standing, it's plain fucking stupid. Where were these people when Nortel and Intel and others operating in or organized in the US selling similar equipment to China and having it BUILT IN CHINA, too, enabling China to clone the technology in factories and produce extra shit off-hours, off-books. Talk about the feeling of calling the kettle black.
I think these political types are making noise because China buys US dollars and props up the US (but for military budgets China's a great foil), but Iran just happens to be the newest (or current) election irregularities "bad guy" to keep the rest of us here "distracted". If they keep rattling Iran, something will backfire (whether or not related to Iran meddling in Iraq... Iran isn't the ONLY government "meddling" in near or far-away countries...).
ASSININE? I bet it will be the BUTT of all jokes. His nickname can be... "butt buddy"
I am sure he'll seek another grant to study bosoms/breasts, and he'll produce a MOUND of information. I am sure he'll enjoy knockwurst while he knocks on doors looking to measure knockers. He might even be knocked on his butt off a few porches by bouncy knockers responders... Butt, knock the wrong door, it could be the worst knock of his life...
More than THAT, this appears to me that ms is just hopping mad and grousing that the Obama administration is tapping an IBM Open Source advocate for USPTO...
Eat your HEART OUT, microsoft. Instead of BITCHING behind proxies (read: paid-for-shills, sychophants, and suck-ups attorneys and advertisers (*computer manufacturer* recommends MICROSOFT *product* for ALL YOUR COMPUTING/SURFING/ENTERTAINMENT needs. See if keep bying products from pricks that lie to me in the name of getting marketing dollars from you....)), go and try to make an iPhone killer and get it right. Stop trying to commit subterfuge against Open Source and people's RIGHT to not be sewn in or sewn up by you and companies LIKE yours. And, stop hiding behind "there are no morals in business". If a company can be accorded the rights and privileges of a person, then maybe if ms is smacked, prodded, and skewered LIKE a person, then you might GROW UP.
Sheesh...
(JUSt TRY it... just TRY to send the suits after me....)
sexy topic... a DEEP, probative analysis of sorts. I bet the analyzers are as gay/giddy as they can morph into... Maybe they can be TRANS-FORMERS.... slap some dap and scrum some bum...
That's where neighborhood watches come into play, when someone calls 911 or some security company number, and when uniforms and lights/siren-topped vehicles appear, some crime (but not all crime) can be or is deterred.
To say (in blanket fashion) that the police don't help because the damage is done is a little bit over the top. The police are not just REactive... there are times when the police can be PROactive, and even when reactive, they can still contain or prevent damage, especially when well-placed, well-protected confidential informants regularly provide information. Sometimes, the police/law enforcement act as the CI (legally or illegally)...
Also, this could be due to some unpublished whistle-blowing deterrent plan of theirs.
OTOH, they probably DO have separatists and anarchist to worry about, or they've got fears they are unwittingly harboring a Ken Starling there...
What is running through the minds of those fools? How could the be so idiotic to even PUBLISH such a demand for information. This kind of wanton stupidity makes the entire staff involved in this to be fired and replaced. If the GOVERNMENT wants the kind of information these BOZOS want, then the onus should be on the government to SPY, not command the "subjects" to just hand over information.
This may be a libelous/slanderous statement against the officials of the city of Bozeman, Montana, but fuck'em! Bozeman officials: You are crazy, stupid, mother*#(kers:
"That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords."
But, now i'm thinking this is a tactic to reduce the pool of applicants to government jobs there... Or, some lame "child-protection" law used as a smokescreen for other reasons...
Why the FUCK should a citizen/applicant provide their PASSWORDS AND USER ACCOUTS? For private activity? Even in the WORKplace, most companies and government agencies stress the importance of keeping passwords private.
"Massa's solution would be to force ISPs to justify usage-based fees to the FTC before they are implemented. The ISP would have to submit an economic case, based on the capital equipment cost and operational costs, for why they need to charge for usage, and then consider the impact of those fees on users. The FTC would get injunction power, and the ability to fine any ISP that either neglected to file a justification or implemented the plan regardless of the injunction. The bill uses language like "unjust, unreasonable, or unreasonably discriminatory" to describe plans that run afoul of the economic analysis, which Massa says reflects existing statutory language used giving the FTC regulatory power.
It's safe to assume Time Warner won't like this one bit, as a basic economic analysis shows that its plan imposes fees that are nowhere close to those of its fellow duopolists. More generally, the cost of supporting subscribers appears to be dropping in most cases, so it seems unlikely that anyone in the industry would be able to get their plan past the FTC."
we take a dump. If we don't, we get severe headaches, have runny nose, display duck-waddly gaits, incur a fever, and feel like shit all beCAUSE of shit.
Also, frrom what i heard from a source, they made so much cash selling the Times Square location that they just happily threw in the other US locations just to be done with them.
"He points out that quantum chromodynamics predicts that when neutrons are squashed together, matter undergoes a phase transition into "subhadronic" matter. This is very different from ordinary matter. In subhadronic form, space is essentially empty. So the phase change creates a sudden reduction in pressure forcing any ordinary matter in the star to implode into this new vacuum. The result is a massive increase in temperature of this matter that creates a "burning wall" within the supernova. And it is this burning wall that stops the formation of a black hole, not just the degeneracy pressure of neutrons. This should lead to much greater energies inside a supernova than had been thought possible until now. And that's important because it could explain the formation of high energy gamma ray bursts that have long puzzled astrophysicists.""
reminds me of my first, full-on sex act. I wasn't even THINKING of the movie "The Black Hole", either... I did, tho, feel i was being pulled, squished, and exploded into multiple dimensions.
That is, the upper northern West Coast was LONNNNG overdue for a tsunami or Mt. St. Helens mega eruption, and that if it took out ms, that that would be fine by me. Unfortunately, ms would have enough backups around the world to rise from the ash, either as a new fearsome giant, or a bunch of smaller ones that some expected the anti-trust cases might produce.
BUT... maybe Mt. St. Helens might become the new force of open source? Or, the new source of open FORCE. If it smacks ms, it would be a New Caldera Era, SCO (Sporadic, Combustible Obliteration)....Yikes!
Well, yeh, of course my prints were on the inside of the car, and any on the outside were old, compared to those all over the hood, doors, wheel area, and more from moving the car around. So, i think even if i were only victim one, the amount of time they had my car on their so-called secure/locked lot, their prints were the latest.
But, it's amazing how many dealers and repair shops will park people's cars on open lots and on the street and make people sign release forms in order to start work. All the money some dealerships make you'd think they'd have perimeter security. Some, maybe many, do, in order to preserve customer business and display good will/concern. The ones that don't are asking to be put out of business, or at least deserve to be put out of business -- at least if their quietly know they've been the subject of break-ins or fraud but never install or hire a deterrent to such costly crimes.
"Three times in one month my car was broken into and nothing was stolen but considerable damage was done to my vehicle. I asked cops if there was an option to dust for fingerprints... what do you think their answer was? "
Once, my car's transmission went out. Acura had to order a replacement, but it would have been more expensive to install a new one from the factory, so they offered a rebuilt transmission, one from Japan. It would take a while, so my car was down, in the lot maybe 2 weeks or almost a month (can't recall exactly, as this was ~summer 1992). Multiple ensuing issues kept my car in the dealer's hands and i was getting antsy. I thought they were punishing me for hounding them, and my car ended up there longer.
Then, after they got all the parts replaced, they gave me a good news/bad news call. The parts were installed, the car runs great, but it's not ready. Why? Someone stole one of the wheels (i had 4 aluminum allow wheels; can't recall the tires being new, though), stole the radio, and damaged something else i can't remember.
My company president was an attorney, and told me it was bullshit, that they were responsible. Told me to press on. Acura told me that that i had signed a waiver making holding them harmless and not at fault. Then, i was livid. Shortly, the police called and told me the had a case involving my car, that it was stripped of some parts, but there were not broken windows or locks. Sounded like an inside job. I began to wonder where this was going. Was *i* being implicated? How? I don't have access to their lot, and as far as i know, they had lot security in form of doors, locks, cameras, a human, and i believe a sentry dog.
I think I asked the calling officer to dust for prints. He said they did, and that the case was suspicious. Being ex-Navy, my prints would be available to DOD and certain authorities, but i don't know if Mountain View PD would have access to them. Anyway, i was personally in the clear. The conversation ended on whether or not i was going to file a report, and that i might need one for insurance and so on. Oh, and that this particular dealership had had MULTIPLE break-ins and car parts thefts. No mention of inventory being stolen. So, it sounded like one or more persons were after specific, hard-to-order/obtain parts. So, why not take the whole car and strip it? 1989 Integra models would have sold more for parts than as a whole assembly.
I called the dealer. They tried to fall back on the disclaimer/release form. I had already had a refreshed conversation with my lawyer/boss, and i phrased my stern verbal warning to the dealership manager. Replace my parts, at no cost to me, or else i'd disclose their issues.
Another good news/bad news call. They had gotten the wheel from a central valley dealership, but it was the wrong side. They would not be able to use it because installing it in the wrong direction would cause "blue rotor", which i'd never heard of. Getting the right wheel would take another week or so. When the ordeal was over, i think i never used nor bought parts from that dealership again. Later, they relocated to a different, more accessible location (from a cul-de-sac, IIRC, to the main drag) during Mountain View's auto row remodeling spree.
Fortunately, the police seemed to already have an ongoing fraud investigation that saved MY ass shitloads of money. It seems i was at the nexus of being a pain in the ass to the dealer, my car had parts SOMEbody wanted, and there was a fraud activity going on. Fate/karma/good luck/something saved my ass. People here say the worst PD's to be on the wrong side of in the bay area are Campbell, Mountain View, Milpitas, and Daly City. Mountain View PD came to my rescue because somebody was up to no good. My car was probably the one that finally tipped the scales on likely ongoing fraud. Thankfully, fingerprints on the car didn't implicate me, and the police figured i didn't reasonably have access to commit such acts on my own car and was not involved but was yet another victim.
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standing, it's plain fucking stupid. Where were these people when Nortel and Intel and others operating in or organized in the US selling similar equipment to China and having it BUILT IN CHINA, too, enabling China to clone the technology in factories and produce extra shit off-hours, off-books. Talk about the feeling of calling the kettle black.
I think these political types are making noise because China buys US dollars and props up the US (but for military budgets China's a great foil), but Iran just happens to be the newest (or current) election irregularities "bad guy" to keep the rest of us here "distracted". If they keep rattling Iran, something will backfire (whether or not related to Iran meddling in Iraq... Iran isn't the ONLY government "meddling" in near or far-away countries...).
ASSININE? I bet it will be the BUTT of all jokes. His nickname can be... "butt buddy"
I am sure he'll seek another grant to study bosoms/breasts, and he'll produce a MOUND of information. I am sure he'll enjoy knockwurst while he knocks on doors looking to measure knockers. He might even be knocked on his butt off a few porches by bouncy knockers responders... Butt, knock the wrong door, it could be the worst knock of his life...
will heed the galactic call to "Aboort! Aboort!"
OK, some corny ones:
-- Eating 'round the clock/eating all the time...
-- THis may be clock with "too much time on its hands", hehehe...
-- These roaches have "all the time END the world"
This can be a NEW RAID Roach Motel (poisonous/sticky trap box) slogan/jingle: "Roaches CLOCK IN, but the DON'T CLOCK OUT".
(Used to be "RAID Roach Motel: Roaches check IN, but the DON'T CHECK OUT".
More than THAT, this appears to me that ms is just hopping mad and grousing that the Obama administration is tapping an IBM Open Source advocate for USPTO...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1941241/Obama-Taps-IBM-Open-Source-Advocate-For-USPTO
http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/2009jun19.htm
Eat your HEART OUT, microsoft. Instead of BITCHING behind proxies (read: paid-for-shills, sychophants, and suck-ups attorneys and advertisers (*computer manufacturer* recommends MICROSOFT *product* for ALL YOUR COMPUTING/SURFING/ENTERTAINMENT needs. See if keep bying products from pricks that lie to me in the name of getting marketing dollars from you....)), go and try to make an iPhone killer and get it right. Stop trying to commit subterfuge against Open Source and people's RIGHT to not be sewn in or sewn up by you and companies LIKE yours. And, stop hiding behind "there are no morals in business". If a company can be accorded the rights and privileges of a person, then maybe if ms is smacked, prodded, and skewered LIKE a person, then you might GROW UP.
Sheesh...
(JUSt TRY it... just TRY to send the suits after me....)
he'll be back... he would just download into another body, in another place... and that when he returned, he'd tell them where we were...
Now, those sites are having a fate worse than being "slashdotted"... they're being... "Jacked", jacked up, jacked around, but, they'll recover...
sexy topic... a DEEP, probative analysis of sorts. I bet the analyzers are as gay/giddy as they can morph into... Maybe they can be TRANS-FORMERS.... slap some dap and scrum some bum...
I wonder if one or any of these is "extensible":
http://www.sql-ledger.org/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=features.html&title=Features
http://chasesagum.com/open-source-payroll-time-management
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39175137,00.htm
Even in:
http://www.compiere.com/industries/
I don't see "Education/Universities/Distributed Academic Education Systems"
That's where neighborhood watches come into play, when someone calls 911 or some security company number, and when uniforms and lights/siren-topped vehicles appear, some crime (but not all crime) can be or is deterred.
To say (in blanket fashion) that the police don't help because the damage is done is a little bit over the top. The police are not just REactive... there are times when the police can be PROactive, and even when reactive, they can still contain or prevent damage, especially when well-placed, well-protected confidential informants regularly provide information. Sometimes, the police/law enforcement act as the CI (legally or illegally)...
Also, this could be due to some unpublished whistle-blowing deterrent plan of theirs.
OTOH, they probably DO have separatists and anarchist to worry about, or they've got fears they are unwittingly harboring a Ken Starling there...
What is running through the minds of those fools? How could the be so idiotic to even PUBLISH such a demand for information. This kind of wanton stupidity makes the entire staff involved in this to be fired and replaced. If the GOVERNMENT wants the kind of information these BOZOS want, then the onus should be on the government to SPY, not command the "subjects" to just hand over information.
This may be a libelous/slanderous statement against the officials of the city of Bozeman, Montana, but fuck'em! Bozeman officials: You are crazy, stupid, mother*#(kers:
"That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords."
But, now i'm thinking this is a tactic to reduce the pool of applicants to government jobs there... Or, some lame "child-protection" law used as a smokescreen for other reasons...
Why the FUCK should a citizen/applicant provide their PASSWORDS AND USER ACCOUTS? For private activity? Even in the WORKplace, most companies and government agencies stress the importance of keeping passwords private.
ISP's DEFINITELY won't like this:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/congressman-has-a-bill-ready-to-combat-usage-caps.ars
"Massa's solution would be to force ISPs to justify usage-based fees to the FTC before they are implemented. The ISP would have to submit an economic case, based on the capital equipment cost and operational costs, for why they need to charge for usage, and then consider the impact of those fees on users. The FTC would get injunction power, and the ability to fine any ISP that either neglected to file a justification or implemented the plan regardless of the injunction. The bill uses language like "unjust, unreasonable, or unreasonably discriminatory" to describe plans that run afoul of the economic analysis, which Massa says reflects existing statutory language used giving the FTC regulatory power.
It's safe to assume Time Warner won't like this one bit, as a basic economic analysis shows that its plan imposes fees that are nowhere close to those of its fellow duopolists. More generally, the cost of supporting subscribers appears to be dropping in most cases, so it seems unlikely that anyone in the industry would be able to get their plan past the FTC."
Can be bay like wolves and sing Men At Work's "Land Down Under"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew
But, change the song to Chips At Work's "Skies Up Over", hehehehehe....
we take a dump. If we don't, we get severe headaches, have runny nose, display duck-waddly gaits, incur a fever, and feel like shit all beCAUSE of shit.
Left in the US to shut down, since they sold off or are going to sell off most or all their US operations...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7828483.stm
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96MR0NO0&show_article=1
Also, frrom what i heard from a source, they made so much cash selling the Times Square location that they just happily threw in the other US locations just to be done with them.
we see "Obousy" Collectors? hehehe They won't exactly be "Broussard Collectors".
Nahhh, they're ribbed for ((y)our) pleasure...
When one of those black holes comes burning thru space right thru Uranus so put the Earth in great heat... "Sex Is Zero" will timely and more...
I'm sorry, but THIS part:
"He points out that quantum chromodynamics predicts that when neutrons are squashed together, matter undergoes a phase transition into "subhadronic" matter. This is very different from ordinary matter. In subhadronic form, space is essentially empty. So the phase change creates a sudden reduction in pressure forcing any ordinary matter in the star to implode into this new vacuum. The result is a massive increase in temperature of this matter that creates a "burning wall" within the supernova. And it is this burning wall that stops the formation of a black hole, not just the degeneracy pressure of neutrons. This should lead to much greater energies inside a supernova than had been thought possible until now. And that's important because it could explain the formation of high energy gamma ray bursts that have long puzzled astrophysicists.""
reminds me of my first, full-on sex act. I wasn't even THINKING of the movie "The Black Hole", either... I did, tho, feel i was being pulled, squished, and exploded into multiple dimensions.
"I'd have liked to know why the mods thought there was something trollish about both posts."
Mybe thye aer gliffing snue jithout wava....?
Quite oddly high, it seems... I guess it's not so odd anymore that he is an accomplished oddity...
That is, the upper northern West Coast was LONNNNG overdue for a tsunami or Mt. St. Helens mega eruption, and that if it took out ms, that that would be fine by me. Unfortunately, ms would have enough backups around the world to rise from the ash, either as a new fearsome giant, or a bunch of smaller ones that some expected the anti-trust cases might produce.
BUT... maybe Mt. St. Helens might become the new force of open source? Or, the new source of open FORCE. If it smacks ms, it would be a New Caldera Era, SCO (Sporadic, Combustible Obliteration)....Yikes!
Well, yeh, of course my prints were on the inside of the car, and any on the outside were old, compared to those all over the hood, doors, wheel area, and more from moving the car around. So, i think even if i were only victim one, the amount of time they had my car on their so-called secure/locked lot, their prints were the latest.
But, it's amazing how many dealers and repair shops will park people's cars on open lots and on the street and make people sign release forms in order to start work. All the money some dealerships make you'd think they'd have perimeter security. Some, maybe many, do, in order to preserve customer business and display good will/concern. The ones that don't are asking to be put out of business, or at least deserve to be put out of business -- at least if their quietly know they've been the subject of break-ins or fraud but never install or hire a deterrent to such costly crimes.
They sure do.
"Three times in one month my car was broken into and nothing was stolen but considerable damage was done to my vehicle. I asked cops if there was an option to dust for fingerprints ... what do you think their answer was? "
Once, my car's transmission went out. Acura had to order a replacement, but it would have been more expensive to install a new one from the factory, so they offered a rebuilt transmission, one from Japan. It would take a while, so my car was down, in the lot maybe 2 weeks or almost a month (can't recall exactly, as this was ~summer 1992). Multiple ensuing issues kept my car in the dealer's hands and i was getting antsy. I thought they were punishing me for hounding them, and my car ended up there longer.
Then, after they got all the parts replaced, they gave me a good news/bad news call. The parts were installed, the car runs great, but it's not ready. Why? Someone stole one of the wheels (i had 4 aluminum allow wheels; can't recall the tires being new, though), stole the radio, and damaged something else i can't remember.
My company president was an attorney, and told me it was bullshit, that they were responsible. Told me to press on. Acura told me that that i had signed a waiver making holding them harmless and not at fault. Then, i was livid. Shortly, the police called and told me the had a case involving my car, that it was stripped of some parts, but there were not broken windows or locks. Sounded like an inside job. I began to wonder where this was going. Was *i* being implicated? How? I don't have access to their lot, and as far as i know, they had lot security in form of doors, locks, cameras, a human, and i believe a sentry dog.
I think I asked the calling officer to dust for prints. He said they did, and that the case was suspicious. Being ex-Navy, my prints would be available to DOD and certain authorities, but i don't know if Mountain View PD would have access to them. Anyway, i was personally in the clear. The conversation ended on whether or not i was going to file a report, and that i might need one for insurance and so on. Oh, and that this particular dealership had had MULTIPLE break-ins and car parts thefts. No mention of inventory being stolen. So, it sounded like one or more persons were after specific, hard-to-order/obtain parts. So, why not take the whole car and strip it? 1989 Integra models would have sold more for parts than as a whole assembly.
I called the dealer. They tried to fall back on the disclaimer/release form. I had already had a refreshed conversation with my lawyer/boss, and i phrased my stern verbal warning to the dealership manager. Replace my parts, at no cost to me, or else i'd disclose their issues.
Another good news/bad news call. They had gotten the wheel from a central valley dealership, but it was the wrong side. They would not be able to use it because installing it in the wrong direction would cause "blue rotor", which i'd never heard of. Getting the right wheel would take another week or so. When the ordeal was over, i think i never used nor bought parts from that dealership again. Later, they relocated to a different, more accessible location (from a cul-de-sac, IIRC, to the main drag) during Mountain View's auto row remodeling spree.
Fortunately, the police seemed to already have an ongoing fraud investigation that saved MY ass shitloads of money. It seems i was at the nexus of being a pain in the ass to the dealer, my car had parts SOMEbody wanted, and there was a fraud activity going on. Fate/karma/good luck/something saved my ass. People here say the worst PD's to be on the wrong side of in the bay area are Campbell, Mountain View, Milpitas, and Daly City. Mountain View PD came to my rescue because somebody was up to no good. My car was probably the one that finally tipped the scales on likely ongoing fraud. Thankfully, fingerprints on the car didn't implicate me, and the police figured i didn't reasonably have access to commit such acts on my own car and was not involved but was yet another victim.
Open and shut case. Stiff punishment. No rebuttals.