Next thing you know they'll start using words lik emails. WTF people do you go to your mail box and get your mails? You've got mail, not "You've Got Mails" Has the entire world gone retarded!?!? How many people even remember how to spell OK? Hmm?
OKAY!
Not that I am some grammar master myself and I still catch myself using emails from time to time but for god sakes why not just use Dumbonics in all the articles. Better yet leet speak the whole damn thing. Try this:
Alas It is not all computer, nor 100% digital. Only when the machine conceives, writes, directs, plans, and develops the movie from concept to finished product will it truly be a fully computer generated movie. Even then a human had programmed the machine. Perhaps we'll have to wait till a machine makes a machine and the subsequent machine creates a movie....
Windows has hit an all time low, Good bye they said to the resturant Rob Lowe's!
"It's time to get them!" screamed 3M as they sue'ed their neighbors Aunt Em and IBM.
Cargill's fighting just the same, It appears Hank Hill is in the chill.
Burn those CDs Nero's dad said. Ahead get to burnin' but ahh then again. Now Bevis and Butthead are raging again, heard something something about thier big old heads.
Who's next, The Not-So-Soft Concrete company? I might see, but Too close to Microsoft, tee-hee.
Miramax and Cinamax, and Climax oh my, who will win that one, which one will die.
Honda sues Fonda and Ford sues the Lord, Paul Ruben is suing sandwich shops in accord with clock but a tick but that can't be cuz of BiC who sue the tick-tock if the Stanley's did sue cuz of their locks!
So how till Sony starts claim their ponies are phonies and sue dead Sonny for money cuz it's just not so funny while Cher start gearing for Sharepoint's ever pending sue fest and hearings on whether the only word that in english can be used is the single word...
ORANGE
My insaine ramblings, not neccesarily ment to be poetry, littery going for the COMPLETLY INSAINE LUNATIC RAMBLING. Read with frequent outburst of anger and madness.
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Jupiter is a gas giant, I'm not worrried about "contaminating" a sub-nuclear glob of gas. Take a gander at the specs of Jupiter. Now if they ramed it into one of the moons that might be a "opps" but are you seriously worried about contaminating gas giants in our back yard?
Remember that in the US if you are unemployed for more than 2 years you are not unemployeed anymore, you are counted as "not in the work force." IT unemployment in MN as far as I can gather is around 30%. I was at a recent meeting for Minneapolis Study the statistics and you'll find that, if you are unemployeed for more that 2 years you magically disappear from the unemployment statistics. Keep this in mind when looking at any statistics about unemployment. MY Grandmother pointed out that in her town during the depression there was 0% unemployment according to US statistics, that because the entire population was either working or had been unemployeed for more that 2 years...
Private Invite Only Email clients that unless the sender is on your invited list the mail doesn't get in. Hotmail has it and I have never been happier.
Good point but couldn't you circumvent the organization and directly address the staff? Law states that regardless of wether it is policy or not an employee is not "protected" from criminal liability if they commit criminal activities as part of their job. The only group I know that has some level of protection from that is the military and intelligence community. Not even the president is protected from that (Nixion as an example.)
It is obvious that the patent office is ignoring the prior art clause. Why not just file a criminal charge against the staff of the patent office and use the law to stop this kind of behavior. If the office is failing to perform it's job why not confront it in a court of law? Hell you could push as far as treason if need be (only takes two witnesses last I checked) as a conscious act to undermine the Constitution, federal law, and confront it as an act of economic sabotage. There are plenty of ways to confront the problem. I find it odd that the EFF and ACLU have not touched the Patent Office in earnest. What is protecting the Patent Office such that even basic avenues are not used? At the point that the Patent Office has ignored it's purpose I would most likely pursue legal action first based on ignoring the law and establishment of the "Prior Art" rules and if there is still no change after that, move to the treason avenue. Sad to say that treason is becoming more and more reasonable when looking at the larger picture of the Patent Office problems.
After 3 months of digging, now where in the US law nor inherited common law does it state that the methods of extortion and racketeering must be illegal. Even if the methods used are perfectly legal the outcome, if it falls under the definitions of extortion and\or racketeering, is not protected.
Extortion is just that, regardless of the methods used.
IF not please feel free to correct me, I couldn't find anything after 3 months.
Dear god the quality is far better as far as MY experience has been. But not only is the quality better but the employees do not have the retarded "Entitlement" mentality that US workers have. They push themselves to excel at what they do, they have far better problem solving skills, and their work ethic is phenominal. Perhaps it's just the Midwest where programmers are lazy, apathetic, and delusional but my experience has been this: US programmers = delusional, similar to automotive union worker that resists automation for no logical reason.
Liek the TV repair people programmers are rapidly becoming extinct. They're "elite" programming skills are rapidly becoming "basic" skill taught in grade school (BASIC is taught in my local elementry school) through highschool (Ending in Visual C++, ASM, Perl, VB, and even Fortran). Programmers are now cogs in a wheel. I just finished up transferring 900 programming jobs from the US at on avarage $40 and hour to an India consulting firm resulting in an avarage rate of $8.50 and hour. Our field, IT, MIS, etc is going the way of the TV repair man. Instead of acting like a bunch of stubborn factory workers bitching about their jobs being lost to machines perhaps we need to accept reality and leave the industry. You cannot make money as a 1 man (hell 5 man shops even struggle) programmer.. Computers are more like the Auto industry then anything else. Unless your programming a small niche item your doomed. I suggest a health DOSE OF REALITY.
Honestly who writes a program to sell when there is over 200 competitors out there including some huge competition. I also suggest a college education in business before trying to "wing it." Yet another Computer Science major confusing his degree with a Business Degree....
So much for the concept of personal responsibiity. What is wrong with the American mentality? Guns don't Kill People, Bullets Don't kill people. People Kill people. Everquest didn't have ANY part in that child's death, negligent parents killed the child. It's just more litigation seeding.
Honestly why would a user run a PIF attachment anyways? Would you use unknown medication? Why would you run unknown attachments? Simple solution: Server.CreateFilter(attachments, PIF)
I have about 1000+ locations that are having trouble opening Excel documents and can no longer disconnect fromt the internet. Also in Inotes and Outlook they cannot OPEN individual emails (This is intermittent). Could these also be related to Blaster or are we looking at a different virus.
After the scandal why bother with NYT?
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I'm sorry but did the NY Times still have credibility? When did they earn that back after 25+ years as a left-wing rag?
Isn't what SCO doing (and the RIAA to an extent) fall into the legal catagory of "Racketeering" I dug through the Hamlin law library and this looks like racketeering to me. Any legal types out there care to clarify?
Oh god here we go again. This is the whole "varied sizes of infinite" logic relative to Time-Space arguement (Think Get Smart). Don't historians have anything new to argue about (Wait...)? Lets kill arguments like this till we can find the atom of time where the infinte can longer be divided into equal whole parts..err... wait... that will never....
Legal Costs = +1 Lawyer, say $60 an hour +2 parap-legals per lawyer at say $30 an hour +Legal Library Fees +Court Filing Fees +State Fees +Federal Fees x 20 - 35 Lawyers.
I had a case for a client that had a problem paying. My total legal costs (a relative did it free save costs paid for filing and his staff) came out to about $3,400 dollars total over 2 months. That was without paying for the actual lawyer, just to cover his staff and expenses.
A 45 million dollar settlement based on the staff involved is high but not absurd. If thay had gotten 45 million as a legal settlement that would basically boil out to about 3 years salary for those involved. I've seen lawyer work on cases for 4 years a stretch.
Legal work is like selling jumbo jets. You may sell 1 a year if your good, 2 if your really good. You also may sell 4 in a year and none for the next 2. It's all perception. When you peel the initial shock value the money starts to shrink real quick.
Take doctors for instance. I live in MN, lots of good doctors here. I know a doctor (cardio) that pulls down about 450k a year. Too bad his malpractice costs about 200k a year (multi-state)plus continuing ed costs around 30k a year. Hes 44 and is still paying off student loans! Again it's all about perception. Lawyers are in the same boat. There are a very few making big cash while most (yes most) are struggling just to keep up with student loans while getting started.
I think you need to stop and think about what you say before jumping on the perception band wagon. 48 million MS vouchers won't pay for food or a home when your a paralegal or legal library researcher. Legal work isn't a 1 man\woman job, behind eeach lawyer can be as many as 10 people doing work also.
One thing that we must remind ourselves when dealing with ET is the raw fact of distance and time. A light year is a hell of distance if your not light. But skeptics must remind ourselves one thing, space-time is a complex beast and the whole light speed defense can be explained away in a variety of given circumstances.
For instance "The Lightyear Ridgid Rod Telegraph" scenario (LRRT) The LRRT scenario asks this: If you had two rods 1 light year in length joined in the middle on a pivot and move the rods together or apart wouldn't the other ends move at the same time (remember that this assumes they are perfectly ridgid) thus your message would exceed the speed of light as the cause and effect over distance happen at the same time. It is simple but serious arguments like the LRRT that reminds us that the speed of light may not be the fastest thing in the universe. Add in entangled atoms that are miles apart and the whole things gets ugly.
Sadly in America imagination is rather dead. All the online RPGs have been reduced to Diablo-like play and sadly, due to the current cultural trends people in the US have a complete lack of imagination. After DM'ing for over a decade I have see a massive transition in play style. Now all that players do is dig through a manual and "Min-Max" their characters. They have no sense of role-playing, they mearly want to maximize their statistics realative to the game mechanics. I gave up role-playing about 2 years ago due to the fact that I could not find people with any sense of what role-playing is. The richness of teh American imagination has been replaced by spoon fed crap and television. The quality of role-playing can be measured by how much a person reads. It requires imagination to read a book (without pictures) and I see year after year book stores close and literature section sin the big "Chain" book stores fill up year after year with self-help books, technical manuals, and New Age religious crap.
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For the youngsters that didn't spend there lives at one end of a Renegade or Wildcat BBS across a 9600 modem that would be:
"Bill Gates and Senator Kelly will defeat the terrorists by bakin' dem pies"
Next thing you know they'll start using words lik emails. WTF people do you go to your mail box and get your mails? You've got mail, not "You've Got Mails" Has the entire world gone retarded!?!? How many people even remember how to spell OK? Hmm?
OKAY!
Not that I am some grammar master myself and I still catch myself using emails from time to time but for god sakes why not just use Dumbonics in all the articles. Better yet leet speak the whole damn thing. Try this:
|3!77 Gh8$ 4|\||) $3|\|4t0r |33ry \/\/!77 |)3p}{34t t3}{ t3rr0r!$ts |3y |34|!n' |)3|\/| P!3z!!!!
Alas It is not all computer, nor 100% digital. Only when the machine conceives, writes, directs, plans, and develops the movie from concept to finished product will it truly be a fully computer generated movie. Even then a human had programmed the machine. Perhaps we'll have to wait till a machine makes a machine and the subsequent machine creates a movie....
Windows has hit an all time low, Good bye they said to the resturant Rob Lowe's!
"It's time to get them!" screamed 3M as they sue'ed their neighbors Aunt Em and IBM.
Cargill's fighting just the same, It appears Hank Hill is in the chill.
Burn those CDs Nero's dad said. Ahead get to burnin' but ahh then again. Now Bevis and Butthead are raging again, heard something something about thier big old heads.
Who's next, The Not-So-Soft Concrete company? I might see, but Too close to Microsoft, tee-hee.
Miramax and Cinamax, and Climax oh my, who will win that one, which one will die.
Honda sues Fonda and Ford sues the Lord, Paul Ruben is suing sandwich shops in accord with clock but a tick but that can't be cuz of BiC who sue the tick-tock if the Stanley's did sue cuz of their locks!
So how till Sony starts claim their ponies are phonies and sue dead Sonny for money cuz it's just not so funny while Cher start gearing for Sharepoint's ever pending sue fest and hearings on whether the only word that in english can be used is the single word...
ORANGE
My insaine ramblings, not neccesarily ment to be poetry, littery going for the COMPLETLY INSAINE LUNATIC RAMBLING. Read with frequent outburst of anger and madness.
Jupiter is a gas giant, I'm not worrried about "contaminating" a sub-nuclear glob of gas. Take a gander at the specs of Jupiter. Now if they ramed it into one of the moons that might be a "opps" but are you seriously worried about contaminating gas giants in our back yard?
Remember that in the US if you are unemployed for more than 2 years you are not unemployeed anymore, you are counted as "not in the work force." IT unemployment in MN as far as I can gather is around 30%. I was at a recent meeting for Minneapolis Study the statistics and you'll find that, if you are unemployeed for more that 2 years you magically disappear from the unemployment statistics. Keep this in mind when looking at any statistics about unemployment. MY Grandmother pointed out that in her town during the depression there was 0% unemployment according to US statistics, that because the entire population was either working or had been unemployeed for more that 2 years...
Private Invite Only Email clients that unless the sender is on your invited list the mail doesn't get in. Hotmail has it and I have never been happier.
Good point but couldn't you circumvent the organization and directly address the staff? Law states that regardless of wether it is policy or not an employee is not "protected" from criminal liability if they commit criminal activities as part of their job. The only group I know that has some level of protection from that is the military and intelligence community. Not even the president is protected from that (Nixion as an example.)
It is obvious that the patent office is ignoring the prior art clause. Why not just file a criminal charge against the staff of the patent office and use the law to stop this kind of behavior. If the office is failing to perform it's job why not confront it in a court of law? Hell you could push as far as treason if need be (only takes two witnesses last I checked) as a conscious act to undermine the Constitution, federal law, and confront it as an act of economic sabotage. There are plenty of ways to confront the problem. I find it odd that the EFF and ACLU have not touched the Patent Office in earnest. What is protecting the Patent Office such that even basic avenues are not used? At the point that the Patent Office has ignored it's purpose I would most likely pursue legal action first based on ignoring the law and establishment of the "Prior Art" rules and if there is still no change after that, move to the treason avenue. Sad to say that treason is becoming more and more reasonable when looking at the larger picture of the Patent Office problems.
Hey lawyers answer me this:
After 3 months of digging, now where in the US law nor inherited common law does it state that the methods of extortion and racketeering must be illegal. Even if the methods used are perfectly legal the outcome, if it falls under the definitions of extortion and\or racketeering, is not protected.
Extortion is just that, regardless of the methods used.
IF not please feel free to correct me, I couldn't find anything after 3 months.
Dear god the quality is far better as far as MY experience has been. But not only is the quality better but the employees do not have the retarded "Entitlement" mentality that US workers have. They push themselves to excel at what they do, they have far better problem solving skills, and their work ethic is phenominal. Perhaps it's just the Midwest where programmers are lazy, apathetic, and delusional but my experience has been this: US programmers = delusional, similar to automotive union worker that resists automation for no logical reason.
Liek the TV repair people programmers are rapidly becoming extinct. They're "elite" programming skills are rapidly becoming "basic" skill taught in grade school (BASIC is taught in my local elementry school) through highschool (Ending in Visual C++, ASM, Perl, VB, and even Fortran). Programmers are now cogs in a wheel. I just finished up transferring 900 programming jobs from the US at on avarage $40 and hour to an India consulting firm resulting in an avarage rate of $8.50 and hour. Our field, IT, MIS, etc is going the way of the TV repair man. Instead of acting like a bunch of stubborn factory workers bitching about their jobs being lost to machines perhaps we need to accept reality and leave the industry. You cannot make money as a 1 man (hell 5 man shops even struggle) programmer.. Computers are more like the Auto industry then anything else. Unless your programming a small niche item your doomed. I suggest a health DOSE OF REALITY.
Honestly who writes a program to sell when there is over 200 competitors out there including some huge competition. I also suggest a college education in business before trying to "wing it." Yet another Computer Science major confusing his degree with a Business Degree....
Crucible? Never heard of it. What is it about? I just remember the Salem events from my American Studies class.
So much for the concept of personal responsibiity. What is wrong with the American mentality? Guns don't Kill People, Bullets Don't kill people. People Kill people. Everquest didn't have ANY part in that child's death, negligent parents killed the child. It's just more litigation seeding.
Long ago several girls claimed their behavior was inspired by an old slave "Witch." Behold the past is present, let the "witch-hunts" begin anew.
No, you have to click on the paperclip icon and select the attachment to launch. The file attachment is obvious.
Honestly why would a user run a PIF attachment anyways? Would you use unknown medication? Why would you run unknown attachments? Simple solution: Server.CreateFilter(attachments, PIF)
I have about 1000+ locations that are having trouble opening Excel documents and can no longer disconnect fromt the internet. Also in Inotes and Outlook they cannot OPEN individual emails (This is intermittent). Could these also be related to Blaster or are we looking at a different virus.
I'm sorry but did the NY Times still have credibility? When did they earn that back after 25+ years as a left-wing rag?
try this SCO:
RICO
Isn't what SCO doing (and the RIAA to an extent) fall into the legal catagory of "Racketeering" I dug through the Hamlin law library and this looks like racketeering to me. Any legal types out there care to clarify?
Oh god here we go again. This is the whole "varied sizes of infinite" logic relative to Time-Space arguement (Think Get Smart). Don't historians have anything new to argue about (Wait...)? Lets kill arguments like this till we can find the atom of time where the infinte can longer be divided into equal whole parts..err... wait... that will never....
Went out and bought anoter copy of Red Hat at lunch and mail Red Hat $10 for the legal fund. If only 5% of slashdot readers followed suit :)
Legal Costs = +1 Lawyer, say $60 an hour +2 parap-legals per lawyer at say $30 an hour +Legal Library Fees +Court Filing Fees +State Fees +Federal Fees x 20 - 35 Lawyers.
I had a case for a client that had a problem paying. My total legal costs (a relative did it free save costs paid for filing and his staff) came out to about $3,400 dollars total over 2 months. That was without paying for the actual lawyer, just to cover his staff and expenses.
A 45 million dollar settlement based on the staff involved is high but not absurd. If thay had gotten 45 million as a legal settlement that would basically boil out to about 3 years salary for those involved. I've seen lawyer work on cases for 4 years a stretch.
Legal work is like selling jumbo jets. You may sell 1 a year if your good, 2 if your really good. You also may sell 4 in a year and none for the next 2. It's all perception. When you peel the initial shock value the money starts to shrink real quick.
Take doctors for instance. I live in MN, lots of good doctors here. I know a doctor (cardio) that pulls down about 450k a year. Too bad his malpractice costs about 200k a year (multi-state)plus continuing ed costs around 30k a year. Hes 44 and is still paying off student loans! Again it's all about perception. Lawyers are in the same boat. There are a very few making big cash while most (yes most) are struggling just to keep up with student loans while getting started.
I think you need to stop and think about what you say before jumping on the perception band wagon. 48 million MS vouchers won't pay for food or a home when your a paralegal or legal library researcher. Legal work isn't a 1 man\woman job, behind eeach lawyer can be as many as 10 people doing work also.
One thing that we must remind ourselves when dealing with ET is the raw fact of distance and time. A light year is a hell of distance if your not light. But skeptics must remind ourselves one thing, space-time is a complex beast and the whole light speed defense can be explained away in a variety of given circumstances.
For instance "The Lightyear Ridgid Rod Telegraph" scenario (LRRT) The LRRT scenario asks this: If you had two rods 1 light year in length joined in the middle on a pivot and move the rods together or apart wouldn't the other ends move at the same time (remember that this assumes they are perfectly ridgid) thus your message would exceed the speed of light as the cause and effect over distance happen at the same time. It is simple but serious arguments like the LRRT that reminds us that the speed of light may not be the fastest thing in the universe. Add in entangled atoms that are miles apart and the whole things gets ugly.
Sadly in America imagination is rather dead. All the online RPGs have been reduced to Diablo-like play and sadly, due to the current cultural trends people in the US have a complete lack of imagination. After DM'ing for over a decade I have see a massive transition in play style. Now all that players do is dig through a manual and "Min-Max" their characters. They have no sense of role-playing, they mearly want to maximize their statistics realative to the game mechanics. I gave up role-playing about 2 years ago due to the fact that I could not find people with any sense of what role-playing is. The richness of teh American imagination has been replaced by spoon fed crap and television. The quality of role-playing can be measured by how much a person reads. It requires imagination to read a book (without pictures) and I see year after year book stores close and literature section sin the big "Chain" book stores fill up year after year with self-help books, technical manuals, and New Age religious crap.
My 2 cents