Sure, buy me a plane ticket to Japan so I can try it without positing a use case and then making an assumption first. Not surprised that was a coward comment.
People like you will end up giving away our freedoms in the name of 'fairness'. America was never meant to be safe and never meant to be fair. It was meant to be free. Coddled children like you wouldn't get that.
My Operating Systems instructor (a die hard open source / linux guy) went to testify as an expert at a court case involving patent infringement with some pretty big names involved in this now famous East Texas District court. He was skeptical going out but came back with a different opinion; apparently that court district processes so many IP and software patent claims that the court district that they've become better at dealing with it than any other court. They process the claims faster and the judges are more knowledgeable on the subject than most and run a very tight ship. He said it's easy to see why they might have started those types of cases out there, but the reality now is far different than the picture painted.
Tax the wealthy. Not because it's right. Not because they can pay. Not because they have some obligation. Do it because it promotes a stronger middle class and leads to economic stability. The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, no matter how rich.
-Rick
Define wealthy for me. Then prevent that definition from getting broader and broader as cash-strapped governments seek to acquire more money. Then perhaps we are in agreement.
Until then, those in the middle class will continue to suffer the most at the hands of unfair government tax policy. Taking 35 ~ 50% from a middle / upper-middle class family is a nice brick wall between them and becoming 'wealthy'. The rich, on the other hand, can take any percentage of their millions, chalk them up as a loss, and keep on without batting an eye.
Did Wikipedia also tell you how many people didn't vote? I'm sure it does. I'm pretty sure 98.6% of those who voted does not even make up a majority of this country.
But saved the economy and made a nice profit for the government
Saved the economy? Can you prove that? Sounds like something fresh from a White House press release. More like made sure the people with all the money kept being the people with all the money, even though they've pretty much proven they should have lost it all.
And since when was the government supposed to take the public's money and make itself a nice profit using it?
Isn't it obvious? Obama hates Gulf people. I doubt any kind of ban like this would have been considered if Chicago business interests had been at stake.
And all the sweeter, Microsoft said 'No'. And we all know how we geeks and open source guys are when told 'No'. They will take special joy in paying Microsoft 150 bucks to buy a Kinect and hack it for hobby projects..
The works of DaVinci and Picasso would have been impossible to duplicate and distribute for free. Now the work of any artist that uses a digital medium (in particular, generated audio and games) can be duplicated ad infinitum (essentially for free) and distributed in the same way. Surely you see the difference?
Hijackings won't work anymore. We (as passengers) are all well too aware of what could happen if they do.
Hijackings used to be about money. Passengers would sit them through and get let go when it was all done with a pretty good chance of making it.
Nobody holds to that illusion anymore. Myself (and I'm sure many others) would curb stomp to death anyone who tried to hijack a plane I was on, or die trying. That, and the staff and pilots are better prepared for this now.
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Sure, buy me a plane ticket to Japan so I can try it without positing a use case and then making an assumption first. Not surprised that was a coward comment.
What my mohawk and facial hair would cause the system to suggest to me. Monster? Mountain Dew? Get a job and stop loitering?
I'm willing to bet it wouldn't offer me what I really want, which is an iced tea.
Ah, I see you've mistaken me for an unemployed software engineer, not an employed software engineer. Understandable.
Us geeks volunteering in droves.
Not me though. I don't want to die cold and alone millions of miles from home. Unless of course they find Prothean artifacts.
You are probably not a computer science major considering that question.
People like you will end up giving away our freedoms in the name of 'fairness'. America was never meant to be safe and never meant to be fair. It was meant to be free. Coddled children like you wouldn't get that.
*promo
According to their promor video though, their integration with YouTwitFace appears to be one of their primary features.
From the evil data-mining corporations out for our private data.
Still no word on whether or not we will be saved from a prying government with increased authority over internet communication and encryption.
My Operating Systems instructor (a die hard open source / linux guy) went to testify as an expert at a court case involving patent infringement with some pretty big names involved in this now famous East Texas District court. He was skeptical going out but came back with a different opinion; apparently that court district processes so many IP and software patent claims that the court district that they've become better at dealing with it than any other court. They process the claims faster and the judges are more knowledgeable on the subject than most and run a very tight ship. He said it's easy to see why they might have started those types of cases out there, but the reality now is far different than the picture painted.
Tax the wealthy. Not because it's right. Not because they can pay. Not because they have some obligation. Do it because it promotes a stronger middle class and leads to economic stability. The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, no matter how rich.
-Rick
Define wealthy for me. Then prevent that definition from getting broader and broader as cash-strapped governments seek to acquire more money. Then perhaps we are in agreement.
Until then, those in the middle class will continue to suffer the most at the hands of unfair government tax policy. Taking 35 ~ 50% from a middle / upper-middle class family is a nice brick wall between them and becoming 'wealthy'. The rich, on the other hand, can take any percentage of their millions, chalk them up as a loss, and keep on without batting an eye.
Did Wikipedia also tell you how many people didn't vote? I'm sure it does. I'm pretty sure 98.6% of those who voted does not even make up a majority of this country.
But saved the economy and made a nice profit for the government
Saved the economy? Can you prove that? Sounds like something fresh from a White House press release. More like made sure the people with all the money kept being the people with all the money, even though they've pretty much proven they should have lost it all.
And since when was the government supposed to take the public's money and make itself a nice profit using it?
Isn't it obvious? Obama hates Gulf people. I doubt any kind of ban like this would have been considered if Chicago business interests had been at stake.
And all the sweeter, Microsoft said 'No'. And we all know how we geeks and open source guys are when told 'No'. They will take special joy in paying Microsoft 150 bucks to buy a Kinect and hack it for hobby projects..
That aside, on a serious note, what happens to the "streetlights" when the Fall comes each year?
Doesn't really matter here in the Southwest, as fall and winter together seem to last about a month.
I get the feeling New Orleans would likely have fared worse if they had tried to float it at sea level.
And yet it is being developed in the UK. Hmm...
Then why bother with the labor? Doesn't that lead to a situation where there is no benefit to creating the commodity, just cost?
The works of DaVinci and Picasso would have been impossible to duplicate and distribute for free. Now the work of any artist that uses a digital medium (in particular, generated audio and games) can be duplicated ad infinitum (essentially for free) and distributed in the same way. Surely you see the difference?
It's a troll because you're on /. and you have a positive opinion of copyright. Duh.
Illegal upload, just charge a flat 1000 per song, which is enough to deter most illegal uploaders.
Why is this guy getting modded Troll? It's not a Troll to point out the other side of an argument, even if you think it is wrong.
Hijackings used to be about money. Passengers would sit them through and get let go when it was all done with a pretty good chance of making it.
Nobody holds to that illusion anymore. Myself (and I'm sure many others) would curb stomp to death anyone who tried to hijack a plane I was on, or die trying. That, and the staff and pilots are better prepared for this now.
These things are just unnecessary.