The way I read it (a month or three ago, but I can't remember exactly where on the web) "Know Your Customer" is, according to the government, to protect the banks from damage to their reputations if any of their customers are using them to launder money, et cetera. Aren't you thrilled to know your bank is going to have to charge you more to cover the cost of spying on you to protect themselves from something they apparently previously didn't consider a problem until the government started leaning on them?
At first I felt a little sympathy for Intel over the issue of them getting a bad rap from people who got less processor than they paid for due to unscrupulous retailers. Then I remembered all those 486 motherboards out there with extra sockets that were supposed to be upgradeable to Pentiums, and then I remembered all those motherboards with a disabled cpu soldered on because the co-processor upgrade included another processor (and a price that reflected it!), and then I thought about all the mothers at Intel.
"Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it." Sounds like a pretty big market to me.
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Seeing as how some of the cases at that site look like toasters or other small kitchen appliances, they should be able to accomodate your desires easily.
"It's in Art. 1 of the constitution, and only Congress can change it." Demand a refund from your law school. See Article 5 of the Constitution. Two thirds of the State Legislatures can force Congress to call a Convention for proposing Amendments and although Congress gets to chose which one of the two allowed Modes of Ratification is used, both are done by the States, and not Congress.(Caps in the style of the original)
As noted by another poster, part of the Desert Storm offensive against Iraq was hacking/cracking. However, unlike the recent alleged effort by individuals, this was done by the U.S. military or at least persons in their employ and under their direction, based upon information from the various intelligence sources available to the Department of Defense and in co-ordination with the rest of the U.S. military actions. Far be it from me to say or believe that "the government always knows best" but when it comes to running a war-type action I don't think self-appointed substitute departments of State or Defense are in our best interests. They could possibly interfere with the DoD computer warfare efforts, putting U.S. military personnel at greater risk than they would have been otherwise. They could also influence western governments into thinking that any of their citizens capable of that sort of thing should be subjected to some "prior restraint". Would you like to have your internet connection suspended every time we get upset with Iraq, or have government agents sitting down at your ISP tracking everything you do on line? This sort of "free lance", "loose cannon" approach invites just that.
Please send discarded NIC cards to me! It is, of course, only for the sake of the environment that I suggest you avoid burdening the landfills and stock my spare parts collection instead.
"I can't -- let l998 go by without pausing to reflect on the really significant events of the year " Or let two seconds go by without doing same. Let's see, national elections of Senators and representatives, impeachment, MS anti-trust trial and momentum gain of Linux and Open Source, Netscape-AOL merger, et cetera, and "really significant events"--Buffy and that 70's show.
Is the Kosmic Free Music Foundation actually a foundation? Who is "Dan Nicholson" and why should donation checks and money orders be made out to him? Seems like a great way to get the I.R.S. all over you. Shouldn't donations go to some sort of legal entity? Especially so people could get tax deductions on large donations? Pity the call letters KFMF are already in use by a Chico, California low-power FM. A listener supported radio station would be a nice showcase for the music and the philosophy, assuming either or both are any good.
Back when the word "gay" was still a new way to say "homosexual" in polite company (and another previously useful word, as was "queer", to be co-opted for sexual politics), "flaming" was slang for being "outrageously" "homosexual acting" but it didn't imply the "verbal roasting" that it currently does in e-mail, newsgroups, et cetera. Although I suspect there are a much greater number of homosexuals involved in the computer biz than many others would believe(or want to) I'm more inclined to believe that the current meaning of "flaming" did not evolve from the old one. _After the opinion, a question_ Now that "gay" has been in use for so many years that its original meaning is probably lost forever("don we now our gay apparel" had nothing to do with cross dressing)has it become the new way of saying "queer"? Instead of being a "no implication of positive or negative" way of saying homosexual, has it become the new pejorative? And is it progressing from meaning "homosexual, and that's a bad thing" to just meaning "something bad and despicable" without sexual preference or orientation necessarily having anything to do with it?
(once the word "lame" only meant "one or more of your legs don't work right." The trouble with coding English for homo sapien compatible brains is that all your constants are variables.)
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The way I read it (a month or three ago, but I can't remember exactly where on the web) "Know Your Customer" is, according to the government, to protect the banks from damage to their reputations if any of their customers are using them to launder money, et cetera. Aren't you thrilled to know your bank is going to have to charge you more to cover the cost of spying on you to protect themselves from something they apparently previously didn't consider a problem until the government started leaning on them?
At first I felt a little sympathy for Intel over the issue of them getting a bad rap from people who got less processor than they paid for due to unscrupulous retailers.
Then I remembered all those 486 motherboards out there with extra sockets that were supposed to be upgradeable to Pentiums, and then I remembered all those motherboards with a disabled cpu soldered on because the co-processor upgrade included another processor (and a price that reflected it!), and then I thought about all the mothers at Intel.
Is anything from their album on MP3?
"I'm a new proffesional writer" who could use a new professional spell checker. But at least you misspelled it consistently.
"Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
Sounds like a pretty big market to me.
Seeing as how some of the cases at that site look like toasters or other small kitchen appliances, they should be able to accomodate your desires easily.
The ironic thing is that U.S.-branded software probably is software developed in India by Indians.
"It's in Art. 1 of the constitution, and only Congress can change it."
Demand a refund from your law school.
See Article 5 of the Constitution. Two thirds of the State Legislatures can force Congress to call a Convention for proposing Amendments and although Congress gets to chose which one of the two allowed Modes of Ratification is used, both are done by the States, and not Congress.(Caps in the style of the original)
As noted by another poster, part of the Desert Storm offensive against Iraq was hacking/cracking. However, unlike the recent alleged effort by individuals, this was done by the U.S. military or at least persons in their employ and under their direction, based upon information from the various intelligence sources available to the Department of Defense and in co-ordination with the rest of the U.S. military actions.
Far be it from me to say or believe that "the government always knows best" but when it comes to running a war-type action I don't think self-appointed substitute departments of State or Defense are in our best interests. They could possibly interfere with the DoD computer warfare efforts, putting U.S. military personnel at greater risk than they would have been otherwise. They could also influence western governments into thinking that any of their citizens capable of that sort of thing should be subjected to some "prior restraint". Would you like to have your internet connection suspended every time we get upset with Iraq, or have government agents sitting down at your ISP tracking everything you do on line? This sort of "free lance", "loose cannon" approach invites just that.
Katz actually wrote something short, non-repetitious, and good. Maybe the wacko's are right about the world coming to an end.
Please send discarded NIC cards to me!
It is, of course, only for the sake of the environment that I suggest you avoid burdening the landfills and stock my spare parts collection instead.
"I can't -- let l998 go by without pausing to reflect on the really significant events of the year " Or let two seconds go by without doing same.
Let's see, national elections of Senators and representatives, impeachment, MS anti-trust trial and momentum gain of Linux and Open Source, Netscape-AOL merger, et cetera, and "really significant events"--Buffy and that 70's show.
Loved this line!
Can Veen think of no downside to open source? "A downside? I don't know, have you talked to Microsoft?"
LOL! a lot!
Is the Kosmic Free Music Foundation actually a foundation? Who is "Dan Nicholson" and why should donation checks and money orders be made out to him? Seems like a great way to get the I.R.S. all over you. Shouldn't donations go to some sort of legal entity? Especially so people could get tax deductions on large donations?
Pity the call letters KFMF are already in use by a Chico, California low-power FM. A listener supported radio station would be a nice showcase for the music and the philosophy, assuming either or both are any good.
Back when the word "gay" was still a new way to say "homosexual" in polite company (and another previously useful word, as was "queer", to be co-opted for sexual politics), "flaming" was slang for being "outrageously" "homosexual acting" but it didn't imply the "verbal roasting" that it currently does in e-mail, newsgroups, et cetera.
Although I suspect there are a much greater number of homosexuals involved in the computer biz than many others would believe(or want to) I'm more inclined to believe that the current meaning of "flaming" did not evolve from the old one.
_After the opinion, a question_
Now that "gay" has been in use for so many years that its original meaning is probably lost forever("don we now our gay apparel" had nothing to do with cross dressing)has it become the new way of saying "queer"? Instead of being a "no implication of positive or negative" way of saying homosexual, has it become the new pejorative? And is it progressing from meaning "homosexual, and that's a bad thing" to just meaning "something bad and despicable" without sexual preference or orientation necessarily having anything to do with it?
(once the word "lame" only meant "one or more of your legs don't work right." The trouble with coding English for homo sapien compatible brains is that all your constants are variables.)