Probably shouldn't be voting, either. Registering to vote for the first time should be A Big Deal. Going down to the county couthouse and swearing an oath that you are who you say you are and are a part of the community should be a somewht formal, coming of age, taking your place as a member of society, type ceremony. It should mean enough to you that inconvenience won't stop you. Voting should be the same, a stepping forward to say "I am a member of this community and here to share in the experience and challenge of governing it.".
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First, are you sure HooRah is the way the Marines spell it? Second, I just got to play in one of their helicopter trainer/simulator's (unfortunately the Osprey one was too busy being used for what they told the taxpayers it would be so I had to go with the 53)and I feel quite sure that not only can they count above 4, many can probably do double digits. (Have heard unconfirmed rumors about a few who even can do binary and hex)
Teens have more disposable income than ever before (20 or 30 years ago, they wouldn't have had brand new BMW's to drive to the site of the mass murder they were getting ready to commit), and aren't saddled with the bills grown-ups are, so I expect WB's real motive has more to do with relative profit margins on DVD and VHS. In other words, $50 million spent on DVD's nets more than $50 million spent on VHS's, so they use the appearance of corporate good citizenship to disguise price gouging.
Just tell 'em it ain't encrypted. "Hey, just because you can't figure out how to pronounce %(H8%^&)RTHBNuirt5e057832@^%$%)__|H_)KKUCRU GIUI*jç_\*T+á68íoÑ_9M_\÷±+¦+-9(&)YNB%%%%%%%% doesn't mean it's not a word!"
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"It's a great idea, especially if they never try and meet" Sure am glad that temporary crown had already come off before I read that 'cause I laughed so hard I'd have knocked it loose and swallowed it. I think the dentist thought I had supplied my own nitrous.
But seriously folks, geeks make control the machinery, but they don't control "The Money", Gates notwithstanding.
That book was "The Peter Principle"
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That book was (probably)"The Peter Principle" (or at least borrowed that idea from it). The late Laurence J. Peter came up with the idea that people tend to get promoted to their level of incompetence. They do good work and get promoted until they get promoted to a level (usually some sort of management) where their duties no longer can can be dealt with by the same skills and talents that served them so well previously, but it's usually too embarassing all around to admit the mistake and either get rid of someone who was and is a good employee but now is in over his or her head, or kick 'em back downstairs, so they stay stuck where they are, never to get promoted again, gumming up the works.
Seriously, I scrolled way back up and don't see anything that fits that category (not even if you consider geeks or programmers to be a race unto themselves).
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If you want to write software you can make money on, come up with a killer app or three for the iMac and have it in the stores in time for next Christmas. A lot of first-time users who went with iMac's should be about ready to broaden their horizons about then.
You seem to have left out the Trilateral Commission and Bilderburg (not to mention Area 51, the Kaballah, and whatever Nosteradamus and Edger Cacey had to say about Linux).
What happens is that the lawyer has a guest that evening who is also a lawyer, but for a publisher, and the kid who said "Bah Humbug!" winds up sued for infringing on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" where that particular phrase appears.
Actually, that song is copyrighted. It wasn't composed until late in the 19th or early in the 20th century, so it's not really "folkmusic" or in the public domain. Next time you go Christmas Caroling you might want to avoid the non-religious numbers as these are by and large 20th century commercial endevors.
IIRC, it's American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. No mention of the actual performing artists in there anywhere. I suspect that they concentrate on seeing to it that those holding the publishing rights to the songs get paid first and most, as publishing rights tend to be owned by big corporations. If your band played original material on that tour, then they (ASCAP)probably weren't too concerned with making sure that you payed yourselves. If you did covers of ASCAP licensed stuff I'm surprised you didn't have to pay them.
"When was the last time you saw a Windows user spend all night helping a Newbie do domething simple and tedious to the rest of us?" Well, I used to be a lab monitor at the local community college, does that count?
I gave up submitting new Cringely columns a while back 'cause it either never got posted or it was posted several days late from somebody else, but he's had quite a few worth reading in the past few months. I thought the interesting thing about this one (which will probably be superseded within 24 hours, they usually come out late on Thursdays)was the part at the end about AOL getting in bed with Hughes instead of some other satellite company. Cringely comes across like a Steve Thomas standard generic preppy PBS host clone on TV but his columns are often interesting and insightful observations and theories about where the computer biz and culture is heading and why.
When I saw the phrase "artificial cow fingers" I suddenly flashed on high school cafeteria names for "mystery meat". The second thing I thought of is that this could bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "giving someone the finger".
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Probably shouldn't be voting, either.
Registering to vote for the first time should be A Big Deal. Going down to the county couthouse and swearing an oath that you are who you say you are and are a part of the community should be a somewht formal, coming of age, taking your place as a member of society, type ceremony. It should mean enough to you that inconvenience won't stop you. Voting should be the same, a stepping forward to say "I am a member of this community and here to share in the experience and challenge of governing it.".
First, are you sure HooRah is the way the Marines spell it?
Second, I just got to play in one of their helicopter trainer/simulator's (unfortunately the Osprey one was too busy being used for what they told the taxpayers it would be so I had to go with the 53)and I feel quite sure that not only can they count above 4, many can probably do double digits. (Have heard unconfirmed rumors about a few who even can do binary and hex)
Teens have more disposable income than ever before (20 or 30 years ago, they wouldn't have had brand new BMW's to drive to the site of the mass murder they were getting ready to commit), and aren't saddled with the bills grown-ups are, so I expect WB's real motive has more to do with relative profit margins on DVD and VHS. In other words, $50 million spent on DVD's nets more than $50 million spent on VHS's, so they use the appearance of corporate good citizenship to disguise price gouging.
Does that mean there's finally a chance for a big screen version of "Magnus-Robot Fighter"?
What looks like changes in the price of gold are actually changes in the gold purchasing power of paper money.
Just tell 'em it ain't encrypted. "Hey, just because you can't figure out how to pronounce %(H8%^&)RTHBNuirt5e057832@^%$%)__|H_)KKUCRU GIUI*jç_\*T+á68íoÑ_9M_\÷±+¦+-9(&)YNB%%%%%%%% doesn't mean it's not a word!"
"It's a great idea, especially if they never try and meet"
Sure am glad that temporary crown had already come off before I read that 'cause I laughed so hard I'd have knocked it loose and swallowed it. I think the dentist thought I had supplied my own nitrous.
But seriously folks, geeks make control the machinery, but they don't control "The Money", Gates notwithstanding.
That book was (probably)"The Peter Principle" (or at least borrowed that idea from it).
The late Laurence J. Peter came up with the idea that people tend to get promoted to their level of incompetence. They do good work and get promoted until they get promoted to a level (usually some sort of management) where their duties no longer can can be dealt with by the same skills and talents that served them so well previously, but it's usually too embarassing all around to admit the mistake and either get rid of someone who was and is a good employee but now is in over his or her head, or kick 'em back downstairs, so they stay stuck where they are, never to get promoted again, gumming up the works.
He died about a week or 10 days ago.
Seriously, I scrolled way back up and don't see anything that fits that category (not even if you consider geeks or programmers to be a race unto themselves).
"Yeah, I'm in a FOG."
Sounds about right
If you want to write software you can make money on, come up with a killer app or three for the iMac and have it in the stores in time for next Christmas. A lot of first-time users who went with iMac's should be about ready to broaden their horizons about then.
You seem to have left out the Trilateral Commission and Bilderburg (not to mention Area 51, the Kaballah, and whatever Nosteradamus and Edger Cacey had to say about Linux).
I thought with MS it was a community of victims--you know, sort of a support group.
What happens is that the lawyer has a guest that evening who is also a lawyer, but for a publisher, and the kid who said "Bah Humbug!" winds up sued for infringing on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" where that particular phrase appears.
Actually, that song is copyrighted. It wasn't composed until late in the 19th or early in the 20th century, so it's not really "folkmusic" or in the public domain.
Next time you go Christmas Caroling you might want to avoid the non-religious numbers as these are by and large 20th century commercial endevors.
IIRC, it's American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
No mention of the actual performing artists in there anywhere.
I suspect that they concentrate on seeing to it that those holding the publishing rights to the songs get paid first and most, as publishing rights tend to be owned by big corporations.
If your band played original material on that tour, then they (ASCAP)probably weren't too concerned with making sure that you payed yourselves. If you did covers of ASCAP licensed stuff I'm surprised you didn't have to pay them.
so that it gives me the right not to enter his bedroom!
"When was the last time you saw a Windows user spend all night helping a Newbie do domething simple and tedious to the rest of us?"
Well, I used to be a lab monitor at the local community college, does that count?
I gave up submitting new Cringely columns a while back 'cause it either never got posted or it was posted several days late from somebody else, but he's had quite a few worth reading in the past few months. I thought the interesting thing about this one (which will probably be superseded within 24 hours, they usually come out late on Thursdays)was the part at the end about AOL getting in bed with Hughes instead of some other satellite company. Cringely comes across like a Steve Thomas standard generic preppy PBS host clone on TV but his columns are often interesting and insightful observations and theories about where the computer biz and culture is heading and why.
Just take my word for it. And really, really don't follow any of the links.
When I saw the phrase "artificial cow fingers" I suddenly flashed on high school cafeteria names for "mystery meat".
The second thing I thought of is that this could bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "giving someone the finger".
I'm not real sure either one is a "real" word.:)
Was that before or after National Lampoon's "Cohen the Boy-barian"?
That puppy's running so much RAM that the board is bending from the weight.