I agree with the assertion that Bottled water is a fraud. $4 for a bottle of tap water is sheer fantasy marketing. On the other hand I do buy bottled water at one of those stands that filter it on the spot.
"There you go. I can taste it. Estrogen. Definitely estrogen. You take the Pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle, feminizes the fish it goes all the way up into the sky, and then falls all the way back down on to me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again." ---Captain Jack Harkness.
TORCHWOOD 1X01: EVERYTHING CHANGES
You insensitive clod, you posted that on the internets, now you've offended all native speakers of Hungarian Notation, and their chances of Independence from Hungarian Proper have been set back 100 years.
Democrats used to be completely corrupt, racist, and complete liars. Look up Tammany hall Republicans used to be progressive eco-friendly and moral see Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. Don't tie yourself to a party, they won't be who you knew when you were growing up. Consider Mark Foley, Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Karl Rove, and Bill Frist. Do you really want leave these guys alone with your kids or even know where you live let alone running the country???? 30 years from now it will likely change. It's the way the world works.
If it's not Microsoft IP then it doesn't get out of the building.
Personally I would give a half eaten French Fry and all the change I can find in couches in teh lounge at Caltech for the identity of the person who clean off that artwork.
BTW, the French Fry came that way. ( I got if off RMS)
If anyone fits the bill of useless waster of Judicial time, it's Jack Thompson. I think that EA might have unleashed him on Take Two to soften them up for a takeover.
Granted I painted the record companies darker then they deserved, but the RIAA fully deserves this.
Wrong. Then along came Records. It was the change in cheaply available technology that caused the change in the provision of music. Record companies were a logical and common sense response to this change. Musicians could make money by selling records, but had no interest or experience in manufacture, marketing or sales. Record Companies could do this, and, in the great and proud tradition of the western society they originated from, make money from it for themselves. Thereby allowing musicians to get on with making music. Record companies are managed by bean-counters who consider which record will make the most money. If it has an established format and acceptable delivery maybe a good looking lead singer they will promote it. Granted costs limited production so there were only so many unit that could be made from the factories. Choices had to be made. Cassettes and later CDs reduced the cost down to nearly nothing. ( Frank Zappa and then later Punk Rock took away the Established format and acceptable Delivery part. )
... But people simply didn't need live music half as much as the used to. Bite your tongue, bite real hard. And get out of the basement and meet people. Or not and you will never breed (which may be a good thing).
You seem to want to paint record companies as some big evil anomaly that must be destroyed. The facts are that Record Companies were a logical response to the technological and cultural needs of the time. No different from any other. Perhaps they have now had their day, but to pretend their existence was a big mistake and that music will be restored to a mythical golden age in their absence is ridiculous.
Bands don't make money from records anymore, they make if from shows. Like they used to. Yeah, that's a very cosy image. But a lot of people don't want to hear the music of the 1930s any more. Music has changed and diversified. Lots of music simply doesn't work in a live setting. Lots of people are unable or unwilling to go to live performances. Lots of musicians have a scarce and widely spread audience, getting them all in the one location for a performance is physically and economically impossible. So your brave new world of everything being financed from live performance is both retrogressive and unworkable. Who said anything about the 1930's? Did you think I was saying we should all go back to listening to Jazz? Did you get this off a RIAA website that has answers to critics? I can only think you didn't read anything past the first few lines. Are the Chemical Brothers a Jazz band? If anything my argument encourages both live performance and sharing. And as to
live performance is both retrogressive and unworkable. Ask U2 or The Rolling Stones if they want to quit touring. Ask their fans.
It used to be that if you wanted to hear music you had to;
A. Learn to play or know someone who does
B. Wait for someone who was able to play to come by.
Since we live in a capitalist system the way to get them to come was to pay them. Been that way since forever really.
Up until about 1950 or so being a Musician was a respectable profession. You could make enough to live on. And you didn't have to go on tour, the speakeasy or night club paid you well enough.
Then along came Record Companies.
Now if you know a Musician, he or she is treated kind of like a Junkie without the fun of the Heroin. They have to have second "REAL" jobs. Artists are in the same boat. People had real paintings on their walls and you could make a real living at it. Oh and Actors too, don't forget them. And Stagehand, Ushers, ticket takers, bouncers, barkeeps, cigarette girls, hatcheck girls, etc etc etc....
Record Companies threw all these people out of work but thats ok, because they could hear music on phonographs and radios, watch TV and Movies in the theater and the productions values were much better but the plots kept going down hill. You get the picture. If not watch a movie called That Thing You Do! (1996) Pay attention and you will understand what I am getting at.
Fast Forward, but before the Computers and CDs, then DVDs. Most of the people who threw those people out of work back in the 50's realized in the 70's that they were next. Nobodies could make their own music and publish in on cassettes. DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning:_Parental_Advisory
Hello RIAA/MPAA
Well they claim that downloaders are putting people out of work, but how come the Chemical Brothers shows are always sellouts and the never get airplay? Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand tickets sell for $200 a pop. Bands don't make money from records anymore, they make if from shows. Like they used to. The ones I know (I'm from Seattle) like it that way. Give it some time, well do in the MPAA too. Seriously Hollywood blows chunks.
Well if I was about to be tied to a stinker like Vista, which would stink on ice. (or as George Carlin once said '... could knock a buzzard off a sh#twagon') I would want to salvage some sort of appearance of success as I bailed out of the company and on to millions. As long as the contract is signed at the new job then I don't care how wet the ink is when it all goes to hell. Vista was going to go down so hard it was going to taint everybody who even lived nearby let alone Microsoft. I can't fault the guy for knowing when its about to hit the fan.
Personally I think I will stay out of Management thank you very much.
Hit and run; the consistent meme in corporate strategy. The thing is that he didn't release Vista, just RC1. RC1 isn't the shipping OS. Sounds like someone still at Microsoft is trying to point the blame at someone who left a year before. This isn't Hit and Run, it's Duck and Cover.
Granted that those are excellent metrics, but you left out Vi/Emacs Flamewars and number of Microsoft Jokes. As to lines of code I once put Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey in my.plan The sysadmin for the system fingered me from a dialup and was rather pissed about having to disconnect.
But seriously, the problem with a lot of the FOSS communities is that there are a great deal of part timers. How do you measure the skills of someone who has a day job coding and the has a pet project or three? This will only hurt programmers who don't exclusively work on FOSS. The next time they apply for a gig at a FOSS company their closed source work will be overshadowed by some minor hobby work they did. It kind of ranks up there with embarrassing facebook and youtube videos.
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thats fixable, I had a few people with multiple Sun certs giving the dog/joke look when put in front of Sun Keyboard it was scary.
and I am fine.
I just have this penchant for my turtleneck and tweed blazer with cords..
I agree with the assertion that Bottled water is a fraud. $4 for a bottle of tap water is sheer fantasy marketing. On the other hand I do buy bottled water at one of those stands that filter it on the spot.
For 40 cents a gallon.
TORCHWOOD 1X01: EVERYTHING CHANGES
Before you dismiss this guy as just another homophobic troll read this;
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/deadmilkmen/stuart.html
oh, and watch out for that Johnny Werzner kid.
Well that only applies if you live outside of Kansas, Oklahoma, or Texas, there it's still 6000 years old (and 7 days)
So another Whistleblower speaks, its a MOO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO But then again, The FBI Academy is located on the United States Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia.
With a pipe this big, the RIAA needs to know this so they can start suing these students.
Winning the popular vote pretty much Guarantee you don't win. See Gore 2000, Kerry 2004. Expect the Supreme Court to step in at the last moment and
Declare Ralph Nader the Candidate.
You insensitive clod, you posted that on the internets, now you've offended all native speakers of Hungarian Notation, and their chances of Independence from Hungarian Proper have been set back 100 years.
What???? Are you asleep or soomthing?????
In the West we use other methods to obscure News, uncomfortable truths and other opinions. I call it the noise to signal ratio.
BRITNEY SPEARS.
PARIS HILTON
etc
Well that is politics for you. It just don't add up.
Democrats used to be completely corrupt, racist, and complete liars. Look up Tammany hall Republicans used to be progressive eco-friendly and moral see Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. Don't tie yourself to a party, they won't be who you knew when you were growing up. Consider Mark Foley, Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Karl Rove, and Bill Frist. Do you really want leave these guys alone with your kids or even know where you live let alone running the country???? 30 years from now it will likely change. It's the way the world works.
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*hears a sigh of relief from the jury* Clearly thats Jury Tampering (or Bribery).
If it's not Microsoft IP then it doesn't get out of the building.
Personally I would give a half eaten French Fry and all the change I can find in couches in teh lounge at Caltech for the identity of the person who clean off that artwork.
BTW, the French Fry came that way. ( I got if off RMS)
he had some the size on mountains in that story, but I won't spoil it. Great read.
If anyone fits the bill of useless waster of Judicial time, it's Jack Thompson. I think that EA might have unleashed him on Take Two to soften them up for a takeover.
(just kidding)
Still there is proof he is useless http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
One more is always better, just ask Gillette and anyone with a guitar amp. Like Nigel's?
... But people simply didn't need live music half as much as the used to. Bite your tongue, bite real hard. And get out of the basement and meet people. Or not and you will never breed (which may be a good thing).You seem to want to paint record companies as some big evil anomaly that must be destroyed. The facts are that Record Companies were a logical response to the technological and cultural needs of the time. No different from any other. Perhaps they have now had their day, but to pretend their existence was a big mistake and that music will be restored to a mythical golden age in their absence is ridiculous. Bands don't make money from records anymore, they make if from shows. Like they used to. Yeah, that's a very cosy image. But a lot of people don't want to hear the music of the 1930s any more. Music has changed and diversified. Lots of music simply doesn't work in a live setting. Lots of people are unable or unwilling to go to live performances. Lots of musicians have a scarce and widely spread audience, getting them all in the one location for a performance is physically and economically impossible. So your brave new world of everything being financed from live performance is both retrogressive and unworkable. Who said anything about the 1930's? Did you think I was saying we should all go back to listening to Jazz? Did you get this off a RIAA website that has answers to critics? I can only think you didn't read anything past the first few lines. Are the Chemical Brothers a Jazz band? If anything my argument encourages both live performance and sharing. And as to
live performance is both retrogressive and unworkable. Ask U2 or The Rolling Stones if they want to quit touring. Ask their fans.
It used to be that if you wanted to hear music you had to;
A. Learn to play or know someone who does
B. Wait for someone who was able to play to come by.
Since we live in a capitalist system the way to get them to come was to pay them. Been that way since forever really.
Up until about 1950 or so being a Musician was a respectable profession. You could make enough to live on. And you didn't have to go on tour, the speakeasy or night club paid you well enough.
Then along came Record Companies.
Now if you know a Musician, he or she is treated kind of like a Junkie without the fun of the Heroin. They have to have second "REAL" jobs. Artists are in the same boat. People had real paintings on their walls and you could make a real living at it. Oh and Actors too, don't forget them. And Stagehand, Ushers, ticket takers, bouncers, barkeeps, cigarette girls, hatcheck girls, etc etc etc....
Record Companies threw all these people out of work but thats ok, because they could hear music on phonographs and radios, watch TV and Movies in the theater and the productions values were much better but the plots kept going down hill. You get the picture. If not watch a movie called That Thing You Do! (1996) Pay attention and you will understand what I am getting at.
Fast Forward, but before the Computers and CDs, then DVDs. Most of the people who threw those people out of work back in the 50's realized in the 70's that they were next. Nobodies could make their own music and publish in on cassettes. DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning:_Parental_Advisory
Hello RIAA/MPAA
Well they claim that downloaders are putting people out of work, but how come the Chemical Brothers shows are always sellouts and the never get airplay? Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand tickets sell for $200 a pop. Bands don't make money from records anymore, they make if from shows. Like they used to. The ones I know (I'm from Seattle) like it that way. Give it some time, well do in the MPAA too. Seriously Hollywood blows chunks.
Well if I was about to be tied to a stinker like Vista, which would stink on ice. (or as George Carlin once said '... could knock a buzzard off a sh#twagon') I would want to salvage some sort of appearance of success as I bailed out of the company and on to millions. As long as the contract is signed at the new job then I don't care how wet the ink is when it all goes to hell. Vista was going to go down so hard it was going to taint everybody who even lived nearby let alone Microsoft. I can't fault the guy for knowing when its about to hit the fan.
Personally I think I will stay out of Management thank you very much.
You sure about that? "...who dumped the still not-ready-for-prime-time OS into RC1 status as he bolted for a new gig at Amazon."
or was that just a Stab at Microsoft and Vista.
BTW, I am on a Fedora box.
Granted that those are excellent metrics, but you left out Vi/Emacs Flamewars and number of Microsoft Jokes. As to lines of code I once put Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey in my .plan The sysadmin for the system fingered me from a dialup and was rather pissed about having to disconnect.
But seriously, the problem with a lot of the FOSS communities is that there are a great deal of part timers. How do you measure the skills of someone who has a day job coding and the has a pet project or three? This will only hurt programmers who don't exclusively work on FOSS. The next time they apply for a gig at a FOSS company their closed source work will be overshadowed by some minor hobby work they did. It kind of ranks up there with embarrassing facebook and youtube videos.