No, no, no. NT/Win2000 supports longer filenames than does DOS, so it should read: "away from the crap that is DOS to the fecal_putrescence that is NT/Win2000".
It was the Knight Initiative which defined the legal definition of marriage so as to excluded homosexual couples. The legal definition of marriage in California already precluded the recognition of homosexual couples, so the initiative was merely a spitefully superfluous act of homophobia.
They still own Frito Lay, IIRC, because chip snackfoods were experiencing a boom a few years ago when they spun off the rest, while fast food was flat.
The DOJ's antitrust division has been having a lot more success in prosecuting international cartels since 1994.
De Beers (who handed the DOJ much of its humiliation in 1994 by refusing to show up at trial), perhaps the most notorious cartel (diamonds) pulled out of the US in 1945 under antitrust scrutiny. A month ago, however, De Beers decided it would start getting out of the cartel business and would position itself as a value-added brand-name, owing somewhat to increasing scrutiny by the EU but also a desire to reenter the US market. It can't be said that such regulatory pressure can be considered "normal free-market forces", but it does suggest that often full-blown trials needn't be necessary. Of course I have due-process concerns about plea-bargains and settlements in general, but that's a different consideration.
A fine on 10% of revenues is harsher than a fine on 10% of profits, because (profits.1*profits.1*revenues)&&(all fines must be paid out of what's left over after expenses, namely, profits). If they were only being fined as calculated from profits, then they mathematically could never go into debt (as long as the percentage never exceeded 100). The same isn't true about being fined by revenues.
It may not be faithful to history (and etymology only occasionally is), but I still fail to see how the instant use of the phrase "mea culpa" which literally means "through my fault" is unfaithful to that meaning.
A few people asked about ways to "get around" the GPL, and Richard calmly explained that he would not help anyone do this and refused to answer such questions.
I dare say, Gandhi, old chap, is there any way the queen can keep her merry India without giving in to any of your demands? Don't answer all at once.
With quotes like "[a]ll that aside, though, one conclusion is inescapable", it's clear he understands the flaws in his argument but is willing to propound it anyway. He's clearly trolling for ad revenue and perhaps enough controversy to make a follow-up mea-culpa article a winner also.
Second of all, many people are buying a computer for the first time -- and will buy the fastest chip they can afford, so it lasts longer. Not everyone is upgrading!
Yes, but they're insane if they follow that advice. It's just not economical to purchase more power than you need at the current prices, because by the time you get around to needing that extra power, you could've bought it at a lower price-per-unit rate. Buy only as much power as you honestly need at the moment; for tomorrow it'll be cheaper and you will be an ass. Except RAM prices, perhaps, since supply problems / Taiwanese earthquakes / frivolous patent lawsuits make prices fluctuate up and down rather than precipitously fall off like with CPUs.
And as far as government organizations go, the post office isn't exactly like other governmental organizations. They don't depend on the Congressional budget and they operate as a corporation, not as an agency. They are actually an example of an excellently run part of the government and make a strong argument for modeling the different agencies after corporations. The post office is completely self-supporting and you can believe they're not going to attempt to do something if they're not going to make money on it.
If you cook the books, then anything looks self-supporting.
Wow, you don't wait for any appropriate context to go off spouting stuff like that, do you?:-) I said nothing about "modernizing the Constitution" but only "modernizing privacy doctrine" to apply to the digital equivalents of papers and effects cited in the 4th amendment. Being a great fan of the 2nd amendment myself, I'm disappinted by your willingness to beat me over the head with it with no provocation.
(I'm also perplexed by your rhetoric of "no matter how attractive the idea of changing one of the first 10 amendments is" -- being one of the first 10 amendments would tend to lend prestige to an amendment, not the contrary.)
Moreover even if we accept your entire premise, as I would do, then you/we still have to wonder about what to do with the 7th amendment. Is "$20" from 1789 still the same $20 that it is today? Do we "modernize" the amount according to inflation? Should we enforce jury trials concerning amounts of literally $20? Should we just ignore it as most suits don't occur at common law these days?
Well, they've been providing some email services since the end of April, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see a full-scale roll out. Especially when you realize that everyone and everyone is offering free email addresses these days. And don't count out attempts by bloated agencies to find new ways to expand their purviews and jurisdictions.
Maybe having the PostOffice offering email services will hasten the modernization of privacy doctrine and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to cover email as well as it does paper documents, which is to say, not very well at the moment -- supoenas for 'mere evidence' that would've been categorically rejected centuries ago, fishing expeditions into people's computer hard drives, carte blanche for employers to read and divulge private correspondence, etc. Having the PostOffice involved should add something interesting to the constitutional pot.
The current mouse has no buttons. Anyone who wants twice as many buttons can use the same model.:-)
Ok, technically it has one big button that covers the whole area of the mouse, but real power-users should just go and get two of 'em and plug 'em in side by side or with one for each hand. It's not like you're exactly maxing out your USB bus at the moment. Again,:-)
X-rays are light, but it's irrelevent, since Hawking radiation isn't in the x-ray range of the spectrum. That, and it's a theoretical device used to explain the absence of microscopic blackholes more than a useful artifact to look for in the sky.
But crackers far prefer that we run older distros without all the bugfixes and security patches applied. You can do this on your own, but too many people are either too stupid or too lazy.
It lets them track statistics on how many people read through to the end of the story. That in itself is often worth more than a couple more impressions.
As much as Quentin Tarantino has pushed Chungking Express as a truly wonderful film, I can't say it appealed to me. When it was over, a gaping pit remained where the plot should have been.
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No, no, no. NT/Win2000 supports longer filenames than does DOS, so it should read: "away from the crap that is DOS to the fecal_putrescence that is NT/Win2000".
It was the Knight Initiative which defined the legal definition of marriage so as to excluded homosexual couples. The legal definition of marriage in California already precluded the recognition of homosexual couples, so the initiative was merely a spitefully superfluous act of homophobia.
Germans tend to call their country "Deutchland", not "Germany". You're still free to sue Americans and Britons, as well you should, though. ;-)
They still own Frito Lay, IIRC, because chip snackfoods were experiencing a boom a few years ago when they spun off the rest, while fast food was flat.
Methinks you're thinking of the CIA, not NSA. Not that it makes much difference -- they're all evil and they're all fascistic.
The DOJ's antitrust division has been having a lot more success in prosecuting international cartels since 1994.
De Beers (who handed the DOJ much of its humiliation in 1994 by refusing to show up at trial), perhaps the most notorious cartel (diamonds) pulled out of the US in 1945 under antitrust scrutiny. A month ago, however, De Beers decided it would start getting out of the cartel business and would position itself as a value-added brand-name, owing somewhat to increasing scrutiny by the EU but also a desire to reenter the US market. It can't be said that such regulatory pressure can be considered "normal free-market forces", but it does suggest that often full-blown trials needn't be necessary. Of course I have due-process concerns about plea-bargains and settlements in general, but that's a different consideration.
A fine on 10% of revenues is harsher than a fine on 10% of profits, because (profits.1*profits.1*revenues)&&(all fines must be paid out of what's left over after expenses, namely, profits). If they were only being fined as calculated from profits, then they mathematically could never go into debt (as long as the percentage never exceeded 100). The same isn't true about being fined by revenues.
It may not be faithful to history (and etymology only occasionally is), but I still fail to see how the instant use of the phrase "mea culpa" which literally means "through my fault" is unfaithful to that meaning.
Cached: here. I could've sworn that story was from months ago, and it was (June 2).
Ah, but who has contributed more to the ad presence of American beer companies? Joe Montana, hands down.
A few people asked about ways to "get around" the GPL, and Richard calmly explained that he would not help anyone do this and refused to answer such questions.
I dare say, Gandhi, old chap, is there any way the queen can keep her merry India without giving in to any of your demands? Don't answer all at once.
With quotes like "[a]ll that aside, though, one conclusion is inescapable", it's clear he understands the flaws in his argument but is willing to propound it anyway. He's clearly trolling for ad revenue and perhaps enough controversy to make a follow-up mea-culpa article a winner also.
Second of all, many people are buying a computer for the first time -- and will buy the fastest chip they can afford, so it lasts longer. Not everyone is upgrading!
Yes, but they're insane if they follow that advice. It's just not economical to purchase more power than you need at the current prices, because by the time you get around to needing that extra power, you could've bought it at a lower price-per-unit rate. Buy only as much power as you honestly need at the moment; for tomorrow it'll be cheaper and you will be an ass. Except RAM prices, perhaps, since supply problems / Taiwanese earthquakes / frivolous patent lawsuits make prices fluctuate up and down rather than precipitously fall off like with CPUs.
And as far as government organizations go, the post office isn't exactly like other governmental organizations. They don't depend on the Congressional budget and they operate as a corporation, not as an agency. They are actually an example of an excellently run part of the government and make a strong argument for modeling the different agencies after corporations. The post office is completely self-supporting and you can believe they're not going to attempt to do something if they're not going to make money on it.
If you cook the books, then anything looks self-supporting.
Wow, you don't wait for any appropriate context to go off spouting stuff like that, do you? :-) I said nothing about "modernizing the Constitution" but only "modernizing privacy doctrine" to apply to the digital equivalents of papers and effects cited in the 4th amendment. Being a great fan of the 2nd amendment myself, I'm disappinted by your willingness to beat me over the head with it with no provocation.
(I'm also perplexed by your rhetoric of "no matter how attractive the idea of changing one of the first 10 amendments is" -- being one of the first 10 amendments would tend to lend prestige to an amendment, not the contrary.)
Moreover even if we accept your entire premise, as I would do, then you/we still have to wonder about what to do with the 7th amendment. Is "$20" from 1789 still the same $20 that it is today? Do we "modernize" the amount according to inflation? Should we enforce jury trials concerning amounts of literally $20? Should we just ignore it as most suits don't occur at common law these days?
Well, they've been providing some email services since the end of April, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see a full-scale roll out. Especially when you realize that everyone and everyone is offering free email addresses these days. And don't count out attempts by bloated agencies to find new ways to expand their purviews and jurisdictions.
Maybe having the PostOffice offering email services will hasten the modernization of privacy doctrine and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to cover email as well as it does paper documents, which is to say, not very well at the moment -- supoenas for 'mere evidence' that would've been categorically rejected centuries ago, fishing expeditions into people's computer hard drives, carte blanche for employers to read and divulge private correspondence, etc. Having the PostOffice involved should add something interesting to the constitutional pot.
The current mouse has no buttons. Anyone who wants twice as many buttons can use the same model. :-)
:-)
Ok, technically it has one big button that covers the whole area of the mouse, but real power-users should just go and get two of 'em and plug 'em in side by side or with one for each hand. It's not like you're exactly maxing out your USB bus at the moment. Again,
Ctrl-click takes 2 hands,
;-)
So you have something better to do with the other one?
Nah. I won't say it.
X-rays are light, but it's irrelevent, since Hawking radiation isn't in the x-ray range of the spectrum. That, and it's a theoretical device used to explain the absence of microscopic blackholes more than a useful artifact to look for in the sky.
But crackers far prefer that we run older distros without all the bugfixes and security patches applied. You can do this on your own, but too many people are either too stupid or too lazy.
It lets them track statistics on how many people read through to the end of the story. That in itself is often worth more than a couple more impressions.
Check out VNC. It does support ssh, and it doesn't have a lot of the overhead you'd expect it to.
As much as Quentin Tarantino has pushed Chungking Express as a truly wonderful film, I can't say it appealed to me. When it was over, a gaping pit remained where the plot should have been.
The Lion King is rehashed Hamlet.