I had a chance to buy a PHUCM$ keyboard, but I went for the double.
einfÃltigfehlersuchenbaumfolgendenaffen -- should be EinfÃltigfehlersuchenbaumfolgendenaffen? I speak a little German, and I translate this as "brainless error-seeking tree-swinging monkeys", which I would think would be a Noun.
According to TFA FOSS AD is not here yet by a long shot, in early alpha, many missing features. Summary is *terrible* in suggesting non-M$ AD is already here.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce.
Best, and truest, implication in a sig I've seen in a *long* damn' time. America, our capitalism has become corporatism. It's time to take the power back.
Because, under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the United States Code, it's not an appealable order.
Indeed, is this not the classic interlocutory appeal which is generally prohibited?
Further, is it not your experience when counsel make such an incompetent mishmash of their pleadings and procedure most courts cannot help let it color the charity with which the pleadings are regarded?
..consciousness precedes matter. Just throwing matter together won't magically instill consciousness.
Come on now. If consciousness preceded matter, what would have been conscious? Oh, I suppose you can say only certain assemblies of matter attract consciousness out of (the aether / wherever it is), but without matter there is nothing to BE conscious-- consciousness would be only a potential. There is no way we can say it is "received" by matter vs created from certain interactions of matter, IMO.
Schools prefer to use Windows because it's what the vast majority of their faculty and staff know, it's what the vast majority of their software runs on, and it's what students will encounter on the vast majority of computers they will use in the real world.
Oh boy are you wrong about that. Firewire, unlike USB, does not suck up scads of CPU cycles, the more the faster the transfer. In our shop doing server backups (FreeBSD) to external drives there was significantly less impact on server responsiveness when using firewire drives.
And yes, there was a weird reason why we needed to do backups of live filesystems.
Microsoft's long term health will end up like GMs - they have a mountain of cash, so it will take a while, but unless the above changes, Microsoft's fate will be the same as GM's.
You overlook the possibility someone with vision might get in charge of running it.
I've seen management buy into the "layoff the lowest performers" myth far too often to let it go. It is almost always the harbinger of deeper, structural problems within the company, which if left unaddressed, result in the financial collapse of the company.
So it's kind of good Microsoft is doing this then?
Anybody who was slightly less than lame would have had their site uploaded to a new host within a day of the shutdown. Anybody who expected different from AOL had their head up their ass anyway.
Should society protect the lame? Is it possible some trusted AOL because they had faith and knew no better?
For the life of me, I don't understand why AOL would not keep a tape or other offline backup of the deleted work even if they needed to reassign the servers that had been devoted. Pretty cheap compared to suit... even when you factor in the labor cost of responding to restore requests. So AOL must not have much concern about suits from any of the little guys. But one of the greatest services a lawyer can render the public is waking up monolithic corporate interests to a greater concern for the ordinary people they deal with.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I'd be willing to bet that backups DO exist. It's the labor cost of all the restores AOL wants to avoid. I know DAMNED well if I were their corporate counsel I'd tell them they had better have backups just in case they deleted Thomas Macaulay's History of England or the like.
I find any claims that there are "basic web hosting rights" highly dubious
No one has said that there are. Just that there should be redress for leading others to rely on you and then deleting their work. Regarding terms of service, see my other post below.
However, you don't need to be right to start a class action lawsuit. You just have to have a reasonable argument (not necessarily a correct one).
Thank God for this. That's the good thing about law. If you have a reasonable argument, it may become a correct one. We can overturn, or establish new, precedent in the litigation of an unredressed wrong.
Be honest. Don't you think AOL was wrong? Forget the terms of service; they aren't binding if a jury decides the victims were not aware of them. You do not legally subject yourself to pages of fine print without a legally binding signature. Even some signed contracts can be invalidated if the Court finds gross disparity of bargaining power.
I'd like to have as a client one of the poor souls who lost a year's work. I think I'd find a jury who believed AOL had mistreated them.
IAAL, and in court you'd have to convince a jury AOL had made sure the victim was aware of the TOS. Most juries would look at the four pages of tiny print four or five clicks deeper than the signup page and say Hell No they never cared whether he read it and we find he was not aware of such terms. If you are interested, read about overreaching and contracts of adhesion too.
I remember one now well-known case where the repair garage could not enforce the terms of the sign they posted in the repair shop against the customer absent a showing the customer actually read it. If it's not a part of the meeting of the minds it does not become a part of the bargain. Unless you subscribe a document with the formality of a legal signature, it's hard to argue you are subject to pages of fine print. It's a mistake to automatically assume that you're bound by a EULA or someone's TOS. Every case is evaluated on its facts and every case is different. Every human transaction has thousands of varying nuances, and that's what juries are for.
Whether you pay for something or not, if someone has acted so that a reasonable person would be induced to rely on those actions, that person can recover damages for violation of the "reliance interest". Whether an ordinary person could reasonably trust to rely on the continuation of an online service would be for the jury to judge, based on the amount of work the online service encouraged people to invest.
Yes, I am a lawyer, and as a matter of law these "evicted" people could probably tag AOL real good if they could find pro-bono counsel willing to certify a class action.
Honestly, I am a card-carrying slashdotter, but I'm a human being too (despite my profession), and your comment and opinion are wrongheaded, callous and elitist.
Shame on you. As much as on AOL. Any time anyone loses years of work it is a human tragedy. We should not permit such things. Hubert Humphrey once said that the moral measure of a society is how it treats the old, weak and helpless, among whose numbers we can place these "evicted". I suspect you know how use of the term was met despite your resort to a dictionary definition, throwing up a straw man to knock down.
There will be legislation. In the meantime, I hope there will be lawsuits. I would suggest you re-think your position but I think the attitude your post betrays is way deeper than the intellectual.
This chipping away at net neutrality is dangerous. Let's hope legislators in Maine, NH and VT see that compromising net neutrality is extending to large corporations the same preferences they enjoy offline, and granting their wealth the same citizen-crushing weight that enables travesties like the RIAA's greedy rape of innocents.
Net neutrality is more important than most know. It is *worth fighting for*. Educate others!
Too bad it doesn't have enough resolution to show a Homer Simpson-like figure mooning. This jape was played on me in traffic once (by means of a remote-activated doll in the rear window) and I laughed so hard I almost had a wreck. I gave the guy a thumbs up and he got a good laugh too.
Hmmm.. maybe *any* signaling of other motorists in traffic might be a bad idea, come to think of it...
Thanks for replying, and I don't want to belabor this, but maybe the party was TWO nights before the assassination? Maybe he got to Dallas in time to catch the tail end of the party? Perhaps one should not strain so, but there appears to be plenty of other evidence pointing at Johnson. What about the secretary who disappeared after she saw Madeline and Johnson kissing? Brown says she was told "Mack" took care of her-- for keeps. There is a lot of smoke here even if it doesn't prove the precise location of the fire. What about the picture taken just a few seconds after the famous one of Johnson taking the oath on Air Force One beside a dazed Jackie Kennedy, which shows Johnson grinning and winking at a crony? What about Johnson's first executive order, issued from the same plane, reported to be moving NASA command from Langley to Houston? With so many other indicators, it is natural, and maybe good, to view Brown's testimony in a more favorable, and less dismissive light, asking not are there any indications of inconsistency, but rather, are there reasonably possible circumstances under which it might be true?
Personally I have no desire to come off as a conspiracy nut or as a Cassandra. But this kind of stuff makes you question. I would actually LIKE to see a thorough rundown of Brown's claims (equal to a good cross-examination). This kind of stuff is too big to ignore.
But I guess no one is going to go to all that trouble now. All we can do is follow our best hunches at this point. I think the scales have been tipped for me, for whatever that's worth.
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Do the words "Smoot-Hawley" mean anything to you?
I think I saw it once in a professional wrestling match. Gorilla Monsoon snapped one of those babies on Prof. Taro Tanaka. Rugged.
There's 5,000 new empty chairs to fling around in Redmond!
Gee, how long do you think it will take him to get through that many?
Yes, that is twice the "fuck".
I had a chance to buy a PHUCM$ keyboard, but I went for the double.
einfÃltigfehlersuchenbaumfolgendenaffen -- should be
EinfÃltigfehlersuchenbaumfolgendenaffen? I speak a little German, and I translate this as "brainless error-seeking tree-swinging monkeys", which I would think would be a Noun.
According to TFA FOSS AD is not here yet by a long shot, in early alpha, many missing features. Summary is *terrible* in suggesting non-M$ AD is already here.
I really love my FKMSFT keyboard.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce.
Best, and truest, implication in a sig I've seen in a *long* damn' time. America, our capitalism has become corporatism. It's time to take the power back.
Because, under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the United States Code, it's not an appealable order.
Indeed, is this not the classic interlocutory appeal which is generally prohibited?
Further, is it not your experience when counsel make such an incompetent mishmash of their pleadings and procedure most courts cannot help let it color the charity with which the pleadings are regarded?
..consciousness precedes matter. Just throwing matter together won't magically instill consciousness.
Come on now. If consciousness preceded matter, what would have been conscious? Oh, I suppose you can say only certain assemblies of matter attract consciousness out of (the aether / wherever it is), but without matter there is nothing to BE conscious-- consciousness would be only a potential. There is no way we can say it is "received" by matter vs created from certain interactions of matter, IMO.
Schools prefer to use Windows because it's what the vast majority of their faculty and staff know, it's what the vast majority of their software runs on, and it's what students will encounter on the vast majority of computers they will use in the real world.
So let's change that.
I hate to say this, but Firewire's dead.
Oh boy are you wrong about that. Firewire, unlike USB, does not suck up scads of CPU cycles, the more the faster the transfer. In our shop doing server backups (FreeBSD) to external drives there was significantly less impact on server responsiveness when using firewire drives.
And yes, there was a weird reason why we needed to do backups of live filesystems.
the RIAA says it will use Copenhagen-based DtecNet Software ApS
I thought they were ceasing their litigation campaign?
Microsoft's long term health will end up like GMs - they have a mountain of cash, so it will take a while, but unless the above changes, Microsoft's fate will be the same as GM's.
You overlook the possibility someone with vision might get in charge of running it.
I've seen management buy into the "layoff the lowest performers" myth far too often to let it go. It is almost always the harbinger of deeper, structural problems within the company, which if left unaddressed, result in the financial collapse of the company.
So it's kind of good Microsoft is doing this then?
Anybody who was slightly less than lame would have had their site uploaded to a new host within a day of the shutdown. Anybody who expected different from AOL had their head up their ass anyway.
Should society protect the lame? Is it possible some trusted AOL because they had faith and knew no better?
For the life of me, I don't understand why AOL would not keep a tape or other offline backup of the deleted work even if they needed to reassign the servers that had been devoted. Pretty cheap compared to suit... even when you factor in the labor cost of responding to restore requests. So AOL must not have much concern about suits from any of the little guys. But one of the greatest services a lawyer can render the public is waking up monolithic corporate interests to a greater concern for the ordinary people they deal with.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I'd be willing to bet that backups DO exist. It's the labor cost of all the restores AOL wants to avoid. I know DAMNED well if I were their corporate counsel I'd tell them they had better have backups just in case they deleted Thomas Macaulay's History of England or the like.
I find any claims that there are "basic web hosting rights" highly dubious
No one has said that there are. Just that there should be redress for leading others to rely on you and then deleting their work. Regarding terms of service, see my other post below.
However, you don't need to be right to start a class action lawsuit. You just have to have a reasonable argument (not necessarily a correct one).
Thank God for this. That's the good thing about law. If you have a reasonable argument, it may become a correct one. We can overturn, or establish new, precedent in the litigation of an unredressed wrong.
Be honest. Don't you think AOL was wrong? Forget the terms of service; they aren't binding if a jury decides the victims were not aware of them. You do not legally subject yourself to pages of fine print without a legally binding signature. Even some signed contracts can be invalidated if the Court finds gross disparity of bargaining power.
I'd like to have as a client one of the poor souls who lost a year's work. I think I'd find a jury who believed AOL had mistreated them.
IAAL, and in court you'd have to convince a jury AOL had made sure the victim was aware of the TOS. Most juries would look at the four pages of tiny print four or five clicks deeper than the signup page and say Hell No they never cared whether he read it and we find he was not aware of such terms. If you are interested, read about overreaching and contracts of adhesion too.
I remember one now well-known case where the repair garage could not enforce the terms of the sign they posted in the repair shop against the customer absent a showing the customer actually read it. If it's not a part of the meeting of the minds it does not become a part of the bargain. Unless you subscribe a document with the formality of a legal signature, it's hard to argue you are subject to pages of fine print. It's a mistake to automatically assume that you're bound by a EULA or someone's TOS. Every case is evaluated on its facts and every case is different. Every human transaction has thousands of varying nuances, and that's what juries are for.
Whether you pay for something or not, if someone has acted so that a reasonable person would be induced to rely on those actions, that person can recover damages for violation of the "reliance interest". Whether an ordinary person could reasonably trust to rely on the continuation of an online service would be for the jury to judge, based on the amount of work the online service encouraged people to invest.
Yes, I am a lawyer, and as a matter of law these "evicted" people could probably tag AOL real good if they could find pro-bono counsel willing to certify a class action.
Honestly, I am a card-carrying slashdotter, but I'm a human being too (despite my profession), and your comment and opinion are wrongheaded, callous and elitist.
Shame on you. As much as on AOL. Any time anyone loses years of work it is a human tragedy. We should not permit such things. Hubert Humphrey once said that the moral measure of a society is how it treats the old, weak and helpless, among whose numbers we can place these "evicted". I suspect you know how use of the term was met despite your resort to a dictionary definition, throwing up a straw man to knock down.
There will be legislation. In the meantime, I hope there will be lawsuits. I would suggest you re-think your position but I think the attitude your post betrays is way deeper than the intellectual.
.. and aren't monopolies bad enough offline when a corporation gets too much power?
This chipping away at net neutrality is dangerous. Let's hope legislators in Maine, NH and VT see that compromising net neutrality is extending to large corporations the same preferences they enjoy offline, and granting their wealth the same citizen-crushing weight that enables travesties like the RIAA's greedy rape of innocents.
Net neutrality is more important than most know. It is *worth fighting for*. Educate others!
Doesn't it seem probable that anything created with an NSA tool will be more reversible with other NSA tools?
The *real* question is, who cares? Do you want to watch your parents' 30 year old home movies?
When I look at my shelves of books, for example, each spine lights up a universe of memories for me. My life would not be whole without them.
Our lives are made of nothing but memories. The more we lose the less we live.
Too bad it doesn't have enough resolution to show a Homer Simpson-like figure mooning. This jape was played on me in traffic once (by means of a remote-activated doll in the rear window) and I laughed so hard I almost had a wreck. I gave the guy a thumbs up and he got a good laugh too.
Hmmm.. maybe *any* signaling of other motorists in traffic might be a bad idea, come to think of it...
Thanks for replying, and I don't want to belabor this, but maybe the party was TWO nights before the assassination? Maybe he got to Dallas in time to catch the tail end of the party? Perhaps one should not strain so, but there appears to be plenty of other evidence pointing at Johnson. What about the secretary who disappeared after she saw Madeline and Johnson kissing? Brown says she was told "Mack" took care of her-- for keeps. There is a lot of smoke here even if it doesn't prove the precise location of the fire. What about the picture taken just a few seconds after the famous one of Johnson taking the oath on Air Force One beside a dazed Jackie Kennedy, which shows Johnson grinning and winking at a crony? What about Johnson's first executive order, issued from the same plane, reported to be moving NASA command from Langley to Houston? With so many other indicators, it is natural, and maybe good, to view Brown's testimony in a more favorable, and less dismissive light, asking not are there any indications of inconsistency, but rather, are there reasonably possible circumstances under which it might be true?
Personally I have no desire to come off as a conspiracy nut or as a Cassandra. But this kind of stuff makes you question. I would actually LIKE to see a thorough rundown of Brown's claims (equal to a good cross-examination). This kind of stuff is too big to ignore.
But I guess no one is going to go to all that trouble now. All we can do is follow our best hunches at this point. I think the scales have been tipped for me, for whatever that's worth.
You do know "Der Schlange" is a German euphemism for "prick", don't you? "Der Schlange" = "The Serpent" = Trouser Snake.
Adds a little dimension of humor, nicht wahr?