Achra, last week I had my computers (and disks) seized by police officers with a warrant for the house I am renting a room in. I denied a consensual search and we all waited an extra 2.5 hours for them to have the judge expand the warrant to include my rented room.
They were looking for child porn that supposedly my landlord possesed. They found nothing, but took everyone's computers and disks (and cameras, and scanners, and accessories). Turns out my landlord has an ex-girlfriend with one very vengeful and unstable mother. Well, that's his story, and I'm believing it for now.
All the cops told me that four months was a standard turn around for seized items. The fact that I use those computers to make a living didn't seem to make the slightest difference. Did you ever have any luck expediting a return; by calling, calling the right person, etc.?
Would you recommend the computer shop diagnostic routine again?
Check your search results; the "Slash" in this site's name probably threw off your query for a good bondage site. We understand, it happens...even to the most literate perverts.
Just another example of random association so prevalent nowadays.
It's not random. Most people don't have a problem connecting the dots from religious governments -to- banning certain goods & services -to- smugglers/pirates filling in the gaps. What's debatable is the influence that governments turning more religious has on overall smuggling/piracy rates versus other factors, such as international sanctions.
Just because you don't see the causal connection does not mean it is random. Your claiming so is probably just as big a problem as the "random association so prevalent nowadays".
It's only a matter of time until the TV joins the newspaper in it's slow walk to the grave.
Syndicated broadcast TV will become less "broadcast", not less syndicated. As newspapers have experienced dwindling readership, TV SHOWS are just as popular as ever, perhaps even more so.
The Internet drastically lowered the cost of entry for writers. That combined with a large amount of distrust and dissatisfaction with newspapers, equals reader exodus.
The Internet (and other tech) has also lowered the cost of entry for broadcast video. However, I don't see the same large base of discontent consumers. Tivo's popularity underscores that people are still very much into the content, they just want more control over it.
I don't think the TV/Newspaper comparison is a bad one, just that it goes more towards demonstrating the results of an industry not serving its customers well versus the results of Hi-Tech on mass media.
It's OK. Don't panic: just let go of the mouse, stand up, and using the nearest exit, get yourself outside, and to the nearest shopping mall.
Be prepared! There'll be woman. Yes I know, but these ones will be fleshy and smell like spring flowers. Just observe them for now. Talking will come later.
Commercial versions of Linux were available before that case was filed, just like they are now for Apple Macs. So, just because the U.S.D.O.J. says Microsoft is a monopoly, that doesn't mean that they actually are, at least according to the definition found in any respected dictionary. Of course, Microsoft wouldn't be the first victim of special interests using the D.O.J. as an attack dog.
Ok, back to basics: a monopoly exists when there is "only one provider of a kind of product or service." That's a "kind" of product or service, not a "particular" or "specific" product or service. Notice the difference here between macro v.s. micro, between general v.s. specific. Apple is not the only manafacturer of computers, only of a specific type of computer.
Using your logic, Isuzu is a monopoly because they are the only company producing certain parts for their vehicles.
I must have missed the event; when did Apple become a monopoly?
Oh, I read corrected; Apple is an "emerging" monopoly.
I can't count the number of articles here on/. where we're reminded that Apple ONLY has about 3% market share, and how competetive the iRiver and Archos are to the iPod.
Is it possible, that your anti-monopolistic zeal and judicious HYPERBOLE have clouded your business acumen?
If only we had more AG's like Eliot Spitzer! He's one of the only AG's in the country to take on corporate corruption; most notably the Wall Street gangs.
I haven't followed his career lately; got any "power go to his head" links?
Probably the biggest improvement I've had in browsing came after I starting using Firefox with the Adblock extension. With wildcards, it took only a couple minutes to setup some filters that stop around 99% of all ads.
Or, technically, is it what the producer/recording engineer/mastering engineer intended?
I have a little music production experience and a ton of anecdotes from a friend who engineers for a major recording studio. Granted, there are artists whose creative visions and talents extend into the mix-down, editing, and mastering phases; but probably the majority of popular recording artists are satisfied with "can we brighten it up there" & "let's feel more bass" sort of adjustments, and leaving the post production magic to others.
We would easily be able to program behaviors that account for 95% of the "real" species behavior, but it would be that last 5% that would be hard to replicate perfectly.
That's easy...just program them to go where they can't be seen 5% of the time.
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
Regardless of the analogy's worth, you accussed the GP of being part of ASCAP's supposedly criminal activities. Do you know anything at all about that poster, other than he is an ASCAP member? You judged him guilty by merely being associated with an organization.
Good job letting your gripes with an organization get in the way of being courteous & civil!
Guilt by association. I suppose he's guilty, just as much as you are guilty of being human, hence party to all of humankind's "questionable practices".
I wouldn't hold the ability to predict conflicts between man, especially those involving land disputes, as anything great or praiseworthy. I mean, man has been fighting man since the begining of time, and the big brawls are always over territorial rights.
Of course, then we have to look at who's doing the predicting. A meglomaniacal science fiction writer who lived on an ocean liner with his cult of followers (was convinced the US government was out to get him) trying to get in touch with the ancient alien in themselves (?, check it out, it's actually much more cooky than I can even attempt to explain).
Here's someone who found his niche as a science fiction writer, but just wasn't content to stop there. He went for the gusto, the full-on messianic mission. The history books might remember him as a good writer, more likely he'll be infamous as the leader of a wayward cult.
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Ease up on the eggnog there buddy.
Seasons Greetings!
You must be young and haven't read much about man's history and war. World War II was won by lot's of killing. Period.
Grow up, and lose the Christ complex!
Achra, last week I had my computers (and disks) seized by police officers with a warrant for the house I am renting a room in. I denied a consensual search and we all waited an extra 2.5 hours for them to have the judge expand the warrant to include my rented room.
They were looking for child porn that supposedly my landlord possesed. They found nothing, but took everyone's computers and disks (and cameras, and scanners, and accessories). Turns out my landlord has an ex-girlfriend with one very vengeful and unstable mother. Well, that's his story, and I'm believing it for now.
All the cops told me that four months was a standard turn around for seized items. The fact that I use those computers to make a living didn't seem to make the slightest difference. Did you ever have any luck expediting a return; by calling, calling the right person, etc.?
Would you recommend the computer shop diagnostic routine again?
Thanks for sharing that story, and any advice.
-d
Check your search results; the "Slash" in this site's name probably threw off your query for a good bondage site. We understand, it happens...even to the most literate perverts.
It's turtles, all the way up, and all the way down.
I bet that one works well as a come on...
O well, I guess it is true that a number of gay men are women haters. Good. Makes it easier for the rest of us!
Just because you don't see the causal connection does not mean it is random. Your claiming so is probably just as big a problem as the "random association so prevalent nowadays".
The Internet drastically lowered the cost of entry for writers. That combined with a large amount of distrust and dissatisfaction with newspapers, equals reader exodus.
The Internet (and other tech) has also lowered the cost of entry for broadcast video. However, I don't see the same large base of discontent consumers. Tivo's popularity underscores that people are still very much into the content, they just want more control over it.
I don't think the TV/Newspaper comparison is a bad one, just that it goes more towards demonstrating the results of an industry not serving its customers well versus the results of Hi-Tech on mass media.
It's OK. Don't panic: just let go of the mouse, stand up, and using the nearest exit, get yourself outside, and to the nearest shopping mall.
Be prepared! There'll be woman. Yes I know, but these ones will be fleshy and smell like spring flowers. Just observe them for now. Talking will come later.
Commercial versions of Linux were available before that case was filed, just like they are now for Apple Macs. So, just because the U.S.D.O.J. says Microsoft is a monopoly, that doesn't mean that they actually are, at least according to the definition found in any respected dictionary. Of course, Microsoft wouldn't be the first victim of special interests using the D.O.J. as an attack dog.
Ok, back to basics: a monopoly exists when there is "only one provider of a kind of product or service." That's a "kind" of product or service, not a "particular" or "specific" product or service. Notice the difference here between macro v.s. micro, between general v.s. specific. Apple is not the only manafacturer of computers, only of a specific type of computer.
Using your logic, Isuzu is a monopoly because they are the only company producing certain parts for their vehicles.
I must have missed the event; when did Apple become a monopoly?
Oh, I read corrected; Apple is an "emerging" monopoly.
I can't count the number of articles here on /. where we're reminded that Apple ONLY has about 3% market share, and how competetive the iRiver and Archos are to the iPod.
Is it possible, that your anti-monopolistic zeal and judicious HYPERBOLE have clouded your business acumen?
If only we had more AG's like Eliot Spitzer! He's one of the only AG's in the country to take on corporate corruption; most notably the Wall Street gangs.
I haven't followed his career lately; got any "power go to his head" links?
So, if Apple ups the quality (is that impossible to imagine?), THEN will there be demand?
No, history has taught us that when it comes to Apple, prophetic hacks like yourself are almost always wrong.Probably the biggest improvement I've had in browsing came after I starting using Firefox with the Adblock extension. With wildcards, it took only a couple minutes to setup some filters that stop around 99% of all ads.
I have a little music production experience and a ton of anecdotes from a friend who engineers for a major recording studio. Granted, there are artists whose creative visions and talents extend into the mix-down, editing, and mastering phases; but probably the majority of popular recording artists are satisfied with "can we brighten it up there" & "let's feel more bass" sort of adjustments, and leaving the post production magic to others.
Don't fix what ain't broke.
lol
That's a funny video.
Good job letting your gripes with an organization get in the way of being courteous & civil!
As long as you drive over 65mph, why not go even faster? You're already doing something illegal. Heck, just go as fast as that car will go man!
Guilt by association. I suppose he's guilty, just as much as you are guilty of being human, hence party to all of humankind's "questionable practices".
ppft!
Of course, then we have to look at who's doing the predicting. A meglomaniacal science fiction writer who lived on an ocean liner with his cult of followers (was convinced the US government was out to get him) trying to get in touch with the ancient alien in themselves (?, check it out, it's actually much more cooky than I can even attempt to explain).
Here's someone who found his niche as a science fiction writer, but just wasn't content to stop there. He went for the gusto, the full-on messianic mission. The history books might remember him as a good writer, more likely he'll be infamous as the leader of a wayward cult.