UPS successfully pulls off biggest IPO in history. Money making lawsuit is filed. The American capitalist Legal system in action.
from the article According to the lawsuit, UPS, registered as a corporation in Ohio and New York, acted illegally as an unlicensed insurance company, which seeks to invoke Ohio's Corrupt Activities Act.
So they became their own insurance company. Good for them. They still covered you if your package got lost, they just did it in a different way. I wonder how much money they save in paperwork? Silly lawsuit, but still a good reason (like you need another one) to invest in FedEx (no association)
No, it was a joke, that's why the Simpsons is so funny.
Speaking as a football player of 10 years (6th-16th grade) the sport places a tremendous amount of stress on the human body. It takes a good two weeks (know what 2-a-days are?) of constant pounding to get into "shape" where your body adjusts to the constant pain it is in.
That being said, I loved playing Football, a controlled brawl with armor and weapons (the armor). The feeling of a dead-on peelback block (they are running after the ball carrier and you come from the other direction, outside their focused field of vision, and "de-cleat" them i.e thier cleats are the LAST thing to land back on the ground) must be felt to be appreciated.
Remember this discussion and its implications the next time you hear people discussing professional athlete salaries (most professional sports have high long term physical costs). They are making a gamble that takes years of dedication and a grasp at the "Good Life", those that make it and excel are much deserving of (most) of the praise they recieve (there are MANY exceptions to this). The recently departed Walter Payton is a grand example, for all reasons (he was 45)
The best thing that could come out of that is that someone could make a linux-windows hybrid of some kind, and it would be popular. This does not need to happen. Linux does not need to be more like windows.
No, it doesn't need to be more like it, but it does need to be able to run all those nifty program thingies. That's my biggest problems in removing M$ OSes from my immediate surroundings, there are too many useful programs written for it, too many neat gadgets (that work), and WAY too many great games. Getting source for APIs for projects like Wine could make all the difference. Not to mention reintroducting competition to the OS market (by giving Linux a HUGE boost) True emulators and virtual machines, oh my.
It's as simple as that. I've found it to be the best, most reliable, and open digital music option. Case in point, Real. I no longer use any Real products. I've also made it Company Policy (yup) that we not their products (that's also a bandwidth issue). Each site I visit that uses the format I send a concise, polite letter saying why I won't use Real and why I want MP3.
I also use Sonique and download MP3s streamed straight to 32mb files, which I then dump to a Rio. Simple, easy, open. Nobody messin' with my HD, nobody tracking me. And now I listen to a LOT more music (and NO fscking commercials), in wide ranging genres.
What the RIAA (and others) needs to realize is that the Internet makes control of digital media impossible. Their products have become (like software) inherently infinite. Pricing based on scarcity will become more and more difficult to maintain. The entire business model needs to change to take this into account. This is not being done. Enough ranting, sorry this is a bit off-topic, but if you have the bandwidth and sit in front of or near a computer for much fo the time, there are vast fields of interesting tones awaiting your inspection, don't let them be taken away from you. (/offtopic rant)
Awesome, sounds very cool. This might be especially useful for massively multiplayer games (large scale war sims, maybe a MMP version of Rogue with simple windowed 3-d). Windows sucks hard at windowed 3d.
ananlyzing thousands of server logs from around the world, collected from random individuals running random servers, which might be up or down depending on the day or even the time of day. Add in the other uncontrolled variable (dynamic IP's, shared copies, etc) and it becomes obvious that there is a much simpler way to figure out how many people on what platform use the software (see paragraph 1).
I know there are a lot of people that play in both windows and linux, and this may be a bit of an inconvenience in the short term, but this is an ideal time to cast a vote as a consumer.
I'd really love to stop using Windows totally, but as a serious gamer that's just not a possibility at this point. So go put your money where your mouth is and help convince game companies that they should make Linux versions of All games. A pipe dream yes I know, but id was the first game company to realize the power of demo's (err, shareware) and hopefully they can lead the charge again.
Support Linux, buy Quake3 in the box with the Penguin on it(?).
I will make sure that almost everyone can run them.
DeerHunter beat you to it. Gamers want the best in graphics, sounds, and Wow!, that usually requires a cutting edge machine. Computer gaming is NOT a cheap hobby.
True story: dropping oversize condoms onto enemy troops to demoralize them. The US actually did this during vietnam.
Oooh, you have such very large penises. We bow before your gargantuan members. Surely men with such large penises have nothing to fear from us. Our penises are soo small.
didn't they buy that special cracking program from a Chinese operative?
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This article sounds like phear mongering to me. Like this...
The cyber-attacks followed the May 7 bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade and were viewed by some U.S. national security officials as possible government-sponsored information-warfare attacks on the United States.
You're an American student who happens to know how to crack computers. In an unrelated (to you) Chinese conflict, they bomb a U.S. embassy and kill a number of American citizens. What do you do that night?
Information warfare is a natural step into the Information Age. Don't be scared, just be cautious. If you want to look for an Information Age Pearl Harbor or equivalent war-starting (building) atrocity think about a really nasty Melissa/Bubbleboy/BO2K coupled with a million dedicated (and crafty) young men working from the comfort of their homes behind the Great Firewall.
Just some initial thoughts on what will be an interesting topic to follow. I'd REALLY like to hear from some Chinese geeks.
a.k.a. setting up a machine so you get it "out of the box" ready to run.
Think for a moment. --- 1.You are a computer idiot. 2.You want to do neat things with a computer. 3.You are a computer idiot with money. 4.Somebody tells you they will set up your computer to do all the neat things you keep hearing about, for a fee. 5.You do neat things with computers.
People talk about the value of service in the Open Source paradigm. What many don't realize is that isn't only tech support and newbie questions, it also includes the setup and configuration of machines. A plug-and-play Real (or MP3, video, dynamic web) server is worth at least twice what the hardware alone is worth. The same could probably be said (although the ratio probably drops to 1.2-1.5) for home PCs, especially if they are loaded with functional software on an OS that doesn't crash. Service and simplicity, that's where the moneys gonna be.
to earn my 50k I'll add that it should be an UPSIDE DOWN triangle, gaining that "real world traffic sign" quality that is so very important to driving internet traffic.
Windows Update takes care of all of this. Unfortunately, in my experience, this feature is like the vast majority of windows features..it looks great on paper, on the side of the box, and everywhere else, until it crashes unexplainedly when you try to use it.
Personally I wouldn't hate M$ so much if they just fixed the programs they have instead of releasing new versions with more (buggy) features, but that's what you can do when you're a monopoly and quality doesn't count only the need to be percieved as innovative, and to get a "new" product on the shelves.
BTW, NT is impervious to this attack, so keep that in mind while M$ bashing.
Sorry, but you can't officially bitch and moan until you get a login. Of course, then you'd realize that most of the people who spend time here have moderated at some time in the past and your whole post wouldn't be necessary. So politely take your outlandish request and...
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we'll drop the MP3 discussion, I was arguing under the assumption that they were on locally shared drives and not 'Net accessible servers (to convince you the second is o.k. would take too long)
I would suggest that life + 95 years is a perfectly legitimate definition of limited.
Very much in disagreement here. The only measuring stick in governmental mandates should be the human life, not the half life of hydrogen. I don't consider anything "limited" that will still limit the freedom of my grandchildren.
Yes, if I do not give you permission to listen to something I own, reguardless of cost to me, it is still wrong.
Your example would work if we were talking about a personal diary, for example. However, we're not. If you put something out in the public sector, where, if I want to spend my $18 dollars I can listen to it, and then try to say that it is *wrong* for me to listen to it without paying the $18, I'm going to call you a selfish bastard, especially since (again) there is no cost to you, no effect on you, or anything else done to you, nothing.
Forcing someone to share the fruits of their labors is the first step down a very slippery slope.
Agreed, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about limiting an infinite supply through the use of legislation to maintain artificially high prices. And to keep it in the real world, we're talking about Art, I don't know of many artists that don't want me to listen to their music. If they didn't they would never have created it or given it only to their closest friends with instructions to NEVER show it to anybody, which is how the RIAA wants you to act. I make these concession ONLY for my closest friends after they have shown the same discretion. Nameless profit driven corporations are not afforded the same courtesy, at least not until they show it to me.
he beauty of this compromise is that the smart ones will see through it immediately (and also learn a salutory lesson about the honesty of authority figures), while the rest will never need to be troubled by things they wouldn't understand anyway.
That's a scary rational for controlling (limiting) thought. "If you're smart enough, you'll figure it out on your own." time to change my sig...
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Well, since unsigned bands aren't represented by the RIAA, I'm sure they don't care about those MP3s. Obviously they are going after pirated music, which is their right under the law
They are going after ALL MP3s (and trying to equate MP3=Piracy), this is purposely misleading. I have tons (95%) of legal MP3s which would get flagged and I would get in trouble for. Is this what you want?
There is no time limit for copyrights mentioned int the US Consitution
Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Now maybe its just my interpretation, but I don't see "limited" as meaning "life + 95 years". Nor do I see how not letting the public look at it for a lifetime "promote(s) the Progress of Science and useful Arts." (which doesn't even cover useless(MHO) Arts like pop music, music videos, most motion pictures, etc) Congress was given a power and has abused it to the delight of their financial backers. That is a fact, if you don't think it's bad thats a different story, but that is a fact.
Why shouldn't a person's estate be allowed to profit from the person's work?
They should, but there are limits to a government granted monopoly. I can think of numerous examples where something taken to one degree is fine, but taken to another becomes unpleasant (temperature, for example)
Look, you don't have the right to other peoples things, and its wrong to take things without permission.
Is it wrong if I listen to something you own, without you knowing, without you noticing, and without ANY cost to you whatsoever? It is wrong for you to cry to the police when such a thing happens because (~whiny brat voice) That's MY music!!! (/~wbv).
My mom taught me to share, and that was sharing things that I couldn't use if I shared them!
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Since you're in a mood to give away things for free, can I have your computer?
no, but I'll give you all the software on it, copies of every CD I own, VCD of all my movies, and everything else that I can give away to enrich your life and still have to enrich my own.
Digital media changes the very nature of these products, our laws should change to compensate (except that the people who own the people that make the laws don't wanna, 'cause then their grandkids *might* have to get a fscking job)
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I wonder where all of /.'s radical capitalists are when a story like this comes on.
Buying FedEx.
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UPS successfully pulls off biggest IPO in history. Money making lawsuit is filed. The American capitalist Legal system in action.
from the article
According to the lawsuit, UPS, registered as a corporation in Ohio and New York, acted illegally as an unlicensed insurance company, which seeks to invoke Ohio's Corrupt Activities Act.
So they became their own insurance company. Good for them. They still covered you if your package got lost, they just did it in a different way. I wonder how much money they save in paperwork? Silly lawsuit, but still a good reason (like you need another one) to invest in FedEx (no association)
Coincidence?
No, it was a joke, that's why the Simpsons is so funny.
Speaking as a football player of 10 years (6th-16th grade) the sport places a tremendous amount of stress on the human body. It takes a good two weeks (know what 2-a-days are?) of constant pounding to get into "shape" where your body adjusts to the constant pain it is in.
That being said, I loved playing Football, a controlled brawl with armor and weapons (the armor). The feeling of a dead-on peelback block (they are running after the ball carrier and you come from the other direction, outside their focused field of vision, and "de-cleat" them i.e thier cleats are the LAST thing to land back on the ground) must be felt to be appreciated.
Remember this discussion and its implications the next time you hear people discussing professional athlete salaries (most professional sports have high long term physical costs). They are making a gamble that takes years of dedication and a grasp at the "Good Life", those that make it and excel are much deserving of (most) of the praise they recieve (there are MANY exceptions to this). The recently departed Walter Payton is a grand example, for all reasons (he was 45)
light burn twice bright, burn half long.
The best thing that could come out of that is that someone could make a linux-windows hybrid of some kind, and it would be popular. This does not need to happen. Linux does not need to be more like windows.
No, it doesn't need to be more like it, but it does need to be able to run all those nifty program thingies. That's my biggest problems in removing M$ OSes from my immediate surroundings, there are too many useful programs written for it, too many neat gadgets (that work), and WAY too many great games. Getting source for APIs for projects like Wine could make all the difference. Not to mention reintroducting competition to the OS market (by giving Linux a HUGE boost) True emulators and virtual machines, oh my.
it was a typo..he meant "primestamp"
It's as simple as that. I've found it to be the best, most reliable, and open digital music option. Case in point, Real. I no longer use any Real products. I've also made it Company Policy (yup) that we not their products (that's also a bandwidth issue). Each site I visit that uses the format I send a concise, polite letter saying why I won't use Real and why I want MP3.
I also use Sonique and download MP3s streamed straight to 32mb files, which I then dump to a Rio. Simple, easy, open. Nobody messin' with my HD, nobody tracking me. And now I listen to a LOT more music (and NO fscking commercials), in wide ranging genres.
What the RIAA (and others) needs to realize is that the Internet makes control of digital media impossible. Their products have become (like software) inherently infinite. Pricing based on scarcity will become more and more difficult to maintain. The entire business model needs to change to take this into account. This is not being done. Enough ranting, sorry this is a bit off-topic, but if you have the bandwidth and sit in front of or near a computer for much fo the time, there are vast fields of interesting tones awaiting your inspection, don't let them be taken away from you. (/offtopic rant)
Awesome, sounds very cool. This might be especially useful for massively multiplayer games (large scale war sims, maybe a MMP version of Rogue with simple windowed 3-d). Windows sucks hard at windowed 3d.
How many copies did Zork sell last year?
counting how many copies of what version sell
.or.
ananlyzing thousands of server logs from around the world, collected from random individuals running random servers, which might be up or down depending on the day or even the time of day. Add in the other uncontrolled variable (dynamic IP's, shared copies, etc) and it becomes obvious that there is a much simpler way to figure out how many people on what platform use the software (see paragraph 1).
--PLEASE!!--
I know there are a lot of people that play in both windows and linux, and this may be a bit of an inconvenience in the short term, but this is an ideal time to cast a vote as a consumer.
I'd really love to stop using Windows totally, but as a serious gamer that's just not a possibility at this point. So go put your money where your mouth is and help convince game companies that they should make Linux versions of All games. A pipe dream yes I know, but id was the first game company to realize the power of demo's (err, shareware) and hopefully they can lead the charge again.
Support Linux, buy Quake3 in the box with the Penguin on it(?).
I will make sure that almost everyone can run them.
DeerHunter beat you to it. Gamers want the best in graphics, sounds, and Wow!, that usually requires a cutting edge machine. Computer gaming is NOT a cheap hobby.
True story: dropping oversize condoms onto enemy troops to demoralize them. The US actually did this during vietnam.
Oooh, you have such very large penises. We bow before your gargantuan members. Surely men with such large penises have nothing to fear from us. Our penises are soo small.
(that show is too funny, ROTFL every Wed @ 11(M))
didn't they buy that special cracking program from a Chinese operative?
---
This article sounds like phear mongering to me. Like this...
The cyber-attacks followed the May 7 bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade and were viewed by some U.S. national security officials as possible government-sponsored information-warfare attacks on the United States.
You're an American student who happens to know how to crack computers. In an unrelated (to you) Chinese conflict, they bomb a U.S. embassy and kill a number of American citizens. What do you do that night?
Information warfare is a natural step into the Information Age. Don't be scared, just be cautious. If you want to look for an Information Age Pearl Harbor or equivalent war-starting (building) atrocity think about a really nasty Melissa/Bubbleboy/BO2K coupled with a million dedicated (and crafty) young men working from the comfort of their homes behind the Great Firewall.
Just some initial thoughts on what will be an interesting topic to follow. I'd REALLY like to hear from some Chinese geeks.
Didn't the Apple II have some software/hardware that could read a text file in the late 70's?
I had something like this on my C64, of course, I was about 8 at the time so these are all the details I remember....
a.k.a. setting up a machine so you get it "out of the box" ready to run.
Think for a moment.
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1.You are a computer idiot.
2.You want to do neat things with a computer.
3.You are a computer idiot with money.
4.Somebody tells you they will set up your computer to do all the neat things you keep hearing about, for a fee.
5.You do neat things with computers.
People talk about the value of service in the Open Source paradigm. What many don't realize is that isn't only tech support and newbie questions, it also includes the setup and configuration of machines. A plug-and-play Real (or MP3, video, dynamic web) server is worth at least twice what the hardware alone is worth. The same could probably be said (although the ratio probably drops to 1.2-1.5) for home PCs, especially if they are loaded with functional software on an OS that doesn't crash. Service and simplicity, that's where the moneys gonna be.
trust me, you DON'T want to see it.
My first day was rather trying too....
to earn my 50k I'll add that it should be an UPSIDE DOWN triangle, gaining that "real world traffic sign" quality that is so very important to driving internet traffic.
Windows Update takes care of all of this. Unfortunately, in my experience, this feature is like the vast majority of windows features..it looks great on paper, on the side of the box, and everywhere else, until it crashes unexplainedly when you try to use it.
Personally I wouldn't hate M$ so much if they just fixed the programs they have instead of releasing new versions with more (buggy) features, but that's what you can do when you're a monopoly and quality doesn't count only the need to be percieved as innovative, and to get a "new" product on the shelves.
BTW, NT is impervious to this attack, so keep that in mind while M$ bashing.
Sorry, but you can't officially bitch and moan until you get a login. Of course, then you'd realize that most of the people who spend time here have moderated at some time in the past and your whole post wouldn't be necessary. So politely take your outlandish request and ...
..has an escapee.
we'll drop the MP3 discussion, I was arguing under the assumption that they were on locally shared drives and not 'Net accessible servers (to convince you the second is o.k. would take too long)
I would suggest that life + 95 years is a perfectly legitimate definition of limited.
Very much in disagreement here. The only measuring stick in governmental mandates should be the human life, not the half life of hydrogen. I don't consider anything "limited" that will still limit the freedom of my grandchildren.
Yes, if I do not give you permission to listen to something I own, reguardless of cost to me, it is still wrong.
Your example would work if we were talking about a personal diary, for example. However, we're not.
If you put something out in the public sector, where, if I want to spend my $18 dollars I can listen to it, and then try to say that it is *wrong* for me to listen to it without paying the $18, I'm going to call you a selfish bastard, especially since (again) there is no cost to you, no effect on you, or anything else done to you, nothing.
Forcing someone to share the fruits of their labors is the first step down a very slippery slope.
Agreed, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about limiting an infinite supply through the use of legislation to maintain artificially high prices. And to keep it in the real world, we're talking about Art, I don't know of many artists that don't want me to listen to their music. If they didn't they would never have created it or given it only to their closest friends with instructions to NEVER show it to anybody, which is how the RIAA wants you to act. I make these concession ONLY for my closest friends after they have shown the same discretion. Nameless profit driven corporations are not afforded the same courtesy, at least not until they show it to me.
he beauty of this compromise is that the smart ones will see through it immediately (and also learn a salutory lesson about the honesty of authority figures), while the rest will never need to be troubled by things they wouldn't understand anyway.
That's a scary rational for controlling (limiting) thought. "If you're smart enough, you'll figure it out on your own." time to change my sig...
Well, since unsigned bands aren't represented by the RIAA, I'm sure they don't care about those MP3s. Obviously they are going after pirated music, which is their right under the law
They are going after ALL MP3s (and trying to equate MP3=Piracy), this is purposely misleading. I have tons (95%) of legal MP3s which would get flagged and I would get in trouble for. Is this what you want?
There is no time limit for copyrights mentioned int the US Consitution
from here
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To...
Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Now maybe its just my interpretation, but I don't see "limited" as meaning "life + 95 years". Nor do I see how not letting the public look at it for a lifetime "promote(s) the Progress of Science and useful Arts." (which doesn't even cover useless(MHO) Arts like pop music, music videos, most motion pictures, etc) Congress was given a power and has abused it to the delight of their financial backers. That is a fact, if you don't think it's bad thats a different story, but that is a fact.
Why shouldn't a person's estate be allowed to profit from the person's work?
They should, but there are limits to a government granted monopoly. I can think of numerous examples where something taken to one degree is fine, but taken to another becomes unpleasant (temperature, for example)
Look, you don't have the right to other peoples things, and its wrong to take things without permission.
Is it wrong if I listen to something you own, without you knowing, without you noticing, and without ANY cost to you whatsoever? It is wrong for you to cry to the police when such a thing happens because (~whiny brat voice) That's MY music!!! (/~wbv).
My mom taught me to share, and that was sharing things that I couldn't use if I shared them!
Since you're in a mood to give away things for free, can I have your computer?
no, but I'll give you all the software on it, copies of every CD I own, VCD of all my movies, and everything else that I can give away to enrich your life and still have to enrich my own.
Digital media changes the very nature of these products, our laws should change to compensate (except that the people who own the people that make the laws don't wanna, 'cause then their grandkids *might* have to get a fscking job)