My little brother was maintenance supervisor for a resort city Avis facility in the 80s. He got a Dodge something-or-other in for a bad headlight or something, and found that it had not had scheduled maintenance, including oil changes, for 35k. He put it on the retention list - the list that says 'sell this lemon'.
He also got in a Toyota Corolla with over 40k on it, no oil change. He said it came in for a 'sticky door'. Had a stuffed toy in the hinge. Sold that one too.
But he changes the oil in his cars and motorcycles more frequently than the book says. Just because.
If you wish for your creation to provide for your offspring to the fourth and beyond generation, establish a trust or foundation to accept the proceeds from the sale and use of your creation, invest it as necessary to preserve the contributions and what interest is not too risky, and hope that it does indeed provide enough income to fund this before a reasonable copyright runs out.
Because, it seems to me, the past function of copyright is to protect the interests of the creator, the author, inventor, what have you. NOT their children's children's children's children's.
Perpetual copyright is the equivalent of perpetual patent. At what point are we no longer protecting the original holder, and are perpetuating a stream of income forever to those whose only interest is in being born of someone born of someone born of someone who was born of the instigator of the whole darned thing?
And if the initial proposal is acceptable, to perpetuate copyright forever, then clearly it must be assignable, so that one could even grant it in perpetuity to a mere friend. Or their dog. And their offspring. In perpetuity.
Time to really consider what copyright should be. Notice there are no corporations out there with perpetual licenses to prosper? They have to provide value to survive, even if that value is only to their shareholders or management and employees. So what of value does perpetual copyright provide to anyone other than the spawn of the initial holder?
I know. Money. Wrong answer. I pay copyright holders liberally for their work. When they are long gone, I just can't summon up a reason to do so.
If you're not reading the Bible carefully, no surprise you can't find any prohibition on rape. So long as you're not being disingenuous about it, i'll put it down as lack of effort.
It, however, you actually don't consider the Bible to be what it purports to be, then this discussion is pointless.
My allergy/virus issues RESULT in bacterial infections. It is virtually inevitable for me to develop a bacterial infection when congestion from an allergic reaction occurs, which isn't the least bit unusual from what doctors have told me almost all my life.
For 45 years (exactly 44 years, 9 months, and 6 days) I've given up treating my sinus infections with antibiotics. Since my 12th birthday I've stopped accepting the prescription. Before that, I could not perceive any benefit, the course of the disease was the same with any antibiotic.
Oh, wait, every few years (more like every decade) I was told about the next great antibiotic. No difference for me. Even when Zyvox was proclaimed as the 'kill them all' solution. And a dozen others. My typical infections are relatively short-lived, but the symptoms cause other problems. The best course of action for me has been to manage the symptoms and prevent the opportunistic problems such as pneumonia etc. And of course a recurring infection, which when I get in that cycle leaves me with a month of sickness and misery.
The real solution is nasal reconstruction and lifelong antihistamine/beta agonist therapy to control the histamine reaction and associated asthma. I hate them all, especially the environmentally friendly propellants, so I avoid the daily PITA stuff and struggle with sinusitis/infection/recovery 2 to 3 times a year.
Hey, it's better than the old sedating antihistamines. But this article is not describing anything I don't have personal experience with. Claims it is entirely inaccurate are not credible to me.
Actually, the Bible doesn't say anything about the man in the case of the non-virgin. Editor's omission perhaps. Not excused however, see the commandments...
1) I no longer care what "Wall Street Journal reports [from behind a paywall]". Quoting largely unavailable sources is wasting my time.
2) Nortel wasn't so good at security in their products. Not much of a surprise.
Oh, and 3) discounting 'cyberwar' as a solution justifying a problem is a little like dismissing a accidental wound as not in and of itself fatal. You've been injured. Claiming it's 'not that bad' doesn't change the nature of the injury. China has been attacking the rest of the world for a while now. The evidence cannot be excused.
Let's hope that when the Foundation goes back to their supplier and asks for the next run, much larger, that their supplier doesn't explain how things just got more popular^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexpensive, darn, the price went up. Our bad.
My QA tester was a contractor, and very good indeed. Among other things, he was totally invested in the process of delivering a great product. Contractor or not.
And he was let go, as we are making QA and UAT the developer's in-house responsibility. Don't bother to tell me how lousy an idea this is, management has their reasons, without consultation. We would normally predict failure, but it turns our they are releasing a beta of an entirely new product to replace this failed product within 2 months of the expected UAT completion. That's clearly a nasty ploy to escape the steaming pile that they have been making for us for 7 years now.
Don't ask. I can't tell you more anyways. It's just pus.
I have a LOT of Monster Cable products, most over 15 years old. And all of them still work great. The signal cables are still fine, no scratchies when they get wiggled, and they go on and come off the connectors just like I expect. No frozen-on plugs. The undercarpet RF cable has been in four homes, and I keep taking it weith me cause it's tolerated heavy traffic for a decade and works fine. The really thin RF cable finally gave up when I nailed it with the Dremel by accident. darn.
But I never felt like I overpaid for any of it. I never did buy any of the really expensive, gratiutiously over-spec'd stuff.
More to the point, the earbuds delivered with virtually every audio device I've bought over that time were pus. Earbuds in general can't sound good just because they can't seal. From the last true Walkman I bought, through portable CD and MiniDisc players, up to MP3 players, and now phones, the earbuds are entirely crap. HTC is selling Beats sets with some of their 'enhanced' phones, but other than that none are worth the effort to throw them away.
I'm also totally enamored of stereo Bluetooth headsets, but only have had one that sounded moderately decent, and the BackBeats are a compromise. I haven't gone on a buying/returning spree lately to try any others. Using my own headset with the S705 defeats the wirelessness of Bluetooth, and the S705 has no bottom end.
Any recommendations for seriously good sounding BT headsets?
Oh, and I've been ripping my records and CDs at highest rates since I started. 128 just grates, it's awful. Alan is right about that. I don't miss the noise floor of vinyl though. Gimme digital, if it's done right.
This drive was not refurbished . At best it was put through a cursory test and passed. Newegg failed twice: once, not actually refurbishing the drive , and second not wrong it. Dishonest and incompetent in one pass.
The GP seemed to be making some point that being a fee funded agency left the NRC without the mandate to be involved in the Japanese incident at all.
My point is that to-be immediate source of their funding isn't important because the true source is ratepayers.
Besides, the NRC had some interest in the accident, if for no other reason than to analyze the causes and response . learning from the mistakes of others for instance. Offering to help doesn't seem like a bad thing either.
Sending movies over Bluetooth seems like a non-starter. Even sending an album-worth of music is a pain, and of course your recipient needs to be close enough to sneeze on you. Much easier to put it in the cloud, though we're gonna have to restrain or government from jailing people for largely legal and legitimate sharing sites.
Even that Re-whatever site is struggling to go into the first-sale resale business. The &^AA is undoubtedly trying to get some agency to raid them before they even start up.
It seems you presume the media is, after exercising self-interest, promotion, and the profit-seeking actions necessary to perpetuate themselves, essentially agnostic about the news it gathers and distributes.
I haven't believed that for my entire adult life.
The media, being made up of opinionated members, certainly does have a point of view, and filtering the news is one way to both express that point of view and promote that view.
Since many universities are resoundingly leftist, even the administrations of them, the press doesn't often leap to criticize them on matters of free speech and similar political issues.
Not that such a thing is afoot here, of course not, for in this case surely the press was just inattentive. No conspiracy at all, just an accident.
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40-50k on an oil change? That's not new.
My little brother was maintenance supervisor for a resort city Avis facility in the 80s. He got a Dodge something-or-other in for a bad headlight or something, and found that it had not had scheduled maintenance, including oil changes, for 35k. He put it on the retention list - the list that says 'sell this lemon'.
He also got in a Toyota Corolla with over 40k on it, no oil change. He said it came in for a 'sticky door'. Had a stuffed toy in the hinge. Sold that one too.
But he changes the oil in his cars and motorcycles more frequently than the book says. Just because.
I've got my own modest proposal;
If you wish for your creation to provide for your offspring to the fourth and beyond generation, establish a trust or foundation to accept the proceeds from the sale and use of your creation, invest it as necessary to preserve the contributions and what interest is not too risky, and hope that it does indeed provide enough income to fund this before a reasonable copyright runs out.
Because, it seems to me, the past function of copyright is to protect the interests of the creator, the author, inventor, what have you. NOT their children's children's children's children's.
Perpetual copyright is the equivalent of perpetual patent. At what point are we no longer protecting the original holder, and are perpetuating a stream of income forever to those whose only interest is in being born of someone born of someone born of someone who was born of the instigator of the whole darned thing?
And if the initial proposal is acceptable, to perpetuate copyright forever, then clearly it must be assignable, so that one could even grant it in perpetuity to a mere friend. Or their dog. And their offspring. In perpetuity.
Time to really consider what copyright should be. Notice there are no corporations out there with perpetual licenses to prosper? They have to provide value to survive, even if that value is only to their shareholders or management and employees. So what of value does perpetual copyright provide to anyone other than the spawn of the initial holder?
I know. Money. Wrong answer. I pay copyright holders liberally for their work. When they are long gone, I just can't summon up a reason to do so.
If you're not reading the Bible carefully, no surprise you can't find any prohibition on rape. So long as you're not being disingenuous about it, i'll put it down as lack of effort.
It, however, you actually don't consider the Bible to be what it purports to be, then this discussion is pointless.
My allergy/virus issues RESULT in bacterial infections. It is virtually inevitable for me to develop a bacterial infection when congestion from an allergic reaction occurs, which isn't the least bit unusual from what doctors have told me almost all my life.
Go back in your corner, stupid git.
For 45 years (exactly 44 years, 9 months, and 6 days) I've given up treating my sinus infections with antibiotics. Since my 12th birthday I've stopped accepting the prescription. Before that, I could not perceive any benefit, the course of the disease was the same with any antibiotic.
Oh, wait, every few years (more like every decade) I was told about the next great antibiotic. No difference for me. Even when Zyvox was proclaimed as the 'kill them all' solution. And a dozen others. My typical infections are relatively short-lived, but the symptoms cause other problems. The best course of action for me has been to manage the symptoms and prevent the opportunistic problems such as pneumonia etc. And of course a recurring infection, which when I get in that cycle leaves me with a month of sickness and misery.
The real solution is nasal reconstruction and lifelong antihistamine/beta agonist therapy to control the histamine reaction and associated asthma. I hate them all, especially the environmentally friendly propellants, so I avoid the daily PITA stuff and struggle with sinusitis/infection/recovery 2 to 3 times a year.
Hey, it's better than the old sedating antihistamines. But this article is not describing anything I don't have personal experience with. Claims it is entirely inaccurate are not credible to me.
Actually, the Bible doesn't say anything about the man in the case of the non-virgin. Editor's omission perhaps. Not excused however, see the commandments...
The one that you DIDN'T use ot thrown the man in who raped her.
Is it that hard to figure out?
...since she's trying to 'sell' WebOS. To anyone. For nothing. Just to stay the least bit relevant in that market.
Plus 'parking' it in a higher orbit will jsut cost more fuel to both send it up there, and go and get it later.
No that clever. How about gathering and de-orbiting it like sensible people do.
Oh, wait...
1) I no longer care what "Wall Street Journal reports [from behind a paywall]". Quoting largely unavailable sources is wasting my time.
2) Nortel wasn't so good at security in their products. Not much of a surprise.
Oh, and 3) discounting 'cyberwar' as a solution justifying a problem is a little like dismissing a accidental wound as not in and of itself fatal. You've been injured. Claiming it's 'not that bad' doesn't change the nature of the injury. China has been attacking the rest of the world for a while now. The evidence cannot be excused.
Oh crap, it's April already. Dammit...
Let's hope that when the Foundation goes back to their supplier and asks for the next run, much larger, that their supplier doesn't explain how things just got more popular^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexpensive, darn, the price went up. Our bad.
Ack.
My QA tester was a contractor, and very good indeed. Among other things, he was totally invested in the process of delivering a great product. Contractor or not.
And he was let go, as we are making QA and UAT the developer's in-house responsibility. Don't bother to tell me how lousy an idea this is, management has their reasons, without consultation. We would normally predict failure, but it turns our they are releasing a beta of an entirely new product to replace this failed product within 2 months of the expected UAT completion. That's clearly a nasty ploy to escape the steaming pile that they have been making for us for 7 years now.
Don't ask. I can't tell you more anyways. It's just pus.
I have a LOT of Monster Cable products, most over 15 years old. And all of them still work great. The signal cables are still fine, no scratchies when they get wiggled, and they go on and come off the connectors just like I expect. No frozen-on plugs. The undercarpet RF cable has been in four homes, and I keep taking it weith me cause it's tolerated heavy traffic for a decade and works fine. The really thin RF cable finally gave up when I nailed it with the Dremel by accident. darn.
But I never felt like I overpaid for any of it. I never did buy any of the really expensive, gratiutiously over-spec'd stuff.
More to the point, the earbuds delivered with virtually every audio device I've bought over that time were pus. Earbuds in general can't sound good just because they can't seal. From the last true Walkman I bought, through portable CD and MiniDisc players, up to MP3 players, and now phones, the earbuds are entirely crap. HTC is selling Beats sets with some of their 'enhanced' phones, but other than that none are worth the effort to throw them away.
I'm also totally enamored of stereo Bluetooth headsets, but only have had one that sounded moderately decent, and the BackBeats are a compromise. I haven't gone on a buying/returning spree lately to try any others. Using my own headset with the S705 defeats the wirelessness of Bluetooth, and the S705 has no bottom end.
Any recommendations for seriously good sounding BT headsets?
Oh, and I've been ripping my records and CDs at highest rates since I started. 128 just grates, it's awful. Alan is right about that. I don't miss the noise floor of vinyl though. Gimme digital, if it's done right.
This drive was not refurbished . At best it was put through a cursory test and passed. Newegg failed twice: once, not actually refurbishing the drive , and second not wrong it. Dishonest and incompetent in one pass.
Or their outsourced team, still responsible.
The GP seemed to be making some point that being a fee funded agency left the NRC without the mandate to be involved in the Japanese incident at all.
My point is that to-be immediate source of their funding isn't important because the true source is ratepayers.
Besides, the NRC had some interest in the accident, if for no other reason than to analyze the causes and response . learning from the mistakes of others for instance. Offering to help doesn't seem like a bad thing either.
Sending movies over Bluetooth seems like a non-starter. Even sending an album-worth of music is a pain, and of course your recipient needs to be close enough to sneeze on you. Much easier to put it in the cloud, though we're gonna have to restrain or government from jailing people for largely legal and legitimate sharing sites.
Even that Re-whatever site is struggling to go into the first-sale resale business. The &^AA is undoubtedly trying to get some agency to raid them before they even start up.
"The US NRC is a fee recovery agency, licensees not taxpayer pay"
And licensees pay that from revenues.
That they receive from ratepayers.
That would be taxpayers who are their customers.
Put another way, we pay for it all, dude.
"can't have agencies that promote something also regulating it."
Sort of works for the FCC and the FAA. Sort of.
Oh, and the USDA. I'll leave whether the FDA is part of this scenario...
**woosh**
Turn right for a sense of humor.
It seems you presume the media is, after exercising self-interest, promotion, and the profit-seeking actions necessary to perpetuate themselves, essentially agnostic about the news it gathers and distributes.
I haven't believed that for my entire adult life.
The media, being made up of opinionated members, certainly does have a point of view, and filtering the news is one way to both express that point of view and promote that view.
Since many universities are resoundingly leftist, even the administrations of them, the press doesn't often leap to criticize them on matters of free speech and similar political issues.
Not that such a thing is afoot here, of course not, for in this case surely the press was just inattentive. No conspiracy at all, just an accident.
"issues a gun license to a known psychopath"
Who was this known psychopath?
Not for me. Anecdotal complaints about coverage are largely pointless.
I've been using GSM since the 90s in the U.S. Before that, I used TDMA. And yes, I had that Siemens S46, Satan's favorite cell phone to this day.
More helpful advice from the Linux community. Thank you ever so much, once again right on point, timely, and effective.