20. IBM objects to plaintiffs definition of the terms "IBM", "Defendant", "you", "your", and "any synonym thereof" on the grounds that they are overbroad, unduly burdensome, and seek information that is irrelevant and not reasonably calculated to lead to admissible evidence.
It takes 10 minutes to get a scan. Let's be generous and assume that when they get the bugs out and the thing tuned up, it will take 0.1 minute/piece. And let's assume they install on in every one of the 38000 or so post offices. Given the 200 billion piece per year volume, that means that my letter to Mom will only take about five weeks to get to the scanner and out. Happy belated Birthday, Mother!
Fight fiercely, Harvard!
Fight, fight, fight! Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might, Nonetheless we have the will.
How we shall celebrate our victory? We shall invite IT
Up for tea! How jolly! Pull that optical down the wall
And fight! Fight! Fight!
The loophole is that the data is converted from D to A? How hard is it to capture it back to digital? (and wait for the RIAA stormtroopers to knock on the door?)
We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia.
Christ, either he thinks I'm stupid, or he is stupid.
Oh look. John D. Rockefeller is giving out dimes to orphans. Isn't he a nice man. All those things Teddy Roosevelt is saying about him must be wrong.
ST theme became clear the other day
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Semi-on topic: I listened to Starship Troopers on tape while commuting a couple of years ago. There are long polemics in it that are barely endurable - the responsibilites of citizens, blah blah. Then the other day, it came to me. Heinlein was talking about the Bush administration: power-suited chickenhawks gripping the levers of power without ever having had to personally defend those powers with their lives in combat.
Yes, we have this same story twice a year. So how many years will it take us to figure out that even if the chances of a real strike are slim, the certainty of the undesirable outcome of the event should make us begin to experiment with ways to send Bruce Willis' greatgrandson out to nudge it aside? How far could we have gotten with the billions squandered in the Iraq farce?
Then again, we go out and vote to spend our money bombing a country that was of no threat to us. Maybe we deserve to have a big rock dropped on us.
JMS, the creator of Babylon 5, got sick of the you-cannot-hear-sounds-in-space complaint and posted a response. The gist of his argument -- apart from artistic issues -- is that space is not all empty all the time. He asked some experts, apparently, and decided that sounds were possible.
He should have decided that sounds were impossible - especially his crappy, cliched dialogue.
Not that this isn't way cool and conjures up wonderful pictures in my mind of a platoon of exoskeleton-clad septagenarians battling Godzilla in the debris-strewn streets of Tokyo, but if you step back for a moment, you will realize that this is the most inefficient way to increase the general public health. While the elderly are affluent and politically connected, their descendents and society in general would be way better off if a fraction of those resources going to robotic shit were used to give basic care to toddlers. But toddlers don't vote.
It is amusing that SCO is employing pattern-recognition to "find" code that allegedly originates with SCO. I will bet you that if you run pattern recognition on the Bible, you will find as many hits in Scripture as they will find in the kernel.
You may have to translate the Bible into machine language first, though.
How come Apple is sending actual cash? Whenever Microsoft is caught ripping people off, they are allowed to pay in coupons which are only good for discounts on more Microsoft products.
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I love this objection:
20. IBM objects to plaintiffs definition of the terms "IBM", "Defendant", "you", "your", and "any synonym thereof" on the grounds that they are overbroad, unduly burdensome, and seek information that is irrelevant and not reasonably calculated to lead to admissible evidence.
seems like most hackers here already voted for the goatse logo.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/full.html
$200,000,000 is a rounding error in their books. This is not a penalty.
It takes 10 minutes to get a scan. Let's be generous and assume that when they get the bugs out and the thing tuned up, it will take 0.1 minute/piece. And let's assume they install on in every one of the 38000 or so post offices. Given the 200 billion piece per year volume, that means that my letter to Mom will only take about five weeks to get to the scanner and out. Happy belated Birthday, Mother!
Fight fiercely, Harvard!
Fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will.
How we shall celebrate our victory?
We shall invite IT
Up for tea! How jolly!
Pull that optical down the wall
And fight! Fight! Fight!
The loophole is that the data is converted from D to A? How hard is it to capture it back to digital? (and wait for the RIAA stormtroopers to knock on the door?)
boston.com
When informed that downloading movies is illegal, the reaction of most students was: "Cool! You can download movies?"
A Microsoft representative said they believe they have adhered to the agreement.
Tobacco execs "believe" smoking does not cause any harm.
GWB "believes" Saddam was behind 9/11.
I "believe" I am the Queen of England.
(Picture of Darl breaking rocks in a chain gang.)
Aerobics.
And all the world is football shaped,
It's just for me to kick in space
If it is yet to be proven, i.e., backed up by fact, it is a hypothesis, not a theory.
Once you have made the decision to turn your product into a string of 1s and 0s, it is out of your control.
Why do they have such a hard time understanding that?
Doh! I meant:
Darl's Story!
He's a footnote. Specifically, to the next printing of this book.
http://tinyurl.com/mq3t
We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia.
Christ, either he thinks I'm stupid, or he is stupid.
Oh look. John D. Rockefeller is giving out dimes to orphans. Isn't he a nice man. All those things Teddy Roosevelt is saying about him must be wrong.
Semi-on topic: I listened to Starship Troopers on tape while commuting a couple of years ago. There are long polemics in it that are barely endurable - the responsibilites of citizens, blah blah. Then the other day, it came to me. Heinlein was talking about the Bush administration: power-suited chickenhawks gripping the levers of power without ever having had to personally defend those powers with their lives in combat.
Yes, we have this same story twice a year. So how many years will it take us to figure out that even if the chances of a real strike are slim, the certainty of the undesirable outcome of the event should make us begin to experiment with ways to send Bruce Willis' greatgrandson out to nudge it aside? How far could we have gotten with the billions squandered in the Iraq farce?
Then again, we go out and vote to spend our money bombing a country that was of no threat to us. Maybe we deserve to have a big rock dropped on us.
and a teenage-college age rich girl
Buffy rich? You were not a regular viewer, were you?
JMS, the creator of Babylon 5, got sick of the you-cannot-hear-sounds-in-space complaint and posted a response. The gist of his argument -- apart from artistic issues -- is that space is not all empty all the time. He asked some experts, apparently, and decided that sounds were possible.
He should have decided that sounds were impossible - especially his crappy, cliched dialogue.
Not that this isn't way cool and conjures up wonderful pictures in my mind of a platoon of exoskeleton-clad septagenarians battling Godzilla in the debris-strewn streets of Tokyo, but if you step back for a moment, you will realize that this is the most inefficient way to increase the general public health. While the elderly are affluent and politically connected, their descendents and society in general would be way better off if a fraction of those resources going to robotic shit were used to give basic care to toddlers. But toddlers don't vote.
It is amusing that SCO is employing pattern-recognition to "find" code that allegedly originates with SCO. I will bet you that if you run pattern recognition on the Bible, you will find as many hits in Scripture as they will find in the kernel.
You may have to translate the Bible into machine language first, though.
How come Apple is sending actual cash? Whenever Microsoft is caught ripping people off, they are allowed to pay in coupons which are only good for discounts on more Microsoft products.