What a lovely straw man you have there. You're really trying to claim the alternative to a censored search is no search? Seriously? Your faith in the gullibility of the people here is...remarkable.
Would you mind if I translated your comment into actual English? I think it would go something like this:
"Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. I said move along!
"The new lawsuit, which Ferguson explained will be filed 'within hours,' comes just one day after Defense Distributed voluntarily agreed to block IP addresses from Pennsylvania after that state's attorney general filed a similar motion in federal court there.
Thank Almighty God and Baby Jesus nobody in Pennsylvania has ever heard that the letters "V", "P" and "N", when taken together, constitute an acronym which has some bearing on this situation.
Asked if the military's security expectations were arbitrary and unfair, Pentagon Spokesman Squamous Turdstocking III said, "It's not that we're catagorically against back doors in our software. We just want to make sure only Russia and our Commander In Chief have a set of keys.
Thank god there aren't a zillion Russian trolls drooling over the opportunity to game this system while Facebook's board of corporate scumbags nearly dislocate their necks looking the other way.
Given this administration's track record, I think we can make a pretty good guess about how this is going to work out. Consumers will have the right to drop their pants and grab their ankles, and that will be about all.
So now that Microsoft is buried balls deep in your company, they're vigorously driving home the point that you now have a business partner whether you wanted one or not. And this one has no responsibility whatsoever to you or your business.
So when it comes to having a chance to live in a total surveillance society where privacy is a quaint memory and the truth is whatever government-controlled media tells you it is...I guess we can put you down for an enthusiastic, "Yes!"
I think I read the same article you did. I recall the Air France stand on the matter, and thought they did a magnificent job of standing up for civilized conduct in a world where increasingly, drooling fanatics are being allowed to call the shots.
As far as I'm concerned, if a country wants to cover women in mobile tents, forbid vaccinations and birth control, or engage in any of a dozen other behaviours that essentially spit in the face of science, free speech, individual freedom and other keystones of a free society, its borders should be pretty much sealed, except for legitimate refugees trying to get the hell out.
And yes, I'm going to ignore the low-hanging fruit about whether some US states would fall under such a ban if it were instituted on less than a country-wide basis.
VideoLAN's VLC player is the best media player around. Period. Nothing is even close. If you have a media file and want to play it, VLC Player does it well with a minimum of drama...and it's free.
I'm glad they're doing this. All they have is their reputation. They don't need it tarnished by malware-infested Chinese crap-phones running an OS designed to make personal privacy a quaint historical footnote.
First of all, this is yet another example of supposed "Free World" corporations knuckling under to a totalitarian dictatorship because it's profitable to do so.
Perhaps less obvious is that in order to stay airworthy, the planes those airlines fly depend on cheap Chinese-made parts, and cut-rate labour in places like Singapore and Indonesia. Does anybody here believe an airline that stood up to China would continue to enjoy access to those lovely, cheap replacement parts? Would maintenance hubs like Singapore even pretend to stand up to China if they said Carrier X or Y was on its "shit list"?
Based on the way the US has spent the last half century of its manned space program jacking off, it appears that the international language of the High Frontier probably won't be English.
The main reason most start-ups don't go to regulators is pretty simple and direct. They don't want to piss off their future owners. Let's face it. For a lot of start-ups that's the unspoken goal: get bought out by one of the big players for a ridiculous amount of money and either stay on as a figurehead or just go off and play.
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What a lovely straw man you have there. You're really trying to claim the alternative to a censored search is no search? Seriously? Your faith in the gullibility of the people here is...remarkable.
Would you mind if I translated your comment into actual English? I think it would go something like this:
"Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. I said move along!
"The new lawsuit, which Ferguson explained will be filed 'within hours,' comes just one day after Defense Distributed voluntarily agreed to block IP addresses from Pennsylvania after that state's attorney general filed a similar motion in federal court there.
Thank Almighty God and Baby Jesus nobody in Pennsylvania has ever heard that the letters "V", "P" and "N", when taken together, constitute an acronym which has some bearing on this situation.
Headline on the summary immediately above this one:
Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm
Headline on this summary:
US Military Told To Move From 'Expendable' To 'Reusable' Rockets
Coincidence? I think not!
Asked if the military's security expectations were arbitrary and unfair, Pentagon Spokesman Squamous Turdstocking III said, "It's not that we're catagorically against back doors in our software. We just want to make sure only Russia and our Commander In Chief have a set of keys.
I hear they also paid record taxes in the US. Something like a dollar ninety-eight on that two billion.
Or maybe a little less.
Thank god there aren't a zillion Russian trolls drooling over the opportunity to game this system while Facebook's board of corporate scumbags nearly dislocate their necks looking the other way.
Ignoring the support structure benefitting said worm would have negative consequences, and is therefore something to be avoided.
Given this administration's track record, I think we can make a pretty good guess about how this is going to work out. Consumers will have the right to drop their pants and grab their ankles, and that will be about all.
So now that Microsoft is buried balls deep in your company, they're vigorously driving home the point that you now have a business partner whether you wanted one or not. And this one has no responsibility whatsoever to you or your business.
So when it comes to having a chance to live in a total surveillance society where privacy is a quaint memory and the truth is whatever government-controlled media tells you it is...I guess we can put you down for an enthusiastic, "Yes!"
In other words, some less obedient hounds are finally paying attention to the right wing's dog whistle.
I think I read the same article you did. I recall the Air France stand on the matter, and thought they did a magnificent job of standing up for civilized conduct in a world where increasingly, drooling fanatics are being allowed to call the shots.
As far as I'm concerned, if a country wants to cover women in mobile tents, forbid vaccinations and birth control, or engage in any of a dozen other behaviours that essentially spit in the face of science, free speech, individual freedom and other keystones of a free society, its borders should be pretty much sealed, except for legitimate refugees trying to get the hell out.
And yes, I'm going to ignore the low-hanging fruit about whether some US states would fall under such a ban if it were instituted on less than a country-wide basis.
VideoLAN's VLC player is the best media player around. Period. Nothing is even close. If you have a media file and want to play it, VLC Player does it well with a minimum of drama...and it's free.
I'm glad they're doing this. All they have is their reputation. They don't need it tarnished by malware-infested Chinese crap-phones running an OS designed to make personal privacy a quaint historical footnote.
First of all, this is yet another example of supposed "Free World" corporations knuckling under to a totalitarian dictatorship because it's profitable to do so.
Perhaps less obvious is that in order to stay airworthy, the planes those airlines fly depend on cheap Chinese-made parts, and cut-rate labour in places like Singapore and Indonesia. Does anybody here believe an airline that stood up to China would continue to enjoy access to those lovely, cheap replacement parts? Would maintenance hubs like Singapore even pretend to stand up to China if they said Carrier X or Y was on its "shit list"?
The only things needing to be tracked back to their lair and killed are a drooling conservative morons pretending to give a shit about babies.
If you let your appliances communicate with anybody but you, you deserve what you get.
Thank you, good sir.
The most frequent users will be hookers. No question.
They are also the best way to develop the expertise to get all of our eggs out of one celestial basket.
So no, manned space programs are not obsolete.
Based on the way the US has spent the last half century of its manned space program jacking off, it appears that the international language of the High Frontier probably won't be English.
LOL
The main reason most start-ups don't go to regulators is pretty simple and direct. They don't want to piss off their future owners. Let's face it. For a lot of start-ups that's the unspoken goal: get bought out by one of the big players for a ridiculous amount of money and either stay on as a figurehead or just go off and play.
So is a "form factor" like...hmm, what's the word...like a "shape"?
Fixing a problem: pointing out to an illiterate idiot that there's a difference between "then" and "than"...and laughing when they don't get it.
Virtue signalling: Term used by conservative assholes attempting to dismiss or devalue moral and ethical standards they are incapable of attaining.