So that would explain why there was never a rash of lawsuits against elementary schools back in the day over the popular, but silly little song/rhyme that kids frequently chanted out on the playground to prove their coolness...
King Kong plays ping pong, with his ding dong, in Hong Kong.
During some remodeling, the small closet/room it was in was sealed with drywall. It was 4 years before the box required maintenance and someone went about trying to find it and realized what had happened.
Why do we think its cute and sweet to lie to children. Its not? It teaches them cynacism from the get go.
There is no Santa Claus. No easter bunny. No unicorns, mermaids, dragons, fairies, space aliens we know of, etc...
That's it! I'm reporting you to Mister Clause so that you can have a visit from his trusted sidekick. You can expect to be taking your holiday dinner tomorrow standing up.:D
This is why Linux will never catch on. "Packages going into Etch"?? WTF does that mean? If a well-educated slashdot reader has no clue what you're talking about, how is the general public, let alone my grandma, supposed to use Linux?
In a similar vein, would you have wondered the same thing about the Mac years ago if someone had mentioned features Apple was considering incorporating into Butthead Astronomer?
They're the legal equivalent of asking if someone is a cop before offering to sell him drugs.
Aren't cops supposed to answer truthfully if asked that? I know that in the USAF, if you ask someone if he is an OSI (Office of Special Investigations) agent, he is required to admit it if he really is. Does it work the same way for civilian police?
The last I heard a few years ago, the official currency subunit was the mill ($0.001). That is one reason why gasoline is sold to 3 decimal.
I'm surprised no one has yet, just to be an asshole, purchased exactly one gallon of gas (like, at say $2.444 per gallon, going by typical prices where I live), paid $2.45, then demanded their 1/10th of a cent in change.
Every one I've seen has a sign proclaiming them to be legal, with a reference to some section of federal law, which I never was curious enough to look up.
If it wasn't legal, then they would not have a couple of those machines in the upstairs food court at the Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange.
"Accelerate on the entrance ramp to match the speed of the people in the lane you are merging with and choose the spot where you intend to merge, then clearly signal your intentions" is much better advice than "be going at least 60 mph when you merge".
And to add to that sound advice...
If someone reduces their speed a little in order to provide you with a suitable gap to merge into, just fucking take it already. If you try to wait until the last possible second to merge, chances are, you will end up way behind the considerate driver who offered you that opening you refused, and he will be justified in giving you a hearty Ha-ha!
and be going at least 60 mph when you merge onto a freeway.
And conversely, if you have an exit coming up, please continue doing 60 or whatever the speed limit is until you are off the freeway and onto the off ramp (provided the off ramp has plenty of length for deceleration.) Slowing down to 40 - 50 a quarter mile before the exit gets rather annoying to everyone else who has to suddenly slow down behind you.
I have 20 years of driving under my seatbelt, with 0 accident and 0 ticket.
For me, 21 years. No tickets and 1 accident in which I was determined to not be at fault at all.
This is what happens when the driver of the semi that you are passing decides that he wants to be in the same lane you are in for no reason whatsoever (he was speeding, doing around 70 where the posted limit for trucks is 60, and there was no one directly ahead of him in the right lane), and wasn't paying attention to the world around him, and my car ended up wedged underneath his back trailer. Good thing I didn't have anyone riding with me.
In my experience I have found OpenDoc text files to regularly be shorter than MS Word documents.
I can corroborate this. As a quick little test, I opened up the latest chapter in progress of my latest story in progress (using OO.org 2.0). The document, using Times New Roman - 15 point, is thus far 11 pages. In it's native format (OpenDocument), the file occupies approximately 33KB of space on my hard drive. I then saved it in M$ Word (97/2000/XP) format, and the resulting filesize is about 185KB. That's about 5 1/2 times the size of the OpenDocument version.
Oh, and just on a whim, I saved a copy in Rich Text Format just now. The RTF file is about twice the size of the odt file.
If you're worried about that, choose UFS instead of HFS+ when initially installing the OS. UFS is readable by a lot of BSD and Linux boxes.
The module (hfsplus) probably comes with most current distributions (modprobe hfsplus) if you're running a 2.6 kernel. Should be fine for reading the disk at least.
How am I costing the RIAA money if I never planned to buy a CD anyway? By downloading something I never planned on purchasing, they have lost no money because whether I download the fucking song or not, they are not getting my money.
And likewise, how can it be stealing if I have already paid for the music? (looks over the large collection of vinyl, 8-tracks, and cassettes built up over the past decades)...
On the one hand, I have to agree with this. On the other hand, I have to think that if someone makes a recording that can continue to sell for 50+ years, that person deserves some sort of financial reward for it.
On the third hand, when copyright expires, it doesn't mean the original creator loses all rights to sell the work. It just means he no longer has the exclusive right.
How about a system like this?
Traditional exclusive copyright - 15 years with an option to extend another 5 for a fee.
After the initial 15 years (or 20), the copyright goes to a Creative Commons license - Attribution, Share-Alike, Non-Commercial for a period of 50 years from when the work was originally created. So that would be 30 to 35 years under a CC license. This would allow others to create non-commercial derivative works based off the original, and the original creator would still have control over commercial uses of his/her work.
Then after 50 years from creation, the work enters into the public domain.
Production is now officially on hiatus, with the clock ticking, considering that winter (and snow) is approaching, and much of the film is set outdoors in autumn, back-to-school weather.
They could always find a university somewhere south of the Equator and start their filming in March, since that would be the start of autumn down there.
This is about who gets to decide whether whatever Microsoft sells can be called a Mapuzugun-language product, and as such, whether any legal consequences of such a designation should apply to it.
Microsoft could always take a lesson from Apple and call it the "Butthead Chilean Tribal Language Version."
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So that would explain why there was never a rash of lawsuits against elementary schools back in the day over the popular, but silly little song/rhyme that kids frequently chanted out on the playground to prove their coolness...
King Kong plays ping pong, with his ding dong, in Hong Kong.
It was already in the pubic^H^Hlic domain.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S001
You mean the National Association of Marlin Brando Look-Alikes?
And here I thought he was executed via hanging. Instead...
Death by Boonga-Boonga!!!
And meanwhile, on the Death Star, shortly before Luke launches his torpedoes...
Commence primary ignition...
Bleep...Bleep...Vrrrrrmmmmmm...
Stand by... Stand by...
This is followed by a BSOD filling up the big view screen with the message:
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
This then gives Luke the time needed to actually get his torpedoes into the exhaust port, which sets up a chain reaction, and destroys the station.
That's it! I'm reporting you to Mister Clause so that you can have a visit from his trusted sidekick. You can expect to be taking your holiday dinner tomorrow standing up.
I don't think that's merely hot air.
In a similar vein, would you have wondered the same thing about the Mac years ago if someone had mentioned features Apple was considering incorporating into Butthead Astronomer?
Aren't cops supposed to answer truthfully if asked that? I know that in the USAF, if you ask someone if he is an OSI (Office of Special Investigations) agent, he is required to admit it if he really is. Does it work the same way for civilian police?
And since this will be animated,their non-Humans can truly be more than simple Humans with various face ridges and whatnot.
I'm surprised no one has yet, just to be an asshole, purchased exactly one gallon of gas (like, at say $2.444 per gallon, going by typical prices where I live), paid $2.45, then demanded their 1/10th of a cent in change.
If it wasn't legal, then they would not have a couple of those machines in the upstairs food court at the Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange.
And to add to that sound advice...
If someone reduces their speed a little in order to provide you with a suitable gap to merge into, just fucking take it already. If you try to wait until the last possible second to merge, chances are, you will end up way behind the considerate driver who offered you that opening you refused, and he will be justified in giving you a hearty Ha-ha!
And conversely, if you have an exit coming up, please continue doing 60 or whatever the speed limit is until you are off the freeway and onto the off ramp (provided the off ramp has plenty of length for deceleration.) Slowing down to 40 - 50 a quarter mile before the exit gets rather annoying to everyone else who has to suddenly slow down behind you.
I don't have MS Word. I use OO.org on a Linux box (Debian - sid)
There's also a free solution for Windows as well.
HFSExplorer
And likewise, how can it be stealing if I have already paid for the music? (looks over the large collection of vinyl, 8-tracks, and cassettes built up over the past decades)...
No need to swear, man.
How about a system like this?
Traditional exclusive copyright - 15 years with an option to extend another 5 for a fee.
After the initial 15 years (or 20), the copyright goes to a Creative Commons license - Attribution, Share-Alike, Non-Commercial for a period of 50 years from when the work was originally created. So that would be 30 to 35 years under a CC license. This would allow others to create non-commercial derivative works based off the original, and the original creator would still have control over commercial uses of his/her work.
Then after 50 years from creation, the work enters into the public domain.
They could always find a university somewhere south of the Equator and start their filming in March, since that would be the start of autumn down there.
Microsoft could always take a lesson from Apple and call it the "Butthead Chilean Tribal Language Version."
So this means that Windows still isn't ready for the desktop? Perhaps the next version after Vista then...