So you're saying either everyone should fly a fighter jet or no one should?
Just because something is legal doesn't mean everyone should have access to it. In fact it can be hard and expensive already to legally own an automatic firearm in the states. Are you saying that's wrong?
Driving is legal and it's not a right. There are definitely people that shouldn't drive. If everyone has the right to do it then why test people? Just let them do it. Clearly testing doesn't work any way as there are too many people who clearly can't drive yet have a license.
You're right and then a lot of them moved over to the US.
European countries are older, they're further along in development. Their empires have fallen. It'll happen to the US too. Then it will happen to China, India, etc.
It's not new and exciting any more, they have debt which needs a paying job and they're working too hard in that job because they haven't realised yet to not allow their employer screw them and there are so many open source projects and indie development options that may offer a quicker option to cash than kernel development as far as they're concerned.
You can pretend the US is some how leagues above everyone else in freedom but it doesn't make it true. You're less likely to see women walking on the beach topless in the US, you're more likely to get sued (in fact lawsuits the subjects of numerous TV shows), you're more likely to be attacked for holding different religious beliefs, especially if you believe in no god.
And here are some examples of Europeans freedom of speech:
Sure Europe has twats, like Nick Griffin, crying about their rights being trampled on but the mere fact he can hang out with the David Duke, hasn't been stopped for his comments on Muslims and has been allowed to even participate in politics says to me that European free speech is doing fine.
Gun laws aren't even as restrictive as some Americans make out. Very few countries ban guns out right. Even the NRA has stated that, for instance, 10% of Austrians own hand guns compared to 16% of Americans. http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=72
I do support the freedom to own guns and don't think own even automatics should be completely out of the question (though it should be quite hard to get them) but I understand why the laws exist and in a free society if vast majority do agree with the laws then where is the issue with the law? Some people value things differently. The Japanese may think the US is odd for not having public baths but that doesn't necessarily make the US wrong (or right).
There are some limits to freedom of speech just as there are some limits in the US and every other country. Europe is by no means perfect but the US certainly isn't either and it isn't
That is just because of how some western religions have formed society. Most everyone else is fine with men and women's chests being exposed. Even in the western civilisations, some countries aren't as prudish and woman are free to go topless on the beach.
Straight men can't see it (I know I can't and find most men should cover up more than women!) but women most definitely find men's chests sexy. Not all chests but then again I don't like all women's tits. Some aren't as lucky as others.
I still have my old Palm Pilot III complete with dial-up modem. The dial-up modem was probably one of the most useless add-ons but for the few times I did use it I was glad to have it.
Loyalty cards generally have terms and conditions with them explaining what you're getting into (or should) where as finding random coupons to print out on the net probably doesn't. Sure most no one reads the loyalty card's T&C but at least they're given the option.
I wonder how much (if any) influence Android has over this decision and some others. Sure the iPhone is clearly being Android but Android is not going away and will continue to gain popularity. I think Apple will have to loosen their grip but will keep some controls to help avoid the mess that can be found in the Android app store. Though I think most of Android's market issues are mainly in the games section.
Why should you have to? Do you have to go around begging for snippets of a movie to sample it? It really annoys me how gamers are so happy to take it up the ass by publishers.
They seem to be happy that game reviews aren't much more than advertisements, that they can effectively sell you a used product as new rather than giving you a seal copy or that we're losing genres and innovation in place of numerous FPS sequels and sports titles.
It's no wonder people are so happy to pirate games. They see no value in them and I don't blame them. Everyone across the board has devalued games. Gamers want to be taken seriously and have their medium considered art but the vast majority of games, by far, are no more art than an advertisement for tampons.
True but you can only see a movie. The trailer serves both purposes. Games aren't seen, they're played so a game trailer doesn't mean much. More so when game trailers often don't even use the same perspective as you use when you play and they're enhanced so they don't represent the game at all. They serve one purpose which is just to promotion the game's name.
Not to mention game reviews are generally shit mainly because most reviewers are concerned about getting freebies and special treatment from publishers than helping consumers.
Carlin is awesome and I do believe people will hand over their rights but I think it will be for some supposed safety but I don't see why people get so upset about this. The whole premise around the OS is everything is in the cloud. Your mind should be made up already whether or not you'll use it. How they allow you to print is irrelevant to your privacy.
Everywhere I look I see Oprah and it has affected my sex life. I've gone to the doctor about it but he says the only way to get over it is to think of Bruce Vilanch so I've decided sex isn't that important.
Or maybe he's a paedophile terrorist and he's planning on flying a plane into a nursery school complete with camera in one hand and penis in the other.
10 years is a bit much but it was 5 maybe 6 years ago my Sony phone could do music, pics, video and RSS feeds. Sure its interface was more standard and video wasn't HD but it had the mobile provider's "app store" so arguably it did much more than these phones and it wasn't a smart phone either.
No matter what MS thinks they are comepting against those phones seeing how they're some of the most poular. Making a phone look like a G1 will make people compare it to a G1 and eveything competes against the iPhone.
The thing is it looks like a windows 7 phone gui, it is actually quite close to windows phone 7 and from what I've read may be merged with it. MS fails at phones. They're not going to maintain to failing phone OS. I'd say in fact the whole lack of a app store is because it's basically running on an unfinished version of windows phone 7 if I had to guess.
It has to do better than previous Windows mobile phones (can't possibly do worse) but this is by far no threat to the iPhone or even Android, imo. We shall see but if I were a teen I'd more likely to think this is about as cool as my dad rapping.
I know I'm a geek and I'm by no way saying I can do better (I can't) but that just looks like something a nerd designed to look cool. It just doesn't work. A lot of PC software / hardware suffers from this and probably because designers like Macs so PC companies get left with geeky looking things. Imo, MS has never designed an OS that you enjoy looking at and aside from a few of their mice, none of their hardware ever looks that nice either.
I really don't like that whole idea of the app screen being larger than the screen and you end up sliding things about to see stuff. Again, it looks like it was designed by someone who wanted to code that, not someone who coded something a designer created.
They need to start paying some serious cash to steal designers away from Apple or something. They just don't get it, imo. The egg shaped one looks like a iPhone and Blackberry's retarded child. To be fair the rectangular one isn't too bad but nothing says cool about it.
True, you won't likely see the same ads and yes a lot of related ads are of something I know about but from my experience either they're targeted and I click some of them or they're totally unrelated, often something for women's products, white teeth and flat abs. Those are of no use to me so it's a waste of their bandwidth and in some instances awful to look at.
Exactly, it is a tutorial site and all or most of its contents, like w3c schools, is irrelevant to me. So when it was ranking much better and in the top of pretty much any java search it was annoying.
It may be an awesome site but I don't need to see it. If I can remove it from some search results then I don't think removing it from all is asking too much.
If I'll never use it or w3 schools, it would make sense to let someone else bump one or two results in my query and have a better chance of being seen.
If it is a simple site then why is it taking so long to load? Page loads should be nothing. I had VBulletin running on a shared host (second cheapest option) and in theory it wasn't totally up to the job and even the largest page full of posts, with each preson having a sig image and avatar along with images in some posts took 2 seconds to load. I can't see her site being punished for speed unless it is poorly coded.
Also if she is a local business then she'll almost certainly get better results when locals are searching which will matter. It's irrelevant if the Chinese can load her site fast and something that should help a lot is getting her listed in the Google local business centre. http://www.google.co.uk/local/add
Site rank isn't a one off thing. Everyone is trying to outdo each other so either way, unless you are someone like Nintendo, you need to be vigilant and protect your ranking on all search engines.
With the growth in mobile phone usage things like local business will mean a lot as Google grabs your location on their mobile page and then factor that in while searching. She doesn't need constantly changing content either but well written relevant content. It is getting harder to rank well without researching and doing everything that's necessary and that's because ther are so many people that are doing anything and everything to rank high.
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So you're saying either everyone should fly a fighter jet or no one should?
Just because something is legal doesn't mean everyone should have access to it. In fact it can be hard and expensive already to legally own an automatic firearm in the states. Are you saying that's wrong?
Driving is legal and it's not a right. There are definitely people that shouldn't drive. If everyone has the right to do it then why test people? Just let them do it. Clearly testing doesn't work any way as there are too many people who clearly can't drive yet have a license.
You're right and then a lot of them moved over to the US.
European countries are older, they're further along in development. Their empires have fallen. It'll happen to the US too. Then it will happen to China, India, etc.
It's not new and exciting any more, they have debt which needs a paying job and they're working too hard in that job because they haven't realised yet to not allow their employer screw them and there are so many open source projects and indie development options that may offer a quicker option to cash than kernel development as far as they're concerned.
If you're from a country built up by protestant prudes.
You can pretend the US is some how leagues above everyone else in freedom but it doesn't make it true. You're less likely to see women walking on the beach topless in the US, you're more likely to get sued (in fact lawsuits the subjects of numerous TV shows), you're more likely to be attacked for holding different religious beliefs, especially if you believe in no god.
And here are some examples of Europeans freedom of speech:
Pat Condell http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell
Nigel Farage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bypLwI5AQvY
Nick Griffin http://bnp.org.uk/
Sure Europe has twats, like Nick Griffin, crying about their rights being trampled on but the mere fact he can hang out with the David Duke, hasn't been stopped for his comments on Muslims and has been allowed to even participate in politics says to me that European free speech is doing fine.
Gun laws aren't even as restrictive as some Americans make out. Very few countries ban guns out right. Even the NRA has stated that, for instance, 10% of Austrians own hand guns compared to 16% of Americans. http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=72
I do support the freedom to own guns and don't think own even automatics should be completely out of the question (though it should be quite hard to get them) but I understand why the laws exist and in a free society if vast majority do agree with the laws then where is the issue with the law? Some people value things differently. The Japanese may think the US is odd for not having public baths but that doesn't necessarily make the US wrong (or right).
There are some limits to freedom of speech just as there are some limits in the US and every other country. Europe is by no means perfect but the US certainly isn't either and it isn't
That is just because of how some western religions have formed society. Most everyone else is fine with men and women's chests being exposed. Even in the western civilisations, some countries aren't as prudish and woman are free to go topless on the beach.
Straight men can't see it (I know I can't and find most men should cover up more than women!) but women most definitely find men's chests sexy. Not all chests but then again I don't like all women's tits. Some aren't as lucky as others.
I still have my old Palm Pilot III complete with dial-up modem. The dial-up modem was probably one of the most useless add-ons but for the few times I did use it I was glad to have it.
Loyalty cards generally have terms and conditions with them explaining what you're getting into (or should) where as finding random coupons to print out on the net probably doesn't. Sure most no one reads the loyalty card's T&C but at least they're given the option.
Even Darth Vader was screwed over by shady movie industry tactics. http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694518/darth-vader-actor--david-prowse-asks-wheres-my-money.html
It's disgusting they can claim Star Wars never made a profit.
I wonder how much (if any) influence Android has over this decision and some others. Sure the iPhone is clearly being Android but Android is not going away and will continue to gain popularity. I think Apple will have to loosen their grip but will keep some controls to help avoid the mess that can be found in the Android app store. Though I think most of Android's market issues are mainly in the games section.
Why should you have to? Do you have to go around begging for snippets of a movie to sample it? It really annoys me how gamers are so happy to take it up the ass by publishers.
They seem to be happy that game reviews aren't much more than advertisements, that they can effectively sell you a used product as new rather than giving you a seal copy or that we're losing genres and innovation in place of numerous FPS sequels and sports titles.
It's no wonder people are so happy to pirate games. They see no value in them and I don't blame them. Everyone across the board has devalued games. Gamers want to be taken seriously and have their medium considered art but the vast majority of games, by far, are no more art than an advertisement for tampons.
True but you can only see a movie. The trailer serves both purposes. Games aren't seen, they're played so a game trailer doesn't mean much. More so when game trailers often don't even use the same perspective as you use when you play and they're enhanced so they don't represent the game at all. They serve one purpose which is just to promotion the game's name.
Not to mention game reviews are generally shit mainly because most reviewers are concerned about getting freebies and special treatment from publishers than helping consumers.
Carlin is awesome and I do believe people will hand over their rights but I think it will be for some supposed safety but I don't see why people get so upset about this. The whole premise around the OS is everything is in the cloud. Your mind should be made up already whether or not you'll use it. How they allow you to print is irrelevant to your privacy.
Everywhere I look I see Oprah and it has affected my sex life. I've gone to the doctor about it but he says the only way to get over it is to think of Bruce Vilanch so I've decided sex isn't that important.
I would have never expected this from a company that was ok with working with the Nazis.
Or maybe he's a paedophile terrorist and he's planning on flying a plane into a nursery school complete with camera in one hand and penis in the other.
10 years is a bit much but it was 5 maybe 6 years ago my Sony phone could do music, pics, video and RSS feeds. Sure its interface was more standard and video wasn't HD but it had the mobile provider's "app store" so arguably it did much more than these phones and it wasn't a smart phone either.
What a load of BS. If anything they'll get picked on for having a fugly unpopular phone not because they have fewer apps.
No matter what MS thinks they are comepting against those phones seeing how they're some of the most poular. Making a phone look like a G1 will make people compare it to a G1 and eveything competes against the iPhone.
The thing is it looks like a windows 7 phone gui, it is actually quite close to windows phone 7 and from what I've read may be merged with it. MS fails at phones. They're not going to maintain to failing phone OS. I'd say in fact the whole lack of a app store is because it's basically running on an unfinished version of windows phone 7 if I had to guess.
Kids like apps...this has no apps. It'll fail.
It has to do better than previous Windows mobile phones (can't possibly do worse) but this is by far no threat to the iPhone or even Android, imo. We shall see but if I were a teen I'd more likely to think this is about as cool as my dad rapping.
I know I'm a geek and I'm by no way saying I can do better (I can't) but that just looks like something a nerd designed to look cool. It just doesn't work. A lot of PC software / hardware suffers from this and probably because designers like Macs so PC companies get left with geeky looking things. Imo, MS has never designed an OS that you enjoy looking at and aside from a few of their mice, none of their hardware ever looks that nice either.
I really don't like that whole idea of the app screen being larger than the screen and you end up sliding things about to see stuff. Again, it looks like it was designed by someone who wanted to code that, not someone who coded something a designer created.
They need to start paying some serious cash to steal designers away from Apple or something. They just don't get it, imo. The egg shaped one looks like a iPhone and Blackberry's retarded child. To be fair the rectangular one isn't too bad but nothing says cool about it.
True, you won't likely see the same ads and yes a lot of related ads are of something I know about but from my experience either they're targeted and I click some of them or they're totally unrelated, often something for women's products, white teeth and flat abs. Those are of no use to me so it's a waste of their bandwidth and in some instances awful to look at.
Exactly, it is a tutorial site and all or most of its contents, like w3c schools, is irrelevant to me. So when it was ranking much better and in the top of pretty much any java search it was annoying.
It may be an awesome site but I don't need to see it. If I can remove it from some search results then I don't think removing it from all is asking too much.
If I'll never use it or w3 schools, it would make sense to let someone else bump one or two results in my query and have a better chance of being seen.
If it is a simple site then why is it taking so long to load? Page loads should be nothing. I had VBulletin running on a shared host (second cheapest option) and in theory it wasn't totally up to the job and even the largest page full of posts, with each preson having a sig image and avatar along with images in some posts took 2 seconds to load. I can't see her site being punished for speed unless it is poorly coded.
Also if she is a local business then she'll almost certainly get better results when locals are searching which will matter. It's irrelevant if the Chinese can load her site fast and something that should help a lot is getting her listed in the Google local business centre. http://www.google.co.uk/local/add
Site rank isn't a one off thing. Everyone is trying to outdo each other so either way, unless you are someone like Nintendo, you need to be vigilant and protect your ranking on all search engines.
With the growth in mobile phone usage things like local business will mean a lot as Google grabs your location on their mobile page and then factor that in while searching. She doesn't need constantly changing content either but well written relevant content. It is getting harder to rank well without researching and doing everything that's necessary and that's because ther are so many people that are doing anything and everything to rank high.