Huh? I could list my garbage collector as my beneficiary, if I wanted to, and nothing could stop me. Is this illegal in California? Do California hospitals refuse admittance to gay people who are insured by their partner's work place? Of all the controversies you list here, adoption is the only one that is not surmountable by a modicum of forward planning.
Marital status does not prevent a company from extending health benefits to gay (or straight unmarried, for that matter) couples. Unless California is different than other states in this regard.
I'm firmly in favor of the upgrade. iTunes won't work right in Windows XP x64, while it works great in Windows 7. There are a still a few hiccups (it's beta), but it definitely feels like an upgrade.
So far, I've tested the following apps to work perfectly in Windows 7: - Mozilla Firefox 3.0 (with AdBlock, Flash, and Acrobat Reader) - Acrobat Reader 9 - GIMP 2.6 - OpenOffice 3 - iTunes (Vista x64)
I can't yet get the drivers for my HP Color LaserJet 2600n working (they're installed, but all tasks are stuck in "pending").
Next up I'm going to install VisualStudio 2K8 and see how that works.
Those were halcyon days, back when Groklaw was in eveyr technorati's bookmarks, and all nerd-rage found a unifying enemy in SCO. 6 years later, Linux is free and clear, the Alex de Tocqueville institute is forgotten, as is Dan Lyons, Daniel Wallace, Maureen O'Gara, the Yankee Group, and the guy who did tech news and SCO-shilling who is so forgotten I can't even find him on Google anymore (a testament to how old this stuff is: I read about him every day and I can't even remember or find his name).
Back then, it was the few and informed fighting against the ignorance of an entire market of empty-headed, buzzword-filled suits. It stoked my ego to have a "cause" to fight for, even if it was exclusively by arguing with trolls on the internet.
But the job's done. I'm not aware of any rampant corporate FOSS-phobia (every big player's got their hands in the pot, now). SCO's dead. Linux lives. And it survives merely on its merits, not because of any inherent philosophical superiority. Technorati and business pro's alike (it's a Venn diagram; I know) choose the best tool for the job. The old arguments are, for the most part, dead.
I think the end of Groklaw as a significant force in FOSS started around the time of the "GrokWars." It's obvious to me that if allies have enough time to fight each other (over stupid stuff, at that), then whatever common enemy it was that held them together is either dead or irrelevant.
While Groklaw had some significant voice in the GPL v3 debate, I think that was its last hurrah. Today, we simply don't need Groklaw anymore.
At what grounds has the airliner refused to issue tickets?
On the grounds that, when you buy your ticket, the airline also refuses the right to tell you to get off their plane; usually for any reason they see fit to.
They are a public operating company, meaning that work directly for the public at large.
No. It means they work for their shareholders.
If i approach a balcony of such a company and request a ticket, i expect either to see their planes ALL FULL, ALL CANCELED or get the requested ticket.
Except you don't own the airplanes.
Anything else, they could expect a lawsuit for refusal of service, and that could mean removal of their air license.
I'm sure that when they refused the ticket they broke several laws...
You are incorrect. There are cases where airlines can be successfully sued on the basis of not providing proper disabled access, but other than that, you're screwed.
But I'm not an expert on the idiotic American laws (not that ours are much better nowadays)...
Under free-market capitalism, we affirm the consumer's right to protest shitty service by taking their business to a competitor (of which there are many).
Not to mention momentum. Most products go a long way on momentum, so once you see an actual downward trend your product usually fell behind some time ago.
Yep. You can mark this as the point the time-line where the axiom "no one ever got fired for buying ----" no longer holds true.
It's called a "trend." Snapshot statistics are not important. Trends are very important. This has been going on since 2002. If you lose 5% browser-share share every year consistently, eventually you go away. It happened to Netscape, and now we know it can happen to IE.
Yep. T'was a grand day when them uppity Canucks got theirs. Deserved it, too; gettin' their pennies all mixed in with ours (if you live in a border state, you know what I mean).
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gon' make me some pancakes and slather it with the rich, delicious taste of American-liberated maple syrup.
Your experience is atypical. If your high school was best in state, then you probably went to a school in an affluent area, where nothing is "common." My experience was the same. My school didn't suck. Nevertheless, public education in America does.
Do you have any clue what comprises a quality education, and what is required on behalf of the student, the teacher, and the parents to get it? Because I don't think you do.
I don't pay taxes for the school I already went to. My parents paid that. Hell, I don't even live in the same state, anymore. And yeah, we pay too much for too little. Public school sucks.
Chill out. Just wipe the "SCO" section off your resume and you'll be fine. Besides, your avatar Maureen O'Gara already outed her ("MY GOD, SHE'S A J.W.!!!").
Especially considering all the fake photos AP has accepted from its Palestinian office (cloned smoke clouds, same dead kid used in several photographs, etc.). Honestly, AP has no credibility on the issue of altered photos.
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It can, and it does happen all the time. Even legal marriage, with it's default assumptions, is not replacement for specifying your own beneficiaries.
Huh? I could list my garbage collector as my beneficiary, if I wanted to, and nothing could stop me. Is this illegal in California? Do California hospitals refuse admittance to gay people who are insured by their partner's work place? Of all the controversies you list here, adoption is the only one that is not surmountable by a modicum of forward planning.
Marital status does not prevent a company from extending health benefits to gay (or straight unmarried, for that matter) couples. Unless California is different than other states in this regard.
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Well, that's all fine and good. He can use as much energy as he fells he needs to. As will I.
I'm firmly in favor of the upgrade. iTunes won't work right in Windows XP x64, while it works great in Windows 7. There are a still a few hiccups (it's beta), but it definitely feels like an upgrade.
So far, I've tested the following apps to work perfectly in Windows 7:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0 (with AdBlock, Flash, and Acrobat Reader)
- Acrobat Reader 9
- GIMP 2.6
- OpenOffice 3
- iTunes (Vista x64)
I can't yet get the drivers for my HP Color LaserJet 2600n working (they're installed, but all tasks are stuck in "pending").
Next up I'm going to install VisualStudio 2K8 and see how that works.
You got it! Rob Enderle, complete tool-bag.
Those were halcyon days, back when Groklaw was in eveyr technorati's bookmarks, and all nerd-rage found a unifying enemy in SCO. 6 years later, Linux is free and clear, the Alex de Tocqueville institute is forgotten, as is Dan Lyons, Daniel Wallace, Maureen O'Gara, the Yankee Group, and the guy who did tech news and SCO-shilling who is so forgotten I can't even find him on Google anymore (a testament to how old this stuff is: I read about him every day and I can't even remember or find his name).
Back then, it was the few and informed fighting against the ignorance of an entire market of empty-headed, buzzword-filled suits. It stoked my ego to have a "cause" to fight for, even if it was exclusively by arguing with trolls on the internet.
But the job's done. I'm not aware of any rampant corporate FOSS-phobia (every big player's got their hands in the pot, now). SCO's dead. Linux lives. And it survives merely on its merits, not because of any inherent philosophical superiority. Technorati and business pro's alike (it's a Venn diagram; I know) choose the best tool for the job. The old arguments are, for the most part, dead.
I think the end of Groklaw as a significant force in FOSS started around the time of the "GrokWars." It's obvious to me that if allies have enough time to fight each other (over stupid stuff, at that), then whatever common enemy it was that held them together is either dead or irrelevant.
While Groklaw had some significant voice in the GPL v3 debate, I think that was its last hurrah. Today, we simply don't need Groklaw anymore.
Of course, I would call that success of mission.
On the grounds that, when you buy your ticket, the airline also refuses the right to tell you to get off their plane; usually for any reason they see fit to.
No. It means they work for their shareholders.
Except you don't own the airplanes.
You are incorrect. There are cases where airlines can be successfully sued on the basis of not providing proper disabled access, but other than that, you're screwed.
Under free-market capitalism, we affirm the consumer's right to protest shitty service by taking their business to a competitor (of which there are many).
MPC made all PC's that had "Micron" written on them. That's because the "M" stood for "Micron."
"Micron Technology" (the semiconductor manufacturer) created MPC to handle the PC business aspect.
As long as he isn't in charge of parts requisitions for your desktop PC's you should be fine.
Yep. You can mark this as the point the time-line where the axiom "no one ever got fired for buying ----" no longer holds true.
It's called a "trend." Snapshot statistics are not important. Trends are very important. This has been going on since 2002. If you lose 5% browser-share share every year consistently, eventually you go away. It happened to Netscape, and now we know it can happen to IE.
See? I got it wrong, so I can't be a nerd!
Naw, it's just nerd-rage because they stopped making those cool prefix-notation calculators.
Yep. T'was a grand day when them uppity Canucks got theirs. Deserved it, too; gettin' their pennies all mixed in with ours (if you live in a border state, you know what I mean).
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gon' make me some pancakes and slather it with the rich, delicious taste of American-liberated maple syrup.
Mm-hmm. And when everything moves to centrally-hosted thin/web-client apps? Like Office?
And what, exactly, does that leave? Desktop gaming?
It's how Quake III rose from the dead to become Star Trek: Elite Force.
Your experience is atypical. If your high school was best in state, then you probably went to a school in an affluent area, where nothing is "common." My experience was the same. My school didn't suck. Nevertheless, public education in America does.
Do you have any clue what comprises a quality education, and what is required on behalf of the student, the teacher, and the parents to get it? Because I don't think you do.
I don't pay taxes for the school I already went to. My parents paid that. Hell, I don't even live in the same state, anymore. And yeah, we pay too much for too little. Public school sucks.
Chill out. Just wipe the "SCO" section off your resume and you'll be fine. Besides, your avatar Maureen O'Gara already outed her ("MY GOD, SHE'S A J.W.!!!").
Especially considering all the fake photos AP has accepted from its Palestinian office (cloned smoke clouds, same dead kid used in several photographs, etc.). Honestly, AP has no credibility on the issue of altered photos.
Because honestly... who does? Mozilla is free. Saying otherwise is pure pedantry.