The trouble with trying to sterilize yourself is that it fogs up your glasses and you can no longer see to do it:-)
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So should that be changed to "Unless Linux is your main server/workstation, or was so previously for a significant length of time, quit ignorantly commenting on Linux!"?
Now that I think of it, if one's main server/workstation is/was Linux, is it then acceptable for one to comment ignorantly on it (Linux)?
I don't consider anyone who's worked with MSware disqualified from commenting on it, but it does tend to provoke comments that shouldn't be uttered in polite society (and cause the realization that one knows more of those impolite phrases than one previously realized).
Wasn't that C/PM (or CP/M) that IBM wanted from Kildall but he was out flying his plane and they wouldn't tell his wife who they were for corporate security reasons?
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"Unless Linux is your main server/workstation, quit ignorantly commenting on Linux!"
Doesn't that sort of rule invalidate any comments about MS products from Linux power users?
If I want to buy something on eBay, I can use a credit/debit card through Paypal or Billpoint. I have to prove to them that I'm me (just a password, admittedly, but I and my source of payment money have already been through a verification process with them). I tell the seller to submit a payment request and then go to the middleman's web site and authorize the payment. The payment goes from the credit card company or the bank to Paypal or Billpoint and then from them to a seller that they've already verified.
Why can't the credit/debit card companies do this on their own for non-auction site purchases? If I want something from www.everythingforcomputers.com (or whoever), and they already are set up to take Discover or VISA or Diner's Club or whoever, instead of giving them my credit card number (or a stolen one if I were trying to defraud them), why can't I tell them to bill my name at the card company, go to the card company's site and authorize the payment, and they transfer payment to the merchant? With all the money the credit card companies can save by preventing fraudulent use they should be able to more than afford the people and equipment for this and plenty of incentive for security because they'll be the ones who have to suffer the losses.
Are the credit card companies avoiding shouldering this burden on purpose? If one of them went ahead with it, would the rest have to follow suit for competitive reasons?
alternate answer-Andover laid off everybody *except* Michael, told him that computers and automation would make it possible for him to do the work of many.
The scariest thing I've seen on TV lately is some guy soliciting donations in aid of his campaign for an ammendment to the US Constitution that would officially declare Jesus to be the one, true Lord, or something like that.
I'm not sure which is worse, a government that tells you what to believe or one that forbids you to.
As much as it pains me to admit it, not only do I think that he wasn't using "liberal" as an insult, but his arguement about the bypassing of natural selection has some merit as well.
I can see how you would feel the way you do about his use of "liberal", seeing as how some "conservatives" have done their best to turn it into a dirty word, much as they are now continuing to corrupt the language by using "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" when referring to the political party. Just last noght I heard the "Democratic National Committee", which no doubt is what it says on the letterhead and any legal documents involved in incorporation and tax status matters, i.e., that's the real name, called the "Democrat National Committee" by someone who undoubtedly knows better and mis-spoke on purpose.
As for your minority problems, get some African-American employees in there. When they have to promote a minority to keep the government happy, they'll grab you to avoid having to promote one of the blacks. After all, thanks to President on a technicality Bush, "Latinos" are now the new favorite minority of the minority-avoiding class.
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Won't someone please send Tucker Carlson back to whichever Ivy League frat house it was that spawned him?
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Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, after 75 years or so, who can keep 'em straight?
If someone was murdered on video, do you think it would eventually make its way onto TV? Of course. No one is restrained by shame, fear of being shunned by decent society, or just plain good taste anymore. They just want attention and/or ratings. Any minute now Dale Earnhart's autopsy photos will be all over the 'net and this movie is going to influence somebody to do a "life imitates art", probably before it gets out of first run.
If you take Arthur C. Clarke's story "I Remember Babylon" and substitute for the political aims of the Communist Chinese of the '50s the drive for ratings and the mistaking of notariety (probably mis-spelled) for a hero's fame by so many, many people these days, you can see where all this is going and how the old saying "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people" is as valid as ever, if not more so.
What they should have done was replace Edward Burns with Ed "Kookie" Burns and have done the movie as a dark comedy, ala Ron Goulart.:-)
Drinking isn't the point of going to a bar. You can stay home and drink. Drinking in the presence and company of others doing the same is the point of going to a bar. (Well, that and the music and trying to get lucky.)
A link to a page showing a VAX converted into a wet bar posted in answer to 'What Would You Want In A "Geek Bar"?' is considered flamebait? The moderation system is well and truly broken.
Seriously, though, do not do this without first consulting a lawyer who specializes in this area of the law. I guarantee that other company's first reaction will be to believe that you stole their work.
Those cigarette ads were placed in paperbacks in the mid '70s to early '80s, not in the '50s.
Of course, it may become necessary to fill books with ads to cover the cost of publishing them if people are going to scan 'em and post 'em. Either that or discontinue physical publishing altogether and go to some copy-proof (or highly copy-resistant) electronic method.
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The trouble with trying to sterilize yourself is that it fogs up your glasses and you can no longer see to do it :-)
Now that I think of it, if one's main server/workstation is/was Linux, is it then acceptable for one to comment ignorantly on it (Linux)?
I don't consider anyone who's worked with MSware disqualified from commenting on it, but it does tend to provoke comments that shouldn't be uttered in polite society (and cause the realization that one knows more of those impolite phrases than one previously realized).
Wasn't that C/PM (or CP/M) that IBM wanted from Kildall but he was out flying his plane and they wouldn't tell his wife who they were for corporate security reasons?
Doesn't that sort of rule invalidate any comments about MS products from Linux power users?
Why can't the credit/debit card companies do this on their own for non-auction site purchases? If I want something from www.everythingforcomputers.com (or whoever), and they already are set up to take Discover or VISA or Diner's Club or whoever, instead of giving them my credit card number (or a stolen one if I were trying to defraud them), why can't I tell them to bill my name at the card company, go to the card company's site and authorize the payment, and they transfer payment to the merchant? With all the money the credit card companies can save by preventing fraudulent use they should be able to more than afford the people and equipment for this and plenty of incentive for security because they'll be the ones who have to suffer the losses.
Are the credit card companies avoiding shouldering this burden on purpose? If one of them went ahead with it, would the rest have to follow suit for competitive reasons?
Do you know how hard it is to pass up a straight line like that?
Michael laid them all off.
alternate answer-Andover laid off everybody *except* Michael, told him that computers and automation would make it possible for him to do the work of many.
I'm not sure which is worse, a government that tells you what to believe or one that forbids you to.
All I could think of was Margaret Dumont's double take in "Dinner at Eight" when Jean Harlow's character mentions having read a book.
I can see how you would feel the way you do about his use of "liberal", seeing as how some "conservatives" have done their best to turn it into a dirty word, much as they are now continuing to corrupt the language by using "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" when referring to the political party. Just last noght I heard the "Democratic National Committee", which no doubt is what it says on the letterhead and any legal documents involved in incorporation and tax status matters, i.e., that's the real name, called the "Democrat National Committee" by someone who undoubtedly knows better and mis-spoke on purpose.
As for your minority problems, get some African-American employees in there. When they have to promote a minority to keep the government happy, they'll grab you to avoid having to promote one of the blacks. After all, thanks to President on a technicality Bush, "Latinos" are now the new favorite minority of the minority-avoiding class.
Won't someone please send Tucker Carlson back to whichever Ivy League frat house it was that spawned him?
Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, after 75 years or so, who can keep 'em straight?
If you take Arthur C. Clarke's story "I Remember Babylon" and substitute for the political aims of the Communist Chinese of the '50s the drive for ratings and the mistaking of notariety (probably mis-spelled) for a hero's fame by so many, many people these days, you can see where all this is going and how the old saying "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people" is as valid as ever, if not more so.
What they should have done was replace Edward Burns with Ed "Kookie" Burns and have done the movie as a dark comedy, ala Ron Goulart. :-)
SHHHH, it's one of those clever NSA hacks hiding in plain view.
Doormen and bouncers that can sense the approach of Jon Katz sufficiently ahead of time?
Or are you the type that wants him to park the bandwagon right out front for everyone to see?
It was "you" when I clicked "Submit", honest.
Do yo want it because it's Kosher, or because it's good?
Drinking isn't the point of going to a bar. You can stay home and drink. Drinking in the presence and company of others doing the same is the point of going to a bar. (Well, that and the music and trying to get lucky.)
A link to a page showing a VAX converted into a wet bar posted in answer to 'What Would You Want In A "Geek Bar"?' is considered flamebait? The moderation system is well and truly broken.
Actually (proprietary) interactive television has been the "Next Big Thing!"(tm) almost as long as the videophone.
Zenith. The penguin goes in before the name goes on.
It's only because you aren't part of the tight-knit little clique of the first quarter of a million to get accounts here.
Seriously, though, do not do this without first consulting a lawyer who specializes in this area of the law. I guarantee that other company's first reaction will be to believe that you stole their work.
Of course, it may become necessary to fill books with ads to cover the cost of publishing them if people are going to scan 'em and post 'em. Either that or discontinue physical publishing altogether and go to some copy-proof (or highly copy-resistant) electronic method.
Isn't this contrary to ethics? Why would it be unethical for one sibling to be on the same side in a legal case as the other sibling?