Yes, I do know a number of people who use Baidu. I'm not the sort of person you want to ask that question of because I work closely my company's Chinese developers. China and Google have a long (by internet standards) and bumpy history, so it's not a big surprise that Google isn't the dominant search engine there.
Opera's share is not distributed equally, as shown in the link that I posted, and I didn't say it was. I suggested that the OP doesn't know a large enough sample of people to know any Opera users even if it was. The statement was obviously an exaggeration which mirrored the exaggeration of the OP's suggestion that only Finnish people use Opera.
Tax evasion is not theft. Tax evasion is tax evasion. It's already illegal and it's pointlessly stupid to try to shoehorn one crime into a different crime's definition.
We take the RIAA and MPAA to task for this shit every time they do it, so let's not make ourselves into hypocrites by doing the same thing, okay?
(c) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Verisign, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, and employees;
They won't start slipping in forced arbitration clauses because they're already in there. They literally stated that the new policies are meant to avoid any liability for their actions.
The main purpose of the FTC is to protect consumers. This is what they did.
The company in question was accused of misrepresenting what their software does and fraud charges were filed so that a judge to could decide whether the company was guilty or not. The company settled out of court rather than face the judge, which is a fairly strong indication that they knew they were guilty.
This didn't involve any new regulations, no new powers were granted. Nothing has changed. The FTC did the job that they were created to do and nothing more.
But, of course, certain people believe anything the government does is nefarious. I'm sure you never drive on highways, either, because the DoT is a government agency and anything they're behind is automatically evil, right? And you've removed the seat belts and air bags that the DoT requires, too, yes? And you've replaced the DoT required laminated safety glass windshield with ever so breakable plate glass in the car that you never drive on the road, right? And you don't use the internet, because it came from a government funded project. And I'm sure you wish there as no FDA with it's nasty regulations because you long for the days of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" since rancid butter and tuberculosis infected beef is so goddamn tasty.
"Yes, it's true that making solar panels creates carbon dioxide, but over the life of a solar installation it produces on average of 30x less CO2 than coal power."
I don't need a pollution-free way of producing solar panels to make them a better idea than coil and oil. They're already better for the environment with current production techniques. A pollution-free production method would just be icing on the cake.
Remove more features and change the behavior that everyone expects in a browser. That will surely bring people back in droves and ensure Firefox's "We're #2 so we try harder" position.
The things are wrappings that go around existing handrails which are either bolted or welded to the car. Nobody is going to walk away with them easily, regardless of the culture.
After more than 15 years of predicting the death of the PC and being wrong, I see we've moved on to predicting the death of PC related retailers. I greet this new line of reasoning with similar skepticism.
If you think your teachers' accents are an issue, you make IELTS testing a job requirement and test all of the teachers. ALL of them. Not just the ones that you think look or sound foreign.
If they pass, hooray... they're fine for teaching even if they have a bit of an accent and you leave them alone.
If they fail, you arrange for them to take speech classes. If they consistently fail and/or refuse to take the classes to improve their speech, then you fire them. There's no discrimination in firing a teacher who can't do their job properly as long as you apply the same standard to all teachers.
> Once he has it, he doesn't need it anymore and can give it away.
I think you're missing the psychological aspect of this. If he doesn't need money any more and can just give it away, then he must not be trying to build a larger fortune. The conspiracy theory put forth is that his support for higher taxes is just a scheme to allow him to build a bigger fortune. The two statements contradict each other.
Oh, I forgot to add that the videos included animals being dismembered and gutted in slaughter houses. There might have been some horror movie clips mixed in there too. Hard to tell.
There was a local band called Pleasuretech that played videos during their concerts that included a medley of explosions, politician's speeches and hardcore porn. It was always fun when the cops would roll in and shut down the show (not that they had many before disbanding).
We're supposed to believe that you've purchased 1200 servers, 2400 six core CPUs and all the associated hardware without deciding basic things like how you're going to connect it all or what distribution you're going to use?
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I think we need some proof here. You should record yourself inhaling a few tablespoons of salt water and post the video to YouTube.
Yes, I do know a number of people who use Baidu. I'm not the sort of person you want to ask that question of because I work closely my company's Chinese developers. China and Google have a long (by internet standards) and bumpy history, so it's not a big surprise that Google isn't the dominant search engine there.
Opera's share is not distributed equally, as shown in the link that I posted, and I didn't say it was. I suggested that the OP doesn't know a large enough sample of people to know any Opera users even if it was. The statement was obviously an exaggeration which mirrored the exaggeration of the OP's suggestion that only Finnish people use Opera.
And explaining the joke always ruins it.
Class dismissed.
Tax evasion is not theft. Tax evasion is tax evasion. It's already illegal and it's pointlessly stupid to try to shoehorn one crime into a different crime's definition.
We take the RIAA and MPAA to task for this shit every time they do it, so let's not make ourselves into hypocrites by doing the same thing, okay?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Historical_usage_share
Around 3/100 people appear to be using Opera. Apparently you know less than 30 people. Perhaps you should get out more.
You clearly didn't read the linked PDF file...
(c) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Verisign, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, and
employees;
They won't start slipping in forced arbitration clauses because they're already in there. They literally stated that the new policies are meant to avoid any liability for their actions.
The main purpose of the FTC is to protect consumers. This is what they did.
The company in question was accused of misrepresenting what their software does and fraud charges were filed so that a judge to could decide whether the company was guilty or not. The company settled out of court rather than face the judge, which is a fairly strong indication that they knew they were guilty.
This didn't involve any new regulations, no new powers were granted. Nothing has changed. The FTC did the job that they were created to do and nothing more.
But, of course, certain people believe anything the government does is nefarious. I'm sure you never drive on highways, either, because the DoT is a government agency and anything they're behind is automatically evil, right? And you've removed the seat belts and air bags that the DoT requires, too, yes? And you've replaced the DoT required laminated safety glass windshield with ever so breakable plate glass in the car that you never drive on the road, right? And you don't use the internet, because it came from a government funded project. And I'm sure you wish there as no FDA with it's nasty regulations because you long for the days of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" since rancid butter and tuberculosis infected beef is so goddamn tasty.
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/how-much-co2-does-one-solar-panel-create
"Yes, it's true that making solar panels creates carbon dioxide, but over the life of a solar installation it produces on average of 30x less CO2 than coal power."
I don't need a pollution-free way of producing solar panels to make them a better idea than coil and oil. They're already better for the environment with current production techniques. A pollution-free production method would just be icing on the cake.
Current power plants produce pollution. Solar power plants would not. Solar power plants would absolutely, undeniably make things better.
For bonus points, tell us which logical fallacy you are engaging in.
You are incorrect. Minors can sign contracts. They can void the contract at any time, however, so most businesses refuse to deal with them.
> Seems to me like saying a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is a new discovery because they mixed chocolate with peanut butter.
That's fucking incredible!! When did they do that?!?! Why wasn't I told????
Remove more features and change the behavior that everyone expects in a browser. That will surely bring people back in droves and ensure Firefox's "We're #2 so we try harder" position.
+1 but can't moderate with this stupid hard drive.
The things are wrappings that go around existing handrails which are either bolted or welded to the car. Nobody is going to walk away with them easily, regardless of the culture.
September 16th, 1995 - Death of the Personal Computer?
After more than 15 years of predicting the death of the PC and being wrong, I see we've moved on to predicting the death of PC related retailers. I greet this new line of reasoning with similar skepticism.
http://characters.wikia.com/wiki/Crow_T._Robot
Hah! You lose. Pay up, sucker!
And that guy grew up to be the programmer who write the time estimation code for Windows' copy function.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=131827713544941
I don't understand how a Facebook app is supposed to help us communicate to our friends without Facebook.
If you think your teachers' accents are an issue, you make IELTS testing a job requirement and test all of the teachers. ALL of them. Not just the ones that you think look or sound foreign.
If they pass, hooray... they're fine for teaching even if they have a bit of an accent and you leave them alone.
If they fail, you arrange for them to take speech classes. If they consistently fail and/or refuse to take the classes to improve their speech, then you fire them. There's no discrimination in firing a teacher who can't do their job properly as long as you apply the same standard to all teachers.
Except I've seen already seen everything Dreamworks Animation has ever produced.
> Once he has it, he doesn't need it anymore and can give it away.
I think you're missing the psychological aspect of this. If he doesn't need money any more and can just give it away, then he must not be trying to build a larger fortune. The conspiracy theory put forth is that his support for higher taxes is just a scheme to allow him to build a bigger fortune. The two statements contradict each other.
Oh, I forgot to add that the videos included animals being dismembered and gutted in slaughter houses. There might have been some horror movie clips mixed in there too. Hard to tell.
There was a local band called Pleasuretech that played videos during their concerts that included a medley of explosions, politician's speeches and hardcore porn. It was always fun when the cops would roll in and shut down the show (not that they had many before disbanding).
Fun times.
You're talking about a guy who gave $37 billion to charity.
I think it's fairly obvious that his motives lie in some other direction than making more money.
We're supposed to believe that you've purchased 1200 servers, 2400 six core CPUs and all the associated hardware without deciding basic things like how you're going to connect it all or what distribution you're going to use?
Mod everybody -1.
4K is anywhere from 3656 to 4096 pixels depending on who you're talking to because it's not actually a standard.