Apparently you have never heard of the US government - throwing money at pointless oil-stealing wars by the trillions in the name of 'terror'. Fuck, Minnesota just passed plans to build a new Vikings stadium for a cost of around a billion dollars. What were these 'priorities' you were talking about again?
There is no humanitarian effort that will be lost to this construction project, only corrupt kickbacks, expensive useless fluff, and an unjust 'war'.
Beyond that, attacking the forward-facing sites of the RIAA and MPAA has no impact on their business - pretty much zero. It's like spray painting a mean saying on a door to get a business to close.
When you attack an ISP's servers, it's very possible for it to translate into service delay and interruption, depending on which servers are attacked, how badly, and what their function is.
Plus, if you're not a noob, it is completely trivial to circumvent the block. TOR works fine, even at a slow long-packet-trip speed, because you only have to load the site and find the page you want via TOR. Once you have the magnet link from the site, you no longer need TPB for any other part of the transfer.
What, exactly, is so high about an average of 8% tax rate? Mine is at least three times that for personal income tax. Why do these super-rich fools deserve to pay less of that money, even though they have more?
So technically, it's the Android phone which is really popular. I suppose it doesn't hurt that there are a bazillion different staged versions of Android out there on all sorts of devices, versus ~5 versions of iOS on a very limited range of products.
Also, as MacOS is still ~27% behind Windows as the most popular OS, and only 7% above Linux OS popularity, they really aren't as ubiquitous as people make them seem. There is a lot of hype, but significantly less actual progress for the OS/equipment beyond standard-use consumers.
Unless Nokia said "We 100% guarantee a positive return on the Windows Phone investment for our part of your portfolio!" then there is no case. The effort to use Windows Phone to climb in the market is ongoing, and I highly doubt Nokia would be stupid enough to issue an actual promise for return to its investors.
You can sue anybody, for anything. It's winning on the frivolous cases that is much less common. Often, if you bring a stupid lawsuit, you end up paying for it yourself when you get laughed out of court.
In this case, as long as the documents/correspondence the investors are citing has "we hope", "data shows", or "we believe" before "Windows phone is going to save us" then the plaintiff is SOL from the start, and the lawyers filing the suit are going to be out a TON of money.
Are you implying that Linux is not equivalent to a commercial operating system?
I don't think he's implying it so much as he's stating it. Linux is not a commercial operating system. It is not like a commercial operating system. It does some of the same things, some better, some worse, some just differently, but nothing about the true, base Linux OS is commercial. It doesn't cost anything. There is no commerce involved.
This also feeds directly into the fallacy that Linux is somehow more time-consuming than Windows or Mac to setup or admin. That's just not the case. When it has been setup correctly, which takes the same amount of time as properly installing and configuring Windows or OSX, the additional maintenance is trivial - much like Apple and MS products.
It's not so much an issue of too many choices when I recommend Linux, but the fact that most of the people who come to me asking for computer help are borderline computer-illiterate and very set in their ways.
I don't know how I'm supposed to convince my mother or older relatives who can barely use a mac to use something that requires frequent use of a command line and has questionable support of their desktop's hardware. Also, when they want to use a piece of software they know well, they are SOL on Linux. My mother, a NYT bestselling author, is not going to give up MS Word for OpenOffice. Learning entirely new suites of software to go with the system is just too much work for too little gain. It's just not going to happen.
Even with a super-stable build like Debian I have to fiddle for quite a while to make it work with all of my tower's components. And I'm a CS major with over 15 years of Linux experience. I have tried the *buntu distros, and they are fine for normal desktop use. They don't seem to be any more user-friendly when it comes to detecting and working with my hardware, though.
NatGeo is all Locked Up Abroad and Taboo and stuff like that now. Very little of it is science-content-oriented.
H2 is just like History, but with their less-popular, less-intelligent shows. OMG! A Biggest Loser marathon!
Green might as well be Trading Spaces 22/7 with a couple hours of infomercials, and Bio is almost all courtroom drama and COPS or reenactments of crimes.
BBC has a few awesome shows, but a majority of their network is directed at teenage to middle-aged women. It's like soap operas with 10% more interesting content. Really, the only things I bother watching are Doctor Who, Top Gear, and occasionally the Graham Norton Show(that is one hilarious homo). I watched a couple episodes of that ghost/vampire/werewolf show, but I thoroughly hated it and got bored halfway through one episode. I can't even remember the name.
I know this will be unpopular, but I actually rather like the Discovery Channel. It also doesn't hurt that when I watch the shows, they are 20% shorter and have no commercials, so that makes me happier about them (watching TV online FTW).
Mythbusters is by far one of the most fun-without-thinking shows I have seen. It explores critical thinking, which is more than I can say about pretty well any other show on television. There are always a couple times I'm shouting at the screen "You did it wrong! Your science is bad!" but more often than not I'm just entertained by how far they will go for a fan's forum question.
Shark Week is also another favorite of mine. Sure, it has become pretty binaural with "here's what to do if a shark attacks you" and "sharks won't attack you, look, I can swim with them!" but there are still a lot of cool programs about specific species of sharks interspersed. I have to say, every time I watch Shark Week I want to fly to Florida and hop in the ocean for a quick dive.
Shows that present less-well-known aspects of North American life such as Flying Wild showing the bush pilots in Alaska. Sure, there is a lot of unnecessary drama, but it still shows me an aspect of America I may never get to see. I'm not watching it to follow the characters (even if Ariel Tweto is hot...), I'm watching it to see what it's like to fly a plane in the Arctic in some of the worst weather in the world.
Anything with Michio Kaku is awesome. That guy is like the pop-scientist of our generation (sorry Bill, sorry Niel). He may be less science and more speculation, but he makes it seriously entertaining, and puts it in terms that my whole family can follow. I'd rather they watch even a dumbed-down science show than Jersey Shore or 16 and Pregnant.
I know a lot of people who love Deadliest Catch, but I personally hate the shit out of that show. Eight seasons? For fucking real? They're pulling cages full of crab out of the ocean. That is all that happens. Oh no, someone got clocked by a piece of ice. Why don't you put the cameras on a coast guard ship so at least you can see something besides dudes on a boat hanging out and hauling rope around?
Our whole society is becoming VERY dumb. The popularity of functionally-retarded-oriented shows like ____ Housewives of ______, underage pregnancy shows, moronic frat-tards running into walls and getting drunk, catty women fighting over men who don't deserve it: please, leave the Discovery Channel alone. If you need to attack a network, aim at History. Toddlers and Tiaras? Little People in a Big World? Ancient Aliens? Hunting for Sasquatch? Give me a fucking break. Shut that shit down.
The company I work for wanted a cheap, portable computer for mobile archiving. We found an i5 quad core/4GB ram/750GBhdd for about $375 at the local Best Buy, not even on sale. And that includes the processor, the monitor, and a VGA output.
There is no reason a left-handed person and a right-handed person would have better luck flanking/attacking an enemy or prey than a pair of same-handed people.
If you have ever actually propelled a canoe, you would know that which side you paddle on does not matter. All steering and control should be done from the same side of the canoe(C-stroke and J-stroke) - you shouldn't be switching the side you paddle on to steer, or using an oar like a rudder.
If you are cooperating with your tribespeople in a fight against a neighboring tribe, why would it be advantageous to have some of your people off-handed? It just breeds specialized tool needs, confusion, and non-conformity. If anything, it makes synchronization of tribe members harder.
Swinging a hammer from a different angle does not rely on the chirality of the person swinging it, nor does it involve 'opposite hands leading to greater cooperation'.
The drive-on-left rule dates back to ancient times with the first real roads. It became a custom to make passing easier in travel, which was later invoked as law by the Romans and then the Pope. The modern use stems largely from the British colonization and the crown's ruling in 1773 requiring travel on the left. It is said that this was due to the ability of a horseback rider to hold the reins with the left hand and greet or defend themselves with a sword from oncoming travelers with the right.
The drive-on-right rule is actually quite a bit newer, in that it comes from huge horse teams being driven on common roads in the US. The driver of these teams would sit on the rear-left horse, and wanted to keep right so that he could see oncoming vehicles clearly and avoid the wheels of their carriage. Personally, I think it is largely from wanting to be different from and break away from the English rules, especially given the time frame of the English ruling and the revolutionary war.
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which comes to about $50,000 for every man, woman, and child
Or a fair share of taxes paid for every multi-millionaire, billionaire, and corporation...
PFFFT! That's never going to happen. The rich just keep getting richer, and the poor just keep getting poorer.
Apparently you have never heard of the US government - throwing money at pointless oil-stealing wars by the trillions in the name of 'terror'. Fuck, Minnesota just passed plans to build a new Vikings stadium for a cost of around a billion dollars. What were these 'priorities' you were talking about again?
There is no humanitarian effort that will be lost to this construction project, only corrupt kickbacks, expensive useless fluff, and an unjust 'war'.
I love when they compare the newest version of IE to 7 full versions previous of Firefox. It always makes for such an objective comparison.
Beyond that, attacking the forward-facing sites of the RIAA and MPAA has no impact on their business - pretty much zero. It's like spray painting a mean saying on a door to get a business to close.
When you attack an ISP's servers, it's very possible for it to translate into service delay and interruption, depending on which servers are attacked, how badly, and what their function is.
Plus, if you're not a noob, it is completely trivial to circumvent the block. TOR works fine, even at a slow long-packet-trip speed, because you only have to load the site and find the page you want via TOR. Once you have the magnet link from the site, you no longer need TPB for any other part of the transfer.
What, exactly, is so high about an average of 8% tax rate? Mine is at least three times that for personal income tax. Why do these super-rich fools deserve to pay less of that money, even though they have more?
Or are we going to end up with "The Raft" from Snow Crash?
Oh boy, I hope so. I think Stephenson's is my favorite future-dystopian society.
If they have no value, they're not doing too well as companies then, eh?
Also, Google's search engine actually lets me find what I want to find. MS Bing? Hell no. Just go away.
Actually, Android recently surpassed iOS as the primary(most popular) cell phone platform(I had no idea Symbian was on top prior to this)..
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/14693_Q1_2012_Android_OS_installed_b.php
So technically, it's the Android phone which is really popular. I suppose it doesn't hurt that there are a bazillion different staged versions of Android out there on all sorts of devices, versus ~5 versions of iOS on a very limited range of products.
Also, as MacOS is still ~27% behind Windows as the most popular OS, and only 7% above Linux OS popularity, they really aren't as ubiquitous as people make them seem. There is a lot of hype, but significantly less actual progress for the OS/equipment beyond standard-use consumers.
Didn't Star Wars teach these people anything? If you strike them down, they will just return more powerful than you can imagine...
I think I'm going to sue the arcade in the mall. I wanted to play a game, but I couldn't. I had two bad quarters...
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Unless Nokia said "We 100% guarantee a positive return on the Windows Phone investment for our part of your portfolio!" then there is no case. The effort to use Windows Phone to climb in the market is ongoing, and I highly doubt Nokia would be stupid enough to issue an actual promise for return to its investors.
You can sue anybody, for anything. It's winning on the frivolous cases that is much less common. Often, if you bring a stupid lawsuit, you end up paying for it yourself when you get laughed out of court.
In this case, as long as the documents/correspondence the investors are citing has "we hope", "data shows", or "we believe" before "Windows phone is going to save us" then the plaintiff is SOL from the start, and the lawyers filing the suit are going to be out a TON of money.
I think you're confused. XP isn't outdated, it's just the only version of Windows 7 that actually works.
Are you implying that Linux is not equivalent to a commercial operating system?
I don't think he's implying it so much as he's stating it. Linux is not a commercial operating system. It is not like a commercial operating system. It does some of the same things, some better, some worse, some just differently, but nothing about the true, base Linux OS is commercial. It doesn't cost anything. There is no commerce involved.
This also feeds directly into the fallacy that Linux is somehow more time-consuming than Windows or Mac to setup or admin. That's just not the case. When it has been setup correctly, which takes the same amount of time as properly installing and configuring Windows or OSX, the additional maintenance is trivial - much like Apple and MS products.
It's not so much an issue of too many choices when I recommend Linux, but the fact that most of the people who come to me asking for computer help are borderline computer-illiterate and very set in their ways.
I don't know how I'm supposed to convince my mother or older relatives who can barely use a mac to use something that requires frequent use of a command line and has questionable support of their desktop's hardware. Also, when they want to use a piece of software they know well, they are SOL on Linux. My mother, a NYT bestselling author, is not going to give up MS Word for OpenOffice. Learning entirely new suites of software to go with the system is just too much work for too little gain. It's just not going to happen.
Even with a super-stable build like Debian I have to fiddle for quite a while to make it work with all of my tower's components. And I'm a CS major with over 15 years of Linux experience. I have tried the *buntu distros, and they are fine for normal desktop use. They don't seem to be any more user-friendly when it comes to detecting and working with my hardware, though.
Really?
NatGeo is all Locked Up Abroad and Taboo and stuff like that now. Very little of it is science-content-oriented.
H2 is just like History, but with their less-popular, less-intelligent shows. OMG! A Biggest Loser marathon!
Green might as well be Trading Spaces 22/7 with a couple hours of infomercials, and Bio is almost all courtroom drama and COPS or reenactments of crimes.
BBC has a few awesome shows, but a majority of their network is directed at teenage to middle-aged women. It's like soap operas with 10% more interesting content. Really, the only things I bother watching are Doctor Who, Top Gear, and occasionally the Graham Norton Show(that is one hilarious homo). I watched a couple episodes of that ghost/vampire/werewolf show, but I thoroughly hated it and got bored halfway through one episode. I can't even remember the name.
I know this will be unpopular, but I actually rather like the Discovery Channel. It also doesn't hurt that when I watch the shows, they are 20% shorter and have no commercials, so that makes me happier about them (watching TV online FTW).
Mythbusters is by far one of the most fun-without-thinking shows I have seen. It explores critical thinking, which is more than I can say about pretty well any other show on television. There are always a couple times I'm shouting at the screen "You did it wrong! Your science is bad!" but more often than not I'm just entertained by how far they will go for a fan's forum question.
Shark Week is also another favorite of mine. Sure, it has become pretty binaural with "here's what to do if a shark attacks you" and "sharks won't attack you, look, I can swim with them!" but there are still a lot of cool programs about specific species of sharks interspersed. I have to say, every time I watch Shark Week I want to fly to Florida and hop in the ocean for a quick dive.
Shows that present less-well-known aspects of North American life such as Flying Wild showing the bush pilots in Alaska. Sure, there is a lot of unnecessary drama, but it still shows me an aspect of America I may never get to see. I'm not watching it to follow the characters (even if Ariel Tweto is hot...), I'm watching it to see what it's like to fly a plane in the Arctic in some of the worst weather in the world.
Anything with Michio Kaku is awesome. That guy is like the pop-scientist of our generation (sorry Bill, sorry Niel). He may be less science and more speculation, but he makes it seriously entertaining, and puts it in terms that my whole family can follow. I'd rather they watch even a dumbed-down science show than Jersey Shore or 16 and Pregnant.
I know a lot of people who love Deadliest Catch, but I personally hate the shit out of that show. Eight seasons? For fucking real? They're pulling cages full of crab out of the ocean. That is all that happens. Oh no, someone got clocked by a piece of ice. Why don't you put the cameras on a coast guard ship so at least you can see something besides dudes on a boat hanging out and hauling rope around?
Our whole society is becoming VERY dumb. The popularity of functionally-retarded-oriented shows like ____ Housewives of ______, underage pregnancy shows, moronic frat-tards running into walls and getting drunk, catty women fighting over men who don't deserve it: please, leave the Discovery Channel alone. If you need to attack a network, aim at History. Toddlers and Tiaras? Little People in a Big World? Ancient Aliens? Hunting for Sasquatch? Give me a fucking break. Shut that shit down.
The company I work for wanted a cheap, portable computer for mobile archiving. We found an i5 quad core/4GB ram/750GBhdd for about $375 at the local Best Buy, not even on sale. And that includes the processor, the monitor, and a VGA output.
None of these things is specific to handedness.
There is no reason a left-handed person and a right-handed person would have better luck flanking/attacking an enemy or prey than a pair of same-handed people.
If you have ever actually propelled a canoe, you would know that which side you paddle on does not matter. All steering and control should be done from the same side of the canoe(C-stroke and J-stroke) - you shouldn't be switching the side you paddle on to steer, or using an oar like a rudder.
If you are cooperating with your tribespeople in a fight against a neighboring tribe, why would it be advantageous to have some of your people off-handed? It just breeds specialized tool needs, confusion, and non-conformity. If anything, it makes synchronization of tribe members harder.
Swinging a hammer from a different angle does not rely on the chirality of the person swinging it, nor does it involve 'opposite hands leading to greater cooperation'.
spiritual societies have a higher percentage of left handedness.
Do you have an actual source for this? It sounds remarkably like arbitrary US-bashing and religious pride.
It's not TOTALLY bogus.
The drive-on-left rule dates back to ancient times with the first real roads. It became a custom to make passing easier in travel, which was later invoked as law by the Romans and then the Pope. The modern use stems largely from the British colonization and the crown's ruling in 1773 requiring travel on the left. It is said that this was due to the ability of a horseback rider to hold the reins with the left hand and greet or defend themselves with a sword from oncoming travelers with the right.
The drive-on-right rule is actually quite a bit newer, in that it comes from huge horse teams being driven on common roads in the US. The driver of these teams would sit on the rear-left horse, and wanted to keep right so that he could see oncoming vehicles clearly and avoid the wheels of their carriage. Personally, I think it is largely from wanting to be different from and break away from the English rules, especially given the time frame of the English ruling and the revolutionary war.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/634/why-do-the-british-drive-on-the-left
I couldn't think of anything good, so I'm just going to go with:
"These are not the droits you are looking for."
I don't know about sci-fi design, but it is a REALLY fun brand of plane to fly. Also, Embraer and Lockheed Regional Jets are fun as hell to fly.