You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Owners, employees and executive officers are jailed all the time for criminal offences that are made by the business that they signed off on or perpetrated on behalf of the business. What did you think, you could kill someone and say "oh, I was working for a business" and get off? Don't be stupid. The people who own or are employed by the business are compelled to pay into social security and the business has to match their contribution, jackass, so it actually pays a shit load more than any one employed there, maybe remember that next time you read your paycheck stub, if you're even employed. The business has to pay a shit ton more tax than the individuals employed by the business and 100% of the people in the business can be drafted into service. And I'm sure if the government could work some way to get the building or filing cabinet owned by the business to be drafted into service they'd do that too. Bottom line, a business doesn't exist without the people who make up the business. It would be like if I said "the salvation army isn't people". So I think I hit all your ignorant points. Get a clue before you comment.
I am not a business. Businesses need accountants and legal help as part of their ordinary existence, and they're artificial entities to begin with.
Businesses are people! Who the fuck do you think runs them? Automatons? Are there AI constructs that write pay checks to the workers? What makes you think that an electrician, who is usually the sole proprietor of his business, can afford to hire accountants and lawyers "as part of their ordinary existence" as you put it? Even corporations are people. People make or lose money when the group is profitable or not. There is never a non-person involved in the process. Share holders are people too. A lot of people's retirements are bound to a particular corporations stock, and when they lose money people lose money not some "artificial entity" as you so eloquently put it but real live people. And while larger businesses usually do hire accountants and lawyers, it is only to combat piss ant people like you who think that money and resources grow on trees.
When the company has to pay additional workers that perform no useful function other than to fill out fucking useless forms, it means their products and services cost more and their employees get paid less and everyone but the lawyer and/or accountant loses. Even the government loses because the business making less money will mean less tax revenue. So great fucking plan, let's make people do a bunch of useless shit because you've deemed them "artificial entities". How about this? I deem you an "artificial entity"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
Do a little reading and maybe you can show me when and where the "Palestinians" have a claim to this land. Hamas has no interest in a lasting peace, their charter calls for the total destruction of Israel. Since the entire world recognizes the U.N. establishment of Israel maybe you can grow up a little and stop living in a fantasy land. Or you can continue to promote this endless war, death and destruction. But what the fuck do you care, you're not being harmed, right? And you get to make your snarky little antisemitic remarks so long as these poor people keep getting killed. Win for you!
Furthermore, the only time such a place as Palestine existed in after the Roman's decided to try and kill off all the Jews in the area and change the name of the area to Palestine (which must be Italian for "No Jews Here"). If anyone has a claim to the area it would be the Ottoman empire, Jordan or Egypt, and since they're not making a claim to it STFU.
Perhaps you can enlighten everyone as to what a better solution would be? Because right now you just sound like a "war is not the answer" asshole. Yeah, nobody likes walls, nobody like death, war etc.. Hamas, and by extension the Palestinian people, they were democratically elected after all, will not be satisfied until all the Israelis are dead, gone, or subjugated. A choice has to be made:
1) Allow suicide bombers to kill at will.
2) Become subjects of the benevolent Palestinian people.
3) Utterly destroy the Palestinian people.
4) Create a wall.
5) ?
So what's your plan? Because they seem to have already chosen the plan most acceptable to everyone involved. (besides you of course).
So if I write a book you can copy it? If I create a game you can copy it? If I make a movie you can copy it? I don't think so. IP does exist. People can copy/steal IP. In this case, Apple has what they claim is their own original IP. But said IP has been in the public domain for too long to be their IP, so their claims are invalid. But IP certainly exists.
Republicans have been up to funny business in state legislatures across the country deliberately making it harder for people to vote......despite the fact that the only people caught recently were Republicans...
Citation needed.
Given you cite a number of articles on aggressively "conservative" web sites, I suspect that you refuse to look outside your tiny world.
Can you be specific on what seems illegitimate about the stories? They seem pretty well documented. Just because you don't like that sort of thing being reported about the party you obviously support, doesn't mean it didn't happen. So please, enlighten me.
So I'm guessing that you're objecting to the fact that apparently only Democrats are up to shenanigans today. If you can find some links that show Republicans up to shenanigans by all means post them. This is what I found. I did not ignore any links of Republicans up to funny business, I simply didn't see any. You calling me biased because you don't like me reporting what Democrats are actually doing speaks volumes of your own bias.
The death toll of 81 people has not since been equaled by a natural disaster in Canada. In addition to the casualties, over 4,000 families were left homeless.[9] The Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada estimates the total cost of Hurricane Hazel for Canada, taking into account long-term effects such as economic disruption, the cost of lost property, and recovery costs, to be C$137,552,400 (2009: $1,126,947,163)
My only point was that the article title implied that the campaigns, or members of the campaigns, where giving the information to third parties intentionally in nice CSV files. When people say "leak" in the context "campaign" that's what they think. This is a leak in the since that your sink has a leak, not that someone in the campaign is leaking information. The context makes a big difference. The use of the word is hyperbolic.
This isn't leaking in the traditional since that someone is giving databases of information to 3rd parties. The leaking going on here has to do with GET requests to their respective web sites containing identifying information in the URL. This is probably unintentional and may not even be occurring at all since a lot of the pages use SSL and the URLs are encrypted. Of course internal analytic software can (and probably does) retain the URLs, but that's hardly "leaking" information to 3rd parties. If I was using a pay-for analytics suite and found that the people I'm paying were looking at my private information (tracking data) I would be pretty pissed off and might even consider legal action.
TLDR: No "leaking" going on here. The headline does not match the content of the article.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic
Apple is anything but concerned for formal rules or book learning. Quite to the contrary, they openly flaunt their abuse of the rules. Especially considering their handling of the recent UK court decision.
The big difference is that MotoGoog is suing for hardware patents and not some worthless software UI patents that should have never existed in the first place. Hardware takes tens of millions of man hours and just as many dollars to develop over the course of many years. Software UI takes 1 guy about 1 day and doesn't even rise to the level of something that should be patented. The only reason software UI gets patents is because of very, very stupid patent clerks (where's Einstein when we need him!?). Furthermore, Apple brought this on themselves for trying to block their competition through the courts. If it was any other company I would say shame on Google. But because it's Apple I say beat them until the candy comes out.
Apropos Apples misuse of FRAND hardware started before Google acquired Motorola. Apple offered to trade its (now proven) worthless UI patents for licensing of the FRAND hardware and was turned down by Motorola, who wanted licensing fees. Of course they refused to give a dime to Motorola and used the patented hardware anyway. IMO Apple should be charged at the going rate for these FRAND patent licences but with a puinitive muliplier of *5-*10 retoroactivly for beliveing that they are above the law. Above the very law they attempted to use to squash their comitition in court. In this case, Google is "Do[ing] No Evil". It's more like The Hulk beating the shit out of Loki. Totally justified and righteous.
Let me give you a political analogy then. Imagine that Mao Zedong ran your country, and you complained that people were dying and it was a terrible government, then in response they installed Hitler. Do you get it now?
Source distantly originates from the GoldSrc engine, itself a heavily modified version of John D. Carmack's Quake engine, as is explained by Valve employee Erik Johnson on the Valve Developer Community:[37]
“ When we were getting very close to releasing Half-Life (less than a week or so), we found there were already some projects that we needed to start working on, but we couldn't risk checking in code to the shipping version of the game. At that point we forked off the code in VSS to be both/$Goldsrc and/$Src. Over the next few years, we used these terms internally as "Goldsource" and "Source". At least initially, the Goldsrc branch of code referred to the codebase that was currently released, and Src referred to the next set of more risky technology that we were working on. When it came down to show Half-Life 2 for the first time at E3, it was part of our internal communication to refer to the "Source" engine vs. the "Goldsource" engine, and the name stuck. ”
Source was developed part-by-part from this fork onwards, slowly replacing GoldSrc in Valve's internal projects[38] and explaining in part the reasons behind its unusually modular nature. Valve's development of Source since has been a mixture of licensed middleware (Havok Physics, albeit heavily modified, and MP3 playback) and in-house-developed code.
John Carmack commented on his blog in 2004 that "there are still bits of early Quake code in Half-Life 2".[39]
As a PC user, I'd like to point out that Macs are nothing but PCs running a locked down FreeBSD fork. At least I get to chose what sort of hardware and software goes into my box. You will forever be slave to whatever motherboard and OS Apple sees fit for you. Oh, wait, they don't call it a motherboard do they. It has some other weird name. But no, we of the "open market" are the strange ones.
... for your bizarre devotion to a company...
Yeah... might not want to talk about that too loudly Macboy. Why don't you take your power book back down to your local Starbucks and continue to pretend to write your little novel about how anti-corporate you are while you chat up your new hipster v-neck sweater with the barista.
The last time this happened Microsoft was accused of being a monopoly, of tying, and managed to secure 5 nice years of growth-stunting dominance with IE6.
Last time I checked, IE6 was the reason people stopped using IE. It's was never a monopoly, and it should have never been even accused of being one. I'm curious, without IEx how you would even go about getting another browser? Thank goodness it's on there or how would you ever even replace it!
With the highly glaring exception of WinRT applications, which must come from Microsoft's store.
Well, that's just false. You don't have to use the app store to install a WinRT program. So either you're ignorant or a liar. There is no third option.
You keep saying in other posts that WinRT will replace Win32. If you have some sort of citation that proves that Win32 will be phased out, I'd love to see it. But knowing it doesn't exist, please stop stating it as if it was a well known fact. Since Win32 isn't going anywhere I don't know how you get off contradicting me that Win8 isn't an open platform. It's not like game publishers are going to start using WinRT as a replacement for Win32. And even if they did, it's still an open platform.
The most important thing that this article just glosses over is the fact that Steam isn't a game API. It doesn't help run games in any way on Linux. The people responible for creating the game must make the game work in Linux. Steam is nothing but a DRMed front end launcher. I would much rather launch my games by running the game's executable and not have some TSR bloatware that acts as some sort of shortcut to the game executable.
Steam does not make games "run in Linux". Steam does not offer an API to construct games upon. Steam is just front end DRM for launching games that can be easily installed without steam. There's nothing magical about Steam that's going to make major publishers all of a sudden start supporting Linux. If dozens of actual game creators started supporting Linux, that might be a story. It seems to me that all Valve has is their tired "source" engine games, and source is nothing but a modified Quake 2 engine. Quake 2! Seriously? So I guess we can all play L4D7, TF Comicon edition and Half Life 2 on Linux, great. But if you want to play the latest ID engine, you had better ask ID what platform they're going to support, because Steam has nothing to do with it.
What the fuck are you talking about? I'm running windows 8 right now with with your piece of shit bloatware steam running constantly in the background. If that's not an open platform maybe I don't understand what an open platform is. Just because MS has a program exactly like your program, but not as intrusive, you have to go around name calling? I'm not a fan of the Win8 market program, and I'll most likely never use it, but that doesn't "close" the OS. The OS works just like every other windows OS. You can install still anything you like on it.
If that someone else has shot first, or is even waving a gun threateningly at you, then it is a defensive action.
You can't seriously be that stupid. If someone breaks into your house and is threatening you with a gun, and you shoot him, that's a gun protecting you. And there's a million other examples of a gun protecting you.
Unless you happen to be able to hit the bullet the aggressor fires at you
Or what if you happen to shoot the asshole that's shooting at you stopping the bullets from coming out of his gun. You logic is so bad it makes me wonder how you even dress yourself in the morning.
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You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Owners, employees and executive officers are jailed all the time for criminal offences that are made by the business that they signed off on or perpetrated on behalf of the business. What did you think, you could kill someone and say "oh, I was working for a business" and get off? Don't be stupid. The people who own or are employed by the business are compelled to pay into social security and the business has to match their contribution, jackass, so it actually pays a shit load more than any one employed there, maybe remember that next time you read your paycheck stub, if you're even employed. The business has to pay a shit ton more tax than the individuals employed by the business and 100% of the people in the business can be drafted into service. And I'm sure if the government could work some way to get the building or filing cabinet owned by the business to be drafted into service they'd do that too. Bottom line, a business doesn't exist without the people who make up the business. It would be like if I said "the salvation army isn't people". So I think I hit all your ignorant points. Get a clue before you comment.
Businesses are people! Who the fuck do you think runs them? Automatons? Are there AI constructs that write pay checks to the workers? What makes you think that an electrician, who is usually the sole proprietor of his business, can afford to hire accountants and lawyers "as part of their ordinary existence" as you put it? Even corporations are people. People make or lose money when the group is profitable or not. There is never a non-person involved in the process. Share holders are people too. A lot of people's retirements are bound to a particular corporations stock, and when they lose money people lose money not some "artificial entity" as you so eloquently put it but real live people. And while larger businesses usually do hire accountants and lawyers, it is only to combat piss ant people like you who think that money and resources grow on trees.
When the company has to pay additional workers that perform no useful function other than to fill out fucking useless forms, it means their products and services cost more and their employees get paid less and everyone but the lawyer and/or accountant loses. Even the government loses because the business making less money will mean less tax revenue. So great fucking plan, let's make people do a bunch of useless shit because you've deemed them "artificial entities". How about this? I deem you an "artificial entity"!
Yeah, well, that's uh, like your opinion man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
Do a little reading and maybe you can show me when and where the "Palestinians" have a claim to this land. Hamas has no interest in a lasting peace, their charter calls for the total destruction of Israel. Since the entire world recognizes the U.N. establishment of Israel maybe you can grow up a little and stop living in a fantasy land. Or you can continue to promote this endless war, death and destruction. But what the fuck do you care, you're not being harmed, right? And you get to make your snarky little antisemitic remarks so long as these poor people keep getting killed. Win for you!
Furthermore, the only time such a place as Palestine existed in after the Roman's decided to try and kill off all the Jews in the area and change the name of the area to Palestine (which must be Italian for "No Jews Here"). If anyone has a claim to the area it would be the Ottoman empire, Jordan or Egypt, and since they're not making a claim to it STFU.
Hear, hear!
Perhaps you can enlighten everyone as to what a better solution would be? Because right now you just sound like a "war is not the answer" asshole. Yeah, nobody likes walls, nobody like death, war etc.. Hamas, and by extension the Palestinian people, they were democratically elected after all, will not be satisfied until all the Israelis are dead, gone, or subjugated. A choice has to be made:
1) Allow suicide bombers to kill at will.
2) Become subjects of the benevolent Palestinian people.
3) Utterly destroy the Palestinian people.
4) Create a wall.
5) ?
So what's your plan? Because they seem to have already chosen the plan most acceptable to everyone involved. (besides you of course).
You used the word "you're" I think you're looking for the word "I'm"
So if I write a book you can copy it? If I create a game you can copy it? If I make a movie you can copy it? I don't think so. IP does exist. People can copy/steal IP. In this case, Apple has what they claim is their own original IP. But said IP has been in the public domain for too long to be their IP, so their claims are invalid. But IP certainly exists.
Citation needed.
The Google news aggregator is my tiny world?
Can you be specific on what seems illegitimate about the stories? They seem pretty well documented. Just because you don't like that sort of thing being reported about the party you obviously support, doesn't mean it didn't happen. So please, enlighten me.
So I'm guessing that you're objecting to the fact that apparently only Democrats are up to shenanigans today. If you can find some links that show Republicans up to shenanigans by all means post them. This is what I found. I did not ignore any links of Republicans up to funny business, I simply didn't see any. You calling me biased because you don't like me reporting what Democrats are actually doing speaks volumes of your own bias.
Planning on going to the polls after work today. The boss is letting us leave early to vote after I suggested he do so, so yay for me. Then Minecraft time!
Here's just a few of the stories about shenanigans today.
Philly GOP: Poll inspectors being ousted for Dems
Election Judge Wears Obama Cap While Checking in Voters in Obama's Chicago Ward
GOP - Poll watcher in Detroit threatened with gun, 911 call rejected
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean: The Only Way We Lose Is Through Fraud
Obama Poster Hanging in Florida Polling Station
GOP officials booted, Black Panthers return -- and Obama at polling site?
Hurricane Hazel
My only point was that the article title implied that the campaigns, or members of the campaigns, where giving the information to third parties intentionally in nice CSV files. When people say "leak" in the context "campaign" that's what they think. This is a leak in the since that your sink has a leak, not that someone in the campaign is leaking information. The context makes a big difference. The use of the word is hyperbolic.
This isn't leaking in the traditional since that someone is giving databases of information to 3rd parties. The leaking going on here has to do with GET requests to their respective web sites containing identifying information in the URL. This is probably unintentional and may not even be occurring at all since a lot of the pages use SSL and the URLs are encrypted. Of course internal analytic software can (and probably does) retain the URLs, but that's hardly "leaking" information to 3rd parties. If I was using a pay-for analytics suite and found that the people I'm paying were looking at my private information (tracking data) I would be pretty pissed off and might even consider legal action.
TLDR: No "leaking" going on here. The headline does not match the content of the article.
Not sure if you know what that word means.
Apple is anything but concerned for formal rules or book learning. Quite to the contrary, they openly flaunt their abuse of the rules. Especially considering their handling of the recent UK court decision.
You went full retard man. Never go full retard.
The big difference is that MotoGoog is suing for hardware patents and not some worthless software UI patents that should have never existed in the first place. Hardware takes tens of millions of man hours and just as many dollars to develop over the course of many years. Software UI takes 1 guy about 1 day and doesn't even rise to the level of something that should be patented. The only reason software UI gets patents is because of very, very stupid patent clerks (where's Einstein when we need him!?). Furthermore, Apple brought this on themselves for trying to block their competition through the courts. If it was any other company I would say shame on Google. But because it's Apple I say beat them until the candy comes out.
Apropos Apples misuse of FRAND hardware started before Google acquired Motorola. Apple offered to trade its (now proven) worthless UI patents for licensing of the FRAND hardware and was turned down by Motorola, who wanted licensing fees. Of course they refused to give a dime to Motorola and used the patented hardware anyway. IMO Apple should be charged at the going rate for these FRAND patent licences but with a puinitive muliplier of *5-*10 retoroactivly for beliveing that they are above the law. Above the very law they attempted to use to squash their comitition in court. In this case, Google is "Do[ing] No Evil". It's more like The Hulk beating the shit out of Loki. Totally justified and righteous.
Your lack of HTML skill gave me cancer, thanks.
Let me give you a political analogy then. Imagine that Mao Zedong ran your country, and you complained that people were dying and it was a terrible government, then in response they installed Hitler. Do you get it now?
Yeah... might not want to talk about that too loudly Macboy. Why don't you take your power book back down to your local Starbucks and continue to pretend to write your little novel about how anti-corporate you are while you chat up your new hipster v-neck sweater with the barista.
Last time I checked, IE6 was the reason people stopped using IE. It's was never a monopoly, and it should have never been even accused of being one. I'm curious, without IEx how you would even go about getting another browser? Thank goodness it's on there or how would you ever even replace it!
Well, that's just false. You don't have to use the app store to install a WinRT program. So either you're ignorant or a liar. There is no third option.
You keep saying in other posts that WinRT will replace Win32. If you have some sort of citation that proves that Win32 will be phased out, I'd love to see it. But knowing it doesn't exist, please stop stating it as if it was a well known fact. Since Win32 isn't going anywhere I don't know how you get off contradicting me that Win8 isn't an open platform. It's not like game publishers are going to start using WinRT as a replacement for Win32. And even if they did, it's still an open platform.
The most important thing that this article just glosses over is the fact that Steam isn't a game API. It doesn't help run games in any way on Linux. The people responible for creating the game must make the game work in Linux. Steam is nothing but a DRMed front end launcher. I would much rather launch my games by running the game's executable and not have some TSR bloatware that acts as some sort of shortcut to the game executable.
Steam does not make games "run in Linux". Steam does not offer an API to construct games upon. Steam is just front end DRM for launching games that can be easily installed without steam. There's nothing magical about Steam that's going to make major publishers all of a sudden start supporting Linux. If dozens of actual game creators started supporting Linux, that might be a story. It seems to me that all Valve has is their tired "source" engine games, and source is nothing but a modified Quake 2 engine. Quake 2! Seriously? So I guess we can all play L4D7, TF Comicon edition and Half Life 2 on Linux, great. But if you want to play the latest ID engine, you had better ask ID what platform they're going to support, because Steam has nothing to do with it.
What the fuck are you talking about? I'm running windows 8 right now with with your piece of shit bloatware steam running constantly in the background. If that's not an open platform maybe I don't understand what an open platform is. Just because MS has a program exactly like your program, but not as intrusive, you have to go around name calling? I'm not a fan of the Win8 market program, and I'll most likely never use it, but that doesn't "close" the OS. The OS works just like every other windows OS. You can install still anything you like on it.
If that someone else has shot first, or is even waving a gun threateningly at you, then it is a defensive action.
You can't seriously be that stupid. If someone breaks into your house and is threatening you with a gun, and you shoot him, that's a gun protecting you. And there's a million other examples of a gun protecting you.
Or what if you happen to shoot the asshole that's shooting at you stopping the bullets from coming out of his gun. You logic is so bad it makes me wonder how you even dress yourself in the morning.