A user had given a moderation of Funny (+1) to your comment, ASS?, attached to SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License. That moderation has now been undone, probably due to the user posting in the discussion after moderating in it. Your comment is currently scored Normal (1).
You? Well, it doesn't matter. My karma was allready excellent, and "Funny" doesn't count. Thanks for liking it. I'll be here all week.
Too bad, I'd like to show it to the FTC, the postal inspector and the Commonwealth's Attorney.
Show them what, his ass or the invoice?
Depends on what "ass" means.
Arse: The invoice, hopefully. They can't go after SCO blind, after all. (Too short time to learn Braile.)
Donkey: The ass should be shown to Darl. Then, on its own initiative, the ass would kick him. Then we can say: "Darl! You are such an ass, that EVEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ASS KICKS YOU!"
Anyone all *that* sure of themselves can simply get a cop, walk into SCO's headquarters, and conduct a citizen's arrest on the grounds so mentioned. Better be *really* confident there, though, eh?:)
They have not sent out the invoices, only threatened to do so. If the invoices were out, it would be a clear case. The threats might be enough, who knows?
I also would change the winner-takes-all system that most states use to put Electors in the Elecotral College. The Electors should be distributed proportionally to the number of votes in the state. This way, the chance that the most "popular" candidate looses gets lower, while the small states still get a say.
Sell him a 20-line voicemail system to make them able to answer all those calls. Also, I have some indemnification to sell him. You may enter into it as a franchise. I only demand a percentage.
Which you cannot be doing if you call a judge to complain about a ruling. Unless he's for some reason got a telephone in the courtroom.
Project image: Federal judge presiding over a court hearing with a phone at his side. Every time it rings, he picks it up and screams "ORDER!" in a shriller and shriller voice, before slamming it on the hook. Repeat after 20 seconds. "ORDER! You are in contempt!"
ROFL!
Even funnier: After this going on for a whole afternoon a man stumbles into court with a cell phone screaming into it "Can you hear me now!?". The judge screams: "YES! Now will you please stop calling!"
I'm going to file a patent on a new business model: Indemnfying and insuring people agaoinst completely impossible liablities and accidents. There are some inherent problems with this: What is impossible today might be possible somethime in the future. If I, for example, offer indemnification from all lawsuits brought by bisexual Smurfs, an alien race called "Smurfs" might be discovered in the future. One possible solution to this would be to just indemnify people from lawsuits brought by bisexual Smurfs in the Jurasic age, without the use of a time machine. The second problem is that most people won't see bisexual Smurfs as a possility. The solution to this is a massive FUD campaign about how bisexual Smurfs are terribly offended by breathing, drinking, eating, [insert something that people do every day]. This FUD will create the demand for indemnifications. All we need is a PayPal account, and a license to operate as an insurance agency. I'm going to let people utilize my patented business model for a 30% cut of gross income.
HP has to take care not to sell that indemnifiaction to SCO. That could mean that HP indemnifies SCO from SCO-related actions, i.e. anything. Hmm. Let's hope SCO doesn't read this;-) Indemnifying customers against SCO-related claims. That's like indemnifying the american people against lawsuits from the Coalition of Oppressed Smurfs. Since SCO has no basis for suing most Linux users, this indemnification is a worthless insurance. You might as well be selling insurance against damages from flying pigs that travelled through time from 1939. The chance of that happening is about as high as average Linux users being ordered by a court to pay SCO.
So, Rusty Russell is claiming that he is an idiot? I think he is lying.
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The NEW "Amiga" is an interesting beast, and shares little (save running old apps via UAE proably) with the old but the name.
And that will be mostly true untill AmigaOS 4.0 comes out. The new kernel, ExecSG, is not based on *nix/BSD. It is a re-implementation of Exec on the new PPC architecture.
Disclaimer: This is posted with my AmigaONE board, running KDE on Debian.
Cripes! I ran NetBSD on my A1200 over five years ago! I deleted NetBSD to get more room on my harddrive. Does that mean it's allive again?
Sent with AmigaONE board running Debian. (My A1200 is sitting at my parents' house. In a few weeks I'll get it here and set it up as a gateway machine. Broadband all the way, baby!)
Re:So who's buying the SCO stock the execs are sel
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So who's buying the SCO stock the execs are sellin
The short-sellers who have to cover their losses. Or the dumb-ass savings funds. Those who bought a lot of Microsoft shares at the height of the litigation.
How cool would it be if it's IBM buying most of it
What's the point of buying a worthless company? If IBM knew about any merit to SCO's case this would be over a long time ago.
IBM gets a 51% share... and completely & utterly fucks SCO over backwards, Darl included?
They are allready on the way to destruction. The only way they migh be saved would be a big settlement where SCO/Canopy paid for legal fees and libel. Or if Microsoft had a quiet word with some of the buddies who foiled the anti-trust case.
Stock up on Jolt and peanuts, get a satellite phone linkup and hunker down. Hurricane McBride is comming.
Forecast:
-- October 7th, Toronto -- October 8th, Newark -- October 9th, Boston -- October 14th, Minneapolis -- October 15th, Chicago -- October 16th, St. Louis -- October 21st, Vancouver -- October 22nd, Irvine -- October 23rd, Dallas -- October 28th, Atlanta -- October 29th, Orlando
The only thing that will slow the hurricane down might be a physical slashdotting of the events, booing, and the asking of questions too complicated to be answered by a cocaine sniffing lubber. Arrr!
It's no surprise that it's offering special deals to preserve it's market share, that's what you'd expect any business to do.
It's actually a mild shock to me. Remembering Microsoft's past actions, I would have expected them to at least put the discounts directly into the politicians' secret bank accounts.
I attended the HelsIT conference on Healthcare Informatics last week. One of the speakers was from the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine. He presented various future scenarios. Some of those scenarios involved the use of wearable computers for doctors and nurses in hospitals, including the use of PDAs and cell phones. He also talked about remote treatment of patients, such as robotic surgery, or patients putting on VR suits and receiving massage through a computer network. I immidiately thought "Of course the pr0n industry will be all over this." Two seconds later, he said "The porn industry has shown a lot of interest in this.", to the amusement of the audience.
An un-related highlight of the conference, for me, was the demonstration of the computer systems developed and used by the Kameda Medical Group.
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A user had given a moderation of Funny (+1) to your comment, ASS?, attached to SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License. That moderation has now been undone, probably due to the user posting in the discussion after moderating in it. Your comment is currently scored Normal (1).
You?
Well, it doesn't matter. My karma was allready excellent, and "Funny" doesn't count.
Thanks for liking it. I'll be here all week.
And I revoke SCO's office rental, bank loans and zoning permit. IMMIDIATELY.
Since you read, slashdot: You have been served.
Too bad, I'd like to show it to the FTC, the postal inspector and the Commonwealth's Attorney.
Show them what, his ass or the invoice?
Depends on what "ass" means.
Arse: The invoice, hopefully. They can't go after SCO blind, after all. (Too short time to learn Braile.)
Donkey: The ass should be shown to Darl. Then, on its own initiative, the ass would kick him. Then we can say: "Darl! You are such an ass, that EVEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ASS KICKS YOU!"
Anyone all *that* sure of themselves can simply get a cop, walk into SCO's headquarters, and conduct a citizen's arrest on the grounds so mentioned. Better be *really* confident there, though, eh? :)
They have not sent out the invoices, only threatened to do so. If the invoices were out, it would be a clear case. The threats might be enough, who knows?
So that's what this recall election is about.
Re:again? (Score:2, Insightful)
by downix (84795) * on 4:18 23 September 2003 (#7030423)
(http://www.pegasosppc.com/)
At least he was generous enough to include the link and not post as Anonymous Coward.
So when is this fabled Pegasos 2 comming out then? When it's done? And at a fraction of the cost? 1/2, 1/3, 7/11, 19/14?
I also would change the winner-takes-all system that most states use to put Electors in the Elecotral College.
The Electors should be distributed proportionally to the number of votes in the state. This way, the chance that the most "popular" candidate looses gets lower, while the small states still get a say.
Sell him a 20-line voicemail system to make them able to answer all those calls.
Also, I have some indemnification to sell him. You may enter into it as a franchise. I only demand a percentage.
Which you cannot be doing if you call a judge to complain about a ruling. Unless he's for some reason got a telephone in the courtroom.
Project image: Federal judge presiding over a court hearing with a phone at his side. Every time it rings, he picks it up and screams "ORDER!" in a shriller and shriller voice, before slamming it on the hook. Repeat after 20 seconds. "ORDER! You are in contempt!"
ROFL!
Even funnier: After this going on for a whole afternoon a man stumbles into court with a cell phone screaming into it "Can you hear me now!?". The judge screams: "YES! Now will you please stop calling!"
I'm going to file a patent on a new business model: Indemnfying and insuring people agaoinst completely impossible liablities and accidents.
There are some inherent problems with this: What is impossible today might be possible somethime in the future. If I, for example, offer indemnification from all lawsuits brought by bisexual Smurfs, an alien race called "Smurfs" might be discovered in the future. One possible solution to this would be to just indemnify people from lawsuits brought by bisexual Smurfs in the Jurasic age, without the use of a time machine.
The second problem is that most people won't see bisexual Smurfs as a possility. The solution to this is a massive FUD campaign about how bisexual Smurfs are terribly offended by breathing, drinking, eating, [insert something that people do every day]. This FUD will create the demand for indemnifications.
All we need is a PayPal account, and a license to operate as an insurance agency.
I'm going to let people utilize my patented business model for a 30% cut of gross income.
HP has to take care not to sell that indemnifiaction to SCO. That could mean that HP indemnifies SCO from SCO-related actions, i.e. anything. Hmm. Let's hope SCO doesn't read this ;-)
Indemnifying customers against SCO-related claims. That's like indemnifying the american people against lawsuits from the Coalition of Oppressed Smurfs.
Since SCO has no basis for suing most Linux users, this indemnification is a worthless insurance. You might as well be selling insurance against damages from flying pigs that travelled through time from 1939. The chance of that happening is about as high as average Linux users being ordered by a court to pay SCO.
This search works.
Your search for "people with a clue" near 355 S 520 W, Lindon, UT did not match any documents within 15 miles.
So, Rusty Russell is claiming that he is an idiot? I think he is lying.
The NEW "Amiga" is an interesting beast, and shares little (save running old apps via UAE proably) with the old but the name.
And that will be mostly true untill AmigaOS 4.0 comes out. The new kernel, ExecSG, is not based on *nix/BSD. It is a re-implementation of Exec on the new PPC architecture.
Disclaimer: This is posted with my AmigaONE board, running KDE on Debian.
It isn't dead until it runs BSD.
Cripes! I ran NetBSD on my A1200 over five years ago!
I deleted NetBSD to get more room on my harddrive. Does that mean it's allive again?
Sent with AmigaONE board running Debian. (My A1200 is sitting at my parents' house. In a few weeks I'll get it here and set it up as a gateway machine. Broadband all the way, baby!)
Maybe they can put those G5s to use as desktop computers after the cluster has been "retired".
http://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=verisign.co m&host=verisign.com . verisign.com&host=sitefinder.verisign.com
or
http://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=sitefinder
New Official Verisign Response
It's done!
So who's buying the SCO stock the execs are sellin
The short-sellers who have to cover their losses.
Or the dumb-ass savings funds. Those who bought a lot of Microsoft shares at the height of the litigation.
How cool would it be if it's IBM buying most of it
What's the point of buying a worthless company? If IBM knew about any merit to SCO's case this would be over a long time ago.
IBM gets a 51% share... and completely & utterly fucks SCO over backwards, Darl included?
They are allready on the way to destruction. The only way they migh be saved would be a big settlement where SCO/Canopy paid for legal fees and libel. Or if Microsoft had a quiet word with some of the buddies who foiled the anti-trust case.
Stock up on Jolt and peanuts, get a satellite phone linkup and hunker down. Hurricane McBride is comming.
Forecast:
-- October 7th, Toronto
-- October 8th, Newark
-- October 9th, Boston
-- October 14th, Minneapolis
-- October 15th, Chicago
-- October 16th, St. Louis
-- October 21st, Vancouver
-- October 22nd, Irvine
-- October 23rd, Dallas
-- October 28th, Atlanta
-- October 29th, Orlando
The only thing that will slow the hurricane down might be a physical slashdotting of the events, booing, and the asking of questions too complicated to be answered by a cocaine sniffing lubber. Arrr!
It's actually a mild shock to me. Remembering Microsoft's past actions, I would have expected them to at least put the discounts directly into the politicians' secret bank accounts.
Note to self: If buying a Microsoft product:
...and even better: It is an advert for a Free Trial. ROFL!
I attended the HelsIT conference on Healthcare Informatics last week.
One of the speakers was from the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine. He presented various future scenarios. Some of those scenarios involved the use of wearable computers for doctors and nurses in hospitals, including the use of PDAs and cell phones.
He also talked about remote treatment of patients, such as robotic surgery, or patients putting on VR suits and receiving massage through a computer network. I immidiately thought "Of course the pr0n industry will be all over this." Two seconds later, he said "The porn industry has shown a lot of interest in this.", to the amusement of the audience.
An un-related highlight of the conference, for me, was the demonstration of the computer systems developed and used by the Kameda Medical Group.
So what? It doen't have anything to do with the phyco Mc'bribe' or the actions of SCO.
Either "the Economist" or SCO seem to think it is.
More on this.