Followed by Episode VIII: The Revenge of the Jedi Striking Back. When the ghost of Anikan Skywalker realizes that he wasn't really the father of Luke and Leia after all. "I find your lack of geneology.. disturbing."
Someone on my floor has a very enlightened attitude. When throwing out computer stuff, they leave it in the garbage chute room. (Normally a no-no. Stuff has to go down the chute or in the dumsters out-back.)
I picked up a moniter and a nice keyboard a few months ago. They go well with the 486/66 that work was throwing out a couple years ago. (Actually I picked up two of them.)
Last week there was an Epson printer, but I was in a hurry, and didn't have time to look at it. I might have taken it, and replaced it with my HP Deskjet 500.:^)
I said punch card database. Just because the data is on punch cards in file cabinets, doesn't mean it's not a database.
IBM had all sorts of machines for selecting, sorting cards by fields. It made for "efficent" handling of personal data. Primative by todays standards, it was wizzbang stuff back then. (And IBM did a shell game to allow IBM Germany to keep operating during the war.)
I saw stills of some of these . . . a guy riding a six-legged beastie (thark?). Kind of stylish and simple, not the lurid Frazetta type art that people seem to envision when ERB stories are mentioned.
No, not thark, thoat. Tharks were something else. Ask Deep Thoat.
Never mind the knockers (topless dresses). She lays eggs! And those eggs grow over several months. Hell green martians eggs grow over several years. How do they do that?!
Sure, we have no genetic background on John Carter, he doesn't remember his childhood, just back to the Civil War as the same age, and does his Captain Trips trips to Barsoom.
I supose he could be a barsoomian, but he's got that Earthling Strength attribute that he passes on to Carthoras, Tavia, and Llana, etc. Are eggs in his gene code? Cluck-cluck!
Theoretically twelve. I've seen twelve in the late seventies. However the twelfth book has three-legged martian rats, and that just doesn't jib with the other books. And the style doesn't match. (ERB was harder to match than LRH for ghost writers padding out the text.)
Gods, I could pull out the SPI game manuals for John Carter, Warlord of Mars. Those were written by a real fanatic!
I don't think any of the Barsoon novels had horrid sidekicks. PanDanChee, TorDuBar, many others?
Granted they had testosterone bonding problems... "You fight good, I would like to die for you and 'cause you jump so well John Carter! You crazy fighting man, and I have hots for your daughter Tara!"
Nobody in Hollywoodland (what the sign originally said) can fence, they almost all do Flynning. Errol Flynn was so inept at swords, they invented a beat--beat--beat-beat-beat move that Errol could actually remember and not stick his co-actor with. Hollywoodland has used it ever since for sword fights. (Possibly even in Star Trek:OS Day of the Dove.) A sword move invented for a boozy nazi-symp.
I loved the Barsoomian role-playing game, where it had a bad social-interaction roll where you spilled your ice-cream down the front of a princesses's dress. (Then explained in small type that Barsoomian princesses have topless gowns. Tsk, don't be such a calot!)
This thread is completely off topic because this is Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom rather than H.G. Wells' sneezy Mars, or Ray Bradbury's kind-of-weird Mars, Total Recall Mars, etc.
In Amereica you are assumed innocent. (At least that was the ideal, in the dim and distant past.) The publisher can file with a court just as quickly as they can fire off a letter under DMCA. Why go with DMCA? Because "ISPs" can't levy fines for frivolous claims. Meanwhile, the DMCA lawyer can force a victim to pay legal fees (effectively a large fine) with no legal recourse for the victim.
The problem of Websites, ISPs and copyright was a bit grey before DMCA. If there was a copyright violation, who was responsible: The ISP or the person who owned the website. Now the ISP can bow out of the way, and the two parties truely involved can duke it out.
The first major problem with the DMCA is that frivilous SLAPP claims of copyright violation can be made, and the ISP still has to follow the same procedure of taking the site down until a counter-claim can be made. Once claim and counter-claim have been made, it should proceed as before in civil-court. (I'm not sure if the claiming party has to make a copyright challenge at this point. There is the penalty for perjury, but the counter-claimer would have to get the claimer in court to prove that -- a costly affair, especially against a party with deep-pockets and a history of dragging court cases out over a decade. (Like $cientology.) Also there is the possibility of "Smurf" attacks: many multiple legal actions against the counter claimer. ($cientology used this tactic to bankrupt the old Cult Awareness Network. $cientology now mans the phones and files of the New CAN.) Under the DMCA, since the counter-claimer is presumed guilty to begin with, they can either fold or risk a long legal campaign.
The elected officials who approved this law obviously never read the full text and thought about the problems. They saw the Power Point presentation, and in their Pointy Haired Politicianess, saw that it was a Good Thing -- It is strong and promtes growth! Idiots!
What needs to be done is to challenge one of these copyright claims (where it is clearly wrong), thrash the bastards in court, collect damages, and slap their pee-pee with a perjury charge. *sigh* And my young piglets are starting to try out their wings over the ice of the seventh circle of hell.
/me looks at Delphi 6 icon on my desktop /me scratches head.
Granted Turbo Pascal/Delphi hasn't been anywhere close to the original standard from the begining. Turbo Pascal 2 ($49) was a godsend back when we were messing around with junk like Whitesmith C ($500). I forget when Turbo Pascal got objects, but I'm pretty sure it was before the first practical C++ compilers were available. (Zortech, etc)
That's one reason I'm going to take a look at C#. Anders was the architect behind Turbo Pascal/Delphi, and the delevopment environment always fit me like a glove.
The only problem is that the owner of Xenu.net isn't an American. He could submit a counter-claim, but that would mean that he would be putting himself under an American court. Since $cientology will spend millions to ruin a single critic, dragging him into a pointless expensive court case in another country would be perfect for them.
$cientology has blustered about suing Andreas Heldal-Lund for years, but has never dared do in Norway. So now they're going after the "weakest link" of American Google with that idiotic DMCA.
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Appartently they're already connected somewhere in the Netherlands. (Like it's not as if they didn't have time to prepare. :^(
Don't forget Larry Niven's classic essay of Superman's sex life.
"Apology accepted, JarJar Binks"
You realize that Lucus' attack-lawyers are now going to come'in gitchya for that fan fic?
I suppose it could give a motive for my original idea which was a multiple lightsabre slash fragging.
I picked up a moniter and a nice keyboard a few months ago. They go well with the 486/66 that work was throwing out a couple years ago. (Actually I picked up two of them.)
Last week there was an Epson printer, but I was in a hurry, and didn't have time to look at it. I might have taken it, and replaced it with my HP Deskjet 500. :^)
I'm hoping for a 17" monitor next!
Thirty minutes into the first game, the computer will be Slashdotted. :^)
Oh I don't know, I wouldn't might seeing something wet and messy happening to JarJar in the first 10 seconds of the movie.
Loose change and CDs here. My musical taste is a bit odd, I wonder what happened when he traded them in for cash?
Hopefully you didn't just slashdot yourself!
IBM had all sorts of machines for selecting, sorting cards by fields. It made for "efficent" handling of personal data. Primative by todays standards, it was wizzbang stuff back then. (And IBM did a shell game to allow IBM Germany to keep operating during the war.)
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Hitler did do it. He used IBM equipment. Punch-card databses, but still.
What to do, what to do...
Hmm, power armour! Give that film to the Japanese!
No, not thark, thoat. Tharks were something else. Ask Deep Thoat.
Sure, we have no genetic background on John Carter, he doesn't remember his childhood, just back to the Civil War as the same age, and does his Captain Trips trips to Barsoom.
I supose he could be a barsoomian, but he's got that Earthling Strength attribute that he passes on to Carthoras, Tavia, and Llana, etc. Are eggs in his gene code? Cluck-cluck!
Gods, I could pull out the SPI game manuals for John Carter, Warlord of Mars. Those were written by a real fanatic!
Granted they had testosterone bonding problems... "You fight good, I would like to die for you and 'cause you jump so well John Carter! You crazy fighting man, and I have hots for your daughter Tara!"
Maybe the estate of Edgar Rice Burrough's hasn't had the senator fron Disney plugging their case until now. (Can't lose the mouse!)
Nobody in Hollywoodland (what the sign originally said) can fence, they almost all do Flynning. Errol Flynn was so inept at swords, they invented a beat--beat--beat-beat-beat move that Errol could actually remember and not stick his co-actor with. Hollywoodland has used it ever since for sword fights. (Possibly even in Star Trek:OS Day of the Dove.) A sword move invented for a boozy nazi-symp.
I loved the Barsoomian role-playing game, where it had a bad social-interaction roll where you spilled your ice-cream down the front of a princesses's dress. (Then explained in small type that Barsoomian princesses have topless gowns. Tsk, don't be such a calot!)
This thread is completely off topic because this is Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom rather than H.G. Wells' sneezy Mars, or Ray Bradbury's kind-of-weird Mars, Total Recall Mars, etc.
The problem of Websites, ISPs and copyright was a bit grey before DMCA. If there was a copyright violation, who was responsible: The ISP or the person who owned the website. Now the ISP can bow out of the way, and the two parties truely involved can duke it out.
The first major problem with the DMCA is that frivilous SLAPP claims of copyright violation can be made, and the ISP still has to follow the same procedure of taking the site down until a counter-claim can be made. Once claim and counter-claim have been made, it should proceed as before in civil-court. (I'm not sure if the claiming party has to make a copyright challenge at this point. There is the penalty for perjury, but the counter-claimer would have to get the claimer in court to prove that -- a costly affair, especially against a party with deep-pockets and a history of dragging court cases out over a decade. (Like $cientology.) Also there is the possibility of "Smurf" attacks: many multiple legal actions against the counter claimer. ($cientology used this tactic to bankrupt the old Cult Awareness Network. $cientology now mans the phones and files of the New CAN.) Under the DMCA, since the counter-claimer is presumed guilty to begin with, they can either fold or risk a long legal campaign.
The second major flaw in the DMCA, is that it subjects anyone in the world to US law. Granted that Google is an American company, and should be subject to the DMCA, but once they have stood aside, $cientology should have to go after xenu.net in Norway, which is its location (I think, might be Dutch) and the nationality of its owner. Under the DMCA, this is not the case. Any claimer and counter-claimer have to fight out the civil copyright case in an American court. That's insane! And it raises the bar even higher for ordinary people to fight deep pockets companies/cults which commit perjury to silence dissent. (As indeed $cientology has in this case. The xenuleaflet contains an entirely rewritten version of the story of Xenu and OT-III by roland.rashleigh-berry ©, with possibly a small fair-use of a section of Elron Hubbard's handwriting. There is no copyright on ideas.)
The elected officials who approved this law obviously never read the full text and thought about the problems. They saw the Power Point presentation, and in their Pointy Haired Politicianess, saw that it was a Good Thing -- It is strong and promtes growth! Idiots!
What needs to be done is to challenge one of these copyright claims (where it is clearly wrong), thrash the bastards in court, collect damages, and slap their pee-pee with a perjury charge. *sigh* And my young piglets are starting to try out their wings over the ice of the seventh circle of hell.
Of course, I might just keep using Delphi/Klyxx on Windows/Linux... :^)
Granted Turbo Pascal/Delphi hasn't been anywhere close to the original standard from the begining. Turbo Pascal 2 ($49) was a godsend back when we were messing around with junk like Whitesmith C ($500). I forget when Turbo Pascal got objects, but I'm pretty sure it was before the first practical C++ compilers were available. (Zortech, etc)
That's one reason I'm going to take a look at C#. Anders was the architect behind Turbo Pascal/Delphi, and the delevopment environment always fit me like a glove.
$cientology has blustered about suing Andreas Heldal-Lund for years, but has never dared do in Norway. So now they're going after the "weakest link" of American Google with that idiotic DMCA.
In fact, someone did a song dissing Avagrams. Hmm, hang on a sec...
Enturbulator 009 has a number songs poking fun at the Happy Fun Cult.