Wow. Copyright on my appearance. So, the next time I commit a burglary, and some surveillance cameras actually record me in the act, I can claim copyright on my appearance to have the evidence quashed. Sounds good to me!
Actually - no. It is my right to see or hear any damned thing I choose to see or hear, if it is otherwise freely available on the net or on the airwaves. It isn't a "privilege" and I need no one's "permission". It is a "right".
These judges are stepping on the people's right to share views, opinions, and information.
This woman is getting death threats? Hmmm. So, her fear of the death threats trumps the people's right to communicate freely? Oh - well then - I can understand now why the NSA must monitor every digital communication. The president is afraid that we might be badmouthing him behind his back! It all makes sense now! I move that we quadruple the budget of the NSA immediately!/sarcasm
Huh? You mean to say that these panels can't be placed on frames, which will hold them at the proper angle? I think you've overlooked the obvious, or something.
Perhaps you've forgotten that Android is Linux based. As is Chrome desktop. If you pool all of the Linux based OS's out there, the market share is moderately impressive.
I disagree. Ubuntu was making great strides, until they went Metro. Canonical took a winning strategy, and torpedoed themselves. I really believe that they had the POTENTIAL of becoming a rival with Apple or Microsoft, until they sacrificed that potential.
How do we place a dollar value on Linux? I've seen some attempts to do so, and each of them seem to me to fall far short. Quite aside from the apparent value of those thousands of dollars worth of software - how do we measure the immunity of Linux to the myriad viruses that attack Windows? How do we measure the value of fine grained security needs? How do we measure the ability to freely hack Linux itself, as well as those thousands of dollars worth of software?
IT people in the server world understand the value of Linux and other Unix-likes very well.
Some people want to be optimistic? Whoop-ti-fucking-do.
I've lived a fairly long life now. One of life's rules that has been hammered into my head, is that people seldom change. A child who is an evil little fuck will grow into an evil fucking teen. An evil fucking teen will grown into an evil fucking adult. And evil fucking adult will grow into an evil fucking old bastard. The only change to be seen, is in maturity and sophistication. And, the sophistication is pretty iffy. Sure - you can find exceptions to this rule, but the exceptions help to prove the rule.
I always WANTED to believe that my abusive father would change. Wanting didn't make that happen though.
You go ahead and WANT to believe that Microsoft is going to be benevolent. Your wanting won't make it so.
Intelligent, sane, reasonable people will remember the conduct of people they know, as well as corporations they deal with. Such people have long memories. Corporations may change, but reasonable people will hold on to some skepticism. We wait, we watch, we evaluate. Evil Corporation doesn't become Saintly Corporation just because they give some lip service to Sainthood.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft didn't do that just one time, or even just a dozen times. It was a way of life for years. I'll not readily trust them, nor will very many other sane and reasonable people.
Where would Java be today, had Microsoft had it's way?
Mexico is not run by the government. Mexico's government uses a corrupt military and police force in an attempt to make a show of running the country, but it isn't working.
Pulling the plug at the ISP leaves you no place to route. Pulling the plug at the backbone might allow you to route within the portion of the internet on your side of the plug, except that your ISP may very well pull the plug at the same time.
You can try this yourself on a small scale. Go to your modem/router, and pull the plug. Unplug ALL the wires going into it. Few modems, if any, will continue to route WIFI - but even if it does, what are you going to get on your local network? It's highly doubtful that you can connect to Slashdot to refute my post. Those who are using an iPhone or similar to browse are ultimately using a wired connections somewhere between their phone and Slashdot. The government knows where that wired connection is, and government can cause that connection to be unplugged.
"It's illegal for the United States to spy on it's citizens. Likewise the same for Great Britain. But under the terms of the UK-USA agreement, Britain spies on Americans and America spies on British citizens and the two groups trade data."
You may or may not accept that link as any kind of a source - but you may take any bit of that page, and go in search of more authoritative sources, if you wish.
Long story short, our governments have a long history of circumventing the law regarding citizen's rights. The arrangement has been in place since about WW2. The law prohibits our government from spying on us, so they simply have another government to spy on us, then repay that government in kind.
While I agree with you - we find ourselves in a world where our government and our corporations have ASSumed the authority to spy on us. I suggest you deal with reality as it is. Let's all learn to hide our history from the likes of Steam, along with Google and all the other trackers out there.
Run Steam on your real high-tech hardware - and keep everything else on a different machine, or in a virtual machine. Just separate the two, and you're good to go.
In a court, or a kangaroo court, the two are the same for all intents and purposes. If anything, the archives are worse, because they can be manipulated at will.
Who, precisely, needs unemployment to go down, rather than up? It isn't the corporations, who incidentally all have lobbyists in Washington offering all sorts of rewards to congress critters are cooperative.
We are all terrorists unless we toe the Party Line. Don't forget that "Politically Correct" came directly from the old Soviet. Progressives are something like second or third cousins to Soviet Russia's party.
I don't recall very many people who hated XP. There was a rather small cadre who were very loyal to W2K, but few even of those hated XP. Like your brother AC says, "Citations needed."
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Wow. Copyright on my appearance. So, the next time I commit a burglary, and some surveillance cameras actually record me in the act, I can claim copyright on my appearance to have the evidence quashed. Sounds good to me!
Actually - no. It is my right to see or hear any damned thing I choose to see or hear, if it is otherwise freely available on the net or on the airwaves. It isn't a "privilege" and I need no one's "permission". It is a "right".
These judges are stepping on the people's right to share views, opinions, and information.
This woman is getting death threats? Hmmm. So, her fear of the death threats trumps the people's right to communicate freely? Oh - well then - I can understand now why the NSA must monitor every digital communication. The president is afraid that we might be badmouthing him behind his back! It all makes sense now! I move that we quadruple the budget of the NSA immediately! /sarcasm
Huh? You mean to say that these panels can't be placed on frames, which will hold them at the proper angle? I think you've overlooked the obvious, or something.
Perhaps you've forgotten that Android is Linux based. As is Chrome desktop. If you pool all of the Linux based OS's out there, the market share is moderately impressive.
I disagree. Ubuntu was making great strides, until they went Metro. Canonical took a winning strategy, and torpedoed themselves. I really believe that they had the POTENTIAL of becoming a rival with Apple or Microsoft, until they sacrificed that potential.
How do we place a dollar value on Linux? I've seen some attempts to do so, and each of them seem to me to fall far short. Quite aside from the apparent value of those thousands of dollars worth of software - how do we measure the immunity of Linux to the myriad viruses that attack Windows? How do we measure the value of fine grained security needs? How do we measure the ability to freely hack Linux itself, as well as those thousands of dollars worth of software?
IT people in the server world understand the value of Linux and other Unix-likes very well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
Windows has the commanding market share of consumer grade products? Somehow, I'm not impressed. I'll go with the pros.
Some people want to be optimistic? Whoop-ti-fucking-do.
I've lived a fairly long life now. One of life's rules that has been hammered into my head, is that people seldom change. A child who is an evil little fuck will grow into an evil fucking teen. An evil fucking teen will grown into an evil fucking adult. And evil fucking adult will grow into an evil fucking old bastard. The only change to be seen, is in maturity and sophistication. And, the sophistication is pretty iffy. Sure - you can find exceptions to this rule, but the exceptions help to prove the rule.
I always WANTED to believe that my abusive father would change. Wanting didn't make that happen though.
You go ahead and WANT to believe that Microsoft is going to be benevolent. Your wanting won't make it so.
Intelligent, sane, reasonable people will remember the conduct of people they know, as well as corporations they deal with. Such people have long memories. Corporations may change, but reasonable people will hold on to some skepticism. We wait, we watch, we evaluate. Evil Corporation doesn't become Saintly Corporation just because they give some lip service to Sainthood.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft didn't do that just one time, or even just a dozen times. It was a way of life for years. I'll not readily trust them, nor will very many other sane and reasonable people.
Where would Java be today, had Microsoft had it's way?
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
Mexico is not run by the government. Mexico's government uses a corrupt military and police force in an attempt to make a show of running the country, but it isn't working.
Pulling the plug at the ISP leaves you no place to route. Pulling the plug at the backbone might allow you to route within the portion of the internet on your side of the plug, except that your ISP may very well pull the plug at the same time.
You can try this yourself on a small scale. Go to your modem/router, and pull the plug. Unplug ALL the wires going into it. Few modems, if any, will continue to route WIFI - but even if it does, what are you going to get on your local network? It's highly doubtful that you can connect to Slashdot to refute my post. Those who are using an iPhone or similar to browse are ultimately using a wired connections somewhere between their phone and Slashdot. The government knows where that wired connection is, and government can cause that connection to be unplugged.
Don't lie. I used my stopwatch, and it takes 3.18 jiffies to get logged in.
"It's illegal for the United States to spy on it's citizens. Likewise the same for Great Britain. But under the terms of the UK-USA agreement, Britain spies on Americans and America spies on British citizens and the two groups trade data."
http://nstarzone.com/SPIES.htm...
You may or may not accept that link as any kind of a source - but you may take any bit of that page, and go in search of more authoritative sources, if you wish.
Long story short, our governments have a long history of circumventing the law regarding citizen's rights. The arrangement has been in place since about WW2. The law prohibits our government from spying on us, so they simply have another government to spy on us, then repay that government in kind.
Don't worry - the NSA will do it to you the French way, the Greek way, the English way, and a few ways that you've never heard of as well!
ROFLMAO
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Is this the same president who is permitting private corporations to negotiate international treaties? How's that TPP thing going these days?
The chief of mealy-mouthed politicians is promising again to defend net neutrality? Color me - unimpressed.
Here in the states, corporations are busy bribing officials to create felony offenses out of all sorts of civil matters. Copyright law, for instance.
While I agree with you - we find ourselves in a world where our government and our corporations have ASSumed the authority to spy on us. I suggest you deal with reality as it is. Let's all learn to hide our history from the likes of Steam, along with Google and all the other trackers out there.
Run Steam on your real high-tech hardware - and keep everything else on a different machine, or in a virtual machine. Just separate the two, and you're good to go.
Separate user - or separate machine. Nothing says that my gaming machine is the same as my general purpose machine.
Hooray for the Morlocks!
Is that a process used by the aliens who carry the anal probes?
In a court, or a kangaroo court, the two are the same for all intents and purposes. If anything, the archives are worse, because they can be manipulated at will.
Because so far, Snowdon hasn't yet been proven wrong, and the NSA has failed to offer any sort of rationalization that even approximates truth.
Is that better?
I just thought that maybe they were high velocity floppies. Aren't all the terrorists resorting to high velocity floppies now?
Who, precisely, needs unemployment to go down, rather than up? It isn't the corporations, who incidentally all have lobbyists in Washington offering all sorts of rewards to congress critters are cooperative.
We are all terrorists unless we toe the Party Line. Don't forget that "Politically Correct" came directly from the old Soviet. Progressives are something like second or third cousins to Soviet Russia's party.
I don't recall very many people who hated XP. There was a rather small cadre who were very loyal to W2K, but few even of those hated XP. Like your brother AC says, "Citations needed."