I admit that making claims about public domain creations is certainly a new low. It would be really nice if a few of the groups were sued out of existence.
]]>Here’s another fine example of Corporate greed. I really hope Highsmith win’s her suit! Apparently, she has a strong case. 🙂
Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images
We can but hope! And these are the companies screaming about people being pirates and crooks! They must be looking in a mirror when they say it! Pot, meet kettle!
]]>Every claim made by austerians is such logical bullshit …
I think there is a problem of lead in the water of all of the major capitals of the world. How else can you explain the insane political behavior. There is no ‘safe haven’ left as the oligarchs have polluted them all…
]]>Well, our Claude sacked thousands of Government ATO, ASIC & AEC employees (among others) all the while saying that the reason why unemployment is so high is because everyone is a lazy SOB! And we still don’t know for certain who the new Government will be because of it. Still not even half of the House of Rep’s seats have been declared! It does look like the Coalition will get the nod by the fingernails (76) & ALP will get 69, so another election soonish. Then there are a couple of legal questions to be answered… so *SHRUG* F*cked if I know what is going to happen!
I truly wish I could leave tomorrow. But of course, nothing is ever simple anymore.
]]>Have you noticed that your Prime Minister looks like Claude Erskine-Browne in the Rumpole of the Bailey TV show? It has bothered me since the first time I saw a picture of Turnbull – familiar but I couldn’t place him.
]]>The job in ’94 only happened because they had changed hardware vendor from NCR/DEC to HP, where I worked at the time. They had been trying for months to fix issues & finally succeeded in completely breaking it. I was sent in 3 days before the Xmas payroll was due. The s/w company that had written the payroll s/w had no experience on HP systems and had barely contacted HP for help. The s/w company hadn’t actually done too bad a job, & the problem was a comm’s one between the data entry/retrieval terminals (PC’s running WFW 3.11) and the servers. The old system ran DEC’s TokenRing, the new was Ethernet & the company had gotten help getting the back-end working fine from HP, but were screwed because M$ wouldn’t help fix the front-end issues because they were using 3rd-party software & it wasn’t their problem! This in spite of the fact that the reason why they were using a 3rd-party network product (from FTP Software, USA) was because the M$ s/w didn’t work. The M$ solutions was the company should wait for W95 which was a magical solution to all problems, sometime in the next 12 Months!
That was actually the last straw in my complete & utter disgust with M$ & one of many reasons I despise them.
The moron who thought it would be a great idea to change hardware on a critical system without verifying that the custom s/w would work on the new system was deservedly fired, but personally, everyone up to the CTO/CFO should have been fired IMO.
]]>The individual whose job title translate to ‘the level below teaching assistant’ in academic terms, doesn’t seem to understand that ’employees not being paid’ is the definition of a broken payroll system.
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