But when a school board, which is a governmental body says "These books are banned" (note that banned is *your* word), then that's a First Amendment violation.
To expand your arugment, suppose, hypothetically, that the majority in your town were Zoroastrians. They decided to ban Christianity within the town. But that's OK, because you can go somewhere else to worship.
I don't see it as a 1st ammendment issue as all those banned books are still available -- just no public moneies are spent on them.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
(emphasis mine). Note that the 14th Amendment extended such bans to all local government.
It would be interesting to see if this kind of action buys good will from the IBM shareholders towards the current IBM management.
It should. If they had bought out SCOX, then any 2-bit company would see that they could possibly get big money by suing IBM and hoping to be bought out so they would go away.
This way, SCOX is a dead as Carthage, its field sown with salt, etc... Nobody is going to try a nuisance suit like this against IBM for a long, long time...
I think that will make the shareholders very happy, with lots of good will towards the current IBM management.
Basically, they're feigning surprise that this is an issue, complaining that they need more discovery, and trying to say that they haven't had time to properly prepare for this because it could take 25,000 man hours.
25,000 man YEARS.
IBM had a nice zinger (pg. 34 of IBM's Redacted Reply Memorandum In Further Support of its Cross Motion For Partial Summary Judgment on its Claim for Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement):
"Under SCO's view of what is required to review source code, it would take 14 million man-years to review this additional code." [referring to the AIX and Dynix code SCOX wants].
It took us 25 years to build our business and it took [IBM] four years simply by stealing code and then giving it away free. (emphasis mine).
This sounds an awful lot like slander or libel. And Mr. O'Shaughnessy has done it in a place with UK style libel laws. Not very bright, IMNALO (in my not-a-lawyer opinion).
Also read tEoE many years ago. And its horrible the way he tried to join the Robot series, Foundation Series, and tEoE all together in "Foundation's Edge" and "Foundation and Earth".
What is this obsession that many authors have with trying to put all their disparate universes together?
My comment to the blog was something along those lines. Specifically, that they should support older paradigms.
It seems that whenever MS "gets religion" w.r.t. a new methodology, they drop all the other "blasphemous" models like a rock.
For example, at a previous job, we came out of the embedded world, and had to start writing win32 apps. These were non-web-enabled standalone apps (had to be, for various reasons). Unfortunately, this was right around the time that MS had gotten the "3-tier, web enabled app" religion. So it was difficult to find info that we needed.
wouldn't they be admitting that they lied to the court during their antitrust trial?
They've already implicitly done that. Remember that one of the execs (Allchin?) said that releasing the source to Windows would endanger national security. So what do they do next? Give China a source license!
I'm still waiting for the indictment, but I'm not holding my breath.
I can vouch for this. I haven't fenced in about 20 years, and it took about half of the first match that I watched for my "visual reflexes" to come back. Before that, I couldn't follow the action.
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But when a school board, which is a governmental body says "These books are banned" (note that banned is *your* word), then that's a First Amendment violation.
To expand your arugment, suppose, hypothetically, that the majority in your town were Zoroastrians. They decided to ban Christianity within the town. But that's OK, because you can go somewhere else to worship.
What's the difference?
I don't see it as a 1st ammendment issue as all those banned books are still available -- just no public moneies are spent on them.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
(emphasis mine). Note that the 14th Amendment extended such bans to all local government.
Wolf? I'd kill for a name like that. My name is 10 characters long, and ends in a series of four consecutive consonants.
I'd use phonetic alphabet, but when I try to use "Sierra" for "S", I get, "Huh?"
So I just end it by saying...
Esss [long pause] Sssseeee [long pause] Aitch [long pause] Ellllllluh
They then read it back, correctly, but they must decide I was wrong, because any further correspondence regarding the matter is always misspelled.
No, SCOX will be in EVERY SINGLE business school textbook, as a negative example.
In addition, SCO v. IBM will be in every law school textbook as examples of the right way (IBM) and the wrong way (SCO) to handle a lawsuit.
What grade did an answer of "Why Not?" get?
Everyone: Any person currently employed by SCOX, plus Ms. Didio and Mr. Enderle.
It would be interesting to see if this kind of action buys good will from the IBM shareholders towards the current IBM management.
It should. If they had bought out SCOX, then any 2-bit company would see that they could possibly get big money by suing IBM and hoping to be bought out so they would go away.
This way, SCOX is a dead as Carthage, its field sown with salt, etc... Nobody is going to try a nuisance suit like this against IBM for a long, long time...
I think that will make the shareholders very happy, with lots of good will towards the current IBM management.
Basically, they're feigning surprise that this is an issue, complaining that they need more discovery, and trying to say that they haven't had time to properly prepare for this because it could take 25,000 man hours.
25,000 man YEARS.
IBM had a nice zinger (pg. 34 of IBM's Redacted Reply Memorandum In Further Support of its Cross Motion For Partial Summary Judgment on its Claim for Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement):
"Under SCO's view of what is required to review source code, it would take
14 million man-years to review this additional code." [referring to the AIX and Dynix code SCOX wants].
It took us 25 years to build our business and it took [IBM] four years simply by stealing code and then giving it away free. (emphasis mine).
This sounds an awful lot like slander or libel. And Mr. O'Shaughnessy has done it in a place with UK style libel laws. Not very bright, IMNALO (in my not-a-lawyer opinion).
Also read tEoE many years ago. And its horrible the way he tried to join the Robot series, Foundation Series, and tEoE all together in "Foundation's Edge" and "Foundation and Earth".
What is this obsession that many authors have with trying to put all their disparate universes together?
Obviously it's per 12 Parsecs!
Yeah, but my daughter is busy admiring herself in it right now.
Notepad is essentially a menu and window frame around a basic Windows multiline Edit Control.
In the DOS based Windows (95, 98, and Me), the maximum text that can be entered in such a control is 32K (signed 16 bit int).
In the NT based Windows, the edit control can handle 2GB of text (signed 32 bit int).
So NT/2K/XP Notepad actually does have a limit, but the odds are against you hitting it.
What is this "outdoor" of which you speak? Is it where the legendary "daystar" or "yellow face" lives?
it appears to be the calculus of the loon.
So it's worth about $1CDN?
My comment to the blog was something along those lines. Specifically, that they should support older paradigms.
It seems that whenever MS "gets religion" w.r.t. a new methodology, they drop all the other "blasphemous" models like a rock.
For example, at a previous job, we came out of the embedded world, and had to start writing win32 apps. These were non-web-enabled standalone apps (had to be, for various reasons). Unfortunately, this was right around the time that MS had gotten the "3-tier, web enabled app" religion. So it was difficult to find info that we needed.
wouldn't they be admitting that they lied to the court during their antitrust trial?
They've already implicitly done that. Remember that one of the execs (Allchin?) said that releasing the source to Windows would endanger national security. So what do they do next? Give China a source license!
I'm still waiting for the indictment, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, but Ellen Feiss isn't there!
My wife commented that the guys in Beach Volleyball get to wear tank tops and baggy trunks, but the women have to wear skimpy bikinis.
Totally OT, but what happened to those hooded, full body suits that the sprinters wore in Sydney?
I can vouch for this. I haven't fenced in about 20 years, and it took about half of the first match that I watched for my "visual reflexes" to come back. Before that, I couldn't follow the action.
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Luca$ ha$ excellent rea$on$ for making $uch a trilogy. After all, he ha$ $uch a large $tory to tell....
OK... you win! I need a new keyboard after that!
I live in L.A. After the 1994 Northridge quake, I remember looking up and being stunned by how many stars I could see (at 0445 PST).
No, the materials in the capsule -- particularly the velcro -- burned hot and fast in the pure 02 environment of Apollow.