Old enough to pay taxes.
Not old enough to vote what they are use for.
Well, the alternative would be that everyone paying taxes was allowed to vote, which would probably even worse, as this would make people with lots of money get extra votes quite easily...
Spying on Americans, regardless of the perceived justification, is not protecting the public,
But spying the rest of the world is OK?
This attitude is one of the things that makes its a target in the first place.
In fact, spying Americans is better than spying non-americans... at least it's the US government doing "its job" to the people who elected it.
It seems like hitting on some lottery numbers and then playing those same numbers every day for the rest of your life in the misguided belief that they have some special odds of hitting again.
You wouldn't believe the amount of people playing the combination from Lost. A friend of mine works in the Spanish lottery and can check that kind of things out (and he does, out of boredom). If the Lost number were the winning combination, the prize would have to be shared among 100s...
Whenever an article about open source and companies' policies is posted, moderation points fly by, so this must be a good article to get karma:-)
I don't have anything insightful to say so I'm shooting for informative. Here's what the mysterious future brings (yes, I bought 1000 pages, I wanted a few frist potss but turns out you can't post before it's released to genpop, WTF)
"A team of four Thai students beat out 10,000 competitors to win the $25,000 prize in Microsoft 2007 Imagine Cup. Their project is text-to-speech software in which computers read aloud typed and handwritten commands. The software will allow people who can't read to interact with a PC. Imagine Cup judge Rand Morimoto has been blogging on the whole experience -- from his video of the opening ceremonies to how contestants swilled free Cokes to keep themselves awake during the 24-hour, no-sleep phase of the competition."
I call bullshit on that. -- any european want to chime in here? from ANY country to any country- so long as it's all EU? I simply find that ubelievable...
We can travel from ANY country to ANY country with as little as our National ID / passport / driver license. Within countries in the Schengen treaty, you don't need even that to cross any borders as no one will be there to ask you for an ID.
Not only we can travel to other countries, but we can live and work there as well. We do need to register in the new country, but this is to be expected - countries like to have a list of people living there. And it's just a formality, you don't apply for permission, you just notify that you moved there.
Disclaimer: I am an American, however, I was forced to take European history. Are people in Europe ever required to take American history?
This question alone shows that you don't 'get' Europe.
Some countries might have United States (I assume that's what you mean by 'American') history, and others might not.
Anyway, we don't need to go to an actual classroom to learn US history. Which sucks.
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Whenever an article about open source and companies' policies is posted, moderation points fly by, so this must be a good article to get karma :-)
I don't have anything insightful to say so I'm shooting for informative. Here's what the mysterious future brings (yes, I bought 1000 pages, I wanted a few frist potss but turns out you can't post before it's released to genpop, WTF)
"A team of four Thai students beat out 10,000 competitors to win the $25,000 prize in Microsoft 2007 Imagine Cup. Their project is text-to-speech software in which computers read aloud typed and handwritten commands. The software will allow people who can't read to interact with a PC. Imagine Cup judge Rand Morimoto has been blogging on the whole experience -- from his video of the opening ceremonies to how contestants swilled free Cokes to keep themselves awake during the 24-hour, no-sleep phase of the competition."
There.
You must be one of those guys with the ipod at full volume in the subway.
:-)
I'm glad you are making something out of your deafness though
Here's a decent GPL tool that produces a .srt for almost any closed captioned MPEG you throw at it:
From there it's trivial to produce what you need.