I take it you haven't seen the so-called Pied Piper memo?
It wasn't Daddy's money and influence propelling Trump over the past year, it was Hillary's. As disturbing as that revelation was to me, I can only imagine how Trump took it. He must feel like the victim of the world's most elaborate troll.
We now know that the Democrats had their finger on the scale, promoting and "elevating" Trump on the grounds that he would be among the easiest Republican contenders to beat.
Secretary Clinton, yesterday in St. Louis, you spoke at carpenters and others âoewho built this nation.â Both you and Senator Sanders depend on big union support. President Obama pushed for a massive infrastructure bill that would mean millions of jobs for in this area. Yet many of these trade unions have locked out Blacks and other minorities for years.
That something is likely to get him into trouble with the WTO
Chief of Staff: "Mr. President, we're seeing some pushback from the WTO in Geneva with regard to our recent establishment of protectionist trade tariffs. Do you have a response for the Secretary of State to convey?"
President: "Sergeant, bring me that briefcase they were telling me about. The one with all the buttons and lights and handcuffs and whatnot."
Marine guard: "I beg your pardon, sir?"
President: "And where's Geneva, again? That's in Wisconsin, right?"
Which is why it's called an "Escape" key. You use it under exceptional conditions. You don't want it underfoot, but when you need it, it needs to be there.
Pretty soon, people will be able to use real Apple hardware to insult Nigerian scammers, instead of sending a cardboard P-P-P-P-Powerbook.
No, replaceable batteries aren't the solution. They would probably make the situation worse, in fact. If the battery were replaceable, end users would be replacing them with the cheapest Chinese gray-market batteries they could find, made from lithium ore containing higher-than-permitted levels of lead, melamine, white phosphorus, and plutonium.
That's the difference between conduct and expression. Unless you figure out a way to burn a cross on someone's lawn via the Internet, Virginia v. Black is not applicable.
OK, so let's take a look at these ominous-sounding acronyms, one by one.
CDA is the Communications Decency Act. It makes sense to start off with this one because it not only has the most Orwellian name, but it also represents one of the earliest assaults against online freedom of expression by American politicians. In the US, our legislators face no penalties when they pass overtly unconstitutional laws, but the laws themselves still have to survive court challenges. This happened more or less immediately with the CDA, and the result was genuinely ironic. The only significant part of the CDA that survived was Section 230, which is what releases server operators from responsibility for information posted by their users. So the CDA is actually one of the most important pieces of legislation protecting free expression on the Internet.
COPA Like the problematic parts of the CDA, the Child Online Protection Act was almost immediately struck down, this time in its entirety.
DMCA Another two-edged sword. Some believe that freedom of expression and copyright laws are mutually exclusive. I'm sympathetic to this point of view myself, but the fact is that our Constitution explicitly authorizes Congress to regulate "intellectual property." Unsurprisingly this is also true of essentially every civilized country on Earth. All of them, in the US's place, would have ended up with a DMCA-like law of their own. The differences is that similar legislation in those countries wouldn't have had to conform to the First Amendment. Much like the CDA, one of the parts of the DMCA that survived court challenges is the "safe harbor" provision that has proven to be vitally important to the growth and maintenance of a more-or-less free Internet. Look what's happening in the EU, for instance, where you're no longer allowed to run an open WiFi access point. The DMCA and CDA are what keep this kind of bullshit from happening in the US.
COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It doesn't address free speech, unless your idea of free speech is the freedom to collect personal information from children under 13 without their parents' supervision. If that's your idea of free speech, we're done here.
CIPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act, is problematic from a free-expression standpoint. But it is also strictly limited in scope to schools and libraries that receive government funding. It has no effect on the rights of any private citizens or organizations.
DOPA ("Deleting Online Predators Act") is one I hadn't heard of. It was introduced in Congress but appears to have made no progress toward passage since 2007. It's not the law, so it's not relevant.
COICA, "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act," and its successor PIPA, "Protect IP Act" also were shelved after widespread protests.
SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, was basically an attempt by the content industries to buy a legislative end run around the DMCA's safe harbor provision. Like the DMCA it comes into play only in the context of copyright law. Like PIPA, it failed to pass in the wake of widespread protests.
CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, doesn't appear to have anything to do with freedom of speech. It "allows for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the US government and technology and manufacturing companies." It wouldn't be affected one way or the other by the ICANN transfer and isn't germane here.
It's not clear what you mean by "the USITC requesting site blockings." Presumably another case where the right to infringe copyrights collides with the right to free sp
So, to you, a company is precisely as much as its branding?
I don't know if you're familiar with the term "goodwill," but this is an example of it. Without the HP name and logo, would this chickenshit outfit be worth anything at all?
I'm using the same name they're using in their press release: "HP."
This argument is reminiscent of the case against blaming Sony for the rootkit they distributed on audio CDs, on the grounds that it was actually their BMG subsidiary that did the dirty deed. Sorry, but publicity doesn't work that way. You put your name and corporate logo on the product, you get the credit and the blame.
It'll make a good movie someday. They just need to start filming it before Christopher Lee dies, because it's hard to imagine anyone else playing the role of Carly Fiorina.
Wait, what? He's already dead? Even better. The producers can cut a deal with Satan to reanimate him for the duration of the shoot. He won't even have to act, just lurch around aimlessly and stink up the building.
HP engineers the best and most-secure printing systems in the world. We strive to always provide the highest-quality experiences for our customers and partners. As a new company, we are committed to transparency in all of our communications and when we fall short, we call ourselves out.
WT actual F?
HP was "new" in 1939 when they sold audio oscillators to Walt Disney to help develop the sound systems needed for Fantasia. Learn your history, dweeb. If Fred Terman could see your company now, he'd kick Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard out of EE school and then shoot himself.
There's a reason why the very first verb in the very first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Hewlett-Packard is "Was."
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I take it you haven't seen the so-called Pied Piper memo?
It wasn't Daddy's money and influence propelling Trump over the past year, it was Hillary's. As disturbing as that revelation was to me, I can only imagine how Trump took it. He must feel like the victim of the world's most elaborate troll.
We now know that the Democrats had their finger on the scale, promoting and "elevating" Trump on the grounds that he would be among the easiest Republican contenders to beat.
That, I've got to assume, is no longer true.
Secretary Clinton, yesterday in St. Louis, you spoke at carpenters and others âoewho built this nation.â Both you and Senator Sanders depend on big union support. President Obama pushed for a massive infrastructure bill that would mean millions of jobs for in this area. Yet many of these trade unions have locked out Blacks and other minorities for years.
What kind of ridiculous BS is this?
That something is likely to get him into trouble with the WTO
Chief of Staff: "Mr. President, we're seeing some pushback from the WTO in Geneva with regard to our recent establishment of protectionist trade tariffs. Do you have a response for the Secretary of State to convey?"
President: "Sergeant, bring me that briefcase they were telling me about. The one with all the buttons and lights and handcuffs and whatnot."
Marine guard: "I beg your pardon, sir?"
President: "And where's Geneva, again? That's in Wisconsin, right?"
Essentially you want Windows 7 with longer support, but can Microsoft honestly charge hundreds of dollars for that?
(Shrug) I'd pay it. I don't expect something for nothing.
But they never asked.
You left a computer for over an hour with open and unsaved documents
With a test running on $90,000 worth of equipment that has to be set up with $100/hour engineering time.
Again learn how your computer works.
Maybe you should learn how a phase noise analyzer works.
USB-A connectors are fermions with spin 1/2. It's in the spec.
Not naming it after a crater might've helped, too.
I don't understand it at all.
If Trump loses, the Republican party will have been dealt a terrible setback that will take years to recover from.
If Trump wins, the Republican party is over.
At this point, nobody should be pulling harder for Hillary than the Republican establishment.
They trust no one, especially the US.
Understandable. The last time the US attacked Russia, they lost 20 millio....
Oh, wait, no, that's not the way it happened at all, is it?
Eisenhower explained it to us, on his way out of office, but we didn't listen.
Which is why it's called an "Escape" key. You use it under exceptional conditions. You don't want it underfoot, but when you need it, it needs to be there.
Pretty soon, people will be able to use real Apple hardware to insult Nigerian scammers, instead of sending a cardboard P-P-P-P-Powerbook.
But I have crap to sell and there are a lot of dumbfucks on facebook whom I can sell my crap to.
In the immortal words of Mark Zuckerberg, "Welcome to Facebook."
What was the actual vulnerability they used?
Human stupidity. 99% of the time, it works every time.
I live in Seattle, and I am more than enthusiastic about any plan that will help shelter our homeless neighbors
Great. How many can your back yard hold?
Because that's basically the current plan.
No, replaceable batteries aren't the solution. They would probably make the situation worse, in fact. If the battery were replaceable, end users would be replacing them with the cheapest Chinese gray-market batteries they could find, made from lithium ore containing higher-than-permitted levels of lead, melamine, white phosphorus, and plutonium.
There's nothing atheistic about a Communist personality cult. The figurehead is an explicit God-substitute. Same mental bug, different exploit.
The limits of Presidential powers ensure that a President can actually do very little harm.
Great. Now, tell us about the limits on the powers of a Supreme Court justice.
Or, more likely, a coalition of two or three of them.
That's the difference between conduct and expression. Unless you figure out a way to burn a cross on someone's lawn via the Internet, Virginia v. Black is not applicable.
OK, so let's take a look at these ominous-sounding acronyms, one by one.
CDA is the Communications Decency Act. It makes sense to start off with this one because it not only has the most Orwellian name, but it also represents one of the earliest assaults against online freedom of expression by American politicians. In the US, our legislators face no penalties when they pass overtly unconstitutional laws, but the laws themselves still have to survive court challenges. This happened more or less immediately with the CDA, and the result was genuinely ironic. The only significant part of the CDA that survived was Section 230, which is what releases server operators from responsibility for information posted by their users. So the CDA is actually one of the most important pieces of legislation protecting free expression on the Internet.
COPA Like the problematic parts of the CDA, the Child Online Protection Act was almost immediately struck down, this time in its entirety.
DMCA Another two-edged sword. Some believe that freedom of expression and copyright laws are mutually exclusive. I'm sympathetic to this point of view myself, but the fact is that our Constitution explicitly authorizes Congress to regulate "intellectual property." Unsurprisingly this is also true of essentially every civilized country on Earth. All of them, in the US's place, would have ended up with a DMCA-like law of their own. The differences is that similar legislation in those countries wouldn't have had to conform to the First Amendment. Much like the CDA, one of the parts of the DMCA that survived court challenges is the "safe harbor" provision that has proven to be vitally important to the growth and maintenance of a more-or-less free Internet. Look what's happening in the EU, for instance, where you're no longer allowed to run an open WiFi access point. The DMCA and CDA are what keep this kind of bullshit from happening in the US.
COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It doesn't address free speech, unless your idea of free speech is the freedom to collect personal information from children under 13 without their parents' supervision. If that's your idea of free speech, we're done here.
CIPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act, is problematic from a free-expression standpoint. But it is also strictly limited in scope to schools and libraries that receive government funding. It has no effect on the rights of any private citizens or organizations.
DOPA ("Deleting Online Predators Act") is one I hadn't heard of. It was introduced in Congress but appears to have made no progress toward passage since 2007. It's not the law, so it's not relevant.
COICA, "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act," and its successor PIPA, "Protect IP Act" also were shelved after widespread protests.
SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, was basically an attempt by the content industries to buy a legislative end run around the DMCA's safe harbor provision. Like the DMCA it comes into play only in the context of copyright law. Like PIPA, it failed to pass in the wake of widespread protests.
CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, doesn't appear to have anything to do with freedom of speech. It "allows for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the US government and technology and manufacturing companies." It wouldn't be affected one way or the other by the ICANN transfer and isn't germane here.
It's not clear what you mean by "the USITC requesting site blockings." Presumably another case where the right to infringe copyrights collides with the right to free sp
So, to you, a company is precisely as much as its branding?
I don't know if you're familiar with the term "goodwill," but this is an example of it. Without the HP name and logo, would this chickenshit outfit be worth anything at all?
I'm using the same name they're using in their press release: "HP."
This argument is reminiscent of the case against blaming Sony for the rootkit they distributed on audio CDs, on the grounds that it was actually their BMG subsidiary that did the dirty deed. Sorry, but publicity doesn't work that way. You put your name and corporate logo on the product, you get the credit and the blame.
It'll make a good movie someday. They just need to start filming it before Christopher Lee dies, because it's hard to imagine anyone else playing the role of Carly Fiorina.
Wait, what? He's already dead? Even better. The producers can cut a deal with Satan to reanimate him for the duration of the shoot. He won't even have to act, just lurch around aimlessly and stink up the building.
HP engineers the best and most-secure printing systems in the world. We strive to always provide the highest-quality experiences for our customers and partners. As a new company, we are committed to transparency in all of our communications and when we fall short, we call ourselves out.
WT actual F?
HP was "new" in 1939 when they sold audio oscillators to Walt Disney to help develop the sound systems needed for Fantasia. Learn your history, dweeb. If Fred Terman could see your company now, he'd kick Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard out of EE school and then shoot himself.
There's a reason why the very first verb in the very first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Hewlett-Packard is "Was."
So, wondering when the masses stopped caring at all about how the music sounded?
My guess would be, right around the time when the artists and producers stopped caring.