I remember now, you have to spend a king's ransom to buy any (only available in big blocks, and at a very high price per never split share), and then only in the rare event somebody wants to sell.
It would be interesting to know if he was actually guilty or just pled that way 'cause F. Lee Bailey wasn't available for a little pro bono. I wonder if part of the plea bargain was a gag clause to keep us from ever finding out.
You don't have to own shares of a company that goes public in order to strike it rich. Owning shares in a privately-held company that rakes it in hand over fist will work just as well. Isn't Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway privately held? Or is it just so valuable that nobody who owns any wants to sell?
Perhaps the IPO is a way to let the VCs get their money back without having to sell out to MS.
Unfortunately the pressure to keep the share price rising to keep stockholders happy will probably lead to short-term thinking at the boardroom level and increasing user fees (at which point I and a lot of other users will probably start looking for alternatives).
Cringely (the PBS one) wrote about these guys a year or two ago (and mentions them again this week as part of a larger story) and at the time the plan was to make all their money off the float, but I'm getting the impression that there hasn't been as much money in that as they expected and some of the eBay sellers I've bought stuff from lately have some not so kind things to say about the way Paypal does business with them.
I've noticed that they're pushing hard to get people to pay directly from their bank accounts instead of their Visa or MC, and I've noticed that some of the times I've done it that way my bank account available balance was reduced by twice what I was paying for 2 or 3 days and then things straightened out, so I don't know if they have a way to "borrow" from my account and collect the interest, or if it's some quirk of my bank.
As I recall, Aramco stands for Arabian-American Oil Company, or something like that (kinda like Texaco started out as the Texas Company), so I presume Saudi Aramco is sardonic humor indicating that Saudi Arabia is the creature and servant of Aramco. Which it probably is. Shame on us for making it possible for the Saudi family to become so filthy rich.
He was not her boss, she was an intern with the Bureau of Prisons (until they found out that she was graduating from wherever she went to college, at which point she was no longer elegible to be an intern).
She was, however, from his congressional district, so he was her very own personal congresscritter.
If she was just a 24 year old regular employee of the Bureau of Prisons and was from some other congressional district, the various media wouldn't have been able to run all those stories with "Congressman", "Intern", and "Sex" in them, and would have had to content themselves with running stories with "Congressman", and "Sex" in them, which wouldn't have been quite as good for 'round the clock coverage. "Intern" is so good for conjuring up the impression of someone vulnerable and very underage.
Of course if she had been a 24 year old high school teacher having an affair with a 16 or 17 year old boy, the same folks talking as though Conduit was a child molester wouldn't have kept referring to her as a "young girl who was taken advantage of", but as a grownup fully responsible for her actions.
The horror of September 11 may well have gotten Condit off the hook and may even save his political career--he is on the House Intelligence Committee, and should be able to exploit that. "Don't rock the boat while there's a war on!"
The acronym may have come from Heinlein, but the saying has been around a lot longer. Bars used to offer a free lunch, but in reality, the price you paid for beers covered the food price as well as the real beer price.
Probably because they don't understand that a hydrogen bomb doesn't work by a conventional explosion of hydrogen. They just have the words "hydrogen" and "bomb" linked together in the back of their minds.
I read somewhere recently that most of the hydrogen in the Hindenberg probably floated straight up (being lighter than air) before it could burn once it had a hole through which to escape.
Perhaps it escaped you that I was pointing out the irony of Napster complaining about a violation of intellectual property rights, if, in fact, they did so complain.
I had to hurriedly rig up an outdoor UHF antenna indoors in order to receive the premiere of ST:TNG over a station which doesn't seem to exist anymore. It was good, but I still maintain that the best part was DeForest Kelly's appearance.
One of the big differences between CD and radio is the compression, limiting, and other processing applied to the audio on its way to the transmitter. If you could do an A/B comparison in an optimized listening environment (which a car isn't and probably shouldn't be) between a CD and that same CD transmitted "flat" to your FM tuner, the difference might be less than you would expect, although I'm by no means saying that it would be unnoticable.
Your ears are part of an "early warning system" of which you may not be fully aware. It sort of operates in background mode. There's a lot more to hear than just emergency vehicle sirens.
If you have no idea what a compose key is ("I don't want to write a song, I want to write a letter to my Tio Diego!"), then intuitive is you press the key on which is engraved the letter that you want and the letter that you want pops into existence on the screen.
Well for that matter you can use ALT+xyz where xyz is 000-255 depending upon which character you want, but if this is going to be a computer for a Spanish speaking family in an English speaking country I don't think they need things made more complicated rather than less. At least not the parents, the kids will probably learn how to recompile the kernal in a week or two, but they'll be able to special tricks on a Spanish keyboard as easily as an "American" one.
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When Officer Jackboot is stopping you every 5 feet or 5 minutes and demanding "Your papers, citizen", it will become much clearer.
I remember now, you have to spend a king's ransom to buy any (only available in big blocks, and at a very high price per never split share), and then only in the rare event somebody wants to sell.
It would be interesting to know if he was actually guilty or just pled that way 'cause F. Lee Bailey wasn't available for a little pro bono. I wonder if part of the plea bargain was a gag clause to keep us from ever finding out.
For a moment there I thought it was from one of shrub's speeches, or one of SNL's takeoffs.
You don't have to own shares of a company that goes public in order to strike it rich. Owning shares in a privately-held company that rakes it in hand over fist will work just as well. Isn't Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway privately held? Or is it just so valuable that nobody who owns any wants to sell?
Unfortunately the pressure to keep the share price rising to keep stockholders happy will probably lead to short-term thinking at the boardroom level and increasing user fees (at which point I and a lot of other users will probably start looking for alternatives).
I've noticed that they're pushing hard to get people to pay directly from their bank accounts instead of their Visa or MC, and I've noticed that some of the times I've done it that way my bank account available balance was reduced by twice what I was paying for 2 or 3 days and then things straightened out, so I don't know if they have a way to "borrow" from my account and collect the interest, or if it's some quirk of my bank.
As I recall, Aramco stands for Arabian-American Oil Company, or something like that (kinda like Texaco started out as the Texas Company), so I presume Saudi Aramco is sardonic humor indicating that Saudi Arabia is the creature and servant of Aramco. Which it probably is. Shame on us for making it possible for the Saudi family to become so filthy rich.
She was, however, from his congressional district, so he was her very own personal congresscritter.
If she was just a 24 year old regular employee of the Bureau of Prisons and was from some other congressional district, the various media wouldn't have been able to run all those stories with "Congressman", "Intern", and "Sex" in them, and would have had to content themselves with running stories with "Congressman", and "Sex" in them, which wouldn't have been quite as good for 'round the clock coverage. "Intern" is so good for conjuring up the impression of someone vulnerable and very underage.
Of course if she had been a 24 year old high school teacher having an affair with a 16 or 17 year old boy, the same folks talking as though Conduit was a child molester wouldn't have kept referring to her as a "young girl who was taken advantage of", but as a grownup fully responsible for her actions.
The horror of September 11 may well have gotten Condit off the hook and may even save his political career--he is on the House Intelligence Committee, and should be able to exploit that. "Don't rock the boat while there's a war on!"
Perhaps this should be "Your Rights On Trial", or "Your Rights in Jeopardy".
Or with the AG in such a hurry to shove The Constitution into the shredder, maybe just "Kiss Your Rights Goodbye".
The acronym may have come from Heinlein, but the saying has been around a lot longer. Bars used to offer a free lunch, but in reality, the price you paid for beers covered the food price as well as the real beer price.
Probably because they don't understand that a hydrogen bomb doesn't work by a conventional explosion of hydrogen. They just have the words "hydrogen" and "bomb" linked together in the back of their minds.
Finally traded in that Ford Pinto, huh?
I read somewhere recently that most of the hydrogen in the Hindenberg probably floated straight up (being lighter than air) before it could burn once it had a hole through which to escape.
Perhaps it escaped you that I was pointing out the irony of Napster complaining about a violation of intellectual property rights, if, in fact, they did so complain.
So will you be sending it to me on VHS or what?
Why? Was Napster upset about a violation of their intellectual property rights?
He didn't say theme music, he just said theme. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick....
Which means they're aiming for an audience twice as old as the target demographic of Phantom Menace.
At least it's airing in your market, unlike some of them here in the east. &@^%$#*! Time Warner Cable!
I had to hurriedly rig up an outdoor UHF antenna indoors in order to receive the premiere of ST:TNG over a station which doesn't seem to exist anymore. It was good, but I still maintain that the best part was DeForest Kelly's appearance.
Your ears are part of an "early warning system" of which you may not be fully aware. It sort of operates in background mode. There's a lot more to hear than just emergency vehicle sirens.
If you have no idea what a compose key is ("I don't want to write a song, I want to write a letter to my Tio Diego!"), then intuitive is you press the key on which is engraved the letter that you want and the letter that you want pops into existence on the screen.
Disregarding the seeming unavailability of that link, how would your suggestions enable me to assist the person to whom I replied?
Well for that matter you can use ALT+xyz where xyz is 000-255 depending upon which character you want, but if this is going to be a computer for a Spanish speaking family in an English speaking country I don't think they need things made more complicated rather than less. At least not the parents, the kids will probably learn how to recompile the kernal in a week or two, but they'll be able to special tricks on a Spanish keyboard as easily as an "American" one.