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part gave up being about the people along time ago. The DNC is not the party of FDR or even Jimmy Carter anymore although he is to stupid to see it. Farther the Republican part spent many years being run by assoholes and steered far from its roots as well. It was not untill the eighties where forward thinking men like Ronald Regan and Gorge H. Bush restored some of the real original direction of the GOPs historic great leaders like Lincoln and made it about personal responsibility and freedome to choose, then house republicans perverted that vision again durring the Clinton years. The Jury is still out on Gorge W. Bush, Its hard to tell when he has been forced into so many reactionary dicisions due to terror attacks and war. Still I will vote for him and have higher hopes he will someday respect my liberty and me as a person being capable of takeing care of myself and demanding my responsiblity . Kerry wants you to be dependant, he and his croneys want to stay in power by takeing yours away, he wants to decide how to spend the wealth you create. Bush wants to be powerful too but I think he would rather be a despit then playing on your fears a(') la Kerry. The Truth is we need to kickout most of Congress and I can't name a single senator I approve of its time to elect some turlyindependant conservatives or perhaps libraterians who will turely represent the people and protect the American ideal which really is Libraterian by todats standards. I want people who will take there direction from our preamble.
Current the Republicans are bad but the Dems are worse. I know its cool to hate rebublicans but if you do then you had better hate the democrats as well unless you reall do whish you could have lived in soviate Russia. Where politicans vote on you:-).
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...something that allowed an ignorant congress to appear to do something about the "gas shortages". (I'm not old enough to remember them, but as I understand they didn't really exist, except as some manipulators caused them)
I am old enough to remember them. I was tweleve during the Arab Oil Embargo and worked at a gas station during the shortage of 1978. Both were very real shortages.
The first was a direct result of an emabrgo, and there was actually no gas to be had. The second was a result of panic buying, much like the Toilet Paper Shortage. We were selling through 8000 gallons a day (the most a tanker could deliver) in 78. Once rationing was imposed, we went to selling that in three days. There wasn't a shortage. We could get all the gas we wanted up to a tanker a day. It was just panic buying that caused us to sell out so quickly and thus fed the appearance of a shortage, which fed more panic buying, which added to the appearance and so on.
There was a mini-shortage in the early eighties caused by a trucker's strike, but that lasted less than a week. Since people knew the reason, it didn't lead to panic buying.
Can we hold car companies liable for making cars that can be used to make faster getaways from robbing banks?
Can we hold brickyards responsible for making objects that can so easily be thrown through plate glass windows?
Can we make gun and knife makers liable for the deaths resulting from someone using their products?
This bill is just asking for a whole slew of similar legislation to be proposed if it passes. Mon Dieu, what's next? Can the day when we hold hammer manufacturers responsible for someone breaking a window to steal a car be near at hand?
The major media companies are already working on a way to make you forget the content. They are working hard on media that erases itself after a set amount of time. This way, you will have to buy your license to see the content again and again. They are essentially trying to re-create the movie theater in your home, where you will have to buy a "ticket" every time you want to see a movie (or listen to a song). We would have gone broke on Pocahontas alone.
Don't be surprised when they try and make CDs do the same thing. The media companies hate the fact that they now sell us a copy that we can keep. They want to license a copy to us that we have to renew.
Nobody expects to be sued by SCO! Our biggest mistake was suing Daimler-Chrysler, after we sued IBM...
Our second biggest mistake was was suing Daimler-Chrysler, after we sued IBM. This was part of the business strategy thought up by our newly hired CEO, Darl McBride...
Our third biggest mistake was was suing Daimler-Chrysler...
Hey, slick. Show me in the Constitution where it says he can't. It's idiots like you that forget that the government can only specifically prohibit. Everything's legal until then.
Yiippeee!!! I can fianlly realize my life long dream to strip down to my birthday suit, paint myself yellow and run down Main Street while playing Yankee Doodle Danady on a Kazoo!!
Machines read your email all the time. If they didn't, you wouldn't be able to get it. You certainly wouldn't be able to have it checked for spam. Thinking your message is "private" just because the machines don't explicitly tell you they read it is very naive.
So very true. I remember back in the days when we were using MS Mail, I could watch the messages scroll on by the MS Mail Internet Connector, from the initial "Hello" to the text of the message. There never has been any privacy in email. Just read the terms of use of your corporate or college account.
But is anyone reading/. really surprised to see the internet and inter-operability fracturing because corporate interests are squabbling? Or are we so quick to forget this recent example? I'm just wondering how long until this becomes a "feature" in Exchange Server...
It's just like that old joke. If Linux came from Minix, and if Minix came from Unix, then SCO might have some eggs. But since Linux didn't come from Minix and Minix didn't come from Unix, SCO has shit.
No, that would imply that SCO actually had something . After all, even shit can be spread on a field to make something productive...
If the organization can't make its case to the public directly and attract funds that way, perhaps it shouldn't be getting through "under the radar" by siphoning off taxpayer funds.
I think spinning-off portions of government is reasonable.
I vote for the FBI, followed by the state department and then maybe HHS. And since private contractors have proven themsleves so effective, do we really need a Pentagon?
There's more prior art for this than if someone tried to patent sex. However, if the patent is narrowly worded to apply to only Pocket PCs, that could be different.
The previous employer has to abide the "if you have nothing good to say, say nothing" paradigm, since it's the law. A lot of companies don't give out references as a policy nowadays.
Recruiter: Hello, Mr. Former Boss. I have a few questions about a former employee of yours. Do you have some time to answer some questions?
Mr. Former Boss: Sure, go right ahead.
Recruiter: Can you tell me all of your former employees good qualities?
Mr. Former Boss:(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Recruiter: Ah, excuse me but I asked, could you tell me all of your former employees good qualities?
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Spoken like a true Bush supporter...
Somehow, I always imagined Mount Doom as being a little less depressing...
I am old enough to remember them. I was tweleve during the Arab Oil Embargo and worked at a gas station during the shortage of 1978. Both were very real shortages.
The first was a direct result of an emabrgo, and there was actually no gas to be had. The second was a result of panic buying, much like the Toilet Paper Shortage. We were selling through 8000 gallons a day (the most a tanker could deliver) in 78. Once rationing was imposed, we went to selling that in three days. There wasn't a shortage. We could get all the gas we wanted up to a tanker a day. It was just panic buying that caused us to sell out so quickly and thus fed the appearance of a shortage, which fed more panic buying, which added to the appearance and so on.
There was a mini-shortage in the early eighties caused by a trucker's strike, but that lasted less than a week. Since people knew the reason, it didn't lead to panic buying.
Watch the first five minutes of Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I . Exaclty what tools are we talking about here?
Can we hold brickyards responsible for making objects that can so easily be thrown through plate glass windows?
Can we make gun and knife makers liable for the deaths resulting from someone using their products?
This bill is just asking for a whole slew of similar legislation to be proposed if it passes. Mon Dieu, what's next? Can the day when we hold hammer manufacturers responsible for someone breaking a window to steal a car be near at hand?
Don't be surprised when they try and make CDs do the same thing. The media companies hate the fact that they now sell us a copy that we can keep. They want to license a copy to us that we have to renew.
Sorry... forgot the "" tags!
Our second biggest mistake was was suing Daimler-Chrysler, after we sued IBM. This was part of the business strategy thought up by our newly hired CEO, Darl McBride...
Our third biggest mistake was was suing Daimler-Chrysler...
Three, actually.
Whaddya mean, "sexual themes"? It's not like any other science fiction franchise has had to resort to coed back rubs, nubile aliens in skintight uniforms, lesbian kisses, sex with androids or women dressed in tinfoil to keep an audience....
Oh.. wait. Never mind...
Let me just tweek that quote abit to get:
We really don't have any improvments for reaching orbit and are still using technology pioneered in the 70s
Does this mean that it is legal for me to have a nuke in my basement? Just in case we require a little revolution now and then?
Yiippeee!!! I can fianlly realize my life long dream to strip down to my birthday suit, paint myself yellow and run down Main Street while playing Yankee Doodle Danady on a Kazoo!!
For my wife, it would be a big deal...
So very true. I remember back in the days when we were using MS Mail, I could watch the messages scroll on by the MS Mail Internet Connector, from the initial "Hello" to the text of the message. There never has been any privacy in email. Just read the terms of use of your corporate or college account.
But is anyone reading /. really surprised to see the internet and inter-operability fracturing because corporate interests are squabbling? Or are we so quick to forget this recent example? I'm just wondering how long until this becomes a "feature" in Exchange Server...
No, that would imply that SCO actually had something . After all, even shit can be spread on a field to make something productive...
Ah, I see you've seen me in my Speedo...
It is a sympton of my utter geekishness that I imagined the blonde with the nice rack after I looked at my messy, cluttered equipment rack...
I vote for the FBI, followed by the state department and then maybe HHS. And since private contractors have proven themsleves so effective, do we really need a Pentagon?
No, he said "well regulated" :-)
Dad, what are you doing reading Slashdot?
There's more prior art for this than if someone tried to patent sex. However, if the patent is narrowly worded to apply to only Pocket PCs, that could be different.
Recruiter: Hello, Mr. Former Boss. I have a few questions about a former employee of yours. Do you have some time to answer some questions?
Mr. Former Boss: Sure, go right ahead.
Recruiter: Can you tell me all of your former employees good qualities?
Mr. Former Boss:(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Recruiter: Ah, excuse me but I asked, could you tell me all of your former employees good qualities?
Mr. Former Boss: I just did.
Recruiter: Oh. I see. Thank you.
I've marked this down as an historic day on my calendar.
The words "Microsoft is" and "competent" appeared together in a sentence on /. and meant in a semi-positive way!
Truly, a day to remember for all time...
Especially considering he's now dead... Charles Bronson