but if you cannot properly cite or quote Scientology documents even for "fair use" you cannot make effective arguments to the public. I'd venture they're pulling a "Disney" here that their "characters, stories, and themes" are "copyrighted" so you can't even describe them or use their names in any meaningful way without violation.
It's a very clever scam. They are structured and operate as a corporation, yet go to court for religious freedoms. It's like merging Microsoft with the Southern Baptists. We need the Pope to get in gear and show these boys how it's really done.
most importantly, they have known, available recycling facilities. One dark side of electric cars is that they use some nasty materials in the batteries and other parts that cause poisoning if they get handled improperly.
I started driving in an 84 Nissan Sentra almost the same car. It got 40+ on the highway (we had 55 mph speed limit then which helped) and it was cheap to fix. Where's a 50-60mph GAS car comparable to that?
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When McCain allows off shore drilling they'll all go away again. Electric bullet dodged by auto companies... again.
actually this might have stopped some far reaching consequences as the news adjusts. I could almost see a plug kicked on purpose here.
I think slowing down the markets is good anyway. There is not anything important that can change in a company in less than 1 quarter anyway. Moving shares around any less than once per quarter is just gaming the system... that's GAMBLING, not investing.
99.999% uptime is only 30 SECONDS per YEAR uptime, calculated on a 24x7 year minus maintenance in SLA (but for things like phones it's REALLY 30 seconds per year that you can't get a dial tone)
All the semiconductor parts are already made in china or southeast asia now anyway. Very little is shipped FROM the US to China to make computers. Not even the latest Intel chips.
it's called a credit limit... they have those on credit cards for a long time and they are heavily policed for fraud. If a bank allowed this they'd be looking at massive SEC and banking fines for such reckless credit behavior.
most telcos run credit checks in order to even get a cell phone or even land line now. Why do they not implement credit limits like every other credit granting agency out there? $14,000 charges on a $150 per month plan is evidence of fraudulent activity and telcos are not lifting a finger to stop it. This could be scammers, this could be a stolen phone or 100 other things. Try charging $14,000 of stuff on a $1400 Visa and see what happens... email us from jail...
I thought cell phones ran credit checks... don't customers have a credit limit like a credit card would have? Why are the telcos allowing such huge overages over what plan you are credit approved for? They know your credit score and reasonable limit,why are they not following that on these cell plans?
This is like the old-school days when mechanics would have you sign to "fix" your car, then replace the parts with 10x what they costed and huge labor costs then not let you have your car back... in response we passed law saying they had to tell you charges BEFORE work started and return the used parts. Expecting telcos to honor the credit checks they perform should be expected as ethical behavior.
this is the definition of "malicious compliance" with the rules. The internet devices connect automatically, that's part of what you pay for. The malicious part is that they don't have good mechanisms to help manage your bill, something phone companies should have been held to task for long, long ago when companies were phone scamming and slamming. Phone companies should have put auto limits in place say $500 (that's 12x the standard phone bill) then cut you to an operator automatically if there were problems, that's the whole point of a 100% owned private network versus the internet, they can hijack your line whenever they need.. and don't when there are billing issues happening.
As a counter example, many credit card companies advertise they will call you if they suspect suspicious charges and most will stop your card... heck you have a "credit limit" and they generally stop approving when you go over that. Phone companies choose not to implement such measures for their customers so these obscene bills are squarely the companies problem.
but a browser can be ACID2 compliant and still not render "matching" other browsers. ACID2 tests the "edges" of the specs, not how regular complex pages act.
But using Jerry Seinfeld "show about nothing" to advertise Windows "OS about nothing" makes no sense. All of Seinfeld's jokes would be on the wrong side... that's why the Apple ads are so funny because Windows IS absurd... the things people do to make it work.
I think Gates doing what Gates does best working with small groups: kids, elderly, minorities, small business owners to show what Microsoft Software helps out in the world would have been much better. To poke a counter point at the Mac ads, say "we are business" and really good at it.
The commercial makes me want to install Ubuntu on something just to feel "clean".
because rotation is a property of the file, not part of the image. Back to non-destructive why rewrite a file if you don't have to. In image work pixels are not "square" image rotation and resaving is considered "lossy" and you don't change the file until absolutely necessary.
nearly everything "fun" is a crime, someplace, sometime. The problem is that "boys will be boys" type crimes, cow tipping, TPing, underage drinking, anything on MythBusters... have all become big deals when pictures are on the internet. Stuff everybody did and said even when I was a kid first wasn't illegal and second wasn't enforceable even if they did catch you.
example: light bottle rocket in your yard with little kids watching. 20 years ago.. the cops simply confiscated them (and lit them at home) Now, put the video on YouTube... now the DA give you a ticket for each rocket, raids your house, and charges you with child "endangerment" for each kid in the video or within 1 block of your house.... up to 2 years later... because it's "video evidence" see the problem.
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Linux has Konquerer and OSX has Safari, both KHTML based browsers, so basic standards are already covered on those platforms. Windows has Safari, but it's not widespread enoughto matter versus Chrome. This puts cross-platform browsers firmly in the game. Opera, Firefox, & *KHTML are firmly placed to jump on the HTML5 bandwagon when it kicks off... and cover nearly every platform known to man. IE is sandboxed only for dull windows users at this point.
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but if you cannot properly cite or quote Scientology documents even for "fair use" you cannot make effective arguments to the public. I'd venture they're pulling a "Disney" here that their "characters, stories, and themes" are "copyrighted" so you can't even describe them or use their names in any meaningful way without violation.
It's a very clever scam. They are structured and operate as a corporation, yet go to court for religious freedoms. It's like merging Microsoft with the Southern Baptists. We need the Pope to get in gear and show these boys how it's really done.
At this scale perhaps class action is in order, then it protects individual's identity, or at least keeps score.
but the Flying Spaghetti Monster guided our evolution with his noodely appendage.
Three way grudge match in Spore... Cthulu,Xenu, and FSM!
most importantly, they have known, available recycling facilities. One dark side of electric cars is that they use some nasty materials in the batteries and other parts that cause poisoning if they get handled improperly.
I started driving in an 84 Nissan Sentra almost the same car. It got 40+ on the highway (we had 55 mph speed limit then which helped) and it was cheap to fix. Where's a 50-60mph GAS car comparable to that?
When McCain allows off shore drilling they'll all go away again. Electric bullet dodged by auto companies... again.
This is like building Gentoo from sources to get around patented codex and binary driver license problems.
I thought unfair advantage was the whole point of capitalism...I have it you don't! what kind of communists run the place?
actually this might have stopped some far reaching consequences as the news adjusts. I could almost see a plug kicked on purpose here.
I think slowing down the markets is good anyway. There is not anything important that can change in a company in less than 1 quarter anyway. Moving shares around any less than once per quarter is just gaming the system... that's GAMBLING, not investing.
14 hours of work or on slashdot?
99.999% uptime is only 30 SECONDS per YEAR uptime, calculated on a 24x7 year minus maintenance in SLA (but for things like phones it's REALLY 30 seconds per year that you can't get a dial tone)
sounds like Woz to a tee.
All the semiconductor parts are already made in china or southeast asia now anyway. Very little is shipped FROM the US to China to make computers. Not even the latest Intel chips.
it's called a credit limit... they have those on credit cards for a long time and they are heavily policed for fraud. If a bank allowed this they'd be looking at massive SEC and banking fines for such reckless credit behavior.
most telcos run credit checks in order to even get a cell phone or even land line now. Why do they not implement credit limits like every other credit granting agency out there? $14,000 charges on a $150 per month plan is evidence of fraudulent activity and telcos are not lifting a finger to stop it. This could be scammers, this could be a stolen phone or 100 other things. Try charging $14,000 of stuff on a $1400 Visa and see what happens... email us from jail...
I thought cell phones ran credit checks... don't customers have a credit limit like a credit card would have? Why are the telcos allowing such huge overages over what plan you are credit approved for? They know your credit score and reasonable limit,why are they not following that on these cell plans?
This is like the old-school days when mechanics would have you sign to "fix" your car, then replace the parts with 10x what they costed and huge labor costs then not let you have your car back... in response we passed law saying they had to tell you charges BEFORE work started and return the used parts. Expecting telcos to honor the credit checks they perform should be expected as ethical behavior.
this is the definition of "malicious compliance" with the rules. The internet devices connect automatically, that's part of what you pay for. The malicious part is that they don't have good mechanisms to help manage your bill, something phone companies should have been held to task for long, long ago when companies were phone scamming and slamming. Phone companies should have put auto limits in place say $500 (that's 12x the standard phone bill) then cut you to an operator automatically if there were problems, that's the whole point of a 100% owned private network versus the internet, they can hijack your line whenever they need.. and don't when there are billing issues happening.
As a counter example, many credit card companies advertise they will call you if they suspect suspicious charges and most will stop your card ... heck you have a "credit limit" and they generally stop approving when you go over that. Phone companies choose not to implement such measures for their customers so these obscene bills are squarely the companies problem.
but a browser can be ACID2 compliant and still not render "matching" other browsers. ACID2 tests the "edges" of the specs, not how regular complex pages act.
But using Jerry Seinfeld "show about nothing" to advertise Windows "OS about nothing" makes no sense. All of Seinfeld's jokes would be on the wrong side... that's why the Apple ads are so funny because Windows IS absurd... the things people do to make it work.
I think Gates doing what Gates does best working with small groups: kids, elderly, minorities, small business owners to show what Microsoft Software helps out in the world would have been much better. To poke a counter point at the Mac ads, say "we are business" and really good at it.
The commercial makes me want to install Ubuntu on something just to feel "clean".
so are shoes analogy to Windows... it doesn't quite fit but if you bend it up long enough you can squeeze your feet into it?
to borrow a a line:
give a DA 5 minutes of video from an honest man and they'll find 5 laws broken.
because rotation is a property of the file, not part of the image. Back to non-destructive why rewrite a file if you don't have to. In image work pixels are not "square" image rotation and resaving is considered "lossy" and you don't change the file until absolutely necessary.
nearly everything "fun" is a crime, someplace, sometime. The problem is that "boys will be boys" type crimes, cow tipping, TPing, underage drinking, anything on MythBusters... have all become big deals when pictures are on the internet. Stuff everybody did and said even when I was a kid first wasn't illegal and second wasn't enforceable even if they did catch you.
example: light bottle rocket in your yard with little kids watching. 20 years ago.. the cops simply confiscated them (and lit them at home) Now, put the video on YouTube... now the DA give you a ticket for each rocket, raids your house, and charges you with child "endangerment" for each kid in the video or within 1 block of your house.... up to 2 years later... because it's "video evidence" see the problem.
Linux has Konquerer and OSX has Safari, both KHTML based browsers, so basic standards are already covered on those platforms. Windows has Safari, but it's not widespread enoughto matter versus Chrome.
This puts cross-platform browsers firmly in the game. Opera, Firefox, & *KHTML are firmly placed to jump on the HTML5 bandwagon when it kicks off... and cover nearly every platform known to man. IE is sandboxed only for dull windows users at this point.