That's some very seriously convoluted logic to explain away George's ignorance. Care to explain how the Ewoks are not mutant ripoffs of Teddy Ruxbin designed to sell dolls at Christmas?
Having worked with large and confidential databases I can assure you that your concerns are trvial. Almost all mailing address databases have fields to supporess mailing forms/correspondence to a particular record. It's no more comlicated than putting in a "Mr./Ms./Mrs./Dr." title field.
But as the sysadmin you have the right to access the files in the manner you describe and that kind of access is going to be addressed in the protocols set up by your company (if there are any brains in the IT Dept.). And yes, bugs in search engines or database searches might also generate false positives, but again, you'd have protocols in place to deal with them. You wouldn't just fire Joe Newbie Codemonkey bbecause his script was dodgy (well, if he was a clueless dink and produced shoddy wiork...), you'd deal with the problem.
Completely and utterly irrelevant. Someone accessed a file without proper authorization. Hospital staff are quite aware of the rules and it doesn't matter a bit if they know that Micky Mouse, John F Kennedy and Hugh G. Rection are fakes. They still broke a rule they knew was in place.
It's not the cheap prices of CD-Rs making CD-RWs pointless, it's USB thumbdrives. Since I bought my USB thimdrive I haven't used a CD-RW for personal reasons at all. (I use them at work for drive images as we are rather tight fisted about buying and destroying media.) With USB thumbdrives hitting the one and two gigabyte sizes there is just no real need for CD-RWs any more.
\Pun\, n. [Cf. Pun to pound, Pound to beat.] A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. --Addison.
The pun, or the "play on words" here is the change in the definition of the word "smell". Man 2 is asking how can the dog smell anything iif it has no nose. Man 1 is using the word "smell" to mean the odor of the dog. This creates a momentary logical disconnect which creates the humor of teh joke (providing, of course, that you find the joke humorous).
Whatever humorous mechanism you were attempting to emplioy was not a "pun".
Not 100% true. Private companies, that is, one not building parts ofr NASA, are not into the Space Business because there is a government monopoly on space launches in the USA. No corporation can launch even a sub-orbital flight without the xpress permission of the governemnt. And the government isn't saying "yes" to anyone.
As someone who just converted all of his old WP5.1 for DOS files I can tell you that is a right pain in the ass. And I haven't seen program to do mass conversions, either.
Actually, I don't even use Open Office format for my files now. Being that my formatting is pretty basic, I use RTF format as just about anything (other than WP 5.1) can read it.
Sweet Jesus! Let me catch my breath! HAHHAHAH! Oh, crap! I can't stop laughing! HAHAHAHA!
And we all know that the wholesale copying of material you do not have a legal right to, and for which you have not paid for is, at best, rampaging selfishness.
You have the gall to call their actions "greed" when you are committing the exact same sin (for lack of a better word).
Napster? Feh.
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I consider the copying of music and other digital media to which I do not own the copyright or to which I have not been given the express permission by the owner of said copyright to be theft.
As a former head-banger, I have this to say about blaming heavy metal bands, violent video games, Harry Potter books... ad nausium for violent behavior in teens:
People are confusing a symptom for a cause. Violent games and violent music do not cause teens to go on killing sprees, no more than a fever makes you sick. Obsessions with violent games and / or music, like a fever, is a symptom of a larger and possibly unseen problem. The musiic and games provide an outlet for the feelings that these people are facing.
Shen I was 14 I was on my way to becomming one of these school-slaughtering psychos. I was rejected by everyone at my school. I was beaten, harrassed, shunned and mocked by everyone. My possessions were frequently destroyed. My shop class projects were thrown in the trash nearly every day. The teachers did nothing to stop this. Nothing. I took refuge in the melodic Pleasant Valley Sunday world of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Diamond, Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa. If my familty had not moved to a new city and to a school not so filled with such eliist cliques (and a few years of coucelling), I could easily turned my idle daydreams of mass murder into reality.
The music didn't cause my anger and rage. It didn't make me want to kill. My treatment at the hands of my fellow students did that. The music gave me a way to look at my feelings, a way to express my feelings. Luckily for me my family recognized my obsession for what it was and got me out of there.
Blaming music and games for teen violence is like blaming a fever for killing a sick person. The fever isn't what did them in, it was the infection that the fever was caused by.
All rockets fail. Nothing is perfect, ever. And yes, some of the French rockets have exploded. Just like some of the American and Russian disposable rockets have exploded. But these rockets are not designed and built to get a living human being into orbit and then safely back home. If one of these rockets explodes all you lose is a satilite and a rocket. It's only money, not human beings. Satilites can be rebuilt. That's what insurance is for. A human being can't be rebuilt.
One of the major problems with the Shuttle is the cost. Because you HAVE to have a crew to fly it it has to be built with that in mind. Every launch requires a HUGE investment in money and time. The other main problem is that the Shuttle can only get to Low Earth Orbit. Any satilite delivered by the Shuttle has to be equipped with booster rockets if it is going into a higher orbit.
The only thing the Shuttle can do is lift HEAVY satilites. That is the sole advantage it has, if you ignore the political machinations of NASA.
The truth of the matter is that most satilites are NOT launched on a Shuttle. Most go up on cheap, disposable rockets. If the Shuttle was grounded forever the only thing really hurt would be the ISS, which was built to give the Shuttle a job. The Shuttle only lives because NASA has decided to keep the program going at all costs.
Only one problem there, Sparky. Apollo 13 didn't suffer from a cracked heat shield. If te heat shirld from the command module had been broken they would have died. Period. And there was no way they could have ever fixed that. The crew of Apollo 13 also had the good furtune to have a fully functional L.E.M. docked and powered up. It was THAT and that alone that let them live. If the explosion had happened before the L.E.M. had docked they would be dead. Period.
The Shuttle is a horrendously expensive way to get material into orbit. It is not cost-effective at all. It can't be. The basic design is so manpower intensive as to be a joke. The French Arianne (sp?) rockets are cheaper per launch and per pound into orbit, as are the other disposable rockets that the US and Russians use.
As much of a fan of manned space flight as I am, it is my opinion that the Shuttle is a boondogle and always was. Remember when NASA told us that there would be flights every two weeks? How about all that hoohaw about a Shuttle only needing 30-days servicing between flight? Or that it would cost less per pound to get material into orbit than the Saturn V? None of that has turned out to be true, has it?
Yes, the Shuttle needs to be replaced. But not by one system. It needs to be replaced by systems designed for the tasks that they will be used for: cheap rockets for getting satilites into orbit, more expensive craft for getting humans into orbit and back down, etc... None of this ill-fitting jack-of-all-trades/master-of-none crap that the Shuttle is.
Why do people always use the "but she's/Lars'/Elvis'/etc rich!" argument? It's not about money. It's about artistic control. It's about making sure that the translated work is as close to the original as possible. It's about having her work, which she has spent more than fifteen years creating so far, not get diluted by others trying to jump on the gravy train.
Not to be overly rude, but most people don't care. We call it "Linux" and get on with our lives. Other than RMS, who has a personal stake in the matter, the only people I know (personally or otherwise) who insist on "GNU/Linux" are either newbies or uber-nerds.
I'm afraid that's wishful thinking. Most consumers don't look at the long-term costs of anything. If they did they wouldn't buy inkjets or SUVs. They'd buy LaserJets and more fuel eficient automobiles. People either buy the item that has the lowest off-the-showrrom price or what they've let Amdison Avenue convince them they want.
The costs-more-but-will-save-you-money-later printer will wither and die next to the costs-less-but-will-eat-you-alive-later printer. Once people buy something they'll pay through the nose to keep that item viable, if for no other reason than to convince themselves they didn't get ripped off.
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That's some very seriously convoluted logic to explain away George's ignorance. Care to explain how the Ewoks are not mutant ripoffs of Teddy Ruxbin designed to sell dolls at Christmas?
Having worked with large and confidential databases I can assure you that your concerns are trvial. Almost all mailing address databases have fields to supporess mailing forms/correspondence to a particular record. It's no more comlicated than putting in a "Mr./Ms./Mrs./Dr." title field.
But as the sysadmin you have the right to access the files in the manner you describe and that kind of access is going to be addressed in the protocols set up by your company (if there are any brains in the IT Dept.). And yes, bugs in search engines or database searches might also generate false positives, but again, you'd have protocols in place to deal with them. You wouldn't just fire Joe Newbie Codemonkey bbecause his script was dodgy (well, if he was a clueless dink and produced shoddy wiork...), you'd deal with the problem.
NO system is perfect. This is just another tool.
Completely and utterly irrelevant. Someone accessed a file without proper authorization. Hospital staff are quite aware of the rules and it doesn't matter a bit if they know that Micky Mouse, John F Kennedy and Hugh G. Rection are fakes. They still broke a rule they knew was in place.
It's not the cheap prices of CD-Rs making CD-RWs pointless, it's USB thumbdrives. Since I bought my USB thimdrive I haven't used a CD-RW for personal reasons at all. (I use them at work for drive images as we are rather tight fisted about buying and destroying media.) With USB thumbdrives hitting the one and two gigabyte sizes there is just no real need for CD-RWs any more.
This is a pun:
Man 1: I say, old chap, my dog has no nose.
Man 2: No nose? How does he smell?
Man 1: Terrible!
The pun, or the "play on words" here is the change in the definition of the word "smell". Man 2 is asking how can the dog smell anything iif it has no nose. Man 1 is using the word "smell" to mean the odor of the dog. This creates a momentary logical disconnect which creates the humor of teh joke (providing, of course, that you find the joke humorous).
Whatever humorous mechanism you were attempting to emplioy was not a "pun".
Why should they copy anyone? Why not come up with something workable and original?
Not 100% true. Private companies, that is, one not building parts ofr NASA, are not into the Space Business because there is a government monopoly on space launches in the USA. No corporation can launch even a sub-orbital flight without the xpress permission of the governemnt. And the government isn't saying "yes" to anyone.
As someone who just converted all of his old WP5.1 for DOS files I can tell you that is a right pain in the ass. And I haven't seen program to do mass conversions, either.
Actually, I don't even use Open Office format for my files now. Being that my formatting is pretty basic, I use RTF format as just about anything (other than WP 5.1) can read it.
Sweet Jesus! Let me catch my breath! HAHHAHAH! Oh, crap! I can't stop laughing! HAHAHAHA!
And we all know that the wholesale copying of material you do not have a legal right to, and for which you have not paid for is, at best, rampaging selfishness.
You have the gall to call their actions "greed" when you are committing the exact same sin (for lack of a better word).
Whatever, Beavis.
Or you could try not ripping them off.
I consider the copying of music and other digital media to which I do not own the copyright or to which I have not been given the express permission by the owner of said copyright to be theft.
Simple as that. Some of us were wiser in our choice of mates.
Simple: they have more and bigger guns than we do.
Oh, and all that brainwashing about our leaders having some magical ability to know how to do the Right Thing.
You take a REALLY BIG CHAINSAW and cut the universe in half. Then you count the rings. TADA!
What you want, sonny, is a Tasp. A hort, sharp, shock to the pleasure center of the brain and she (or he, if that's your pleasure) will be yours.
Just don't point it at a Kzin. He'll rip out your heart and eat it in front of your dieing eyes.
As a former head-banger, I have this to say about blaming heavy metal bands, violent video games, Harry Potter books... ad nausium for violent behavior in teens:
People are confusing a symptom for a cause. Violent games and violent music do not cause teens to go on killing sprees, no more than a fever makes you sick. Obsessions with violent games and / or music, like a fever, is a symptom of a larger and possibly unseen problem. The musiic and games provide an outlet for the feelings that these people are facing.
Shen I was 14 I was on my way to becomming one of these school-slaughtering psychos. I was rejected by everyone at my school. I was beaten, harrassed, shunned and mocked by everyone. My possessions were frequently destroyed. My shop class projects were thrown in the trash nearly every day. The teachers did nothing to stop this. Nothing. I took refuge in the melodic Pleasant Valley Sunday world of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Diamond, Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa. If my familty had not moved to a new city and to a school not so filled with such eliist cliques (and a few years of coucelling), I could easily turned my idle daydreams of mass murder into reality.
The music didn't cause my anger and rage. It didn't make me want to kill. My treatment at the hands of my fellow students did that. The music gave me a way to look at my feelings, a way to express my feelings. Luckily for me my family recognized my obsession for what it was and got me out of there.
Blaming music and games for teen violence is like blaming a fever for killing a sick person. The fever isn't what did them in, it was the infection that the fever was caused by.
All rockets fail. Nothing is perfect, ever. And yes, some of the French rockets have exploded. Just like some of the American and Russian disposable rockets have exploded. But these rockets are not designed and built to get a living human being into orbit and then safely back home. If one of these rockets explodes all you lose is a satilite and a rocket. It's only money, not human beings. Satilites can be rebuilt. That's what insurance is for. A human being can't be rebuilt.
One of the major problems with the Shuttle is the cost. Because you HAVE to have a crew to fly it it has to be built with that in mind. Every launch requires a HUGE investment in money and time. The other main problem is that the Shuttle can only get to Low Earth Orbit. Any satilite delivered by the Shuttle has to be equipped with booster rockets if it is going into a higher orbit.
The only thing the Shuttle can do is lift HEAVY satilites. That is the sole advantage it has, if you ignore the political machinations of NASA.
The truth of the matter is that most satilites are NOT launched on a Shuttle. Most go up on cheap, disposable rockets. If the Shuttle was grounded forever the only thing really hurt would be the ISS, which was built to give the Shuttle a job. The Shuttle only lives because NASA has decided to keep the program going at all costs.
Only one problem there, Sparky. Apollo 13 didn't suffer from a cracked heat shield. If te heat shirld from the command module had been broken they would have died. Period. And there was no way they could have ever fixed that. The crew of Apollo 13 also had the good furtune to have a fully functional L.E.M. docked and powered up. It was THAT and that alone that let them live. If the explosion had happened before the L.E.M. had docked they would be dead. Period.
The Shuttle is a horrendously expensive way to get material into orbit. It is not cost-effective at all. It can't be. The basic design is so manpower intensive as to be a joke. The French Arianne (sp?) rockets are cheaper per launch and per pound into orbit, as are the other disposable rockets that the US and Russians use.
As much of a fan of manned space flight as I am, it is my opinion that the Shuttle is a boondogle and always was. Remember when NASA told us that there would be flights every two weeks? How about all that hoohaw about a Shuttle only needing 30-days servicing between flight? Or that it would cost less per pound to get material into orbit than the Saturn V? None of that has turned out to be true, has it?
Yes, the Shuttle needs to be replaced. But not by one system. It needs to be replaced by systems designed for the tasks that they will be used for: cheap rockets for getting satilites into orbit, more expensive craft for getting humans into orbit and back down, etc... None of this ill-fitting jack-of-all-trades/master-of-none crap that the Shuttle is.
Why do people always use the "but she's/Lars'/Elvis'/etc rich!" argument? It's not about money. It's about artistic control. It's about making sure that the translated work is as close to the original as possible. It's about having her work, which she has spent more than fifteen years creating so far, not get diluted by others trying to jump on the gravy train.
Not to be overly rude, but most people don't care. We call it "Linux" and get on with our lives. Other than RMS, who has a personal stake in the matter, the only people I know (personally or otherwise) who insist on "GNU/Linux" are either newbies or uber-nerds.
Well, he needs to make that more obvious. I didn't tack those two dashes on my sig as a fashion statement.
What the hell are you talking about?
I'm afraid that's wishful thinking. Most consumers don't look at the long-term costs of anything. If they did they wouldn't buy inkjets or SUVs. They'd buy LaserJets and more fuel eficient automobiles. People either buy the item that has the lowest off-the-showrrom price or what they've let Amdison Avenue convince them they want.
The costs-more-but-will-save-you-money-later printer will wither and die next to the costs-less-but-will-eat-you-alive-later printer. Once people buy something they'll pay through the nose to keep that item viable, if for no other reason than to convince themselves they didn't get ripped off.