>...at best people will think you're a bullshit > artist and at worst they will think that you were > not born with the part of the brain that allows > you to form your own thoughts and ideas.
And in either case many jobs will open up for you.
The insider trading charges were dropped. She is essentially being prosecuted for saying that she was innocent of a crime which the government decided it could not prove that she committed.
> Big players are the only ones to put broadband > into a neighborhood. The local shops might provide > it, but they just buy it from the local telco.
My ISP is Spring Valley Telephone, hardly a "Big Player". They offer DSL in the village six miles from here. My local telco is Century Tel. Not a "mom & pop" operation, but not a "Big Player" either. They also offer DSL in many areas (not mine, but then I couldn't afford it anyway).
> This leaves exactly how many big players in > the dialup market?
None at all, I hope. "Big players" differ from small ones only in advertising (more) and quality (less). And none of them have ever offered service in my area despite their lies about nationwide service.
> Dialup is still the only option in many places.
I wouldn't be able to afford anything else anyway.
They might have to put it into the prospectus as a contingent liability. This could easily drive the offering price down by far more than whatever it would take to buy SCO off.
> Maybe people whose address is posted should file a > complaint with the FTC...
No. They should file complaints with their Congressmen. If a few thousand do so Treasury will suddenly discover that they have the resources to delete those addresses after all.
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It took me about half an hour to learn enough SQL to do basic stuff. It isn't that hard.
My fantasies don't involve doing anything to their _equipment_.
A "user-level" program can't run at all on a Unix system with /home mounted noexec.
I run a system with _two_ users and I get so many bogus bounces that I have to send all bounces to /dev/null.
Of _course_ is the admins themselves. Who the hell else installed that AV package?
> ...at best people will think you're a bullshit
> artist and at worst they will think that you were
> not born with the part of the brain that allows
> you to form your own thoughts and ideas.
And in either case many jobs will open up for you.
The insider trading charges were dropped. She is essentially being prosecuted for saying that she was innocent of a crime which the government decided it could not prove that she committed.
Your memory doesn't serve. They got it from Intel.
OBE has long been interpreted as "Other Bloke's Effort". This is an area where Bill excells.
a) It's slide rule, not slide ruler.
b) They had computers and calculators.
Easily. I'm a farmer.
> Companies can be at the top of fashion one year,
> and gone the next as the result of a single
> comment from a prominent figure.
And, of course, it couldn't possibly be the case that that comment was bought and paid for...
> Think about Atari, Kool-Aid, Levis, Goya,
> Adidas, Apple, Phat Farm, Fender, and tell me
> you don't associate a personality with each.
I don't associate a personality with any of them.
Perhaps, but first they would have to actually make an attempt to collect from someone. I've seen no evidence that they have done so.
We're not saying they aren't evil: just that they aren't firebreathing. In fact, we're not sure they breath at all.
But then, neither does a steamroller.
The US also has laws against barratry. However, barratry is not what you think it is.
> It also becomes very difficult to litigate when
> the copyright to the entire code is owned by
> multiple people.
It is quite easy. Any one owner can litigate on his own without permission of any of the others.
> Good luck getting Axiom to build.
No need. Axiom, Maxima, YACAS, and Scilab are all in the Debian archive.
> ...they might even be able to invoke the 5th
> Admendment and refuse to produce
> self-incriminating evidence.
Not applicable in a civil lawsuit.
> Just where is dialup the only available option?
Elmwood, Wisconsin.
> The dial-up is nation-wide.
With no toll charges? I doubt that.
> Big players are the only ones to put broadband
> into a neighborhood. The local shops might provide
> it, but they just buy it from the local telco.
My ISP is Spring Valley Telephone, hardly a "Big Player". They offer DSL in the village six miles from here. My local telco is Century Tel. Not a "mom & pop" operation, but not a "Big Player" either. They also offer DSL in many areas (not mine, but then I couldn't afford it anyway).
> This leaves exactly how many big players in
> the dialup market?
None at all, I hope. "Big players" differ from small ones only in advertising (more) and quality (less). And none of them have ever offered service in my area despite their lies about nationwide service.
> Dialup is still the only option in many places.
I wouldn't be able to afford anything else anyway.
> How will this hurt Google's IPO?
They might have to put it into the prospectus as a contingent liability. This could easily drive the offering price down by far more than whatever it would take to buy SCO off.
It will be of great use in discouraging them from forging my domain in their headers.
> Maybe people whose address is posted should file a
> complaint with the FTC...
No. They should file complaints with their Congressmen. If a few thousand do so Treasury will suddenly discover that they have the resources to delete those addresses after all.