There is one and only one good thing about patenting software, instead of copyrighting it. Patents expire. With Congress extending them every 20 years, copyrights never will.
Yes, I fear the end of the world they read about in Revelations is what they are trying to bring about.
I think it was Voltiare who said that someone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. That is certainly true.
Yes, I am. I am a computer technician waiting for diagnostic tests to complete. During these down times I do not just sit here, I read Slashdot, Fark, F'edCompany, and general news sites to pass the time. I need to occupy myself to maintain my sanity. If they took away my net access, and I had to just sit and twiddle my thumbs during these times, I would lose my mind! I could not do this job. I use a personal firewall and privacy software to get away with this, and I naturally minimize or close Mozilla if a boss comes near my bench. Don't we all?
If only that were true, all would be well, but I have zero confidence that it is. I think the Bush administration is marching us headlong down the road to ruin. I don't think his cronies arte specialists in anything they have been put in charge of, they are just friends of his dad.
While Bush and his cronies who probably have VCRs flashing twelve make rules about how the military will use high tech whizbangs, our enemies plot how to take advantage of how dependent we are on those high tech whizbangs. They can use something as simple as a box cutter, or dynamite strapped to a donkey.
Schools are too busy trying to teach, and maintain discipline to do that. Anything more technical then pressing play on a VCR would probably require hiring extra staffers they can't afford to boot. Do we really need net connected computers in the classroom to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic? They used to say we need TV in every classroom. The idiot box never taught kids anything.
To have any chance of competing with retail, Online stores will have to offer free shipping, which won't be enough, and will kill their profits. Brick and mortor retailers have wanted online shopping to die since it was born. They are now getting their way. E-commerce is on its way to the dustbin of history.
But you can't go into "The big room" and address them all in front of CSPAN unless you are someone big like Jack Valenti, Hilary Rosen, or some other corporate type.
"In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."
Anyone who believes this probably also believes in the tooth fairy. Half of the rental DVDs at blockbuster are so scratched up they dont't play any more. Everything wears out and anything can break. Valenti also lamented that legalized bribery of congreess harms democracy when he has made a career of it. What a crock. Lobbying is something only the rich and powerful can do in the first place. Try going to the capital and telling them you want to address Congress about something that concerns you That will give them a good laugh, and land you in the pokie if you get pushy about it.
Not only is Star Trek your daddy's sci-fi, but Berman also released it way too close to Harry Potter and The Two Towers. Most of all, Rick Berman is no Gene Roddenberry.
Slapp suits suck. Parody is free speech, but it could cost millions to fight this frivolous suit until the courts to rule against CNN. I guess the news agency that annonced that the Space Shuttle was traveling nearly 18 times the speed of light is a parody of itself already, And doesn't want any competition.
What all this shows is that we want a fast reliable connection to the net, and name brands don't mean squat. I am one of the people who gets DSL from my local phone company. Dialup sucks. You can't even reliably send a picture of the new baby to grandma and grandpa with it. Since it is not worth paying for, those who still use it use Netzero and Juno. Buh Bye AOL, MSN, Earthlink, et al. You are so twentieth century.
On the 390 series, the modem cards would shake loose from the minipci slots oll the time. The signal cables would come loose from the LCDs on the 14 inch monitors, and the bases were just plain flimsy. They were not durable like 380 series before them at all. As for the batteries, some lasted 3 months, some lasted six. They were a farce. If all the problems of the 390 series were fixed before the T21 came out, you might do okay. In my experience, corporations believe thinkpads are good only because they are expensive, and they are expensive because you pay for three little letters. I, B, and M. I have seen Compaq, Dell, and HP laptops perform more reliably than IBM, as long as the business grade, and not the consumer grade gear is purchased. The only brand of Laptop I like less than IBM is Toshiba. Back in the '90s, the Portege 660 CDT was the worst hunk of crap ever slapped together. I haven't had to service Toshibas since that model, so they may have improved.
I am a repair technician, and have personally serviced hundreds of thinkpad 390s, and 600s. My co-workers and I say IBM stands for I Bought a Mistake. The batteries are indeed garbage. That is why on units with a three year warranty, the battery only has a one year warranty. If they would only last that long, it would be an improvement.
The worst are the Ni-mh (nickel metal hydride) batteries. When I was servicing a pool of 390s for a life insurance company, IBM first denied there was a problem, then released a software utility to cycle the batteries which would allegedly restore their capacity, then IBM replaced them all with Lithium Ion batteries. When the insurance company eventually bought new laptops, they still bought "stinkpads."
Businesses still buy IBM hardware because of name recognition. They figure that the biggest must be the best. These decisions are made by suits whose VCRs flash 12:00, and who never ask any technical people for advice. As long as this is true, IBM will keep selling garbage. They know that suckers will buy their name.
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I think the diet rite sodas still come in steel cans.
Back in the seventies, the neighborhood pyros would use the top of a kids' swingset as a cannon. They would stuff a racketball in one end, light an M-80, and stick it in the other, followed by a dirt clod to plug it up, and launch the racketball. It flew like a bullet. Part of the game was to launch it horizontally, then have someone try to catch it with a baseball mit. The craziest thing about this story is that the guys doing this were adults, and the people watching were kids! Talk about setting an example. I think they were potheads, though.
Ok then, how many people died last year as a result of using MP3s? It isn't even an apple to orange analogy. It is more like apples to rocks. Next you will be telling me that Kazaa funded Al Queda.
Lawyer bashing is very easy to do, that is why the insurance industry is doing it. This tactic is what magicians call misdirection. Insurance companies nearly went broke gambling on stocks like Enron and Worldcom, and are now gouging policyholders to recover their losses.
Malpractice insurance is something no competent health care provider needs anyway, only the quacks need it, and it gives them a license to be careless. Tort is the only recourse the public has for medical malpractice, dangerous products, negligence, and many other things with no criminal penalties. Tort reform could give the incompetent and unscrupulous a license to do vast harm to an even greater degree than the insurance industry does. It is not the solution the corporate media, who are strongly tied to insurance companies make it out to be.
By the way, lawyers aren't the ones who decide how much in compensatory damages should be given to victims, or how much in punitive damages should be charged to perpetrators. Juries do that.
Abolishing lawyers is not the answer. Abolishing punitive damages is not the answer unless criminal penalties will be substituted for them. Strict regulation the insurance industry, including bans on shakedowns like malpractice insurance and hacker insurance,however, would be a great idea.
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There is one and only one good thing about patenting software, instead of copyrighting it. Patents expire. With Congress extending them every 20 years, copyrights never will.
Of course clones age prematurely, didn't you see Attack of the Clones? They are fully grown in ten years instead of 21.
It's a baaaaaaad day for fans of Dolly, and for cloning advocates. Goodbye, Dolly. We will miss ewe.
Now TIA cannot operate officially, and has to go back underground. I don't feel any better. Big Brother is still watching.
Yes, I fear the end of the world they read about in Revelations is what they are trying to bring about. I think it was Voltiare who said that someone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. That is certainly true.
Yes, I am. I am a computer technician waiting for diagnostic tests to complete. During these down times I do not just sit here, I read Slashdot, Fark, F'edCompany, and general news sites to pass the time. I need to occupy myself to maintain my sanity. If they took away my net access, and I had to just sit and twiddle my thumbs during these times, I would lose my mind! I could not do this job. I use a personal firewall and privacy software to get away with this, and I naturally minimize or close Mozilla if a boss comes near my bench. Don't we all?
If only that were true, all would be well, but I have zero confidence that it is. I think the Bush administration is marching us headlong down the road to ruin. I don't think his cronies arte specialists in anything they have been put in charge of, they are just friends of his dad.
While Bush and his cronies who probably have VCRs flashing twelve make rules about how the military will use high tech whizbangs, our enemies plot how to take advantage of how dependent we are on those high tech whizbangs. They can use something as simple as a box cutter, or dynamite strapped to a donkey.
Schools are too busy trying to teach, and maintain discipline to do that. Anything more technical then pressing play on a VCR would probably require hiring extra staffers they can't afford to boot. Do we really need net connected computers in the classroom to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic? They used to say we need TV in every classroom. The idiot box never taught kids anything.
To have any chance of competing with retail, Online stores will have to offer free shipping, which won't be enough, and will kill their profits. Brick and mortor retailers have wanted online shopping to die since it was born. They are now getting their way. E-commerce is on its way to the dustbin of history.
But you can't go into "The big room" and address them all in front of CSPAN unless you are someone big like Jack Valenti, Hilary Rosen, or some other corporate type.
Anyone who believes this probably also believes in the tooth fairy. Half of the rental DVDs at blockbuster are so scratched up they dont't play any more. Everything wears out and anything can break. Valenti also lamented that legalized bribery of congreess harms democracy when he has made a career of it. What a crock. Lobbying is something only the rich and powerful can do in the first place. Try going to the capital and telling them you want to address Congress about something that concerns you That will give them a good laugh, and land you in the pokie if you get pushy about it.
Not only is Star Trek your daddy's sci-fi, but Berman also released it way too close to Harry Potter and The Two Towers. Most of all, Rick Berman is no Gene Roddenberry.
Slapp suits suck. Parody is free speech, but it could cost millions to fight this frivolous suit until the courts to rule against CNN. I guess the news agency that annonced that the Space Shuttle was traveling nearly 18 times the speed of light is a parody of itself already, And doesn't want any competition.
CM = Charles Manson!
What all this shows is that we want a fast reliable connection to the net, and name brands don't mean squat. I am one of the people who gets DSL from my local phone company. Dialup sucks. You can't even reliably send a picture of the new baby to grandma and grandpa with it. Since it is not worth paying for, those who still use it use Netzero and Juno. Buh Bye AOL, MSN, Earthlink, et al. You are so twentieth century.
Folger's coffee. MMMMM! Tastes like chicken!
On the 390 series, the modem cards would shake loose from the minipci slots oll the time. The signal cables would come loose from the LCDs on the 14 inch monitors, and the bases were just plain flimsy. They were not durable like 380 series before them at all. As for the batteries, some lasted 3 months, some lasted six. They were a farce. If all the problems of the 390 series were fixed before the T21 came out, you might do okay. In my experience, corporations believe thinkpads are good only because they are expensive, and they are expensive because you pay for three little letters. I, B, and M. I have seen Compaq, Dell, and HP laptops perform more reliably than IBM, as long as the business grade, and not the consumer grade gear is purchased. The only brand of Laptop I like less than IBM is Toshiba. Back in the '90s, the Portege 660 CDT was the worst hunk of crap ever slapped together. I haven't had to service Toshibas since that model, so they may have improved.
The worst are the Ni-mh (nickel metal hydride) batteries. When I was servicing a pool of 390s for a life insurance company, IBM first denied there was a problem, then released a software utility to cycle the batteries which would allegedly restore their capacity, then IBM replaced them all with Lithium Ion batteries. When the insurance company eventually bought new laptops, they still bought "stinkpads."
Businesses still buy IBM hardware because of name recognition. They figure that the biggest must be the best. These decisions are made by suits whose VCRs flash 12:00, and who never ask any technical people for advice. As long as this is true, IBM will keep selling garbage. They know that suckers will buy their name.
1. Use Mozilla.
2.Pull down Edit.
3.Select preferences.
4.Select advanced.
5.Select Scripts&plugins.
6. there are check boxes under "allow scripts to," uncheck them.
I think the diet rite sodas still come in steel cans.
You set your your balls on fire? Ow!
Back in the seventies, the neighborhood pyros would use the top of a kids' swingset as a cannon. They would stuff a racketball in one end, light an M-80, and stick it in the other, followed by a dirt clod to plug it up, and launch the racketball. It flew like a bullet. Part of the game was to launch it horizontally, then have someone try to catch it with a baseball mit. The craziest thing about this story is that the guys doing this were adults, and the people watching were kids! Talk about setting an example. I think they were potheads, though.
Ok then, how many people died last year as a result of using MP3s? It isn't even an apple to orange analogy. It is more like apples to rocks. Next you will be telling me that Kazaa funded Al Queda.
Malpractice insurance is something no competent health care provider needs anyway, only the quacks need it, and it gives them a license to be careless. Tort is the only recourse the public has for medical malpractice, dangerous products, negligence, and many other things with no criminal penalties. Tort reform could give the incompetent and unscrupulous a license to do vast harm to an even greater degree than the insurance industry does. It is not the solution the corporate media, who are strongly tied to insurance companies make it out to be.
By the way, lawyers aren't the ones who decide how much in compensatory damages should be given to victims, or how much in punitive damages should be charged to perpetrators. Juries do that.
Abolishing lawyers is not the answer. Abolishing punitive damages is not the answer unless criminal penalties will be substituted for them. Strict regulation the insurance industry, including bans on shakedowns like malpractice insurance and hacker insurance,however, would be a great idea.