So what? Cartels will naturally fall apart given no government interference. It is in their best interests to cheat on this agreement. Its just like the prisoner's dilemma, while it might be best for all of them to cooperate, they won't because they want an advantage over their competitors. Cartels never last so long as there is a lack of government involvement.
I agree with all points except for number 5. Motion control simply is not the future. There is no way for it not to be gimmicky. Even in games like Skyward Sword which made good use of motion controls the game still felt like they were tacked on. There really aren't any games out there that give motion controls justice. At the end of the day, I don't want to flail my arms around.
Sony needs to make it a priority to eliminate loading times. They were acceptable back in 1994 when the PS1 first was released, but not today. There is no way I can be immersed in a game and remain immersed if I hit a loading screen. They are simply unacceptable in 2012. We live in a world where 32 GB of data can fit in an area smaller than a fingernail and is affordable. Where the average HDD of a new computer holds more storage than all of my previous computers combined. Surely there has to be some way to finally eliminate loading times, and the sooner the better. Few advancements in technology would have such a quick net positive for a console than a console and games with no load times.
Get rid of load times. If I'm playing a game where I'm supposed to be immersed in it, a loading screen just kills the idea that you are part of the game. This isn't 1994 anymore.
Get rid of region locking on everything. Including digital downloads. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to enjoy a game even if it isn't translated into my language or "localized". Similarly, there should be some way to gift digital downloads seamlessly between regions.
Stop removing features. Updates are supposed to/add/ features, not remove them.
Seamless emulation between consoles. Not having proper PS2 emulation I'm sure is a contributing factor to why the PS3 finished in third. When the PS2 basically defined the previous generation, it isn't a great idea to decide to make your next generation console compatible with it.
Better build quality. No red ring of death, yellow light of death, or an overheating GPU like the Wii.
Because most of the internet wants free stuff. Sure, there is a small subset of the population who/really/ wants something enough they'd pay for it, but for the majority of people on the internet, free works.
Most people simply will not pay, they will go to a free site. The average internet user doesn't care about the advertisements, after all, that's what adblocking and hosts files are for.
Yep, I mean, after all, the police state has many other avenues to control the citizens, spying via a backdoor hidden in an OSS project is unlikely. Through corporations who are willing to bend over backwards to further the spread of tyranny, through totalitarian laws like the PATRIOT act and CALEA the government has many more legal (and more PR friendly) ways of spying on citizens. Making a backdoor in an open source security program if discovered would be nothing short of an embarrassment. However, by calling them a "terrorist" and detaining them indefinitely, seizing their phones, recovering records or wiretapping via the major telecom companies via laws that subvert the constitution, they can avoid embarrassment.
You can't be 100% secure, 100% of the time. There will/always/ be a weak link. Be it a backdoor or a security flaw. The goal is to manage your risks. Using security enhanced Android (after about a good month for security researchers to look at the code) is unlikely to introduce any more government-imposed security risks than simply being in the US and its tyrannical laws (PATRIOT Act, CALEA, etc.). Chances are, SEA is going to be more secure than the patched together stock Android system.
Of course they can hide a backdoor in it. But why bother when they already have nearly unlimited powers due to the PATRIOT act, have many corporations that will bend over backwards for the police state, and laws like CALEA.
No, voting does not "legitimize the system" if you don't vote for the person who wins. Not voting allows the person to win by a larger margin. Rather, if you are fed up with politics vote for the candidate you believe in even if it is a candidate that has no chance of getting elected. Vote Libertarian, vote Green, vote Constitution, heck, vote for the Socialist Equality Party if you believe in that.
Those in power want votes. By spreading a message that you don't vote, there is no hope for any change because they are simply going to ignore you. But if you vote for a candidate that actually stands for what you believe in they see that there are people unhappy with the 2 party system. Simply a low voter turnout just means that people are uninterested in politics. Complaining about the system but doing nothing to stop it is silly. Complaining about Obama but not having registered a vote against him makes no sense (assuming of course you were legally able to vote but chose not to). Complaining about congress and the "Protect IP Act" makes no sense if you didn't do your part to vote for someone who sides with your conscience.
I can say that I took a stand against the (essentially) 1 party system and did my part to prevent the protect IP, PATRIOT act and every other piece of tyrannical legislation passed since I've been legally able to vote. Of course this doesn't mean that the candidate I voted for won, but at the end of the day if asked if I just stood idly around while the US fell into a police state I can look my children/grandchildren in the eye and tell them honestly that I opposed every bit of it.
Not voting sends absolutely no message to any candidate. Imagine if libertarians decided simply not to participate in politics, instead of having major debates and a libertarian candidate (Dr. Ron Paul) in the headlines, instead there would be only support for the "establishment" candidates. Regardless of what you think of the libertarian political philosophy, you have to admire the fact that it has gone mainstream because of people who have consistently voted against the one party system and who haven't chosen the "least evil" of the evil.
Apple (along with many other handset manufacturers) are accused of building back doors in for the Indian government.
Apple denies these claims.
Meanwhile, under the provisions of various US laws and policies your iPhone on a US network can still be wiretapped and information accessed.
So I'm supposed to say good job to Apple for standing up against the Indian government (which is really no concern of mine) while bowing to the slightest pressure of the US police state? Sure if I lived in India or if the Indian government detaining me indefinitely without cause was a legitimate concern I might be praising Apple. But as it stands there is no victory for privacy or liberty. Instead, we must still pressure Apple, RIM, Nokia, and every other business and citizen of the US to stop this encroachment of our rights.
Sure, Apple might not give a backdoor to the Indian government, but chances are it (or your cell phone service provider) is giving a backdoor to the US government, pursuant to CALEA and other laws. And Skype is mandated to put in backdoors too...
Personally, its a whole lot more worrying for information to be sent to the US government than to the Indian/Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean government.
Lets see here, there's this law in the US called the CALEA called the "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" which states in part:
Sec. 103. Assistance Capability Requirements.
(a) CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS.â"
Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section and sections 108(a) and 109(b) and (d), a telecommunications carrier shall ensure that its equipment, facilities, or services that provide a customer or subscriber with the ability to originate, terminate, or direct communications are capable ofâ"
(1) expeditiously isolating and enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to intercept, to the exclusion of any other communications, all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier within a service area to or from equipment, facilities, or services of a subscriber of such carrier concurrently with their transmission to or from the subscriber's equipment, facility, or service, or at such later time as may be acceptable to the government;
(2) expeditiously isolating and enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to access call-identifying information that is reasonably available to the carrierâ"
A before, during, or immediately after the transmission of a wire or electronic communication (or at such later time as may be acceptable to the government); and
B in a manner that allows it to be associated with the communication to which it pertains, except that, with regard to information acquired solely pursuant to the authority for pen registers and trap and trace devices (as defined in section 3127 of title 18, United States Code), such call-identifying information shall not include any information that may disclose the physical location of the subscriber (except to the extent that the location may be determined from the telephone number);
(3) delivering intercepted communications and call-identifying information to the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, in a format such that they may be transmitted by means of equipment, facilities, or services procured by the government to a location other than the premises of the carrier; and
Combine that with the PATRIOT act which basically allows the government to screw with US citizens at its leisure, means that the government can basically tap your phone for any reason that it sees fit.
And the (as you would put it since you obviously don't have a clue what is going on in the world) conspiracy theory website The New York Times reported in 2010 about a bill that the US government was considering that takes CALEA further by mandating that all encryption be able to be decrypted by the government (in CALEA encryption was left up to the government to decrypt on its own) https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html
Also, according to Slashdot, quoting US laws are "lame".
Doesn't matter in the US where the ISPs, cell service providers, heck, even Skype and Microsoft have been bowing down to the government to allow them to continue their war on US citizens. Chances are, Apple has already built in some backdoor for the US government, which is much, much more worrying than Apple building a backdoor for India/China/Russia/etc.
Meanwhile in the US, telecom companies and every other industry is bending over backwards for our police state. I find it rather funny that this accusation gets press but you rarely find mention of people actually wanting to stop warrantless wiretaps. After all, both Microsoft and Skype have quietly complied with allowing eavesdropping by the government. So honestly it wouldn't surprise me one bit that handsets have backdoors given to the US government which are then figured out by other oppressive governments to spy on their citizens.
People want their applications. People want their familiar programs. If we learned anything from the entire netbook experiment it is that people don't like change. A version of Windows that won't run their normal Windows programs will soon be forced out of the market. If Linux couldn't succeed on the desktop than ARM will not be able to. Linux had absolutely everything going for it back in 2007-2009, a user friendly distribution (Ubuntu), the dominant OS was crap (Vista), cheap hardware (netbooks), lots of top-notch software for it (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.), by then codec problems were nearly 100% resolved (DVDs and MP3s were easily played) and the start of "web apps" and Google Docs meant that a lot of things could be done via the internet rather than installed on a hard drive.
Linux had every possible thing going for it and yet it failed. Because as soon as people booted it up, got used to it but then figured that X didn't exist for it (where X was some proprietary program, usually unmaintained and a niche software program with no OSS equivalent) people left it for Windows.
The exact same thing will happen with Windows 8 for ARM. If you can't get your applications running on it which is always the biggest migration factor, you won't end up keeping any users.
Not really. We had this fad back a few years ago, it was called "netbooks" that sold for low prices but almost immediately people started complaining about that they didn't run the applications they needed.
Plus, Android is absolute crap on anything that isn't a smartphone. On smartphones? Its decent. On anything else? Not so much. Even on tablets most Android devices seem rather "forced" and hacked together on the best days.
Exactly, worse yet is the applicationless PC. If I'm running Windows rather than Linux, it is usually for some application that WINE doesn't work on, usually some poorly maintained ancient software that I simply can't find a replacement for, or gaming. An ARM based simply has no use. It doesn't matter if ARM is better than x86, if I have to use certain applications that only run on x86 and Microsoft has made no move to put seamless x86 emulation in Windows 8, why would I buy an ARM computer unless I'm looking to only run Linux on it, in which case why wouldn't I just buy a tablet or an x86 PC?
I'm sorry, but unless Windows 8 comes with a top-notch emulation platform to run x86 apps, this is dead. As much as I enjoy having an Android smartphone, having a PC running Android is something I DO NOT WANT. The main reasons why people want a full fledged PC rather than a tablet is for certain legacy applications (along with a real keyboard/mouse!) and such. If Linux hasn't been able to succeed on the desktop, then I see no reason why ARM would succeed. Plus, we all know that people are going to be talked out of this by your typical Best Buy salesmen and your average person who/thinks/ they are computer savvy but not really. When looking at a 1.2 Ghz ARM CPU vs a 2.2 Ghz x86 CPU their gut instinct is to go for the x86 even though it might be inferior to the ARM.
...Because they are expensive, have an unknown maintenance factor, and gas isn't really that expensive. Buy an older car with a non-terrible MPG rating and even with maintenance costs, you still end up saving over buying a hybrid. Assuming you know how to buy a used car and buy a decent one, it will save you much more money even with gas/maintenance costs than buying a new car.
Right I forgot about all of those times that Ron Paul voted against women's rights... Oh wait, he hasn't.
He is opposed to abortion but is quite transparent about it. First he believes Roe V Wade should be overruled. Of course it should, how the hell anyone could get abortion rights from an implied right to privacy (that apparently doesn't extend to any other aspect of life). No matter where you stand on the debate, the idea that abortion is a right to privacy is laughable.
Since the constitution is silent on the matter, it is constitutionally correct to give the power to regulate it to the states, not the federal government, which is the position that Ron Paul takes. His viewpoint makes perfect sense too, a fetus is a human being and under natural conditions (without interference) it will be born. To abort a fetus is the equivalent to murder since it is killing new life that would without interference be born with full rights. The idea that it is the extension of the mother is honestly silly, there is nothing scientific that supports it. That is Ron Paul's position. And like it or not, it certainly makes sense.
It all depends on where you live and even then what you make in dollar terms means little when it comes to how well you can live. Making $78K in some big cities gives you a decent livable apartment and a decent, but not extravagant, lifestyle. Making $78K in some other areas of the country gives you a large house and a more extravagant lifestyle.
I never said that only US citizens had rights, but rather that it is most shocking that someone would kill their own citizens. I believe that the bill of rights expressed in the US Constitution are some of the most basic human rights that everyone has and that they are absolute.
Every leader kills citizens of different countries in war (I'm not justifying war, or the killing of anyone, but rather stating a fact), it is only dictators who kill their own citizens under the pretense of "war". And my post was drawing attention to this point, not saying that non US citizens had no rights.
So in other words, why not steal my money and use it to fund something you want, right?
Or instead, you know, you can spend your money on what you want and I can spend my money on what I want. If you wish to support non-AP news sites, go ahead! If you want to boycott the AP and want to want others to join in with you go ahead! But don't steal my money and use it to fund something you want.
If you want "real" journalism, then support "real" journalists. Don't steal other people's money to do it.
He was still a US citizen who was assassinated without any chance for a fair trial.
We are no longer free when the president can be judge, jury and executioner. Was al-Awlaki a bad person? Of course. Was Ted Bundy a bad person? Of course. The difference is Ted Bundy was lawfully tried (and then executed), there was no trial for al-Awlaki, instead he was assassinated without any chance for a defense and without any basic rights expected in a "free" nation.
Keep in mind that al-Awlaki wasn't killed by soldiers trying to apprehend him (as those behind the killing of Bin Laden says that the soldiers were trying to capture him alive when he attempted to shoot them) but instead was assassinated by a drone.
We now live in a world that simply by order of the president, any US citizen can be killed without trial and without evidence and without any defense. That, is a very disturbing reality.
Squatting has absolutely nothing to do with freedom of assembly or speech. Squatting is the destruction of the useful aspect of property for any benefit other than the squatter. If we are to have public property (though I'm in favor of converting as much public property as possible into private property) it needs to be used in the most useful way as possible. Using a permit and scheduling system allows for efficient use of public property, if any protest group wants to use public property it should get a permit and prevent scheduling conflicts.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the constitution and supporting civil liberties or not.
Its not that surprising. Human behavior hasn't really changed over the years however the information age has made it harder to hide affairs. 30 years ago an affair 1000 miles away while on a business trip would be incredibly easy to hide. Today? Not so much. We've gone from spouses spending little time in contact to constant 24/7 contact so it is no wonder that their spouse's flaws come to light. No longer is work an 8-9 hour void for 5 days a week with no contact to their spouse. No longer do long trips pose a problem thanks to cell phones.
The more we are in contact with each other the more evident flaws are.
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So what? Cartels will naturally fall apart given no government interference. It is in their best interests to cheat on this agreement. Its just like the prisoner's dilemma, while it might be best for all of them to cooperate, they won't because they want an advantage over their competitors. Cartels never last so long as there is a lack of government involvement.
I agree with all points except for number 5. Motion control simply is not the future. There is no way for it not to be gimmicky. Even in games like Skyward Sword which made good use of motion controls the game still felt like they were tacked on. There really aren't any games out there that give motion controls justice. At the end of the day, I don't want to flail my arms around.
Sony needs to make it a priority to eliminate loading times. They were acceptable back in 1994 when the PS1 first was released, but not today. There is no way I can be immersed in a game and remain immersed if I hit a loading screen. They are simply unacceptable in 2012. We live in a world where 32 GB of data can fit in an area smaller than a fingernail and is affordable. Where the average HDD of a new computer holds more storage than all of my previous computers combined. Surely there has to be some way to finally eliminate loading times, and the sooner the better. Few advancements in technology would have such a quick net positive for a console than a console and games with no load times.
Here are a few things that I'd like fixed:
/add/ features, not remove them.
Get rid of load times. If I'm playing a game where I'm supposed to be immersed in it, a loading screen just kills the idea that you are part of the game. This isn't 1994 anymore.
Get rid of region locking on everything. Including digital downloads. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to enjoy a game even if it isn't translated into my language or "localized". Similarly, there should be some way to gift digital downloads seamlessly between regions.
Stop removing features. Updates are supposed to
Seamless emulation between consoles. Not having proper PS2 emulation I'm sure is a contributing factor to why the PS3 finished in third. When the PS2 basically defined the previous generation, it isn't a great idea to decide to make your next generation console compatible with it.
Better build quality. No red ring of death, yellow light of death, or an overheating GPU like the Wii.
Because most of the internet wants free stuff. Sure, there is a small subset of the population who /really/ wants something enough they'd pay for it, but for the majority of people on the internet, free works.
Most people simply will not pay, they will go to a free site. The average internet user doesn't care about the advertisements, after all, that's what adblocking and hosts files are for.
Yep, I mean, after all, the police state has many other avenues to control the citizens, spying via a backdoor hidden in an OSS project is unlikely. Through corporations who are willing to bend over backwards to further the spread of tyranny, through totalitarian laws like the PATRIOT act and CALEA the government has many more legal (and more PR friendly) ways of spying on citizens. Making a backdoor in an open source security program if discovered would be nothing short of an embarrassment. However, by calling them a "terrorist" and detaining them indefinitely, seizing their phones, recovering records or wiretapping via the major telecom companies via laws that subvert the constitution, they can avoid embarrassment.
You can't be 100% secure, 100% of the time. There will /always/ be a weak link. Be it a backdoor or a security flaw. The goal is to manage your risks. Using security enhanced Android (after about a good month for security researchers to look at the code) is unlikely to introduce any more government-imposed security risks than simply being in the US and its tyrannical laws (PATRIOT Act, CALEA, etc.). Chances are, SEA is going to be more secure than the patched together stock Android system.
Of course they can hide a backdoor in it. But why bother when they already have nearly unlimited powers due to the PATRIOT act, have many corporations that will bend over backwards for the police state, and laws like CALEA.
No, voting does not "legitimize the system" if you don't vote for the person who wins. Not voting allows the person to win by a larger margin. Rather, if you are fed up with politics vote for the candidate you believe in even if it is a candidate that has no chance of getting elected. Vote Libertarian, vote Green, vote Constitution, heck, vote for the Socialist Equality Party if you believe in that.
Those in power want votes. By spreading a message that you don't vote, there is no hope for any change because they are simply going to ignore you. But if you vote for a candidate that actually stands for what you believe in they see that there are people unhappy with the 2 party system. Simply a low voter turnout just means that people are uninterested in politics. Complaining about the system but doing nothing to stop it is silly. Complaining about Obama but not having registered a vote against him makes no sense (assuming of course you were legally able to vote but chose not to). Complaining about congress and the "Protect IP Act" makes no sense if you didn't do your part to vote for someone who sides with your conscience.
I can say that I took a stand against the (essentially) 1 party system and did my part to prevent the protect IP, PATRIOT act and every other piece of tyrannical legislation passed since I've been legally able to vote. Of course this doesn't mean that the candidate I voted for won, but at the end of the day if asked if I just stood idly around while the US fell into a police state I can look my children/grandchildren in the eye and tell them honestly that I opposed every bit of it.
Not voting sends absolutely no message to any candidate. Imagine if libertarians decided simply not to participate in politics, instead of having major debates and a libertarian candidate (Dr. Ron Paul) in the headlines, instead there would be only support for the "establishment" candidates. Regardless of what you think of the libertarian political philosophy, you have to admire the fact that it has gone mainstream because of people who have consistently voted against the one party system and who haven't chosen the "least evil" of the evil.
So let me get this right:
Apple (along with many other handset manufacturers) are accused of building back doors in for the Indian government.
Apple denies these claims.
Meanwhile, under the provisions of various US laws and policies your iPhone on a US network can still be wiretapped and information accessed.
So I'm supposed to say good job to Apple for standing up against the Indian government (which is really no concern of mine) while bowing to the slightest pressure of the US police state? Sure if I lived in India or if the Indian government detaining me indefinitely without cause was a legitimate concern I might be praising Apple. But as it stands there is no victory for privacy or liberty. Instead, we must still pressure Apple, RIM, Nokia, and every other business and citizen of the US to stop this encroachment of our rights.
Sure, Apple might not give a backdoor to the Indian government, but chances are it (or your cell phone service provider) is giving a backdoor to the US government, pursuant to CALEA and other laws. And Skype is mandated to put in backdoors too...
Personally, its a whole lot more worrying for information to be sent to the US government than to the Indian/Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean government.
Sec. 103. Assistance Capability Requirements. (a) CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS.â" Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section and sections 108(a) and 109(b) and (d), a telecommunications carrier shall ensure that its equipment, facilities, or services that provide a customer or subscriber with the ability to originate, terminate, or direct communications are capable ofâ" (1) expeditiously isolating and enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to intercept, to the exclusion of any other communications, all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier within a service area to or from equipment, facilities, or services of a subscriber of such carrier concurrently with their transmission to or from the subscriber's equipment, facility, or service, or at such later time as may be acceptable to the government; (2) expeditiously isolating and enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to access call-identifying information that is reasonably available to the carrierâ" A before, during, or immediately after the transmission of a wire or electronic communication (or at such later time as may be acceptable to the government); and B in a manner that allows it to be associated with the communication to which it pertains, except that, with regard to information acquired solely pursuant to the authority for pen registers and trap and trace devices (as defined in section 3127 of title 18, United States Code), such call-identifying information shall not include any information that may disclose the physical location of the subscriber (except to the extent that the location may be determined from the telephone number); (3) delivering intercepted communications and call-identifying information to the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, in a format such that they may be transmitted by means of equipment, facilities, or services procured by the government to a location other than the premises of the carrier; and
Combine that with the PATRIOT act which basically allows the government to screw with US citizens at its leisure, means that the government can basically tap your phone for any reason that it sees fit.
And the (as you would put it since you obviously don't have a clue what is going on in the world) conspiracy theory website The New York Times reported in 2010 about a bill that the US government was considering that takes CALEA further by mandating that all encryption be able to be decrypted by the government (in CALEA encryption was left up to the government to decrypt on its own) https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html
Also, according to Slashdot, quoting US laws are "lame".
Doesn't matter in the US where the ISPs, cell service providers, heck, even Skype and Microsoft have been bowing down to the government to allow them to continue their war on US citizens. Chances are, Apple has already built in some backdoor for the US government, which is much, much more worrying than Apple building a backdoor for India/China/Russia/etc.
Meanwhile in the US, telecom companies and every other industry is bending over backwards for our police state. I find it rather funny that this accusation gets press but you rarely find mention of people actually wanting to stop warrantless wiretaps. After all, both Microsoft and Skype have quietly complied with allowing eavesdropping by the government. So honestly it wouldn't surprise me one bit that handsets have backdoors given to the US government which are then figured out by other oppressive governments to spy on their citizens.
People want their applications. People want their familiar programs. If we learned anything from the entire netbook experiment it is that people don't like change. A version of Windows that won't run their normal Windows programs will soon be forced out of the market. If Linux couldn't succeed on the desktop than ARM will not be able to. Linux had absolutely everything going for it back in 2007-2009, a user friendly distribution (Ubuntu), the dominant OS was crap (Vista), cheap hardware (netbooks), lots of top-notch software for it (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.), by then codec problems were nearly 100% resolved (DVDs and MP3s were easily played) and the start of "web apps" and Google Docs meant that a lot of things could be done via the internet rather than installed on a hard drive.
Linux had every possible thing going for it and yet it failed. Because as soon as people booted it up, got used to it but then figured that X didn't exist for it (where X was some proprietary program, usually unmaintained and a niche software program with no OSS equivalent) people left it for Windows.
The exact same thing will happen with Windows 8 for ARM. If you can't get your applications running on it which is always the biggest migration factor, you won't end up keeping any users.
Not really. We had this fad back a few years ago, it was called "netbooks" that sold for low prices but almost immediately people started complaining about that they didn't run the applications they needed.
Plus, Android is absolute crap on anything that isn't a smartphone. On smartphones? Its decent. On anything else? Not so much. Even on tablets most Android devices seem rather "forced" and hacked together on the best days.
Exactly, worse yet is the applicationless PC. If I'm running Windows rather than Linux, it is usually for some application that WINE doesn't work on, usually some poorly maintained ancient software that I simply can't find a replacement for, or gaming. An ARM based simply has no use. It doesn't matter if ARM is better than x86, if I have to use certain applications that only run on x86 and Microsoft has made no move to put seamless x86 emulation in Windows 8, why would I buy an ARM computer unless I'm looking to only run Linux on it, in which case why wouldn't I just buy a tablet or an x86 PC?
I'm sorry, but unless Windows 8 comes with a top-notch emulation platform to run x86 apps, this is dead. As much as I enjoy having an Android smartphone, having a PC running Android is something I DO NOT WANT. The main reasons why people want a full fledged PC rather than a tablet is for certain legacy applications (along with a real keyboard/mouse!) and such. If Linux hasn't been able to succeed on the desktop, then I see no reason why ARM would succeed. Plus, we all know that people are going to be talked out of this by your typical Best Buy salesmen and your average person who /thinks/ they are computer savvy but not really. When looking at a 1.2 Ghz ARM CPU vs a 2.2 Ghz x86 CPU their gut instinct is to go for the x86 even though it might be inferior to the ARM.
...Because they are expensive, have an unknown maintenance factor, and gas isn't really that expensive. Buy an older car with a non-terrible MPG rating and even with maintenance costs, you still end up saving over buying a hybrid. Assuming you know how to buy a used car and buy a decent one, it will save you much more money even with gas/maintenance costs than buying a new car.
Right I forgot about all of those times that Ron Paul voted against women's rights... Oh wait, he hasn't.
He is opposed to abortion but is quite transparent about it. First he believes Roe V Wade should be overruled. Of course it should, how the hell anyone could get abortion rights from an implied right to privacy (that apparently doesn't extend to any other aspect of life). No matter where you stand on the debate, the idea that abortion is a right to privacy is laughable.
Since the constitution is silent on the matter, it is constitutionally correct to give the power to regulate it to the states, not the federal government, which is the position that Ron Paul takes. His viewpoint makes perfect sense too, a fetus is a human being and under natural conditions (without interference) it will be born. To abort a fetus is the equivalent to murder since it is killing new life that would without interference be born with full rights. The idea that it is the extension of the mother is honestly silly, there is nothing scientific that supports it. That is Ron Paul's position. And like it or not, it certainly makes sense.
Ron Paul? The Libertarian Party? The Green Party?
All 3 of those are more liberal (in the classical definition) than the mainstream Republican and Democrat party today.
It all depends on where you live and even then what you make in dollar terms means little when it comes to how well you can live. Making $78K in some big cities gives you a decent livable apartment and a decent, but not extravagant, lifestyle. Making $78K in some other areas of the country gives you a large house and a more extravagant lifestyle.
I never said that only US citizens had rights, but rather that it is most shocking that someone would kill their own citizens. I believe that the bill of rights expressed in the US Constitution are some of the most basic human rights that everyone has and that they are absolute.
Every leader kills citizens of different countries in war (I'm not justifying war, or the killing of anyone, but rather stating a fact), it is only dictators who kill their own citizens under the pretense of "war". And my post was drawing attention to this point, not saying that non US citizens had no rights.
So in other words, why not steal my money and use it to fund something you want, right?
Or instead, you know, you can spend your money on what you want and I can spend my money on what I want. If you wish to support non-AP news sites, go ahead! If you want to boycott the AP and want to want others to join in with you go ahead! But don't steal my money and use it to fund something you want.
If you want "real" journalism, then support "real" journalists. Don't steal other people's money to do it.
He was still a US citizen who was assassinated without any chance for a fair trial.
We are no longer free when the president can be judge, jury and executioner. Was al-Awlaki a bad person? Of course. Was Ted Bundy a bad person? Of course. The difference is Ted Bundy was lawfully tried (and then executed), there was no trial for al-Awlaki, instead he was assassinated without any chance for a defense and without any basic rights expected in a "free" nation.
Keep in mind that al-Awlaki wasn't killed by soldiers trying to apprehend him (as those behind the killing of Bin Laden says that the soldiers were trying to capture him alive when he attempted to shoot them) but instead was assassinated by a drone.
We now live in a world that simply by order of the president, any US citizen can be killed without trial and without evidence and without any defense. That, is a very disturbing reality.
Squatting has absolutely nothing to do with freedom of assembly or speech. Squatting is the destruction of the useful aspect of property for any benefit other than the squatter. If we are to have public property (though I'm in favor of converting as much public property as possible into private property) it needs to be used in the most useful way as possible. Using a permit and scheduling system allows for efficient use of public property, if any protest group wants to use public property it should get a permit and prevent scheduling conflicts.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the constitution and supporting civil liberties or not.
Its not that surprising. Human behavior hasn't really changed over the years however the information age has made it harder to hide affairs. 30 years ago an affair 1000 miles away while on a business trip would be incredibly easy to hide. Today? Not so much. We've gone from spouses spending little time in contact to constant 24/7 contact so it is no wonder that their spouse's flaws come to light. No longer is work an 8-9 hour void for 5 days a week with no contact to their spouse. No longer do long trips pose a problem thanks to cell phones.
The more we are in contact with each other the more evident flaws are.