you assume Obama wants the rules to go in place, it seems like a ploy to make sure the obamacare can be voted on another 38 times to repeal it, and maybe one of them will stick.
it just costs a lot more for the SMB over time. and why would users not switch to google apps.. its atleast available on their tablets and phones... I think MS is yet again shooting themselves in the foot, but whats new.
I wonder why US does not use drones in other countries so blatantly, It is the weakness of that nation (blame the people, their govt., US morals what ever).
Personally it is astoundingly unbelievable to me that any nation with a nuclear arsenal could so easily be whipped into submission... their government has to be complicit with US actions, I find no other explanation reasonable. Their democratically? elected government (if corrupt elections can be considered democracy)
I think I read it on FAS.org somewhere that the total civilian casualties in Pakistan by drone strikes (per CIA) was over 8400. The document also said that in this number any males over 16 were considered non civilian, so that actual number could be much higher if you take into account non Taliban affiliated 16 year olds and just old farts that couldn't run away fast enough. It truly is sad.
But I digress, it is the responsibility of that nation to protect its citizens, 3000 American lives saw the US invade 2.5 countries...
The declaration of independence does proclaim "that all men are created equal" at the same time the writers continued to own slaves, so I think either our country/govt was based on hypocrisy... or all truths are not held equal. It could also be that pragmatism enters into it, and what was hoped for equality, is getting closer to being achieved after a few hundred years and some bloodshed.
I guess as long as the guiding principle of civilization is, more thrust than drag, eventually we might get to a point where truths are actually universal. The pragmatist in me rejects such foolishness. I do not think humanity will ever be rid of greed, envy and the desire for power. We will always have borders, and borders need protection. Protection requires strength and the ability to make war. War is a terrible thing.
or as I read it, after the XBONE always on drm marketing debacle, some one got fired. only if people at MS got fired for making a bad product and not just marketing debacles... I am looking at you b-lamer
i think there is/should be a distinction for corp users. they are not trying to download hundreds or thousands of apps, they are not allowed to download exe's either. non corp users can download those apps on their iDevice/droid . MS should not have shat where they make their money, the corp world.
i guess i won't be installing a ms solution to test. most of my test deployments last forever as I can only work and test on them as time permits. I still have a share-point install i did in Jan that i haven't done anything on and probably won't for another month or so. is anyone awake at the helm at MS.
"If spying on US citizens is wrong then spying on foreign citizens is just as wrong." if done by their governments. the difference is that the US govt's sole purpose is the protection of its people/civilization. It holds no such obligations/duty towards foreigners. It is the obligation of the foreign govts to protect their citizenry from said abuse.
"anything can be justified when you ignore moral principles and base your behavior solely on your own narrow interests" it is a good statement, bit naive though. I would like to live in such a world, however i don't see it happening... ever.
Spying on foreign countries (people politicians what ever) is inherently different then spying on the local citizens. The local govt that is spying on foreigners, cannot unilaterally abuse the foreign citizens as it can the local populace. Hence the violation of the 4th, a protection for the local citizens, has far worse consequences for democracy. The foreign spying is defiantly more related to national interests (political, financial or militaristic) , and until we can all just get along, a reality.
Any Country "has every incentive to get an advantage in the economic and research realms by spying." US did the same at one point. Also OP's point has nothing to do with China spying/not-spying, but rather pointing out that there is now evidence that US IS spying.
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Military Police, yup that's what it is as you can see from their policing efforts
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what SQL server needs is more tiles
you mean you are not happy with the xbox interface on your datacenter server
based on Marketing department... WINNNNing
you assume Obama wants the rules to go in place, it seems like a ploy to make sure the obamacare can be voted on another 38 times to repeal it, and maybe one of them will stick.
i assume some blame must also reside with the ball-less wonders of Europe?
Now that's something we might be able to talk about
it just costs a lot more for the SMB over time. and why would users not switch to google apps.. its atleast available on their tablets and phones...
I think MS is yet again shooting themselves in the foot, but whats new.
I wonder why US does not use drones in other countries so blatantly, It is the weakness of that nation (blame the people, their govt., US morals what ever).
Personally it is astoundingly unbelievable to me that any nation with a nuclear arsenal could so easily be whipped into submission... their government has to be complicit with US actions, I find no other explanation reasonable. Their democratically? elected government (if corrupt elections can be considered democracy)
I think I read it on FAS.org somewhere that the total civilian casualties in Pakistan by drone strikes (per CIA) was over 8400. The document also said that in this number any males over 16 were considered non civilian, so that actual number could be much higher if you take into account non Taliban affiliated 16 year olds and just old farts that couldn't run away fast enough. It truly is sad.
But I digress, it is the responsibility of that nation to protect its citizens, 3000 American lives saw the US invade 2.5 countries...
you will use MS Assuer and like it
i new microsoft BOB got a promotion to marketing.
the loss monies from xbone debacle is forcing some marketing genius to force "upgrade" the technet subscription to msdn.
so the person that was going to "steal" licenses by using a test enviro, is now not going to download a hacked version. seems logical and reasonable.
i guess MS no longer needs sys admins and IT professionals to support their products.
The declaration of independence does proclaim "that all men are created equal" at the same time the writers continued to own slaves, so I think either our country/govt was based on hypocrisy... or all truths are not held equal. It could also be that pragmatism enters into it, and what was hoped for equality, is getting closer to being achieved after a few hundred years and some bloodshed.
I guess as long as the guiding principle of civilization is, more thrust than drag, eventually we might get to a point where truths are actually universal.
The pragmatist in me rejects such foolishness. I do not think humanity will ever be rid of greed, envy and the desire for power. We will always have borders, and borders need protection. Protection requires strength and the ability to make war. War is a terrible thing.
or as I read it, after the XBONE always on drm marketing debacle, some one got fired.
only if people at MS got fired for making a bad product and not just marketing debacles... I am looking at you b-lamer
i think there is/should be a distinction for corp users. they are not trying to download hundreds or thousands of apps, they are not allowed to download exe's either. non corp users can download those apps on their iDevice/droid .
MS should not have shat where they make their money, the corp world.
i guess i won't be installing a ms solution to test. most of my test deployments last forever as I can only work and test on them as time permits. I still have a share-point install i did in Jan that i haven't done anything on and probably won't for another month or so. is anyone awake at the helm at MS.
"If spying on US citizens is wrong then spying on foreign citizens is just as wrong." if done by their governments. the difference is that the US govt's sole purpose is the protection of its people/civilization. It holds no such obligations/duty towards foreigners. It is the obligation of the foreign govts to protect their citizenry from said abuse.
"anything can be justified when you ignore moral principles and base your behavior solely on your own narrow interests"
it is a good statement, bit naive though. I would like to live in such a world, however i don't see it happening... ever.
I would say... maple syrup
Spying on foreign countries (people politicians what ever) is inherently different then spying on the local citizens.
The local govt that is spying on foreigners, cannot unilaterally abuse the foreign citizens as it can the local populace. Hence the violation of the 4th, a protection for the local citizens, has far worse consequences for democracy.
The foreign spying is defiantly more related to national interests (political, financial or militaristic) , and until we can all just get along, a reality.
"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton
Any Country "has every incentive to get an advantage in the economic and research realms by spying."
US did the same at one point.
Also OP's point has nothing to do with China spying/not-spying, but rather pointing out that there is now evidence that US IS spying.
i for one, welcome our new opensource robotic overlords with backdoor NoStringsAttached access