It's also been replaced by the picket sign and pamphlet. Feel free to use them - I'd suggest April 12 when you will have thousand of other people worldwide joining you. Check out http://forums.enturbulation.org/index.php to find a protest in a city near you.
Don't forget opening up their financial records to audit, providing fair wages and safe living conditions to Sea Org members, not accepting minors for the Sea Org, and having independent oversight of their "Treatment Centers" so we don't have another Lisa McPherson.
You didn't even mention the best parts. The judge refers to legal writings submitted in crayon and refers to studying the facts of the case "...out of it's own sense of morbid curiosity..." Finally closing with this gem:
In either case, the Court cautions Plaintiff's counsel not to run with a sharpened writing utensil in hand -- he could put his eye out.
Makes me want to quit my job and go to law school, just so I can become a judge like this guy. Why couldn't he have gotten the SCO case?
They also attempted to broker a deal with Chuck Norris Capital Partners. Chuck Norris responded by laughing, then roundhouse kicking the SCO lawyer through a plate glass window, then laughing even harder, because there's nothing funnier than a lawyer being kicked through a plate glass window.
For that matter, I'm tired of installing QuickTime, then having it pester me with "updates" to install iTunes. If I had wanted to install iTunes, I would have picked the giant "Download Quicktime and iTunes" button instead of hunting for the tiny "Download Quicktime only" button.
Maybe, but imagine the environmental catastrophe resulting from having anything SCO-contaminated that close to the water table. Within a year we'd have zombie lawyers popping up in the next town downstream.
Or if, like me, you couldn't afford the Force Feedback, the Precision Pro was (is) great.
I don't know if there's a difference between the ForceFeedback and ForceFeedback2, but I'm glad I've got a Precision Pro instead of the Precision Pro 2. The original has one more button that rests under the left thumb. Using the button mapping software that came with it, you could use the thumb button as a "shift" so you could map two functions to the same button. For example, button 5 = next weapon, Shift-5 = previous weapon.
Unfortunately, the mapping software was for Win9x only. WinXP treats it as just one more button. But that joystick has brought me many happy hours in Freespace and Freespace 2. (One more great franchise I would love to see return.)
How many times on how many levels can one reference oneself. He submitted an article that was written by him about a court ruling on his work. I'm not dissing him, I'm just envious. Maybe someday, I'll figure out a way to write a fully recursive story.
Don't forget that he's also posting comments to the article he submitted about his blog post regarding a court ruling on his work. Now if only he can somehow get those Slashdot comments entered into the legal record...
Wow, that's a great idea! I've been breaking in to houses, ripping the CD collections to my laptop, then leaving. Your way is cheaper if I ever get caught, and I'll save a lot of time, too!
Actually, it's just their new baggage handling system. By launching your bags through a railgun, they can save a lot of weight on the plane. And it turns out that the railgun is slightly gentler on your luggage than the current baggage handlers.
For the record, I was joking. (I figured that would be obvious.) I realize you were talking about someone working as an actual courier -- it's kinda hard to pull off an assassination attempt over the internet.
As far as that scam not materializing yet in the days of 14400 modems, the Nigerian 419 scam predates the internet. My last job was in the IT department at a bank. One day at lunch I was discussing the scam with a co-worker and one of the loan officers mentioned a customer back in the 80's who had brought in a letter with pretty much the same exact text as all the standard 419 emails. Of course, they're a lot more common today with email allowing much wider distribution.
Wow! I just got an email from the family of a murdered African dictator wanting help to transfer some money. I thought it was a scam until I saw your message. I'm gonna be rich!
[Clippy pops up, wearing Kevlar helmet] It looks like you're under hostile fire! I can help you:
-Return fire
-Request air support
-Call a medic
-Plot a course for an orderly retreat
-Report this problem to Microsoft
I worked for 7.5 years at a bank that bought all IBM, then stayed with Lenovo with the changeover. I am very glad to say that their support hasn't slipped a bit. (Or at least, hadn't a year ago when I changed jobs.)
I call support - I'm speaking to a live person in less than 5 minutes, most of which consists of picking the support options, (Hardware/software, PC/monitor, etc...) and punching in the model and serial number. The person I speak with doesn't give me the run-around. If I know what part is bad, they don't question my judgment, they just send a new part. If I don't know what's wrong, they always have helpful advise. If there are two parts that might be bad, they usually just send both instead of making me replace one and see if it fixes the problem. And, I almost always have the parts in the next day -- I've called at 3 PM and still gotten the part the next day.
From what I've seen, the ThinkPads, support and all, are just as good under Lenovo as they were under IBM. (But don't confuse a Lenovo Laptop with a Lenovo ThinkPad.)
I currently own a ThinkPad T60. I use the optical drive one time per quarter, maximum. I could easily live without it.
On the ThinkPad X300, you can take out that optical drive that you don't use, and put in an extended battery. (Or a second hard drive, if you need space more than runtime.) I don't know for sure, but it's probably the same for you T60. I know it's been the case for every ThinkPad I've ever had the pleasure of working on.
Man, I love ThinkPads. Laptops designed to get stuff done.
Audiophiles will still buy CDs and rip them to a lossless codec on their own computers. (Using Linux, or a Mac, or Windows with auto-run disabled so they can easily get around any DRMed pseudo-CDs) No Audiophile will accept lossy compression.
Ok, true audiophiles will insist on only playing their music from vinyl using... Ah screw it. I'm too tired and apathetic to come up with a joke to make fun of people who call themselves audiophiles. It's Friday afternoon, and trying to come up with a new way to make fun of people who buy 4-figure speaker cables and color on the edge of their CDs just takes too much effort. Audiophiles are stupid. Make up your own joke.
Actually, it'd be nice if they would integrate a similar feature into XBox Live.
"You seem to be using an abnormally high number of swear words. Your XBox Live account is suspended until you reach the age of 18. You will be contacted in 2014 when your account is re-activated."
I actually think there needs to be a new kind of IP for stuff like Mickey Mouse......Kind of like a trademark on a character.
They already have that. It's called "Trademark". You can trademark darn near anything. The four-note, "ding ding da Ding" you hear after any mention of an Intel processor? Trademarked. The particular shade of green that H&R Block uses for their signs? Trademarked. The name and likeness of Mickey Mouse? You better believe that's trademarked.
If Steamboat Willy fell into public domain, the appearance of Mickey Mouse would still be trademarked. You couldn't go out and sell "The Anal Adventures of Mickey Mouse". You couldn't rename it to "The Anal Adventures of Sticky Mouse" because of the trademark on the likeness of Mickey. Anyone trying would find themselves featured very prominently in "The Anal Adventures of the Disney Legal Team".
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It's also been replaced by the picket sign and pamphlet. Feel free to use them - I'd suggest April 12 when you will have thousand of other people worldwide joining you. Check out http://forums.enturbulation.org/index.php to find a protest in a city near you.
Don't forget opening up their financial records to audit, providing fair wages and safe living conditions to Sea Org members, not accepting minors for the Sea Org, and having independent oversight of their "Treatment Centers" so we don't have another Lisa McPherson.
I don't know. I hear the "church" is notoriously bad when it comes to paying bills on time, or at all if they can help it.
Until I RTFA, I had never considered the possibilities of the title.
Makes me want to quit my job and go to law school, just so I can become a judge like this guy. Why couldn't he have gotten the SCO case?They also attempted to broker a deal with Chuck Norris Capital Partners. Chuck Norris responded by laughing, then roundhouse kicking the SCO lawyer through a plate glass window, then laughing even harder, because there's nothing funnier than a lawyer being kicked through a plate glass window.
For that matter, I'm tired of installing QuickTime, then having it pester me with "updates" to install iTunes. If I had wanted to install iTunes, I would have picked the giant "Download Quicktime and iTunes" button instead of hunting for the tiny "Download Quicktime only" button.
Maybe, but imagine the environmental catastrophe resulting from having anything SCO-contaminated that close to the water table. Within a year we'd have zombie lawyers popping up in the next town downstream.
Regarding your sig: You must be new here
I don't know if there's a difference between the ForceFeedback and ForceFeedback2, but I'm glad I've got a Precision Pro instead of the Precision Pro 2. The original has one more button that rests under the left thumb. Using the button mapping software that came with it, you could use the thumb button as a "shift" so you could map two functions to the same button. For example, button 5 = next weapon, Shift-5 = previous weapon.
Unfortunately, the mapping software was for Win9x only. WinXP treats it as just one more button. But that joystick has brought me many happy hours in Freespace and Freespace 2. (One more great franchise I would love to see return.)
Don't forget that he's also posting comments to the article he submitted about his blog post regarding a court ruling on his work. Now if only he can somehow get those Slashdot comments entered into the legal record...
Yeah, Anonymous Coward is a regular poster around here. Most of us just ignore him.
Wow, that's a great idea! I've been breaking in to houses, ripping the CD collections to my laptop, then leaving. Your way is cheaper if I ever get caught, and I'll save a lot of time, too!
Let me guess -- Debian Stable?
Actually, it's just their new baggage handling system. By launching your bags through a railgun, they can save a lot of weight on the plane. And it turns out that the railgun is slightly gentler on your luggage than the current baggage handlers.
As far as that scam not materializing yet in the days of 14400 modems, the Nigerian 419 scam predates the internet. My last job was in the IT department at a bank. One day at lunch I was discussing the scam with a co-worker and one of the loan officers mentioned a customer back in the 80's who had brought in a letter with pretty much the same exact text as all the standard 419 emails. Of course, they're a lot more common today with email allowing much wider distribution.
Wow! I just got an email from the family of a murdered African dictator wanting help to transfer some money. I thought it was a scam until I saw your message. I'm gonna be rich!
[Clippy pops up, wearing Kevlar helmet]
It looks like you're under hostile fire! I can help you:
-Return fire
-Request air support
-Call a medic
-Plot a course for an orderly retreat
-Report this problem to Microsoft
I'm sure that the "Suggest a better translation" link has something to do with it.
I call support - I'm speaking to a live person in less than 5 minutes, most of which consists of picking the support options, (Hardware/software, PC/monitor, etc...) and punching in the model and serial number. The person I speak with doesn't give me the run-around. If I know what part is bad, they don't question my judgment, they just send a new part. If I don't know what's wrong, they always have helpful advise. If there are two parts that might be bad, they usually just send both instead of making me replace one and see if it fixes the problem. And, I almost always have the parts in the next day -- I've called at 3 PM and still gotten the part the next day.
From what I've seen, the ThinkPads, support and all, are just as good under Lenovo as they were under IBM. (But don't confuse a Lenovo Laptop with a Lenovo ThinkPad.)
On the ThinkPad X300, you can take out that optical drive that you don't use, and put in an extended battery. (Or a second hard drive, if you need space more than runtime.) I don't know for sure, but it's probably the same for you T60. I know it's been the case for every ThinkPad I've ever had the pleasure of working on.
Man, I love ThinkPads. Laptops designed to get stuff done.
Ok, true audiophiles will insist on only playing their music from vinyl using ... Ah screw it. I'm too tired and apathetic to come up with a joke to make fun of people who call themselves audiophiles. It's Friday afternoon, and trying to come up with a new way to make fun of people who buy 4-figure speaker cables and color on the edge of their CDs just takes too much effort. Audiophiles are stupid. Make up your own joke.
"You seem to be using an abnormally high number of swear words. Your XBox Live account is suspended until you reach the age of 18. You will be contacted in 2014 when your account is re-activated."
Big Pharma wouldn't care. Drugs are covered by patents, not copyrights.
They already have that. It's called "Trademark". You can trademark darn near anything. The four-note, "ding ding da Ding" you hear after any mention of an Intel processor? Trademarked. The particular shade of green that H&R Block uses for their signs? Trademarked. The name and likeness of Mickey Mouse? You better believe that's trademarked.
If Steamboat Willy fell into public domain, the appearance of Mickey Mouse would still be trademarked. You couldn't go out and sell "The Anal Adventures of Mickey Mouse". You couldn't rename it to "The Anal Adventures of Sticky Mouse" because of the trademark on the likeness of Mickey. Anyone trying would find themselves featured very prominently in "The Anal Adventures of the Disney Legal Team".