Right; 'cause if a person's expression of their Constitutionally guaranteed right to freely and peaceably assemble is inconvenient to you, they deserve to have their rights grossly violated with acts of violence.
Allegedly, that sort of attitude doesn't fly in America, although I will concede that in my near 30 years of living here, the concept that the U.S. Constitution is, "just a God-damned piece of paper," seems to be gathering steam...
Congratulations on being part of the problem, asshat.
Which makes more sense? A peaceful protest being held for a week suddenly turning violent for no apparent reason? Or police tolerating a peaceful protest for a week, at which point they find or make excuses to turn the protest into a riot?
I don't think there's anything inherently contradictory about wanting to keep the enemy's knowledge of you to a minimum while maximizing your knowledge of the enemy.
So, ordinary Americans are 'the enemy,' at least in the eyes of our own government?
What a perfectly terrifying prospect...
Just end the ride with a trip through the autoclave/cremation furnace, which would serve the dual purpose of removing the biomass (read: your loved one's nigh liquified remains) and sanitizing the ride for the next run through.
I could see this as a viable concept for, say, Silver Dollar City, considering their typical demographic.
Hand-blown glass cremation urns, anyone?
Not that I disagree, but in their defense, they are journalists... Considering that their career path is direct dissemination of information, I highly doubt any of the info was to sensitive, excepting personal and account information.
Now, if we were talking about DoD contractors discussing top-secret projects on, say, Google Wave, that would be a major issue.
Hmmm... let me think about this for a second...
iPad - $600
4 iPhones (no contract) - $1600
Scrabble Board Game from Parker Bros. - $15... or, if you're one of those folks that absolutely has to go digital:
Scrabble Flash game from Pogo.com - Free
Something tells me that the only people willing to pay $2200 for a game of Scrabble will be Mac Fankids and other forms of idiot.
I'm all for open platforms, but you can't force these companies to use them if they don't want to.
Actually, you can, especially when said exclusion creates an unfair advantage in the market in question. Ever heard of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
That said, there happens to be a mile-wide difference between being able to bring an anti-trust suit to court and actually doing it.
A medium size poster, in English, promoting the 2nd ONI volume “Access Controlled” book was removed by the Internet Governance Forum security forces, because of a phrase on it saying:
The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous “Great Firewall of China” is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.
I wonder what would happen if you 127.0.0.1 the advertising IPs in your hosts file? Conceivably you'd be bricking the box (while breaking the ToS you signed up to, too, no doubt).
You bring up an interesting point about which I've always wondered; how is it legal for a company to change the ToS, and still claim that a customer "signed" it? Are all contracts "update-able" in the same manner? What language would I have to use when writing a contract to reflect that property?
I tried that with my work contract once by adding a couple of zeros to the end of the salary field... Unfortunately my paychecks have yet to reflect the change...
Ability to buy my tickets online, so that I don't have to wait in line or worry about getting in to a new release.
Ability to reserve specific seats when purchasing my tickets, so I don't have to get to the show early for good seats.
No extra charge for buying tickets online. Running an online shopping cart should be cheaper than paying a ticket salesperson, so there is no justification for extra fees.
No ads. No more than 3 trailers.
Do I sound picky? Perhaps. I have a nice TV at home, and renting movies is very cheap. It is up to the theater to give me a reason to not just stay home.
Sooo, let me get this straight...
you want the movie theaters to hire a Webmaster, purchase, set up, and maintain webservers, infrastructure, credit card authentication services, etc. at their own cost and not charge you at all for the privilege
you feel that, because you are too lazy to go stand in line for new release tickets, you should, for some reason, be given preference over the movie fanboys/girls standing in line (sometimes for days on end)
you think that a high-school kid working a movie ticket counter is more expensive than the aforementioned technology and the personnel required to support it (not to mention the ongoing power and bandwidth costs)
you don't think that movies in theaters should have commercials, only a limited number of trailers... can't say I disagree with that one...
Yea, dude, I'd say that's pretty picky... P.S. you can't rent new releases...
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How do you guys come up with your song ideas, i.e. do you start with the lyrics, or the drum beat, or... ?
The key advantage is that the propulsion system doesn't run out of fuel.
Perhaps; but that doesn't change the fact that it still costs a lot of money and fuel to break free of the gravity well.
Putting the cart before the horse, if you ask me.
Right; 'cause if a person's expression of their Constitutionally guaranteed right to freely and peaceably assemble is inconvenient to you, they deserve to have their rights grossly violated with acts of violence.
Allegedly, that sort of attitude doesn't fly in America, although I will concede that in my near 30 years of living here, the concept that the U.S. Constitution is, "just a God-damned piece of paper," seems to be gathering steam...
Congratulations on being part of the problem, asshat.
Which makes more sense? A peaceful protest being held for a week suddenly turning violent for no apparent reason? Or police tolerating a peaceful protest for a week, at which point they find or make excuses to turn the protest into a riot?
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I don't think there's anything inherently contradictory about wanting to keep the enemy's knowledge of you to a minimum while maximizing your knowledge of the enemy.
So, ordinary Americans are 'the enemy,' at least in the eyes of our own government? What a perfectly terrifying prospect...
Just end the ride with a trip through the autoclave/cremation furnace, which would serve the dual purpose of removing the biomass (read: your loved one's nigh liquified remains) and sanitizing the ride for the next run through. I could see this as a viable concept for, say, Silver Dollar City, considering their typical demographic. Hand-blown glass cremation urns, anyone?
Not that I disagree, but in their defense, they are journalists... Considering that their career path is direct dissemination of information, I highly doubt any of the info was to sensitive, excepting personal and account information. Now, if we were talking about DoD contractors discussing top-secret projects on, say, Google Wave, that would be a major issue.
Hmmm... let me think about this for a second... iPad - $600 4 iPhones (no contract) - $1600 Scrabble Board Game from Parker Bros. - $15 ... or, if you're one of those folks that absolutely has to go digital:
Scrabble Flash game from Pogo.com - Free
Something tells me that the only people willing to pay $2200 for a game of Scrabble will be Mac Fankids and other forms of idiot.
I'm all for open platforms, but you can't force these companies to use them if they don't want to.
Actually, you can, especially when said exclusion creates an unfair advantage in the market in question. Ever heard of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? That said, there happens to be a mile-wide difference between being able to bring an anti-trust suit to court and actually doing it.
The economy didn't really recover until the US entered WW2, pulling millions of men out of the job market and putting them in uniform.
I would agree with modding this Informative, if it wasn't in fact completely untrue.
- I saw no other posters at the convention. The poster could have been wildly inappropriate.
From Global Voices Online:
A medium size poster, in English, promoting the 2nd ONI volume “Access Controlled” book was removed by the Internet Governance Forum security forces, because of a phrase on it saying:
Just thought I'd clarify.
I wonder what would happen if you 127.0.0.1 the advertising IPs in your hosts file? Conceivably you'd be bricking the box (while breaking the ToS you signed up to, too, no doubt).
You bring up an interesting point about which I've always wondered; how is it legal for a company to change the ToS, and still claim that a customer "signed" it? Are all contracts "update-able" in the same manner? What language would I have to use when writing a contract to reflect that property?
I tried that with my work contract once by adding a couple of zeros to the end of the salary field... Unfortunately my paychecks have yet to reflect the change...
Do I sound picky? Perhaps. I have a nice TV at home, and renting movies is very cheap. It is up to the theater to give me a reason to not just stay home.
Sooo, let me get this straight...
Yea, dude, I'd say that's pretty picky... P.S. you can't rent new releases...
Being afraid isn't a crime, nor is it probable cause for a search.
-jcr
Yet. Remember not so long ago, making a mix tape for a party wasn't a crime either... Now that same action can get you fined into bankruptcy.