What the hell have you been smoking? Where do you get the idea that the US is in any way prepared to take action against Assange? Have indictments been handed down? A crack team of commandos deployed? CIA operatives given kill orders?
This is Obama's America, not Stalin's Russia.
Lastly, if the USA wanted wikileaks off the net at any cost, it would be GONE. They did it when Palin's email was hacked, and they'll do it again if "national security" can be cited as a reason. Yes, we are all geeks, and we all know WE can still find wikileaks and places like it if the governments actually start going after them. Technologically it's very nearly impossible to stop us. However, it's dead simple to stop 95% of the population. Domain name not found. Done.
Try reversing that assumption for a few seconds. If a US political party posted some information online, and a foreign government asked them to remove it, how far do you think that would go?
One could imagine an "accidental" information posting being removed at the request of the UK government, for diplomatic reasons. One would be hard pressed to imagine the Iranian government getting the same courtesy. Lets not be confused, it's a courtesy. There is no LAW that requires it.
Furthermore, I'm of the opinion that a significant portion of the reasoning behind this is political pressure/clout. Wikileaks being handled by a playboy like Julian is one thing. Wikileaks being handled by an international consortium of political activists dedicated to freedom in all forms is another thing entirely.
Anyone remember when Palin's email was "hacked" by 4chan? Anyone remember Wikileaks being blackholed for a couple days because they were the primary host for the downloaded data? No, I didn't think anyone did./. seemed to miss that particular abuse of power. Back then, the secret service (or some other branch) didn't have any trouble removing Wikileaks from the internet for (at least) a while. This includes a number of mirrors, although not all of them got knocked down. I can only assume this was done at the root DNS level, because IP only addressing worked for all the hosts outside the USA. Having a legitimate political party (more or less) hosting a mirror means wikileaks will be MUCH harder to take down next time. It also means that if it is taken down, through whatever means, that can be leveraged politically.
Oh, then you agree, with myself, google and verizon. The entire POINT of net neutrality is to allow proper network management, including priority for low latency applications, while barring uncompetitive actions. In simple terms. All traffic SOURCES are equal.
I'm going to feed the troll, I know I shouldn't, but I can't help myself.
Hatred toward ANY creed is toxic. Period. It will eat you up and leave just the filthy troll we all see before us. You are welcome to disdain religion in all it's flavors, but in this country, you are not welcome to attempt to remove, or stop them. Period. Freedom means FOR EVERYONE, not just the people you agree with. It's utterly dismal that I have to even trot that truism out in this day and age.
Furthermore, the idea that superstition deserves respect is FAR older than you are, and worth more too. Respect for other peoples points of view is the first step to enlightenment. I'm not talking about sunday morning sermon stuff here, I'm talking about coexisting with the rest of the human race. "I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death to protect your right to say it". I mean that. I will fight for your right to spew vile filth and lies, and I will fight for Islams right to spew their particular world view too. The problem isn't really the religion in question, it's the ZEALOTS there of that are a problem. Zealotry is vile. It leads to killings and wars and is the root cause of almost every major travesty this world has ever seen. Not to godwin the thread, but Zealotry, NATIONAL zealotry is what caused WWII. It's not just religion that is scary here.
If you and others like you fan enough anti-muslim sentiment to drive ANYONE out, you will have lost more than you are capable of understanding. I don't care if muslim people live near me, the few I know personally are very nice people. I don't mind christians either, some of them are very nice people. I don't even mind aesthetic trolls like yourself. There MUST be at least one of you that's a good guy. (I haven't met him, but I heard tell...) My problem is with the zealots. I'd be more than happy to get rid of them. Yourself included. Moderation, compromise and open mindedness will rule the world, or the world will burn. Those really are you choices, and some day, maybe you'll figure that out... hopefully before it's too late.
Do you know the national average, in the lifetime of a car, that the ABS is activated? The national average is 4 times, over the life of a car (not one owner, one car). Also, power steering is totally worthless while the car is moving at anything more than a crawl. Power steering is for parking lots, and not much else. It takes very little effort to turn the wheels when they are already rolling.
While I tend to agree that killing the engine while the car is still moving is less than entirely safe... the drunk person behind the wheel is a lot less safe. I'd much rather encounter a "stalled" car on the highway than a drunk doing 60mph.
Why not install child seats in every car? Why not install front, side, rear airbags in every car? Why not require every person to retest for their license when they start the car? Why not have a monitoring system that decides if you are a good driver or not, and restricts your driving? Why not have autostop installed in every car? Auto park too. Wait, why not just make all cars driven by a complicated set of computers and sensors?
The very first, and main reason is COST. The second, and also important reason is that I have been driving without incident for 15 years, and therefore have no reasonable need for most or any of those systems.
WOOSH! That was the sound of the GP's point flying past your head. Had the theoretical person in question chosen to NOT drink and drive in the first place, they would not have been convicted of said crime and they would not now need an interlock.
Try having the tiniest bit of foresight. If your car is likely to order you to stop, you might want to avoid such highways. I know, it might be inconvenient, but these are people that have been operating deadly machines while impaired. They can live with a mild inconvenience.
I think you don't have the foggiest idea of the facts of the case. The so called ground zero mosque is more complicated and yet simpler than you imagine. High five for buying into the media blitz. Now lets have some facts to fuck up your opinions.
The planned community center is NOT on ground zero. It's blocks away. Roughly equidistant from 2 other mosques already in place in the area. The "symbol" isn't a symbol. It's a freaking YMCA with slightly different religious overtones. The only appreciable difference is, right now, this country likes Christians and doesn't like Muslims. Racism, religionism, whatever you want to call it. This whole thing is about HATE mongering. The people behind this community center are the kind of people we need in this country. Smart, rational, empathetic, open minded and willing to compromise. The kind of people AGAINST this center are the kind of people we SHOULD be putting up against walls. They are extremists, and zealots. Both of which, no matter the creed, should be removed from society as they are of no benefit, and we KNOW THAT as a society.
If providing a community center in NY, where exists dozens of similar centers from dozens of creeds is counter productive.... well I don't even know where to begin. Are you AWARE of your bias? Do you just not care? NY was once known as the melting pot. It was the place where dozens of religions, creeds and races mixed and more or less got along. If that is now not true anymore because of "ground zero".... well, I guess we can declare a winner can't we?
I think maybe you misunderstand the fundamentals of automobile suspension. On the one hand, you are correct in that narrow tires provide better economy. At the expense of grip. On the other hand, you seem to think that tire camber doesn't change during corning, which is flat wrong, and defys physics.
For road cars, which do not need or usually want to corner at very high velocities, the suspension is designed to keep as close to zero camber as possible. This provides the best ride, while still allowing good traction in corners. Where the tire would naturally tend to camber on it's own if you didn't compensate. Further, if you just force the tire into a flat road relative position, it causes the tire to bounce during hard cornering, which I'm sure I don't have to tell you is bad. For racing vehicles, most cars have a fairly high camber while sitting, or going straight. This is to reduce rolling resistance. It also means that when the car corners hard, the exterior tire is forced flat on the road. Since the majority of the force is being put on this tire, having it in full contact allows for maximum grip. While at the same time the interior tire is only using a fraction of it's surface, which isn't helpful but doesn't hurt anything because the weight of the car isn't on that tire anyway.
The so called flaw in suspension you talk about is the culmination of millions of dollars into auto sport. It's not a flaw, it's a very tricky physics puzzle designed to eek out a small advantage in cornering, and at the same time not loose, but gain an advantage in the straights. Maybe you should go read up on the F1 simulators down the page a bit. Any of them worth their salt can easily show you the effects of camber in real life.
1) You have never been around children in numbers. We can infer the cause of this is your apparent rabid personality. 2) You spend far too much time in your mothers basement reading the internet.
A couple of points. Children are disease vectors. All children, everywhere. They get sick, they spread it around in ways adults don't (usually). I don't care how strong you think your immune system is, live with a couple of 4yo's and see how long can go without getting a cold. Schools are the primary source of this spread. Odd really, putting hundreds of children in a closed environment for 6 hours a day... I can't see how that would help spread disease....
One more thing. FUD is not a word, it doesn't make you sound educated or aware. It makes you sound like a 19yo jobless goober that spends far too much time reading/. and the like. Also, do you spell MS as M$? Because for some reason I'm going to assume you do.
We aren't talking about pointing a microwave array at human beings. We are talking about modulated RF, which has been pervasive for about 70 years now. I'm not discounting the possibility that WiFi could be a problem in some way (stranger things have happened) but it is not a major short term health risk. We know this for a FACT because millions of people are exposed to everything from stray signals to strong point sources on a daily basis, and AFAIK not one person has died or taken ill from it.
So yes, we can do a double blind study. If the paranoid parents are your concern, simply do some hand waving and tell them the wifi is turned off, or, go the full disclosure route and allow them to remove their precious snowflakes from the study. The school can positively identify WiFi as the source (or not) in just a few days worth of testing.
Given the symptoms being reported, I'd ASSUME it was simple anxiety. The kind that is pervasive in public school systems for a million social reasons. But/. readers wouldn't know anything about that, would they?
NO NO NO. Lets not got back to pure mechanical. Lets instead remove the arduous emissions regulators, and instead of the silly emissions grading system we use now, use only real world driving data for emissions testing and control.
The problem isn't the electronics themselves. It's the silly ass way that emissions are tested. Causing car makers to profit by making convoluted systems which retard emissions under certain circumstances (cold start, etc etc). Interestingly, while emissions would be slightly higher, gas mileage and output horsepower would be substantially increased without these regulations.
Electronic control systems on cars are capable of being a boon to both performance and emissions. The regulations we currently have, and the peculiar way they are enforced causes the problem we see. Where a faulty sensor will totally fuck the car up. Most of those sensors don't actually help the performance, longevity, or output of the car in any way. What they do instead is gimp it significantly so that the emissions are also gimped. All one has to do is looking at the high performance track cars to see where emissions control has gone wrong. More power, more torque, more efficiency, only slightly more emissions.
The second half of this is maintenance. More than 1/3 of GM income is from after market repair, upkeep and parts. We need a law that states that all vehicle diagnostic systems must be open source/freeware (or at least provided with vehicle purchase). Then we need to encourage auto makers to include the kinds of health check systems that would notice a faulty sensor, and thereby allow the car to bypass that feedback loop until it can be fixed (or at the very least moderate it). This is far easier said than done, I know, but it is possible, and it's not a cost issue, it's an upkeep issue. GM doesn't want you to be able to figure out that you need to replace a 3$ relay. They want you to bring your car into a certified shop, and pay them 80$/hr to diagnose the issue, and replace the 3$ relay with a 36$ part, at their labor rates. (it'll take an hour, even though I could do it in about 2 minutes).
I used to have a VW passat 2.0t GLX. It was a nice car by all accounts. But the engine was a fucking nightmare. I purchased it used, within 24 hours the valve train gave out, caused by a oil sludge issue, causing failure of the oil pump. A "rebuilt" engine was put in at no cost to me (damn right!). For the next 4 weeks, every other day (averaged) I got some kind of warning light on my dash, or some kind of funky behavior from the engine. Each time it was a different "sensor" or "relay" module. Now one could argue that they should have all been replaced when the engine was rebuilt, but that's another story. So after the third time, at 150$ a pop for diagnostics and replacement, I got fed up and spoke to the head of the service department about it. She (yes, female, and hot, and knew cars backwards, sexy sexy sexy) told me to buy the diagnostic cable and software off of ebay and replace the modules myself as they failed. I did one better, I got the diag software and cable for 20$. Then I replaced every relay, sensor and module I could get to without tearing the engine out of the car. It ran like a champ for a year. I resold all the used modules to an independent VW shop (where I got the replacements) and the whole endeavor only cost me 80$. Then I sold that piece of shit and got a BMW, because at least their engines work. (the onboard navi-tainment system, not so much, currently working on replacing it with a stand alone computer of my own build)
Actually, that rarely if ever happens, and most often, if a police officer brings you in for such, their superior will kick you loose, and slap the officer on the wrist. I don't know about where you live, but you can't be arrested for resisting arrest. You certainly can't be CHARGED with ONLY resisting arrest (because it's not an arrestable offense on it's own)
The most recent news story I've heard about involving this, the officer was forced to release the subject, and was facing disciplinary action (although most likely it won't be serious).
The GUY has probably never been in the USA before now. HE didn't hit any ATMs in the US at all. In fact, from my understanding, he didn't hit any ATMs at all anywhere. What he did was figure out how to fool the world pay system, and distributed that information to third parties for a cut of their take.
You work for a marketing company don't you? Culture has way more to do with why Macbooks are popular than anything to do with actual differences between them and their competition.
If the build quality you experience with PC notebooks is low, it's because you are buying crappy notebooks, it has absolutely nothing to do with OS or hardware.
Just admit you are a snob and be done with it. No one really cares that you drank the kool-aide. Hell, computer people have been drinking the kool-aide for a couple of decades, the only difference was flavor of the month.
I grew up running PC systems, I learned on them, I worked on them. I continue to use them because now I'm an expert from mom's Email machine to the servers that run everything. I could pick up OSX and learn it, but since it's not mission critical in ANY SETTING ON EARTH (with the possible exception of the graphic design department), I have no need. At the same time, I'm not worried about mac adoption in the younger crowds. They will use the shiny toy until they get into the workforce and no one is going to ask them what they want. They will be handed a PC and expected to use it. Some of them will be able to, some won't. Natural selection at it's finest. Sure, another 10 years and we'll probably see MS lose enough share that it won't be the defacto OS for work anymore. By then, I doubt Apple will even be selling anything we'd recognize as a computer anyway. Their entire effort has been to "change the face of computing", which is great, for limited multimedia and entertainment. When it comes to real work, those "changed" platforms are generally inferior in every measurable way. Yes, you can do email on an ipad, but can you work on it comfortably for 8 hours a day? I didn't think so.
Are you really trying to put a moral equivalence on software? Insanity. Either you create and share the code with the world, or you don't. You don't get to share it with only the people you like. That's called Closed source licensing.
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What the hell have you been smoking? Where do you get the idea that the US is in any way prepared to take action against Assange? Have indictments been handed down? A crack team of commandos deployed? CIA operatives given kill orders?
This is Obama's America, not Stalin's Russia.
Lastly, if the USA wanted wikileaks off the net at any cost, it would be GONE. They did it when Palin's email was hacked, and they'll do it again if "national security" can be cited as a reason. Yes, we are all geeks, and we all know WE can still find wikileaks and places like it if the governments actually start going after them. Technologically it's very nearly impossible to stop us. However, it's dead simple to stop 95% of the population. Domain name not found. Done.
Try reversing that assumption for a few seconds. If a US political party posted some information online, and a foreign government asked them to remove it, how far do you think that would go?
/. seemed to miss that particular abuse of power. Back then, the secret service (or some other branch) didn't have any trouble removing Wikileaks from the internet for (at least) a while. This includes a number of mirrors, although not all of them got knocked down. I can only assume this was done at the root DNS level, because IP only addressing worked for all the hosts outside the USA. Having a legitimate political party (more or less) hosting a mirror means wikileaks will be MUCH harder to take down next time. It also means that if it is taken down, through whatever means, that can be leveraged politically.
One could imagine an "accidental" information posting being removed at the request of the UK government, for diplomatic reasons. One would be hard pressed to imagine the Iranian government getting the same courtesy. Lets not be confused, it's a courtesy. There is no LAW that requires it.
Furthermore, I'm of the opinion that a significant portion of the reasoning behind this is political pressure/clout. Wikileaks being handled by a playboy like Julian is one thing. Wikileaks being handled by an international consortium of political activists dedicated to freedom in all forms is another thing entirely.
Anyone remember when Palin's email was "hacked" by 4chan? Anyone remember Wikileaks being blackholed for a couple days because they were the primary host for the downloaded data? No, I didn't think anyone did.
Oh, then you agree, with myself, google and verizon. The entire POINT of net neutrality is to allow proper network management, including priority for low latency applications, while barring uncompetitive actions. In simple terms. All traffic SOURCES are equal.
I'm going to feed the troll, I know I shouldn't, but I can't help myself.
Hatred toward ANY creed is toxic. Period. It will eat you up and leave just the filthy troll we all see before us. You are welcome to disdain religion in all it's flavors, but in this country, you are not welcome to attempt to remove, or stop them. Period. Freedom means FOR EVERYONE, not just the people you agree with. It's utterly dismal that I have to even trot that truism out in this day and age.
Furthermore, the idea that superstition deserves respect is FAR older than you are, and worth more too. Respect for other peoples points of view is the first step to enlightenment. I'm not talking about sunday morning sermon stuff here, I'm talking about coexisting with the rest of the human race. "I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death to protect your right to say it". I mean that. I will fight for your right to spew vile filth and lies, and I will fight for Islams right to spew their particular world view too. The problem isn't really the religion in question, it's the ZEALOTS there of that are a problem. Zealotry is vile. It leads to killings and wars and is the root cause of almost every major travesty this world has ever seen. Not to godwin the thread, but Zealotry, NATIONAL zealotry is what caused WWII. It's not just religion that is scary here.
If you and others like you fan enough anti-muslim sentiment to drive ANYONE out, you will have lost more than you are capable of understanding. I don't care if muslim people live near me, the few I know personally are very nice people. I don't mind christians either, some of them are very nice people. I don't even mind aesthetic trolls like yourself. There MUST be at least one of you that's a good guy. (I haven't met him, but I heard tell...) My problem is with the zealots. I'd be more than happy to get rid of them. Yourself included. Moderation, compromise and open mindedness will rule the world, or the world will burn. Those really are you choices, and some day, maybe you'll figure that out... hopefully before it's too late.
Do you know the national average, in the lifetime of a car, that the ABS is activated? The national average is 4 times, over the life of a car (not one owner, one car). Also, power steering is totally worthless while the car is moving at anything more than a crawl. Power steering is for parking lots, and not much else. It takes very little effort to turn the wheels when they are already rolling.
While I tend to agree that killing the engine while the car is still moving is less than entirely safe... the drunk person behind the wheel is a lot less safe. I'd much rather encounter a "stalled" car on the highway than a drunk doing 60mph.
Why not install child seats in every car? Why not install front, side, rear airbags in every car? Why not require every person to retest for their license when they start the car? Why not have a monitoring system that decides if you are a good driver or not, and restricts your driving? Why not have autostop installed in every car? Auto park too. Wait, why not just make all cars driven by a complicated set of computers and sensors?
The very first, and main reason is COST. The second, and also important reason is that I have been driving without incident for 15 years, and therefore have no reasonable need for most or any of those systems.
WOOSH! That was the sound of the GP's point flying past your head. Had the theoretical person in question chosen to NOT drink and drive in the first place, they would not have been convicted of said crime and they would not now need an interlock.
Try having the tiniest bit of foresight. If your car is likely to order you to stop, you might want to avoid such highways. I know, it might be inconvenient, but these are people that have been operating deadly machines while impaired. They can live with a mild inconvenience.
I think you don't have the foggiest idea of the facts of the case. The so called ground zero mosque is more complicated and yet simpler than you imagine. High five for buying into the media blitz. Now lets have some facts to fuck up your opinions.
The planned community center is NOT on ground zero. It's blocks away. Roughly equidistant from 2 other mosques already in place in the area. The "symbol" isn't a symbol. It's a freaking YMCA with slightly different religious overtones. The only appreciable difference is, right now, this country likes Christians and doesn't like Muslims. Racism, religionism, whatever you want to call it. This whole thing is about HATE mongering. The people behind this community center are the kind of people we need in this country. Smart, rational, empathetic, open minded and willing to compromise. The kind of people AGAINST this center are the kind of people we SHOULD be putting up against walls. They are extremists, and zealots. Both of which, no matter the creed, should be removed from society as they are of no benefit, and we KNOW THAT as a society.
If providing a community center in NY, where exists dozens of similar centers from dozens of creeds is counter productive.... well I don't even know where to begin. Are you AWARE of your bias? Do you just not care? NY was once known as the melting pot. It was the place where dozens of religions, creeds and races mixed and more or less got along. If that is now not true anymore because of "ground zero".... well, I guess we can declare a winner can't we?
I think maybe you misunderstand the fundamentals of automobile suspension. On the one hand, you are correct in that narrow tires provide better economy. At the expense of grip. On the other hand, you seem to think that tire camber doesn't change during corning, which is flat wrong, and defys physics.
For road cars, which do not need or usually want to corner at very high velocities, the suspension is designed to keep as close to zero camber as possible. This provides the best ride, while still allowing good traction in corners. Where the tire would naturally tend to camber on it's own if you didn't compensate. Further, if you just force the tire into a flat road relative position, it causes the tire to bounce during hard cornering, which I'm sure I don't have to tell you is bad. For racing vehicles, most cars have a fairly high camber while sitting, or going straight. This is to reduce rolling resistance. It also means that when the car corners hard, the exterior tire is forced flat on the road. Since the majority of the force is being put on this tire, having it in full contact allows for maximum grip. While at the same time the interior tire is only using a fraction of it's surface, which isn't helpful but doesn't hurt anything because the weight of the car isn't on that tire anyway.
The so called flaw in suspension you talk about is the culmination of millions of dollars into auto sport. It's not a flaw, it's a very tricky physics puzzle designed to eek out a small advantage in cornering, and at the same time not loose, but gain an advantage in the straights. Maybe you should go read up on the F1 simulators down the page a bit. Any of them worth their salt can easily show you the effects of camber in real life.
I think it's past your bed time kiddo. Don't worry, when you wake up everything will be right as rain in the lollypop forest.
In other words, please get a grip on reality, and maybe just a tiny bit of perspective. That would be just great. Thanks.
Drop away. Imagine the redevelopment contracts! It'll be a boon year for some lucky construction conglomerate.
I find your lack of original conversation disturbing.
Two things become clear from this little rant.
/. and the like. Also, do you spell MS as M$? Because for some reason I'm going to assume you do.
1) You have never been around children in numbers. We can infer the cause of this is your apparent rabid personality. 2) You spend far too much time in your mothers basement reading the internet.
A couple of points. Children are disease vectors. All children, everywhere. They get sick, they spread it around in ways adults don't (usually). I don't care how strong you think your immune system is, live with a couple of 4yo's and see how long can go without getting a cold. Schools are the primary source of this spread. Odd really, putting hundreds of children in a closed environment for 6 hours a day... I can't see how that would help spread disease....
One more thing. FUD is not a word, it doesn't make you sound educated or aware. It makes you sound like a 19yo jobless goober that spends far too much time reading
We aren't talking about pointing a microwave array at human beings. We are talking about modulated RF, which has been pervasive for about 70 years now. I'm not discounting the possibility that WiFi could be a problem in some way (stranger things have happened) but it is not a major short term health risk. We know this for a FACT because millions of people are exposed to everything from stray signals to strong point sources on a daily basis, and AFAIK not one person has died or taken ill from it.
/. readers wouldn't know anything about that, would they?
So yes, we can do a double blind study. If the paranoid parents are your concern, simply do some hand waving and tell them the wifi is turned off, or, go the full disclosure route and allow them to remove their precious snowflakes from the study. The school can positively identify WiFi as the source (or not) in just a few days worth of testing.
Given the symptoms being reported, I'd ASSUME it was simple anxiety. The kind that is pervasive in public school systems for a million social reasons. But
NO NO NO. Lets not got back to pure mechanical. Lets instead remove the arduous emissions regulators, and instead of the silly emissions grading system we use now, use only real world driving data for emissions testing and control.
The problem isn't the electronics themselves. It's the silly ass way that emissions are tested. Causing car makers to profit by making convoluted systems which retard emissions under certain circumstances (cold start, etc etc). Interestingly, while emissions would be slightly higher, gas mileage and output horsepower would be substantially increased without these regulations.
Electronic control systems on cars are capable of being a boon to both performance and emissions. The regulations we currently have, and the peculiar way they are enforced causes the problem we see. Where a faulty sensor will totally fuck the car up. Most of those sensors don't actually help the performance, longevity, or output of the car in any way. What they do instead is gimp it significantly so that the emissions are also gimped. All one has to do is looking at the high performance track cars to see where emissions control has gone wrong. More power, more torque, more efficiency, only slightly more emissions.
The second half of this is maintenance. More than 1/3 of GM income is from after market repair, upkeep and parts. We need a law that states that all vehicle diagnostic systems must be open source/freeware (or at least provided with vehicle purchase). Then we need to encourage auto makers to include the kinds of health check systems that would notice a faulty sensor, and thereby allow the car to bypass that feedback loop until it can be fixed (or at the very least moderate it). This is far easier said than done, I know, but it is possible, and it's not a cost issue, it's an upkeep issue. GM doesn't want you to be able to figure out that you need to replace a 3$ relay. They want you to bring your car into a certified shop, and pay them 80$/hr to diagnose the issue, and replace the 3$ relay with a 36$ part, at their labor rates. (it'll take an hour, even though I could do it in about 2 minutes).
I used to have a VW passat 2.0t GLX. It was a nice car by all accounts. But the engine was a fucking nightmare. I purchased it used, within 24 hours the valve train gave out, caused by a oil sludge issue, causing failure of the oil pump. A "rebuilt" engine was put in at no cost to me (damn right!). For the next 4 weeks, every other day (averaged) I got some kind of warning light on my dash, or some kind of funky behavior from the engine. Each time it was a different "sensor" or "relay" module. Now one could argue that they should have all been replaced when the engine was rebuilt, but that's another story. So after the third time, at 150$ a pop for diagnostics and replacement, I got fed up and spoke to the head of the service department about it. She (yes, female, and hot, and knew cars backwards, sexy sexy sexy) told me to buy the diagnostic cable and software off of ebay and replace the modules myself as they failed. I did one better, I got the diag software and cable for 20$. Then I replaced every relay, sensor and module I could get to without tearing the engine out of the car. It ran like a champ for a year. I resold all the used modules to an independent VW shop (where I got the replacements) and the whole endeavor only cost me 80$. Then I sold that piece of shit and got a BMW, because at least their engines work. (the onboard navi-tainment system, not so much, currently working on replacing it with a stand alone computer of my own build)
Actually, that rarely if ever happens, and most often, if a police officer brings you in for such, their superior will kick you loose, and slap the officer on the wrist. I don't know about where you live, but you can't be arrested for resisting arrest. You certainly can't be CHARGED with ONLY resisting arrest (because it's not an arrestable offense on it's own)
The most recent news story I've heard about involving this, the officer was forced to release the subject, and was facing disciplinary action (although most likely it won't be serious).
In EVE parlance, this would be called an "ALT". Basically, a secondary account that a player uses as a gopher. Their stats don't ever look good.
I totally agree. However, this guy didn't even try and secure his ship against attack. A cloaking device would have gone a long way here.
Arguably, you could win by dominating the entire universe. Something that has never been done, but which has been tried more than once.
What makes you think DRM stops pirates? No really, on what world does that work? It's not this one.
The GUY has probably never been in the USA before now. HE didn't hit any ATMs in the US at all. In fact, from my understanding, he didn't hit any ATMs at all anywhere. What he did was figure out how to fool the world pay system, and distributed that information to third parties for a cut of their take.
You work for a marketing company don't you? Culture has way more to do with why Macbooks are popular than anything to do with actual differences between them and their competition.
If the build quality you experience with PC notebooks is low, it's because you are buying crappy notebooks, it has absolutely nothing to do with OS or hardware.
Just admit you are a snob and be done with it. No one really cares that you drank the kool-aide. Hell, computer people have been drinking the kool-aide for a couple of decades, the only difference was flavor of the month.
I grew up running PC systems, I learned on them, I worked on them. I continue to use them because now I'm an expert from mom's Email machine to the servers that run everything. I could pick up OSX and learn it, but since it's not mission critical in ANY SETTING ON EARTH (with the possible exception of the graphic design department), I have no need. At the same time, I'm not worried about mac adoption in the younger crowds. They will use the shiny toy until they get into the workforce and no one is going to ask them what they want. They will be handed a PC and expected to use it. Some of them will be able to, some won't. Natural selection at it's finest. Sure, another 10 years and we'll probably see MS lose enough share that it won't be the defacto OS for work anymore. By then, I doubt Apple will even be selling anything we'd recognize as a computer anyway. Their entire effort has been to "change the face of computing", which is great, for limited multimedia and entertainment. When it comes to real work, those "changed" platforms are generally inferior in every measurable way. Yes, you can do email on an ipad, but can you work on it comfortably for 8 hours a day? I didn't think so.
Are you really trying to put a moral equivalence on software? Insanity. Either you create and share the code with the world, or you don't. You don't get to share it with only the people you like. That's called Closed source licensing.
I agree that allowing repression and torture violate what amount to basic human rights. But how are we supposed to stop the USA from doing it?