Javascript was originally named livescript, but with the sudden and powerful popularity of java, they changed the name to apparently capitalize on the trend.
It's the internet equivalent of you paying the grocery store for your food, and the grocery store then trying to force the farmers to pay for the food they provided as well.
No, he can't. He has to do his own wheedling and backroom dealing to get the right people to back him, since he essentially has no power. I've seen a couple of these things happen a few years ago, and the day & hour he heard about them, he began speaking out against that law and what was being done 'in his name' but against his will. Even though he has no official political power, he does know people, and the populace love him. That allows him to do things, but only after he's been able to build a sufficient backing so that the ones in control won't just ignore him and sweep it under the rug. Remember, a king he may be, but it's a title that comes with no power.
From the reports I've seen over the last 5 years, the King himself neither likes nor supports this law, and has publicly spoken out against it, however the government in charge refuses to do anything about it. (Other than using it as a spike club against people they don't like.)
Sony does an old japanese 'business tactic' where a large company spawns off all it's little sub-interests into 'companies' that share part of it's name and claim they are independent so when something goes wrong, or they want to shuffle profits around and get huge tax breaks while claiming losses, it's easy, and quasi-legal. If anything goes wrong, they just declare that it was that subsidiaries fault, and not really Sony's, so you can't nail Sony to the wall for it's activities since they claim to have no control or responsibility over what the subsidiaries do, despite their iron grip control. It's kind of like putting sock puppets on your hands, then mugging some people, and when you get caught, blame it on the sock puppet, and claim innocence for yourself. In an act a attrition you remove the sock puppet and throw it on the ground and turn you back on it. Meanwhile the now defunct sock puppet had already transferred the money from the muggings to another sock puppet, and it is now sitting safely in your wallet, and since you are 'innocent', so it the money and your acquisition of it. After you've successfully flummoxed your accusers, you don yet another sock puppet and continue the charade. It's apparently related to the stunts involved in Hollywood Accounting where they do such things as rent their own equipment to themselves, charge for the renting, and the depreciation and usage of the equipment, among many other dirty tricks, and claim the movie as a massive loss despite making a large amount of money way beyond their total costs of production and promotion, etc. A friend who's got some kind of degree in business told me it's kind of like a reverse shell corporation, but honestly, I don't really understand how shell corporations really work. So, you readers can take it however you like, but don't for a second believe Sony is anything like innocent. (I'm pretty sure that applies to all big corporations, but still...)
You can have it fast, cheap, or good, but you can't have all three, and now you want me to add beautiful to the list? You really don't get it, do you...:D
We could always just switch over to exclusively showing videos of normal boring everyday stuff.
Along those lines, news would cover the same junk that always happens. Today at 4, traffic goes past the elementary school and cats spend most of their time sleeping. For our late edition at 11, old people playing bingo and tomorrows weather report.
Then again, who wants to waste the time watching that, or even uploading it.
Anybody remember Myspace ? It was all the rage before facebook came out. When people finally noticed facebook, myspace withered faster than a watermelon in death valley on july 4th. (I just had to find an excuse to put in that imagery, and this worked acceptably.)
For the same reason you don't put unnecessary labels on any other foods either.
On top of that, you have a rather vocal group of people screaming that genetically modifying organisms is immoral and dangerous, even though there isn't slightest bit of proof. There are groups that are actively trying to sabotage GMO no matter what, and they don't care how many people suffer and die because of it. (One example is the politician in India that has sworn to do everything possible to keep all GMOs out of India no matter how many children go blind or people starve to death that could have been prevented by the GMOs. And it's not just rhetoric. They turned down many tons of food to a starving region because it had GMOs in it.)
Once you start labeling things as GMO, those same people that are attacking them in the first place will start claiming that the GMO label is on the food because it isn't safe, but the government won't publicly admit it, so the put the labels on it so you'll know and can avoid it, wink wink... The FDA is aware of that dirty lie being planned because some of the gmo-opponents spoke about it publicly several years back.
So in short, you don't give ammunition to the nutjob that's already shooting up the place.
The internet was always a lot more than just news groups before anyone advertised on it in the first place. Advertising is a problem in that a large percentage of the people don't want the intrusive all pervasive advertising that advertisers keep pushing on us because we don't pay enough attention to them. In the real world, a door to door salesman isn't allowed to keep pounding on your door and ringing the doorbell continuously and run around to all the windows in your house holding up pictures and peering in to see what you like until you finally buy something. Of course, if you do buy something, he'd just start the process all over again to sell you something again and again, ad infinitum. Unfortunately that's what advertising on the internet is like. He's doing everything he can to intrude on whatever you are doing, and force you to look at his ads and buy his junk. All the while, he's trying to scrape up as much info about you and your likes as he can by any means, of which tracking cookies are just one. You wouldn't put up with this crap in the real world, why do you think they should be allowed to do it on the internet?
Maybe, but it's not like you'll ever hear it go off. As everyone through out the world that works with explosives knows very well, you'll never hear the bomb that kills you.
They never did. I've seen lots of the bombs (non explosive duplicates for training purposes) used by real terrorists in a little museum EOD had. Every one of them was a real item that had been used against Americans. Every one of them was indistinguishable from the item it was intended to duplicate, and often had full functionality. My favorite is still the telephone the detonated when you hung up.
If you don't know, EOD is Explosives Ordinance Disposal. They are the people that deal with various bombs and booby-traps that aren't supposed to be there.
In movies and tv shows, every single last one, especially after it's been found. In real life, not a single one.
Of course to give you a comparison, hollywood has cars exploding all the time, but in real life, how many cars have you ever seen explode? (I'm betting it's close to, if not exactly Zero.)
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Javascript was originally named livescript, but with the sudden and powerful popularity of java, they changed the name to apparently capitalize on the trend.
It's the internet equivalent of you paying the grocery store for your food, and the grocery store then trying to force the farmers to pay for the food they provided as well.
True, but I wonder if the 'payment' was actually in monopoly money, or old confederate bills. :)
For their next trick, they'll try to use this unspecified payment for leverage to get the government to mandate a usage tax payable to themselves.
No, he can't. He has to do his own wheedling and backroom dealing to get the right people to back him, since he essentially has no power. I've seen a couple of these things happen a few years ago, and the day & hour he heard about them, he began speaking out against that law and what was being done 'in his name' but against his will.
Even though he has no official political power, he does know people, and the populace love him. That allows him to do things, but only after he's been able to build a sufficient backing so that the ones in control won't just ignore him and sweep it under the rug.
Remember, a king he may be, but it's a title that comes with no power.
From the reports I've seen over the last 5 years, the King himself neither likes nor supports this law, and has publicly spoken out against it, however the government in charge refuses to do anything about it. (Other than using it as a spike club against people they don't like.)
Sony does an old japanese 'business tactic' where a large company spawns off all it's little sub-interests into 'companies' that share part of it's name and claim they are independent so when something goes wrong, or they want to shuffle profits around and get huge tax breaks while claiming losses, it's easy, and quasi-legal. If anything goes wrong, they just declare that it was that subsidiaries fault, and not really Sony's, so you can't nail Sony to the wall for it's activities since they claim to have no control or responsibility over what the subsidiaries do, despite their iron grip control.
It's kind of like putting sock puppets on your hands, then mugging some people, and when you get caught, blame it on the sock puppet, and claim innocence for yourself. In an act a attrition you remove the sock puppet and throw it on the ground and turn you back on it. Meanwhile the now defunct sock puppet had already transferred the money from the muggings to another sock puppet, and it is now sitting safely in your wallet, and since you are 'innocent', so it the money and your acquisition of it. After you've successfully flummoxed your accusers, you don yet another sock puppet and continue the charade.
It's apparently related to the stunts involved in Hollywood Accounting where they do such things as rent their own equipment to themselves, charge for the renting, and the depreciation and usage of the equipment, among many other dirty tricks, and claim the movie as a massive loss despite making a large amount of money way beyond their total costs of production and promotion, etc.
A friend who's got some kind of degree in business told me it's kind of like a reverse shell corporation, but honestly, I don't really understand how shell corporations really work.
So, you readers can take it however you like, but don't for a second believe Sony is anything like innocent. (I'm pretty sure that applies to all big corporations, but still...)
Don't forget the grays and blood reds of the standard ID color palette.
Well of course. If you knew what you didn't know, you'd know it instead of not knowing it, you know?
Especially with the rising symptoms of Dementia and Alzheimers. :)
You can have it fast, cheap, or good, but you can't have all three, and now you want me to add beautiful to the list? :D
You really don't get it, do you...
We could always just switch over to exclusively showing videos of normal boring everyday stuff.
Along those lines, news would cover the same junk that always happens. Today at 4, traffic goes past the elementary school and cats spend most of their time sleeping. For our late edition at 11, old people playing bingo and tomorrows weather report.
Then again, who wants to waste the time watching that, or even uploading it.
After an automated filter is applied to weed out everything not on your whitelist.
Anybody remember Myspace ? It was all the rage before facebook came out. When people finally noticed facebook, myspace withered faster than a watermelon in death valley on july 4th. (I just had to find an excuse to put in that imagery, and this worked acceptably.)
I checked, and I definitely don't have nerves under my feet unless I'm standing on someone, but then, those aren't mine and so they don't count.
:)
:p
In my feet, yes.
Under my feet, no.
Give squid face my regards
For the same reason you don't put unnecessary labels on any other foods either.
On top of that, you have a rather vocal group of people screaming that genetically modifying organisms is immoral and dangerous, even though there isn't slightest bit of proof. There are groups that are actively trying to sabotage GMO no matter what, and they don't care how many people suffer and die because of it. (One example is the politician in India that has sworn to do everything possible to keep all GMOs out of India no matter how many children go blind or people starve to death that could have been prevented by the GMOs. And it's not just rhetoric. They turned down many tons of food to a starving region because it had GMOs in it.)
Once you start labeling things as GMO, those same people that are attacking them in the first place will start claiming that the GMO label is on the food because it isn't safe, but the government won't publicly admit it, so the put the labels on it so you'll know and can avoid it, wink wink...
The FDA is aware of that dirty lie being planned because some of the gmo-opponents spoke about it publicly several years back.
So in short, you don't give ammunition to the nutjob that's already shooting up the place.
The internet was always a lot more than just news groups before anyone advertised on it in the first place.
Advertising is a problem in that a large percentage of the people don't want the intrusive all pervasive advertising that advertisers keep pushing on us because we don't pay enough attention to them.
In the real world, a door to door salesman isn't allowed to keep pounding on your door and ringing the doorbell continuously and run around to all the windows in your house holding up pictures and peering in to see what you like until you finally buy something. Of course, if you do buy something, he'd just start the process all over again to sell you something again and again, ad infinitum.
Unfortunately that's what advertising on the internet is like. He's doing everything he can to intrude on whatever you are doing, and force you to look at his ads and buy his junk. All the while, he's trying to scrape up as much info about you and your likes as he can by any means, of which tracking cookies are just one.
You wouldn't put up with this crap in the real world, why do you think they should be allowed to do it on the internet?
Unless it has an integral battery like most rechargeable toothbrushes in which case cutting it open to remove the battery will probably destroy it.
Maybe, but it's not like you'll ever hear it go off.
As everyone through out the world that works with explosives knows very well, you'll never hear the bomb that kills you.
They never did.
I've seen lots of the bombs (non explosive duplicates for training purposes) used by real terrorists in a little museum EOD had.
Every one of them was a real item that had been used against Americans.
Every one of them was indistinguishable from the item it was intended to duplicate, and often had full functionality.
My favorite is still the telephone the detonated when you hung up.
If you don't know, EOD is Explosives Ordinance Disposal. They are the people that deal with various bombs and booby-traps that aren't supposed to be there.
I'd bet the battery ran out of juice in a bit less than 40 minutes.
The biggest 'security reason' for this delay is that the TSA has a bunch of morons working there.
Just go with the old standard, it's a battery powered back massaging wand...
I doubt it, remember, the TSA got ahold of their toothbrush.
That phrase is also used by cowards to explain their inappropriate actions based upon unfounded fears when they think they can get away with it.
In movies and tv shows, every single last one, especially after it's been found.
In real life, not a single one.
Of course to give you a comparison, hollywood has cars exploding all the time, but in real life, how many cars have you ever seen explode? (I'm betting it's close to, if not exactly Zero.)