Never understood this particular point of view. Government is there to function as your guardian and benefactor, with your elected representatives at helm. Corporation functions as a closed entity with no other goal then profit, even if that profit comes at expense of everything else (see: Bhopal).
Granted many modern governments in large countries became almost corporate in nature, almost as closet, corrupt and nepotistic as their megacorp counterparts. But at least they're still responsible for their actions to you, the voter, and you have, however small, power to change its course. It can be argued that government in Western countries does represent its average constituent - in all his/her greed, selfishness and ignorance and stupidity.
Not so with corporations, who in addition to all above vices tend to also be destructively greedy.
Essentially every Nordic country? That's Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland? I would also argue the same for Benelux countries, but they had a bit of a mess with immigration lately, so I couldn't fully bet on it anymore.
Sure, if you find that you can't cross the street because there's a risk of getting hit by a car, your logic is impeccable.
On the other hand if you actually live in a real world, you understand that your life is essentially a continuous process of risk management. No one stops you from dressing the way you want - but you have to accept that it will increase certain risks. No one stops you from crossing the street without ever looking left or right - but you have to accept that you may get him by a motorist who didn't pay enough attention.
Most countries in Northern Europe do come out as Utopia to exchange students from USA. I still recall the first time I did orientation and two really nice looking girls from there asked me "so when's the time it's not safe to be outside?".
I got kinda stumped, then figured out that they must be from south and are afraid of the cold (it was winter) so I told them "well in general you'll want to be home fast after 4 in the morning because that's when most bars close, so if you pass out, you may freeze to death because there won't be anyone to call police/ambulance to pick you up". Gave them the whole lecture that if you feel like you're about to pass out, to make sure you don't accidentally roll in a ditch, so that people will notice you and call an ambulance/police to pick you up.
They gave me the huge "wtf are you talking about" look. Then it clicked that they meant when it's safe in terms of actual violent crime. Except that around here, if you pass out you're far more likely to be picked up, helped and find yourself with every bit of money you had when you exited the bar then actually be a victim of a violent crime.
Police are in general a reflection of society they serve in. Around here, they're generally nice, helpful and respected.
1. You're a massive exception to the rule or live in a very fucked up place - most people in sane countries will NEVER under almost ANY circumstances sign such rights. In fact many rights you have signed off simply cannot be signed off here in Nordics - the law specifically BARS it unless you're in a very sensitive position where such terms can be reasonably advocated. .
2. I assume you also advocate the following then:
a. Right to cross the street without looking to the sides. Clearly drivers have no right to run over you. b. Right to come close to violent drunks while talking loudly right after the bars' closing time. Because they don't have a right to punch you in the face just because you piss them off. c. etc.
The cop advocated REASONABLE CAUTION which got lost because idiots like you took it literally, and other idiots decided to make it into "oo, male dominated society OPPRESSES US!".
P.S. Piss off with your personal comments. My mother almost got raped once when I was about 150m away. Doesn't mean I'm going to get hysterical about rape in general, especially when it comes to common sense advice on how to reduce potential to get raped. Knee-jerk full on emotion with no intellect behind it-reactions like yours have a tendency to make matters MUCH worse.
Granted this is US and some of it is justified, but in most countries with actual proper police force that is respected by people, sometimes a recorded fairly small error by a police officer can and WILL be blown out of proportion by yellow press.
Reading through comments it seems that many people around here need to pick up a history book and read up on why we have anti-trust laws, and what was happening to society to get them implemented.
Because when there aren't any, and concentration of power kills all competition, your society starts to literally rot until it collapses on itself due to massive inefficiency issues and parasitic nature of trusts in relation to society that they exist in, feeding off the society until it collapses, and takes them with it. Our current laws have been relaxed many times, mainly under monopolistic pressure. We've already seen what happens when the smart legislation made based on history lessons is relaxed to feed big corps - mortgage crisis came pretty close to collapsing entire Western monetary system.
Factual failure. They were not just forced, they literally had EU holding a knife at their throats. EU's statement was extremely clear and open text: Make one charger that fits all, or we'll mandate one with the law. Law that you will not be invited to discuss.
This came after industry ignored EU's requests for this feature for a couple of years. Heck, if there's one thing EU actually got good at, and definitely worth the taxes we're paying is the fact that they're actually big enough to step on multinationals like they're but small bugs.
Other similar cases include roaming charges across EU.
Or I could just use 3.6, and I when I need extra space (to date, not once) I'll go view > status bar. The hamstrung cripple that is the attempt to replace it in 4.0 isn't worth mentioning.
And until there's a functional status bar option in firefox, they lost me as a customer for any releases with more then 3 as main version number. I'm actually looking hard at options for first time in years because my 3.6.x is going to EOL soon.
The link you provide for Finland explicitly states that all four major ISPs in the country to NOT censor anything, and many of those who sensor provide an "alternate sensored DNS" in addition to normal, non-sensored one. Only a few small regionals actually sensor (probably in attempt to market themselves to families with children).
We're very much done screaming. Those who didn't care upgraded. Those who did stayed on 3.6.x, and will stay for foreseeable future. Or switch to another browser. The only thing left to wonder is just how much market share mozilla lost and will keep losing as we who don't like this versioning insanity coupled with feature removal rush slowly migrate off 3.6 to other browsers.
And amount of/care apple has for you? Zero. Because one cute girl at office that gets her friends jealous sells a dosen iphones with a boatload of fashionable and massively profitable accessories for them, not to mention all the guys who'll buy one to impress her.
And will likely upgrade in 6 months when a white version comes out in spite of still having 18 months of payments on the plan.
Why should apple care about you and your low margin computer crap again?
I never said it had to be "visible" frequency. Not a single time.
The point is that if you cannot (nearly fully) eliminate them, you have world's most expensive floodlight. Laser needs a few seconds of FOCUSED fire on target to cause damage. Even minor distortion on the way destroys its ability to focus on target, which is the entire point of it being useless a few meters above surface of the ocean, where such distortions are norm.
What makes you think such a typical user will care? In my experience, most of the iphone holders are after the trend, and don't generally care what happens to "geeks". Your mistake is that you're assuming that people who queue in front of apple stores are apple's target crowd. They're not. It's the girls and boys in the office who value being trendy that are the real money maker, and they won't care.
Whenever you load a page? Whenever you need to look at an addon status? Whenever...
The beauty of the status bar is that it saves time while providing access to information. Now, you may not value it as much as a few pixels of vertical space, but it's still a lot of features that were gone for a handful of vertical pixels who encompass less then 2% of space on most modern desktop monitors..
How the heck do you tune laser to weather conditions that are constantly changing (moving droplets in the air)? Also what wave length can actually defeat a fog?
Hold on here. The problem with using laser as a naval weapon lies in the beam being affected by reflection/refraction/absorption/distortion by water particles/droplets and atmospheric impurities in the air it travels through.
In what way does FEL defeat this problem? I understand that you can widely change frequency of emitted photon stream due to the nature of the free-electron laser, but the beam it outputs is still just as vulnerable once it leaves the device as that of a typical fixed-frequency laser.
In other worlds, I'm right, as in FEL defeats some weather-related issues with the actual emission process. It doesn't defeat the problems that affect the resultant beam. Or am I understanding something wrong here?
It's also worth noting that this isn't really a new invention. Delivery method is the only innovation. Flak guns used to shoot down planes in WW2 were based on the very same principle - shell was filled with small shrapnel and gunner only had to hit close enough to score a kill.
Foxnews sourced claim contradicts laws of physics. Laser is essentially a homogenous stream of photons fired at certain wavelength. As with all light, it's extremely vulnerable to conditions that either absorb light or refract/reflect light.
I suspect reporter messed something up when sourcing it. Perhaps folks at NAVY were trying to say that FEL laser doesn't lose power OUTPUT in bad weather (due to lens issues and diode issues in high humidity conditions?)
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Because world is indeed black and white. Gray is communist and should be KOS.
Never understood this particular point of view. Government is there to function as your guardian and benefactor, with your elected representatives at helm. Corporation functions as a closed entity with no other goal then profit, even if that profit comes at expense of everything else (see: Bhopal).
Granted many modern governments in large countries became almost corporate in nature, almost as closet, corrupt and nepotistic as their megacorp counterparts. But at least they're still responsible for their actions to you, the voter, and you have, however small, power to change its course. It can be argued that government in Western countries does represent its average constituent - in all his/her greed, selfishness and ignorance and stupidity.
Not so with corporations, who in addition to all above vices tend to also be destructively greedy.
Essentially every Nordic country? That's Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland? I would also argue the same for Benelux countries, but they had a bit of a mess with immigration lately, so I couldn't fully bet on it anymore.
Sure, if you find that you can't cross the street because there's a risk of getting hit by a car, your logic is impeccable.
On the other hand if you actually live in a real world, you understand that your life is essentially a continuous process of risk management. No one stops you from dressing the way you want - but you have to accept that it will increase certain risks. No one stops you from crossing the street without ever looking left or right - but you have to accept that you may get him by a motorist who didn't pay enough attention.
That's risk management.
Most countries in Northern Europe do come out as Utopia to exchange students from USA. I still recall the first time I did orientation and two really nice looking girls from there asked me "so when's the time it's not safe to be outside?".
I got kinda stumped, then figured out that they must be from south and are afraid of the cold (it was winter) so I told them "well in general you'll want to be home fast after 4 in the morning because that's when most bars close, so if you pass out, you may freeze to death because there won't be anyone to call police/ambulance to pick you up". Gave them the whole lecture that if you feel like you're about to pass out, to make sure you don't accidentally roll in a ditch, so that people will notice you and call an ambulance/police to pick you up.
They gave me the huge "wtf are you talking about" look. Then it clicked that they meant when it's safe in terms of actual violent crime. Except that around here, if you pass out you're far more likely to be picked up, helped and find yourself with every bit of money you had when you exited the bar then actually be a victim of a violent crime.
Police are in general a reflection of society they serve in. Around here, they're generally nice, helpful and respected.
1. You're a massive exception to the rule or live in a very fucked up place - most people in sane countries will NEVER under almost ANY circumstances sign such rights. In fact many rights you have signed off simply cannot be signed off here in Nordics - the law specifically BARS it unless you're in a very sensitive position where such terms can be reasonably advocated.
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2. I assume you also advocate the following then:
a. Right to cross the street without looking to the sides. Clearly drivers have no right to run over you.
b. Right to come close to violent drunks while talking loudly right after the bars' closing time. Because they don't have a right to punch you in the face just because you piss them off.
c. etc.
The cop advocated REASONABLE CAUTION which got lost because idiots like you took it literally, and other idiots decided to make it into "oo, male dominated society OPPRESSES US!".
P.S. Piss off with your personal comments. My mother almost got raped once when I was about 150m away. Doesn't mean I'm going to get hysterical about rape in general, especially when it comes to common sense advice on how to reduce potential to get raped. Knee-jerk full on emotion with no intellect behind it-reactions like yours have a tendency to make matters MUCH worse.
If police cannot be trusted, you're living in an utterly corrupt country.
You should try living in a country where police in general CAN be trusted.
Correct, but by their new nomenclature 3.x is an exception, as it's a part of old one.
Piratebay is just a one web page technically!
Not going to help much with stuff he's downloading being smaller in size then modern web pages.
Granted this is US and some of it is justified, but in most countries with actual proper police force that is respected by people, sometimes a recorded fairly small error by a police officer can and WILL be blown out of proportion by yellow press.
Example: slut walks.
As a result, yes, their concern is justified.
3.6 is a previous major release, that is used by many, and a part of 3.x releases.
4.0 and 5.0 are essentially 4.0 and 4.1 if mozilla went by the numbering scheme of 3.x releases. A minor update.
Therefore it's pretty SMART to continue to support 3.6.
Reading through comments it seems that many people around here need to pick up a history book and read up on why we have anti-trust laws, and what was happening to society to get them implemented.
Because when there aren't any, and concentration of power kills all competition, your society starts to literally rot until it collapses on itself due to massive inefficiency issues and parasitic nature of trusts in relation to society that they exist in, feeding off the society until it collapses, and takes them with it. Our current laws have been relaxed many times, mainly under monopolistic pressure. We've already seen what happens when the smart legislation made based on history lessons is relaxed to feed big corps - mortgage crisis came pretty close to collapsing entire Western monetary system.
Factual failure. They were not just forced, they literally had EU holding a knife at their throats. EU's statement was extremely clear and open text: Make one charger that fits all, or we'll mandate one with the law. Law that you will not be invited to discuss.
This came after industry ignored EU's requests for this feature for a couple of years. Heck, if there's one thing EU actually got good at, and definitely worth the taxes we're paying is the fact that they're actually big enough to step on multinationals like they're but small bugs.
Other similar cases include roaming charges across EU.
Or I could just use 3.6, and I when I need extra space (to date, not once) I'll go view > status bar. The hamstrung cripple that is the attempt to replace it in 4.0 isn't worth mentioning.
And until there's a functional status bar option in firefox, they lost me as a customer for any releases with more then 3 as main version number. I'm actually looking hard at options for first time in years because my 3.6.x is going to EOL soon.
The link you provide for Finland explicitly states that all four major ISPs in the country to NOT censor anything, and many of those who sensor provide an "alternate sensored DNS" in addition to normal, non-sensored one. Only a few small regionals actually sensor (probably in attempt to market themselves to families with children).
We're very much done screaming. Those who didn't care upgraded. Those who did stayed on 3.6.x, and will stay for foreseeable future. Or switch to another browser. The only thing left to wonder is just how much market share mozilla lost and will keep losing as we who don't like this versioning insanity coupled with feature removal rush slowly migrate off 3.6 to other browsers.
And amount of /care apple has for you? Zero. Because one cute girl at office that gets her friends jealous sells a dosen iphones with a boatload of fashionable and massively profitable accessories for them, not to mention all the guys who'll buy one to impress her.
And will likely upgrade in 6 months when a white version comes out in spite of still having 18 months of payments on the plan.
Why should apple care about you and your low margin computer crap again?
I never said it had to be "visible" frequency. Not a single time.
The point is that if you cannot (nearly fully) eliminate them, you have world's most expensive floodlight. Laser needs a few seconds of FOCUSED fire on target to cause damage. Even minor distortion on the way destroys its ability to focus on target, which is the entire point of it being useless a few meters above surface of the ocean, where such distortions are norm.
What makes you think such a typical user will care? In my experience, most of the iphone holders are after the trend, and don't generally care what happens to "geeks". Your mistake is that you're assuming that people who queue in front of apple stores are apple's target crowd. They're not. It's the girls and boys in the office who value being trendy that are the real money maker, and they won't care.
Whenever you load a page? Whenever you need to look at an addon status? Whenever ...
The beauty of the status bar is that it saves time while providing access to information. Now, you may not value it as much as a few pixels of vertical space, but it's still a lot of features that were gone for a handful of vertical pixels who encompass less then 2% of space on most modern desktop monitors..
How the heck do you tune laser to weather conditions that are constantly changing (moving droplets in the air)? Also what wave length can actually defeat a fog?
Hold on here. The problem with using laser as a naval weapon lies in the beam being affected by reflection/refraction/absorption/distortion by water particles/droplets and atmospheric impurities in the air it travels through.
In what way does FEL defeat this problem? I understand that you can widely change frequency of emitted photon stream due to the nature of the free-electron laser, but the beam it outputs is still just as vulnerable once it leaves the device as that of a typical fixed-frequency laser.
In other worlds, I'm right, as in FEL defeats some weather-related issues with the actual emission process. It doesn't defeat the problems that affect the resultant beam. Or am I understanding something wrong here?
It's also worth noting that this isn't really a new invention. Delivery method is the only innovation. Flak guns used to shoot down planes in WW2 were based on the very same principle - shell was filled with small shrapnel and gunner only had to hit close enough to score a kill.
Foxnews sourced claim contradicts laws of physics. Laser is essentially a homogenous stream of photons fired at certain wavelength. As with all light, it's extremely vulnerable to conditions that either absorb light or refract/reflect light.
I suspect reporter messed something up when sourcing it. Perhaps folks at NAVY were trying to say that FEL laser doesn't lose power OUTPUT in bad weather (due to lens issues and diode issues in high humidity conditions?)