Yeah, but I think that they fail to see the economics in it. How many people would be willing to pay X dollars for the product. If a product is priced at $400, I am not going to buy it. But those that in the market for a good photosystem may be willing to pay the money. But those that are want to use it, but it is not priced at what they are willing to pay, make for a cse in piracy. That is why Microsoft has the student edition of many products. At my school many of my friend own legit copies of M$ office because they sell it to us for $60. If companies actually produced a product and sold it at market equilibrium then there would be less piracy. Same for music and movies. Let the market decide how much your product is worth instead of engaging in price fixing.
You laugh, but that is what the anti-gun lobby tried a few years ago. The tactic was to hold the gun makers liable for the product -- the argument was that the gun groups were liable for creating a product that has a primary function of killing. Where the argument failed was that the anti-gun groups were attempting to hold liable the gun manufacturers for the actions of the "end-user." An interesting argument that was propigated was that the design and the nature of the product aided the end-users in the design to kill. The gun groups used, as an argument, that if they are held liable for a product that works, then so should car manufacters. The analogy was that holding Glock guilty for shooting John would be like holding Ford guilty for Sue intentionally running down Bill. In this case what is happening is an attempt for producers to be held liable for the end-use of products that they have no controll over. The difference here is that it is the first time that the actions of an end-user can make the producer liable. Even though Hatch says that it won't affect the Sony-Betamax decision, it will. How could it not? The suit that I would love to see under the Induce bill is for for someone to sue Ford, Wal-mart, Dell, an ISP, and the Power Company. After all, Jane needed to go to Wal-mart in her car to get the CD's so she could put them on the web. And since Dell put a CD-Rom in the computer which requires power, and the ISP connection to use the P2P program. Afterall, they all should know that the use of their products can be used to infringe copyrights. Maybe it is an oversimplification of the arguments, but the bill is way too broad, and could be easily abused.
David Boise -- you know I think that I would have a little more sympathy for the guy, but as soon as I read who the laywer is, he lost my support. Although he is pretty high profile. A little research has revealed that he has had his fingers involved in the following:
Microsoft Anti-trust (for Government)
Bush v. Gore (for Gore)
SCO v. everyone (for SCO)
Napster (for Napster)
These are some pretty high profile cases, but you'll notice taht he lost two of the major ones, and looks like he is going to lose another w/ SCO. Maybe with all the controversial cases the guy is taking (like Bush v. Gore, and the SCO cases) maybe we'll see the guy go away, or at least charged with malpractice.
This is potentially off topic, however, since we are seeing a lot of David Boise in other areas, it might explain why we aren't seeing him too much in the SCO suit. Just with his choice of mercenary, it makes you wonder about the legitimacy of this guys case.
Something that would be interesting is to calculate the down time of home PC's and compare that to the down time of corparate PC's. One would hope that Corparate PC would have a longer up time. However, I know for a fact, at least in my case, that I keep my home PC (both my Windows and FreeBSD box, although my FBSD box has had an incredable uptime of about 8 months) running better. Even though I have the ability to make sure that my work PC is running top notch, I just don't have the time at work to make sure that it runs top notch. There seems to be a delicate balance between keeping the computer running just enough to get my work done and having a top notch, well optimized system. I guess since I am not an IT worker I can not justify having a pimped-out, well optimized computer. Nonetheless, comparing uptimes of home and work PC's would be absolutley entertaining.
Well, I am a full-time retail manager working in a plant nursery while taking full-time IS classes. Yeah, I am not planning on staying in the nursery business.
Something that is interesting with the whole Microsoft FUD campaign is that my work choose a Win 2003 Server over Linux/FreeBSD. I work as a manager, but I also am a fulltime student. Since my major is IS they inquired about my opinion. I told them I thought a Linux or FreeBSD system would be the way to go. Well, the IT company that contract convinced them to go with a Win 2003 Server. What has amazed me is that the server has crashed nearly once every two weeks and is down for fours to days when it does crash. In my apartment I am running a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server with FTP, Mail handling, Samba, etc., and it has been stable. The server is doing essentially simular tasks as the retail enviroment. However, the FreeBSD machine has yet to crash. I guess my point is that even IF Linux is more expensive to adopt, how much more stable is it? You don't hear of reports stating that MS is more stable. In my opinion if it is 20% more, but provides 90% more stability then which one cost more. Afterall, in a retail enviroment if the computers being down cost the company $1,000 an hour (and typically they do), then MS is more expensive. What I want to see is a report detailing the average cost of a downed MS machine and then a downed Linux box and compare down times. Then tell me which one is cheaper. Because in my opinion, a stable system is worth 1000X the cost of an instable system.
Although some functionality is nice, these watches seem geared towards people who just use cells to talk. I have played with SMS, but personally I find it annoying and an invasion of my privacy. In the last two weeks I have got Porn and "Find out dirty secrets about your Friends" text messages. I bought a phone so that I could get a hold of people when I wanted to. And the thing has proved its value. But at the same time I haven't used my "vision enabled" crap. No need to. The thing that I have wanted for a long time is a phone which I could wear on my wrist. Then I wouldn't beat the thing to death. However, one thing that I think would be great would be to have cell phones with 4 megapixel cameras in them. That would kick some serious ace.
I can see it now, on the first day of class. "Okay Class, your whole grade for the semester is to write an operating system from scratch." Some how I see some Harvard or Yale or Berkley professor offering a class where the whole goal is to write an operating system kernel, just to prove AdTI wrong.
But the article was funny. I can't wait to see the relationship between the bunny and the Minix.
Also M$...the machine I'm using is Windows 2000 is version 5.00.2195. Also the version of Corel Word Perfect on this machine is 9.0.883. (It's an Academic Machine, not my Home Machines)
I am amused. When I say the headline I just about died laughing. The sad part is that most people that have a Netgear router aren't going to update the firmware, and they probably don't even care or understand the issues involved. Further, what about all those units that are on the shelf somewhere? The problem is that Netgear has admitted now that they are not interested in security and they are not offering a secured unit. I was amused when I installed one for a friend -- she had bought the unit. No user name, just a password. I am thinking that IEEE or ANSI or whoever should adopt a standard for baseline security for routers. That way even an idiot that wants to have an open WIFI device won't have to worry about some Wardriver taking over his device. Well, all I can say is that I am happy that I was not the executive that made the Superman call.
At the risk of sounding like a complete SW Freek, he does have the force....Now is force persuarde a light or dark side power, or can both use the power? Or are the light and dark powers only the things of video games? Whats the likeleyhood that he used the force in his diabolical plot to overthrow the senate?
You Forgot the most important part:
At the bottom of the press release:
Evil Criminal Type is a leading provider of mayham and criminal malficense in 60 communities and 4 nations. Wanted in over 20 states, with 120 outstanding warrents, and having escaped Texas' death row, Evil Criminal Type has unique solutions for the criminal world. Evil Criminal Type has developed new methods to assist the average criminal in nefarious plots.
I agree on the point that you raised about Ask Slashdot being pretty pointless. I guess it makes sense to have a section, but to post it on the main page is getting pretty annoying, especially with pointless questions about your data and death and other topics which end up on Ask Slashdot. In fact, by the very definition, it is offtopic. Or if you prefer, it is not interesting. According to the/. FAQ
* Your story just might not be interesting!
This last one requires a little explanation: if you submit a story, and we don't select it because we think it's not particularly interesting, we're not making a judgment about you as a human being. Deciding the interest level of a story is a very subjective thing, and we have to take into account not only the intrinsic interest of the story itself, but what else is happening that day. On a day when lots of things are happening, we reject some very good stories. But on a day when nothing interesting is happening, we may post something not really as cool.
The bottom line is that we have to select stories with an eye towards whatever is going to make Slashdot be what it is for that particular day. (If you want a slightly fuller explanation of this idea, read about The Omelette.)
Anyhow, my point is that/. is turning from a geek news forum into a Ask Slashdot forum. Over the past several days, I have noticed that there is more and more ASk Slashdot quesitons, and it is annoying - why? Becasue stupid questions get asked and end up on the page about topics that are not really relevant to the "Omelette." Too bad we can't moderate the editors down for posting offtopic stories.
I guess today nothing interesting was happening since we ended up with two Ask/. questions.
Granted, a lot of groups do get caught up in the hedging of the pharisees. But I think the main problem is in the fact that few churches teach the doctrinal basis for such prohibitions. The fact of the matter is there are doctrinal issues as to the sanctity of marriage, sex, etc., but most churches don't teach it. Rather, they simply preach, "Because God said so." Now, that is a valid reason, but a failure to keep the commandaments or to observe a teaching is related to a systemic problem of misunderstanding some doctrinal point. Every time I have ever seen someone doing something that is contrary to what the Good Book says, it can be traced down to some doctrinal point that they misunderstand (except outright rebellion). If people understood the doctrinal issues behind sex, then I seriously doubt many people would be off whoring around. If people understood the teachings on the Passion then there would be far less hatred.
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The main problem that I see with this idea is church is molding to cultural ideas. Although the concept of reaching out to people via a forum in which it would be easily acceptable is good, at the same time the whole idea of leaving the 'world' (before any trolls jump on this idea, please take the time to look at the Christian concept of the world) to worship is lost. In a virtual enviroment, people are not themselves, they are free to act and to take on personas that are actually opposite to the way they act in real life. The other aspect that is lost in this idea is fellowship and worshipping with others. At least these are my personal objections. I just don't understand how this will serve any usefull religious purpouse. Outreach is fine. Outreach into virtual worlds doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm just too tradional.
My Logitech speakers have blue leds. All I have to say is that I want to shoot the person that put them in the design. Sure the speakers are great, but it is distracting and it actually hurts my eyes. I had to put tape over the blue led just so I could scan around my desk without hurting my eyes. Just like another poster said, the blue led does do a really good job at lighting my bed room. I would have rather not had a led than a piercing blue one.
I work at a plant nursery as the Hard Goods Manager and part of my job is dealing with chemicals, like Round-up (glufosinate (sp?)) and grass. I recently had a discussion with a turf grass company that has developed through natural selection grass that is Round-up resistant. The idea is that the production of grass that is resistant to the number one weed killer in the nation would allow for people to control noixious weeds, like crabgrass, goosegrass, foxtail, nutsedge, quakegrass, etc., with out having to spend money on expensive and specialized chemicals. Also, with a Round-up resistant grasses it would eliminate the need for MSMA (which is monosodium methal-arsenate, aka an arsenic product) and others which are extemely toxic to the enviroment to control turf problems.
However, if the Oregon Dept. of Ag., says no, then the project is over. Most of the grass in this country is grown in Oregon and Western Idaho. Premuim grasses carry a "blue" or "gold" label that bears the State's approval of the seed. Golf courses use the highest and premium grades of grass that are not available to the public, and consequently will not use the same grass that you will find on the shelfs of your local Home Depot. Gulf courses will not use seed unless it has been certified by a Dept. of Ag.
Also, Bentgrass is considered a weed for home-owners. Most homeowners cannot afford a bentgrass lawn. The care is meticulious. A special lawn mower has to be used (the blades are like scissors, instead of the standard home-owner lawn mower that spins.) Additionally the grass requires an amazing amount of fertilizing. So the fear of this getting out of control is overstated. The only way this would get to seed would be for a course to defunct, or for some home-owner who forks out the money to let it go to pot. With the cost of bentgrass running at a modest $4-6 a pound, it is nearly twice the cost of Blue grasses, and three times more than the Turf-type tall fescues (of which you can have a golf course grade lawn by using premium seed). In other words, only millionaires could afford to have this on their lawn.
I worked for Toys R Us for three years during high school. As employees we routinely called it Slaves R Us. The funny thing about this article is that the bosses freely told us they would shave time off our checks in heart beat. Usually the threat was associated with standing around and talking. So if we were caught standing around, then they would readily shave ten minutes off of our pay. In fact, whenever you weren't "working" or they accussed you of not working then TRU would shave ten minutes, no matter how long you had been talking. So if you just stopped to chat for ten seconds, they would shave ten minutes. If you were chatting and the boss saw you and one minute later he walked by, you lost twenty minutes. Yeah, it was pretty annoying. Had I known that such a thing was illegal, I would have had some serious issues with it. Heck, I would have been tempted to get a GPS tag and keep it on me -- one that could record my location over a period of time. Then I would log it. It would make for a lot of fun in Small Claim's court -- because I don't believe that TRU would show up to pay you $5,000 when you sue for damages and back pay.
Yeah, but if you have read the Groklaw accounts, you'll notice that they have trouble even sending compitent council to court. Heck, Darl's own brother showed up for court one day. Now, where was Boise (or whatever his name is) on that day -- heck, even a junior associate from his firm would have been nice.
You know, McBride and Sontag ought to just cash in their chips and then join up with one of the political campaigns. I mean, with the PR spin that they can put on Linux, they would do a great job on political issues. Imagine Bill Clinton, with McBride as the press secratary.
Press: "How would you explain the stain on Monica's dress?"
McBride: "We're sorry, we cannot talk about the alleged stain. It contains propritory 'code,' and will be revealled in the Ken Starr report."
Press: "What about the allegations of the cigar?"
McBride: "Again, we cannot talk about the alleged cigar. The 'cigar' is a propritory 'development method' of the President."
The only way that it would work would be for a NGO to be formed. But honestly, I think that most Americans and Europeans would be more comfortable if the ICANN powers were turned over to NATO than to the UN. We're talking politics, and even though most of us/.ers are ideologs, we still need to recogonize the importance of politics. The US is not going to let the internet out of our hands. Not with out protecting the interests of the US. Most likely the future of the internet is going to be decided not by the UN, but by a consortuim of internet nations in treaty negotiations. Whether or not the UN takes over the internet will not solve the issues surrounding the internet. All the issues, such as a spam, porn, fraud, et al., will have to be resolved via treaties anyway. You might as well form a treaty organization that is devoted solely to the internet with teeth.
The next question: how many people actually understand the term legitimacy? (In the poli sci realm it is defined as the "Legitimation refers to the process by which power is not only institutionalized but more importantly is given moral grounding. Legitimacy (or authority) is what is accorded to such a stable distribution of power when it is considered valid." (From Oxfords Reference Online). The fact is just because the US citizenry may not consider the UN legitimate and the rest of the world considers it legit, does not mean that it is any more legit for the United States. To claim that the UN is legit because the rest of the world claims it is, would be like arguing that Isreal's rule of Palestine is legit just because most of Ireal says it is. The point is that legitimacy changes from demographic to demographic. What one nation may consider legit does not lend itself to force a legitimacy stand on another. And just because the US considers ICANN a legit insitution does not may it any more legit in the world.
Well, I had to produced this semster a 143 page paper. When you have to check and recheck the stupid thing and turn it in on a deadline, you'll understand why I would need a grammer checker. Besides, I am not oppposed to using the best tool for the job. In my case of writing a massive tome, Word, with its spell checker beat OOo hands down. And just for your information, I used OOo on my FreeBSD box extensively in the production of the paper.
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Yeah, but I think that they fail to see the economics in it. How many people would be willing to pay X dollars for the product. If a product is priced at $400, I am not going to buy it. But those that in the market for a good photosystem may be willing to pay the money. But those that are want to use it, but it is not priced at what they are willing to pay, make for a cse in piracy. That is why Microsoft has the student edition of many products. At my school many of my friend own legit copies of M$ office because they sell it to us for $60. If companies actually produced a product and sold it at market equilibrium then there would be less piracy. Same for music and movies. Let the market decide how much your product is worth instead of engaging in price fixing.
You laugh, but that is what the anti-gun lobby tried a few years ago. The tactic was to hold the gun makers liable for the product -- the argument was that the gun groups were liable for creating a product that has a primary function of killing. Where the argument failed was that the anti-gun groups were attempting to hold liable the gun manufacturers for the actions of the "end-user." An interesting argument that was propigated was that the design and the nature of the product aided the end-users in the design to kill. The gun groups used, as an argument, that if they are held liable for a product that works, then so should car manufacters. The analogy was that holding Glock guilty for shooting John would be like holding Ford guilty for Sue intentionally running down Bill. In this case what is happening is an attempt for producers to be held liable for the end-use of products that they have no controll over. The difference here is that it is the first time that the actions of an end-user can make the producer liable. Even though Hatch says that it won't affect the Sony-Betamax decision, it will. How could it not? The suit that I would love to see under the Induce bill is for for someone to sue Ford, Wal-mart, Dell, an ISP, and the Power Company. After all, Jane needed to go to Wal-mart in her car to get the CD's so she could put them on the web. And since Dell put a CD-Rom in the computer which requires power, and the ISP connection to use the P2P program. Afterall, they all should know that the use of their products can be used to infringe copyrights. Maybe it is an oversimplification of the arguments, but the bill is way too broad, and could be easily abused.
Microsoft Anti-trust (for Government)
Bush v. Gore (for Gore)
SCO v. everyone (for SCO)
Napster (for Napster)
These are some pretty high profile cases, but you'll notice taht he lost two of the major ones, and looks like he is going to lose another w/ SCO. Maybe with all the controversial cases the guy is taking (like Bush v. Gore, and the SCO cases) maybe we'll see the guy go away, or at least charged with malpractice.
This is potentially off topic, however, since we are seeing a lot of David Boise in other areas, it might explain why we aren't seeing him too much in the SCO suit. Just with his choice of mercenary, it makes you wonder about the legitimacy of this guys case.
Something that would be interesting is to calculate the down time of home PC's and compare that to the down time of corparate PC's. One would hope that Corparate PC would have a longer up time. However, I know for a fact, at least in my case, that I keep my home PC (both my Windows and FreeBSD box, although my FBSD box has had an incredable uptime of about 8 months) running better. Even though I have the ability to make sure that my work PC is running top notch, I just don't have the time at work to make sure that it runs top notch. There seems to be a delicate balance between keeping the computer running just enough to get my work done and having a top notch, well optimized system. I guess since I am not an IT worker I can not justify having a pimped-out, well optimized computer. Nonetheless, comparing uptimes of home and work PC's would be absolutley entertaining.
Well, I am a full-time retail manager working in a plant nursery while taking full-time IS classes. Yeah, I am not planning on staying in the nursery business.
Something that is interesting with the whole Microsoft FUD campaign is that my work choose a Win 2003 Server over Linux/FreeBSD. I work as a manager, but I also am a fulltime student. Since my major is IS they inquired about my opinion. I told them I thought a Linux or FreeBSD system would be the way to go. Well, the IT company that contract convinced them to go with a Win 2003 Server. What has amazed me is that the server has crashed nearly once every two weeks and is down for fours to days when it does crash. In my apartment I am running a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server with FTP, Mail handling, Samba, etc., and it has been stable. The server is doing essentially simular tasks as the retail enviroment. However, the FreeBSD machine has yet to crash. I guess my point is that even IF Linux is more expensive to adopt, how much more stable is it? You don't hear of reports stating that MS is more stable. In my opinion if it is 20% more, but provides 90% more stability then which one cost more. Afterall, in a retail enviroment if the computers being down cost the company $1,000 an hour (and typically they do), then MS is more expensive. What I want to see is a report detailing the average cost of a downed MS machine and then a downed Linux box and compare down times. Then tell me which one is cheaper. Because in my opinion, a stable system is worth 1000X the cost of an instable system.
Although some functionality is nice, these watches seem geared towards people who just use cells to talk. I have played with SMS, but personally I find it annoying and an invasion of my privacy. In the last two weeks I have got Porn and "Find out dirty secrets about your Friends" text messages. I bought a phone so that I could get a hold of people when I wanted to. And the thing has proved its value. But at the same time I haven't used my "vision enabled" crap. No need to. The thing that I have wanted for a long time is a phone which I could wear on my wrist. Then I wouldn't beat the thing to death. However, one thing that I think would be great would be to have cell phones with 4 megapixel cameras in them. That would kick some serious ace.
the BOFH and his method of problem solving? Would an employee that provides creative solutions to everyday problems annoy you?
But the article was funny. I can't wait to see the relationship between the bunny and the Minix.
Also M$...the machine I'm using is Windows 2000 is version 5.00.2195. Also the version of Corel Word Perfect on this machine is 9.0.883. (It's an Academic Machine, not my Home Machines)
I am amused. When I say the headline I just about died laughing. The sad part is that most people that have a Netgear router aren't going to update the firmware, and they probably don't even care or understand the issues involved. Further, what about all those units that are on the shelf somewhere? The problem is that Netgear has admitted now that they are not interested in security and they are not offering a secured unit. I was amused when I installed one for a friend -- she had bought the unit. No user name, just a password. I am thinking that IEEE or ANSI or whoever should adopt a standard for baseline security for routers. That way even an idiot that wants to have an open WIFI device won't have to worry about some Wardriver taking over his device. Well, all I can say is that I am happy that I was not the executive that made the Superman call.
And the academic Darwin Award goes to.... He should have been thrown out for stupid logic alone.
At the risk of sounding like a complete SW Freek, he does have the force....Now is force persuarde a light or dark side power, or can both use the power? Or are the light and dark powers only the things of video games? Whats the likeleyhood that he used the force in his diabolical plot to overthrow the senate?
You Forgot the most important part: At the bottom of the press release: Evil Criminal Type is a leading provider of mayham and criminal malficense in 60 communities and 4 nations. Wanted in over 20 states, with 120 outstanding warrents, and having escaped Texas' death row, Evil Criminal Type has unique solutions for the criminal world. Evil Criminal Type has developed new methods to assist the average criminal in nefarious plots.
Anyhow, my point is that /. is turning from a geek news forum into a Ask Slashdot forum. Over the past several days, I have noticed that there is more and more ASk Slashdot quesitons, and it is annoying - why? Becasue stupid questions get asked and end up on the page about topics that are not really relevant to the "Omelette." Too bad we can't moderate the editors down for posting offtopic stories.
I guess today nothing interesting was happening since we ended up with two Ask /. questions.
Granted, a lot of groups do get caught up in the hedging of the pharisees. But I think the main problem is in the fact that few churches teach the doctrinal basis for such prohibitions. The fact of the matter is there are doctrinal issues as to the sanctity of marriage, sex, etc., but most churches don't teach it. Rather, they simply preach, "Because God said so." Now, that is a valid reason, but a failure to keep the commandaments or to observe a teaching is related to a systemic problem of misunderstanding some doctrinal point. Every time I have ever seen someone doing something that is contrary to what the Good Book says, it can be traced down to some doctrinal point that they misunderstand (except outright rebellion). If people understood the doctrinal issues behind sex, then I seriously doubt many people would be off whoring around. If people understood the teachings on the Passion then there would be far less hatred.
The main problem that I see with this idea is church is molding to cultural ideas. Although the concept of reaching out to people via a forum in which it would be easily acceptable is good, at the same time the whole idea of leaving the 'world' (before any trolls jump on this idea, please take the time to look at the Christian concept of the world) to worship is lost. In a virtual enviroment, people are not themselves, they are free to act and to take on personas that are actually opposite to the way they act in real life. The other aspect that is lost in this idea is fellowship and worshipping with others. At least these are my personal objections. I just don't understand how this will serve any usefull religious purpouse. Outreach is fine. Outreach into virtual worlds doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm just too tradional.
My Logitech speakers have blue leds. All I have to say is that I want to shoot the person that put them in the design. Sure the speakers are great, but it is distracting and it actually hurts my eyes. I had to put tape over the blue led just so I could scan around my desk without hurting my eyes. Just like another poster said, the blue led does do a really good job at lighting my bed room. I would have rather not had a led than a piercing blue one.
I work at a plant nursery as the Hard Goods Manager and part of my job is dealing with chemicals, like Round-up (glufosinate (sp?)) and grass. I recently had a discussion with a turf grass company that has developed through natural selection grass that is Round-up resistant. The idea is that the production of grass that is resistant to the number one weed killer in the nation would allow for people to control noixious weeds, like crabgrass, goosegrass, foxtail, nutsedge, quakegrass, etc., with out having to spend money on expensive and specialized chemicals. Also, with a Round-up resistant grasses it would eliminate the need for MSMA (which is monosodium methal-arsenate, aka an arsenic product) and others which are extemely toxic to the enviroment to control turf problems.
However, if the Oregon Dept. of Ag., says no, then the project is over. Most of the grass in this country is grown in Oregon and Western Idaho. Premuim grasses carry a "blue" or "gold" label that bears the State's approval of the seed. Golf courses use the highest and premium grades of grass that are not available to the public, and consequently will not use the same grass that you will find on the shelfs of your local Home Depot. Gulf courses will not use seed unless it has been certified by a Dept. of Ag.
Also, Bentgrass is considered a weed for home-owners. Most homeowners cannot afford a bentgrass lawn. The care is meticulious. A special lawn mower has to be used (the blades are like scissors, instead of the standard home-owner lawn mower that spins.) Additionally the grass requires an amazing amount of fertilizing. So the fear of this getting out of control is overstated. The only way this would get to seed would be for a course to defunct, or for some home-owner who forks out the money to let it go to pot. With the cost of bentgrass running at a modest $4-6 a pound, it is nearly twice the cost of Blue grasses, and three times more than the Turf-type tall fescues (of which you can have a golf course grade lawn by using premium seed). In other words, only millionaires could afford to have this on their lawn.
I worked for Toys R Us for three years during high school. As employees we routinely called it Slaves R Us. The funny thing about this article is that the bosses freely told us they would shave time off our checks in heart beat. Usually the threat was associated with standing around and talking. So if we were caught standing around, then they would readily shave ten minutes off of our pay. In fact, whenever you weren't "working" or they accussed you of not working then TRU would shave ten minutes, no matter how long you had been talking. So if you just stopped to chat for ten seconds, they would shave ten minutes. If you were chatting and the boss saw you and one minute later he walked by, you lost twenty minutes. Yeah, it was pretty annoying. Had I known that such a thing was illegal, I would have had some serious issues with it. Heck, I would have been tempted to get a GPS tag and keep it on me -- one that could record my location over a period of time. Then I would log it. It would make for a lot of fun in Small Claim's court -- because I don't believe that TRU would show up to pay you $5,000 when you sue for damages and back pay.
Or crap when it catches you flushing the toilet (or lou[sp?] for our British friends)
You know, McBride and Sontag ought to just cash in their chips and then join up with one of the political campaigns. I mean, with the PR spin that they can put on Linux, they would do a great job on political issues. Imagine Bill Clinton, with McBride as the press secratary.
Press: "How would you explain the stain on Monica's dress?"
McBride: "We're sorry, we cannot talk about the alleged stain. It contains propritory 'code,' and will be revealled in the Ken Starr report."
Press: "What about the allegations of the cigar?"
McBride: "Again, we cannot talk about the alleged cigar. The 'cigar' is a propritory 'development method' of the President."
The next question: how many people actually understand the term legitimacy? (In the poli sci realm it is defined as the "Legitimation refers to the process by which power is not only institutionalized but more importantly is given moral grounding. Legitimacy (or authority) is what is accorded to such a stable distribution of power when it is considered valid." (From Oxfords Reference Online). The fact is just because the US citizenry may not consider the UN legitimate and the rest of the world considers it legit, does not mean that it is any more legit for the United States. To claim that the UN is legit because the rest of the world claims it is, would be like arguing that Isreal's rule of Palestine is legit just because most of Ireal says it is. The point is that legitimacy changes from demographic to demographic. What one nation may consider legit does not lend itself to force a legitimacy stand on another. And just because the US considers ICANN a legit insitution does not may it any more legit in the world.
Well, I had to produced this semster a 143 page paper. When you have to check and recheck the stupid thing and turn it in on a deadline, you'll understand why I would need a grammer checker. Besides, I am not oppposed to using the best tool for the job. In my case of writing a massive tome, Word, with its spell checker beat OOo hands down. And just for your information, I used OOo on my FreeBSD box extensively in the production of the paper.
Well, I was refering to Revelations. However, the reference to the Screwtape letters is clever.