Most US public media, Snowden is getting mostly neutral or positive press everywhere else.
While that is true, the balance between reports on Snowden and the actual leaks is disturbingly focused on Snowden rather than the leaks themselves. While I empathize with Snowdens current situation and admire his courage I am not of the opinion that the girlfriend he left behind and similar material that belong in gossip columns is more news worthy than the actual leaks.
The mention of GPS is the reason why I sprayed my monitor with coffee and stopped reading halfway through the first paragraph. If you are going to suggest that a technology should be repealed then at least make sure you at least understand the very basics. If you don't, stick with what you do know and get of our lawn.
public broadcaster SWF quoted unnamed sources as saying that the two were studying aeronautics in Stuttgart and were suspected of trying to develop techniques for remotely piloting model planes using GPS technology.
Wow, who would ever guessed someone studying aeronautics could have an interest in that [/sarcasm]
I also don't see anything spectacular in their supposed interest in explosives. Watching things blow up spectacularly is lots of fun as is proven by the success of Mythbusters a success that at least in part can be attributed to this. Crap! Grant Imahara better stay out of Germany.
Note how the last one were released by the police in an attempt of warning people of the dangers of getting too drunk, something that of course could not have been done in any other fashion.
CCTV footage isn't uploaded anywhere unless there's a very good reason (general rule).
It should of course have read "on its fingers..." And no! I am not under the delusion that some anal retentive asshat won't find something to whine about and declare that I am guilty of a crime of genocidal proportions due to my failure to double check before posting.
They did little more than slap the NSA in it's fingers saying "naughty boy!" while at the same time condoning the appalling concept of secret courts.
"We appreciate your attention to this matter. We believe that the U.S. government should have broad authorities to investigate terrorism and espionage, and that it is possible to aggressively pursue terrorists without compromising the constitutional rights of ordinary Americans. Achieving this goal depends not just on secret courts and secret congressional hearings, but on informed public debate as well."
If the body is male (has penis/gonads/musculature), you're male. If the body is female (uterus/ovaries etc), you're female. End of story. What you 'feel' is irrelevant.
It's not always that easy as that:
"A 66-year-old apparently male patient made a stunning discovery when he sought treatment for swelling in his abdomen. The swelling was a cyst on his ovary and he was in fact a woman.
The condition was caused by a very rare combination of two genetic disorders. One, Turner syndrome, causes women to lack some female features, including the ability to get pregnant.
Sufferers usually look like women, but in this case the patient also had congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which boosted the male hormones and made the patient look like a man."
I also think that when you create something, it is your right to ask money for it or not.
I think you would have a hard time to find anyone here that dispute that, but creating something does not make you entitled to dictate what people do with it after they have paid for it.
On a side note, I think that I should be entitled to a refund on the 23.60€ (+30€ for drinks and snacks) I paid for myself and my wife to watch Star Trek last night as it utterly failed to deliver the experience I expect from Star Trek./toungue in cheek
And I have friends who make a living as touring musicians earning there livelihood on the sales of the tickets plus CD's, t-shirts etc sold at the venue. Do they get upset if someone download their music? No. I know that they don't. They value the promotional value of every new listener as being someone that one day might come and listen to their live performances and pay for the privilege to do so. You know that obscure way which used to be the primary source of income for musicians since the beginning of time. Regarding sales of CD's at the venue, Einstürzende Neubaten have a very clever approach to it. At the end of each performance you can buy a DRM free USB with the concert you just listened to on it, if I recall correctly I paid 25€ for mine a couple of years ago.
Yeah right, it is soo typical of this entitlement generation to find excuses like that.
I won't waste time and effort arguing my points with you, not due to my inability to do so nor due to lack of car analogies or all the studies that would blow holes the size of the media industry lies into your arguments, it is all out there for you to find on your own accord. What I will do however, is thank you for kindly lumping me into a generation that is decades younger than I am. What was it that fooled you? It can't be my stunning youthful looks, or... *double checks webcam*
I should perhaps added that legality is a matter of jurisdiction "in the 2004 case of BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe, court decided that both downloading music and putting it in a shared folder available to other people online were legal in Canada." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing#Canada
You wont be able to find any illegal content hosted by the site no matter how long and hard you look, what you will find however are.torrent files and magnet links. Big difference but not one I'd expect you to be willing to accept.
This is absolutely false. People only think that LPs sound better because it's what they are accustomed to.
This is absolutely false. I and many with me argue that LP's (mostly) sound better as they generally are mastered with a greater dynamic range than their digital counterparts which tend to be remastered with as much loudness as possible. Not everybody that listen to vinyl are clueless hipsters.
That depends on what you are listening for, if you prefer your music to be mastered with focus on highest loudness possible, sure then CD is the way to go. But if you prefer a wide dynamic range, then you will in most cases be better off with vinyl, this due to the fact that vinyl impose physical limits on the amount of loudness that can be achieved and therefore will be mastered differently. You may not have noticed but it is getting increasingly difficult to find a digital copy of old classics that have not been remastered to be loud, meaning that for some of us a 20 year old (in good condition) vinyl will sound way better than what your remastered digital copy ever will. http://www.soundmattersblog.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness-war/
There are not really any corporate profits to be made from dealing with the root causes, so I strongly doubt we'll ever see anywhere near the same amount of effort and money getting pumped into that as is going towards increased surveillance of the general populace.
On my poor old computer it is clearly visible on the CPU load:)
I am able to hear from a significant distance when the fans struggle to keep the machine alive as my wife play candy crush on her macbook pro, nothing else that she does on it is causing the same desperate whirring of the fans.
Sure. I'll even sacrifice a heap of mod points to do so. Have you ever considered that Nagasaki and Hiroshima played a much smaller part in the Japanese surrender than what is the commonly believed truth, and that in fact it might more have to do with the Soviet declaring war on Japan on August 8 1945 than it ever did with the atomic bombs?
Hell, I bet wars have been started over a girl or a spilled beer.
Being a longtime resident of Belgium I'd say that spilled beer is a perfectly legit reason for starting a war, unless by beer you mean that discolored water that is referred to as beer in the US.
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Most US public media, Snowden is getting mostly neutral or positive press everywhere else.
While that is true, the balance between reports on Snowden and the actual leaks is disturbingly focused on Snowden rather than the leaks themselves. While I empathize with Snowdens current situation and admire his courage I am not of the opinion that the girlfriend he left behind and similar material that belong in gossip columns is more news worthy than the actual leaks.
- GPS
Wait, what? GPS?
The mention of GPS is the reason why I sprayed my monitor with coffee and stopped reading halfway through the first paragraph. If you are going to suggest that a technology should be repealed then at least make sure you at least understand the very basics. If you don't, stick with what you do know and get of our lawn.
public broadcaster SWF quoted unnamed sources as saying that the two were studying aeronautics in Stuttgart and were suspected of trying to develop techniques for remotely piloting model planes using GPS technology.
Wow, who would ever guessed someone studying aeronautics could have an interest in that [/sarcasm]
I also don't see anything spectacular in their supposed interest in explosives. Watching things blow up spectacularly is lots of fun as is proven by the success of Mythbusters a success that at least in part can be attributed to this. Crap! Grant Imahara better stay out of Germany.
Trash the chair that you sat in when it trashed your tables?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/a-reminder-that-glass-doors-are-the-biggest-threat-to-humani
http://www.2mcctv.com/blog/2012_08_10-top-10-funniest-videos-caught-on-cctv-surveillance-cameras/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ijGfDMiIs
Note how the last one were released by the police in an attempt of warning people of the dangers of getting too drunk, something that of course could not have been done in any other fashion.
CCTV footage isn't uploaded anywhere unless there's a very good reason (general rule).
Want to try again?
It should of course have read "on its fingers..." And no! I am not under the delusion that some anal retentive asshat won't find something to whine about and declare that I am guilty of a crime of genocidal proportions due to my failure to double check before posting.
They did little more than slap the NSA in it's fingers saying "naughty boy!" while at the same time condoning the appalling concept of secret courts.
"We appreciate your attention to this matter. We believe that the U.S. government should have broad authorities to investigate terrorism and espionage, and that it is possible to aggressively pursue terrorists without compromising the constitutional rights of ordinary Americans. Achieving this goal depends not just on secret courts and secret congressional hearings, but on informed public debate as well."
If the body is male (has penis/gonads/musculature), you're male. If the body is female (uterus/ovaries etc), you're female. End of story. What you 'feel' is irrelevant.
It's not always that easy as that:
"A 66-year-old apparently male patient made a stunning discovery when he sought treatment for swelling in his abdomen. The swelling was a cyst on his ovary and he was in fact a woman. The condition was caused by a very rare combination of two genetic disorders. One, Turner syndrome, causes women to lack some female features, including the ability to get pregnant. Sufferers usually look like women, but in this case the patient also had congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which boosted the male hormones and made the patient look like a man."
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1252857/man-66-goes-doctor-and-finds-hes-woman?page=all
I also think that when you create something, it is your right to ask money for it or not.
I think you would have a hard time to find anyone here that dispute that, but creating something does not make you entitled to dictate what people do with it after they have paid for it.
On a side note, I think that I should be entitled to a refund on the 23.60€ (+30€ for drinks and snacks) I paid for myself and my wife to watch Star Trek last night as it utterly failed to deliver the experience I expect from Star Trek. /toungue in cheek
And I have friends who make a living as touring musicians earning there livelihood on the sales of the tickets plus CD's, t-shirts etc sold at the venue. Do they get upset if someone download their music? No. I know that they don't. They value the promotional value of every new listener as being someone that one day might come and listen to their live performances and pay for the privilege to do so. You know that obscure way which used to be the primary source of income for musicians since the beginning of time. Regarding sales of CD's at the venue, Einstürzende Neubaten have a very clever approach to it. At the end of each performance you can buy a DRM free USB with the concert you just listened to on it, if I recall correctly I paid 25€ for mine a couple of years ago.
See what I did there?
Yeah right, it is soo typical of this entitlement generation to find excuses like that.
I won't waste time and effort arguing my points with you, not due to my inability to do so nor due to lack of car analogies or all the studies that would blow holes the size of the media industry lies into your arguments, it is all out there for you to find on your own accord. What I will do however, is thank you for kindly lumping me into a generation that is decades younger than I am. What was it that fooled you? It can't be my stunning youthful looks, or... *double checks webcam*
I should perhaps added that legality is a matter of jurisdiction "in the 2004 case of BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe, court decided that both downloading music and putting it in a shared folder available to other people online were legal in Canada." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing#Canada
You wont be able to find any illegal content hosted by the site no matter how long and hard you look, what you will find however are .torrent files and magnet links. Big difference but not one I'd expect you to be willing to accept.
This is absolutely false. People only think that LPs sound better because it's what they are accustomed to.
This is absolutely false. I and many with me argue that LP's (mostly) sound better as they generally are mastered with a greater dynamic range than their digital counterparts which tend to be remastered with as much loudness as possible. Not everybody that listen to vinyl are clueless hipsters.
That depends on what you are listening for, if you prefer your music to be mastered with focus on highest loudness possible, sure then CD is the way to go. But if you prefer a wide dynamic range, then you will in most cases be better off with vinyl, this due to the fact that vinyl impose physical limits on the amount of loudness that can be achieved and therefore will be mastered differently. You may not have noticed but it is getting increasingly difficult to find a digital copy of old classics that have not been remastered to be loud, meaning that for some of us a 20 year old (in good condition) vinyl will sound way better than what your remastered digital copy ever will. http://www.soundmattersblog.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness-war/
Which very possibly would add the charge of interfering with a police investigation on top of other charges they might have against you.
There are not really any corporate profits to be made from dealing with the root causes, so I strongly doubt we'll ever see anywhere near the same amount of effort and money getting pumped into that as is going towards increased surveillance of the general populace.
But it will be expensive.
No more so than the Data retention that already have been in place for some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#United_Kingdom
On my poor old computer it is clearly visible on the CPU load :)
I am able to hear from a significant distance when the fans struggle to keep the machine alive as my wife play candy crush on her macbook pro, nothing else that she does on it is causing the same desperate whirring of the fans.
I wonder if initially it were meant to be a OS comparison but the outcome were not the one wished for so they had to settle for a browser comparison.
At the iPhone introduction, Job said Apple "patented the hell out of it."
Nice fanboy modding going on. Like it or not, the quote is not fiction.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/08/21/the-apple-vs-samsung-patent-dispute-20-talking-points/2/
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/apple-beats-competition-with-design-and/240006830
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22patented+the+hell+out+of+it%22
Now tackle Japan.
Sure. I'll even sacrifice a heap of mod points to do so. Have you ever considered that Nagasaki and Hiroshima played a much smaller part in the Japanese surrender than what is the commonly believed truth, and that in fact it might more have to do with the Soviet declaring war on Japan on August 8 1945 than it ever did with the atomic bombs?
Your point about the Japan is worth considering. But perhaps a better context, without the shakey historical context, might look something like this: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_didnt_beat_japan_nuclear_world_war_ii
Hell, I bet wars have been started over a girl or a spilled beer.
Being a longtime resident of Belgium I'd say that spilled beer is a perfectly legit reason for starting a war, unless by beer you mean that discolored water that is referred to as beer in the US.
And if you want to see a fat-cat lifestyle, try and peer into the liver of an European Commissioner. ;-)
TFTFY