But how can the freedom to choose not include the freedom for people to choose an Apple style 'walled garden'?
Some "freedoms" which involve the sacrifice of a particular freedom are not permitted. For example, you are not allowed to sell yourself into slavery. Whether you think that walled gardens are heinous enough to merit such disapproval or not is a personal thing. Many persons considered slavery to be quite acceptable - for others.
Further, if you don't buy any Apple products, how can you be effected by Apple?
In much the same way as properly paid workers are affected by a slave labor force. Some occupations are thus priced out of the market, as they can't compete with subsistence-level workers (there would be openings in other occupations, such as slave driver). Becoming locked into a walled garden is generally a one-way trip, so the walled garden tends to expand to the detriment of the open market. You appear to think that this is harmless; it is not, largely due to the degree of control and squelching of competition that occurs in Apple's walled garden.
At least Buddhism teaches real things, real values and there's no imaginary persons, as Buddha himself has actually lived. And he said to think and evaluate things with your own brains, instead of following some stupid book.
But history also is replete with episodes of Buddhist polities fighting and invading one another and inflicting the usual horrors of war on entire populations. Consider the many internal wars and mutual invasions of Burma and Thailand, for example, both being Buddhist for many centuries.
Religion, of any form, is a tool for control of populations by their rulers. Any attempts to demonstrate the falsehood of the local religion will be fiercely resisted - and likely punished by the authorities as much as by the credulous zealots. It has always been thus.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." - Ira Cardiff (he attributed the statement to Lucretius).
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." - Edward Gibbon (possibly loosely translating from a work of Seneca the Younger).
And Scandium is not really a rare earth. It's the first transition metal (3d valence orbitals) with atomic number 21. Rare earths don't begin until Lanthanum (4f valence orbitals) with atomic number 57.
Scandium does have uses, but these have been small in part due to the limited availability of the metal. Is is questionable whether those uses will increase markedly in the near future, just because the supply of Scandium has increased.
The amount of information in the summary and TFA could have fit in a tweet.
They probably tweeted it also (perhaps more than once). And likely started Facebook and MySpace pages for the deposit.
Gotta raise that hype every way you can. There's no material product, but the investors want to dump shares^W^W advertise this amazing economic opportunity to others...
They all have glowing reviews* on the back cover. Sorting the wheat from the chaff is now impossible.
(*) Machine-generated?
Not quite, but I've heard from several writers that the other writers quoted on the cover never read their book.
And the ones marked "Advance praise for $Title" are particularly worthless. They were probably written and invoiced before the book itself was even half complete. They may even have less relevance to the actual book than the glowing reviews of those who did not read it after it was written.
Never underestimate monkeys! And don't forget that Shakespeare was trying to emulate a monkey himself. But despite a few good approximations (mostly the Sonnets, but also Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, etc.), he generally failed miserably.
If an authority's intention is to falsely convict someone by planting material on a piece of equipment that they will seize, disassemble and connect to their own equipment during the course of that conviction, why on earth bother planting it remotely?
Because the raid, seizure, arrest, and indictment will be made by a completely different organization - the regular local police and local public prosecutor.
For the police and prosecutor to do their job effectively, they must fully believe in the validity of the evidence they have seized and the chain of custody of that evidence must be impeccable. They will emphatically believe in the culpability of the arrested criminal (sorry, "alleged" criminal until the court inevitably pronounces its verdict of guilt) on the basis of this incontestable evidence. They will be utterly in the dark about any surveillance/incrimination operation, and will vilify the accused with confidence, proud to be protecting their community from such evil malefactors.
Actually, it is illegal to wear a mask in a demonstration in New York. That's why you're seeing so many of the protestors wearing the masks on the back of their heads instead of covering their faces.
So wear a Hilary Clinton mask, and tell the cops it's required by your religion. You are, after all, a worshipper of the Wicked Witch of the West, aren't you?
I'm sure we're all surprised that it's opening security holes for third parties, and violates a related court verdict
This must be some new meaning for the word "all" that I have not come across before. Because it implies that "all" means a vanishingly small fraction of the population.
Time to stock up on those nice silicone masks that make you look like Ronald Reagan or Frankenstein or Lady Gaga or a Witch. It's not yet illegal to wear them in public, once you're otherwise law abiding. Best not to wear the Karl Marx or Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler masks, however, because some dumb-dumb might just start shooting.
The old saying is always true "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Well, for the Green Party they skipped the 3rd step.
Or they just fired a shot in that third step. Recall that this particular struggle is a very long way from the good guys winning. Sadly, the victories have so far been almost all on the side of darkness/evil/persecution, with extensions of terms to absurd extremes, proliferation of DRM, and legalized oppression requiring nothing more than a flimsy accusation.
In related news, it has been found easier to determine from a person's actions, body language, and speech patterns that they will indulge only in perfectly legitimate fully approved activities. The new Pre-Legitmate behavior detector will eliminate these persons from the list of pre-criminals and likely pre-criminals. Everyone else will be forcibly rounded up for processing and confinement, with no more than the necessary amount of brutality and humiliation. The Pre-Crime division is apparently undeterred by the fact that more than 90% of the population must be thus interned...
And one must wonder about the level of Microsoft "support" for Skype on non-Windows platforms. What does that mean, exactly? It could be that new features/versions are released on Windows, and only appear on other platforms after lengthy delays - perhaps just before the next version appears on Windows. More pessimistically, it could mean that there would be few or no new versions or features on many platforms; just fixes for the most egregious bugs in their current version.
Wouldn't Vaseline or Crisco be more appropriate?
Imagine the headlines: Westboro thugs brutally buggered by impassioned Apple fans. SF police stand idly by, thinking it's just a wild party they weren't invited to.
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And these guys are giving the other 0.0001% a bad reputation.
Go jerk off somewhere else; preferably using powdered glass as a lube.
They had movie titles like "The Firm", "The Executioner" and before you know it, they will have "The Mall, The Movie", coming to a theatre near you.
And the theater will be in a mall...
But how can the freedom to choose not include the freedom for people to choose an Apple style 'walled garden'?
Some "freedoms" which involve the sacrifice of a particular freedom are not permitted. For example, you are not allowed to sell yourself into slavery. Whether you think that walled gardens are heinous enough to merit such disapproval or not is a personal thing. Many persons considered slavery to be quite acceptable - for others.
Further, if you don't buy any Apple products, how can you be effected by Apple?
In much the same way as properly paid workers are affected by a slave labor force. Some occupations are thus priced out of the market, as they can't compete with subsistence-level workers (there would be openings in other occupations, such as slave driver). Becoming locked into a walled garden is generally a one-way trip, so the walled garden tends to expand to the detriment of the open market. You appear to think that this is harmless; it is not, largely due to the degree of control and squelching of competition that occurs in Apple's walled garden.
true atheists leave it be
Indeed. Actually, even the believers should leave it be.
Just for the record: Jobs is still dead, and it's been more than 3 days...
At least Buddhism teaches real things, real values and there's no imaginary persons, as Buddha himself has actually lived. And he said to think and evaluate things with your own brains, instead of following some stupid book.
But history also is replete with episodes of Buddhist polities fighting and invading one another and inflicting the usual horrors of war on entire populations. Consider the many internal wars and mutual invasions of Burma and Thailand, for example, both being Buddhist for many centuries.
Religion, of any form, is a tool for control of populations by their rulers. Any attempts to demonstrate the falsehood of the local religion will be fiercely resisted - and likely punished by the authorities as much as by the credulous zealots. It has always been thus.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." - Ira Cardiff (he attributed the statement to Lucretius).
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." - Edward Gibbon (possibly loosely translating from a work of Seneca the Younger).
And Scandium is not really a rare earth. It's the first transition metal (3d valence orbitals) with atomic number 21. Rare earths don't begin until Lanthanum (4f valence orbitals) with atomic number 57.
Scandium does have uses, but these have been small in part due to the limited availability of the metal. Is is questionable whether those uses will increase markedly in the near future, just because the supply of Scandium has increased.
The amount of information in the summary and TFA could have fit in a tweet.
They probably tweeted it also (perhaps more than once). And likely started Facebook and MySpace pages for the deposit.
Gotta raise that hype every way you can. There's no material product, but the investors want to dump shares^W^W advertise this amazing economic opportunity to others...
Let me guess - you work as a web programmer for Facebook?
Actually, in Ubuntu that should be "sudo su" as the first command...
They all have glowing reviews* on the back cover. Sorting the wheat from the chaff is now impossible.
(*) Machine-generated?
Not quite, but I've heard from several writers that the other writers quoted on the cover never read their book.
And the ones marked "Advance praise for $Title" are particularly worthless. They were probably written and invoiced before the book itself was even half complete. They may even have less relevance to the actual book than the glowing reviews of those who did not read it after it was written.
Don't underestimate monkeys writing Shakespeare
Never underestimate monkeys! And don't forget that Shakespeare was trying to emulate a monkey himself. But despite a few good approximations (mostly the Sonnets, but also Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, etc.), he generally failed miserably.
If an authority's intention is to falsely convict someone by planting material on a piece of equipment that they will seize, disassemble and connect to their own equipment during the course of that conviction, why on earth bother planting it remotely?
Because the raid, seizure, arrest, and indictment will be made by a completely different organization - the regular local police and local public prosecutor.
For the police and prosecutor to do their job effectively, they must fully believe in the validity of the evidence they have seized and the chain of custody of that evidence must be impeccable. They will emphatically believe in the culpability of the arrested criminal (sorry, "alleged" criminal until the court inevitably pronounces its verdict of guilt) on the basis of this incontestable evidence. They will be utterly in the dark about any surveillance/incrimination operation, and will vilify the accused with confidence, proud to be protecting their community from such evil malefactors.
Actually, it is illegal to wear a mask in a demonstration in New York. That's why you're seeing so many of the protestors wearing the masks on the back of their heads instead of covering their faces.
So wear a Hilary Clinton mask, and tell the cops it's required by your religion. You are, after all, a worshipper of the Wicked Witch of the West, aren't you?
I'm sure we're all surprised that it's opening security holes for third parties, and violates a related court verdict
This must be some new meaning for the word "all" that I have not come across before. Because it implies that "all" means a vanishingly small fraction of the population.
All hail those whose ancestors followed the example of Wally's ancestors.
Time to stock up on those nice silicone masks that make you look like Ronald Reagan or Frankenstein or Lady Gaga or a Witch. It's not yet illegal to wear them in public, once you're otherwise law abiding. Best not to wear the Karl Marx or Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler masks, however, because some dumb-dumb might just start shooting.
The old saying is always true "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Well, for the Green Party they skipped the 3rd step.
Or they just fired a shot in that third step. Recall that this particular struggle is a very long way from the good guys winning. Sadly, the victories have so far been almost all on the side of darkness/evil/persecution, with extensions of terms to absurd extremes, proliferation of DRM, and legalized oppression requiring nothing more than a flimsy accusation.
In related news, it has been found easier to determine from a person's actions, body language, and speech patterns that they will indulge only in perfectly legitimate fully approved activities. The new Pre-Legitmate behavior detector will eliminate these persons from the list of pre-criminals and likely pre-criminals. Everyone else will be forcibly rounded up for processing and confinement, with no more than the necessary amount of brutality and humiliation. The Pre-Crime division is apparently undeterred by the fact that more than 90% of the population must be thus interned...
And one must wonder about the level of Microsoft "support" for Skype on non-Windows platforms. What does that mean, exactly? It could be that new features/versions are released on Windows, and only appear on other platforms after lengthy delays - perhaps just before the next version appears on Windows. More pessimistically, it could mean that there would be few or no new versions or features on many platforms; just fixes for the most egregious bugs in their current version.
Son, that horse has done left the barn....you all blew it big time!
Thank you for that mental image of several studio executives sequentially blowing a horse. When will the movie version be released?
I'm readying the pitchforks right now.
Wouldn't Vaseline or Crisco be more appropriate?
Imagine the headlines: Westboro thugs brutally buggered by impassioned Apple fans. SF police stand idly by, thinking it's just a wild party they weren't invited to.
Oh Great Spaghetti Monster.
Smite the infidels! Turn their iPhones into Nokia phones running Symbian!
Too merciful. Let them lug Motorola DynaTAC phones with the "fast" charger and a bunch of spare batteries.
So what. It's his life, and he can live it as he chooses.
Nobody can blame him for wanting to escape the incipient idiocracy of facebook/twitter/etc.
Salient point is that, fully updated and patched installs let 70% of the infections through.
What are you, some kind of Microsoft basher? Fully updated and patched installs accounted for barely 68.7% of infections, not 70%...