... which some of us poor horn players remember as "the march that wouldn't die," (pronounced "ow my lips hurt!") placing only slightly ahead of "pomp and circumstance" (pronounced "pomp and barf")
ow... my stomach hurts! not that I've ever had this problem on my NEW machine -- it usually lasts about 2 weeks or so without rebooting. well it did. now it's gone into the bit bucket with no regrets...
well, not none -- anyone know where you can get a killer flatscreen that works with Linux? and how about drivers for the Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore?
This one might have to be an email campaign... it would be pretty funny if they log on, open up pine/Netscape Mail/MS Outlook/foo and have SEVERAL THOUSAND email messages come in... and at the end, a simple, sweet message that we would all like to deliver...
Aren't you glad that you don't have to
pay to download this?
Personally, I think that if they catch wind of this, they'll set up something to filter email or change the email address temporarily...
well, actually, they are required to remove you if you ask and provide a valid address to do so. whether most of them do or not is a separate issue -- becasue even if they say they do, most of them provide false and broken email addresses and change often so you can't block them for long.
it's really a pity that a medium with so much promise for commerce, as well as everything else, can be so misused that ANYTHING relating begins to leave a bad taste in people's mouth. spammers are hurting other ecommerce by their example, just as Geocities is hurting other sites that use banners by making them so obnoxious. (think about it -- would you have gotten that banner blocking software just to protest nice unobtrusive ad's like/.? I don't think so. Geocities is one of the many who have gone over the line...)
*grrr*
just one of those annoyances in life. guess we all have to deal with it.
"Little bunny Lea/hopping through the forest/picking up the SPAMMERS/and BASHING them ON THE HEAD" (not to mention Geocities)
...and then they change their address to something else so that you can't block them. if I weren't so nice (yeah. sure.) I would try to track them down and bomb their list into oblivion...
our glorious VP came out with a white paper once that included this -- and specifically mentioned "temporary copies".
as in the phone line.
as in the phone company being legally responsible for what was being transmitted through their lines.
they wanted it monitored.
needless to say, quite a few people raised quite a hue and cry about this. let's hope it happens again! who are the knuckleheads who write these things?
well, they could tape it to the outside of the plastic bag. then they could avoid us big, bad Linux types coming after them asking for $$ back for their crappy OS.
(this is even more pathetic for me to complain considering that I am running a dual-boot system, but only use 98, since too many Linux things don't work)
actually, a corporation does count as an entity in and of itself. unlike a partnership, which is disolved legally when a partner dies, a corporation is assumed to have "a life of its own" so to speak, and so continues on. this is also the same reason we have limited liability with corporations -- the corporation, as an individual, may take loans, etc. and he/she/it is the party responsible.
there are some places where the punishments and rights are not the same (send Microsoft to the electric chair?), but this is the model that America, at least, has chosen to work with.
and who can beat being able to have your TA's, and even some professors online, easily botherable? no one. that's the problem.
and as long as I'm stuck with this windoze box (no, I do not feel like writing my own ethernet card drivers, thank you) I'm stuck with ICQ. most people don't use finger, and if you are using dynamic IP (love that MSN when I'm at home!) it's kinda interesting trying to finger someone, even if they are running finger (as I am).
so, I guess if someone wants to see if I'm online, they'd better call me first to see what my IP is.
well, it might be so that they don't have the same problem that AOLIM does -- I have 3 "Dave"s on my list, and it's still fine. also, very easy to change your username.
yes, I'll agree that that number is a pain in the butt, and only my techie friends know it off the top of their heads, but it has its points.
you can search for the nickname, or just about any other piece of info -- it's just not the PRIMARY means of identification to the server.
Slashdot Mirror
leave it. it crashes.
maybe we should work on the general tenor of conversation. the direct attack is not appreciated... well, unless you are trolling, in which case... :-)
:-)
impress those spying MS employees too
Lea
... which some of us poor horn players remember as "the march that wouldn't die," (pronounced "ow my lips hurt!") placing only slightly ahead of "pomp and circumstance" (pronounced "pomp and barf")
(not really spelled like that :-) )
yep... that was him. he hated french horns too, I can tell you... gave all the cool parts to the saxes and tried to kill us with offbeats!
ok. slight tangent.
Lea
... whereas for microsoft, you can bring it down by doing things you're SUPPOSED to do. like opening MS Word.
you'd think they'd make sure their OWN proucts don't crash their OWN products...
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
ow... my stomach hurts! not that I've ever had this problem on my NEW machine -- it usually lasts about 2 weeks or so without rebooting. well it did. now it's gone into the bit bucket with no regrets...
well, not none -- anyone know where you can get a killer flatscreen that works with Linux? and how about drivers for the Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore?
Personally, I think that if they catch wind of this, they'll set up something to filter email or change the email address temporarily...
well, actually, they are required to remove you if you ask and provide a valid address to do so. whether most of them do or not is a separate issue -- becasue even if they say they do, most of them provide false and broken email addresses and change often so you can't block them for long.
/.? I don't think so. Geocities is one of the many who have gone over the line...)
it's really a pity that a medium with so much promise for commerce, as well as everything else, can be so misused that ANYTHING relating begins to leave a bad taste in people's mouth. spammers are hurting other ecommerce by their example, just as Geocities is hurting other sites that use banners by making them so obnoxious. (think about it -- would you have gotten that banner blocking software just to protest nice unobtrusive ad's like
*grrr*
just one of those annoyances in life. guess we all have to deal with it.
"Little bunny Lea/hopping through the forest/picking up the SPAMMERS/and BASHING them ON THE HEAD"
(not to mention Geocities)
...and then they change their address to something else so that you can't block them. if I weren't so nice (yeah. sure.) I would try to track them down and bomb their list into oblivion...
Lea
the same thing happened with Al Gore...
our glorious VP came out with a white paper once that included this -- and specifically mentioned "temporary copies".
as in the phone line.
as in the phone company being legally responsible for what was being transmitted through their lines.
they wanted it monitored.
needless to say, quite a few people raised quite a hue and cry about this. let's hope it happens again! who are the knuckleheads who write these things?
well, they could tape it to the outside of the plastic bag. then they could avoid us big, bad Linux types coming after them asking for $$ back for their crappy OS.
(this is even more pathetic for me to complain considering that I am running a dual-boot system, but only use 98, since too many Linux things don't work)
actually, a corporation does count as an entity in and of itself. unlike a partnership, which is disolved legally when a partner dies, a corporation is assumed to have "a life of its own" so to speak, and so continues on. this is also the same reason we have limited liability with corporations -- the corporation, as an individual, may take loans, etc. and he/she/it is the party responsible.
there are some places where the punishments and rights are not the same (send Microsoft to the electric chair?), but this is the model that America, at least, has chosen to work with.
and who can beat being able to have your TA's, and even some professors online, easily botherable? no one. that's the problem.
and as long as I'm stuck with this windoze box (no, I do not feel like writing my own ethernet card drivers, thank you) I'm stuck with ICQ. most people don't use finger, and if you are using dynamic IP (love that MSN when I'm at home!) it's kinda interesting trying to finger someone, even if they are running finger (as I am).
so, I guess if someone wants to see if I'm online, they'd better call me first to see what my IP is.
well, it might be so that they don't have the same problem that AOLIM does -- I have 3 "Dave"s on my list, and it's still fine. also, very easy to change your username.
yes, I'll agree that that number is a pain in the butt, and only my techie friends know it off the top of their heads, but it has its points.
you can search for the nickname, or just about any other piece of info -- it's just not the PRIMARY means of identification to the server.
hmmm... read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand -- see what happens to the incompetent and those who succor them!