Excuse me? I know you didn't quite say this, but you give the strong impression that you think the leader of the Thai junta is Muslim. Not even close. The population of Thailand is 98% Buddhist.
Army chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin has appeared on Thailand TV to explain the military coup which has ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his government.... Sonthi, who is known to be close to Thailand's revered constitutional monarch, will serve as acting prime minister, army spokesman Col. Akarat Chitroj said, according to The AP. Sonthi is a Muslim in this Buddhist-dominated nation, AP reported.
Can you support that, in any shape way or form? I've seen her deny working for IBM, quite unambiguously too. On the other hand the only thing resembling support for the proposition that she works for IBM is that she hosts Groklaw in ibiblio, to which IBM have occasionally contributed money.
Remember that PJ worked for something like 2 weeks at ODSL a couple of years ago, and now SCO is claiming that IBM was simply using ODSL to funnel money to her. In other words, IBM gave ODSL a big chunk of cash which they in turn used to pay her. SCO claims it was $50K or something like that.
PJ promptly resigned when she realized that SCO was going to twist her employment there, and it's a miracle that it's taken them this long to pull it off. Part of the problem that they have is that she's been at it now for 4 years, so, even if they're right, she's mananged to make minimum wage. But there's no reason to believe that they're actually right.
Most people aren't evil. Most people don't shit in their own bed. SCO is being run by people who are truly evil and will destroy anybody and anything to make a buck.
How much freedom do you grant others - to define their own morality?
You might have missed the news, but Thailand was overtaken by a military coup last year and is now being run as a military dictatorship. "Their own morality" is irrelevent, particularly when the dictator is a Muslim.
Now let's wait for the trolls to swarm in and claim that any culture that doesn't share their own values of "First Amendment" and "Freedom of Expression" must be evil and bad. Newsflash: The "total freedom or none at all" attitude only applies to western culture. Asian cultures have more than a thousand years of experience in moderation and non-binary thinking.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absoltue despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
There, go argue your bullshit with Jefferson, he'll kick you around the room.
I think most of you have missed something here: This is NOT for home internet. This is for a cellphone. Yes, you could plug your laptop into your cellphone and download that way, but that is NOT what Verizon is marketing this for. It's designed for text messages and WAP browsing. For the usage it's designed for, it's a large enough limit that there is no practical difference between the limit and unlimited.
We need to get a "-1 cluefuck" moderation option. It's not for a cellphone; they give you a pcmcia card to plug in to your laptop. Holy shit, dude, have you not heard their stupid radio ad with a "hotel in hollywood" and all that? This is an internet service that you can use with your laptop anywhere there's verizon coverage.
Moderators, please do your job and give this guy "-1 overrated" in the absense of the proper "-1 cluefuck" option.
Verizon isn't merely being dishonest in calling it "Unlimited", they're also being very, very, stupid.
That's what rocks about the cellular service industry. Everybody's mouth-breathing stupid so it's not a competitive disadvantage.
I read Verizon's TOS a couple of months ago when evaluating the service and said "no thanks". They say in no uncertain terms that the service is for web browsing and email only, and if you go over the 5G they'll assume you're using it for something else and cut you off with no recourse.
While web and email are probably what I spend the most time doing, I still download iso's with bt, use ichat with my mother, stuff that uses more bandwidth. I might also use a vpn or something like that.
I look at my mother as the quintessential "normal user", and even she is doing stuff that's outside the realm of email and web. Thankfully wifi hotspots are common enough that I'm not too worried about it.
How is it that Viacom cannot adequately identify their own material? That's just astounding.
Last I looked, a DMCA take-down notice was made under penalty of perjury. Maybe if *someone*, like, say, maybe a judge, would actually hold the slimey lawyer who sent it to that penalty of perjury, viacom would do a better job figuring out what they own. Lawyers would be *far* more likely to think before sending if mistakes meant jail time or monetary loss.
Now, around here it IS fairly common for clauses specifying ownership of IP to be present for faculty and research staff, but not for students.
This seems to be confusing among academics, so let me simplify it for you. That's because "faculty and research staff" are glorified names for "employees", while "students" is a glorified name for "customers". Starting to make sense, yet?
Imagine if I tried to claim ownership of my customers' work. I'm sure that would go over reallllll welllll. On the other hand, it's very common in pretty much 99% of the working world for the employer to own the products that its employees produce.
Listen to what these guys are saying, Mr. Beckerman. When the MPAA tried to push the "superdmca" bill here in TN, one of the most egregious provisions was that people who were caught with unauthorized devices connected to their cable service were *required* to be criminally prosecuted. That's the direction this stuff is going: make it a crime so that the government has to foot the bill for what should be a civil matter. These people are slime, as you know better than I do. They will stop at nothing.
Their reputation in Congress will not go down because of these civil suits. They have enough of Congress on the payroll that reputation doesn't matter.
Not true at all! This is just proof that mans impact on the environment extends throughout the solar system. It wasn't enough for us to mess up our own planet, now we have caused solar warming as well!
"Man's impact"? Um, I think you mean "George W. Bush's impact". If he'd just sign Kyoto, the sun would instantly return to normal.
Even worse, the Terminator genes are dominant. Which has a very devastating effect if introduced by a single farmer in places where farmers still use some of their harvest as seeds for the next year.
Even worse the Terminator genes have been known to travel back in time and attempt to stop Greenpeace by killing its leaders while they were children.
Note, too, that the Bill of Rights is really only a list of individual rights in a roundabout way. In reality, it's a list of limitations on government; first a list of limitations on what laws can even be created in this land later clarified to state that this list of limitations is on the entire federal government (all three branches) as well as all other governments within the US. This is how it should be.
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson states "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men..." Those words probably have the highest truth:word-count ratio possible.
Anyway, you are very right. And I would submit that one of the biggest problems that we have in modern politics is getting people and government to understand the concept that government doesn't give people rights. Even if that were the idea (and it's not supposed to be in the US), it demonstrably never works.
Some MPAA members worship a deity who allegedly convinced them to elect the government which runs the university which runs the computer store which sold me the computer which allowed me to run my operating system which allowed me to download this utility which allowed me to circumvent this encryption. Is He in violation of the DMCA?
According to the article it's because they made subtle variations to the pieces, including changing the tempo by less than 1% (so they wouldn't sync up), changing the balance (so the center was different), and changing the equalizer (so it sounded like a different piano).
At some point, it would be easier to just play the piano.
You apparently haven't seen the list of countries that thought Iraq had WMD, too. The looney left isn't impressed by that; GWB is the cause of all the world's problems.
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So, you're arguing that people should have the freedom to not be free.
Utterly fucking moronic.
My bad! Not sure how they think ODSL funneled $50K to her, then.
Michael
For the non-clueless among us:a nd.coup.rumor/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/thail
Questions?
Remember that PJ worked for something like 2 weeks at ODSL a couple of years ago, and now SCO is claiming that IBM was simply using ODSL to funnel money to her. In other words, IBM gave ODSL a big chunk of cash which they in turn used to pay her. SCO claims it was $50K or something like that.
PJ promptly resigned when she realized that SCO was going to twist her employment there, and it's a miracle that it's taken them this long to pull it off. Part of the problem that they have is that she's been at it now for 4 years, so, even if they're right, she's mananged to make minimum wage. But there's no reason to believe that they're actually right.
Most people aren't evil. Most people don't shit in their own bed. SCO is being run by people who are truly evil and will destroy anybody and anything to make a buck.
There is no "copyright agreement". Something may be copyrighted whether you agree or not.
You might have missed the news, but Thailand was overtaken by a military coup last year and is now being run as a military dictatorship. "Their own morality" is irrelevent, particularly when the dictator is a Muslim.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absoltue despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
There, go argue your bullshit with Jefferson, he'll kick you around the room.
We need to get a "-1 cluefuck" moderation option. It's not for a cellphone; they give you a pcmcia card to plug in to your laptop. Holy shit, dude, have you not heard their stupid radio ad with a "hotel in hollywood" and all that? This is an internet service that you can use with your laptop anywhere there's verizon coverage.
Moderators, please do your job and give this guy "-1 overrated" in the absense of the proper "-1 cluefuck" option.
That's what rocks about the cellular service industry. Everybody's mouth-breathing stupid so it's not a competitive disadvantage.
I read Verizon's TOS a couple of months ago when evaluating the service and said "no thanks". They say in no uncertain terms that the service is for web browsing and email only, and if you go over the 5G they'll assume you're using it for something else and cut you off with no recourse.
While web and email are probably what I spend the most time doing, I still download iso's with bt, use ichat with my mother, stuff that uses more bandwidth. I might also use a vpn or something like that.
I look at my mother as the quintessential "normal user", and even she is doing stuff that's outside the realm of email and web. Thankfully wifi hotspots are common enough that I'm not too worried about it.
We're two days away from April 1st, let us enjoy these days while we can...
Last I looked, a DMCA take-down notice was made under penalty of perjury. Maybe if *someone*, like, say, maybe a judge, would actually hold the slimey lawyer who sent it to that penalty of perjury, viacom would do a better job figuring out what they own. Lawyers would be *far* more likely to think before sending if mistakes meant jail time or monetary loss.
This seems to be confusing among academics, so let me simplify it for you. That's because "faculty and research staff" are glorified names for "employees", while "students" is a glorified name for "customers". Starting to make sense, yet?
Imagine if I tried to claim ownership of my customers' work. I'm sure that would go over reallllll welllll. On the other hand, it's very common in pretty much 99% of the working world for the employer to own the products that its employees produce.
they were busy putting together a dossier on me and a few others around X-mas of 1999?
Listen to what these guys are saying, Mr. Beckerman. When the MPAA tried to push the "superdmca" bill here in TN, one of the most egregious provisions was that people who were caught with unauthorized devices connected to their cable service were *required* to be criminally prosecuted. That's the direction this stuff is going: make it a crime so that the government has to foot the bill for what should be a civil matter. These people are slime, as you know better than I do. They will stop at nothing.
Their reputation in Congress will not go down because of these civil suits. They have enough of Congress on the payroll that reputation doesn't matter.
Have you given them back their filthy lucre?
"Man's impact"? Um, I think you mean "George W. Bush's impact". If he'd just sign Kyoto, the sun would instantly return to normal.
Even worse the Terminator genes have been known to travel back in time and attempt to stop Greenpeace by killing its leaders while they were children.
Viacom!
Note, too, that the Bill of Rights is really only a list of individual rights in a roundabout way. In reality, it's a list of limitations on government; first a list of limitations on what laws can even be created in this land later clarified to state that this list of limitations is on the entire federal government (all three branches) as well as all other governments within the US. This is how it should be.
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson states "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men..." Those words probably have the highest truth:word-count ratio possible.
Anyway, you are very right. And I would submit that one of the biggest problems that we have in modern politics is getting people and government to understand the concept that government doesn't give people rights. Even if that were the idea (and it's not supposed to be in the US), it demonstrably never works.
I hear they're also taller than the average midget...
cvs? It sounds like someone's already using subversion...
The only diety worshiped at the MPAA is "money".
At some point, it would be easier to just play the piano.
use Jokes::Std::Beowulf;
use Jokes::Std::Overlords::Robotic;
You apparently haven't seen the list of countries that thought Iraq had WMD, too. The looney left isn't impressed by that; GWB is the cause of all the world's problems.
I just went and changed it, so he's right again.