Now that he's available, I think Artur needs to make a visit to ASCAP HQ.
I am tired of the music industry behaving the way they have been. I hadn't realized until I read the article that they were after restaurants with televisions & such. The article implies that noone has ever really challenged them about this. This looks like another example of a disturbing pattern in the U.S. - if you have a lawyer to write scary letters, you are in the right unless the person getting the letters is also sitting on a pile of cash to hire his own lawyers.
*Something* needs to be done about the runaway legal system in the U.S. - this is out of control...
*(Something is kinda vague, I know... my suggestion would start with tar & feathers, tho)
ZD net is not the best example. I actually have very few problems connecting to them.
However: www.microsoft.com is another matter altogether - I can actually retreive a page maybe 3-5 out of 10 tries. And page loading is usually measured in *minutes*...
And no, it's not my ISP...I have no trouble with most other sites...microsoft is simply overloaded.
The big problem I have with IE killing Netscape relates to the monopoly position allowing M$ to undercut the competitors product via dumping. As I understand the anti-trust laws, one of the big things is when someone dumps the product below production cost in order to snag market share, typically with the intent to raise the price once the competition is dead.
At one point in time, M$ bragged that it had more people working on IE than Netscape had employees. The fact that they were giving it away for free seems to be a pretty good indication of dumping. Imagine Toyota was sitting on an enormous crapload of cash, and decided to sell all of their vehicles for $2,000.00 in the U.S. - how long do you think the government would stand for that? Obviously not very long...if they allowed it, the other automakers would be out of business fairly soon, allowing Toyota to go back to their regular over-inflated prices (and then some), with no competition to worry about anymore.
And - M$ *HAD* to say it was integral to the OS - they were under a consent decree about bundling already...without that ploy, they would have already been slapped on the wrist...but they managed to use the integration thing to drag it all out to the moot-point stage.
But I heard Uncle Tom's Cabin kinda stuff...the good old stereotype - blackface in early Hollywood, Steppenfetchit kind of language. Yes. Very Very disturbing...
Nope...Jake will not be back for EP2 - he's far too young. The movie will probably be shot in early 2000 - that would make him 11 or 12 - not suitable for a *Teenaged* Anakin. He was signed for 1 movie...
Natalie Portman, OTOH, was signed for 3 - Lucas chose her, in part, because she can play both younger and older characters...
I have seen several places out there that sell missile silos. In fact, I think http://www.missilebases.com is one that has a fairly large listing (yes, same link, but 1st level on the domain) It appears to be/.'ed at the moment, but give it a whack later. Here are a few more to get you started:
http://www.cklein.net/missilee.html - Be sure to check out the Titan...those are impressive... http://members.tripod.com/~kturnerga/silo.htm (rehabbing info)
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Now that he's available, I think Artur needs to make a visit to ASCAP HQ.
I am tired of the music industry behaving the way they have been. I hadn't realized until I read the article that they were after restaurants with televisions & such. The article implies that noone has ever really challenged them about this. This looks like another example of a disturbing pattern in the U.S. - if you have a lawyer to write scary letters, you are in the right unless the person getting the letters is also sitting on a pile of cash to hire his own lawyers.
*Something* needs to be done about the runaway legal system in the U.S. - this is out of control...
*(Something is kinda vague, I know... my suggestion would start with tar & feathers, tho)
ZD net is not the best example. I actually have very few problems connecting to them.
However: www.microsoft.com is another matter altogether - I can actually retreive a page maybe 3-5 out of 10 tries. And page loading is usually measured in *minutes*...
And no, it's not my ISP...I have no trouble with most other sites...microsoft is simply overloaded.
The big problem I have with IE killing Netscape relates to the monopoly position allowing M$ to undercut the competitors product via dumping. As I understand the anti-trust laws, one of the big things is when someone dumps the product below production cost in order to snag market share, typically with the intent to raise the price once the competition is dead.
At one point in time, M$ bragged that it had more people working on IE than Netscape had employees. The fact that they were giving it away for free seems to be a pretty good indication of dumping. Imagine Toyota was sitting on an enormous crapload of cash, and decided to sell all of their vehicles for $2,000.00 in the U.S. - how long do you think the government would stand for that? Obviously not very long...if they allowed it, the other automakers would be out of business fairly soon, allowing Toyota to go back to their regular over-inflated prices (and then some), with no competition to worry about anymore.
And - M$ *HAD* to say it was integral to the OS - they were under a consent decree about bundling already...without that ploy, they would have already been slapped on the wrist...but they managed to use the integration thing to drag it all out to the moot-point stage.
But I heard Uncle Tom's Cabin kinda stuff...the good old stereotype - blackface in early Hollywood, Steppenfetchit kind of language. Yes. Very Very disturbing...
I submitted this to /. a couple days ago...must not have made the cut:
The JarJar Binks Dancing Death Page!
The first page is the heaviest - the rest load faster... and yes, I need a hobby...
Nope...Jake will not be back for EP2 - he's far too young. The movie will probably be shot in early 2000 - that would make him 11 or 12 - not suitable for a *Teenaged* Anakin. He was signed for 1 movie...
Natalie Portman, OTOH, was signed for 3 - Lucas chose her, in part, because she can play both younger and older characters...
And I bet he's the evil genius behind this...ever since the end of his pitching career, well, I wondered what he was up to...I guess now I know
Damn funny April fools article, I thought...reminded me a lot of the Sidd Finch thing...
I have seen several places out there that sell missile silos. In fact, I think http://www.missilebases.com is one that has a fairly large listing (yes, same link, but 1st level on the domain) It appears to be /.'ed at the moment, but give it a whack later. Here are a few more to get you started:
http://www.cklein.net/missilee.html - Be sure to check out the Titan...those are impressive...
http://members.tripod.com/~kturnerga/silo.htm (rehabbing info)
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