Aww, Shut Up already. An idiot pours a cup of boiling hot water into her lap and successfully sues the company that sold it to her. Did I mention it was SOLD AS BEING BOILING HOT! Dolts.
Up until the Kosevo war Eastern European countries did see the US as a strong ally aginst a resurgent Russia. However US support for the muslims (in a region of the world that had spent the best part of 400 years under muslim rule) killed that. Now most Eastern European countries are looking either to the EU (mostly because of Greece) or Russia, depending mostly on how many issues they have with Germany or Russia. The Islamic states of Bosnia, Albania, and Kosevo favor Turkey (which makes the rest REALLY paranoid). The US is viewed with suspicion.
The proper reply is a class action lawsuit including everyone who so much as owns an uninstalled download or CD with GPL'd code. The comlaint is that SCO is extorting money from Linux users. Until they prove their case in court they have no right to extort money from end users, or anyone else, and under the RICO laws should be liable for triple damages, that three times $1399.00 US per cpu running Linux per compainent.
If someone wants to start said countersuit against SCO they can count me in.
While I do appreciate the time it took to write your note I feel that I must point out some errors in your assumptions. First off I do recognise that language depends criticaly on a shared set of standards. I also recognise that the primary force that causes a usage to become accepted is aesthetics. Your very statement that shone sounds better than shined leads me to expect that shined will always be regarded as an incorrect usage. My degree is in chemistry, so I am not an authority, but I can tell you, being bilingual that modern Greek sounds better than ancient Greek. Aesthetics have honed the language over time. You may (or may not) agree that part of the power and flexibility of English is that it is barely more than a highly developed creole. But creoles sound ugly, and English also sounds ugly. English does however sound better than it did 500 years ago. I expect that in the future English will sound better still, unless we get conqured by the Chinese or some other linguistic disaster of that sort (English sounded better, in a Germanic kind of way, before the Norman conquest).
Having said all of the above, when my wife says shined, it makes my teeth grind.
Webster shined you on. Just because a usage is in the dictionary doesn't mean it's correct, It simply means that many people use it. If you don't believe me look up "aint".
Also mad cow disease is at least as bad for the cow. Answer, Dont' eat sick animals. Are you sure you aren't a cow. Maybe I should slice a steak off of you to make sure?
Avoid eating plants, they practice chemical warfare.
I read the code in question. You are correct about it being english transliterated to Greek by using the Symbol font. At first I thought it might actually be Greek but it made no sense (I'm fluent in Greek and English, I tend to read Greek charachters as Greek by default).
Actually no. What they are doing is exactly the same thing that the US did up until 1850 or so. They have decided that they need to build up their industrial base, and the best way to do that quickly is to exclude foreign competion.
Frankly given the state of our economy we need to do some of that here in the US.
What, exactly, do you find "wrong" about my point of view? The part about copying data or allowing the copying of data by others for which you do not hold the copyright to being illegal (which is "right," in the factual sense) or the part about the DMCA, DRM, et al. being a response to the blatant disrespect of the laws which make said acts illegal (which is also "right," in the factual sense)?
Copyright pertains to commercial copying despite the rantings and ravings of the RIAA. There is no law that forbids me to check out a library book and to copy it longhand for my own personal use. Prior to the DMCA, which incidently was a preemptive strike against consumers, anything I did with my copy of music, art, literature. etc., as long as I did not copy it and sell the copies, was legal. So we have established that coping per se is not the problem, The problem is copying for sale. By that standard (which was law before 1998) the DMCA and drm in general are a unprovoked, unprecedented, and agressive diminishment of the rights of the citezens of the US to enjoy the use of their art, music, and literature.
Copying for non commercial use was not before 1998 illegal and neither should it be. The DMCA and drm in general are an unprovoked and premptive attack on that right, not a response.
As I stated earlier your chronology is WRONG! Also your philosophical basis for your statements is also historicly speaking WRONG.
Allowing others to make digital copies of music, pictures, movies, books, or any other form of data for which you do not hold the copyright to is illegal.
If you had respected this from the beginning, the DMCA, et al. would have never even been conceived.
Interseting point of view. WRONG, but interseting.
I doesn't matter. The only relavent versions are the Greek texts authorised by the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. All the earlier scripts were lost until the Dead Sea scrolls were found, and those have shown a phenomonal degree of agreement with the texts translated from Greek to the Aramaic. BTW since the NT texts were meant for wide Mark is known to have been wriiten in Aramaic and then translated to Greek, but it's the only one.
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Aww, Shut Up already. An idiot pours a cup of boiling hot water into her lap and successfully sues the company that sold it to her. Did I mention it was SOLD AS BEING BOILING HOT! Dolts.
Very noble. How do you square this desire for stability with the stated desire of muslims in eastern Europe to establish Islamic states?
Up until the Kosevo war Eastern European countries did see the US as a strong ally aginst a resurgent Russia. However US support for the muslims (in a region of the world that had spent the best part of 400 years under muslim rule) killed that. Now most Eastern European countries are looking either to the EU (mostly because of Greece) or Russia, depending mostly on how many issues they have with Germany or Russia. The Islamic states of Bosnia, Albania, and Kosevo favor Turkey (which makes the rest REALLY paranoid). The US is viewed with suspicion.
Is not my planet monkey boy.
Great, now we'll get suicide bombers in Hollywood, and Girls Gone Wild will release the video.
If someone wants to start said countersuit against SCO they can count me in.
Having said all of the above, when my wife says shined, it makes my teeth grind.
Webster shined you on. Just because a usage is in the dictionary doesn't mean it's correct, It simply means that many people use it. If you don't believe me look up "aint".
Immune System.
Also mad cow disease is at least as bad for the cow. Answer, Dont' eat sick animals. Are you sure you aren't a cow. Maybe I should slice a steak off of you to make sure?
Avoid eating plants, they practice chemical warfare.
It's not paranoia. Your Aunt would be correct.
1. Identify "Them".
2. Blame "Them" for everything.
3. Get "You" to kill "Them".
4. Identify "You" as "Them".
5. Goto 1., repeat as needed to maintain and increase power.
That shined usage seems to be spreading. It drives me nuts.
Dear Eater of Grass,
When we run out of prey.
Sincerely,
Carnivore
I read the code in question. You are correct about it being english transliterated to Greek by using the Symbol font. At first I thought it might actually be Greek but it made no sense (I'm fluent in Greek and English, I tend to read Greek charachters as Greek by default).
Frankly given the state of our economy we need to do some of that here in the US.
Perfect!
INFIDEL DOG! For this you must DIE!
He's right. Quit fooling around and hire a competent electrician, unless you like cardiac arrest...
Aren't their model numbers T-1 and T-2?
Bluto Blutarsky
Copyright pertains to commercial copying despite the rantings and ravings of the RIAA. There is no law that forbids me to check out a library book and to copy it longhand for my own personal use. Prior to the DMCA, which incidently was a preemptive strike against consumers, anything I did with my copy of music, art, literature. etc., as long as I did not copy it and sell the copies, was legal. So we have established that coping per se is not the problem, The problem is copying for sale. By that standard (which was law before 1998) the DMCA and drm in general are a unprovoked, unprecedented, and agressive diminishment of the rights of the citezens of the US to enjoy the use of their art, music, and literature.
Copying for non commercial use was not before 1998 illegal and neither should it be. The DMCA and drm in general are an unprovoked and premptive attack on that right, not a response.
As I stated earlier your chronology is WRONG! Also your philosophical basis for your statements is also historicly speaking WRONG.
Interseting point of view. WRONG, but interseting.
Ne pethaki mou. Ta Ellinika ta ehounai afta.
Sts Basil the Great, John Chrisostom, Athanasisus the Great, they all spoke, read, and wrote in Greek.
I doesn't matter. The only relavent versions are the Greek texts authorised by the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. All the earlier scripts were lost until the Dead Sea scrolls were found, and those have shown a phenomonal degree of agreement with the texts translated from Greek to the Aramaic. BTW since the NT texts were meant for wide Mark is known to have been wriiten in Aramaic and then translated to Greek, but it's the only one.