Domains don't expire any more. The registrAR holding the domain uses it by putting up a parking page with ads. There's a (two week?) grace period whereby the registrar doesn't have to pay and the domain still works. If it makes enough money to reasonably believe it'll make the $6 wholesale price they keep the domain. Otherwise they dump it.
So, names like dhkhwhf98.com might expire by anything even remotely meaningul (or short, no matter how random) will never go back into the free pool.
I'd love to know how a "good" name like this was aquired. Being short it's actually a REALLY good name and worth between 10 and 100K depending.
Laws don't get involved initially. When you buy a domain (lease actually) you agree to be bound by the UDRP (Uniforum Dispute Resolution Protocol) by contract. This is handled by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Associaiton) in Geneve. This is courtesy of ICANN to give a fast track, cheap out of court settlement to domain disputes.
DO NOT offer a price as that deomstrates "bad faith" one of the 3 criteria that must be met for yo to lose your domain. Not using it and being confusingly similar are the other two. Use an attorney. He'll take a cut, but is familair with the process. If you're still reading this, you aren't.
""If I was in charge of the response from Google's policy counsel, I would've just said that the antimoveon ads are being placed by fucking tools, moreso than moveon folks themselves, and I don't want their advertising dollars"
They did say that, but in corporatese (reid, oops, read their blog).
1) moveon requested no triggers based on their name. Smart.
2) antomveon fell awry of this. Awww, shucks.
3) Google told antimoveon how to chnage their ad so it was permissable. They declined.
antimoveon are not just losers, they're sore losers and dumb ones at that.
"When XP came out, XP Pro let you upgrade from 2K (or NT4? Not sure) while XP Home let you upgrade from 9x." "
Not exacly true. You can upgrade from 9 to xp pro. Actually you can upgrade a freshly formatted drive to xp pro. WTF dude?
I put xp on a few machines here but kept 98 on this machine.
Oddly, 10 years after the fact I'm still seeing errors I haven't seen before.
But, it does everything I need it too and it a helluva lot more stable that it was in 98. In fact I rarely have to reboot these days. Meanwhile xp shits itself with alarming regularity.
Maybe it really was the drivers that made 98 wonky.
Keep in mind my folks use ME and have for 7 years and never had a problem with it.
There's a non-zero chance, of course, I live in a parallen universe or something.
"This case only one such example of the WTO is trying to override US sovereignty. The World Trade Organization backed Codex Alimentarius food rules will soon make it illegal to purchase high dosage vitamins from health food stores in the U.S. when the rules go into effect globally December 31, 2009. It's Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), only permits only ultra low doses of vitamins. You will then no longer be able to buy significant dosages of most vitamins and minerals from your local heath food store because they will become illegal in the U.S."
Section 1.3 of the Guidelines stipulates that they are for use only in those countries that regulate vitamin and mineral supplements as food. As Canada regulates vitamin and mineral supplements as natural health products, the Guidelines are not applicable to the Canadian regulatory system. The manufacture, importation and sale of vitamin and mineral supplements and other natural health products in Canada will not be affected by the Commission's adoption of the Guidelines. Such products will continue to be regulated in Canada by the Natural Health Products Regulations under the Canadian Food and Drugs Act.
The Shah, predictably, has a page on Wikipedia. One of the major headings is "Corruption". Worth reading.
Similarly so:
"Attitude Towards Women
In 1973 he exploded at Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci: "Does it seem right to you that a King, that an Emperor of Persia, should waste time talking about such things? Talking about wives, women? Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and keep their femininity. You're equal in the eyes of the law but not, excuse my saying so, in ability." --former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon once called him "a nut"."
Pardon me if I don't think he's the model human right activist.
"Canada has challenged U.S. trade remedy law in NAFTA and WTO dispute settlement mechanisms. Some of these cases involved actions taken by the U.S. Government on softwood lumber imports from Canada. However, the two countries implemented a comprehensive settlement on softwood lumber in late 2006 and these cases were dropped."
But, whatever. We know what happened.
I hadn't heard about the oil tax. Grrrrr. Friggin Harper.
Once. Porsche has the poorest recurring ownership of nearly any car, that is people who buy them don't often buy another. Price out some parts or god forbid an engine rebuild and you know why.
Get an 80s Mercedes. Cheap parts and they run forever. Mine has half a million miles on it. And it's the cheapest car to maintain I've ever owed.
You don't need to be rich to own one either. You can hell because ESR has one. 'Cept the dork bought a vergasser and not a diesel.
"economic losses that ripple through the entire economy"
A few years before 911 I was in NYC every few months (doing internet stuff, stop looking at me that way NSA guys) and met a bunch of guys that bought and sold big buildings there. They mentioned that the WTC was bleeding money and was soon going to default on its taxes and end up being owned by the port authority who sure as hell didn't want it as it as they couldn't afford to have that kind of fiscal bloodletting on their hands.
"For $100Bn, it would probably be cheaper to "bring democracy to" Antigua. "
This is actually not a joke. In 1947 BP was pulling oil out of Iran and paying the Iranian government a pittance. Then, Iran decided it was being raped and kicked BP out. The UK went to its buddy in the white house who suddenly declared Iran to be communist and the CIA removed the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed the Shah who put things back the way was and had an increadably repressive regime.
The result of that was Khomaneis' revolution. This is why they hate the US, not because of iPods and dirty movies.
Even with a WTO judgement the US still wouldn't pay up. When they elected Vice President Harper here he cut his buddy Bush a deal and accepted ten cents on the dollar instead which the people who actually lost that money were more than a little pissed about.
Moving money on the fed wire that are proceeds of gambling is already illegal. That's how they shut this down a year or so ago. A buddy of mine plays poker for a living, or used to. The poker sites were in Antigua, the payout company was in the UK (and a public corportation there to boot) with the actual card provider in Canada. The US said one day about 2 years "move money on the fed wire and we'll charge you" which in practical terms means even if you have an unplanned layover and never mneant to stop in the US we'll put you in jail right then and there. They neevr went after any of the gamblers though.
I dunno why they think they need another bill to make something illegal that already is - gambling transactions over the fed wire.
Interestingly the day the USG turned this off my buddy was owed about four grand that he absolutely could not get. I don't imagine for a minute he's the only one.
"Shatner himself has spent most of his career after Star Trek trying to be taken seriously as an actor overcoming that Kirk stigma."
Only if you watch TV. He does to stage work.
I ran into him once buying clothes. Or rather I sorta did. I went with a friend to buy a pair of pants in Hazelton Lanes. I looked around, bought something and hwile waiting for the sales droid to do whatever he had to buggered off to another store to look for something else while my friend stayed there. I came back ans she said "you just missed William Shatner. He bought $15,000 worth of suits for a play he's doing - the prisoner of Zenda". Buggers.
I waited a bit, the sales droid wasn't done, so I went off again to look in another store. Came back 10 minutes later and she said "you missed him again. We had a nice chat.".
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Domains don't expire any more. The registrAR holding the domain uses it by putting up a parking page with ads. There's a (two week?) grace period whereby the registrar doesn't have to pay and the domain still works. If it makes enough money to reasonably believe it'll make the $6 wholesale price they keep the domain. Otherwise they dump it.
So, names like dhkhwhf98.com might expire by anything even remotely meaningul (or short, no matter how random) will never go back into the free pool.
I'd love to know how a "good" name like this was aquired. Being short it's actually a REALLY good name and worth between 10 and 100K depending.
Laws don't get involved initially. When you buy a domain (lease actually) you agree to be bound by the UDRP (Uniforum Dispute Resolution Protocol) by contract. This is handled by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Associaiton) in Geneve. This is courtesy of ICANN to give a fast track, cheap out of court settlement to domain disputes.
DO NOT offer a price as that deomstrates "bad faith" one of the 3 criteria that must be met for yo to lose your domain. Not using it and being confusingly similar are the other two. Use an attorney. He'll take a cut, but is familair with the process. If you're still reading this, you aren't.
Portal?
If sounds like A Serious Dilemma for the Net to me.
Nah. Zombie attacks.
" I "blog", therefore I am very, very special. "
They have an Olympics just for you.
"so I cannot be critical of any corporation or organization? "
Sure you can. But you have to do it within the ruleset of the venue you're publishing on.
"*Talking* in a theater is not allowed as well, and it has nothing to do with free speech. The "fire" paradigm is retarded. "
You seem to be missing the point.
Talking in a theatre may or may not get you kicked out depending on many factors. But it's a rule the theatre imposes.
Yelling "fire" in a crowder theatre is against the law.
There are countless examples of why there is really no such thing as free speech.
" "If I was in charge of the response from Google's policy counsel, I would've just said that the antimoveon ads are being placed by fucking tools, moreso than moveon folks themselves, and I don't want their advertising dollars"
They did say that, but in corporatese (reid, oops, read their blog).
1) moveon requested no triggers based on their name. Smart.
2) antomveon fell awry of this. Awww, shucks.
3) Google told antimoveon how to chnage their ad so it was permissable. They declined.
antimoveon are not just losers, they're sore losers and dumb ones at that.
Other examples of why there is no 100% free speech:
1) Yelling "fire" in a crowder theatre.
2) Slander, libel.
" When XP came out, XP Pro let you upgrade from 2K (or NT4? Not sure) while XP Home let you upgrade from 9x." "
Not exacly true. You can upgrade from 9 to xp pro. Actually you can upgrade a freshly formatted drive to xp pro. WTF dude?
I put xp on a few machines here but kept 98 on this machine.
Oddly, 10 years after the fact I'm still seeing errors I haven't seen before.
But, it does everything I need it too and it a helluva lot more stable that it was in 98. In fact I rarely have to reboot these days. Meanwhile xp shits itself with alarming regularity.
Maybe it really was the drivers that made 98 wonky.
Keep in mind my folks use ME and have for 7 years and never had a problem with it.
There's a non-zero chance, of course, I live in a parallen universe or something.
" This case only one such example of the WTO is trying to override US sovereignty. The World Trade Organization backed Codex Alimentarius food rules will soon make it illegal to purchase high dosage vitamins from health food stores in the U.S. when the rules go into effect globally December 31, 2009. It's Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), only permits only ultra low doses of vitamins. You will then no longer be able to buy significant dosages of most vitamins and minerals from your local heath food store because they will become illegal in the U.S. "
You're like, hosed eh.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/intactivit/codex/activit/vit_min_sup_e.html
Section 1.3 of the Guidelines stipulates that they are for use only in those countries that regulate vitamin and mineral supplements as food. As Canada regulates vitamin and mineral supplements as natural health products, the Guidelines are not applicable to the Canadian regulatory system. The manufacture, importation and sale of vitamin and mineral supplements and other natural health products in Canada will not be affected by the Commission's adoption of the Guidelines. Such products will continue to be regulated in Canada by the Natural Health Products Regulations under the Canadian Food and Drugs Act.
The Shah, predictably, has a page on Wikipedia. One of the major headings is "Corruption". Worth reading.
Similarly so:
"Attitude Towards Women
In 1973 he exploded at Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci: "Does it seem right to you that a King, that an Emperor of Persia, should waste time talking about such things? Talking about wives, women? Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and keep their femininity. You're equal in the eyes of the law but not, excuse my saying so, in ability." --former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon once called him "a nut"."
Pardon me if I don't think he's the model human right activist.
I'd heard WTO (not that I care a whole lot frankly) and found this:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2089.htm
"Canada has challenged U.S. trade remedy law in NAFTA and WTO dispute settlement mechanisms. Some of these cases involved actions taken by the U.S. Government on softwood lumber imports from Canada. However, the two countries implemented a comprehensive settlement on softwood lumber in late 2006 and these cases were dropped."
But, whatever. We know what happened.
I hadn't heard about the oil tax. Grrrrr. Friggin Harper.
There's always an Indonesian sarong. Sort of a long skirt.
I met Jon Gilmore in Geneva at a DNS thing and he was wearing a sarong.
While Jon has the legs for it, it was still sarong on many levels.
(sorry)
" Next...try the Porsche "
Once. Porsche has the poorest recurring ownership of nearly any car, that is people who buy them don't often buy another. Price out some parts or god forbid an engine rebuild and you know why.
Get an 80s Mercedes. Cheap parts and they run forever. Mine has half a million miles on it. And it's the cheapest car to maintain I've ever owed.
You don't need to be rich to own one either. You can hell because ESR has one. 'Cept the dork bought a vergasser and not a diesel.
Klatta klatta klatta klatta...
" Hell, Spock even had his brain removed and he got over that fine."
Yeah but he did vote republican from that point on.
" economic losses that ripple through the entire economy"
A few years before 911 I was in NYC every few months (doing internet stuff, stop looking at me that way NSA guys) and met a bunch of guys that bought and sold big buildings there. They mentioned that the WTC was bleeding money and was soon going to default on its taxes and end up being owned by the port authority who sure as hell didn't want it as it as they couldn't afford to have that kind of fiscal bloodletting on their hands.
So the fact the WTC is gone is an asset to NYC.
Convenient, huh?
X windox came out of MIT in 94. We'd heard of it before that while it was beig worked on.
When the Xerox Star was made public the race was on. There was just no hardware outside of PARC in the 70s that could fo this.
" The economy has been doing extremely well since Bush came in"
I can see that.
1.00 CAD = 1.02652 USD
1.00 EUR = 1.41736 USD
5 years ago a USD was $1.62 Canadian.
Compulsive gamblers burn out. Some people so this long term as a more or less job. More than you might think.
" For $100Bn, it would probably be cheaper to "bring democracy to" Antigua. "
This is actually not a joke. In 1947 BP was pulling oil out of Iran and paying the Iranian government a pittance. Then, Iran decided it was being raped and kicked BP out. The UK went to its buddy in the white house who suddenly declared Iran to be communist and the CIA removed the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed the Shah who put things back the way was and had an increadably repressive regime.
The result of that was Khomaneis' revolution. This is why they hate the US, not because of iPods and dirty movies.
*cough*softwood*cough*salmon.
Even with a WTO judgement the US still wouldn't pay up. When they elected Vice President Harper here he cut his buddy Bush a deal and accepted ten cents on the dollar instead which the people who actually lost that money were more than a little pissed about.
Moving money on the fed wire that are proceeds of gambling is already illegal. That's how they shut this down a year or so ago. A buddy of mine plays poker for a living, or used to. The poker sites were in Antigua, the payout company was in the UK (and a public corportation there to boot) with the actual card provider in Canada. The US said one day about 2 years "move money on the fed wire and we'll charge you" which in practical terms means even if you have an unplanned layover and never mneant to stop in the US we'll put you in jail right then and there. They neevr went after any of the gamblers though.
I dunno why they think they need another bill to make something illegal that already is - gambling transactions over the fed wire.
Interestingly the day the USG turned this off my buddy was owed about four grand that he absolutely could not get. I don't imagine for a minute he's the only one.
Worse, he owes me money.
"By using the term "intellectual property", Steve Ballmer is saying Linux infringes Microsoft copyright, trademarks and trade secrets "
.h file...
Oh no. He found THAT
"Shatner himself has spent most of his career after Star Trek trying to be taken seriously as an actor overcoming that Kirk stigma."
Only if you watch TV. He does to stage work.
I ran into him once buying clothes. Or rather I sorta did. I went with a friend to buy a pair of pants in Hazelton Lanes. I looked around, bought something and hwile waiting for the sales droid to do whatever he had to buggered off to another store to look for something else while my friend stayed there. I came back ans she said "you just missed William Shatner. He bought $15,000 worth of suits for a play he's doing - the prisoner of Zenda". Buggers.
I waited a bit, the sales droid wasn't done, so I went off again to look in another store. Came back 10 minutes later and she said "you missed him again. We had a nice chat.".
Arrg.