Microsoft notoriously embedded code in Windows (and, for Mac users, in Word) that made your computer crash if you tried to use WordPerfect.
I was running a resume service and, for conversion purposes, tried to install WordStar and WordPerfect on my computer numerous times. You could not launch those problems if MS Word was open. Period.
For this alone Microsoft's corporate charter should have been pulled, yet all these years later they're still beating up their victim in court.
I grew up in the '50s. I was born just months after the CIA deposed the first democratically elected leader of a Muslim nation. As I grew up I watched the US prop up the corrupt Shah as Iran did the scut work of American "diplomacy" in the Middle East, a job that was taken over by Israel after the Shah fell.
Iran is an immature theocracy now, just like Israel. Iran, however, has centuries of history in their corner that indicates they will not attack their neighbors (Iraq attacked Iran with Reagan's blessings, remember?)
Iran needs to be watched, but the Iranian people will slowly bring sanity back to that nation despite it having some crackpot leaders.
I'm much more concerned about Israel, a nation that keeps moving right, and whose political parties are becoming increasingly hostile to African workers, gays and pretty much everyone who isn't Jewish.
You can call it a tie, but Iran doesn't influence the USA. Israel does.
this being one of the least of their crimes, but it always disappoints me when the Israeli dog wags their U.S. tail.
I would hate to have to vote for Ron Paul to achieve saner U.S. foreign policy, but I cannot think of one major candidate in the last twenty years who hasn't crapped on the U.S. Constitution in their haste to embrace Israel's thuggish world view.
Yes, many Jews died in WWII death camps, but how many Muslims have to die from IDF attacks before Israel calls it even?
This wasn't a capricious action taken by the Royal Commission on Recording Industry Association Profits, or the Royal Motion Picture Association of Thailand. This woman was arrested for violating a well known Thai law. You think it's silly to have laws protecting the dignity of the royal family? I won't argue with you, and if I was in Thailand, I definitely wouldn't argue with you.
But that doesn't make you right when you call the Thai people stupid for sticking with a monarchy. Thailand is the only Asian nation to have gone several centuries without being occupied by a foreign power. Thailand serves some of the best food in the world, and is the breadbasket of Asia. Thailand is not a stinking cesspool of filth and genocide like Cambodia, and is considerably more free than Burma, Cambodia or Laos, its closest neighbors.
Yes, maybe it sounds silly to have laws protecting a monarch, but when's the last time you heard of a Thai college student being fined $675,000 for illegal downloading? Also, no one ever goes to prison for getting or providing an abortion in Thailand.
Thailand's not a perfect country, but at this point in time it would behoove most Americans to STFU about other countries and their practices, most of which pale into insignificance when compared to our Wall Street driven mores.
Also, the WaPost article was pretty thin but they seemed to describe the "act" as being protected as much as the trick. In fact, I'm not sure it was the trick so much as it was the staging.
I'd like to learn more about this decision. Is the actual illusion being protected, or the act? Both acts used a butler. That seems to have been an easily changeable part of the act.
I figured it was a short list. I've always estimated the fines for downloads on my 1TB drive to be in excess of one billion dollars. I've blogged about it countless times but, having no seizable assets or steady income, the RIAA/MPAA for some reason never contact me....
They took my Facebook permissions then told me they were full up.
I HATE SITES THAT TAKE YOUR DATA THEN TELL YOU TO GO AWAY.
Sorry, they may be the best thing since sliced toast but all I know is that they tricked me into giving them all my Facebook permissions and I got zippo back.
and from the mid-'90s to about 2003, I had thousands of online clients from all 50 states. As a one-person business, figuring 50 different quarterly sales tax returns would have been a half-time job all by itself.
Sales taxes are horribly regressive, and compound the enormous wealth inequity in this country. Bezos is right. (This time.)
I don't think Clinton's solution makes any sense, but you should know that both Politifact and FactCheck have been ripped by other factcheck orgs for being exceptionally establishment-oriented. Politifact seems to go well out of its way to give breaks to Republicans not named Michele Bachmann while very aggressively parsing statements made by liberals.
Just wanted to make it clear that I'm not a quality blogger either, but an aggregator (i.e., totally sponging my content off the sweat on others' brows).
Mike Masnick is one of the more prolific bloggers I read, but he still can't touch Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly, or Digby at Hullabaloo, or, frankly, any of several dozen very prolific political bloggers I read, and I'm sure there are some mommy bloggers who put these people to shame.
But the real question here is do you value quality or quantity? Who's the better author, Isaac Asimov or Thomas Pynchon? Barbara Cartland or Isabel Allende? Zane Grey or Ernest Hemingway?
Mike does a nice job of putting out a lot of quality product. Would acknowledgement from Guinness make him a better blogger? I don't think so.
I've been blogging since 1999, and daily since 2004 but I can't touch Mike's 38,000 posts because my average posts are much longer and work out to about a million words a year. Others are still more longwinded.
Guinness also fails to recognize originality. Yes, you have to be creative to make news items speak to larger issues like Mike does, but what about those who create wholly original posts each day? Doesn't originality count for more than putting a spin on someone else's news story?
Before giving up my resume business (burn out brought about by Bush-Cheney anti-merit hiring policies) I did some work for TSA agents seeking promotions in the Twin Cities region. Both clients were highly qualified but both ended up quitting the TSA because the promotions went to agents who belonged to the same church as the administrator charged with selecting the new supervisors.
TSA agents behave like asses because they report to asses who were hired by asses. That restaurant has every right to refuse service to the people who've made air travel intolerable.
A.Coward, thanks for making my point for me again. Breitbart's still churning out the lies, and gullible saps are still swallowing what he's feeding them.
Sherrod doesn't need to sue, she has to sue and she has to do so as publicly as possible.
Re: Re: So Sherrod should just roll over and take it?
No, it hasn't backfired. Search Fox News for this story. Check out the rightwing blogs. The right has its own media now, and they don't care about the truth. Breitbart's a liar? They don't care! They just keep repeating the same lies over and over again.
Well informed people didn't take Hitler seriously either. And before you invoke Godwin's Law, remember that Godwin created it because liberals were scoring too many points by comparing Bush-Cheney policies to the 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism. They flunked that test, so they agreed on a rule to never talk about fascism again.
Theirs is a closed universe, and you can't dismiss their lies so lightly because they don't acknowledge your arguments.
I don't think you're very well informed on this one. Andrew Breitbart has been serially defaming Sherrod ever since the initial flap. He's now focused on the Pigford settlement. Please read Media Matters for America, which has done yeoman's work in chronicling all of Breitbart's attacks on Sherrod.
Breitbart didn't attack Sherrod to be mean. He attacked her because his JOB is to attack liberals, especially minorities. The defamation was calculated and meant to injure the entire African American community. Sherrod was just the vehicle for a much greater slander.
The major media was very slow to pick up on this libel, and they failed utterly to look beyond this one case. For the most part they did not walk this back to the ACORN tapes, which were every bit as fraudulent as the Sherrod video. And now Lila Rose, James O'Keefe's ACORN partner, is falsely accusing Planned Parenthood of breaking the law with more edited tapes.
It's vitally important that someone with legal standing take these serial slanderers to court. Please search for Breitbart at Media Matters to learn more about his anti-liberal, anti-minorities jihad.
Roy Kroc had a personal fetish about hot coffee, and McDonald's used special equipment to literally superheat their coffee. Great if you're taking several cups back to your coworkers but back in the day I stopped ordering it because I could eat my entire McMeal and the coffee would still be too hot to drink when I got done.
Their coffee was insanely hot, and I get very warm under the collar when people make light of that lawsuit over a seriously injured elderly woman with third degree who spent eight days in the hospital.
There aren't two sides to that story. There's the truth, and then there's the myth the pro-corporate right has manufactured and which Rush Limbaugh and friends have repeated too many times to count.
I've been making my living as a business writer since 1988. Over the years I've noticed that those who make money writing are rarely the best writers, just the best at selling themselves and getting paid.
I have more respect for the "give it away and pray" crowd than I do for the slicksters whose business skills give them an edge over better writers. Much more respect.
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What a farce
I was running a resume service and, for conversion purposes, tried to install WordStar and WordPerfect on my computer numerous times. You could not launch those problems if MS Word was open. Period.
For this alone Microsoft's corporate charter should have been pulled, yet all these years later they're still beating up their victim in court.
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Re: Iran
Iran is an immature theocracy now, just like Israel. Iran, however, has centuries of history in their corner that indicates they will not attack their neighbors (Iraq attacked Iran with Reagan's blessings, remember?)
Iran needs to be watched, but the Iranian people will slowly bring sanity back to that nation despite it having some crackpot leaders.
I'm much more concerned about Israel, a nation that keeps moving right, and whose political parties are becoming increasingly hostile to African workers, gays and pretty much everyone who isn't Jewish.
You can call it a tie, but Iran doesn't influence the USA. Israel does.
I'm keeping my eye on Israel if you don't mind.
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I'm not disappointed in Israel
I would hate to have to vote for Ron Paul to achieve saner U.S. foreign policy, but I cannot think of one major candidate in the last twenty years who hasn't crapped on the U.S. Constitution in their haste to embrace Israel's thuggish world view.
Yes, many Jews died in WWII death camps, but how many Muslims have to die from IDF attacks before Israel calls it even?
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The rules in Thailand are very well understood
But that doesn't make you right when you call the Thai people stupid for sticking with a monarchy. Thailand is the only Asian nation to have gone several centuries without being occupied by a foreign power. Thailand serves some of the best food in the world, and is the breadbasket of Asia. Thailand is not a stinking cesspool of filth and genocide like Cambodia, and is considerably more free than Burma, Cambodia or Laos, its closest neighbors.
Yes, maybe it sounds silly to have laws protecting a monarch, but when's the last time you heard of a Thai college student being fined $675,000 for illegal downloading? Also, no one ever goes to prison for getting or providing an abortion in Thailand.
Thailand's not a perfect country, but at this point in time it would behoove most Americans to STFU about other countries and their practices, most of which pale into insignificance when compared to our Wall Street driven mores.
On the post: Magician Dinged For Copyright Infringement For Doing The Same Trick
Re: Um...
I'd like to learn more about this decision. Is the actual illusion being protected, or the act? Both acts used a butler. That seems to have been an easily changeable part of the act.
Not the best news article, imho.
On the post: Modern Art: $5 Million Worth Of Unauthorized Downloads On A Hard Drive On Display
Re: Contents of the PDF file.
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Tried to sign up
I HATE SITES THAT TAKE YOUR DATA THEN TELL YOU TO GO AWAY.
Sorry, they may be the best thing since sliced toast but all I know is that they tricked me into giving them all my Facebook permissions and I got zippo back.
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I used to write resumes
Sales taxes are horribly regressive, and compound the enormous wealth inequity in this country. Bezos is right. (This time.)
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On the post: How Does Guinness Figure Out The World's Most Prolific Blogger?
Re: Guinness is full of it on several counts
Mike Masnick is one of the more prolific bloggers I read, but he still can't touch Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly, or Digby at Hullabaloo, or, frankly, any of several dozen very prolific political bloggers I read, and I'm sure there are some mommy bloggers who put these people to shame.
But the real question here is do you value quality or quantity? Who's the better author, Isaac Asimov or Thomas Pynchon? Barbara Cartland or Isabel Allende? Zane Grey or Ernest Hemingway?
Mike does a nice job of putting out a lot of quality product. Would acknowledgement from Guinness make him a better blogger? I don't think so.
On the post: How Does Guinness Figure Out The World's Most Prolific Blogger?
Guinness is full of it on several counts
Guinness also fails to recognize originality. Yes, you have to be creative to make news items speak to larger issues like Mike does, but what about those who create wholly original posts each day? Doesn't originality count for more than putting a spin on someone else's news story?
How do you rate photobloggers or videobloggers?
On the post: Washington DC Football Team Who Shall Remain Nameless Won't Let Blogs Use Name Without Permission
Their name was always obscenely racist
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I've worked with TSA agents
TSA agents behave like asses because they report to asses who were hired by asses. That restaurant has every right to refuse service to the people who've made air travel intolerable.
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Re: It's all political
Sherrod doesn't need to sue, she has to sue and she has to do so as publicly as possible.
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Re: Re: So Sherrod should just roll over and take it?
Well informed people didn't take Hitler seriously either. And before you invoke Godwin's Law, remember that Godwin created it because liberals were scoring too many points by comparing Bush-Cheney policies to the 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism. They flunked that test, so they agreed on a rule to never talk about fascism again.
Theirs is a closed universe, and you can't dismiss their lies so lightly because they don't acknowledge your arguments.
On the post: If The Whole World Knows A False Statement Was Made About You... Why Still Sue For Defamation?
So Sherrod should just roll over and take it?
Breitbart didn't attack Sherrod to be mean. He attacked her because his JOB is to attack liberals, especially minorities. The defamation was calculated and meant to injure the entire African American community. Sherrod was just the vehicle for a much greater slander.
The major media was very slow to pick up on this libel, and they failed utterly to look beyond this one case. For the most part they did not walk this back to the ACORN tapes, which were every bit as fraudulent as the Sherrod video. And now Lila Rose, James O'Keefe's ACORN partner, is falsely accusing Planned Parenthood of breaking the law with more edited tapes.
It's vitally important that someone with legal standing take these serial slanderers to court. Please search for Breitbart at Media Matters to learn more about his anti-liberal, anti-minorities jihad.
On the post: Forget Hot Coffee, Now Disney Is Sued For Severe Burns From Nacho Cheese
That coffee was obscenely hot
Their coffee was insanely hot, and I get very warm under the collar when people make light of that lawsuit over a seriously injured elderly woman with third degree who spent eight days in the hospital.
There aren't two sides to that story. There's the truth, and then there's the myth the pro-corporate right has manufactured and which Rush Limbaugh and friends have repeated too many times to count.
On the post: Author Joe Konrath Experiments With 'Piracy' To See How It Impacts Sales
Give it away and pray
I have more respect for the "give it away and pray" crowd than I do for the slicksters whose business skills give them an edge over better writers. Much more respect.
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Konrath's not kidding
Didn't know he was behind it, but I did wonder if the whiskey folks paid him to create that character.
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Maybe it's time for corporations to grow up
Because you're right, no one wants to read about Cogswell cogs or Spacely sprockets.
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