I feelthis may be at best exaggerated, and at worst a hoax. Just sounds too cliche.
Why would there be a hoax? Well, hmm. Follow the money. I went to the Adcops site where the original story comes from. Poked there a bit before finding out that to be a member (and read or see the 'Fraud Museum' or other valuable evidence, you need to fork over US$90.
Hmm. Perhaps Adcops did a little hack job of their own to get publicity and increased revenue sales. Ya Think?
Saw two movies last weekend -- 'Requiem for a dream' and 'Traffic'. Both were about drugs and drug abuse, but Requiem was a far better piece of work in every comparative way.
Besides at almost 2 and a half hours, there were stretches where they could have cut stuff and no one would have noticed.
"Now re-engineered using more lightweight materials, reel mowers are making a quiet comeback; according to Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality, sales of reel mowers in the past 15 years have more than doubled."
...Experts say that Reel Mower sales may actually exceed 20 mowers in the next year, again doubling sales!
...In a reaally twisted horrible way. I must say that it was really quite fun to sit there and look at a piece of work that sounded like it was written by a 13 year old who just got his hands on the Players Handbook.
My favorite parts include the lead male's wonderful Shatnerian yell "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" (on his knees no less) when Sgt. Whisper (of the lavender lip brigade) does something really overdue.
Other wonderful additions are the fact that two characters do precicely NADA in the film, instead saying things like "This is up to them." and "We're not allowed to enter and help." I was really glad that they were there. A personal fave of mine was the 50 year old male queen who "lays on hands" (if you catch my drift) the strapping young buck who lies in his bed. Nice overtones that really adds depth to the movie.
And of course the wonderful subtlety of the good versus evil thing. While movie tends to point to Prothion as the evil one, it is the queen who after refusing the council's request to turn over a weapon of mass destruction, then uses the weapon and summons some 25-30 gold dragons to raze the city and destroy the somewhat undergunned mages. You see the mages do such dasterdly things as a shield of ice and run around ducking fireballs. Occasionally they shoot some fireballs back (I would to if 30+ dragons were trying to fry me) but they miss.
Then after the resolution of said battle, the people get to hear "You are all equal" from the lips of the tyrand herself. Man, I bet they were glad she was fighting for them, as their house burns to the ground and people lied dead under the bodies of fallen dragons. I'm sure those tears were for joy.
But of course I didn't expect the audience to catch the subtle "What is good and What is evil" argument. They were too busy waiting for the Queen to cast the "Power Tits stun" spell at Profian. And I guess I was too. God bless america.
I kept thinking while watching this series that the art direction would work wonderfully for the Wheel of Time series. Paul looks like what I imagine Rand to look like, the Fremen like Aiel and with some minor modification the bene Gesirate could look like the Aes Sedai.
"Overall this was much more faithfull to the book than the Lynch movie (at least these still suits covered your whole body... yeah... we're going to march through terrible desert wearing a suit to reclaim our moisture and protect us from the desert... oh, and it doesn't cover our heads)."
Yeah, and while we're at it, lets make the still suits BLACK. In the desert, that'll work real well.
Lynch movie had some very nice artistic elements to it, but it fell down on quite a few 'reality oriented' points.
Don't need it. I got mine a week and a half ago and have already mastered 3x ff (which is actually around 60x speed). The jumpback feature lets you hit play when you see the show and it jumps back a bit, and you see the start. Its not hard.
As was stated elsewhere in this story, and on MSNBC, of the 19,120 invalidated votes, only 3,783 were mistakes in the senate portions of the ballot. It implies that the other 15,337 were errors in the presidential portion (though they didn't report that). That says one of three things: there are 22,500 idiots in Palm beach county, There was a very confusing ballot in Palm Beach county, or there was voter fraud in Palm Beach county. I heard the fraud speculation by a newscaster last night that it was possible that someone took advantage of a confusing situation and double punched a huge number of ballots for gore. I don't believe that at all.
From what I've heard on the news, the 3,500 (estimated) votes that were bungled in West Palm (did I get the right location) - where it punched Buchanan when you tried to vote for gore, might throw the balance toward gore. Or not. Then there is the Absentee ballot (from overseas) which could decide this one way or the other. I think its going to stretch out for a couple of days. That is unless they decide to throw out those 3500 votes.
Without knowing the specifics of Apples complaint, it sounds like a classic slap suit designed to quash free speach. Depends what state MSOR is in, but if they are in one with anti-slap suit laws, they may have good recourse. Of course this is completely invalid argument if Apple has evidence of violation of NDA or similar agreements.
Revocation of the GPL does not invalidate the copyright. Just means the license to distribute is not valid. At that point, FSF could temporarily restrict all distribution of its copyrighted work until a new, more secure license can be established.
This is so misguided, its scary. Perhaps you need to rethink this argument and place it into the real world. As a reference to help you see the difference between 'good idea' and reality, use the Communist Manifesto and the Soviet History. The 'theory' sounded great -- everybody doing their part and everyone benefits. The reality is MUCH different.
If you think about it, this isn't surprising at all. I believe they have a contract with RoadRunner for ISP service for a couple of years. They want to rollout AOL -- of course they're going to 'open' the lines. That way they don't break contract with RR and can roll out (and probably underprice) AOL. When the contract expires, poof, EOOA (End of Open Access).
Well I have died in dreams before. Three times that I remember. And they are 'deaths' that end in my perception going away, followed by a period of nothingness and then I wake up. Unsettling, but not fatal.
My favorite part of the last question is that he didn't answer it. That should be taken straight to Al Gore himself. Don't be content to have more info than the other candidates, actually put up info that I can use. But they'll never do that, cause he wants to be able to flip-flop on any issue. Politics as usual.
I wanna see a X-Men vs. AD&D movie. Since both are out soon, and they're both from the same period of my childhood. Just think: a Paladin scoring a critical on Cyclops. Woo hooo!
So you want linux to run YOUR way. Well I'd like it to run my way too. And what's wrong if I want to run something like AOL? Or have it be easy to use? The argument that you say: if you want it easy, run a mac (etc)... can be applied to anything. For instance, I can say, if you want to play a DVD movie, then run Windows. Matter of fact, wasn't this an issue that everybody is griping about? Can't have your cake and eat it too. Linux is for everyone, not just you.
You're not thinking. He's saying that it doesn't matter what software is ported to linux, cause if you don't like it, don't run the damn thing. Its not going to dumb down linux. If anything, its going to prove to people how linux can be as easy or even easier to use than Windows and can be as robust as high end Unix. What's your problem that you think only your version of software should be run on your os. Sounds like Gates to me.
You can blame Fox for running the article, but you can't blame them for writing it. This is a Reuters/AP article. Its off the wire. If you want to lay blame, write to Reuters.
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Would that be uglier than the kludge where Darth Vadar constructs a robot and fails to recognize same robot from that point onward?
Lest it be forgotten... Starwars SUCKS.
I feelthis may be at best exaggerated, and at worst a hoax. Just sounds too cliche.
Why would there be a hoax? Well, hmm. Follow the money. I went to the Adcops site where the original story comes from. Poked there a bit before finding out that to be a member (and read or see the 'Fraud Museum' or other valuable evidence, you need to fork over US$90.
Hmm. Perhaps Adcops did a little hack job of their own to get publicity and increased revenue sales. Ya Think?
Thank you folks, but the Nazi card has now been played. You can all go home.
Saw two movies last weekend -- 'Requiem for a dream' and 'Traffic'. Both were about drugs and drug abuse, but Requiem was a far better piece of work in every comparative way.
Besides at almost 2 and a half hours, there were stretches where they could have cut stuff and no one would have noticed.
Traffic isn't bad, but Requiem is so much better.
Dated 10/5/00. This was a sidebar to previously submitted posts about Tolkien.
...In a reaally twisted horrible way. I must say that it was really quite fun to sit there and look at a piece of work that sounded like it was written by a 13 year old who just got his hands on the Players Handbook.
My favorite parts include the lead male's wonderful Shatnerian yell "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" (on his knees no less) when Sgt. Whisper (of the lavender lip brigade) does something really overdue.
Other wonderful additions are the fact that two characters do precicely NADA in the film, instead saying things like "This is up to them." and "We're not allowed to enter and help." I was really glad that they were there. A personal fave of mine was the 50 year old male queen who "lays on hands" (if you catch my drift) the strapping young buck who lies in his bed. Nice overtones that really adds depth to the movie.
And of course the wonderful subtlety of the good versus evil thing. While movie tends to point to Prothion as the evil one, it is the queen who after refusing the council's request to turn over a weapon of mass destruction, then uses the weapon and summons some 25-30 gold dragons to raze the city and destroy the somewhat undergunned mages. You see the mages do such dasterdly things as a shield of ice and run around ducking fireballs. Occasionally they shoot some fireballs back (I would to if 30+ dragons were trying to fry me) but they miss.
Then after the resolution of said battle, the people get to hear "You are all equal" from the lips of the tyrand herself. Man, I bet they were glad she was fighting for them, as their house burns to the ground and people lied dead under the bodies of fallen dragons. I'm sure those tears were for joy.
But of course I didn't expect the audience to catch the subtle "What is good and What is evil" argument. They were too busy waiting for the Queen to cast the "Power Tits stun" spell at Profian. And I guess I was too. God bless america.
I kept thinking while watching this series that the art direction would work wonderfully for the Wheel of Time series. Paul looks like what I imagine Rand to look like, the Fremen like Aiel and with some minor modification the bene Gesirate could look like the Aes Sedai.
"Overall this was much more faithfull to the book than the Lynch movie (at least these still suits covered your whole body... yeah... we're going to march through terrible desert wearing a suit to reclaim our moisture and protect us from the desert... oh, and it doesn't cover our heads)."
Yeah, and while we're at it, lets make the still suits BLACK. In the desert, that'll work real well.
Lynch movie had some very nice artistic elements to it, but it fell down on quite a few 'reality oriented' points.
They rerun the series after the first run, so you don't have to miss X-files. Or you can get a TIVO.
Don't need it. I got mine a week and a half ago and have already mastered 3x ff (which is actually around 60x speed). The jumpback feature lets you hit play when you see the show and it jumps back a bit, and you see the start. Its not hard.
As was stated elsewhere in this story, and on MSNBC, of the 19,120 invalidated votes, only 3,783 were mistakes in the senate portions of the ballot. It implies that the other 15,337 were errors in the presidential portion (though they didn't report that). That says one of three things: there are 22,500 idiots in Palm beach county, There was a very confusing ballot in Palm Beach county, or there was voter fraud in Palm Beach county. I heard the fraud speculation by a newscaster last night that it was possible that someone took advantage of a confusing situation and double punched a huge number of ballots for gore. I don't believe that at all.
But there was a confusing ballot.
From what I've heard on the news, the 3,500 (estimated) votes that were bungled in West Palm (did I get the right location) - where it punched Buchanan when you tried to vote for gore, might throw the balance toward gore. Or not. Then there is the Absentee ballot (from overseas) which could decide this one way or the other. I think its going to stretch out for a couple of days. That is unless they decide to throw out those 3500 votes.
Without knowing the specifics of Apples complaint, it sounds like a classic slap suit designed to quash free speach. Depends what state MSOR is in, but if they are in one with anti-slap suit laws, they may have good recourse. Of course this is completely invalid argument if Apple has evidence of violation of NDA or similar agreements.
Revocation of the GPL does not invalidate the copyright. Just means the license to distribute is not valid. At that point, FSF could temporarily restrict all distribution of its copyrighted work until a new, more secure license can be established.
Are you Bob Gobman of Anytown, USA? I'm John Smith! I live down on Peppermint Lane. We ought to get together some time for a phosphate.
This is so misguided, its scary. Perhaps you need to rethink this argument and place it into the real world. As a reference to help you see the difference between 'good idea' and reality, use the Communist Manifesto and the Soviet History. The 'theory' sounded great -- everybody doing their part and everyone benefits. The reality is MUCH different.
Think.
If you think about it, this isn't surprising at all. I believe they have a contract with RoadRunner for ISP service for a couple of years. They want to rollout AOL -- of course they're going to 'open' the lines. That way they don't break contract with RR and can roll out (and probably underprice) AOL. When the contract expires, poof, EOOA (End of Open Access).
Well I have died in dreams before. Three times that I remember. And they are 'deaths' that end in my perception going away, followed by a period of nothingness and then I wake up. Unsettling, but not fatal.
My favorite part of the last question is that he didn't answer it. That should be taken straight to Al Gore himself. Don't be content to have more info than the other candidates, actually put up info that I can use. But they'll never do that, cause he wants to be able to flip-flop on any issue. Politics as usual.
I wanna see a X-Men vs. AD&D movie. Since both are out soon, and they're both from the same period of my childhood. Just think: a Paladin scoring a critical on Cyclops. Woo hooo!
So you want linux to run YOUR way. Well I'd like it to run my way too. And what's wrong if I want to run something like AOL? Or have it be easy to use? The argument that you say: if you want it easy, run a mac (etc)... can be applied to anything. For instance, I can say, if you want to play a DVD movie, then run Windows. Matter of fact, wasn't this an issue that everybody is griping about? Can't have your cake and eat it too. Linux is for everyone, not just you.
You're not thinking. He's saying that it doesn't matter what software is ported to linux, cause if you don't like it, don't run the damn thing. Its not going to dumb down linux. If anything, its going to prove to people how linux can be as easy or even easier to use than Windows and can be as robust as high end Unix. What's your problem that you think only your version of software should be run on your os. Sounds like Gates to me.
You can blame Fox for running the article, but you can't blame them for writing it. This is a Reuters/AP article. Its off the wire. If you want to lay blame, write to Reuters.
...Rob could of hired Jesse Berst to be the official article writer.