A few trillion spent with absolutely no gain -- but much loss -- for the U.S.? Yeah, that's a win alright.
GP is correct: "The Iraq war was declared a win" only by people swayed by swagger rather than substance. By your own admission, it's all in the marketing.
Obama is -- in nearly all of his policies and goals -- a Reagan Republican. The hagiography surrounding Reagan by people who disagree with nearly all of his policies is truly bizarre.
Agree 100%. I also shoot m4/3, and love the smaller size. The difficult part is putting up with high ISO noise (gradually improving with m4/3, but not quickly enough!) which this lens could help fix.
I find it amusing that Random Dick on the internet is complaining about "impersonal isolation in this society." Here's a smile, #137, go outside and share it for a change.:-)
I don't believe human contact is in decline at all. Kiosks and the like save me time, and allow me to spend time with the humans I like, respect, and appreciate, rather than the poorly trained, poorly paid customer service people I used to have to deal with.
Waiting in long hotel and airport lines is not "human contact" -- it's pointless alone time.
This whole discussion is irrelevant. Mega doesn't have encryption to protect your data; they have encryption in order to protect themselves from any accusations of actively assisting copyright infringement.
As long as the data is encrypted -- even with a half-assed encryption -- before it hits their servers, they can plausibly deny having any idea what's being uploaded. Additionally, they can logically avoid taking any many actions to prevent copyright infringement that other services offer, thus saving themselves the hassle of responding to millions of automated takedown notices.
Poor people can succeed, rich people can fail academically - money alone doesn't "fix" anything in education, it just makes it look nicer.
You're partially right. Poor people CAN succeed, but rich people are much, much more likely to.
I grew up dirt poor and succeeded, academically and otherwise. But I'm the only one in my family -- and nearly the only one in my high school -- who "succeeded" by any normal definition of the word. Now look at the average SAT scores of folks that the Rockefeller's and Bush's of the world grew up with -- almost nothing but successes.
Surely you're not suggesting that there's not a VERY strong correlation between money and academic success? Money's not the cause of that success, but it's a massive, massive contributor.
You might have a point, had iOS the iPhone not directly adopted a number of features that Android already had. Notifications are the most famous, but I also recall early iPhone users telling me how the flash on my Droid was useless (until Apple added one to the iPhone) and how OTA updates weren't necessary (until Apple added that, too) and how sharing pics with 3rd party apps was dumb (obviously, that became one of the core iPhone uses).
All tech steals from all other tech -- Stallman knows that to be true, and realizes that it's incredibly important.
Jobs also knew that it's true, but wanted to stop it where it might cost him something, and continue it where it could make him money. He was a hypocrite.
An expression we DO ban here in the U.S. is child pornography; the form doesn't matter. It can be on youtube, anime, photos, videotron, drawings, etc. This is a better analogy to Pakistan's ban on blasphemy.
I'm tempted to mod you Troll, but then you might not figure out exactly where your logic is (horrifyingly) wrong, so I'll explain instead: Child pornography is banned because it causes harm. THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST DRAWINGS OR ANIME DEPICTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY in the U.S., because no one is harmed -- or potentially harmed -- in drawings or anime.
. Who gives billions in aid to the world? Capitalist countries. Meanwhile, the communist and extreme socialist governments are comprised of the most selfish bastards on the planet.
Cuba offered to give the U.S. money after Katrina, and we declined. China gives out an enormous amount of money to aid other Asian countries.
You could even argue that the more socialist a Western, industrialized country is, the more they give out in foreign aid (as a percentage of their GDP.)
But don't let crazy facts get in the way of your uninformed rants.
The problem isn't the day trader; it's that a handful of institutional investors are doing the bulk of the buying, making it trivial to manipulate prices and make oodles of money off people who *aren't* big enough to manipulate markets.
A nice example of this right now are solar stocks. The fundamentals haven't changed at all over the past few months, yet some of the stocks are up 75% or more over the past few weeks. There's nothing going on anywhere in the world to make that happen, yet volume is suspiciously heavy all of the sudden.
Day traders can try to come along for the ride, but they don't have the vast resources to be part of the problem.
So if you want to be kept healthy, maybe you should be pushing for a system that wants you to be healthy, rather than one that wants you as a (paying) patient.
Or you could eat right, exercise, and moderate health-negative behaviors like drinking and tanning, and when the end comes to your long life (barring accidents, etc.) just refuse to live as a medicated invalid and move on.
Then you don't have to worry about being "kept" anything.
Are you saying that the police killed his neighbor in order to frame him?
To me it seems more likely than McAfee having done so.
I also have no history of violence, but it someone killed my dog, they would die. Particularly if I lived in a place where money can erase crime (a fact McAfee seems to have over-estimated regarding Belize).
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The Iraq war was declared a win
A few trillion spent with absolutely no gain -- but much loss -- for the U.S.? Yeah, that's a win alright.
GP is correct: "The Iraq war was declared a win" only by people swayed by swagger rather than substance. By your own admission, it's all in the marketing.
Obama is -- in nearly all of his policies and goals -- a Reagan Republican. The hagiography surrounding Reagan by people who disagree with nearly all of his policies is truly bizarre.
Probably just an H-1B first poster doing a crappy job.
Agree 100%. I also shoot m4/3, and love the smaller size. The difficult part is putting up with high ISO noise (gradually improving with m4/3, but not quickly enough!) which this lens could help fix.
I find it amusing that Random Dick on the internet is complaining about "impersonal isolation in this society." Here's a smile, #137, go outside and share it for a change. :-)
I don't believe human contact is in decline at all. Kiosks and the like save me time, and allow me to spend time with the humans I like, respect, and appreciate, rather than the poorly trained, poorly paid customer service people I used to have to deal with.
Waiting in long hotel and airport lines is not "human contact" -- it's pointless alone time.
I love the "passfile" feature of TrueCrypt. You need both the password/phrase AND the passfile.
Chase bank prohibits non-alphanumeric characters. Unbelievable.
If electricity in a city went out for a week there would be riots and looting.
Clearly you don't live in New York, where you were proven wrong less than 3 months ago.
This whole discussion is irrelevant. Mega doesn't have encryption to protect your data; they have encryption in order to protect themselves from any accusations of actively assisting copyright infringement.
As long as the data is encrypted -- even with a half-assed encryption -- before it hits their servers, they can plausibly deny having any idea what's being uploaded. Additionally, they can logically avoid taking any many actions to prevent copyright infringement that other services offer, thus saving themselves the hassle of responding to millions of automated takedown notices.
... QWERTY keyboard, which by design was to slow people down...
This is a common myth, and totally fabricated.
Poor people can succeed, rich people can fail academically - money alone doesn't "fix" anything in education, it just makes it look nicer.
You're partially right. Poor people CAN succeed, but rich people are much, much more likely to.
I grew up dirt poor and succeeded, academically and otherwise. But I'm the only one in my family -- and nearly the only one in my high school -- who "succeeded" by any normal definition of the word. Now look at the average SAT scores of folks that the Rockefeller's and Bush's of the world grew up with -- almost nothing but successes.
Surely you're not suggesting that there's not a VERY strong correlation between money and academic success? Money's not the cause of that success, but it's a massive, massive contributor.
You might have a point, had iOS the iPhone not directly adopted a number of features that Android already had. Notifications are the most famous, but I also recall early iPhone users telling me how the flash on my Droid was useless (until Apple added one to the iPhone) and how OTA updates weren't necessary (until Apple added that, too) and how sharing pics with 3rd party apps was dumb (obviously, that became one of the core iPhone uses).
All tech steals from all other tech -- Stallman knows that to be true, and realizes that it's incredibly important.
Jobs also knew that it's true, but wanted to stop it where it might cost him something, and continue it where it could make him money. He was a hypocrite.
Yes, you can change this setting, but I consider it a feature.
/. is in theory a site for knowledgeable geeks. If very basic HTML is too hard for you, please go away.
Most new cars have a black box device that will record and preserve data leading up to any airbag deployment.
An expression we DO ban here in the U.S. is child pornography; the form doesn't matter. It can be on youtube, anime, photos, videotron, drawings, etc. This is a better analogy to Pakistan's ban on blasphemy.
I'm tempted to mod you Troll, but then you might not figure out exactly where your logic is (horrifyingly) wrong, so I'll explain instead: Child pornography is banned because it causes harm. THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST DRAWINGS OR ANIME DEPICTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY in the U.S., because no one is harmed -- or potentially harmed -- in drawings or anime.
Sex with children is bad, mkay?
. Who gives billions in aid to the world? Capitalist countries. Meanwhile, the communist and extreme socialist governments are comprised of the most selfish bastards on the planet.
Cuba offered to give the U.S. money after Katrina, and we declined. China gives out an enormous amount of money to aid other Asian countries.
You could even argue that the more socialist a Western, industrialized country is, the more they give out in foreign aid (as a percentage of their GDP.)
But don't let crazy facts get in the way of your uninformed rants.
The problem isn't the day trader; it's that a handful of institutional investors are doing the bulk of the buying, making it trivial to manipulate prices and make oodles of money off people who *aren't* big enough to manipulate markets.
A nice example of this right now are solar stocks. The fundamentals haven't changed at all over the past few months, yet some of the stocks are up 75% or more over the past few weeks. There's nothing going on anywhere in the world to make that happen, yet volume is suspiciously heavy all of the sudden.
Day traders can try to come along for the ride, but they don't have the vast resources to be part of the problem.
Actually the analogy works against you.
Both Apple Maps and the Ford Pinto suck. Apple Maps suck because their data sucks. The Pinto sucked because of it's engine (and hideous design).
IOW, both products were crap that shouldn't have been released, and once again you're pretending to argue with the OP while proving his point.
So if you want to be kept healthy, maybe you should be pushing for a system that wants you to be healthy, rather than one that wants you as a (paying) patient.
Or you could eat right, exercise, and moderate health-negative behaviors like drinking and tanning, and when the end comes to your long life (barring accidents, etc.) just refuse to live as a medicated invalid and move on.
Then you don't have to worry about being "kept" anything.
It's a service where you pay to watch the same handful of commercials over and over again. You're not missing anything.
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America
Are you saying that the police killed his neighbor in order to frame him?
To me it seems more likely than McAfee having done so.
I also have no history of violence, but it someone killed my dog, they would die. Particularly if I lived in a place where money can erase crime (a fact McAfee seems to have over-estimated regarding Belize).
1 Belize dollar = 2 U.S. dollars, so he's not a billionaire there either.
But if you meant that he could live a billionaire lifestyle in Belize with just a few million U.S. dollars, I'd agree.
If the battery was replaceable, she wouldn't have had to buy so many phones at once.
why don't geeks spend hours and hours tinkering with cars?
Because I'm too busy tinkering with my motorcycle.