Excuse me? YOu have a press event and can only invite a limited number of people, who are you going to ask to come? If your answer is some random collection of bloggers who may or may not write a book that matters someday, then you'd be a completely incompetent PR agent.
explain how finders keepers fits into this legally.
Legally, the girl who "found" the sidekick has no right to keep it, given that she knows whose it is. By refusing to give it to its rightful owner, she's a thief.
When that sweet little thing you met online starts asking for money, or plane tickets, or other big ticket items then it is pretty obvious you are being scammed, isn't it?
I have heard of plenty of people who left their wives/husbands and kids for some "perfect soulmate" they met online.
I actually know one putz who did exactly that. Dumped his wife after about thirty years of marriage, and now he complains that her family doesn't invite him to family gatherings.
Of course, there were always the people who'd run off with a secretary or something like that. All the net does is allow them a larger pool of homewreckers to scan for.
You owe the soldiers who *did* hold themselves to a higher standard an apology, for being a selfish bastard with no conscience.
Of course, it's not selfish at all to just sit there in your corner navel-gazing and polishing up your spotless soul, while denouncing the people who actually fought for your ability to do so, is it?
You owe the soldiers who *did* hold themselves to a higher standard an apology, for being a selfish bastard with no conscience.
Funny, I was thinking precisely the same thing about you.
As an American and as a libertarian, you should be ashamed.
Ashamed? Hell no! I'm damned proud of the society that makes it possible for worthless prats like you to have the freedom to make such asses of yourselves.
Oh, fuck you. It's really easy to second-guess the people who preserved your liberty, isn't it?
Mai Lai was a crime,
Well, that's quite a stretch, but I'll give you a little hint: the people killed at My Lai weren't armed. They had surrendered. That's why killing them was a crime. If they were shooting back at Calley's men, then he wouldn't have been a criminal. Now, while you're reaching for your the reins of your moral high-horse, care to cite even a single case of a VC or NVA soldier who was ever prosecuted by his own side for any of the tens of thousands of Vietnamese civilians they killed? See, that's something that's rather unusual about the United States. We actually hold our soldiers to a much higher standard than any country we've ever fought.
but Hiroshima + Nagasaki were "necessary"?
Yes, absolutely. Just before the atom bombs were used, the USA had captured Saipan and Okinawa and saw thousands of civilians die as a result of Japan's asinine "fight to the last man, woman or child, and then everybody else commit suicide" policy. Truman's duty was to save as many allied lives as possible, and the bomb certainly did so. The fact that using the A-bomb also saved several million Japanese lives was a fortunate side-effect for the Japanese.
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In the end they'll still win, because they can force that garbage down the industry's throat at will.
Don't give up hope. Nobody thought IBM would fall, either.
-jcr
Are there any of those left? ;-)
-jcr
how arrogant!
Excuse me? YOu have a press event and can only invite a limited number of people, who are you going to ask to come? If your answer is some random collection of bloggers who may or may not write a book that matters someday, then you'd be a completely incompetent PR agent.
-jcr
Apple copies Linux AGAIN.
"Zilla". Look it up.
-jcr
Are they choosing the reporters who have been 'good lil boys and girls' and refrained from being critical of Intel?
Maybe they're choosing the reporters who have enough readers to be worth inviting.
-jcr
They FOUND the phone. They aren't guilty of a crime.
Guess again. Since they know whose it is, they have a legal duty to surrender the property to its rightful owner.
So, what exactly are the police supposed to do about it?
They're supposed to restore the property to its owner, and possibly arrest the person who "found" it, if she refuses to give it up.
-jcr
explain how finders keepers fits into this legally.
Legally, the girl who "found" the sidekick has no right to keep it, given that she knows whose it is. By refusing to give it to its rightful owner, she's a thief.
-jcr
it used to be about the music.
Not at MTV...
-jcr
Following a countries laws is evil?
Depends on the law in question. There was a time when it was illegal to hide a runaway slave in the United States, for example.
-jcr
it's yet another online music service whose music won't work on iPods.
Ok, who wants to start the betting pool? Six months? Eight?
-jcr
When that sweet little thing you met online starts asking for money, or plane tickets, or other big ticket items then it is pretty obvious you are being scammed, isn't it?
You're kidding, right?
Hell, people still fall for the 419 scams!
-jcr
I have heard of plenty of people who left their wives/husbands and kids for some "perfect soulmate" they met online.
I actually know one putz who did exactly that. Dumped his wife after about thirty years of marriage, and now he complains that her family doesn't invite him to family gatherings.
Of course, there were always the people who'd run off with a secretary or something like that. All the net does is allow them a larger pool of homewreckers to scan for.
-jcr
What's being described here is already covered by existing fraud statutes, isn't it? What's with the call for more regulation?
-jcr
Nah. It takes more than pulling stories out of your ass to be John Dvorak. Not much more, though...
-jcr
They have missed a big opportunity.
Maybe they did the math and came to a different conclusion.
-jcr
People have already demonstrated far more sophisticated and complex GUI techniques and visual styles than anything shown by Apple.
If "complexity and sophistication" is what you're after, then I can see why the Linux crowd consistently fails at achieving ease of use.
-jcr
That's bizarre... You can't even order a quad G5 with a graphics card that won't handle Apple's entire range of monitors.
-jcr
Might be fruitful to have a group of holocaust survivors show up in front of his office and show their tattoos to the news reporters.
BTW, any readers in Israel: ask your MPs to introduce a resolution condemning him in the Knesset.
-jcr
Thanks for reminding us that useless legislators aren't just a federal and state-level problem.
-jcr
You owe the soldiers who *did* hold themselves to a higher standard an apology, for being a selfish bastard with no conscience.
Of course, it's not selfish at all to just sit there in your corner navel-gazing and polishing up your spotless soul, while denouncing the people who actually fought for your ability to do so, is it?
You owe the soldiers who *did* hold themselves to a higher standard an apology, for being a selfish bastard with no conscience.
Funny, I was thinking precisely the same thing about you.
As an American and as a libertarian, you should be ashamed.
Ashamed? Hell no! I'm damned proud of the society that makes it possible for worthless prats like you to have the freedom to make such asses of yourselves.
-jcr
what kind of monster are you?
Oh, fuck you. It's really easy to second-guess the people who preserved your liberty, isn't it?
Mai Lai was a crime,
Well, that's quite a stretch, but I'll give you a little hint: the people killed at My Lai weren't armed. They had surrendered. That's why killing them was a crime. If they were shooting back at Calley's men, then he wouldn't have been a criminal. Now, while you're reaching for your the reins of your moral high-horse, care to cite even a single case of a VC or NVA soldier who was ever prosecuted by his own side for any of the tens of thousands of Vietnamese civilians they killed? See, that's something that's rather unusual about the United States. We actually hold our soldiers to a much higher standard than any country we've ever fought.
but Hiroshima + Nagasaki were "necessary"?
Yes, absolutely. Just before the atom bombs were used, the USA had captured Saipan and Okinawa and saw thousands of civilians die as a result of Japan's asinine "fight to the last man, woman or child, and then everybody else commit suicide" policy. Truman's duty was to save as many allied lives as possible, and the bomb certainly did so. The fact that using the A-bomb also saved several million Japanese lives was a fortunate side-effect for the Japanese.
-jcr
However, I am with those who believe that using such a horrific weapon on cities filled with civilians was unconscionable
Good thing you weren't in charge, then.
-jcr
It's ironic that everyone is critizing MS for improving security features, yet everyone is also criticizing them for their lack of security.
Not exactly. The criticism is about them botching the UI in the process. Compare to OS X, which is farily unobtrusive about it.
-jcr
the defamatory site is still up.
It's not clear that the site is defamatory. I'm not sure about English law, but in the USA, truth is a complete defense.
-jcr
how many Japanese children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki never got to meet their uncles?
Far fewer than would have died in another year of fighting.
Truman made the right call. By ending the war with the A-bomb, he saved many, many lives.
-jcr