Fortunately not. Besides, my bandwidth is a bit reduced these days.
I have my little book at home somewhere, but once or twice a year, something like this pops up and makes it the nice time to let people know of the FROA if they don't already know.
Besides, that's why I included the URL, so as to not plagiarize. However, but quoting enough of them, I am sure Paramount would/could have something to say. Then again, so many sites run the entire list, plus include pics, sound, bios, etc. that I hope that they won't be too hard on me.
And, to the Earthling White House cadge cabal and equally to the Ferengi:
Peace is Good for the Economy; War is Good for the Economy.
See: http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/
1: applies to human taxpayers 2: applies to Terra Firma soverign lands 6: obviously doesn't apply to him/his 7: hard to avoid when they're big 10: quoted by previous poster 13: self explanatory 16: self explanatory 19: "Satisfaction is not guaranteed." Yep 21: self explanatory 27: self explanatory 34: self explanatory 35: self explanatory 41: self explanatory 48: self explanatory 52: self explanatory 76: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies." (whether or not they sit on the board of the carlysle group? Interesting, these Ferengi) 89: self explanatory 97: Enough... is never enough. 99: Trust is the biggest liability of all 104: Faith moves mountains... of inventory. 111: self explanatory 121: Everything is for sale, even friendship.
144: There's nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket.
162: Even in the worst of times someone turns a profit.
177: Know your enemies... but do business with them always.
181: Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit. 189: Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money. 202: self explanatory 211: Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.
242: More is good... all is better.
255: A wife is a luxury... a smart accountant is a necessity.
261: A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience.
266: When in doubt, lie
285: No good deed ever goes unpunished.
We may live long(er) (due to meds and tech), but we subjects may not really prosper (under business rules)
I KNEW "LLIT" were the missing link from his jacket letter and identification, reducing the surname to 4 letters from 8. Maybe that also explains the dim light up there.
A company should have a lifespand, just as a human. When too much resuscitation or band-aiding, or splinting has been done, the plug gets pulled. If a company is reckless run by management, the law should be that the remaining employees get the pieces and a chance to resurrect it under guidance from court-appointed, new-company-accepted employees with the intent that the new company is stripped of the derelict or run-aground officers. Creditors can pursue the captain and key officers, not the subordinates, unless such are found to be in complicity with the corruption. That said...
That's partly why when I created a corporation to sell my art, I granted it, in it's articles of incorporation, only the right to sell COPIES of my art, and ONLY through the disk it is given.
Should/when I die/expire/become an invalid, my company shall also die. This was to usurp two possibilities that all-too-often happen:
1. a once good relationship with a business partner (person or another business) is tainted/poisoned by such partner/s, partners whose intent at any point was to hijack ownership of my works which they never created but might have a motive to own rather than create derivatives
2. minimize the chance that a county assessor would successfully assess all my books, drawings, art tools, and other materials I amassed since childhood, items which I NEVER deducted, expensed, itemized or in ANY way offset any costs via tax returns, schedules, etc. My hobby is my hobby and I NEVER, EVER shifted costs. See, in some counties, the tax assessor can determine that you goods or property belongs to the company JUST because it is sitting in the same room as the business that feeds it material, or JUST because you, the artist, happen to occasionally or regularly depend upon information in your collection of books.
So, by that claim (of the county), a person HAS no hobby if he/she makes any money off of even the IDEA. The clerk told me that if I look at, touch, use, breathe, whatever, anything of my hobby for the operation of the company, it belonged to the company. To HELL with THAT statement. But, thanks to an IRS employee who empathized with my situation, he said I needed to create a "separation of ownership" or a "division of property", clearly stating in my Articles of Incorporation what the company could and could not do, what was mine, what was not under control of the company, etc. So, I spelled that out, across some 8 pages and forced the Department of Revenue to accept and file away my Articles of Incorporation as public record with my single-sheet filing. With that, I returned to the county from the state my AI, my explicit intent, my mindset, and the mission of the company and showed them my drawing hobby and why it was NEVER going to be controlled or owned by the company, even in the event of my demise. That shut them up and I filed as I wanted, after wasting almost a month trying to figure out their motive for blowing off my unfocused intent to separate ownership and control from my company before forming it.
Plus, I published the AI on my website when the company existed. The company does NOT control me, ***I**** decide when it gets new material, I don't keep a schedule, and I make sure it has a built-in poision pill for every scenario that some A*hole adversariy or forceful acquisition-minded entitiy can think of. I sell the art (rather, let the company do so) for exposure, not for profit motive. That it makes money is nice, but it is NOT the goal. Anyone enforcing that profit is above all other considerations gets no warm heart from me. Not when it comes to MY hobby and marginal business.
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Well, to me, artists are not professional doctors or lawyers, so my hodge-podge of books are not some neat, $20,000 collection on a teak-shelved wall you'll find in those trades. I've a stack of tottering, unshelved, sometimes shelved books. Nope, they will NOT be assessed.
But, I like the term "dried husk". Reminds me of STTNG where this species of male and female beings reproduce by "inseminating a husk", or was that the episode where a 3rd party carries the embryo and is essentially a servant. So, maybe Sun and ms (lower-casing/deprecation intentional whenver I use ms' name or key officers' names) intend to use Linux or GNU/GPL as an "inseminable husk" to produce designer offspring.
Well, hopefully nothing like that happens. Thanks for the GPL/GNU/CopyLeft/Creative Commons, the end of SOME corporate hijacking of community/public works will be a lesSON that steadily is lesSENED.
It's PARODY. The precedent has been set in New York, back in the Saturday Night Live days. I remember back in 2001 or 2002 listnening to CNET Radio when they used to be on the air. Desmond Crisis or Alex Bennett (think Bennett) was on SNL (Saturday Night Live).
They used to do a skit, "You run for your life in fear!", a parody on "There's more to your life a Sears" or something like that. Their skit was on Apartheid, in Africa. It insulted or offended Sears, and they sued, but the case was settled, and mainly because, according the attorney and the judge, PARODY has to have a certain element of familiarity. Otherwise it is NOT recognizable enough to be laughed at. If it is so filtered or watered down in the fear of going beyond protected speech, then the effect of parody is nullifed. Thus, no parody, no stand-up comics, no alterations of stories, etc.
The lawyer for the company suing JibJab might need a jab in the ass to wake up to reality. Get a life.
In a little bit, maybe tonight, I'll post my renditions of UnderDog and Gilligan's Island, two songs I modified by lyrics to exorcise or cope with my having been laid off by a company that turned my life upside down. It took me from Jan 31, 2001 to Feb 8, 2004 to find a permanent job.
Stay tuned...
Underdong/Underdog.
You'll neHVUR see the headlinez read; that wall street's filled with FILTH and GREED; supporting, pushing Kompaneez; Driven by an Effving NEED for MURJ Frenzy; Murje frenzee Merge Frinzee Mirge Frinzy,
Buhy a Subsid- Clohz the Murjer; Politik them, Cross bought werkers- Subsume them, hAh-hah-ahh-ahh- Subsyoom them, Sbusyume them...
Tho Now the Murjer has completed; Frightend werkers HAVE retreated; Still there needs to be sum BLEEDING; Because-the-new-headcount-is-still too EFVING HIGH!!!
Efving High,
Efffing High Effving High PUrgue some headcount Freeze the vesting Kissup to scald-street Pine their blessing Whatever... itt-itt-tay-ay-ay-akes wha tever whattever..."
(it goes on a bit more... but I'll have to look at my script and post the verbatim)
I also prewarned that prev employer that under precedent in New York, parody permits me to say this, name them, and publish it.
Hell, I sat on the toiled innumerable days and nights wondering how I would save my mortgage. The paltry severance was vastly less than what the CEO and typical CEOs get after whacking the hell out of headcount.
David Syes
Parts of Gilligans' Island parody, not really against GI, but against my former employer:
"Jusss-sit RIGHT back, and you'll hear a tale, a tail of a fate-ful MERJ; That started with the Divi-Cubes But the DiVvees would be PURGED
The Skipper was a VC's man, and controlled by the B-O-D.."
Every time I see a car having one bright, clear, normal headlight and one yellow-dimmed, or clouded head light, i think:
CAR-CLOMA, as in "glaucoma". Might be less "sighted", since the newer (what, Halogen) bulbs have been around a while.
I wonder if Toyota will create suspension systems that make the car swish, sway, swagger, prance (sachet) along (at slow speed, for safety reasons.)
In 2000 or 2001 I once saw (and was behind) a black-and-purple-painted, rickety old (maybe former Greyhound or Partridge Family or some escaped-from-San Diego) bus teetering and tottering on a two-lane stretch of Highway 5 toward Sacto. I was laughing my ass off.
It was driving straight, but it was rolling, like a ship in mildly rough waters. (No, I wasn't consciously thinking the bus had super-king-sized bed aboard. I was thinking the suspension must've been shot like hell.) The roll moment must've been about 2 seconds to a side.
If Toyota can engineer safe, roll-inducing springs... Then, they can come out with 18-or 40-wheelers that have the cab and trailer rolling in opposite directions...
Toyota, make some "flex cars" that slinky along, maybe like a caterpillar... Call it Sache-imi, as in "Sachet Sashime" Just be sure it's a hybrid... Steel car with rubber flex-joints
Most cars have them non-symmetrically placed, being either to the right or left. BUtt (pun intended) nooooh, some car makers just insist on locating their car's anodized poop chute on-center.
Porshe beath them to that one. So, unless Toyota adds streamers or such...
3): Do you preDICT that the signal to UrANUS will be digital or ANAlog?
Tales/Tails of SciFi Terror?
5): When all those silver disks show up in the atmosphere, we'll have an ELO: Elclectic Light Orchestra, or a NEO: Near Earth Orchestra, if they emerge from the TAIL, umm, corona of a comet.
6): RDIFs? Reduced-Data Information Feeds?
7): Don't forget the "Crossing Over" show. Maybe the man stutters and stammers because of earbud or translation problems. (Is it a tree? I see THREE. Wait, he's in a room... Wait! He has a BROOM!)
8): They'll be SHAREDSOURCE, using SHAREPOINT,
9): The treaty of Axanar will spare them. But, the REAL question is: "How long can they last? 14 Hours? Oh, xTRA TERResTREEYul GI, me love u LONG LONG TYME"
10): No, and they're not Demicans nor Republicrats, either. They might be EOD, Equal-Opportunity Devourers, tho...
(Contraction: Gay (by spiritual/outward mood or carnal/corporeal orientation, either qualifies) + Alien, Extraterrestrials of extreme intelligence, biding their time on Gaia, writing software code, awaiting the Mothership's return...
Hist Fact: Former President Jefferson's Starship was late picking him up at the rendezvous...
Hist Fact: Greenbacks were inspired by Little Green Men...)
1. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "Support your local Sheriff"
2. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "Support you local police" (in case the cops don't like the Sheriff)
3. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "We Support our PAL" (Police Athletic League)
4. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "DARE"
5. If you can get away with it in your locale, and if you're a guy, wait for the officer/Sheriff to get to your rolled down window and grumble/grouse aloud, "DAMN, of ALL the gay cops in town, I had to get a STRAIGHT ONE". THAT worked for a friend of mine who most likely was going to be ticketed. He got off (away, that is...) without a citation.
6. Smile fiercely like Jack Nicholson, and ask, "WHY can't we all just just GET ALONG?"
7. (If you have enough Karma points) Hold up a placard saying, "I'm mute: I have the right to speak!" Then, grouse in sign language.
(And, imagine visiting Israel or some other place where they maintain their own current/separate databases. Imagine some scofflaw having your name and similar physical representation doing something STUPID and gets ejected. Now, your employer sends you abroad, and lo and behold, BAM! A critical project riding on a shload of money is jeopardized because of Interpol, Dept of State, DMV, etc not having consistent records because they didn't update them (yes, yes, I realize that at any minute privacy advocates will likely weigh in and I'll agree with a number of the points to be made...))
This is really a DATABASING issues. It's just a symptom of corporates (marketers/advertisers and product peddlers) and credit reporting agencies all trying to keep tabs on everyone, yet interstated communications tend to lag, and even DMV departments don't have real-time access to insurance documents. It's also evidence that maybe it's time for a lot of information to be centralized. Right now, it's almost all databased, electronically. Anyone who stands out like a sore thumb, maybe an activist or outspoken person (myself being outspoken and loose with my opinions) can be deleted (read: inconvenienced) with a keystroke, until archives are restored and identity is verified...
It's not just technical, but isn't this useful. Think about all the nerds/geeks and readers who for any number of reasons simply aren't aware of this stuff. The law says, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse", yet SOMEhow, the ignorant have to become enlightened/informed. I think there is merit and value in that poster's question being posted.
Besides, so many people who use this site grew up in a time when we shifted names/nicknames and tho we kept surnames and SSN's intact, we never anticipated the consistency/inconsistency issue until 911/TSA/DHLS, stocks investments, insurances and more. The more people find there is another person with their name, who lived less than a state away, who committed a crime, and is masquerading as the cleaner of the two, or some benefits (non SSA) are being dispensed to a "person known as someone" and there is confusion, then it can all be painful.
The thing to take away from this is tho it's by no means a legal forum, it CAN generate brainstorming, trigger a completion of a long-forgotten task, and more. Plus, it's often just "community" at work.
That is NOT a guarantee. Here in California, I had a problem wherein my SS card had a middle "nickname" which I stopped using. DMV intended to place that on my CDL, but I kept insisting I haven't used that nickname since 1996 or so.
They already have in the database:
My picture, my aliases, my prior addresses, my prior USN information/former command, speeding viols (haven't had any since 1998 or 1999), and more. Yet, for "consistency" reasons and compliance with the patriot act (yeh, I intentionally lower-cased it), the ONLY way they'd do it as I wanted would be if I went to the SSA and had them reissue to me a NEW, updated card. My surname never changed, I've used my first name consistentely since 1992 (I changed it because in a fit of anger/rage I'd had enough of my father not just opening, but ripping open like hell any envelopes that had our name on them... His excuse "I had the name first!"; my response, "Well, that's what you 1960's, arrogant, chest-pounding fathers get for making sons juniors!" (My belief is NEVER curse, consign or condemn a son to carry a father's name; he either is compared, measured below him, or just as arrogant as him, and more; let the son follow his OWN path and name...))
Moreover, if any of you in CA (and maybe in other states) plan to leave CA and register your vehicle in another state, be warned: Upon CA receiving notification that your calif registration has been changed to another state and your license reported as "surrendered" or "destroyed", CA will PROMPTLY DESTROY your CA license records at the field office level. The state level can reissue if you return to CA, but it was only something like 60 or 90 days for CA to break my identity trail (at the convenience level, I guess). I wasn't even out of the state for 11 months.
California's excuse is "records maintenance costs..." so they for some reason delete the validity of your records and force you to reestablish and PROVE identity. Sheesh, they have a thumb print, the SSN, a picture, and all sorts of mailing and other history.
No, they don't really care that you have a plethor of other docs to establish yourself. They wanted SSA to update my card. They even refused to use my current/up-to-date/valid US Passport.
Also, BE VERY CAREFUL that when you return to CA that you DON'T SURRENDER your DL from out of state, particularly if you've started another business out of state or need to periodically revisit that state or do banking there. Why? In your previous registration in another state it may be that your previous ID is the ONLY ID they'll take. After all, that will likely be photographed or some of its information transcribed. It makes things much more expeditious to have the alternate IDs, particularly when we have the interstate ID database any officer across the land can tap. So, when you return to CA or your state, they'll try to PUNCH A HOLE through your identification, usually on the DATE of BIRTH. This normally is the clue that the ID is officially invalidated.
This is stupid, to me. After all, New York was considering permitting multi-state resident/visiting visitors to posess multiple valid IDs. Again, if you are arrested or cited or warranted in another state, ALL states generally can get that information, and I believe most of them can get it in seconds. That being the case, if you're wanted in OK, and you possess valid (or invalid/expired/revoked/etc) licenses from say FL, KY and UT, the OK search will trigger your detention, when information is flowing.
As for the preservation of your other states' IDs, ask the DMV clerk to kindly place a tough sticker over some part of the non-residency-state's face, such as "Not valid for DRIVING PURPOSES in [State Name]". This will help you avoid multi-state ID verification delays. After all, some people see an invalidated ID and assume your possession of it is for criminal purposes.
If this is unacceptable to states, then maybe states need to review their reciprocity arrangements, or we who ask should get lice
I supposed if it were not illegal to challenge you to a duel of crossbows or bayonette charging, I'd challenge you for being such a goddamn dumb ass, at least in THIS regard.
***microsoft IS NOT ENTITLED TO USE A GENERIC WORD SUCH AS WINDOWS AND EXPECT GOVERNMENT PROTECTION!!!! THEY ARE using their wealth and market familiarity to retain that which should NEVER have been accorded them! **** What PART of that do you NOT understand??? I suppose you are a SHILL for microshaft. Yes, I am 'merikun, but I SURE as hell dislike a LOT about the corruption our system perpetuates and yet condemns OTHER nations for.
Obviously, YOU are the ignorant one. The process is screwed. It needs to be fixed. We have to start SOMEwhere.
So WHAT I may have confused some Judiciary and Legislative duties, but the problem is that SOMEone is permitting the corruption of the USPTO and the trademarking of company products. If microshaft had named their product "WinScreenz" or something bizarre and not already in the dictionary of commonly-used words, then pretty much NONE of us would be having this argument.
It's too BAD for microshaft that they were the dumbasses there were by blatantly violating law or restrictions on product naming. They knew damned well that they'd face this challenge later, but chose the route of "Screw the law!" or "It's better to seek forgiveness than to ask permission.", so don't attack MY position.
***ms is NOT entitled to have as a product name standing on its own a generic word. THey can get protection by simply prepending "microsoft" to ALL their product names."
(I presume the above is a legit URL, that is, legit as in valid from the US.gov domain.)
"d. Lindows, and successors in interest and present and future subsidiaries acknowledge that the common name used in the industry and by consumers to identify the class of products including the Windows and Linspire products is "operating system" and not "windows.""
If MY parents or spouse (if I had one) or any close relatives worked for the company/F/K/A Lindows Inc. this bullshit confidential agreement would NOT apply to me. No parent has the right to restrict their offsprings' or relatives' rights to strike off on their own some ambitious or Quixotic attack upon ms. Screw you, microsoft, but your so-called "right" to "windows" is null and void, and I declare it so by referring to laws that prohibit the use of generic terms as patentable items. Just the same, NO EMPLOYER documentation I am compelled to sign in order to get a job shall preclude corporeal beings not connected to me congenitally or by siamese effect shall have any effect on those persons. Who the HELL are entities to compel one person to cascade a restriction upon another person who might not even be aware of nor in agreement WITH such asinine restrictions.
See, microsoft (yessss, lower-casing/deprecation of the characters and letters of "microshaft/A/K/A/ is INTENTIONAL) your name, microsoft, in any casing or organization or arrangement of letters to produce that ghastly sound (my-crowe-soft) (hmm, remember what you did to Mike Rowe? Forced him to give up mikerowesoft...) doesn't carry much clout with me, and probably not with a WHOLE lot of other people. (Remember: Japan, China, Korea... people who don't want to be compelled to submit to western corporate imperialism on THAT level of operation: files/operating system/computers). In fact, probably only 10%-35% of the users of windoze use it by sheer personal choice. The others (comanies and individuals, governments and militaries) who receive or have windoze FOISTED upon them those who mostly have no choice when they shop for and purchase a computer, or the get them by acclimatization by sheer dint of your corruptly-attained domination of the market. (Let's not forget those moms & pops you coerced into paying royalties even though they sold naked computers. As for honesty and integrity, sure, go ahead and tell us the fraudulent video testimony about the blue and green desktops was "just an innocent mistake, your Honor" when you tried to convince the court that the iexploder was inseperable from the windoze kernel...)
As for the page 1 text, THIS got my attention:
""Lindoz" or "lindows.com" or "lindowsinc.com" or "lin---s.com" or any other term including "-indows" or "indoz" (hereinafter referred to as "Lindows Marks"), including use in or as a trademark, logo, trade name, or corporate name or portion thereof in any way and in any channel of distribution, throughout the world."
Excuse me, psycho-torneys, but try and stop me from using such terms as "jerkindoz", or "finkindoz". See, "windows" (or, "Windows") are NOT yours. It never was, and that you have it is by ineptitude on the part of the government agency responsible for gatekeeping such words. You got them because some DIPSHIT in the USPTO didn't have the foresight to deny you/refuse you the "right" to that word as a generic word is NOT supposed to be co-opted. If you trademarked "microsoft windows" and you used/use that REGULARLY as part of all your presentation of the name of the company and product, without crying about "shorthand/brevity" needs, then I would have LESS to say about your so-called indignation at "lindows". In fact, no, you'd be on less firm ground to try to assail Lindows. Alternatively, the clerk or signing official at the USPTO probably was compensated for awarding the generic word to your use. T
Hmmm.... Just a thought... Could diebold and rove and dubya be up to making sure the votes are not telephonically recounted?
Imagine if watchdogs asked for or demande access to voting facilites... just the raw counts. Or, if they poll voters afterwards and phoned in their rough tallies to a central database. Then, the government (unmm, rove, bush, and company) could have an unofficial/confirming count to make sure diebold cold cold adjusts the make-our-guy-win factor.
Then, the cell sites get jammed, or at least the voices superimposed upon with bad information injections...
Whupppss... I meant to say 20mm" rounds, not 60mm.
Note:
The M61A1 Vulcan cannon, which is the gun the F-15 & F-16 use, has a six-barrel 20mm gun. It can fire 6,000 rounds per minute.
That amount of depleted uranium or tungsten alloy penetrating the fuselage of a rapidly descending pax liner could cause and explosive decompression or structurally doom the fuselage. Or, it could rupture fuel lines, kill or blow up an engine, or any number of things.
I heard that one of the 911 phone operators was paraded before dubya's little "I'm still in charge" meetings or commemorations of the victims. When he pointed to her and explained how she was one of the last people to talk to the doomed passengers, the operator put her head down as if she had to feign that bush's words were truth.
The story I heard is that something already happened to doome the plane and crew and pax and the operator might instead have heard that the plane was going down due to its being STRUCK by something.
Even if the MISSILES were not launched at the plane (maybe the pilots had orders to minimize the exposure of their actions to filming a-la-Rodney-King-witnesses-like), there could have been nose guns rounds fired. When up close and personal, a 60mm, hundreds-rounds-minute gun can wreak a LOT of localized damage. Maybe the flaps were shot. Maybe the fuel tanks shot at. Who knows? Even a strafed plane could shed debris.
I think that if the plane were hit by missiles, the warhead explosion would not necessarily down the plane INSTANTLY, if the missile penetrated the wing or rudder and THEN exploded afterwards. If it entered the body, it more than likely would have ruptured hydraulics and jammed the flaps such that the plane would roll or spiral into a terminal pattern. But, possibly, the plane was strafed to force it to remain below 10,000 feet so the "pilots" would have restricted visibility. Again, I don't have access to the flight data, nor was I there, but maybe that leaves me (and you all) lots of "what if" room to work with.
More telling about this cell phone outtage secrecy business is that it is possible the government (oink oink bush and buddies) want to prevent an CNN-Inversion, meaning: the less the cell nets are available for rapid action updates between terrorists, the less coordinated they can be". That would be fallacious, since only a plan is needed, and once set in motion, don't deviate. The fewer deviations (assuming no accidents, delays, etc.), the more likely the impact desired will be achieved.
Maybe, the government (again, that section that is after our rights, privacy, or such) wants to cover its tracks when it causes problems associated with roving wiretaps. They might need to electronically cordon off a suspect. Or, they might need to make sure that cell towers are not unwittingly used for esoteric navigation methods amenable to illegal or destructive flying devices. Obviously, if one knows where all the sites are (today, and assuming no new ones pop up or are removed), and assuming they all have ID becons/interrogation responders, then a wily or intelligent designer could use the towers as a navigational aid, even in bad weather.
((Hmmm, might make for good tech thriller stuff, so I'd better declare here and now that I reserve the right to use these ideas in my own fiction, and even Clancy's or Cussler's or Bond's assimilation of these ideas won't preclude me from doing so for myself)).
Like Mulder and the other (confidant?) man said, "Trust no one."
Slashdot Mirror
Fortunately not. Besides, my bandwidth is a bit reduced these days.
I have my little book at home somewhere, but once or twice a year, something like this pops up and makes it the nice time to let people know of the FROA if they don't already know.
Besides, that's why I included the URL, so as to not plagiarize. However, but quoting enough of them, I am sure Paramount would/could have something to say. Then again, so many sites run the entire list, plus include pics, sound, bios, etc. that I hope that they won't be too hard on me.
" (XBox is another)."
How about:
"Hexedbox is a Bother"?
David Syes
And, to the Earthling White House cadge cabal and equally to the Ferengi:
... is never enough. ... of inventory.
... as long as it winds up in your pocket.
... but do business with them always.
... all is better.
... a smart accountant is a necessity.
Peace is Good for the Economy;
War is Good for the Economy.
See: http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/
1: applies to human taxpayers
2: applies to Terra Firma soverign lands
6: obviously doesn't apply to him/his
7: hard to avoid when they're big
10: quoted by previous poster
13: self explanatory
16: self explanatory
19: "Satisfaction is not guaranteed." Yep
21: self explanatory
27: self explanatory
34: self explanatory
35: self explanatory
41: self explanatory
48: self explanatory
52: self explanatory
76: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies." (whether or not they sit on the board of the carlysle group? Interesting, these Ferengi)
89: self explanatory
97: Enough
99: Trust is the biggest liability of all
104: Faith moves mountains
111: self explanatory
121: Everything is for sale, even friendship.
144: There's nothing wrong with charity
162: Even in the worst of times someone turns a profit.
177: Know your enemies
181: Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit.
189: Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money.
202: self explanatory
211: Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.
242: More is good
255: A wife is a luxury
261: A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience.
266: When in doubt, lie
285: No good deed ever goes unpunished.
We may live long(er) (due to meds and tech), but we subjects may not really prosper (under business rules)
David Syes
Ahhh!!!
I KNEW "LLIT" were the missing link from his jacket letter and identification, reducing the surname to 4 letters from 8. Maybe that also explains the dim light up there.
David Syes
A company should have a lifespand, just as a human. When too much resuscitation or band-aiding, or splinting has been done, the plug gets pulled. If a company is reckless run by management, the law should be that the remaining employees get the pieces and a chance to resurrect it under guidance from court-appointed, new-company-accepted employees with the intent that the new company is stripped of the derelict or run-aground officers. Creditors can pursue the captain and key officers, not the subordinates, unless such are found to be in complicity with the corruption. That said...
That's partly why when I created a corporation to sell my art, I granted it, in it's articles of incorporation, only the right to sell COPIES of my art, and ONLY through the disk it is given.
Should/when I die/expire/become an invalid, my company shall also die. This was to usurp two possibilities that all-too-often happen:
1. a once good relationship with a business partner (person or another business) is tainted/poisoned by such partner/s, partners whose intent at any point was to hijack ownership of my works which they never created but might have a motive to own rather than create derivatives
2. minimize the chance that a county assessor would successfully assess all my books, drawings, art tools, and other materials I amassed since childhood, items which I NEVER deducted, expensed, itemized or in ANY way offset any costs via tax returns, schedules, etc. My hobby is my hobby and I NEVER, EVER shifted costs. See, in some counties, the tax assessor can determine that you goods or property belongs to the company JUST because it is sitting in the same room as the business that feeds it material, or JUST because you, the artist, happen to occasionally or regularly depend upon information in your collection of books.
So, by that claim (of the county), a person HAS no hobby if he/she makes any money off of even the IDEA. The clerk told me that if I look at, touch, use, breathe, whatever, anything of my hobby for the operation of the company, it belonged to the company. To HELL with THAT statement. But, thanks to an IRS employee who empathized with my situation, he said I needed to create a "separation of ownership" or a "division of property", clearly stating in my Articles of Incorporation what the company could and could not do, what was mine, what was not under control of the company, etc. So, I spelled that out, across some 8 pages and forced the Department of Revenue to accept and file away my Articles of Incorporation as public record with my single-sheet filing. With that, I returned to the county from the state my AI, my explicit intent, my mindset, and the mission of the company and showed them my drawing hobby and why it was NEVER going to be controlled or owned by the company, even in the event of my demise. That shut them up and I filed as I wanted, after wasting almost a month trying to figure out their motive for blowing off my unfocused intent to separate ownership and control from my company before forming it.
Plus, I published the AI on my website when the company existed. The company does NOT control me, ***I**** decide when it gets new material, I don't keep a schedule, and I make sure it has a built-in poision pill for every scenario that some A*hole adversariy or forceful acquisition-minded entitiy can think of. I sell the art (rather, let the company do so) for exposure, not for profit motive. That it makes money is nice, but it is NOT the goal. Anyone enforcing that profit is above all other considerations gets no warm heart from me. Not when it comes to MY hobby and marginal business.
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Well, to me, artists are not professional doctors or lawyers, so my hodge-podge of books are not some neat, $20,000 collection on a teak-shelved wall you'll find in those trades. I've a stack of tottering, unshelved, sometimes shelved books. Nope, they will NOT be assessed.
David Syes
Could they be a Toasted Wheatie?
or, a
"Hot Pocket" of stellar gas?
or a
"Gas Giant"
But, I like the term "dried husk". Reminds me of STTNG where this species of male and female beings reproduce by "inseminating a husk", or was that the episode where a 3rd party carries the embryo and is essentially a servant. So, maybe Sun and ms (lower-casing/deprecation intentional whenver I use ms' name or key officers' names) intend to use Linux or GNU/GPL as an "inseminable husk" to produce designer offspring.
Well, hopefully nothing like that happens. Thanks for the GPL/GNU/CopyLeft/Creative Commons, the end of SOME corporate hijacking of community/public works will be a lesSON that steadily is lesSENED.
Some of you may wish to read these:
o te s.htm
"Fox News a sick parody of journalism" (section of the URL)
http://aztecpress.pima.edu/082103/oped.html
and this:
"The Illustrated Story of Copyright
© 2000 by Edward Samuels"
http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/N
JibJab,
a tever
It's PARODY. The precedent has been set in New York, back in the Saturday Night Live days. I remember back in 2001 or 2002 listnening to CNET Radio when they used to be on the air. Desmond Crisis or Alex Bennett (think Bennett) was on SNL (Saturday Night Live).
They used to do a skit, "You run for your life in fear!", a parody on "There's more to your life a Sears" or something like that. Their skit was on Apartheid, in Africa. It insulted or offended Sears, and they sued, but the case was settled, and mainly because, according the attorney and the judge, PARODY has to have a certain element of familiarity. Otherwise it is NOT recognizable enough to be laughed at. If it is so filtered or watered down in the fear of going beyond protected speech, then the effect of parody is nullifed. Thus, no parody, no stand-up comics, no alterations of stories, etc.
The lawyer for the company suing JibJab might need a jab in the ass to wake up to reality. Get a life.
In a little bit, maybe tonight, I'll post my renditions of UnderDog and Gilligan's Island, two songs I modified by lyrics to exorcise or cope with my having been laid off by a company that turned my life upside down. It took me from Jan 31, 2001 to Feb 8, 2004 to find a permanent job.
Stay tuned...
Underdong/Underdog.
You'll neHVUR see the headlinez read;
that wall street's filled with FILTH and GREED;
supporting, pushing Kompaneez;
Driven by an Effving NEED
for MURJ Frenzy;
Murje frenzee
Merge Frinzee
Mirge Frinzy,
Buhy a Subsid-
Clohz the Murjer;
Politik them,
Cross bought werkers-
Subsume them,
hAh-hah-ahh-ahh-
Subsyoom them,
Sbusyume them...
Tho Now the Murjer has completed;
Frightend werkers HAVE retreated;
Still there needs to be sum BLEEDING;
Because-the-new-headcount-is-still too EFVING HIGH!!!
Efving High,
Efffing High
Effving High
PUrgue some headcount
Freeze the vesting
Kissup to scald-street
Pine their blessing
Whatever...
itt-itt-tay-ay-ay-akes
wh
whattever..."
(it goes on a bit more... but I'll have to look at my script and post the verbatim)
I also prewarned that prev employer that under precedent in New York, parody permits me to say this, name them, and publish it.
Hell, I sat on the toiled innumerable days and nights wondering how I would save my mortgage. The paltry severance was vastly less than what the CEO and typical CEOs get after whacking the hell out of headcount.
David Syes
Parts of Gilligans' Island parody, not really against GI, but against my former employer:
"Jusss-sit RIGHT back,
and you'll hear a tale,
a tail of a fate-ful MERJ;
That started with the Divi-Cubes
But the DiVvees would be PURGED
The Skipper was a VC's man,
and controlled by the B-O-D.."
(Wait for the rest....)
David Syes..
Hmmm.. Godzilla, Guldar, Gammara.....
ClayYota?
Well,
Every time I see a car having one bright, clear, normal headlight and one yellow-dimmed, or clouded head light, i think:
CAR-CLOMA, as in "glaucoma". Might be less "sighted", since the newer (what, Halogen) bulbs have been around a while.
I wonder if Toyota will create suspension systems that make the car swish, sway, swagger, prance (sachet) along (at slow speed, for safety reasons.)
In 2000 or 2001 I once saw (and was behind) a black-and-purple-painted, rickety old (maybe former Greyhound or Partridge Family or some escaped-from-San Diego) bus teetering and tottering on a two-lane stretch of Highway 5 toward Sacto. I was laughing my ass off.
It was driving straight, but it was rolling, like a ship in mildly rough waters. (No, I wasn't consciously thinking the bus had super-king-sized bed aboard. I was thinking the suspension must've been shot like hell.) The roll moment must've been about 2 seconds to a side.
If Toyota can engineer safe, roll-inducing springs... Then, they can come out with 18-or 40-wheelers that have the cab and trailer rolling in opposite directions...
Toyota, make some "flex cars" that slinky along, maybe like a caterpillar... Call it Sache-imi, as in "Sachet Sashime" Just be sure it's a hybrid... Steel car with rubber flex-joints
David Syes
That single or double-barrel tail pipe.
Most cars have them non-symmetrically placed, being either to the right or left. BUtt (pun intended) nooooh, some car makers just insist on locating their car's anodized poop chute on-center.
Porshe beath them to that one. So, unless Toyota adds streamers or such...
So,
Does this mean that battlefield grunts/soldiers are just "peons" of their disrespective governments?
Gives a whole new meaning to PEONS.
David Syes
Erect Monkeys? With Viagra? Hmmm. Pretty "spunky monkey" or is that "funky monkey"? Or, "chunky monkey"?
Change Viagra (Niagara) to Killagra (Killimanjaro), or Tanzagra (Tanzania)
I guess when they become ChimpoNauts, they'll we "hairy and wary"...
David Syes
Yeh, the SUPER-SIZING of AMERICA!
I KNEW the "Great Experiment" has a PURPOSE!!!
Pretty soon, we'll be inside gigantic Slurpee machines.
"Hi Mr. Bleextor? How would you like your Human Salad today? Sorbet? DOH!"
"Kleztrox, what's brown, red, clumply and screaming? The Hyoo-mon in Processing bay Four! DOH!!!"
David Syes
So, what does all this REALLY enTAIL?
3): Do you preDICT that the signal to UrANUS will be digital or ANAlog?
Tales/Tails of SciFi Terror?
5): When all those silver disks show up in the atmosphere, we'll have an ELO: Elclectic Light Orchestra, or a NEO: Near Earth Orchestra, if they emerge from the TAIL, umm, corona of a comet.
6): RDIFs? Reduced-Data Information Feeds?
7): Don't forget the "Crossing Over" show. Maybe the man stutters and stammers because of earbud or translation problems. (Is it a tree? I see THREE. Wait, he's in a room... Wait! He has a BROOM!)
8): They'll be SHAREDSOURCE, using SHAREPOINT,
9): The treaty of Axanar will spare them. But, the REAL question is: "How long can they last? 14 Hours? Oh, xTRA TERResTREEYul GI, me love u LONG LONG TYME"
10): No, and they're not Demicans nor Republicrats, either. They might be EOD, Equal-Opportunity Devourers, tho...
Galeon, anyone?
(Contraction: Gay (by spiritual/outward mood or carnal/corporeal orientation, either qualifies) + Alien, Extraterrestrials of extreme intelligence, biding their time on Gaia, writing software code, awaiting the Mothership's return...
Hist Fact: Former President Jefferson's Starship was late picking him up at the rendezvous...
Hist Fact: Greenbacks were inspired by Little Green Men...)
Is that an "Omen", Damian?
("Damien Omen")
For "help wth future encounters" with the police:
1. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "Support your local Sheriff"
2. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "Support you local police" (in case the cops don't like the Sheriff)
3. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "We Support our PAL" (Police Athletic League)
4. Put on your vehicle a sticker saying, "DARE"
5. If you can get away with it in your locale, and if you're a guy, wait for the officer/Sheriff to get to your rolled down window and grumble/grouse aloud, "DAMN, of ALL the gay cops in town, I had to get a STRAIGHT ONE". THAT worked for a friend of mine who most likely was going to be ticketed. He got off (away, that is...) without a citation.
6. Smile fiercely like Jack Nicholson, and ask, "WHY can't we all just just GET ALONG?"
7. (If you have enough Karma points) Hold up a placard saying, "I'm mute: I have the right to speak!" Then, grouse in sign language.
David Syes....
WHy is it irrelevant? Think of:
--Databases
--TSA
--DHLS
--Employers
--DMV
--Insurance
--Creditors...
(And, imagine visiting Israel or some other place where they maintain their own current/separate databases. Imagine some scofflaw having your name and similar physical representation doing something STUPID and gets ejected. Now, your employer sends you abroad, and lo and behold, BAM! A critical project riding on a shload of money is jeopardized because of Interpol, Dept of State, DMV, etc not having consistent records because they didn't update them (yes, yes, I realize that at any minute privacy advocates will likely weigh in and I'll agree with a number of the points to be made...))
This is really a DATABASING issues. It's just a symptom of corporates (marketers/advertisers and product peddlers) and credit reporting agencies all trying to keep tabs on everyone, yet interstated communications tend to lag, and even DMV departments don't have real-time access to insurance documents. It's also evidence that maybe it's time for a lot of information to be centralized. Right now, it's almost all databased, electronically. Anyone who stands out like a sore thumb, maybe an activist or outspoken person (myself being outspoken and loose with my opinions) can be deleted (read: inconvenienced) with a keystroke, until archives are restored and identity is verified...
It's not just technical, but isn't this useful. Think about all the nerds/geeks and readers who for any number of reasons simply aren't aware of this stuff. The law says, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse", yet SOMEhow, the ignorant have to become enlightened/informed. I think there is merit and value in that poster's question being posted.
Besides, so many people who use this site grew up in a time when we shifted names/nicknames and tho we kept surnames and SSN's intact, we never anticipated the consistency/inconsistency issue until 911/TSA/DHLS, stocks investments, insurances and more. The more people find there is another person with their name, who lived less than a state away, who committed a crime, and is masquerading as the cleaner of the two, or some benefits (non SSA) are being dispensed to a "person known as someone" and there is confusion, then it can all be painful.
The thing to take away from this is tho it's by no means a legal forum, it CAN generate brainstorming, trigger a completion of a long-forgotten task, and more. Plus, it's often just "community" at work.
Regards,
David Syes
That is NOT a guarantee. Here in California, I had a problem wherein my SS card had a middle "nickname" which I stopped using. DMV intended to place that on my CDL, but I kept insisting I haven't used that nickname since 1996 or so.
They already have in the database:
My picture, my aliases, my prior addresses, my prior USN information/former command, speeding viols (haven't had any since 1998 or 1999), and more. Yet, for "consistency" reasons and compliance with the patriot act (yeh, I intentionally lower-cased it), the ONLY way they'd do it as I wanted would be if I went to the SSA and had them reissue to me a NEW, updated card. My surname never changed, I've used my first name consistentely since 1992 (I changed it because in a fit of anger/rage I'd had enough of my father not just opening, but ripping open like hell any envelopes that had our name on them... His excuse "I had the name first!"; my response, "Well, that's what you 1960's, arrogant, chest-pounding fathers get for making sons juniors!" (My belief is NEVER curse, consign or condemn a son to carry a father's name; he either is compared, measured below him, or just as arrogant as him, and more; let the son follow his OWN path and name...))
Moreover, if any of you in CA (and maybe in other states) plan to leave CA and register your vehicle in another state, be warned: Upon CA receiving notification that your calif registration has been changed to another state and your license reported as "surrendered" or "destroyed", CA will PROMPTLY DESTROY your CA license records at the field office level. The state level can reissue if you return to CA, but it was only something like 60 or 90 days for CA to break my identity trail (at the convenience level, I guess). I wasn't even out of the state for 11 months.
California's excuse is "records maintenance costs..." so they for some reason delete the validity of your records and force you to reestablish and PROVE identity. Sheesh, they have a thumb print, the SSN, a picture, and all sorts of mailing and other history.
No, they don't really care that you have a plethor of other docs to establish yourself. They wanted SSA to update my card. They even refused to use my current/up-to-date/valid US Passport.
Also, BE VERY CAREFUL that when you return to CA that you DON'T SURRENDER your DL from out of state, particularly if you've started another business out of state or need to periodically revisit that state or do banking there. Why? In your previous registration in another state it may be that your previous ID is the ONLY ID they'll take. After all, that will likely be photographed or some of its information transcribed. It makes things much more expeditious to have the alternate IDs, particularly when we have the interstate ID database any officer across the land can tap. So, when you return to CA or your state, they'll try to PUNCH A HOLE through your identification, usually on the DATE of BIRTH. This normally is the clue that the ID is officially invalidated.
This is stupid, to me. After all, New York was considering permitting multi-state resident/visiting visitors to posess multiple valid IDs. Again, if you are arrested or cited or warranted in another state, ALL states generally can get that information, and I believe most of them can get it in seconds. That being the case, if you're wanted in OK, and you possess valid (or invalid/expired/revoked/etc) licenses from say FL, KY and UT, the OK search will trigger your detention, when information is flowing.
As for the preservation of your other states' IDs, ask the DMV clerk to kindly place a tough sticker over some part of the non-residency-state's face, such as "Not valid for DRIVING PURPOSES in [State Name]". This will help you avoid multi-state ID verification delays. After all, some people see an invalidated ID and assume your possession of it is for criminal purposes.
If this is unacceptable to states, then maybe states need to review their reciprocity arrangements, or we who ask should get lice
I supposed if it were not illegal to challenge you to a duel of crossbows or bayonette charging, I'd challenge you for being such a goddamn dumb ass, at least in THIS regard.
***microsoft IS NOT ENTITLED TO USE A GENERIC WORD SUCH AS WINDOWS AND EXPECT GOVERNMENT PROTECTION!!!! THEY ARE using their wealth and market familiarity to retain that which should NEVER have been accorded them! **** What PART of that do you NOT understand??? I suppose you are a SHILL for microshaft. Yes, I am 'merikun, but I SURE as hell dislike a LOT about the corruption our system perpetuates and yet condemns OTHER nations for.
Obviously, YOU are the ignorant one. The process is screwed. It needs to be fixed. We have to start SOMEwhere.
So WHAT I may have confused some Judiciary and Legislative duties, but the problem is that SOMEone is permitting the corruption of the USPTO and the trademarking of company products. If microshaft had named their product "WinScreenz" or something bizarre and not already in the dictionary of commonly-used words, then pretty much NONE of us would be having this argument.
It's too BAD for microshaft that they were the dumbasses there were by blatantly violating law or restrictions on product naming. They knew damned well that they'd face this challenge later, but chose the route of "Screw the law!" or "It's better to seek forgiveness than to ask permission.", so don't attack MY position.
***ms is NOT entitled to have as a product name standing on its own a generic word. THey can get protection by simply prepending "microsoft" to ALL their product names."
Now, I've wasted enough bytes biting at your ass.
Sheesh.
David Syes
From:
.gov domain.)
/F/K/A Lindows Inc. this bullshit confidential agreement would NOT apply to me. No parent has the right to restrict their offsprings' or relatives' rights to strike off on their own some ambitious or Quixotic attack upon ms. Screw you, microsoft, but your so-called "right" to "windows" is null and void, and I declare it so by referring to laws that prohibit the use of generic terms as patentable items. Just the same, NO EMPLOYER documentation I am compelled to sign in order to get a job shall preclude corporeal beings not connected to me congenitally or by siamese effect shall have any effect on those persons. Who the HELL are entities to compel one person to cascade a restriction upon another person who might not even be aware of nor in agreement WITH such asinine restrictions.
/A/K/A/ is INTENTIONAL) your name, microsoft, in any casing or organization or arrangement of letters to produce that ghastly sound (my-crowe-soft) (hmm, remember what you did to Mike Rowe? Forced him to give up mikerowesoft...) doesn't carry much clout with me, and probably not with a WHOLE lot of other people. (Remember: Japan, China, Korea... people who don't want to be compelled to submit to western corporate imperialism on THAT level of operation: files/operating system/computers). In fact, probably only 10%-35% of the users of windoze use it by sheer personal choice. The others (comanies and individuals, governments and militaries) who receive or have windoze FOISTED upon them those who mostly have no choice when they shop for and purchase a computer, or the get them by acclimatization by sheer dint of your corruptly-attained domination of the market. (Let's not forget those moms & pops you coerced into paying royalties even though they sold naked computers. As for honesty and integrity, sure, go ahead and tell us the fraudulent video testimony about the blue and green desktops was "just an innocent mistake, your Honor" when you tried to convince the court that the iexploder was inseperable from the windoze kernel...)
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1282724/0 00 093639204000755/a97792a2exv10w24.txt
(I presume the above is a legit URL, that is, legit as in valid from the US
"d. Lindows, and successors in interest and present and future subsidiaries acknowledge that the common name used in the industry and by
consumers to identify the class of products including the Windows and Linspire
products is "operating system" and not "windows.""
If MY parents or spouse (if I had one) or any close relatives worked for the company
See, microsoft (yessss, lower-casing/deprecation of the characters and letters of "microshaft
As for the page 1 text, THIS got my attention:
""Lindoz" or "lindows.com" or "lindowsinc.com" or "lin---s.com" or any other term
including "-indows" or "indoz" (hereinafter referred to as "Lindows Marks"),
including use in or as a trademark, logo, trade name, or corporate name or portion thereof in any way and in any channel of distribution, throughout the world."
Excuse me, psycho-torneys, but try and stop me from using such terms as "jerkindoz", or "finkindoz". See, "windows" (or, "Windows") are NOT yours. It never was, and that you have it is by ineptitude on the part of the government agency responsible for gatekeeping such words. You got them because some DIPSHIT in the USPTO didn't have the foresight to deny you/refuse you the "right" to that word as a generic word is NOT supposed to be co-opted. If you trademarked "microsoft windows" and you used/use that REGULARLY as part of all your presentation of the name of the company and product, without crying about "shorthand/brevity" needs, then I would have LESS to say about your so-called indignation at "lindows". In fact, no, you'd be on less firm ground to try to assail Lindows. Alternatively, the clerk or signing official at the USPTO probably was compensated for awarding the generic word to your use. T
Hmmm.... Just a thought... Could diebold and rove and dubya be up to making sure the votes are not telephonically recounted?
Imagine if watchdogs asked for or demande access to voting facilites... just the raw counts. Or, if they poll voters afterwards and phoned in their rough tallies to a central database. Then, the government (unmm, rove, bush, and company) could have an unofficial/confirming count to make sure diebold cold cold adjusts the make-our-guy-win factor.
Then, the cell sites get jammed, or at least the voices superimposed upon with bad information injections...
Just a thought...or, a few thoughts...
David Syes
Whupppss... I meant to say 20mm" rounds, not 60mm.
Note:
The M61A1 Vulcan cannon, which is the gun the F-15 & F-16 use, has a six-barrel 20mm gun. It can fire 6,000 rounds per minute.
That amount of depleted uranium or tungsten alloy penetrating the fuselage of a rapidly descending pax liner could cause and explosive decompression or structurally doom the fuselage. Or, it could rupture fuel lines, kill or blow up an engine, or any number of things.
David Syes
I heard that one of the 911 phone operators was paraded before dubya's little "I'm still in charge" meetings or commemorations of the victims. When he pointed to her and explained how she was one of the last people to talk to the doomed passengers, the operator put her head down as if she had to feign that bush's words were truth.
The story I heard is that something already happened to doome the plane and crew and pax and the operator might instead have heard that the plane was going down due to its being STRUCK by something.
Even if the MISSILES were not launched at the plane (maybe the pilots had orders to minimize the exposure of their actions to filming a-la-Rodney-King-witnesses-like), there could have been nose guns rounds fired. When up close and personal, a 60mm, hundreds-rounds-minute gun can wreak a LOT of localized damage. Maybe the flaps were shot. Maybe the fuel tanks shot at. Who knows? Even a strafed plane could shed debris.
I think that if the plane were hit by missiles, the warhead explosion would not necessarily down the plane INSTANTLY, if the missile penetrated the wing or rudder and THEN exploded afterwards. If it entered the body, it more than likely would have ruptured hydraulics and jammed the flaps such that the plane would roll or spiral into a terminal pattern. But, possibly, the plane was strafed to force it to remain below 10,000 feet so the "pilots" would have restricted visibility. Again, I don't have access to the flight data, nor was I there, but maybe that leaves me (and you all) lots of "what if" room to work with.
More telling about this cell phone outtage secrecy business is that it is possible the government (oink oink bush and buddies) want to prevent an CNN-Inversion, meaning: the less the cell nets are available for rapid action updates between terrorists, the less coordinated they can be". That would be fallacious, since only a plan is needed, and once set in motion, don't deviate. The fewer deviations (assuming no accidents, delays, etc.), the more likely the impact desired will be achieved.
Maybe, the government (again, that section that is after our rights, privacy, or such) wants to cover its tracks when it causes problems associated with roving wiretaps. They might need to electronically cordon off a suspect. Or, they might need to make sure that cell towers are not unwittingly used for esoteric navigation methods amenable to illegal or destructive flying devices. Obviously, if one knows where all the sites are (today, and assuming no new ones pop up or are removed), and assuming they all have ID becons/interrogation responders, then a wily or intelligent designer could use the towers as a navigational aid, even in bad weather.
((Hmmm, might make for good tech thriller stuff, so I'd better declare here and now that I reserve the right to use these ideas in my own fiction, and even Clancy's or Cussler's or Bond's assimilation of these ideas won't preclude me from doing so for myself)).
Like Mulder and the other (confidant?) man said, "Trust no one."
Look deeper. The truth is there.
David Syes