I guess the Christians do all of those things for the lulz. (Or based on the 1775 book by a French philosopher which ranged the various "races" making sure Western Europeans came out on top...)
Well, you are mistaken. They are patenting the lock/unlock mechanism and the gesture together. But I guess hyperbole and misreading is more fun here on ol' Slashdot.
Well, the sci-fi contstruct Scientology, set up as a tax dodge by a secondrate author, is often considered a religion, so why not? Remember: Since religion A in general claims religion B is bunk (for most A B), religions are implicitly "mocking" each other anyway.
At least with Facebook I have control over what my information is made public
You cannot be fucking serious. Facebook makes you hunt like a bloody vampire for the convoluted settings for every small nuance they can think of. And then they change it in the next update.
On Google+? A nice icon next to each element in the profile, telling me what level of "publicness" the info has, with the option to change it (options are world, extended circles, circles - or only you, i.e. private). Far easier.
Here's a hint: Don't like it? DON'T USE IT! How hard can it be to resist? And what is the point of using a social service if you intend to hide? You sound more like a "Zyngabook" fanboy...
No, they are bumping major version numbers willy-nilly, in stark contrast to how the version number system worked previously. Both for FF and Gecko. Linux did not do such shenanigans until 3.0.
Because "if our plugins didn't fail to run because Firefox decided to throw version number semantics overboard, they would be running 20% faster" is not a good position to be in.
For their next trick, the Python community is probably going to honor Rapelay with a project in the name of that (in)famous "teen rape sim". Remember: do not get offended, get out more.
If that succeeds they might start moving into other "get out more" subjects like "barbe-jew" or "Niggapocalypse". My, there are suddenly many people crawling out from under rocks...?
And then people stop using Python. Because the taint is not worth it any more.
Slept through geography much? When we have summer no the NORTHERN hemisphere, they have winter on the SOUTHERN hemisphere. Where Peru and Chile are located.
So: Snowfall during WINTER. Because they have WINTER.
Yes, it's the same thing as when Google wanted google.kz and Kazakhstan demanded the servers had to physically be within the country.
Or when the bit.ly URL shortener service censored links that redirected to sites the Libyan Government deemed inappropriate.
Except then it apparently was "wrong" according to (probably) some of the people who now defend VeriSign for their subservience to the industries that have morphed copyright from a culture builder into a profit tool.
How did you manage to find any hate there? Is all criticism hate? You start to sound like those right-wing Israeli politicians who consider all critics of their country's policies to be anti-Semites.
Since when does an inventing country get to decide how an invention is used? Does Italy decide over your radio broadcasts? Does your car manufacturers check with Germany that anything they want to do is OK?
The Internet as such is not "run" by a country, it is a mesh of all the independent network operators in various countries that peer with each other, and their customers. If the corporation administering popular top level domains wants to be a stooge for the bribed/lobbied politicians of their country of origin, so be it; but I think more non-American companies will start looking long and hard on this and ask: What precedence does this set regarding the reliability of a domain under any of these TLDs now? What if some politician decides that British Petroleum are baddies that need to lose their.com domain? If ICANN and VeriSign abandon their neutrality as an international partner then by all means; TLDs are dead in an age of search engines anyway.
Spoken like yet another "I have never used a tablet" sourpuss, replaying the same broken record about the glories of netbooks. But the net is flowing over with stories of people who have found that once they got one, the uses and benefits became apparent.
A netbook lacks a touch screen, and is uncomfortable and impractical to use when you need to hold it (e.g. standing on a commuter train). So, it fails to cover even two advantages of a tablet. Aren't you just really afraid of change? And that is why you scoff at tablets while promoting the familiar tech of a clunky keyboard and mouse-ish interactions?
Growing up means having to play by the rules. In this case, the regulations that are there to prevent "privately owned companies" (that become the most significant actors processing payments between people and companies) from abusing their power and becoming a political tool. What if instead of the U.S. government pressuring them on WikiLeaks, it was e.g. the Russian government pressuring them to stop payments to British Petroleum in order to force oil concessions from the latter? Where does it stop?
But Libertarians are just corporate apologists for whom private business can do no wrong and the world is full of free enterprise throttled by evil governments. They refuse to acknowledge actual history where unchecked corporations seek monopolies, anti-competitive collaboration and suppression of customers as long as they grow large enough.
But some countries seem to go beyond that: Apparently, sites that show over-18 models who sport ponytails or braces ("young" features) have sometimes been blocked, and also fictional child porn (comics, text), i.e. look at the case of the American stopped on the Canadian border for possessing a Japanese manga.
Child porn laws generally set the limit at 18 regardless of sexual age of consent. So you can have sex with your hot girlfriend as long as you do not record it...
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I guess the Christians do all of those things for the lulz. (Or based on the 1775 book by a French philosopher which ranged the various "races" making sure Western Europeans came out on top...)
Prices sort of go down if you stick to only buying games on Steam when they are on sale at reduced prices.
If you drink latté - and write it like that - then you are an iPhone + iPad user, and only pay $0.99-$4.99 for your games anyway...
Well, you are mistaken. They are patenting the lock/unlock mechanism and the gesture together. But I guess hyperbole and misreading is more fun here on ol' Slashdot.
Well, the sci-fi contstruct Scientology, set up as a tax dodge by a secondrate author, is often considered a religion, so why not? Remember: Since religion A in general claims religion B is bunk (for most A B), religions are implicitly "mocking" each other anyway.
At least with Facebook I have control over what my information is made public
You cannot be fucking serious. Facebook makes you hunt like a bloody vampire for the convoluted settings for every small nuance they can think of. And then they change it in the next update.
On Google+? A nice icon next to each element in the profile, telling me what level of "publicness" the info has, with the option to change it (options are world, extended circles, circles - or only you, i.e. private). Far easier.
Here's a hint: Don't like it? DON'T USE IT! How hard can it be to resist? And what is the point of using a social service if you intend to hide? You sound more like a "Zyngabook" fanboy...
No, he is saying he doesn't know how.
No, they are bumping major version numbers willy-nilly, in stark contrast to how the version number system worked previously. Both for FF and Gecko. Linux did not do such shenanigans until 3.0.
Because "if our plugins didn't fail to run because Firefox decided to throw version number semantics overboard, they would be running 20% faster" is not a good position to be in.
Best first post ever.
Stabbing you to death and punching you hard in the stomach are also different things. Would you accept people did the latter to you?
Shitbags like you give men a bad name. Go fuck yourself, it's not like any women want to - willingly.
Oh, and remember not to take offense at this post. :) :D
Right.
For their next trick, the Python community is probably going to honor Rapelay with a project in the name of that (in)famous "teen rape sim". Remember: do not get offended, get out more.
If that succeeds they might start moving into other "get out more" subjects like "barbe-jew" or "Niggapocalypse". My, there are suddenly many people crawling out from under rocks...?
And then people stop using Python. Because the taint is not worth it any more.
If child porn did not exist, they would have to invent it. Such is the might of the "in order to stop child porn" excuse.
Slept through geography much? When we have summer no the NORTHERN hemisphere, they have winter on the SOUTHERN hemisphere. Where Peru and Chile are located.
So: Snowfall during WINTER. Because they have WINTER.
Yes, a .45 handled by a trigger-happy drunk redneck can do wonders to a pressurized cabin. Who needs terrorists?
Yes, it's the same thing as when Google wanted google.kz and Kazakhstan demanded the servers had to physically be within the country.
Or when the bit.ly URL shortener service censored links that redirected to sites the Libyan Government deemed inappropriate.
Except then it apparently was "wrong" according to (probably) some of the people who now defend VeriSign for their subservience to the industries that have morphed copyright from a culture builder into a profit tool.
Why do you hate America?
How did you manage to find any hate there? Is all criticism hate? You start to sound like those right-wing Israeli politicians who consider all critics of their country's policies to be anti-Semites.
Since when does an inventing country get to decide how an invention is used? Does Italy decide over your radio broadcasts? Does your car manufacturers check with Germany that anything they want to do is OK?
The Internet as such is not "run" by a country, it is a mesh of all the independent network operators in various countries that peer with each other, and their customers. If the corporation administering popular top level domains wants to be a stooge for the bribed/lobbied politicians of their country of origin, so be it; but I think more non-American companies will start looking long and hard on this and ask: What precedence does this set regarding the reliability of a domain under any of these TLDs now? What if some politician decides that British Petroleum are baddies that need to lose their .com domain? If ICANN and VeriSign abandon their neutrality as an international partner then by all means; TLDs are dead in an age of search engines anyway.
Spoken like yet another "I have never used a tablet" sourpuss, replaying the same broken record about the glories of netbooks. But the net is flowing over with stories of people who have found that once they got one, the uses and benefits became apparent.
A netbook lacks a touch screen, and is uncomfortable and impractical to use when you need to hold it (e.g. standing on a commuter train). So, it fails to cover even two advantages of a tablet. Aren't you just really afraid of change? And that is why you scoff at tablets while promoting the familiar tech of a clunky keyboard and mouse-ish interactions?
Almost all applications that run on 2.x also run on 3.0 because it's the same JVM.
Careful, or Oracle is going to quote you in its case against Google...
Growing up means having to play by the rules. In this case, the regulations that are there to prevent "privately owned companies" (that become the most significant actors processing payments between people and companies) from abusing their power and becoming a political tool. What if instead of the U.S. government pressuring them on WikiLeaks, it was e.g. the Russian government pressuring them to stop payments to British Petroleum in order to force oil concessions from the latter? Where does it stop?
They are businesses operating in heavily regulated (by governments) industries.
If they don't want to play by the rules for the "financial industries" they are free to switch to a different business.
But Libertarians are just corporate apologists for whom private business can do no wrong and the world is full of free enterprise throttled by evil governments. They refuse to acknowledge actual history where unchecked corporations seek monopolies, anti-competitive collaboration and suppression of customers as long as they grow large enough.
But some countries seem to go beyond that: Apparently, sites that show over-18 models who sport ponytails or braces ("young" features) have sometimes been blocked, and also fictional child porn (comics, text), i.e. look at the case of the American stopped on the Canadian border for possessing a Japanese manga.
Child porn laws generally set the limit at 18 regardless of sexual age of consent. So you can have sex with your hot girlfriend as long as you do not record it...