When they offshored the textiles jobs, I did not speak out because I wasn't a textile worker. When they offshored the steel mills, I did not speak out because I didn't make steel...
19. In a
diabolical scheme to deceive computer users into misdirecting their computers to Internet sites of defendant's clients...
(emphasis mine)
Ya gotta love a lawyer with the balls to characerize something as "diabolical;" not merely "greedy," "unethical," or even simply "fraudulent." They called this behavior worthy of the devil himself.
From Claims:
47. Defendants knowingly and intentionally made false statements of existing material facts.
48. Defendants intended for class members to rely on their material misrepresentations as fact.
Hopefully this is a slam-dunk. The fact that they disguised their "puffery"
such that people didn't realize they were ads gained them more clicks, but hopefully also a level of "reliance" beyond the low level that usually shields advertizing hyperbole from fraud claims.
Hopefully it won't stop here. The $505 per plaintif ($500 punative damages and an amusing $5 compensatory damages) has some teeth, but the most wronged parties aren't the ignorant clickers, but the ISPs who are paying to shuffle this crap back and forth. I keep wondering when the ISPs are going to sue spammers and junk ad pushers for some sort of trespass/DOS. Now they'd have a case for compensatory damages...
Perhaps those who seem to have learned their grammar from semi-literate HR staffers need to go through some further orientation. Once they have been properly oriented, they will no longer embarrass themselves when addressing public forums.
6. Monitor class from "In Death Ground..." book duo-logy. My god, if you're tired of the wimpy battles in Star Trek and Star Wars and on TV..., not to mention the ferocious "game over, man!" ass-kicking humanity & friends receive for the first half of the series...
Doulogy? Oh no You need to read Insurrection, the published-earlier/set-later Starfirequadrology novel. It's the Americal Revolution playing out between the Core and Rim systems within the Terran Ferderation a generation later. Great stuff.
The impact of this story was felt nowhere more than bt the development team for LainOS.
While previous coverage of the OS mostly centered on technical issues, this revelation about the future of the global network will hopefully involve an upswing in LainOS development,
Lead developer Neoevangelist , last reported looking for some good Open Source spech recognition libraries, was unavailable for comment.
Two hundred billion dollars plus would have bought us practically all the Iraqi oil we could have hauled off. Why didn't we just buy it, and save everybody a lot of time, money, and trouble?
The answer is simple. If we just bought the oil, only the well connectedoil men would get rich, and Iraq might even be a significant regional power.
This way, the oil men AND the defencse contractors get the G$200 twice and only have to share a token fee with whatever puppet regime we cobble together to replace Saddam.
Dolch has been making these sorts of things for years now. Mostly aimed at scientific, construction, and engeneering field work (the military only started widely deploying laptops fairly recently). Their laptops can handle 15G's while running and 50 when turned off.
Without all this overregulation, Pacific Bell would have been able to implement "Fasttrack" DSL (Now called Project Pronto, it's the DSL on fiber infrastructure project which was supposed to put DSL in every pac bell home by 2002) already and everyone would be able to get DSL.
You mean the same Pac-Bell who's been saying "fiber-to-the-home is just around the corner but we just need a few more subsidies first" since the 70s would have finally gotten fiber to the nid if not for these six pesky years of linesharing?
If memory serves, the RBOCs had no interest in even $60/month data lines before the 1996 Telco act. They were all about $150/month for ISDN and a grand or few for T-1, even though DSL technology had been around for years.
Morover, if the Telco act hadn't required divestiture of some of the long-haul infrastructure (ie GTE had to spin off Genuity/BBN Planet and what became Verizon Advanced Data in order to merge with Bell Atlantic), noone would be allowed access to the backbones to implement some great new thing.
The telco industry has been so far removed from anything resembling a free market for so long that nothing short of a radical restructuring could get it there now. It's been the stagnation of local infrastructure that has left the more free-market backbone providers with a capacity glut. If there were as many local-loop competitors as long distance options, how much Dark Fiber would we have?
The ATT breakup was a start, look what it did for long distance. Give the RBOC's a dose of the same medicine: They can do infrastructure or services but not both. and whichever they pick, there will be open acess to the infrastrucure.
Perhaps if we really want to take the high-road on disobediance, we should all pirate like mad anything over 28 years old (giving the benefit of the doubt to the rights holders regarding renewal under the previous and quite reasonable standards) while leaving newer works alone. That and really push the limits of the idea/expression angle that Ginsburg seems to think makes the current system workable or at least Constitutionally valid.
Simply because it CAN be replicated he thinks it should without limits. If he could figure out how to replicate food and fuel and other tangible items I think he would.
Why wouldn't he? Heck I would! The lynchpins of Trek-esque almost-utopia that we don't have are cheap, clean, near-limitless power; and replicators. If patent lawyers were running the show, we'd get Diamond Age instaid.
Actually, HURD stands for Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons. That being the point of the GNU's Not Unix OS. The various processes running on top of MACH simulate (or are meant to simulate) the POSIX/UNIX api we all know and love/hate. The cool thing if (when?) it matures is that it will allow things like mounting file-systems and other kernel-modulesque processes in userspace.
If you want your prints to outlast you, a $200 inkjet printer aint gonna cut it. Most inkjets inks use vegetable dyes that breakdown more quickly than photgraphic emulsion. For serious archival work think about earth-pigmented inks (I use Epson Archival and Ultrachrome, there are others) on papers prepared for such a purpose. At that point, you essentially have Giclee prints that will last many decades.
The impact of this story was felt nowhere more than bt the development team for LainOS.
While previous coverage of the OS mostly centered on technical issues, this revelation about the future of global network will hopefully involve an upswing in LainOS development,
Lead developer Neoevangelist, last reported looking for some good Open Source spech recognition libraries, was unavailable for comment.
Watch Cirque d' Soleil and Rumble in the Bronx and then say Spidey required CGI.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really looking forward to this movie, but what CGI does best isn't replacing actors and models. What CGI does best is background sweetenning, compositing, and enhancement.
For my money, I'd rather have kung-fu-acrobats duke it out in front of a green-screen and be superimposed via CGI inro an environment than have everything be CGI.
It's like barbecue sauce. Use too much and you cant taste the meat.
Actually, $10 is more revenue than the label itself gets from an individual CD sold in a retail outlet.
If a CD sells for $16, the retailer paid ~$8 to the distributor, who paid the label ~$4. In terms of revenue, the label itself would make roughly the same ducats if the average buyer takes home 2.5 CD/month now.
I believe the reason the labels don't dig on something like this is that part of the way they maintain their oligopoly on the business is by having a lock on distribution (i.e. acess to retail shelves/airwaves). They don't want any significant online music business, because they would very suddenly be on near equal footing with the independants and individual artists. They want to maintain their status quo no matter what. Witness their bank-breaking royalty demands for online netcasts as part of the same strategy.
Of course none of this addresses their marketing muscle...
Hmm, if it becomes a law that the copy protection tools must be OSS, and Microsoft owns a Patent on the DRM Operating system, what exactly are the implications of that? Curiouser and curiouser..
Folks interested in nanotech run wild should check out Bloom, by Will McCarthy. His vision is far more complex and beautiful than mere "Grey Goo." Solar/heat powered nanites, or mycora in this context, floating in self organizing clouds around the inner planets with all sorts of emergant behaviors. An excellent read.
> And to the both of you who raised your hands, keep your hands up if you think you got better support through the vendor than you would have if you'd called the Psychic Friends Hotline.
Actually, this comparison has been done by BMUG. You can find the results of their "study" here. (No goat links, I promise)
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When they offshored the textiles jobs, I did not speak out because I wasn't a textile worker.
When they offshored the steel mills, I did not speak out because I didn't make steel...
THE WORLDS LARGEST BALL OF TWINE cannot be overlooked. 1325 miles of twine! (That's 2315km down under)
From the Statement of Facts:
(emphasis mine)Ya gotta love a lawyer with the balls to characerize something as "diabolical;" not merely "greedy," "unethical," or even simply "fraudulent." They called this behavior worthy of the devil himself.
From Claims:
Hopefully this is a slam-dunk. The fact that they disguised their "puffery" such that people didn't realize they were ads gained them more clicks, but hopefully also a level of "reliance" beyond the low level that usually shields advertizing hyperbole from fraud claims.
Hopefully it won't stop here. The $505 per plaintif ($500 punative damages and an amusing $5 compensatory damages) has some teeth, but the most wronged parties aren't the ignorant clickers, but the ISPs who are paying to shuffle this crap back and forth. I keep wondering when the ISPs are going to sue spammers and junk ad pushers for some sort of trespass/DOS. Now they'd have a case for compensatory damages...
Doulogy? Oh no You need to read Insurrection, the published-earlier/set-later Starfire quadrology novel. It's the Americal Revolution playing out between the Core and Rim systems within the Terran Ferderation a generation later. Great stuff.
While previous coverage of the OS mostly centered on technical issues, this revelation about the future of the global network will hopefully involve an upswing in LainOS development,
Lead developer Neoevangelist , last reported looking for some good Open Source spech recognition libraries, was unavailable for comment.
The answer is simple. If we just bought the oil, only the well connected oil men would get rich, and Iraq might even be a significant regional power.
This way, the oil men AND the defencse contractors get the G$200 twice and only have to share a token fee with whatever puppet regime we cobble together to replace Saddam.
Dolch has been making these sorts of things for years now. Mostly aimed at scientific, construction, and engeneering field work (the military only started widely deploying laptops fairly recently). Their laptops can handle 15G's while running and 50 when turned off.
You mean the same Pac-Bell who's been saying "fiber-to-the-home is just around the corner but we just need a few more subsidies first" since the 70s would have finally gotten fiber to the nid if not for these six pesky years of linesharing?
Please.
Morover, if the Telco act hadn't required divestiture of some of the long-haul infrastructure (ie GTE had to spin off Genuity/BBN Planet and what became Verizon Advanced Data in order to merge with Bell Atlantic), noone would be allowed access to the backbones to implement some great new thing.
The telco industry has been so far removed from anything resembling a free market for so long that nothing short of a radical restructuring could get it there now. It's been the stagnation of local infrastructure that has left the more free-market backbone providers with a capacity glut. If there were as many local-loop competitors as long distance options, how much Dark Fiber would we have?
The ATT breakup was a start, look what it did for long distance. Give the RBOC's a dose of the same medicine: They can do infrastructure or services but not both. and whichever they pick, there will be open acess to the infrastrucure.
Perhaps if we really want to take the high-road on disobediance, we should all pirate like mad anything over 28 years old (giving the benefit of the doubt to the rights holders regarding renewal under the previous and quite reasonable standards) while leaving newer works alone. That and really push the limits of the idea/expression angle that Ginsburg seems to think makes the current system workable or at least Constitutionally valid.
Why wouldn't he? Heck I would! The lynchpins of Trek-esque almost-utopia that we don't have are cheap, clean, near-limitless power; and replicators. If patent lawyers were running the show, we'd get Diamond Age instaid.
Actually, HURD stands for Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons. That being the point of the GNU's Not Unix OS. The various processes running on top of MACH simulate (or are meant to simulate) the POSIX/UNIX api we all know and love/hate. The cool thing if (when?) it matures is that it will allow things like mounting file-systems and other kernel-modulesque processes in userspace.
Where is grammarnazi when we need him?
If you want your prints to outlast you, a $200 inkjet printer aint gonna cut it. Most inkjets inks use vegetable dyes that breakdown more quickly than photgraphic emulsion. For serious archival work think about earth-pigmented inks (I use Epson Archival and Ultrachrome, there are others) on papers prepared for such a purpose. At that point, you essentially have Giclee prints that will last many decades.
While previous coverage of the OS mostly centered on technical issues, this revelation about the future of global network will hopefully involve an upswing in LainOS development,
Lead developer Neoevangelist, last reported looking for some good Open Source spech recognition libraries, was unavailable for comment.
Step 1: Buy legit ebook.
Step 2: Open ebook.
Step 3: Grab screenshot, turn page, repeat.
Step 4: Embed graphic in Preview.
Step 5: Write script to automate process.
Step 6: Save as PDF
Step 7: Enjoy on system of choice and share with friends.
I hope non-infringing uses count for something...
Watch Cirque d' Soleil and Rumble in the Bronx and then say Spidey required CGI. Don't get me wrong, I'm really looking forward to this movie, but what CGI does best isn't replacing actors and models. What CGI does best is background sweetenning, compositing, and enhancement. For my money, I'd rather have kung-fu-acrobats duke it out in front of a green-screen and be superimposed via CGI inro an environment than have everything be CGI. It's like barbecue sauce. Use too much and you cant taste the meat.
If a CD sells for $16, the retailer paid ~$8 to the distributor, who paid the label ~$4. In terms of revenue, the label itself would make roughly the same ducats if the average buyer takes home 2.5 CD/month now.
I believe the reason the labels don't dig on something like this is that part of the way they maintain their oligopoly on the business is by having a lock on distribution (i.e. acess to retail shelves/airwaves). They don't want any significant online music business, because they would very suddenly be on near equal footing with the independants and individual artists. They want to maintain their status quo no matter what. Witness their bank-breaking royalty demands for online netcasts as part of the same strategy.
Of course none of this addresses their marketing muscle...
Hmm, if it becomes a law that the copy protection tools must be OSS, and Microsoft owns a Patent on the DRM Operating system, what exactly are the implications of that? Curiouser and curiouser..
Let's just say it doesn't come loaded with saddle-shaped styro-chips.
As any discerning antenna hacker knows, Pringles are CRISPS, not chips. Sheesh...
... they'll have the 80' model ready for U2's next tour
Folks interested in nanotech run wild should check out Bloom, by Will McCarthy. His vision is far more complex and beautiful than mere "Grey Goo." Solar/heat powered nanites, or mycora in this context, floating in self organizing clouds around the inner planets with all sorts of emergant behaviors. An excellent read.
Actually, this comparison has been done by BMUG. You can find the results of their "study" here. (No goat links, I promise)
There're also some of the well known net-regs to nyt in-place as well...