She'll always be remembered for the SCO battle. This doesn't mean that she needs to go on and fight this fight also. I wish she'd handed off the site to someone else rather than lock the doors but that's her decision.
When judges write their rulings -- or rather their employees write their rulings -- the document may go onto a few peoples' desks before release. The more complicated the ruling, the more this is likely as judges don't like things getting overturned. Lots of overturned on appeal looks bad, apparently. Well, it may time for judges to get their rulings to pass some elementary technical review.
This is fundamentally a political act. The trouble is, there's no scaling back. Unless something happened behind the scenes that is not generally know, this'll be perceived as an escalation.
Gotta wonder why now, that idiot at Time Magazine aside.
The thing is, Western democracies have to get used to the Memory Hole, Cryptome, Wikileakeaks and the rest. You can play whack a mole with them or deal with the fact that people from now on will treat digital information in a way that nation states may not wish they would. This'll have positive and negative consequences but it needs to treated as fact.
We forget how big some of the Cold War projects were. Nowadays, we have nuclear subs, international space stations, generations of supersonic aircraft and no-one against to use it. Back then when there was an arms race against an opponent who had some kind of budget, projects could scale up quickly.
Utterly unneeded, of course but wow, they knew how to think big in those days.
Apple, and the computing industry, was different in 1993. Apple wasn't making smartphones and iPods; Microsoft could kill small companies merely by issuing a press release implying that the features being developed by these small companies would be included in a new version of Windows NT... 'soon'; Google didn't exist, on-line digital media didn't exist apart from binary groups on a certain use-able net that we're not allowed to mention.
It is not the job of any particular work of art or entertainment to tick all of society's many well-intentioned boxes. My suggestion is to go out and create that vision of art that you want to see.
If you want to see those characters, create 'em. Say something new. Make a new world with new stories to tell.
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Omni used to be a great magazine in the 80s and gradually shifted to a "magical technology will save you" magazine. I remember seeing a headline to the effect of "Ours will be the first generation to live forever".
That magazine was one of the first grown up magazines I used to buy as a kid. That, and National Lampoon.
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Everyone remembers the famous first version of Catch-22 about requesting medical leave for psychiatric illness. 'Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' However, later in the novel when one of airmen, Dunbar, I believe, disappears when the Military Police is around, another version of Catch-22 is presented:
'They have the right to do to us anything we can't stop them from doing.'
Of course, we think of this surreal comedy as WW2 novel because that is where the story is set. However, it was actually written years after the war during the red scare period.
After the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon decided that Great Britain should be blockaded. Any country that did business with the British would be his enemy. Well, um, it was the largest seagoing power at the time. Countries HAD to do business with the British. So, Napoleon dragged his empire into a death of 1,000 cuts by getting involved in needless conflicts.
Snowdon basically has to go to China, France, Russia or someone who prefers to have an arm's length relationship with the US now. Whoever does house him may end up making a lot of political hay from this.
It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
The current management team may not be the people to monetize the company. Eventually the shareholders will hold the board's feet to the fire and they'll really start to sell every single fact about you to anyone who's willing to pay. Think Facebook has privacy problems now?
These started off as third-party extensions for System 6 (yes, I'm that old) and by system 7 were built in. And don't get me started about other Apple features which are clearly a rip off of Boomerang.
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Then this fellow will begin to say that access to energy is a good thing.
Just curious.
I'm not looking for a sideline as I don't know how to swim; or at least, there is no evidence that I know how to swim.
Will it ever reach 1.0? I need to get to my BBS!
She'll always be remembered for the SCO battle. This doesn't mean that she needs to go on and fight this fight also. I wish she'd handed off the site to someone else rather than lock the doors but that's her decision.
When judges write their rulings -- or rather their employees write their rulings -- the document may go onto a few peoples' desks before release. The more complicated the ruling, the more this is likely as judges don't like things getting overturned. Lots of overturned on appeal looks bad, apparently. Well, it may time for judges to get their rulings to pass some elementary technical review.
Weird. Who could have foreseen that?
This is fundamentally a political act. The trouble is, there's no scaling back. Unless something happened behind the scenes that is not generally know, this'll be perceived as an escalation.
Gotta wonder why now, that idiot at Time Magazine aside.
The thing is, Western democracies have to get used to the Memory Hole, Cryptome, Wikileakeaks and the rest. You can play whack a mole with them or deal with the fact that people from now on will treat digital information in a way that nation states may not wish they would. This'll have positive and negative consequences but it needs to treated as fact.
Let me laugh harder. What lawyer decided that this would be a money-maker?
Relax, Jor-El.
Who knew that PG Wodehouse was a science fiction writer!
We forget how big some of the Cold War projects were. Nowadays, we have nuclear subs, international space stations, generations of supersonic aircraft and no-one against to use it. Back then when there was an arms race against an opponent who had some kind of budget, projects could scale up quickly.
Utterly unneeded, of course but wow, they knew how to think big in those days.
Apple, and the computing industry, was different in 1993. Apple wasn't making smartphones and iPods; Microsoft could kill small companies merely by issuing a press release implying that the features being developed by these small companies would be included in a new version of Windows NT ... 'soon'; Google didn't exist, on-line digital media didn't exist apart from binary groups on a certain use-able net that we're not allowed to mention.
Time for this fellow to update his examples.
It is not the job of any particular work of art or entertainment to tick all of society's many well-intentioned boxes. My suggestion is to go out and create that vision of art that you want to see.
If you want to see those characters, create 'em. Say something new. Make a new world with new stories to tell.
Omni used to be a great magazine in the 80s and gradually shifted to a "magical technology will save you" magazine. I remember seeing a headline to the effect of "Ours will be the first generation to live forever". That magazine was one of the first grown up magazines I used to buy as a kid. That, and National Lampoon.
That is an amazing sig, sir.
True, too true.
Hi: Everyone remembers the famous first version of Catch-22 about requesting medical leave for psychiatric illness. 'Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' However, later in the novel when one of airmen, Dunbar, I believe, disappears when the Military Police is around, another version of Catch-22 is presented: 'They have the right to do to us anything we can't stop them from doing.' Of course, we think of this surreal comedy as WW2 novel because that is where the story is set. However, it was actually written years after the war during the red scare period.
After the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon decided that Great Britain should be blockaded. Any country that did business with the British would be his enemy. Well, um, it was the largest seagoing power at the time. Countries HAD to do business with the British. So, Napoleon dragged his empire into a death of 1,000 cuts by getting involved in needless conflicts. Snowdon basically has to go to China, France, Russia or someone who prefers to have an arm's length relationship with the US now. Whoever does house him may end up making a lot of political hay from this.
It is too late for the pebbles to vote. The current management team may not be the people to monetize the company. Eventually the shareholders will hold the board's feet to the fire and they'll really start to sell every single fact about you to anyone who's willing to pay. Think Facebook has privacy problems now?
Hi:
Worse--the director of marketing formatting everything using the space bar.
Oh joy.
They're in sales.
Hi:
These started off as third-party extensions for System 6 (yes, I'm that old) and by system 7 were built in. And don't get me started about other Apple features which are clearly a rip off of Boomerang.
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I am the walrus! I am the walrus.
And amazingly enought, it always did. Lazy bugger that Scotty.