Well, at this point SCO can't even afford to create a website, so it's probably all over but the lawsuits.
Though, I can't see why they wanted to create a website anyhow. Who would be the target audience?
Potential new customers?
Current customers who haven't committed to migrating away?
...
Underpants Gnomes?
Heck, the lawyers probably own most of the equity in the company by now anyhow. They're probably less interested in an actual business plan that McBride is.
That's because the caddie was a part of the media, just like Zip disks.
The caddy on a floppy or zip drive is not part of the media. The media is just the fragile bit inside the caddy. An inexpensive caddy just happens to be sold with every piece of media.
The United States invented democracy. We are the smartest people on earth. God himself blesses our country. We have nothing to learn from you... europeans.
At least, that's what I read in the newspapers and from the canidates. It's illegal for them to lie, so assume if they weren't telling the truth they'd be in prison.
Despite them having no constitutional basis for doing such.
The President is elected by the Electors, and the Electors are selected by the State Legislators in any way they see fit. It turns out that in Florida, the State Legislators agreed on a method that doesn't really bother to count the votes.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled, correctly, that the Florida State Legislature was a bunch of crack-smoking ass clowns, and that the method they described to select the Electors didn't make any damned sense.
The US Supreme Court then ruled, correctly, that the Constitution specifically says that the State Legislature can select the Electors using any half-assed method they want to use, and the Florida Supreme Court doesn't get much say in the matter.
The Florida Supreme Court may be generally responsible for intervening when the State Legislature writes laws indistinguishable from a shit sandwhich, but in this case the citizens of Florida are out of luck. If the citizens are interested in influencing who their State Legislature chooses as electors, the citizens are perfectly welcome to get off their asses and ask to vote.
Of course, the chances are good that the citizens of Florida aren't going to have much influence over the process again this year. Their State Legislature has, for all intents and purposes, taken the rotting, maggot infested dung pile of laws they're using as a voting procedure, and took an extra crap on it, smoothed it out, and called it frosting.
No, sadly it's not a conspiracy. Both Republicans and Democrats have legions of lawyers employed to disenfranchise voters; anyone who reads the newspapers knows that. But I'm confident that the predicted widespread failure of these machines and the untold number of votes to be lost from poll worker error will be due primarily to widespread incompetence, and not malice.
ultimately disenfranchise every other person who used the machine before you took a sledge to it.
I assume that once someone hits OK and waits for the transaction to commit, they've irrevocably voted. At that point, nothing short of a nuclear strike against the multiple server locations should be able to invalidate a vote that's already cast...
They may realize that, if they do it very much more, they'll get caught, and if they get caught, they'll get so utterly crushed it will be disgusting.
If there is evidence that shows, beyond reasonable doubt, that national elections are fixed, "utterly crushed" is probably not a good description of what is going to happen to the people responsible. I'm against the death penalty for just about everything but treason. I'm thinking "literally crushed" would be a better description of what is going to happen to the people responsible.
But truthfully, I don't think there will be fraud. I believe we're going to wake up on November 3rd to a nightmare caused by the combined incompentence of hundreds of local election boards. In the last election, we were fortunate enough in Florida to pretty much have a statistical tie. We saw the hanging chads, and even if we didn't like it, we had concrete evidence that it was really, really close. The coin flipped and Gore lost.
When dozens of counties report back that they lost all records of their votes, can not provide any numbers, and no-one has any idea who won, who lost, or if it was in fact a tie, the nation is not going be so forgiving this time around.
Is anyone else a little apalled at the "Vote or Die" campaign put on by MTV to try to encourage kids to vote? The fact is, they are getting pushed to head to the polls, but often don't know anything about the issues at hand and will just vote randomly.
Well, for a long time we didn't have to fight "the terrorists" in Iraq, because you had all "the terrorists" bottled up in Ireland. Unfortunately, you limey bastards let them all get away, and now all "the terrorists" have moved from Ireland to Iraq.
But, we've learned from your failure in Ireland. We're going to kill all "the terrorists" in Iraq, and there will never ever be terrorism ever again, ever. Because, you see, all the terrorists will be dead. Duh.
I agree one hundred percent -- it wasn't about slavery. The southern states believed that they had the right to do something totally fucking evil, and the federal goverment believed they had the right and responsibility to reduce the amount of evil in the world.
So, a lot of good people died because a couple of southern shitheads decided to assert their sovereign right to be evil motherfuckers.
It just happens that the evil in this case was slavery. You could replace slaery with anything evil -- genital mutilation, torture, popcorn, but the civil war was about the south's percieved right to be evil son-of-bitches who are rotting in hell.
RTFA. He didn't say that it needed to be rebuilt because of API differences. He said it needs to be rebuilt because of fundemental differences. I read that to mean different things.
Regardless, they weren't building a platform abstraction toolkit. They were building a desktop search tool. Only a very bad developer would build one when he was trying to build the other.
Every major war in the world for the last 150 years has led to the advancement of rights, liberty, and economic improvement. Sure it's terrible when people die, but war is inevitible. And usually good always wins in the end, and the world is better off.
You might want to ask for a refund for your history degree.
Fear in America is a little different. It doesn't elicit compliance, it elicits swift violence and a suspenstion of the normal rules.
My poorly socialized little yippy dog is exactly the same way. When he gets scared, he runs around and barks and snarls and snaps at any damned thing he can get away with. He never actually confronts the thing he's scared of (because he's scared of it, duh), but his little stuffed animals really get the shit kicked out of them.
I think it's pretty damned funny that we got so scared of Bin Laden, so as a country we decided to take our agression out on a country that we saw as no threat to us. Boy, do we look foolish, now that Iraq has refused to be our little stuffed animal to kick around.
Internationally, the government of the United States has used 9/11 as an excuse to start an unprovoked war. Thousands of people, inside and outside the united states, have been detained without charges. Also, an unknown number of people literally have been disappeared -- removed from their countries in secret, possibly to countries that will turn a blind eye to CIA torture.
Domestically, 9/11 has been used as an excuse to restrict and monitor travel, again entirely in secret. I don't give a flying fuck about the lines at the airports. I'm very upset about secret no-fly lists, searches of passengers of nearly all forms of public transportation, and unprecedented record keeping of who travels where and when.
I'm not at all suprised that the majority of people are not upset by all of this. People have, historically, allowed themselves to be put under the boot and they've like it. The vast majority of human beings like licking boots. Most Americans are pretty damned happy that they finally get to do it too.
Rumsfeld gets a lot of shit because he's a smart guy who just happens to be an evil fucking bastard.
The "known knowns" crap has nothing to do with engineering. It came from him being unwilling to act like a total fucking moron, like so many other politicians feel the need to do.
This means a tighter and more consistent user experience.
Because I can now use it from all my applications? Like Mozilla, bash, PINE, Java Swing applications, in the save-file dialog box of any video game, my Perl scripts, and everywhere else?
No? Well, then we have a very different idea what "consistent" means.
But does gnome have integrated webdav support? I would think they'd be on the ball to mimic any lil kde features that pop-up.
Of course it does. See, KDE added it to Linux, so that all applications are able to use this. No, wait -- they didn't. This is just some bullshit added to an already bloated set of non-standard user libraries.
Let me know when it's included in a kernel module, and I can use it from all my programs. Until then, it's just more crap in a bloated set of non-standard user libraries.
I fear that 9/11 is used to justify some of the scariest things my government has ever done. I associate 9/11 with restrictions on travel, with rape rooms at Abu Ghraib, with torture, and with people being disappeared in the middle of the night.
Oh, and I also associate it with a small rise in the number of domestic murders that year. I'm not trying to be insensitive -- having a friend or loved one murdered is horrible, regardless of the day it happens on.
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Though, I can't see why they wanted to create a website anyhow. Who would be the target audience?
- Potential new customers?
- Current customers who haven't committed to migrating away?
...- Underpants Gnomes?
Heck, the lawyers probably own most of the equity in the company by now anyhow. They're probably less interested in an actual business plan that McBride is.That's because the caddie was a part of the media, just like Zip disks.
The caddy on a floppy or zip drive is not part of the media. The media is just the fragile bit inside the caddy. An inexpensive caddy just happens to be sold with every piece of media.
Why do you refuse to fucken learn from others?
The United States invented democracy. We are the smartest people on earth. God himself blesses our country. We have nothing to learn from you... europeans.
At least, that's what I read in the newspapers and from the canidates. It's illegal for them to lie, so assume if they weren't telling the truth they'd be in prison.
What? You are kidding, right? Please, please, please tell me you're kidding.
We. Are. So. Fucked.
Despite them having no constitutional basis for doing such.
The President is elected by the Electors, and the Electors are selected by the State Legislators in any way they see fit. It turns out that in Florida, the State Legislators agreed on a method that doesn't really bother to count the votes.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled, correctly, that the Florida State Legislature was a bunch of crack-smoking ass clowns, and that the method they described to select the Electors didn't make any damned sense.
The US Supreme Court then ruled, correctly, that the Constitution specifically says that the State Legislature can select the Electors using any half-assed method they want to use, and the Florida Supreme Court doesn't get much say in the matter.
The Florida Supreme Court may be generally responsible for intervening when the State Legislature writes laws indistinguishable from a shit sandwhich, but in this case the citizens of Florida are out of luck. If the citizens are interested in influencing who their State Legislature chooses as electors, the citizens are perfectly welcome to get off their asses and ask to vote.
Of course, the chances are good that the citizens of Florida aren't going to have much influence over the process again this year. Their State Legislature has, for all intents and purposes, taken the rotting, maggot infested dung pile of laws they're using as a voting procedure, and took an extra crap on it, smoothed it out, and called it frosting.
I was surprised to find myself going home with the phone number of a gorgeous, intelligent, caring girl.
Did you still respect it in the morning?
No, sadly it's not a conspiracy. Both Republicans and Democrats have legions of lawyers employed to disenfranchise voters; anyone who reads the newspapers knows that. But I'm confident that the predicted widespread failure of these machines and the untold number of votes to be lost from poll worker error will be due primarily to widespread incompetence, and not malice.
ultimately disenfranchise every other person who used the machine before you took a sledge to it.
I assume that once someone hits OK and waits for the transaction to commit, they've irrevocably voted. At that point, nothing short of a nuclear strike against the multiple server locations should be able to invalidate a vote that's already cast...
They may realize that, if they do it very much more, they'll get caught, and if they get caught, they'll get so utterly crushed it will be disgusting.
If there is evidence that shows, beyond reasonable doubt, that national elections are fixed, "utterly crushed" is probably not a good description of what is going to happen to the people responsible. I'm against the death penalty for just about everything but treason. I'm thinking "literally crushed" would be a better description of what is going to happen to the people responsible.
But truthfully, I don't think there will be fraud. I believe we're going to wake up on November 3rd to a nightmare caused by the combined incompentence of hundreds of local election boards. In the last election, we were fortunate enough in Florida to pretty much have a statistical tie. We saw the hanging chads, and even if we didn't like it, we had concrete evidence that it was really, really close. The coin flipped and Gore lost.
When dozens of counties report back that they lost all records of their votes, can not provide any numbers, and no-one has any idea who won, who lost, or if it was in fact a tie, the nation is not going be so forgiving this time around.
Bugs are likely to be of the "50,000 votes in county X were wiped out when a poll worker accidentally hit the wrong key" variety.
I'm looking forward to November 3rd. I made a bet that John Titor was real, and that's the day I'll know if I won or lost.
Is anyone else a little apalled at the "Vote or Die" campaign put on by MTV to try to encourage kids to vote? The fact is, they are getting pushed to head to the polls, but often don't know anything about the issues at hand and will just vote randomly.
How is this different any other group of voters?
Well, for a long time we didn't have to fight "the terrorists" in Iraq, because you had all "the terrorists" bottled up in Ireland. Unfortunately, you limey bastards let them all get away, and now all "the terrorists" have moved from Ireland to Iraq.
But, we've learned from your failure in Ireland. We're going to kill all "the terrorists" in Iraq, and there will never ever be terrorism ever again, ever. Because, you see, all the terrorists will be dead. Duh.
I agree one hundred percent -- it wasn't about slavery. The southern states believed that they had the right to do something totally fucking evil, and the federal goverment believed they had the right and responsibility to reduce the amount of evil in the world.
So, a lot of good people died because a couple of southern shitheads decided to assert their sovereign right to be evil motherfuckers.
It just happens that the evil in this case was slavery. You could replace slaery with anything evil -- genital mutilation, torture, popcorn, but the civil war was about the south's percieved right to be evil son-of-bitches who are rotting in hell.
RTFA. He didn't say that it needed to be rebuilt because of API differences. He said it needs to be rebuilt because of fundemental differences. I read that to mean different things.
Regardless, they weren't building a platform abstraction toolkit. They were building a desktop search tool. Only a very bad developer would build one when he was trying to build the other.
You're right. You should send your laptop back, and make damn certain the company you tried to buy it from knows why.
Good luck.
Every major war in the world for the last 150 years has led to the advancement of rights, liberty, and economic improvement. Sure it's terrible when people die, but war is inevitible. And usually good always wins in the end, and the world is better off.
You might want to ask for a refund for your history degree.
Fear in America is a little different. It doesn't elicit compliance, it elicits swift violence and a suspenstion of the normal rules.
My poorly socialized little yippy dog is exactly the same way. When he gets scared, he runs around and barks and snarls and snaps at any damned thing he can get away with. He never actually confronts the thing he's scared of (because he's scared of it, duh), but his little stuffed animals really get the shit kicked out of them.
I think it's pretty damned funny that we got so scared of Bin Laden, so as a country we decided to take our agression out on a country that we saw as no threat to us. Boy, do we look foolish, now that Iraq has refused to be our little stuffed animal to kick around.
Internationally, the government of the United States has used 9/11 as an excuse to start an unprovoked war. Thousands of people, inside and outside the united states, have been detained without charges. Also, an unknown number of people literally have been disappeared -- removed from their countries in secret, possibly to countries that will turn a blind eye to CIA torture.
Domestically, 9/11 has been used as an excuse to restrict and monitor travel, again entirely in secret. I don't give a flying fuck about the lines at the airports. I'm very upset about secret no-fly lists, searches of passengers of nearly all forms of public transportation, and unprecedented record keeping of who travels where and when.
I'm not at all suprised that the majority of people are not upset by all of this. People have, historically, allowed themselves to be put under the boot and they've like it. The vast majority of human beings like licking boots. Most Americans are pretty damned happy that they finally get to do it too.
Rumsfeld gets a lot of shit because he's a smart guy who just happens to be an evil fucking bastard.
The "known knowns" crap has nothing to do with engineering. It came from him being unwilling to act like a total fucking moron, like so many other politicians feel the need to do.
You might want to check out the Constitution Party. That's were all the fun people seem to be going.
This means a tighter and more consistent user experience.
Because I can now use it from all my applications? Like Mozilla, bash, PINE, Java Swing applications, in the save-file dialog box of any video game, my Perl scripts, and everywhere else?
No? Well, then we have a very different idea what "consistent" means.
But does gnome have integrated webdav support? I would think they'd be on the ball to mimic any lil kde features that pop-up.
Of course it does. See, KDE added it to Linux, so that all applications are able to use this. No, wait -- they didn't. This is just some bullshit added to an already bloated set of non-standard user libraries.
Let me know when it's included in a kernel module, and I can use it from all my programs. Until then, it's just more crap in a bloated set of non-standard user libraries.
I fear that 9/11 is used to justify some of the scariest things my government has ever done. I associate 9/11 with restrictions on travel, with rape rooms at Abu Ghraib, with torture, and with people being disappeared in the middle of the night.
Oh, and I also associate it with a small rise in the number of domestic murders that year. I'm not trying to be insensitive -- having a friend or loved one murdered is horrible, regardless of the day it happens on.
I'm pretty sure the straw man (no brain and no heart) is going to win this year.