36 million americans live in a family where there is not enough food
Yeah, but it's insanely schizoid. You read those articles here and they have a picture of people lined up at the rural charity food center IN THEIR SUVs. And, why not? Where are the suburban transit lines and rural busses? The U.S. is SO screwed. If this were SimCity we'd all already be dead.
Just because we're so big and noticable. I personally take great comfort that we are more democratic than, oh, Saudia Arabia. Probably Zimbabwe too. Less internal violence for sure.
It's all a question of adjusting our standards. There are still LOTS worse countries among the couple hundred in the world. Maybe not that many currently leveling other countries and, sure, other people might look negatively upon that. But I mean for living in.
Elliott Gould had a longish monologue in the Vietnam-era movie Little Murders that could prove useful. Occasionally address the content of your mail to your spies. Sympathize with their boredom and loneliness. Let them know you forgive them and you know they didn't expect to grow up to be mail snoops. Let them know that you are lonely too and rail against the ennui of the two of you placed in this soul-sucking juxtaposition of pointless futility and faceless emptiness. What might life have been and what revelations could be discovered in the sharing of stark truth? But the charade must be maintained and contact cannot be established in the lunchroom or your "special" relationship with them would be shattered and would shatter the corporate structure you are all caught within. Mail regularly on schedule -- and then stop. You may have a sense for how long to maintain the tension. And what story to resume with.
It would be nice to have some observation of your target to see if you are having the desired effect but the ultimate prize would be for them to break cover and beg you to stop for their own well-being.
This post reads seriously in the style of an RIAA agit-prop feed. I give it 90-10 it's astroturf.
But anyway, banning someone from ever buying another CD (however you would do that) would be one way to assure that a person pirates for the rest of his life. Heightened aggression is just useless and sadly ignorant of history. When the British were flooding China with opium, China tried cruxifying dealers on the docks. Didn't stop it. Think of the literature and engravings about pickpickots at the pickpockot's hanging.
But, yes. What does this have to do with copyright _duration_? Economists are familiar with the concept of the "speed of money". With the new-found "speed of information" copyrights should be halved (at least), not doubled. And, yes, the example of Disney and the U.S. is to blame.
OK, good point. I was an OS/2 user from '95 well into '01. There was some crossover with free linux programs using the emx library and OS/2 ran DOS and Win 3.1 programs, but every OS/2 program I bought (and it seemed like I bought every OS/2 program so I understand how that loyalty works too).
But that does make my point that running the two stats together makes the percentage more like 13.8, not 16. But 13.8 would still be pretty amazing growth.
Minnesota prides itself on being new-world Scandinavians. U of M has built a zero-heating home that works at least for the southern half of the state.
It needs a heat exchanger to bring in fresh air. One is free to get the electricity for that as one wishes. Unfortunately, we also have at least one family per winter here who try sealing the house without a heat exchanger. Using regular fuel one sees the predictable effect of exphyxiating the family.
The downside is that the U of M house uses every trick in the book working in from landscaping and building orientation to the sun. You aren't going to turn the gazillions of existing homes into zero-energy homes easily.
How much harm is done by disposing of the batteries that are no longer of use?
Batteries are such a good issue. Sure, you have to get a charger and charging costs "something", but rechargeables are down to about 2 times the cost of quality alkalines. And recharge how many times? I've going on 4 years in my phase in to replace everything with them and have yet to throw away a set because they've worn out. People are pinheads in their own finances, much less pollution, for just grabbing whatever is at the checkout counter instead of seeking out rechargeables.
Like a laptop, when a rechargeable is low, it is low NOW. But I am not aware of any other problems. I've read that they loss about 10% charge per month. That must be a deceptively small "compound loss" because I have a couple wall and desk clocks going on a couple years with them.
Buy rechargeables. Just go in and invest in a bunch for everything you use and a few spares to keep around charged for replacements. You'll be happy. You'll never have to wonder whether you need batteries at the checkout counter again.
No doubt about it. Dubya and Uncle Dick will learn about this in the Monday morning briefing, slap their foreheads and say, "What were we thinking? Let's get right on this!"
Macintosh owners buy 30% more software than their Windows counterparts. Further, Macintosh software comprises over 18% of all software sold, according to the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs.
First off, I wonder: Do Mac owners actually buy 30% more titles or do Mac owners pay 30% more for the titles they get, Mac being a boutique brand with less retail competition? But, anyway. Assuming they do buy 30% more software and that software comprises 18% of all software sold, that is 130% of 13.8%, not 16%.
As someone who downloaded both Ubuntu and the lastest Knoppix yesterday, it is clear that this story is flamebait since it totally ignores linux in favor of market share while extrapolating that market share into a statement about total computer usage. Wasn't there an estimate last year that there was about a 5%/4% worldwide linux/Mac total share that actually had linux ahead of Mac? On the other hand, considering the 'just-need-to-get-my-critical-creative-innovative -masterpiece-composed-without-knowing-anything-abo ut-computers' stereotypical Mac user, I think it is likely that a much greater percentage of Mac users over other OSes don't have the interest, inclination, or, ahem, ability to install a SETI@home client so I would expect a deceptively low statistic there. 2.3% is probably as ridiculous as 16%.
If nothing else, I think the statistic about software sold is interesting. A more heterogeneous OS market is only to the better and if the figures actually demonstrate strong Mac growth in the last year, that is great.
Well, Richard Thompson has done a folksy Britney so there is precedent.
This guy's quest seems a bit eccentric, so I say, "Good for him!" But I don't see a large market demographic or the same potential for TV ads as James Dean selling Polident.
I live on one side of a shallow urban brook that has many good points: ducks, geese, carp, turtles and the occasional heron. Unfortunately, it has a tire in it about every 40 yards or less. 1/4 mile upstream on the other side is the municipal physical plant that accepts recycling. They charge to take tires.
The conclusion seems obvious. Hell, I don't even have incentive to volunteer my time to fish them out if I will suffer the insult of paying to deposit the fruits of my good citizenship.
We've had those studies in the States too, but, here, people seriously plan how to eliminate drinking by college atudents once and for all. So one has to decide whether the studies, or the reaction to it, are the most stupid.
Depends on how you define "high chance", but if you mean greatly elevated chance, then you are telling people over 40 not to have kids. Downs isn't the same as inheriting blue eyes.
How many "slutwhores" are drug and/or alcohol abusers with a not so repressed hatred of men -- perhaps from a history of childhood sexual abuse? I'll take my chances with the son. Heck, I'd rather go to an art museum than a ball game myself.
Yer all a bunch of commie pinko liberal America-haters. Our President is doing the BEST HE CAN to protect us from terrorism, and he NEEDS these powers.
Good Lord, can you smell the reek of fear radiating from that "coward's" post?
But the mad dog ideology backs against the wall going to fight until the last uninformed soldier falls
with torture and terror in the name of the law and future generations will wonder what for
Ah, but day-to-day life goes on so "what the heck" I hope that you have a good day!
Roger Lucy South African anti-apartheid regime protest song
John Stedman, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in charge of IP violations, testified in front of the Senate Homeland Security committee that some associates of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah may be involved in copyright violations.
Surely, the Disney lawyers can shred any terrorist anywhere on the planet like a kitten in a pirana pool.
You, of course, are just an avarage joe who is walking to the local park to read Invisible Man. Next thing you know, a van hits you on the sidewalk, and you're dead. The driver is not just some old man who lost control. He is an old man who appears to have lost control.
What a fantastic "Brazil"-like plot for a movie! (Being the hit person, that is.)
"Oh, I hate going into houses as the meter reader. You never know what you'll find in those basements! it's going to make me late for a 7:15 hit-and-run and I'm already 10 points to the bad in my weekly review."
What the heck. Join the Neocon party, go to Canada or die laughing, I guess.
Why is 2D insufficient? I much prefer the non-distorted 2D weather map, even if it means I don't get to see as much area. That's usually ok.
It's an extra "D", man. You gotta crank it up to 3! Doesn't your area have a TV station with the graphical "weather car" that "drives" you across the state? I hear their competitors are working on 5D.
Just think of it as the PowerPoint generation coming of age. Yes, it is a total waste of time, and, yes, 2D makes a clearer graphic. But hey.....
That's quite a "holier than thou" sneer at Harvard and MIT.
Exactly. And you'll gotta love Stanford for the playfulness.
Reminds me of a philosophy professor of mine who would put "extra credit" at the bottom of his tests like, "'If one swallow does not a summer make', how many do?"
I hear you. But after reading Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use (currently still on the/. home page), I'm more inclined to say it is a valid comparison. The fact that Windows isn't a "distribution" is simply a point against Windows. It's all a frame of reference and it is about time we promoted the idea that Windows is a naked OS and doesn't meet the standards of a distribution in total value and ease of desktop installation.
I have not had one problem with the word processing I do. Granted this isn't anything with insane layout requirements.
That's OK. If you had layout requirements, you'd be using Scribus. And you wouldn't be using Word either.:)
I think we all thought OO.org would be a great match for schools. But it is always good to see case studies that can raise the confidence of other schools to make the switch. Expecially with cash-strapped schools, the Microsoft tax seems an insane budget item to prioritize.
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Will this be copyrighted then?
I suppose. But it would be really, really NICE if they donated a lower res version to FlightGear.org! Imagine the hours of happy flying.
36 million americans live in a family where there is not enough food
Yeah, but it's insanely schizoid. You read those articles here and they have a picture of people lined up at the rural charity food center IN THEIR SUVs. And, why not? Where are the suburban transit lines and rural busses? The U.S. is SO screwed. If this were SimCity we'd all already be dead.
Just because we're so big and noticable. I personally take great comfort that we are more democratic than, oh, Saudia Arabia. Probably Zimbabwe too. Less internal violence for sure.
It's all a question of adjusting our standards. There are still LOTS worse countries among the couple hundred in the world. Maybe not that many currently leveling other countries and, sure, other people might look negatively upon that. But I mean for living in.
Perhaps.
But have you considered the possibility that the Parent Television Council might be an organization the FCC _wants_ to listen to?
I'd much rather be a modern guy and use elinks instead of lynx.
Elliott Gould had a longish monologue in the Vietnam-era movie Little Murders that could prove useful. Occasionally address the content of your mail to your spies. Sympathize with their boredom and loneliness. Let them know you forgive them and you know they didn't expect to grow up to be mail snoops. Let them know that you are lonely too and rail against the ennui of the two of you placed in this soul-sucking juxtaposition of pointless futility and faceless emptiness. What might life have been and what revelations could be discovered in the sharing of stark truth? But the charade must be maintained and contact cannot be established in the lunchroom or your "special" relationship with them would be shattered and would shatter the corporate structure you are all caught within. Mail regularly on schedule -- and then stop. You may have a sense for how long to maintain the tension. And what story to resume with.
It would be nice to have some observation of your target to see if you are having the desired effect but the ultimate prize would be for them to break cover and beg you to stop for their own well-being.
This post reads seriously in the style of an RIAA agit-prop feed. I give it 90-10 it's astroturf.
But anyway, banning someone from ever buying another CD (however you would do that) would be one way to assure that a person pirates for the rest of his life. Heightened aggression is just useless and sadly ignorant of history. When the British were flooding China with opium, China tried cruxifying dealers on the docks. Didn't stop it. Think of the literature and engravings about pickpickots at the pickpockot's hanging.
But, yes. What does this have to do with copyright _duration_? Economists are familiar with the concept of the "speed of money". With the new-found "speed of information" copyrights should be halved (at least), not doubled. And, yes, the example of Disney and the U.S. is to blame.
OK, good point. I was an OS/2 user from '95 well into '01. There was some crossover with free linux programs using the emx library and OS/2 ran DOS and Win 3.1 programs, but every OS/2 program I bought (and it seemed like I bought every OS/2 program so I understand how that loyalty works too).
But that does make my point that running the two stats together makes the percentage more like 13.8, not 16. But 13.8 would still be pretty amazing growth.
Minnesota prides itself on being new-world Scandinavians. U of M has built a zero-heating home that works at least for the southern half of the state.
It needs a heat exchanger to bring in fresh air. One is free to get the electricity for that as one wishes. Unfortunately, we also have at least one family per winter here who try sealing the house without a heat exchanger. Using regular fuel one sees the predictable effect of exphyxiating the family.
The downside is that the U of M house uses every trick in the book working in from landscaping and building orientation to the sun. You aren't going to turn the gazillions of existing homes into zero-energy homes easily.
How much harm is done by disposing of the batteries that are no longer of use?
Batteries are such a good issue. Sure, you have to get a charger and charging costs "something", but rechargeables are down to about 2 times the cost of quality alkalines. And recharge how many times? I've going on 4 years in my phase in to replace everything with them and have yet to throw away a set because they've worn out. People are pinheads in their own finances, much less pollution, for just grabbing whatever is at the checkout counter instead of seeking out rechargeables.
Like a laptop, when a rechargeable is low, it is low NOW. But I am not aware of any other problems. I've read that they loss about 10% charge per month. That must be a deceptively small "compound loss" because I have a couple wall and desk clocks going on a couple years with them.
Buy rechargeables. Just go in and invest in a bunch for everything you use and a few spares to keep around charged for replacements. You'll be happy. You'll never have to wonder whether you need batteries at the checkout counter again.
Hopefully this starts a global trend
No doubt about it. Dubya and Uncle Dick will learn about this in the Monday morning briefing, slap their foreheads and say, "What were we thinking? Let's get right on this!"
Macintosh owners buy 30% more software than their Windows counterparts. Further, Macintosh software comprises over 18% of all software sold, according to the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs.
o ut-computers' stereotypical Mac user, I think it is likely that a much greater percentage of Mac users over other OSes don't have the interest, inclination, or, ahem, ability to install a SETI@home client so I would expect a deceptively low statistic there. 2.3% is probably as ridiculous as 16%.
First off, I wonder: Do Mac owners actually buy 30% more titles or do Mac owners pay 30% more for the titles they get, Mac being a boutique brand with less retail competition? But, anyway. Assuming they do buy 30% more software and that software comprises 18% of all software sold, that is 130% of 13.8%, not 16%.
As someone who downloaded both Ubuntu and the lastest Knoppix yesterday, it is clear that this story is flamebait since it totally ignores linux in favor of market share while extrapolating that market share into a statement about total computer usage. Wasn't there an estimate last year that there was about a 5%/4% worldwide linux/Mac total share that actually had linux ahead of Mac? On the other hand, considering the 'just-need-to-get-my-critical-creative-innovative -masterpiece-composed-without-knowing-anything-ab
If nothing else, I think the statistic about software sold is interesting. A more heterogeneous OS market is only to the better and if the figures actually demonstrate strong Mac growth in the last year, that is great.
Sinatra singing Oops I did it Again?
Well, Richard Thompson has done a folksy Britney so there is precedent.
This guy's quest seems a bit eccentric, so I say, "Good for him!" But I don't see a large market demographic or the same potential for TV ads as James Dean selling Polident.
I live on one side of a shallow urban brook that has many good points: ducks, geese, carp, turtles and the occasional heron. Unfortunately, it has a tire in it about every 40 yards or less. 1/4 mile upstream on the other side is the municipal physical plant that accepts recycling. They charge to take tires.
The conclusion seems obvious. Hell, I don't even have incentive to volunteer my time to fish them out if I will suffer the insult of paying to deposit the fruits of my good citizenship.
We've had those studies in the States too, but, here, people seriously plan how to eliminate drinking by college atudents once and for all. So one has to decide whether the studies, or the reaction to it, are the most stupid.
Depends on how you define "high chance", but if you mean greatly elevated chance, then you are telling people over 40 not to have kids. Downs isn't the same as inheriting blue eyes.
Exactly. Or as likely drive the kid to kill himself.
But definitely not abort. The challenge would give their lives meaning.
How many "slutwhores" are drug and/or alcohol abusers with a not so repressed hatred of men -- perhaps from a history of childhood sexual abuse? I'll take my chances with the son. Heck, I'd rather go to an art museum than a ball game myself.
Yer all a bunch of commie pinko liberal America-haters. Our President is doing the BEST HE CAN to protect us from terrorism, and he NEEDS these powers.
Good Lord, can you smell the reek of fear radiating from that "coward's" post?
But the mad dog ideology
backs against the wall
going to fight until the last
uninformed soldier falls
with torture and terror
in the name of the law
and future generations
will wonder what for
Ah, but day-to-day life goes on
so "what the heck"
I hope that you have a good day!
Roger Lucy
South African anti-apartheid regime protest song
John Stedman, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in charge of IP violations, testified in front of the Senate Homeland Security committee that some associates of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah may be involved in copyright violations.
Surely, the Disney lawyers can shred any terrorist anywhere on the planet like a kitten in a pirana pool.
You, of course, are just an avarage joe who is walking to the local park to read Invisible Man. Next thing you know, a van hits you on the sidewalk, and you're dead. The driver is not just some old man who lost control. He is an old man who appears to have lost control.
What a fantastic "Brazil"-like plot for a movie! (Being the hit person, that is.)
"Oh, I hate going into houses as the meter reader. You never know what you'll find in those basements! it's going to make me late for a 7:15 hit-and-run and I'm already 10 points to the bad in my weekly review."
What the heck. Join the Neocon party, go to Canada or die laughing, I guess.
Why is 2D insufficient? I much prefer the non-distorted 2D weather map, even if it means I don't get to see as much area. That's usually ok.
It's an extra "D", man. You gotta crank it up to 3! Doesn't your area have a TV station with the graphical "weather car" that "drives" you across the state? I hear their competitors are working on 5D.
Just think of it as the PowerPoint generation coming of age. Yes, it is a total waste of time, and, yes, 2D makes a clearer graphic. But hey.....
That's quite a "holier than thou" sneer at Harvard and MIT.
Exactly. And you'll gotta love Stanford for the playfulness.
Reminds me of a philosophy professor of mine who would put "extra credit" at the bottom of his tests like, "'If one swallow does not a summer make', how many do?"
I hear you. But after reading Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use (currently still on the /. home page), I'm more inclined to say it is a valid comparison. The fact that Windows isn't a "distribution" is simply a point against Windows. It's all a frame of reference and it is about time we promoted the idea that Windows is a naked OS and doesn't meet the standards of a distribution in total value and ease of desktop installation.
I have not had one problem with the word processing I do. Granted this isn't anything with insane layout requirements.
:)
That's OK. If you had layout requirements, you'd be using Scribus. And you wouldn't be using Word either.
I think we all thought OO.org would be a great match for schools. But it is always good to see case studies that can raise the confidence of other schools to make the switch. Expecially with cash-strapped schools, the Microsoft tax seems an insane budget item to prioritize.