The issue is that nothing is being done to prevent the fraud NOW. Every possibly means of avoiding identification and eligibility to vote is the norm. Look how many times in the news we see people opposing reform? Right now the big issue is electronic voting mainly because of the fact that Diebold's high muckety-mucks visibly support Bush and too many people want to make it appear Ohio was won by Bush only through Fraud.
Hell we still have the Voting Rights Act nearly 40 years after it was supposedly not needed. Its not being done to protect voters but instead to protect politicians by allowing for current methods of fraud to remain unimpeded. Vote fraud is very real and combining positive voter ID and a paper trail are both required, not one, BOTH.
Here in Georgia we had a major problem with voting fraud. The problem with current computer voting systems is that they could not trace the vote to who cast it. Normally I would be all for that type of privacy but this is a big avenue for fraud.
Now in Fulton county we got 45,907 new registrations to vote. When precinct cards were mailed nearly 3100 were undeliverable. Of those 3100 undeliverable 921 of them voted!
Now of 8100 plus registrations that were missing information on the form they mailed to each and only 55 responded!
Under the old paper ballot system with little to no voter verification there was a slight chance to correct fraundulent elections. The paperless solution we have no provides no means.
What happened in my Grandparents area of Ohio was that a few of them were bussed to multiple voting areas and told to vote in each. They were also told whom to vote for.
This isn't a crybaby ploy and attempts to dismiss the argument as such only contribute to the fraud, after all it is far easier to dismiss the person bringing the claim than to refute the claim.
Actually the Washington case is a good one for why picture Id and instant verification are needed. What was done in Washington is similar to what is done nationwide but usually only for smaller local elections - keep counting until you get the results you want. Extrapolating from my examples of attempted voter fraud in Georgia may explain how vote tallies can change so much. Found votes, lost votes, and miscounts are all part of dirty politics.
What you propose by ignoring the problem is that we keep the politics as usual. This of course walks right into the hands of the politicians in power. They don't want to lose their jobs and will therefor encourage anything which allows them and their cronies to protect those jobs.
Spaceplanes look cool. However spaceplanes are not what we need at this time. We were not in an advanced enough state of space usage to make good use out of it. We had far more need of speciality vehichles but speciality vehicles are BORING. NASA needed to sell itself after the spectacular moon landings. Hence we got the shuttle.
Not only did it look cool, sound cool, and appealed to geeks it appealed to Congress as they spread it out across a great many districts.
We paid the price by being locked into LEO for how many years? If it were not for the occasional Mars landing or some great deep space probes the shuttle would have killed NASA. Instead there were just enough thrilling items left in their bag of tricks to keep everyone from focusing on that fact that the golden goose wasn't so great.
So NASA is getting smarter, or at least the analyst are. Get back to space doing it cheaply with known and easily acquired, serviced, and usuable components. Then maybe we will finally do something in space. If we had this 20 years ago the ISS might have been done during the first Bush's term. (hell it might have even had been built while Reagan was around if we hadn't had to waste so much on the shuttle)
The reason Apple did not dominate was because they could not, or would not, bring the cost of their hardware in line with the dos/windows world.
Not only that, as the sole provider of the hardware they could not innovate fast enough or provide enough variety in configurations to keep up with the pace of the development or need in the PC world.
Microsoft became so large because they rightly focused on only one side of the equation. They didn't have the risk of sitting on hardware. Old software can be discarded without much loss as the cost is mostly in development, not in production. As such if a hardware design would go over badly Microsoft was immune from the effect but Apple would not be as fortunate.
People over do it with all this "monopoly" trash talking about Microsoft that they ignorantly refuse to see the mistakes other companies made that basically handed dollars hand over fist to MS. Yes MS pulled some shennagins but their competitors gave them more than they could have wished for. You don't need a monopoly to beat poor execution or poor business practices.
The sex part is being used by those trying to excuse the fact that they knowningly did something they were not supposed to. In other words they were trying to trivialize it by attempting to put the blame on the people who complained!
Just because your values or my values do not align themselves with others in no way makes ours superior.
Many of these programmers do act like jerks. Ever spent time dealing with MMORPG developers and you quickly find out there are many jerks and too many have god-complexes. When you point out things they should not do they quickly turn around attacking the person pointing out the issue instead of dealing with the issue.
Back in the early UO days I went off the deep end and published one of the more infamous dupe bugs in UO. Got banned for it and eventually reinstated by a VP at Origin.
The thing was, the instructions I gave were so convoluted that anyone attempting to follow them would have been blatantly obvious. Of course it actually did work. Back then the only way to get the UO team to jump was to light them up in the forums. Even UO's Green Acres got clamped down after hounding the team in the forusm
Yet at the same time many other postings were just bunk. You get copy cats who with just a slight variation manage to start wildfires that have no basis. This is best done on fan sites where certain words are known trigger fanatics into waves of frenzy. It is even easier today as many emulators exist which can be used to produce screenshots which are game engine generated and not photoshopped.
Still there are some game companies that ignore the problems, or worse acknowledge them and do nothing. The best example is Turbine games who allowed and still allow cheating/macroing/etc in their first game Asheron's Call. They allow things that make other MMORPG developers flinch. What this does for the industry is cause all such cheating/macroing/duping to be considered a norm. On the really bad side it gives some players reason to believe that if you can cheat in one game everyone should cheat, or if someone is really far ahead that they are just cheating.
Blizzard really has done a good job on being proactive. I think people need to realize that they cannot just swing the sword of banning without doing the research needed to ensure they get the right people. Collateral damage does not go over well in these games.
Had great CD music for gameplay. Stuff that I could listen too offline. Which btw came out in 1989 beating their examples.
What I see interesting in the music front is the different approaches taken in the mmorpg front. WOW does not play the music in combat while other games seek to "enhance" combat by adding music. Situational music is less of an enhancement to me as it tends to get repititous too quicky. Yet assigning music to areas works because it gives the player yet another method of identifying where they are (UO did this and subsequent games as well)
I still discount the halo effect as I know of no iPod users who have switched. Now I know a few who have said they will buy a Mac next but no one has made the jump.
From the geek perspective, why would I switch NOW? We know that the MacTel machines are coming which makes purchasing any PowerPC based Mac less reassuring.
Now once the MacTels are out and someone can show how easy it is to dual-boot XP/LH I expect a lot more people to buy a Mac.
Here is one thought, if Apple goes to an Intel Platform what is to stop anyone from competing from being the OS of that machine? There are far more people comfortable writing for the x86 platform. The fact that there are limits as to what components will be found in the MacTel machines should make the job even easier. Hell even Microsoft could write a targetted OS for those boxes. (now who would buy it is a different question)
As for the article's numbers I do not agree. It does not indicate that people are switching. There would be much coexistance as well as new buyers entering the fold.
At one time they had a line that was built by the same people making Latitudes (way back)
who does it now?
If they would be a little more reasonable on price/performance I would pick one up. I can make use of a laptop far easier than a mini and I do not need another full size PC about the office.
(reasonable meaning along the lines Dell's 6000 series or such... which hit as low as 750 with a great feature set and go up from there)
The spoilier sites if correct are pointing to a BSG that may not be all that much fun to watch. I am real leery of this idea that cylon women really cannot carry children and that human hosts are required.
I was really waiting for Baltar to pick the baby up and have a lizard's tongue fork out! (V reference)
While the last season was generally good this premier episode left a lot to be desired. Too much was crammed into one hour. BG:Boomer is very quickly going to be redundant and should be spaced. Having the other Boomer take off breaks with her previous expressed concern over Helo and leads us further towards the baby hospital rumored to be coming. The character of the President is so confused that any writing done for her is incredulous as best.
Hopefully the next two episodes get this thing moving in the right direction.
Also be wary of applying your thoughts and ideals to people who lived in different times. It is very easy to pass judgement on people who made decisions or comments that you do not agree with. The problem comes down to the fact that no matter how much you read about the situation you cannot truly understand how it was to experience it when it did occur.
That attitude you despise not only makes possible regimes like the Nazi's but also provides the means to end them as well. There are many times that obediance must take precendance over one's conscience.
FWIW, the Nazi's were not made possible by that sentence "I did what I was told to do". They came about because others did not act to stop them when they had the chance. We see similar situations even to this day, the best example is Iran. We all know they are sponsors of terrorism and are pursuing the atomic bomb. The innoculate their citizens that leave to visit foreign countries against smallpox; a disease the is essentially erradicated. Yet what is being done? For the most part the same activities that allowed the Nazi's come to power are being replayed in a slightly different fashion.
We then may end up later villifying people 50 years from now for actions they took to solve problems that should never have arisen.
wish I had mod points as this was the direction I was thinking.
Other areas would depend on the hardiness of the material, could it survive outdoors with simple physical protection? If so then traffic control signs could be made colorful (throw up lots of RED when something really bad is ahead). Of course billboards would use it too.
Besides the home it could be used to post current informational messages in public areas like airports, malls, and the like. Take it a step further, a public area with many of these centrally controlled could also employ them for emergency purposes. Besides text emergency messages they could show directional arrows as well.
Besides the standard wall/poster format you could also do curtains, the front of of kitchen appliances and cabinets. No longer being limited to flat surfaces makes for some interesting applications.
Seriously, they are playing from a stacked deck. They started the bulk of their projects before going public and have been pushing the out at a good clip.
What happens when that pipe line dries up?
They are a classic dot-com overvalued stock. It will come down and when it does it will come down hard. Expect it to happen after they make some big with stock purchase.
Really they need to start buying up other companies using their inflated stock just so they can have something long term to sit on.
They are not worth the value their stock suggests.
However I will agree that Hillary is trying to gain press attention in a particular area so she can sell herself to middle America.
Whether or not this is something that will help her is immaterial, the key issue is the opponent she chose cannot withstand her position in Government or the media draw she has. In other words, she is playing a safe bet here.
It is what you do with the time you dedicate to your job. My employer whats certain things done. I have timelines. As long as I meet or exceed those timelines they are more than happy.
Yes it has been commented that I surf a lot. However to have your VP rebut that comment with praise for the quality and consistency of your work does say that some people do get it.
Hell there are people not making calls or surfing that waste more of a companies time just by being there. I cannot tally the number of hours spent doing something someone else supposedly did. I cannot tally the hours spent on some high level persons personal directive that only was tossed at a later date.
the Power4, which the power970 is a derivative of, was dual core. They were put into AS/400 (iSeries) and pSeries (think RISC/AIX) boxes years ago.
Apple got the plain jane 970 version, single core out of this chip from IBM. So the question that stands out is, why did it take so long to offer a 970 version that was dual core?
What I don't understand most about the switch Apple is making is that everyone harped on megahertz yet the AMD64 chips have great performance "ratings" with low megahertz. My current chip is only a 1.8G and many Power chips are just that as well, so where is the big boost for Apple except in the powerbook line? A well designed chip, and PowerPCs are very well designed, can run circles around faster chips as AMD has proven with the AMD64 series.
Most of the people using iTunes probably already have the iPod, so why not convert them to MAC while your at it?
A free iMac would be cool.
As for the free 10K songs, it looks really nice but isn't all that practical. I have nearly 3000 songs on my iPod as it is and it already is unwieldy. I guess you could just start clicking whole albums, of which you would need a 1000 of them just to burn through the gift. In all its a great marketing ploy as they can figure most of that gift will never be used especially if they attach an expiration date to the reward.
I want to know. Mod me as flamebait but I want to know.
How many people need to die before we all recognize that THEY DON'T CARE. Just be glad it was only bombs. It won't be long before it is chemical or even nuclear; with Iran going for the bomb and a self-declared hater of Western society at the helm.
Like the French journalist taking hostage who could not understand why they were when France did not support the Iraq war. They eventually learned that Europe is as much of the West as America is regardless of what actions or lack of action they take.
Who will be accountable? Unfortunately we spend too much time placing blame on our own. We blame the intelligence communities for not knowing. We blame the government for not protecting. Yet we turn around and blame the same if they take actions we don't like to stop future attacks. Do terrorist deserve the same rights as free citizens of these countries they attack? Should they be able to use the courts of those same countries to avoid prosecution?
The best method to rid the world of these insane fanatics is to kill them at the source. Put enough pressure on them at home so their supporters cannot afford to send the war overseas. Wars are not pretty and until we treat this as a world war it will never end. The solution to WW2 wasn't nice, why should we expect the solution to this one to be otherwise?
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sometimes the responses of people like him help the rest of us weedout the malcontents who are a big disservice to the /. community.
/. by editing your user preferences.
A lot of what is rated insightful/informative here sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. It can be hard to distinquish between agenda and fact.
I would love to see even more of these interviews. Finally you can elect to not see these on
The issue is that nothing is being done to prevent the fraud NOW. Every possibly means of avoiding identification and eligibility to vote is the norm. Look how many times in the news we see people opposing reform? Right now the big issue is electronic voting mainly because of the fact that Diebold's high muckety-mucks visibly support Bush and too many people want to make it appear Ohio was won by Bush only through Fraud.
Hell we still have the Voting Rights Act nearly 40 years after it was supposedly not needed. Its not being done to protect voters but instead to protect politicians by allowing for current methods of fraud to remain unimpeded. Vote fraud is very real and combining positive voter ID and a paper trail are both required, not one, BOTH.
Here in Georgia we had a major problem with voting fraud. The problem with current computer voting systems is that they could not trace the vote to who cast it. Normally I would be all for that type of privacy but this is a big avenue for fraud.
Now in Fulton county we got 45,907 new registrations to vote. When precinct cards were mailed nearly 3100 were undeliverable. Of those 3100 undeliverable 921 of them voted!
Now of 8100 plus registrations that were missing information on the form they mailed to each and only 55 responded!
Under the old paper ballot system with little to no voter verification there was a slight chance to correct fraundulent elections. The paperless solution we have no provides no means.
What happened in my Grandparents area of Ohio was that a few of them were bussed to multiple voting areas and told to vote in each. They were also told whom to vote for.
This isn't a crybaby ploy and attempts to dismiss the argument as such only contribute to the fraud, after all it is far easier to dismiss the person bringing the claim than to refute the claim.
Actually the Washington case is a good one for why picture Id and instant verification are needed. What was done in Washington is similar to what is done nationwide but usually only for smaller local elections - keep counting until you get the results you want. Extrapolating from my examples of attempted voter fraud in Georgia may explain how vote tallies can change so much. Found votes, lost votes, and miscounts are all part of dirty politics.
What you propose by ignoring the problem is that we keep the politics as usual. This of course walks right into the hands of the politicians in power. They don't want to lose their jobs and will therefor encourage anything which allows them and their cronies to protect those jobs.
Spaceplanes look cool. However spaceplanes are not what we need at this time. We were not in an advanced enough state of space usage to make good use out of it. We had far more need of speciality vehichles but speciality vehicles are BORING. NASA needed to sell itself after the spectacular moon landings. Hence we got the shuttle.
Not only did it look cool, sound cool, and appealed to geeks it appealed to Congress as they spread it out across a great many districts.
We paid the price by being locked into LEO for how many years? If it were not for the occasional Mars landing or some great deep space probes the shuttle would have killed NASA. Instead there were just enough thrilling items left in their bag of tricks to keep everyone from focusing on that fact that the golden goose wasn't so great.
So NASA is getting smarter, or at least the analyst are. Get back to space doing it cheaply with known and easily acquired, serviced, and usuable components. Then maybe we will finally do something in space. If we had this 20 years ago the ISS might have been done during the first Bush's term. (hell it might have even had been built while Reagan was around if we hadn't had to waste so much on the shuttle)
and paper ballots have been at the forefront of fraud for ages.
After we ensure that the vote cast is recorded as intended we also need to move on to the most important issue.
Ensuring the person casting the vote is who they say they are and that they are entitled to cast the vote.
I won't be satisfied until we use picture id and get receipts for our votes. If we are to eliminate fraud lets not do it half assed.
"The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard!" - Alfred E. Neuman
which are.. ... on a computer ... on the web
about their iSeries and such
n ds/index_flat.html
d ex.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&CO_ContentID=13885
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/lege
It also includes the "server" lost behind the wall. The reenactments are cute and somewhat based on "true" stories.
Another set of stories is at...
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/nodeuk/ukarchive/in
The reason Apple did not dominate was because they could not, or would not, bring the cost of their hardware in line with the dos/windows world.
Not only that, as the sole provider of the hardware they could not innovate fast enough or provide enough variety in configurations to keep up with the pace of the development or need in the PC world.
Microsoft became so large because they rightly focused on only one side of the equation. They didn't have the risk of sitting on hardware. Old software can be discarded without much loss as the cost is mostly in development, not in production. As such if a hardware design would go over badly Microsoft was immune from the effect but Apple would not be as fortunate.
People over do it with all this "monopoly" trash talking about Microsoft that they ignorantly refuse to see the mistakes other companies made that basically handed dollars hand over fist to MS. Yes MS pulled some shennagins but their competitors gave them more than they could have wished for. You don't need a monopoly to beat poor execution or poor business practices.
The sex part is being used by those trying to excuse the fact that they knowningly did something they were not supposed to. In other words they were trying to trivialize it by attempting to put the blame on the people who complained!
Just because your values or my values do not align themselves with others in no way makes ours superior.
Many of these programmers do act like jerks. Ever spent time dealing with MMORPG developers and you quickly find out there are many jerks and too many have god-complexes. When you point out things they should not do they quickly turn around attacking the person pointing out the issue instead of dealing with the issue.
Back in the early UO days I went off the deep end and published one of the more infamous dupe bugs in UO. Got banned for it and eventually reinstated by a VP at Origin.
The thing was, the instructions I gave were so convoluted that anyone attempting to follow them would have been blatantly obvious. Of course it actually did work. Back then the only way to get the UO team to jump was to light them up in the forums. Even UO's Green Acres got clamped down after hounding the team in the forusm
Yet at the same time many other postings were just bunk. You get copy cats who with just a slight variation manage to start wildfires that have no basis. This is best done on fan sites where certain words are known trigger fanatics into waves of frenzy. It is even easier today as many emulators exist which can be used to produce screenshots which are game engine generated and not photoshopped.
Still there are some game companies that ignore the problems, or worse acknowledge them and do nothing. The best example is Turbine games who allowed and still allow cheating/macroing/etc in their first game Asheron's Call. They allow things that make other MMORPG developers flinch. What this does for the industry is cause all such cheating/macroing/duping to be considered a norm. On the really bad side it gives some players reason to believe that if you can cheat in one game everyone should cheat, or if someone is really far ahead that they are just cheating.
Blizzard really has done a good job on being proactive. I think people need to realize that they cannot just swing the sword of banning without doing the research needed to ensure they get the right people. Collateral damage does not go over well in these games.
Had great CD music for gameplay. Stuff that I could listen too offline. Which btw came out in 1989 beating their examples.
What I see interesting in the music front is the different approaches taken in the mmorpg front. WOW does not play the music in combat while other games seek to "enhance" combat by adding music. Situational music is less of an enhancement to me as it tends to get repititous too quicky. Yet assigning music to areas works because it gives the player yet another method of identifying where they are (UO did this and subsequent games as well)
I still discount the halo effect as I know of no iPod users who have switched. Now I know a few who have said they will buy a Mac next but no one has made the jump.
From the geek perspective, why would I switch NOW? We know that the MacTel machines are coming which makes purchasing any PowerPC based Mac less reassuring.
Now once the MacTels are out and someone can show how easy it is to dual-boot XP/LH I expect a lot more people to buy a Mac.
Here is one thought, if Apple goes to an Intel Platform what is to stop anyone from competing from being the OS of that machine? There are far more people comfortable writing for the x86 platform. The fact that there are limits as to what components will be found in the MacTel machines should make the job even easier. Hell even Microsoft could write a targetted OS for those boxes. (now who would buy it is a different question)
As for the article's numbers I do not agree. It does not indicate that people are switching. There would be much coexistance as well as new buyers entering the fold.
At one time they had a line that was built by the same people making Latitudes (way back)
who does it now?
If they would be a little more reasonable on price/performance I would pick one up. I can make use of a laptop far easier than a mini and I do not need another full size PC about the office.
(reasonable meaning along the lines Dell's 6000 series or such... which hit as low as 750 with a great feature set and go up from there)
The spoilier sites if correct are pointing to a BSG that may not be all that much fun to watch. I am real leery of this idea that cylon women really cannot carry children and that human hosts are required.
I was really waiting for Baltar to pick the baby up and have a lizard's tongue fork out! (V reference)
While the last season was generally good this premier episode left a lot to be desired. Too much was crammed into one hour. BG:Boomer is very quickly going to be redundant and should be spaced. Having the other Boomer take off breaks with her previous expressed concern over Helo and leads us further towards the baby hospital rumored to be coming. The character of the President is so confused that any writing done for her is incredulous as best.
Hopefully the next two episodes get this thing moving in the right direction.
Also be wary of applying your thoughts and ideals to people who lived in different times. It is very easy to pass judgement on people who made decisions or comments that you do not agree with. The problem comes down to the fact that no matter how much you read about the situation you cannot truly understand how it was to experience it when it did occur.
That attitude you despise not only makes possible regimes like the Nazi's but also provides the means to end them as well. There are many times that obediance must take precendance over one's conscience.
FWIW, the Nazi's were not made possible by that sentence "I did what I was told to do". They came about because others did not act to stop them when they had the chance. We see similar situations even to this day, the best example is Iran. We all know they are sponsors of terrorism and are pursuing the atomic bomb. The innoculate their citizens that leave to visit foreign countries against smallpox; a disease the is essentially erradicated. Yet what is being done? For the most part the same activities that allowed the Nazi's come to power are being replayed in a slightly different fashion.
We then may end up later villifying people 50 years from now for actions they took to solve problems that should never have arisen.
wish I had mod points as this was the direction I was thinking.
Other areas would depend on the hardiness of the material, could it survive outdoors with simple physical protection? If so then traffic control signs could be made colorful (throw up lots of RED when something really bad is ahead). Of course billboards would use it too.
Besides the home it could be used to post current informational messages in public areas like airports, malls, and the like. Take it a step further, a public area with many of these centrally controlled could also employ them for emergency purposes. Besides text emergency messages they could show directional arrows as well.
Besides the standard wall/poster format you could also do curtains, the front of of kitchen appliances and cabinets. No longer being limited to flat surfaces makes for some interesting applications.
Seriously, they are playing from a stacked deck. They started the bulk of their projects before going public and have been pushing the out at a good clip.
What happens when that pipe line dries up?
They are a classic dot-com overvalued stock. It will come down and when it does it will come down hard. Expect it to happen after they make some big with stock purchase.
Really they need to start buying up other companies using their inflated stock just so they can have something long term to sit on.
They are not worth the value their stock suggests.
that goes after this type of material more often.
However I will agree that Hillary is trying to gain press attention in a particular area so she can sell herself to middle America.
Whether or not this is something that will help her is immaterial, the key issue is the opponent she chose cannot withstand her position in Government or the media draw she has. In other words, she is playing a safe bet here.
You need to look at cards for what they are, not what video was.
Today's video cards have much higher transistor counts than the processors of the systems they go into.
A standard P4 is around 60million, the Extreme Edition with all its built in cache is 180million
A 6800 series is 220+ million. The X800 is 160+ million.
A 7800 is over 300 million.
What you really have in a video card is a computer within your computer complete with its requsite power and cooling requirements.
No, he will patent the patent process!
It is what you do with the time you dedicate to your job. My employer whats certain things done. I have timelines. As long as I meet or exceed those timelines they are more than happy.
Yes it has been commented that I surf a lot. However to have your VP rebut that comment with praise for the quality and consistency of your work does say that some people do get it.
Hell there are people not making calls or surfing that waste more of a companies time just by being there. I cannot tally the number of hours spent doing something someone else supposedly did. I cannot tally the hours spent on some high level persons personal directive that only was tossed at a later date.
we call that program "The Congress of the United States". More recently another agency joined in, "The Supreme Court of the United States"
Both are just as evil here as well.
the Power4, which the power970 is a derivative of, was dual core. They were put into AS/400 (iSeries) and pSeries (think RISC/AIX) boxes years ago.
Apple got the plain jane 970 version, single core out of this chip from IBM. So the question that stands out is, why did it take so long to offer a 970 version that was dual core?
What I don't understand most about the switch Apple is making is that everyone harped on megahertz yet the AMD64 chips have great performance "ratings" with low megahertz. My current chip is only a 1.8G and many Power chips are just that as well, so where is the big boost for Apple except in the powerbook line? A well designed chip, and PowerPCs are very well designed, can run circles around faster chips as AMD has proven with the AMD64 series.
Most of the people using iTunes probably already have the iPod, so why not convert them to MAC while your at it?
A free iMac would be cool.
As for the free 10K songs, it looks really nice but isn't all that practical. I have nearly 3000 songs on my iPod as it is and it already is unwieldy. I guess you could just start clicking whole albums, of which you would need a 1000 of them just to burn through the gift. In all its a great marketing ploy as they can figure most of that gift will never be used especially if they attach an expiration date to the reward.
I want to know. Mod me as flamebait but I want to know.
How many people need to die before we all recognize that THEY DON'T CARE. Just be glad it was only bombs. It won't be long before it is chemical or even nuclear; with Iran going for the bomb and a self-declared hater of Western society at the helm.
Like the French journalist taking hostage who could not understand why they were when France did not support the Iraq war. They eventually learned that Europe is as much of the West as America is regardless of what actions or lack of action they take.
Who will be accountable? Unfortunately we spend too much time placing blame on our own. We blame the intelligence communities for not knowing. We blame the government for not protecting. Yet we turn around and blame the same if they take actions we don't like to stop future attacks. Do terrorist deserve the same rights as free citizens of these countries they attack? Should they be able to use the courts of those same countries to avoid prosecution?
The best method to rid the world of these insane fanatics is to kill them at the source. Put enough pressure on them at home so their supporters cannot afford to send the war overseas. Wars are not pretty and until we treat this as a world war it will never end. The solution to WW2 wasn't nice, why should we expect the solution to this one to be otherwise?