American Dad? Family Guy? I'm an American, and I can't stand that crap. Back on topic, do they translate the shows for Norway? If so, perhaps that's a reason for a delay. Norway's a pretty small market compared to the US; it's about the size of Alabama or Colorado, population wise.
With a combination of iOS 4's autocorrection and my own typos, I sent something like this to my girlfriend:
I can't wait to give you HIV!
I meant to say "I can't wait to give you a hug!", but this atrocity of a text message was sent instead. I was like, ohshitohshitohsit! Luckily, she recognized it, but still tormented me with it for a minute or so.
Right, because all of those who think the US or Israel was behind it have to be raving lunatic conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites. Whether they did it or not, the US and Israel certainly have the motive, and the Israelis have been speaking openly about military action. It is not merely the NYT who suspects the Israelis and Americans; officials from both countries have had smirks when asked about Stuxnet, which has fueled speculation. I'm undecided, but one doesn't have to be mad to list the US and Israel as possible suspects.
It might have something to do with assassinating the former democratic leader of Iran and installing an autocrat in his place, in addition to American belligerence in the area. See Mohammad Mosaddegh and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If I were the Iranians, I would want nuclear weapons, too.
You think the masses have read Atlas Shrugged? Ha! If they have read anything of Rand's (and that is a stretch), the most likely culprit would be Anthem, as it is far, far, shorter and easier to read.
You're still paying a monopoly for their blessing, and no other reason, even if they're nice enough to not raise their prices beyond what your contract stipulates.
I don't have to pay anyone royalty money, to my knowledge, to go out and a build an 802.3 compliant NIC. I don't have to pay royalties to implement OSPF. H.264, on the other hand, requires me to cough up some cash to a legion of patent holders, so that I can have their blessing. x264 cannot be legally distributed in binary form (certainly not in the numbers it is distributed in) for free.
I really don't think they'll turn off Flash for a long time; there are still tons of people using ancient browsers that have no HTML5 video support. I'm looking at you, IE version 9. There are still XP users who, if they don't use something other than IE, will not get IE9.
It doesn't have to have any basis in reality; the threat of a lawsuit tying up millions of dollars and potentially taking years to shake out is reason enough to not go to court. Even with a good chance of winning (not saying their chances are good or bad), I would probably do the same thing as they are.
The US already has committed atrocities during a guerrilla campaign (look at the Philippine-American war; the highest estimates put the number of civilian dead at around 1.4 million; resistance continued for at least a decade. The result? Delayed independence). You can even argue that they committed them in Vietnam (just look at those civilian death tolls), yet they still lost.
I think that it's gone far from some idea of penance. It seems that it's merely about retribution, a model of justice that serves no one.
I take that back; it does serve a few; the prisons and police get large amounts of taxpayer money, and the prosecutors and politicians get their "tough on crime" bona fides. The rest of us, though, suffer.
Perhaps they feel, as I do, that the punishment is out of proportion with the crime. Should he be punished? Yes, he should; he accessed email without permission. Maybe levy a hefty fine; no one was physically harmed or deprived of property, and he is no danger to society. As such, he doesn't deserve being locked away in a hole with more dangerous individuals.
I'm one of the people where AT&T, though crappy, at least gets service to my house. If I were to use Verizon, I'd have to go somewhere else to make or receive a phone call, and that's just not acceptable. Some of my friends have the same issue; Verizon doesn't get service to their houses, but AT&T does. I bet it's different nationwide, but in this little slice of the planet, AT&T gets better service. Shitty service, but still better than nothing.
So you want to go back to the pre-Industrial era where there's no leisure time (at least for the non state subsidized)? Count me out! And I'll get off your lawn, too.
A republic is not ruled by the people, it is ruled by people who are chosen by the people (sometimes; see for example the early American republic, especially how the electoral college worked; the Roman Republic is another example). This is an important distinction. It means the people get to influence law, but the leaders are free to ignore that influence if they deem it necessary. See the current administration's continuation of two unpopular wars after ousting the last, unpopular, administration.
And if your society is full of busybodies, moral crusaders, and morons, you will get their ideals running the show. 50% + 1 isn't a holy mandate, especially not one good enough to trample our rights. Give me a constitutional republic (especially one that includes some sort of punishment to lawmakers for violating said constitution) if we must have government.
I agree that the comparison to slavery is over the top. We knew blacks were human, for instance. Our knowledge of what dolphins can do is a fairly recent thing.
EFI is not a Mac only technology. You can get PCs with that. Aside from that, there's no fundamental difference between a PC and a Mac. There's no difference in processor architecture, so I can run what I want on a Mac and, with some hacks defeating the DRM, I can run OS X on a PC.
The space program has been used for military research and military purposes. There's quite a bit of overlap between sending a man to orbit and sending a missile to orbit. That GPS satellite can be used to get you from point A to B or that ballistic missile to Moscow. Satellite cameras to search the stars aren't altogether different from spy satellites to search the ground. Maybe some of the experience they've gotten from, say, the Mars rovers was useful in building the various military drones they have now.
I think it's fair to say that the military would find ways to use civilian technology in relevant fields, and space exploration has some pretty big overlaps.
How have casinos been stealing from people? If you have above a room temperature IQ, you should have some idea that the odds are stacked against you from the very start. Any wins you get will eventually be washed away by losses. And many people know this, and play willingly. Absent casinos hiring people to grab random people, hold them at gunpoint, and take their money, I see no theft.
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American Dad? Family Guy? I'm an American, and I can't stand that crap. Back on topic, do they translate the shows for Norway? If so, perhaps that's a reason for a delay. Norway's a pretty small market compared to the US; it's about the size of Alabama or Colorado, population wise.
With a combination of iOS 4's autocorrection and my own typos, I sent something like this to my girlfriend:
I can't wait to give you HIV!
I meant to say "I can't wait to give you a hug!", but this atrocity of a text message was sent instead. I was like, ohshitohshitohsit! Luckily, she recognized it, but still tormented me with it for a minute or so.
Right, because all of those who think the US or Israel was behind it have to be raving lunatic conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites. Whether they did it or not, the US and Israel certainly have the motive, and the Israelis have been speaking openly about military action. It is not merely the NYT who suspects the Israelis and Americans; officials from both countries have had smirks when asked about Stuxnet, which has fueled speculation. I'm undecided, but one doesn't have to be mad to list the US and Israel as possible suspects.
It might have something to do with assassinating the former democratic leader of Iran and installing an autocrat in his place, in addition to American belligerence in the area. See Mohammad Mosaddegh and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If I were the Iranians, I would want nuclear weapons, too.
Most people have engaged in illegal activity. Here are some common examples:
With that in mind, it shouldn't surprise you that people don't have respect for the law.
You think the masses have read Atlas Shrugged? Ha! If they have read anything of Rand's (and that is a stretch), the most likely culprit would be Anthem, as it is far, far, shorter and easier to read.
You're still paying a monopoly for their blessing, and no other reason, even if they're nice enough to not raise their prices beyond what your contract stipulates.
I don't have to pay anyone royalty money, to my knowledge, to go out and a build an 802.3 compliant NIC. I don't have to pay royalties to implement OSPF. H.264, on the other hand, requires me to cough up some cash to a legion of patent holders, so that I can have their blessing. x264 cannot be legally distributed in binary form (certainly not in the numbers it is distributed in) for free.
I really don't think they'll turn off Flash for a long time; there are still tons of people using ancient browsers that have no HTML5 video support. I'm looking at you, IE version 9. There are still XP users who, if they don't use something other than IE, will not get IE9.
It doesn't have to have any basis in reality; the threat of a lawsuit tying up millions of dollars and potentially taking years to shake out is reason enough to not go to court. Even with a good chance of winning (not saying their chances are good or bad), I would probably do the same thing as they are.
He doesn't, otherwise it'd be uint64_t and a lather strip!
Jailbreak your phone, and you have access to whatever app stores you can dream up.
The US already has committed atrocities during a guerrilla campaign (look at the Philippine-American war; the highest estimates put the number of civilian dead at around 1.4 million; resistance continued for at least a decade. The result? Delayed independence). You can even argue that they committed them in Vietnam (just look at those civilian death tolls), yet they still lost.
I think that it's gone far from some idea of penance. It seems that it's merely about retribution, a model of justice that serves no one.
I take that back; it does serve a few; the prisons and police get large amounts of taxpayer money, and the prosecutors and politicians get their "tough on crime" bona fides. The rest of us, though, suffer.
Perhaps they feel, as I do, that the punishment is out of proportion with the crime. Should he be punished? Yes, he should; he accessed email without permission. Maybe levy a hefty fine; no one was physically harmed or deprived of property, and he is no danger to society. As such, he doesn't deserve being locked away in a hole with more dangerous individuals.
Maybe it doubles the US iPhone install base? Still wouldn't double the mobile gaming business, considering all the Android devices out there.
I'm one of the people where AT&T, though crappy, at least gets service to my house. If I were to use Verizon, I'd have to go somewhere else to make or receive a phone call, and that's just not acceptable. Some of my friends have the same issue; Verizon doesn't get service to their houses, but AT&T does. I bet it's different nationwide, but in this little slice of the planet, AT&T gets better service. Shitty service, but still better than nothing.
If he wanted scalability, he should have saved them in SVG format. As it stands now, I can't read them; Okular is rendering them pretty weirdly.
So you want to go back to the pre-Industrial era where there's no leisure time (at least for the non state subsidized)? Count me out! And I'll get off your lawn, too.
A republic is not ruled by the people, it is ruled by people who are chosen by the people (sometimes; see for example the early American republic, especially how the electoral college worked; the Roman Republic is another example). This is an important distinction. It means the people get to influence law, but the leaders are free to ignore that influence if they deem it necessary. See the current administration's continuation of two unpopular wars after ousting the last, unpopular, administration.
And if your society is full of busybodies, moral crusaders, and morons, you will get their ideals running the show. 50% + 1 isn't a holy mandate, especially not one good enough to trample our rights. Give me a constitutional republic (especially one that includes some sort of punishment to lawmakers for violating said constitution) if we must have government.
I agree that the comparison to slavery is over the top. We knew blacks were human, for instance. Our knowledge of what dolphins can do is a fairly recent thing.
EFI is not a Mac only technology. You can get PCs with that. Aside from that, there's no fundamental difference between a PC and a Mac. There's no difference in processor architecture, so I can run what I want on a Mac and, with some hacks defeating the DRM, I can run OS X on a PC.
The space program has been used for military research and military purposes. There's quite a bit of overlap between sending a man to orbit and sending a missile to orbit. That GPS satellite can be used to get you from point A to B or that ballistic missile to Moscow. Satellite cameras to search the stars aren't altogether different from spy satellites to search the ground. Maybe some of the experience they've gotten from, say, the Mars rovers was useful in building the various military drones they have now.
I think it's fair to say that the military would find ways to use civilian technology in relevant fields, and space exploration has some pretty big overlaps.
How have casinos been stealing from people? If you have above a room temperature IQ, you should have some idea that the odds are stacked against you from the very start. Any wins you get will eventually be washed away by losses. And many people know this, and play willingly. Absent casinos hiring people to grab random people, hold them at gunpoint, and take their money, I see no theft.