The buyer needs to buy out the company SELLING the copy. So, the seller needs to form an entity for the purpose of offloading that one or more copies. The buy acquires the assets stipulated, and then the buyer dissolves the rest of the old entity. Transfer the assets to the books of the new owner.
The resellers will boohoo because they'll feel cheated out of potentially higher income, and A/D will not really like it, but as long as no illegitimate copies are around or in use by the original holders, then who should care? The biggest hassle will be formation and dissolution of entities, the act of which could trigger all sorts of audits, incur costs to both or all parties, and unnecessarily give income to local government offices that will likely touch the paperwork only once a year, if that.
But, users of CAD software can also shop elsewhere. Personally, I want to buy VariCAD and other software more suitable by design (not by bolt-on) to what my hobby entails.
Really, if ms went down the crapper, local and world business would keep rolling along for at LEAST a YEAR. In the mean time, others would pick up the slack, and it would be BETTER, with one LESS gigantic megalomanical company calling the shots. And, it would put intelligence gathers in a tissy since they wouldn't for long be collecting handed-over back door keys, too.
I think earlier this year or late last year I read on Slashdot or elsewhere that microsoft had been infiltrating the boards (steering committees/engineering depts/etc) of various Linux distro developers. Alternately, they'd been influencing them with money or investment, and them steering them to make decisions beneficial to mshaft.
I could see such a decision happening:
mshaft decisionmaker1:
"Hey, vista/blista has shitty 3D features, and FREE LINUX has ooh-ahh killer eye candy -- for those few with the video horsepower. Now, if we can get the highly rated distros to ship with Compiz/Beryl on BY DEFAULT, then those highly rated distros will look FOOLISH, like DUMBASSES."
mshaft decisionmaker1's boss:
"How much will it cost us to implement?"
mshaft decisionmaker1:
"Oh, as low as it takes to bribe a low-level or poor mid-level Linux distro programmer who can corrupt the others to go his way"
mshaft decisionmaker1's boss:
Have we got an agent in place? How long to ground zero?"
mshaft decisionmaker1: "Yes, and the next popular distro's release + 2 weeks."
mshaft decisionmaker1's boss:
"Well, WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG to bring this up? , Hell. DO IT."
What will be scary is if this product makes it into the toilet paper business. Talk about the inkjet business going to shit, the shitter and disappearing into a heap of shit.
We'll REALLy wipe out the TP supply, I suppose...
(HEHEHE, captcha: "angling", but I saw "dangling" and dingle*y)
And, that part I am sad about. Hopefully, there will no more such tragic events in China. Or anywhere. Of course, there won't be any in the US (I think) because we are surrounded by Sheeple here (sheepish people).
The thing is, I wonder if that NY Times (I think it was NYT) reporter/columnist under bushwhack/assault for "divulging" sensitive collection techniques to the "ter'rists" knew of Visual Analytics and could have shielded himself from uncouth assault.
I am SURE that universities and various stealthy government entities have comparable capabilities or enhanced code, and some probably even work WITH Visual Analytics. It's a POWERFUL and kinda neat tool. So long as it's not abused.
Not saying the tank didn't run over and actually flatten anyone, but I was told the protester or photographer run over was knocked over or down, but survived by being in the cavity/clear area beneath the tank, but that Western, and anti-China/anti-Communist media popularizes the imagery in a manner that fools viewers into THINKING the man was flattened.
Has anyone SEEN footage of the man's body, or a blood trail after the tank cleared moved out of frame?
"What people are upset about is eavesdropping without warrants, on US citizens."
I'm upset about eavesdropping with 'WAR RANTS'. This so-called 'war' is due mainly to shitty foreign policy, manifest destiny attitude, and master-of-the-universe eminent domain bravado.
War Rants are just a tool to secure warrants to do far more than the government/s can or ought to be doing.
I believe in Karma, and I believe retribution is the natural cycle that goes hand in hand with Karma. We who allow the government/s to run roughshod deserve what we get. That includes most of us half-asleep at the wheel, non-voting, badly-voting, and voting plain selfishly while wrapped in a flag.
Changing the national policy, hearing peoples'/nations' complaints and faithfully getting out of people's governments, and trying to right the wrongs our ancestors and our descendants will be blamed for will go a LONG way toward saving the country more than knee-jerk, or finger-twiddling, reactionaries and schemers can ever do.
We won't HAVE any more 9/11s and TSAs and DHLS schemes if we clean up our act (as a species). Ah, but humans are wired for aggression, naked or otherwise.
We reap what we sew, and all I can see is certain wealthy people (in government and industry) tiring out and wearing down the would-be powerful masses/commoners and getting them to yield to the interests of the hidden and exposed wealthy who refuse to yield to the will of the average person/public. Average CITIZENS don't scheme for war, they just get duped into assent when their governments screw up.
The problem is that in lasing a "non-existent" satellite means creating a debris field that might imperil peaceful (as in the non-mil/non-spy) birds up there. Now, a better idea might be in trying to redirect the nonexistent bird to go fly away, far, far away, and piss off the owners of that stray bird....
-- VNC-like tool, capturing the screen images and automatically flagging out-of-parameters entries as compared to the fields data type (one designed to capture typed information and target dialog boxes, etc., and then dumps the irrelevant graphical parts)
-- mouse-sensitive "wheel-stroke" loggers that constantly track the wheel movements relative to the dialog/OS frame, and relative to the keystrokes.
It's just a matter of time before the problem is licked
Since I'm thinking of and writing about it, a similar approach probably already exists....
That would be a TRAVESTY, especially since Lotus Smartsuite has Lotus Approach, an end-user-friendly relational database front end that blows the pants of what is currently in OO.o/SO.
If ANYthing, IBM should be trying to help MERGE the best bits of SS with OO.o& SO so that all three appeal to an array of users. SmartSuite has won awards in its time. When have OO.o or SO?
I'm able to say this because I wrote a business plan spreadsheet in Lotus 1-2-3, then converted it to OO.o so I could port it to excel. Working with the charts in OO.o was a Bucking FITCH.
WordPro easily wipes OO.o's Write/r across the floor in a few areas for me:
-- Multi-part documents (Sections & Divisions) that can be re-numbered, and that have tabs for organizing sections. Try doing this in Writer. It's impossible to do this visually and intuitively. Writing my huge documents in OO.o became show-stopped. I end up doing them in WordPro and printing them out. Unfortunately, I cannot SHARE them with non-SmartSuite users.
Trying to "insert" a document or division in OO.o (for me, at least) results in the new insertion being FORCED to be repaginated (numbering) and the orientation is changed to match the main document, and not allowed to keep its own format. Inserting in OO.o puts the new material in between rules (two horizontal lines), rather than creating a visual break. OO.o, ask IBm to loosen up on any patents SS/WordPro have which could be lent to/shared with OO.o & SO...
IBM, what will you DO about this? (Killing off SmartSuite and continuing to provide "maintenance fixes/updates" are NOT the answers I'm looking forward to hearing...)
"Reading is a rocess of pattern recognize. We recognition and assembly patterns of letters/symbols and then association tho patterns with meaning. Shome people can reconi larcher patterns at a time, other people can only reconi shorter patterns. Mot people moo passed the "processing a single letter at a time" stage of pattern reconize at a young age. Personally, I read whole multiple words or even short sentences at a time."
That modifying I did to your dialog is how some of my friends speak. Some for whom Vietnamese is their first language might say,
"You mush ROTEK your family", maybe because for their dialects (and the greater likelihood that their tutors/teachers are NOT teaching them to articulate certain complex letter combinations or patterns...) instead of "You must PROTECT your family."
They can see in writing what the sentence is, yet the/ir mind may grab and speak only what seems important or "ronousable" (pronounceable).
Interestingly, one person whom I know speaks English as a second language will correction pronounce every word in his sentences, but then still the word "discuss" becomes "discussion" (We will discussion this topic tomorrow.)
For conversation, we can infer most of what has been said, but in writing, inference can be troublesome, especially in legal or instruction cases.
Interestingly, I'm currently studying Hangukmal (Korean writing/language). It is a similar problem for Koreans and Japanese (and others using Asian languages), based on what some of my Korean and Japanese friends said. On the other hand, doing Spoonerism to one of them in English was frustrating because they have to make the rapid mental jumps in English to Japanese and back to English as part of translation. The joke/effect gets lost in the translation.
Switching around letters or removing them from English words is not always easy for non-native English speakers.
However, moving syllable blocks around can lead to actual words, but disrupting information exchange or making the sentence meaningless. Moving some characters in a syllable block can totally worsen things. I'm no language expert, so I'll bow out for non-english natives to chime in. Please, do, someone.
How about Spoonerisms? I haven't read all of this topic, but, in the 7th grade, what got me hooked on Spoonerisms was a friend saying:
"Miss on YOU pister. You aren't so MUCKing FUTCH. Why don't you go in your jack yard and back off."
Of course, that got me into trouble a few times. Once, I hailed out to my mom that this TV movie, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, was starting. I said, "Ohh, mom, it's that lady from Webitched".
She scrambled over to me and yelled that she had told me switching words around would one day get me into trouble.
Just a few months ago, I noticed an under bay tube was jammed with traffic. In an instant, my mind thought, "The boobs are tacked up", not "The tubes are backed up."
So how does this study relate THINKING to READING, when thoughts move faster than they eyes.
But, don't go to your favorite book store asking for a copy of "A Sale of Two *itties"...
"Who the hell cares? They shouldn't even have an official position on this; the Justice Department has certain specific duties and interests, and setting communications or commerce policy is not one of them. They have neither the expertise nor the authority to even contribute to the debate."
THEY care because they are told to care. Law enforcement agencies (FBI, DIS, NIS, CIA, you name the rest) care because in their deepest nightmares, a service provider might go outside the known, standard protocols and enable SELECT, paying customers to "operate outside the system", meaning traffic might not be so easily intercepted, sniffed, tagged and run through the DOD/FBI/etc version of Visual Analytics
or whatever tools they use. (VERY kewl looking, but POWERFUL software...)
But, I agree, the CUSTOMER should have the final say over what speed or quality of service above the minimums they will receive, based on SLAs or basic contracts. DOJ SHOULD get involved, however, IF the ISP is CHEATING customers, whether 10 or 100,000 are cheated.
CLEARLY, Jobs would not make a very good Ferengi. He doesn't have the LOBES...
He's violating # 1 and #299:
1. Once you have their money, never give it back * 299. Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, its easier to exploit them the next time.
BUT I wonder how many of these go through the minds of board room execs....:
1. Once you have their money, never give it back *
2. You can't cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try
12. Anything worth selling is worth selling twice 13.Anything worth doing is worth doing for money 14. Anything stolen is pure profit 16. A deal is a deal (...until a better one comes along) * 19. Don't lie too soon after a promotion 20. When the customer is sweating, turn up the heat 23. Never take the last coin, but be sure to get all the rest 53. Sell first; ask questions later 55. Always sell at the highest possible profit 64.Don't talk shop; talk shopping 65.Don't talk ship; talk shipping 67. Enough is never enough 68.Compassion is no substitute for profit 70. Get the money first, then let the buyers worry about collecting the merchandise 82.A smart customer is not a good customer
115.Greed is eternal
125. A lie isn't a lie until someone else knows the truth 144. Theres nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket
161. Never kill a customer, unless you make more profit out of his death than out of his life
162.His money is only your's when he can't get it back.
208. Give someone a fish, you feed him for one day. Teach him how to fish, and you lose a steady customer
"Stretch Armstrong" and "Bullwinkle" (Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta mah hat...). You kinda make it sound as if he's got a HUGE fist. Butt, JUST how big IS Jobs' fist.
Thanks for replying. I think Rhyme is a kewl tool. It makes looking up words and word endings a SNAP... It seems to me it should be a spotlight item for non-likers of the command line...
Too bad the word "America" has taken on more importance than Central America, South America, North America (Canada less the US).
I wish people would say "The USA", or "The US", and stop using "America" as if the others in the Americas don't count, or as if the audience KNOWS the rest aren't PART of the US in the sense that speakers are trying to distance non-US from the US.
No matter HOW MUCH originates in the US, no matter HOW productive the US workforce is, there is ALWAYS more to the world than JUST the US. If the Borg (or some Natural equivalent) scooped the US up or immolated it, the rest of the world would still operate just fine (assuming the immolation doesn't send carcinogens and other debilitating illness-making debris into the ecosystem....
Slashdot Mirror
is how you do it:
LEGALLY, afaict...
The buyer needs to buy out the company SELLING the copy. So, the seller needs to form an entity for the purpose of offloading that one or more copies. The buy acquires the assets stipulated, and then the buyer dissolves the rest of the old entity. Transfer the assets to the books of the new owner.
The resellers will boohoo because they'll feel cheated out of potentially higher income, and A/D will not really like it, but as long as no illegitimate copies are around or in use by the original holders, then who should care? The biggest hassle will be formation and dissolution of entities, the act of which could trigger all sorts of audits, incur costs to both or all parties, and unnecessarily give income to local government offices that will likely touch the paperwork only once a year, if that.
But, users of CAD software can also shop elsewhere. Personally, I want to buy VariCAD and other software more suitable by design (not by bolt-on) to what my hobby entails.
This is why ms needs to perish.
Really, if ms went down the crapper, local and world business would keep rolling along for at LEAST a YEAR. In the mean time, others would pick up the slack, and it would be BETTER, with one LESS gigantic megalomanical company calling the shots. And, it would put intelligence gathers in a tissy since they wouldn't for long be collecting handed-over back door keys, too.
EAT your arrogance, mshaft.
I think earlier this year or late last year I read on Slashdot or elsewhere that microsoft had been infiltrating the boards (steering committees/engineering depts/etc) of various Linux distro developers. Alternately, they'd been influencing them with money or investment, and them steering them to make decisions beneficial to mshaft.
I could see such a decision happening:
mshaft decisionmaker1:
"Hey, vista/blista has shitty 3D features, and FREE LINUX has ooh-ahh killer eye candy -- for those few with the video horsepower. Now, if we can get the highly rated distros to ship with Compiz/Beryl on BY DEFAULT, then those highly rated distros will look FOOLISH, like DUMBASSES."
mshaft decisionmaker1's boss:
"How much will it cost us to implement?"
mshaft decisionmaker1:
"Oh, as low as it takes to bribe a low-level or poor mid-level Linux distro programmer who can corrupt the others to go his way"
mshaft decisionmaker1's boss:
Have we got an agent in place? How long to ground zero?"
mshaft decisionmaker1:
"Yes, and the next popular distro's release + 2 weeks."
mshaft decisionmaker1's boss:
"Well, WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG to bring this up? , Hell. DO IT."
Reminds me of "Front fell off"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg
Butt, will it werk for hemorrhoids?
What will be scary is if this product makes it into the toilet paper business. Talk about the inkjet business going to shit, the shitter and disappearing into a heap of shit.
We'll REALLy wipe out the TP supply, I suppose...
(HEHEHE, captcha: "angling", but I saw "dangling" and dingle*y)
DAMN! I thought this was FUNNY. Too bad I don't have moderator points...
And, that part I am sad about. Hopefully, there will no more such tragic events in China. Or anywhere. Of course, there won't be any in the US (I think) because we are surrounded by Sheeple here (sheepish people).
SOME of the other 5% will come from (or, alternatively, maybe the FIRST 95% comes from) use of Visual Analytics:
http://www.visualanalytics.com/
Hell, just see:
http://www.google.com/search?q=visual+analytics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
The thing is, I wonder if that NY Times (I think it was NYT) reporter/columnist under bushwhack/assault for "divulging" sensitive collection techniques to the "ter'rists" knew of Visual Analytics and could have shielded himself from uncouth assault.
I am SURE that universities and various stealthy government entities have comparable capabilities or enhanced code, and some probably even work WITH Visual Analytics. It's a POWERFUL and kinda neat tool. So long as it's not abused.
Not saying the tank didn't run over and actually flatten anyone, but I was told the protester or photographer run over was knocked over or down, but survived by being in the cavity/clear area beneath the tank, but that Western, and anti-China/anti-Communist media popularizes the imagery in a manner that fools viewers into THINKING the man was flattened.
Has anyone SEEN footage of the man's body, or a blood trail after the tank cleared moved out of frame?
I'd like to KNOW!
"What people are upset about is eavesdropping without warrants, on US citizens."
I'm upset about eavesdropping with 'WAR RANTS'. This so-called 'war' is due mainly to shitty foreign policy, manifest destiny attitude, and master-of-the-universe eminent domain bravado.
War Rants are just a tool to secure warrants to do far more than the government/s can or ought to be doing.
I believe in Karma, and I believe retribution is the natural cycle that goes hand in hand with Karma. We who allow the government/s to run roughshod deserve what we get. That includes most of us half-asleep at the wheel, non-voting, badly-voting, and voting plain selfishly while wrapped in a flag.
Changing the national policy, hearing peoples'/nations' complaints and faithfully getting out of people's governments, and trying to right the wrongs our ancestors and our descendants will be blamed for will go a LONG way toward saving the country more than knee-jerk, or finger-twiddling, reactionaries and schemers can ever do.
We won't HAVE any more 9/11s and TSAs and DHLS schemes if we clean up our act (as a species). Ah, but humans are wired for aggression, naked or otherwise.
We reap what we sew, and all I can see is certain wealthy people (in government and industry) tiring out and wearing down the would-be powerful masses/commoners and getting them to yield to the interests of the hidden and exposed wealthy who refuse to yield to the will of the average person/public. Average CITIZENS don't scheme for war, they just get duped into assent when their governments screw up.
And, there wouldn't be much but a smoking heap of charred flesh cuz you'd have been...
ass-immo-lated
ACTivate the LAser!
The problem is that in lasing a "non-existent" satellite means creating a debris field that might imperil peaceful (as in the non-mil/non-spy) birds up there. Now, a better idea might be in trying to redirect the nonexistent bird to go fly away, far, far away, and piss off the owners of that stray bird....
Couldn't that be:
"Fercnh tearth ot di recrest Su Stilesates"?
that...
-- VNC-like tool, capturing the screen images and automatically flagging out-of-parameters entries as compared to the fields data type (one designed to capture typed information and target dialog boxes, etc., and then dumps the irrelevant graphical parts)
-- mouse-sensitive "wheel-stroke" loggers that constantly track the wheel movements relative to the dialog/OS frame, and relative to the keystrokes.
It's just a matter of time before the problem is licked
Since I'm thinking of and writing about it, a similar approach probably already exists....
That would be a TRAVESTY, especially since Lotus Smartsuite has Lotus Approach, an end-user-friendly relational database front end that blows the pants of what is currently in OO.o/SO.
If ANYthing, IBM should be trying to help MERGE the best bits of SS with OO.o& SO so that all three appeal to an array of users. SmartSuite has won awards in its time. When have OO.o or SO?
I'm able to say this because I wrote a business plan spreadsheet in Lotus 1-2-3, then converted it to OO.o so I could port it to excel. Working with the charts in OO.o was a Bucking FITCH.
WordPro easily wipes OO.o's Write/r across the floor in a few areas for me:
-- print previews, multi-view arrangements, crisp, tight, yellow-grayish, clean interface (vs jumbo buttons & gray/grey drab, Orifice-copying colors)
-- Multi-part documents (Sections & Divisions) that can be re-numbered, and that have tabs for organizing sections. Try doing this in Writer. It's impossible to do this visually and intuitively. Writing my huge documents in OO.o became show-stopped. I end up doing them in WordPro and printing them out. Unfortunately, I cannot SHARE them with non-SmartSuite users.
Trying to "insert" a document or division in OO.o (for me, at least) results in the new insertion being FORCED to be repaginated (numbering) and the orientation is changed to match the main document, and not allowed to keep its own format. Inserting in OO.o puts the new material in between rules (two horizontal lines), rather than creating a visual break. OO.o, ask IBm to loosen up on any patents SS/WordPro have which could be lent to/shared with OO.o & SO...
IBM, what will you DO about this? (Killing off SmartSuite and continuing to provide "maintenance fixes/updates" are NOT the answers I'm looking forward to hearing...)
Kind of on/off topic?
Take this example...
"Reading is a rocess of pattern recognize. We recognition and assembly patterns of letters/symbols and then association tho patterns with meaning. Shome people can reconi larcher patterns at a time, other people can only reconi shorter patterns. Mot people moo passed the "processing a single letter at a time" stage of pattern reconize at a young age. Personally, I read whole multiple words or even short sentences at a time."
That modifying I did to your dialog is how some of my friends speak. Some for whom Vietnamese is their first language might say,
"You mush ROTEK your family", maybe because for their dialects (and the greater likelihood that their tutors/teachers are NOT teaching them to articulate certain complex letter combinations or patterns...) instead of "You must PROTECT your family."
They can see in writing what the sentence is, yet the/ir mind may grab and speak only what seems important or "ronousable" (pronounceable).
Interestingly, one person whom I know speaks English as a second language will correction pronounce every word in his sentences, but then still the word "discuss" becomes "discussion" (We will discussion this topic tomorrow.)
For conversation, we can infer most of what has been said, but in writing, inference can be troublesome, especially in legal or instruction cases.
Interestingly, I'm currently studying Hangukmal (Korean writing/language). It is a similar problem for Koreans and Japanese (and others using Asian languages), based on what some of my Korean and Japanese friends said. On the other hand, doing Spoonerism to one of them in English was frustrating because they have to make the rapid mental jumps in English to Japanese and back to English as part of translation. The joke/effect gets lost in the translation.
Switching around letters or removing them from English words is not always easy for non-native English speakers.
However, moving syllable blocks around can lead to actual words, but disrupting information exchange or making the sentence meaningless. Moving some characters in a syllable block can totally worsen things. I'm no language expert, so I'll bow out for non-english natives to chime in. Please, do, someone.
How about Spoonerisms? I haven't read all of this topic, but, in the 7th grade, what got me hooked on Spoonerisms was a friend saying:
"Miss on YOU pister. You aren't so MUCKing FUTCH. Why don't you go in your jack yard and back off."
Of course, that got me into trouble a few times. Once, I hailed out to my mom that this TV movie, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, was starting. I said, "Ohh, mom, it's that lady from Webitched".
She scrambled over to me and yelled that she had told me switching words around would one day get me into trouble.
Just a few months ago, I noticed an under bay tube was jammed with traffic. In an instant, my mind thought, "The boobs are tacked up", not "The tubes are backed up."
So how does this study relate THINKING to READING, when thoughts move faster than they eyes.
But, don't go to your favorite book store asking for a copy of "A Sale of Two *itties"...
"Who the hell cares? They shouldn't even have an official position on this; the Justice Department has certain specific duties and interests, and setting communications or commerce policy is not one of them. They have neither the expertise nor the authority to even contribute to the debate."
THEY care because they are told to care. Law enforcement agencies (FBI, DIS, NIS, CIA, you name the rest) care because in their deepest nightmares, a service provider might go outside the known, standard protocols and enable SELECT, paying customers to "operate outside the system", meaning traffic might not be so easily intercepted, sniffed, tagged and run through the DOD/FBI/etc version of Visual Analytics
http://www.visualanalytics.com/
or whatever tools they use. (VERY kewl looking, but POWERFUL software...)
But, I agree, the CUSTOMER should have the final say over what speed or quality of service above the minimums they will receive, based on SLAs or basic contracts. DOJ SHOULD get involved, however, IF the ISP is CHEATING customers, whether 10 or 100,000 are cheated.
See my Ferengi Rules of Acquisition comments to the topic... Enjoy!
CLEARLY, Jobs would not make a very good Ferengi. He doesn't have the LOBES...
d /ferenghi.html
u les.html
He's violating # 1 and #299:
1. Once you have their money, never give it back *
299. Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, its easier to exploit them the next time.
BUT I wonder how many of these go through the minds of board room execs....:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wakefiel
1. Once you have their money, never give it back *
2. You can't cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try
12. Anything worth selling is worth selling twice
13.Anything worth doing is worth doing for money
14. Anything stolen is pure profit
16. A deal is a deal (...until a better one comes along) *
19. Don't lie too soon after a promotion
20. When the customer is sweating, turn up the heat
23. Never take the last coin, but be sure to get all the rest
53. Sell first; ask questions later
55. Always sell at the highest possible profit
64.Don't talk shop; talk shopping
65.Don't talk ship; talk shipping
67. Enough is never enough
68.Compassion is no substitute for profit
70. Get the money first, then let the buyers worry about collecting the merchandise
82.A smart customer is not a good customer
115.Greed is eternal
125. A lie isn't a lie until someone else knows the truth
144. Theres nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket
161. Never kill a customer, unless you make more profit out of his death than out of his life
162.His money is only your's when he can't get it back.
208. Give someone a fish, you feed him for one day. Teach him how to fish, and you lose a steady customer
http://members.tripod.com/~ds9promenade/Ferengi_R
299. Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, its easier to exploit them the next time.
Mwo? Malsum mani turossoyo...
I'm thinking:
"Stretch Armstrong" and "Bullwinkle" (Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta mah hat...). You kinda make it sound as if he's got a HUGE fist. Butt, JUST how big IS Jobs' fist.
Pangapsumnida.
Thanks for replying. I think Rhyme is a kewl tool. It makes looking up words and word endings a SNAP... It seems to me it should be a spotlight item for non-likers of the command line...
Is Filelight still supported?
Is the command line rhyme tool re-supported?
Is ETHERAPE painlessly re-supported?
I've had problems with libs for each.
Will it let me force the install of Win4Lin 4 (or the pre-xp, pre-2k version so I can run win 98x, since I don't NEED xp or 2k on my Lx box...)
Too bad the word "America" has taken on more importance than Central America, South America, North America (Canada less the US).
I wish people would say "The USA", or "The US", and stop using "America" as if the others in the Americas don't count, or as if the audience KNOWS the rest aren't PART of the US in the sense that speakers are trying to distance non-US from the US.
No matter HOW MUCH originates in the US, no matter HOW productive the US workforce is, there is ALWAYS more to the world than JUST the US. If the Borg (or some Natural equivalent) scooped the US up or immolated it, the rest of the world would still operate just fine (assuming the immolation doesn't send carcinogens and other debilitating illness-making debris into the ecosystem....
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