I forget, which party is the one that runs un-democratic caucuses during their primaries?
I think both parties had caucuses. People who went to the Republican caucuses in an array of states (Nevada, Montana,...) weren't allowed to vote? Damn conservative bias in the media, they didn't cover that in my neck of the woods.
This should be a surprise to no one. Obviously, the framers of the constitution thought this, and thus we have the Electoral College for presidential elections.
The question is: Is there an excuse for not being informed, or should we punish people (take away voting rights) for those who aren't?
Carpool? Public Transportation?
Unless you live WAY out in the sticks, chances are pretty good that you can work something out...especially as a grad student.
Maybe public transportation will finally get some support in the US.
This is definitely a problem that someone needs to think about. Driving my loaded down HCH through the hills of PA last year, I could only go about 30 MPH because the steep long rolling hills sucked up the battery charge and didn't give enough time to recharge. Maybe they'll start installing ski tows on this kind of road...
If the media gets their way, we can have VP Hillary to keep the fun going. A nice round 36-44 years of Bushes and Clintons would be super fun. By the time President Hillary leaves office, Chelsea could be eligible!
I agree. Although there was only one part in the camera work that got me (running off of the bridge).
Huck (the guy behind the camera) was great! He's even better in Carpoolers. The ATM and swapping episodes were phenomenal.
If time is relative and perception is relative, what meaning does "time" really have?
What if they performed these tests with a giant screen flashing the numbers and the person traveling near the speed of light?
Sellers can set the price so that they're not losing that much. It's more likely that the price (+ tax) would be set to a point where rounding up is necessary.
However, retailers seem to like to be able to claim that something is less than a certain round number (like 9.99 10), so maybe they would actually round down in as many cases as they would round it up, but that's the only way it would happen.
There's nothing I hate more than the stupid animations that pop up in the middle of a show to advertise other shows, or just tell you what network you're watching. On MTV2 they've gone so far as to cover the MIDDLE of the screen with animation in the middle of a show @#$@$!$#!
I definitely don't trust anyone to put non-obtrusive ads overlayed in the corner of a show. Pop-up ads and flash overlays are REALLY annoying.
Damn those tree-huggers, taking over anything. Has anyone else seen that big Richard Pryor PETA billboard on Second Ave in New York...and now this? What does information transfer have to do with animal ethics?;)
Once all of the kinks are worked out, it'll be a snap.
In fact, even getting DirectFB working on a Gentoo system was amazingly easy as long as your kernel Frame Buffer is working. I got it up and running with GDM and Gnome without any major bumps.
I was a "charter member" of the AT&T GSM service after being a TDMA member for 2 years. Man it sucked. I couldn't wait for the year contract to end. Everywhere I went in the country (mostly the NE and NW) the service was spotty at best. Keep clear of AT&T GSM.
SCO's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery
Friday, October 24 2003 @ 07:11 PM EDT
Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery
October 23, 2003
The SCO Group ("SCO") submits this memorandum of law in opposition to International Business Machines Corporation's ("IBM") Motion to Compel Discovery.
INTRODUCTION
It has been said that things have both an ostensible and a real reason. Ostensibly, IBM filed its motion to Compel to force SCO to answer interrogatories and produce documents because it had failed to do so. The reality, however, is that SCO not only timely responded to IBM's discovery requests, it then engaged in weeks of lengthy conversation, correspondence, and emails to resolve and clarify discovery issues and ultimately agreed to supplement its responses. But supplemental responses were not all that IBM was seeking. If that were the case, IBM would have waited until today, when supplemental responses were promised and were in fact served. No, what IBM really desired was a forum within which it could construct its stilted and inaccurate mischaracterization of SCO's claims, behind which it could hide its own failure and refusal to provide meaningful discovery responses. As detailed below, IBM's motion is without merit and should be denied.
At its core, IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery asks for answers to interrogatories that fit its own mischaracterized theories of the case, rather than answers that relate to the actual allegations made by SCO in the Complaint. IBM's baseless arguments begin as an effort to smear SCO and end with a newly created justification of why IBM has failed to provide any meaningful discovery responses itself. While IBM's improper litigation tactics are discussed in detail below, the Motion to Compel can be denied on the simple basis that SCO has actually provided supplemental answers, pursuant to earlier agreement, and this motion is therefore moot.
THE LAWSUIT
Contrary to IBM's efforts to recast SCO's Amended Complaint as one limited to trade secret violations, the Amended Complaint contains six counts--the first three counts are for IBM's numerous breaches of licensing agreements. The remaining counts, including Count VI for misappropriation of trade secrets, flow from this transgression and are ancillary to the breach of the license agreements. Thus, notwithstanding IBM's mischaracterization, trade secret misappropriation is not the gravaman of the Complaint (IBM Mem., p. 2), but it is merely one count that recasts one aspect of the injuries caused by IBM's breach. These injuries would exist even in the absence of any trade secret misappropriation.
In its Amended Complaint, SCO alleged that IBM and Sequent (now part of IBM and herinafter collectively referred to as IBM) were licensees of UNIX System V source code ("UNIX"). As part of this license grant, IBM was given certain rights and also agreed to certain restrictions upon its use of UNIX. IBM agreed, for example, that UNIX code and methods would be solely for its own internal business purposes ( 2.01), [1] that UNIX code and methods would not be used for others and by others ( 2.05), and that IBM would maintain the code and methods related thereto in confidence ( 7.06). Similarly, IBM further agreed it would not sell or otherwise dispose of UNIX in whole or in part ( 7.10). Significantly, IBM also agreed that any modifications or derivative works of UNIX prepared by IBM, would be treated by IBM "as part of the original Software Product." ( 2.01). Thus, all of the foregoing restrictions on UNIX also apply equally to any modifications or derivative works created by IBM. [2]
Pursuant to these restrictions, IBM agreed that AIX, IBM's "own version of UNIX" (IBM Mem., p.2 n.1), and Dynix, Sequent's version of UNIX, would be used solely for internal business purposes, would be maintained in confidence, and would not be disposed of in whole or in part. IBM, contrary to these clear and unambiguous limitations on its use of UNIX, incl
We cannot have a situation in which companies fear they may be next to suffer computer attacks if they take a business or legal position that angers the Open Source community. Until these illegal attacks are brought under control, enterprise customers and mainstream society will become increasingly alienated from anyone associated with this type of behavior.
Wait a minute. Isn't that what they're doing to the Open Source Community. WE cannot have a situation in which the Open Source community must suffer FUD because of some cockeyed legal position some company takes. We'll bring our "illegal attacks" under control when they stop theirs.
Rot in hell Darl.
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How can science not take kindly to being anthropomorphized without anthropomorphizing it?
"Favour"? You seem to have already seceded.
I forget, which party is the one that runs un-democratic caucuses during their primaries?
I think both parties had caucuses. People who went to the Republican caucuses in an array of states (Nevada, Montana, ...) weren't allowed to vote? Damn conservative bias in the media, they didn't cover that in my neck of the woods.
This should be a surprise to no one. Obviously, the framers of the constitution thought this, and thus we have the Electoral College for presidential elections. The question is: Is there an excuse for not being informed, or should we punish people (take away voting rights) for those who aren't?
Carpool? Public Transportation? Unless you live WAY out in the sticks, chances are pretty good that you can work something out...especially as a grad student. Maybe public transportation will finally get some support in the US.
This is definitely a problem that someone needs to think about. Driving my loaded down HCH through the hills of PA last year, I could only go about 30 MPH because the steep long rolling hills sucked up the battery charge and didn't give enough time to recharge. Maybe they'll start installing ski tows on this kind of road...
If the media gets their way, we can have VP Hillary to keep the fun going. A nice round 36-44 years of Bushes and Clintons would be super fun. By the time President Hillary leaves office, Chelsea could be eligible!
I agree. Although there was only one part in the camera work that got me (running off of the bridge). Huck (the guy behind the camera) was great! He's even better in Carpoolers. The ATM and swapping episodes were phenomenal.
If time is relative and perception is relative, what meaning does "time" really have? What if they performed these tests with a giant screen flashing the numbers and the person traveling near the speed of light?
Sellers can set the price so that they're not losing that much. It's more likely that the price (+ tax) would be set to a point where rounding up is necessary.
However, retailers seem to like to be able to claim that something is less than a certain round number (like 9.99 10), so maybe they would actually round down in as many cases as they would round it up, but that's the only way it would happen.
There's nothing I hate more than the stupid animations that pop up in the middle of a show to advertise other shows, or just tell you what network you're watching. On MTV2 they've gone so far as to cover the MIDDLE of the screen with animation in the middle of a show @#$@$!$#! I definitely don't trust anyone to put non-obtrusive ads overlayed in the corner of a show. Pop-up ads and flash overlays are REALLY annoying.
Is it true that in Soviet Russia, Myths test the MythBusters?
Damn those tree-huggers, taking over anything. Has anyone else seen that big Richard Pryor PETA billboard on Second Ave in New York...and now this? What does information transfer have to do with animal ethics? ;)
In fact, even getting DirectFB working on a Gentoo system was amazingly easy as long as your kernel Frame Buffer is working. I got it up and running with GDM and Gnome without any major bumps.
I for one welcome our new Viacom overlords!
I was a "charter member" of the AT&T GSM service after being a TDMA member for 2 years. Man it sucked. I couldn't wait for the year contract to end. Everywhere I went in the country (mostly the NE and NW) the service was spotty at best. Keep clear of AT&T GSM.
SCO's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery Friday, October 24 2003 @ 07:11 PM EDT
Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery October 23, 2003
The SCO Group ("SCO") submits this memorandum of law in opposition to International Business Machines Corporation's ("IBM") Motion to Compel Discovery.
INTRODUCTION
It has been said that things have both an ostensible and a real reason. Ostensibly, IBM filed its motion to Compel to force SCO to answer interrogatories and produce documents because it had failed to do so. The reality, however, is that SCO not only timely responded to IBM's discovery requests, it then engaged in weeks of lengthy conversation, correspondence, and emails to resolve and clarify discovery issues and ultimately agreed to supplement its responses. But supplemental responses were not all that IBM was seeking. If that were the case, IBM would have waited until today, when supplemental responses were promised and were in fact served. No, what IBM really desired was a forum within which it could construct its stilted and inaccurate mischaracterization of SCO's claims, behind which it could hide its own failure and refusal to provide meaningful discovery responses. As detailed below, IBM's motion is without merit and should be denied.
At its core, IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery asks for answers to interrogatories that fit its own mischaracterized theories of the case, rather than answers that relate to the actual allegations made by SCO in the Complaint. IBM's baseless arguments begin as an effort to smear SCO and end with a newly created justification of why IBM has failed to provide any meaningful discovery responses itself. While IBM's improper litigation tactics are discussed in detail below, the Motion to Compel can be denied on the simple basis that SCO has actually provided supplemental answers, pursuant to earlier agreement, and this motion is therefore moot.
THE LAWSUIT
Contrary to IBM's efforts to recast SCO's Amended Complaint as one limited to trade secret violations, the Amended Complaint contains six counts--the first three counts are for IBM's numerous breaches of licensing agreements. The remaining counts, including Count VI for misappropriation of trade secrets, flow from this transgression and are ancillary to the breach of the license agreements. Thus, notwithstanding IBM's mischaracterization, trade secret misappropriation is not the gravaman of the Complaint (IBM Mem., p. 2), but it is merely one count that recasts one aspect of the injuries caused by IBM's breach. These injuries would exist even in the absence of any trade secret misappropriation.
In its Amended Complaint, SCO alleged that IBM and Sequent (now part of IBM and herinafter collectively referred to as IBM) were licensees of UNIX System V source code ("UNIX"). As part of this license grant, IBM was given certain rights and also agreed to certain restrictions upon its use of UNIX. IBM agreed, for example, that UNIX code and methods would be solely for its own internal business purposes ( 2.01), [1] that UNIX code and methods would not be used for others and by others ( 2.05), and that IBM would maintain the code and methods related thereto in confidence ( 7.06). Similarly, IBM further agreed it would not sell or otherwise dispose of UNIX in whole or in part ( 7.10). Significantly, IBM also agreed that any modifications or derivative works of UNIX prepared by IBM, would be treated by IBM "as part of the original Software Product." ( 2.01). Thus, all of the foregoing restrictions on UNIX also apply equally to any modifications or derivative works created by IBM. [2]
Pursuant to these restrictions, IBM agreed that AIX, IBM's "own version of UNIX" (IBM Mem., p.2 n.1), and Dynix, Sequent's version of UNIX, would be used solely for internal business purposes, would be maintained in confidence, and would not be disposed of in whole or in part. IBM, contrary to these clear and unambiguous limitations on its use of UNIX, incl
Rot in hell Darl.