not larger than a package fanny
Uhh.. did this go through a babelfish translation from a romance language... or is this a butt in a box? (or a box in a box for those across the Atlantic)
One problem that arises from this is that the copyright information does not only restrict copying of the media, but also lending, loaning, and renting. Libraries can loan CDs and videos, as well as video stores, but I think it requires a certain license to do so (not to say you can't loan your CDs to your friends... but there's got to be a line in there somewhere so you can't have a massive lending library for CDs and videos out of your home).
Not to get a Jon Katz-esque flame war going on here, but why the move to a print media? Sure you can read it on the crapper, but articles do start to age pretty quickly, and what may have been hot new news when the magazine went to print could quickly become old trash by the time it hits newsstands.
Scientology in legal in Germany now. I saw the Dianetics book for sale in downtown Frankfurt. I don't know about any temples or other things there, but there was someone speaking about it in the little town I was in in June.
I've got a fscking JobDirect popup that must be located somewhere on my harddrive, but I don't know where the fsck it is. It just pops up at random times and is PISSING ME OFF.
I use one of the free dialups, so I guess I have to contend with banner ads constantly, but this just has an opposite effect on me, and I come to resent the companies that buy this advertising space. MySimon.com, half.com, and a bunch of others whose banner ads fill me with rage every time I see them. I guess it's kind of a good thing htat their paying for my dialup, but they're never going to get me as a customer.
Oh yeah.. and if that fscking "Shock the Monkey" comes out in popup form, I'm going to track down the owner of that site and cut his throat with a fish-scaler.
This is an interesting prospect... but what about the physiological differences in humans and fruitflies? Does this slow down tha aging of tissues for all body structures, i.e., when I'm 50, do I have the body of a 25-30 year old or a 50 year old?.. when I'm 140 am I still able to hobble around, or am I confined to a bed like T. Herman Zwiebel?
Granted something like this might be great for extending life, but what kind of life would you have? ~80 years of playing bingo, eating pudding, and yelling at kids to stay off your lawn?
You've started selling mp3 only CDs online, as well as releasing a number of Dial-a-song tracks? For the earlier albums, there were always a good 18-21 tracks, but with more recent releases, like Factory Showroom, the live Severe Tire Damage, and mp3-only Long Tall Weekend there are fewer tracks.. 12-14.
One might think that you're just not producing as much stuff anymore; but on THEN, you had around 15 bonus tracks, PLUS all the tracks from Miscellaneous T. I guess some fans like myself are voracious for your material and feel a little let down when a new album only features 12 tracks instead of 20.
BTW, tour in the Midwest more! I haven't been ably to see a show since you played at Day on the Hill in Lawrence in 97.
Isn't there any concern that an incredibly fake looking great white shark might bite through this and explode...?
No, wait, that was Jaws 2.
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How's that for callous?
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My change of heart came while listening to an NPR story last night. Election results for one county in Michigan were held up for two hours because some volunteers with ballots were barricaded in the building by a bear. A bear! What century is this?
Egads, you mean we haven't wiped them off the face of the earth yet?
This is the most callous thing I've heard regarding nature in a long time. Regarding bears (or other animals) as unnatural inhabitants of the planet makes me ill, especially in referring to states in the great north that still have pristine areas of land that haven't been cleared of other animal life to make them suitable for human consumption.
Just last night as my friend and I were leaving his office, a skunk ran under his car in the parking lot. We had to stand back for 5 minutes before it decided to move on. Guess which one of the three of us held the most power at that moment. The assumption that humans are the be-all end-all of evolution flies in the face of the fact that other animals are bigger, faster, and stronger and that we humans are only _sometimes_ smarter than them.
Although I indicated that I'm voting for Harry Browne, the more accurate response for me is that voting doesn't matter. Due to our winner-take-all system, I live in a state where my vote doesn't matter. Because of the conservative leanings, Dubya is nearly guaranteed to win all six of the electoral votes of Kansas. Much like Democrats in Texas, Republicans in Massachusetts or third-party voters of any state, my vote will be overwhelmed by opposition.
The only voters in the country whose votes matter (in a sense, because all votes really do matter) are the ones in large swing states like California and Florida, because a 50.00000000000000001% win in those states swing large electoral blocks behind candidates (a win in California garners you over 1/6 of the 270 electoral votes needed. All this from just one state!)
It's theorized that in this election, one candidate may win the popular vote while another wins the electoral vote and may call the whole system into question. If we were to go to a popular vote, the votes of small states would be even more marginalized. Even if a candidate were to sweep somewhere like Kansas, 3.5 million votes is quickly drowned out in massive amounts of votes from large states like Cal, Tex, NY, and Fl.
The ones who really get fscked are the citizens of US territories like Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. They get to vote in the primary, but since they don't have electoral votes, even if they were to vote it wouldn't matter.
.. I'd hate to think of the diastrous results that coud occur if Mir were allowed to fall onto the head of a small child in Colorado in an orange hooded coat. Next thing you know, the towm might come down with pink eye.
Although I write it email, it should be something more like e-mail, e'mail, or eMail to distinguish the e as a separate entity. Otherwise, upon first viewing by people way out of the loop or non-native english speakers, they'll pronounce it (uh-mayl), the same way that people who don't know Germanic charachters pronounce Björk to rhyme with fork and not smirk.
I used to work for a university bookshop and I can tell you first hand that the bookstores are sometimes very hamfisted in the way that they handle textbooks with CD Roms. To make matters worse (or better, depending on your perspective), even though your university may have a policy that they won't buy back books with CD Roms, other universities' bookshops might not have such a policy. This means that you might be able to see your book that your uni wouldn't take back somewhere else, but this also means that since uni bookshops buy books from other uni bookshops, you might get a book that has a fscked CD or no cd at all... so be sure to check out the package beforehand. BTW, if you don't have a CD and you should have one, they should take it back...
BTW, this is offtopic, but speaking of uni bookshops, boycott varsitybooks.com! They are owned by a conglomeration of lawyers that manipulate the freedom of information act to force uni bookstores to turn over textbook lists...after the uni bookshop employees have done all the running to get them from professors (and with 100's of professors on campus, it's not easy to get lists from everyone by the time you need to order in books, these people work hard). Varsitybooks.com puts student employees (people like me and a number of you) out of jobs.
I started this post as an arguement against the $20 upgrade, but on a little research, I found they're incorporating products (or portions thereof) that together amount to a bit more than $20. I doubt that I'll buy the upgrade anyway.
If the mp3 player plugs into the expansion slot, where do you put the mp3s? AFAIK, the Visor has around 2M on-board, and that's expandable by using the slot. The sweet part about the expansion was that was where you could put more space. 2M (or even 8M if you can put in an upgrade chip like a palm) isn't much space for moozik.
I realize there is a lot of real-estate in an Earth orbit, but aren't the probabilities high that this will smack into something in 50000 years? In 50000 years will we need orbiting items? Will we grab anything close in the universe and disintegrate it for power?
Slashdot Mirror
not larger than a package fanny Uhh.. did this go through a babelfish translation from a romance language... or is this a butt in a box? (or a box in a box for those across the Atlantic)
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One problem that arises from this is that the copyright information does not only restrict copying of the media, but also lending, loaning, and renting. Libraries can loan CDs and videos, as well as video stores, but I think it requires a certain license to do so (not to say you can't loan your CDs to your friends... but there's got to be a line in there somewhere so you can't have a massive lending library for CDs and videos out of your home).
Just my 4 pfennig.
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Not to get a Jon Katz-esque flame war going on here, but why the move to a print media? Sure you can read it on the crapper, but articles do start to age pretty quickly, and what may have been hot new news when the magazine went to print could quickly become old trash by the time it hits newsstands.
Just my 4 pfennig.
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Scientology in legal in Germany now. I saw the Dianetics book for sale in downtown Frankfurt. I don't know about any temples or other things there, but there was someone speaking about it in the little town I was in in June.
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Gollum = Bat Boy found in cave?
Could be....
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but I saw all of the LOTR books at the checkout for the supermarket the other day. Pretty heavy reading for the express lane...
Hobbit headlines for "The Star":
"I had Gollum's baby!"
"Bilbo Baggins arrested for ring theft"
"Wizard Gandalf seen associating with halflings"
"Rogue dragon Smaug taken down in hail of arrowfire"
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I've got a fscking JobDirect popup that must be located somewhere on my harddrive, but I don't know where the fsck it is. It just pops up at random times and is PISSING ME OFF.
I use one of the free dialups, so I guess I have to contend with banner ads constantly, but this just has an opposite effect on me, and I come to resent the companies that buy this advertising space. MySimon.com, half.com, and a bunch of others whose banner ads fill me with rage every time I see them. I guess it's kind of a good thing htat their paying for my dialup, but they're never going to get me as a customer.
Oh yeah.. and if that fscking "Shock the Monkey" comes out in popup form, I'm going to track down the owner of that site and cut his throat with a fish-scaler.
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This is an interesting prospect... but what about the physiological differences in humans and fruitflies? Does this slow down tha aging of tissues for all body structures, i.e., when I'm 50, do I have the body of a 25-30 year old or a 50 year old?.. when I'm 140 am I still able to hobble around, or am I confined to a bed like T. Herman Zwiebel?
Granted something like this might be great for extending life, but what kind of life would you have? ~80 years of playing bingo, eating pudding, and yelling at kids to stay off your lawn?
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You've started selling mp3 only CDs online, as well as releasing a number of Dial-a-song tracks? For the earlier albums, there were always a good 18-21 tracks, but with more recent releases, like Factory Showroom, the live Severe Tire Damage, and mp3-only Long Tall Weekend there are fewer tracks.. 12-14.
One might think that you're just not producing as much stuff anymore; but on THEN, you had around 15 bonus tracks, PLUS all the tracks from Miscellaneous T. I guess some fans like myself are voracious for your material and feel a little let down when a new album only features 12 tracks instead of 20.
BTW, tour in the Midwest more! I haven't been ably to see a show since you played at Day on the Hill in Lawrence in 97.
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The "world" system breakdown:
1st world - Capitalist/free market, advanced
2nd world - Communist/socialist, advanced
3rd world - Not-advanced
4th world - Primitive
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Mierda!
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"Ein Welt, eine Wirtschaft, eine Sprache"
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Isn't there any concern that an incredibly fake looking great white shark might bite through this and explode...?
No, wait, that was Jaws 2.
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Egads, you mean we haven't wiped them off the face of the earth yet?
This is the most callous thing I've heard regarding nature in a long time. Regarding bears (or other animals) as unnatural inhabitants of the planet makes me ill, especially in referring to states in the great north that still have pristine areas of land that haven't been cleared of other animal life to make them suitable for human consumption.
Just last night as my friend and I were leaving his office, a skunk ran under his car in the parking lot. We had to stand back for 5 minutes before it decided to move on. Guess which one of the three of us held the most power at that moment. The assumption that humans are the be-all end-all of evolution flies in the face of the fact that other animals are bigger, faster, and stronger and that we humans are only _sometimes_ smarter than them.
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Although I indicated that I'm voting for Harry Browne, the more accurate response for me is that voting doesn't matter. Due to our winner-take-all system, I live in a state where my vote doesn't matter. Because of the conservative leanings, Dubya is nearly guaranteed to win all six of the electoral votes of Kansas. Much like Democrats in Texas, Republicans in Massachusetts or third-party voters of any state, my vote will be overwhelmed by opposition.
The only voters in the country whose votes matter (in a sense, because all votes really do matter) are the ones in large swing states like California and Florida, because a 50.00000000000000001% win in those states swing large electoral blocks behind candidates (a win in California garners you over 1/6 of the 270 electoral votes needed. All this from just one state!)
It's theorized that in this election, one candidate may win the popular vote while another wins the electoral vote and may call the whole system into question. If we were to go to a popular vote, the votes of small states would be even more marginalized. Even if a candidate were to sweep somewhere like Kansas, 3.5 million votes is quickly drowned out in massive amounts of votes from large states like Cal, Tex, NY, and Fl.
The ones who really get fscked are the citizens of US territories like Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. They get to vote in the primary, but since they don't have electoral votes, even if they were to vote it wouldn't matter.
Liebe, Livre, Libre.
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This does not happen.. you (and the BBC) have all been the victims of a e-mail hoax. Next time, check Snopes.com before posting anything. ever.
Liebe, Livre, Libre.
See the article here.
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.. I'd hate to think of the diastrous results that coud occur if Mir were allowed to fall onto the head of a small child in Colorado in an orange hooded coat. Next thing you know, the towm might come down with pink eye.
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Although I write it email, it should be something more like e-mail, e'mail, or eMail to distinguish the e as a separate entity. Otherwise, upon first viewing by people way out of the loop or non-native english speakers, they'll pronounce it (uh-mayl), the same way that people who don't know Germanic charachters pronounce Björk to rhyme with fork and not smirk.
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I used and Promise FastTrak66 IDE RAID controller to kill them. But that didn't work, so I just tried regular Raid. That worked better.
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I used to work for a university bookshop and I can tell you first hand that the bookstores are sometimes very hamfisted in the way that they handle textbooks with CD Roms. To make matters worse (or better, depending on your perspective), even though your university may have a policy that they won't buy back books with CD Roms, other universities' bookshops might not have such a policy. This means that you might be able to see your book that your uni wouldn't take back somewhere else, but this also means that since uni bookshops buy books from other uni bookshops, you might get a book that has a fscked CD or no cd at all... so be sure to check out the package beforehand. BTW, if you don't have a CD and you should have one, they should take it back...
BTW, this is offtopic, but speaking of uni bookshops, boycott varsitybooks.com! They are owned by a conglomeration of lawyers that manipulate the freedom of information act to force uni bookstores to turn over textbook lists...after the uni bookshop employees have done all the running to get them from professors (and with 100's of professors on campus, it's not easy to get lists from everyone by the time you need to order in books, these people work hard). Varsitybooks.com puts student employees (people like me and a number of you) out of jobs.
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The Datebook's new Agenda view combines a view of a day's appointments with the day's ToDo tasks
This has been a feature on DateBk3 for a while, which I highly recommend as a Datebook replacement. (Although it costs $20 alone)
The Alarm dialog now has larger buttons to facilitate finger operation, as well as a "Snooze" button
Another DateBk3 option, along with various snoozes.
The Command bar
Very win, but the same can be accomplished with GoBar ($14)
Tapping the title tab of an application shows the menu bar
Menu Hack ($free)
I started this post as an arguement against the $20 upgrade, but on a little research, I found they're incorporating products (or portions thereof) that together amount to a bit more than $20. I doubt that I'll buy the upgrade anyway.
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Clear and other translucent cases can be found at Palm Colors. Get one to match your iWhack or G4.
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If the mp3 player plugs into the expansion slot, where do you put the mp3s? AFAIK, the Visor has around 2M on-board, and that's expandable by using the slot. The sweet part about the expansion was that was where you could put more space. 2M (or even 8M if you can put in an upgrade chip like a palm) isn't much space for moozik.
Please reply if you have more 411.
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I realize there is a lot of real-estate in an Earth orbit, but aren't the probabilities high that this will smack into something in 50000 years? In 50000 years will we need orbiting items? Will we grab anything close in the universe and disintegrate it for power?
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Now Broom, you must now sweep for me
The dust it fills my room
No, John, I will not sweep for you
For I am not your broom
What nonsense are you speaking, Broom
My words you must obey
Another life awaits me and
I'm leaving you today
I am not your broom
I am not your broom
I've had enough, I'm throwing off
My chains of servitude
I am not your broom
I am not your broom
No longer must I sweep for you
For I am not your broom
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