I can recount the story of a guy (air force pilot under training) at the RNZAF Base Wigram in Christchurch, New Zealand who, after quite a few late night beers decided to drive to the service station (US=gas station) to buy a meat pie (US=Pot pie).
Only thing is that he had no transport other than his (own personal) airplane. So he wanders out to the ramp, jumps in, and taxi's his aircraft past the main gate onto the road and to the gas station just outside the Base..
Of course this was back in the day when 'it wasn't so bad to drink and drive', and i'm sure he did a bit of a 'rug dance' in front of his CO on Monday morning... but went onto a rather successful career.
I immediately ran out to grab euthan.asia, but registration seems to be limited to trademark holders right now.
I hope that when you do setup your.asia site, you follow the appropriate formating and layout rules, as it is a requirement that all the.asia sites look the same.
they can claim that it was a patent that was not initially in the scope of their claim
True, they could... but somewhere in the deepest darkest depths of Redmond there is a safe which contains the list of 135 Patents they think have been infringed. If that list was ever discovered after they changed their mind, then they'd be in some serious trouble..... i.e lying to that Judge.
If Microsoft fails to sue a patent infringer, even though they have demonstrated that they know the infringement exists, then tries to file suit later, the doctrine of laches kicks in --
Wow, that is it right there. The clock it ticking.
From GP
Although a presumption of laches arises where the patentee brings suit more than six years after gaining actual or constructive knowledge of defendant's infringing activities
When did Microsoft first announce that they believed 'Linux' infringed on their Patents? (or more specifically, when did Microsoft announce that they'd dreamed this all up and done the 'investigation' and came up with that 135 number...?) Personally, I think M$ are smoking something and if they'd just show us the code then it wouldn't even be an issue. At least they have to shut the hell up after 6 years... Surely they can't have too long left.
sorry but even If I had a "suicide bomber for dummies" book.....
I'd hate to see the fuss caused at an airport with someone traveling with one of those fake book covers titled 'suicide bomber for dummies'...
As if a terrorist would actually travel with such a book. But I can see the mindless TSA using their full force if they saw such a thing. Fox news would be all over it. Everyone would simply say how stupid the individual was to travel with it, and politicians would use it as an example of 'how we're winning the war on terrorism'. Where in reality, its a fake book cover intended for humor, and any 'common sense' would tell us that someone with this book cover is no more a threat than the guy next to him.
Sadly, arresting someone for mere possession of a book is a true sign things are very, very wrong.
No 'proof of intent' needed. Just lock them up. Heck, lock us all up.
ANY venue that plays artist's work publicly requires a license - be it a cafe with the radio on, a bar with a TV on or a jukebox, and all the way up to a nightclub with a DJ or a live music venue otherwise they are violating the artist's rights and breaking copyright law!
The only difference with the case from the article, which falls into the first example you gave (cafe with the radio on) - is that the radio station has already paid a license fee to broadcast the music to the public.
I share your exact same views with Mythtv... and follow the exact same approach. I'd buy a BRay or HDDVD for the Mythtv box, if there was one (that would play)... alas i'll have to wait for the Player hacks to become more mature.. or settle for TPB/other.
>>> you return it to the store and get your money back with the reason "it didnt play in my player. it is unfit for sale"
This is exactly what I do with any DVD's i'd rented that don't play on my LG DVD player. I've found a little while ago that the latest Sony DVD's had some new form of Macrovision (?) on them, and my DVD player just gave me a blank screen. - No response from the player except to eject the disk. (although i can get it to play on my PC with a few minor hax...)
Even though, I still walk right back into the store and say, "Hey, this doesnt work in my player - all other disks do - what gives?" Or I'd file the "disk didn't play" report on Netflix. I heard that Sony pulled that form of Macrovision due to "incompatibility issues" (*cough* too many complaints *cough*), but every now and then another one pops up.
If enough people complain (to Blockbuster, Netflix, Walmart and Target), and with the number of 'defective' disks sent back they'll eventually start to get the message.... sooner or later.
MPAA dressed as FBI: Ah hah!!! Watching a movie with an eyepatch!! a Pirate! Burn her burn her!
Citizen: But the eye patch came with the movie!?
MPAA: Ah! so you are a witc^H^H^H^H Pirate.... burn her!
>>>'ll give you a million dollars if you can prove that Randi does not live up to the hype surrounding him.
Hello kind Sir, I would like to take you up on your offer.
I am the son of a deceased King, and currently located in Nigeria, and I would like if could put the money into a neutral escrow account while I process your request. I know there are too many scammers out there and want to stay away from them, so I always use a trusted escrow located in Switzerland. you can trust me as this is not a scam. you are my friend. I will send you the numbers and you can send your million dollars to the escrow using western union. Once there I look forward to providing you the truth that you seek.
I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending transaction requiring maximum confidence.
I think you need your geek card revoked as I still don't think you know the reference
Dude, c'mon. They taught the 12 Parsecs mistake* in geek101^.
Your overconfidence is your weakness.
The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Good to see AC's going around trying to revoke geek cards.
* (or was it. Was it a reference of the mFalcon being able to go so fast through those portions of space that it could take the short way past a bunch of black holes, not the long way round. - personally I think it was a mistake.)
^ if only they taught me grammar spelling and punctuation.
Wow... that screencast is perfect for me to sit facing the screen with my eyes closed, and anyone that walks past my cube will think i'm doing some spreadsheet wizardry....
nice. Now i'll go someway toward meeting the quota for those that sleep at work.
you beat me to it... but yeah; these words pertain to ME just as much as Vista:
Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista^H^H^H^H ME and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates.
That looks quite good. My biggest complaint with in car GPS's (having owned an Navman iCN-510 for three years), is the inability to update the maps easily or cheaply.
My next purchase is the Nokia n800 with a bluetooth GPS. While it has some limitations, it can cache the maps from Google, for an area you specify, and as detailed as your memory card will allow.
I'm also intersted in the openmoko, and understand the retail kit will include a GPS. I believe it runs Linux (or other open source), and as long as they come up with a similar cache method, then great.
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Ah... just checked with someone that knows the guy... that was PLTOFF Murray in his Midget Mustang .... 1988.
So flying cars, no. Driving airplanes... yes.
I can recount the story of a guy (air force pilot under training) at the RNZAF Base Wigram in Christchurch, New Zealand who, after quite a few late night beers decided to drive to the service station (US=gas station) to buy a meat pie (US=Pot pie).
Only thing is that he had no transport other than his (own personal) airplane. So he wanders out to the ramp, jumps in, and taxi's his aircraft past the main gate onto the road and to the gas station just outside the Base..
Of course this was back in the day when 'it wasn't so bad to drink and drive', and i'm sure he did a bit of a 'rug dance' in front of his CO on Monday morning... but went onto a rather successful career.
I'm waiting for the version for the deaf.
Yeah.. WTF!?
Oh, my mistake, they've actually said 235 patents,.
see here
and here
and here
But I do apologize for saying 135 instead of 235....
From GP
When did Microsoft first announce that they believed 'Linux' infringed on their Patents? (or more specifically, when did Microsoft announce that they'd dreamed this all up and done the 'investigation' and came up with that 135 number...?) Personally, I think M$ are smoking something and if they'd just show us the code then it wouldn't even be an issue. At least they have to shut the hell up after 6 years... Surely they can't have too long left.
As if a terrorist would actually travel with such a book. But I can see the mindless TSA using their full force if they saw such a thing. Fox news would be all over it. Everyone would simply say how stupid the individual was to travel with it, and politicians would use it as an example of 'how we're winning the war on terrorism'. Where in reality, its a fake book cover intended for humor, and any 'common sense' would tell us that someone with this book cover is no more a threat than the guy next to him.
Sadly, arresting someone for mere possession of a book is a true sign things are very, very wrong.
No 'proof of intent' needed. Just lock them up. Heck, lock us all up.
>>> Cool, but (with all due respect) I'm sure this money could be spent better. On malaria prevention for example
I first read that as "marijuana"
I share your exact same views with Mythtv... and follow the exact same approach. I'd buy a BRay or HDDVD for the Mythtv box, if there was one (that would play)... alas i'll have to wait for the Player hacks to become more mature.. or settle for TPB/other.
and my wifes the same... its 'her mythtv now'.
>>> you return it to the store and get your money back with the reason "it didnt play in my player. it is unfit for sale"
This is exactly what I do with any DVD's i'd rented that don't play on my LG DVD player. I've found a little while ago that the latest Sony DVD's had some new form of Macrovision (?) on them, and my DVD player just gave me a blank screen. - No response from the player except to eject the disk. (although i can get it to play on my PC with a few minor hax...)
Even though, I still walk right back into the store and say, "Hey, this doesnt work in my player - all other disks do - what gives?" Or I'd file the "disk didn't play" report on Netflix. I heard that Sony pulled that form of Macrovision due to "incompatibility issues" (*cough* too many complaints *cough*), but every now and then another one pops up.
If enough people complain (to Blockbuster, Netflix, Walmart and Target), and with the number of 'defective' disks sent back they'll eventually start to get the message.... sooner or later.
>>> That's what the eyepatch is for.
MPAA dressed as FBI: Ah hah!!! Watching a movie with an eyepatch!! a Pirate! Burn her burn her!
Citizen: But the eye patch came with the movie!?
MPAA: Ah! so you are a witc^H^H^H^H Pirate.... burn her!
>>>'ll give you a million dollars if you can prove that Randi does not live up to the hype surrounding him.
Hello kind Sir, I would like to take you up on your offer.
I am the son of a deceased King, and currently located in Nigeria, and I would like if could put the money into a neutral escrow account while I process your request. I know there are too many scammers out there and want to stay away from them, so I always use a trusted escrow located in Switzerland. you can trust me as this is not a scam. you are my friend. I will send you the numbers and you can send your million dollars to the escrow using western union. Once there I look forward to providing you the truth that you seek.
I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending transaction requiring maximum confidence.
Yours Faithfully,
russ1337
[if you're from the FBI read this]
Of course I did (was subject to a SOFA once myself), But O.k, I'll bite...
I thought Americans overseas were all soldiers...? [/further facetiousness]
*crickets*
You are living in a country. You are a (permanent/temporary) guest. You have to obey by the laws of the country
/facetiousness
I thought Americans were exempt from having to obey the local laws of other countries...
>>> It won't be hard to prove this was deliberate destruction of private property.
Yeah, but who's property did Apple destroy. It certainly wasn't yours. Apple just let you use their iPhone. They are the ones that 'own' it. *
* (in this case, 'own' should be spelled with a 'p'.)
Dude, c'mon. They taught the 12 Parsecs mistake* in geek101^.
Your overconfidence is your weakness.
The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Good to see AC's going around trying to revoke geek cards.
* (or was it. Was it a reference of the mFalcon being able to go so fast through those portions of space that it could take the short way past a bunch of black holes, not the long way round. - personally I think it was a mistake.)
^ if only they taught me grammar spelling and punctuation.
Wow... that screencast is perfect for me to sit facing the screen with my eyes closed, and anyone that walks past my cube will think i'm doing some spreadsheet wizardry....
nice. Now i'll go someway toward meeting the quota for those that sleep at work.
With the amount of people that get that one wrong,,., it was kinda hard to tell if there was a joke in there or not...
The parsec is a unit of length
That looks quite good. My biggest complaint with in car GPS's (having owned an Navman iCN-510 for three years), is the inability to update the maps easily or cheaply.
My next purchase is the Nokia n800 with a bluetooth GPS. While it has some limitations, it can cache the maps from Google, for an area you specify, and as detailed as your memory card will allow.
I'm also intersted in the openmoko, and understand the retail kit will include a GPS. I believe it runs Linux (or other open source), and as long as they come up with a similar cache method, then great.