I'd consider it screwing people if they were downloading something that wasn't free. In this case people are attempting to download BNL songs for free, and are getting something else instead. The "something else" is harmless.
P.S. - As you may or may not be able to deduce from my username, I don't get upset when people take pot shots at the U.S. Not that the DMCA isn't scary as hell.
How are they screwing people? They're just using Napster to distribute advertisements. Aside from obscure foreign laws, what exactly is wrong with that?
It has been my experience that, in the real world, turning the other cheek when confronted by a bully will get it smacked. If you don't fight back, you get labeled as an easy mark. You're right in saying that declining to fight does not diminish you. Neither does standing up for yourself.
"If we have an agreed religion in the society, we have a higher power whose teachings we can follow and use them as the base of our moral code. Without that, it's just people imposing their views on one another"
I'm an Atheist. Let's get that out of the way.
Let's use the bible as an example of your Teachings of a Higher Power. To me, it is just another example of people imposing their views on me. There is no higher power. The difference is, in the case of organized religion, that the people imposing their moralities on others pretend to be doing so on behalf of a higher power.
Wow, that's broad. By those standards everything I do should be attributed to Scotland. Bell was as Canadian as anyone else. That's what Canada was and is, a collection of people from other countries.
(that said, Scots are the smartest people on earth)
Switching to W2K is likely unavoidable for this poor fellow. If I were in his shoes I'd like to be on record as opposing the migration. I'm seeing too many IT people being blamed for "failures" in similar situations.
"Really, I haven't seen a Novell network in years, and the ones I did see were quite small (150 machines tops). Is Novell really the right choice for something like that?"
If you haven't seen one, why comment on it's suitability? NDS eDirectory (and that's the real product here, let's not kid ourselves) is scalable to 32 billion objects, theoretically. The largest production environments for NDS are well over a billion, AFAIK. All that and multi-platform to boot.
Well, I'm way too late into this for anyone to read this, but this has to be said. Nicotine does not help with stress. Nicotine calms withdrawal symptoms that compound the stress you are feeling, thus providing the illusion of calming.
"We now interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you news that Microsoft, in a surprise move, has flouted industry standards in the new version of the Internet Explorer browser. Analysis and commentary at six."
Actually we have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not a Bill of Rights. Perhaps it's time to expose yourself to some Canadian content. Maybe I'll take a page from the grammar nazi's book and start correcting all the Canadian mistakes. At least the ones written by Canadians.
I doubt there is a Charter challenge here. Clayton Ruby himself couldn't get this one heard.
I'll take tolerance shots from a French-Canadian when the language police are disbanded.
While english Canada is influenced by the US (how could it not be), let me assure you there are significant cultural differences. I deal with people on both sides of the border on a daily basis.
If Novell is to have any real future, it's with NDS. I'm a long time NetWare supporter and fought hard (and won) against ditching it for NT, but it's a dying NOS. It serves our needs brilliantly for the time being, but much of that brilliance is NDS.
Now if they could just learn to market it. The word-of-mouth marketing that built NetWare doesn't work anymore.
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I'd consider it screwing people if they were downloading something that wasn't free. In this case people are attempting to download BNL songs for free, and are getting something else instead. The "something else" is harmless.
P.S. - As you may or may not be able to deduce from my username, I don't get upset when people take pot shots at the U.S. Not that the DMCA isn't scary as hell.
How are they screwing people? They're just using Napster to distribute advertisements. Aside from obscure foreign laws, what exactly is wrong with that?
Fair enough, but in this specific case we're talking about a school. No customers to lose.
It has been my experience that, in the real world, turning the other cheek when confronted by a bully will get it smacked. If you don't fight back, you get labeled as an easy mark. You're right in saying that declining to fight does not diminish you. Neither does standing up for yourself.
"If we have an agreed religion in the society, we have a higher power whose teachings we can follow and use them as the base of our moral code. Without that, it's just people imposing their views on one another"
I'm an Atheist. Let's get that out of the way.
Let's use the bible as an example of your Teachings of a Higher Power. To me, it is just another example of people imposing their views on me. There is no higher power. The difference is, in the case of organized religion, that the people imposing their moralities on others pretend to be doing so on behalf of a higher power.
Which is better?
Wow, that's broad. By those standards everything I do should be attributed to Scotland. Bell was as Canadian as anyone else. That's what Canada was and is, a collection of people from other countries.
(that said, Scots are the smartest people on earth)
Partial Alexander Graham Bell chronology:
July 1870 With parents sails to Canada
August 1, 1870 Arrives at Quebec
August 6, 1870 Family buys Brantford home
April 1871 To Boston to teach deaf (returns home to Brantford each summer)
July 26, 1874 In Brantford tells father of method to transmit sound by wire.
Winter 1874-75 Works on "harmonic telegraph" in Boston with Tom Watson
June 2, 1875 Hears sound over device
Summer 1875 With Watson constructs Gallows Frame, world's first telephone
September 1875 Writes patent specifications in Brantford
1875 First contact with Smithsonian Institution: Joseph Henry encourages him
March 10, 1876 Hears Watson's voice over liquid transmitter (second telephone)
June 25, 1876 Demonstrates Centennial transmitter (third telephone) to Sir William Thomson and Emperor Pedro II at Philadelphia Exposition.
July 7,9,22, 1876 With others tries unsuccessfully to talk long distance over telegraph lines
Early Aug. 1876 "Three great tests" of telephone in and near Brantford
August 1876 Thomson describes telephone to British Association for the Advancement of Science
Sept. 14, 1876 Thomson describes telephone in Nature
October 6, 1876 Holds world's first two-way telephone conversation with Watson, in Boston
October 9, 1876 Holds two-way conversation with Watson over telegraph line linking Boston and East Cambridge
July 9, 1877 With Watson, Thomas Sanders, and Gardiner Hubbard, forms Bell Telephone Company, a voluntary association.
So explain to me why Scotland should be country code 1.
Oops, my bad. You're right, of course. He just lived here.
Anyway, my point was that there are some things that weren't invented by Americans.
"American", as you put it, is a dialect of English. That's also pushing it, since there are quite a few American dialects. You speak English.
Actually, a Canadian invented the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell born in Brantford, Ontario.
You must now end all phone conversations with "eh?"
When I first saw an N64 controller, I hated it. Then I used one, and loved it.
I'm sure I'll end up liking this controller but right now all I can think is, "How many thumbs do they think I have?"
Switching to W2K is likely unavoidable for this poor fellow. If I were in his shoes I'd like to be on record as opposing the migration. I'm seeing too many IT people being blamed for "failures" in similar situations.
"Kind of like Futurama, with a straight face."
Darth Bender, anyone?
"Really, I haven't seen a Novell network in years, and the ones I did see were quite small (150 machines tops). Is Novell really the right choice for something like that?"
If you haven't seen one, why comment on it's suitability? NDS eDirectory (and that's the real product here, let's not kid ourselves) is scalable to 32 billion objects, theoretically. The largest production environments for NDS are well over a billion, AFAIK. All that and multi-platform to boot.
Well, let's assume they choose a Canadian University. The FBI gets to choose, right? So that would be, what, Lakehead?
Of course doctors don't like government health care. They don't make as much. Since when does that make it a bad system?
Well, I'm way too late into this for anyone to read this, but this has to be said. Nicotine does not help with stress. Nicotine calms withdrawal symptoms that compound the stress you are feeling, thus providing the illusion of calming.
Newsflash:
"We now interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you news that Microsoft, in a surprise move, has flouted industry standards in the new version of the Internet Explorer browser. Analysis and commentary at six."
Actually we have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not a Bill of Rights. Perhaps it's time to expose yourself to some Canadian content. Maybe I'll take a page from the grammar nazi's book and start correcting all the Canadian mistakes. At least the ones written by Canadians.
I doubt there is a Charter challenge here. Clayton Ruby himself couldn't get this one heard.
I'll take tolerance shots from a French-Canadian when the language police are disbanded.
While english Canada is influenced by the US (how could it not be), let me assure you there are significant cultural differences. I deal with people on both sides of the border on a daily basis.
If Novell is to have any real future, it's with NDS. I'm a long time NetWare supporter and fought hard (and won) against ditching it for NT, but it's a dying NOS. It serves our needs brilliantly for the time being, but much of that brilliance is NDS.
Now if they could just learn to market it. The word-of-mouth marketing that built NetWare doesn't work anymore.
What criteria should be used to determine who is too moronic to vote? Who sets those criteria?
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