That being said, I am going to argue exactly what you said about the Portland case. He is not an American citizen.
Actually, from what I read, he is a naturalized American citizen. That means, not born on USA soil, but granted USA citizenship since his arrival. So yes, he is a citizen of the USA.The fact is that the very xenophobia that you (and Glen Beck and his ilk) are promoting probably had a hand in screwing up that kid that badly, although he came from Somalia sometime in the last 15 years, so he couldn't have had a fun time there either.
P.S. don't forget, for instance, that most of Apple's patents will be software patents (and therefore limited to the US), whereas most of the Nokia/GSM/Motorola patents will be hardware patents, and therefore valid in many places outside of NA.
Apparently both sides think they can get a better deal through the legal system than private negotiations.
Alternatively, it may be possible that Nokia/GMS consortium has the stronger hand but Apple thinks that it's a worthwhile trade-off to tie things up in court for a few years so that they can keep their lucrative monopoly a little longer - i.e. scare Nokia enough to not put out a smartphone that will compete with the iPhone. Also put out legal FUD to throw uncertainty on other competing devices. They may be getting more blowback than they anticipated though.
Apple's App Store accounts for 92% of the cell phone application store bucks spent.
Of course, since the iPod/iPhone/iPad won't run any app that hasn't been signed by Apple or using a corporate development SDK, The Apple App Store has a captive market. Android developers on the other hand have many more options in terms of how they can deliver apps to customers and charge for them, including direct sale. If you were a developer who already has a credit card payment infrastructure where your costs were on the order of 3%, would you choose to use that or pay 30% to the Android Market (or 20% to Amazon)? This especially important given the limited geographical area supported for payments by the Android Market until recently.
I doubt very much that the value of these direct sales are taken into account in these comparisons whereas what really matters from a developer's point of view is what their (sales revenue - costs) is for each market segment, not whether their sales are done through a centralized app distributor. I mean seriously, the people here are constantly whining about how the RIAA/MPAA are a cartel that overcharges for distribution of product due to their control of that channel, but they suddenly think it's amazing and wonderful and a selling point when Apple does it? Put down the Reality Distortion Field pipe.
I believe that these days Toyota is the number 1 car manufacturer in the world. Of course, even if their brake problems have been overblown in some cases by people looking for an excuse for their bad driving skills, their recent quality record is not exactly spotless.
Great. I wonder how long it will be before some terrorist group buys or modifies a recent worm/virus, and then uses the infected computers to perform activities like the onion router connection you mentioned. The result would be that intelligence databases are rendered useless (or even DOS'd) with hundreds of thousands of false positives.
Sorry, but what "may be less family friendly" about "children being raised by two females, whatever the reason"? While "less family friendly" may be accurate for discussion about Sex and the City or most daytime soap operas for example, what the heck is "less family friendly" about two women raising kids? Unless there's a running theme that one of the women's background was as a battered housewife or co-dependent on an emotionally abusive lout, wouldn't the raising of kids be the definition of "family friendly"? Unless you have some serious religious hangups about even the possibility of homosexuality, in which case it's about catering to religious hangups, not protecting kids from psychologically inappropriate content like sex or violence.
Actually most 1st year micro/macro economics courses are taught with basic high school math, because the students haven't learned calculus yet. Apart for supply-demand curves, which just uses exposure to basic graphing, I remember a lot of it as trivial algebra. There's probably more psychology in there than advanced maths at that level. While that level of econ is certainly simplified, it's enough to make me correctly identify as BS a lot of what I hear demagogues pushing.
Don't get me wrong, I think most people don't get enough exposure or experience in abstract reasoning that maths give you. Heck it's apparent that just some basic logic and critical thinking would go a long way! But if you're going to vote on things which have world-ranging implications, then you should be able to understand enough about the world to see a) the broad strokes of those implications and b) detect when you're getting a snow job. Otherwise, you're just asking for someone to game the system.
Probability theory is too abstract for people if they haven't already gotten enough math to understand at least basic combinatorics and simple algebra. If all you've fed them is fractions, real numbers, and +-*/, prob. theory won't stick and they will get lost. Or worse, they'll think they'll understand it and get manipulated even more.
Based on how many people actually listen to Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly and other manipulative talking heads, I would say some more history, economics, and political science/civics wouldn't hurt.
The funny thing is that the world is a mix of the collective and individual. The collective is the commons, the most obvious example being the air we breathe, the water cycle is another, and there are many others equally or more subtle. However private ownership of resources does give individuals the motivation to maximize the return that can be obtained from those resources; it is fundamentally tied to basic territorial instincts of most species also found in human nature. Any system of government that doesn't take both into account is fundamentally flawed.
It depends on what you mean by not fair. If you mean unethical industrial spying, bribery of officials, or false advertising, then yeah Jesus would have probably thought it disgusting that you wanted to do any of those "unfair" things and then try to pay him off with a 10% cut for an indulgence.
Funny story. The thing is, while AB negative is a rare blood type,... ABs are the universal blood receiver and can only give to other ABs. Os are the universal blood donors who can only get from other Os, but they also aren't that rare. The Rhesus factor primarily comes into play for women during pregnancy and Forry doesn't sound like a woman's name (short for Forrest maybe?) . So having a card saying he's AB wouldn't do anything to stop medical staff from giving him blood if he was unconscious and low on blood - they could give him whatever they had most of on hand (though an exact match is preferred).
Last I read, the indication that (for male homosexuals) is that it is due to hormonal balance in the womb, affected by how many prior males the mother had borne. Makes sense from a natural population control standpoint. I haven't read of any theories of genetic/hormonal causes for lesbians though, although I think it would be pretty surprising if there wasn't one as well.
Maybe the Doctor gave her an add-on like he did with Rose so that the phone would relay through the TARDIS. It would appear he has fixed its chameleon circuit too (or else it was the Master).
On the other hand the DARPA challenge involves a lot of (roadless) cross country driving which would give a good portion of the human driving population fits too.
Yes, it was one of the things I tried to research when I was looking at Android phones. When I found out that Motorola was doing that I went with a Samsung Galaxy S instead, in spite of having been very happy with my Moto L7 and seriously liking its construction and durability (twice in the wash accidentally for a few minutes each time). I was leaning towards the Samsung because of the Super AMOLED screen, but was still on the fence until I found out about Motorola's locked down firmware.
Let's face it though, we're techno-geeks and the exception. Most of the masses won't realize they've been snookered until Motorola stop providing upgrades to Android past version m.n and they see someone with a similar generation Samsung happily running a cyanogen mod release of the new version.
Maybe, but that usually has more to do with childhood nutrition. Asian families tend to eat less meat and rice often comprises a large portion of the meal compared to NA diet. Average height in China has increased in the last 20 years as more of the country has had better access to good nutrition. Cultural cooking norms affect nutrition, which in turn affects height (and width). There are of course some regional differences due to evolutionary adaptations (i.e. African pygmies), but they are less than is popularly assumed.
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Actually, from what I read, he is a naturalized American citizen. That means, not born on USA soil, but granted USA citizenship since his arrival. So yes, he is a citizen of the USA.The fact is that the very xenophobia that you (and Glen Beck and his ilk) are promoting probably had a hand in screwing up that kid that badly, although he came from Somalia sometime in the last 15 years, so he couldn't have had a fun time there either.
P.S. don't forget, for instance, that most of Apple's patents will be software patents (and therefore limited to the US), whereas most of the Nokia/GSM/Motorola patents will be hardware patents, and therefore valid in many places outside of NA.
Alternatively, it may be possible that Nokia/GMS consortium has the stronger hand but Apple thinks that it's a worthwhile trade-off to tie things up in court for a few years so that they can keep their lucrative monopoly a little longer - i.e. scare Nokia enough to not put out a smartphone that will compete with the iPhone. Also put out legal FUD to throw uncertainty on other competing devices. They may be getting more blowback than they anticipated though.
I think I smell the material for an A-Team sequel movie. Faceman wants his name back, fool!
A broken (analog) clock will still display the right time twice a day.
"Is your name Vladimir Kramnik?" when you open the game.
Of course, since the iPod/iPhone/iPad won't run any app that hasn't been signed by Apple or using a corporate development SDK, The Apple App Store has a captive market. Android developers on the other hand have many more options in terms of how they can deliver apps to customers and charge for them, including direct sale. If you were a developer who already has a credit card payment infrastructure where your costs were on the order of 3%, would you choose to use that or pay 30% to the Android Market (or 20% to Amazon)? This especially important given the limited geographical area supported for payments by the Android Market until recently.
I doubt very much that the value of these direct sales are taken into account in these comparisons whereas what really matters from a developer's point of view is what their (sales revenue - costs) is for each market segment, not whether their sales are done through a centralized app distributor. I mean seriously, the people here are constantly whining about how the RIAA/MPAA are a cartel that overcharges for distribution of product due to their control of that channel, but they suddenly think it's amazing and wonderful and a selling point when Apple does it? Put down the Reality Distortion Field pipe.
I believe that these days Toyota is the number 1 car manufacturer in the world. Of course, even if their brake problems have been overblown in some cases by people looking for an excuse for their bad driving skills, their recent quality record is not exactly spotless.
Great. I wonder how long it will be before some terrorist group buys or modifies a recent worm/virus, and then uses the infected computers to perform activities like the onion router connection you mentioned. The result would be that intelligence databases are rendered useless (or even DOS'd) with hundreds of thousands of false positives.
Sorry, but what "may be less family friendly" about "children being raised by two females, whatever the reason"? While "less family friendly" may be accurate for discussion about Sex and the City or most daytime soap operas for example, what the heck is "less family friendly" about two women raising kids? Unless there's a running theme that one of the women's background was as a battered housewife or co-dependent on an emotionally abusive lout, wouldn't the raising of kids be the definition of "family friendly"? Unless you have some serious religious hangups about even the possibility of homosexuality, in which case it's about catering to religious hangups, not protecting kids from psychologically inappropriate content like sex or violence.
You'll know 3D is being overused when you see the advertising for the first 3D chick flick.
Actually most 1st year micro/macro economics courses are taught with basic high school math, because the students haven't learned calculus yet. Apart for supply-demand curves, which just uses exposure to basic graphing, I remember a lot of it as trivial algebra. There's probably more psychology in there than advanced maths at that level. While that level of econ is certainly simplified, it's enough to make me correctly identify as BS a lot of what I hear demagogues pushing.
Don't get me wrong, I think most people don't get enough exposure or experience in abstract reasoning that maths give you. Heck it's apparent that just some basic logic and critical thinking would go a long way! But if you're going to vote on things which have world-ranging implications, then you should be able to understand enough about the world to see a) the broad strokes of those implications and b) detect when you're getting a snow job. Otherwise, you're just asking for someone to game the system.
Not to mention that the green revolution depends at least partly on petroleum-based fertilizers and there is a finite supply of oil.
Probability theory is too abstract for people if they haven't already gotten enough math to understand at least basic combinatorics and simple algebra. If all you've fed them is fractions, real numbers, and +-*/, prob. theory won't stick and they will get lost. Or worse, they'll think they'll understand it and get manipulated even more.
Based on how many people actually listen to Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly and other manipulative talking heads, I would say some more history, economics, and political science/civics wouldn't hurt.
The funny thing is that the world is a mix of the collective and individual. The collective is the commons, the most obvious example being the air we breathe, the water cycle is another, and there are many others equally or more subtle. However private ownership of resources does give individuals the motivation to maximize the return that can be obtained from those resources; it is fundamentally tied to basic territorial instincts of most species also found in human nature. Any system of government that doesn't take both into account is fundamentally flawed.
It depends on what you mean by not fair. If you mean unethical industrial spying, bribery of officials, or false advertising, then yeah Jesus would have probably thought it disgusting that you wanted to do any of those "unfair" things and then try to pay him off with a 10% cut for an indulgence.
Funny story. The thing is, while AB negative is a rare blood type,... ABs are the universal blood receiver and can only give to other ABs. Os are the universal blood donors who can only get from other Os, but they also aren't that rare. The Rhesus factor primarily comes into play for women during pregnancy and Forry doesn't sound like a woman's name (short for Forrest maybe?) . So having a card saying he's AB wouldn't do anything to stop medical staff from giving him blood if he was unconscious and low on blood - they could give him whatever they had most of on hand (though an exact match is preferred).
Last I read, the indication that (for male homosexuals) is that it is due to hormonal balance in the womb, affected by how many prior males the mother had borne. Makes sense from a natural population control standpoint. I haven't read of any theories of genetic/hormonal causes for lesbians though, although I think it would be pretty surprising if there wasn't one as well.
Maybe the Doctor gave her an add-on like he did with Rose so that the phone would relay through the TARDIS. It would appear he has fixed its chameleon circuit too (or else it was the Master).
On the other hand the DARPA challenge involves a lot of (roadless) cross country driving which would give a good portion of the human driving population fits too.
Yes, it was one of the things I tried to research when I was looking at Android phones. When I found out that Motorola was doing that I went with a Samsung Galaxy S instead, in spite of having been very happy with my Moto L7 and seriously liking its construction and durability (twice in the wash accidentally for a few minutes each time). I was leaning towards the Samsung because of the Super AMOLED screen, but was still on the fence until I found out about Motorola's locked down firmware.
Let's face it though, we're techno-geeks and the exception. Most of the masses won't realize they've been snookered until Motorola stop providing upgrades to Android past version m.n and they see someone with a similar generation Samsung happily running a cyanogen mod release of the new version.
So you really think that of all the myriad variations of "There's an app for that!", it was a coincidence that the two I picked were beer and farts?
Maybe, but that usually has more to do with childhood nutrition. Asian families tend to eat less meat and rice often comprises a large portion of the meal compared to NA diet. Average height in China has increased in the last 20 years as more of the country has had better access to good nutrition. Cultural cooking norms affect nutrition, which in turn affects height (and width). There are of course some regional differences due to evolutionary adaptations (i.e. African pygmies), but they are less than is popularly assumed.
Oh, I know this one!!
Woosh!