I occasionally do cellphone transfers using a special purpose USB hub. However, I'm worried that some of these phones (one customer said his old phone was regularly exposed to metal dust: this after it caused my computer to reboot repeatedly until I yanked the USB card. gee thanks) can cause permanent damage to my equipment.
It would still hurt to lose a $130 item, but it's better than blowing the whole computer.
It seems that some of the actions of big businesses differ (in spirit) less and less from those of organized crime. The objects of their businesses may be different (telecommunications vs., say, cocaine and sports bookies), but their methods are becoming startlingly similar. Protection schemes. Price fixing. Extortion and intimidation.
And does anybody really believe that Enron witness *really* committed suicide? At a stop light? C'mon...
I showed a text adventure game to one of my cousin's kids, and he (who's 13) just didn't get it. Too much reading, not enough pictures with 3d effects and stereo sound.
Explained that the graphics are the best possible: the power of the printed word to evoke mood and setting in the human brain.
"You're standing in an old white farmhouse. The long dark hall leads east and smells of stale mouse droppings. A piano leans drunkenly by the near wall. On the piano is a brass oil lamp and a box of matches. You could continue down the hall but you might get eaten by a grue."
The investors that have been pumping money into SCO... This deserves an investigation.
As much as I hope that Darl ends up by eating the gun he's been carrying, there so far is no law against making stupid and/or evil investment decisions. (The prison system is overloaded as it is.)
Certainly, the stockholders of the companies doing this investing, will require some 'splaining to do, Lucy. Best I can see is some sort of charge of conspiracy to commit willful abuse and manipulation of the court system by filing nuisance cases.
Even if it got that far, they'd settle it by giving everybody $7.50, a copy of SCO UNIX, and a coupon to Long John Silvers. (This is how business says "Fuck You!" to the public.) Nobody important would get the orange jumpsuit perpwalk.
The key to creating heavy elements is a large neutron flux from the supernova. Nuclei pick up lots of neutrons quickly...
IANAP, but I do seem to remember from physics/chemistry that the determining factor in element number is the number of protons, not the number of neutrons. Picking up more neutrons will change the isotope, not the element. (For instance, deuterium is just an isotope of hydrogen with an added neutron.)
many of the people originally shipped to Australia were convicted of offences which would be considered barely criminal today, like stealing a loaf of bread (or copying a CD?)
Of course, back then CD's were carefully carved out of wood by trained artisans. And the CD players were steam powered.
If they were to try something like this, it seems the most cost effective way to do it would be at the point of sale, like a sales tax. Auditing businesses after the fact would just be too labor intensive, for questionable financial benefit.
What they would do about enforcing this for online sales of software, I have no idea. Send threatening letters to thousands of software companies?
And this is not even going near the issue of software ownership. They better be careful, or else somebody might get it in their head to challenge sales taxes on software which is not actually owned.
the employer tried to "lighten up" the place with all kinds of stupid shtick and encouraging the employees to get into the act.
I remember this ep of The Twilight Zone where this kid literally has "looks that kill." He can make anybody die who displeases him, just by looking at him. What makes him unhappy? Other people who don't look happy, or raise their voice to him (oh, they'd be so dead).
The whole show, everybody around him puts on a false act of being happy and joyous, all the time sweating that they'll do something to piss the kid off.
Employees would be self-conscious at involving themselves in the activities: do they respectfully decline and risk appearing anti-social, or engage in the solicited behavior, and risk making some politically incorrect faux pas that gets them fired? (Such as dressing as a ghost at an NAACP Halloween party.)
anything that disagrees with their conclusions are simply ignored or swept under the rug
Sounds like some religions. I suppose until a whole group of conspiracy theorists can be given a trip to the moon, the doubt will always remain.
And even then, they might claim that their memories of the trip were false, or that just because they went, doesn't prove that Armstrong, etc. ever went.
Until everybody knows somebody who actually lives on the moon, will the conspiracy theorists be relegated to the status of flat earthers.
Even if this new keyboard were way better than the old one, and I were willing to learn it, I know that I would still have to deal with old-style keyboards. And I'm not so sure my fingers can transition from old-style to new-style and back again as circumstances required. Pretty sure it would mess me up just proper.
If the President broke the law, he needs to be kicked out, as an example to future Presidents who would do so, and to preserve democracy. Unfortunately, this means that Cheney would step up, and we'd be one (shaky) heart beat from having the SOTH as President.
Does anybody think Cheney's ticker could take ~2 years of being President?
Huh? Who needs the DMCA to go after these guys? This was illegal in 1985. Saying they were arrested for modding Xboxes and pirating software, is like saying some guy was arrested for owning a Jimi Hendrix CD (and a pound of marijuana).
And I've just gotten the strangest feeling of deja vu, like I've seen this story somewhere else before...
Heck with the bulge, check out the size of his FEET!
Why would Superman even need shoes? Is he afraid of getting a nail in his foot? Broken glass? A sandspur? He can stop a speeding bullet with his chest, but he needs orthopedic shoes? Am I asking too many questions?
And what's stopping you from dying after you are 21?
Sorry, but that last statement was meant to be sarcastic. I thought the ironic tone of the preceding was enough to signal this, thus dispensing with the need for <sarcasm> tags.
Yes, drinking can result in death no matter the age.
it's not the corporation that's corrupt and evil, it's the people at the top of the corporations
I see little value in that distinction. For all intents and purposes, the executives ARE the corporation. They are responsible for what goes on. Much like the captain of a ship is responsible for the misdeeds of the lowest-ranked sailor. (Of course, executives work under the influence of the shareholders, but when the shit comes down, the executives go to jail, not the shareholders.)
I want somebody perp-walked. If the RIAA thinks someone should go to jail over song lyrics, then fine, send some of these higher-ups to jail. (Some pimple-faced teen hacker, doing the same thing to Sony, would get no less.) And real jail, not some Martha Stewart summer camp.
Three to Five hard labor would be good, but even 30 days in the pokie would send a strong message.
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...the newspapers to be wrapped in fish. Different rules in bizarro world.
Is that anything like brickifying an iMac? Don't want the iMac sucking mud.
2) Execute all the imbeciles who buy from them.
That's a great solution for the population explosion too. Oughta leave us with a population comparable to that of West Elbonia, Kansas.
So basicly, never mind? Nothing to see here, move along?
It would still hurt to lose a $130 item, but it's better than blowing the whole computer.
It seems that some of the actions of big businesses differ (in spirit) less and less from those of organized crime. The objects of their businesses may be different (telecommunications vs., say, cocaine and sports bookies), but their methods are becoming startlingly similar. Protection schemes. Price fixing. Extortion and intimidation.
And does anybody really believe that Enron witness *really* committed suicide? At a stop light? C'mon...
That cliche makes no sense at all. Why HAVE the cake, unless you CAN eat it?
I showed a text adventure game to one of my cousin's kids, and he (who's 13) just didn't get it. Too much reading, not enough pictures with 3d effects and stereo sound.
Explained that the graphics are the best possible: the power of the printed word to evoke mood and setting in the human brain.
"You're standing in an old white farmhouse. The long dark hall leads east and smells of stale mouse droppings. A piano leans drunkenly by the near wall. On the piano is a brass oil lamp and a box of matches. You could continue down the hall but you might get eaten by a grue."
As much as I hope that Darl ends up by eating the gun he's been carrying, there so far is no law against making stupid and/or evil investment decisions. (The prison system is overloaded as it is.)
Certainly, the stockholders of the companies doing this investing, will require some 'splaining to do, Lucy. Best I can see is some sort of charge of conspiracy to commit willful abuse and manipulation of the court system by filing nuisance cases.
Even if it got that far, they'd settle it by giving everybody $7.50, a copy of SCO UNIX, and a coupon to Long John Silvers. (This is how business says "Fuck You!" to the public.) Nobody important would get the orange jumpsuit perpwalk.
Lady Justice has a rip in her blindfold.
IANAP, but I do seem to remember from physics/chemistry that the determining factor in element number is the number of protons, not the number of neutrons. Picking up more neutrons will change the isotope, not the element. (For instance, deuterium is just an isotope of hydrogen with an added neutron.)
So death by (forty) thousand small claims courts? I like it!
OK, I'll bite. Is the starter in your car important? You only use it briefly (2-3 seconds), then you're motoring on down the road.
Just try doing without one, you'll see how important it is.
(I agree, though, VMware rocks.)
Of course, back then CD's were carefully carved out of wood by trained artisans. And the CD players were steam powered.
What they would do about enforcing this for online sales of software, I have no idea. Send threatening letters to thousands of software companies?
And this is not even going near the issue of software ownership. They better be careful, or else somebody might get it in their head to challenge sales taxes on software which is not actually owned.
I remember this ep of The Twilight Zone where this kid literally has "looks that kill." He can make anybody die who displeases him, just by looking at him. What makes him unhappy? Other people who don't look happy, or raise their voice to him (oh, they'd be so dead).
The whole show, everybody around him puts on a false act of being happy and joyous, all the time sweating that they'll do something to piss the kid off.
Employees would be self-conscious at involving themselves in the activities: do they respectfully decline and risk appearing anti-social, or engage in the solicited behavior, and risk making some politically incorrect faux pas that gets them fired? (Such as dressing as a ghost at an NAACP Halloween party.)
George Bush, Hitler, and Jesus walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this? Some kind of joke?"
(What 2 kinds of zealots do you mean? Wouldn't there be 3?)
Sounds like some religions. I suppose until a whole group of conspiracy theorists can be given a trip to the moon, the doubt will always remain.
And even then, they might claim that their memories of the trip were false, or that just because they went, doesn't prove that Armstrong, etc. ever went.
Until everybody knows somebody who actually lives on the moon, will the conspiracy theorists be relegated to the status of flat earthers.
Even if this new keyboard were way better than the old one, and I were willing to learn it, I know that I would still have to deal with old-style keyboards. And I'm not so sure my fingers can transition from old-style to new-style and back again as circumstances required. Pretty sure it would mess me up just proper.
Does anybody think Cheney's ticker could take ~2 years of being President?
Huh? Who needs the DMCA to go after these guys? This was illegal in 1985. Saying they were arrested for modding Xboxes and pirating software, is like saying some guy was arrested for owning a Jimi Hendrix CD (and a pound of marijuana).
And I've just gotten the strangest feeling of deja vu, like I've seen this story somewhere else before...
Why would Superman even need shoes? Is he afraid of getting a nail in his foot? Broken glass? A sandspur? He can stop a speeding bullet with his chest, but he needs orthopedic shoes? Am I asking too many questions?
Sorry, but that last statement was meant to be sarcastic. I thought the ironic tone of the preceding was enough to signal this, thus dispensing with the need for <sarcasm> tags.
Yes, drinking can result in death no matter the age.
Well, that's because if you drink before you are 21, you might, uh, die. Just not for your country.
Anytime after 21, it's perfectly safe...
I see little value in that distinction. For all intents and purposes, the executives ARE the corporation. They are responsible for what goes on. Much like the captain of a ship is responsible for the misdeeds of the lowest-ranked sailor. (Of course, executives work under the influence of the shareholders, but when the shit comes down, the executives go to jail, not the shareholders.)
I want somebody perp-walked. If the RIAA thinks someone should go to jail over song lyrics, then fine, send some of these higher-ups to jail. (Some pimple-faced teen hacker, doing the same thing to Sony, would get no less.) And real jail, not some Martha Stewart summer camp.
Three to Five hard labor would be good, but even 30 days in the pokie would send a strong message.