Yes you can. Especially if your name is ford. There is a shop in my town called toyotas only. They service toyotas and other foreign cars. They don't sell toyotas and they are not a toyota dealer. No problem.
'Should I be able to make a Jiffy-Lube type store called Ford?'
Of course you should. You don't think there is a ford's jiffy lube in the US? As long as you don't use the ford logo they you are OK. Especially if your name is ford.
" I think any "reasonable" person would assume in both cases that the same company is at work, especially since Microsoft has its hand in pretty much any software-related market."
On what planet? Certainly not this one. Certainly not any judge.
Why ask him about his cock in the first place. What kind of freak asks the president whether he stuck his cock in the mouth of a woman? Why do you care so much who he fucked or didn't fuck?
"Let me ask you this simple question: Would YOU rather be living in Iraq today, or before the invasion?"
Why is that only iraqis deserve freedom? How can Bush in good conscience let millions of people live in opression and poverty in saudi arabia, north korea, china, russia and the rest of the world. If letting the iraqis suffer under saddam was a sin how big of a sin is it to not help millions suffering all over the world.
Why Iraq? Why Iraq first? Weren't there people more deserving of our help? We could have helped millions of people in Africa for less money with no deaths of our own soldiers. We could have been saviors of the world. Instead we invaded and occupied a country whose citizens want us out. Even iraqis who supported the US action at first want us to leave so they can have their country back.
The republicans were facinated with Bill Clintons cock. They kept asking him who stuck his cock into, when where and how. They dragged him in court and asked him wether he stuck his cock into monicas mouth or pussy. He lied and said that his cock did not enter into monicas mouth or pussy.
The repubicans then impeached him.
Bush lied and started a war. Killed tens of thousands of human beings in Iraq and Afghanistan many. But at least he only stuck his cock in his wife (at least as far as we know).
" Disclosure: I am a white, conservative, Republican, male. In other words, I am one of the most despised people in the U.S. and apparently the rest of the world."
Boo Hoo. You control the media, white house, congress and the courts. I find no sympathy for your so called victimhood.
"I wanted the Clinton Administration and the Clinton's to pay for their ethical lapses, and I will not let the Republicans off the hook for similar antics."
That puts in the tiny percentage of republicans. The overwhelming majority will give them a pass on these crimes. The media will not follow up. The courts will let them off. The republican voters will re-elect them with a smile.
In fact I don't believe that you will do anything to ensure that they are punished. I don't think you'll even write a letter to the editor. I certainly don't think you'd vote against any of those politicians.
"As an interesting side note: The leaked material shows the Democrats to be guilty of just this side of Treason."
I think it's widespread knowledge that democrats hate america and are terrorists. If you don't believe me just watch fox news.
If the election looks like it's going to be close Osama will be paraded out sometime in october or november. Otherwise he will probably be monitored until the next election.
There is a very good chance we already know where he is and what he is doing. How can you possibly miss a 7 foot arab?
Chances are this is not infringement. There have been numerous cases where people who used their own names as their business names have been found not to infringe.
Of course ICANN is not a fair organization and they would have probably taken the domain from the guy but in court Mike would have prevailed.
BTW there are thousands of companies called delta, washington, montana or whatever. It's OK for two businesses to have the exact same name. The issue is whether a reasonable person would confuse the two businesses. Maybe you would confuse the MikeRoweSoft company and Microsoft but a reasonable person would not.
"Republicans are actually well-known for decrying what they see as abuses of the civil courts by money-grubbing trial lawyers;"
Nonsense. They are against ordinary people suing corporations but I have never ever heard any republican complain about corporations suing each other or corporations suing individuals.
I don't mean what would jesus the mythical human who lived 200 years ago would do. I mean jesus the idealized figure who (supposedly) embodies the core values of the western world would do. When George Bush says that jesus talked to him and told him to run for president he is not talking about a long dead guy.
My point is simply this. Capitalism is un-christian. In fact there is no discernable difference between capitalism and satanism. They both obey the same prime directive "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".
None of what you say contradicts anything I have said.
The only reason stocks go up is because lots of people believe that it's going go up. The only reason they go down is because lots of people think it's going to go down.
It's a mass psychosis. If you can convince a lot of people that your stock will go up then nothing else matters. Not your profits, not your products, not your employees. Nothing.
In fact your references to winning percentages directly back me up when I say that the stock market is simply gambling with the added difficulty being nobody knows what the odds are.
For the exact same reason apple stock went down after apple announced higher then expected earnings. Because the stock market is a giant casino that's why. The value of a stock has nothing to do with the company, what it does, how much money it makes, who runs it, or who works there.
Stocks go up because lots of people think it's going to go up. Stocks go down because lots of people think the stocks going to go down.
It's as simple as that and there is nothing more to it. It's a mass psycosis.
Because money is the root of all evil. Or is it love of money is the root of all evil. In either case from a moral point of view there is a lot wrong with it. Would Jesus own stocks? Would he run a coproration? Would he agree that making as much money as possible is something that will get you into heaven or makes you holy?
" Making a a copy is a violation if the copy is "fixed in tangible medium." Is a disk copy "fixed"? In MAI v. Peak the the Ninth Circuit held that copying to RAM is fixed enough:"
That's a complete misreading of the case. It has nothing to do with what is happening here. I also think that any half decent lawyer could tell the difference between copying some software and installing some software.
"Copying from a CDROM to the hard drive is enough to be liable."
Where did you get this goofy idea from?
First of all people can't be liable for past infringements. SCO has a duty to minimize damages by publicly stating what the infringement is, showing definitive proof that they own the copyright, and by giving the infringer a reasonable time to stop the infringement.
Until SCO does all of the above nobody has anything to worry about.
It's safe to say that any infirnging code will be expunged in a manner of hours. Redhat pushes out a new iso within a week and everything is hunky dory.
Where is the MacOSX server manual. The one that explains how to integrate with active directory. How to set up port forwarding and multi homing. The one that explains how automount works.
Maybe a Macosx for freebsd administors or something like that.
What's worse is that from now on when people say that Bill Gates fucked a 17 year old boy the'll be right. If they win this case you can bet your ass it will be my signature.
" my point is, why would i want to try it when i hear so much that's bad about it."
Because it has a log of stuff built in. User authentication (properly abstracted so it works against pretty much everything), database abstraction, authority delegation, workflow, templating, etc. You get a lot out of the box. With all that power you also get complexity.
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Yes you can. Especially if your name is ford. There is a shop in my town called toyotas only. They service toyotas and other foreign cars. They don't sell toyotas and they are not a toyota dealer. No problem.
'Should I be able to make a Jiffy-Lube type store called Ford?'
Of course you should. You don't think there is a ford's jiffy lube in the US? As long as you don't use the ford logo they you are OK. Especially if your name is ford.
" I think any "reasonable" person would assume in both cases that the same company is at work, especially since Microsoft has its hand in pretty much any software-related market."
On what planet? Certainly not this one. Certainly not any judge.
Man you gotta get yoru news from some other source then AM radio.
Why ask him about his cock in the first place. What kind of freak asks the president whether he stuck his cock in the mouth of a woman? Why do you care so much who he fucked or didn't fuck?
"Let me ask you this simple question: Would YOU rather be living in Iraq today, or before the invasion?"
Why is that only iraqis deserve freedom? How can Bush in good conscience let millions of people live in opression and poverty in saudi arabia, north korea, china, russia and the rest of the world. If letting the iraqis suffer under saddam was a sin how big of a sin is it to not help millions suffering all over the world.
Why Iraq? Why Iraq first? Weren't there people more deserving of our help? We could have helped millions of people in Africa for less money with no deaths of our own soldiers. We could have been saviors of the world. Instead we invaded and occupied a country whose citizens want us out. Even iraqis who supported the US action at first want us to leave so they can have their country back.
"Need we forget that he still LIED?"
The republicans were facinated with Bill Clintons cock. They kept asking him who stuck his cock into, when where and how. They dragged him in court and asked him wether he stuck his cock into monicas mouth or pussy. He lied and said that his cock did not enter into monicas mouth or pussy.
The repubicans then impeached him.
Bush lied and started a war. Killed tens of thousands of human beings in Iraq and Afghanistan many. But at least he only stuck his cock in his wife (at least as far as we know).
" Disclosure: I am a white, conservative, Republican, male. In other words, I am one of the most despised people in the U.S. and apparently the rest of the world."
Boo Hoo. You control the media, white house, congress and the courts. I find no sympathy for your so called victimhood.
"I wanted the Clinton Administration and the Clinton's to pay for their ethical lapses, and I will not let the Republicans off the hook for similar antics."
That puts in the tiny percentage of republicans. The overwhelming majority will give them a pass on these crimes. The media will not follow up. The courts will let them off. The republican voters will re-elect them with a smile.
In fact I don't believe that you will do anything to ensure that they are punished. I don't think you'll even write a letter to the editor. I certainly don't think you'd vote against any of those politicians.
"As an interesting side note: The leaked material shows the Democrats to be guilty of just this side of Treason."
I think it's widespread knowledge that democrats hate america and are terrorists. If you don't believe me just watch fox news.
If the election looks like it's going to be close Osama will be paraded out sometime in october or november. Otherwise he will probably be monitored until the next election.
There is a very good chance we already know where he is and what he is doing. How can you possibly miss a 7 foot arab?
Hardly. If you extracted all the quotes from bible attributed to jesus you'd have a hard time filling a pamphlet.
Chances are this is not infringement. There have been numerous cases where people who used their own names as their business names have been found not to infringe.
Of course ICANN is not a fair organization and they would have probably taken the domain from the guy but in court Mike would have prevailed.
BTW there are thousands of companies called delta, washington, montana or whatever. It's OK for two businesses to have the exact same name. The issue is whether a reasonable person would confuse the two businesses. Maybe you would confuse the MikeRoweSoft company and Microsoft but a reasonable person would not.
"Republicans are actually well-known for decrying what they see as abuses of the civil courts by money-grubbing trial lawyers;"
Nonsense. They are against ordinary people suing corporations but I have never ever heard any republican complain about corporations suing each other or corporations suing individuals.
Too bad it's can't pass all that through active directory though. I was able to get the server to authenticate via AD but alas not for samba.
Even if it would import the AD repository that would be cool
I don't mean what would jesus the mythical human who lived 200 years ago would do. I mean jesus the idealized figure who (supposedly) embodies the core values of the western world would do. When George Bush says that jesus talked to him and told him to run for president he is not talking about a long dead guy.
My point is simply this. Capitalism is un-christian. In fact there is no discernable difference between capitalism and satanism. They both obey the same prime directive "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".
None of what you say contradicts anything I have said.
The only reason stocks go up is because lots of people believe that it's going go up. The only reason they go down is because lots of people think it's going to go down.
It's a mass psychosis. If you can convince a lot of people that your stock will go up then nothing else matters. Not your profits, not your products, not your employees. Nothing.
In fact your references to winning percentages directly back me up when I say that the stock market is simply gambling with the added difficulty being nobody knows what the odds are.
For the exact same reason apple stock went down after apple announced higher then expected earnings. Because the stock market is a giant casino that's why. The value of a stock has nothing to do with the company, what it does, how much money it makes, who runs it, or who works there.
Stocks go up because lots of people think it's going to go up. Stocks go down because lots of people think the stocks going to go down.
It's as simple as that and there is nothing more to it. It's a mass psycosis.
'Why do you think that is wrong?"
Because money is the root of all evil. Or is it love of money is the root of all evil. In either case from a moral point of view there is a lot wrong with it. Would Jesus own stocks? Would he run a coproration? Would he agree that making as much money as possible is something that will get you into heaven or makes you holy?
" Making a a copy is a violation if the copy is "fixed in tangible medium." Is a disk copy "fixed"? In MAI v. Peak the the Ninth Circuit held that copying to RAM is fixed enough:"
That's a complete misreading of the case. It has nothing to do with what is happening here. I also think that any half decent lawyer could tell the difference between copying some software and installing some software.
"Copying from a CDROM to the hard drive is enough to be liable."
Where did you get this goofy idea from?
First of all people can't be liable for past infringements. SCO has a duty to minimize damages by publicly stating what the infringement is, showing definitive proof that they own the copyright, and by giving the infringer a reasonable time to stop the infringement.
Until SCO does all of the above nobody has anything to worry about.
It's safe to say that any infirnging code will be expunged in a manner of hours. Redhat pushes out a new iso within a week and everything is hunky dory.
Where is the MacOSX server manual. The one that explains how to integrate with active directory. How to set up port forwarding and multi homing. The one that explains how automount works.
Maybe a Macosx for freebsd administors or something like that.
What's worse is that from now on when people say that Bill Gates fucked a 17 year old boy the'll be right. If they win this case you can bet your ass it will be my signature.
MS is not suing for trademark violation. They are suing for copyright infringement.
" my point is, why would i want to try it when i hear so much that's bad about it."
Because it has a log of stuff built in. User authentication (properly abstracted so it works against pretty much everything), database abstraction, authority delegation, workflow, templating, etc. You get a lot out of the box. With all that power you also get complexity.
Although I haven't hung around too many arabs I have heard arabic music on occation. It sounded good to me.
I agree. The corporate desktop is where linux should be headed. Leave the home desktop to Apple :)