Well as long as you put it out as an opinion rather than a statement of fact, in most countries in would not be slander, how ever it would likely be considered as harassment.
Flyer: Man a Rapist, in my opinion This man, pictured below, is a rapist (in my opinion). [picture] He broke into my house, in my opinion, with what I sincerely believe was a machete, and it is my opinion that he then he raped my wife and daughter. It is also my opinion that he lives at 5212 Willow Aslantabrook Rd. keep an eye out.
Oblig: Jesus Quintana: You ready to be fucked, man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up. The Dude: Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Ubuntu does have some rough edges, I admit. And they're certainly different than the rough edges found in Windows.:-)
Seriously, though, you should submit that as a bug report to openoffice, because I'm too lazy to do it myself, and it bugs the shit out of me. Could you also please report the SHIFT+BACKSPACE kicks you out of the cell you're in bug in Calc? Thanks. Maybe that wasn't so serious after all.
Apple is a big pattenter... (Espctially after Microsoft stole their interface)
Which they stole from Xerox. Funny. I saw Woz speak, and he stated the following: a) they toured Xerox, and saw everything they did, went home, and made it for cheaper b) Windows "stole" their interface c) The Creative Labs suit about the iPod interface was silly and unfounded
Hmmm? So any lawsuits AGAINST Apple are silly and unfounded. Those same lawsuits file BY Apple are great and wonderful, huh? Can someone explain this to me?
By the way, I think patenting obvious ergonomic ideas is stupid, and it's not theft to copy an interface. The same way making a car with a steering wheel on the left side is not theft of intellectual property. Apple has, IMO, more mud on their faces because they have the balls to turn around and call themselves moral. And as our president says, "You can't claim the high horse and take the low road."
Yeah, that's sort of why you hire an engineer AND an architect. The architect gets really excited about all the awesome things he could do, and the engineer explains why it's a bad idea to have big holes in the roof of a computer science lab.
Also, while I in no way defend doctors, I think that people have to be their own primary care physician, because NOBODY can know more about you than you can. You just delegate out technical shit to professionals, and when they tell you they need to cut off some dangly pieces of flesh, you get a second opinion. And this applies equally to hot shit architects. Get a fucking second opinion, even if it's your own.
I guess you could sue the architect for the amount of money it'll take to fix the big goddamn mess he created, though. And generate a fair amount of bad publicity for him in the hopes that he doesn't do it to somebody else.
With a name like Estanislao Martinez, I bet none of this came as much of a shock to you. I'm sure you're not as bound by the mental strictures of most Americans. I, having grown up in Mexico, was not very taken aback myself.
But I think GP has a fairly good point, that it's news until you hear it, then it's 'obvious' like the Christopher Colombus how-to-tell-an-egg-is-hard-boiled thing.
Exactly. If you want them to answer questions on science, DO prepare them with a list of topics ahead of time. At least that way you'll know when the question is asked who did their homework and developed an opinion, and who didn't. Their ability to develop an opinion on a topic is very important, as THAT is what they'll be doing as President.
I think more specifically, they should be given the topics, but not the questions. That way, they would be up against what your average highschooler is up against. It would be like a test. You could even give them narrow topics, like:
We will discuss: 1. Evolution 2. Global Warming 3. Science and Oil Dependence 4. Human Genetics 5. WTF the Gays (a hot-button issue, you'll all agree) 6. Pharmaceutical Psychology
Then, you'd be able to ask sub-questions that they may not prepare for if they're merely talking heads. I've got an opinion on all of the above, and I'd be interested that my president at least have an opinion. Even if it doesn't strictly agree with my own.
Funny, the headline seems to say that "apple makes"" $831 dollars on each AT&T iPhone."
And I think, considering that "makes" is not a designated financial term with one set specific meaning, it remains a rather ambiguous term. I agree that it would be better--and less inflammatory--to say that Apple grosses $831 per iPhone, but we can't have control over everything we write. And being a nitpicking tool is merely a way of assuaging one's own sense of inferiority.
As is, many may notice, this comment itself. Whatever. Just be nice, kids. Keep the tubes clean.
Except for if they sold it through the RIAA, they'd make 37 cents per sale, instead of $5. Or $1. Or whatever. Almost noone is so cheap that they can't beat what the RIAA pays.
Call me back in eight years to tell me your ThinkPad is still running. My Clamshell iBook (1999) finally died three months ago.
-:sigma.SB
I've seen tons and tons of mid 90s Thinkpads still working. In fact, I've had people bring in a Thinkpad with a made for Windows 95 sticker on it that they'd dumped coffee into. The fix? Replace the keyboard, and it was good to go.
Take into account the fairly recent iBooks with the jack problem that Apple refused to honor the warranty on, and I know several people with DEAD Macs that they've had to solder the jack back on themselves, or leave it collecting dust in a closet. My friend Jon, a Mac freak, told me that his friend dropped his new Intel MacBook from waist height, and it landed on a rear hinge corner, and it completely broke apart.
Nope, unlike what tv may have taught you, people rarely, if ever, joke about something anything that affects and hurts them.
I imagine I wouldn't joke more than once at the funeral, but humor is an excellent stress reliever. Plus, I try to take a more spiritual viewpoint in life (though I can't say I'm wonderfully successful). Things that are in the past are in the past. Stopping myself from laughing at something because it's related to some pain in my past seems like a pretty shallow thing to do.
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Flyer:
Man a Rapist, in my opinion
This man, pictured below, is a rapist (in my opinion).
[picture]
He broke into my house, in my opinion, with what I sincerely believe was a machete, and it is my opinion that he then he raped my wife and daughter.
It is also my opinion that he lives at 5212 Willow Aslantabrook Rd.
keep an eye out.
Oblig:
Jesus Quintana: You ready to be fucked, man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up.
The Dude: Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Leave hi'n Grammar outta this. She ain't hurt nobody.
I'm paraphrasing, but:
Murray: That show was great for us! Fan club membership has tripled.
Bret: So that makes...[stops, thinks]...three?
news at 11.
Ubuntu does have some rough edges, I admit. And they're certainly different than the rough edges found in Windows. :-)
Seriously, though, you should submit that as a bug report to openoffice, because I'm too lazy to do it myself, and it bugs the shit out of me. Could you also please report the SHIFT+BACKSPACE kicks you out of the cell you're in bug in Calc? Thanks. Maybe that wasn't so serious after all.
Yeah, but I think the stuff's way too creepy to use. For example, how it know what to keep out? How? Tell me.
O KTHXB YE TEHNGU
n savyet rusha, a chezbergur can has a lolcats!
Which they stole from Xerox. Funny. I saw Woz speak, and he stated the following:
a) they toured Xerox, and saw everything they did, went home, and made it for cheaper
b) Windows "stole" their interface
c) The Creative Labs suit about the iPod interface was silly and unfounded
Hmmm? So any lawsuits AGAINST Apple are silly and unfounded. Those same lawsuits file BY Apple are great and wonderful, huh? Can someone explain this to me?
By the way, I think patenting obvious ergonomic ideas is stupid, and it's not theft to copy an interface. The same way making a car with a steering wheel on the left side is not theft of intellectual property. Apple has, IMO, more mud on their faces because they have the balls to turn around and call themselves moral. And as our president says, "You can't claim the high horse and take the low road."
Am I the only person who's thought of writing "Hi, Larry!" on the tips of my shoes? Because we should all start doing that. That guy's a jerk.
Oh, also, here's for bringing back capes. If you've never worn a cape, I highly recommend it. It's the most awesome fucking thing in the world.
Word is they had to halt production on new copies of Office 2007, because he was pirating hundreds of ribbons a day.
And piracy is stealing.
Yeah, that's sort of why you hire an engineer AND an architect. The architect gets really excited about all the awesome things he could do, and the engineer explains why it's a bad idea to have big holes in the roof of a computer science lab.
Also, while I in no way defend doctors, I think that people have to be their own primary care physician, because NOBODY can know more about you than you can. You just delegate out technical shit to professionals, and when they tell you they need to cut off some dangly pieces of flesh, you get a second opinion. And this applies equally to hot shit architects. Get a fucking second opinion, even if it's your own.
I guess you could sue the architect for the amount of money it'll take to fix the big goddamn mess he created, though. And generate a fair amount of bad publicity for him in the hopes that he doesn't do it to somebody else.
With a name like Estanislao Martinez, I bet none of this came as much of a shock to you. I'm sure you're not as bound by the mental strictures of most Americans. I, having grown up in Mexico, was not very taken aback myself.
But I think GP has a fairly good point, that it's news until you hear it, then it's 'obvious' like the Christopher Colombus how-to-tell-an-egg-is-hard-boiled thing.
I think more specifically, they should be given the topics, but not the questions. That way, they would be up against what your average highschooler is up against. It would be like a test. You could even give them narrow topics, like:
We will discuss:
1. Evolution
2. Global Warming
3. Science and Oil Dependence
4. Human Genetics
5. WTF the Gays (a hot-button issue, you'll all agree)
6. Pharmaceutical Psychology
Then, you'd be able to ask sub-questions that they may not prepare for if they're merely talking heads. I've got an opinion on all of the above, and I'd be interested that my president at least have an opinion. Even if it doesn't strictly agree with my own.
And I think, considering that "makes" is not a designated financial term with one set specific meaning, it remains a rather ambiguous term. I agree that it would be better--and less inflammatory--to say that Apple grosses $831 per iPhone, but we can't have control over everything we write. And being a nitpicking tool is merely a way of assuaging one's own sense of inferiority.
As is, many may notice, this comment itself. Whatever. Just be nice, kids. Keep the tubes clean.
Here's mine:
You mean the Sims expansion packs have a wall texture of Will Wright's bloody head impaled on a stick? AWESOME!!!!
Software Pirates 3,974,214
Paying End Users 2
But paying end users are expected to come up strong in the next fiscal year. Stay tuned!
If we don't get this problem under control, it could mean the END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!
uh. Of Warcraft.
I have not looked over their terms, but my friend who is an audio engineer says that CDBaby's terms are a little grubby on the IP.
Except for if they sold it through the RIAA, they'd make 37 cents per sale, instead of $5. Or $1. Or whatever. Almost noone is so cheap that they can't beat what the RIAA pays.
I've seen tons and tons of mid 90s Thinkpads still working. In fact, I've had people bring in a Thinkpad with a made for Windows 95 sticker on it that they'd dumped coffee into. The fix? Replace the keyboard, and it was good to go.
Take into account the fairly recent iBooks with the jack problem that Apple refused to honor the warranty on, and I know several people with DEAD Macs that they've had to solder the jack back on themselves, or leave it collecting dust in a closet. My friend Jon, a Mac freak, told me that his friend dropped his new Intel MacBook from waist height, and it landed on a rear hinge corner, and it completely broke apart.
Bah. You have no idea what you're talking about.
I imagine I wouldn't joke more than once at the funeral, but humor is an excellent stress reliever. Plus, I try to take a more spiritual viewpoint in life (though I can't say I'm wonderfully successful). Things that are in the past are in the past. Stopping myself from laughing at something because it's related to some pain in my past seems like a pretty shallow thing to do.
But that's just me.
NAMBLA polls kids all the time.
*ducks*
While I overall concur, excessive swearing is an indicator of mental laziness, as is excessive use of any term (Git 'R Done!).
Inappropriate also refers to talking about anal rape and violence around someone else's daughter.