A lot of churches have raised money because they've permitted the tower to be located in the spire. They obviously can use the money and when it's hidden....
They do now. He can pick and choose what he wants to do these days. His employee ID number was #5(?). So he's got the funds to support any of his endeavors. He's like Paul Allen: he's not going to be in a situation of being poor enough to have to eat hotdogs for lunch and weenie broth for supper.
One of the posted links was to a story last fall - speaking of him attending law school.
I don't know when he passed, but he did pass the bar and is focusing upon (exclusively) patent issues:
"You can't outdevelop Microsoft but you can outinvent them."
-Nathan Myhrvold PhD, JD
Microsoft's original CTO
Founder, Microsoft Research
Source: MIT's Technology Review, May 2004
It makes you wonder why Microsoft let him get away, eh?
It's no different than any other industry. Seventeen years and it's open to everyone else to create and sell generic brands.
That's when the original pharm companies "add" another feature - adding a decongestive.
Here in Indy (Indianapolis), Lilly et alia have had to support their patents in court several times - trying to get the life of the patent shortened without a solid argument. Yes, Lilly is big, and important to the local economy, but I'm not defending them for being local - I'd defend any Rx company on the abusive issue.
Now, if you want to argue price (which you didn't state, and if you submitted your message with an HTML format like this:
<ESP>Patent lifetimes should be shorter so pharmacutical companies dont have the abusive financial power and control they have today.</ESP>
then I didn't pick up on that aspect of of your message.
But when it comes to price, I can understand the argument quite well. Especially because they charge one price in the US and other in other countries: witness the old people chartering a bus to Canada to buy their meds. I'm on a number of (several dozen/day) meds to deal with constant head pain from a car accident ten years ago - someone ran a red light and almost killed me). Fortunately, I've been in a situation to deal with that - my wife has excellent benefits from working in a hospital. Otherwise, I might have to pick & choose employers based upon what they would cover: a hefty price of drugs and several trips a year to the Diamond Headache Clinic. Neither of these are tax-deductible until it reaches a good percentage of your income. This is not to mention taking those days off of work - do I kill several sick days, vacation days, or days sans pay?
If you could elaborate a bit, perhaps we can have a clearer discussion.
First, we do not live in a democracy. A democracy is when three wolves and a sheep vote what's for supper. We are a republic.[1]
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No, that's not what Republicans believe in.
Both Democrats and Republicans stand for big:
Republicans believe in big business - generally, via supply side economics: when businesses have enough resources & needs, they'll need more people to fill those jobs, and the employed will benefit by having more money to spend, which will put more money into the economy: when the tide comes in, all of the boats float.
Democrats believe if the government gets large enough (big enough to overcome any problems with fraud, embezzlement, etc.), anyone who needs something which they aren't able to provide for themselves will eventually slide downhill to them - another form of supply-side, but using the gov't.
I tend to look at republicans, Republicans, democrats, Democrats, depending upon how fervent their beliefs and how centrist they are.
the same holds true for some form of libertarianism: libertarian, Libertarian, civil libertarian, etc.[2], (Distinguishing libertarian and Libertarian is pretty easy: Ls' positions seem to almost border on anarchy to many people not familiar with the principles and ls' positions, if people will listen long enough are essentiall for putting a leash on gov't of most levels, although pushing it to the local levels as much as possible because people have more ability to affect those who govern them - screw me and it'll be the last time you govern me. At the national level, it's "Screw 50 million of us and it'll be the last time you screwed us over."
Quiz Question: Why is it the political leanings of most people who work in the technical arena (geeks & nerds) - not people who are key-entry operators are more libertarian in general? (and if some squid licker comes in here and says, "It's not true. I'm not of that political persuation." "Well, it's like this...you're an idiot." (Elain Benes)
__________________________
__________________________
[1]But as there's a huge tie-in with gov't and economic model, we are no different. Although we claim to be a republic, we in actuality are a plutocracy - governed by the influence of money, hence the jokes:
"The Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
"Life is like a shit sandwich; the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat."
________________________________
[2] For those who have bitter viewpoints about another's beliefs, they are unlikely to have an objective viewpoint about any form of cogent argument or debate in general. If you were given the opposite position to debate, could you support it as strongly?)
Think of it as playing chess. The reason most people are just not that good is how they analyze the board and employ lookahead: "If I move here, and they move here (making a bad move, which I can capitalize on, and I go there, and they go there (another bad move), then I can go here" instead of "If I move here and rotate the board to switch sides, what's my (their) best move?"
Besides, what most places refer to as CS is actually something akin to a B.S. in Computer Programming.
When I finished my CS degree twenty years ago, it covered computing science comprehensively. There was a business track and a science track. The business track was pretty lame and I started a petetion to have the business track's students diplomas state their degree was "Business Data Processing". Let's say they weren't too happy about that.
I tested out of three years of calculus going in, a year of biology (missed one question), etc. And that's while I was a pre-med major in my Frosh year.
Enough bs. During my junior year they had more students enrolling in the CS program that they had to make getting into it and remaining in it a bit more difficult. When I was going through it, we had to take Advanced Calculus (Calc IV), Electronics (used as a flunk class for EE majors), microcomputer interfacing (a secondary flunk class for EEs who didn't take the hint before), Micro Economics (I took Macro to make it a matched set, Operations Research, Modeling & Simulation, a survey of languages - a senior honors course (which was invited to as a premed student as a freshman - and freshman weren't permitted to take senior courses, let alone honors - but it was the dept. chair who recruited me so I had some time to kill and went. Four or Five other math classes (pick yours from a list) - I did Linear Algebra - the closest pure math should be getting to real math. Corporate Communications, Systems Analysis, write your own computer for a language designed & defined by consensus by the class members, running on a VAXen cluster. Write your own debugger, either for one of the languages available on the VAXes or 11/70s, or for "your" compiler. Write your own device driver for a small, simple widget and demonstrate it worked. Write a small OS and demonstrate the fact it works. Design, write, and demonstrate a working DBMS. It could have the functionality of another database - to the point of look, act, feel, but it still had to be your own work.
The department chair was degreed in both Math and English. The quality of documentation, both internal (overview + inline comments) as well as external, showing use, etc. might cost you a decent grade because grammar and spelling issues could knock you off, point-by-point. The same happened on written tests. They didn't want us to get into the outside world and be like the typical geek or nerd. I missed a year of the ACM FORTRAN programming competition because of playing in an away soccer game but participation was highly encouraged in that as well as a semi-formal, regional Basic-Plus-2 compeition which was very similar to the FORTRAN contest.
The short story made long:
The vocal minority will validate a lot of this and show things I either wasn't exposed to or have forgotten after twenty years (+ a severe head injury from a car accident - I love bitches who run red lights). The problem is people who have come out with CS instead of CP on their resume and you find out they learned programming, not the science of computing.
There's more than enough room (or there used to be) for CPs, but it was better luck in larger shops. If you are to the point of dealing with bits-'n-bytes, some who aren't CS may be out of their league - in terms of experience - but if there's enough time, the good ones can adapt. "Enough time" is the operative word. Otherwise, you find yourself without a paddle.
(or hopping online for help - but when people are quizzed about where they go for help, have that answer taken away, and each answer fails so they have to find a new one, you'd be surprised how many younger people don't know of the myriad resources available online when they should either have an HTML document full of anchors or a sizeable collection of bookmarks to get to the valuable assets as quickly as possible.
Well-organized bookmarks are just as important as the cliched r
air popped corn guarantees you have to put butter, sprinkled oil, or something on it for salt to stick to it. otherwise, you're chewing little pieces of cardboard.
The CNN story is based in Indianapolis (which is where I am - well, technically, Fishers, just over the NE county line) but the research was done at Purdue. Anyway, the university I attended was out in the sticks about 45 miles from here as was a major popcorn facility. Forget making in bulk, let alone making any at all. we used to go there and pick up their huge bags of testing samples from various fields - and we're talking *BIG* bags. I don't think we really made our own at all.
...only if it's working first. And we know the track record. Wasn't there a story the other day about Microsoft licensing beta software [and making that acceptable]?
This is starting to sound like the MMORPG business. which have no qualms about putting a box on the store shelves and continuing to work, making "patches" (of several hundred MB) available when people start connecting.
And these bozos are raking money in, hand-over-fist. No one can begrudge someone success like Evercrack [sic], but when they're raking in the money, you'd think they'd put the boxes on the shelves for free. Just like drug dealers, the first one is free.
"Does it work?" has been the line of demarcation and "work" has a definition which changes every time the direction of the wind changes.
And as the old.sig goes: "The day Microsoft makes something which doesn't suck is the day they make vacuum cleaners."
About eighteen months ago, I was being fitted for a new suit for a friend of the family's wedding at the Men's Wearhouse. When they found out what I did for a living - and the fact I got to lounge about at work in golf shorts, jean shorts, and sandals (which is how I went in there), they pointed out that the tech industry was reponsible for the lack of professionalism in the business community and the dot-com bubble bursting was one of the best things which could have happened because the "geeks & nerds" wouldn't have as much leverage as to where they worked or what the dress code would be (because things would have to loosen up to acquire adequate talent).
My response? "You mean you have less business because we can wear the same type of clothing at any hour of the day - we don't have a set of work clothes and non-work clothes; and if we had to wear suits, we'd have to drive a lot more business suits your direction, right? And on top of that, we don't even have to take everything to the dry cleaners, either. Do a wash and we're ready to go."
----- daggers emitted from their eyeballs -----
The suit: nicely done. The looks on their faces: priceless.
Okay, Netflix goes out, sets up the business model, shows a virtual movie biz can survive. BlockBuster starts losing marketshare, and has to pay heavily for brick-and-mortar operations. "Gee, what can we do?" BlockBuster wailed. "Netflix works, let's copy them and just lower the price point."
How original.
I have another, cheaper version of Netflix, I shall call it mini-Netflix.
Zonk,
Notifying you of story duplication doesn't mean, "DELETE THIS STORY ASAP!", but rather, "in the future, spend a few minutes performing a search to see if the topic has already been discussed; particularly if it's within the previous [few] months".
The bottom line is: You are not Jimmy Olsen and you shouldn't worry about getting the "scoop" on someone else on the list. The ten minutes you take to back up your story will make you look a little more thorough if|when it's posted versus what you're dealing with now.
No, it's not.
As a rule, direct owners of an IP address (or addresses) are blocked. Should they refuse to correct the problem, the block is escalated to the owner of the block above, etc. Eventually, someone gets hurt enough they scream at the owners to fix their problem. IOW, the users are being used to leverage the IP owners to fix the problems. If this is not done, there's no way to stop the sprew.
If you are connecting somewhere, particularly as a business, part of your due diligence with connecting should be to ensure there is a clause in the contract to determine what is done should your connection be blocked through no fault of your own; e.g. they will be financially responsible for getting you to a "clean" block. Also, before you "acquire" ip addresses, you should be responsible enough to find out if they are on any block lists and ask the folks supplying access if the addresses you are acquiring if they are on any block lists. Actually, if any of their addresses, regardless of where they are located, are on block lists.
Finally, you have no right to expect your email to be delivered to a particular domain. If Company X decides they don't want your email, you can'd demand for them to do so - it's their sandbox, their rules. If you don't like it, lump it.
For some reason, everyone seems to have an attitude that as long as they are connected, fine. Oh, and they don't want any spam. Kill the spammers. One of the most effective forms of de-spamming ip blocks is to get the owners (at some level) to cut them loose because of pressure from their clients. Your actions help stop spammers.
"We got blocked because we didn't kill the spammers fast enough" is 14m3. You don't need a week. If it's in your contract, you go to the machine and you cut them loose. There's no need to "prenotify" them. If they violate TOS and TOS says "without notice" then follow the rules you've put forward. And if it's not in the TOS|contract, then shame on you. Fix it and follow through. If you aren't willing to run your business by by being a good neighbor, your fate is predetermined - by your own actions (or inactions).
Fortunately, the cops get to sample being on the other end of the electricity. They should experience all non-lethal weapons so they know what they're dealing with. (And for the morons who point out clipping someone with a bullet isn't lethal, you know what I'm talking about.)
When I was an EMT in high school we carried pepper spray on our holsters and had to know the effects. It wasn't very pleasant.
"real journalists" are in a "pull" industry. bloggers are in a pull industry x100'000. You have to track these people done and continue to track them down on a regular basis. If they were to periodically relocate their online resources, how many people would some particularly sufficient set of personal resources to stay current?
All of that said, can you imagine sitting down in a cyber cafe, and about the time you start blogging, two guys come walking over, one, whose name could easily be "Guido" want to see your blogging license.
Can you say, "Wheel of Misfortune"? Spin the wheel with a couple of nasty spots where you get a real nasty jolt. It would certainly add a bit of a spark[1] to an otherwise boring game.
There is a reason NASA wants to trash Hubble. With Hubble gone, it'll be easier to justify the next scope. Right now, it's easy to say, "What's wrong with what we've got?" Yes, compare|contrast images have been shown - comparing "regular" tv to HDTV - and there is a difference. But when you see the pricetag, it's still easy to say, we have one right now turning out pretty nice pictures. Get rid of the status quo, then say, "oooooh. look at the pretty pictures." and people will go along with it - new posters for office walls, Timmy's bedroom ceiling (to stair at whilst he's falling asleep - until he gets to be ten or eleven, then something else will be up there).
It's just like a kid wanting a new computer, bike, skateboard, baseball glove, or anything else. "Well, son. Doesn't the one you have right now work?" "Well, yeah, but...."
NASA's just trying to eliminate the the status quo works and is cheaper argument.
"And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elija went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
Now, can you imagine the Pope riding the PopeMobile like that?
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A lot of churches have raised money because they've permitted the tower to be located in the spire. They obviously can use the money and when it's hidden....
I'd like one, please.
Read "Time's Last Gift" - Philip Jose Farmer.
It's got a couple of nice twists on time travel.
I've already been to next year's convention. Want to know what's going to happen?
<ESP>If you write something which requires this type of markup, try again. I can't read your mind.</ESP>
This gives a whole new meaning to "She's a dog".
Who should be responsible for making up the difference?
They do now. He can pick and choose what he wants to do these days. His employee ID number was #5(?). So he's got the funds to support any of his endeavors. He's like Paul Allen: he's not going to be in a situation of being poor enough to have to eat hotdogs for lunch and weenie broth for supper.
;)
One of the posted links was to a story last fall - speaking of him attending law school.
I don't know when he passed, but he did pass the bar and is focusing upon (exclusively) patent issues:
"You can't outdevelop Microsoft but you can outinvent them."
-Nathan Myhrvold PhD, JD
Microsoft's original CTO
Founder, Microsoft Research
Source: MIT's Technology Review, May 2004
It makes you wonder why Microsoft let him get away, eh?
My lips are sealed.
abusive power?
It's no different than any other industry. Seventeen years and it's open to everyone else to create and sell generic brands.
That's when the original pharm companies "add" another feature - adding a decongestive.
Here in Indy (Indianapolis), Lilly et alia have had to support their patents in court several times - trying to get the life of the patent shortened without a solid argument. Yes, Lilly is big, and important to the local economy, but I'm not defending them for being local - I'd defend any Rx company on the abusive issue.
Now, if you want to argue price (which you didn't state, and if you submitted your message with an HTML format like this:
<ESP> Patent lifetimes should be shorter so pharmacutical companies dont have the abusive financial power and control they have today. </ESP>
then I didn't pick up on that aspect of of your message.
But when it comes to price, I can understand the argument quite well. Especially because they charge one price in the US and other in other countries: witness the old people chartering a bus to Canada to buy their meds. I'm on a number of (several dozen/day) meds to deal with constant head pain from a car accident ten years ago - someone ran a red light and almost killed me). Fortunately, I've been in a situation to deal with that - my wife has excellent benefits from working in a hospital. Otherwise, I might have to pick & choose employers based upon what they would cover: a hefty price of drugs and several trips a year to the Diamond Headache Clinic. Neither of these are tax-deductible until it reaches a good percentage of your income. This is not to mention taking those days off of work - do I kill several sick days, vacation days, or days sans pay?
If you could elaborate a bit, perhaps we can have a clearer discussion.
Typical unknowing...
First, we do not live in a democracy. A democracy is when three wolves and a sheep vote what's for supper. We are a republic.[1]
-----------------
No, that's not what Republicans believe in.
Both Democrats and Republicans stand for big:
Republicans believe in big business - generally, via supply side economics: when businesses have enough resources & needs, they'll need more people to fill those jobs, and the employed will benefit by having more money to spend, which will put more money into the economy: when the tide comes in, all of the boats float.
Democrats believe if the government gets large enough (big enough to overcome any problems with fraud, embezzlement, etc.), anyone who needs something which they aren't able to provide for themselves will eventually slide downhill to them - another form of supply-side, but using the gov't.
I tend to look at republicans, Republicans, democrats, Democrats, depending upon how fervent their beliefs and how centrist they are.
the same holds true for some form of libertarianism: libertarian, Libertarian, civil libertarian, etc.[2], (Distinguishing libertarian and Libertarian is pretty easy: Ls' positions seem to almost border on anarchy to many people not familiar with the principles and ls' positions, if people will listen long enough are essentiall for putting a leash on gov't of most levels, although pushing it to the local levels as much as possible because people have more ability to affect those who govern them - screw me and it'll be the last time you govern me. At the national level, it's "Screw 50 million of us and it'll be the last time you screwed us over."
Quiz Question: Why is it the political leanings of most people who work in the technical arena (geeks & nerds) - not people who are key-entry operators are more libertarian in general?
(and if some squid licker comes in here and says, "It's not true. I'm not of that political persuation." "Well, it's like this...you're an idiot." (Elain Benes) __________________________
__________________________
[1]But as there's a huge tie-in with gov't and economic model, we are no different. Although we claim to be a republic, we in actuality are a plutocracy - governed by the influence of money, hence the jokes:
"The Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
"Life is like a shit sandwich; the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat."
________________________________
[2] For those who have bitter viewpoints about another's beliefs, they are unlikely to have an objective viewpoint about any form of cogent argument or debate in general. If you were given the opposite position to debate, could you support it as strongly?)
Think of it as playing chess. The reason most people are just not that good is how they analyze the board and employ lookahead: "If I move here, and they move here (making a bad move, which I can capitalize on, and I go there, and they go there (another bad move), then I can go here" instead of "If I move here and rotate the board to switch sides, what's my (their) best move?"
Besides, what most places refer to as CS is actually something akin to a B.S. in Computer Programming.
When I finished my CS degree twenty years ago, it covered computing science comprehensively. There was a business track and a science track. The business track was pretty lame and I started a petetion to have the business track's students diplomas state their degree was "Business Data Processing". Let's say they weren't too happy about that.
I tested out of three years of calculus going in, a year of biology (missed one question), etc. And that's while I was a pre-med major in my Frosh year.
Enough bs. During my junior year they had more students enrolling in the CS program that they had to make getting into it and remaining in it a bit more difficult. When I was going through it, we had to take Advanced Calculus (Calc IV), Electronics (used as a flunk class for EE majors), microcomputer interfacing (a secondary flunk class for EEs who didn't take the hint before), Micro Economics (I took Macro to make it a matched set, Operations Research, Modeling & Simulation, a survey of languages - a senior honors course (which was invited to as a premed student as a freshman - and freshman weren't permitted to take senior courses, let alone honors - but it was the dept. chair who recruited me so I had some time to kill and went. Four or Five other math classes (pick yours from a list) - I did Linear Algebra - the closest pure math should be getting to real math. Corporate Communications, Systems Analysis, write your own computer for a language designed & defined by consensus by the class members, running on a VAXen cluster. Write your own debugger, either for one of the languages available on the VAXes or 11/70s, or for "your" compiler. Write your own device driver for a small, simple widget and demonstrate it worked. Write a small OS and demonstrate the fact it works. Design, write, and demonstrate a working DBMS. It could have the functionality of another database - to the point of look, act, feel, but it still had to be your own work.
The department chair was degreed in both Math and English. The quality of documentation, both internal (overview + inline comments) as well as external, showing use, etc. might cost you a decent grade because grammar and spelling issues could knock you off, point-by-point. The same happened on written tests. They didn't want us to get into the outside world and be like the typical geek or nerd. I missed a year of the ACM FORTRAN programming competition because of playing in an away soccer game but participation was highly encouraged in that as well as a semi-formal, regional Basic-Plus-2 compeition which was very similar to the FORTRAN contest.
The short story made long:
The vocal minority will validate a lot of this and show things I either wasn't exposed to or have forgotten after twenty years (+ a severe head injury from a car accident - I love bitches who run red lights). The problem is people who have come out with CS instead of CP on their resume and you find out they learned programming, not the science of computing.
There's more than enough room (or there used to be) for CPs, but it was better luck in larger shops. If you are to the point of dealing with bits-'n-bytes, some who aren't CS may be out of their league - in terms of experience - but if there's enough time, the good ones can adapt. "Enough time" is the operative word. Otherwise, you find yourself without a paddle.
(or hopping online for help - but when people are quizzed about where they go for help, have that answer taken away, and each answer fails so they have to find a new one, you'd be surprised how many younger people don't know of the myriad resources available online when they should either have an HTML document full of anchors or a sizeable collection of bookmarks to get to the valuable assets as quickly as possible.
Well-organized bookmarks are just as important as the cliched r
air popped corn guarantees you have to put butter, sprinkled oil, or something on it for salt to stick to it. otherwise, you're chewing little pieces of cardboard.
The CNN story is based in Indianapolis (which is where I am - well, technically, Fishers, just over the NE county line) but the research was done at Purdue. Anyway, the university I attended was out in the sticks about 45 miles from here as was a major popcorn facility. Forget making in bulk, let alone making any at all. we used to go there and pick up their huge bags of testing samples from various fields - and we're talking *BIG* bags. I don't think we really made our own at all.
...only if it's working first. And we know the track record. Wasn't there a story the other day about Microsoft licensing beta software [and making that acceptable]?
.sig goes: "The day Microsoft makes something which doesn't suck is the day they make vacuum cleaners."
This is starting to sound like the MMORPG business. which have no qualms about putting a box on the store shelves and continuing to work, making "patches" (of several hundred MB) available when people start connecting.
And these bozos are raking money in, hand-over-fist. No one can begrudge someone success like Evercrack [sic], but when they're raking in the money, you'd think they'd put the boxes on the shelves for free. Just like drug dealers, the first one is free.
"Does it work?" has been the line of demarcation and "work" has a definition which changes every time the direction of the wind changes.
And as the old
Is it truly a goatee? Or is it the "goatee" the misinformed masses refer to which is really a Van Dyke?
Mind you, if you do a Google image search (as I did), 99% of the images labelled "goatee" are Van Dykes!
I'll tie it to the tech community.
About eighteen months ago, I was being fitted for a new suit for a friend of the family's wedding at the Men's Wearhouse. When they found out what I did for a living - and the fact I got to lounge about at work in golf shorts, jean shorts, and sandals (which is how I went in there), they pointed out that the tech industry was reponsible for the lack of professionalism in the business community and the dot-com bubble bursting was one of the best things which could have happened because the "geeks & nerds" wouldn't have as much leverage as to where they worked or what the dress code would be (because things would have to loosen up to acquire adequate talent).
My response? "You mean you have less business because we can wear the same type of clothing at any hour of the day - we don't have a set of work clothes and non-work clothes; and if we had to wear suits, we'd have to drive a lot more business suits your direction, right? And on top of that, we don't even have to take everything to the dry cleaners, either. Do a wash and we're ready to go."
----- daggers emitted from their eyeballs -----
The suit: nicely done.
The looks on their faces: priceless.
Talking the talk and walking the walk was covered by Shakespeare a long time ago:
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1
Glendower: "I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
Hotspur: "Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"
Okay, Netflix goes out, sets up the business model, shows a virtual movie biz can survive. BlockBuster starts losing marketshare, and has to pay heavily for brick-and-mortar operations. "Gee, what can we do?" BlockBuster wailed. "Netflix works, let's copy them and just lower the price point."
How original.
I have another, cheaper version of Netflix, I shall call it mini-Netflix.
Zonk, Notifying you of story duplication doesn't mean, "DELETE THIS STORY ASAP!", but rather, "in the future, spend a few minutes performing a search to see if the topic has already been discussed; particularly if it's within the previous [few] months".
The bottom line is: You are not Jimmy Olsen and you shouldn't worry about getting the "scoop" on someone else on the list. The ten minutes you take to back up your story will make you look a little more thorough if|when it's posted versus what you're dealing with now.
Does this make things a bit clearer?
No, it's not. As a rule, direct owners of an IP address (or addresses) are blocked. Should they refuse to correct the problem, the block is escalated to the owner of the block above, etc. Eventually, someone gets hurt enough they scream at the owners to fix their problem. IOW, the users are being used to leverage the IP owners to fix the problems. If this is not done, there's no way to stop the sprew.
If you are connecting somewhere, particularly as a business, part of your due diligence with connecting should be to ensure there is a clause in the contract to determine what is done should your connection be blocked through no fault of your own; e.g. they will be financially responsible for getting you to a "clean" block. Also, before you "acquire" ip addresses, you should be responsible enough to find out if they are on any block lists and ask the folks supplying access if the addresses you are acquiring if they are on any block lists. Actually, if any of their addresses, regardless of where they are located, are on block lists.
Finally, you have no right to expect your email to be delivered to a particular domain. If Company X decides they don't want your email, you can'd demand for them to do so - it's their sandbox, their rules. If you don't like it, lump it.
For some reason, everyone seems to have an attitude that as long as they are connected, fine. Oh, and they don't want any spam. Kill the spammers. One of the most effective forms of de-spamming ip blocks is to get the owners (at some level) to cut them loose because of pressure from their clients. Your actions help stop spammers.
"We got blocked because we didn't kill the spammers fast enough" is 14m3. You don't need a week. If it's in your contract, you go to the machine and you cut them loose. There's no need to "prenotify" them. If they violate TOS and TOS says "without notice" then follow the rules you've put forward. And if it's not in the TOS|contract, then shame on you. Fix it and follow through. If you aren't willing to run your business by by being a good neighbor, your fate is predetermined - by your own actions (or inactions).
Fortunately, the cops get to sample being on the other end of the electricity. They should experience all non-lethal weapons so they know what they're dealing with. (And for the morons who point out clipping someone with a bullet isn't lethal, you know what I'm talking about.)
When I was an EMT in high school we carried pepper spray on our holsters and had to know the effects. It wasn't very pleasant.
"real journalists" are in a "pull" industry. bloggers are in a pull industry x100'000. You have to track these people done and continue to track them down on a regular basis. If they were to periodically relocate their online resources, how many people would some particularly sufficient set of personal resources to stay current?
All of that said, can you imagine sitting down in a cyber cafe, and about the time you start blogging, two guys come walking over, one, whose name could easily be "Guido" want to see your blogging license.
Can you say, "Wheel of Misfortune"? Spin the wheel with a couple of nasty spots where you get a real nasty jolt. It would certainly add a bit of a spark[1] to an otherwise boring game.
[1] Did you think I wouldn't make a pun?
There is a reason NASA wants to trash Hubble. With Hubble gone, it'll be easier to justify the next scope. Right now, it's easy to say, "What's wrong with what we've got?" Yes, compare|contrast images have been shown - comparing "regular" tv to HDTV - and there is a difference. But when you see the pricetag, it's still easy to say, we have one right now turning out pretty nice pictures. Get rid of the status quo, then say, "oooooh. look at the pretty pictures." and people will go along with it - new posters for office walls, Timmy's bedroom ceiling (to stair at whilst he's falling asleep - until he gets to be ten or eleven, then something else will be up there).
It's just like a kid wanting a new computer, bike, skateboard, baseball glove, or anything else. "Well, son. Doesn't the one you have right now work?" "Well, yeah, but...."
NASA's just trying to eliminate the the status quo works and is cheaper argument.
Typical junior programmmer. Why hardcode one case when you can open things up to broader sets of information:
Google Gulp
You're forgetting about this: II Kings 2:11
"And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elija went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
Now, can you imagine the Pope riding the PopeMobile like that?