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I've DESTROYED YOU before, & SO BADLY you don't DARE expose YOUR registered 'lusername' to me ...

Bring it on, spammer boi.You can't touch me, and we already know that the reverse is not at all true.

Lol, true! Alternatively: Nerd jobs, so it's "Competition is a three edged sword". :) https://memegenerator.net/img/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Or there's "On one hand competition is good, on the other hand it can be bad, but on the gripping hand ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The GPL forbids additional restrictions on the recipient, but allows the copyright holder to grant additional permissions. A common example is dual-licensing.

It's sort of a non-issue, because as a matter of practical business risk, the threshold to get sued over GPL non-compliance is pretty clear (too damn high IMHO), and anyone who tried to sue over the sort of brief and already-corrected noncompliance this exception covers would be universally condemned.

This 'story' needs the GIF of Captain Picard going, "Oh, no, not this crap AGAIN".

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First all these companies were "lets make the world better"

Now it is https://memegenerator.net/img/...

and use the force.

Is it bad that I immediately thought of this?

Ms Rambo is probably sick of that joke...

Waht do you mean? The CEO is a QA.

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Obligitory meme

A 58% failure rate? In one quarter...that's three months? Or is it that the article is as of Q2 2016...in which case I'd want to know the overall period covered, and the definition of "failure." If it's a 3-year period and replacing the phone with an upgrade is classifying it as having "failed," then I could see how this rate would be possible...but out of purely anecdotal insight from the fact that nearly everyone I know (and everyone I work with) has an iPhone, I don't see how this can be right.

But what's REALLY odd is that 58% is an average of the various IOS devices, right? So how is it possible for the overall rate to be 58% if the device with the highest rate of failure only had a rate of 29%? How do you average 29 with any combination of lower numbers to get 58?

Straight from the website from which you can download the actual report (linked in the TFA):

Out of the 58 percent of iOS devices that failed, iPhone 6 had the highest failure rate (29 percent), followed by iPhone 6S (23 percent) and iPhone 6S Plus (14 percent).

When I try to solve for 58% using those numbers, Excel just gives me the Skeptical African Kid Meme.

Take Ted Cruz, for example. He attacks the other candidates - rarely - but he does it using their own words and their own record. He doesn't insult them or threaten lawsuits. Bernie Sanders also does not stoop to this level and has, on several occasions, even risen to defend his political opponents against attacks.

I would like to counter this with another quote:

...Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

Looks like others understand this as well.

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Encryption is an inherently criminal activity: the only people who would ever think to engage in it are obviously nefarious cretins w/ something to hide.

Therefore, anyone who refuses to immediately give up their password/passphrase to Deputy Fife or Mall Cop Paul should automatically be sentenced to 20 years minimal time at hard labor.

Note that these evil terrorists also assert the following additional abominable outrages:
1. Right to exercise free religion, free speech, free press, free open assembly, and protests against government
2. Right to keep and bear arms and form militias
3. Right to reject occupying forces
...among maybe a few others.

It's high time we pass a bill to outlaw all these assaults on theology and geometry!

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Right is right and left is wrong.

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Gentlemen, which brings me to my next point ...

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And how does he know what Steve Jobs was expecting?

Easy. He summoned Jobs using a Ouija Board.

Still stuck on last year's meme? I hear that you can get help for that now.

Well OK, instead of "victim blaming" you could call it "telling someone that the only way to reduce a risk to zero is to not take the risk at all".

You're still misunderstanding what people are saying. I can't figure out is whether you are pretending to misunderstand, or you actually don't understand.

People are saying (specifically I am saying), "if you take a risk, don't be surprised if something bad happens."

Relevant.

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I'm sorry, you lost me at "peanut butter".

Needs it's own Bad News Brian meme. Here you go.

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I'd pretty much guessed that was probably the case, but I just felt like taking the piss. In fact ultranova has pretty much hit the nail on the head.

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Well, when I go to https://imgflip.com/memegenera..., there are three font choices: Impact, Arial , and Comic Sans. At http://memegenerator.net/ it looks like Impact is the only option. Being the default choice at these sites, I suspect Impact gets used the most by far. I think I have never seen Comic Sans used.

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Yeah, these off-topic NSA references sure don't get tiring. Keep 'em coming. We all admire your fresh and on-topic humour. I'm sure somewhere around here Fouad is laughing at your cleverness.

Look, I was in my teens when I saw it in the theater, and I was not a fan or defender of Heinlein's (still have not read any of his books).

I still thought the movie sucked.

I got that it was satire, in fact I thought it was trying too hard to be satire. There was no subtlety and none of it was clever or funny. Nor did it lampoon the military in ways that actually challenged militarism or war on an intellectual level, it just made fun of the surface aspects of it (hurrr grunts are dumb, look at this parody of propaganda, etc). It felt like the director was just trying to bash his views onto the viewer without any introspection or intellect. Basically my reaction.

You know your movie sucks when a teenage boy thinks it lacks subtlety and intellect.

But didn't you hear about this exciting new news that just came out?

OK here's a pic. Here is where they show a sample of a "time hole".

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15? Pfft.

Get some sound advice

Not sure if serious...

In government by Kickstarter, money would truly equal political power (and Kickstarter would be the world's largest megacorp from all those transaction fees)...doesn't sound good to me.

Ha, well, my "Not Sure if Serious" political science theory is that everything will be better if representative democracy was run like OKCupid, where you could answer a ton of questions about your positions on things, and then delegate your voting authority on the issue to the politician that has the highest % match to you in those matters.

Not sure if serious...

In government by Kickstarter, money would truly equal political power (and Kickstarter would be the world's largest megacorp from all those transaction fees)...doesn't sound good to me.

There ya go:

How Adorable...

As detailed in my last post on this topic, some responsible individual on Reddit named Thirtydegrees decided to give us a little background on what went down (I know it's long but it's worth the read for chronological context).

But wait! We can do better than that! Let's go look at /r/FindBostonBombers to see exactly what happened! Well, you can't. Oddly enough, the founder of that subreddit decided that he should just set it to private (here's a Reddit friendly vulgar meme of my request). Guess what? The founder of findbostonbombers doesn't want to be identified! Bizarre that he/she would create a subreddit devoted to identifying people and then themselves think that it's completely acceptable for their identities to be protected. Should you have a right to know who is accusing you of what? Well, you find out that you have done something wrong ... time to own up to it, right? Right? No! Not in the futuristic amazing world of crowdsourcing!

Also hilarious is that they are saying the bombers have been found. Wrong. Whatever they did, they are still innocent until proven guilty! I am quite upset with everyone dropping the "alleged" word and referring to them as "the bombers" instead of "the suspects." They will get their day in court, that's how this stuff works. That's what lead to all the bad stuff that happened in /r/findbostonbombers. They went straight from "we have images that our untrained eye finds suspicious" straight to "these are the guys who killed innocent people, help us identify them and harass their families."

We live in an era of digital lynch mobs.

If anonymous speech didn't exist, this wouldn't have happened. The problem is anonymous speech.

As detailed in my last post on this topic, some responsible individual on Reddit named Thirtydegrees decided to give us a little background on what went down (I know it's long but it's worth the read for chronological context).

But wait! We can do better than that! Let's go look at /r/FindBostonBombers to see exactly what happened! Well, you can't. Oddly enough, the founder of that subreddit decided that he should just set it to private (here's a Reddit friendly vulgar meme of my request). Guess what? The founder of findbostonbombers doesn't want to be identified! Bizarre that he/she would create a subreddit devoted to identifying people and then themselves think that it's completely acceptable for their identities to be protected. Should you have a right to know who is accusing you of what? Well, you find out that you have done something wrong ... time to own up to it, right? Right? No! Not in the futuristic amazing world of crowdsourcing!

Also hilarious is that they are saying the bombers have been found. Wrong. Whatever they did, they are still innocent until proven guilty! I am quite upset with everyone dropping the "alleged" word and referring to them as "the bombers" instead of "the suspects." They will get their day in court, that's how this stuff works. That's what lead to all the bad stuff that happened in /r/findbostonbombers. They went straight from "we have images that our untrained eye finds suspicious" straight to "these are the guys who killed innocent people, help us identify them and harass their families."

We live in an era of digital lynch mobs.

I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first

The politicians are already doing that. CEOs are also Americans, isn't it so? Some of the profit is donated to politicians; that's how the feedback loop is operating.

Or perhaps you meant some other Americans, like those peons in IT? How much do they donate to Congressmen?

This political system is the best the money can buy. If you don't like its results then perhaps the system ought to be replaced with something else. It would be otherwise foolish to expect a different result.

From the POV of many CEOs, american workers are overpaid, underexploited, and too pampered with benefits. Foreign workforce - who often comes from countries that we do not associate with widespread wealth - is willing to work on terms of pseudo-slavery. The american worker might just as well curl up and die, he is not needed anymore, aside from a handful of highly educated workers. The american worker cannot even be a customer because he has no job and no income to pay for things. In this aspect a rice farmer in China is a better customer, he has an honest income and can buy a gizmo once in a while. The words "customer" and "employed" are synonyms.

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Soon every country will have a monkey in space.

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apk, I'm TROLLING you!!!

I would much prefer to see a program about debunking pseudoscientific claims than celebrating them, but about the only one I know of is Mythbusters.

Also, my immediate thought after reading your post.

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[Get called fat lazy and stupid by other countries; beat them at the olympics and land on Mars]

Yes because a few exceptional individuals definitely erases all those tens of millions of lardasses. Sure. Right. Hey, you're quite the statistician!

Have you SEEN the obesity stats? Did you bother to look them up with a 2-sec google search before writing a comment? Of course not! You're a fat intellectually lazy American.

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[Get called fat lazy and stupid by other countries; beat them at the olympics and land on Mars]

Thank you for your sobering analysis. I recall that there was quite a bit of controversy regarding the inclusion of GMOs within the meaning of the term, "organic". I guess they got that through.

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