Well, at least consumers now have an obscure gubernatorial candidate, who stands no chance of winning either the primary or election, on their side. Guess that beats *nothing*.
You can make this guy into a major candidate by writing him a check. As a matter of fact, if he doesn't get a couple of hundred thousand checks from the Slashdot community pretty damn quick then you all might be the whining do-nothing slackers the more cynical among you have always claimed.
In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.
As long as the U.S. provides for the time tested tried and proven methods of letting people freely experiment with building on existing ideas and technology it will be just fine. Woe be the day though when artists and inventors have a say in which direction the next generations creator's choose to take their ideas, for that will be the death of innovation in this nation.
That day of woe is soon. Disney is lobbying Congress to allow the patenting of movies and songs, so if you want to make a movie which in any way uses any of the themes, settings, character types, or is suggestive in any way to a viewer of any aspect of a patented Disney film the Federal Copyright Bureau of Investigation will raid your set and cart you off.
Sounds like our Congress has already been retrained to believe that copyright violations are a criminal matter to be prosecuted by the government rather than a civil disagreement to be adjudicated between private parties.
Yeah, I'm being obvious. But it got me thinking: What civil matters are the next to become criminal through lobbying by corporations?
My plan is to emulate my hero Zuck - find a scientist with a great idea, sign up to work for him, copy all his notes, disappear for a while, reappear with his work with my name on it, claim the prize.
We have a reasonably good idea of how the basic building blocks work. We could build nucleotide sequences which would lead to proteins of our choice. What we don't know shite about really is the secondary, tertiary, etciary environment in which these things interact. It's like the difference between knowing how to print a dollar bill and understanding the US economy.
Hold it right there with your reasonable alternate hypothesis. We already have the answer we want. Plastic bag ban = neohippie commies = Liberals = certain death.
The secret billionaires are just trying to even the playing field against those fat cat scientists who are rolling in their trillions from government grants. Exxon is David against the NSF Goliath, man.
Ayn Rand would be rolling in her grave if Cheney and the Koch brothers hadn't dug her corpse up in 1981 and made it into a tasty stew which they consumed with a fine bottle of Chianti.
Followed by a little avatar with cauliflower ears and a 5 o'clock shadow: "Yo! This is Vinny! It'd be a shame if your wife and boss found out about dat program youse was watchin' the udder night. Hows about you sign up for our privacy protection program?"
Everyone else long ago noticed how MS flatlined when Bill left, besides the fact that he was obviously a visionary and genius (and not half bad at business either). You may disagree with a ton of things he did, and rightly so on many of them, but you can't look at Microsoft's massive rise and Bill's obvious driving of said rise and go "Yeah, Bill leaving MS was the best thing that happened to them". It's patently ridiculous.
Son, all I remember about your visionary genius is when I saw his book - which was published in 1995 - in Barnes and Noble with a big red sticker on the front which read: Now Revised To Include The Internet.
It's interesting to see the person who named it format the name - properly, I assume - as xBox, not XBox or Xbox. I rarely see it in the correct style, but it hasn't registered before, unlike the Mac/MAC or iPod/IPod/Ipod errors I see all too often.
Slashdot Mirror
Nice manifesto, but the truth is pretty simple. It's about the money. It's always about the money.
Well, at least consumers now have an obscure gubernatorial candidate, who stands no chance of winning either the primary or election, on their side. Guess that beats *nothing*.
You can make this guy into a major candidate by writing him a check. As a matter of fact, if he doesn't get a couple of hundred thousand checks from the Slashdot community pretty damn quick then you all might be the whining do-nothing slackers the more cynical among you have always claimed.
Hey, pal! Does this smell like chloroform to you?
You know what we do to spammers.
In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.
a new Christian relationship
As long as the U.S. provides for the time tested tried and proven methods of letting people freely experiment with building on existing ideas and technology it will be just fine. Woe be the day though when artists and inventors have a say in which direction the next generations creator's choose to take their ideas, for that will be the death of innovation in this nation.
That day of woe is soon. Disney is lobbying Congress to allow the patenting of movies and songs, so if you want to make a movie which in any way uses any of the themes, settings, character types, or is suggestive in any way to a viewer of any aspect of a patented Disney film the Federal Copyright Bureau of Investigation will raid your set and cart you off.
Sounds like our Congress has already been retrained to believe that copyright violations are a criminal matter to be prosecuted by the government rather than a civil disagreement to be adjudicated between private parties.
Yeah, I'm being obvious. But it got me thinking: What civil matters are the next to become criminal through lobbying by corporations?
"In fact, it still has to be proven that the phenomenon even exists...." When you see this in an otherwise-gushing piece, the bells should go off.
Not a crime to remove those tags. The seller cannot, the buyer is free to do so.
But any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this post without the express written consent of Mr. paiute is still prohibited.
My plan is to emulate my hero Zuck - find a scientist with a great idea, sign up to work for him, copy all his notes, disappear for a while, reappear with his work with my name on it, claim the prize.
Windows Nova?
There is such a thing as being too serious. Don't like the memes here? Go to another site, it's easy.
I don't want to put in the 19 clicks to get to another site.
I just saw the 2013 printing of his book The Road Ahead with a sticker on the cover which read: Now Revised To Include Wireless.
We have a reasonably good idea of how the basic building blocks work. We could build nucleotide sequences which would lead to proteins of our choice. What we don't know shite about really is the secondary, tertiary, etciary environment in which these things interact. It's like the difference between knowing how to print a dollar bill and understanding the US economy.
Hold it right there with your reasonable alternate hypothesis. We already have the answer we want. Plastic bag ban = neohippie commies = Liberals = certain death.
Sincerely,
Roger Ailes
the bees drink sugar water. For all I know, that happens in the US, too. As mentioned above, go to a farmer's market and buy some local honey.
Bees are fed sugar and sugar water even in small local apiaries to help replace the honey the humans are stealing from the hive.
Fresh? I thought honey lasted for years.
It does. That's why the honey you buy at the Stop & Shop could have been sitting in a tank in China for several years.
We shall in Christian charity forgive you for trying to bring a Wall Street Journal opinion into a scientific discussion of climate science.
The secret billionaires are just trying to even the playing field against those fat cat scientists who are rolling in their trillions from government grants. Exxon is David against the NSF Goliath, man.
Why stop there? Just arrest people for non-conforming behavior.
Why stop there? Just arrest everyone.
(Disclaimer: My 401k is all in for-profit prison systems.)
Ayn Rand would be rolling in her grave if Cheney and the Koch brothers hadn't dug her corpse up in 1981 and made it into a tasty stew which they consumed with a fine bottle of Chianti.
Followed by a little avatar with cauliflower ears and a 5 o'clock shadow: "Yo! This is Vinny! It'd be a shame if your wife and boss found out about dat program youse was watchin' the udder night. Hows about you sign up for our privacy protection program?"
Everyone else long ago noticed how MS flatlined when Bill left, besides the fact that he was obviously a visionary and genius (and not half bad at business either). You may disagree with a ton of things he did, and rightly so on many of them, but you can't look at Microsoft's massive rise and Bill's obvious driving of said rise and go "Yeah, Bill leaving MS was the best thing that happened to them". It's patently ridiculous.
Son, all I remember about your visionary genius is when I saw his book - which was published in 1995 - in Barnes and Noble with a big red sticker on the front which read: Now Revised To Include The Internet.
So much for the vision thing.
After I posted this, I read the comments and looked at the official site. Apparently they changed somewhere along the line to Xbox.
It's interesting to see the person who named it format the name - properly, I assume - as xBox, not XBox or Xbox. I rarely see it in the correct style, but it hasn't registered before, unlike the Mac/MAC or iPod/IPod/Ipod errors I see all too often.
So get that manual out, and have a try!
These seem to me like famous last words, almost as dangerous as the classic "Hold my beer and watch this!"