Yes, which explains why the people who go to Mexico LIVE...for the most part (nothing is 100%). Quackwatch is nothing but FUD and a front for the medical industry. When it comes to cancer, those who can think for themselves will survive, those who don't will become statistics.
You can also bypass the pharmaceutical monopoly altogether and order vitamin B17 (also known as Laetrile) or better yet, change your diet and get it from natural foods. Vitamin B17 also targets only cancer cells.
In the land of the free, many people still go to Mexico to get these outlawed substances, with excellent results...though I will admit not perfect results.
You can also order it off the web. See www.vitaminb17.org (disclaimer: my web site)
Also, if I had cancer, Dr. Day's program, www.drday.com, would be at the top of my list of things to do.
Jay Banks www.roadtowellsville.com www.vitaminb17.or g
Hey, this was my idea and I have posted it twice
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because it was really good for Karma whoring!
This was originally posted to Slashdot on Wednesday June 04, 2003 by me. This was something I actually thought of and wrote myself, too.
----- Original Message ----- From: Darl McBride Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you) 2. 70% for us (The officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number (c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to (d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
FrankOlsonProject and watch the show named "Code Name Artichoke" on WorldLink TV channel
10.33 Also at Kransberg Castle: Some of the leading scientific experts in Nazi Germany had been involved in biological warfare, testing the effects of deadly germs on human beings in Dachau and other concentration camps. One of them was Professor Kurt Blome. Blome was the Third Reich's Deputy Surgeon General and the man behind German research into biological weapons.
10.55 Blome will be among those charged in the case against concentration camp doctors brought before the military tribunal in Nuremberg. He will face the death penalty.
11.07 In spite of the fact that there is enough evidence against him, Kurt Blome will be acquitted in Nuremberg. The Americans have other plans for him.
11.21 Voice of Professor Kurt Blome: Untertitel// Subtitles 1) I stated publicly and openly that I was a conscientious National Socialist...
2) and a follower of Adolf Hitler.
11.29 Voice of Norman Cournoyer "We were interested in anyone who did work in biological warfare. Did they want to use that? The Nazis? Yes, absolutely! They wanted to use anything that killed people. Anything!"
11.48 The Americans save Kurt Blome, seen here on the left, from death by hanging. In turn, he provides them with information about the Nazi biological weapons program. One of the specialists interrogating Blome is Donald Falconer, a friend and colleague of Frank Olson. Falconer is responsible for developing anthrax bombs.
12.12 Today, more than 50 years later, Donald Falconer lives in a convalescent home not far from Frederick.
It is funny the Australian group mentioned that it was like a Nigerian net scam. I got this e-mail from SCO quite some time ago:
----- Original Message ----- From: Darl McBride Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you) 2. 70% for us (The officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number (c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to (d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
It seems one of the initial reactions is that people have a hard time believing that people would take the time to photograph a 100 page magazine. However, probably what is going on is that people are photographing that either that one good article or that really hot babe in the latest swimsuit issue.
How many times have you bought a magazine that you would waste time copying it from cover to cover? If you go to the library and make copies out of a magazine, do you photograph the whole magazine? No, it's usually just a couple of pages.
I'm an avid magazine reader and purchase one to three magazines per month. From experience, I know that most magazines have only one or two good articles in them at most and the rest is just filler (sounds familiar, doesn't it?). With the price of magazines going as high as four to five bucks, if you can tell there is only a couple of good articles in the magazine, it is better to stand there in the store and read the articles...or in this case, photograph the article.
Also, for all the copy protection schemes in the works, everything published on paper is a circumvention device! It's kind of hilarious when you think about it. The only thing that doesn't OCR well is text published on different colored backgrounds, like a magazine article with the text featured over a background picture...but even with that, there is the option of typing it in by hand (acceptable solution for a short magazine article).
I can just about envision digital versions only because it will be easier to implement copy protection than it will with a POPC (Plain Old Paper Copy).
Last night I dreamed that I got Knoppix to boot on my alarm clock. And what a nightmare because it probably would have been much easier to get IntyOS going...
Mod me off topic, but damn it, I just had to share that.
And if the bands haven't figured it out yet, the resason P2P is so popular is because you can find that song you wanted without having to buy the whole album just for that song. If they start to make downloads just like physical CDs (i.e. you have to download all our songs just for the one hit) people will just continue to download from P2P. These bands need to wake up or they are going to burn and be replaced by bands that have a better understanding of what is going on.
I think in the end they are going to find that while a band might sell 500 thousand albums at $15.00-plus, they might sell 2 million of that one good song for.99 cents...and 1 million of that other song on the album that was pretty good. And then the die hard fans are still going to buy the whole thing, so they will make money off of the rest of the "filler," too.
Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn.
It's a sorry guess, especially when allowing a broader analysis of Mormon history than a single quote from 1863 whose context is questionable at best.
Sorry guess, I will agree. But regarding the Mormons and the Constitution and their plan to save America, I will stand behind that. I spent many years as an active member of the John Birch Society, of which a large percentage of its membership, especially in its leadership, is Mormons (with Catholic membership coming in a strong second). I have kind of lost contact with a lot of people, but I have first hand experience with the Mormons political views.
Why would anyone think Open Source is an attack on the U.S.? That's a pretty bogus thought in and of itself, but moreso in this case since YOU are the one who thought it up - there's nothing to even suggest that Mormons even think that.
Ask SCO that question. They are attacking Linus, Linux, and have made snide comments about pulling out of Linux because they believe in protecting IP, as if Linux was theft of IP!
The topic was the power behind the Canopy Group and SCO, both of which have Mormon connections, at least to the degree that other people noticed it enough to write an article about it. I for one don't see anything wrong with a discussion on it.
And as far as Open Source being an attack on the US, that is exactly how M$ is playing it, too. SCO seems to be making an ethics case against Open Source, as if it is all stolen.
It may be a leap, but I can see the Mormons taking a stand on what is obviously being played as an ethical situation (even though it isn't because people GPLed their work, which makes it 100% ethical).
I'm going to say up front that I haven't put a lot of thought into this...
But there really could be a Mormon angle to this. Mormons believe that the Constitution was "divinely inspired." They are very active politically because they believe that in the United States worst hour, they will be the group to save it. It could be, and again just speculation, that they think open source is somehow an attack on the United States.
Gerassi quotes Brigham Young's 1863 statement that "the time will come when we will give law to the nations of the earth" as indicating the scope of Mormon aspirations (p. 153). Mormon leadership knew "The Principle" was right because of revelation, and their view of the Constitution was equally inspired.
Although not focused on Mormons, other recent work may further amplify these issues of confronting a legal system run by apostates. Lauren Benton's Law and Colonial Cultures (New York, 2002) suggests that Muslims and Hindus successfully manipulated British legal regimens to their self-interest. Maria Montoya's Translating Property (Berkeley, 2002) similarly suggests the efficacy of multinational analysis in understanding why some ethnic "others" cope with colonial legal systems and others fail. In this light, Mormons were hardly unique.
What I REALLY wonder about is all the idiots buying SCO stock, and why it's still hovering around $10 as opposed to the 1 cent it's really worth.
I agree but I guess it is just people gambling. I would have said there was no way the guy who patented auctions done over a computer network would win against Ebay, and darned if he didn't get 35 million out of the deal. I haven't seen if Ebay has appealed or not but I would hope that guy was standing under SCO when IBM crushes them.
Usurper_ii
My e-mail response from SCO
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SCO SCO SCO!
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----- Original Message ----- From: Darl McBride Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you) 2. 70% for us (The officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number (c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to (d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
Your faithfully,
Darl McBride
SCO sues Linux for contractual violation w/ IBM
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SCO has now said it isn't an IP issue or a copyright issue, but a contractual issue. Since Linus had no contract with SCO, how could they sue him for an alleged contractual violation that happened between SCO and IBM?
And the same goes for anything IBM may have leaked, and note I'm not saying they did...but if they did break a contract, how can anyone using a Linux product using such code be held liable for a contractual violation done by IBM, again, when SCO has now said it is contractual issue and not an IP issue or a copyright issue.
On one hand I guess we can be glad SCO are such morons, but on the other hand, can you imagine releasing a press release saying the issue was never about IP or copyrights when they are running around screaming about suing everyone because Linux may have some of their IP in it!!!
Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn
SCO has now said it isn't an IP issue or a copyright issue, but a contractual issue. Since Linus had no contract with SCO, how could they sue him for an alleged contractual violation that happened between SCO and IBM?
And the same goes for anything IBM may have leaked, and note I'm not saying they did...but if they did break a contract, how can anyone using a Linux product using such code be held liable for a contractual violation done by IBM, again, when SCO has now said it is contractual issue and not an IP issue or a copyright issue.
On one hand I guess we can be glad SCO are such morons, but on the other hand, can you imagine releasing a press release saying the issue was never about IP or copyrights when they are running around screaming about suing everyone because Linux may have some of their IP in it!!!
Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn
I really like Smash Mouth but it is hard to believe the band that did Walking On The Son is the same band that did The Fonz and Flo! Man if I didn't feel like the Bugs Bunny cartoons where the guy's head turns into a jackass after I got home and stuck that in the CD player!
Back in the day when cell phones were mostly analog and scanners could still pick up conversations, I used to think about hooking up a cd player to a cell phone and broadcasting my own show so that all the people listening to conversations could listen to my "station." Heck, I know a lot of people that were listening to cell phone conversations back then, so I might of had more listeners than some of the AM stations in my town.
What might make me fork over some money is access to the stories/articls that people submit to/.
Given that most of the items allowed on/. come from news.com and wired.com -- or worse, dupes from these two sites -- I can't help but think that there is a wealth of good stuff that never sees the light of day around here. Not that what is posted is really bad, it is just that I think there is some really cool stuff that doesn't make it.
ROCHESTER, MN--Bacon, long believed to contribute to heart disease and obesity, possesses significant health benefits, according to a study released Monday by Dr. Albert Gruber, the best scientist ever. "My research has found that three strips of crispy, mouthwatering bacon every morning can actually reduce cholesterol and help slow the aging process," the awesome Gruber said. "What's more, the bacon's positive effects are enhanced when combined with milk shakes and/or marijuana." In 1997, Gruber, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, was awarded nine Nobel Prizes in Medicine for discovering that frequent oral sex with models cures cancer.
I never did understand why MS didn't buy out DESQview and work it into DOS. It was very stable and should have been the way DOS was designed from the ground up.
Back in the day, I used to run a two node BBS out of DOS using DESQview to start multiple windows up out of DOS. I could run for quite some time without having to reboot.
I know Windows was coming in and DOS was going out, but man wouldn't DOS have been better if it had always been multitasking w/ multiple windows possible?
This would make the second time that ice/cold weather played a part in the deaths of astronauts. If so, something as simple as just shutting the program down during cold weather would seem like the thing to do.
My first computer was a Tandy version of the Sinclair. It was $99.00 and I think it had either 2k or 5k of RAM.
I can remember typing in BASIC games out of computer magazines and it would sometimes take me hours of typing...only to run out of memory about two lines from the bottom of the code. If it did work, the game, often with really cool cartoon pictures in the magazine it came from, would look like a bad version of pong.
At a later time, I got a real computer. An atari 128 with an external 5 1/4 floppy drive that cost me almost 300.00 bucks!
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, which explains why the people who go to Mexico LIVE...for the most part (nothing is 100%). Quackwatch is nothing but FUD and a front for the medical industry. When it comes to cancer, those who can think for themselves will survive, those who don't will become statistics.
usurper_ii
You can also bypass the pharmaceutical monopoly altogether and order vitamin B17 (also known as Laetrile) or better yet, change your diet and get it from natural foods. Vitamin B17 also targets only cancer cells.
r g
In the land of the free, many people still go to Mexico to get these outlawed substances, with excellent results...though I will admit not perfect results.
You can also order it off the web. See www.vitaminb17.org (disclaimer: my web site)
Also, if I had cancer, Dr. Day's program, www.drday.com, would be at the top of my list of things to do.
Jay Banks
www.roadtowellsville.com
www.vitaminb17.o
because it was really good for Karma whoring!
This was originally posted to Slashdot on Wednesday June 04, 2003 by me. This was something I actually thought of and wrote myself, too.
----- Original Message -----
From: Darl McBride
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (The officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local
and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number
(c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to
(d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
Your faithfully,
Darl McBride
FrankOlsonProject
and watch the show named "Code Name Artichoke" on WorldLink TV channel
10.33
Also at Kransberg Castle: Some of the leading scientific experts in Nazi Germany had been involved in biological warfare, testing the effects of deadly germs on human beings in Dachau and other concentration camps. One of them was Professor Kurt Blome. Blome was the Third Reich's Deputy Surgeon General and the man behind German research into biological weapons.
10.55
Blome will be among those charged in the case against concentration camp doctors brought before the military tribunal in Nuremberg. He will face the death penalty.
11.07
In spite of the fact that there is enough evidence against him, Kurt Blome will be acquitted in Nuremberg. The Americans have other plans for him.
11.21 Voice of Professor Kurt Blome: Untertitel
1) I stated publicly and openly that I was a conscientious National Socialist...
2) and a follower of Adolf Hitler.
11.29 Voice of Norman Cournoyer
"We were interested in anyone who did work in biological warfare. Did they want to use that? The Nazis? Yes, absolutely! They wanted to use anything that killed people. Anything!"
11.48
The Americans save Kurt Blome, seen here on the left, from death by hanging. In turn, he provides them with information about the Nazi biological weapons program. One of the specialists interrogating Blome is Donald Falconer, a friend and colleague of Frank Olson. Falconer is responsible for developing anthrax bombs.
12.12
Today, more than 50 years later, Donald Falconer lives in a convalescent home not far from Frederick.
It is funny the Australian group mentioned that it was like a Nigerian net scam. I got this e-mail from SCO quite some time ago:
----- Original Message -----
From: Darl McBride
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (The officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local
and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number
(c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to
(d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
Your faithfully,
It seems one of the initial reactions is that people have a hard time believing that people would take the time to photograph a 100 page magazine. However, probably what is going on is that people are photographing that either that one good article or that really hot babe in the latest swimsuit issue.
How many times have you bought a magazine that you would waste time copying it from cover to cover? If you go to the library and make copies out of a magazine, do you photograph the whole magazine? No, it's usually just a couple of pages.
I'm an avid magazine reader and purchase one to three magazines per month. From experience, I know that most magazines have only one or two good articles in them at most and the rest is just filler (sounds familiar, doesn't it?). With the price of magazines going as high as four to five bucks, if you can tell there is only a couple of good articles in the magazine, it is better to stand there in the store and read the articles...or in this case, photograph the article.
Also, for all the copy protection schemes in the works, everything published on paper is a circumvention device! It's kind of hilarious when you think about it. The only thing that doesn't OCR well is text published on different colored backgrounds, like a magazine article with the text featured over a background picture...but even with that, there is the option of typing it in by hand (acceptable solution for a short magazine article).
I can just about envision digital versions only because it will be easier to implement copy protection than it will with a POPC (Plain Old Paper Copy).
Usurper_ii
Last night I dreamed that I got Knoppix to boot on my alarm clock. And what a nightmare because it probably would have been much easier to get IntyOS going...
Mod me off topic, but damn it, I just had to share that.
Usurper_ii
Rock and Roll is no solution- my daughter singing AC/DC.
The Rock and Roll solution:
Next time you are in a difficult situation; remember: Just enjoy the OZZY and keep your mouth shut!
Usurper_ii
And if the bands haven't figured it out yet, the resason P2P is so popular is because you can find that song you wanted without having to buy the whole album just for that song. If they start to make downloads just like physical CDs (i.e. you have to download all our songs just for the one hit) people will just continue to download from P2P. These bands need to wake up or they are going to burn and be replaced by bands that have a better understanding of what is going on.
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I think in the end they are going to find that while a band might sell 500 thousand albums at $15.00-plus, they might sell 2 million of that one good song for .99 cents...and 1 million of that other song on the album that was pretty good. And then the die hard fans are still going to buy the whole thing, so they will make money off of the rest of the "filler," too.
Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn.
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It's a sorry guess, especially when allowing a broader analysis of Mormon history than a single quote from 1863 whose context is questionable at best.
Sorry guess, I will agree. But regarding the Mormons and the Constitution and their plan to save America, I will stand behind that. I spent many years as an active member of the John Birch Society, of which a large percentage of its membership, especially in its leadership, is Mormons (with Catholic membership coming in a strong second). I have kind of lost contact with a lot of people, but I have first hand experience with the Mormons political views.
Why would anyone think Open Source is an attack on the U.S.? That's a pretty bogus thought in and of itself, but moreso in this case since YOU are the one who thought it up - there's nothing to even suggest that Mormons even think that.
Ask SCO that question. They are attacking Linus, Linux, and have made snide comments about pulling out of Linux because they believe in protecting IP, as if Linux was theft of IP!
The topic was the power behind the Canopy Group and SCO, both of which have Mormon connections, at least to the degree that other people noticed it enough to write an article about it. I for one don't see anything wrong with a discussion on it.
And as far as Open Source being an attack on the US, that is exactly how M$ is playing it, too. SCO seems to be making an ethics case against Open Source, as if it is all stolen.
It may be a leap, but I can see the Mormons taking a stand on what is obviously being played as an ethical situation (even though it isn't because people GPLed their work, which makes it 100% ethical).
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But there really could be a Mormon angle to this. Mormons believe that the Constitution was "divinely inspired." They are very active politically because they believe that in the United States worst hour, they will be the group to save it. It could be, and again just speculation, that they think open source is somehow an attack on the United States.
Some notes:
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whq/
An interesting article that points out that the Canopy group as well as SCO have Mormon influences:
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?A
From the article: Conspiracy theorists believe that Canopy is tightly tied into the Mormon church
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What I REALLY wonder about is all the idiots buying SCO stock, and why it's still hovering around $10 as opposed to the 1 cent it's really worth.
I agree but I guess it is just people gambling. I would have said there was no way the guy who patented auctions done over a computer network would win against Ebay, and darned if he didn't get 35 million out of the deal. I haven't seen if Ebay has appealed or not but I would hope that guy was standing under SCO when IBM crushes them.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Darl McBride
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
LINDON, UTAH
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of SCO Group (formerly Caldera International -- Nasdaq: SCOX) who are interested in obtaining your services. We are presently in negotiations in a business deal we feel will be quite lucrative. Since we may leave the country quietly in the middle of the night, in order to commence this business transaction, we solicit your assistance to enable us to transfer a large sum of money into your account to hold until further arrangements can be made.
The source of this fund is as follows: We have leveraged IP that we originally thought belonged to our company in order to solicit a rather large monetary investment by the company Microsoft. We have in turn sued IBM for contractual violations and IP violations, as well as sending out thousands of threatening letters to various corporations and Linux vendors, in a move carefully designed to drive up our stock and put us in a position for our company to be purchased simultaneously. You see, this is a carefully executed plan modeled after what some might call, "a house of cards." We hope very much that we will collect from all parties involved, sell our stock before it tanks, and head for some fun in the sun, IF all goes as planned.
However, by virtue of our position as members of the SCO Group, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US $21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (The officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local
and foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7)banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information below
(a)company name and Beneficiary of account (b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number
(c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were the funds will be transferred to
(d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to cover our paper trail. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
Your faithfully,
Darl McBride
SCO has now said it isn't an IP issue or a copyright issue, but a contractual issue. Since Linus had no contract with SCO, how could they sue him for an alleged contractual violation that happened between SCO and IBM?
And the same goes for anything IBM may have leaked, and note I'm not saying they did...but if they did break a contract, how can anyone using a Linux product using such code be held liable for a contractual violation done by IBM, again, when SCO has now said it is contractual issue and not an IP issue or a copyright issue.
On one hand I guess we can be glad SCO are such morons, but on the other hand, can you imagine releasing a press release saying the issue was never about IP or copyrights when they are running around screaming about suing everyone because Linux may have some of their IP in it!!!
Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn
SCO has now said it isn't an IP issue or a copyright issue, but a contractual issue. Since Linus had no contract with SCO, how could they sue him for an alleged contractual violation that happened between SCO and IBM?
And the same goes for anything IBM may have leaked, and note I'm not saying they did...but if they did break a contract, how can anyone using a Linux product using such code be held liable for a contractual violation done by IBM, again, when SCO has now said it is contractual issue and not an IP issue or a copyright issue.
On one hand I guess we can be glad SCO are such morons, but on the other hand, can you imagine releasing a press release saying the issue was never about IP or copyrights when they are running around screaming about suing everyone because Linux may have some of their IP in it!!!
Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn
I really like Smash Mouth but it is hard to believe the band that did Walking On The Son is the same band that did The Fonz and Flo! Man if I didn't feel like the Bugs Bunny cartoons where the guy's head turns into a jackass after I got home and stuck that in the CD player!
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Back in the day when cell phones were mostly analog and scanners could still pick up conversations, I used to think about hooking up a cd player to a cell phone and broadcasting my own show so that all the people listening to conversations could listen to my "station." Heck, I know a lot of people that were listening to cell phone conversations back then, so I might of had more listeners than some of the AM stations in my town.
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What might make me fork over some money is access to the stories/articls that people submit to /.
/. come from news.com and wired.com -- or worse, dupes from these two sites -- I can't help but think that there is a wealth of good stuff that never sees the light of day around here. Not that what is posted is really bad, it is just that I think there is some really cool stuff that doesn't make it.
Given that most of the items allowed on
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Bacon Good For You, Reports Best Scientist Ever
http://www.theonion.com/
ROCHESTER, MN--Bacon, long believed to contribute to heart disease and obesity, possesses significant health benefits, according to a study released Monday by Dr. Albert Gruber, the best scientist ever. "My research has found that three strips of crispy, mouthwatering bacon every morning can actually reduce cholesterol and help slow the aging process," the awesome Gruber said. "What's more, the bacon's positive effects are enhanced when combined with milk shakes and/or marijuana." In 1997, Gruber, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, was awarded nine Nobel Prizes in Medicine for discovering that frequent oral sex with models cures cancer.
I never did understand why MS didn't buy out DESQview and work it into DOS. It was very stable and should have been the way DOS was designed from the ground up.
Back in the day, I used to run a two node BBS out of DOS using DESQview to start multiple windows up out of DOS. I could run for quite some time without having to reboot.
I know Windows was coming in and DOS was going out, but man wouldn't DOS have been better if it had always been multitasking w/ multiple windows possible?
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This would make the second time that ice/cold weather played a part in the deaths of astronauts. If so, something as simple as just shutting the program down during cold weather would seem like the thing to do.
Live in your world. Stay out of mine.
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My first computer was a Tandy version of the Sinclair. It was $99.00 and I think it had either 2k or 5k of RAM.
I can remember typing in BASIC games out of computer magazines and it would sometimes take me hours of typing...only to run out of memory about two lines from the bottom of the code. If it did work, the game, often with really cool cartoon pictures in the magazine it came from, would look like a bad version of pong.
At a later time, I got a real computer. An atari 128 with an external 5 1/4 floppy drive that cost me almost 300.00 bucks!
Those were the days.
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How about porting Linux to the Atari? It probably has 0 encryption, and if it did it would use like what, a 1-bit key?
Why would anyone do this? Well try finding a computer with TV out on it at a pawn shop for 5.00!!!
Live in your world. Stay out of mine!