"We project hundreds of tiny sea-creatures will be harmed by this, most notably the krill crushed beyond recognition by the impact of these devices. Additionally, there are no long term studies on the psycological impact of consumer electronics on marine life. They could be upsetting the entire ecosystem!!"
-Ima Treehugger, The National Trust for Preservation of Useless Organisms at Gunpoint.
While I can't confirm that it is Eric Corley in the picture, I can confirm there are a lot of pirate knockoffs sold down there..
Usually video boxes are paste overs hiding horrible copies, CD's are treated with one sided liners on 20lb copy paper, but I have seen some remarkable reproductions. The better the knockoff, they more they can get for it.. A cheesy no-liner CD fuckup can be had for a buck or two, but if you want the really close repro with the full-color notes and liner it'll run you five or six. The pirate is out $2 in making the nicer copies, they make a buck or two and so does the end-retailer. 50% markup at each stage is pretty good! (Well, if you don't count the REAL music industry's 2000% markup.)
I've got a copy of Titanic I got on my last trip out there with a nicely professional box and tape label. Only catch was Titanic had yet to leave the theatres, and wasn't to be released on VHS for another six months.. Once played it was obvious it was some schmuck in a empty theatre with a nice camera, but still!!
I wonder if this is actually true? I don't know, but I wouldn't mind suspecting that the U.S. actually has more "fringe" terrorists
The FBI released a report back in November saying that Canada is the confirmed location of more known 'terrorists' than any other nation, and leads as a suspected home as well. Got a good scare out of the national media, what with the Y2K hoopla and all.. Oh, and those two wacky Seperatists with the trunk full of explosives came through from Canada just after that.. 'Sides, the Contras, Sandinistas, etc, are not on U.S. soil.
But I find your creation of the term "fringe terrorist" interesting. Does that mean that you accept that states carry out terrorist actions and that the usual rhetoric of condemning violent acts as being "terrorist" is hypocritical when one's own country is sending missiles, bombs and armed forces into another nation's sovereign territory?
By fringe terrorist, I mean the dissident political minority of a country that decides sneaking explosives and weapons on other countries aircraft in an effort to merely scare is a good idea. The soverignty stomping we do is not terrorism. It's war. Why? We do it with the implied authority of the citizens, they do it because they can't think of any better way to make the government sit up and notice them.
I wouldn't call the US hypocritical as a whole. We're just damn confused. We've got the douche bags at Pershing Field 'declaring undeclared war' and a stressed ex-rep as their puppet 'Commander in Cheif'. The DoD says 'We have to blow up Tehran on Tuesday, here are a few reasons' and he goes for it. On top of that, we have another set of cash-jockeys in Congress that keep funneling taxes into 'peace keeping operations', 'black budgets' and 'nuclear proliferation' because the DoD, CIA, and NSA scare them with 'Gee, Senator, if the Chinese become a threat, your constituants will surely throw you out of office for not funding us better'.
Toss in the liberal intelligencia media trying to make the shit not smell, and Bang! A confused populus that no longer sees the government staring down the Iraqis over the wings of A10 Warthogs as a bad thing.
On the other hand, you were in on Iraq, Vietnam and Korea, and your country is home to more fringe foreign terrorists than any other in the Americas.. Canada, launchpad for Jihad 2000! Oh, and the Communist thing hasn't really bothered us in twenty odd years; We do have a large non-threatening socialist country to the north of us, after all!
Microsoft conspiracy theories abound, as well as stories on the 'Evil' Big Government taking our rights and the 'Evil' Big Corps turning the world into a stockholder controlled police state!
Oh, and at least half us have a thing for Scully, too..
That's a former FDA reg, and the courts have told the FDA to go to hell. The FDA has no authority to regulate tobacco, drug content or not..
I think the wording was 'Information on and relating to the effects of nicotine, and presence of nicotines in tobacco, has been available to the FDA since 1963. If the FDA had felt it had a compelling reason to regulate tobacco as a drug, it should have done so then.'
In other words 'You snooze, you lose. Do not pass silly regulations'
Giving a reviewer free software creates an atmosphere of indebtedness?? Who would have thunk it!
MS does it, Novell does it, Network Associates does it, IBM does it. But they play it harder; Bad reviews mean they don't take out advertisments in the reviewer's rag, as well as give them software for review.
Big fricking deal, the distro makers sent copies of their latest and greatest to reviewers that had said favorable things in the past. Would you send your software to your harshest critic?
I wouldn't, and neither would you.
On the plus side; Only in the OSS community would people actually worry that their product was given unfairly good reviews!!!
Ever have your mother tell you 'I brought you into this world, and I can take you out'? That's how I think of Noriega. But anyway, back to the issue.. Say I, a French citizen, break US Federal law. I sell kiddie porn from a server in Pakistan, for example. My government has no problem with it, the Pakistani's could give a shit, but the US and the DoJ get in a pisser that someone could actually sell kiddie porn to their citizens. Now I come to the US, as a tourist. What's the biggest penalty they can impose? Federal law is rather specific. Deportation. They show me the airport and wave as I get on a plane. Big fucking whoop. I vacation in Canada or the Bahamas next year.
I'd rather hear some DoJ flunkie making an ass of himself on CNN than pay for more $370 plastic ashtrays for non-smoking DoD cargo planes or $450 toilet seats for the johns in the Pentagon.
Besides, if enough other countries hear us bitch and moan about how we should be able to trample their laws, they'll give us the well-deserved smack in the skull we have needed since the sixties.
Nope.. Havenco is not located in the US, is not incorporated in the US, and is not subject to US laws, no matter what the FBI, CIA and MPAA have lead you to believe. There is no extradition or treaty of lawful effect between the US and the Principality of Sealand. Also, most investors are assisted by laws that say in effect 'You can't lose more than you invested'.
All law enforcement can do is bitch and moan.
"Poor us! We can't go pushing around foreign citizens anymore.. Guess it's time to invade some backward Central American nation like we did back in the good old days"
Here on my desk I have a 486DX4-120, running Linux 2.2.14/Apache/wuftpd, and a Pentium III 450 running NT 4.0 Server/IIS. The 486 has crappy 14mm laptop hard drives, 48M DRAM and a 1M Cirrus Logic, while the PIII has a nice 7200RPM UW, 128M PC100 SDRAM and a Rage 128.
I've recieved that one three, no four times now. Once per month, and once after I mailed nicely asking them to remove me. I finally gave up on asking nicely and sent them this.
Dear Bill:
My name is Ineyo Montoyota. You have me in your 'spam database' as [address-du-jour].
As much as I find spam in general distasteful, I try to ignore it. In fact, I tend to get a laugh of your messages in particular. See, I'm a nudist living in Grable Community near Parsippany.
You'll never get a sale from me, so knock it off..
But you'd need a circular-stop soft joystick for Pacman, a cross-stop soft joystick for Ms. Pacman, a cross-stop hard joystick for Gauntlet, a nice big trackball for Centipede and Space Invaders, a cheesy wheel for Pole Position, etc..
The cabinet would need to have exchangable control surfaces on it!!
Bah.. Compaq used the same technology, licensed from Rambus, in their 5xxx Workstation. Using EDO ECC DRAM, (think SIMMs, on crack, from a SGI) 2 per bank in twinned banks, you only got a 40% speed increase. Maximum speed increase wasn't seen until all 4/8 banks were filled, and even then it topped at 65%
Being a very proud and pompous American, with at least a passing knowledge of the legal system gleaned from innumerable hours watching 'Judge Judy' and 'Judge Mills Lane' when I should be working, I am always on the lookout for a sure-fire frivilous lawsuit so that I, like many other lazy Americans, can get paid for nothing.
Well, here's how we sue the sites on the lock-in list. We get a couple hundred elderly, entry-level Windows users together in a room full of computers. We hook them all up to the Internet over a single ISDN channel. Set the default start page on each PC to www.lawsuit-target.com, and disable the cache. After writing a small script to respawn IE every time it is closed, we set the lusers loose on the 'net.
By now you're asking "Hey, technos! Annoying a room full of senile lusers is fun, but how do we make it into a good frivilous lawsuit?"
Well thanks for asking! I have noted, from my extensive experience as a tech, that the newer and more clueless the luser, the more often and serious they do something bad to the PC. Since we haven't given them any thing else to touch but IE and the contents of the Start Bar (conveniently stripped to just IE) they will eventually power cycle the machine. Some will do it repeatedly.
Here's another tech tidbit: Power cycling a Microsoft machine is BAD. For the purposes of this frivilous lawsuit, it completly corrupts the hard drive and requires several hours of expensive service to correct!
"But technos, any judge on earth will throw that out! The judge will call you and your lawyers a bunch of money grubbing slimes, and toss you out."
No! That's why we've picked on the elderly as our lusers-du-jour! Judges never rule against them! Why not? Because the elderly vote, and the judges are elected officials. Get enough old people in on the class action suit, and the judge will cave to keep his job!
Only as coasters, or Frisbees, or diaphragms for the sort of women you meet down on Woodward.
The moment you install it, we both lose license to it as EULA violators. Copyright infringment sets in at that point; We have no license to the software, so they go after you for infringement and me for contributory infringement. If I were to write off the donation, as a charitable act, they can now go after me for loads of other stuff, and the IRS will be interested in felony tax-evasion.
Look at my situation; We lease thousands of Windows PCs, most of which are scrapped after returning from lease. As a consequence, we have been known to have hundreds of OEM CDs lying around. Per the terms of the EULA, we cannot distribute the OEM with another PC, we can't trade it, and we can't return it. Shit, even installing it on the unscrapped OEM machines is questionable, since we really can't transfer the license to the purchaser. (Most of the time we are the second owner of the machine, not the first)
I really should do that.. Blue spandex leotard, a cape, a glue gun, and fifty or so NT5 developers discs. Carrying a 2x4, I'd be the Blue Screen Of Death.
Or perhaps go out to the Army/Navy surplus store and pick up a dress uniform and the appropriate insignia. I still have my ID badge from a trip out to Selfridge; I'll just do a little digital magic to make it read "General Protection Fault, Microsoft Corporation".
I think I'll pull the latter on Halloween. I look far better in uniform than in spandex.
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"We project hundreds of tiny sea-creatures will be harmed by this, most notably the krill crushed beyond recognition by the impact of these devices. Additionally, there are no long term studies on the psycological impact of consumer electronics on marine life. They could be upsetting the entire ecosystem!!"
-Ima Treehugger, The National Trust for Preservation of Useless Organisms at Gunpoint.
I doubt the Norwegian Parliament would give him an award for publishing it if it were illegal!!
While I can't confirm that it is Eric Corley in the picture, I can confirm there are a lot of pirate knockoffs sold down there..
Usually video boxes are paste overs hiding horrible copies, CD's are treated with one sided liners on 20lb copy paper, but I have seen some remarkable reproductions. The better the knockoff, they more they can get for it.. A cheesy no-liner CD fuckup can be had for a buck or two, but if you want the really close repro with the full-color notes and liner it'll run you five or six. The pirate is out $2 in making the nicer copies, they make a buck or two and so does the end-retailer. 50% markup at each stage is pretty good! (Well, if you don't count the REAL music industry's 2000% markup.)
I've got a copy of Titanic I got on my last trip out there with a nicely professional box and tape label. Only catch was Titanic had yet to leave the theatres, and wasn't to be released on VHS for another six months.. Once played it was obvious it was some schmuck in a empty theatre with a nice camera, but still!!
No.. BSD can run Linux executables without GPL violation, and so can this. Emulation is not GPL violation, Bruce. ;)
I wonder if this is actually true? I don't know, but I wouldn't mind suspecting that the U.S. actually has more "fringe" terrorists
The FBI released a report back in November saying that Canada is the confirmed location of more known 'terrorists' than any other nation, and leads as a suspected home as well. Got a good scare out of the national media, what with the Y2K hoopla and all.. Oh, and those two wacky Seperatists with the trunk full of explosives came through from Canada just after that.. 'Sides, the Contras, Sandinistas, etc, are not on U.S. soil.
But I find your creation of the term "fringe terrorist" interesting. Does that mean that you accept that states carry out terrorist actions and that the usual rhetoric of condemning violent acts as being "terrorist" is hypocritical when one's own country is sending missiles, bombs and armed forces into another nation's sovereign territory?
By fringe terrorist, I mean the dissident political minority of a country that decides sneaking explosives and weapons on other countries aircraft in an effort to merely scare is a good idea. The soverignty stomping we do is not terrorism. It's war. Why? We do it with the implied authority of the citizens, they do it because they can't think of any better way to make the government sit up and notice them.
I wouldn't call the US hypocritical as a whole. We're just damn confused. We've got the douche bags at Pershing Field 'declaring undeclared war' and a stressed ex-rep as their puppet 'Commander in Cheif'. The DoD says 'We have to blow up Tehran on Tuesday, here are a few reasons' and he goes for it. On top of that, we have another set of cash-jockeys in Congress that keep funneling taxes into 'peace keeping operations', 'black budgets' and 'nuclear proliferation' because the DoD, CIA, and NSA scare them with 'Gee, Senator, if the Chinese become a threat, your constituants will surely throw you out of office for not funding us better'.
Toss in the liberal intelligencia media trying to make the shit not smell, and Bang! A confused populus that no longer sees the government staring down the Iraqis over the wings of A10 Warthogs as a bad thing.
Wasn't Melinda the lead on the Microsoft Bob project??
As a US citizen, I find your post:
(+3, Funny), and at least (+4, Insightful)
On the other hand, you were in on Iraq, Vietnam and Korea, and your country is home to more fringe foreign terrorists than any other in the Americas.. Canada, launchpad for Jihad 2000! Oh, and the Communist thing hasn't really bothered us in twenty odd years; We do have a large non-threatening socialist country to the north of us, after all!
We are the 'Lone Gunmen'!
Microsoft conspiracy theories abound, as well as stories on the 'Evil' Big Government taking our rights and the 'Evil' Big Corps turning the world into a stockholder controlled police state!
Oh, and at least half us have a thing for Scully, too..
He still blamed the Taiwan earthquake on Q3 99 stock loses
I know Michael Dell is a little egocentric, and a lot of people seem to think the world revolves around money and profits, but..
How the hell does Dell's stock price dictate the stability of tectonic plates?!?!?
That's a former FDA reg, and the courts have told the FDA to go to hell. The FDA has no authority to regulate tobacco, drug content or not..
I think the wording was 'Information on and relating to the effects of nicotine, and presence of nicotines in tobacco, has been available to the FDA since 1963. If the FDA had felt it had a compelling reason to regulate tobacco as a drug, it should have done so then.'
In other words 'You snooze, you lose. Do not pass silly regulations'
Giving a reviewer free software creates an atmosphere of indebtedness?? Who would have thunk it!
MS does it, Novell does it, Network Associates does it, IBM does it. But they play it harder; Bad reviews mean they don't take out advertisments in the reviewer's rag, as well as give them software for review.
Big fricking deal, the distro makers sent copies of their latest and greatest to reviewers that had said favorable things in the past. Would you send your software to your harshest critic?
I wouldn't, and neither would you.
On the plus side; Only in the OSS community would people actually worry that their product was given unfairly good reviews!!!
Ever have your mother tell you 'I brought you into this world, and I can take you out'? That's how I think of Noriega. But anyway, back to the issue.. Say I, a French citizen, break US Federal law. I sell kiddie porn from a server in Pakistan, for example. My government has no problem with it, the Pakistani's could give a shit, but the US and the DoJ get in a pisser that someone could actually sell kiddie porn to their citizens. Now I come to the US, as a tourist. What's the biggest penalty they can impose? Federal law is rather specific. Deportation. They show me the airport and wave as I get on a plane. Big fucking whoop. I vacation in Canada or the Bahamas next year.
I'd rather hear some DoJ flunkie making an ass of himself on CNN than pay for more $370 plastic ashtrays for non-smoking DoD cargo planes or $450 toilet seats for the johns in the Pentagon.
Besides, if enough other countries hear us bitch and moan about how we should be able to trample their laws, they'll give us the well-deserved smack in the skull we have needed since the sixties.
Nope.. Havenco is not located in the US, is not incorporated in the US, and is not subject to US laws, no matter what the FBI, CIA and MPAA have lead you to believe. There is no extradition or treaty of lawful effect between the US and the Principality of Sealand. Also, most investors are assisted by laws that say in effect 'You can't lose more than you invested'.
All law enforcement can do is bitch and moan.
"Poor us! We can't go pushing around foreign citizens anymore.. Guess it's time to invade some backward Central American nation like we did back in the good old days"
Wisdom seen on a bumper sticker:
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
Here on my desk I have a 486DX4-120, running Linux 2.2.14/Apache/wuftpd, and a Pentium III 450 running NT 4.0 Server/IIS. The 486 has crappy 14mm laptop hard drives, 48M DRAM and a 1M Cirrus Logic, while the PIII has a nice 7200RPM UW, 128M PC100 SDRAM and a Rage 128.
Guess which one gets me to the desktop first?
Yep, the 486. By almost six seconds, I may add..
I've recieved that one three, no four times now. Once per month, and once after I mailed nicely asking them to remove me. I finally gave up on asking nicely and sent them this.
Dear Bill:
My name is Ineyo Montoyota. You have me in your 'spam database' as [address-du-jour].
As much as I find spam in general distasteful, I try to ignore it. In fact, I tend to get a laugh of your messages in particular. See, I'm a nudist living in Grable Community near Parsippany.
You'll never get a sale from me, so knock it off..
Sincerly,
Ineyo Montoyota
I actually yanked my Nintendo out of retirement and sampled the game music to Abadox and Contra..
Nice to know you can do it without the hardware though!
Abadox for the NES..
.mp3...
The game music rocked, especially the intro movie.
It's a damn shame the game sucked so badly.
You could always record the music from the emulator and compress to
But you'd need a circular-stop soft joystick for Pacman, a cross-stop soft joystick for Ms. Pacman, a cross-stop hard joystick for Gauntlet, a nice big trackball for Centipede and Space Invaders, a cheesy wheel for Pole Position, etc..
The cabinet would need to have exchangable control surfaces on it!!
Bah.. Compaq used the same technology, licensed from Rambus, in their 5xxx Workstation. Using EDO ECC DRAM, (think SIMMs, on crack, from a SGI) 2 per bank in twinned banks, you only got a 40% speed increase. Maximum speed increase wasn't seen until all 4/8 banks were filled, and even then it topped at 65%
Being a very proud and pompous American, with at least a passing knowledge of the legal system gleaned from innumerable hours watching 'Judge Judy' and 'Judge Mills Lane' when I should be working, I am always on the lookout for a sure-fire frivilous lawsuit so that I, like many other lazy Americans, can get paid for nothing.
Well, here's how we sue the sites on the lock-in list. We get a couple hundred elderly, entry-level Windows users together in a room full of computers. We hook them all up to the Internet over a single ISDN channel. Set the default start page on each PC to www.lawsuit-target.com, and disable the cache. After writing a small script to respawn IE every time it is closed, we set the lusers loose on the 'net.
By now you're asking "Hey, technos! Annoying a room full of senile lusers is fun, but how do we make it into a good frivilous lawsuit?"
Well thanks for asking! I have noted, from my extensive experience as a tech, that the newer and more clueless the luser, the more often and serious they do something bad to the PC. Since we haven't given them any thing else to touch but IE and the contents of the Start Bar (conveniently stripped to just IE) they will eventually power cycle the machine. Some will do it repeatedly.
Here's another tech tidbit: Power cycling a Microsoft machine is BAD. For the purposes of this frivilous lawsuit, it completly corrupts the hard drive and requires several hours of expensive service to correct!
"But technos, any judge on earth will throw that out! The judge will call you and your lawyers a bunch of money grubbing slimes, and toss you out."
No! That's why we've picked on the elderly as our lusers-du-jour! Judges never rule against them! Why not? Because the elderly vote, and the judges are elected officials. Get enough old people in on the class action suit, and the judge will cave to keep his job!
Only as coasters, or Frisbees, or diaphragms for the sort of women you meet down on Woodward.
The moment you install it, we both lose license to it as EULA violators. Copyright infringment sets in at that point; We have no license to the software, so they go after you for infringement and me for contributory infringement. If I were to write off the donation, as a charitable act, they can now go after me for loads of other stuff, and the IRS will be interested in felony tax-evasion.
Quite nice, isn't it?
Look at my situation; We lease thousands of Windows PCs, most of which are scrapped after returning from lease. As a consequence, we have been known to have hundreds of OEM CDs lying around. Per the terms of the EULA, we cannot distribute the OEM with another PC, we can't trade it, and we can't return it. Shit, even installing it on the unscrapped OEM machines is questionable, since we really can't transfer the license to the purchaser. (Most of the time we are the second owner of the machine, not the first)
Now how does it make sense??
I really should do that.. Blue spandex leotard, a cape, a glue gun, and fifty or so NT5 developers discs. Carrying a 2x4, I'd be the Blue Screen Of Death.
Or perhaps go out to the Army/Navy surplus store and pick up a dress uniform and the appropriate insignia. I still have my ID badge from a trip out to Selfridge; I'll just do a little digital magic to make it read "General Protection Fault, Microsoft Corporation".
I think I'll pull the latter on Halloween. I look far better in uniform than in spandex.