It doesn't make any sense on the face of it, until you recall who the "shareholders" actually are. The shareholders aren't the Wall St riff-raff. Rather the shareholders were the guys on the board of directors, and also Darl McBride. They all stood to make huge $$$ off trashing the company, and they did. Microsoft effectively covered the legal fees paid to Boies Schiller thru a front company if you recall. So ultimately it didn't cost anyone anything - They all got what they wanted and probably made big $$$ too, even MS.
I wonder who paid for this survey? Because I'm sure it'll come out someday.... I started driving everywhere since 9-11 anyway. Saw the writing on the wall, etc. Gonna have to keep up the pressure re TSA, because frankly the TSA makes me feel very unsafe, simply because they even exist in the first place. And guess what, I happen to *live* in NY...
I don't imagine that you got laid much during that dark time. But yes, I, too shall be celebrating. Imagine how fast that UI will be on modern hardware! I have a spare Athlon XP with a gig of ram waiting...
Nokia, MS, and MOSAID are gonna have shit fits. This is *exactly* the sort of thing they (especially MS) were trying to prevent with all the lawsuits and patent deals after all. Let's keep at it until Balmer's colon feels like sandpaper to him!
This man is an idiot. They said the same thing about the Gatling gun, and look where that got us collectively as a race. Fail to learn from history, doomed, repeat, etc.
"....are festering cesspools of corruption, nepotism and cronyism, and don't see how throwing a bunch of resources at the problem is going to do anything except give the leaders more to pillage from their countries."
You may be interested to know about this paper, remarkable for its perception of the conservative mentality. Its a tad frightening. The author basically posits that conservative mindset is actually based in a psychology that drives society via politics, religion, etc.
I don't doubt it one bit. After all, Debian had 2 releases since the last time I had any. And yes that fact was quite depressing at the time. I now measure my "laid" interval in debian-releases.
Its not just customers. Its also employees who have been exploited worse and worse for decades. And its not just in IT industry or Silicon Valley - its all of the US employment spectrum. Just look closely over the last 20 or 30 years, you'll see it easy enough.
These are the same lawyers that shredded MS in the antitrust case, and then lost their bowels in SCO vs sanity. Seeing your username I think you knew that, but I wanted to point out the interesting history for others. I strongly suspect that Boies will modify their terms of engagement before taking on new clients in the future...
Knowing the answer to the question would give a good idea of their budget and (therefore) capabilities. And if that sort of knowledge got out then it would effectively end the NSA's usefulness. Some nations would give a *lot* to know that kind of thing.
Actually yes it is real. There is worse stuf than goatse and tubgirl out there. Never mind the trolls, I say (I can deal with that) its the spammers that *really* annoy me tho.... those links are great for google-bombs and totally fuckup their results. Especially if you can redirect their paypal button to one of them..
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I've had a sandbox for more than a decade. Its called Yahoo.
It doesn't make any sense on the face of it, until you recall who the "shareholders" actually are. The shareholders aren't the Wall St riff-raff. Rather the shareholders were the guys on the board of directors, and also Darl McBride. They all stood to make huge $$$ off trashing the company, and they did. Microsoft effectively covered the legal fees paid to Boies Schiller thru a front company if you recall. So ultimately it didn't cost anyone anything - They all got what they wanted and probably made big $$$ too, even MS.
holie fuck I nee mod points for this guy, +1 insightful... cut-pasted and printed the whole page.
"trickle-down" is also a theory, in the same way that evolution is.
I wonder who paid for this survey? Because I'm sure it'll come out someday.... I started driving everywhere since 9-11 anyway. Saw the writing on the wall, etc. Gonna have to keep up the pressure re TSA, because frankly the TSA makes me feel very unsafe, simply because they even exist in the first place. And guess what, I happen to *live* in NY...
We already had that happen with Bill Clinton's election - Chinese funds were being sent thru front companies on the west coast.
I've never seen a beowulf cluster of Apples.
I don't imagine that you got laid much during that dark time. But yes, I, too shall be celebrating. Imagine how fast that UI will be on modern hardware! I have a spare Athlon XP with a gig of ram waiting...
an old voice/data/fax V90 modem and mgetty can do something similar... use festival to get the computer-generated voices.
yeah, right!.....
If you want me to take you seriously.
Nokia, MS, and MOSAID are gonna have shit fits. This is *exactly* the sort of thing they (especially MS) were trying to prevent with all the lawsuits and patent deals after all. Let's keep at it until Balmer's colon feels like sandpaper to him!
This man is an idiot. They said the same thing about the Gatling gun, and look where that got us collectively as a race. Fail to learn from history, doomed, repeat, etc.
What, like the USA is any different?
You may be interested to know about this paper, remarkable for its perception of the conservative mentality. Its a tad frightening. The author basically posits that conservative mindset is actually based in a psychology that drives society via politics, religion, etc.
I don't doubt it one bit. After all, Debian had 2 releases since the last time I had any. And yes that fact was quite depressing at the time. I now measure my "laid" interval in debian-releases.
Somebody mod this guy up, please - I already commented in this thread to the same effect.
Its not just customers. Its also employees who have been exploited worse and worse for decades. And its not just in IT industry or Silicon Valley - its all of the US employment spectrum. Just look closely over the last 20 or 30 years, you'll see it easy enough.
All those interior designers have to get paid, and show off each other's work!
This raises the question, which people do they want to make it easier for?
My kingdom for a mod point... somebody bump this guy up a few...
These are the same lawyers that shredded MS in the antitrust case, and then lost their bowels in SCO vs sanity. Seeing your username I think you knew that, but I wanted to point out the interesting history for others. I strongly suspect that Boies will modify their terms of engagement before taking on new clients in the future...
You sound like yer trying to introduce them to yer religion or something that actually matters.
Knowing the answer to the question would give a good idea of their budget and (therefore) capabilities. And if that sort of knowledge got out then it would effectively end the NSA's usefulness. Some nations would give a *lot* to know that kind of thing.
Actually yes it is real. There is worse stuf than goatse and tubgirl out there. Never mind the trolls, I say (I can deal with that) its the spammers that *really* annoy me tho.... those links are great for google-bombs and totally fuckup their results. Especially if you can redirect their paypal button to one of them..