Word. No material object or service can ever be a human right.
Of course, you can say equal access to those goods and services is a human right, i.e. nobody should be denied access at the whim of another, but that's very different from saying "everybody is entitled to broadband service."
Nobody is denied access on the whim of another. If they want to move somewhere where a company sells internet access and choose to pay for it, any person may have it. I don't think some internet company is going to say "Whaoh, there.. you're from Somalia despite the fact that you now live in London. No soup for you!"
If you intentionally leave your wifi open, and someone uses that connection to commit a real crime with real consequences, then why should you, the owner of the router, not take some responsibility for it?
For the same reason your local government isn't held liable if someone uses a city street to commit a crime, it doesn't make sense. Being kind to others is not a crime (yet).
And btw, my local library also offers it as a public service. For free
My library offers wireless internet as well. They do however require you to have a free login and password to uniquely identify you and employ a firewall to block stuff that could pose a problem. Easy solution.
The batch lawsuits of gathering 10,000+ IPs at a time and suing them all requiring the defendants to prove their innocence is an abomination to due process.
This is what I would call the real crime here. Even if the defendants supposedly did commit some kind of "virtual" theft it is small potatoes to what has been done to our judicial system.
Why the fuck is this happening for community college instead of say, grades 1-12, which only have an order of magnitude more students and have limited budgets for books.
And yes, this has nothing to do with the parent post.
According to TFS, that was already attempted and it failed for some reason.
The real problem with Windows 8 is that it locks ARM users into a second class experience. If you buy an x86 tablet, you can download programs from SourceForge, GitHub, or any file mirror. If you're an ARM user, you can download programs from the Microsoft store and that's it.
If that's the real problem with windows 8 then it's really not a problem at all, is it? Competing operating systems on mobile (android, ios) are also locked down to a single source out of the box unless you make changes to the OS.
There are a LOT of problems with win8, but this isn't a biggie.
I use a dock with my Win7 laptop and connect to an external monitor. It works perfectly for me, I don't even have to do anything other than connect the laptop to the dock.
I define Brilliant Jerks as specialized, high-producing performers. They are not, however, brilliant business people
Seriously, he's never met a brilliant jerk MBA business guy? He needs to get out more. Many business types are jerks, some are even very talented and smart.
It doesn't take a lot (other than money, or credit) to get an MBA these days. He's probably met a ton of jerky business types, but none that are brilliant.
Don't do wrong, especially to bad people, since in the latter case you have to apologize to bad people, and it sucks.
I don't think it should matter. Even if he is a "bad person" he has rights until he is convicted of a crime and they are revoked. At least that's how it works in civilized countries. I'm all for busting him up if he did commit a crime, but if a country throws it's own laws out the window when it's convenient then the laws are really pretty worthless. Might as well just take an "every man for himself" attitude at that point.
Well, maybe the mistake is picking micro brews that are too dark. Their is a lot of space between the water that is pabst, and the overtoasted crap on the other side of the spectrum.
I find that if I can't see my hand through the pint, the beer is hiding something. There is a reason a lot of home brewers do stout, and it has to do with their inability to make a good IPA or amber ale. Those lighter beers are very susceptible to off tastes if everything isn't super clean, and the trub isn't removed fairly quickly.
BTW: Finally, any beer that is lighter than a light amber color is probably heavily cut with rice or corn... In the case of bud light/etc there is so little barley or hops its hard to call it "beer" with a straight face.
I brewed a few batches in 2009 and went with dark stouts. I picked the recipes I did because that's what I like to drink. Most of it was fairly easy with the exception of carbonating. Since I didn't spend the cash to get a full keg setup and pressure carbonate, we did it chemically in bottles. It has a major impact on the flavor and is why I don't brew anymore. If I come up with 500 or so bucks that I have no other use for (hah!) I might get the kegging gear and give it another go someday.
Wouldn't I be subjected to the same long and expensive contract if I bought an S3, or does Samsung provide free data plans? (You can purchase both the iPhone and the S3 no commitment)
Sure, but most people go with the contract and $200 out of pocket (and usually higher corresponding airtime rates for prepaid service if I remember right) rather than laying out $600 bucks up front. My point is that although Apple's got a reputation for being extremely easy to use, a good portion of that is not well earned. A lot of it is on account of the severe restrictions they place on paying customers. I've got several non techie friends who switched from android or blackberry to the iPhone 4s and most of them have mentioned that they regret it.
Educational? I would imagine that the typical usage pattern of most Android users is the same as most Apple users. That is to say, they browse the web, check email, watch the occasional video, and download apps from their respective stores. Most people could use either platform interchangeably without issue. It's those folks who like to tweak and customize that are left in the cold on Apple's devices.
I could be wrong, though. I'm not exactly researching the topic, just going by my personal observations.
Here's an example. I have a friend who doesn't know anything about computers.. She bought a "now that's what I call music" cd at walmart and wanted me to put it on her iphone 4s. Ripped it to mp3's and... discovered the iphone won't mount as a drive, AND if we were to install itunes on my pc and connect it, apparently it would erase all her other music from her phone. No SD card slot, so that's not an option either. It seems you have to do everything from one pc. There are more examples, but that was low hanging fruit. Afaik, she still hasn't got the music onto her phone but at least her car has a CD player.
Both of America's neighbors make consistently worse beer then American can beer (which admittedly sucks). Canadian beer is just American can beer raised to 6% with corn sugar, Mexico's top selling beer is the worst single brew on the planet (Corona).
Don't get me started on Fosters, granted they only drink that piss in one Australian state. The piss they sell as Fosters in the US is made in Canada BTW. Even worse then the real thing.
Other notable disgusting beers: Red Stripe, Sing Ha (the Chinese one, Shanghai water sucks, the Thai malt liquor is pretty good), Watney's Red Barrel, Guinness (awful stout), Heineken, All English brown ales, yeast infected beer (Hefe).
I love Guinness (stout or drought) as well as English brown ales and hefeweizen such as erdinger. In my opinion American beers such as Bud, Miller, Hamms, Michelob are all in the same bucket with the other swill you mentioned (red stripe, fosters, corona, etc). Generally, if I'm at a restaurant and they only have the "normal" US brews, I pass.
...it's also worse than anywhere else in the world. No joke, people.
It's certainly true of the large breweries. The micro brews (which are extremely common now days) are much better; although they're also much more expensive.
There's one purpose for alcohol, and Vodka tends to accomplish that faster and with less vomiting and hangovers. So I'll raise my glass, which is cheaper here than anywhere else, and toast Vodka's awesomeness.
Beer tastes good (well, not Budweiser - but real beers), you have to mix vodka with other things to make it tolerable.
Blackberry had that feature long before iPhone 3 came out. The article you linked doesn't mention anything about a patent, I suspect it's either not patented or rim owns it.
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Speak for yourself, I enjoyed reading it.
Thanks a bunch! I wish the submitter or editor had gone to the trouble to include the analysis link.
Word. No material object or service can ever be a human right.
Of course, you can say equal access to those goods and services is a human right, i.e. nobody should be denied access at the whim of another, but that's very different from saying "everybody is entitled to broadband service."
Nobody is denied access on the whim of another. If they want to move somewhere where a company sells internet access and choose to pay for it, any person may have it. I don't think some internet company is going to say "Whaoh, there.. you're from Somalia despite the fact that you now live in London. No soup for you!"
When living your life often requires internet access, then it becomes a right.
Living your life more often requires a car than internet access. Is owning a car a right? Do we all get free cars?
Plenty of people live without both, and neither one is a right. This is silliness that's being used to sell electronics.
If you intentionally leave your wifi open, and someone uses that connection to commit a real crime with real consequences, then why should you, the owner of the router, not take some responsibility for it?
For the same reason your local government isn't held liable if someone uses a city street to commit a crime, it doesn't make sense. Being kind to others is not a crime (yet).
And btw, my local library also offers it as a public service. For free
My library offers wireless internet as well. They do however require you to have a free login and password to uniquely identify you and employ a firewall to block stuff that could pose a problem. Easy solution.
The batch lawsuits of gathering 10,000+ IPs at a time and suing them all requiring the defendants to prove their innocence is an abomination to due process.
This is what I would call the real crime here. Even if the defendants supposedly did commit some kind of "virtual" theft it is small potatoes to what has been done to our judicial system.
Why the fuck is this happening for community college instead of say, grades 1-12, which only have an order of magnitude more students and have limited budgets for books.
And yes, this has nothing to do with the parent post.
According to TFS, that was already attempted and it failed for some reason.
Didn't they kill that some time ago? I'm surprised it's still twitching.
The real problem with Windows 8 is that it locks ARM users into a second class experience. If you buy an x86 tablet, you can download programs from SourceForge, GitHub, or any file mirror. If you're an ARM user, you can download programs from the Microsoft store and that's it.
If that's the real problem with windows 8 then it's really not a problem at all, is it? Competing operating systems on mobile (android, ios) are also locked down to a single source out of the box unless you make changes to the OS.
There are a LOT of problems with win8, but this isn't a biggie.
If Romney gets elected, he'll just repeal it back to IPv4
More likely, he'll switch the internet over to lantastic.
For slack's a jolly good distro...
For slack's a jolly good distro...
For slack's a jolly good diiiiistrooo...
Which nobody can deny!
His brother Hans is more militant, he didn't like the Nakatomi, and tried to blow it up. Imagine what he would to if he was let loose in Cuppertino...
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
I use a dock with my Win7 laptop and connect to an external monitor. It works perfectly for me, I don't even have to do anything other than connect the laptop to the dock.
I define Brilliant Jerks as specialized, high-producing performers. They are not, however, brilliant business people
Seriously, he's never met a brilliant jerk MBA business guy? He needs to get out more. Many business types are jerks, some are even very talented and smart.
It doesn't take a lot (other than money, or credit) to get an MBA these days. He's probably met a ton of jerky business types, but none that are brilliant.
General Motors = Dry-by shooting enabler. ExxonMobil = Arson enabler. Louisville Slugger = Mugging enabler. Pacific Lumber Company = Mugging enabler enabler. Slashdot = Trolling enabler.
Any company that sells food = terrorism enabler
Don't do wrong, especially to bad people, since in the latter case you have to apologize to bad people, and it sucks.
I don't think it should matter. Even if he is a "bad person" he has rights until he is convicted of a crime and they are revoked. At least that's how it works in civilized countries. I'm all for busting him up if he did commit a crime, but if a country throws it's own laws out the window when it's convenient then the laws are really pretty worthless. Might as well just take an "every man for himself" attitude at that point.
Well, maybe the mistake is picking micro brews that are too dark. Their is a lot of space between the water that is pabst, and the overtoasted crap on the other side of the spectrum.
I find that if I can't see my hand through the pint, the beer is hiding something. There is a reason a lot of home brewers do stout, and it has to do with their inability to make a good IPA or amber ale. Those lighter beers are very susceptible to off tastes if everything isn't super clean, and the trub isn't removed fairly quickly.
BTW: Finally, any beer that is lighter than a light amber color is probably heavily cut with rice or corn... In the case of bud light/etc there is so little barley or hops its hard to call it "beer" with a straight face.
I brewed a few batches in 2009 and went with dark stouts. I picked the recipes I did because that's what I like to drink. Most of it was fairly easy with the exception of carbonating. Since I didn't spend the cash to get a full keg setup and pressure carbonate, we did it chemically in bottles. It has a major impact on the flavor and is why I don't brew anymore. If I come up with 500 or so bucks that I have no other use for (hah!) I might get the kegging gear and give it another go someday.
Wouldn't I be subjected to the same long and expensive contract if I bought an S3, or does Samsung provide free data plans? (You can purchase both the iPhone and the S3 no commitment)
Sure, but most people go with the contract and $200 out of pocket (and usually higher corresponding airtime rates for prepaid service if I remember right) rather than laying out $600 bucks up front.
My point is that although Apple's got a reputation for being extremely easy to use, a good portion of that is not well earned. A lot of it is on account of the severe restrictions they place on paying customers. I've got several non techie friends who switched from android or blackberry to the iPhone 4s and most of them have mentioned that they regret it.
Educational? I would imagine that the typical usage pattern of most Android users is the same as most Apple users. That is to say, they browse the web, check email, watch the occasional video, and download apps from their respective stores. Most people could use either platform interchangeably without issue. It's those folks who like to tweak and customize that are left in the cold on Apple's devices.
I could be wrong, though. I'm not exactly researching the topic, just going by my personal observations.
Here's an example. I have a friend who doesn't know anything about computers.. She bought a "now that's what I call music" cd at walmart and wanted me to put it on her iphone 4s. Ripped it to mp3's and... discovered the iphone won't mount as a drive, AND if we were to install itunes on my pc and connect it, apparently it would erase all her other music from her phone. No SD card slot, so that's not an option either. It seems you have to do everything from one pc. There are more examples, but that was low hanging fruit. Afaik, she still hasn't got the music onto her phone but at least her car has a CD player.
a pint != 500mL a pint == 568mL
a pint != 568mL
a pint = 473.176mL
You're welcome.
You need to get out more.
Both of America's neighbors make consistently worse beer then American can beer (which admittedly sucks). Canadian beer is just American can beer raised to 6% with corn sugar, Mexico's top selling beer is the worst single brew on the planet (Corona).
Don't get me started on Fosters, granted they only drink that piss in one Australian state. The piss they sell as Fosters in the US is made in Canada BTW. Even worse then the real thing.
Other notable disgusting beers: Red Stripe, Sing Ha (the Chinese one, Shanghai water sucks, the Thai malt liquor is pretty good), Watney's Red Barrel, Guinness (awful stout), Heineken, All English brown ales, yeast infected beer (Hefe).
I love Guinness (stout or drought) as well as English brown ales and hefeweizen such as erdinger. In my opinion American beers such as Bud, Miller, Hamms, Michelob are all in the same bucket with the other swill you mentioned (red stripe, fosters, corona, etc). Generally, if I'm at a restaurant and they only have the "normal" US brews, I pass.
...it's also worse than anywhere else in the world. No joke, people.
It's certainly true of the large breweries. The micro brews (which are extremely common now days) are much better; although they're also much more expensive.
There's one purpose for alcohol, and Vodka tends to accomplish that faster and with less vomiting and hangovers. So I'll raise my glass, which is cheaper here than anywhere else, and toast Vodka's awesomeness.
Beer tastes good (well, not Budweiser - but real beers), you have to mix vodka with other things to make it tolerable.
You'd have thought Samsung would learn their lesson already. Don't they know that Apple patented remote data wipe technology years ago?
=Smidge=
Blackberry had that feature long before iPhone 3 came out. The article you linked doesn't mention anything about a patent, I suspect it's either not patented or rim owns it.