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  • On the post: Hollywood Faces A Swarm Of New Competitors

    Bob Jonkman ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2007 @ 09:42am

    Parallel the Musician's Strike in the '40s

    The current writer's strike reminds me of the Musician's strike in the 1940's -- the orchestras of the big bands and backups for vocal stars argued with the record labels about royalties for recordings. While they were quibbling, the law of unintended consequences took effect, and small, individual bands took over where the large orchestras used to be. Rock'n'Roll was born, and no-one really listens to big band music any more.

  • On the post: ICANN Investigating Sites That Buy The Available Domain You Just Searched For

    Bob Jonkman ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2007 @ 10:10am

    Re: This has been going on for years

    I first experienced this in 1999 when I was helping a friend look for a vanity domain name. We did the search together on some Web-based whois, then he went home and tried to register, only to find the name had already been taken. Ever since, I've only searched directly from the registrar that I'm buying from, and buy immediately.

    --Bob.

  • On the post: Will Striking Transit Workers Speed Up NYC Subway Automation?

    Bob Jonkman ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2005 @ 01:29pm

    Labor disputes will shut transit down, regardless

    If there was a labor dispute in the transit system, the operation would be shut down even if the subway was running automated trains. The current shutdown is a people problem, not a technical one.

    --Commutative Bob.

  • On the post: LA Bans Use Of Master/Slave Terminology For Computing Suppliers

    Bob Jonkman ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2003 @ 09:37pm

    Re: What about Male/Female

    The plumbing industry has it even worse -- not only do they have Male and Female connectors, plumbing parts also abound with nipples and cocks. Perhaps LA County should be targeting the plumbing instead...

  • On the post: Harlan Ellison's Misguided Claims Against AOL

    Bob Jonkman ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2003 @ 11:09am

    Read Harlan Ellison's fiction anyway

    I didn't realize that Harlan Ellison was such a self-proclaimed Luddite. Still, please don't deny yourself from reading his stories -- they're really quite good. Ellison was largely responsible for turning SF from Space Opera into Literature. And yes, the Terminator does resemble one of his stories (of course, there are only five different kinds of stories anyway -- I read that on the Internet so it must be true :-)
    --Bob.