... the case was withdrawn by William F. Baxter, assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, on January 8, 1982. Baxter signed a Stipulation of Dismissal that stated the government's charges were "without merit."
For example, his wife likes Amazing Race, and (apparently) none of the streaming premium services carry it, so it would "have to be written off"...well, except for the fact that in about a 5 second search, I found it at least 3 places. Certainly, it wasn't current-broadcast, but it's still there.
CBS.com streams Amazing Race same day, with about a 3-hour delay from air time. No premium service needed.
I'm not saying this is a good policy, but doesn't the United States government reserve the right to decline any lawsuit filed against it in the United States?
Yes, it's called Soverign Immunity. The U.S. government waives immunity in some cases, and possibly the contract with Grumman includes a clause that allows either party to sue for breach of contract. Also, the post office is not entirely part of the government any more, so it may not even have soverign immunity.
Burying military surplus is a great way to give future military historians and archeologists solid evidence to study in the future. It is inexpensive and should be done with other unneeded military hardware.
Like, landmines and nerve gas.
Aren't landmines already burried? Are there other ways to use them?
Can your Credit Union lend out the money it has on deposit 9 times over because it can access the Federal Reserve Bank's discount window and if it gets over-extended go running to the FDIC for a bail-out?
Credit Unions are insured by the FDIC same as banks. And before that, they were insured by the FSLIC, which did not turn out well for taxpayers.
And that funding is based on who is enrolled, not who shows up for class each day.
Is that how it works in Florida? In other states, funding is based on Average Daily Attendance. If you have 5000 students "enrolled" but only half show up every day, you only get funded for 2500 students.
I don't believe Windows is trademarked. Isn't the trademark the full term "Microsoft Windows"?
No. That is often repeated but is untrue. You can search the trademark database at uspto.gov. Microsoft has several trademarks of just "Windows". (And so do several other companies, in different fields).
What about if you put all the available parts (does that include panelwork?) together into a complete automobile and sell that (removing branding, to avoid bringing trademark into the equation)? You just described a kit-car, and those are perfectly legal.
Suppose I want to open a bank account. I don't know of a way to do it without showing up in person. I've opened several bank accounts by mail. It's never been a problem.
Carl is just mad that someone found out he couldn't keep a secret. If someone tells you a secret, you need to keep it to yourself, and not worry about how you can share the secret and not get caught.
I feel pretty confident that the engineers involved know what they're doing, and can prevent catastrophic failure during a collision. Most people probably would have said the same thing about the engineers at Ford who designed the Pinto. And even if the engineer designs it right, you still need to worry about someone cutting corners because the safe design takes longer and/or costs more money.
Yes, they are liable, but liable for what? What damages case can you make for files that aren't actually used? Maybe they can be sued for "making available" regardless of damages, like has happened in some other cases?
What I want to know - how do they mail DVDs at $1 round-trip?
- It costs me about 3 dollars round-trip (first class - approximately $1.50 per mailing). What's their secret to such cheap postage? I want in on that deal.
The post office offers all sorts of discounts for volume mailers, for things like pre-sorting the mail, using bar codes for addressing, etc.
If you start mailing 2 million DVDs a day, pre-sorted by mail route, then you will get a discount, too.
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And it worked until they lost the anti-trust suit (which started in 1969, lasted 13 years!)
IBM didn't lose. The government dropped the case in 1982.
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/library/collections/manuscripts/findingaids/ibmantitrustpart2.ACC1980.htm#bioghist
For example, his wife likes Amazing Race, and (apparently) none of the streaming premium services carry it, so it would "have to be written off"...well, except for the fact that in about a 5 second search, I found it at least 3 places. Certainly, it wasn't current-broadcast, but it's still there.
CBS.com streams Amazing Race same day, with about a 3-hour delay from air time. No premium service needed.
I'm not saying this is a good policy, but doesn't the United States government reserve the right to decline any lawsuit filed against it in the United States?
Yes, it's called Soverign Immunity. The U.S. government waives immunity in some cases, and possibly the contract with Grumman includes a clause that allows either party to sue for breach of contract. Also, the post office is not entirely part of the government any more, so it may not even have soverign immunity.
This Wikipedia article has more detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_United_States
Burying military surplus is a great way to give future military historians and archeologists solid evidence to study in the future. It is inexpensive and should be done with other unneeded military hardware.
Like, landmines and nerve gas.
Aren't landmines already burried? Are there other ways to use them?
Regarding this statement:
"...creating a thermal inversion with layers of cold air below layers of warmer air..."
Isn't that normal? Cold air falls, warm air rises. What's inverted about that?
It's the Georgia *Institute* of Technology, not a university. /pendantic /alum
http://www.gatech.edu/about/
According to their webpage they are a university. Maybe you should take your complaint to the webmaster.
Eudora had this feature in the past, so you might want to look at it and see if it still does.
http://eudora.com/
It's apparently open source now, so if you could add this feature if it doesn't exist.
Can your Credit Union lend out the money it has on deposit 9 times over because it can access the Federal Reserve Bank's discount window and if it gets over-extended go running to the FDIC for a bail-out?
Credit Unions are insured by the FDIC same as banks. And before that, they were insured by the FSLIC, which did not turn out well for taxpayers.
And that funding is based on who is enrolled, not who shows up for class each day.
Is that how it works in Florida? In other states, funding is based on Average Daily Attendance. If you have 5000 students "enrolled" but only half show up every day, you only get funded for 2500 students.
And I don't think you'll buy a Linux laptop just to run (plenty of) windows games on it. It doesn't make sense.
Is that the purpose of WINE? So you can run an OS you like but also run Windows games? Makes sense to me.
What's a "phone alarm"?
Many cell phones have an alarm clock function.
I propose the Stallman, with 10 Stallman being as open as can be, and 0 Stallman being NSA-like transparency.
How about naming it after someone who does not violate the GPL?
0 mod 1 = 0, so zero is odd.
Any integer mod 1 = 0. So every integer is odd?
Don't forget that FM radio is used in many cars and they have a tendency to cross country borders - even into the UK.
This can be an important issue when pushing traffic information and news.
Here (U.S.) traffic and news are mostly on AM. Does the UK have AM stations or only FM?
I don't believe Windows is trademarked. Isn't the trademark the full term "Microsoft Windows"?
No. That is often repeated but is untrue. You can search the trademark database at uspto.gov. Microsoft has several trademarks of just "Windows". (And so do several other companies, in different fields).
the backup system was probably in one of the _racks_ the FBI seized.
No offsite backups?
What about if you put all the available parts (does that include panelwork?) together into a complete automobile and sell that (removing branding, to avoid bringing trademark into the equation)?
You just described a kit-car, and those are perfectly legal.
Suppose I want to open a bank account. I don't know of a way to do it without showing up in person.
I've opened several bank accounts by mail. It's never been a problem.
Comcast must be shitting their pants right about now.
Why? Someone might find out they're throttling? I thought everyone knew that already.
How do you get Netflix on an Xbox?
Sign up for the XBOX Live "Gold" membership, and NetFlix is one of the "Video Marketplace" entries.
Carl is just mad that someone found out he couldn't keep a secret. If someone tells you a secret, you need to keep it to yourself, and not worry about how you can share the secret and not get caught.
I feel pretty confident that the engineers involved know what they're doing, and can prevent catastrophic failure during a collision.
Most people probably would have said the same thing about the engineers at Ford who designed the Pinto. And even if the engineer designs it right, you still need to worry about someone cutting corners because the safe design takes longer and/or costs more money.
Yes, they are liable, but liable for what? What damages case can you make for files that aren't actually used?
Maybe they can be sued for "making available" regardless of damages, like has happened in some other cases?
Linux on Intel, Linux on Integrity (Itanium)
Itanium is Intel
What I want to know - how do they mail DVDs at $1 round-trip?
- It costs me about 3 dollars round-trip (first class - approximately $1.50 per mailing). What's their secret to such cheap postage? I want in on that deal.
The post office offers all sorts of discounts for volume mailers, for things like pre-sorting the mail, using bar codes for addressing, etc.
If you start mailing 2 million DVDs a day, pre-sorted by mail route, then you will get a discount, too.