We should collectively patent a method of projecting multimedia applications/adverts such as Flash on toilet water.
It gives a whole new meaning to the web banner ads begging to "hit the cockroach", "shock the monkey" or "swat the fly".
Now we will have "sink the battleship" or "put out the fire". Men at urinals everywhere will try to "shoot down the zero" or rack up points pissing down animated flies.
Hence my qualification which was deleted in your quote of my original post.
I was just trying to make a point that lack of potential mates and sexual frustration could easily explain homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom. I was not denying that homosexuality exists in nature.
The issue in California is that the law is being challenged by activists on constitutional grounds or being ignored by local politicians to make a political point or push an agenda.
Judicial activism comes into play where the constitution may say nothing about the issue in and of itself, but the judge will find and twist some interpretation that will support his/her opinion, sometimes reaching quite far up his/her ass in order to pull it out.
At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins. They live together, have hatched an egg given to them together. It's really cool.
You know, at the local state prison we have lots of "gay" couples. Trick is, you release them into their natural habitat they ungay themselves rather quickly (at least those who weren't gay to begin with).
Are the penguins gay because that is their choice, or is it because of natural urges for procreation and the lack of potential mates?
Toss 22 penguins in an exhibit and make 10 of them female. What the hell are the 2 leftover males going to do assuming penguins are monogamous?
Sure, I can accept that homosexuality occurs in nature - but I don't see a whole lot of it. At least not on the scale it occurs in human society.
The fansubbers and the US licensees have a sort of symbiotic relationship. The US licensees use popularity among fansubbers to find what to license. The fansubbers have (or rather act like they have) free reign to do as they wish until something is picked up where they pull it from distribution.
As far as the US is concerned, they are distributing unreleased copyrighted files and should be subject to penalties. Now that infringement is a criminal rather than a civil matter, the opinions of the licensees should no longer matter much to prosecutors.
Then stay out of Los Angeles. There's a building downtown (I forgot which one, but it houses the Japanese consulate and other offices) and there's an LCD screen in each of the elevators displaying stock prices and ads.
Someone in our household likes Japanese TV. There's lots of Japanese TV (dramas, variety, music shows) to be had on the torrent sites. This stuff has next to zero commercial value here in the US for the mainstream consumer.
However, every single thing offered is an "unreleased work" in the US.
Now if this is bad, what's it going to do to the fansubbers?
A percentage of their releases are eventually licensed and sold in the US. Until then, everything a fansubber group releases is in violation since it is an unreleased work.
Wrong. I was perfectly content to put up with ads. It's when the ads went from print-style ads to in-your-face-dancing-on-the-screen install-my-shiat is when it got bad. All that started when IE was all of the browser market share and popup blocking was in its infancy - about 2001.
What drove the intrusive ads at the time was the fact that the rates for advertising on the net collapsed with the dot-com bust. Ads were made larger and more obtrusive to deliver more value to the advertiser to prop up higher ad rates, not to bypass blocking technology of the time.
Besides, it's a waste of time to try and make the effort to deliver ads to me in an obtrusive fashion. I won't respond to them. I do occasionally click on banner ads (thinkgeek and j-list are two examples) that look interesting. I never remember those two examples doing anything outwardly annoying aside from peddling toys and gadgets I am interested in.
The social contract is not between "an" end-user and "a" website, it's between all the end-users and all the websites.
I didn't care about the ad banners or Google's ads on webpages. I do care about alternate red-blue-green blinking animated GIFs, Java and Flash crap dancing around the screen, deliberately trying to block text, popups and popunders, and endless Automatic Installer windows asking to install Gator or some other crap. This doesn't even touch those who try to install stuff without permission.
No, the contract has been violated by the marketers and the webmasters who use them. I'm now just defending myself with a squid proxy and adzap. Collateral damage like Slashdot's ads getting blocked is the result.
NeXT, who managed to take over Apple from within after getting bought out.
Funny you mention it that way. I was rather sad when NeXT was bought by Apple. I used the NeXT platform (on black hardware) for 5 years (up until 1998). In fact, all my college work (CS and otherwise) was done on it. Afterwards, I was dragged into the Windows NT and 2000 fold after realizing NT sucked much less than 95 and 98, and 2000 sucked considerably less than NT. I enjoyed 2000 until one fateful day...
The second I saw OS X on display at a local Fry's in 2001, knowing it was based on the old NeXT OS, I messed with it for 5 minutes and aside from the candy-like GUI, I knew instantly what my next computer purchase was going to be.
We wound up buying 3 Macs over the next 8 months and retired the PCs (one remains as a Suse web/mail server). I'm rather happy things worked out the way they did. Kool-aid never tasted so good.
The floor plan of my Local GAP store is in the shape on an "H".
The upper left hand part of the H has boy's/infant's clothing on the left, girl's/infant's clothing on the right.
The lower left hand part of the "H" has men's clothing on the left, women's on the right.
The center bar of the "H" has neato things like low-rise sweat pants for the ladies and sportsbras.
The right side of the "H" is all women's unmentionables. Bra's in the upper wing, panties/slips/etc in the lower.
Clothing in any case is displayed in racks/stands along the walls. Floor space has round or rectangular tables with products stacked and displayed. They also like mannequins that have no heads on them.
Come and get me GAP lawyers!
(Yes, I was bored shopping with the wife last week).
Perhaps because if it is abandoned, it becomes salvageable?
I don't know all that much about maritime laws and their applicability to space vehicles, but I'd bet the Russians or the Chinese would love a chance to get aboard and liberate some of the hardware.
Yes, it's all 70's era stuff, but there is a good chance spook stuff could be on there too - the shuttle does do classified missions from time to time... it's not always watching mice, bugs and frogs screwing each other in zero-g.
You know, arguments like this make me think that every time Picard orders: "tea, earl grey, hot" from the replicator, he's committing some sort of 24th century infringement. Either that, or he gets "royalty fees" extracted from his pay every time he orders tea to subsidize the starving tea growers back on Sol.
Yes, if laws were only for things like theft, perjury, libel and the like.
Laws cover other issues. For example: quality of life and revenue generation. Just because your neighbor blasts polka music and "banana phone" all hours of the night doesn't make him dishonest. But it can be illegal.
I can drive in excess of the speed limit. It doesn't make me dishonest but it does allow local law enforcement to extract revenue from me with fines.
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Why do that? Replace it with a bag of dirt in a ziploc bag with "puto" written on it. Then return it to Best Buy.
Yes, these are nice. My company currently uses scramble pads. The digits are displayed so far recessed behind the buttons that you can be just a few degrees off of dead center and you can read nothing. Great for dealing with potential shoulder-surfers.
In fact, here's a link in case anyone was interested in how they work (or what they look like).
Depends. I'm prior military service, USMCR (reserves) who was put on active duty and sent to Desert Storm. I have a combat ribbon and am eligible for membership in the VFW. But USAA doesn't want my business. (They have excellent car insurance rates)
Hey! This was the 80's, and as long as you didn't kill anyone the statute of limitations should have taken care of any problems you are worrying about.
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OS/2 Warp Connect? It came Internet-ready right out of the box.
We should collectively patent a method of projecting multimedia applications/adverts such as Flash on toilet water.
It gives a whole new meaning to the web banner ads begging to "hit the cockroach", "shock the monkey" or "swat the fly".
Now we will have "sink the battleship" or "put out the fire". Men at urinals everywhere will try to "shoot down the zero" or rack up points pissing down animated flies.
Dunno what we would do for the women...
Wow, it seems that I am getting people riled up and doing so without even stating a position on homosexuality and it's place in society.
Hence my qualification which was deleted in your quote of my original post.
I was just trying to make a point that lack of potential mates and sexual frustration could easily explain homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom. I was not denying that homosexuality exists in nature.
The issue in California is that the law is being challenged by activists on constitutional grounds or being ignored by local politicians to make a political point or push an agenda.
Judicial activism comes into play where the constitution may say nothing about the issue in and of itself, but the judge will find and twist some interpretation that will support his/her opinion, sometimes reaching quite far up his/her ass in order to pull it out.
At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins. They live together, have hatched an egg given to them together. It's really cool.
You know, at the local state prison we have lots of "gay" couples. Trick is, you release them into their natural habitat they ungay themselves rather quickly (at least those who weren't gay to begin with).
Are the penguins gay because that is their choice, or is it because of natural urges for procreation and the lack of potential mates?
Toss 22 penguins in an exhibit and make 10 of them female. What the hell are the 2 leftover males going to do assuming penguins are monogamous?
Sure, I can accept that homosexuality occurs in nature - but I don't see a whole lot of it. At least not on the scale it occurs in human society.
The fansubbers and the US licensees have a sort of symbiotic relationship. The US licensees use popularity among fansubbers to find what to license. The fansubbers have (or rather act like they have) free reign to do as they wish until something is picked up where they pull it from distribution.
As far as the US is concerned, they are distributing unreleased copyrighted files and should be subject to penalties. Now that infringement is a criminal rather than a civil matter, the opinions of the licensees should no longer matter much to prosecutors.
Then stay out of Los Angeles. There's a building downtown (I forgot which one, but it houses the Japanese consulate and other offices) and there's an LCD screen in each of the elevators displaying stock prices and ads.
Just letting you know so you can avoid it.
Think of it in this case:
Someone in our household likes Japanese TV. There's lots of Japanese TV (dramas, variety, music shows) to be had on the torrent sites. This stuff has next to zero commercial value here in the US for the mainstream consumer.
However, every single thing offered is an "unreleased work" in the US.
Now if this is bad, what's it going to do to the fansubbers?
A percentage of their releases are eventually licensed and sold in the US. Until then, everything a fansubber group releases is in violation since it is an unreleased work.
It's fixed.
Downloaded Security Update 2005-002 from Apple
Apply update
Reboot
Verify Java works: "java -version" in Terminal.app
Apply 10.3.9 Combo Updater
Reboot
Verify Java works: "java -version" in Terminal.app
All I know is that it works again for me.
Same here:
Last login: Fri Apr 15 20:45:01 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
DualG4:~ robert$ java -version
Segmentation fault
DualG4:~ robert$
Wrong. I was perfectly content to put up with ads. It's when the ads went from print-style ads to in-your-face-dancing-on-the-screen install-my-shiat is when it got bad. All that started when IE was all of the browser market share and popup blocking was in its infancy - about 2001.
What drove the intrusive ads at the time was the fact that the rates for advertising on the net collapsed with the dot-com bust. Ads were made larger and more obtrusive to deliver more value to the advertiser to prop up higher ad rates, not to bypass blocking technology of the time.
Besides, it's a waste of time to try and make the effort to deliver ads to me in an obtrusive fashion. I won't respond to them. I do occasionally click on banner ads (thinkgeek and j-list are two examples) that look interesting. I never remember those two examples doing anything outwardly annoying aside from peddling toys and gadgets I am interested in.
You are right on track.
The social contract is not between "an" end-user and "a" website, it's between all the end-users and all the websites.
I didn't care about the ad banners or Google's ads on webpages. I do care about alternate red-blue-green blinking animated GIFs, Java and Flash crap dancing around the screen, deliberately trying to block text, popups and popunders, and endless Automatic Installer windows asking to install Gator or some other crap. This doesn't even touch those who try to install stuff without permission.
No, the contract has been violated by the marketers and the webmasters who use them. I'm now just defending myself with a squid proxy and adzap. Collateral damage like Slashdot's ads getting blocked is the result.
NeXT, who managed to take over Apple from within after getting bought out.
Funny you mention it that way. I was rather sad when NeXT was bought by Apple. I used the NeXT platform (on black hardware) for 5 years (up until 1998). In fact, all my college work (CS and otherwise) was done on it. Afterwards, I was dragged into the Windows NT and 2000 fold after realizing NT sucked much less than 95 and 98, and 2000 sucked considerably less than NT. I enjoyed 2000 until one fateful day...
The second I saw OS X on display at a local Fry's in 2001, knowing it was based on the old NeXT OS, I messed with it for 5 minutes and aside from the candy-like GUI, I knew instantly what my next computer purchase was going to be.
We wound up buying 3 Macs over the next 8 months and retired the PCs (one remains as a Suse web/mail server). I'm rather happy things worked out the way they did. Kool-aid never tasted so good.
So I'll help out the competition.
The floor plan of my Local GAP store is in the shape on an "H".
The upper left hand part of the H has boy's/infant's clothing on the left, girl's/infant's clothing on the right.
The lower left hand part of the "H" has men's clothing on the left, women's on the right.
The center bar of the "H" has neato things like low-rise sweat pants for the ladies and sportsbras.
The right side of the "H" is all women's unmentionables. Bra's in the upper wing, panties/slips/etc in the lower.
Clothing in any case is displayed in racks/stands along the walls. Floor space has round or rectangular tables with products stacked and displayed. They also like mannequins that have no heads on them.
Come and get me GAP lawyers!
(Yes, I was bored shopping with the wife last week).
That was Plato crater...
Perhaps because if it is abandoned, it becomes salvageable?
I don't know all that much about maritime laws and their applicability to space vehicles, but I'd bet the Russians or the Chinese would love a chance to get aboard and liberate some of the hardware.
Yes, it's all 70's era stuff, but there is a good chance spook stuff could be on there too - the shuttle does do classified missions from time to time... it's not always watching mice, bugs and frogs screwing each other in zero-g.
You know, arguments like this make me think that every time Picard orders: "tea, earl grey, hot" from the replicator, he's committing some sort of 24th century infringement. Either that, or he gets "royalty fees" extracted from his pay every time he orders tea to subsidize the starving tea growers back on Sol.
Yes, if laws were only for things like theft, perjury, libel and the like.
Laws cover other issues. For example: quality of life and revenue generation. Just because your neighbor blasts polka music and "banana phone" all hours of the night doesn't make him dishonest. But it can be illegal.
I can drive in excess of the speed limit. It doesn't make me dishonest but it does allow local law enforcement to extract revenue from me with fines.
Well, you get some of your wish. The iPod has a laser pointer and a flashlight available for it.
Yes, these are nice. My company currently uses scramble pads. The digits are displayed so far recessed behind the buttons that you can be just a few degrees off of dead center and you can read nothing. Great for dealing with potential shoulder-surfers.
In fact, here's a link in case anyone was interested in how they work (or what they look like).
Depends. I'm prior military service, USMCR (reserves) who was put on active duty and sent to Desert Storm. I have a combat ribbon and am eligible for membership in the VFW. But USAA doesn't want my business. (They have excellent car insurance rates)
Hey! This was the 80's, and as long as you didn't kill anyone the statute of limitations should have taken care of any problems you are worrying about.
Such a device was used in the military. At boot camp one of these "air gun" devices was used to inoculate all the recruits:
Swab, *thwop*, swab, *thwop*, etc. about 3-5 seconds per person.
Key thing is not to flinch or move when they pull the trigger. If you do, the jet of vaccine works just like a water-cutter on skin.