Most laws don't apply to the US Government, for instance various environmental laws do not apply (thus why the uS Government is the largest polluter in the US, by several orders of magnitude).
Of course, buying a run-of-the mill car is no guarantee. There is a class of thief who specializes in stealing Camrys, Accords, Chevy Malibus, and other similarly unattractive cars that no one would buy unless forced to. There are a couple of reasons for the thief to specialize in these:
Many on the road. If someone reports a green Camry stolen, it's not like you can really put the cops on alert for such a vehicle.
Large market for parts. This thief will quickly sell the car to a chop shop which likes the idea that, based on the number of cars out there, somebody will be willing to buy a hugely discounted part for their car.
However, RICO applies to officers of the company. So while they would be insulated from a normal lawsuit, there's no such insulation from RICO; ie the officers of the company could have any asset of their's confiscated by the courts.
How is the parent post "Funny"? There's nothing funny about RICO (the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations act). By suing under this act, the people who PanIP have sued can get triple damages from the officers of PanIP and seize assets, freeze accounts and do all sorts of other kinds of nifty financial punishments. They could also try for criminal charges under RICO and have the officers of PanIP jailed.
That's no excuse for braindead design. It's only an excuse for not changing it.
One of the ten commandments of web design (if it's not, it should be): Thou shalt not use absolute links when relative links will do
I hate to throw in Perl flamebait, but this is what tends to happen when Perl hackers design anything large-scale: ad hoc hacks will become so entrenched that the design will break and be impossible to fix without starting over.
It's possible to write horrible code in any language, and some of my favorites (PHP, bash, C/C++) are guilty of this. But Perl is the exceptional case: only in Perl, it seems, are ugly hacks considered objets d'excellence for the community to strive to. C coders may look at the sheer ugliness of Duff's Device and applaud the intimate knowledge of syntax and even recognize that it's more efficient, but they know not to use it, except when absolutely necessary.
The mindset that Perl encourages is that there's no right way to do something, which results in a nightmare when anything disturbs the design.
... but you listened to them for Jason's bass playing? Kirk, Lars and James are the core talent behind Metallica -- not to mention the only three original members. Don't forget that Jason was just Cliff Burton's replacement after his death.
The following people have been members of Metallica at one time or another (I'm not including people who played with the band for only a few concerts as guests, or James' guitar tech who played his parts after the Montreal incident):
Lloyd Grant: lead guitarist on the original demo
Ron McGovney: bassist; friend of James Hetfield from high school; beame a bassist in a string of LA-area punk bands after being kicked out.
Jef Warner: rhythm/lead guitarist; at this time, Metallica was a 5-piece band and James Hetfield only did vocals (at various points between 1981 and 1985, James Hetfield was not confident of his ability to play rhythm and sing at the same time, so various people were brought in to either sing or play rhythm)
Dave Mustaine: lead guitarist; kicked out just prior to recording Kill 'Em All; would later found Megadeth; Mustaine has since made up with Lars, Kirk, and Jason and has often talked of wanting to do a reunion show/tour, with Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson taking over the bass duties.
Cliff Burton: bassist; some have referred to Cliff as the Jimi Hendrix of bass; due to his unique skills, several songs from the first three albums have yet to be played live and probably never will be, including, alas, the majestic "Orion".
Jason Newsted didn't contribute much to the music; in about half the songs recorded in his tenure, the bass is virtually inaudible, and most of the remaining songs simpl feature Jason doubling James' riff. Jason, however, being a fan of Metallica became the member who was the most into hanging out with the fans. After every concert, you could hang out with Jason. In concert, he was the energy on stage. "Creeping Death" will never be the same without Jason's "DIE DIE DIE DIE FUCKER!" chant during the "Die by my hand..." section.
The only member that Metallica couldn't survive without, imho, is James Hetfield; his lyrics, voice, and riffs are probably the soul of the band. Lars' drumming is nothing to write home about, though he generally gets into a good groove with James (who is basically the creative center of the band). Kirk's solos are written half the time by James and embellished by Kirk.
Nirvana's minor-key power chording ruled the day. No solos, no exotic scales, nothing.
Minor-key power chords are a major part of a lot of metal bands, and not just inside the thrash/speed subgenres.
Also, it's interesting to note that quite a few early 90's bands (notably Soundgarden and AIC) were much more metal than alternative, but the record industry decided that each and every rock band from Seattle was a grunge band like Nirvana.
Of course, METAL WILL MAKE A COMEBACK THIS SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Punk and metal are both subcultures which consider themselves to be outsiders but have both developed fairly rigid (and sometimes contradictory) musical and sociological codes, with artists and fans judged to some extent on how much they stay within the codes.
Metallica, for instance, is reviled for being perceived as having broken the metal code (some portions of which they revised and extended in the 80's) with the Loads.
...to see a successful fork of Linux progress to another version, especially now that IPTables has been ported over. The pairing of iptables with the PC-DOS derived TCP/IP stack makes OpenBSD a strong choice for any application, IMHO, especially if the daily announcement of a remote root exploit doesn't deter you.
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MySQL is faster in really only one particular case: lots of SELECTs with few UPDATE/INSERT/DELETEs. Many applications have orders of magnitude more SELECTs than other queries (I'd guesstimate that Slashdot books at least two orders of magnitude more SELECTs). Nothing beats MySQL in that environment, and there are a lot of apps where that's all that's needed (think CMS's and other such things).
While the GPL is arguably more appropriate for public funded software development than licenses that lend themselves to proprietarization
I would say that the license that gives the most freedom is the license that publically funded development should have. Guess what: that license is not the GPL (though you could easily create your own GPL'd fork of a BSDL'd project... it's identical as far as the BSD license is concerned to proprietary licensing)
Seriously, when are people going to learn that short usernames with the username as the password are a bad idea? Maybe the US should bomb everybody whose email is stupidly secured like that?
Much like H***er went after the easily-sold-out Czechoslovakia and Poland first; to gain cheap, easy victories for his troops, so goeth the record companies after the easily-thwarted corps.
It's not widely known, but the art of scheduling opponents is very similar in both NCAA football and international affairs.
In Hitler's case, he scheduled a few pansies in the early part of the season. Czechoslovakia and Poland were Division I-AA. The Netherlands and Belgium were lower Division I-A schools, from the weak Benelux conference (so weak, it doesn't even participate in the BCS!). His first test was the mid-October homecoming game against a highly rated French team and their vaunted "Maginot Line" 5 man defensive front. The French defensive coordinators made a further critical error in gameplanning that the Germans would just run the ball up the middle, so they utilized 10 men in the box throughout, letting the Germans use sweep plays and sideline passes to move the ball at will.
After Homecoming, though, Germany scheduled a brutal series of games against Russia and Britain. A seemingly endless series of long bombs to test the British secondary failed to do much of anything, but the British couldn't make any headway moving the ball on their own. That game ended in a 0-0 tie.
Against Russia, Germany built up a massive first half lead and the game seemed well in hand. With this, they confidently scheduled a December game with major BCS implications, against a very well-rested and deep US squad. The Russians mounted an effective ball control offense with a very effective defense in the second half and, despite devastating injuries, did nothing but push the Germans back and score at will.
Either you like the old stuff and realize that the new stuff is mostly cover songs and re-hashed old stuff or you like the new stuff.
I'm in both camps, sort of. I prefer the pre-Black albums to anything (at least as far as original studio albums) that came since, but I think Black is their worst (the few compalints one could have about the earlier albums are atill around, and a large portion of the Loads' issues are present as well).
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It just takes seven minutes for the THC to kick in, man...
Most laws don't apply to the US Government, for instance various environmental laws do not apply (thus why the uS Government is the largest polluter in the US, by several orders of magnitude).
Of course, buying a run-of-the mill car is no guarantee. There is a class of thief who specializes in stealing Camrys, Accords, Chevy Malibus, and other similarly unattractive cars that no one would buy unless forced to. There are a couple of reasons for the thief to specialize in these:
However, RICO applies to officers of the company. So while they would be insulated from a normal lawsuit, there's no such insulation from RICO; ie the officers of the company could have any asset of their's confiscated by the courts.
WTF?
How is the parent post "Funny"? There's nothing funny about RICO (the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations act). By suing under this act, the people who PanIP have sued can get triple damages from the officers of PanIP and seize assets, freeze accounts and do all sorts of other kinds of nifty financial punishments. They could also try for criminal charges under RICO and have the officers of PanIP jailed.
That's no excuse for braindead design. It's only an excuse for not changing it.
One of the ten commandments of web design (if it's not, it should be): Thou shalt not use absolute links when relative links will do
I hate to throw in Perl flamebait, but this is what tends to happen when Perl hackers design anything large-scale: ad hoc hacks will become so entrenched that the design will break and be impossible to fix without starting over.
It's possible to write horrible code in any language, and some of my favorites (PHP, bash, C/C++) are guilty of this. But Perl is the exceptional case: only in Perl, it seems, are ugly hacks considered objets d'excellence for the community to strive to. C coders may look at the sheer ugliness of Duff's Device and applaud the intimate knowledge of syntax and even recognize that it's more efficient, but they know not to use it, except when absolutely necessary.
The mindset that Perl encourages is that there's no right way to do something, which results in a nightmare when anything disturbs the design.
...would consider HTML and CSS to be development...
The following people have been members of Metallica at one time or another (I'm not including people who played with the band for only a few concerts as guests, or James' guitar tech who played his parts after the Montreal incident):
Jason Newsted didn't contribute much to the music; in about half the songs recorded in his tenure, the bass is virtually inaudible, and most of the remaining songs simpl feature Jason doubling James' riff. Jason, however, being a fan of Metallica became the member who was the most into hanging out with the fans. After every concert, you could hang out with Jason. In concert, he was the energy on stage. "Creeping Death" will never be the same without Jason's "DIE DIE DIE DIE FUCKER!" chant during the "Die by my hand..." section.
The only member that Metallica couldn't survive without, imho, is James Hetfield; his lyrics, voice, and riffs are probably the soul of the band. Lars' drumming is nothing to write home about, though he generally gets into a good groove with James (who is basically the creative center of the band). Kirk's solos are written half the time by James and embellished by Kirk.
Somebody on Sympatico was being such an ass when a ChanOp had a bad day, managed to get a different IP, so anything from Sympatico was blocked.
Hmmm... banning subnets... where have we heard that before?
True, I had forgotten that little detail... still, most metal guitar is either power chord or minor key based.
/me smacks head...
Minor-key power chords are a major part of a lot of metal bands, and not just inside the thrash/speed subgenres.
Also, it's interesting to note that quite a few early 90's bands (notably Soundgarden and AIC) were much more metal than alternative, but the record industry decided that each and every rock band from Seattle was a grunge band like Nirvana.
Of course, METAL WILL MAKE A COMEBACK THIS SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Punk and metal are both subcultures which consider themselves to be outsiders but have both developed fairly rigid (and sometimes contradictory) musical and sociological codes, with artists and fans judged to some extent on how much they stay within the codes.
Metallica, for instance, is reviled for being perceived as having broken the metal code (some portions of which they revised and extended in the 80's) with the Loads.
...to see a successful fork of Linux progress to another version, especially now that IPTables has been ported over. The pairing of iptables with the PC-DOS derived TCP/IP stack makes OpenBSD a strong choice for any application, IMHO, especially if the daily announcement of a remote root exploit doesn't deter you.
MySQL is faster in really only one particular case: lots of SELECTs with few UPDATE/INSERT/DELETEs. Many applications have orders of magnitude more SELECTs than other queries (I'd guesstimate that Slashdot books at least two orders of magnitude more SELECTs). Nothing beats MySQL in that environment, and there are a lot of apps where that's all that's needed (think CMS's and other such things).
Doesn't Google run off of a huge Excel spreadsheet?
Yeah, UMass uses C&W and their network consistently dies.
I would say that the license that gives the most freedom is the license that publically funded development should have. Guess what: that license is not the GPL (though you could easily create your own GPL'd fork of a BSDL'd project... it's identical as far as the BSD license is concerned to proprietary licensing)
There's a reason qmail's not listed: it's not Free Software!
Hack inbox for great justice
Seriously, when are people going to learn that short usernames with the username as the password are a bad idea? Maybe the US should bomb everybody whose email is stupidly secured like that?
You mean to say that Debian was slow to put GNOME2 in their distro? I'm so surprised.
As an addendum, the Germans failed to even qualify for the Stolichnaya-John Deere World Domination Bowl.
It's not widely known, but the art of scheduling opponents is very similar in both NCAA football and international affairs.
In Hitler's case, he scheduled a few pansies in the early part of the season. Czechoslovakia and Poland were Division I-AA. The Netherlands and Belgium were lower Division I-A schools, from the weak Benelux conference (so weak, it doesn't even participate in the BCS!). His first test was the mid-October homecoming game against a highly rated French team and their vaunted "Maginot Line" 5 man defensive front. The French defensive coordinators made a further critical error in gameplanning that the Germans would just run the ball up the middle, so they utilized 10 men in the box throughout, letting the Germans use sweep plays and sideline passes to move the ball at will. After Homecoming, though, Germany scheduled a brutal series of games against Russia and Britain. A seemingly endless series of long bombs to test the British secondary failed to do much of anything, but the British couldn't make any headway moving the ball on their own. That game ended in a 0-0 tie. Against Russia, Germany built up a massive first half lead and the game seemed well in hand. With this, they confidently scheduled a December game with major BCS implications, against a very well-rested and deep US squad. The Russians mounted an effective ball control offense with a very effective defense in the second half and, despite devastating injuries, did nothing but push the Germans back and score at will.
Jack Valenti's not a lawyer. He's an advsier (or maybe a speechwriter?) from the Johnson Administration.
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I'm in both camps, sort of. I prefer the pre-Black albums to anything (at least as far as original studio albums) that came since, but I think Black is their worst (the few compalints one could have about the earlier albums are atill around, and a large portion of the Loads' issues are present as well).