Did you not read TFS? Apple is adding AirPlay and Personal Hot Spot! (Not that they need to really add personal hotspot, every apple fanboi would get a personal hotspot if apple released a line of napkins).
Look, it doesn't matter how crappy the actual hardware is, it's from Apple. Apple will make it shiny.
In the interests of full disclosure, I have no idea what AirPlay or Personal HotSpot are, nor do I care, but I will hazard a guess they are old technology for everyone else...
The corrupt politician at least gets you a path to better government.
Bullshit. A corrupt politician gives you a path to one of a few corrupt politicians. All the while people are slowly manipulated into supporting fascism despite sacrifices made by their forebears to wipe it out. Eventually what you have is a police state disguised as the home of the brave and land of the free. As the GP said, at least a dictatorship is obvious.
For most of the 20th century, US military action was focused on keeping Europe free, keeping the USSR from taking over the world, and clearning up some of the messes that European colonialism caused. Sorry, I don't see anything "criminal about that.
After the two world wars, in both cases the US entered from a position of originally not wanting to get involved in foreign conflicts, the US went to Vietnam, the debarkle that was Iran/Iraq, Central America, Libya, Iraq again twice. Oh and Isreal.
In the case of the second Iraq war, it was so obviously a case that, had it occurred on a scale of individual citizens, would be called armed robbery. We know the claims of WMDs were invented, we know the people in the administration who hatched the plan had interests in arms companies who profited from US taxpayers and oil companies who profited from the stolen oil fields. I'm not saying Saddam Hussien was a good man, I just think the evil fuckwit puppeteers of Bush are worse. Certainly responsible for far more innocent deaths in the name of a buck. This is why they don't like Wikileaks. It continues to erode bullshit cover stories for crimes against humanity.
And that statement is based on... what? The US has much lower debt (per capita, %GDP), higher per capita GDP, and faster growth than Europe. And without US importing like it does, European economies would collapse and Chinese growth would stagnate.
At the moment, yes Chinese growth would stagnate, but not for much longer. The middle class is growing. If they were to insist on balancing trade, the US would be bankrupt. Does your assessment of debt include balance of trade figures?
I too have spent some time in Europe and worked extensively with Americans and Europeans and I find the opposite regarding ignorance and bigotry, but then for someone who sucks up the propaganda it might be hard to objectively determine what is ignorance...
I'm a bit over this line. China traditionally has an inward looking defence strategy and does not invade unless it sees the territory it is invading as part of China (Taiwan) or as a direct threat to it's own stability (Tibet). Apart from that, they are more interested in trade. The US on the other hand has a long history of criminal activity all over the world for the sake of fleecing American taxpayers for the profit of a few large companies. Which is more dangerous?
The United States economy is only the biggest economy thanks to smoke and mirrors. What will happen when China's middle class is large enough that China doesn't need US markets? How long will the smoke and mirrors last?
And as for Americans keeping the world free... pfffft! Slavery to large corporations is not freedom, no matter how the commercial media tries to tell me that instant gratification through consumption is.
Respect for the United States worldwide has plummeted and continues to plummet, in part because of this "we keep you free" line that we see through for the bullshit it is. And yes, the US has nukes and over the next twenty or so years that thought scares me much more than the thought of China or Russia having them. The US has such an enormous population of whack jobs who believe propaganda, be it religious or political, in ignorance of objectivity or reason that I fear a bankrupt US would be the most likely to use them out of spite.
My only hope is the the Australian Government has the balls and brains to stop sucking up to the falling empire. How is it in our interests to be good friends with a country with no real economic power who has pissed off every other country in our region?
Assange is an Australian. Wikileaks is a publishing organisation. Is this grand jury also investigating any of the major news outlets publishing information from these leaks?
pffft... windows? isn't that old POS from the '90s?
You can do the same on Linux desktops, but it annoys the hell out of me... setting the time to short enough to make it useful means it gets triggered all the time, setting it so it doesn't get triggered by accident means it takes too long. No, I want a shift lock.
I miss my old model M. I know you can still get them, but I tend to use laptops these days and it just seems a bit silly to spend the extra money and carry the extra weight.
I use constants but I hate caps lock. 1st, It's really easy to bump by accident. 2nd, when I type in constants, I often use underscores in them, far more frequently than numerals.
I would like a good old mechanical shift lock. Something with a solid click to it so it's harder to accidentally engage. When I type in constants, I hold one finger on the shift key and make do with the remaining three fingers on my left hand. I find that much easier than the decidedly odd behaviour.
I quite like the idea of the US closing it's markets to Chinese imports. With the Aussie dollar and US dollar about about parity and the RMB artificially deflated, I can see a nice little earner in buying crap loads of Chinese stuff and shipping to the US for a nice little markup.
US Gov't has meddled in other people's shit for as long as I can remember
Only positive Is I know the US Gov't has fingers that stink of other peoples shit.
Why can't this secretive new world order just come out in the open and tell us what they want... y'know, like run an ad campaign or something? Try to make me happy to be an ant.
Group voting tickets are just undemocratic. Preferential voting should only go as far as the voter wants - if your vote doesn't get distributed to any of your preferences, it should be discarded.
Someone may have already said this (hey, why read all the comments if I haven't even bothered with TFA, this is/.), but I would like to see a system where you can number any number of boxes below the line that you like. If I only like three candidates, I only like three. I hate the bit every few years where I am shuffling around idiots I don't care about and evil twats I know I want out.
Perhaps if we numbered our favourite with the highest possible number and anyone not marked got a zero. or the other way round, favourite gets a '1' and any unmarked gets the highest possible number on the ballot. That would work. We need electoral reform - apart from anything to get rid of the ridiculously short time voters have to register.
So taxes go up. Either people who use more data pay more, or everyone pays more and schools and hospitals keep missing out.
The crap thing about these ideas the government is playing with is that in the end have to pay for them. I don't mind my ISP hanging on to my data usage history for ever, as long as the Attorney General pays for the capture and storage out of his own pocket. No taxes, no requirements for ISPs to pay for it.
I noticed an interesting colour in the sky from Nuernberg on Friday. I'm from Australia and it was a bit like the eerie kind of whitish orange haze I associate with distant bush fires rather than smog. The sunset was also a strange orange colour from the train to Vienna.
On the one hand I am glad they cancelled flights because I don't think it would have been safe, on the other hand the 5 hour standing room only trip to Vienna sucked. I really hope it clears - or at least is not over Vienna - when I am due to fly home.
Too right, AC! As I flew from Vienna to Nuremberg via Munich just over a week ago, I was thinking the same thing. Much smoother and more comfortable way to travel, and quick enough that shorter trips like that are still within a reasonable time frame.
My point is that zionism is an extremist ideology that gave rise to modern terrorism. there are extremist groups in all countries including that last mob to rule the white house. Israel behaves in a consistently criminal manner and just because they have the facade of being a ligitimate state and freind of the USA does not make them any less of a terrorist org, IMO.
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There was also the iSmell. I'm pretty sure it was more than just the name that led to it's failure....
What has he done that has compromised any nation's security?
Sure, he embarrassed a fascist republic, but the Fascist Republic of America embarrasses itself all the fucking time.
Did you not read TFS? Apple is adding AirPlay and Personal Hot Spot! (Not that they need to really add personal hotspot, every apple fanboi would get a personal hotspot if apple released a line of napkins).
Look, it doesn't matter how crappy the actual hardware is, it's from Apple. Apple will make it shiny.
In the interests of full disclosure, I have no idea what AirPlay or Personal HotSpot are, nor do I care, but I will hazard a guess they are old technology for everyone else...
I think he was referring to Isreal
This has nothing to do with AUP. This is entirely because the idiot was accessing a secure government system.
So far, the U.S. gov't has extradited people for this and the U.S. courts have given them custodial sentences.
Bullshit. A corrupt politician gives you a path to one of a few corrupt politicians. All the while people are slowly manipulated into supporting fascism despite sacrifices made by their forebears to wipe it out. Eventually what you have is a police state disguised as the home of the brave and land of the free. As the GP said, at least a dictatorship is obvious.
After the two world wars, in both cases the US entered from a position of originally not wanting to get involved in foreign conflicts, the US went to Vietnam, the debarkle that was Iran/Iraq, Central America, Libya, Iraq again twice. Oh and Isreal.
In the case of the second Iraq war, it was so obviously a case that, had it occurred on a scale of individual citizens, would be called armed robbery. We know the claims of WMDs were invented, we know the people in the administration who hatched the plan had interests in arms companies who profited from US taxpayers and oil companies who profited from the stolen oil fields. I'm not saying Saddam Hussien was a good man, I just think the evil fuckwit puppeteers of Bush are worse. Certainly responsible for far more innocent deaths in the name of a buck. This is why they don't like Wikileaks. It continues to erode bullshit cover stories for crimes against humanity.
At the moment, yes Chinese growth would stagnate, but not for much longer. The middle class is growing. If they were to insist on balancing trade, the US would be bankrupt. Does your assessment of debt include balance of trade figures?
I too have spent some time in Europe and worked extensively with Americans and Europeans and I find the opposite regarding ignorance and bigotry, but then for someone who sucks up the propaganda it might be hard to objectively determine what is ignorance...
I'm a bit over this line. China traditionally has an inward looking defence strategy and does not invade unless it sees the territory it is invading as part of China (Taiwan) or as a direct threat to it's own stability (Tibet). Apart from that, they are more interested in trade. The US on the other hand has a long history of criminal activity all over the world for the sake of fleecing American taxpayers for the profit of a few large companies. Which is more dangerous?
The United States economy is only the biggest economy thanks to smoke and mirrors. What will happen when China's middle class is large enough that China doesn't need US markets? How long will the smoke and mirrors last?
And as for Americans keeping the world free... pfffft! Slavery to large corporations is not freedom, no matter how the commercial media tries to tell me that instant gratification through consumption is.
Respect for the United States worldwide has plummeted and continues to plummet, in part because of this "we keep you free" line that we see through for the bullshit it is. And yes, the US has nukes and over the next twenty or so years that thought scares me much more than the thought of China or Russia having them. The US has such an enormous population of whack jobs who believe propaganda, be it religious or political, in ignorance of objectivity or reason that I fear a bankrupt US would be the most likely to use them out of spite.
My only hope is the the Australian Government has the balls and brains to stop sucking up to the falling empire. How is it in our interests to be good friends with a country with no real economic power who has pissed off every other country in our region?
Assange is an Australian. Wikileaks is a publishing organisation. Is this grand jury also investigating any of the major news outlets publishing information from these leaks?
pffft... windows? isn't that old POS from the '90s?
You can do the same on Linux desktops, but it annoys the hell out of me... setting the time to short enough to make it useful means it gets triggered all the time, setting it so it doesn't get triggered by accident means it takes too long. No, I want a shift lock.
I see a digestive track gurgling.
I must be hungry.
I miss my old model M. I know you can still get them, but I tend to use laptops these days and it just seems a bit silly to spend the extra money and carry the extra weight.
I would have to disable that. It would not help at all and would hinder my current usage of the shift key. I just want a shift lock, not a caps lock.
I use constants but I hate caps lock.
1st, It's really easy to bump by accident.
2nd, when I type in constants, I often use underscores in them, far more frequently than numerals.
I would like a good old mechanical shift lock. Something with a solid click to it so it's harder to accidentally engage.
When I type in constants, I hold one finger on the shift key and make do with the remaining three fingers on my left hand. I find that much easier than the decidedly odd behaviour.
I quite like the idea of the US closing it's markets to Chinese imports. With the Aussie dollar and US dollar about about parity and the RMB artificially deflated, I can see a nice little earner in buying crap loads of Chinese stuff and shipping to the US for a nice little markup.
Obviously the mods could care less about language nazis
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US Gov't has meddled in other people's shit for as long as I can remember
Only positive Is I know the US Gov't has fingers that stink of other peoples shit.
Why can't this secretive new world order just come out in the open and tell us what they want... y'know, like run an ad campaign or something? Try to make me happy to be an ant.
The NWO, We make slavery fun!!!
Someone may have already said this (hey, why read all the comments if I haven't even bothered with TFA, this is /.), but I would like to see a system where you can number any number of boxes below the line that you like. If I only like three candidates, I only like three. I hate the bit every few years where I am shuffling around idiots I don't care about and evil twats I know I want out.
Perhaps if we numbered our favourite with the highest possible number and anyone not marked got a zero. or the other way round, favourite gets a '1' and any unmarked gets the highest possible number on the ballot. That would work. We need electoral reform - apart from anything to get rid of the ridiculously short time voters have to register.
The way you use "like" in that sentence is suspicious.
Hey dglr6328, are you, like, Lisi dude?!?!
Priceless.
So taxes go up. Either people who use more data pay more, or everyone pays more and schools and hospitals keep missing out.
The crap thing about these ideas the government is playing with is that in the end have to pay for them. I don't mind my ISP hanging on to my data usage history for ever, as long as the Attorney General pays for the capture and storage out of his own pocket. No taxes, no requirements for ISPs to pay for it.
Yeah. L4 FTW!!!
I noticed an interesting colour in the sky from Nuernberg on Friday. I'm from Australia and it was a bit like the eerie kind of whitish orange haze I associate with distant bush fires rather than smog. The sunset was also a strange orange colour from the train to Vienna.
On the one hand I am glad they cancelled flights because I don't think it would have been safe, on the other hand the 5 hour standing room only trip to Vienna sucked. I really hope it clears - or at least is not over Vienna - when I am due to fly home.
Too right, AC! As I flew from Vienna to Nuremberg via Munich just over a week ago, I was thinking the same thing. Much smoother and more comfortable way to travel, and quick enough that shorter trips like that are still within a reasonable time frame.
My point is that zionism is an extremist ideology that gave rise to modern terrorism. there are extremist groups in all countries including that last mob to rule the white house. Israel behaves in a consistently criminal manner and just because they have the facade of being a ligitimate state and freind of the USA does not make them any less of a terrorist org, IMO.