As for the argument that corporations are created by the State, and are thus subject to destruction by the state (kind of like Bill Cosby's stand-up routine where he says to his kid, "I brought you into this world, boy, and I can take you out of it."), that's also just plain wrong. Just because the State has to approve the creation of a corporation does not mean the State created it--that's the same as claiming the State creates all houses because it has to grant building permits.
You can kill the corporation without taking any assets. Merely remove the corporation status and expose everybody who has stock in the company to *personal* liability. Watch it dissolve, with no action from the state beyond removing the protection the state gave it.
A real Libertarian would be opposed to the very existence of corporations, as they are a creation of government for the avoidance of responsibility.
Think about it.
The first thing I asked him (without even thinking about it) was if he had restarted yet.
Bear in mind, this was somebody who used to be my *boss* at my old tech-support job, and who's quite a bit smarter than I am. I felt bad for days afterward. (Of course, he ribbed the hell out of me for it.)
You shouldn't have been embarassed. Those idiot lists are useful to go through. I'm moderately computer literate, but about 90% of the time when I'm having a problem it's something dumb and obvious that I completely forgot to check....
Always check the obvious stuff first... especially when you absolutely don't need to.
However, our protests have to be intelligent, well thought out, and above all, non-threatening to the average citizen, which is who we're supposedly trying to get on our side. Tattooed rioters smashing windows and attacking cops to 'send out a message against corporatism' is simply counterproductive. Kudos to Dr. Touretzky.
Why on earth do our protests have to be non-threatening to the average citizen!? I don't give a hairy rat's ass if the average citizen agrees with me. If we are doing something that is within our rights, even if it is unpopular, then it is still within our rights.
[off topic rant] My allegiance lies a lot closer to the tattooed rioters than the 'average citizen'. Having been involved in various 'riots' over the last fifteen years, I have yet to see a single instance where the protesters spontaneously started attacking cops or property. In each instance, the police instigated the issue with heavy handed tactics. [end off topic rant]
My main problem with the attitude you seem to have is that we all have to be moderate and well behaved to have an effect. Debates are always defined by the extremes. The radicals on the street are pulling the center of the debate towards their position, and that allows people like Touretzky to look like moderates. If the radicals weren't there being radical, then it would be a lot easier to silence people like him.
Listen up, there is nothing about the GPL that makes it any different (in a legal standpoint) from the MS EULA, aside from changes in the terms and conditions. If EULAs in general are struck down, this could strike down the GPL as well. They're in the same family.
There is a one major difference. With the GPL, you are given extra rights if you agree to the license. The typical EULA takes rights away from you that you would have absent the license. From a legal point of view, this is a major difference. They are not in this same 'family'.
but ie5 for windows only.....
the mac version doesn't work either.
ps it would help if you told us what the goal was. asking us for a recommendation on which hammer is best without telling us any details is useless. especialy if what you really need is a wrench:).
When I started retrofitting my business site, the first thing I did was generate a report using BBedit of which pages weren't HTML4.0 compliant. This gave me a list of what I needed to fix. I fixedas much as was possible with unix scripting, but mostly, I had to check each page as I went. The key is that I knew that I couldn't show everything to the blind, or lynx user, but I had to let them know what they were missing. with framesets, I gracefully degrade the bit where it usually tells you to get a better browser with a table of contents for the connected frames. If you have multimedia that won't degrade, inset a 1x1 pixel image in the space before the / tag, and use an alt tag that describes what the mutimedia was for .
Why did a jewellery store web site go to this trouble? I have blind customers... they may not appreciate jewellery, but their sighted spouses do. The extra effort is worth it, if it makes me one big sale, because it shows I care. Any business that cuts off potential customers from acces is just plain stupid IMNSHO.
The web page isn't perfect yet, but it is navigable to the blind. It also has all those things that people say you shouldn't use if you want it accessible to the disabled; frames, javascript rollovers, flash etc. the key is that those things are extras that add (or detract depending on your design aesthetic) to the site, and are not absolutely needed.
Make the judgement calls on what to leave in, but it is worth the effort to make the site HTML4 compliant. I also learned a hell of a lot about how to really design a website, as opposed to putting together a few web pages. My next revision will involve moving everything to CSS.
Remember, when telling a story about how wonderful a company was to you,to TELL US WHO IT WAS!!! That way we can support intelligence, instead of just punishing stupidity.
halogen is good, but be careful with the el-cheapo units that point up... heat + dust = fire hazard.
In terms of proper lighting, I like using overhead track halogens aimed at the walls to provide ambient lighting, and a desk lamp to give task lighting for my books and papers.
I tend to buy good bulbs, and pay attention to the colour temperature of the output. It's worth it, and if you do graphics work, it's damn near essential.
Go to a good lighting store and ask about bulbs. You'll be amazed at the differences there are in width of beam and colour temperature.
I hate any gui with a taskbar and start button and i find it difficult to believe an average person couldn't operate a computer without one. if the computer was obviously turned on, and somebody who has ever used a computer before sat down and stared at a blank screen with no icons or anything, how long would it take them to click a mouse button?
Your point being? The point of things like the start menu/button and the taskbar is to help people use the computer. By having a taskbar, you can easily see what programs you have open and switch between them quickly. Yes you can use key combos to cycle through open apps, but the taskbar can be faster in a lot of cases.
The start menu/apple menu/Kmenu/gnome foot gives you a constant spot from which to quickly find the programs you use most often or to search through menus for that program that you use occasiionally and can't remember the name of but you know it's somewhere in one of he submenus. The biggest advantage of it is that it is always in the same spot and it is in a corner so you can just flick the mouse to the spot and click.
The people who design GUI interfaces have tried a number of things, and these two elements are common to just about every one of them that I have tried. There is a good reason for this. The best GUIs provide these elements as well as keyboard shortcuts and conextual menus.
What exactly do you hate about having these methods available?
It is sad that sites like yahoo and looksmart have to go to charging for listings in order to get money. They should not do this but instead focus on creating quality directories that will give people reason to return. Making people pay for listings compromises their integrity by causing bad sites to be potentially listed while not listing good sites that might not want to fork over the money.
Also, people who find out about this questionable business method might question the accuracy of the search results and stop using sites like this. Yahoo should do something like google, which sells ads but not listings, as they are in a different color and distinct from normal searches (although google is a search engine, not a directory).
I did not submit my business site to yahoo when I saw they were asking money for the submission. I also removed yahoo.com from my toolbar and bookmarks. I do not support pay-to-play, and I hope to god I am not alone. I would be OK with the idea of paying to have pictures put beside my directory listing, or other ways of making my name stand out (like the telephone directories do) but I won't pay just to list.
As far as I'm concerned yahoo is no longer useful to me if they only accept entries for companies that do enough business online to warrant paying for a listing. My company website is really just a reinforcement to my other marketing methods. I very rarely buy things online. I usually am just looking online to find out things like: what is their phone number, what is their email address, what type of image do they project, or (most often) tech support or product information. I can't justify paying to have our website listed when I make zero revenue from it.
Conversely, if I know that the only sites listed on yahoo.com are businesses that pay to get listed, the value of using yahoo drops to zero. Many of the sites I want to see will not be listed.
I'll use google instead thanks.
for those of you who are wondering what my business is that I don't sell online, I'm a custom jeweller
CBC and CTV have been doing this for years. The election has usually been called by the time BC stops voting, and the trending usually includes the west coast.
I think this is backwards - most people realize that some form of government is a good thing. They may not agree on what or how much the government does, but they prefer some form of organization to mob rule.
I disagree with the premise that the only alternative to government is mob rule. I think that it is preferable to be organized in a system that is non coercive. Read some introductory books on Anarchism... Spunk.org is a nice place to start.
I play legit MP3's in my store from my G4, cause I can put together a 6 hour playlist of whatever I want and edt it frequently... If I reboot, it's embarrassing........
How's that for a good reason......
Apparently you've never done phone tech support if you think an MS product is easier to use, manage or understand than any other product. It merely has a large market share therefore it's idiosyncracies are more commonly understood. I much prefer supporting UNIX (I can usually telnet in to fix it myself) or Mac's...
remember Grandma May and Steve The Jock whos idea of bleeding edge technology is AOL on their iMac.
Exactly... they'll use MacOS not Linux. That's the beauty of competition; people have options. Microsoft does not want you to have options. That has been their business philosophy since day one : Make it easy only if you use Microsoft and only Microsoft.
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No it isn't. That's why when Adobe filed their trademark, they got the whole phrase:
http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=7r 1noi.2.19
not just the word mark 'Illustrator'. They knew that they would not get it. You can't defend what you don't have.
On this one Adobe can go fuck themselves...
Or, to put it in different terms, the Linux being preloaded onto these cubes is free as in beer, and not free as in speech.
I think yoiu got that backwards
As for the argument that corporations are created by the State, and are thus subject to destruction by the state (kind of like Bill Cosby's stand-up routine where he says to his kid, "I brought you into this world, boy, and I can take you out of it."), that's also just plain wrong. Just because the State has to approve the creation of a corporation does not mean the State created it--that's the same as claiming the State creates all houses because it has to grant building permits.
You can kill the corporation without taking any assets. Merely remove the corporation status and expose everybody who has stock in the company to *personal* liability. Watch it dissolve, with no action from the state beyond removing the protection the state gave it.
A real Libertarian would be opposed to the very existence of corporations, as they are a creation of government for the avoidance of responsibility.
Think about it.
And aren't those song titles and album titles rightfully the IP of the bands/record labels that came up with them in the first place?
Umm no. You can't trademark a song name or album titles. There are zero IP issues when it comes to this part of the issue.
The first thing I asked him (without even thinking about it) was if he had restarted yet.
Bear in mind, this was somebody who used to be my *boss* at my old tech-support job, and who's quite a bit smarter than I am. I felt bad for days afterward. (Of course, he ribbed the hell out of me for it.)
You shouldn't have been embarassed. Those idiot lists are useful to go through. I'm moderately computer literate, but about 90% of the time when I'm having a problem it's something dumb and obvious that I completely forgot to check....
Always check the obvious stuff first... especially when you absolutely don't need to.
You could pay $30 for a "preview release", or $40 for a final version. Or you could just run Quicken instead.
Or you could use the just-as-polished, already available, open source product.
I am a huge supporter of Gnucash, and use it to keep the books for the Victoria Linux Users Group, but it is neither highly polished nor finished.The killer features that I saw in the screenshot of Kapital were a functioning print chequing module and an address book which implies A/R and A/P.
I hope this gives the gnucash folks some impetus to catch up to a Linux based competitor
However, our protests have to be intelligent, well thought out, and above all, non-threatening to the average citizen, which is who we're supposedly trying to get on our side. Tattooed rioters smashing windows and attacking cops to 'send out a message against corporatism' is simply counterproductive. Kudos to Dr. Touretzky.
Why on earth do our protests have to be non-threatening to the average citizen!? I don't give a hairy rat's ass if the average citizen agrees with me. If we are doing something that is within our rights, even if it is unpopular, then it is still within our rights.
[off topic rant] My allegiance lies a lot closer to the tattooed rioters than the 'average citizen'. Having been involved in various 'riots' over the last fifteen years, I have yet to see a single instance where the protesters spontaneously started attacking cops or property. In each instance, the police instigated the issue with heavy handed tactics. [end off topic rant]
My main problem with the attitude you seem to have is that we all have to be moderate and well behaved to have an effect. Debates are always defined by the extremes. The radicals on the street are pulling the center of the debate towards their position, and that allows people like Touretzky to look like moderates. If the radicals weren't there being radical, then it would be a lot easier to silence people like him.
Walk softly and carry a big stick
There is a one major difference. With the GPL, you are given extra rights if you agree to the license. The typical EULA takes rights away from you that you would have absent the license. From a legal point of view, this is a major difference. They are not in this same 'family'.
but ie5 for windows only.....
:).
the mac version doesn't work either.
ps it would help if you told us what the goal was. asking us for a recommendation on which hammer is best without telling us any details is useless. especialy if what you really need is a wrench
When I started retrofitting my business site, the first thing I did was generate a report using BBedit of which pages weren't HTML4.0 compliant. This gave me a list of what I needed to fix. I fixedas much as was possible with unix scripting, but mostly, I had to check each page as I went. The key is that I knew that I couldn't show everything to the blind, or lynx user, but I had to let them know what they were missing. with framesets, I gracefully degrade the bit where it usually tells you to get a better browser with a table of contents for the connected frames. If you have multimedia that won't degrade, inset a 1x1 pixel image in the space before the / tag, and use an alt tag that describes what the mutimedia was for .
Why did a jewellery store web site go to this trouble? I have blind customers... they may not appreciate jewellery, but their sighted spouses do. The extra effort is worth it, if it makes me one big sale, because it shows I care. Any business that cuts off potential customers from acces is just plain stupid IMNSHO.
The web page isn't perfect yet, but it is navigable to the blind. It also has all those things that people say you shouldn't use if you want it accessible to the disabled; frames, javascript rollovers, flash etc. the key is that those things are extras that add (or detract depending on your design aesthetic) to the site, and are not absolutely needed.
Make the judgement calls on what to leave in, but it is worth the effort to make the site HTML4 compliant. I also learned a hell of a lot about how to really design a website, as opposed to putting together a few web pages. My next revision will involve moving everything to CSS.
Remember, when telling a story about how wonderful a company was to you ,to TELL US WHO IT WAS!!! That way we can support intelligence, instead of just punishing stupidity.
halogen is good, but be careful with the el-cheapo units that point up... heat + dust = fire hazard.
In terms of proper lighting, I like using overhead track halogens aimed at the walls to provide ambient lighting, and a desk lamp to give task lighting for my books and papers.
I tend to buy good bulbs, and pay attention to the colour temperature of the output. It's worth it, and if you do graphics work, it's damn near essential.
Go to a good lighting store and ask about bulbs. You'll be amazed at the differences there are in width of beam and colour temperature.
I hate any gui with a taskbar and start button and i find it difficult to believe an average person couldn't operate a computer without one. if the computer was obviously turned on, and somebody who has ever used a computer before sat down and stared at a blank screen with no icons or anything, how long would it take them to click a mouse button?
/apple menu/Kmenu/gnome foot gives you a constant spot from which to quickly find the programs you use most often or to search through menus for that program that you use occasiionally and can't remember the name of but you know it's somewhere in one of he submenus. The biggest advantage of it is that it is always in the same spot and it is in a corner so you can just flick the mouse to the spot and click.
Your point being? The point of things like the start menu/button and the taskbar is to help people use the computer. By having a taskbar, you can easily see what programs you have open and switch between them quickly. Yes you can use key combos to cycle through open apps, but the taskbar can be faster in a lot of cases.
The start menu
The people who design GUI interfaces have tried a number of things, and these two elements are common to just about every one of them that I have tried. There is a good reason for this. The best GUIs provide these elements as well as keyboard shortcuts and conextual menus.
What exactly do you hate about having these methods available?
It is sad that sites like yahoo and looksmart have to go to charging for listings in order to get money. They should not do this but instead focus on creating quality directories that will give people reason to return. Making people pay for listings compromises their integrity by causing bad sites to be potentially listed while not listing good sites that might not want to fork over the money.
Also, people who find out about this questionable business method might question the accuracy of the search results and stop using sites like this. Yahoo should do something like google, which sells ads but not listings, as they are in a different color and distinct from normal searches (although google is a search engine, not a directory).
I did not submit my business site to yahoo when I saw they were asking money for the submission. I also removed yahoo.com from my toolbar and bookmarks. I do not support pay-to-play, and I hope to god I am not alone. I would be OK with the idea of paying to have pictures put beside my directory listing, or other ways of making my name stand out (like the telephone directories do) but I won't pay just to list.
As far as I'm concerned yahoo is no longer useful to me if they only accept entries for companies that do enough business online to warrant paying for a listing. My company website is really just a reinforcement to my other marketing methods. I very rarely buy things online. I usually am just looking online to find out things like: what is their phone number, what is their email address, what type of image do they project, or (most often) tech support or product information. I can't justify paying to have our website listed when I make zero revenue from it.
Conversely, if I know that the only sites listed on yahoo.com are businesses that pay to get listed, the value of using yahoo drops to zero. Many of the sites I want to see will not be listed.
I'll use google instead thanks.
for those of you who are wondering what my business is that I don't sell online, I'm a custom jeweller
aaah. To once again ride the Cherry Beach express... I lost more shoes that way... my first pair o' DM's etc..
or own the trademark on a word.....
You don't live on the west coast do you.....
CBC and CTV have been doing this for years. The election has usually been called by the time BC stops voting, and the trending usually includes the west coast.
Definitely not this one
;)
I always wanted a -1 FLAMEBAIT
The actual quote is from Benjamin Franklin, and is:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
source:
John Bartlett, comp.(1820-1905).
Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.1901.
Benjamin Franklin. --1706-1790.
I think this is backwards - most people realize that some form of government is a good thing. They may not agree on what or how much the government does, but they prefer some form of organization to mob rule.
I disagree with the premise that the only alternative to government is mob rule. I think that it is preferable to be organized in a system that is non coercive. Read some introductory books on Anarchism... Spunk.org is a nice place to start.
using .NET no doubt.......
I play legit MP3's in my store from my G4, cause I can put together a 6 hour playlist of whatever I want and edt it frequently... If I reboot, it's embarrassing........ How's that for a good reason... ...
Apparently you've never done phone tech support if you think an MS product is easier to use, manage or understand than any other product. It merely has a large market share therefore it's idiosyncracies are more commonly understood. I much prefer supporting UNIX (I can usually telnet in to fix it myself) or Mac's ...
remember Grandma May and Steve The Jock whos idea of bleeding edge technology is AOL on their iMac.
Exactly... they'll use MacOS not Linux. That's the beauty of competition; people have options. Microsoft does not want you to have options. That has been their business philosophy since day one : Make it easy only if you use Microsoft and only Microsoft.