I think I've got some counterfeit monitors at the office. They say 'Trinitron', but some company called 'Dell' put their name where it should say Sony.;)
The problem here is that the 'men in vans' aren't opening their vans on street corners; they're wholesaling to unsuspecting retailers. So if, say, WalMart were to dump a supplier because someone else gave them a lower price (WalMart would do this? Never!), they might be buying counterfeit crap. (WalMart? Sell crap? Never!)
Fixing your Firefox extensions isn't necessarily work without reward. Being known for a good extension to an open source program is good PR, and good PR can translate to more business. It's not direct income, but it's valuable nonetheless.
So who's forcing you to sit at home? Who is preventing you from doing something to take advantage of the commercial opportunities of the season? Go on eBay and sell a picture of an X-Box or something.
Christmas did not start as a religious holiday. Christ was probably born sometime in the spring, but the official holiday was moved to the winter solstice (approximately) to overshadow the various pagan solstice/new year holidays, much like the Romans gave their boring agricultural deities the more exciting personalities of the Greek gods, and the Greeks stole theirs from the Babylonians.
Christmas, despite keeping the name, is hardly a religious holiday today. Do you see huge effigies of Christ at the mall? Do kids (and adults, for that matter) see gift giving as an inconvenient duty that gets in the way of holiday church services?
Christmas is the world's biggest commercial holiday. Its religious significance today is about as great as it was two thousand years ago, before the politically powerful Catholic church started using it as an evangelical tool.
While we're at it, let's have everyone switch to Mac. Windows is just too buggy.
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Don't get me wrong; I agree with you. I'm just making light of what I see as a very silly controversy that is somehow overshadowing issues of real importance.
LISA: Like Christmas and Easter, Halloween traces its origins to pagan rituals.
HOMER: God bless those pagans.
--The Simpsons
Let's hear it for the ancients who gave us a winter soltice celebration, the Christians who adopted it (because they couldn't surpress it), the saint who gave his name to it (St. Nicholas), Coca-Cola who gave it a trendy face, and everyone who celebrates it, for whatever reason, whatever they believe, wherever they are.
How about "Happy repressed, then deified, then glorified, then internationalized, then commercialized, then trivialized, then polito-sanitized ancient winter solstice celebration!"?
Are there any P2P'ers in the audience?
Get 'em up against the wall!
And that one with the website, he don't look right;
Get him up against the wall!
And that one uses BitTorrent! He's stealing our songs!
Who let all this riff-raff commit all these wrongs?!
And he's posted lyrics! Look at all he's got!
If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!
Are copyright owners starting to channel Roger Waters?
...will be if you're planning to visit a city, and you don't want to take the time to find out what their transportation authority is called, where their website is, then figure out a new trip planning interface.
Vancouver, BC also has a good trip planner, but most people outside of Vancouver probably don't know that the transportation authority is called Translink (http://translink.bc.ca/).
Pretty soon, you'll be able to find an entire route, from the bus on your corner to the airport, across the continent by plane (which you will be able to book through Google Travel), then across another city by bus to your hotel (which you will be able to book through Google Reservations).
Although, if they keep expanding as they have been, you'll be taking the Google Bus to Google International Airport, flying Google Airlines to Google City, then hailing a Google Cab to the Google Inn.
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More like...
- Microcars announces a vulnerability that will make their cars stall whenever a Barry Manilow song comes over the radio, but does not issue a recall because it is not the first Tuesday of the month yet.
- Google Radio stops broadcasting Barry Manilow songs
- And there was much rejoicing
- A crowd of Slashdotters claims that the vulnerability was Google Radio's fault.
Slashdot Mirror
"I am constant as the Northern Star!"
"I'd give real money if he'd shut up!"
/Additional gratuitous '80s reference
I think I've got some counterfeit monitors at the office. They say 'Trinitron', but some company called 'Dell' put their name where it should say Sony. ;)
The problem here is that the 'men in vans' aren't opening their vans on street corners; they're wholesaling to unsuspecting retailers. So if, say, WalMart were to dump a supplier because someone else gave them a lower price (WalMart would do this? Never!), they might be buying counterfeit crap. (WalMart? Sell crap? Never!)
2006 01 06 01:50:24 (Combat) Your chat window perfectly strikes Silverlancer (/.), wrecking for 1428.6 smacktalk damage. ;-)
/pwns Silverlancer from 200km outside jamming range with his T2 1400s/carb lead.
T2 Tempest for teh win!
Lays and Fritos are rumored to be merging to develop a new 45nm sodium chloride process.
It's the same thing as saying that the Black Knight is "not quite dead yet!"
Your security arm's off.
No it isn't!
What's that worm then?
It's just a flesh wound!
You lie!...
(etc.)
Fixing your Firefox extensions isn't necessarily work without reward. Being known for a good extension to an open source program is good PR, and good PR can translate to more business. It's not direct income, but it's valuable nonetheless.
So who's forcing you to sit at home? Who is preventing you from doing something to take advantage of the commercial opportunities of the season? Go on eBay and sell a picture of an X-Box or something.
Christmas did not start as a religious holiday. Christ was probably born sometime in the spring, but the official holiday was moved to the winter solstice (approximately) to overshadow the various pagan solstice/new year holidays, much like the Romans gave their boring agricultural deities the more exciting personalities of the Greek gods, and the Greeks stole theirs from the Babylonians.
Christmas, despite keeping the name, is hardly a religious holiday today. Do you see huge effigies of Christ at the mall? Do kids (and adults, for that matter) see gift giving as an inconvenient duty that gets in the way of holiday church services?
Christmas is the world's biggest commercial holiday. Its religious significance today is about as great as it was two thousand years ago, before the politically powerful Catholic church started using it as an evangelical tool.
While we're at it, let's have everyone switch to Mac. Windows is just too buggy.
Don't get me wrong; I agree with you. I'm just making light of what I see as a very silly controversy that is somehow overshadowing issues of real importance.
...will stand for "Really Stupid Standardization"?
How about "Happy repressed, then deified, then glorified, then internationalized, then commercialized, then trivialized, then polito-sanitized ancient winter solstice celebration!"?
You're talking about the US Patent Office here. You could probably patent cheese if you filled out the paperwork correctly.
Are there any P2P'ers in the audience?
Get 'em up against the wall!
And that one with the website, he don't look right;
Get him up against the wall!
And that one uses BitTorrent! He's stealing our songs!
Who let all this riff-raff commit all these wrongs?!
And he's posted lyrics! Look at all he's got!
If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!
Are copyright owners starting to channel Roger Waters?
AC/DC: "Dirty deeds, done with sheep..."
Beatles: "...the girl with colitis goes by."
...will be if you're planning to visit a city, and you don't want to take the time to find out what their transportation authority is called, where their website is, then figure out a new trip planning interface.
Vancouver, BC also has a good trip planner, but most people outside of Vancouver probably don't know that the transportation authority is called Translink (http://translink.bc.ca/).
Pretty soon, you'll be able to find an entire route, from the bus on your corner to the airport, across the continent by plane (which you will be able to book through Google Travel), then across another city by bus to your hotel (which you will be able to book through Google Reservations).
Although, if they keep expanding as they have been, you'll be taking the Google Bus to Google International Airport, flying Google Airlines to Google City, then hailing a Google Cab to the Google Inn.
More like...
- Microcars announces a vulnerability that will make their cars stall whenever a Barry Manilow song comes over the radio, but does not issue a recall because it is not the first Tuesday of the month yet.
- Google Radio stops broadcasting Barry Manilow songs
- And there was much rejoicing
- A crowd of Slashdotters claims that the vulnerability was Google Radio's fault.
Not anymore, you're not. Since "Homeland Security" entered the landscape, you're presumed a terrorist until Bush leaves office.
...could not be reached for comment.
...for the battle for http://m.com/ between Microsoft and McDonalds.
So America is founded on a flawed assumtion?
LOL!
Your siggy puts your comment in perspective.
* geobeck is currently enjoying a typically mild Vancouver winter... in Canada.