Article II Section 1 of the constitution establishes 4 year terms for presidents, and the 22nd amendment to the Constitution limits any person to a maximum of two terms.
Which part of the concept that treaties made by the federal government have more authority than state law could possibly be interpreted to mean that treaties made by the president ("by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate... [and] provided two thirds of the Senators present concur" - which also isn't going to happen) can override the United States Constitution? The only thing that can do that is a constitutional amendment, and I'll leave you to research that process, since you are obviously clueless.
Are viruses really still a big deal? My impression for the last few years has been that even windows has gotten to the point where you basically have to grant a virus permission at some point along the line. I haven't used an anti virus in years and to my knowledge my windows installations are all clean (I do check them periodically with that Trend Micro online scanner dealie).
That Microsoft couldn't care less whether their format becomes an ISO standard. Nearly every document stored by every business in the world is stored in Microsoft formats at this point. They don't need their format to be accepted, they simply need to make sure that being an ISO standard is meaningless. They would seem to have succeeded.
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If something like a calendar application on your phone is buggy, why should Verizon be trying to deal with it. Thats a good one. Have you ever used a Verizon phone? At least on my KRZR there is no Calendar application, unless you buy it from Verizon. Verizon installs their own firmware so that about all that still works is syncing contacts.
And worst of all, its ugly. Who the hell makes an OS with a bright-red themed GUI?
But there's a presumption that the US is fabulous and sacred and utterly superior and different to all other nations, and that people will accept whatever probing and scanning and recording Washington decides to impose simply for the honour and privilege of visiting. No offense intended, but it seems similarly arrogant to assume that for some reason the US should care whether or not you visit. Except insofar as we can take your money while you're here.
No, I think you have most likely been given that impression by the media wherever you live. American's are not "arrogant" as you describe them, it is simply that a tremendous portion of our population is mind-blowingly self absorbed. All day long my roommate watches these football (American football I should say) games on TV, and I sit here and listen to the announcers, the players, the fans, the coaches, etc and every single one of them is caught up in their worship of these blundering morons who run about on a piece of grass, and of the so called "actors" in Hollywood. The attitude that the highest status one can achieve is that of a sports, movie or music celebrity, living within this sort of reality tv world where everyone assumes that they are the center of the universe is what I think you may be trying to refer to.
American's for the most part are not "arrogant" as you describe them, they are simply too caught up in all of this media bullshit to open their eyes and realize there is an entire world full of people around them. That is why if you actually come here and actually meet real Americans you will find that individually we are, in large part, very pleasant people, eager to help those around us within the limits of convenience, and eager to make sure that as a foreigner you come away with a good impression of our country. The problem is not arrogance, it is ignorance and this media/hollywood/sports addiction that so many Americans need to feed.
Except the only reason any politician would want to get rid of illegal immigrants would be to get the anti-illegal-immigrant people to vote for them. So there isn't much reason to try to do it all "undercover".
No, it was the public. The public is scared of terrorists, so those in power have responded.
The problem, of course, is those in power are democrats and republicans. The republicans aren't going to do anything to tighten down the border because they want cheap labor. The democrats aren't going to do it because they need the hispanic vote.
Without a tightened down border the most they can do about terrorism is attack it elsewhere. So they have devised a simple strategy:
1. Appear to be attacking terrorism elsewhere (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc)
2. Appear to be securing the country here (terrorist watch lists, terrorist risk profiles, etc)
As usual, its about power, and as usual the two parties are in collusion to maintain control.
Neither policy nor morality can typically halt innovation, so aside from just throwing out that "it might be bad" (and I think you make a good point in that regard) I don't see what anyone can do about it aside from making sure whatever side you are on gets it first.
And if you really feel the need to do so, get an ssh client on your phone and use a command line torrent client on your home computer.
That solves the whole storage issue too (not too many phones with built in hard drives last I checked).
Then if you really feel the need to get at your media from your phone before you can sync it via USB, bluetooth or whatever else you might use then stream it. You can set your computer to transcode video to a low resolution on the way up to save bandwidth, and since you'll be watching it on a phone's screen anyway you shouldn't notice the difference.
Apple bidding? Where the hell would Apple come up with the kind of cash to compete with Google or the telecommunication companies?
Don't get me wrong, Apple is certainly worth quite a bit (not as much as google) and has pretty high profit margins (not as high as google), but they sell hardware. A hardware company simply can't liquify assets as easily as a software one.
Apples only chance in a bidding war would be to somehow use the iPhone to coerce 1 or more telecoms. And what with the pact with the devil they already signed, I can't see how they could do that.
Not to mention that as someone pointed out, if Google wins then Apple doesn't need to have won, and with Verizon's "open network" bullshit they really don't even need Google to win (although Jobs probably figures that if 700mhz doesn't go high enough to force an "open network" then Verizon will mysteriously forget to open theirs up).
This whole article doesn't make much sense to me. Even if you want to say we are "losing" the war, it has basically nothing to do with our inability to kill people. Maybe our inability to kill the right people and only the right people, but thats not really a technological issue for the most part.
Keep in mind, air resistance increases exponentially with velocity. I believe it is also increased by traveling at supersonic speeds. The point being that if you are traveling twice as fast the bomb will travel less than twice as far if dropped from the same height.
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where they do it from an iPhone. So they still get to act like a rich self important dick.
None, to my knowledge. Any law made by a treaty is still governed by the constitution, but if the GATT treaty violates it I'm not aware of it.
I think there must have been some miscommunication, my apologies for my comments.
You, my friend, are a dumbass.
Article II Section 1 of the constitution establishes 4 year terms for presidents, and the 22nd amendment to the Constitution limits any person to a maximum of two terms.
Which part of the concept that treaties made by the federal government have more authority than state law could possibly be interpreted to mean that treaties made by the president ("by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate... [and] provided two thirds of the Senators present concur" - which also isn't going to happen) can override the United States Constitution? The only thing that can do that is a constitutional amendment, and I'll leave you to research that process, since you are obviously clueless.
I would date a girl who runs linux. Sadly, I think that women will remain closed-source at least for the rest of my lifetime.
I'm just throwing this out there so I can claim prior art when the sex toy industry patents the idea of using that monitor in sex toys.
but there seems to be a fairly obvious way to opt out. Its not sharing any of my private data, because I simply don't use the product.
If you aren't willing to give Google what they want then why should Google give you anything?
If you think the US would use this to combat global warming. More like use it to combat "terrorists".
Are viruses really still a big deal? My impression for the last few years has been that even windows has gotten to the point where you basically have to grant a virus permission at some point along the line. I haven't used an anti virus in years and to my knowledge my windows installations are all clean (I do check them periodically with that Trend Micro online scanner dealie).
What is the point of plugging the output of a secure random generator into a non-secure one? Why not just use the secure one?
That Microsoft couldn't care less whether their format becomes an ISO standard. Nearly every document stored by every business in the world is stored in Microsoft formats at this point. They don't need their format to be accepted, they simply need to make sure that being an ISO standard is meaningless. They would seem to have succeeded.
Troops on the streets have to get their orders from the executive branch, not the legislative one.
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Are you trying to tell me that Steve Jobs wants to make money off of consumers?
And worst of all, its ugly. Who the hell makes an OS with a bright-red themed GUI?
No, I think you have most likely been given that impression by the media wherever you live. American's are not "arrogant" as you describe them, it is simply that a tremendous portion of our population is mind-blowingly self absorbed. All day long my roommate watches these football (American football I should say) games on TV, and I sit here and listen to the announcers, the players, the fans, the coaches, etc and every single one of them is caught up in their worship of these blundering morons who run about on a piece of grass, and of the so called "actors" in Hollywood. The attitude that the highest status one can achieve is that of a sports, movie or music celebrity, living within this sort of reality tv world where everyone assumes that they are the center of the universe is what I think you may be trying to refer to.
American's for the most part are not "arrogant" as you describe them, they are simply too caught up in all of this media bullshit to open their eyes and realize there is an entire world full of people around them. That is why if you actually come here and actually meet real Americans you will find that individually we are, in large part, very pleasant people, eager to help those around us within the limits of convenience, and eager to make sure that as a foreigner you come away with a good impression of our country. The problem is not arrogance, it is ignorance and this media/hollywood/sports addiction that so many Americans need to feed.
Except the only reason any politician would want to get rid of illegal immigrants would be to get the anti-illegal-immigrant people to vote for them. So there isn't much reason to try to do it all "undercover".
No, it was the public. The public is scared of terrorists, so those in power have responded.
The problem, of course, is those in power are democrats and republicans. The republicans aren't going to do anything to tighten down the border because they want cheap labor. The democrats aren't going to do it because they need the hispanic vote.
Without a tightened down border the most they can do about terrorism is attack it elsewhere. So they have devised a simple strategy:
1. Appear to be attacking terrorism elsewhere (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc)
2. Appear to be securing the country here (terrorist watch lists, terrorist risk profiles, etc)
As usual, its about power, and as usual the two parties are in collusion to maintain control.
Sort of like most laws designed to prevent people from doing things that might allow them to commit a crime.
I'm a bit of a fan of punishing those who have been duly convicted and leaving everyone else to go about their business.
Neither policy nor morality can typically halt innovation, so aside from just throwing out that "it might be bad" (and I think you make a good point in that regard) I don't see what anyone can do about it aside from making sure whatever side you are on gets it first.
And if you really feel the need to do so, get an ssh client on your phone and use a command line torrent client on your home computer.
That solves the whole storage issue too (not too many phones with built in hard drives last I checked).
Then if you really feel the need to get at your media from your phone before you can sync it via USB, bluetooth or whatever else you might use then stream it. You can set your computer to transcode video to a low resolution on the way up to save bandwidth, and since you'll be watching it on a phone's screen anyway you shouldn't notice the difference.
Apple bidding? Where the hell would Apple come up with the kind of cash to compete with Google or the telecommunication companies?
Don't get me wrong, Apple is certainly worth quite a bit (not as much as google) and has pretty high profit margins (not as high as google), but they sell hardware. A hardware company simply can't liquify assets as easily as a software one.
Apples only chance in a bidding war would be to somehow use the iPhone to coerce 1 or more telecoms. And what with the pact with the devil they already signed, I can't see how they could do that.
Not to mention that as someone pointed out, if Google wins then Apple doesn't need to have won, and with Verizon's "open network" bullshit they really don't even need Google to win (although Jobs probably figures that if 700mhz doesn't go high enough to force an "open network" then Verizon will mysteriously forget to open theirs up).
No, because if you can't read the great grandparent post then you can't respond very effectively to it.
is a fake logo?
This whole article doesn't make much sense to me. Even if you want to say we are "losing" the war, it has basically nothing to do with our inability to kill people. Maybe our inability to kill the right people and only the right people, but thats not really a technological issue for the most part.
Keep in mind, air resistance increases exponentially with velocity. I believe it is also increased by traveling at supersonic speeds. The point being that if you are traveling twice as fast the bomb will travel less than twice as far if dropped from the same height.