Though.. it would be kind of fun to go to the house floor and totally go off on some of the absolute stupidity in DC. Like making every day a freaking holiday
Doesn't work. Or at least it doesn't work if you've got RICO violations in your past. See... Trafficant. No fun in Congress. (At least not if you're a felon).
I think that in this case he was using "Greedy" as an adjective on "Capitalist", rather than as one term: "Greedy Capitalist".
BTW: You're right, success does not an evil greedy capitalist make. In capitalisim, Competition is sacrosanct. He's an evil, greedy capitalist for manipulating the market to quash competition.
I'm really surprised there was no legal recourse for the company involved since it was, at least in some sense, abuse of their property (the domain name) and probably their trademark.
In this case, however, is wan't like you would REASONABLLY expect Ford to own the associated domain. 2600 bought it, it was theirs to do with as they pleased. IMHO, of course.
The most recent add for the Twin Towers (At the end of FotR) has the soundtrack from FotR.
OK, normally I wouldn't nitpick to this level, but the movie is "The Two Towers". The only reason I'm nitpicking is that there are groups who want to change the name of the movie because they feel it is a reference to 9-11, even though the book of the same name was written > 50 yrs ago.
You know, now that you mention it, I bet you could fight quite a long time on 40Bln. Just think: No command structure already in place, no hundreds of years of tradition to maintain, no obsession with maintaining high-powered weapons you can't maintain but that none-the-less require a huge amount of upkeep and security.
Look at it this way: 1 trained merc for a few weeks: 10K 1 laser guided anti-tank missile: 1K Any tank on the battlefield today: Between 50M (very old) and 1Bln (M1A1)
Taking out said tank with said missile: Priceless.
Besides, without the political concerns of a government I bet they could be quite effective if ruthless.
I was greatly concerned to learn that the site on which your "Creation Education" article was posted is, in fact, running on a variant of the UNIX operating system (speciffically Linux, which is Open Source). As you correctly point out in your article, Open Source software is effectively another name for communisim. Also it uses the same "chmod" command which the "Darwin OSX" operating system uses to give access to files, and yes, the full access command is "chmod ***".
Given these facts, I am concerned that your advise may be tainted with the exposure to the influences you yourself claim to stand firm against.
(For information on the version of the operating system the computer is using, I reference this site: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=on&mode _w=on&site=members.truepath.com )
But it's not true in all cases. They can't kick you out because of your skin or religion, can they? Sure, it's a private business, but try to keep all people of a certan descent out of your store and see how long you last before you're in front of a nice judge.
I think the legal lines begin to blur around where a private enterprise can start deny individuals service.
A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work. or A share in the proceeds paid to an inventor or a proprietor for the right to use his or her invention or services.
Didn't you know? The RIAA invented music! It's only fair that they get half the royalties.
You know... I heard Bob Edwards mention this as one of the 30 second news bits on Morning Edition this morning.
Coincidince? Somehow I think not. It's outlets like that that bring news to the many users of Comcast who DON'T read slashdot and aren't geeks, but occasionally enjoy a little evil goat pr0n on the side. And they vote.
At my first real employer in technology, we were nice and up to date... 4mm DAT for all our backups.
Except... we interfaced with some companies in the healthcare industry. All of their data came in on 9-Track.
Everyone else had a great deal of difficulty making the tape drive read some of the various formats and work out the bpi and character formats on our flukey old 9-track drive... except me. I was the 9-Track Wizard. Give me the tape and I could get the data off. Reel bent in the mail? No problem. Cut tapes? Bring it on...
I even got the responsibility for blanking out the tapes. I had to write a nice little program to write prime numbers to the tapes in order to have some nice random data.
OK, I loved the movie. Very nice. They cut the right parts and I have no major bitches about the changes... save one:
Was anyone else pissed off when Gandalf was made to look like a bit of a tottering old fool? In general, for the first 20-30 minutes, but specifically hitting his head on the DOOR? I mean JINKIES! He's a bloody WIZARD, one of the most powerful beings in middle earth. I don't recall him hitting his head on a bloody DOOR in the book!
OK, end rant. Good movie. Go see it if you haven't.
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Engage Nitpick!
I think Rincewind and Cohen spent most of Interesting Times together, though.
Just remember, replacing your skeleton with titanium bones would add about 25kg to your weight, so go to the weight room for a few weeks and you'll be fine.
Now if you can find someone who will do the surgery, let me know.
What? You don't think we should follow Teller's idea and use H-Bombs (about 6 in the 20MT range, IIRC) to give Alaska a really kickass bay?
Also IIRC, isn't there still some controversy as to if it was really Teller's design for the Super? There was a fair ammount of evidence that the design was really Ulam's and Teller stole it, wasn't there?
Of course, IMHO, Teller is simply a nutbar, but that's just me. Atomics for civil engineering my arse!
When you do a test like this, you don't do it just to get the binary answer of "did it hit?" You want complete telemetry on both missiles to find out exactly what happened, what went right, what went wrong. That the seeker missile would get to take advantage of the telemetry would be ridiculous and a grand scandal.
But YOU know and I know that there were BILLIONS of dollars on the line and the only thing getting reported in the national media was "success" or "failure".
There are dozens of parts to a system like this. Quick: which ones were tested?
We don't know. We don't care. USA Today says "It's GOOD!" and we believe them.
I wouldn't put it past anyone to falsify these tests.
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Notwithstanding
notwithstanding Pronunciation Key (ntwth-stndng, -wth-)
prep.
In spite of: The teams played on, notwithstanding the rain.
adv.
All the same; nevertheless: We proceeded, notwithstanding.
conj.
In spite of the fact that; although.
IN SPITE OF any other federal or state laws, they can do what they like.
Oh, and they can delete any file they want if it is "necessary" to prevent you from trading their copyrighted files.
Yes, it REALLY is that bad.
Though.. it would be kind of fun to go to the house floor and totally go off on some of the absolute stupidity in DC. Like making every day a freaking holiday
Doesn't work. Or at least it doesn't work if you've got RICO violations in your past. See... Trafficant. No fun in Congress. (At least not if you're a felon).
I think that in this case he was using "Greedy" as an adjective on "Capitalist", rather than as one term: "Greedy Capitalist".
BTW: You're right, success does not an evil greedy capitalist make. In capitalisim, Competition is sacrosanct. He's an evil, greedy capitalist for manipulating the market to quash competition.
I'm really surprised there was no legal recourse for the company involved since it was, at least in some sense, abuse of their property (the domain name) and probably their trademark.
In this case, however, is wan't like you would REASONABLLY expect Ford to own the associated domain. 2600 bought it, it was theirs to do with as they pleased. IMHO, of course.
The most recent add for the Twin Towers (At the end of FotR) has the soundtrack from FotR.
OK, normally I wouldn't nitpick to this level, but the movie is "The Two Towers". The only reason I'm nitpicking is that there are groups who want to change the name of the movie because they feel it is a reference to 9-11, even though the book of the same name was written > 50 yrs ago.
You know, now that you mention it, I bet you could fight quite a long time on 40Bln. Just think: No command structure already in place, no hundreds of years of tradition to maintain, no obsession with maintaining high-powered weapons you can't maintain but that none-the-less require a huge amount of upkeep and security.
Look at it this way:
1 trained merc for a few weeks: 10K
1 laser guided anti-tank missile: 1K
Any tank on the battlefield today: Between 50M (very old) and 1Bln (M1A1)
Taking out said tank with said missile: Priceless.
Besides, without the political concerns of a government I bet they could be quite effective if ruthless.
But then isn't RadLite an Ad-Aware circumvention device?
My brain hurts.
According to the article, it was download from Download.COM > 750K times before they took it off the site.
Too bad, though. Here's what I tried to send:
e _w=on&site=members.truepath.com
From:
To: drdinosaur@covenant.org
I was greatly concerned to learn that the site on
which your "Creation Education" article was posted is,
in fact, running on a variant of the UNIX operating
system (speciffically Linux, which is Open Source).
As you correctly point out in your article, Open
Source software is effectively another name for
communisim. Also it uses the same "chmod" command
which the "Darwin OSX" operating system uses to give
access to files, and yes, the full access command is
"chmod ***".
Given these facts, I am concerned that your advise may
be tainted with the exposure to the influences you
yourself claim to stand firm against.
(For information on the version of the operating
system the computer is using, I reference this site: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=on&mod
)
* I refuse to type the Number of the Beast.
Regards.
You know, Douglass Adams is probably rolling over in his grave.
But it's not true in all cases. They can't kick you out because of your skin or religion, can they? Sure, it's a private business, but try to keep all people of a certan descent out of your store and see how long you last before you're in front of a nice judge.
I think the legal lines begin to blur around where a private enterprise can start deny individuals service.
What? You mean these definitions?
A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work.
or
A share in the proceeds paid to an inventor or a proprietor for the right to use his or her invention or services.
Didn't you know? The RIAA invented music! It's only fair that they get half the royalties.
You know... I heard Bob Edwards mention this as one of the 30 second news bits on Morning Edition this morning.
Coincidince? Somehow I think not. It's outlets like that that bring news to the many users of Comcast who DON'T read slashdot and aren't geeks, but occasionally enjoy a little evil goat pr0n on the side. And they vote.
(Nitpick meter reads 1 mini-pick...)
copyrighted CD == good, fine. It's always been this way.
copy-PROTECTED CD == bad, evil, noncompliant, freedom reducing.
Secret chuckle? Heck no...
Maniacal laughter, yes.
Oh, and a phone call to my Senator. I want an orbital laser!
Wow... This brings back the memories.
At my first real employer in technology, we were nice and up to date... 4mm DAT for all our backups.
Except... we interfaced with some companies in the healthcare industry. All of their data came in on 9-Track.
Everyone else had a great deal of difficulty making the tape drive read some of the various formats and work out the bpi and character formats on our flukey old 9-track drive... except me. I was the 9-Track Wizard. Give me the tape and I could get the data off. Reel bent in the mail? No problem. Cut tapes? Bring it on...
I even got the responsibility for blanking out the tapes. I had to write a nice little program to write prime numbers to the tapes in order to have some nice random data.
Ah, those were the days, years ago. All gone now.
I'll miss you, little 9-track.
*sniff*
OK, I loved the movie. Very nice. They cut the right parts and I have no major bitches about the changes... save one:
Was anyone else pissed off when Gandalf was made to look like a bit of a tottering old fool? In general, for the first 20-30 minutes, but specifically hitting his head on the DOOR? I mean JINKIES! He's a bloody WIZARD, one of the most powerful beings in middle earth. I don't recall him hitting his head on a bloody DOOR in the book!
OK, end rant. Good movie. Go see it if you haven't.
Engage Nitpick!
I think Rincewind and Cohen spent most of Interesting Times together, though.
Just remember, replacing your skeleton with titanium bones would add about 25kg to your weight, so go to the weight room for a few weeks and you'll be fine.
Now if you can find someone who will do the surgery, let me know.
If the situation were reversed, MIT wouldn't stand to make billions off the stolen tech.
What? You don't think we should follow Teller's idea and use H-Bombs (about 6 in the 20MT range, IIRC) to give Alaska a really kickass bay?
Also IIRC, isn't there still some controversy as to if it was really Teller's design for the Super? There was a fair ammount of evidence that the design was really Ulam's and Teller stole it, wasn't there?
Of course, IMHO, Teller is simply a nutbar, but that's just me. Atomics for civil engineering my arse!
Eh? I prefered Cowboy Beebop's script to The Matrix!
:-)
Hell, at even Digi Charat was more internally consistent!
Why not a completely dummied up program? It's happened to me. None of the real code was demoed.
Worst Part? They then made me turn the "Demo Code" into the real product. Ouchie. So much for "design" or "testing".
When you do a test like this, you don't do it just to get the binary answer of "did it hit?" You want complete telemetry on both missiles to find out exactly what happened, what went right, what went wrong. That the seeker missile would get to take advantage of the telemetry would be ridiculous and a grand scandal.
But YOU know and I know that there were BILLIONS of dollars on the line and the only thing getting reported in the national media was "success" or "failure".
There are dozens of parts to a system like this. Quick: which ones were tested?
We don't know. We don't care. USA Today says "It's GOOD!" and we believe them.
I wouldn't put it past anyone to falsify these tests.
No, he really goes off on the off-clock machines.
As long as even one of these clockless machines remains up and running, Code Red will start over on the first of every month. Forever.
I don't know WHERE he gets that idea. As long as ANY machines still have the work and ANY machines remaine unhardened, we'll still have this problem.
BAD JOURNALIST! NO BISCUIT!