Its kind of like how the US raises its average through the faster states' increased average speed. In the US, some states are far better off than others. In this sense, bundling the EU actually does make fairly good sense as compared to bundling the US. In my state (Alabama) the best broadband internet competition I've ever seen was between Bellsouth(AT&T) and Comcast or Charter. In a very large part of where I live (north AL) it is still dial-up or nothing. Even satellite internet is hard to find.
I'm sorry, but this is the point of having registered trademarks; to have a legal way to protect the MARKs that you TRADE with. Apple has a stake in anything that wants to use a picture of an Apple, and I would expect them to file a brief opposing it no matter the product.
What you don't seem to realize is that this is the purpose of trademarks; Someone wants to use an image/slogan/whathaveyou, and other people have a window when they can say 'I disapprove, because it looks like mine that I have a trademark on,' and then the trademark office goes through the application and all the comments and decides if the applicant can use what it wants to. THIS IS THE SYSTEM WORKING AS INTENDED.
Can you really say that Apple doesn't have a stake in other companies using Apples for logos? Because that's what saying they shouldn't file this complaint is saying. That is like saying that Intel was being threatened because other companies/organizations could use the number 80486 in a name. Seriously, if apple seriously wanted to have a unique trademark or "think different" they shouldn't have named it after a fruit. And BTW, Intel lost their claim to copyright numbers.
If one subscribes to the works of Freud and believes that humans are controlled by irrational emotional forces and desires rather than reason, then writing a pro-war piece becomes rather easy. The people writing this propaganda (think Goebbels, who admired the work of Freud and, in particualar, the work of Edward Bernays) certainly subscribe to this belief. For some weird reason,this propaganda, be it justifying the German invasion of Poland/France/USSR/etc in WWII or the Bush cronies justifying the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan in the War on Terror. Both of them were justified by saying that they would eradicate a boogeyman be it Communists/Jews or Islamofascists/terrorists.
I still wonder how the most powerful and advanced military the world has ever known could "accidentally" target a hospital, or an embassy, when both are clearly marked on maps, and everyone who actually lives in the city knows where they are... Two things:
1. Even the most accurate smart munitions, such as the JDAM, still are only 80% accurate. This means that, contrary to Rumsfeld's rambling about the "humanity" that goes into targeting, 20% of the ordinance (think 1 ton bombs) still misses its target.
2. The air-force guy looking at the map is a. not looking for a hospital and b. is likely sleep-deprived and likely to make mistakes. and c. is definitely not from the target city.
In conclusion, the greatest travesty of this is the common notion in American citizens and politicians that these "smart" weapons and the people aiming them are 100% error-free. This idea, which is all too widespread in America today, causes politicians and citizens to think that civilians aren't killed and thus we can conduct war without consequences.
In all likelyhood, he probably either hasn't heard of Linux, he isn't allowed to install Linux or other FOSS, or the computers are so bad that windows 2000 probably actually runs better on the machines. I live in Alabama, and did the same thing for my teacher's assistant period, albeit while in the 7th and 8th grade. Depending on the county he lives in, he's probably adminining machines with an average spec of: AMD K6 series or Intel Pentium 2/3 series processors, 128 MB RAM, integrated video, 4-10 GB HDD,CD ROM drive. Maybe (hopefully)he has something better to work with. In my county (Morgan), the majority of the computers we had to work with were donations (throwaways) from Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. As far as FOSS goes, his county likely has a mandate that his school install McAfee AV (oh the horror) on every computer in the school, networked or not. FOSS, including Firefox, was simply not allowed on the machines. The only way to get permission to use FOSS would be to climb the bureaucratic chain all the way to the county Superintendent of Education, who likely doesn't know a whit about computers and is likely to view anything free (as in beer) with suspicion.
Well, in my 9th grade HONORS ENGLISH class, there were people that couldn't fucking read. I mean, around 20% wasn't literate enough to understand what they were reading. I shudder to think what the numbers were like in the normal English classes. I know my state (Alabama) is ranked pretty low (at the very best in 40th place or worse) as far as all things education go, but the scary thing is that we weren't 50th place. Is it that bad in high schools elsewhere in the country? Oh, and ethnicity wise, my high school was 95+% white and didn't have a single person for whom English wasn't their fist language.
Come on; there's not even a reason to have *any* transitions between slides. Nothing says "Oh god, what an amateur" than seeing slide after slide spiral into another one, or slowly dissolve, etc. Transitions are just a way to waste your time trying out different possibilities instead of polishing your content or doing something else useful. God, I wish my teachers shared this opinion. People will consistently score higher if they use some kind of slide decoration or animation, even if it is just a default outline. It seems as if they think that "being creative" and "spending more time on it" is more important than the quality of the actual content. Transitions and decorations, at least at my school, are simply cheap ways to milk more credit from the teacher for some shitty presentation that took, at maximum, 30 minutes to create .
Yeah, and you can't even get a lot of good music (aka. music that I like)at Wal-Mart. Usually, I just take my nice 2 gig flash drive with me and if a friend has music I like I'll copy it to the drive. In all honesty, the biggest obstacle to this I've had to deal with lately is that several of my friends have gotten Vista, thus the file copy takes like twice as long.
The problem is that the average voter/judge/juror is too ignorant of this to understand. So people will tolerate a "successful" conviction in spite of this fact.
Quite frankly, I believe we will see a result similar to that of the war on drugs. Lots of people will be thrown in jail, billions of taxpayer dollars will be spent, and the numbers of childeren sexually abused won't change in any significant way.
That is the logic of this. You start with a subject, child porn, that causes people to pass laws irrationally. Then the RIAA,MPAA,Microsoft, etc. lobbies have a precedent for using fake (trap)links for pirate torrents. Then the government can extend this to political thought sites (say marxists.org) or anything else on the internet they want criminalized.
Then or nanny-state friendly congress will simply draft up a law against clicking the link. They would simply apply many of the existing illegal drug laws to child porn. They could call clicking on the link "conspiracy to purchase child porn" or whatever. Next thing you will have a "war on child porn" with probably the same results.
Yes, the same EU that is populated, in a significant part, by former eastern-bloc states. I live in the southeast and just recently moved to a broadband area (where I previously live had only dialup). Yeah, we have cable internet(charter). It gets approximately 300 KB/s We also have their terrible television service. But I live in a boarding school and we have state(Alabama) internet. It has kindergarten level internet filtering(for awhile godtube was the only unblocked video site) and we get approximately 50-100 KB/s. Yeah, where is this 5.1 mb/s internet?
Uhh, FF works far better on windoze, last I checked. On linux (ubuntu, mepis, other n00b distros) it crashes every 15-30 minutes. At least v2xx. FF3 is a huge improvement on the linux front but it still has a few issues. Personally I use windozexp on my desktop (homebrew gaming machine with an A64 4000+ OC'd to 5400+, 4GB ram, ati x1950GT OC'd to 1950PRO clock speeds) and linux on my laptop (acer with 512 ram, a celeron1.6, and the usual GMA.) On my laptop (linux) I have the FF3 beta running but when I use two or more tabs the processor is overwhelmed and it locks up. On my desktop (xp) I use FF2. I also use OO, thunderbird (evolution on teh laptop), and vlc. My worst linux experience so far has been ati's horrible driver (no FOSS drivers available. Second was getting the damned CSS decoders to work on linux.
but what happens if they send it to a country who happens to be a good pal of ours, only to see the government fall to a bloody coup resulting in a new ruling party that's both anti-US and militant? Good point. That was Iran. Remember the former shah? Remember the overthrow in '79?
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Its kind of like how the US raises its average through the faster states' increased average speed. In the US, some states are far better off than others. In this sense, bundling the EU actually does make fairly good sense as compared to bundling the US. In my state (Alabama) the best broadband internet competition I've ever seen was between Bellsouth(AT&T) and Comcast or Charter. In a very large part of where I live (north AL) it is still dial-up or nothing. Even satellite internet is hard to find.
If one subscribes to the works of Freud and believes that humans are controlled by irrational emotional forces and desires rather than reason, then writing a pro-war piece becomes rather easy. The people writing this propaganda (think Goebbels, who admired the work of Freud and, in particualar, the work of Edward Bernays) certainly subscribe to this belief. For some weird reason,this propaganda, be it justifying the German invasion of Poland/France/USSR/etc in WWII or the Bush cronies justifying the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan in the War on Terror. Both of them were justified by saying that they would eradicate a boogeyman be it Communists/Jews or Islamofascists/terrorists.
Repaying the national debt.
In all likelyhood, he probably either hasn't heard of Linux, he isn't allowed to install Linux or other FOSS, or the computers are so bad that windows 2000 probably actually runs better on the machines. I live in Alabama, and did the same thing for my teacher's assistant period, albeit while in the 7th and 8th grade. Depending on the county he lives in, he's probably adminining machines with an average spec of: AMD K6 series or Intel Pentium 2/3 series processors, 128 MB RAM, integrated video, 4-10 GB HDD,CD ROM drive. Maybe (hopefully)he has something better to work with. In my county (Morgan), the majority of the computers we had to work with were donations (throwaways) from Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. As far as FOSS goes, his county likely has a mandate that his school install McAfee AV (oh the horror) on every computer in the school, networked or not. FOSS, including Firefox, was simply not allowed on the machines. The only way to get permission to use FOSS would be to climb the bureaucratic chain all the way to the county Superintendent of Education, who likely doesn't know a whit about computers and is likely to view anything free (as in beer) with suspicion.
society being feminized=society being pushed into a subversive position
I'll pass on the amount of air pollution produced in making all of the foam for this padded city. Also, I do realize that you are joking.
Wait, doesn't the UK have some very strict gun control laws? (as compared to the USA)
Well, in my 9th grade HONORS ENGLISH class, there were people that couldn't fucking read. I mean, around 20% wasn't literate enough to understand what they were reading. I shudder to think what the numbers were like in the normal English classes. I know my state (Alabama) is ranked pretty low (at the very best in 40th place or worse) as far as all things education go, but the scary thing is that we weren't 50th place. Is it that bad in high schools elsewhere in the country? Oh, and ethnicity wise, my high school was 95+% white and didn't have a single person for whom English wasn't their fist language.
Yeah, and you can't even get a lot of good music (aka. music that I like)at Wal-Mart. Usually, I just take my nice 2 gig flash drive with me and if a friend has music I like I'll copy it to the drive. In all honesty, the biggest obstacle to this I've had to deal with lately is that several of my friends have gotten Vista, thus the file copy takes like twice as long.
Bush lost the popular vote. He won because of the electoral college.
Unfortunately, by doing so you are volunteering to be burned alive like the Branch Davidians in Waco.
The problem is that the average voter/judge/juror is too ignorant of this to understand. So people will tolerate a "successful" conviction in spite of this fact.
Quite frankly, I believe we will see a result similar to that of the war on drugs. Lots of people will be thrown in jail, billions of taxpayer dollars will be spent, and the numbers of childeren sexually abused won't change in any significant way.
That is the logic of this. You start with a subject, child porn, that causes people to pass laws irrationally. Then the RIAA,MPAA,Microsoft, etc. lobbies have a precedent for using fake (trap)links for pirate torrents. Then the government can extend this to political thought sites (say marxists.org) or anything else on the internet they want criminalized.
Then or nanny-state friendly congress will simply draft up a law against clicking the link. They would simply apply many of the existing illegal drug laws to child porn. They could call clicking on the link "conspiracy to purchase child porn" or whatever. Next thing you will have a "war on child porn" with probably the same results.
Hey, the great terror (of Stalin and the NKVD) at its finest.
Except that the government should want us to keep our televisions off so that we don't fry the power grid.
Only when speaking of the grammatical abilities of Americans. Or, for that matter, some slashdotters
What? With the shitty upload speeds of Comcast? Just use Comcast's asymmetrical speed internet and your'e safe.
Yes, the same EU that is populated, in a significant part, by former eastern-bloc states. I live in the southeast and just recently moved to a broadband area (where I previously live had only dialup). Yeah, we have cable internet(charter). It gets approximately 300 KB/s We also have their terrible television service. But I live in a boarding school and we have state(Alabama) internet. It has kindergarten level internet filtering(for awhile godtube was the only unblocked video site) and we get approximately 50-100 KB/s. Yeah, where is this 5.1 mb/s internet?
Uhh, FF works far better on windoze, last I checked. On linux (ubuntu, mepis, other n00b distros) it crashes every 15-30 minutes. At least v2xx. FF3 is a huge improvement on the linux front but it still has a few issues. Personally I use windozexp on my desktop (homebrew gaming machine with an A64 4000+ OC'd to 5400+, 4GB ram, ati x1950GT OC'd to 1950PRO clock speeds) and linux on my laptop (acer with 512 ram, a celeron1.6, and the usual GMA.) On my laptop (linux) I have the FF3 beta running but when I use two or more tabs the processor is overwhelmed and it locks up. On my desktop (xp) I use FF2. I also use OO, thunderbird (evolution on teh laptop), and vlc. My worst linux experience so far has been ati's horrible driver (no FOSS drivers available. Second was getting the damned CSS decoders to work on linux.