It's not exactly about the phone. Yes, you CAN return the phone, but it's too late at that point - now you're in a 2-year AT&T contract, that you then have to pay $375 to get out of...
I just went through AT&T's iPhone 4 online upgrade process far enough to be shown:
Service Cancellation & Early Termination Fee
Call the number on your invoice/receipt to cancel your service. You may cancel service within 30 days from the activation date to avoid the applicable early termination fee (the "Early Termination Fee" or "ETF").
-- Perpenso Calc for iPhone. Classic Scientific and HEX functionality plus RPN, fractions, complex numbers, 64/32/signed/unsigned bitwise operations, UTF-8, IEEE FP decode, and RGB decode with color preview.
worth noting that a game running well under wine is one compilation away from being native, thanks to winelibs
(1) Compiling is only one small step on the way to release. There is all testing. Now consider the matrix of Linux distributions that now have to be tested. Letting your Windows version get run under WINE avoids this great complication.
(2) More importantly, a native Linux version will often cannibalize Windows sales. Face it, many Linux users configure their systems to dual boot Windows in order to play games. Replacing a Windows sale with a Linux sale does not pay for the extra costs. The economics of Linux gaming is a bit more complicated than that of other platforms.
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I was in business school recently. Lots of classmates purchased iPhones. An equal number wanted to but did not want to switch their family plans from Verizon to AT&T. If and when Verizon becomes an option I expect a spike in sales like we are seeing with the introduction of the iPhone 4. When I think about it, maybe its good for Apple to add Verizon in between phone updates and not at the same time. It would just be more strain on a new supply chain trying to get ramped up.
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True, but exponential is not the only other direction things could go. Constant is also an option. I am not claiming this is the case, but if a layer of surface oil seeks a natural thickness then a small reef may get slimed in a similar manner regardless of whether the slick is one mile wide or twenty miles wide - given an expectation that onshore winds and currents will cause the slick to have an easier time expanding laterally. So the effect on a given reef could be constant to linear? Again, I'm not claiming this is so, just questioning that the effect is exponential or some other extreme.
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Generally that channeling mechanism is a pipe of some sort, you can't just hope that the oil will float predictably upwards to a set location through a mile thick medium of salt water that has its own currents.
My understanding is that it is a little more than just a pipe, there is an inverted funnel like structure at the base. That this wide mouth, relative to leak, should be fairly reliable at collecting once anchored. The real problem is displacing the column of sea water so that we have an upwards flow. Given the buoyancy of oil it shouldn't be too hard to calculate the volume of oil needed to displace the column of sea water. If the funnel exceeds this volume it should not matter how the pipe drifts or floats.
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An individual tanker isn't all that large, at least in WW2.
I don't think that matters much for assessing environmental impact. Long term data from a small spill that affects two miles of coastline can still yield info relevant to a large scale spill that affects twenty miles.
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The spill has been described as a volcano at the ocean floor. I haven't read anywhere that anybody knows how to cap it.
My understanding is that since oil is not water soluble and floats that a capture device could be places over the "leak", the buoyant oil channeled to a surface collector and pumped out. That may be simpler than a cap that attempts to plug the "leak".
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Anyone know of any research into the long term environmental effects of World War 2 tanker sinkings? They should represent a range of climates and a range of developed to pristine locations. Some with surface oil burning, some not. Surely there is something to be learned from that era of history.
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Dealing with your competitors FUD is the price of doing business
... but at what point is Theora trying to make money?
Some businesses/corporations are not-for-profit. For example the Xiph.org Foundation that owns Theora. Theora is doing business, and that business is to help support and develop FOSS. The GP is correct, FUD should be expected. FUD is not even specific to for-profit businesses, FOSS projects use FUD too.
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If you really want this support, get the user contributed package from matlab central. That wasn't too hard was it?
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Not really, but I find very funny that the Vatican is using “science and technology" to store its manuscripts, when at the same time they spit so much on this same science and technology.
The currently accepted theory regarding the origin of the universe, the "big bang" theory, was developed by a catholic priest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître
... They probably threw the idea around and came to the conclusion that they'd be another also-ran if they just pushed Android/WP7 sets (Especially since thats the move Dell is making)...
Android also has a new business risk since it is a Google brand. When making that build-or-buy decision you want your partner to be non-controversial, you don't want your company to be collateral damage in another company's fight with the Chinese government. Fair or not, just or not, Google is a riskier partner than they used to be. This is not the only factor to consider but it must have been part of the Android decision.
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Wal-Mart's involvement is not limited to the trucks that deliver the goods that last mile. The Wal-Mart distribution centers are probably a more important asset. Shifting goods from regions not affected to those that are affected is an essential step in the overall process. I'd wager that some of those national guard, NGO and private trucks probably got their water via the Wal-Mart logistics pipeline.
Go ahead, people, cheer for the corporations. None of them are doing anything for you. Your government supplies your drinking water, builds your roads, responds in the event of disaster, and much, much more.
Not true. Wal-Mart and Home Depot did a better job than the gov't during Katrina. Say what you want about Wal-Mart's product sourcing but you have to admit they know more about delivering goods to remote corners of the country than anyone else. Interestingly, Wal-Mart was also a pioneer (1970s) of computerizing inventory and sales and in data mining. Wal-Mart monitors weather reports and when severe storms are *predicted* moves products that history shows will be in demand under such circumstances from unaffected regions to affected regions. When you see the Red Cross (also non-gov't by the way) handing out bottled water keep in mind that Wal-Mart probably delivered that water. FEMA is also supposedly turning to Walt-Mart for help with disaster logistics.
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... or whatever the vaporware is being called this week...
... Why is it that the Apple fans get all the mod points...
Maybe the mod down had to do with the lack of insight demonstrated by calling a product vaporware on the very day it arrives on the store shelves? Just a thought.:-)
The trouble is, the iPad (for all its slick design) is pretty much an enlarged (even embiggened) iPod Touch...
Perhaps I wasn't clear but a bigger iPod touch is exactly what many have asked for.
... It will appeal to those who are content to live in Apple's little garden of approved applications (so long as we use them one at a time),
Actually its a rather large garden that offers nearly anything most people go looking for. As for one app at a time that is a pretty normal usage pattern, people tend to run an app for a couple of minutes and are done with it. Its not like a computer where one sits there working with something for hours. The one thing that needs to multitask and preempt, the phone, does. Also push notifications make many traditional background tasks unnecessary. While some complaints are valid, some are somewhat bogus attempts to apply old desktop methodologies rather than adopt newer methodologies that may be better suited for mobile devices. Like some users who stick to MS Office because that is all they know, some programmers like to stick to daemons and other background tasks because that is all they know. As someone who has ported applications and utilities between various desktop and server platforms I am sympathetic towards wanting to reuse legacy code but there is also a time to try something new.
... but those of us who really want a functional and versatile mobile computer with a small form-factor will remain frustrated.
Perhaps, but that wasn't what it was designed to be. However I'd wait a while before passing judgement. A year from now it will be far clearer as to how well the iPad suits people's needs. Today, where no one has any experience with it and there is a bias towards wanting the familiar (more of the same) opinions are premature.
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Everyone is clamoring over the iPad calling it a Kindle-Killer but the device is more than an eReader.
How is it a Kindle killer? Amazon publishes a Kindle app for the iPhone where you can buy digital books from Amazon, doesn't this app run on the iPad? Kindle is more than a hardware device and I have to wonder if Amazon really wants to be an electronic device developer and manufacturer.
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It does less than a similarly equipped laptop, and for only twice the price! As a bonus for your money, you get no USB expansion ports, and can even only run one app at a time! Apple's innovation is staggering.
You are in luck. If you prefer a laptop Apple sells those too. Their laptops have USB, multitasking, a unix-based OS that is pretty good at running FOSS,...;-)
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It seems as though you are not so upset at the size of the iPad, but the size of your pockets.
Will the iPad fit in a lab coat pocket? Or more generally in the pocket of clinical clothing for doctors and nurses? I think those pockets would be far more interesting than those in jeans.
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This is not just a tablet computer, this is a big-ass iPod
This is also exactly why so many slashdotters hate the thing. It's nothing more than an ipod so big I can't even fit it in my pocket. Why in the world would I want that?
Back in the earliest days of the iPhone I bought an iPod touch. I configured it for the wifi at home, work and school and saw little need for an iPhone. I had a laptop but when in class or lying on the couch I found the iPad touch much more convenient for giving email or the web a quick check. After a week or so I recall thinking that I wish the screen resolution was doubled in both dimensions, it would be a much more practical browser. I don't think this was a very original thought, I've encountered many iPhone/iPod touch users who would have liked one that had a larger screen. There has always been a market for a device that was nothing more than a larger iPod touch, Apple has finally met and exceeded this customer want.
Fitting the device in my pocket was a non-issue, I carried my iPod touch in my backpack. Had something like the iPad been available there were many days where I would have tossed it in my backpack and have left the laptop at home. Had the iPad been introduced at the same time as the original iPod touch I would have probably purchased the iPad.
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Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose. True, old idea, new implementation, but its definitely an improvement over the last one.
The public never saw v-mail films. Film was just the transocean transport media. V-mail was printed on lightweight paper once it got to the U.S. The letter was also folded up to be its own envelope. Or at least thats how the single sheet v-mail based letters my grandmother received were. IIRC it looked like the original letter was written on a special v-mail form not on general purpose paper. Perhaps that made for automated processing. Other letters my grandmother received that were on regular paper and/or were multiple pages were shipped as the original paper rather than v-mail. Or course that might be an army/navy thing. The letters on regular paper were from the navy, the v-mail was from the army.
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I believe NASA is the government agency that handles "incidents" in the aviation world. Incidents are wrong things that happened that do not rise to the level of accidents. The sudden acceleration reported in cars is very much the auto equivalent of what they have looked into for decades on the aviation side.
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The problem with paraphrasing is that the original meaning can be distorted. Franklin referred to essential liberty, not liberty in general. The implication that compromising non-essential liberties in the face of serious threats may be OK. In other words it is a gross distortion to quote Franklin in a black-and-white manner, he was a very complicated and insightful man that operated in shades of gray.
Look at the actual quote: ""Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Liberty is qualified as essential, safety is qualified as both little and temporary. Keep in mind that Franklin wrote in a day when each word was carefully considered. There is a lot nuance in there, some wiggle room.
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Slashdot Mirror
I have to admit that the thought of Android, Blackberry, etc apps on Apple's App Store would be interesting. ;-)
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It's not exactly about the phone. Yes, you CAN return the phone, but it's too late at that point - now you're in a 2-year AT&T contract, that you then have to pay $375 to get out of ...
I just went through AT&T's iPhone 4 online upgrade process far enough to be shown:
Service Cancellation & Early Termination Fee
Call the number on your invoice/receipt to cancel your service. You may cancel service within 30 days from the activation date to avoid the applicable early termination fee (the "Early Termination Fee" or "ETF").
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Perpenso Calc for iPhone. Classic Scientific and HEX functionality plus RPN, fractions, complex numbers, 64/32/signed/unsigned bitwise operations, UTF-8, IEEE FP decode, and RGB decode with color preview.
worth noting that a game running well under wine is one compilation away from being native, thanks to winelibs
(1) Compiling is only one small step on the way to release. There is all testing. Now consider the matrix of Linux distributions that now have to be tested. Letting your Windows version get run under WINE avoids this great complication.
(2) More importantly, a native Linux version will often cannibalize Windows sales. Face it, many Linux users configure their systems to dual boot Windows in order to play games. Replacing a Windows sale with a Linux sale does not pay for the extra costs. The economics of Linux gaming is a bit more complicated than that of other platforms.
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I was in business school recently. Lots of classmates purchased iPhones. An equal number wanted to but did not want to switch their family plans from Verizon to AT&T. If and when Verizon becomes an option I expect a spike in sales like we are seeing with the introduction of the iPhone 4. When I think about it, maybe its good for Apple to add Verizon in between phone updates and not at the same time. It would just be more strain on a new supply chain trying to get ramped up.
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Sorry, but not all of the effects are linear.
True, but exponential is not the only other direction things could go. Constant is also an option. I am not claiming this is the case, but if a layer of surface oil seeks a natural thickness then a small reef may get slimed in a similar manner regardless of whether the slick is one mile wide or twenty miles wide - given an expectation that onshore winds and currents will cause the slick to have an easier time expanding laterally. So the effect on a given reef could be constant to linear? Again, I'm not claiming this is so, just questioning that the effect is exponential or some other extreme.
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Generally that channeling mechanism is a pipe of some sort, you can't just hope that the oil will float predictably upwards to a set location through a mile thick medium of salt water that has its own currents.
My understanding is that it is a little more than just a pipe, there is an inverted funnel like structure at the base. That this wide mouth, relative to leak, should be fairly reliable at collecting once anchored. The real problem is displacing the column of sea water so that we have an upwards flow. Given the buoyancy of oil it shouldn't be too hard to calculate the volume of oil needed to displace the column of sea water. If the funnel exceeds this volume it should not matter how the pipe drifts or floats.
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An individual tanker isn't all that large, at least in WW2.
I don't think that matters much for assessing environmental impact. Long term data from a small spill that affects two miles of coastline can still yield info relevant to a large scale spill that affects twenty miles.
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The spill has been described as a volcano at the ocean floor. I haven't read anywhere that anybody knows how to cap it.
My understanding is that since oil is not water soluble and floats that a capture device could be places over the "leak", the buoyant oil channeled to a surface collector and pumped out. That may be simpler than a cap that attempts to plug the "leak".
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Anyone know of any research into the long term environmental effects of World War 2 tanker sinkings? They should represent a range of climates and a range of developed to pristine locations. Some with surface oil burning, some not. Surely there is something to be learned from that era of history.
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Dealing with your competitors FUD is the price of doing business
... but at what point is Theora trying to make money?
Some businesses/corporations are not-for-profit. For example the Xiph.org Foundation that owns Theora. Theora is doing business, and that business is to help support and develop FOSS. The GP is correct, FUD should be expected. FUD is not even specific to for-profit businesses, FOSS projects use FUD too.
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If you really want this support, get the user contributed package from matlab central. That wasn't too hard was it?
Disclaimer: I'm the dev, but I'm surprised that an iPhone/iPod calculator manages to do what MatLab does not:
Perpenso Calc, decimal arithmetic, 20 decimal digits, fractions, complex numbers, RPN
That first link isn't getting parsed correctly, here it is in quotes so it is intact. Just copy and paste.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître"
Anyone know how to avoid such problems in a posted URL?
Not really, but I find very funny that the Vatican is using “science and technology" to store its manuscripts, when at the same time they spit so much on this same science and technology.
The currently accepted theory regarding the origin of the universe, the "big bang" theory, was developed by a catholic priest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître
The vatican operates a world class astronomical observatory.
http://vaticanobservatory.org/VOF/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1
When I was an undergraduate at a california state university the dean of the chemistry department was also the parish priest at a small local church.
Some religious individuals view math and science as a tool to understand god's creation. Isaac Newton comes to mind.
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... They probably threw the idea around and came to the conclusion that they'd be another also-ran if they just pushed Android/WP7 sets (Especially since thats the move Dell is making) ...
Android also has a new business risk since it is a Google brand. When making that build-or-buy decision you want your partner to be non-controversial, you don't want your company to be collateral damage in another company's fight with the Chinese government. Fair or not, just or not, Google is a riskier partner than they used to be. This is not the only factor to consider but it must have been part of the Android decision.
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Wal-Mart's involvement is not limited to the trucks that deliver the goods that last mile. The Wal-Mart distribution centers are probably a more important asset. Shifting goods from regions not affected to those that are affected is an essential step in the overall process. I'd wager that some of those national guard, NGO and private trucks probably got their water via the Wal-Mart logistics pipeline.
Go ahead, people, cheer for the corporations. None of them are doing anything for you. Your government supplies your drinking water, builds your roads, responds in the event of disaster, and much, much more.
Not true. Wal-Mart and Home Depot did a better job than the gov't during Katrina. Say what you want about Wal-Mart's product sourcing but you have to admit they know more about delivering goods to remote corners of the country than anyone else. Interestingly, Wal-Mart was also a pioneer (1970s) of computerizing inventory and sales and in data mining. Wal-Mart monitors weather reports and when severe storms are *predicted* moves products that history shows will be in demand under such circumstances from unaffected regions to affected regions. When you see the Red Cross (also non-gov't by the way) handing out bottled water keep in mind that Wal-Mart probably delivered that water. FEMA is also supposedly turning to Walt-Mart for help with disaster logistics.
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... or whatever the vaporware is being called this week ...
... Why is it that the Apple fans get all the mod points ...
Maybe the mod down had to do with the lack of insight demonstrated by calling a product vaporware on the very day it arrives on the store shelves? Just a thought. :-)
The trouble is, the iPad (for all its slick design) is pretty much an enlarged (even embiggened) iPod Touch ...
Perhaps I wasn't clear but a bigger iPod touch is exactly what many have asked for.
... It will appeal to those who are content to live in Apple's little garden of approved applications (so long as we use them one at a time),
Actually its a rather large garden that offers nearly anything most people go looking for. As for one app at a time that is a pretty normal usage pattern, people tend to run an app for a couple of minutes and are done with it. Its not like a computer where one sits there working with something for hours. The one thing that needs to multitask and preempt, the phone, does. Also push notifications make many traditional background tasks unnecessary. While some complaints are valid, some are somewhat bogus attempts to apply old desktop methodologies rather than adopt newer methodologies that may be better suited for mobile devices. Like some users who stick to MS Office because that is all they know, some programmers like to stick to daemons and other background tasks because that is all they know. As someone who has ported applications and utilities between various desktop and server platforms I am sympathetic towards wanting to reuse legacy code but there is also a time to try something new.
... but those of us who really want a functional and versatile mobile computer with a small form-factor will remain frustrated.
Perhaps, but that wasn't what it was designed to be. However I'd wait a while before passing judgement. A year from now it will be far clearer as to how well the iPad suits people's needs. Today, where no one has any experience with it and there is a bias towards wanting the familiar (more of the same) opinions are premature.
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Everyone is clamoring over the iPad calling it a Kindle-Killer but the device is more than an eReader.
How is it a Kindle killer? Amazon publishes a Kindle app for the iPhone where you can buy digital books from Amazon, doesn't this app run on the iPad? Kindle is more than a hardware device and I have to wonder if Amazon really wants to be an electronic device developer and manufacturer.
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It does less than a similarly equipped laptop, and for only twice the price! As a bonus for your money, you get no USB expansion ports, and can even only run one app at a time! Apple's innovation is staggering.
You are in luck. If you prefer a laptop Apple sells those too. Their laptops have USB, multitasking, a unix-based OS that is pretty good at running FOSS, ... ;-)
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It seems as though you are not so upset at the size of the iPad, but the size of your pockets.
Will the iPad fit in a lab coat pocket? Or more generally in the pocket of clinical clothing for doctors and nurses? I think those pockets would be far more interesting than those in jeans.
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This is also exactly why so many slashdotters hate the thing. It's nothing more than an ipod so big I can't even fit it in my pocket. Why in the world would I want that?
Back in the earliest days of the iPhone I bought an iPod touch. I configured it for the wifi at home, work and school and saw little need for an iPhone. I had a laptop but when in class or lying on the couch I found the iPad touch much more convenient for giving email or the web a quick check. After a week or so I recall thinking that I wish the screen resolution was doubled in both dimensions, it would be a much more practical browser. I don't think this was a very original thought, I've encountered many iPhone/iPod touch users who would have liked one that had a larger screen. There has always been a market for a device that was nothing more than a larger iPod touch, Apple has finally met and exceeded this customer want.
Fitting the device in my pocket was a non-issue, I carried my iPod touch in my backpack. Had something like the iPad been available there were many days where I would have tossed it in my backpack and have left the laptop at home. Had the iPad been introduced at the same time as the original iPod touch I would have probably purchased the iPad.
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Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose. True, old idea, new implementation, but its definitely an improvement over the last one.
The public never saw v-mail films. Film was just the transocean transport media. V-mail was printed on lightweight paper once it got to the U.S. The letter was also folded up to be its own envelope. Or at least thats how the single sheet v-mail based letters my grandmother received were. IIRC it looked like the original letter was written on a special v-mail form not on general purpose paper. Perhaps that made for automated processing. Other letters my grandmother received that were on regular paper and/or were multiple pages were shipped as the original paper rather than v-mail. Or course that might be an army/navy thing. The letters on regular paper were from the navy, the v-mail was from the army.
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I believe NASA is the government agency that handles "incidents" in the aviation world. Incidents are wrong things that happened that do not rise to the level of accidents. The sudden acceleration reported in cars is very much the auto equivalent of what they have looked into for decades on the aviation side.
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The problem with paraphrasing is that the original meaning can be distorted. Franklin referred to essential liberty, not liberty in general. The implication that compromising non-essential liberties in the face of serious threats may be OK. In other words it is a gross distortion to quote Franklin in a black-and-white manner, he was a very complicated and insightful man that operated in shades of gray.
Look at the actual quote: ""Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Liberty is qualified as essential, safety is qualified as both little and temporary. Keep in mind that Franklin wrote in a day when each word was carefully considered. There is a lot nuance in there, some wiggle room.
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