Yes, there's plenty of fanboys and zealots for both Android and iOS/Apple. Interestingly, however, there aren't many for Windows Phone, nor for Oracle.
Maybe, but it'd be a big surprise. The issues of disease and pregnancy aren't going to go away; birth control isn't 100% effective, and abortion can have medical consequences. Not many men would want to be married to a prostitute. And on top of all that, you'd have to have sex with all kinds of men, most of them probably not the most physically appealing specimens. It's not like being a porn star, where the men are regularly tested, and the male stars are also usually at least fairly attractive, not random smelly old fat creepy men. I can understand why some (not that many) women would find being a porn star would be an attractive career, but not general prostitution, even if it were fully legalized the way it is in Amsterdam.
I think your comparison is rather insulting, to prostitutes. Prostitutes (or "whores") are providing a service that their customers demand, and the only people possibly being hurt are the prostitutes themselves, and the customers themselves (and possibly the customers' spouses). Florian and other such shills, however, have a much larger effect, because the lies they spew influence so many people, as well as financial markets, basically they affect much of our society.
Also, prostitutes generally take that job because they're desperate and don't think they have any good alternatives. It's not a career many would choose willingly; the incidence of disease is high, they're frequently abused by customers and pimps, and they tend to have short lifespans. Florian, however, is smart enough and in a financial position that he could make a good living doing lots of other stuff besides shill writing. He's just plain greedy.
Considering how easily Google won the case, and how ridiculous Oracle's claims were, Google probably didn't really need to hire any shills. There were tons of people right here on Slashdot taking their side with no payment at all, because it was plainly obvious that Google was in the right. It doesn't surprise me that Oracle needed to pay off some shills to take their side.
Now this doesn't mean that Google definitely didn't hire any shills, but it is my contention that it probably wasn't necessary.
The cube case is more like what I'm envisioning, but from my research, there just isn't much selection in cases like that; 99% of cases for full/mini/microATX are the typical mini-tower cases with 3 5.25" bays which will never all be used.
and the language issue can be solved (right now Ukrainian is the sole official language, which is a major grievance with russophones in the east; on the other hand, many Western nationalists despise the de facto popularity of Russian as threatening their identity). Much the same way as it is in Canada today. Though, then again, Canada is also not exactly a shining example of success in that area...
Maybe I'm misinformed about Canada, but I thought in Canada, almost everyone spoke English, except for the people in Quebec who speak French. I've been to Canada several times (but not Quebec, mostly the western side) and rarely heard any French, and just assumed anyone speaking it was a tourist from Quebec. It seems to me that QC could secede without too much trouble.
No, it's the same one. It's not nearly as bad as Worst Buy (holy shit that place is a nightmare if you want to return something; my wife and I tried that once because she didn't want to wait for a laptop from Newegg, so we got one at BB over my protests, and of course it had a problem, and they didn't want to take it back without paying a fee; now she refuses to step into another BB). However, it is a hassle, as it's very slow, as the line is frequently long, and they always, for some stupid reason, have to wait for some dumbass manager to come approve the return, and of course he's nowhere to be found when he's needed (and he's needed for every single return too). It's not like returns at someplace like Walmart or Target, which are lightning quick and don't have all the hassle.
Sorry, sounds the same to me. In fact, I'd call it FUD. Saying "there's no legal 'right'" makes it sound "illegal", which it certainly isn't, to rip music you own onto another medium.
I believe if it really was not legal to do so, they would say be stating it is illegal.
No, they don't say so explicitly because it's perfectly legal, they're just trying to FUD you into buying your music twice. If they actually said it was "illegal", they could get in trouble for that, so they use weasel words.
is that they are saying you don't have a license or permission from them to do so. Again, saying it this way is not the same as saying it is illegal.
Again, it's all weasel words by these scum. I don't need a license or permission from these asshats to do anything, if it's illegal, it's illegal, if not then I'll do as I please.
What the hell are you talking about? Looking at a 100+ year span makes no sense because our technology was so primitive back then; the farthest back you can go is WWII. 100 years ago, people still used horses. Energy was much, much cheaper in the USA at least 50 years ago, but it's getting more expensive now because cheap oil is running out. Back in the 60s and 70s, people were installing A/C in their houses with little or no insulation, because energy was so cheap. They drove giant, gas-guzzling cars with monstrous engines because gas was super cheap. The super-tightly-sealed houses and ultra-efficient cars we have now are a product of rising energy costs, and it's getting worse, as HVAC efficiency standards continue to rise, and people are buying smaller vehicles than before.
No, you just can't trust any one country or entity. Instead, find multiple countries to host these things, and keep the sites mirrored. If one country pulls a Ukraine, you have a handful of other countries still running the site.
That's why it's a good strategy to keep everything separate. Don't live in the same country you're hosting questionable material in (even if it's just links and there's no copyrighted material there at all); live someplace nice, and keep the questionable stuff in someplace that doesn't care. And keep regular backups, so if they suddenly do care, you can start up an identical site in a different 3rd-world country that doesn't care. And make sure to keep your association with these sites secret.
Don't be silly, of course they have a law enforcement agency. It's a very effective one too. For a sufficient "donation", they'll enforce any law you want enforced, whether that law is on the books or not.
The difference between Republicans and Democrats? There isn't one.
Wrong.
The Republicans are obviously big fans of corporatism, and all their followers have bought into their rhetoric about "job creators", and how the ultra-wealthy need tax breaks.
The Democrats make a lot of noise about how they'd like to fix stuff; their speeches sound good to people who aren't in the right wing. But then they never actually bother to DO any of the things they talk about, and when questioned, they blame it all on the Republicans. "The Republicans forced me to sign this bill that helped the corporations/banksters/etc."
You're correct that there's zero difference in actual governance between the two, but there's a world of difference in what they say to their brainwashed voters. It's how they keep up their "divide and conquer" strategy to maintain power.
after he released a statement with the US Trade Representative agreeing to "redouble" intellectual property enforcement.
That reminds me of the scene in Star Wars (or was it RotJ?) where Darth Vader visits the Death Star and talks to the commanding officer about how unhappy the Emperor is with the progress on construction, and the officer nervously promises to "redouble" their efforts.
I wonder why they didn't just split the country, with the western half being "Ukraine" and the eastern half staying part of Russia. Then both groups would be happy, except the people right in the middle and in the capitol.
One thing that's annoying me more and more about desktop PCs is the size. With everything so integrated, and having 4+ drives no longer worth the hassle (I have 2 HDs in a RAID1 mirror), it really seems like the case sizes should have shrunk a lot. But they haven't; we still have the same giant ATX cases as we had 15 years ago, typically with 3 5.25" slots, 2 3.5" slots, 4 internal 3.5" slots, etc. Most of the space inside my case is empty and wasted.
I live about 3 miles from a Fry's. It's not that great; I usually order my stuff from Newegg instead. Yes, it is nice for those extremely rare times that I really need something fast, but this is usually just for work, not for personal use. The prices are OK, but the employees are annoying, the returns process sucks, and the other customers remind me of shopping at Walmart. Yes, the selection and prices are far better than Worst Buy, but they're still not as good as Newegg. I'm going to be moving across the country soon; I won't miss it much.
Energy is getting more and more expensive every day. Oil is running out; more oil is being found, but it costs more and more to extract it, so the prices are rising. Demand for oil is rising as China and India's economies expand. EVs will help somewhat, but they'll require horribly expensive lithium-based batteries, and lithium is scarce. Meanwhile, the population is constantly expanding.
The only way energy is going to get cheaper is if humans find better and cheaper sources of it. Solar power (combined with EVs) may help some, but it remains to be seen as PV efficiency isn't that great, and a lot of regions don't have that much sunlight (and transporting power over long distances isn't free, as there's significant losses). Space-based solar power would be good, except that it'll cost a fortune to develop and deploy. Fusion power would be good, except again it'll cost a lot to develop, and there's no money being put into it at this time. Fission power could be used more, but everyone's on an anti-nuclear kick these days and wants to shut down all their nuclear power plants (Germany recently decided to shut all theirs down).
The future for energy prices does not look good at this time.
Not necessarily. At least with "the cloud", there's a possibility that you could select a cloud provider that's in another country where your government has no access to it. Just make sure you don't pick a place in Ukraine, as Demonoid found out recently.
Anyway, whenever the first word I read in a post is 'wrong' or 'nope' or similar it's off putting. It's not offensive or anything like that it's just conceded and arrogant.
That's true, yet you yourself did it right here. I do it too on occasion, but I try to keep it restricted to instances where the person I'm responding to has written something so inane or stupid that I feel its use is justified.
There's a good reason for that. If they listened to Wozniak, they wouldn't be a very successful company. By listening to Jobs (or his ghost), they're extremely successful and profitable, even though they're screwing their customers over left and right. There's a lesson here: as H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
I think this prediction is total bullshit. Go to China and ask young people there whether they look forward to a brighter future or not. Over there, things are constantly getting better.
Sure, the sun has set on the American empire, and everything is indeed getting worse here in the so-called "land of the free" where the police have turned into para-military squads, but America is not representative of the whole world.
Don't forget Lucas's first movie, THX-1138. The people there watch TV, and it's just a show about people mindlessly beating each other. It was a pretty good prediction for today's "reality TV".
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Yes, there's plenty of fanboys and zealots for both Android and iOS/Apple. Interestingly, however, there aren't many for Windows Phone, nor for Oracle.
Maybe, but it'd be a big surprise. The issues of disease and pregnancy aren't going to go away; birth control isn't 100% effective, and abortion can have medical consequences. Not many men would want to be married to a prostitute. And on top of all that, you'd have to have sex with all kinds of men, most of them probably not the most physically appealing specimens. It's not like being a porn star, where the men are regularly tested, and the male stars are also usually at least fairly attractive, not random smelly old fat creepy men. I can understand why some (not that many) women would find being a porn star would be an attractive career, but not general prostitution, even if it were fully legalized the way it is in Amsterdam.
I think your comparison is rather insulting, to prostitutes. Prostitutes (or "whores") are providing a service that their customers demand, and the only people possibly being hurt are the prostitutes themselves, and the customers themselves (and possibly the customers' spouses). Florian and other such shills, however, have a much larger effect, because the lies they spew influence so many people, as well as financial markets, basically they affect much of our society.
Also, prostitutes generally take that job because they're desperate and don't think they have any good alternatives. It's not a career many would choose willingly; the incidence of disease is high, they're frequently abused by customers and pimps, and they tend to have short lifespans. Florian, however, is smart enough and in a financial position that he could make a good living doing lots of other stuff besides shill writing. He's just plain greedy.
Considering how easily Google won the case, and how ridiculous Oracle's claims were, Google probably didn't really need to hire any shills. There were tons of people right here on Slashdot taking their side with no payment at all, because it was plainly obvious that Google was in the right. It doesn't surprise me that Oracle needed to pay off some shills to take their side.
Now this doesn't mean that Google definitely didn't hire any shills, but it is my contention that it probably wasn't necessary.
The cube case is more like what I'm envisioning, but from my research, there just isn't much selection in cases like that; 99% of cases for full/mini/microATX are the typical mini-tower cases with 3 5.25" bays which will never all be used.
and the language issue can be solved (right now Ukrainian is the sole official language, which is a major grievance with russophones in the east; on the other hand, many Western nationalists despise the de facto popularity of Russian as threatening their identity). Much the same way as it is in Canada today. Though, then again, Canada is also not exactly a shining example of success in that area...
Maybe I'm misinformed about Canada, but I thought in Canada, almost everyone spoke English, except for the people in Quebec who speak French. I've been to Canada several times (but not Quebec, mostly the western side) and rarely heard any French, and just assumed anyone speaking it was a tourist from Quebec. It seems to me that QC could secede without too much trouble.
No, it's the same one. It's not nearly as bad as Worst Buy (holy shit that place is a nightmare if you want to return something; my wife and I tried that once because she didn't want to wait for a laptop from Newegg, so we got one at BB over my protests, and of course it had a problem, and they didn't want to take it back without paying a fee; now she refuses to step into another BB). However, it is a hassle, as it's very slow, as the line is frequently long, and they always, for some stupid reason, have to wait for some dumbass manager to come approve the return, and of course he's nowhere to be found when he's needed (and he's needed for every single return too). It's not like returns at someplace like Walmart or Target, which are lightning quick and don't have all the hassle.
Sorry, sounds the same to me. In fact, I'd call it FUD. Saying "there's no legal 'right'" makes it sound "illegal", which it certainly isn't, to rip music you own onto another medium.
I believe if it really was not legal to do so, they would say be stating it is illegal.
No, they don't say so explicitly because it's perfectly legal, they're just trying to FUD you into buying your music twice. If they actually said it was "illegal", they could get in trouble for that, so they use weasel words.
is that they are saying you don't have a license or permission from them to do so. Again, saying it this way is not the same as saying it is illegal.
Again, it's all weasel words by these scum. I don't need a license or permission from these asshats to do anything, if it's illegal, it's illegal, if not then I'll do as I please.
What the hell are you talking about? Looking at a 100+ year span makes no sense because our technology was so primitive back then; the farthest back you can go is WWII. 100 years ago, people still used horses. Energy was much, much cheaper in the USA at least 50 years ago, but it's getting more expensive now because cheap oil is running out. Back in the 60s and 70s, people were installing A/C in their houses with little or no insulation, because energy was so cheap. They drove giant, gas-guzzling cars with monstrous engines because gas was super cheap. The super-tightly-sealed houses and ultra-efficient cars we have now are a product of rising energy costs, and it's getting worse, as HVAC efficiency standards continue to rise, and people are buying smaller vehicles than before.
No, you just can't trust any one country or entity. Instead, find multiple countries to host these things, and keep the sites mirrored. If one country pulls a Ukraine, you have a handful of other countries still running the site.
That's why it's a good strategy to keep everything separate. Don't live in the same country you're hosting questionable material in (even if it's just links and there's no copyrighted material there at all); live someplace nice, and keep the questionable stuff in someplace that doesn't care. And keep regular backups, so if they suddenly do care, you can start up an identical site in a different 3rd-world country that doesn't care. And make sure to keep your association with these sites secret.
Don't be silly, of course they have a law enforcement agency. It's a very effective one too. For a sufficient "donation", they'll enforce any law you want enforced, whether that law is on the books or not.
The difference between Republicans and Democrats? There isn't one.
Wrong.
The Republicans are obviously big fans of corporatism, and all their followers have bought into their rhetoric about "job creators", and how the ultra-wealthy need tax breaks.
The Democrats make a lot of noise about how they'd like to fix stuff; their speeches sound good to people who aren't in the right wing. But then they never actually bother to DO any of the things they talk about, and when questioned, they blame it all on the Republicans. "The Republicans forced me to sign this bill that helped the corporations/banksters/etc."
You're correct that there's zero difference in actual governance between the two, but there's a world of difference in what they say to their brainwashed voters. It's how they keep up their "divide and conquer" strategy to maintain power.
after he released a statement with the US Trade Representative agreeing to "redouble" intellectual property enforcement.
That reminds me of the scene in Star Wars (or was it RotJ?) where Darth Vader visits the Death Star and talks to the commanding officer about how unhappy the Emperor is with the progress on construction, and the officer nervously promises to "redouble" their efforts.
The way to do it is to live in the USA (or other western nation better yet), but keep your servers in Russia. Then you get the best of both worlds.
I wonder why they didn't just split the country, with the western half being "Ukraine" and the eastern half staying part of Russia. Then both groups would be happy, except the people right in the middle and in the capitol.
One thing that's annoying me more and more about desktop PCs is the size. With everything so integrated, and having 4+ drives no longer worth the hassle (I have 2 HDs in a RAID1 mirror), it really seems like the case sizes should have shrunk a lot. But they haven't; we still have the same giant ATX cases as we had 15 years ago, typically with 3 5.25" slots, 2 3.5" slots, 4 internal 3.5" slots, etc. Most of the space inside my case is empty and wasted.
I live about 3 miles from a Fry's. It's not that great; I usually order my stuff from Newegg instead. Yes, it is nice for those extremely rare times that I really need something fast, but this is usually just for work, not for personal use. The prices are OK, but the employees are annoying, the returns process sucks, and the other customers remind me of shopping at Walmart. Yes, the selection and prices are far better than Worst Buy, but they're still not as good as Newegg. I'm going to be moving across the country soon; I won't miss it much.
And what do you base your insane prediction on?
Energy is getting more and more expensive every day. Oil is running out; more oil is being found, but it costs more and more to extract it, so the prices are rising. Demand for oil is rising as China and India's economies expand. EVs will help somewhat, but they'll require horribly expensive lithium-based batteries, and lithium is scarce. Meanwhile, the population is constantly expanding.
The only way energy is going to get cheaper is if humans find better and cheaper sources of it. Solar power (combined with EVs) may help some, but it remains to be seen as PV efficiency isn't that great, and a lot of regions don't have that much sunlight (and transporting power over long distances isn't free, as there's significant losses). Space-based solar power would be good, except that it'll cost a fortune to develop and deploy. Fusion power would be good, except again it'll cost a lot to develop, and there's no money being put into it at this time. Fission power could be used more, but everyone's on an anti-nuclear kick these days and wants to shut down all their nuclear power plants (Germany recently decided to shut all theirs down).
The future for energy prices does not look good at this time.
I have my music (ripped from CDs that I still have and even some cassette tapes - all legal)
Not according to the RIAA, it isn't.
Not necessarily. At least with "the cloud", there's a possibility that you could select a cloud provider that's in another country where your government has no access to it. Just make sure you don't pick a place in Ukraine, as Demonoid found out recently.
Anyway, whenever the first word I read in a post is 'wrong' or 'nope' or similar it's off putting. It's not offensive or anything like that it's just conceded and arrogant.
That's true, yet you yourself did it right here. I do it too on occasion, but I try to keep it restricted to instances where the person I'm responding to has written something so inane or stupid that I feel its use is justified.
There's a good reason for that. If they listened to Wozniak, they wouldn't be a very successful company. By listening to Jobs (or his ghost), they're extremely successful and profitable, even though they're screwing their customers over left and right. There's a lesson here: as H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
I think this prediction is total bullshit. Go to China and ask young people there whether they look forward to a brighter future or not. Over there, things are constantly getting better.
Sure, the sun has set on the American empire, and everything is indeed getting worse here in the so-called "land of the free" where the police have turned into para-military squads, but America is not representative of the whole world.
Don't forget Lucas's first movie, THX-1138. The people there watch TV, and it's just a show about people mindlessly beating each other. It was a pretty good prediction for today's "reality TV".