Firstly, because you can't manage to spell "retarded" correctly, but mostly because you demonstrate a gross failure to understand the issue. For one thing, many federal agencies have been subsumed into the Department of Homeland Security, including the Customs Service (which as sulli pointed out is the agency that actually investigated this incident). For another thing, either Fouquet doesn't understand that there are very important differences between patent, copyright and trademark law, or he wants you to overlook that fact. Furthermore, you failed to recognize that fact and have perpetuated the myth that there's some vast conspiracy apparently with the purpose of keeping toys out of the hands of children which means either the entire post is stupid, or you are or both.
What's most probably really going on here, is that the Customs Service is following up on a complaint that Pufferbelly Toys is selling toys that are infringing on the *trademark* rights (which loyal fans know *must* be defended zealously or lost) of Seven Towns Limited and will hopefully eventually follow up to the manufacturer. I believe the very cube itself is covered by the trademark. This is just basic police work folks, not some conspiracy to revoke your rights to waste time playing with your Rubik's Cube.
But thanks for wasting my time anyway.
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Remember, information wants to be free...
If information truly wants to be free, we need to get the UN to go in and supervise their elections.
The first step in setting up the cooling circuit involves preparation. In order to ensure that the electronics are protected in the event of a leak occurring in the future, all PC boards (for both systems) were protected by applying several layers of spray on acrylic lacquer conformal coating.
OK, sounds like a great idea. Where does one purchase spray on acrylic lacquer conformal coating?
Note: Special care must be taken to protect the areas of the board that should no be sprayed, e.g. memory slots, ATX connectors, PCI slots etc.
But wait. If you don't cover the RAM slots, what's the point of covering anything? OK, maybe if you've got a little leak and it just dribbles on the board a bit you'll get lucky and you won't lose any blue smoke. I just don't see the point, it seems a bit like wearing a radiation suit all the time to protect against The Bomb, but not wearing the hat.
This has always been the case with PCGen. Before WotC clamped down, you could download all the datafiles that had already been done with the program, after that you were stuck with either converting old datafiles by hand, making entirely new ones by hand, or hoping beyond hope that they would actually make it through the autoconverter intact. Now that they've got a legitimate deal, you can once again download all the datafiles you like and CMP won't get sued into oblivion over copyright issues.
Besides, the price for the datafiles has been quoted as being between 1 and 5 dollars. Big deal.
I've heard that GM will debut this car at this years Paris Auto Show. According to GM the real driver for development on this car is emerging economies like China. Your typical Chinese farmer lives in a house that's miles and miles off of any electrical grid. With the AUTOnomy platform, he can buy one transport that can serve as Tractor, Truck and power generation for his house when he comes home at night. Pretty cool. Of course, where is a Chinese farmer going to get a reliable source or Hydrogen??
Last year, GM acquired 24 percent of
Hydrogenics; 20 percent of Quantum Technologies, a hydrogen-storage company; and 15 percent of General Hydrogen of Vancouver [sorry, no link].
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I was in Sheetz once, and a man walked in and tried to order a sandwich. He was pressing buttons for quite some time and growing visibly more distressed, until after a while he looked over the counter and said "Can't I just talk to somebody?".
It became apparent to me after some reflection that the gentleman was illiterate.
Illiterate? The word doesn't even come close to describing how mind numbingly moronic a person has to be to not be able to use the Sheetz MTO Touch Screen Ordering System. The thing's got pictures of the food for crying out loud!
This is a vast improvement over their previous ordering system, where you had to fetch a slip of paper with the menu and a pencil, fill out your order and place it in the order bin. Notice the complete lack of interaction with the sandwich maker, and realize you can still talk to the people behind the counter if you so desire there just isn't any need to. I've seen a couple of near fistfights over people trying to slip their order to the bottom of the stack so they could get their sandwich faster.
Elwood Maneer, 46, was charged with making terrorist threats and disorderly conduct, said Philadelphia police spokesman Cpl. Jim Pauley, who would not disclose what was said. "I don't have the exact words," Pauley said. "We're just saying he made an inappropriate comment. We're not going to get into exactly what he said."
In fact, the policeman's words are obviously untrue. He says "We're just saying he made an inappropriate comment" when they are actually charging him with "making terrorist threats and disorderly conduct".
Are we seriously expected to believe that they can't tell the difference between those two things?
Of course not. But, there's a pretty major difference between filing charges and making statements to the press. The spokesman who made the above statement was obviously not at the scene, and the investigation was likely still open when he made that statement. Saying what he "said" would be irresposnible and open him and the department up to potential lawsuit, not to mention possibly tainting the potential jury pool.
All I'm saying is, there's a reference out there on the net to "some media outlets" reporting him as making that statement and it's not uncommon for something like that to get out and into the popular conciousness without it having any basis in fact. It seems pretty likely that he said something similar to what was reported, but are we sure the "tweezers" wasn't a "knife"?
Judging the reactions of the airport security based on a printed report of a small portion of what he might have said without the full context is just plain irresponsible. How certain are you he wasn't brandishing the "tweezers" and flailing his arms about while ranting on about the ridiculously tight level of uptight security schlubs? Or was the statement, as it seems just a casual offhand remark?
Now, it just so happens that I've been in a similar situation to the one the pilot was in, albeit pre-9/11. I was helping my mother-in-law get checked in and she asked why the guy at the ticket counter wanted to know if anyone else had handled her bag since she packed it, and I said something to the effect of "It's to make sure I didn't slip you a bomb." The guy took the statement fairly seriously and told me I shouldn't even be joking about such things, I acknowledged this and apologized and we continued on like civilized adults. I certainly didn't get arrested, and nothing more was made of the remark.
Somehow I think this pilot did a bit more than just toss an offhand glib remark at a security agent.
(* define "inapropriate comment"... sounds to me like he was stupid enough to a joke about terrorists in an airport. *)
Well... According to
this Article
he said ""Why are you worried about tweezers when I could crash the plane?". A perfectly legitimate question for a pilot, from my point of view.
Sure, if that is in fact, what he said. From the CNN article linked to from the one you linked:
Elwood Maneer, 46, was charged with making terrorist threats and disorderly conduct, said Philadelphia police spokesman Cpl. Jim Pauley, who would not disclose what was said.
"I don't have the exact words," Pauley said. "We're just saying he made an inappropriate comment. We're not going to get into exactly what he said."
Sure, that's something you and the attendant can agree to do, but if you offer payment with legal tender and they don't accept it you're off the hook. Just make sure you get a receipt.
Normally, when you're purchasing something in a store, you don't have a debt since you can't leave without paying without becoming a shoplifter. If you try to pay for your Slurpee® with a $100 bill, you're just not going to get a Slurpee® unless you're willing to get no change. If, however, you go to a gas station that lets you pump first, fill your tank with $10 worth, and then offer to pay with a $100 bill the cashier has 3 options.
1: Accept the bill and try to make the change. (nearly always impossible due to store cash drop policies)
2: Accept the bill on the condition that you will not be receiving the correct change. (which probably means you don't get any)
3: Refuse payment. In this case, your gas is now (beer)free.
Which is why it's so hard to find pump-first gas stations in many places.
Infogrames bought Hasbro Interactive and now has publishing rights to all present and future Hasbro electronic games. Previous agreements notwithstanding, natch.
If Bioware can't hash things out with Interplay, I'm sure they can get a deal with Infogrames.
They have removed the ability to play DnD online over the internet
Whoopeedoo. MasterTools wasn't originally conceived as a game. It was only ever supposed to be a set of tools for F2F gaming management. Just because some yahoo at WotC thought it'd be "neat" if you could play online doesn't mean it was a good idea or even something Wizards/Fluid *ever* had any legal right to do.
As far as the functionality of the program being so limited, chalk that one up to the yahoos at WotC wasting Fluid's time with feature bloat. Now they've come too far to scrap the project, but Hasbro isn't going to budget any more money for development unless and until they see this as a profitable endeavor. *IF* and only if people actually buy MT, then it'll be supported and expanded. As it is, they're way late on delivering this to the marketplace.
Had they focused on the original concept, not only would the thing be out by now, it'd be an awesome utility.
Just for argument's sake, I'm taking this in the context of a public school.
OK, let's keep it in that context for now...
The school should have responded in a manner corresponding to the offense...if the offense was by means of speech or the press, the school should have responded verbally only. The school system has freedom of speech as well, so they have the right to make comments about the students' offenses. If I walk up to someone on the street and say "f--k you!", they can say the same to me legally, but cannot legally punch me...although they may do that.
And if you walk up to someone in school and tell them you've got a shotgun in your gymbag? The administrator that overhears this is supposed to ignore it because we live in a "free country"?
In my opinion this is a violation of his first Amendment right to freedom of speach(sic).
I guess that's kind of the whole point. High school students just don't have the rights that we take for granted.
Don't like to dress like the 'good' students? Be prepared for routine hallway pat-downs and locker searches.
Don't fit in and like to keep a journal? Better leave it at home if you don't want it read.
Want to get through high school without something stupid like this happening to you? Better keep your revolutionary ideas to yourself or we'll send out the jackbooted goon squad to rough you up.
So I guess you must really dislike that english writer, William Shakespoke or something, which wrote a book some time ago, which was later filmed as "Romeo + Juliet".
Um? Hello! William Shakespeare wrote a play which was later filmed as "Romeo + Juliet" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. If Shakespeare had been born in the 20th century instead of the 16th, "Romeo and Juliet" would've been a movie to begin with. And anyone wanting to read the book would have to settle for a novelization.
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What??? Who the hell scored that insightful?
Whatever.
Have we started allowing crackheads to moderate posts?
However, Moody inflated the numbers to make Linux look bad. He added the Red Hat 1999 total of 38 to the aggregate total of 84 (which I assume would include Red Hat) to get 122 vulnerabilities. In short, he counted Red Hat twice. After doing that, he didn't mention a word about Windows' own stats - 99 for NT, 47 for 95/98. The Linux aggregate is less than NT alone.
Hell, he even goes so far as to complain that
...the NT number is inflated by BugTraq's inclusion of IE vulnerabilities, since it considers IE part of the operating system.
Didn't MS go to court over integrating IE as part of the OS?
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No, you most certainly do not speak for me.
Firstly, because you can't manage to spell "retarded" correctly, but mostly because you demonstrate a gross failure to understand the issue. For one thing, many federal agencies have been subsumed into the Department of Homeland Security, including the Customs Service (which as sulli pointed out is the agency that actually investigated this incident). For another thing, either Fouquet doesn't understand that there are very important differences between patent, copyright and trademark law, or he wants you to overlook that fact. Furthermore, you failed to recognize that fact and have perpetuated the myth that there's some vast conspiracy apparently with the purpose of keeping toys out of the hands of children which means either the entire post is stupid, or you are or both.
What's most probably really going on here, is that the Customs Service is following up on a complaint that Pufferbelly Toys is selling toys that are infringing on the *trademark* rights (which loyal fans know *must* be defended zealously or lost) of Seven Towns Limited and will hopefully eventually follow up to the manufacturer. I believe the very cube itself is covered by the trademark. This is just basic police work folks, not some conspiracy to revoke your rights to waste time playing with your Rubik's Cube.
But thanks for wasting my time anyway.
Remember, information wants to be free...
If information truly wants to be free, we need to get the UN to go in and supervise their elections.
But this is really cool.
You mean like this one?
This has always been the case with PCGen. Before WotC clamped down, you could download all the datafiles that had already been done with the program, after that you were stuck with either converting old datafiles by hand, making entirely new ones by hand, or hoping beyond hope that they would actually make it through the autoconverter intact. Now that they've got a legitimate deal, you can once again download all the datafiles you like and CMP won't get sued into oblivion over copyright issues.
Besides, the price for the datafiles has been quoted as being between 1 and 5 dollars. Big deal.
From the Wired article:
Illiterate? The word doesn't even come close to describing how mind numbingly moronic a person has to be to not be able to use the Sheetz MTO Touch Screen Ordering System. The thing's got pictures of the food for crying out loud!
This is a vast improvement over their previous ordering system, where you had to fetch a slip of paper with the menu and a pencil, fill out your order and place it in the order bin. Notice the complete lack of interaction with the sandwich maker, and realize you can still talk to the people behind the counter if you so desire there just isn't any need to. I've seen a couple of near fistfights over people trying to slip their order to the bottom of the stack so they could get their sandwich faster.
Are we seriously expected to believe that they can't tell the difference between those two things?
Of course not. But, there's a pretty major difference between filing charges and making statements to the press. The spokesman who made the above statement was obviously not at the scene, and the investigation was likely still open when he made that statement. Saying what he "said" would be irresposnible and open him and the department up to potential lawsuit, not to mention possibly tainting the potential jury pool.
All I'm saying is, there's a reference out there on the net to "some media outlets" reporting him as making that statement and it's not uncommon for something like that to get out and into the popular conciousness without it having any basis in fact. It seems pretty likely that he said something similar to what was reported, but are we sure the "tweezers" wasn't a "knife"?
Judging the reactions of the airport security based on a printed report of a small portion of what he might have said without the full context is just plain irresponsible. How certain are you he wasn't brandishing the "tweezers" and flailing his arms about while ranting on about the ridiculously tight level of uptight security schlubs? Or was the statement, as it seems just a casual offhand remark?
Now, it just so happens that I've been in a similar situation to the one the pilot was in, albeit pre-9/11. I was helping my mother-in-law get checked in and she asked why the guy at the ticket counter wanted to know if anyone else had handled her bag since she packed it, and I said something to the effect of "It's to make sure I didn't slip you a bomb." The guy took the statement fairly seriously and told me I shouldn't even be joking about such things, I acknowledged this and apologized and we continued on like civilized adults. I certainly didn't get arrested, and nothing more was made of the remark.
Somehow I think this pilot did a bit more than just toss an offhand glib remark at a security agent.
Sure, if that is in fact, what he said. From the CNN article linked to from the one you linked: Still sure that's what he actually said?
I'm sure that pun is going over more heads than you might think.
Cornflakes? Shit, for $20, I'll call him a chickenfucker.
Sure, that's something you and the attendant can agree to do, but if you offer payment with legal tender and they don't accept it you're off the hook. Just make sure you get a receipt.
Normally, when you're purchasing something in a store, you don't have a debt since you can't leave without paying without becoming a shoplifter. If you try to pay for your Slurpee® with a $100 bill, you're just not going to get a Slurpee® unless you're willing to get no change. If, however, you go to a gas station that lets you pump first, fill your tank with $10 worth, and then offer to pay with a $100 bill the cashier has 3 options.
1: Accept the bill and try to make the change. (nearly always impossible due to store cash drop policies)
2: Accept the bill on the condition that you will not be receiving the correct change. (which probably means you don't get any)
3: Refuse payment. In this case, your gas is now (beer)free.
Which is why it's so hard to find pump-first gas stations in many places.
Took the time? They're tracking Santa Claus, do you really think they didn't know where you were before you sent the email? ;-)
Because Hasbro bought Wizards, and shortly thereafter sold all of their electronic games rights (which now included the D&D titles) to Infogrames.
They why was that feature green lighted, developed and advertised as a feature???
Like I said in my previous post, some yahoo at WotC thought it'd be "neat".
Ain't you never heard of mission creep?
I am not talking about playing the computer
No! Really?
I am talking about the original stated goal of having the ability to pay DnD 3e over the net with a Human DM and Human players.
That was NEVER supposed to be what MasterTools was for. Wizards never had the rights to develop that sort of program.
Besides, there's no reason why you couldn't do 3e over the net with MT the way it was originally conceived and IRC.
If Bioware can't hash things out with Interplay, I'm sure they can get a deal with Infogrames.
They have removed the ability to play DnD online over the internet
Whoopeedoo. MasterTools wasn't originally conceived as a game. It was only ever supposed to be a set of tools for F2F gaming management. Just because some yahoo at WotC thought it'd be "neat" if you could play online doesn't mean it was a good idea or even something Wizards/Fluid *ever* had any legal right to do.
As far as the functionality of the program being so limited, chalk that one up to the yahoos at WotC wasting Fluid's time with feature bloat. Now they've come too far to scrap the project, but Hasbro isn't going to budget any more money for development unless and until they see this as a profitable endeavor. *IF* and only if people actually buy MT, then it'll be supported and expanded. As it is, they're way late on delivering this to the marketplace.
Had they focused on the original concept, not only would the thing be out by now, it'd be an awesome utility.
Just for argument's sake, I'm taking this in the context of a public school.
OK, let's keep it in that context for now...
The school should have responded in a manner corresponding to the offense...if the offense was by means of speech or the press, the school should have responded verbally only. The school system has freedom of speech as well, so they have the right to make comments about the students' offenses. If I walk up to someone on the street and say "f--k you!", they can say the same to me legally, but cannot legally punch me...although they may do that.
And if you walk up to someone in school and tell them you've got a shotgun in your gymbag? The administrator that overhears this is supposed to ignore it because we live in a "free country"?
I'd rather live in the real world.
In my opinion this is a violation of his first Amendment right to freedom of speach(sic).
I guess that's kind of the whole point. High school students just don't have the rights that we take for granted.
Don't like to dress like the 'good' students? Be prepared for routine hallway pat-downs and locker searches.
Don't fit in and like to keep a journal? Better leave it at home if you don't want it read.
Want to get through high school without something stupid like this happening to you? Better keep your revolutionary ideas to yourself or we'll send out the jackbooted goon squad to rough you up.
So I guess you must really dislike that english writer, William Shakespoke or something, which wrote a book some time ago, which was later filmed as "Romeo + Juliet".
Um? Hello! William Shakespeare wrote a play which was later filmed as "Romeo + Juliet" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. If Shakespeare had been born in the 20th century instead of the 16th, "Romeo and Juliet" would've been a movie to begin with. And anyone wanting to read the book would have to settle for a novelization.
What??? Who the hell scored that insightful?
Whatever.
Have we started allowing crackheads to moderate posts?
However, Moody inflated the numbers to make Linux look bad. He added the Red Hat 1999 total of 38 to the aggregate total of 84 (which I assume would include Red Hat) to get 122 vulnerabilities. In short, he counted Red Hat twice. After doing that, he didn't mention a word about Windows' own stats - 99 for NT, 47 for 95/98. The Linux aggregate is less than NT alone.
...the NT number is inflated by BugTraq's inclusion of IE vulnerabilities, since it considers IE part of the operating system.
Hell, he even goes so far as to complain that
Didn't MS go to court over integrating IE as part of the OS?