They didn't hang the blogger on a tree, didn't beat him to death and throw the body somewhere in pit. Instead they arrested this guy officially and they're going to press charge by real laws.
That's so much better than what they had before. People should celebrate!
Real laws, which they'll make up as they go along, same way as they invent charges to suit the situation.
They are a communist dictatorship. They don't have freedom of the press. If you say things that the government doesn't like, they lock you up. (If they find out and get around to it - for run of the mill stuff, they will have people with the drive and efficiency of your average telephone sanitizer on the job.)
A dictator implies 1 leader calling all the shots. What you actually have is an oligarchy, many leaders, agreeing on policy and electing a figurehead. Lip-service payed to Chairman Mao (who was a bandit chieftain before co-opting the communist movement and ruthlessly purging his rivals and creating myths to suit his goals) so... there's a pretty good chance that the rising rich in China are now pwning "party" members and some of them don't take kindly to criticism.
Or at least the drop of a smartphone. Which is odd because pretty much everyone I know but me has cracks in their smartphone screens. I drop mine a couple times a week AND take it skydiving and it remains unbroken. So how the hell are people managing to break their smartphone screens so often?
Mine broke in my pocket. I always orient the screen away from keys, change or wallet, but I had a small metal capsule in the pocket and it was forced into the screen of my Samsung Galaxy S4 simply by cloth tension. After removing the screen for a new one I saw how incredibly thin the glass was, less than half the thickness of the glass on an iPhone 4 S. It's now ensconced in an Otterbox Defender.
go with the lowest bidder. If you're going to make notebooks for school, make them so they can withstand those things found in schools -- students.
200$ x 3 years doesn't smell a bit like a low bid. I'd go with something clam-shell, to be honest and you can drop from 20 feet and it still works without a cracked screen. Also needs to be waterproof, because kids will be carrying it about in backpacks which are 100% not waterproof.
Tell me about it. Some of these smartphone screens break at nearly the drop of a hat. Anything you're going to give to kids should be nearly indestructible, perfect testing for anything which could in the future be called Mil Spec.
So we need to fund marriage counseling and/or divorce/separation proceedings instead to address the root cause?
There are judges who throw the book at some couples, who constantly take up calls, but those are few. Probably has something to do about people's right to squabble and occasionally injure or kill each other in the name of love.
Rockridge? I saw this movie, it involves an incompetent, corrupt governor, and a black sheriff. I also suspect it will end with a giant pie fight in the Warner Brothers studio commissary.
Sounds like a documentary of Los Angeles police force, circa 2001
Question. Who were all the Obama voters listening to? Republicans control the House. These democratically elected representatives are doing what they promised the voters they would do. Has Obama been as effective? You probably think things would be perfect without those pesky Republicans. When my son was five he told his mother, "I would be a lot more satisfied if I got what I want." Yeah, wouldn't we all.
The Republican party has a schism - Tea Party and the rest of them. Currently the Tea Party scares a lot of the moderates so they go along, lest they have a Tea Party member, backed by the Koch Brothers, drive them out of their seat. There's the right thing to do, but too many aren't doing it anymore, it's called participating in a democracy. It's just like factions in the House.
First, the main impact on me and many of my friends is the close of federal lands and parks. The gates are closed and if they find a vehicle outside them or people within, you will be fined. Impact pretty minimal, so far.
Second, to address the "stupid" people republicans are catering to... Not all. There are good, decent conservatives who care about their country and work diligently to keep it on track. But there are also some, and we see this particularly during tense times, such as elections or battles on Capitol Hill, where there is pandering to emotional, hot-button issues. The party has mostly gone from a platform on conservative government, to Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay Rights, Anti-Gun control, no healthcare contraceptives for women, cut taxes on the top 1% to create jobs (where there has been no evidence of a connection between the two), anti-big-government (the federal government has grown very large under Reagan and G. W. Bush, Clinton actually reduced federal payrolls and headcount by terminating offices which were running beyond their mandate), anti-fuel economy, anti-environment, dismissing Global Warming, and so on. But they abandoned any claim to a fiscally conservative party with the bulk of the national debt accumulated under Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. It is far from what old-school republicans call the GOP. One old timer told me they were all democrats, in the way they carry on. I don't know, I think my brother and a few other people have hit the nail on the head with this assessment: They are a party of people to whom winning is the only thing that matters, if they lose it was because the Democrats somehow cheated them and they will redouble their efforts to win next time (often using some underhanded tactics). I don't think people are stupid, voting for anyone, but I do think a great many are poorly informed or make poor decisions, particularly when they let other people, such as Limbaugh do their thinking (and brainwashing) for them. Critical Thinking isn't taught in schools and it shows. To many people think Sara Palin is brilliant, while she's just a wind up artist who couldn't even run Alaska right.
Only in vapor form. You can put out a match by dipping it in gasoline. That's part of the reason gasoline is such a good vehicle fuel. It has to be conditioned in a carburetor or a fuel injection system to be very volatile so it's fairly safe as a fuel.
Yes, you can put out a match in gasoline (petrol), but you have to be quick about it. If there's enough vapor about it will certainly go PHOOM!
I've seen plenty of regular cars burning by the side of the road, without even the benefit of striking or being struck by another vehicle. And when the gas tanks begin to boil, that's when the fire fighters are very circumspect about getting near one as an exploding tank can fling flaming fuel for a large radius.
Nothing shows up the sheer arbitrariness of a government shutdown than some sites like Healthcare.gov being up, and others being forced to shut down at extra expense when they could have just been left running (and the servers that are there just to tell you the site is shut down are still consuming power and bandwidth).
One more time, because some people clearly haven't read it or heard it: The Affordable Healthcare Act is not affected because it was fully funded. The budget Continuing Resolution is for things which are not already funded.
Let's have our great media investigate if this is poor planning...or good planning if once the initial load gets through then they didn't overspend on equipment they don't need.
Or if there is a secret effort by the people who want this to fail to hire botnets and hackers to DDOS it... I wouldn't put it past them.
Would be something to see a considerable amount of traffic going out from Newscorp ip addresses into the healthcare.gov servers.
nothing unusual, aside a few million malformed packets...
That would be an even more stupid idea than Newscorp buying MySpace.
Project Managers can learn giving only minimal time for QA, at the very end of the project, with no time allotted for corrections is bad practice.
"Are we meeting with some network engineers, tech writers and systems analysts?"
"No, we are meeting with a bunch of appointees who know next to nothing about the guts of the project.
Let's have our great media investigate if this is poor planning...or good planning if once the initial load gets through then they didn't overspend on equipment they don't need.
Or if there is a secret effort by the people who want this to fail to hire botnets and hackers to DDOS it... I wouldn't put it past them.
Would be something to see a considerable amount of traffic going out from Newscorp ip addresses into the healthcare.gov servers.
nothing unusual, aside a few million malformed packets...
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On the subject of ironic
Why did Iron Man go to China?
He needed a charge.
In Soviet China government Logs YOU in.
They didn't hang the blogger on a tree, didn't beat him to death and throw the body somewhere in pit. Instead they arrested this guy officially and they're going to press charge by real laws.
That's so much better than what they had before. People should celebrate!
Real laws, which they'll make up as they go along, same way as they invent charges to suit the situation.
The blogger rubbed someone the wrong way.
Um, yeah. It's China.
They are a communist dictatorship. They don't have freedom of the press. If you say things that the government doesn't like, they lock you up. (If they find out and get around to it - for run of the mill stuff, they will have people with the drive and efficiency of your average telephone sanitizer on the job.)
A dictator implies 1 leader calling all the shots. What you actually have is an oligarchy, many leaders, agreeing on policy and electing a figurehead. Lip-service payed to Chairman Mao (who was a bandit chieftain before co-opting the communist movement and ruthlessly purging his rivals and creating myths to suit his goals) so ... there's a pretty good chance that the rising rich in China are now pwning "party" members and some of them don't take kindly to criticism.
Didn't pay the necessary bribes to blog about anti-corruption
in bitcoins
Or at least the drop of a smartphone. Which is odd because pretty much everyone I know but me has cracks in their smartphone screens. I drop mine a couple times a week AND take it skydiving and it remains unbroken. So how the hell are people managing to break their smartphone screens so often?
Mine broke in my pocket. I always orient the screen away from keys, change or wallet, but I had a small metal capsule in the pocket and it was forced into the screen of my Samsung Galaxy S4 simply by cloth tension. After removing the screen for a new one I saw how incredibly thin the glass was, less than half the thickness of the glass on an iPhone 4 S. It's now ensconced in an Otterbox Defender.
go with the lowest bidder. If you're going to make notebooks for school, make them so they can withstand those things found in schools -- students.
200$ x 3 years doesn't smell a bit like a low bid. I'd go with something clam-shell, to be honest and you can drop from 20 feet and it still works without a cracked screen. Also needs to be waterproof, because kids will be carrying it about in backpacks which are 100% not waterproof.
Don't give them tablets.
Tell me about it. Some of these smartphone screens break at nearly the drop of a hat. Anything you're going to give to kids should be nearly indestructible, perfect testing for anything which could in the future be called Mil Spec.
Psst! It's an Analog Computer, they're way faster and more flexible than digital ones, but don't tell anyone or I'll be modded down into oblivion.
So we need to fund marriage counseling and/or divorce/separation proceedings instead to address the root cause?
There are judges who throw the book at some couples, who constantly take up calls, but those are few. Probably has something to do about people's right to squabble and occasionally injure or kill each other in the name of love.
Someone needs to develop a LAME version of the CT scanner to avoid licensing charges.
How about one which detects those most likely to cause a government shutdown and flags then as unsuitable for public office?
we ran Ted through it.
and...?
it committed electronic suicide.
Gov't forces are too busy writing tickets to build revenue.
No ... ask any police officer, they spend about half their day dealing with domestic disputes.
This was in the news months ago and IIRC hotly debated on /. back then, too. Going to look for the link....
Rockridge? I saw this movie, it involves an incompetent, corrupt governor, and a black sheriff. I also suspect it will end with a giant pie fight in the Warner Brothers studio commissary.
Sounds like a documentary of Los Angeles police force, circa 2001
NHK has promised 8k in time for the show. 8k resolution, 120fps. Hardly anyone outside Japan will have a tv capable of displaying it.
Laughable. My brain implants give me better resolution than that. Just ask the the wizards at Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Now if only I could get something done about these arthritic diodes...
I'd also settle for fewer goofs by judges. Maybe they can come up with robotic judges.
Then I can change my design to suit me, as often as I like.
Question. Who were all the Obama voters listening to? Republicans control the House. These democratically elected representatives are doing what they promised the voters they would do. Has Obama been as effective? You probably think things would be perfect without those pesky Republicans. When my son was five he told his mother, "I would be a lot more satisfied if I got what I want." Yeah, wouldn't we all.
The Republican party has a schism - Tea Party and the rest of them. Currently the Tea Party scares a lot of the moderates so they go along, lest they have a Tea Party member, backed by the Koch Brothers, drive them out of their seat. There's the right thing to do, but too many aren't doing it anymore, it's called participating in a democracy. It's just like factions in the House.
Two items:
First, the main impact on me and many of my friends is the close of federal lands and parks. The gates are closed and if they find a vehicle outside them or people within, you will be fined. Impact pretty minimal, so far.
Second, to address the "stupid" people republicans are catering to ... Not all. There are good, decent conservatives who care about their country and work diligently to keep it on track. But there are also some, and we see this particularly during tense times, such as elections or battles on Capitol Hill, where there is pandering to emotional, hot-button issues. The party has mostly gone from a platform on conservative government, to Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay Rights, Anti-Gun control, no healthcare contraceptives for women, cut taxes on the top 1% to create jobs (where there has been no evidence of a connection between the two), anti-big-government (the federal government has grown very large under Reagan and G. W. Bush, Clinton actually reduced federal payrolls and headcount by terminating offices which were running beyond their mandate), anti-fuel economy, anti-environment, dismissing Global Warming, and so on. But they abandoned any claim to a fiscally conservative party with the bulk of the national debt accumulated under Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. It is far from what old-school republicans call the GOP. One old timer told me they were all democrats, in the way they carry on. I don't know, I think my brother and a few other people have hit the nail on the head with this assessment: They are a party of people to whom winning is the only thing that matters, if they lose it was because the Democrats somehow cheated them and they will redouble their efforts to win next time (often using some underhanded tactics). I don't think people are stupid, voting for anyone, but I do think a great many are poorly informed or make poor decisions, particularly when they let other people, such as Limbaugh do their thinking (and brainwashing) for them. Critical Thinking isn't taught in schools and it shows. To many people think Sara Palin is brilliant, while she's just a wind up artist who couldn't even run Alaska right.
what the fox are you talking about?
Only in vapor form. You can put out a match by dipping it in gasoline. That's part of the reason gasoline is such a good vehicle fuel. It has to be conditioned in a carburetor or a fuel injection system to be very volatile so it's fairly safe as a fuel.
Yes, you can put out a match in gasoline (petrol), but you have to be quick about it. If there's enough vapor about it will certainly go PHOOM!
I've seen plenty of regular cars burning by the side of the road, without even the benefit of striking or being struck by another vehicle. And when the gas tanks begin to boil, that's when the fire fighters are very circumspect about getting near one as an exploding tank can fling flaming fuel for a large radius.
In contrast, this Tesla car fire is dullsville.
Nothing shows up the sheer arbitrariness of a government shutdown than some sites like Healthcare.gov being up, and others being forced to shut down at extra expense when they could have just been left running (and the servers that are there just to tell you the site is shut down are still consuming power and bandwidth).
One more time, because some people clearly haven't read it or heard it: The Affordable Healthcare Act is not affected because it was fully funded. The budget Continuing Resolution is for things which are not already funded.
That would be an even more stupid idea than Newscorp buying MySpace.
Project Managers can learn giving only minimal time for QA, at the very end of the project, with no time allotted for corrections is bad practice.
"Are we meeting with some network engineers, tech writers and systems analysts?"
"No, we are meeting with a bunch of appointees who know next to nothing about the guts of the project.
"Great... we may as well watch cartoons."
I went through the site and found it responsive. Possibly the time of day and my western timezone had something to say about it, but had no issues.
Even CNN looks bad when something major happens and everyone hits them at once, despite humming along for months without any issues.
Let's have our great media investigate if this is poor planning...or good planning if once the initial load gets through then they didn't overspend on equipment they don't need.
Or if there is a secret effort by the people who want this to fail to hire botnets and hackers to DDOS it... I wouldn't put it past them.
Would be something to see a considerable amount of traffic going out from Newscorp ip addresses into the healthcare.gov servers.
nothing unusual, aside a few million malformed packets...