Coke day? What sort of screwed up educational establishment is it that has a Coke day?
IIRC, it was a public high school in Atlanta. Coca-Cola's world headquarters are in Atlanta. It's a company town. They just live in it. k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
f I were an owner of a clothing brand I wouldn't call it very good advertising to have any random backcountry loser flaunt my logo on his bloated, distended beer belly:)
That's why so many of the perps on that show Cops are shirtless, even in Anchorage in March: the Fox-TV camera crew makes sure that no advertisers' logos are visible. They don't want to bite the hand that feeds them, even with someone else's teeth.
Gives new meaning to the concept of "fashion police".
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Not to be to picky, but under international copyright treaties, it's not necessary to file anything (or even give a copyright notice in the work) to hold a copyright.
For an unpublished work, yes. A work is covered by a de facto copyright from the moment of creation.
But once the work has been published, it needs the extra protection of a de jure copyright.
Otherwise, what's the point of having the whole published/non-published distinction (and there is one)?
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
How many of you have filled out Form SR, PA, or TX and sent your check and tape/sheet music/lyrics to the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 20559?
How many of you know that this is but one step in turning an idea into an expression that can be distributed in the marketplace?
How many of you feel that the artist should be held responsible for the excesses of the industry?
How many of you are willing to acknowledge that the greed of the labels, distributors, and retailers is more than matched by the people who want something for nothing?
Who read the article on page one of today's Boston Globe and wondered why they interviewed two programmers, a lawyer, a lobbyist, and Stallman but no musicians?
Who thinks this deserves (Score:-1, Flamebait)?
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
A couple of the items listed mention an "O Magazine Event".
Now, is that Oprah's new magazine or is it the "O" magazine that caters to the sado-masochist crowd?
Either way, I want to show up with a whip and a ball gag.
k.
MSN Project, Day 132: Anticipating the arrival of the saucers, we put on our Nikes and eat the applesauce.
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Programmers who are now in their 50's were in their 20's thirty years ago. Now think, how big was the computing industry then? How many people did it employ?
On the other hand, look how much larger the defense industry was thirty years ago and think how many BOFHen that employed.
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I'm not sure about claim 17, "The apparatus of claim 13, wherein said local host computer comprises a plurality of physical hosts, interconnected to act together as a single local host computing means." That implies some sort of load-balancing at the client. I don't know why you'd ever want to do that, but it seems like it would be an obvious thing to do if it was necessary.
Two words: Beowulf cluster.
k., who is patenting a means of conveying warm grain products into consumer apparel.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Given that the telephone company does this all the time (The number you requested is...), it's undoubtedly a recorded voice.
But it's not. Unless they also pre-recorded sneezes and coughs, too.
I've listened to these broadcasts since the early '80s, both the English- and Spanish-language stations. Definitely a human reading from a sheaf of papers.
But what was the extrinsic value of your dissertation? Could it have been bound and sold in a Barnes & Noble bookstore? Made into a major motion picture? Are there legions of bootleggers waiting to pirate your dissertation and sell it on the street?
It would be more impressive if you took a work that you cared enough about to copyright and released that into the public domain.
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
This is a powerful idea, much closer to Thomas Jefferson's visions -- he didn't believe ideas could or should be owned -- than to those of contemporary political leaders.
Thomas Jefferson had no problem owning people, though. Right, Sally?
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Think of this: Napster has been banned on many college campuses. College campuses are traditionally the place where independent music flourishes.
Hmmm. You would think so, no? Perhaps this was true back in the '80s, but these days colleges are a huge corporate-rock bastion. Except for college radio geeks, the student body has been corrupted by the cultural maggotry of Generic Lite Beer/Generic Lite Rock. Spring Break! Par-tay!
Bring me the head of Dave Matthews. On a fucking stick.
Colleges rock about as hard as nursing homes these days.
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
The problem at the lab is all the crap that was dumped on the ground during production of the first four atomic bombs (Trinity, 2 to Japan, one to the ocean bottom via the USS Indianapolis.
Huh? Fourth bomb? Ocean bottom? Not in our timeline.
INDIANAPOLIS was sunk after delivering parts of the Hiroshima weapon to Tinian. It was on its way to the Phillipines to join TF95 when I-58 torpedoed it.
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"This is not due to a flaw in a Microsoft product," he said. Instead, Culp said that users must be educated to avoid opening e-mail attachments unless they come fom a trusted source.
Now how would that help? The script propagates through the luser's address book, among other vectors.
Stupidity like this has only one reward: a slap in the face with a fish, preferably larger than a bass.
Scott Culp is the program manager for Microsoft's "security response center".
I hereby post $100 reward to the person or persons who hit Scott Culp with a fish. This bounty is doubled if the act is caught on video or film. Triple Fish Score if the act takes place in Culp's own office or during a meeting. $10 dollar bonus for a each herring inserted into an orifice.
ActiveKarma: Microsoft raises the barrier-to-entry for ISVs while lowering the barrier-to-entry for pimply SKR1PT K1DD13Z.
Hit Scott Culp with a fish!
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
This anti-corporate screed rings false coming from someone who writes for corporations. And it's nothing we haven't heard before; even Eisenhower warned us of the "military-industrial complex" in his Presidential farewell speech.
Really, Ted Kacszinski does this better than you.
"It often consists of being persistently annoying to others," he writes in his l995 book "The Unconscious Civilization," "as well as being stubborn and repetitive."
Words to live by, Jon. Words to live by.
k. The preceeding post was brought to you by ADM, makers of Soylent Green brand food products. Archer Daniels Midland, supermarket to the world.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Article I Section 8. The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
I had no idea Hunter S. Thompson helped draft the Constitution. This explains a lot.
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I've never been much of a religious guy, but recently I've an inkling for some jihad. Specifically, I would pay great sums of money to see the Church of the SubGenius battle the Church of Scientology! It would be an awesome apocalypse.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
That's why so many of the perps on that show Cops are shirtless, even in Anchorage in March: the Fox-TV camera crew makes sure that no advertisers' logos are visible. They don't want to bite the hand that feeds them, even with someone else's teeth.
Gives new meaning to the concept of "fashion police".
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
There were 10 Nike "swishes" on each shoe.
I think you mean "swooshstikas".
Coverage of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide back in 1997 featured a shitload of swooshstikas, all on the Nike-clad feet of dead people.
Just do it.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
For an unpublished work, yes. A work is covered by a de facto copyright from the moment of creation.
But once the work has been published, it needs the extra protection of a de jure copyright.
Otherwise, what's the point of having the whole published/non-published distinction (and there is one)?
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Who here holds copyrights?
How many of you have filled out Form SR, PA, or TX and sent your check and tape/sheet music/lyrics to the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 20559?
How many of you know that this is but one step in turning an idea into an expression that can be distributed in the marketplace?
How many of you feel that the artist should be held responsible for the excesses of the industry?
How many of you are willing to acknowledge that the greed of the labels, distributors, and retailers is more than matched by the people who want something for nothing?
Who read the article on page one of today's Boston Globe and wondered why they interviewed two programmers, a lawyer, a lobbyist, and Stallman but no musicians?
Who thinks this deserves (Score:-1, Flamebait)?
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
They're sending her on a speaking tour.
A couple of the items listed mention an "O Magazine Event".
Now, is that Oprah's new magazine or is it the "O" magazine that caters to the sado-masochist crowd?
Either way, I want to show up with a whip and a ball gag.
k.
MSN Project, Day 132: Anticipating the arrival of the saucers, we put on our Nikes and eat the applesauce.
On the other hand, look how much larger the defense industry was thirty years ago and think how many BOFHen that employed.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Two words: Beowulf cluster.
k., who is patenting a means of conveying warm grain products into consumer apparel.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
But it's not. Unless they also pre-recorded sneezes and coughs, too.
I've listened to these broadcasts since the early '80s, both the English- and Spanish-language stations. Definitely a human reading from a sheaf of papers.
"...dos, ocho, zero, zero, cuatro...ocho, ocho, uno, zero, dos...achoo!...excusame...dos, dos, ocho, cinco, siete..."
k.
p.s.: The Cold War may be over, but the Cobra Dane over-the-horizon radar still drones on, too.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
It's been my experience that the Internet turns geeks into suits.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Somewhere, a publicist is tearing her hair out.
A carefully crafted "rock outlaw" image is turned to ash. Lars in a suit, sitting in an office.
With bifocals, I'll bet.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
But what was the extrinsic value of your dissertation? Could it have been bound and sold in a Barnes & Noble bookstore? Made into a major motion picture? Are there legions of bootleggers waiting to pirate your dissertation and sell it on the street?
It would be more impressive if you took a work that you cared enough about to copyright and released that into the public domain.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Thomas Jefferson had no problem owning people, though. Right, Sally?
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
True democracy in Taiwan was established only in the last decade. Prior to that, the KMT's rule was as absolute as the PRC's.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I strongly suggest that a quick look at the list of committee members.
It includes one Mary Bono (R-CA), widow of Sonny Bono.
Readers who follow developments in copyright law will understand the significance.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Hmmm. You would think so, no? Perhaps this was true back in the '80s, but these days colleges are a huge corporate-rock bastion. Except for college radio geeks, the student body has been corrupted by the cultural maggotry of Generic Lite Beer/Generic Lite Rock. Spring Break! Par-tay!
Bring me the head of Dave Matthews. On a fucking stick.
Colleges rock about as hard as nursing homes these days.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Professor Alexander Abian. He passed away recently.
"VENUS must be RE-ORBITED to a NEAR EARTH-LIKE orbit to become a BORN-AGAIN EARTH!"
Abian believed TIME=MASS and that altering Earth's tilt would cure most diseases.
Compare with Archimedes Plutonium, former Dartmouth dishwasher, who insists that the universe is a Big Plutonium Atom.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Huh? Fourth bomb? Ocean bottom? Not in our timeline.
INDIANAPOLIS was sunk after delivering parts of the Hiroshima weapon to Tinian. It was on its way to the Phillipines to join TF95 when I-58 torpedoed it.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I say we dust off and nuke them from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Now how would that help? The script propagates through the luser's address book, among other vectors.
Stupidity like this has only one reward: a slap in the face with a fish, preferably larger than a bass.
Scott Culp is the program manager for Microsoft's "security response center".
I hereby post $100 reward to the person or persons who hit Scott Culp with a fish. This bounty is doubled if the act is caught on video or film. Triple Fish Score if the act takes place in Culp's own office or during a meeting. $10 dollar bonus for a each herring inserted into an orifice.
ActiveKarma: Microsoft raises the barrier-to-entry for ISVs while lowering the barrier-to-entry for pimply SKR1PT K1DD13Z.
Hit Scott Culp with a fish!
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Really, Ted Kacszinski does this better than you.
Words to live by, Jon. Words to live by.
k.
The preceeding post was brought to you by ADM, makers of Soylent Green brand food products. Archer Daniels Midland, supermarket to the world.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I had no idea Hunter S. Thompson helped draft the Constitution. This explains a lot.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
This already took place five years ago on Usenet.
It was like WWI trench warfare. Lawyers, fake and real, cancelbots, floodbots, Dave the Resurrector, OT VII and VIII, sporgery and sockpuppets...
Ask Dennis McClain-Furmanski about it sometime.
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
The answer is August 6th and August 9th 1945.
Twice != never.
You owe the Oracle 100,000 origami cranes.
k.
Did it hurt when your sense of humor was hacked away from your frontal lobe?
k., just curious.