older demo:
The difference can be largely explained by the fact that Bing is the default search engine for IE. Users who either switch the default search engine or use a different browser generally prefer Google. This also means, most likely, Bing users are less tech-savvy than Google users, though that is not something the metrics can show conclusively.
Having worked tech support jobs, I have no doubt that this is the case.
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This happens. I think board/video games will be the next wave of things they appropriate because they weren't able to come up with any original ideas.
Not that they haven't started already (Doom, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, etc.), but I think we're going to see a lot more. Expect "Connect Four: The Movie" to premier in summer 2012. I'm sure Michael Bay will be happy to direct it.
So Murdoch conspired with Cameron, the FBI, Gucci, Twitter and Terry Jacks to create a fictitious organization so they could arrest teenagers for selling counterfeit purses on eBay?
Somebody should alert the authoriti... oh, right.
Their stance is that PayPal should be boycotted because the FBI is catching up to Anons and LulzSec folks who participated in a DDoS against them. The DDoS, if memory serves, was performed on ideological grounds in response to the Wikileaks fiasco. So, there's a barely coherent, strongly infantile ideological stance here ("Have us arrested for attacking your website, will you? We'll show you!"), but it is present(ish) nevertheless.
Ah, so there's my problem. Thanks for the clarification.
Sun offered Google a Java License for $100M. Google then declined that offer and opted instead to use Java without paying Sun. At the time, Google must have thought either:
a) "We're not violating Sun's patents"
or
b) "We'll get away with violating Sun's patents"
Now, I'm never one to side with Oracle, but lately I haven't seen Google denying the charges, just the damages. I'm not a code monkey, and not familiar with the intimate details of Java and what Oracle claims they infringed upon, but it seems almost like Google has decided that they're guilty of violating Sun/Oracle's IP, and now they're trying to minimize the loss to their bottom line?
Also, whose brilliant idea was it to tell the court "Yeah, Sun told us years ago that we should pay them $100M to use Java. We didn't feel like doing that." It seems a bit like willful infringement.
Just out of curiosity, is NASA hanging onto any of the shuttles just in case?
There will be one at KSC, but it will be a museum piece. Their final resting places will be:
Discovery - The Udvar-Hazy Center in Northern VA
Endeavour - California Science Center in L.A.
Atlantis - Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in FL
Curses! Somebody beat me to it.
I wonder which U.S. State will be the first to legalize Robosexual Marriage.
So, because some people are irresponsible, those of us that are great pet owners should suffer too?
I was responding specifically to the absurdity of this statement:
I dunno what the problem is here at all. Hell, when I was growing up, the dogs usually got treated better in the family than *I* did...and my dogs are spoiled rotten too.
If you do not see the problem with the concept that there is no larger problem because a family treats their pets well, well I'm afraid I can't help you.
I am a pet owner myself, and I treat my animals extremely well. I also mentioned earlier in this thread that I think this will unfairly penalize breeders who use humane practices and breed their animals responsibly.
And another thing: Anecdotal evidence suggesting that your family has a history of caring for dogs responsibly means exactly dick in this conversation. If everyone treated their animals like you apparently do, the pet industry would have nothing to fear.
I worked in a pet store in college. In my capacity there, I helped to adopt out unwanted or abused rodents, reptiles and other small animals, and also saw some of the horrible injuries that had been visited upon some of the shelter dogs that we hosted during major adoption events. I can say with complete certainty that while your experience may be typical, it is not universal.
Who said you couldn't take your dogs? This is about banning the sale of animals. You can bring dogs in, adopt a dog at the Humane Society shelter or go about getting a dog in whatever kind of way you like as long as it doesn't involve a breeder.
That said, I know that this is aimed at the pet stores that are stocked with puppy mill puppies. While I like the idea of discouraging that practice, that will also discourage (or outlaw) legitimate breeders that use humane practices and breed responsibly.
"Freedom Fighters" do not try to invoke fear in a civilian population. Freedom Fighters do not target civilian populations.
So there you have it, Israel is a terrorist nation.
If we simply must derail this topic with politically divisive, completely unrelated stuff then I suppose we must also call out their Palestinian opponents as terrorists.
Curses! You beat me to it. I've got no problem with criminalizing Karaoke. There are other elements in the bill that might be bad, but we've got to look for the silver lining here.
In a world where 'suicide' is legal, the government decides who has a 'right' to die, and adopts laws to hurry you along and out of the way.
FWIW, I'm pretty sure that legal suicide isn't a prerequisite for that type of government behavior.
1. Allow terminally ill people to die (relatively) painlessly in a sterile, comfortable environment.
2. ????
3. Logan's Run.
and that's plain silly.
I'm sorry, perhaps I was unclear. There are hosting companies in other states that they could pay to host the site. These hosting companies, due to their location, lack the bandwidth constraints mentioned in TFA.
What if they lose the files? Well, they just ftp them from Alaska again. We are talking about emails here. They're sitting on a tape somewhere in Juneau. Even if the hosting company's servers explode, those files still exist somewhere.
It's definitely true that in legal cases the standard is paper format, but there is a substantial difference between a FOIA response and a subpoena ducas tecam. Additionally, the Alaska Legislature has encouraged that FOIA requests be filled electronically when reasonably possible. As many have pointed out, print to PDF would have been easier and less expensive.
FTFY.
(a) Notwithstanding AS 40.25.110 (b) - (d) to the contrary, upon request and payment of a fee established under (b) of this section, a public agency may provide electronic services and products involving public records to members of the public. A public agency is encouraged to make information available in usable electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible . The activities authorized under this section may not take priority over the primary responsibilities of a public agency.
(a) Notwithstanding AS 40.25.110 (b) - (d) to the contrary, upon request and payment of a fee established under (b) of this section, a public agency may provide electronic services and products involving public records to members of the public. A public agency is encouraged to make information available in usable electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible . The activities authorized under this section may not take priority over the primary responsibilities of a public agency.
Encouraged != Required From a technological standpoint, it's silly not to publish the stuff electronically, but I don't see the legal problem here.
There's also no reason why they have to host them in Alaska. Why not dish out a bit of cash and have some other state with more bandwidth take the beating?
You are correct in all of that.
I've been installing my Fedora KDE spin from live disks since early in 13. I expect this is going to be an inconvenience for future installs, but hardly insurmountable. Finding the install image instead of the live image will be the worst part.
Of course, this won't be a problem for current installs, as I'm certain `preupgrade` won't be reformatting anything.
Oh wait... I'm a dummy that can't read.
Pretty sure default filesystem != mandatory. They're not going to suddenly drop support for ext*.
I think Matt Smith has the potential to be a brilliant Doctor. Maybe just dumping Moffat would be best.
This. I've been wanting to see those new paradigm Daleks in an episode, and now my hopes and dreams are crushed.
The difference can be largely explained by the fact that Bing is the default search engine for IE. Users who either switch the default search engine or use a different browser generally prefer Google. This also means, most likely, Bing users are less tech-savvy than Google users, though that is not something the metrics can show conclusively.
Having worked tech support jobs, I have no doubt that this is the case.