The "iTunes lock-in" is FUD plain and simple.
Huh? As a reasonably savvy non-expert, I can't update my iPod without loading my entire music library into iTunes. Likewise, any playlists have to be created/imported through iTunes. No uncertainly there - I'm locked in. And I don't have the energy to manage a library in two systems, so now all my PC music is through iTunes. And iTunes kind of sucks.
this guy while getting off 'easy' is now a convicted FELON!!
RTFA His reduced sentence includes no criminal record. Which actually makes it worse: if he was an American Muslim logging onto chat boards in the middle east, do you think the sentence would have been reduced? No way.
Now if Washington Watch is a non-profit organization then I guess there would be no marketing scheme.... Not quite. Nonprofit is just a tax status - they play by the same rules as business on just about everything else.
This ain't about rights. Cato will be competently defended by their legion of industry-funded lawyers. It's a silly suit, and it will fail. But it's marketing gold for Cato, which may well have hoped for exactly this reaction.
Oh boy. For what it's worth, I work for a D.C. government watchdog and am very familiar with Cato. I read their books, I go to their events. Their office is sweet - lots of windows, big atrium. Bottom line is their science positions are intellectually dishonest at a comprehensive level, and that keeps them well funded by industry. So yeah, I distrust the information they put out, because they have shown they are willing to place and promote false information that directly benefits their funders.
Chew on the government, fine. But when they spend decades cranking out coal-funded "science" written by PR flacks, it's more like dingo-ate-my-baby than a watchdog.
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The "iTunes lock-in" is FUD plain and simple. Huh? As a reasonably savvy non-expert, I can't update my iPod without loading my entire music library into iTunes. Likewise, any playlists have to be created/imported through iTunes. No uncertainly there - I'm locked in. And I don't have the energy to manage a library in two systems, so now all my PC music is through iTunes. And iTunes kind of sucks.
this guy while getting off 'easy' is now a convicted FELON!!
RTFA His reduced sentence includes no criminal record. Which actually makes it worse: if he was an American Muslim logging onto chat boards in the middle east, do you think the sentence would have been reduced? No way.
Well, that explains 2000, then...
This ain't about rights. Cato will be competently defended by their legion of industry-funded lawyers. It's a silly suit, and it will fail. But it's marketing gold for Cato, which may well have hoped for exactly this reaction.
Oh boy. For what it's worth, I work for a D.C. government watchdog and am very familiar with Cato. I read their books, I go to their events. Their office is sweet - lots of windows, big atrium. Bottom line is their science positions are intellectually dishonest at a comprehensive level, and that keeps them well funded by industry. So yeah, I distrust the information they put out, because they have shown they are willing to place and promote false information that directly benefits their funders.
Chew on the government, fine. But when they spend decades cranking out coal-funded "science" written by PR flacks, it's more like dingo-ate-my-baby than a watchdog.
"Director of information policy at the Cato Institute..." Oh, I'm sorry, am I supposed to continue giving a shit after that?
Variations on this have been kicking around for a while. Some of the wacky-but-plausable explainations for the periodicity off mass extinctions, including this one, show up in this book, written in the late 1990s. The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science