I can't believe anybody is even engaging in a serious conversation about whether Bill Gates -- one of the wealthiest and shrewdest business men in the history of capitalism -- is a "socialist." Jesus, get a grip, people.
Morocco may have problems, but it is not trying to bring the West to its knees. Nor is any Arab government, nor even any Islamic one, including Iran. The only people actively trying to do that are an infinitesimal minority of the some 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. The only reason anyone gives them any respect at all is because of US military intervention in the middle east. You're right its not as simple as "haves" and "have nots," but that doesn't mean that it's about "culture" -- the idea that they hate our freedoms is sheer hysterical nonsense. Oh sure, they don't particularly like our freedoms or our culture, but that's not what causes them to declare war on us. It's the very real evidence they see around them that the US (and Israel) is engaged in a war on Islam. Of course, that's not particularly true, but it's easy for the extremists to point to evidence that exists when Iraqis or Palestinians are being slaughtered by weapons made in the US. And the established governments and religious organizations in the region may not particularly like these extremists but they tolerate them and often encourage them because it provides a convenient distraction from their own corruption and crappy leadership.
There are plenty of arguments for why we should have space based weapons. If you read the right books, we need them to be prepared to repel alien visitations.
Are you for real? Alien visitations? We have real life problems here on earth that deserve a higher priority in the budget than planning for wars against alien civilizations that we have no evidence even exist.
He's right! Linux has secretly taken over the desktop while pretending to have little to no market share. Most everyone uses Linux these days, it just doesn't show up on these web tracker thingies.
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. And it doesn't install a helper application into your browser, just waiting for someone to figure out how to slide an exploit into a ".amz" file.
What are you talking about? Amazon doesn't install anything in my browser; you download a separate application. And what makes an amz file less safe than any other file? It's a document, not an application. And it's being served by amazon.com -- or does your scenario involve malicious hackers taking over amazon.com too?
Good point for another discussion but that's totally inapplicable here. Copy and paste is not the floppy disc -- there is no updated replacement, and it is a basic functionality for any computing device. Does anyone know why this functionality was deliberately kept off the iphone? It may be the one thing keeping me from buying one.
MMS is also something that, while it may be less "sensible" than email, is a basic functionality in most other smartphones, and there seems to be no legitimate reason it was kept off of this one. It's a real problem communicating with anyone who doesn't have the same phone -- the user doesn't care if email is more "sensible"; all the user knows is he/she can't see the picture that was sent to them. Or, if the user is on the other end, all they know is that the iphone is lame because it can't receive the picture they just sent.
Apple must have had a good reason in theory to keep this functionality off the iphone, but in practice it just makes an otherwise wonderful device seem like a pain in the ass.
All you need to do is have a new hire forget for a moment that "Dolphin" is your five-nines-must-be-up-at-all-costs production database and "Porpoise" is your office quake server to have a massive, highly costly, possibly fatal failure...
Ain't that the truth! Can you imagine, you're just about to enter Dimension of the Doomed and you wind up with a bunch of useless payroll and client information instead? Meanwhile, your player gets pwned by Abigail from Accounting....
Thank you for mentioning this. It's something bizarre I've always wondered about every time I've handled a Windows laptop. I'm a Mac fanboy but I admit there are some very nicely designed Windows laptops (whereas Apple laptop design has stagnated in the last few years, if not gotten worse in some areas). But the companies selling these things ruin whatever design advantage they have with these stupid stickers everywhere. I borrowed my Dad's sleek ultralight portable (I forget who made it) and, while I still can't stand the OS, I had to whistle at the sight of this thing and admit that it had a lot of advantages in terms of form factor and capabilities than anything in the current line of MacBooks. But then when I went to use the thing I was constantly distracted and annoyed by the stickers - at least 5 - that covered up every blank spot available near the trackpad. Why bother paying designers to create an elegant form factor and then screw it up with all these stickers? Can't they just put a sticker on the box? Do we really need to be reminded that this thing was built for Vista every time we open it up?
You need to get yourself to the Cat & Fiddle in Hollywood; it's a British Pub but they do a mean Scotch egg. Ye Olde King's Head in Santa Monica also serves them and I've heard they're good. I've also heard that you can get them at Molly Malone's. Why the hell do I know this stuff?
either it's crap, or I'm in hiding. I checked my real name and found three hits on addresses I haven't lived at for nearly a decade, listings for my parents at addresses they've never lived at, and about 40 hits to other people, and hits to two of the several hundred web pages over the years that have had my name on it. This really isn't helpful for finding me, and I'm not trying to hide - I would think it would be pretty useless against someone actually trying to hide something.
I get your point, but gridlock is not a good thing. Take it from someone living in California, waiting for the state to run out of money because these idiots in the legislature refuse to agree on a budget. We're $43 billion in the hole without a plan to fix it. Gridlock is not the answer.
Nope; there's really no chance that happened at all. What actually happened is that the Obama Administration hasn't gotten to this yet in the whole 3 days he's been in office, and this decision was made before he got there by the current DOJ which is still being run by Bush appointees. Now, he may just do exactly as you say when the time comes, but blaming Obama for this one now is a little ridiculous. If you want to judge Obama for better or for worse, look at the executive orders he actually signed himself rather than a court document that has his name nowhere on it.
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I can't believe anybody is even engaging in a serious conversation about whether Bill Gates -- one of the wealthiest and shrewdest business men in the history of capitalism -- is a "socialist." Jesus, get a grip, people.
Morocco may have problems, but it is not trying to bring the West to its knees. Nor is any Arab government, nor even any Islamic one, including Iran. The only people actively trying to do that are an infinitesimal minority of the some 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. The only reason anyone gives them any respect at all is because of US military intervention in the middle east. You're right its not as simple as "haves" and "have nots," but that doesn't mean that it's about "culture" -- the idea that they hate our freedoms is sheer hysterical nonsense. Oh sure, they don't particularly like our freedoms or our culture, but that's not what causes them to declare war on us. It's the very real evidence they see around them that the US (and Israel) is engaged in a war on Islam. Of course, that's not particularly true, but it's easy for the extremists to point to evidence that exists when Iraqis or Palestinians are being slaughtered by weapons made in the US. And the established governments and religious organizations in the region may not particularly like these extremists but they tolerate them and often encourage them because it provides a convenient distraction from their own corruption and crappy leadership.
There are plenty of arguments for why we should have space based weapons. If you read the right books, we need them to be prepared to repel alien visitations.
Are you for real? Alien visitations? We have real life problems here on earth that deserve a higher priority in the budget than planning for wars against alien civilizations that we have no evidence even exist.
He's right! Linux has secretly taken over the desktop while pretending to have little to no market share. Most everyone uses Linux these days, it just doesn't show up on these web tracker thingies.
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It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. And it doesn't install a helper application into your browser, just waiting for someone to figure out how to slide an exploit into a ".amz" file.
What are you talking about? Amazon doesn't install anything in my browser; you download a separate application. And what makes an amz file less safe than any other file? It's a document, not an application. And it's being served by amazon.com -- or does your scenario involve malicious hackers taking over amazon.com too?
Good point for another discussion but that's totally inapplicable here. Copy and paste is not the floppy disc -- there is no updated replacement, and it is a basic functionality for any computing device. Does anyone know why this functionality was deliberately kept off the iphone? It may be the one thing keeping me from buying one.
MMS is also something that, while it may be less "sensible" than email, is a basic functionality in most other smartphones, and there seems to be no legitimate reason it was kept off of this one. It's a real problem communicating with anyone who doesn't have the same phone -- the user doesn't care if email is more "sensible"; all the user knows is he/she can't see the picture that was sent to them. Or, if the user is on the other end, all they know is that the iphone is lame because it can't receive the picture they just sent.
Apple must have had a good reason in theory to keep this functionality off the iphone, but in practice it just makes an otherwise wonderful device seem like a pain in the ass.
All you need to do is have a new hire forget for a moment that "Dolphin" is your five-nines-must-be-up-at-all-costs production database and "Porpoise" is your office quake server to have a massive, highly costly, possibly fatal failure...
Ain't that the truth! Can you imagine, you're just about to enter Dimension of the Doomed and you wind up with a bunch of useless payroll and client information instead? Meanwhile, your player gets pwned by Abigail from Accounting....
Thank you for mentioning this. It's something bizarre I've always wondered about every time I've handled a Windows laptop. I'm a Mac fanboy but I admit there are some very nicely designed Windows laptops (whereas Apple laptop design has stagnated in the last few years, if not gotten worse in some areas). But the companies selling these things ruin whatever design advantage they have with these stupid stickers everywhere. I borrowed my Dad's sleek ultralight portable (I forget who made it) and, while I still can't stand the OS, I had to whistle at the sight of this thing and admit that it had a lot of advantages in terms of form factor and capabilities than anything in the current line of MacBooks. But then when I went to use the thing I was constantly distracted and annoyed by the stickers - at least 5 - that covered up every blank spot available near the trackpad. Why bother paying designers to create an elegant form factor and then screw it up with all these stickers? Can't they just put a sticker on the box? Do we really need to be reminded that this thing was built for Vista every time we open it up?
No Machine so far has been a great alternative for VNC
Oh, come on - there must be some machine that can do the job.
You need to get yourself to the Cat & Fiddle in Hollywood; it's a British Pub but they do a mean Scotch egg. Ye Olde King's Head in Santa Monica also serves them and I've heard they're good. I've also heard that you can get them at Molly Malone's. Why the hell do I know this stuff?
Hell, we insult sitting Presidents, so why shouldn't we insult dead ones?
Because it's just not nearly as much fun. Try it yourself and see -- "Grover Cleveland was a fucking pussy." "Andrew Jackson was a racist prick."
Hey, I think I was wrong; this actually does have its appeal. Millard Fillmore was so fat....
just stop stalking her.
Pot's legal in California now, too, and here I don't have to put up with all those Dutch people!
If I were to joke about killing their children, I imagine they wouldn't be as amused.
Maybe you just need better material; I always get hearty guffaws from the crowd once I break out the infanticide jokes.
An evil person who can't speak?
You want to have a good laugh? Walk into a shelter and ask for 55 lbs of cat.
Why would they have that much pussy laying around a homeless shelter?
Actually, that's not possible, because pinching is considered harassment under UK law. Sorry about that.
either it's crap, or I'm in hiding. I checked my real name and found three hits on addresses I haven't lived at for nearly a decade, listings for my parents at addresses they've never lived at, and about 40 hits to other people, and hits to two of the several hundred web pages over the years that have had my name on it. This really isn't helpful for finding me, and I'm not trying to hide - I would think it would be pretty useless against someone actually trying to hide something.
It didn't stop me from driving at the time, but I decided it wasn't that safe.
You're damn right it wasn't safe, what with the lynchings and all!
I get your point, but gridlock is not a good thing. Take it from someone living in California, waiting for the state to run out of money because these idiots in the legislature refuse to agree on a budget. We're $43 billion in the hole without a plan to fix it. Gridlock is not the answer.
The poster said "Texas." And, as far as Texans are concerned, New Zealand is part of Texas.
We don't get Monty Python references, and you expect us to get a Bob Dylan one?
Nope; there's really no chance that happened at all. What actually happened is that the Obama Administration hasn't gotten to this yet in the whole 3 days he's been in office, and this decision was made before he got there by the current DOJ which is still being run by Bush appointees. Now, he may just do exactly as you say when the time comes, but blaming Obama for this one now is a little ridiculous. If you want to judge Obama for better or for worse, look at the executive orders he actually signed himself rather than a court document that has his name nowhere on it.
AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHH We're all gonna fuckin DIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!