People 500 years ago drank a lot of homemade beer - the alcohol kills off a lot of the nasty bacteria. And stuff like cabbage, sausage, and beans were often eaten by the poor. So yes, I'd say that a huge amount of greenhouse gases - most notably methane - really was being produced back then.
That's just life with Linux and its idea of "something is dependent or not", rather than "this is essential, these packages are optional for added functionality".
That might well be life with Gentoo, but it's not the case with Debian. Apt packages can have both "required" and "suggested" prerequisites.
How much you want to bet the Citizen's Decency Brigade will be howling to shut these down, or at the very least to require a minimum age of 18 for admittance?
Yes, they are. Even though you aren't making an interstate call, you're using an interstate network to make it. It's the nature of the medium that determines the jurisdiction, not the endpoints of an individual connection.
You understand the word wire just fine - you do not understand the word federal. Federal law applies if the wire crosses state lines - so if your PC is in California and your keyboard in Nevada, federal wiretap law would apply.
Note that the judge specifically stated that the federal law does not apply here - if California has any laws regarding wire tapping, those still might apply.
I can see it selling just about as well as lemonade tycoon...
Heh. Those of us who are old enough can remember when schools had Apple ][s - and every last one of them had two games on it: Oregon Trail and Lemonade Stand.
You're talking about one of the greatest action film directors of all time.... Terminator, Terminator II, and Aliens are the giants of modern sci-fi/action films.
Exactly my point, thank you. Aliens wasn't all that bad a movie on its own - but it was an action movie, and that was precisely the problem. As a sequel to a classic suspense/horror movie, it was a major disappointment.
Geez, you express an opinion here and all you get is Nay Sayers screaming you down.
Well, it's not a very popular opinion. The original was a creepy, atmospheric, suspense/horror movie. The audience never even gets to see the alien through most of the movie, just quick flashes that leave the impression or something horrible lurking just slightly out of sight.
By comparison, the sequels - all of 'em - were run-of-the-mill action flicks. The suspense that made the original so great was gone, and in its place was buckets of gore. They wouldn't have done too badly on their own, but as sequels they were disappointing. I suppose it was inevitable - the original was a *very* tough act to follow, and splatter flicks were making big bank at the time.
Still, I don't think the "flamebait" mod was warranted, and I hope your comment gets modded back up. Lots of folks might disagree with your opinion of Aliens, but I don't think you intended to pick a fight by posting it. And, you made a very good point - we should recognize a director for his best work, which is not necessarily the same as his most profitable work.
Aliens? You mean the lame blood-n-guts sequel to Ridley Scott's outstanding suspense/horror flick? Well, I suppose it was better than Titanic, but that sure as hell ain't saying much.
The same as the law regarding any other form of duplication and distribution. Why would it be any different just because it's online?
The local library has every edition of the local papers on microfilm, and I suppose they could put it all on DVD too.. When does it become a copyright issue?
Assuming the microfilm was legally purchased, they're entitled to show it to as many people as they'd like. It doesn't become a copyright issue until they start making and distributing copies - your local library generally doesn't do that.
Yeah, and they're boring names too. A hurricane is a frightening thing, so why do we give them everyday names like "Adam", "Bill", "Charlie"? Why not really hellish names like "Asmodean", "Beelzebub", and "Cerberus"?
It ain't as obvious as you'd think. When hordes of CLI zealots are all bleating the same ridiculous comparisons over and over, it's kind of difficult to realize that the guy on the left who appears to be saying the same thing is actually just making fun of all the others.
Yeah, and walking to the store is faster if you have to build a car before you can drive there. Why do zealots always make such ridiculous comparisons?
A modal customer would be one who, when faced with a need to buy a particular item, pauses everything else until he buys it. By way of comparison, a non-modal customer is capable of multi tasking - background tasks aren't put on hold while he's shopping.
Or maybe if it was legal, all the drug cartels would gain even more widespread power and cause more drug related crimes. I don't think we can know which would happen... at least not without testing it.
We have tested it, with alcohol prohibition. The results were similar to those of the current "war on drugs" - rampant gang warfare, drive-by shootings, people getting killed by contaminated alcohol as a result of the lack of quality control, etc. When prohibition was repealed, most of that stopped.
Today, we still have some alcoholism. There are still some individuals who abuse alcohol to the point of ruining their lives. But by and large, society as a whole has been better served by sending those people to rehab instead of sending them to prison.
I see no reason to believe that ending the "war on drugs" would have a different result than repealing prohibition.
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Well, come on, this guy knew Apple was going to register it.
Not unless he had inside information, or a crystal ball. iTunes 1.0 wasn't released until Jan 2001 - more than a year after he registered his domain.
Seems they need to get their act together and start registerring their trademarks before they release the product.
They did. According to WikiPedia, iTunes 1.0 was released nearly a year after they registered the trademark.
People 500 years ago drank a lot of homemade beer - the alcohol kills off a lot of the nasty bacteria. And stuff like cabbage, sausage, and beans were often eaten by the poor. So yes, I'd say that a huge amount of greenhouse gases - most notably methane - really was being produced back then.
Which ones, when was it. Were the peer reviewed? By whom?
It's called phrenology, and it was a very popular theory in Victorian times.
That's just life with Linux and its idea of "something is dependent or not", rather than "this is essential, these packages are optional for added functionality".
That might well be life with Gentoo, but it's not the case with Debian. Apt packages can have both "required" and "suggested" prerequisites.
What are they going to call it after Tiger? My assumption is Lion
And after that, Bear. Oh, my!
How much you want to bet the Citizen's Decency Brigade will be howling to shut these down, or at the very least to require a minimum age of 18 for admittance?
Yes, they are. Even though you aren't making an interstate call, you're using an interstate network to make it. It's the nature of the medium that determines the jurisdiction, not the endpoints of an individual connection.
You understand the word wire just fine - you do not understand the word federal. Federal law applies if the wire crosses state lines - so if your PC is in California and your keyboard in Nevada, federal wiretap law would apply.
Note that the judge specifically stated that the federal law does not apply here - if California has any laws regarding wire tapping, those still might apply.
I can see it selling just about as well as lemonade tycoon...
Heh. Those of us who are old enough can remember when schools had Apple ][s - and every last one of them had two games on it: Oregon Trail and Lemonade Stand.
You're talking about one of the greatest action film directors of all time. ... Terminator, Terminator II, and Aliens are the giants of modern sci-fi/action films.
Exactly my point, thank you. Aliens wasn't all that bad a movie on its own - but it was an action movie, and that was precisely the problem. As a sequel to a classic suspense/horror movie, it was a major disappointment.
Geez, you express an opinion here and all you get is Nay Sayers screaming you down.
Well, it's not a very popular opinion. The original was a creepy, atmospheric, suspense/horror movie. The audience never even gets to see the alien through most of the movie, just quick flashes that leave the impression or something horrible lurking just slightly out of sight.
By comparison, the sequels - all of 'em - were run-of-the-mill action flicks. The suspense that made the original so great was gone, and in its place was buckets of gore. They wouldn't have done too badly on their own, but as sequels they were disappointing. I suppose it was inevitable - the original was a *very* tough act to follow, and splatter flicks were making big bank at the time.
Still, I don't think the "flamebait" mod was warranted, and I hope your comment gets modded back up. Lots of folks might disagree with your opinion of Aliens, but I don't think you intended to pick a fight by posting it. And, you made a very good point - we should recognize a director for his best work, which is not necessarily the same as his most profitable work.
I don't know - and if it involves "two-fisted" "exploration" I sure as hell don't want to find out.
Aliens? You mean the lame blood-n-guts sequel to Ridley Scott's outstanding suspense/horror flick? Well, I suppose it was better than Titanic, but that sure as hell ain't saying much.
Why is it not a copyright issue for the local library to do it
The LOC is making and distributing copies of the articles. The local library is not. What's so hard to understand?
What is the law regarding an online library?
The same as the law regarding any other form of duplication and distribution. Why would it be any different just because it's online?
The local library has every edition of the local papers on microfilm, and I suppose they could put it all on DVD too.. When does it become a copyright issue?
Assuming the microfilm was legally purchased, they're entitled to show it to as many people as they'd like. It doesn't become a copyright issue until they start making and distributing copies - your local library generally doesn't do that.
I'm not so sure about the significance of the content, what did they write/read in 19th Century?
Obituaries and marriage announcements, for one this. This stuff will be a gold mine for genealogists.
Yeah, and they're boring names too. A hurricane is a frightening thing, so why do we give them everyday names like "Adam", "Bill", "Charlie"? Why not really hellish names like "Asmodean", "Beelzebub", and "Cerberus"?
It ain't as obvious as you'd think. When hordes of CLI zealots are all bleating the same ridiculous comparisons over and over, it's kind of difficult to realize that the guy on the left who appears to be saying the same thing is actually just making fun of all the others.
"Unix guys" really don't even use a gui
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Nonsense! A GUI is a *great* way to organize a few dozen xterms.
Good thing king soopers delivers.
Yeah, but to call them you'd have to find the phone and plug it in, and then wait for the dial tone to init.
Even worse, that mess is mixed in with your current files
/sw - *nothing* is "mixed in with your current files".
Wrong. Everything Fink installs is found under
Yeah, and walking to the store is faster if you have to build a car before you can drive there. Why do zealots always make such ridiculous comparisons?
Depends on your definition of a "modal customer".
A modal customer would be one who, when faced with a need to buy a particular item, pauses everything else until he buys it. By way of comparison, a non-modal customer is capable of multi tasking - background tasks aren't put on hold while he's shopping.
Or maybe if it was legal, all the drug cartels would gain even more widespread power and cause more drug related crimes. I don't think we can know which would happen... at least not without testing it.
We have tested it, with alcohol prohibition. The results were similar to those of the current "war on drugs" - rampant gang warfare, drive-by shootings, people getting killed by contaminated alcohol as a result of the lack of quality control, etc. When prohibition was repealed, most of that stopped.
Today, we still have some alcoholism. There are still some individuals who abuse alcohol to the point of ruining their lives. But by and large, society as a whole has been better served by sending those people to rehab instead of sending them to prison.
I see no reason to believe that ending the "war on drugs" would have a different result than repealing prohibition.