I know people who were responsible and mature before they were 14...
Don't confuse puberty with maturity:-)
From Nat Geo, March 2005 "The Mind is what the Brain does":
The last area of the brain to reach maturity is the prefontal cortex where the so called executive brain resides - where we make social judgements, weigh alternatives, plan for the future and hold our behaviour in check.
"The executive brain doesnt hit adult levels until the age of 25" -Jay Giedd, National insitute of Mental Health". "At puberty you have adult passions, sex drive, energy and emotion but the reining in doesnt happen until much later"
It is no wonder perhaps that teenagers seem to lack good judgement of the ability to restrain impulses.
"We can vote at 18 and drive a car. But you can't rent a car until you are 25. In terms of brain anatomy, the only people who have it right are the car rental people!".
Legally yes, but ask your average car rental outfit when real 'maturity' generally occurs. They will tell you the preferred number is 25... and certainly not under 21.. The military likes 18 because the brain is still easily malleable mush..
Skype 'owns' nothing... They were granted the privilege of exclusivity by a third party that represents their interests while, at the same time, falsely claiming to represent the interests of the general public.
The US has been attacking the world since the Spanish American War, using the same pretext (and the same type of yellow journalism, that by the way, keeps the drug wars going) as they use for today's wars, and pretty much for the same reasons...
...this is exactly the kind of patent that the system was designed to encourage.
Yeah, if using your R&D to build up a huge patent portfolio to lock others out of the market, or charge exorbitant licensing fees is what you're after, this is exactly what the system was designed to do.. to cripple innovation, and it's working like a dream. If the government wants to create and protect monopolies like this, then we should demand that it regulate the prices, and institute a 'use it or lose it' policy. Patents and copyrights are simply there to make speculation profitable.
They're dropping support for anybody who can't/won't buy multi hundred dollar hardware/software 'upgrades' every two years... which of course sucks when you have to replace all your perfectly functional stuff for no real logical reason. Totally bogus! I already ran into this problem with a fresh Tiger install and Google wouldn't even display the results of a search I was doing. I had to spend wasted hours on many updates first.. and it's all coming out of the client's wallet. If not for the damn zombies who have to have the latest shiny gimmick because of the ads they saw, this wouldn't be happening.
Parent is not a troll... It's only saying the truth nobody wants to hear. These damn whiners need to learn about life in the big city, and grow a skin, 'toughen the fuck up', whatever.. This is all a thinly disguised attempt to get the authorities involved and justify censorship.. Screw them..
Christ! It wasn't even Weiner's wiener, so the damn summary is way off
Well, don't count on the zombie hordes to help you out.. You're pretty much left with an alternative that you are constitutionally prohibited from bringing up.. You will have to learn to communicate telepathically.. or just stay high and don't think about it.. How badly do you want what you're after?
And nobody offers up a secure workaround... So, once again I will ask the question;
How are we, as individuals, going to protect ourselves from the psychos and zombies? How are we going to build secure ad hoc networks that completely bypass the corporate wire? Start with this, and then we can move on to what ever the next step will be.
But another question comes to mind;
How far are you willing to go to protect your freedom? Or even your life? Are you willing to do things that can very easily get you tagged as a 'terrorist'? Right there in the constitution is a specific prohibition against even advocating violent overthrow of the government. So what do you do when your government clearly becomes a tyrannical dictatorship, even if it is a dictatorship of the majority??
So, instead of your age old pissing and moaning, try to address this, and see where it leads. Try just for once to break the circle
Well there you go.. Most of the members are actually agents of those (and others) respective governments, trying to motivate the 'west' to develop better censorship and tracking software/hardware for them
Hmm, I always thought it was pricing that put the IBM compatibles on top... But then, what do I know? I went with a Mac IIx because that's what the art department used
I really don't know the specifics, but sometimes a smaller user base can produce a greater flow of revenue for a particular company. While Google's strategy might generate more cash flow overall, they get a smaller percentage, and their business model is built on advertising, which could prove to be more stable on the long run than Apple's fickle market segment.. In the future, we might find out who buys out whom. Personally, I think Google will indeed come out on top, and Apple will become like their 'gold card' appliance for the emo segment of their market:-)
Microsoft's attempts to lock their stuff down with cost them big time. They will have move to the opposite direction if branding is really important, otherwise the only way to make money with them is shorting their stock until they end up as as small as SCO and patent/copyright trolling becomes their primary business model.
They attained their position in the market through 'unauthorized' distribution channels. Trying to eliminate that is what's costing them. They should have stuck with what works.
Yeah, the market has completely flipped on that aspect. Style and marketing are what dominate now, and Microsoft will always be behind on fashion. They can never be 'cool', and this effort won't help them one bit. They should stick with cheap and encourage more bootlegging of their OS (piracy, I believe, is what the kids call it today), like the old days.
That's right, and you have no facts..only hearsay from official press releases, yet you've already convicted and sentenced a fictional character.. You put the country at great risk based on pure fiction.. Obviously you are appealing to authority, nothing more. What is your position in the ministry of truth?
Evidently I must know a lot more smokers than you do, and the economics of it never came up. Comes with age, I guess..They simply knew the power of habit and didn't hesitate to admit it.
And pulling shit out my ass sounds very painful.. Is that how you do it? With what, an empty coke bottle? Ouch!.. pushing, I would think, is much more pleasurable..
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I know people who were responsible and mature before they were 14...
Don't confuse puberty with maturity :-)
From Nat Geo, March 2005 "The Mind is what the Brain does":
The last area of the brain to reach maturity is the prefontal cortex where the so called executive brain resides - where we make social judgements, weigh alternatives, plan for the future and hold our behaviour in check.
"The executive brain doesnt hit adult levels until the age of 25" -Jay Giedd, National insitute of Mental Health". "At puberty you have adult passions, sex drive, energy and emotion but the reining in doesnt happen until much later"
It is no wonder perhaps that teenagers seem to lack good judgement of the ability to restrain impulses.
"We can vote at 18 and drive a car. But you can't rent a car until you are 25. In terms of brain anatomy, the only people who have it right are the car rental people!".
18 is an adult in most places.
Legally yes, but ask your average car rental outfit when real 'maturity' generally occurs. They will tell you the preferred number is 25... and certainly not under 21.. The military likes 18 because the brain is still easily malleable mush..
Skype 'owns' nothing... They were granted the privilege of exclusivity by a third party that represents their interests while, at the same time, falsely claiming to represent the interests of the general public.
If you want to post, you might get through using the https page:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/1650250/WikiLeaks-In-New-Legal-Battle
Gee, I wish Slashdot could say the same for its servers
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'Legal" recourse? No... But the law is inconsequential now... Only the power of weaponry matters.. Laws are for the weak and the stupid
The US has been attacking the world since the Spanish American War, using the same pretext (and the same type of yellow journalism, that by the way, keeps the drug wars going) as they use for today's wars, and pretty much for the same reasons...
...this is exactly the kind of patent that the system was designed to encourage.
Yeah, if using your R&D to build up a huge patent portfolio to lock others out of the market, or charge exorbitant licensing fees is what you're after, this is exactly what the system was designed to do.. to cripple innovation, and it's working like a dream. If the government wants to create and protect monopolies like this, then we should demand that it regulate the prices, and institute a 'use it or lose it' policy. Patents and copyrights are simply there to make speculation profitable.
195 apps...
You plan on living long enough to use them all?
They're dropping support for anybody who can't/won't buy multi hundred dollar hardware/software 'upgrades' every two years... which of course sucks when you have to replace all your perfectly functional stuff for no real logical reason. Totally bogus! I already ran into this problem with a fresh Tiger install and Google wouldn't even display the results of a search I was doing. I had to spend wasted hours on many updates first.. and it's all coming out of the client's wallet. If not for the damn zombies who have to have the latest shiny gimmick because of the ads they saw, this wouldn't be happening.
Where? Where? Lemme see!
Who would mod you down? You're +5 Funny all the way, babe... It'd be kinda dumb to take you seriously.. except maybe when you're high..
Parent is not a troll... It's only saying the truth nobody wants to hear. These damn whiners need to learn about life in the big city, and grow a skin, 'toughen the fuck up', whatever.. This is all a thinly disguised attempt to get the authorities involved and justify censorship.. Screw them..
Christ! It wasn't even Weiner's wiener, so the damn summary is way off
Ignore the shtick.. he's fishing all over the entire thread. In the state I live, using a motor is prohibited
Well, don't count on the zombie hordes to help you out.. You're pretty much left with an alternative that you are constitutionally prohibited from bringing up.. You will have to learn to communicate telepathically.. or just stay high and don't think about it.. How badly do you want what you're after?
...what is the mandatory sentence for committing suicide now-a-days?
They kill the rest of your family...
...maybe we should let the younger generation take a crack at it.
I don't think so!!
And nobody offers up a secure workaround... So, once again I will ask the question;
How are we, as individuals, going to protect ourselves from the psychos and zombies? How are we going to build secure ad hoc networks that completely bypass the corporate wire? Start with this, and then we can move on to what ever the next step will be.
But another question comes to mind;
How far are you willing to go to protect your freedom? Or even your life? Are you willing to do things that can very easily get you tagged as a 'terrorist'? Right there in the constitution is a specific prohibition against even advocating violent overthrow of the government. So what do you do when your government clearly becomes a tyrannical dictatorship, even if it is a dictatorship of the majority??
So, instead of your age old pissing and moaning, try to address this, and see where it leads. Try just for once to break the circle
Well there you go.. Most of the members are actually agents of those (and others) respective governments, trying to motivate the 'west' to develop better censorship and tracking software/hardware for them
Hmm, I always thought it was pricing that put the IBM compatibles on top... But then, what do I know? I went with a Mac IIx because that's what the art department used
I really don't know the specifics, but sometimes a smaller user base can produce a greater flow of revenue for a particular company. While Google's strategy might generate more cash flow overall, they get a smaller percentage, and their business model is built on advertising, which could prove to be more stable on the long run than Apple's fickle market segment.. In the future, we might find out who buys out whom. Personally, I think Google will indeed come out on top, and Apple will become like their 'gold card' appliance for the emo segment of their market :-)
Microsoft's attempts to lock their stuff down with cost them big time. They will have move to the opposite direction if branding is really important, otherwise the only way to make money with them is shorting their stock until they end up as as small as SCO and patent/copyright trolling becomes their primary business model.
They attained their position in the market through 'unauthorized' distribution channels. Trying to eliminate that is what's costing them. They should have stuck with what works.
Yeah, the market has completely flipped on that aspect. Style and marketing are what dominate now, and Microsoft will always be behind on fashion. They can never be 'cool', and this effort won't help them one bit. They should stick with cheap and encourage more bootlegging of their OS (piracy, I believe, is what the kids call it today), like the old days.
Microsoft wants to be more like Apple. Eh...
...you... have no clue what a reliable source is.
HAHAHAHA! You're a barrel of laughs today.
Fiction is not an indication of fact.
That's right, and you have no facts..only hearsay from official press releases, yet you've already convicted and sentenced a fictional character .. You put the country at great risk based on pure fiction.. Obviously you are appealing to authority, nothing more. What is your position in the ministry of truth?
Evidently I must know a lot more smokers than you do, and the economics of it never came up. Comes with age, I guess..They simply knew the power of habit and didn't hesitate to admit it.
And pulling shit out my ass sounds very painful.. Is that how you do it? With what, an empty coke bottle? Ouch! .. pushing, I would think, is much more pleasurable..