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Well, on the happy hacker keyboard, there isn't a CAPSLOCK analogy to the function keys. There IS however a chording one. That is, you hold the Fn key and hit 1 for F1, 2 for F2, etc.
Usenet: Making ACs everywhere appear mature.
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As for the ruling itself, I don't know enough about the case to comment. However, it would appear based on old posts that both the plaintiff and the defendent need lives in the worst way, along with about a dozen others there. My first impression is that this is a restraining order, but I'd have liked to have seen it placed on both of them - assuming of course that there weren't such things as anonymous news gateways, other dialup accounts with different ISPs, etc etc
That aside, I don't see this as being terribly different from any other open, unmoderated group I've followed. Whatever happened to killfiles anyhow? They're the only things that ever made usenet even remotely readable by simply reducing the volume of posts in some busy groups.
Perhaps if you're going to complain about someone else's spelling troubles, you should be extra careful to make your own post error free. It's 'sentence.'
Oh ya, and regarding mortality rates, I forgot that bit of info. http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/health.htm The columns, left to right are - life expectancy for men, for women, and the infant mortality (per 1000 births) for 1995 - 2000.
You've got me... I'm curious how people who aren't pro-gun are automatically zealots. All I mentioned were a number of topics that seem to set off fires, and how they're not generally RIGHTS by definition without the requisite RESPONSIBILTIES that go along with them.
I'm not an American, and am neither pro- nor anti- gun on the face of it. I'm anti-stupidity, and sadly there's a lot of stupid irresponsible people on the pro gun side that scare the hell outta me. There's also irresponsible and stupid drivers too, and they scare me as much if not more - people don't tend to wave guns around while stupid so much as they wave flying masses of steel and plastic around.
Anyhow... all the point I was attempting to make was that the arguement about how free you are is kinda silly without the ability to take responsibility for actions.
"The McCaughey family in Iowa was showered with gifts, from diapers to a new home, for their septuplets."
With freedom comes an often over-looked secondary aspect. That of responsibility.
Yes, you have the freedom to have 18 children, however, if you excercise said freedom, you have the responsibility of caring for them properly.
Of course, with an estimated 6 billion people in the world, I begin to question the "freedom" of being able to procreate ourselves into extinction. Primarily since I find that the responsibility that comes with raising a child includes doing what you can to make their life better. Having to fight 17 siblings for everything, including your parents' love.....
This isn't an America-centric world, no matter what they're teaching you in high school or in Hollywood's ultra patriotic propaganda. There's the rest of the world to consider, and you can't use the excuse "well, in the third world they're having 12 children each" - infant mortality means few of these kids live to puberty.
The US has twisted the meanings of Right and Freedom. Child raising, welfare, guns, abortion, capital punishment, broken legal system.
Actually I was just thinking what this means to me.... I generally us my CD burner for backup purposes or for grabbing those handfull of songs off of EPs and the sampler CDs on magazines like CMJ. I rip the things for my own use alone. I don't make discs for friends, I don't give away albums, etc.
What this tax seems to do in my eyes is create a market. I never would have thought of copying an audio CD and handing it out to my friends before, but maybe I'll start doing that if this tax goes in.
Treat me like a pirate, and maybe I'll start acting like one.
While I don't currently buy my groceries online I do get a good chunk of them packed and delivered. Specifically things that I rarely buy otherwise at the store - vegetables. This way I don't have to visit the store as often.
I find it incredibly convenient. I leave a cheque in their delivery box from last week, and they replace the empty box with a fresh one. There's another local service that I've been thinking of trying that does a larger selection of things other than produce.
I'm pretty satisfied, though sometimes you get items you may not have picked yourself... mushy lettuce, etc.
...is that I've just sent off my account deposit to E*trade this morning.
I've been meaning to do this eventually to self-manage mutuals, maybe buy some small lots of stock, etc. This is just the thing that tipped those proverbial scales.
I think of it partly as 'vanity stock' - even if I have to wait until it opens to public trading I will buy some stock just 'cuz.
Of note to Canadians - don't fall for the E*trade Canada line - they're not the same and they don't do IPO or commodities. I nearly went the wrong way there.
It seemed like a rather fair analysis, though not as in-depth as it could have been. I suppose that it was aimed at the mainstream user anyway so that's fine.
I'm not sure where the reviewers found problems with pcmcia card services though. I know that while my laptop that Win95/98/NT all had problems with card services, I was able to get surprisngly good results when I installed linux there.
I suppose hotswapping may be an issue, but when you run with the same cards in there all the time as I do, I don't hit that wall.
With this thing, you'll fly constantly. No rush hour jams that eat up gas. And no WAITING! If you calculate your TIME at $20 per hour, that will add up QUICK!
It'd be fast and easy and convenient, etc, yes. While you're the only one with one of these things. Once you have a decent market saturation, the skies would become unsafe (as would sidewalks below... all that flaming rubble).
That father turns around to tell his kids to shut up or he'll pop the canopy right here. He doesn't see the other vehicle merging . Blam.
Late for work, flying over any speed limits while trying to put your tie on, shave, change the CD and talk on your cellular (hands free units are for wimps) all while juggling your fresh McDonalds' coffee. Spill coffee and take out a string of cars going the opposite direction.
I think that the only way to do this would be to have a central "Flight Authority" that drives everyone... Your average person isn't smart enough or dextrous enough to drive a car in the city, let alone FLY. Two extra directions to think about, and whole new types of turns, pitches, etc.
I'm really not sure where the racial links are coming from here:
"The high school massacre in America does indeed jump class lines- and fascination jumps gender lines- but it's the whitest, boyest crime ever invented"
What makes a crime a "boyish" crime, or "white, or "black" or "geek" for that matter?
Perhaps I'm supposed to think "black" when I hear of a drive by, or of "white" when I hear of a school shooting as the author seems to suggest. Yes, I'm aware of the treatment given some 'Driving While Black,' but what does it matter the color of ones' skin, of their clothes, of their eyes, or where they live? Wrong is wrong, not a pait by numbers.
"Voices From the Hellmouth," named in honor of that great allegory of (white) high school angst, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I just thought this was a silly comment, mostly because I mentally continued the sentenve as "...unlike the great story of (black) teen angst, Moesha."
Actually the intent was for the sake of comparison, not advocacy. In my books all of the things I mentioned are forms of piracy.
MS tends to play the anti-pirate side of things really well, often filling trade show booths with 'RULegit' displays rather than information about product. However in cases such as the Sun / MS Java one, MS KNOWS it's wrong, but feels it should be able to get away with it.
In a sense MS is the worst of pirates as they steal code, ideas, entire companies, all while playing the anti piracy spin.
Hypocrisy - a game that's fun for the whole family. Also known as 'Do what we say, not what we do'
Using the new PIII Official Big Brother Serial Number that seems to scare so many people that forget NICs have unique MAC addresses that could have been used all along for tracking purposes.
Throw MS into the mix who has used MAC addresses in their tracking methods, and introduce them both to the RIAA.
The only trouble is how do you force all the free/shareware/GPL existing encoders to do this? YOu can't. Therefore they'd likely have to add something proprietary which would make it non-mp3
Even though the MS spin team will bring on the "Freedom To Innovate' storyline on this one, the important part of the article is this:
Judge Whyte's preliminary ruling supported Sun's position that several of Microsoft's Java-enabled products, including Windows 98 and the Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser, infringe Sun's copyrights
MS should be more concerned about how this appears to the public at large. It's okay for MS to violate copyrights but it's not okay for anyone else to violate THEIR copyrights. Even in smaller more subtle ways.
MS will prosecute someone who gives a copy of BOB(tm) to a friend or someone who uses a DOS disk from one machine to test another machine. Or someone who uses the same license of Office at home and at work. All the way up to the large pirates that ship thousands of CDs.
But of course they play by another rulebook entirely that says that while they have the rights to prosecute, they hold those rights exclusively. I often wonder what colour the sky is in their little world.
I keep hearing that people are stuck with Netscape or Lynx. HotJava has a newer version out that's not a fraction of the speed-impaired pig that HJ1 was.
I've been using HJ at work now to access a number of NS-crashing java applets - though I'm starting to believe that ALL applets will crash NS.
HJ 3.0 is nice enough for those applets, and for general browsing. It's at http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/ and runs with the blackdown 1.17 jre or jdk.
Also stumbled across http://www.sun.com/software/linux/ while I was looking for the link above.
IE is part of the OS. Windows IS IE, and IE IS Windows.
This way MS can further inflate their Windows Installed Base statistics. Not only did that Macintosh/Solaris/etc user install IE, but thev've also "upgraded" from MacOS/Solaris to Windows.
There is one for emacs as well, but it's a little bit larger than your average coffee cup. Actually the name of it is 'the emacs portable hot tub quick reference manual.' It seats eight people comfortably.
Turning on the bubbles requires a long sequence of keystrokes though, and the 'emacs hot tub quick reference manual manual' is sold seperately.
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I spent way too many weekends playing AD&D and numerous other systems for years from 8th grade through college. In all that time, with likely a hundred people I'd played with, people were pretty darn stable.
Of all of these people, I can recall one guy who took the games WAY too seriously. He had basic problems with reality, competition, and anger management. Nothing that could be caused by AD&D, Doom, TV, etc, but you could see it as a symptom of the real problems he had. If it wasn't AD&D that caused him to hit walls, it would have been Monopoly or something else.
The unstable are... UNPREDICTABLE and in order to ensure that they don't lose it, you'd have to remove all stimuli just in case. MMMmmmmmmmm boring for the rest of us.
When used in conjunction with the Pentium III numbering scheme, they can offer you easy and reliable support before you need it. They'll be able to track how much porn you're viewing online and such.
If AOL started making CPUs... well that's another story entirely.
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Well, on the happy hacker keyboard, there isn't a CAPSLOCK analogy to the function keys. There IS however a chording one. That is, you hold the Fn key and hit 1 for F1, 2 for F2, etc.
You mean they HAVEN'T already?
That aside, I don't see this as being terribly different from any other open, unmoderated group I've followed. Whatever happened to killfiles anyhow? They're the only things that ever made usenet even remotely readable by simply reducing the volume of posts in some busy groups.
Extending on your suggestion that corporations be given the rights of individuals and be treated as such.
Given the number of other companies that Microsoft has bought and pillaged - would that make them guilty of owning slaves or of being a serial killer?
Perhaps if you're going to complain about someone else's spelling troubles, you should be extra careful to make your own post error free. It's 'sentence.'
I'm not an American, and am neither pro- nor anti- gun on the face of it. I'm anti-stupidity, and sadly there's a lot of stupid irresponsible people on the pro gun side that scare the hell outta me. There's also irresponsible and stupid drivers too, and they scare me as much if not more - people don't tend to wave guns around while stupid so much as they wave flying masses of steel and plastic around.
Anyhow... all the point I was attempting to make was that the arguement about how free you are is kinda silly without the ability to take responsibility for actions.
Hmmm... I recall something about attacking the arguement and not the person behind it. Ie, 'your idea is lame' not 'YOU are lame'.
And people look all hurt and angry when they're accused of being 'slashdot whiners.'
With freedom comes an often over-looked secondary aspect. That of responsibility.
Yes, you have the freedom to have 18 children, however, if you excercise said freedom, you have the responsibility of caring for them properly.
Of course, with an estimated 6 billion people in the world, I begin to question the "freedom" of being able to procreate ourselves into extinction. Primarily since I find that the responsibility that comes with raising a child includes doing what you can to make their life better. Having to fight 17 siblings for everything, including your parents' love.....
This isn't an America-centric world, no matter what they're teaching you in high school or in Hollywood's ultra patriotic propaganda. There's the rest of the world to consider, and you can't use the excuse "well, in the third world they're having 12 children each" - infant mortality means few of these kids live to puberty.
The US has twisted the meanings of Right and Freedom. Child raising, welfare, guns, abortion, capital punishment, broken legal system.
So this is enlightened society.
What this tax seems to do in my eyes is create a market. I never would have thought of copying an audio CD and handing it out to my friends before, but maybe I'll start doing that if this tax goes in.
Treat me like a pirate, and maybe I'll start acting like one.
I find it incredibly convenient. I leave a cheque in their delivery box from last week, and they replace the empty box with a fresh one. There's another local service that I've been thinking of trying that does a larger selection of things other than produce.
I'm pretty satisfied, though sometimes you get items you may not have picked yourself... mushy lettuce, etc.
If a notary will attest to something on this stuff, they'd likely do Etch-A-Sketch notarization too. Maybe notarize notebook displays.
So much for that idea. IPO open to US Residents only. Mutter mutter.
I've been meaning to do this eventually to self-manage mutuals, maybe buy some small lots of stock, etc. This is just the thing that tipped those proverbial scales.
I think of it partly as 'vanity stock' - even if I have to wait until it opens to public trading I will buy some stock just 'cuz.
Of note to Canadians - don't fall for the E*trade Canada line - they're not the same and they don't do IPO or commodities. I nearly went the wrong way there.
I'm not sure where the reviewers found problems with pcmcia card services though. I know that while my laptop that Win95/98/NT all had problems with card services, I was able to get surprisngly good results when I installed linux there.
I suppose hotswapping may be an issue, but when you run with the same cards in there all the time as I do, I don't hit that wall.
That father turns around to tell his kids to shut up or he'll pop the canopy right here. He doesn't see the other vehicle merging . Blam.
Late for work, flying over any speed limits while trying to put your tie on, shave, change the CD and talk on your cellular (hands free units are for wimps) all while juggling your fresh McDonalds' coffee. Spill coffee and take out a string of cars going the opposite direction.
I think that the only way to do this would be to have a central "Flight Authority" that drives everyone... Your average person isn't smart enough or dextrous enough to drive a car in the city, let alone FLY. Two extra directions to think about, and whole new types of turns, pitches, etc.
Perhaps I'm supposed to think "black" when I hear of a drive by, or of "white" when I hear of a school shooting as the author seems to suggest. Yes, I'm aware of the treatment given some 'Driving While Black,' but what does it matter the color of ones' skin, of their clothes, of their eyes, or where they live? Wrong is wrong, not a pait by numbers.
I just thought this was a silly comment, mostly because I mentally continued the sentenve as "...unlike the great story of (black) teen angst, Moesha."MS tends to play the anti-pirate side of things really well, often filling trade show booths with 'RULegit' displays rather than information about product. However in cases such as the Sun / MS Java one, MS KNOWS it's wrong, but feels it should be able to get away with it.
In a sense MS is the worst of pirates as they steal code, ideas, entire companies, all while playing the anti piracy spin.
Hypocrisy - a game that's fun for the whole family. Also known as 'Do what we say, not what we do'
Throw MS into the mix who has used MAC addresses in their tracking methods, and introduce them both to the RIAA.
The only trouble is how do you force all the free/shareware/GPL existing encoders to do this? YOu can't. Therefore they'd likely have to add something proprietary which would make it non-mp3
MS will prosecute someone who gives a copy of BOB(tm) to a friend or someone who uses a DOS disk from one machine to test another machine. Or someone who uses the same license of Office at home and at work. All the way up to the large pirates that ship thousands of CDs.
But of course they play by another rulebook entirely that says that while they have the rights to prosecute, they hold those rights exclusively. I often wonder what colour the sky is in their little world.
I've been using HJ at work now to access a number of NS-crashing java applets - though I'm starting to believe that ALL applets will crash NS.
HJ 3.0 is nice enough for those applets, and for general browsing. It's at http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/ and runs with the blackdown 1.17 jre or jdk.
Also stumbled across http://www.sun.com/software/linux/ while I was looking for the link above.
This way MS can further inflate their Windows Installed Base statistics. Not only did that Macintosh/Solaris/etc user install IE, but thev've also "upgraded" from MacOS/Solaris to Windows.
There is one for emacs as well, but it's a little bit larger than your average coffee cup. Actually the name of it is 'the emacs portable hot tub quick reference manual.' It seats eight people comfortably.
Turning on the bubbles requires a long sequence of keystrokes though, and the 'emacs hot tub quick reference manual manual' is sold seperately.
Of all of these people, I can recall one guy who took the games WAY too seriously. He had basic problems with reality, competition, and anger management. Nothing that could be caused by AD&D, Doom, TV, etc, but you could see it as a symptom of the real problems he had. If it wasn't AD&D that caused him to hit walls, it would have been Monopoly or something else.
The unstable are... UNPREDICTABLE and in order to ensure that they don't lose it, you'd have to remove all stimuli just in case. MMMmmmmmmmm boring for the rest of us.
When used in conjunction with the Pentium III numbering scheme, they can offer you easy and reliable support before you need it. They'll be able to track how much porn you're viewing online and such.
If AOL started making CPUs... well that's another story entirely.