More than 40 years later, people still ask questions, they're not buying the official party line, and its not really a "single issue". It affects the credibility of the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, and government in general.
... yes, the air has been leaking out of that excuse for decades.
What's really funny is that if he hadn't thrown his back (he had back problems for decades) with YAEA (Yet Another Extramarital Affair), he wouldn't have been wearing his back brace that day, which prevented him from moving, and wouldn't have been killed.
I wonder if someone could run for president on a single promise - release ALL the info on the JFK killing... or how long they'd survive before an "accident", or a "deranged gunman" took them out...
You're forgiven... since yu probably never saw it.
Bell Canada tried to copy the Minitel scheme, which was already long in the tooth by the early '90s. For a while they also tried to get into the fax business, before finally hitting upon satellite porn . Bell Canada then quickly became North America's top hard-core porn distributor before getting exposed http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/archives/a rticles03300101.asp
Bell Canada procures its porn from Colorado-based New Frontier Media, which trades on the Nasdaq. Its movies are decidedly not of the soft-porn Playboy TV variety. They depict scenes of sado-masochism, rape, torture, and other graphic acts of sexual violence that many would find morally offensive.
It was a crappy service with high fees, slow downloads, and not much content. Minitel survived as long as it did because it started a decade earlier, so they had a subscriber base that they couldn't just "dump."
I remember when Bell Canada tried to introduce a similar service - Alex - a dedicated terminal w. 300 baud modem - to try to take piggyback on the popularity of free BBS systems and pay systems like Compuserve. Of course, even the cheapest modems at the time could do 1200 - 2400 baud, and 9600 baud if you had the bucks.
It was overhyped, overpriced (30 cents/minute), and not missed at all.
I can agree, with one exception - when you're driving a stick-shift... then its really handy to be able to put someone on the speaker-phone so you can use both hands to drive.
Unfortunately, most people "think" they're above-average drivers, just like most people "think" they're above-average intelligence. The obvious truth is that most people are average drivers, just like most are only of average intelligence.
The automotive manufacturers are arguably helping reduce the accident counts by making the various contributory technologies less distractive, such as by building in hands-free calling.
My phone already has hands-free calling (I just say the persons' name, and it dials), and a speakerphone, as well as playing mp3s and playing and recording videos, and can communicate with car stereos via bluetooth.
This is just one more reason NOT to buy a Ford (not that there haven't been a gazillion reasons already... lousy fuel economy, poor model selection, the real risk of it going bankrupt...)
Running a webbrowser and other light stuff, I can't really tell a speed difference between vista and xp. Running something like photoshop... well, 512 megs of ram, so both vista and xp dies. Even gnome trashes itself to death.
Get rid of beagle and all the other mono crud and gnome will work fine with 256 megs, never mind 512 megs. Why Novell wanted to "protect" mono by cutting a deal with Microsoft is beyond me.
In fact, Nixon hadn't been indicted in the legal system, when the pardon was issued.
... so even by your own statements, the pardon was premature. Actions speak louder than words. Ford demonstrated his supreme contempt for the ability of the "little people" to be able to handle impeachment and criminal procedings. "Putting the national nightmare behind us" rather than learning the lessons it had to teach is what got the world to its current place - a president who feels he's above the law and makes no bones about it, and an expectation among higher-ups everywhere that they won't feel the full force of the law because, aw shucks, they're "special", and humiliation is such a terrible punishment compared to (gasp) jail time...
Fuck that.
Ford blew the whole thing off with his self-righteous, pateralistic, condescending attitude. That people are still pissed decades later shows just how wrong he was.
Definitely agree. His excuse at the time was lame, and paved the way for future excesses.
Part of the responsibility of the highest office in the land is to make the tough calls, and he totally failed it on that one. No wonder people kept asking if he had played football without a helmet.
When a president who nobody voted for pardons his predecessor and former "boss" for criminal activities, it stinks. The "National Nightmare" was over when Nixon resigned - putting him on trial would have sent the message that there aren't 2 sets of rules - one for white-collar elites and one for the rest of us.
To paraphrase it - "Fuck someone over, go to jail - fuck the whole country over, retire and write a book. Fuck it!"
On a side note - how is Ford's death "News for Nerds?"
Nonsense - a "lumpy" distribution is FAR superior to an even distribution, especially when you have multiple Santa clones to work with. Which would involve more travelling - 100 kids in 33 apartments in one building, or your "even distribution"? The answer is so obvious that I'm amazed the original author made such a blooper.
Even with 1 Santa, an even distribution is the worst possible one. Mind you, they also "proved" bumble-bees can't fly. And the Titanic can never sink.
As I previosly poited out to someone else when they posted something along the same argument i their journal:
Santa is obviosusly a clone. Look anywhere - there are hundreds of them visible in every shopping mall. Or are you going to deny the evidence of your own eyeballs?
Assuming an "even distribution: is the WORST POSSIBLE distribution, guaranteed to suck up the most time. The real distributin is much more optimal. You'll find most kids have a brother or sister, cutting the number of trips by at least half. Also, most kids live far less than 1 km away from any other kid - like "next door", "same apartment building", etc. The real-world distribution is two roders of magnitude better than "evenly distributed" (how many kids live in the middle of the pacific ocean, or antarctica, anyway)?
Assuming only 5 million Santa clones, and a much more reasonable distribution, works out that each Santa only has to make 21 stops, all in the same neighborhood, that night. Chimneys? Come on, who has a working chimney nowadays, with the EPA, etc? He delivers to the door, same as FedEX, DHL and UPS.
Yo got ripped off... and the library's "policy" of charging such a large markup, considering that they get a half-decent discount, is a real rip (any organization can get the same discount by guaranteeing to buy more than 6 copies).
Publishers count on libraries for a substantial portion of sales - they NEED the libraries to have a guaranteed sales base. Ask yourself this - why would a library pay more than retail for a book? Purchases by libraries are covered both by fair use/first sale. Have you ever seen a book that says "youmay not loan or give this book to anyone else"?
School book stores would LOVE such restrictions, since they lose a lot of sales to students selling their copies when they're done.
My personal library has over 1,000 books in it - taking one at random, the copyright notice has NO restrictions on lending. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
You mom was lied to. If your friend had to pay more, it was probably because he had also racked up late fees.
Don't be silly - someone is jerking you around. Libraries pay more because they're buying hard-cover books. Most of them have the price written in pencil someone on the flyleaf. Lose the book, and they'll ask you to pay to replace it - its around the same price you can buy it from your local bookstore.
Another analogy could be putting up signs to advertise the services of drug dealers, which would make most people think the ruling was obvious. It's a good thing we don't make decisions based on analogies, right?
Sooooo... pharmacists and drug companies don't advertise?
Next stop - close down the local library - everyone there is either infringing copyright or contributing to it - after all, they can read books without licensing them!
There are more than 2 window managers for X, and some of them take quite a radical turn. However, keep in mind that Windows was originally supposed to be a desktop accessory running under dos - it was not intended to be an os. Then it became a runtime for applications, and only after a LONG while, did they start building in features that made it more like an OS.
There is no contradiction between Gates saying DRM is bad for consumers and Microsoft espousing DRM - since when did Gates do anything that benefited consumers without first being dragged through a courtroom?
because they have learned from Microsoft's mistakes and successes.
Not really. Thik about it - Microsofts successes are in marketing, not software design. And its not like linus or the BSD people looked at Windows code and said - oops - not going to do THAT!
Those that complained about Microsoft the loudest were closed source software developers that didn't want to adapt.
No, its users who had to pay for crap who complained the loudest. "%^%$!!!! Windows ate my homework|thesis|report!!!"
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Makes more sense than the "official" explanation with the "magic bullet".
More than 40 years later, people still ask questions, they're not buying the official party line, and its not really a "single issue". It affects the credibility of the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, and government in general.
What's really funny is that if he hadn't thrown his back (he had back problems for decades) with YAEA (Yet Another Extramarital Affair), he wouldn't have been wearing his back brace that day, which prevented him from moving, and wouldn't have been killed.
No, Microsoft Bob was like herpes.
I wonder if someone could run for president on a single promise - release ALL the info on the JFK killing ... or how long they'd survive before an "accident", or a "deranged gunman" took them out ...
You're forgiven ... since yu probably never saw it.
Bell Canada tried to copy the Minitel scheme, which was already long in the tooth by the early '90s. For a while they also tried to get into the fax business, before finally hitting upon satellite porn . Bell Canada then quickly became North America's top hard-core porn distributor before getting exposed http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/archives/a rticles03300101.asp
It was a crappy service with high fees, slow downloads, and not much content. Minitel survived as long as it did because it started a decade earlier, so they had a subscriber base that they couldn't just "dump."
Do we finally find out who killed JFK?
I remember when Bell Canada tried to introduce a similar service - Alex - a dedicated terminal w. 300 baud modem - to try to take piggyback on the popularity of free BBS systems and pay systems like Compuserve. Of course, even the cheapest modems at the time could do 1200 - 2400 baud, and 9600 baud if you had the bucks.
It was overhyped, overpriced (30 cents/minute), and not missed at all.
I can agree, with one exception - when you're driving a stick-shift ... then its really handy to be able to put someone on the speaker-phone so you can use both hands to drive.
Unfortunately, most people "think" they're above-average drivers, just like most people "think" they're above-average intelligence. The obvious truth is that most people are average drivers, just like most are only of average intelligence.
The automotive manufacturers are arguably helping reduce the accident counts by making the various contributory technologies less distractive, such as by building in hands-free calling.
My phone already has hands-free calling (I just say the persons' name, and it dials), and a speakerphone, as well as playing mp3s and playing and recording videos, and can communicate with car stereos via bluetooth.
This is just one more reason NOT to buy a Ford (not that there haven't been a gazillion reasons already ... lousy fuel economy, poor model selection, the real risk of it going bankrupt ...)
Get rid of beagle and all the other mono crud and gnome will work fine with 256 megs, never mind 512 megs. Why Novell wanted to "protect" mono by cutting a deal with Microsoft is beyond me.
Fuck that.
Ford blew the whole thing off with his self-righteous, pateralistic, condescending attitude. That people are still pissed decades later shows just how wrong he was.
Definitely agree. His excuse at the time was lame, and paved the way for future excesses.
Part of the responsibility of the highest office in the land is to make the tough calls, and he totally failed it on that one. No wonder people kept asking if he had played football without a helmet.
When a president who nobody voted for pardons his predecessor and former "boss" for criminal activities, it stinks. The "National Nightmare" was over when Nixon resigned - putting him on trial would have sent the message that there aren't 2 sets of rules - one for white-collar elites and one for the rest of us.
To paraphrase it - "Fuck someone over, go to jail - fuck the whole country over, retire and write a book. Fuck it!"
On a side note - how is Ford's death "News for Nerds?"
Nonsense - a "lumpy" distribution is FAR superior to an even distribution, especially when you have multiple Santa clones to work with. Which would involve more travelling - 100 kids in 33 apartments in one building, or your "even distribution"? The answer is so obvious that I'm amazed the original author made such a blooper.
Even with 1 Santa, an even distribution is the worst possible one. Mind you, they also "proved" bumble-bees can't fly. And the Titanic can never sink.
As I previosly poited out to someone else when they posted something along the same argument i their journal:
Don't worry - you didn't miss anything ... the Florida voters did a recount and it turns out that Discovery actually landed in Maryland.
Yo got ripped off ... and the library's "policy" of charging such a large markup, considering that they get a half-decent discount, is a real rip (any organization can get the same discount by guaranteeing to buy more than 6 copies).
Publishers count on libraries for a substantial portion of sales - they NEED the libraries to have a guaranteed sales base. Ask yourself this - why would a library pay more than retail for a book? Purchases by libraries are covered both by fair use/first sale. Have you ever seen a book that says "youmay not loan or give this book to anyone else"?
School book stores would LOVE such restrictions, since they lose a lot of sales to students selling their copies when they're done.
My personal library has over 1,000 books in it - taking one at random, the copyright notice has NO restrictions on lending. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
You mom was lied to. If your friend had to pay more, it was probably because he had also racked up late fees.
Bullshit - a friend of mine purposefully "lost" a book that he wanted to keep, and they charged him cover price - $34.00.
Don't be silly - someone is jerking you around. Libraries pay more because they're buying hard-cover books. Most of them have the price written in pencil someone on the flyleaf. Lose the book, and they'll ask you to pay to replace it - its around the same price you can buy it from your local bookstore.
Sooooo ... pharmacists and drug companies don't advertise?
Next stop - close down the local library - everyone there is either infringing copyright or contributing to it - after all, they can read books without licensing them!
There are more than 2 window managers for X, and some of them take quite a radical turn. However, keep in mind that Windows was originally supposed to be a desktop accessory running under dos - it was not intended to be an os. Then it became a runtime for applications, and only after a LONG while, did they start building in features that made it more like an OS.
There is no contradiction between Gates saying DRM is bad for consumers and Microsoft espousing DRM - since when did Gates do anything that benefited consumers without first being dragged through a courtroom?
Not really. Thik about it - Microsofts successes are in marketing, not software design. And its not like linus or the BSD people looked at Windows code and said - oops - not going to do THAT!
No, its users who had to pay for crap who complained the loudest. "%^%$!!!! Windows ate my homework|thesis|report!!!"
Well, it certainly FEELS like its java-based, considering how s-l-o-w-l-y the page loads.
Actualy, it DOES run linux - and they'll pay you to write applications that run on it.
There's one out already - an iptables-based firewall.