Sounds like they can make 24,000 carats per year, or about 8% of the current worldwide annual production capability. The original submission contained additional information.
One of my clients has 13 subsidized foreign (!) workers. In round numbers, he pays them $4/hr, you pay them $8/hr, but they only actually get $8/hr, because $4/hr goes to an NGO "acclimation and training" scam. I'll have to check to see if Greenstein is running it (and/or arranging their grossly overpriced 3-to-a-room housing).
For your $20M Lockheed Martin will discover and develop a VP-level revolving-door job opening for an experienced NASA contract liaison with a proven lack of ethics.
In the Russian borrowed word "radio", the Cyrillic characters a and o look identical to the same English letters (the rest are completely different).
The Russian word "radio" should be in (the specific Russian Cyrillic subset of) Unicode/UTF, while the English word "radio" should be in Unicode/ASCII.
Mixing and matching character sets in URLs or email address typically indicates "intent to confuse". Within text, it usually just confuses translators and spell checkers.
So, you are not from the USA. While the US Congress directly accepts bribes, it usually doesn't directly disperse the associated thank you dollars back to the corporations.
In this case, thank-yous were paid by stuffing the FCC with lawyers working for Comcast and Verizon (currently on 'accrued salary, bonus and commission deferred until 2017' status).
It is these experts in Telecommunications Law (that could not explain the difference between RJ11 and an Internet Tube) who will determine that all schools and libraries should use Comcast, Verizon, or both, for installation and service.
I used to have at least one for my tube work in the 60s, 300V or so but I don't recall the specifics. In a quick run through eBay nothing clicked. But I did see where someone was selling filament supplies w/digital displays... that's just wrong.
My entire 'B' bench is 70s gear that just keeps on working (HP 1742A scope, 5302A counter, a brace of Simpson 260s, Fluke 1910A, HP-19 calc, etc, all bought new, most still with the original manuals filed in the same cabinets as the few Photofacts I kept). Even more impressive is that nothing is worth anything because everyone else's gear is also still working fine.
About a year and a half ago, my Comcast internet service failed for about 12 hours on a Saturday evening, so I called to complain. There was no report of an outage, they lied, but they would make a note of it. The next Saturday it failed again, so I called again. They not only repeated the "no report of any problems" lie, they refused to issue me a credit because this was my first complaint (i.e, they claimed I hadn't called the week before).
So I canceled right then. The first available customer service witch made the process as difficult as possible, and insisted a technician had to come to uninstall the internet modem. Of course, no one ever showed up on the appointed day.
Comcast already had their "on-time or $20 guarantee", but when I called to complain, another Comcast witch not only cackled that wasn't I going to get my $20, but proudly boasted that she wouldn't connect me to one of their fake supervisors, and ha ha, in Illinois there is absolutely no one you can complain to. (I did have fun leading them on retaliatory wild goose chases for their equipment over the next few months).
But wait. There is a punch line.
About two weeks after I'd canceled, I got a form letter from Comcast which, after briefly apologizing for the overnight outages, explained that they were incurred during the process of doubling my area's download speed from 10Mbps to 20Mbps.
Heh. If only they hadn't trained their customer service witches to always lie first.
Inasmuch Nader is the only candidate that isn't in Israel's grasp, a [N]ew York Times article sent in by an 'Einstein' denouncing him is just a bit obvious. Heh.
From two years (2000 through 2001) Microsoft provided essentially nothing in the way of new programming tools (or heaven forbid, bug fixes) to it's $2,000/seat MSDN customers. After two years of 90% profit margins ($200 worth of duplicate DVD/CDs + shipping), in 2002, they raised the price by about $1000 for 2002's.NET so their net profit remained $1800/year.
So, except for the few MSDN customers who were smart/quick enough to figure out what Microsoft was up to, they ended up paying $7000 + $2500/yr for.NET. (To be fair, it comes with a free copy of Office 2003.)
If we had an honest press or an honest 'Judge', none of this would be an issue.
Recently I heard from a friend of an uncle of an Anonymous Coward that SCO had to arrange for three more 8-year old slave boys to be sent to 'Judge' Well's house for her and her husband's use, since they've "finished" with the last batch (whatever that means).
Of course I don't know if it's true or not (I think the uncle made it up), but since it has to do with the legal profession, truth is immaterial. I'm sure the 'Judge' agrees that it's fair for me to a buy reporters, dumb senator's sons and my own 'judge' so I'm free to spread the story for a couple of years, since I have exactly as much proof as SCO has shown her 'court'. (For those of you viewing at home, that would be 'None').
Based on the non-actions so far of the shyster team of Kimball and Wells, I suspect the "merits of the case" involve highly technicial concepts like whether the offshore-funneled payments by SCO, the ABA, and the JBS spelled each of their names right.
"How many times do we have to tell you, Darl? There's two ell's in each!".
It's insiders we should be most concerned with, especially patronage twits like this Linda H. Lamone who has already shown herself either unqualified for her position, already bribed, or, most probably, both.
It is standard procedure for the McBrides of this world to file dozens of lawsuits and pursue only those that draw appropriate judges.
SCO is clearly without a legal case, but that isn't material; they and their investors are simply betting against a fair, timely and competent trial.
Each time the judge allows SCO more time and wiggle room by not sanctioning clearly sanctionable actions, SCO's chances look better. (Don't take my word for it. Check the stock price over the last six months.)
So, if we have questions for Jim Manzi, Ed Esber, Philippe Kahn, Ray Norda or Michael Copeland, can we ask them here? It seems you're in a hurry to join their club.
The RIAA could not care less about Copyrights or file sharing. I'm sure they get huge laughs reading boards like Slashdot.
The RIAA only makes money from the Record Companies. They don't make squat from you, and, unlike SCO, there's no stock to run up. The RIAA's only job is to convince the Record Companies that they need them, and bill them by the hour. While there once was a real purpose for the RIAA, it's long since autotelic.
Techies are smart, but they make up for it by being gullible and naive -- all the threats, DDoS and negative press just makes the RIAA richer and more powerful. The Record Companies will lose money, but the RIAA will make sure you get blamed while they get that money.
Cringely would properly call the RIAA sharp. Some sources for their money are:
1) Charging the Record Companies for the legal advice (and purchased politicians) to allow them to avoid paying artists and/or taxes.
2) Convincing the Record Companies to spend that saved money on Payola, and grabbing consulting / finder's fee kickbacks from both the indies and Clear Channel.
3) Charging $500 an hour to defend (in the press, running MD5s and in the court) the Record Companies against the issue of the day (Cassette tapes, dirty language labeling, Napster, PTP), which the sharp RIAA lawyers constantly troll for in the first place.
4) Day-to-day activities like fudging sales figures downwards to convince the Record Companies that they need them more than ever.
5) Silly stuff like billing hours for moving their web site weekly. They play some things so incompetently I'm amazed they've been able keep a straight face. 'oh yea? Watch what I can get away with!'
If you believe the legal system is honest, go short SCO.
If you're not so sure about the legal system, go long.
Personally, I suspect SCO's hired gun David Boies:
As federal prosecutor against Microsoft played both sides
Used (laundered) Microsoft money as a payoff in January 2001, to lose government's the case after it had already been won (good trick, though not unique)
Specifically paid U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson with a bevy of pink, nubile 8-year old boys (or equivalent)
Has more than enough cash, kidnapped children (or equivalent) on hand to buy off any U.S. District Judge in the SCO case
Indications are that Boies has already purchased the Supervising Judge, the one who picks the Judge for the circus^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htrial, and IBM's actions seem to indicate that they are having problems getting to a higher-placed Judge (known as 'buying an honest judge' in the trade).
Since the days (20 years ago) when scammer Mikey Dell placed a dozen two-page spread ads (unpaid for) in PC Magazine pretending to be 12 different Texas companies, he's pretty much decided it's more comfortable down there.
Don't lose sight of the fact that these Federal Circuit Bench warmers are, at best, ambulance chasers who siphoned enough cash from widows, orphans, taxpayers and investors to buy themselves their pensions.
... or that the lawyers for Rambus today are the Federal Circuit Bench warmers of tomorrow.
And that is the way the system is supposed to work.
Rosen's defining cowardly and stupid act was killing Napster rather than putting a saddle on and riding it.
At the point in time Rosen decided to kill Napster, older downloaders were largely grabbing out-of-print music, while youngsters grabbed the same hits as were on the radio. We didn't like Rosen or the RIAA, but most of us had yet to realize what a slimeball she is, and by association the RIAA. Cars with CD players were still a small minority, and CD burning software and hardware were as yet unpolished. Most importantly, though, was that downloaders were still thinking has nice it was going to be in the future when they could easily and reliably download high quality music, artwork, lyrics, etc, and also access thousand of out of print or difficult to get albums. Those whose main goal was to get free music for the sake of IP theft/piracy were the minority; most people simply thought that although what they were downloading was not top quality, it would get better once Napster went legit.
That was three years ago. Retail buyers of CDs find it even harder to find what they want, and a large portion of this is caused by the RIAA's using Golden Goose economics. E.g, fewer artists, fewer titles, and even pressing fewer copies to save money. At first glance it seems that if you press 200,000 and only sell 160,000, then you only should have pressed 160,000. However, what really happens is that if 160,000 are pressed, then sales will decline to probably around 110,000. Such is the power of having something in stock when the the buyer is there. Likewise, if there are six groups, you might like one; with just three, you probably don't like any.
Just imagine if there was a web site where a user go after discovering a new (to them) group, and click a button to purchase their entire catalogue. Print/burn/assemble/ship. By now everyone can do these steps, while the RIAA members's back catalogues have actually shrunk. In many cases they've cancelled contracts with independents (such as Rhino) and then.... done nothing.
The RIAA's members couldn't, can't and never will even agree with each other on how to do anything that would involve voluntarily giving up one penny.
So, Rosen, now we hate you. Things should have gotten better, but you made things considerably worse. We don't want to give you or your RIAA member's money so you can sue us, buy politicans and judges, and snort coke in your private jets all day (or whatever it is you need the money for).
The autotelic Mr. Lessig's day job at Stanford is creating the very IP parasites he rails on about. On weekends he hides behind white papers (dresses up in sheep's clothing) to protect you from his last crop of leaches.
"What a lot of unmitagated gall you have, grandma!" "All the better to lop off an arm and a leg, my children!"
The only reason any of us will ever need a greedy hypocrite like Lessig is to protect us from a greedy hypocrite like Lessig.
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Sounds like they can make 24,000 carats per year, or about 8% of the current worldwide annual production capability. The original submission contained additional information.
One of my clients has 13 subsidized foreign (!) workers. In round numbers, he pays them $4/hr, you pay them $8/hr, but they only actually get $8/hr, because $4/hr goes to an NGO "acclimation and training" scam. I'll have to check to see if Greenstein is running it (and/or arranging their grossly overpriced 3-to-a-room housing).
For your $20M Lockheed Martin will discover and develop a VP-level revolving-door job opening for an experienced NASA contract liaison with a proven lack of ethics.
There are several ways to accept money safely, but a Certified Check has never, ever been one of them.
Seriously, how can everyone not know this?
In the Russian borrowed word "radio", the Cyrillic characters a and o look identical to the same English letters (the rest are completely different).
The Russian word "radio" should be in (the specific Russian Cyrillic subset of) Unicode/UTF, while the English word "radio" should be in Unicode/ASCII.
Mixing and matching character sets in URLs or email address typically indicates "intent to confuse". Within text, it usually just confuses translators and spell checkers.
So, you are not from the USA. While the US Congress directly accepts bribes, it usually doesn't directly disperse the associated thank you dollars back to the corporations.
In this case, thank-yous were paid by stuffing the FCC with lawyers working for Comcast and Verizon (currently on 'accrued salary, bonus and commission deferred until 2017' status).
It is these experts in Telecommunications Law (that could not explain the difference between RJ11 and an Internet Tube) who will determine that all schools and libraries should use Comcast, Verizon, or both, for installation and service.
Thanks for the memory jog.
... that's just wrong.
I used to have at least one for my tube work in the 60s, 300V or so but I don't recall the specifics. In a quick run through eBay nothing clicked. But I did see where someone was selling filament supplies w/digital displays
My entire 'B' bench is 70s gear that just keeps on working (HP 1742A scope, 5302A counter, a brace of Simpson 260s, Fluke 1910A, HP-19 calc, etc, all bought new, most still with the original manuals filed in the same cabinets as the few Photofacts I kept). Even more impressive is that nothing is worth anything because everyone else's gear is also still working fine.
About a year and a half ago, my Comcast internet service failed for about 12 hours on a Saturday evening, so I called to complain. There was no report of an outage, they lied, but they would make a note of it. The next Saturday it failed again, so I called again. They not only repeated the "no report of any problems" lie, they refused to issue me a credit because this was my first complaint (i.e, they claimed I hadn't called the week before).
So I canceled right then. The first available customer service witch made the process as difficult as possible, and insisted a technician had to come to uninstall the internet modem. Of course, no one ever showed up on the appointed day.
Comcast already had their "on-time or $20 guarantee", but when I called to complain, another Comcast witch not only cackled that wasn't I going to get my $20, but proudly boasted that she wouldn't connect me to one of their fake supervisors, and ha ha, in Illinois there is absolutely no one you can complain to. (I did have fun leading them on retaliatory wild goose chases for their equipment over the next few months).
But wait. There is a punch line.
About two weeks after I'd canceled, I got a form letter from Comcast which, after briefly apologizing for the overnight outages, explained that they were incurred during the process of doubling my area's download speed from 10Mbps to 20Mbps.
Heh. If only they hadn't trained their customer service witches to always lie first.
The US has a very strict "loser pays" structure, where "loser" is defined as taxpayers without their own personal lawyer and lobbyist militia.
Bzzzt. Try again.
Ref: The Cockoo's Egg.
Inasmuch Nader is the only candidate that isn't in Israel's grasp, a [N]ew York Times article sent in by an 'Einstein' denouncing him is just a bit obvious. Heh.
From two years (2000 through 2001) Microsoft provided essentially nothing in the way of new programming tools (or heaven forbid, bug fixes) to it's $2,000/seat MSDN customers. .NET so their net profit remained $1800/year.
.NET. (To be fair, it comes with a free copy of Office 2003.)
After two years of 90% profit margins ($200 worth of duplicate DVD/CDs + shipping), in 2002, they raised the price by about $1000 for 2002's
So, except for the few MSDN customers who were smart/quick enough to figure out what Microsoft was up to, they ended up paying $7000 + $2500/yr for
- Recently I heard from a friend of an uncle of an Anonymous Coward that SCO had to arrange for three more 8-year old slave boys to be sent to 'Judge' Well's house for her and her husband's use, since they've "finished" with the last batch (whatever that means).
Anybody got an extra $86 million?Of course I don't know if it's true or not (I think the uncle made it up), but since it has to do with the legal profession, truth is immaterial. I'm sure the 'Judge' agrees that it's fair for me to a buy reporters, dumb senator's sons and my own 'judge' so I'm free to spread the story for a couple of years, since I have exactly as much proof as SCO has shown her 'court'. (For those of you viewing at home, that would be 'None').
"How many times do we have to tell you, Darl? There's two ell's in each!".
It's insiders we should be most concerned with, especially patronage twits like this Linda H. Lamone who has already shown herself either unqualified for her position, already bribed, or, most probably, both.
It is standard procedure for the McBrides of this world to file dozens of lawsuits and pursue only those that draw appropriate judges. SCO is clearly without a legal case, but that isn't material; they and their investors are simply betting against a fair, timely and competent trial.
Each time the judge allows SCO more time and wiggle room by not sanctioning clearly sanctionable actions, SCO's chances look better. (Don't take my word for it. Check the stock price over the last six months.)
So, if we have questions for Jim Manzi, Ed Esber, Philippe Kahn, Ray Norda or Michael Copeland, can we ask them here? It seems you're in a hurry to join their club.
Yup. Golden eggs are yummy.
The RIAA only makes money from the Record Companies. They don't make squat from you, and, unlike SCO, there's no stock to run up. The RIAA's only job is to convince the Record Companies that they need them, and bill them by the hour. While there once was a real purpose for the RIAA, it's long since autotelic.
Techies are smart, but they make up for it by being gullible and naive -- all the threats, DDoS and negative press just makes the RIAA richer and more powerful. The Record Companies will lose money, but the RIAA will make sure you get blamed while they get that money.
Cringely would properly call the RIAA sharp. Some sources for their money are:
1) Charging the Record Companies for the legal advice (and purchased politicians) to allow them to avoid paying artists and/or taxes.
2) Convincing the Record Companies to spend that saved money on Payola, and grabbing consulting / finder's fee kickbacks from both the indies and Clear Channel.
3) Charging $500 an hour to defend (in the press, running MD5s and in the court) the Record Companies against the issue of the day (Cassette tapes, dirty language labeling, Napster, PTP), which the sharp RIAA lawyers constantly troll for in the first place.
4) Day-to-day activities like fudging sales figures downwards to convince the Record Companies that they need them more than ever.
5) Silly stuff like billing hours for moving their web site weekly. They play some things so incompetently I'm amazed they've been able keep a straight face. 'oh yea? Watch what I can get away with!'
If you believe the legal system is honest, go short SCO.
If you're not so sure about the legal system, go long.
Personally, I suspect SCO's hired gun David Boies:
As federal prosecutor against Microsoft played both sides
Used (laundered) Microsoft money as a payoff in January 2001, to lose government's the case after it had already been won (good trick, though not unique)
Specifically paid U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson with a bevy of pink, nubile 8-year old boys (or equivalent)
Has more than enough cash, kidnapped children (or equivalent) on hand to buy off any U.S. District Judge in the SCO case
Indications are that Boies has already purchased the Supervising Judge, the one who picks the Judge for the circus^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htrial, and IBM's actions seem to indicate that they are having problems getting to a higher-placed Judge (known as 'buying an honest judge' in the trade).
According to the current issue of the Economist, it's not what you build, it's how you bribe.
Since the days (20 years ago) when scammer Mikey Dell placed a dozen two-page spread ads (unpaid for) in PC Magazine pretending to be 12 different Texas companies, he's pretty much decided it's more comfortable down there.
Don't lose sight of the fact that these Federal Circuit Bench warmers are, at best, ambulance chasers who siphoned enough cash from widows, orphans, taxpayers and investors to buy themselves their pensions.
And that is the way the system is supposed to work.
At the point in time Rosen decided to kill Napster, older downloaders were largely grabbing out-of-print music, while youngsters grabbed the same hits as were on the radio. We didn't like Rosen or the RIAA, but most of us had yet to realize what a slimeball she is, and by association the RIAA. Cars with CD players were still a small minority, and CD burning software and hardware were as yet unpolished. Most importantly, though, was that downloaders were still thinking has nice it was going to be in the future when they could easily and reliably download high quality music, artwork, lyrics, etc, and also access thousand of out of print or difficult to get albums. Those whose main goal was to get free music for the sake of IP theft/piracy were the minority; most people simply thought that although what they were downloading was not top quality, it would get better once Napster went legit.
That was three years ago. Retail buyers of CDs find it even harder to find what they want, and a large portion of this is caused by the RIAA's using Golden Goose economics. E.g, fewer artists, fewer titles, and even pressing fewer copies to save money. At first glance it seems that if you press 200,000 and only sell 160,000, then you only should have pressed 160,000. However, what really happens is that if 160,000 are pressed, then sales will decline to probably around 110,000. Such is the power of having something in stock when the the buyer is there. Likewise, if there are six groups, you might like one; with just three, you probably don't like any.
Just imagine if there was a web site where a user go after discovering a new (to them) group, and click a button to purchase their entire catalogue. Print/burn/assemble/ship. By now everyone can do these steps, while the RIAA members's back catalogues have actually shrunk. In many cases they've cancelled contracts with independents (such as Rhino) and then .... done nothing.
The RIAA's members couldn't, can't and never will even agree with each other on how to do anything that would involve voluntarily giving up one penny.
So, Rosen, now we hate you. Things should have gotten better, but you made things considerably worse. We don't want to give you or your RIAA member's money so you can sue us, buy politicans and judges, and snort coke in your private jets all day (or whatever it is you need the money for).
Talk about easy marks.
The autotelic Mr. Lessig's day job at Stanford is creating the very IP parasites he rails on about. On weekends he hides behind white papers (dresses up in sheep's clothing) to protect you from his last crop of leaches.
"What a lot of unmitagated gall you have, grandma!"
"All the better to lop off an arm and a leg, my children!"
The only reason any of us will ever need a greedy hypocrite like Lessig is to protect us from a greedy hypocrite like Lessig.