not everything involves a penis I can't resist....
Are you stupid, or do you just play an idiot on Slashdot?
The very idea that "Have a hard-on for" is not a penis reference. No, the idiom means "Have an overwhelming attraction for" or "An overwhelming focus on" and is commonly used in both the positive (I have a hard-on for Cindy Crawford) and the negative (He has a hard-on for Microsoft, the evil empire) sense with the only determination of which meaning the speaker or writer intended being the context in which it was used. Your definition "Hard on - Agression [sic] towards or want to cause damage to." is not the meaning, although, again in context, it might be implied by the phrase.
If you are going to play the troll flag, you better be right, or you are going to look stupid. and.... you weren't, and you did.
Last I knew, this guy sent the letter as official correspondence, and that "official correspondence represents the company". I don't know how they could use the "single employee" theory, because Accounting doesn't give *me* $50,000 to spend as I please without authorization. (See? Who's supposed to pay that? That means at least TWO employees... and counting.) The reports indicated that Microsoft didn't cut a check for entry fees. Instead it promised resources and future concessions to compensate for each company cutting a check. That is something One individual could do in a Corporation the size of Microsoft.
Now that we have that out of the way.... Of course it was a supported corporate move. What's more, it's part of a global strategy, the same thing was/is occurring in other markets, so they actually have a rogue salesman IN EACH MARKET
Nice try at trying to accuse MS of violating the GPL while being able to come back later and say you didn't actually accuse them of it. This is about applications that happen to run on Windows that may be violating the GPL. Nice try about.... oh, yeah, what the other 50 people dumped ON the moron Windows Fanboi..... Though he obviously knows what IN means, 'cause he has a bug in his ass.
The article does make a good point though that this is similar to car stereo manufacturers purposely producing stereos that would only work with their cars and preventing others from making such stereos. Because the carmaker was the only manufacturer of the stereo, they could charge whatever they wanted because of their forced monopoly in the market.
The case is similar because of the control circumvention, but one point the article did not point out is that case is also very different because there is no forced monopoly.
The car was the initial base cost and the stereo (when it breaks or needs replacement) was an uncompetitive and forced monopoly. In the case of AT&T, the iPhone is the base cost, but you still are given competitive rates. If AT&T began charging much more than usual rates strictly for iPhone customers, then the case would be identical, but because of other offerings it does not produce the same monopoly. If this were any other phone but the iPhone with network circumvention nobody would even care (I know because almost all phones are only made to run on one network.) Some may also argue this to be a bad business decision and plan to "liberate Apple from themselves" by hacking the iPhone, but if they made a bad decision, the best way to let them know is to not invest in their product which is already being done looking at iPhone sales.
Nevertheless, I think this case may be more of a nail-biter than most slashdotters would like to think. I don't think this case will actually be prosecuted. I think a cease and desist letter or three would be sent, perhaps even a website take down demand but nothing much beyond that. It seems to me that there is a precedent for modification here that would polarize a whole lot more than just locked down cell phones or related technology's. What about GM telling me I can't pimp my ride? What about any other modification that expands or changes a product from the original manufacturers intention.
If you set the legal precendent that you can sue in one country about something you were forced to do according to the laws of another country, chaos would ensue. I disagree - what would actually happen is there would be a larger legal separation between similar corporate entities doing business in multiple markets. In other words, Yahoo! China would offer similar services to Yahoo! US, but they would not be the same. So if Yahoo! China was ordered to give up user information in China, it would comply under Chinese law. However, if that user information was on, say, a Yahoo! US controlled system, Yahoo! China would not be able to comply, since it didn't have the information, and Yahoo! US would not comply since it violates US law.
Or maybe some other method will be worked out. Regardless of how it is accommodated, *"Chaos" in business practices is bad for business, and savvy businesses will find a way to work around the situation.
* Chaos itself isn't necessarily bad for business - Arms dealers love social chaos, for example....
If you read many gaming sites, you'll see that the Wii/360 fanboys tend to bash anything Sony, whether it's PS3 related or not. Joystiq is particularly well infested with 'em. So the Soney / anti-Sony Fanboi culture is related to the game console? The entire company will receive instant trashing or fanatical support because it manufactures and markets the playstation? And this culture revolves around what has to be a very small part of Sony's business (considering all the other electronic products they produce, and the music and movie industry stuff).
Well, that describes a fanboi culture that equals any of the others I've encountered. I guess some truths really are universal.
This one is: "People can be fanatical about anything."
The two batteries referred to were housed in two different VRAD cabinets, 20 miles apart, in the same city within a few months of each other. But, the carrier says, apart from those two batteries, all else is well. In its statement, published earlier today, AT&T said "the battery design was sound, as were the safety features," and concluded that "the risk of hazardous failures with this battery is as low, if not lower, than the risk with alternative batteries, which are used by other telecommunications and cable companies in similar applications." Really? the ubiquitous SLA has the same track record? What a crock 'o poopie. Another one of those "I think I'll pull statistics out of my ass and spout them off" moments....
What I can't figure out is why they aren't using SLA's in those cabinets in the first place. They are, by far, the most common battery in use in almost every application. The advantage is that SLA's are safe, predictable and cheap. The disadvantages are volume and weight, but in a stationary cabinet that shouldn't make a difference.
But, people like this claim - it shuts up some of the 'UFO freaks', 'Jesus freaks', etc. Insisting that it has severe limits on fair use makes one a Grammar Nazi, uptight, or something else totally unrelated, even if only one poster in 10 or so actually gets it right. Expect to see the same thing for your pet peeve 'Slippery Slope'. Up until you arrived here I was with you.... But I've yet to find ANYTHING that will actually shut up a * Freek. (Which I categorize as Fundies; i.e. Fundamentalist Charismatics) Doen't matter if it's a Jesus Fundie, ooh-eff-oh Fundie, (my personal pet peeve) Technical Diver Fundies or any other type of Fundie. Logic of any type, fallacious or not, has no impact on Belief
You know, I should call them UN-fundies, they are rarely entertaining to be around.
I am still laughing at how easily the anti-Sony-fanboy types disengage their brains when reading articles, on totally non-Sony, not-even-Sony-friendly titles. At the very most, if Sony's the one that the technology was licensed from, one could complain that Sony is still providing it. But the folks who decided to USE it, i.e. the Bioshock publishers, are the folks you ought to be mad at. At the risk of being modded -1 ultradense. I know about Mac Fanbois, Microsoft Fanbois, Linux Fanbois, and the rest that are commonly heard from hear on/., but Sony and Anti-Sony fanbois are a new one for me...., I had no idea there was an anti-Sony fanboi culture.....
The US Army has been proven by the Iraq debacle to be a paper tiger. What a stupid, uninformed remark.
As a Military Force All four of the Military services have proven themselves anything but a paper tigers. As a Police Force it's a different story altogether. Even spread as thin as they are, fighting on two different fronts, they are performing very, very well. It was not the force, or it's capabilities that are the problem in Iraq or in Afghanistan, it's the polices set at the highest levels that cause the current situation. The Bush administration had a very sharp knife, and decided to hammer nails with it. Don't confuse misuse of a tool with the capability of that tool.
The "Debacle" in Iraq was because the US Military was limited in what it was allowed to do to accomplish the mission. The initial mission was "Get Saddam, and those in his regime" - check, roger, done. Now it's "Stabilize the region" um, okay, then we need to pick a side and wipe them out, they have, after all, been warring with each other for hundreds of years..... Obviously that isn't really an option, and it's not a job for an army, it's a job for Diplomats, engineers, social workers, and the like. The "Debacle" in Iraq, in other words, has nothing to do with the capabilities of the Armed services.
In other news: The Canadian president George W. Bush invaded Iran because of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center of Chicago. Why did you post anonymously? This is a variation on a classic Slashdot +5 funny!
I'm American; There is no way I'd mod this down.
YMMV though, I've seen some weird mod's over the years. Like the American political system, I think there are problems with the Slashdot mod system, but it's better than anything else I've seen. And I really believe that the only way to fix it is to get people to understand that the reason for modding at all is to establish how interesting, relevant, or readable a comment is, rather than some game that has a "winner". With a side comment that using mod points to "get even" somehow with someone who has opposing views is wrong. But that is a different discussion that could generate thousands of mods and hundreds of comments in and of itself......
I don't really care if the lawsuits go through or not.... But, I do believe that if we REALLY cared about these lawsuits, we'd change providers. Nothing is going to tell the business world we want our rights respected like taking our money from those that do not to those that do.
This is the reason the current administration is so secretive, they feel that the American people wouldn't stand for some of the things they are doing if it was known.
They feel that they have to do it whatever way they are doing it to do it right.
Therefore, the American public doesn't need to know.
Although I don't agree, I have to say there is some merit to this idea. This is our fault, though, not the administrations. We, as a whole, have a lemming mentality. The group is easily manipulated by fear, and by spin. It's too much to ask for, I suppose, that the average American spend as much time thinking about personal rights and freedoms as they do on a new car purchase. Come to think of it, I don't want that either. I was looking for an example of something the average Joe would think on a lot before making a purchase, and the realization hit me that we, again as gross averages, buy cars, hire doctors, buy food.... All on impulse.... I'm so depressed....
My girlfriend just pointed out that we spend a lot of time thinking about Celebrity sex. I could use that as a comparison.... Now, I'm REALLY depressed...
And I think a Democrat president, if he we smart, would have a manual on it, too. What is the big deal?
Just another inflammatory, irrelevant article from kdawson. This article belongs in politics, not YRO. You are right, he (or she) would. It would shock me to find out that every President since LBJ DIDN'T have a manual or an equivalent set of written orders. After the numerous sets of really negative (from the seated administrations point of view) protesters showing up in a crowd since the Vietnam era.
And you're right, it does belong in a different category that Your Rights ONLINE. It don't think it's inflammatory or irrelevant, though (except that it's not relevant to online rights).
As to what the big deal is; In the overall scheme of things, or looking back in history probably not much. But, the current administration has taken extraordinary measures to keep information out of the public eye. In that light, the release of the manual itself, rather than the details of it, was a fairly big deal.
And they're not Christians either. I'm not aware that anyone thought or said they were. Then you don't read comment titles......... Which, before you changed it said "When Wealthy Christians........Attack"
As the alcohol evaporated, a film of closely packed nanoparticles was left firmly fastened to the solar cell. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up, bad idea! Why? the only issue I could see would be dumping the alcohol into the environment, but since it's evaporating off - building a recovery system into the process would save money in manufacturing, and is a no-brainer. So I'd think it very unlikely that a regular dumping of alcohol into the environment would occur, for the best of reasons from a business point of view - it's cheaper to do it the right way.
Just curious, but are these 10-year-old archived documents edited or used as the basis for new documents? Not anymore. It's now a version based on the older documents (based on an older version...), but you can show the linage of a given document.
My impression has always been that documents in such half-dead formats are more or less dead themselves with respect to editing, and the best idea would be to (somehow) convert them to PDF and be done with it. Since you are the first person I've caught with real experience, I'm curious to see if I'm right in your case.... Funny enough, that is my recommendation each year.....
Especially if you have any legacy Word 1.0 or 2.0 documents that can't be upgraded to the latest format for contractual reasons Offtopic, but I'm just too curious... Would it be possible to explain why these can't be migrated to a newer format? I'd think that'd be dangerously unwise. I'm not sure of the parent poster, but we have some electronic documents that are archived from 10 years ago that can't be updated and then re-archived, they must match the printed documents that they produced. We can, and do, convert to a new(er) format when updating a document to be submitted and published now, and to allow those documents to be searched, but the ability to open documents from years ago is critical for one of our customers. We got the job because we were willing to dedicate a system to retrieve those documents in the original format.
My recommendation was to handle those archives very differently. This client has a decision maker who knows what he wants, and dictates that it is either done that way, or he'll find someone else to do it. So we do it that way, and every year, I make a case for becoming more current, and every year, the answer is no. I don't mind, though, he's paying for the service, and other than this little bit of fear, he's really easy to work with, I've certainly had far more progressive clients that were far more of a PITA.
Unless the record companys themselves are included in the class action, I see no real solution.
Given the list of claims (particularly that RICO has been raised) and the nature of the RIAA, it seems to me quite possible that the court might be able to pierce the corporate veil of the RIAA and go after the assets of its owners/members. That would prevent steps 4 and 5 of your end-game.
That was one of the ways I had in the back of my head that the Controlling membership (the Big-4, as they are known) might be attached to this class action. From the article, they are specifically named as defendants too either way, I think the traditional recording industry is going to have a bit of a rough ride on this one, if class status is granted, that is.
Ultimately, I believe you are both right and wrong.
Based on what I think I know about corporations, I suspect that following will occur:
1. The suit will be awarded class action status
2. The RIAA will not settle out of court, preferring to drag this out as long as possible, ultimately resulting in a RIAA loss.
3. The result will be a huge dollar sum.
4. The RIAA declare bankruptcy, goes down in flames... and
5. The record companys will form a new association that is effectively another RIAA with a new name.
Unless the record companys themselves are included in the class action, I see no real solution. The existing lawsuits are not the RIAA vs whoever, it's a specific record company. i.e. Atlantic vs Anderson. So the elimination of the RIAA solves nothing. It seems like the RIAA is doing (or heading up) all the dirty work, but it's the membership that is the actual problem. As has been pointed out a number of times before, the marketing here is amazing, even people who should know better (readers of slashdot, for example) buy into the "RIAA is the devil" mentality.
With any luck, all the corporate members of the RIAA will be attached to this thing too, because then that huge judgement could actually be collected..... As it is, if the class goes through, and it's won, it'll never be paid. on a side note, it occurs to me that it might get settled (and the settlement covered by the big RC's) because of something I remember from a few weeks ago, if they get busted for RICO, that impacts the copyrights for every work that was a part of the RICO thing...... Ultimatly there might be a lot of work with the copyrights lost because of the bad tactics.... that'd be an interesting outcome.....
After about 2 to 3 hours of investigation and it going down twice after we'd bring it back up, we soon found the problem. F**king intern, who was worthless anyways and about to get fired for other stupid mishaps had a Netgear switch he was using for setting up new desktops thought it'd be cute to plug one port of the switch to another port on it, that was creating the havoc and bringing down the switch and part of the network for most. Intern notwithstanding, whoever was managing the network needed a kick in the ass too, your switch should have detected the loop and shut down that channel. Moreover, it should have been pretty obvious where the problem child was, 3 hours of investigation? Sounds like your team was taking advantage of a little siesta time too.
Forgive my ignorance, but has anyone actually used Token Ring since, like, the mid-90s? I thought it was a completely outdated technology, replaced with ethernet? Well, yes. As of December of last year, there were at least 4 airports (minor regionals, admittedly) that still had token ring networks handling some site traffic.
Actually depending on it's density it could be smaller than you think. If it is a rock, say with the density of concrete it would only be 1.48 cubic yards in size. That mean 4.5 ft length on each axis roughly (since it is irregular and all). It is nothing a hoist and a few straps couldn't lift into a suitable truck.
If the density was higher as they say the composition maybe iron, those dimension will be even smaller. True, and if it were made up of a significant amount of, say, Neutronium I believe it would easily fit in your pocket..... Better where levi's though, those designer jean pockets are kind of weak.....
Problem, and mystery, solved! Old Man Withers is going to be whining about us meddling kids, though.
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Are you stupid, or do you just play an idiot on Slashdot?
The very idea that "Have a hard-on for" is not a penis reference. No, the idiom means "Have an overwhelming attraction for" or "An overwhelming focus on" and is commonly used in both the positive (I have a hard-on for Cindy Crawford) and the negative (He has a hard-on for Microsoft, the evil empire) sense with the only determination of which meaning the speaker or writer intended being the context in which it was used. Your definition "Hard on - Agression [sic] towards or want to cause damage to." is not the meaning, although, again in context, it might be implied by the phrase.
If you are going to play the troll flag, you better be right, or you are going to look stupid. and.... you weren't, and you did.
(See? Who's supposed to pay that? That means at least TWO employees... and counting.) The reports indicated that Microsoft didn't cut a check for entry fees. Instead it promised resources and future concessions to compensate for each company cutting a check. That is something One individual could do in a Corporation the size of Microsoft.
Now that we have that out of the way.... Of course it was a supported corporate move. What's more, it's part of a global strategy, the same thing was/is occurring in other markets, so they actually have a rogue salesman IN EACH MARKET
This is about applications that happen to run on Windows that may be violating the GPL. Nice try about.... oh, yeah, what the other 50 people dumped ON the moron Windows Fanboi..... Though he obviously knows what IN means, 'cause he has a bug in his ass.
The case is similar because of the control circumvention, but one point the article did not point out is that case is also very different because there is no forced monopoly.
The car was the initial base cost and the stereo (when it breaks or needs replacement) was an uncompetitive and forced monopoly. In the case of AT&T, the iPhone is the base cost, but you still are given competitive rates. If AT&T began charging much more than usual rates strictly for iPhone customers, then the case would be identical, but because of other offerings it does not produce the same monopoly. If this were any other phone but the iPhone with network circumvention nobody would even care (I know because almost all phones are only made to run on one network.) Some may also argue this to be a bad business decision and plan to "liberate Apple from themselves" by hacking the iPhone, but if they made a bad decision, the best way to let them know is to not invest in their product which is already being done looking at iPhone sales.
Nevertheless, I think this case may be more of a nail-biter than most slashdotters would like to think. I don't think this case will actually be prosecuted. I think a cease and desist letter or three would be sent, perhaps even a website take down demand but nothing much beyond that. It seems to me that there is a precedent for modification here that would polarize a whole lot more than just locked down cell phones or related technology's. What about GM telling me I can't pimp my ride? What about any other modification that expands or changes a product from the original manufacturers intention.
Or maybe some other method will be worked out. Regardless of how it is accommodated, *"Chaos" in business practices is bad for business, and savvy businesses will find a way to work around the situation.
* Chaos itself isn't necessarily bad for business - Arms dealers love social chaos, for example....
Well, that describes a fanboi culture that equals any of the others I've encountered. I guess some truths really are universal.
This one is: "People can be fanatical about anything."
What I can't figure out is why they aren't using SLA's in those cabinets in the first place. They are, by far, the most common battery in use in almost every application. The advantage is that SLA's are safe, predictable and cheap. The disadvantages are volume and weight, but in a stationary cabinet that shouldn't make a difference.
You know, I should call them UN-fundies, they are rarely entertaining to be around.
As a Military Force All four of the Military services have proven themselves anything but a paper tigers. As a Police Force it's a different story altogether. Even spread as thin as they are, fighting on two different fronts, they are performing very, very well. It was not the force, or it's capabilities that are the problem in Iraq or in Afghanistan, it's the polices set at the highest levels that cause the current situation. The Bush administration had a very sharp knife, and decided to hammer nails with it. Don't confuse misuse of a tool with the capability of that tool.
The "Debacle" in Iraq was because the US Military was limited in what it was allowed to do to accomplish the mission. The initial mission was "Get Saddam, and those in his regime" - check, roger, done. Now it's "Stabilize the region" um, okay, then we need to pick a side and wipe them out, they have, after all, been warring with each other for hundreds of years..... Obviously that isn't really an option, and it's not a job for an army, it's a job for Diplomats, engineers, social workers, and the like. The "Debacle" in Iraq, in other words, has nothing to do with the capabilities of the Armed services.
I'm American; There is no way I'd mod this down.
YMMV though, I've seen some weird mod's over the years. Like the American political system, I think there are problems with the Slashdot mod system, but it's better than anything else I've seen. And I really believe that the only way to fix it is to get people to understand that the reason for modding at all is to establish how interesting, relevant, or readable a comment is, rather than some game that has a "winner". With a side comment that using mod points to "get even" somehow with someone who has opposing views is wrong. But that is a different discussion that could generate thousands of mods and hundreds of comments in and of itself......
I don't really care if the lawsuits go through or not.... But, I do believe that if we REALLY cared about these lawsuits, we'd change providers. Nothing is going to tell the business world we want our rights respected like taking our money from those that do not to those that do.
This is the reason the current administration is so secretive, they feel that the American people wouldn't stand for some of the things they are doing if it was known.
They feel that they have to do it whatever way they are doing it to do it right.
Therefore, the American public doesn't need to know.
Although I don't agree, I have to say there is some merit to this idea. This is our fault, though, not the administrations. We, as a whole, have a lemming mentality. The group is easily manipulated by fear, and by spin. It's too much to ask for, I suppose, that the average American spend as much time thinking about personal rights and freedoms as they do on a new car purchase. Come to think of it, I don't want that either. I was looking for an example of something the average Joe would think on a lot before making a purchase, and the realization hit me that we, again as gross averages, buy cars, hire doctors, buy food.... All on impulse.... I'm so depressed....
My girlfriend just pointed out that we spend a lot of time thinking about Celebrity sex. I could use that as a comparison.... Now, I'm REALLY depressed...
Just another inflammatory, irrelevant article from kdawson. This article belongs in politics, not YRO. You are right, he (or she) would. It would shock me to find out that every President since LBJ DIDN'T have a manual or an equivalent set of written orders. After the numerous sets of really negative (from the seated administrations point of view) protesters showing up in a crowd since the Vietnam era.
And you're right, it does belong in a different category that Your Rights ONLINE. It don't think it's inflammatory or irrelevant, though (except that it's not relevant to online rights).
As to what the big deal is; In the overall scheme of things, or looking back in history probably not much. But, the current administration has taken extraordinary measures to keep information out of the public eye. In that light, the release of the manual itself, rather than the details of it, was a fairly big deal.
(Let us assume it is ethanol, for argument sake.) DOH! My bad.
It was the isopropyl reference that threw me the other way..... As a lame defence of my densness...
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up, bad idea! Why? the only issue I could see would be dumping the alcohol into the environment, but since it's evaporating off - building a recovery system into the process would save money in manufacturing, and is a no-brainer. So I'd think it very unlikely that a regular dumping of alcohol into the environment would occur, for the best of reasons from a business point of view - it's cheaper to do it the right way.
Offtopic, but I'm just too curious... Would it be possible to explain why these can't be migrated to a newer format? I'd think that'd be dangerously unwise. I'm not sure of the parent poster, but we have some electronic documents that are archived from 10 years ago that can't be updated and then re-archived, they must match the printed documents that they produced. We can, and do, convert to a new(er) format when updating a document to be submitted and published now, and to allow those documents to be searched, but the ability to open documents from years ago is critical for one of our customers. We got the job because we were willing to dedicate a system to retrieve those documents in the original format.
My recommendation was to handle those archives very differently. This client has a decision maker who knows what he wants, and dictates that it is either done that way, or he'll find someone else to do it. So we do it that way, and every year, I make a case for becoming more current, and every year, the answer is no. I don't mind, though, he's paying for the service, and other than this little bit of fear, he's really easy to work with, I've certainly had far more progressive clients that were far more of a PITA.
Given the list of claims (particularly that RICO has been raised) and the nature of the RIAA, it seems to me quite possible that the court might be able to pierce the corporate veil of the RIAA and go after the assets of its owners/members. That would prevent steps 4 and 5 of your end-game.
That was one of the ways I had in the back of my head that the Controlling membership (the Big-4, as they are known) might be attached to this class action. From the article, they are specifically named as defendants too either way, I think the traditional recording industry is going to have a bit of a rough ride on this one, if class status is granted, that is.--snicker---
Best laugh of the day, thanks!
Ultimately, I believe you are both right and wrong.
Based on what I think I know about corporations, I suspect that following will occur:
1. The suit will be awarded class action status
2. The RIAA will not settle out of court, preferring to drag this out as long as possible, ultimately resulting in a RIAA loss.
3. The result will be a huge dollar sum.
4. The RIAA declare bankruptcy, goes down in flames... and
5. The record companys will form a new association that is effectively another RIAA with a new name.
Unless the record companys themselves are included in the class action, I see no real solution. The existing lawsuits are not the RIAA vs whoever, it's a specific record company. i.e. Atlantic vs Anderson. So the elimination of the RIAA solves nothing. It seems like the RIAA is doing (or heading up) all the dirty work, but it's the membership that is the actual problem. As has been pointed out a number of times before, the marketing here is amazing, even people who should know better (readers of slashdot, for example) buy into the "RIAA is the devil" mentality.
With any luck, all the corporate members of the RIAA will be attached to this thing too, because then that huge judgement could actually be collected..... As it is, if the class goes through, and it's won, it'll never be paid. on a side note, it occurs to me that it might get settled (and the settlement covered by the big RC's) because of something I remember from a few weeks ago, if they get busted for RICO, that impacts the copyrights for every work that was a part of the RICO thing...... Ultimatly there might be a lot of work with the copyrights lost because of the bad tactics.... that'd be an interesting outcome.....
That mean 4.5 ft length on each axis roughly (since it is irregular and all). It is nothing a hoist and a few straps couldn't lift into a suitable truck.
If the density was higher as they say the composition maybe iron, those dimension will be even smaller. True, and if it were made up of a significant amount of, say, Neutronium I believe it would easily fit in your pocket..... Better where levi's though, those designer jean pockets are kind of weak.....
Problem, and mystery, solved! Old Man Withers is going to be whining about us meddling kids, though.