The only workaround each time was to copy/paste the original document text into a new Word file, because Word was hopelessly confused by whatever little magic cookies it had left in the original document.
A nice solution: Save as a word HTML file, with all of the little "o" tags left in, then close and re-load it.
Works surprisingly well, and can even be automated.
If the local taxpayers don't want to spend the money to maintain the infrastructure, then why should you and I, who don't even benefit?
1: because it's a good thing to do, in keeping with the whole point of public free education.
2: You and I do benefit from them. A more educated populace is a more prodctive populace, meaning that we'll have a stronger nation more easily to support us when we retire, or defend us when we are invaded and too old to fight on the front lines.
As for the rest: blame the cold war. The Federal government literally prints money, and it's a fradulent accounting trick for it to have a "fund" of any sort. If we have to lie to our fictions to make the government work, we should consider a different fiction.
Dude, you can get arrested for this shit. You could even get CmdrTaco in trouble. Haven't you been watching the news? Patriot act.
Discussing hypotheticals can get you INVESTIGATED.
There is a difference. Hell, I've been investigated by the FBI for being a member of a medievalist group that didn't display the US flag--and that's as far as it went.
Could you capitalize it when you say it? "free software" could be free-as-in-beer. "Free Software" is a proper term, and can have a slighly nonstandard meaning.
Stallman's gulity of choosing a nonstandard word-type for the meaning of free he wants. "free [action]" means liberty. "free [noun]" means zero-cost.
Other choices Stallman could have used, that would be instantly recognizable:
That last one is probably the best for what Stallman calls "Free Software", but they all have the very clear advantage in that an English speaker will not presmue that they are talking about something-for-nothing, but rather a free-speach like right.
Yes, they do. And when your server's hits spike up by several thousand, with referrers from a site you've never heard about, you go take a gander--and you may just change your mind.
However, you have to be careful about what you say so that you cannot get sued.
That's right. You need to only say things that are true, and delime opinions (which can be untrue, like "IMO,/. is a bunch of whiney racist faggots") as such.
Unless you're a politician, this shouldn't be a problem.
(IANAL--don't take legal advice from strangers on the internet.)
It's not like they're being dishonest about this. Jobs & Apple have been totally up front about the DRM in iTunes. You simply can't ask for more than honesty.
their appropriation of the work of Open Source programmers notwithstanding.
You say that as if what Apple did wasn't wholly in keeping with the Open Source philosiphy--and, arguably, compatable with the Free Software philosiphy.
Repeat after me: A palm is not an internet device.
It simply was not designed to be used as a web browser. It's intended to be a "mobile personal computer"--the type of glorified calculator that we used before the 'net came long, not the "digital media portal" that the home PC has evolved into.
I use my Zire 71 everyday to:
Keep an address book & calendar
Read news articles from a palm-specific news site
Write with my folding keyboard
Play games while I'm on the bus
Take a quick picture of something around me.
If you try and use a palm for something it's not meant to do, you'll come up just as short as if you were to try and use my tiny cell-phone to play games or keep a calendar. (Though, truth be told, it could do a nice calendar, and I wish they'd all #@$@%ing sync... but that's neither here nor there.)
Well, since breasts on TV has never been voted on in Congress, how will that help?
It was at least once. The FCC didn't suddenly decided that it was going to regulate broadcast decency--Congress at one point or another said "yes, we want this regulated, and yes, you're going to do it."
OTOH, it might have been the courts--the extant decency laws could have been interpreted to apply to broadcast medium, and the federal courts told the FCC to do it.
Here's the funny part--we USED to be able to show breasts on TV, with the very same kind of nipple cover that Jackson allegedly had on. The feds (somewhere) said that we could only do that if we made it abundantly clear that there was a cover--and, thus, came the introduction of nipple tassles.
We hide all those things becase we, collectively, decided that they should be hidden.
The USA is a democracy, not an anarchy. If you want change, make "being able to see topless women on broadcast TV" the issues that decides your vote, and inform your congrisscritters about that.
IF RFID tags are required by law in tires, obviously the government would not want to allow people to have tire mounting machines to make things harder
More likely, they'll just require an RFID check on inspection, and let cops write tickets for the same.
Sheeh. (You wouldn't happen to be a "republican", would you?)
Yes, the USA is a republic. But that doesn't mean that we're a "democracy." While the words mean different things, they're hardly exclusive.
Or to put it another way: every single offical and employee of the USA is either elected by the people, or appointed by persons who in turn were elected by the people. This is what makes us a democracy--the formal and practical democratic source of our power.
Convince 200 million of us that we should be an intolerant, arabaic nation, and we will be within seven years--unless, of course, we change our mind.
Oh, and while we're on the topic of emtymology and history--remember that both the USSR and communist China were (or are) "republics." If you don't see a difference between the two, you really weren't paying attention even during the last five years of the cold war.
After all... the fact that George W Bush is President proves that we do not have a democracy.
Not at all.
The fact that Gore aquiesced and neither Gore's nor Bush's supporters rebelled due to the court's decision and the Senate's failure to act is proof that we DO have a democracy.
The fact that the Senate didn't do their job and debate the Florida results in Congress, which essentially gave Bush the presidency, is proof that each left-wing Senator elected before 2000 is a pansy and a pushover who should resign.
EVER text adventure I've ever seen (bar none) is less "wide open way to solve a problem" and more "struggle with what can be done in the limited nature of the system."
There's no reason that a CCRPG couldn't be used that invoked the non-combat skills of any RPG on the market today--they just don't do it because it's a pain to program, and those that want creative solutions will ALWAYS be better off finding a real person and playing RPGs the right way.
Correction: we have no historic or scientific accounts of great (over 150) lifespans. We do have, however, a plethora of mythological and theological accounts, both in Genisis and innumerable other mythologies.
(remember that God wants us to doubt, and so He has purposefully obscured many of the statements in the bible so as to be uncomfirmable, and He may have even told us deliberate falsehoods to achieve a certain end--like telling a child about monsters in the dark so they don't go wanderound around without an adult.)
Also, the population problem wouldn't be on the production side; it'd be on the removal side. If the death rate drops and the birth rate remains constant, the population increases.
The FCC, like the rest of the unconstitutional ways that the Fed.Gov controls your everyday life, must be abolished immediately.
Not at all. After all, since the Libertarians obviously didn't get the White House or a majority in the Senate or House (do they have ANY congresscritters?) the American people asked for the FCC, and we seem to be quite happy with it.
The Democrat/Statist contingent around here will all be dependent on the government someday, and that government will let them down.
Slight clarification: When the government lets down the socalists, they will go and get a new government with essentially the same capital, less a bit for overhead.
When the corporations let down the libertarians, they'll start from scratch with no capital whatsoever.
If you have the choice between a dystopia where no one does business--and thus we all barter and farm to survive--and one where we all starve to death for lack of money and aren't allowed to farm land because we don't own it--which one would you prefer?
no, the alien flying saucer crap is crap. The government's new airplanes, when being tested, are very likely (and appropriately) seen as "UFOs". They might even be flying saucers.
Remember: Just because you UFO is a weather baloon, airplane, or flying whale doesn't mean that it's not a "UFO."
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There are so few things that the Federal govermment can legally do...
And copyright is one of them. It's even in the original document, not the amendments.
The only workaround each time was to copy/paste the original document text into a new Word file, because Word was hopelessly confused by whatever little magic cookies it had left in the original document.
A nice solution: Save as a word HTML file, with all of the little "o" tags left in, then close and re-load it.
Works surprisingly well, and can even be automated.
I liked reading in fixed-width fonts, the color scheme was great, but most importantly it was a dream to use.
You can turn (modern) Word into that. Judicious application of system settings and styles can get you exactly what you need.
If the local taxpayers don't want to spend the money to maintain the infrastructure, then why should you and I, who don't even benefit?
1: because it's a good thing to do, in keeping with the whole point of public free education.
2: You and I do benefit from them. A more educated populace is a more prodctive populace, meaning that we'll have a stronger nation more easily to support us when we retire, or defend us when we are invaded and too old to fight on the front lines.
As for the rest: blame the cold war. The Federal government literally prints money, and it's a fradulent accounting trick for it to have a "fund" of any sort. If we have to lie to our fictions to make the government work, we should consider a different fiction.
Nothing else will install w/that BIOS because that would allow for software that isn't approved to be running (OS included).
It isn't in MS's best interest to create BIOSes that only run signed software.
At worst, we'll have BIOSes that limit access to parts of a disk to signed only software, or have a function to allow only signed software to run.
Allowing only signed software to run on EVERY BIOS would make software development either impossible or make it require overly expensive workstations.
Dude, you can get arrested for this shit. You could even get CmdrTaco in trouble. Haven't you been watching the news? Patriot act.
Discussing hypotheticals can get you INVESTIGATED.
There is a difference. Hell, I've been investigated by the FBI for being a member of a medievalist group that didn't display the US flag--and that's as far as it went.
it cannot be considered to be free software.
Could you capitalize it when you say it? "free software" could be free-as-in-beer. "Free Software" is a proper term, and can have a slighly nonstandard meaning.
Stallman's gulity of choosing a nonstandard word-type for the meaning of free he wants. "free [action]" means liberty. "free [noun]" means zero-cost.
Other choices Stallman could have used, that would be instantly recognizable:
Free Programming.
Free Hacking
Free Software-writing
Free Computing
That last one is probably the best for what Stallman calls "Free Software", but they all have the very clear advantage in that an English speaker will not presmue that they are talking about something-for-nothing, but rather a free-speach like right.
What I am saying is that comments on /. stay on /.
Yes, they do. And when your server's hits spike up by several thousand, with referrers from a site you've never heard about, you go take a gander--and you may just change your mind.
However, you have to be careful about what you say so that you cannot get sued.
/. is a bunch of whiney racist faggots") as such.
That's right. You need to only say things that are true, and delime opinions (which can be untrue, like "IMO,
Unless you're a politician, this shouldn't be a problem.
(IANAL--don't take legal advice from strangers on the internet.)
They're sellout DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs...
How, exactly?
It's not like they're being dishonest about this. Jobs & Apple have been totally up front about the DRM in iTunes. You simply can't ask for more than honesty.
their appropriation of the work of Open Source programmers notwithstanding.
You say that as if what Apple did wasn't wholly in keeping with the Open Source philosiphy--and, arguably, compatable with the Free Software philosiphy.
Repeat after me: A palm is not an internet device.
It simply was not designed to be used as a web browser. It's intended to be a "mobile personal computer"--the type of glorified calculator that we used before the 'net came long, not the "digital media portal" that the home PC has evolved into.
I use my Zire 71 everyday to:
Keep an address book & calendar
Read news articles from a palm-specific news site
Write with my folding keyboard
Play games while I'm on the bus
Take a quick picture of something around me.
If you try and use a palm for something it's not meant to do, you'll come up just as short as if you were to try and use my tiny cell-phone to play games or keep a calendar. (Though, truth be told, it could do a nice calendar, and I wish they'd all #@$@%ing sync... but that's neither here nor there.)
Well, since breasts on TV has never been voted on in Congress, how will that help?
It was at least once. The FCC didn't suddenly decided that it was going to regulate broadcast decency--Congress at one point or another said "yes, we want this regulated, and yes, you're going to do it."
OTOH, it might have been the courts--the extant decency laws could have been interpreted to apply to broadcast medium, and the federal courts told the FCC to do it.
Here's the funny part--we USED to be able to show breasts on TV, with the very same kind of nipple cover that Jackson allegedly had on. The feds (somewhere) said that we could only do that if we made it abundantly clear that there was a cover--and, thus, came the introduction of nipple tassles.
No.
We hide all those things becase we, collectively, decided that they should be hidden.
The USA is a democracy, not an anarchy. If you want change, make "being able to see topless women on broadcast TV" the issues that decides your vote, and inform your congrisscritters about that.
IF RFID tags are required by law in tires, obviously the government would not want to allow people to have tire mounting machines to make things harder
More likely, they'll just require an RFID check on inspection, and let cops write tickets for the same.
Sheeh. (You wouldn't happen to be a "republican", would you?)
Yes, the USA is a republic. But that doesn't mean that we're a "democracy." While the words mean different things, they're hardly exclusive.
Or to put it another way: every single offical and employee of the USA is either elected by the people, or appointed by persons who in turn were elected by the people. This is what makes us a democracy--the formal and practical democratic source of our power.
Convince 200 million of us that we should be an intolerant, arabaic nation, and we will be within seven years--unless, of course, we change our mind.
Oh, and while we're on the topic of emtymology and history--remember that both the USSR and communist China were (or are) "republics." If you don't see a difference between the two, you really weren't paying attention even during the last five years of the cold war.
After all... the fact that George W Bush is President proves that we do not have a democracy.
Not at all.
The fact that Gore aquiesced and neither Gore's nor Bush's supporters rebelled due to the court's decision and the Senate's failure to act is proof that we DO have a democracy.
The fact that the Senate didn't do their job and debate the Florida results in Congress, which essentially gave Bush the presidency, is proof that each left-wing Senator elected before 2000 is a pansy and a pushover who should resign.
National tv with children watching and people feel the need to "push the envenlope."
I can guarantee you that every last child watching the Superbowl was or should have been aware of what a breast looked like.
EVER text adventure I've ever seen (bar none) is less "wide open way to solve a problem" and more "struggle with what can be done in the limited nature of the system."
There's no reason that a CCRPG couldn't be used that invoked the non-combat skills of any RPG on the market today--they just don't do it because it's a pain to program, and those that want creative solutions will ALWAYS be better off finding a real person and playing RPGs the right way.
Not at all. If you had a "right" to profit, you could go to court to break a contract solely on you losing money over it.
Not a right to "profit", but a right to "recieve compensation."
It's a fine line, but an important one.
Correction: we have no historic or scientific accounts of great (over 150) lifespans. We do have, however, a plethora of mythological and theological accounts, both in Genisis and innumerable other mythologies.
(remember that God wants us to doubt, and so He has purposefully obscured many of the statements in the bible so as to be uncomfirmable, and He may have even told us deliberate falsehoods to achieve a certain end--like telling a child about monsters in the dark so they don't go wanderound around without an adult.)
Also, the population problem wouldn't be on the production side; it'd be on the removal side. If the death rate drops and the birth rate remains constant, the population increases.
The FCC, like the rest of the unconstitutional ways that the Fed.Gov controls your everyday life, must be abolished immediately.
Not at all. After all, since the Libertarians obviously didn't get the White House or a majority in the Senate or House (do they have ANY congresscritters?) the American people asked for the FCC, and we seem to be quite happy with it.
The Democrat/Statist contingent around here will all be dependent on the government someday, and that government will let them down.
Slight clarification: When the government lets down the socalists, they will go and get a new government with essentially the same capital, less a bit for overhead.
When the corporations let down the libertarians, they'll start from scratch with no capital whatsoever.
If you have the choice between a dystopia where no one does business--and thus we all barter and farm to survive--and one where we all starve to death for lack of money and aren't allowed to farm land because we don't own it--which one would you prefer?
Why the hell is my FLOPPY DRIVES still read at the speed they did back in the 386 days.
Because they're obsolute. Get a USB keydrive, and you'll transfer 1.44 MB in a second (or faster.)
of course all the ufo crap is just crap--
no, the alien flying saucer crap is crap. The government's new airplanes, when being tested, are very likely (and appropriately) seen as "UFOs". They might even be flying saucers.
Remember: Just because you UFO is a weather baloon, airplane, or flying whale doesn't mean that it's not a "UFO."