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Um, they already did.

Just thought I'd link to a tutorial on having fallbacks http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-have-your-cupcake-and-eat-it-too.html I don't think adding permissions not in v1.5 are an issue. Android 1.5 would just ignore them while newer versions with support for them would properly utilize them.

They could also deeply engrave rocks and stone tablets and for really important messages mountains and other large surfaces.

Worked pretty well for the ancients.

As with this crystal disk, the problem is in the decoding.

Sure, I could write native applications for every device listed under the supported devices section, but why is it smart to do that when I can write a single codebase that I can package for multiple devices?

Here's what you don't realize: You don't need a giant library or framework to do that. If you know what you're doing (and it doesn't take much knowledge or skill) you can deploy your mobile app across various platforms and devices from a single codebase -- without any platform or device specific code save what's necessary for packaging. You can effortlessly deploy from the same code base to BlackBerry, Android, and iOS -- no framework needed.

Now, if you want to use something like PhoneGap to make it easier to use features like accelerometers, gps, etc., that's much more reasonable. There's an actual benefit to libraries that offer specific functionality (three.js, for example). You'll find, however, that things like jQuery mobile *will* kill your performance.

being from there i bet half the people working on this came to work drunk and/or hung over most days

Then being from there you know how Russians drink and stay sober.

I'd read an article long ago about Russians and their drinking habits, this is what I've found on a quick search.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Russians are renowned for drinking a lot of vodka staying sober.
That’s not something to do with biological inheritance but with the way we drink.
Russians believe that foreigners don’t know how to drink. They don’t eat while drinking. They mix cocktails. They sip vodka instead of taking shots. They drink vodka with highly carbonated sodas. In short, they do everything to get drunk from the minimum amount of alcohol. May be it has something to do with innate Western avidity or expensiveness of alcohol.
Russians, on the other hand, do everything to stay sober while drinking as much alcohol as possible. How do we do it? We try to neutralize alcohol as long as possible. I try to outline the basic principles of vodka drinking for uninitiated.

http://konstantin2005.blogspot.com/2005/09/how-to-drink-vodka-and-stay-sober.html

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans2/ST127_vsDormammu.JPG

* :)

We're talking "actual footage" up there, as it happened per my quote in my last post!

In any event: I hope that my 'p.s.' got thru to the right people from my last response! Hope they realize the twisted things potential what they've got has, and in the long term too, for anyone (even themselves).

(That's what my speaking earlier was really all about - this other stuff is analogous in a way though too - It's just me recalling a tale of a creature with unlimited power, & what HE was like is all - personally (evil as hell)).

So, in keeping with the comics here, lol, well?

Even Loki the prince of evil/mischief even said of anyone or anything with unlimited power(s): Absolute Power, Corrupting Absolutely & enough? Is NEVER enough, essentially -> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2_Jua1OfDz8/ULJS0DHvLmI/AAAAAAAAH9s/8DrC8-p2AM0/s1600/av116_8.jpg

For you Trek freaks? Think Lt. Gary Mitchell... same thing in essence. It's got a way of getting to any man's head, and morals become annoyances and are dispensed with. That can't end good for anyone.

"God. If all this makes a God. Or, is it making you something else?"

Childish?

Maybe, but not really, in using comics etc.: It's just to illustrate a point. Music & MegaDeth's "Symphony of Destruction"'s 1st verse pretty much says the same also for those of you out there that are musically inclined. "You take a mortal man, & put him in control..."

APK

P.S.=> Can't believe I found that 1st image - I read that over 40 yrs. ago now as a 7 ir 8 yr. old boy (unbelievable what you can find online) ... apk

I think this little guy resembles the Firefox logo.

Don't you just want to hug him?

You do realize that Iran blames Israel for everything it can, from earthquakes to the Sandy Hook massacre. Really, an Iranian claim that Israel did something bears no weight.

You also fail to mention that (at least some) of the scientists were also political activists, which Iran has a history of murdering and blaming Israel.

That's the Obama logo. Really. There is no doubt about it. And used like this, as part of a positive word, it is not some cynical or sarcastic statement but an expression of support.

It's easy to use the logo negatively. Here are some nice examples:

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Logo_MickeyMouse.gif

http://i1.cpcache.com/product/563346833/anti_obama_logo_stickers_car_magnet_20_x_12.jpg?color=White&height=960&width=960&quality=100

http://rlv.zcache.com/obama_logo_lol_bumper_stickers-r97e12aee351b473b816cc69f9c229272_v9wht_8byvr_512.jpg

http://www.moonbattery.com/Obama-666-Logo.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bGtgc__mPxQ/USMla_G2tFI/AAAAAAABSZk/WIfzercMvKM/s320/Obama's+Israel+visit+logo.PNG

http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Logo_Mafia.gif

http://www.therightplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obama-logo-bendover.png

Well put! It seemed that every paper written in those days cited Licklider's man-machine symbiosis. He had a vision and the skill to get funds to support that vision (including my dissertation). I met him once and we also had a mutual friend and I can also add that, in spite of a regal sounding name, he was, like Doug Engelbart, friendly and modest.

These folks knew each other -- Engelbart claimed Bush's "As We May Think" as a major inspiration and Bush, Weiner and Licklider were colleagues at MIT. They were also familiar with other time sharing and interactive computing projects at the time and members of that community -- especially Engelbart and Licklider. As you said -- they are links in a chain, but strong links.

They had something else in common -- a sense that their careers were to be in service of humanity, not merely for self agrandisement.

For an overview of the connection between Bush-Licklider-Engelbart, including links to As We May Think and Man-Machine Symbiosis paper, see this teaching module: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/10/web-history-and-internet-culture.html.

http://caramemperbaikilaptop-mati.blogspot.com/2013/05/cara-memperbaiki-laptop-mati-total.html

Speaking of the President of the ACLU, here's an article that basically just quotes the ACLU's founder's book Liberty Under the Soviets (1927)

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/06/civil-liberties-and-single-reactionary.html

Talks like the President of the ACLU appears to mean cheerleading for gulags-for-kulaks Stalinist communism. Obama isn't that bad.

I think this nicely illustrates the situation.

http://pfenergycenter.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-flywheel-plant-energizes-pennsylvania.html/

Yep, it's often a problem. :D And I'm only partially defending it, but it does have a place (and like any tool, should not be used in other places where it doesn't belong.) Also, IANA investment banker, but I've seen them work on this stuff a bit.

But it's how a huge amount of financial business gets done. Think of it as a powerful multidimensional calculator - an engineer would not resort to a program written by IT every time they want to work out the forces acting on a girder - in fact a former coworker used to use a spreadsheet to compute the voltages and currents in electronic circuits (I assume he still does). Spreadsheets are just visual programming tools - a set of mostly-canned programs that you can plug values into, and combine together - and can be used, and abused.

Modeling is primarily about trying things to see what you get, and then trying other things to confirm from another angle. Often you don't know what the angles are until you are doing it.

See Excel Shortcuts: A Modeling Must

And this from "Things investment bankers love":

If this list were in any type of order, Microsoft Excel would probably be at the top. This brainchild of Bill Gates allows investment bankers to do things our parents could have only imagined. This program allows us to value companies using all types of inputs, assumptions and formulas. Back in the old days, bankers had to do this on pen and paper, and most valuations were just like Ebay auctions with bidders using their gut to value the company. And if you decided you wanted to change one little number in the 1,000 rows of data? Well, basically you were screwed. But with handy Excel, once you have the setup in place you can make small changes and everything flows through. It’s simply amazing. Microsoft Excel allows me to do anything my bosses’ hearts desire. Want to see an accretion/dilution analysis by 9am tomorrow morning? No problem. Excel and I will get to work! It truly is amazing to think how things used to be done.

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I've said it before, and I'll said it again: Fedora's GNOME has really lost me. I've been a longtime Fedora user, and I still like the distro, but I'm giving GNOME a pass in Fedora 19 and going back to Xfce.

Fedora 19 includes GNOME 3.8 as the graphical desktop, and I've previously noted that GNOME 3 has poor usability. The GNOME developers have continued this poor usability trend in GNOME 3, which fails to meet two of the four themes of successful usability: Consistency and Menus. Where are the menus? There is no "File" menu that allows me to do operations on files. There is no "Help" menu that I can use when I get stuck. The updated file manager (Nautilus) doesn't have a menu, but other programs in GNOME 3 do (Gedit has menus, and is part of GNOME). Also: when you maximize a Nautilus window, either to the full screen or to half of the screen, the title bar disappears. I don't understand why. The programs do not act consistently.

I will give a positive comment that the updated GNOME file manager now makes it easier to connect to a remote server. This used to be an obvious action under the "File" menu, but in GNOME 3 it is an action directly inside the navigation area. So that's a step in the right direction.

The updated GNOME desktop environment seems to avoid familiar "desktop" conventions, tending towards a "tablet-like" interface. This further removes the obviousness of the new desktop, and it's familiarity.

So it's not really that "Fedora has lost me," but the GNOME desktop. I consider Xfce to have much better usability than GNOME. While I haven't done a formal usability study of Xfce, my heuristic usability evaluation is that Xfce meets all four of the key themes: Familiarity, Consistency, Menus, and Obviousness. The menus are there, and everything is consistent. The default Xfce uses a theme that is familiar to most users, and actions are obvious. Sure, a few areas still need some polish (like the Applications menu, and some icons) but Xfce already seems better than GNOME.

Additionally, if you are technically capable, you can dramatically modify the appearance of Xfce to make it look and act according to your preferences. At home, I've modified my Xfce desktop to something similar to Google's Chromebook (see example and instructions). It works really well and I find it is even easier to use than the default Xfce desktop.

I've said it before, and I'll said it again: Fedora's GNOME has really lost me. I've been a longtime Fedora user, and I still like the distro, but I'm giving GNOME a pass in Fedora 19 and going back to Xfce.

Fedora 19 includes GNOME 3.8 as the graphical desktop, and I've previously noted that GNOME 3 has poor usability. The GNOME developers have continued this poor usability trend in GNOME 3, which fails to meet two of the four themes of successful usability: Consistency and Menus. Where are the menus? There is no "File" menu that allows me to do operations on files. There is no "Help" menu that I can use when I get stuck. The updated file manager (Nautilus) doesn't have a menu, but other programs in GNOME 3 do (Gedit has menus, and is part of GNOME). Also: when you maximize a Nautilus window, either to the full screen or to half of the screen, the title bar disappears. I don't understand why. The programs do not act consistently.

I will give a positive comment that the updated GNOME file manager now makes it easier to connect to a remote server. This used to be an obvious action under the "File" menu, but in GNOME 3 it is an action directly inside the navigation area. So that's a step in the right direction.

The updated GNOME desktop environment seems to avoid familiar "desktop" conventions, tending towards a "tablet-like" interface. This further removes the obviousness of the new desktop, and it's familiarity.

So it's not really that "Fedora has lost me," but the GNOME desktop. I consider Xfce to have much better usability than GNOME. While I haven't done a formal usability study of Xfce, my heuristic usability evaluation is that Xfce meets all four of the key themes: Familiarity, Consistency, Menus, and Obviousness. The menus are there, and everything is consistent. The default Xfce uses a theme that is familiar to most users, and actions are obvious. Sure, a few areas still need some polish (like the Applications menu, and some icons) but Xfce already seems better than GNOME.

Additionally, if you are technically capable, you can dramatically modify the appearance of Xfce to make it look and act according to your preferences. At home, I've modified my Xfce desktop to something similar to Google's Chromebook (see example and instructions). It works really well and I find it is even easier to use than the default Xfce desktop.

I've said it before, and I'll said it again: Fedora's GNOME has really lost me. I've been a longtime Fedora user, and I still like the distro, but I'm giving GNOME a pass in Fedora 19 and going back to Xfce.

Fedora 19 includes GNOME 3.8 as the graphical desktop, and I've previously noted that GNOME 3 has poor usability. The GNOME developers have continued this poor usability trend in GNOME 3, which fails to meet two of the four themes of successful usability: Consistency and Menus. Where are the menus? There is no "File" menu that allows me to do operations on files. There is no "Help" menu that I can use when I get stuck. The updated file manager (Nautilus) doesn't have a menu, but other programs in GNOME 3 do (Gedit has menus, and is part of GNOME). Also: when you maximize a Nautilus window, either to the full screen or to half of the screen, the title bar disappears. I don't understand why. The programs do not act consistently.

I will give a positive comment that the updated GNOME file manager now makes it easier to connect to a remote server. This used to be an obvious action under the "File" menu, but in GNOME 3 it is an action directly inside the navigation area. So that's a step in the right direction.

The updated GNOME desktop environment seems to avoid familiar "desktop" conventions, tending towards a "tablet-like" interface. This further removes the obviousness of the new desktop, and it's familiarity.

So it's not really that "Fedora has lost me," but the GNOME desktop. I consider Xfce to have much better usability than GNOME. While I haven't done a formal usability study of Xfce, my heuristic usability evaluation is that Xfce meets all four of the key themes: Familiarity, Consistency, Menus, and Obviousness. The menus are there, and everything is consistent. The default Xfce uses a theme that is familiar to most users, and actions are obvious. Sure, a few areas still need some polish (like the Applications menu, and some icons) but Xfce already seems better than GNOME.

Additionally, if you are technically capable, you can dramatically modify the appearance of Xfce to make it look and act according to your preferences. At home, I've modified my Xfce desktop to something similar to Google's Chromebook (see example and instructions). It works really well and I find it is even easier to use than the default Xfce desktop.

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

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Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

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Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ihWR6dN46Y8/UdItSYEFi5I/AAAAAAABNQY/UqcOGv9rtJE/s600/130701-obama-egypt-010.jpg

Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywpwtf0tt0c/UdItUBg6c1I/AAAAAAABNQ8/Xpn0SP8FSDw/s600/130701-obama-egypt-050.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qkeWcCGDZ0Y/UdItUdTkHOI/AAAAAAABNRA/XkM3Gy0ZIUM/s600/130701-obama-egypt-054.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ihWR6dN46Y8/UdItSYEFi5I/AAAAAAABNQY/UqcOGv9rtJE/s600/130701-obama-egypt-010.jpg

Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywpwtf0tt0c/UdItUBg6c1I/AAAAAAABNQ8/Xpn0SP8FSDw/s600/130701-obama-egypt-050.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qkeWcCGDZ0Y/UdItUdTkHOI/AAAAAAABNRA/XkM3Gy0ZIUM/s600/130701-obama-egypt-054.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ihWR6dN46Y8/UdItSYEFi5I/AAAAAAABNQY/UqcOGv9rtJE/s600/130701-obama-egypt-010.jpg

Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywpwtf0tt0c/UdItUBg6c1I/AAAAAAABNQ8/Xpn0SP8FSDw/s600/130701-obama-egypt-050.jpg

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ihWR6dN46Y8/UdItSYEFi5I/AAAAAAABNQY/UqcOGv9rtJE/s600/130701-obama-egypt-010.jpg

Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ihWR6dN46Y8/UdItSYEFi5I/AAAAAAABNQY/UqcOGv9rtJE/s600/130701-obama-egypt-010.jpg

Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

how would we know about the real street-level protests going in Egypt?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SVY5QZCucwc/UdItScyuYbI/AAAAAAABNQM/hCnuET7xM8Y/s600/130701-obama-egypt-003.jpg

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ihWR6dN46Y8/UdItSYEFi5I/AAAAAAABNQY/UqcOGv9rtJE/s600/130701-obama-egypt-010.jpg

Courtesy of this site below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom

Once again let us give thanks to the Kennedy Administration (and their appointment of JCR Licklider to the Pentagon) for the Internet!

He's a moron. He doesn't understand the business AT ALL. Plus, he's obnoxious as hell.

Because the last board member that tried to fire him ended up tied to a chair dead like this.

Not according to my button plugin of choice's author. He indicates it is a change in the API that will make his plugin inoperable.

According to the author's bug report, it's just an API change that he will need to update the extension to use. I don't see anything about the facility to turn off javascript being removed.

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Now this furore is a little silly.

Hey! Word to the wise: about:config I doubt the feature is actually removed...

I assume that this is a UI change and that Mozilla is removing a button, that caused a greater cost to support, than justify with benefit.

Really, the advanced web user, who is judicious about enabling script, can opt for a plugin, if they want a button.

Not according to my button plugin of choice's author. He indicates it is a change in the API that will make his plugin inoperable.

Google et al. said something, IIRC, like 'we do not collect and pass on any info to the NSA'. Technically true, but also completely irrelevant to whether or not the NSA was actually collecting data.

They didn't mention the NSA: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html That post is unequivocal, and is in direct contradiction to statements by the post like:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court does not review any individual collection request.

and

The FBI uses government equipment on private company property to retrieve matching information from a participating company

Which directly contradicts a statement here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/google-uses-secure-ftp-to-feds/ Unfortunately, all such statements in the Post's article aren't on the slides; they are the Post's annotations on the slides, and the author doesn't provide any evidence to support them. Take from that what you will.

Have you missed the Washington Post PRISM 2 leaks just released?: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inner-workings-of-a-top-secret-spy-program/282/

It proves what Google and Facebook said all along.

When Google Microsoft and Facebook deny they gave *direct* access to the NSA, they were telling the truth. They gave direct access to the *FBI* who gave direct access to the NSA! See! Not a lie!

That's not what Google said. Google said "First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data centers."

Note that the statement was not limited to NSA spying.

That WP graphic you linked isn't inconsistent with Google's statements, though. The graphic implies, but does not state, that the data for the "tasking" is automatically extracted and returned to the FBI without any involvement by the company. If instead you assume that the tasking merely results in the delivery of a properly-formatted request to the company, then it fits. Google's statement does say that Google provides data to the company after its legal team reviews the request, and the Google Transparency report shows that Google does provide at least some data for 70% of requests. If we assume the legal staff reviews requests, pushing back on overly broad or otherwise inappropriate requests, then directs the collection of the data and sends it to the FBI, that process would match what's described, with the key addition of a human review process.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, though I don't know anything about any of this stuff. I do, however, have pretty good reason to believe that Google is being truthful, mostly because Google's statements fit the company's culture and approach, and the theories about direct access or backdoors do not, and because I think this kind of program would be very hard to hide from Googlers... and I think the aforementioned culture would make it impossible to suppress if it were discovered.)

They also have an abandoned/destroyed village from the area around Fukushima.

Now they just need to get Ukraine to let them drive the Street View car through Pripyat...

http://alkyproject.blogspot.com/

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/DirectX-10-for-Windows-XP.shtml

http://www.afreecodec.com/windows/top-windows-software/directx-10-for-windows-xp-404947.html

you can run crysis in dx10 mode in xp with it

i run win7 though so dont need it

Umm no. Transaction costs are quite low these days. All that computerization you know.

If it weren't that way HFT would not be useful. Large brokerages aren't sinking money into that just for fun.

Even for Joe Mainstreet stock purchase transactions can be ridiculously inexpensive. Fees in the single digit dollar levels and no carrying charges for 6 figure transactions. i.e. less than 0.001%.

Add in the fact that since 1901 stocks have appreciated an average of 9% per year compounded. It is a pretty compelling game that returns many billions per year to individuals and institutions like pension funds.

http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2009/03/average-annual-stock-market-return.html

What's idiotic about those comparisons?

Everything. Again, see the link.

They all involve redefining marriage to include the unnatural, some more extreme than others.

More unnatural than getting it on with your son? A table condiment? "Marrying" the girl you just raped who's land you've invaded? Knocking up your sister-in-law because your brother died before they had kids? With your 700 wives and 300 concubines?

but I wouldn't call it idiotic -- the argument has merit

The argument is asinine. None of the problems of polygamy - see again the lost boys - have anything to do with what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. Polygamy inherently devalues women and prevents poor men from having families of their own. And homosexuals wont be free to engage in polygamy either, so WYFP again?

Or are you trying to claim permanent homosexual coupling is not unnatural? Nature certainly disagrees

Oh, it certainly does - with you. Long term homosexual relationships have been observed in everything from penguins to flamingos.

This is the same bigotry that banned inter-racial marriage. Same bigoted BS, different pile.

Though it's been quite stellar for years, ever since the DoubleClick acquisition, Google's DNA has become more spammy [1]. Not that Bing is any saint [2], and Microsoft has it's sordid history with not showing "linux" search results (before Bing days).

This kind of intervention from big bad government might do something to keep the search engines from devolving into glorified billboards.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-blurring-the-lines-between-ads-and-search-results-2012-4
[2] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

Personally creating 5-6 million jobs out of nearly thin air is a cool thing, no matter how you look at it.

I with I could do that.

Teach me, master! ;)

Well... i would say that the US could get rid of 95% of all it's military spending and still be safe... (Less messing with other countries will result in less countries messing with the US)

http://www.sdvfp.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/proposed-dicretionary-fy2013-np.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCDyiFUv9XU/SaBMQn6uJ3I/AAAAAAAACJo/9Xbwyashm-U/s1600/chart_world_military.png

Check those to pie charts...... Does those look sane to you?? 57% of all government spending is for the military... 44.3% of the whole world's spending on millitary is just the US alone!.. China has 7.3%... Europe is around 23% (Including Russia!!!)......
Europe has about double the population than the US but spending about half the amount on the military.... and all the countries have their own with all the overhead that will generate....

And with those in mind... The military spending in the US is $1–$1.4 trillion per year... The debt the US has is about 17 Trillion and counting...

The thing i fear is that the US economy will crash, maybe by external influence, taking a large part of the world with it...

He's talking BS.
Martin Graesslin, the KWin maintainer, began to prepare KWin for Wayland before Mir was even announced. So he designed the transition path to support two and only two back ends. See https://plus.google.com/115606635748721265446/posts/136nV4uojKH for details (public post, no need for a G+ account).

Graesslin also made it repeatedly clear that he won't support single-distro solutions. That means no support for MS Windows in KWin, OSX' Quartz, or Android's SurfaceFlinger. Somehow nobody ever had a problem with that decision. Only after Canonocal announced Mir Ubuntu fanboys began to whine.

There are no technological benefits for Mir over Wayland. Canonical made false claims as outlined on http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxODA but they've since redacted the statements. Wayland even works with Android drivers: http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html

The reasons for Mir are not technological, they are purely economical. Canonical wants to establish asymmetric licensing to have an economic advantage over the competition: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html
Wayland OTOH is under MIT/X11 license for everybody. This means that not only can any Linux vendor grab it and to anything with it, incl. to make an Android version that uses Wayland: http://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2012/09/wayland-on-android-upgrade-to-404-and.html
Mir's licensing makes it forever impossible to become part of any major BSD variant. Wayland, however, is being ported to FreeBSD: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwMzE

Wayland is being pushed by industry giants such as Intel and Red Hat, as well as smaller companies like Collabora (creators of many technologies commonly used on GNU-based Linux such as Telepathy, WebKit-GTK, etc.: https://www.collabora.com/projects/ ).
Mir is just backed by Canonical who, while claiming to be the most popular Linux distributor, still makes no money: http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/canonical-ubuntu-linux-is-still-not-profitable.html

Thank you for proving the point about "not having a clue".

4.1% of the U.S. population is not "so few". And I know some of these people first-hand (they're in my freaking family). They'd rather sit in their trailer and collect money from the government than work. They think I'm stupid because I bust my ass working when they can sit in their trailer and watch TV all day for the rest of their lives. And they've been doing it for the largest part of their lives (much more than "a very short time")!

Heck, we have nearly 20% of Americans on food stamps! And OWS answer? Let's stomp on those that are actually providing jobs and giving these people the opportunity to find meaningful employment and self-reliance! Oddly enough, I've only ever been hired to work by some "evil rich person" or "evil rich corporation". If it wasn't for these "evil rich", there'd be no jobs!

BTW... Want to get rid of the tax loopholes? Simplify the tax code! Something like the FairTax would be a great start. We don't need the monstrosity of a tax code that is full of loopholes!

I know it feels good to chant the rhetoric of OWS, but it is time to stop trying to drag down those that are actually creating jobs and employing people and start trying to pull everyone else up so that they can have those same successes. We shouldn't try to make the rich become poor, we should try to make the poor become rich! Penalizing the successful doesn't do anything more than stifle opportunities that the poor can use to crawl out of the assistance trap and create their own success stories.

Unfortunately, your right - and it looks set to get worse there: Corruption Checklist - New Zealand .

OP says "what browser should I use" I automatically add "for the Facebooks".

Here's the low-down:

1. If you install any software, it can identify your machine uniquely. This goes for apps, doubly.
2. If you use an ISP without TOR or other proxy, your ISP knows exactly what sites you're going to.
3. Even if you use obfuscation techniques (TOR, other proxy), the exit node knows where you're going. TOR is designed to prevent the exit node from knowing where you entered from, but this fails if you send unencrypted identifying data across the wire.
4. Additionally, using TOR obfuscates your country of origin, thereby giving NSA the freedom to retain your activity indefinitely.
5. If you authenticate anywhere, you've provided that party (and the NSA) with a unique ID for yourself.
6. If you authenticate and also provide actual information about yourself, a link to your physical self can be made. Remember, there's an 87% chance that your DOB, ZIP, and Gender are a unique combination. And if it isn't unique, you probably only share these with one or two other people.

That's just off the top of my head. The software you use to disclose the information isn't the problem - you are.

Is that true? (Something to think about.) Even if what you say is true, that says nothing about these specific individuals. Unless you prove that someone is right in this specific case, I'd hold off on the accusations. To me, the individuals matter more than the statistics to begin with, so I'll refrain from calling her a liar, and I'll refrain from calling him a rapist.

What disturbs me here is the knee-jerk suggestion that she invented the story for some unspecified reason. Statistically, only a very small number of rape accusations turn out to be fabricated.

You have been lied to, or are just bullshitting. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and call you a fool.

Eugene Kanin study: 41% false rape figure in a metropolitan community; Follow up study finds 50% of rape allegations in college to be false, of the false charges 53% of the women admitted to filing false claims as an alibi. HTML, PDF

What I find disgusting is the fools like you who believe things without searching out any evidence to substantiate a claim. It's not a "knee jerk" reaction to disbelieve an unsubstantiated claim; It's common sense based on the natural state of a scientific mind, and past corroborating empirical evidence.

ABSTRACT: Empirical evidence does not support the widespread belief that women are extremely unlikely to make false accusations of male sexual misconduct. Rather the research on accusations of rape, sexual harassment, incest, and child sexual abuse indicates that false accusations have become a serious problem. The motivations involved in making a false report are widely varied and include confusion, outside influence from therapists and others, habitual lying, advantages in custody disputes, financial gain, and the political ideology of radical feminism.

Maybe these studies are wrong? You say there are statistics, show they aren't fabrications: Where's your study? Who told you those stats in the first place?

You are online, you have no privacy. Act accordingly and deal with it!

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