There was a great big sign That said private property And on the other side it didn't say nothing That's the land for you and me
From the USA's alternative national anthem. The one that corporate middle class US America hasn't rammed down the throats of children for the last 70 or so years.
Some alternatives:
This land is your land, it once was my land,
Before I sold you Manhattan Island;
You banished my nation, to the reservation,
This land was stole by you from me.
This land is my land, it isn't your land
I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one
If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off
This land was made for only me
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
After a lifetime of severe repression, in a country -or rather in an empire, where those that could get access to copying machines and were willing to produce banned works of art and publish them illegally despite counter-measures that were the equivalent of capital punishment and ostracism for all the members of the publisher's family...
I imagine it will be difficult for the Russian government to effect any measures that a foreign power might insist on in order to turn back that particular clock.
If they were willing to do all that just for the sake of art, they are going to show a lot more spine when anyone can do it and where there is money involved and NO government reprisal. The US recording industry must have a poorer grasp of human psychology and world history than the fool on the hill.
If you think you `own' your land, you're fooling yourself. There are ways of legally taking your land away from you with little or no compensation (even while you're alive).
Of course you're right but there is only one owner (whether that is an individual or group of people) that own the land at one time. Who is going to be paying for disputes?
You mean the Clinton Administration was responsible for all those fraud companies that elected Bush?
So why did George sort them all out in his first 100 days? Does he wear his underpants over his trousers or something? I thought he was one of the anti-heroes that wears his bedding to barbeques.
US politics is extremely interesting. Totally mystifying but my goodness, compulsive. Take the early release of senior Iraqi poisoners for example. How come they are still keeping some tourists in prison in Cuba of all places?
And how am I going to explain all this to my grand-children if I don't get married and have a family?
If everybody put Shoot the Monkey or President Bush should be Kennedyed as a sig to all their internet activity, it would shunt any amount of material to the NSA gathering equiptment.
And for bonus points:
Give some Doolally the right idea.
*******
Kennedy the Monkey. (No, that doesn't quite do it I think.)
Ah well, at least we can stop calling the theory a theory now. And it is all down to the rather insistant and hypnotic whisperings of a delusional old man based in their Bristol dept.
Firefox isn't a patch on the latest Opera. I admit I kept losing things while I was getting used to it but now I am converting everything from FF.
What tickled me pink was the notes thingie (Oh man; if Mchronic gets it filthy, dirty, shitty, stinking, rotten, slime covered claws on it, I will be a bit upset.) and the other stuff... Mmmmmm... Opera.... well.. to be honest, Firefox's latest edition is right with it in most other departments.
I hate to say it as I was a confirmed FF nut but it really is BEAUT! An almost perfect browser.
I wonder if it would have been good news or bad if Msft had bought in. Obviously I wouldn't have wanted any part of it but I have been waiting for an excuse to get another ISP for ages. I want to go play with Linux.
It always suprised me that with the popularity of entertainment files, AOL wasn't the top dog in that file share market. I think if Google can wrest control, they could make it what it aught to be. (I can't se how Msft would do that can you?)
They'll want much more than a small percentage though. So no doubt they will see it as an investment covered by tax deductions. Money earning interest in a bank is money not earning more interest elsewhere.
I doubt they will invest much by way of new ideas until they have had a good look around,though. And then if Time continue to be jerks, they will build their own version.
Either that or go elsewhere; buy into a Linux distro perhaps and set up their own ISP. Maybe even sell their AOL shares to Msft -or more likey, Yahoo.
I bet AOL have got some places off limit to Google.
What will AOL gain?
Customer profiles I suppose. And then not maximise on that too neither!
With a buy back clause they can get a good idea about what Google were looking for/interested in and no harm done. You don't have to snatch at the first straw you are offered, just because you are stuck in a swamp.
Alternative to International Business Machines = I Birthed Microsoft. (Rather appropriate situation in your case that is.)
I have ben looking at warfare models recently. Up to about the start of the last century it didn't matter how you ran a war if you had enough trained men at the sharp end.
But with hi-tech; along with high defence expenditure came a way to stay ahead of the market exponentially. Your bosses don't see this and they are doomed to eventually fall to a competitor.
A smaller company with better organisation is going to eat them sooner or later. Do you care enough to stay? Do a google on the N Squared Law and Japan.
I'd have a few pokers in the fire by now if I were you. Also, I would have a look around and see where I would be best moving to if employment isn't that easy to come by where you live now.
The time to move is before you are desperate. So instead of taking time off to sit on your arse, as some have suggested, get a few job interviews lined up and tell the boss you need time to go to them.
Let the management worry about the business, that is their job. Unless the chief bottleneck is going to turn up his clogs before the company turns up its tits, it's hardly worth staying, is it?
In the mean time, stop running aound and get to work on the ideal programme if you were to be given your head. I'd bone up on UNIX and Linux systems. While you are willing to run like a fool they are willing to let you. Stand up for yourself and let them run to you.
You might get onto a few keen employees too. On the QT, say that they should be looking at learning Linux office stuff in case you do get a green. But it sounds to me like they will find another gopher if you put them to the test. Have a word with their previous, see if he agrees with me.
I've often thought Ireland to be Europe's Africa: Heap big chief he no get your vote he come around with his boys and cut off your feet, vss: Send the bayes down that street with a stolen car will ye Patrick? The Samteyx is an the boot, soy baye careful.
His primary ministry was with the poor and the forsaken.
First of all, he was offered the whole shebang at one point. But he knew enough to wait to be made the potentate by the one who would allow him to stay in office to time indefinite.
And he spoke to all and sundry. What rattled hs cage the most was the hypocricy: The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. There was no reason a rich or powerful man should be ostracised by him.
It does not appear to have been in his nature either. I doubt he'd have had much time for the Diebold people though. Nor the scammers intent on evading due process of law.
I'd vote for Osama Bin Laden before I'd vote for Kerry
Judging by what happened when the monkey won, you did.
I imagine Kerry would have been rather sheep like in the manner of Jimmy Carter. But I doubt his intentions would have been as reprehensible as either Bush.
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There was a great big sign
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That said private property
And on the other side it didn't say nothing
That's the land for you and me
From the USA's alternative national anthem. The one that corporate middle class US America hasn't rammed down the throats of children for the last 70 or so years.
Some alternatives:
This land is your land, it once was my land,
Before I sold you Manhattan Island;
You banished my nation, to the reservation,
This land was stole by you from me.
This land is my land, it isn't your land
I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one
If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off
This land was made for only me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_La
Anyone care to translate this for a Brit?
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/anthem.html
In Russia the mods come to you.
After a lifetime of severe repression, in a country -or rather in an empire, where those that could get access to copying machines and were willing to produce banned works of art and publish them illegally despite counter-measures that were the equivalent of capital punishment and ostracism for all the members of the publisher's family...
I imagine it will be difficult for the Russian government to effect any measures that a foreign power might insist on in order to turn back that particular clock.
If they were willing to do all that just for the sake of art, they are going to show a lot more spine when anyone can do it and where there is money involved and NO government reprisal. The US recording industry must have a poorer grasp of human psychology and world history than the fool on the hill.
In Russia the Committee for State Security comes to you.
....
Hmmm...
In Italy the Maffia comes
In America the RIAA comes to you. It's A MERIAA way.
If you think you `own' your land, you're fooling yourself. There are ways of legally taking your land away from you with little or no compensation (even while you're alive).
Of course you're right but there is only one owner (whether that is an individual or group of people) that own the land at one time. Who is going to be paying for disputes?
Is there a Mod on here who can elabourate on this for one of the outsiders who live in the rest of the world?
I don't have much insight but I once knew a woman that was full of excite.
You mean the Clinton Administration was responsible for all those fraud companies that elected Bush?
So why did George sort them all out in his first 100 days? Does he wear his underpants over his trousers or something? I thought he was one of the anti-heroes that wears his bedding to barbeques.
US politics is extremely interesting. Totally mystifying but my goodness, compulsive. Take the early release of senior Iraqi poisoners for example. How come they are still keeping some tourists in prison in Cuba of all places?
And how am I going to explain all this to my grand-children if I don't get married and have a family?
Wouldn't it be nice:
If everybody put Shoot the Monkey or President Bush should be Kennedyed as a sig to all their internet activity, it would shunt any amount of material to the NSA gathering equiptment.
And for bonus points:
Give some Doolally the right idea.
*******
Kennedy the Monkey. (No, that doesn't quite do it I think.)
Alison Stewart is a hottie!
You aught to be careful. Remember what God told your monkey:
"Katrina is my punishment for coloured folks sleeping with the enemy."
Or did I mis-hear Him?
Yankees means English IIRC. No wonder they soon got rid of the original inhabitants.
But back to the topic.
I wonder why they got in bed together in the first place. Is it something to do with Bill Gates not seeing how useful the internet could become?
First Post, yu fail
Not just off topic but missing the link.
Ah well, at least we can stop calling the theory a theory now. And it is all down to the rather insistant and hypnotic whisperings of a delusional old man based in their Bristol dept.
You all seem to be thinking of this affair in terms of violence but it plain to see they are treading kaifulee.
Firefox isn't a patch on the latest Opera. I admit I kept losing things while I was getting used to it but now I am converting everything from FF.
What tickled me pink was the notes thingie (Oh man; if Mchronic gets it filthy, dirty, shitty, stinking, rotten, slime covered claws on it, I will be a bit upset.) and the other stuff... Mmmmmm... Opera.... well.. to be honest, Firefox's latest edition is right with it in most other departments.
I hate to say it as I was a confirmed FF nut but it really is BEAUT! An almost perfect browser.
I wonder if it would have been good news or bad if Msft had bought in. Obviously I wouldn't have wanted any part of it but I have been waiting for an excuse to get another ISP for ages. I want to go play with Linux.
It always suprised me that with the popularity of entertainment files, AOL wasn't the top dog in that file share market. I think if Google can wrest control, they could make it what it aught to be. (I can't se how Msft would do that can you?)
They'll want much more than a small percentage though. So no doubt they will see it as an investment covered by tax deductions. Money earning interest in a bank is money not earning more interest elsewhere.
I doubt they will invest much by way of new ideas until they have had a good look around,though. And then if Time continue to be jerks, they will build their own version.
Either that or go elsewhere; buy into a Linux distro perhaps and set up their own ISP. Maybe even sell their AOL shares to Msft -or more likey, Yahoo.
I bet AOL have got some places off limit to Google.
What will AOL gain?
Customer profiles I suppose. And then not maximise on that too neither!
With a buy back clause they can get a good idea about what Google were looking for/interested in and no harm done. You don't have to snatch at the first straw you are offered, just because you are stuck in a swamp.
And someone actually read this?
And scored it up?
Bloody hell!
http://www.performbettergolf.com/dvd.html
Get them hooked on stuff like this and then pull the pu-uh-lug.
Alternative to International Business Machines = I Birthed Microsoft. (Rather appropriate situation in your case that is.)
I have ben looking at warfare models recently. Up to about the start of the last century it didn't matter how you ran a war if you had enough trained men at the sharp end.
But with hi-tech; along with high defence expenditure came a way to stay ahead of the market exponentially. Your bosses don't see this and they are doomed to eventually fall to a competitor.
A smaller company with better organisation is going to eat them sooner or later. Do you care enough to stay? Do a google on the N Squared Law and Japan.
I'd have a few pokers in the fire by now if I were you. Also, I would have a look around and see where I would be best moving to if employment isn't that easy to come by where you live now.
The time to move is before you are desperate. So instead of taking time off to sit on your arse, as some have suggested, get a few job interviews lined up and tell the boss you need time to go to them.
Let the management worry about the business, that is their job. Unless the chief bottleneck is going to turn up his clogs before the company turns up its tits, it's hardly worth staying, is it?
In the mean time, stop running aound and get to work on the ideal programme if you were to be given your head. I'd bone up on UNIX and Linux systems. While you are willing to run like a fool they are willing to let you. Stand up for yourself and let them run to you.
You might get onto a few keen employees too. On the QT, say that they should be looking at learning Linux office stuff in case you do get a green. But it sounds to me like they will find another gopher if you put them to the test. Have a word with their previous, see if he agrees with me.
I bet they czjd on himm too.
IBM = Initials Bother Me. IS = Insubordinate Subordinate.
Home of the semi-brave. Land of the mostly, but not entirely free. Editor of the sprotes Is what I want to be-ee.
Cupidity = excessive desire, especially for wealth. And The Register is heavily dependant on Microsoft for advertising. No connection of course.
"Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights."
c 04_pres/Garrambone.pdf/
Actually they are not hiding behind their hardware, just trying to keep it up and running. And of course they respect other people's stuff. That's the first law of warfare.
http://www.mors.org/education_colloquium/EC2004/e
I've often thought Ireland to be Europe's Africa: Heap big chief he no get your vote he come around with his boys and cut off your feet, vss: Send the bayes down that street with a stolen car will ye Patrick? The Samteyx is an the boot, soy baye careful.
His primary ministry was with the poor and the forsaken.
First of all, he was offered the whole shebang at one point. But he knew enough to wait to be made the potentate by the one who would allow him to stay in office to time indefinite.
And he spoke to all and sundry. What rattled hs cage the most was the hypocricy:
The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. There was no reason a rich or powerful man should be ostracised by him.
It does not appear to have been in his nature either. I doubt he'd have had much time for the Diebold people though. Nor the scammers intent on evading due process of law.
I'd vote for Osama Bin Laden before I'd vote for Kerry
Judging by what happened when the monkey won, you did.
I imagine Kerry would have been rather sheep like in the manner of Jimmy Carter. But I doubt his intentions would have been as reprehensible as either Bush.
program
Stupid colonists! (Give it back and apologise, I say.)