I was looking at the newest plans, and from my layman perspective they are guilty of tying. Right now they are forcing you to buy a handset to get a discount on cell service, that , to me, is highly illegal tying. (Verizon Edge, specifically)
IM working with an 8x8 grid of these RGB LEDs right now on my desk from adafruit. That thing is a huge mess. First of all i would have used sewable pixels, not some box strapped to my back. I dont want to knock his work, maybe he designed it a while ago, but it seems unnecessarily bulky.
EVERY CITIZEN has the right to expose illegal behavior, has nothing to do with being a contractor. As citizens we have the ABSOLUTE right to report crimes, even if those in power dont like it. Snowden is a citizen of the Republic and as such it is his DUTY to bring crimes to light.
Im am not interested in making the NSA happy, i am interested in making them obey the LAW as written in the Constitution. There is no compromise to be made, either the NSA stops all domestic spying, or we execute them as traitors.
This is a big reason why i dont go out and seek these works that i missed when i was young. I finally read Stranger in a Strange Land a few years ago and the biggest word that comes to mind when i think about it is 'quaint'.
TNG has some utterly fantastic moral explorations you shouldn't just dismiss. The Drumhead (TNG), In the Pale Moonlight(DS9), The Measure of a Man (TNG) are all brilliant.
The point is there should have been LEGAL pressure to give them pause. They fact that you hand waive it away as 'they had to' is telling. The only price they paid was customer backlash, there should have been severe legal repercussions. If Ford disabled my functions on my car to protect their service center profits there would be hell to pay
The problem is, under any sane law, Sony did not have the authority to remove Other OS or force a decision on games or OtherOS. It was NOT a no-brainer, just that no one with money could be bothered to challenge them on it, so they did it with impunity. In my opinion, all PS3 sales should have been legally suspended until a proper remediation was in place.
First of all there is no 'victim' here. Two consenting adults took pictures and then later one of them changed their mind about it. That doesn't make her a victim of anything other than poor judgement.
I thought about that a lot but at the end of the day my actual total cost is around~ $.21 per KWH. It doesnt matter how that is divided between fees and actual power. My usage doesn't vary enough to make a distinction between them.
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I was looking at the newest plans, and from my layman perspective they are guilty of tying. Right now they are forcing you to buy a handset to get a discount on cell service, that , to me, is highly illegal tying. (Verizon Edge, specifically)
People doing things that ONLY benefit themselves is not a workable definition of Capitalism.
IM working with an 8x8 grid of these RGB LEDs right now on my desk from adafruit. That thing is a huge mess. First of all i would have used sewable pixels, not some box strapped to my back. I dont want to knock his work, maybe he designed it a while ago, but it seems unnecessarily bulky.
IM not because it forces people to confront the edge-case uses of this tech. Better now than later.
Which is why i feel trademark law needs serious review. Culture is being locked behind trademarks.
These are times when i wish I had a lot of money jsut so i could break this asshole in court.
The solution is to force copyright into more of a FRAND system. We need to remove the ability for copyright to have absolute control over venue.
It all comes down to insane copyright. We could do amazing things with culture if copyright was outlawed.
Thats the part that bothers me the most....
Sony is going the exact opposite way, they jsut added an option to disable HDCP on the PS4 just for streaming/capture.
Take it up with your sovereign.
EVERY CITIZEN has the right to expose illegal behavior, has nothing to do with being a contractor. As citizens we have the ABSOLUTE right to report crimes, even if those in power dont like it. Snowden is a citizen of the Republic and as such it is his DUTY to bring crimes to light.
Im am not interested in making the NSA happy, i am interested in making them obey the LAW as written in the Constitution. There is no compromise to be made, either the NSA stops all domestic spying, or we execute them as traitors.
We are NOT a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic with democratically elected representatives.
Netflix has all of these.
"Neuromancer is now horribly dated"
This is a big reason why i dont go out and seek these works that i missed when i was young. I finally read Stranger in a Strange Land a few years ago and the biggest word that comes to mind when i think about it is 'quaint'.
TNG has some utterly fantastic moral explorations you shouldn't just dismiss. The Drumhead (TNG), In the Pale Moonlight(DS9), The Measure of a Man (TNG) are all brilliant.
The point is there should have been LEGAL pressure to give them pause. They fact that you hand waive it away as 'they had to' is telling. The only price they paid was customer backlash, there should have been severe legal repercussions. If Ford disabled my functions on my car to protect their service center profits there would be hell to pay
The problem is, under any sane law, Sony did not have the authority to remove Other OS or force a decision on games or OtherOS. It was NOT a no-brainer, just that no one with money could be bothered to challenge them on it, so they did it with impunity. In my opinion, all PS3 sales should have been legally suspended until a proper remediation was in place.
The NSA isnt WATCHING, they are RECORDING and STORING for later use. Its a very different game.
Send it to a REAL photo house like http://www.whcc.com/
The only places that will be little bitches about this stuff are the ones that primarily service everyday consumers.
First of all there is no 'victim' here. Two consenting adults took pictures and then later one of them changed their mind about it. That doesn't make her a victim of anything other than poor judgement.
I thought about that a lot but at the end of the day my actual total cost is around~ $.21 per KWH. It doesnt matter how that is divided between fees and actual power. My usage doesn't vary enough to make a distinction between them.
"But I don't care what Consumer Reports says - they just have some people on staff who hate Jeeps. "
I am obliged to point out that you have anecdotes, CR has DATA.
I pay $.21 per KW/H in CA. ($140 elec bill divided by 660 KWH of usage = ~$.21)