You are benefiting from services someone back in the US would never need but still pay for. Someone back in the states really doesn't need the diplomatic corp and even abroad you're getting the benefit of US military power (see Maersk Alabama).
"Ninety seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions."
30 years ago that'd be like making a big deal over having a transistor radio, they used to be a big deal a few years ago but now are common as dirt.
"Seventy three percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher."
Time marches on. You can get a microwave for $30 NEW. Second hand stores can't give away old stereo systems fast enough. Washers, while not on the same rate as microwaves, have gotten much cheaper than they had been.
We're also not grinding our grains by hand in stone mills. Standards of living tend to improve. Even for the poor (despite what some people want).
The Free Market totally would have brought us Rural Electrification and Telephone service, provided it was only [m|b|tr]illionairs living in rural areas. Let them eat cake, no?
Because Netflix is evil because they don't support linux (and $OBSCURE_OS_TWO_PEOPLE_IN_TOTAL_USE) and they make you pay for it, whether you want it or not!
They should totally eat any increased cost of operations and not pass it on to us poor customers! Once they set their prices they should never have been allowed to change them, ever!
"We've seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing countries, and yet Raspberry Pi is confident in delivering the $25 PC by November this year."
I know it's fun to rag on the OLPC but that comparison wasn't even a fair one. Tack on everything else to make it usable and able to withstand and operate in environments that aren't friendly to computers then you can compare it on price to the OLPC.
Searches returning results complaining about 1984 written by someone who has their tinfoil hat on too tight is one thing. Searches that say 'iPad doesn't work' will influence them in a way the company doesn't want.
When you bork it and complain loudly and profusely on the web what will be hard is that the iPad doesn't work, not that your crappy little distro didn't work.
So hackers like it but do companies want hackers as their customers?
Fickle and prone to viciously turning on anything for any perceived slight does not sound like big pluses for a target market, let alone their "love" for the nook is because it is cheap.
Having measles as a child is a different beast than having measles as an adult. If you don't have access to vaccines you want to be exposed to it as a child, hence the practice of measles parties.
The children are still at risk from complications of measles but those complications are lesser than what an adult would face.
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It's like those are core services or something.
I'd love to see a "my daughter justifies any action" type get taken down, lawfully, in self defense.
Ya, you've got offspring that have XX for their 26th chromosome, that does not excuse you from being subject to the law.
Common sense isn't.
Green isn't quite the color you're going for with that plan.
You are benefiting from services someone back in the US would never need but still pay for. Someone back in the states really doesn't need the diplomatic corp and even abroad you're getting the benefit of US military power (see Maersk Alabama).
"Ninety seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions."
30 years ago that'd be like making a big deal over having a transistor radio, they used to be a big deal a few years ago but now are common as dirt.
"Seventy three percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher."
Time marches on. You can get a microwave for $30 NEW. Second hand stores can't give away old stereo systems fast enough. Washers, while not on the same rate as microwaves, have gotten much cheaper than they had been.
We're also not grinding our grains by hand in stone mills. Standards of living tend to improve. Even for the poor (despite what some people want).
"So it works."
So do hydrogen bombs. Good for a few people, very bad for others, both because "it works".
"I bet it would be easier to figure out how to walk to the moon."
Easy bet to make, we've already walked on the moon.
The Free Market totally would have brought us Rural Electrification and Telephone service, provided it was only [m|b|tr]illionairs living in rural areas. Let them eat cake, no?
Followed by "call the cleaners for the soot" and "call the chimney sweep to get the carcasses out".
I wonder if this Colon was a sergeant who happened to work the night shift.
Because Netflix is evil because they don't support linux (and $OBSCURE_OS_TWO_PEOPLE_IN_TOTAL_USE) and they make you pay for it, whether you want it or not!
They should totally eat any increased cost of operations and not pass it on to us poor customers! Once they set their prices they should never have been allowed to change them, ever!
"We've seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing countries, and yet Raspberry Pi is confident in delivering the $25 PC by November this year."
I know it's fun to rag on the OLPC but that comparison wasn't even a fair one. Tack on everything else to make it usable and able to withstand and operate in environments that aren't friendly to computers then you can compare it on price to the OLPC.
For the normal 95% of the world, yes, it will be.
Searches returning results complaining about 1984 written by someone who has their tinfoil hat on too tight is one thing. Searches that say 'iPad doesn't work' will influence them in a way the company doesn't want.
When you bork it and complain loudly and profusely on the web what will be hard is that the iPad doesn't work, not that your crappy little distro didn't work.
So hackers like it but do companies want hackers as their customers?
Fickle and prone to viciously turning on anything for any perceived slight does not sound like big pluses for a target market, let alone their "love" for the nook is because it is cheap.
How do you false flag anonymous when declaring yourself to be anonymous makes you anonymous?
Why do rioters burn and loot their own neighborhoods?
Apple may reserve the right but Google exercises it.
Deer are nature's suicide bombers.
It is the same virus. The chickenpox goes dormant, the virus remains in the system for possibly decades, then reemerges as shingles.
Basically, people who say chickenpox is no big deal are saying Russian roulette is a safe game since five sixths of the people aren't harmed at all.
Having measles as a child is a different beast than having measles as an adult. If you don't have access to vaccines you want to be exposed to it as a child, hence the practice of measles parties.
The children are still at risk from complications of measles but those complications are lesser than what an adult would face.
BSD : Our code is free, you can lock your version down, it is now yours, our code is still free.
Minneapolis?