Er, no sir - you either put Quaxxon gasoline in it every time you fill up, or if you DO fill up somewhere else, you're required to make sure you ALSO run down the street and put in a half a tank of Quaxxon.
And if you refuse, you have two choices. Go out and buy yourself one of those *sniff* OTHER machines, you know, the really efficient ones what can run for days, or go brew your own gas, but that's probably illegal and really really scary.
But if you do brew your own, we're going to get several plug-ugly executives to stick their tongues out at you once a quarter. So there.
is to rename the resulting company the "Sirius Cybernetics Corporation". Share and Enjoy.
Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major landmasses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.
Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Then there was the cop dumb enought to leave a message on my answering machine calling me an asshole for trying to report misconduct anonymously (they dialed back the pay phone and asked a random person for my registration plate).
I like my privacy, too. A lot, too. But on a public road, you have no privacy. In the dead of night, you have lost the myriad witnesses who could aid either party, and here's a flash: you are at a disadvantage when being dealt with by a police officer - they are trained to make it so - part of a police officer's job when he or she suspects you of something is to maniuplate the situation so that you effectively surrender from the very first interaction. This is to guarantee your and their safety, which is of course paramount, but it has unseen implications.
All of your claims assume that all of the officers you would defend are doing their job, doing it well, and not abusing their position.
If you believe that is a given, then you aren't paying attention.
There are a lot of nutbag cops out there, just like there are lots of nutbag teachers, lawyers, bakers, etc... And I consider some mildly nutty cops my friends. Police officers as a class are not exempt from any sort of behavior, and a disturbing amount of data suggests they might in fact have higher incidence of abusive behavior and rage disorders than the general population.
And maybe not from the stress of the job. I went to a college with a CJ department - a cursory examination of the many mentalities that lead to a police career would keep a finger on teh record button.
In my state, we've all agreed that one party needs to know they're being recorded. I already know the cops are recording me, and that's fine. I expect and maintain that I should be able to do the same. I am a law-abiding citizen, and fair's fair. The police have a basic assumption to work with, especially in traffic court - in a your-word-against-theirs situation, the court sides with the officer in the majority of cases. They are weighing a known peace officer's word agains a random citizen's veracity. Game over.
Unless you have something you can trump with. This is from experience, including the reaction of an officer who didn't realize he was dealing with someone who could empirically disprove a speeding allegation. The twenty-seven 8x10 color glossy photos with the circles and lines and the paragraph on the back of each... and oh, yeah - the satellite photos negating his claims of distance and speed brought a smile to the PDs face.
Of course in Massachusetts, they'd have the LandSat in chains by now becasue EOSAT failed to alert the locals...
I drive daily through some of the wealthiest, squeaky-cleanest suburbs in the US. In recent years, the local and state cops have been found shooting each other and themselves (including on the job suicide), a suspected hired killing, ritualized abuse and solicitation of prostitutes, a drunk driving fatality, and numerous pecadillos that I personally do NOT want to be subject to, and if I might be, I want proof of everyone's behavior. The courts assume the officer's word is proof of mine - I deserve a level playing field.
I admire your conviction on the privacy issue, but they are OUR servants and they are in public when they do their job.
If there's nothing to hide, then where's the harm?
>We have reviewed your website and have concluded that it incorporates the use and threat of violence towards the children's character Barney without permission from Lyons Partnership.
So then presumably you can GET permission from Lyons to incorporate the use and threat of violence against Barney?
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, children! MS is making a push to wipe one of their only two REAL threats - Java and the delivery of on-demand application features (the anitithesis of bloatware) - and there is a move afoot to HELP THEM DO THIS?
Lame names? Look - they already named an entire OS after ONE POORLY IMPLEMENTED FEATURE OF THE STANDARD GUI - they prolly chose.net because it was already in the public domain... if an OS company is allowed to de facto dictate the programming language, the markup language, the application serving format and standard... you think you have a mononpolistic atmosphere NOW? You ain't seen nothing yet - they will no doubt vigorously pursue any reverse engineering efforts, blah blah blah, buy anyone who makes inroads in order to squash them...
Their server sales are being eaten away by the evil open source competition, so guess what - they create a new standard that will demand you use their servers (you didn't think they were going to deliver the.NET capabilities as a cross-platform package, now did you?)
Gosh! Twelve months ago they had MS dead to rights on their ridiculous schemes. In comes Dubya, out goes the case. Now we have.NET and SmartTags to look forward to, as well as an even more closely integrated browser, a downright silly interface rework, another game console whose developers can't perform a simple trademark search (or are too arrogant to think they even HAVE to don one...) rampant VBS viruses and assaults on the intellect a'la' Ballmer and his ilk. Not to mention a total cluelessness about open source development and how to build a truly useful platform...
Pretty accurate. The gist is right. The details are arguable. Beethoven - How about the 9th symphony? "The Ninth, however, dared to introduce the human voice to the traditional symphonic structure (up to this time, a symphony was, by definition, a work for instruments only)." Tossing a song into a symphony?!!? There were more than a few detractors, even given the surprising - to Beethoven himself - he made a soloist face the audience at the finish, so sure was he of his offenses - success of the debut. Pinheads considered it an affront. Pinheads still consider computer art an affront. And yes, Vincent was a post-impressionist, but remember, his sole commercially sold work while alive was returned to his brother for a refund.
Look, every emerging art or music form is first decried as an abominaiton, against god, trash, junk, etc. Look at Van Gogh (hell most impressionists), Picasso, Beethoven, Wagner, Miles, McCartney... it'll pass, but sadly, it'l be a generation - the people gnashing their teeth have to die first (that's a quote from Alan Kay about computer usage)
I'm looking at USA Today quoting IDC & Gartner as MS having a 92% share of desktop OS - now, if *nix is claiming at least 8%, and MacOS is claiming somewhere in the neighborhood of 8%... sommat's wrong here. Does MS count servers? Maybe they count my cob-webbed Works 4.0 as being a desktop application and counting me as an MS user? ( I consider Works a diagnostic tool - when I want to make sure my iBook is configured right - I just run MS works - if it runs without an error and actually prints something, I know something must be dreadfully wrong with my system.)
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Go read a true account of what a student has been able to do a looooong time ago - "Mushroom" by John Aristotle Phillips. An advisee of Freeman Dyson at Princeton - he never built the bomb but had the design dead to rights. Was inspired by Ted Taylor's work in John McPhee's "The Curve of Binding Energy" both are real page-turners. No kidding.
I got it! Safety, guarded, language independent - you could for instance, set it out on a remote island, and put big statues all facing outward like guards, giant weatherable stone statues very stoically and seriously staring down anyone who approaches - it would surely convey the message to stay off the island - danger here! Stay away! Don't... oh... right... there already IS one of those, and any humanity that gets near it is doing its best to crawl all over the island like ants... (Sorry, Mr., Heyerdahl - nothing personal).
Are they kidding? That won't get hit more than 20 times an hour. If these two designs aren't Apple Titanium and iBook1 with a few hinges (and the Spartacus removable trackpad thrown in for good measure)... Visioneering? Try hindsighteering.
I bought a 'patented' houseplant at a local "Frank's" last week - I have to go fish the tag out, but it roughly declared that propagation was not allowed under law... since ignorance of the law is no exception, if this sucker puts out roots by itself (which if I remember my botany, a lot of plants use...) are they going to come arrest my houseplants? The plant can't read, but that's never been a reason to acquit before... Thank GOD it's friday - hearing stories like these on a Monday would not bode well for the rest of the week...
I heard this guy on NPR, and thought it was a gag - it wasn't. This seems to fall somewhere between terminal whining and public masturbation.
OK - you didn't mesh with Amazon.
OK - Amazon is version 0.9 of how to do anything remotely like this.
OK Jeff Bezos puts his pants on one leg at a time...
But you intend to make an industry of your response to your experience? Then start a biz and show us how to do it without all the alleged tragedies - unconstructive criticism is at best obvious noise. If it was funny, I could see - but this is strained at best. His NPR spot sounded like he was waiting for the laugh track to kick in - sort of "Just Jack" with a cloying, pseudo-hip web presence.
Go to the Auburn Mall on I-290 & Rt-12 outside Worcester MA, and you can see the monument there - looks like an early 60's rocket - on the site of Goddard's Aunt Effie's cabbage patch.
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Uhhh, yeah - all that armor... Heh heh ... he he heh... heh heh...
What a straight line...
Er, no sir - you either put Quaxxon gasoline in it every time you fill up, or if you DO fill up somewhere else, you're required to make sure you ALSO run down the street and put in a half a tank of Quaxxon.
And if you refuse, you have two choices. Go out and buy yourself one of those *sniff* OTHER machines, you know, the really efficient ones what can run for days, or go brew your own gas, but that's probably illegal and really really scary.
But if you do brew your own, we're going to get several plug-ugly executives to stick their tongues out at you once a quarter. So there.
Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major landmasses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Bless, you, Doug...
Then there was the cop dumb enought to leave a message on my answering machine calling me an asshole for trying to report misconduct anonymously (they dialed back the pay phone and asked a random person for my registration plate).
In my state, we both have to know. Not a problem. You'd be surprised what happens when you mention this to a customer service rep - never mind a cop.
All of your claims assume that all of the officers you would defend are doing their job, doing it well, and not abusing their position.
If you believe that is a given, then you aren't paying attention.
There are a lot of nutbag cops out there, just like there are lots of nutbag teachers, lawyers, bakers, etc... And I consider some mildly nutty cops my friends. Police officers as a class are not exempt from any sort of behavior, and a disturbing amount of data suggests they might in fact have higher incidence of abusive behavior and rage disorders than the general population.
And maybe not from the stress of the job. I went to a college with a CJ department - a cursory examination of the many mentalities that lead to a police career would keep a finger on teh record button.
In my state, we've all agreed that one party needs to know they're being recorded. I already know the cops are recording me, and that's fine. I expect and maintain that I should be able to do the same. I am a law-abiding citizen, and fair's fair. The police have a basic assumption to work with, especially in traffic court - in a your-word-against-theirs situation, the court sides with the officer in the majority of cases. They are weighing a known peace officer's word agains a random citizen's veracity. Game over.
Unless you have something you can trump with. This is from experience, including the reaction of an officer who didn't realize he was dealing with someone who could empirically disprove a speeding allegation. The twenty-seven 8x10 color glossy photos with the circles and lines and the paragraph on the back of each... and oh, yeah - the satellite photos negating his claims of distance and speed brought a smile to the PDs face.
Of course in Massachusetts, they'd have the LandSat in chains by now becasue EOSAT failed to alert the locals...
I drive daily through some of the wealthiest, squeaky-cleanest suburbs in the US. In recent years, the local and state cops have been found shooting each other and themselves (including on the job suicide), a suspected hired killing, ritualized abuse and solicitation of prostitutes, a drunk driving fatality, and numerous pecadillos that I personally do NOT want to be subject to, and if I might be, I want proof of everyone's behavior. The courts assume the officer's word is proof of mine - I deserve a level playing field.
I admire your conviction on the privacy issue, but they are OUR servants and they are in public when they do their job.
If there's nothing to hide, then where's the harm?
You do the math...
the phone rep is giving this address out with 1000 as the day value. by that time this will flop or x10 will go belly up.
So then presumably you can GET permission from Lyons to incorporate the use and threat of violence against Barney?
Lame names? Look - they already named an entire OS after ONE POORLY IMPLEMENTED FEATURE OF THE STANDARD GUI - they prolly chose .net because it was already in the public domain... if an OS company is allowed to de facto dictate the programming language, the markup language, the application serving format and standard... you think you have a mononpolistic atmosphere NOW? You ain't seen nothing yet - they will no doubt vigorously pursue any reverse engineering efforts, blah blah blah, buy anyone who makes inroads in order to squash them...
Their server sales are being eaten away by the evil open source competition, so guess what - they create a new standard that will demand you use their servers (you didn't think they were going to deliver the .NET capabilities as a cross-platform package, now did you?)
Like this iBook 2001 - runs MacOS, OSX, MKLinux, SoftWindows... and Apple II, Palm emulation, *sigh*, MAME... point made.
Gosh! Twelve months ago they had MS dead to rights on their ridiculous schemes. In comes Dubya, out goes the case. Now we have .NET and SmartTags to look forward to, as well as an even more closely integrated browser, a downright silly interface rework, another game console whose developers can't perform a simple trademark search (or are too arrogant to think they even HAVE to don one...) rampant VBS viruses and assaults on the intellect a'la' Ballmer and his ilk. Not to mention a total cluelessness about open source development and how to build a truly useful platform...
Pretty accurate. The gist is right. The details are arguable. Beethoven - How about the 9th symphony? "The Ninth, however, dared to introduce the human voice to the traditional symphonic structure (up to this time, a symphony was, by definition, a work for instruments only)." Tossing a song into a symphony?!!? There were more than a few detractors, even given the surprising - to Beethoven himself - he made a soloist face the audience at the finish, so sure was he of his offenses - success of the debut. Pinheads considered it an affront. Pinheads still consider computer art an affront. And yes, Vincent was a post-impressionist, but remember, his sole commercially sold work while alive was returned to his brother for a refund.
Look, every emerging art or music form is first decried as an abominaiton, against god, trash, junk, etc. Look at Van Gogh (hell most impressionists), Picasso, Beethoven, Wagner, Miles, McCartney... it'll pass, but sadly, it'l be a generation - the people gnashing their teeth have to die first (that's a quote from Alan Kay about computer usage)
I'm looking at USA Today quoting IDC & Gartner as MS having a 92% share of desktop OS - now, if *nix is claiming at least 8%, and MacOS is claiming somewhere in the neighborhood of 8%... sommat's wrong here. Does MS count servers? Maybe they count my cob-webbed Works 4.0 as being a desktop application and counting me as an MS user? ( I consider Works a diagnostic tool - when I want to make sure my iBook is configured right - I just run MS works - if it runs without an error and actually prints something, I know something must be dreadfully wrong with my system.)
Go read a true account of what a student has been able to do a looooong time ago - "Mushroom" by John Aristotle Phillips. An advisee of Freeman Dyson at Princeton - he never built the bomb but had the design dead to rights. Was inspired by Ted Taylor's work in John McPhee's "The Curve of Binding Energy" both are real page-turners. No kidding.
I got it! Safety, guarded, language independent - you could for instance, set it out on a remote island, and put big statues all facing outward like guards, giant weatherable stone statues very stoically and seriously staring down anyone who approaches - it would surely convey the message to stay off the island - danger here! Stay away! Don't... oh... right... there already IS one of those, and any humanity that gets near it is doing its best to crawl all over the island like ants... (Sorry, Mr., Heyerdahl - nothing personal).
Apple releases iTunes, MS burps up another proprietary WMP rehash.
Apple releases iMovie, MS wonders "Movies? Making movies? Hunh. Naaah, Prolly not important."
Linux eats MS' lunch on the server side of things, they attack it as a cancer.
Athlon 4 debuts, MS gets a trio of masked clowns to publically acknowledge the P4's existence (note the lack of performance claims in the ads)..
This is the sort of thing Negroponte warned about a few years ago...
"What's Microsoft's Favorite Color? and
"If You Could Be Any Kind Of Tree, What Tree Would You Be?"
talk about a reality distortion field. this creep makes steve jobs look like a monk.
this is the borg calling the collective "black".
Are they kidding? That won't get hit more than 20 times an hour. If these two designs aren't Apple Titanium and iBook1 with a few hinges (and the Spartacus removable trackpad thrown in for good measure)... Visioneering? Try hindsighteering.
Damn. I asked this question the day I *got* OSX... Who do ya hafta know to get an article in??!!
I bought a 'patented' houseplant at a local "Frank's" last week - I have to go fish the tag out, but it roughly declared that propagation was not allowed under law... since ignorance of the law is no exception, if this sucker puts out roots by itself (which if I remember my botany, a lot of plants use...) are they going to come arrest my houseplants? The plant can't read, but that's never been a reason to acquit before... Thank GOD it's friday - hearing stories like these on a Monday would not bode well for the rest of the week...
OK - you didn't mesh with Amazon.
OK - Amazon is version 0.9 of how to do anything remotely like this.
OK Jeff Bezos puts his pants on one leg at a time...
But you intend to make an industry of your response to your experience? Then start a biz and show us how to do it without all the alleged tragedies - unconstructive criticism is at best obvious noise. If it was funny, I could see - but this is strained at best. His NPR spot sounded like he was waiting for the laugh track to kick in - sort of "Just Jack" with a cloying, pseudo-hip web presence.
Go to the Auburn Mall on I-290 & Rt-12 outside Worcester MA, and you can see the monument there - looks like an early 60's rocket - on the site of Goddard's Aunt Effie's cabbage patch.