I was working for a furniture company some 10 years ago. Late August, around 1 in the afternoon, maybe 100 degrees (F), 100% humidity, flies buzzing around a tractor-trailer packed full of school desks to be unloaded by three or four people. Driver opens the doors and this wave of hot air just rolls out of that trailer like he'd opened an oven. Dead silence, and then one of my coworkers (perhaps the only literate one) starts to intone:
It wasn't so much that newer machines beat it out, but that whole market fell apart for a couple of years. Around '83 - '84 you couldn't give away game carts (literally -- Atari was crunching them with steam rollers).
As for best game -- Wall Ball (but I may be biased:>)
I can see ICANN's point though. You and I would probably agree that Disney is "kid-safe", but the Taliban would almost certainly disagree (why, the girls aren't even veiled, much less properly dressed!) Hell, parts of Alabama probably wouldn't agree.
TLD's like that carry moral implications that range far beyond technical issues. There are people who find Planned Parenthood obscene. Would you require PP to go under.xxx? Would it make filtering "simple and universal" if they did?
An accomplice? In what Orwellian nightmare do you live?
If the police ask this man whether he has ever seen dirty pictures in that house, he might be legally obliged to answer truthfully, but he is NO required to report every possible crime.
Since possession of images of immoral acts is so terribly wrong, by the way, I take it you have ripped out all the pages in your history texts that picture, or even describe, Nazi death camps, the Inquisition, etc? Obviously you can't read the paper or watch TV news, because all sorts of crimes are displayed there.
The officers of the company are legally bound to think of the good of their shareholders and maximize the value of their investments. If you own your own company, then your are of course free to decide that $X is enough and give the rest back, or whatever, but the CEO of your local utility doesn't own the company anymore than the lineman does and doesn't have that freedom. He is working with OPM.
You could try talking to the real owners of the company, but I think you'll find that they are insurance companies and pension funds, who also have an obligation to maximize their investments...
I didn't think it was possible to disallow a write-in candidate, unless he's ineligible for the job to start with (not a US citizen or underage or something like that).
Are you sure it's not just that in places like that they have trouble with writing of any kind?
Yeah, I did the same. I thought at first Buchanan was on all 50 ballots (which would give him a greater legitimacy than most third-party candidates), but he was a write-in (/off) in Michigan at least.
Mostly he's a loudmouth with great recognition, so he gets covered.
And hell, he did get more votes, much as I hate to admit it.
How can the Business Software Alliance fine me, or anybody else for that matter? AFAIK, they're a consortium of private companies. Why would their authority to levy a fine be any greater than that of McDonalds?
They can sue me, and perhaps collect damages, or I suppose they could ask the state to prosecute me, and maybe the state would fine me, but I can't see where the BSA themselves could do anything more than send me a bill.
As for their investigations, they can leave a message just like everybody else, and it would help if they were polite about it. If I choose to cooperate, then I so choose, if not, then they go get a real cop or they go whistle.
Speaking of the BSA, have you read this bit from The Register? Pretty funny stuff.
You know, I hate to admit this, but part of the reason I voted for Browne is that I can look at CBS's figures for Baltimore City (386 votes for Browne) and say to myself, "You know, if you'd stayed home, that would have been only 385". I mean, sure,.259% of the popular vote for your candidate in one small-to-medium city isn't much, but it's more than any Bush or Gore supporter can claim.
For that matter, Browne beat Buchanan here by only 68 votes, so my vote helped that margin by nearly 1.5%
Has anybody totted up the national figures for Browne? All the numbers I've seen cover Bush, Gore, Nader, and sometimes Buchanan (I assume they alone were on all 50 states' ballots).
Wasn't it Gen. Hooker, who arranged for professionals ("Hooker's girls ") to follow his troops, keeping down rape and general unhappiness (and perhaps General unhappiness as well)?
Jeez, I forgot the most obvious one (well, at least the most obvious one in the US). As far as I know, Jews believe in their faith, but there hasn't been a whole lot of recruiting since Jericho.
If they believe they're it, shouldn't the try to convert others?
Why? It's not a given that you're better off for knowing The Truth. There must be a faith somewhere that holds that The Truth is too horrible for you to contemplate and that you'll be happier in your helpless ignorance.
More to the point, my wife's Buddhism teaches (as near as I can tell), that their teachings should be available, but that seekers should find them, not the other way around. She describes it as "elitist".
Not all religions are into keeping score like some flavors of Christianity.
The circumstances are dubious indeed, but that doesn't change the basic nature of the transaction. The agreement could just as easily be put on the outside, or signed in the store if you'd prefer. I'd certainly be in favor of open EULA's, and in fact I could imagine somebody (got webspace?) setting up a EULA bank, where agreements could be reviewed and compared, but I don't think it wouldn't change anything very much.
INAL, but no, not all contracts are explicit and signed. I order a meal in a restaurant and it's mutually understood that I'll be responsible for the bill before I leave. My guess is that the software industry will assert that the same general knowledge applies, that professionals at least (and SQL Server isn't a consumer product) have been familiar with agreements like this for years.
There are parts of the whole thing which are a bit smelly, it's true, but some of those are simply defensive. Read the tiny print on a box of film, for instance -- Kodak is not responsible for the value of your pictures of Elvis smoking crack with Jimi Hendrix and two aliens, and if their film fails they will refund or replace the film and only the film, just as Oracle will replace your media but not your company if their database fails you. If you want to run your life support system on OS/2, I'm guessing that IBM will in no way accept responsibility for your demise, and I don't imagine that Dell or Compaq will either. Record companies don't warrant that the album will be good, only that it will play.
On the other side of the street, is Linux warranted for any particular purpose? Is Linus going to lose his shirt the first time somebody gets hurt? (I speak hypothetically here -- I'm sure somebody's already been hurt as a result of some sort of failure -- it's almost inevitable in an imperfect world.)
AFAIK you can sell the media if you'd like -- just obliterate the contents first.
I see no reason to limit this restrictive concept to software
I do. You buy most products outright. With software, you generally buy a (revokable) license to use the product.
Conceptually, it's something like purchase as distinct from leasing (although it's leasing with a one-time payment.)
That's also why EULA's can say that you can't sell the software, or rather that the buyer can't run the software. The license is generally non-transferable.
Hmmm...I doubt it. Remember that a space capsule only has to maintain < 1 atmosphere pressure against a vaccuum. I don't think you could dive much deeper than a bathtub toy.
However, I would think it's designed to cope with both extreme cold and radiation, so you might find a use for it as a polar habitat, what with the ozone hole and all.
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It's also interesting to note that gun crime in the rest of the western world is virtually non-existant outside of terrorism and gangs shooting each other...
I'm trying to grok this -- are you implying that it's safer in, say, Colombia than Baltimore, because in Colombia your death would be terrorism or gang-related, while in Baltimore it might be a robbery? Me, I don't much care about the bullet's motivation, just whether or not I get shot.
I'm reminded of Mayor Barry's argument that DC was perfectly safe -- all the gunfire was drug dealers.
Just for grins, go to the UN web site and look up the homicide figures for the world. Yes, we're worse than Sweden, but we're far better than a lot of places (Colombia among them).
Well, it sounds like I'm a bit out of date as to the details of Airbus ownership but I think you'd find that France, England, and Germany unabashedly feel that "what's good for Airbus is good for the country", and I'm not even sure they're wrong. Regardless of actual ownership, the health of Airbus is clearly in the national interests of France, Germany, and the UK, and to assume that their work stops at salesmanship is simply naive.
Commercial intelligence covers a lot of ground. Sometimes it means counting containers unloaded from a ship. Sometimes it means drinking in bars frequented by executroids of the other company. Sometimes it means paying for information. I'm not suggesting that the UK uses hired assassins, or that France is sabotaging 767's. It's not like Boeing is some menacing foreign power like Greenpeace.
Just out of curiousity, did your coworkers ever claim that Airbus, as a government-sponsored firm, didn't have access to intelligence data? As a matter of fact, I've always used Boeing as an example of a private corporation which would need very high grade encryption, precisely because their chief competitor is a consortium of world-class governments.
It's not like the French have ever been reluctant to lie, cheat, steal, and kill when their interests were threatened, and the SAS has been mentioned in some pretty odd places too.
(To give credit where due, however, the Germans have been pretty respectful of others' property the last 50 years.)
Actually I'm not so sure about this. I think that the Singer car company was a British enterpise unrelated to either the American sewing machine company (or the Polish-born writer, for that matter).
Now, does anybody know if Singer-Link is part of the same company?
I would like to see more corporate history. Often even the employees of a firm have no real idea of the company's past, which is a shame. Sure, sometimes the history is something the company would as soon bury, but often it's proud, or at least interesting.
Of course, it can get complicated, what with divisions, sales, etc. I had reason a couple of years ago to explore ITT, and found that it had become a hotel conglomerate, leaving behind its communications roots in various spin-offs and sales. Rolls-Royce the car company is now owned by VW, while Rolls-Royce the airplane engine company is owned by BMW (and, last I heard, owns the rights to the name "Rolls-Royce" after 2002 or something, leaving the car people somewhat screwed). (The ironies here are left to the reader, but for those who have forgotten, BMW made engines for, among other things, Focke-Wolfe fighters, at the same time that Rolls-Royce made mills for Spitfires and Mustangs).
Back when I worked at Sears I kept trying to get the store manager to issue each new hire with one of those repop 1902 catalogs. I found it kind of inspiring to work for a store that once sold cars, houses, and barns, as well as a number of clearly quack medical devices (some of which looked suspiciously like "marital aids").
When I was programming at AmTote, I was surprized to find out that the company had played an important, albeit back-handed, role in the Univac story, but I had to find out somewhere else (yes, on the street, and whispered conversations on the playground).
How many guys turning wrenches in Detroit remember that Ford once made airplanes? Did you know that at various times Canon, Nikon, and Minolta were parts of the same company?
Here's one for the the gif-burners in the house -- toss your Remington razor, because you're practically in bed with Unisys (Remington-Rand -> Sperry-Rand -> Unisys), and you're related to the gun company as well. I'm not sure if there's any connection with the (in)famous think tank, though.
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Late one night not too long ago, while running video cable around the house, I had this brief epiphany -- wireless TV! I felt like Thomas Edison for about 30 seconds. "This changes everything! -- back to the way it was before. Oh. Never mind."
That does ring a bell, yes. It's not quite as bizarre as it sounds. I don't recall how Singer did it, but if you look at the inside of a sewing machine and then the inside of a manual typewriter you'll see that the path from sewing machines to office equipment isn't as strange as it sounds (Didn't Commodore begin with typewriter repair? And of course Brother still makes sewing machines.)
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"Fear is the mind killer..."
It was a highlight of my summer.
As for best game -- Wall Ball (but I may be biased :>)
TLD's like that carry moral implications that range far beyond technical issues. There are people who find Planned Parenthood obscene. Would you require PP to go under .xxx? Would it make filtering "simple and universal" if they did?
Twenty-thousand years, according to the article, but still a Very Long Time.
If the police ask this man whether he has ever seen dirty pictures in that house, he might be legally obliged to answer truthfully, but he is NO required to report every possible crime.
Since possession of images of immoral acts is so terribly wrong, by the way, I take it you have ripped out all the pages in your history texts that picture, or even describe, Nazi death camps, the Inquisition, etc? Obviously you can't read the paper or watch TV news, because all sorts of crimes are displayed there.
You could try talking to the real owners of the company, but I think you'll find that they are insurance companies and pension funds, who also have an obligation to maximize their investments...
Are you sure it's not just that in places like that they have trouble with writing of any kind?
Mostly he's a loudmouth with great recognition, so he gets covered.
And hell, he did get more votes, much as I hate to admit it.
They can sue me, and perhaps collect damages, or I suppose they could ask the state to prosecute me, and maybe the state would fine me, but I can't see where the BSA themselves could do anything more than send me a bill.
As for their investigations, they can leave a message just like everybody else, and it would help if they were polite about it. If I choose to cooperate, then I so choose, if not, then they go get a real cop or they go whistle.
Speaking of the BSA, have you read this bit from The Register? Pretty funny stuff.
For that matter, Browne beat Buchanan here by only 68 votes, so my vote helped that margin by nearly 1.5%
Has anybody totted up the national figures for Browne? All the numbers I've seen cover Bush, Gore, Nader, and sometimes Buchanan (I assume they alone were on all 50 states' ballots).
Wasn't it Gen. Hooker, who arranged for professionals ("Hooker's girls ") to follow his troops, keeping down rape and general unhappiness (and perhaps General unhappiness as well)?
Hey, it's paraquat time again!
Jeez, I forgot the most obvious one (well, at least the most obvious one in the US). As far as I know, Jews believe in their faith, but there hasn't been a whole lot of recruiting since Jericho.
Why? It's not a given that you're better off for knowing The Truth. There must be a faith somewhere that holds that The Truth is too horrible for you to contemplate and that you'll be happier in your helpless ignorance.
More to the point, my wife's Buddhism teaches (as near as I can tell), that their teachings should be available, but that seekers should find them, not the other way around. She describes it as "elitist".
Not all religions are into keeping score like some flavors of Christianity.
INAL, but no, not all contracts are explicit and signed. I order a meal in a restaurant and it's mutually understood that I'll be responsible for the bill before I leave. My guess is that the software industry will assert that the same general knowledge applies, that professionals at least (and SQL Server isn't a consumer product) have been familiar with agreements like this for years.
There are parts of the whole thing which are a bit smelly, it's true, but some of those are simply defensive. Read the tiny print on a box of film, for instance -- Kodak is not responsible for the value of your pictures of Elvis smoking crack with Jimi Hendrix and two aliens, and if their film fails they will refund or replace the film and only the film, just as Oracle will replace your media but not your company if their database fails you. If you want to run your life support system on OS/2, I'm guessing that IBM will in no way accept responsibility for your demise, and I don't imagine that Dell or Compaq will either. Record companies don't warrant that the album will be good, only that it will play.
On the other side of the street, is Linux warranted for any particular purpose? Is Linus going to lose his shirt the first time somebody gets hurt? (I speak hypothetically here -- I'm sure somebody's already been hurt as a result of some sort of failure -- it's almost inevitable in an imperfect world.)
AFAIK you can sell the media if you'd like -- just obliterate the contents first.
I do. You buy most products outright. With software, you generally buy a (revokable) license to use the product.
Conceptually, it's something like purchase as distinct from leasing (although it's leasing with a one-time payment.)
That's also why EULA's can say that you can't sell the software, or rather that the buyer can't run the software. The license is generally non-transferable.
Yes, but you'd have to go to Somewhere in the South Pacific with a catcher's mitt to accept delivery.
However, I would think it's designed to cope with both extreme cold and radiation, so you might find a use for it as a polar habitat, what with the ozone hole and all.
I'm trying to grok this -- are you implying that it's safer in, say, Colombia than Baltimore, because in Colombia your death would be terrorism or gang-related, while in Baltimore it might be a robbery? Me, I don't much care about the bullet's motivation, just whether or not I get shot.
I'm reminded of Mayor Barry's argument that DC was perfectly safe -- all the gunfire was drug dealers.
Just for grins, go to the UN web site and look up the homicide figures for the world. Yes, we're worse than Sweden, but we're far better than a lot of places (Colombia among them).
Commercial intelligence covers a lot of ground. Sometimes it means counting containers unloaded from a ship. Sometimes it means drinking in bars frequented by executroids of the other company. Sometimes it means paying for information. I'm not suggesting that the UK uses hired assassins, or that France is sabotaging 767's. It's not like Boeing is some menacing foreign power like Greenpeace.
It's not like the French have ever been reluctant to lie, cheat, steal, and kill when their interests were threatened, and the SAS has been mentioned in some pretty odd places too.
(To give credit where due, however, the Germans have been pretty respectful of others' property the last 50 years.)
Now, does anybody know if Singer-Link is part of the same company?
I would like to see more corporate history. Often even the employees of a firm have no real idea of the company's past, which is a shame. Sure, sometimes the history is something the company would as soon bury, but often it's proud, or at least interesting.
Of course, it can get complicated, what with divisions, sales, etc. I had reason a couple of years ago to explore ITT, and found that it had become a hotel conglomerate, leaving behind its communications roots in various spin-offs and sales. Rolls-Royce the car company is now owned by VW, while Rolls-Royce the airplane engine company is owned by BMW (and, last I heard, owns the rights to the name "Rolls-Royce" after 2002 or something, leaving the car people somewhat screwed). (The ironies here are left to the reader, but for those who have forgotten, BMW made engines for, among other things, Focke-Wolfe fighters, at the same time that Rolls-Royce made mills for Spitfires and Mustangs).
Back when I worked at Sears I kept trying to get the store manager to issue each new hire with one of those repop 1902 catalogs. I found it kind of inspiring to work for a store that once sold cars, houses, and barns, as well as a number of clearly quack medical devices (some of which looked suspiciously like "marital aids").
When I was programming at AmTote, I was surprized to find out that the company had played an important, albeit back-handed, role in the Univac story, but I had to find out somewhere else (yes, on the street, and whispered conversations on the playground).
How many guys turning wrenches in Detroit remember that Ford once made airplanes? Did you know that at various times Canon, Nikon, and Minolta were parts of the same company?
Here's one for the the gif-burners in the house -- toss your Remington razor, because you're practically in bed with Unisys (Remington-Rand -> Sperry-Rand -> Unisys), and you're related to the gun company as well. I'm not sure if there's any connection with the (in)famous think tank, though.
Late one night not too long ago, while running video cable around the house, I had this brief epiphany -- wireless TV! I felt like Thomas Edison for about 30 seconds. "This changes everything! -- back to the way it was before. Oh. Never mind."
That does ring a bell, yes. It's not quite as bizarre as it sounds. I don't recall how Singer did it, but if you look at the inside of a sewing machine and then the inside of a manual typewriter you'll see that the path from sewing machines to office equipment isn't as strange as it sounds (Didn't Commodore begin with typewriter repair? And of course Brother still makes sewing machines.)