Protip: In Firefox, select test, then right-click abd choose "Search Google for...".
In any case, it's either a type of train engine or the region where a river meets the sea (also, an inhabitant of such a region). In the latter sense, "Deltic" is sometimes (especially in the USA) used to refer specifically to the Mississippi Delta or the inhabitants thereof.
Given the relative level of literacy in that region, I'd say the poster intended the former.
I work for a multinational company, whose open source (GPL) software product is ubiquitous, and whose customers apparently are saying that you're wrong.
BTW, I worked my ass off, took nothing that did not belong to me, and did not raise my hand against anyone in the course of establishing myself.
I should also point out that this was probably the first time in my life that I could make such a claim about about any of my endeavours. I'm not exactly an angel now, but I was even less of one in previous incarnations.
How nice for you that you can apparently see inside my head and understand what motivates me.
In fact, my writing career began as exactly that--an effort to help others.
The fact that it has also worked out to benefit me materially, well beyond any expectations that I had when I started, is a rather nice side effect.
BTW, I worked my ass off, took nothing that did not belong to me, and did not raise my hand against anyone in the course of establishing myself. So if you're trying to guilt-trip me or lay some kind of "entitlement" bullshit on me, you are wasting your time, Jackson.
Neither is it intended simply to provide a conduit for the products of the media cartels.
Your personal desire for this DRM-free fantasy land that will never exist has no relevance to the goals of a standards body.
Ooh. Feel the burn.
Now it's my turn: Your personal desire for an Internet that resembles 1960s television has no relevance to the goals of those who are actually doing something interesting and/or useful with the Internet, as opposed to using it for the mere making of money.
If the fact that--unlike most people who style themselves as such--I have actually been published by big names in the industry (well, okay, not O'Reilly--not yet, at least), have close to a million total print copies sold, make a pretty nice living in one of the world's nicer cities, and still have time to squander on you makes me special...
Well, gee, I will just try very hard to live it down somehow.
But if you instead torrent culture that is in public domain, there is no legal problem and you can enjoy completely free digital lifestyle for all of about 10 minutes before you realise that you've consigned yourself to a life of bad fanfic, worse poetry, and unimaginably bad amateur electronica courtesy GarageBand. And then kill yourself.
But if you're talking anything less than €100000 a year, don't bother. Also, I get all Swedish and Australian legal holidays, and 6 weeks paid vacation per annum.
They might be good movies for their time, but nowadays younger kids are so used to the cliched concept of 'wars among the stars', that it's gotten boring...
Well... Obviously you are right.
And this explains very nicely why some guy named George Lucas never got anywhere with re-doing 1930s-40s serials in the 1970s.
Also why Gene Roddenberry got noplace fast with his "Horatio Hornblower in Space" treatment in the 1960s. NBC knew there was no way to polish up that turd...
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TEXT, not TEST, dammit.
Protip: In Firefox, select test, then right-click abd choose "Search Google for ...".
In any case, it's either a type of train engine or the region where a river meets the sea (also, an inhabitant of such a region). In the latter sense, "Deltic" is sometimes (especially in the USA) used to refer specifically to the Mississippi Delta or the inhabitants thereof.
Given the relative level of literacy in that region, I'd say the poster intended the former.
I work for a multinational company, whose open source (GPL) software product is ubiquitous, and whose customers apparently are saying that you're wrong.
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BTW, I worked my ass off, took nothing that did not belong to me, and did not raise my hand against anyone in the course of establishing myself.
I should also point out that this was probably the first time in my life that I could make such a claim about about any of my endeavours. I'm not exactly an angel now, but I was even less of one in previous incarnations.
No, nothing is new under the sun, and yes, I've stood on the shoulder of giants.
So what the ring-tailed rambling hell are you on about?
How nice for you that you can apparently see inside my head and understand what motivates me.
In fact, my writing career began as exactly that--an effort to help others.
The fact that it has also worked out to benefit me materially, well beyond any expectations that I had when I started, is a rather nice side effect.
BTW, I worked my ass off, took nothing that did not belong to me, and did not raise my hand against anyone in the course of establishing myself. So if you're trying to guilt-trip me or lay some kind of "entitlement" bullshit on me, you are wasting your time, Jackson.
HTML5 is not a political action committee.
Neither is it intended simply to provide a conduit for the products of the media cartels.
Your personal desire for this DRM-free fantasy land that will never exist has no relevance to the goals of a standards body.
Ooh. Feel the burn.
Now it's my turn: Your personal desire for an Internet that resembles 1960s television has no relevance to the goals of those who are actually doing something interesting and/or useful with the Internet, as opposed to using it for the mere making of money.
Right back to "Best Viewed With...", is what you're saying.
If you think Wal-Mart "Levis" are the genuine article, I definitely do not want you buying any meat for me.
If the fact that--unlike most people who style themselves as such--I have actually been published by big names in the industry (well, okay, not O'Reilly--not yet, at least), have close to a million total print copies sold, make a pretty nice living in one of the world's nicer cities, and still have time to squander on you makes me special...
Well, gee, I will just try very hard to live it down somehow.
Dude. Take a Valium.
Yes, he did, and I should like to offer him a cigar.
But if you instead torrent culture that is in public domain, there is no legal problem and you can enjoy completely free digital lifestyle for all of about 10 minutes before you realise that you've consigned yourself to a life of bad fanfic, worse poetry, and unimaginably bad amateur electronica courtesy GarageBand. And then kill yourself.
SYSTHLSOTET...
As a writer, I'm here to inform you that you are a genuine, grade-A doorknob.
Is it Dieter or Dietrich?
BTW, I notice your site has only one writer.
I'm available--get in touch with my agent.
But if you're talking anything less than €100000 a year, don't bother. Also, I get all Swedish and Australian legal holidays, and 6 weeks paid vacation per annum.
I AM SPARTACUS.
i'm old
So am I.
...
BTW, if you're into Zen, you might want to think a bit about MuMon.
Otherwise, don't worry yourself about the "Mindless" moniker, it's really not worth your trouble.
And as Zontar The Mindless once said, "Never have I seen a man in such dire need of a sarcasm detector."
So what you're saying is that eventually there'll be no more secrets anywhere.
Except you're making this out to be a bad thing.
To address your other point:
They might be good movies for their time, but nowadays younger kids are so used to the cliched concept of 'wars among the stars',
that it's gotten boring...
Well... Obviously you are right.
And this explains very nicely why some guy named George Lucas never got anywhere with re-doing 1930s-40s serials in the 1970s.
Also why Gene Roddenberry got noplace fast with his "Horatio Hornblower in Space" treatment in the 1960s. NBC knew there was no way to polish up that turd...
What were you doing looking at that many Chinese kids?
Um, I was in downtown Kowloon, and all the other white folks were sightseeing at Victoria Peak, I guess.
What the fuck kinda question is that, anyway?
I saw the Star Trek reboot in Hong Kong.The cinema was packed. And I saw about 50,000 Chinese kids wearing ST t-shirts around town that week.
*blows smoke from fingertip 'gun barrel'*
Sorry, I didn't realise the Scribd version was paywalled--wasn't expecting that, silly me, seeing as the story is in the public domain...
Here's an unemcumbered version.
Would you please translate this for those of us who happen not to be on drugs at the moment?
Thanks!