Ronny would rather sell you two Fishing Buddies, a pack of plastic worms, and a vial of bait stink for the same incredibly low price of just $19.95 (plus shipping and handling) that you would expect to pay for just one Fishing Buddy. If the Beatles want everyone to download their White Album in all its glorious integrity, let them price it at the cost of a single song.
Particulary aggravating is the apparently expanded scope of O'Reilly's claim on "Maker Faire" as opposed to "Web 2.0." The latter mark is registered for use in
"Arranging and conducting live events, namely, trade shows, expositions and business conferences in various fields, namely, computers, communications, and information technology, and Organizing and conducting educational conferences, tutorials and workshops in the fields of computers, communication and information technology."
The "Maker Faire" application is for use in "Arranging of exhibitions, seminars, and conferences; entertainment services, namely, conducting fairs."
If granted, this trademark would seem to cover use of "Maker Faire" in connection with Renaissance Festival-type events, and any other market/industry.
eBay's sell-through rate (percent of listings that end in a sale) for auction listings hasn't changed noticeably since 2003. The rate for BIN (Buy It Now) listings has dropped from approx. 70% to 50-55%.
"... they might well create competition among children for who has the coolest new gadget."
Like setting a cell phone age minimum would solve that problem.:-)
"The jury is still out on whether or not mobile phone radiation is harmful to children..."
Translation: there's no consensus that such radiation is harmful to anyone.
"The other issue is privacy, something that should be respected no matter how old you are. Of course you want to know where your child is at all times, but there are times when not feeling like you're being watched is important."
Who, in his right mind, thinks a 2 year-old's privacy rights outweigh the need to know where he is at all time? And who thinks a 12 year-old always tells the truth when you call and ask where he is?
"Finally, do we really want our children picking up bad mobile habits? Spelling gr8 instead of great and developing RSIs at the age of 14?"
"Gr8" would be a bad habit only if it apppeared in an English essay, and repetitive strain injury is more likely to acquired by working at Burger King than by using a cell phone.
On the plus side, bad habits like yakking while driving or in a restaurant can be beaten out of kids, but adults enjoy certain misguided legal protections from such sorely needed correction.
I am reminded of a dot-com era Sales/Marketing VP who told a conference of e-commerce wannabes, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing wrong really fast."
"But then there are a bunch of straight typo-squats: cheaptickets.cm, dictionary.cm, download.cm, flowers.cm, games.cm, lasvegas.cm, monster.cm, realtor.cm, refinance.cm, and rent.cm. They all point to the same server at Rackspace in Texas, which serves up pages full of links related to the corresponding.com page, usually with one of those links leading to the corresponding.com page."
From TFA: "Women, on average,... would appreciate a digital video camera more than a pair of designer shoes... three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace."
Well, DUH! One need only compare closing bids on eBay! Money is a girl's best friend. That's why men must earn more than women do for the same work - so we can afford them!
My God, what a fuss over a perfectly appropriate level of "scaring them straight!" The kids were not formally arrested, let alone treated as "hardened criminals." Handcuffs are not mentioned in TFA, for instance, and I'm sure they would be if they were used. They weren't fingerprinted, which is still de rigeur in addition to mouth swabs for DNA samples (something the idiot reporter seems to think involves two different procedures). The kids got little more taste of police brutality than if they'd gone a on school field trip to a police station.
But I'll bet they won't fall out of any 20-foot trees and sue the township for their injuries, and they will think twice before helping themselves to property that they know damned well isn't theirs, even if it isn't marked as someone else's.
The kids say they just took a few loose branches. I'm sure it started out that way, just as I'm sure the tree didn't have enough loose branches to make a den. The police received complaints that the kids were "stripping every branch from it." The truth probably lies somewhere in between. Too bad this reporter didn't haul his ass out of the newsroom to go view the tree and photograph it. But that would involve journalism.
And poor Amy! I wonder where she got the idea that a juvenile's police reprimand might destroy her college career, or that "murderers and rapists" left cooties in the cell she occupied for a mere two hours? What sort of bed does her mother provide, that the poor girl couldn't bear to sleep in it for a week because it reminds her of jail? Could Mommy Dearest be the one whose reaction was "unbalanced?"
The cops did a good job of impressing upon these kids the seriousness of what they did, and giving them the faintest taste of crime's consequences. I'm sure the kids' characters would be much improved, if their parents hadn't convinced them that they are "victims."
No cop has a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding his conversations with citizens in the course of performing his public duty. He is required to file a full and accurate report of such conversations, which becomes part of the public record. So there is no expectation of privacy.
Also, the courts have ruled that citizens have a First Amendment right to record the activities and speech of public officials in the performance of public duties. While this right does not extend into city council closed sessions, for example, it certainly extends to police interrogations conducted on a citizen's front porch.
Mr. Gannon will not only escape these charges, he will get a large cash settlement from the police department.
The purpose of parking meters is to enable shoppers to find parking spaces downtown. Without meters, a shopkeeper would find the spaces near his business monopolized during business hours by people who aren't buying from him. It's not uncommon to see signs that read, "2 hour parking only, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m." regardless of whether you've fed and re-fed the 2-hour meter. The whole point of 2-hour meter maximums is to increase car turnover; otherwise, the meters would have an "all day" rate just like private parking lots do.
If the owners of the parking meters don't cooperate, this cell phone gizmo won't be able to talk to the meters. End of business plan.
Biometric scanners identify the characteristics of a number of points on one's fingerprint. The number of points evaluated varies by scanner brand and/or user-definable accuracy level desired. The positions of the evaluated points relative to each other and the points' characteristics are encoded as binary numbers. A string of bits is stored, not an image of one's fingerprint.
Appropriate encryption and safeguarding of the algorithm used to encode the data make it extremely difficult to create an analog facsimile (fake "skin") of a fingerprint.
Eyeballs keep changing shape for years once they start. That's why people get new lens prescriptions every year or two or three. Today's laser-corrected vision may have to be repeated all too soon.
I predict this one will soon show up on www.stellaawards.com.
MySpace.com and similar venues need an indemnification clause in their TOS. If you don't read and heed all the warnings about offline encounters, you can't blame us for what happens.
I'd go one further and make users liable for - oh, say $30 million - if they file a suit in violation of that provision.
I hope this kid's lawyer has read the recent "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" appellate ruling. The principal, the school board members, and everyone involved in this blatant violation of Constitutional rights can and should sued in their personal capacities. They know, or should know, that the law is crystal clear on this matter.
Goddamit, I don't WANT an ATM to do anything except spit cash! I already wait too long in grocery market lines while people buy stamps, pay their fucking bills, and everything else except buy groceries and get the fuck outta my way!
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TFA is from Al Jazeera. Is it not possible that this propaganda is intended to undermine and misdirect our valiant military R&D effort?
OTOH, it seems obvious that goldfish are smarter than dolphins. I've never found a goldfish in a can of tuna.
Ronny would rather sell you two Fishing Buddies, a pack of plastic worms, and a vial of bait stink for the same incredibly low price of just $19.95 (plus shipping and handling) that you would expect to pay for just one Fishing Buddy. If the Beatles want everyone to download their White Album in all its glorious integrity, let them price it at the cost of a single song.
Particulary aggravating is the apparently expanded scope of O'Reilly's claim on "Maker Faire" as opposed to "Web 2.0." The latter mark is registered for use in
"Arranging and conducting live events, namely, trade shows, expositions and business conferences in various fields, namely, computers, communications, and information technology, and Organizing and conducting educational conferences, tutorials and workshops in the fields of computers, communication and information technology."
The "Maker Faire" application is for use in "Arranging of exhibitions, seminars, and conferences; entertainment services, namely, conducting fairs."
If granted, this trademark would seem to cover use of "Maker Faire" in connection with Renaissance Festival-type events, and any other market/industry.
Sorry, "Prior Art" is MY trademark!
eBay's sell-through rate (percent of listings that end in a sale) for auction listings hasn't changed noticeably since 2003. The rate for BIN (Buy It Now) listings has dropped from approx. 70% to 50-55%.
http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?SIND
It seems that fewer buyers are inclined to pay what sellers think they can ask.
"... they might well create competition among children for who has the coolest new gadget."
:-)
..."
Like setting a cell phone age minimum would solve that problem.
"The jury is still out on whether or not mobile phone radiation is harmful to children
Translation: there's no consensus that such radiation is harmful to anyone.
"The other issue is privacy, something that should be respected no matter how old you are. Of course you want to know where your child is at all times, but there are times when not feeling like you're being watched is important."
Who, in his right mind, thinks a 2 year-old's privacy rights outweigh the need to know where he is at all time? And who thinks a 12 year-old always tells the truth when you call and ask where he is?
"Finally, do we really want our children picking up bad mobile habits? Spelling gr8 instead of great and developing RSIs at the age of 14?"
"Gr8" would be a bad habit only if it apppeared in an English essay, and repetitive strain injury is more likely to acquired by working at Burger King than by using a cell phone.
On the plus side, bad habits like yakking while driving or in a restaurant can be beaten out of kids, but adults enjoy certain misguided legal protections from such sorely needed correction.
I am reminded of a dot-com era Sales/Marketing VP who told a conference of e-commerce wannabes, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing wrong really fast."
http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/cameroon.html?s eemore=y
.com page, usually with one of those links leading to the corresponding .com page."
"But then there are a bunch of straight typo-squats: cheaptickets.cm, dictionary.cm, download.cm, flowers.cm, games.cm, lasvegas.cm, monster.cm, realtor.cm, refinance.cm, and rent.cm. They all point to the same server at Rackspace in Texas, which serves up pages full of links related to the corresponding
From TFA: "Women, on average, ... would appreciate a digital video camera more than a pair of designer shoes... three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace."
Well, DUH! One need only compare closing bids on eBay! Money is a girl's best friend. That's why men must earn more than women do for the same work - so we can afford them!
But I'll bet they won't fall out of any 20-foot trees and sue the township for their injuries, and they will think twice before helping themselves to property that they know damned well isn't theirs, even if it isn't marked as someone else's.
The kids say they just took a few loose branches. I'm sure it started out that way, just as I'm sure the tree didn't have enough loose branches to make a den. The police received complaints that the kids were "stripping every branch from it." The truth probably lies somewhere in between. Too bad this reporter didn't haul his ass out of the newsroom to go view the tree and photograph it. But that would involve journalism.
And poor Amy! I wonder where she got the idea that a juvenile's police reprimand might destroy her college career, or that "murderers and rapists" left cooties in the cell she occupied for a mere two hours? What sort of bed does her mother provide, that the poor girl couldn't bear to sleep in it for a week because it reminds her of jail? Could Mommy Dearest be the one whose reaction was "unbalanced?"
The cops did a good job of impressing upon these kids the seriousness of what they did, and giving them the faintest taste of crime's consequences. I'm sure the kids' characters would be much improved, if their parents hadn't convinced them that they are "victims."
Would mandatory voting be mandatory for convicted felons? I've always wondered why, if voting is a civic duty, felons are excused from it.
Great! Now all I have to do is transplant the fuel cell into something I can steer!
JonBenet Ramsey's killer did Ken too.
I could use one of these systems when I go pub-crawling.
No cop has a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding his conversations with citizens in the course of performing his public duty. He is required to file a full and accurate report of such conversations, which becomes part of the public record. So there is no expectation of privacy.
Also, the courts have ruled that citizens have a First Amendment right to record the activities and speech of public officials in the performance of public duties. While this right does not extend into city council closed sessions, for example, it certainly extends to police interrogations conducted on a citizen's front porch.
Mr. Gannon will not only escape these charges, he will get a large cash settlement from the police department.
OK, maybe there are cities with underutilized parking meters. Denver, my home town, isn't among them.
The purpose of parking meters is to enable shoppers to find parking spaces downtown. Without meters, a shopkeeper would find the spaces near his business monopolized during business hours by people who aren't buying from him. It's not uncommon to see signs that read, "2 hour parking only, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m." regardless of whether you've fed and re-fed the 2-hour meter. The whole point of 2-hour meter maximums is to increase car turnover; otherwise, the meters would have an "all day" rate just like private parking lots do.
If the owners of the parking meters don't cooperate, this cell phone gizmo won't be able to talk to the meters. End of business plan.
You've never tried to get laid with a 6 year-old in the next bedroom, obviously.
Biometric scanners identify the characteristics of a number of points on one's fingerprint. The number of points evaluated varies by scanner brand and/or user-definable accuracy level desired. The positions of the evaluated points relative to each other and the points' characteristics are encoded as binary numbers. A string of bits is stored, not an image of one's fingerprint.
Appropriate encryption and safeguarding of the algorithm used to encode the data make it extremely difficult to create an analog facsimile (fake "skin") of a fingerprint.
Eyeballs keep changing shape for years once they start. That's why people get new lens prescriptions every year or two or three. Today's laser-corrected vision may have to be repeated all too soon.
I predict this one will soon show up on www.stellaawards.com.
MySpace.com and similar venues need an indemnification clause in their TOS. If you don't read and heed all the warnings about offline encounters, you can't blame us for what happens.
I'd go one further and make users liable for - oh, say $30 million - if they file a suit in violation of that provision.
I like mine dead.
I hope this kid's lawyer has read the recent "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" appellate ruling. The principal, the school board members, and everyone involved in this blatant violation of Constitutional rights can and should sued in their personal capacities. They know, or should know, that the law is crystal clear on this matter.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11767029/
September 1, 2003.
:-)
Apparently, the idea didn't fly.
Goddamit, I don't WANT an ATM to do anything except spit cash! I already wait too long in grocery market lines while people buy stamps, pay their fucking bills, and everything else except buy groceries and get the fuck outta my way!