So what's the goal of the US or whoever here? If they get him extradited on those charges they can then charge him with treason or something they actually want to get him for?
I was under the assumption that the Interpol charade was just a ruse to stick something bigger on, but now I realize I don't know why they wouldn't just charge him with whatever they want to in the first place. Or is this simple character assassination, and if he gets extradited and fined, that will be the end goal? "This guy was convicted of 'rape' (according to the odd standard in Sweden) so just ignore those e-mails he's leaking that he says are from us."
I don't think this is similar enough to foods to where that comparison is apt. Corn is corn, if you're going to buy an ear of corn and notice it's GM, you can buy a different one that's not GM, and it will taste basically the same.
Buying music, however, not many consumers buy based on label. Songs are exclusive. I can't choose to buy "Gimmie Shelter" by the rolling stones from a DRM-free label, I could only buy it from the label that has the rights to that song. So there's no branding advantage to DRM free there.
"Organic" or "non GMO" are also labels people care about. I'm cynical that "DRM-free" has as much appeal. I could be wrong, I've done no surveys on that subject.
While Iran and China would delight in our failure, I think the likelihood of either doing much about it is less than a rogue individual. Governments are more pragmatic, they're less likely to put time and resources into merely embarrassing NASA when those same resources could be used to actually get something. China for example, is more interested in military industrial espionage. Why break our toy rather than trying to steal our guns or money? Iran is a bit more likely, but again, the money could be used for better purposes. Instead of Iran using that money to fund a crack team of hackers, why wouldn't they simply buy guns with it to give to Hamas?
There are multiple ways of looking at the 2000 election. The way I take is that the election was extremely close. More people voted for Gore, but not by an overwhelming amount. That's still way too many idiots who actually voted for Bush. It should have been a landslide: Bush was proposing putting a giant hole in the economy with the tax cuts for the wealthy during the campaign. And nearly half the country voted for it.
That the supreme court declared Bush the president despite the butterfly ballot and popular vote was really just the cherry on the top. To me, the bulk of the problem was that the voters were too dumb to know they were voting to sacrifice the economy for the extremely wealthy to buy another mansion.
This would indeed barely news, but that's an indictment of "news," not this finding. It's important. A scientific finding of "here are the problems, they're not catastrophic" is important.
It's not one or the other, they identify him as an outsider. Doesn't really matter what type of outsider they think he is, they just want someone they perceive as "one of their own" to be the president. They don't understand the political positions, so it comes down to gut feelings and trust.
I think race is the bigger issue with most birthers, with "He's a muslim!" simply being a slightly more legitimate reason to them than "He's black!" to distrust him. Had 9/11 not happened, and were there no muslim extremists, I'm guessing they'd be doing more to cast him as a secret black panther member, trying to destroy the US.
The shorter version of that would be “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Yes, it's often frustrating how voting isn't effective, but would your rather not be allowed to vote?
Saying the vote is meaningless here is going too far. You don't live in a banana republic, a soviet state. You don't get your ideal candidate partially because none of you vote in the primaries, and partially because this is the real world. Vote, and if you're still not satisfied with the results, do more next time.
A fair criticism, but you made it on a website instead of in a newspaper. As the summary points out, criticisms that come from the internet aren't worth considering. You know, because "reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are taught to consider what is told to them with skepticism and to seek responses to charges."
It's hard to imagine being found at-fault when you are stopped and rear-ended. There's no shame in being involved in an accident if it's not your fault.
There's a -little- shame in being rear ended. Because of the jokes.
How far out realistically would we spot a killer asteroid? I recall some predictions years in advance of near misses. And how many years would it likely take to get a project orion nuclear propulsion working?
Wouldn't be a good move on their part: the news agencies now have yet another reason to make the story about wikileaks and avoid covering what has been leaked.
Not to say that means they AREN'T doing that, just that if this is a conspiracy on their part, it's a dumb one. And I guess the media was already doing a great job of it. "American involvement in the Syrian dictatorship? Boring. Kristen Stewart cheating? HELLO FRONT PAGE NEWS!!!"
I'm convinced that's as fake as the flat earth society and r/pyongyang. It's people acting in an elaborate joke. No proof of this of course, but I'm skeptical that so many people who are that dumb could figure out how to turn on a computer.
MS already has "games for windows live" which sold games you could download. I wasn't aware of that fact, which should tell you something about MS's ability to intrude on steam's turf. Origin is a bigger threat. I don't know of any hard statistics, but they're building up a lot of ill will among gamers as far as I've heard.
Anyway, this is valve moving into MS's area, not vice versa. I'd guess that Newell realizes that windows 8 app store is going to be a disaster and that he can position himself to replace it, like firefox replaced internet explorer. I don't think he's worried windows 8 is going to replace steam.
I just checked, and on at least my android (gingerbread with touchwiz crap) you can't uninstall the youtube app. And a google search looked like you couldn't on stock android either. Until this update, you couldn't remove the youtube app from iOS either. Apple cited licensing issues to include it in iOS, but I'm dubious they'll allow it into the app store to install if I want it.
So I see both camps dictating to me whether I do or do not have the youtube app on my phone or tablet. I can see why they'd want to include it by default: there are a lot of people who can't figure out how to install apps on their phone. I don't understand why the app must be immortal and impossible to remove without rooting or jailbreaking the phone. It's not like there's anything important on youtube.
Does the Ukranian government regularly take action against malware? If not, then no, they got shut down for copyright infringement, and "We're shutting down this malware site for your protection, citizen" is a lie on the same level as "We had to shut down the protest because they didn't have a proper permit, not because we don't like their message."
I think it's modded because the implication was that it had to do with race. That if, say, Ireland were a rising superpower against a declining US, and the two were locked in industrial+government espionage, we'd be okay with Ireland getting an advantage over us.
I think the reason we aren't as worried about the US industrial espionage as we are about chinese espionage has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that we have a stake in the outcome.
Maybe that ICANN would have thought harder about what they were proposing before they proposed it? It seems that the problem was described in a one-paragraph summary, was it that ICANN was incapable of understanding that much, or was it they didn't bother thinking it through?
I suppose the fear would be that coke's namespace would be taken not by a competitor they could sue and recoup their losses. Rather, I think the fear is that some individual who would use it for spam or viruses, and this individual would be difficult and expensive to track down and haul to court. And even if they were, they wouldn't have enough money in the piggy bank to make it right.
That's what I'm guessing the fear is, that some grandmother will go to coke.coke and get a virus and switch to pepsi forever. I think it's probably paranoia, but it's still a disadvantage to this. Meanwhile, there don't seem to be any advantages to outweigh it.
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So what's the goal of the US or whoever here? If they get him extradited on those charges they can then charge him with treason or something they actually want to get him for?
I was under the assumption that the Interpol charade was just a ruse to stick something bigger on, but now I realize I don't know why they wouldn't just charge him with whatever they want to in the first place. Or is this simple character assassination, and if he gets extradited and fined, that will be the end goal? "This guy was convicted of 'rape' (according to the odd standard in Sweden) so just ignore those e-mails he's leaking that he says are from us."
I don't think this is similar enough to foods to where that comparison is apt. Corn is corn, if you're going to buy an ear of corn and notice it's GM, you can buy a different one that's not GM, and it will taste basically the same.
Buying music, however, not many consumers buy based on label. Songs are exclusive. I can't choose to buy "Gimmie Shelter" by the rolling stones from a DRM-free label, I could only buy it from the label that has the rights to that song. So there's no branding advantage to DRM free there.
"Organic" or "non GMO" are also labels people care about. I'm cynical that "DRM-free" has as much appeal. I could be wrong, I've done no surveys on that subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
It's a behavior as old as recorded history. Well, almost as old.
Anyway, yes, there are such people out there and there always will be.
I think if you're typing and pressing more than 6 keys at a time, you're doing something wrong.
While Iran and China would delight in our failure, I think the likelihood of either doing much about it is less than a rogue individual. Governments are more pragmatic, they're less likely to put time and resources into merely embarrassing NASA when those same resources could be used to actually get something. China for example, is more interested in military industrial espionage. Why break our toy rather than trying to steal our guns or money? Iran is a bit more likely, but again, the money could be used for better purposes. Instead of Iran using that money to fund a crack team of hackers, why wouldn't they simply buy guns with it to give to Hamas?
There are plenty of deeply flawed people out there who would break it just to break something that was important, damn the consequences.
"Mommy and Daddy didn't love me, so fuck everyone!"
There are multiple ways of looking at the 2000 election. The way I take is that the election was extremely close. More people voted for Gore, but not by an overwhelming amount. That's still way too many idiots who actually voted for Bush. It should have been a landslide: Bush was proposing putting a giant hole in the economy with the tax cuts for the wealthy during the campaign. And nearly half the country voted for it.
That the supreme court declared Bush the president despite the butterfly ballot and popular vote was really just the cherry on the top. To me, the bulk of the problem was that the voters were too dumb to know they were voting to sacrifice the economy for the extremely wealthy to buy another mansion.
This would indeed barely news, but that's an indictment of "news," not this finding. It's important. A scientific finding of "here are the problems, they're not catastrophic" is important.
It's not one or the other, they identify him as an outsider. Doesn't really matter what type of outsider they think he is, they just want someone they perceive as "one of their own" to be the president. They don't understand the political positions, so it comes down to gut feelings and trust.
I think race is the bigger issue with most birthers, with "He's a muslim!" simply being a slightly more legitimate reason to them than "He's black!" to distrust him. Had 9/11 not happened, and were there no muslim extremists, I'm guessing they'd be doing more to cast him as a secret black panther member, trying to destroy the US.
The shorter version of that would be “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Yes, it's often frustrating how voting isn't effective, but would your rather not be allowed to vote?
Saying the vote is meaningless here is going too far. You don't live in a banana republic, a soviet state. You don't get your ideal candidate partially because none of you vote in the primaries, and partially because this is the real world. Vote, and if you're still not satisfied with the results, do more next time.
Syfy you say? Where would the "ghost hunters" or pro-wrestlers fit into that plot?
A fair criticism, but you made it on a website instead of in a newspaper. As the summary points out, criticisms that come from the internet aren't worth considering. You know, because "reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are taught to consider what is told to them with skepticism and to seek responses to charges."
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It's hard to imagine being found at-fault when you are stopped and rear-ended. There's no shame in being involved in an accident if it's not your fault.
There's a -little- shame in being rear ended. Because of the jokes.
Rear ended... tee hee...
How far out realistically would we spot a killer asteroid? I recall some predictions years in advance of near misses. And how many years would it likely take to get a project orion nuclear propulsion working?
Especially given that they apparently own exclusive rights to have devices with rounded corners.
Wouldn't be a good move on their part: the news agencies now have yet another reason to make the story about wikileaks and avoid covering what has been leaked.
Not to say that means they AREN'T doing that, just that if this is a conspiracy on their part, it's a dumb one. And I guess the media was already doing a great job of it. "American involvement in the Syrian dictatorship? Boring. Kristen Stewart cheating? HELLO FRONT PAGE NEWS!!!"
I'm convinced that's as fake as the flat earth society and r/pyongyang. It's people acting in an elaborate joke. No proof of this of course, but I'm skeptical that so many people who are that dumb could figure out how to turn on a computer.
MS already has "games for windows live" which sold games you could download. I wasn't aware of that fact, which should tell you something about MS's ability to intrude on steam's turf. Origin is a bigger threat. I don't know of any hard statistics, but they're building up a lot of ill will among gamers as far as I've heard.
Anyway, this is valve moving into MS's area, not vice versa. I'd guess that Newell realizes that windows 8 app store is going to be a disaster and that he can position himself to replace it, like firefox replaced internet explorer. I don't think he's worried windows 8 is going to replace steam.
I just checked, and on at least my android (gingerbread with touchwiz crap) you can't uninstall the youtube app. And a google search looked like you couldn't on stock android either. Until this update, you couldn't remove the youtube app from iOS either. Apple cited licensing issues to include it in iOS, but I'm dubious they'll allow it into the app store to install if I want it.
So I see both camps dictating to me whether I do or do not have the youtube app on my phone or tablet. I can see why they'd want to include it by default: there are a lot of people who can't figure out how to install apps on their phone. I don't understand why the app must be immortal and impossible to remove without rooting or jailbreaking the phone. It's not like there's anything important on youtube.
Does the Ukranian government regularly take action against malware? If not, then no, they got shut down for copyright infringement, and "We're shutting down this malware site for your protection, citizen" is a lie on the same level as "We had to shut down the protest because they didn't have a proper permit, not because we don't like their message."
I think it's modded because the implication was that it had to do with race. That if, say, Ireland were a rising superpower against a declining US, and the two were locked in industrial+government espionage, we'd be okay with Ireland getting an advantage over us.
I think the reason we aren't as worried about the US industrial espionage as we are about chinese espionage has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that we have a stake in the outcome.
It's only REALLY a problem when those two populations overlap, at least in my opinion.
Maybe that ICANN would have thought harder about what they were proposing before they proposed it? It seems that the problem was described in a one-paragraph summary, was it that ICANN was incapable of understanding that much, or was it they didn't bother thinking it through?
I suppose the fear would be that coke's namespace would be taken not by a competitor they could sue and recoup their losses. Rather, I think the fear is that some individual who would use it for spam or viruses, and this individual would be difficult and expensive to track down and haul to court. And even if they were, they wouldn't have enough money in the piggy bank to make it right.
That's what I'm guessing the fear is, that some grandmother will go to coke.coke and get a virus and switch to pepsi forever. I think it's probably paranoia, but it's still a disadvantage to this. Meanwhile, there don't seem to be any advantages to outweigh it.