And don't forget Cyrket.

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I listened to him on every Sunday,
The Funny Five and music skits,
But now that his show is all finished,
I can't help but feeling like
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen!

Thanks Dr. D!

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Consider the show "Way of the Master". Ask a person if they ever lied? They're a liar. Ask if they've ever stolen? They're a thief. Ask if they've ever lusted after another? They're an adulterer.

How's this for a response?

I see. Well, Kirk, have you ever lost anything? What does that make you? A loser? Okay, why should I listen to a loser?

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What else would it be?

According to some German, aliens.

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PS is "Cosmci Ra" related to Mumm-Ra? Or She-Ra for that matter?

I am wondering though, is net neutrality going to end up a victim of partisan politics? The FCC under Obama says "Net Neutrality good" so the GOP leadership says "Net Neutrality bad" for no reason other than taking the opposite side of Obama...

Ya think?

Warning: These links contain dangerously high levels of Glenn Beck.

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Looks like someone watched this week's Frontline...

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...that it's only running on the iPhone 2G as of now, but TFA adds, "It should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will take more work."

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The WePad thinks it can compete with the iPad with hardware features but will run Linux... which is a server or desktop OS. Apple didn't use their desktop version of Mac OS X on the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPad for a good reason: portable, touch devices need customized interfaces otherwise it just sucks.

The WePad will use a "Linux-based" OS, namely Android, which has an interface perfect for a tablet.

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I see this all the time in Bittorrent discussions, but there seems to be a double standard once the GPL comes into play. How can something be stolen if I still have a copy? Also, I wasn't going to develop the code anyways, so you didn't lose anything. And non-GPL distribution will actually _help_ the official version by making more people aware of it.

Double-standard? What are you talking about? The GPL is not a piracy license; it depends on copyright law.

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The question is-- does the "Nexuiz engine code" contain contributions made by people other than those who have sold the rights to Illfonic? If not, great. It's just a simple case of someone relicensing their code.

However, if the "Nexuiz engine code" contains GPL'd contributions from outside sources- say, random people on the Internet who added features or bugfixes and contributed them back to the mainline code- well, those people still own the copyrights on those contributions. Binaries compiled with their code may not be publicly distributed without accompanying source, in accordance with the GPL.

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Why can't we talk about 1940s Germany without bringing up the Jews?

I knew sooner or later someone would invoke Niwdog.

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Arthur Andersen (the Accounting Firm) spawned Andersen Consulting nearly 20 years before the Enron mess.

You're right. I confused the parent ("Arthur Anderson") with its spinoff ("Anderson Consulting"). Whoop-de-doo. I conflated the virtually identical names of two closely-tied business units, both of whom worked with Enron during the period of accounting crimes leading to scandal and subsequent implosion (source).

Andersen Consulting was completely separate

Arthur Anderson's consulting division did not even split until 1989- only twelve years (not 20) before the DISCOVERY of Enron's crimes, and existed in partnership with Arthur Anderson (the accounting firm), not becoming fully-independent companies until after arbitration involving the Chamber of Commerce which concluded in August, 2000. (source) So they weren't "completely separate" during the period when the mess was occuring at all.

and had changed their name years previous to that mess as well..

Wrong again. The name change to "Accenture" occurred in January 2001 while ENRON was committing crimes. Again, the name change was January 2001. ENRON did not go bankrupt until late 2001. So yeah, they managed to change their names months, not years, before the mess was publicly discovered, but not before it happened.

. but don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.

A "rant"?! Please. For crying out loud, I was making a point about companies rebranding to names that start with the letter "A".

Grow up.

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Still, it's nice of these broken companies to move themselves to the end of the phone book.

They don't all do that though.

Andersen Consulting. Fucked up ENRON. Moved up slightly in the alphabet to Accenture.

A much-maligned tobacco company became Altria.

ValuJet. Rebranded as AirTran.

GMAC banking just rebranded itself as Ally Bank.

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