Ba da daa ba bom, Ba da daa ba bom,
Ba da daa ba bom, Baaa da da ba booom.
(cue pan-pipes...)
OK, I know how to get that tune out-of-your head:
Ahem...
Righto, kick it in the guts, Trev...
Gumboots, they are wonderful, gumboots, they are swell
'coz they keep out the water, and they keep in the smell.
And when you're sittin' round at home, you can
always tell
When one of the Trevs has taken off his gumboots.
Chorus:
If it weren't for your gumboots, where would ya be?
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary
'coz you would have a dose of the 'flu, or even pleurisy
If ya didn't have yer feet in yer gumboots.
Now there's rugby boots and racing boots, and boots for drinkin' rum.
But the only boots I'm never without, are the ones that start with "gum".
I've got short ones and long ones, and some up to me belt.
I'm never dressed 'till I've got on me gumboots.
At one of my schools we had award ceremonies for each subject every 6 weeks or so... and the certificates for French (for example) were handed out by the French Ambassador (well, his kids did go to school there). That's one way to encourage schoolwork I guess.
Well "ska" is a sort of reggae/rap hybrid. I saw "Apache Indian" last night at a free concert and they were pretty good. Lots of words rapping (not that I could make most of them out!) and an 8 piece band (tablas, sax, trombone, keyboard, drums, guitars).
Hey, I see lots of young guys "walking the walk" where I live. It usually makes it look like someone has shagged them rotten the night before... or perhaps "Preparation H" has hired rap stars for endorsements?
Hey, it's a mystery to me too. After all, even the californians are trying to undercut me (with their cheap living standards) so I suspect it must just be critical mass. That can change (look at Montreal!)
After all, Electronic Arts shut down the studios that made "the sims" and the Austin TX (ultima) games to move the staff into california so I guess cost of living doesn't come into company business plans much.
Anyway, I thought it was kentucky that gets the writeup in TV magazines over here (e.g. obese poor 80 year old man marries 14 year old girl, who hopes to move into his shack...) where is "clay county"? (quick google... oh, there's one in every state. Sheesh, you yanks should try using native names or something, give a bit of variety to your place names... There is only one Eketehuna or Whangamomana in NZ) and west virginia is a brand of tobacco or something...
Lexington is ranked 9th in US cities in percentages of persons with at least a Bachelors degree.
Judging by the HR websites in Taiwan, at the good companies over there you need at least a master's degree to get a job cleaning the floor or making coffee. Even the CEOs have degrees! I feel so underqualified:-(
Yup, as a proud holder of Acclaim (AKLM) stock when it fell from $25 to $12 I thought I was in for a bargain. Of course now it has fallen to 25 cents:-(
IIRC Japanese uniforms (for boys anyway) are all the same - prussian military style black. It must make it difficult when there are 5 different schools all visiting the same museum/temple.
That was a Chinese Catholic school. Parents expected you to perform. Teachers enforced discipline (e.g. you were physically punished if you failed fingernail inspection - if they were long or dirty). Talking back to teachers resulted in a ruler whack over your finger-ends (this from a teacher who was four feet tall in high heels).
It was (and is) one of the most popular schools around, and difficult to get your kids into. No I'm not going to link to its web-site:-)
IIRC New Zealand switched to 00 to get an outside line some time ago, as did the UK and Australia (they used to all be different). On the other hand, my mobile likes it to be "+" which takes care of other countries.
I seem to remember being told in the USA to use a 12 digit number to get an outside line, on the payphone with the correct colour coding, but that was some time ago. Now my GSM mobile works fine there.
Well, "kit cars" aside, I know it was a trademark case. I think that "distributionright" would extend that to other categories of product. With "IP" laws, governments currently seem to want to harmonise brain-dead laws to the worst level. So any proposed change would have to be very carefully worked out and debated over years. Not like the DMCA.
There are silicon chips running computer programs inside every category of consumer hardware these days - washing machines, cars, refrigerators, microwaves. If you are allowed to resell the machines but only if you remove the pound of embedded software closest to the heart of the product, they will just be scrap metal.
Microsoft has already got away with this for PCs - if you resell a PC you have to put Linux or BSD on it since apparently you were only renting Windows from microsoft - but extending that to other products would be evil (and more likely with distributionright rather than copyright, unless you really get that right of first sale doctrine embedded into the law).
Hmm, a special variant of "Burger Time", where you have to keep the meals Kosher. Don't mix the meat and dairy! Beware of the roaming shrimp!
Elevator action, where the lifts stop on every floor instead of waiting for a button. (Or is that how it works anyway?)
Settlers, where you extend the region under your control with Eruv posts joined by thin wires in the air (but are blocked by water)... When moving outside the controlled area the screen blurs (since you cannot wear spectacles).
I think that modern versions of make or MAME for example look better than a lot of the code I have seen by paid developers, which varies from excellent to downright "huh?"
Oh great, then we entrench the "Tesco vs. Levis" decision, where the court found that Levis could stop a supermarket from selling their jeans, because they were selling them too cheaply.
Levis is apparently an upmarket designer clothing label, using only the finest far-eastern factories, and would not want to be sold from non-authorised distributers.
Your idea would be even worse for cars, since you would prohibit all second-hand car sales since they do not give enough money back to the car manufacturer and canibalise their new car sales. In the country where I live, a lot of people buy their cars second-hand, and the price difference would be nasty if they had to get the manufacturers permission.
Slashdot Mirror
McLibel.
Or the real sender is an enemy of the person with the account number.
Sorta like that Czech guy who walked into the Nigerian embassy in Prague and shot some random nigerians, because he was sick of the spam? Ouch.
Ba da daa ba bom, Ba da daa ba bom,
Ba da daa ba bom, Baaa da da ba booom.
(cue pan-pipes...)
OK, I know how to get that tune out-of-your head:
Ahem...
Righto, kick it in the guts, Trev...
Gumboots, they are wonderful, gumboots, they are swell
'coz they keep out the water, and they keep in the smell.
And when you're sittin' round at home, you can always tell
When one of the Trevs has taken off his gumboots.
Chorus:
If it weren't for your gumboots, where would ya be?
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary
'coz you would have a dose of the 'flu, or even pleurisy
If ya didn't have yer feet in yer gumboots.
Now there's rugby boots and racing boots, and boots for drinkin' rum.
But the only boots I'm never without, are the ones that start with "gum".
I've got short ones and long ones, and some up to me belt.
I'm never dressed 'till I've got on me gumboots.
Chorus, etc...
Hah! Suffer that tune in your head :-)
Not to mention the forthcoming Narnia series.
OK, not exactly all NZ IP... so go and persuade the world to rent "Footrot Flats: A Dogs Tale" or "Came a hot Friday" and feel better :-)
The top award for Maths is the Fields Medal, not the Nobel Prize.
At one of my schools we had award ceremonies for each subject every 6 weeks or so... and the certificates for French (for example) were handed out by the French Ambassador (well, his kids did go to school there). That's one way to encourage schoolwork I guess.
Well "ska" is a sort of reggae/rap hybrid. I saw "Apache Indian" last night at a free concert and they were pretty good. Lots of words rapping (not that I could make most of them out!) and an 8 piece band (tablas, sax, trombone, keyboard, drums, guitars).
Hey, I see lots of young guys "walking the walk" where I live. It usually makes it look like someone has shagged them rotten the night before... or perhaps "Preparation H" has hired rap stars for endorsements?
So here I sit listening to my yodelling CDs. Frank Ifield will never sell out! :-)
Hah! With our C64s we took over lecture halls with their 20 foot projection tv screens and massive speakers... students of today, no ambition...
After all, Electronic Arts shut down the studios that made "the sims" and the Austin TX (ultima) games to move the staff into california so I guess cost of living doesn't come into company business plans much.
Anyway, I thought it was kentucky that gets the writeup in TV magazines over here (e.g. obese poor 80 year old man marries 14 year old girl, who hopes to move into his shack...) where is "clay county"? (quick google... oh, there's one in every state. Sheesh, you yanks should try using native names or something, give a bit of variety to your place names... There is only one Eketehuna or Whangamomana in NZ) and west virginia is a brand of tobacco or something...
It must be all those sunny beaches and palm trees that make it so enjoyable.
Judging by the HR websites in Taiwan, at the good companies over there you need at least a master's degree to get a job cleaning the floor or making coffee. Even the CEOs have degrees! I feel so underqualified :-(
And if the console can't fit through the doors of the average Japanese apartment...
IIRC:
Grand Theft Auto, Getaway, Sing Star, Eye Toy, Tomb Raider, Lemmings, Worms, Rare games, Peter Molyneux games all developed in UK.
Prince of Persia etc. developed in Canada.
The Sims etc. developed in USA.
Wierd games with quirky characters (Oddworld, Heart of Darkness) developed in France
Settlers developed in Germany
Tetris devised in Russia, but ported everywhere. Some new wierd PC games (perimeter) from CIS countries also.
Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy from Japan.
The Hobbit, Way of the Exploding fist, etc. from Australia.
No one country has a monopoly on game development, but there are differences in traditions between the main areas.
Yup, as a proud holder of Acclaim (AKLM) stock when it fell from $25 to $12 I thought I was in for a bargain. Of course now it has fallen to 25 cents :-(
IIRC Japanese uniforms (for boys anyway) are all the same - prussian military style black. It must make it difficult when there are 5 different schools all visiting the same museum/temple.
I don't think you can claim copyright retroactively! It starts from the year of publication.
It was (and is) one of the most popular schools around, and difficult to get your kids into. No I'm not going to link to its web-site :-)
I seem to remember being told in the USA to use a 12 digit number to get an outside line, on the payphone with the correct colour coding, but that was some time ago. Now my GSM mobile works fine there.
Well, "kit cars" aside, I know it was a trademark case. I think that "distributionright" would extend that to other categories of product. With "IP" laws, governments currently seem to want to harmonise brain-dead laws to the worst level. So any proposed change would have to be very carefully worked out and debated over years. Not like the DMCA.
There are silicon chips running computer programs inside every category of consumer hardware these days - washing machines, cars, refrigerators, microwaves. If you are allowed to resell the machines but only if you remove the pound of embedded software closest to the heart of the product, they will just be scrap metal.
Microsoft has already got away with this for PCs - if you resell a PC you have to put Linux or BSD on it since apparently you were only renting Windows from microsoft - but extending that to other products would be evil (and more likely with distributionright rather than copyright, unless you really get that right of first sale doctrine embedded into the law).
Elevator action, where the lifts stop on every floor instead of waiting for a button. (Or is that how it works anyway?)
Settlers, where you extend the region under your control with Eruv posts joined by thin wires in the air (but are blocked by water)... When moving outside the controlled area the screen blurs (since you cannot wear spectacles).
Sound easy enough to make...
I think that modern versions of make or MAME for example look better than a lot of the code I have seen by paid developers, which varies from excellent to downright "huh?"
Levis is apparently an upmarket designer clothing label, using only the finest far-eastern factories, and would not want to be sold from non-authorised distributers.
Your idea would be even worse for cars, since you would prohibit all second-hand car sales since they do not give enough money back to the car manufacturer and canibalise their new car sales. In the country where I live, a lot of people buy their cars second-hand, and the price difference would be nasty if they had to get the manufacturers permission.