That's a pretty silly idea. In an actual war Japan would announce that any such ships that enter Japanese territorial waters would be sunk and if China is crazy enough to still send them it would be their fault, not Japan's.
You'd be surprised. Despite the constitutional limitations that were designed to make Japan militarily dependent on the US, Japan's Navy is a match for the Chinese Navy and Japan can have nuclear weapons in a flash if it needed them. If Japan had a full military buildup with the support of US and other western powers, I wouldn't want to pick sides in that war. South Korea and Taiwan also have nice modern navies and they are not particularly looking forward to Chinese domination of the pacific.
It is funny that you talk about being sane and reasonable while apparently you think that the conservatives are all about calling Obama socialist-nazi and burning Korans. Try learning more about the conservative and libertarian values and how they contrast with what this administration has been doing so far and then you can understand some of the frustration the people (yes, look at numbers too) are having with the policies this administration is implementing against their wishes. These two are mocking a straw man that they helped build in the first place.
I don't know anybody on the right who thinks that Colbert is serious, but some of us watch him anyway because he is genuinely funny. It's hilarious that you think of Jon Stewart as being non partisan and just as ignorant as those on the right who think Colbert is on their side. It is precisely his left wing political zeal which shines through in a angry and bitter way, though he tries to hide it, that makes him unfunny.
They are serious too. This is a political rally as much as Glenn Beck's was except dressed up as comedy. Btw, I find it kind of sad that instead of criticizing those in power (as they did relentlessly and hilariously when Bush was in the office) the "political satirists" are now rallying on behalf of a political party in power ahead of a difficult election. These two are not about comedy anymore, like Maher, they have become blatant political activists on behalf of the Democrat party.
I agree. However, the interesting question is what happens when some customers buy a pocket knife "without a compass" and then discover that the pocket knife does actually have a hidden compass and find a way to enable it. Will they get sued? In case of a pocket knife, no. In case of a CPU, I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.
Parent is not a troll, his sarcasm is justified. As far as I remember there were plenty of people here who were (seriously) making that very point regarding the wikileaks case.
You seem quite a pedant. The fact that there is the word "rights" in DRM doesn't have anything to do with you having any rights beyond what the seller offers you in exchange for your money. That's exactly what DRM is there to enforce (not very effectively in practice so far but I am talking about the principle).
If you look through all the open source projects, say on sourceforge (all 250,000 of them), a few are great, many are average and by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage. It doesn't mean that open source means incompetent but it doesn't automatically mean competent either, you have to look at the specific project. Probably on the whole commercial products are better if only because people have money invested in them and they are less likely to get bored with them half way through.
some interesting points (lack of job opportunities for engineers despite a relatively high social status) and some suspect ones (e.g. framing Islamic culture into the western left vs. right politics)
Who wrote this summary? I would say lack of job opportunities is the highly suspect reason to say the least here when it comes to people blowing themselves up. Bombers tend to have more education and more opportunities than most people. The server is dead so I have no idea what he meant by the second half of that statement but I would think part of the problem is the inability of people brought up in highly anti-science, anti-Western Islamic ideology (which is what it is, as well as religion) to fit into the world of engineering, which is the world of Western values they've been thought to hate.
So by that logic it would be in our interest to abandon all immigration control? Do you have any idea how many people would come here overnight. 100s of millions is not an exaggeration. Do you still keep the welfare state in that case. Free healthcare for the poor, unemployment benefits etc. How on earth is that in our interest?
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
It was this notion that built the most powerful country on the Earth. People trying to improve their lot usually end up improving plenty of other people's lot too; the worse off they were to begin with, the more driven they are.
That doesn't work with welfare state on. Some people come here with the idea of working hard to improve their lot, others come with the idea of easy living at other people's expense. You might benefit from watching this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE
First of all, it's nothing to do with survival. People survive just fine in Mexico. It's not even a particularly poor country by the world standards, and it is classified as an "upper middle-income" country by the World Bank. If the goal of a country's immigration policy is to provide foreigners with a better life (a laughable notion but that's what you seem to be saying) then help sub-Saharan Africans, or old and sick, immigrate to the US. Why help young and healthy who just happen to be born in a country which shares a land border with the US?
I'd wager that for every informed vote that gets cast there are 5 votes by people who don't even know what they are voting for but vote automatically for a republican/democrat because thats what they've always voted for.
I don't have a problem with people voting automatically because a particular party agrees better in general with their view of politics. I do have a problem with the regular "Get out the vote" campaigns which precisely target people (young, uneducated, stupid etc) who otherwise wouldn't even know there was an election on. What exactly is gained by having people who have no interest in the political process or any knowledge of who the candidates are go out and vote. Unfortunately, Democrats are the most guilty of this because they know that they will gain most of such votes.
Yep, I even came up with some original recipes: Ramen noodles in Mountain Dew, deep fried Twinkies in Beer batter, Mac and cheese pizza, Donuts with Tacos etc etc
Talking about ad revenue, where do those suggestions come from? I typed "s" and the first three suggestions I got: skype, staples, sears. "e" - ebay, espn, expedia. "m" - myspace, mapquest, msn. Randomly tried typing two letters: "be" - best buy, bed bath and beyond, bevmo. etc.
Wouldn't some common word or a name of a pop star or whatever be the most likely thing people will search for rather than almost exclusively company names? Weird.
You are of course referring to the Texas textbook liberal misinformation campaign thereby clearly revealing which sources you get your information from. Jefferson was (arguably correctly) only removed from a list of the greatest political theorists of the enlightenment. He was primarily a politician and he didn't write a great deal on political theory and what he did write was of marginal importance and influenced mostly by John Locke. He is of course still all over the Texas history textbooks and is second only to Washington in the number of times he was mentioned, which didn't stop certain progressive sites from blatantly lying that he was completely erased from history.
It does fine with fur (I have two cats). It breaks down a lot though, I've gone through 2-3 per year on average. I have a slightly thicker carpet than usual so maybe that's why. They work better on bare floor or thin carpets.
Yes, it's slightly amusing given the context but it's certainly not actionable. It's perfectly normal to copy a boilerplate legal notice from some template you found on the Internet and change it around to suit your purposes. Is anybody seriously suggesting that every DMCA takedown notice has to be originally written from scratch?
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I meant to say I wouldn't want to pick a winner. I would definitely be on Japan's side.
That's a pretty silly idea. In an actual war Japan would announce that any such ships that enter Japanese territorial waters would be sunk and if China is crazy enough to still send them it would be their fault, not Japan's.
Japan doesn't have much of a military
You'd be surprised. Despite the constitutional limitations that were designed to make Japan militarily dependent on the US, Japan's Navy is a match for the Chinese Navy and Japan can have nuclear weapons in a flash if it needed them. If Japan had a full military buildup with the support of US and other western powers, I wouldn't want to pick sides in that war. South Korea and Taiwan also have nice modern navies and they are not particularly looking forward to Chinese domination of the pacific.
It is funny that you talk about being sane and reasonable while apparently you think that the conservatives are all about calling Obama socialist-nazi and burning Korans. Try learning more about the conservative and libertarian values and how they contrast with what this administration has been doing so far and then you can understand some of the frustration the people (yes, look at numbers too) are having with the policies this administration is implementing against their wishes. These two are mocking a straw man that they helped build in the first place.
I don't know anybody on the right who thinks that Colbert is serious, but some of us watch him anyway because he is genuinely funny. It's hilarious that you think of Jon Stewart as being non partisan and just as ignorant as those on the right who think Colbert is on their side. It is precisely his left wing political zeal which shines through in a angry and bitter way, though he tries to hide it, that makes him unfunny.
They are serious too. This is a political rally as much as Glenn Beck's was except dressed up as comedy. Btw, I find it kind of sad that instead of criticizing those in power (as they did relentlessly and hilariously when Bush was in the office) the "political satirists" are now rallying on behalf of a political party in power ahead of a difficult election. These two are not about comedy anymore, like Maher, they have become blatant political activists on behalf of the Democrat party.
I agree. However, the interesting question is what happens when some customers buy a pocket knife "without a compass" and then discover that the pocket knife does actually have a hidden compass and find a way to enable it. Will they get sued? In case of a pocket knife, no. In case of a CPU, I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.
Parent is not a troll, his sarcasm is justified. As far as I remember there were plenty of people here who were (seriously) making that very point regarding the wikileaks case.
He's from Argentina, if you have to know.
You seem quite a pedant. The fact that there is the word "rights" in DRM doesn't have anything to do with you having any rights beyond what the seller offers you in exchange for your money. That's exactly what DRM is there to enforce (not very effectively in practice so far but I am talking about the principle).
It's nothing to do with rights. If you don't like it, don't buy it. That's the only right you have.
If you watch and rate 5 movies/shows per day it only takes 27 years. That's if you don't commit suicide before then.
As per TFA: "Some" have rated 50,000. 0.01% of users have rated 20,000 or more. 1% have rated 5,000 or more.
If you look through all the open source projects, say on sourceforge (all 250,000 of them), a few are great, many are average and by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage. It doesn't mean that open source means incompetent but it doesn't automatically mean competent either, you have to look at the specific project. Probably on the whole commercial products are better if only because people have money invested in them and they are less likely to get bored with them half way through.
some interesting points (lack of job opportunities for engineers despite a relatively high social status) and some suspect ones (e.g. framing Islamic culture into the western left vs. right politics)
Who wrote this summary? I would say lack of job opportunities is the highly suspect reason to say the least here when it comes to people blowing themselves up. Bombers tend to have more education and more opportunities than most people. The server is dead so I have no idea what he meant by the second half of that statement but I would think part of the problem is the inability of people brought up in highly anti-science, anti-Western Islamic ideology (which is what it is, as well as religion) to fit into the world of engineering, which is the world of Western values they've been thought to hate.
So by that logic it would be in our interest to abandon all immigration control? Do you have any idea how many people would come here overnight. 100s of millions is not an exaggeration. Do you still keep the welfare state in that case. Free healthcare for the poor, unemployment benefits etc. How on earth is that in our interest?
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." It was this notion that built the most powerful country on the Earth. People trying to improve their lot usually end up improving plenty of other people's lot too; the worse off they were to begin with, the more driven they are.
That doesn't work with welfare state on. Some people come here with the idea of working hard to improve their lot, others come with the idea of easy living at other people's expense. You might benefit from watching this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE
First of all, it's nothing to do with survival. People survive just fine in Mexico. It's not even a particularly poor country by the world standards, and it is classified as an "upper middle-income" country by the World Bank. If the goal of a country's immigration policy is to provide foreigners with a better life (a laughable notion but that's what you seem to be saying) then help sub-Saharan Africans, or old and sick, immigrate to the US. Why help young and healthy who just happen to be born in a country which shares a land border with the US?
I'd wager that for every informed vote that gets cast there are 5 votes by people who don't even know what they are voting for but vote automatically for a republican/democrat because thats what they've always voted for.
I don't have a problem with people voting automatically because a particular party agrees better in general with their view of politics. I do have a problem with the regular "Get out the vote" campaigns which precisely target people (young, uneducated, stupid etc) who otherwise wouldn't even know there was an election on. What exactly is gained by having people who have no interest in the political process or any knowledge of who the candidates are go out and vote. Unfortunately, Democrats are the most guilty of this because they know that they will gain most of such votes.
On the contrary, the government pays people too much. On average, public sector pay is higher than the private sector pay for equivalent jobs: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm
Yep, I even came up with some original recipes: Ramen noodles in Mountain Dew, deep fried Twinkies in Beer batter, Mac and cheese pizza, Donuts with Tacos etc etc
I just wish I had more ingredients to work with.
Talking about ad revenue, where do those suggestions come from? I typed "s" and the first three suggestions I got: skype, staples, sears. "e" - ebay, espn, expedia. "m" - myspace, mapquest, msn. Randomly tried typing two letters: "be" - best buy, bed bath and beyond, bevmo. etc.
Wouldn't some common word or a name of a pop star or whatever be the most likely thing people will search for rather than almost exclusively company names? Weird.
They should legislate appropriate penalties for people acting so carelessly towards their own welfare
Everything that's wrong about nanny state in one sentence.
You are of course referring to the Texas textbook liberal misinformation campaign thereby clearly revealing which sources you get your information from. Jefferson was (arguably correctly) only removed from a list of the greatest political theorists of the enlightenment. He was primarily a politician and he didn't write a great deal on political theory and what he did write was of marginal importance and influenced mostly by John Locke. He is of course still all over the Texas history textbooks and is second only to Washington in the number of times he was mentioned, which didn't stop certain progressive sites from blatantly lying that he was completely erased from history.
It does fine with fur (I have two cats). It breaks down a lot though, I've gone through 2-3 per year on average. I have a slightly thicker carpet than usual so maybe that's why. They work better on bare floor or thin carpets.
Yes, it's slightly amusing given the context but it's certainly not actionable. It's perfectly normal to copy a boilerplate legal notice from some template you found on the Internet and change it around to suit your purposes. Is anybody seriously suggesting that every DMCA takedown notice has to be originally written from scratch?