A good chunk of the police departments participating in the coordinated crackdown on OWS were given (and followed) strict orders to terrorize participants by using zipcuffs tight enough to cut off blood, and going as close to (but just enough not to) breaking legs/feet when arresting them as to force compliance through fear.
So that IS the kind of actions you'd see in a minor police state that is looking to avoid international intervention.
The US having a bit less of an influence in world affairs (through choice or through, well, obsolescence?) would be nicer, as they might even seem more legitimate if they weren't able to be interpreted as "that big bully in the west that thinks it owns the world."
I mean, people would try, but a lot less would fall for it.
Israel actually DID purposely sabotage (or rather, work through their respective channels to subvert) American-Iranian relations though. This was through groups like PNAC and related - there was a very large furor revolving around Clinton's plan to let the United Nations play the more direct role in mitigating dictatorial and terroristic activity in the middle east, and key GOP players pushed for stronger direct intervention under plans that seemed inextricably linked to the later (post-9/11) shrug-off of Iran's offer for help in fighting radicals and the inevitable demonization of that whole nation by Bush's regime.
We do things the American way when we don't really realize why. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a factory still churning out bullets for weapons our military (snicker) doesn't even use
No, it's very rational to fear stupid, self-centered directors, regulators and administrators who don't bother to enforce safety standards, outright lie about adherence to said standards, and then lie to the public about the real problems.
It's not rational to fear nuclear power itself. This would be like fearing a Zippo because someone had the bright idea of using one by a gas station.
The Daily Mail is publishes almosthttp://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0425240/red-cross-debates-if-virtual-killing-violates-international-humanitarian-law# as much fiction as The Onion. It isn't even about biases - they do everything for a hook at all times. They make, say, Fox News or DU look like reputable sites.
Does it help a money-grubbing corporation, or an agency that has no desire but to screw over as many people as possible? Then you can generally assume the SCOTUS will vote that way.
Even if it's in their TOS that you lose all rights to the IP contained in a given tweet, this will more than guarantee some lawsuits from some very large groups.
Horseshit. If someone quits paying for your services and they've jailbroken an associated product, then bill them for the device and add any subsidization costs onto the early termination fees.
At $14 an hour you can find a lot of dedicated second or third year University students who couldn't find an internship and want to make money with what they've learned so far. And I'd bet they'd do a far better job than any outsourced agency if they were allowed to use the end-project as an example portfolio piece.
That's not what they/he's asking for though. They demand that service providers somehow actually delete content hosted on random hosts.
I mean, a firewall/filter would easily appease this person, but only because their understanding of the internet is apparently so unbelievably uninformed and stupid.
Their very first major conferences detailing the Xbox 360 told the public that they planned on making almost all of their profit through "aggressively non-normatively priced accessories and services."
Can't watch it from here, but I can say with 100% certainty that every Android tablet I've played around with - and I should have kept a list, in hindsight - has gotten noticeably slower/clunkier as its storage nears full.
You seem to imply that there aren't people capable of browsing 'classic/b/' style sites for 12 hours a day. I'm sure India has their fair share of NEETs that would jump at a job like this, even if it's just kludging through blogspot or whatever.
I understand how he can ask, say, Facebook to remove disparaging content and screen for it. Stupid and a fundamentally massive and retarded task, to be sure.
But how in gods name did they think that ISPs have the ability to delete content on other and foreign sites? India's It leaders literally do not understand the internet.
Perhaps the devices themselves are just premature? I'm not sure about manufacturing costs, but a large part of their purpose - consumption of media, particularly online, on the go - would be massively benefitted by nationwide/'global' wifi access.
The original iPad, if given the latest possible OS update, sure. The iPad 2 is far, far, faaaaaaaaaaar 'snappier'/smoother and has a generally more refined user experience than any Android tablet on the market right now.
Which is odd, because some of the Android hardware out there is pretty close to par, if not better.
If you're on, say, Ubuntu, the OS itself may (because Shuttleworth demands it to be, or some such silliness) be updating it automatically. Or so they say, which doesn't explain why it happens on every OS.
Ugh. Been posting on Ars too much lately. To follow up; the Vita requires a memory card in order to play certain games. As in, they won't even start up if they don't detect a memory card.
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A good chunk of the police departments participating in the coordinated crackdown on OWS were given (and followed) strict orders to terrorize participants by using zipcuffs tight enough to cut off blood, and going as close to (but just enough not to) breaking legs/feet when arresting them as to force compliance through fear.
So that IS the kind of actions you'd see in a minor police state that is looking to avoid international intervention.
The US having a bit less of an influence in world affairs (through choice or through, well, obsolescence?) would be nicer, as they might even seem more legitimate if they weren't able to be interpreted as "that big bully in the west that thinks it owns the world."
I mean, people would try, but a lot less would fall for it.
Israel actually DID purposely sabotage (or rather, work through their respective channels to subvert) American-Iranian relations though. This was through groups like PNAC and related - there was a very large furor revolving around Clinton's plan to let the United Nations play the more direct role in mitigating dictatorial and terroristic activity in the middle east, and key GOP players pushed for stronger direct intervention under plans that seemed inextricably linked to the later (post-9/11) shrug-off of Iran's offer for help in fighting radicals and the inevitable demonization of that whole nation by Bush's regime.
We do things the American way when we don't really realize why.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a factory still churning out bullets for weapons our military (snicker) doesn't even use
No, it's very rational to fear stupid, self-centered directors, regulators and administrators who don't bother to enforce safety standards, outright lie about adherence to said standards, and then lie to the public about the real problems.
It's not rational to fear nuclear power itself. This would be like fearing a Zippo because someone had the bright idea of using one by a gas station.
The Daily Mail is publishes almosthttp://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0425240/red-cross-debates-if-virtual-killing-violates-international-humanitarian-law# as much fiction as The Onion. It isn't even about biases - they do everything for a hook at all times. They make, say, Fox News or DU look like reputable sites.
Does it help a money-grubbing corporation, or an agency that has no desire but to screw over as many people as possible?
Then you can generally assume the SCOTUS will vote that way.
Even if it's in their TOS that you lose all rights to the IP contained in a given tweet, this will more than guarantee some lawsuits from some very large groups.
Horseshit. If someone quits paying for your services and they've jailbroken an associated product, then bill them for the device and add any subsidization costs onto the early termination fees.
This is seeking to legitimize on most consumer devices rather than just phones.
An action that would more than piss off executives at companies like Sony.
A case study in how to be just incompetent enough that you don't end up like Nokia, yet don't make any progress either.
At $14 an hour you can find a lot of dedicated second or third year University students who couldn't find an internship and want to make money with what they've learned so far. And I'd bet they'd do a far better job than any outsourced agency if they were allowed to use the end-project as an example portfolio piece.
That's not what they/he's asking for though. They demand that service providers somehow actually delete content hosted on random hosts.
I mean, a firewall/filter would easily appease this person, but only because their understanding of the internet is apparently so unbelievably uninformed and stupid.
Their very first major conferences detailing the Xbox 360 told the public that they planned on making almost all of their profit through "aggressively non-normatively priced accessories and services."
Can't watch it from here, but I can say with 100% certainty that every Android tablet I've played around with - and I should have kept a list, in hindsight - has gotten noticeably slower/clunkier as its storage nears full.
You seem to imply that there aren't people capable of browsing 'classic /b/' style sites for 12 hours a day.
I'm sure India has their fair share of NEETs that would jump at a job like this, even if it's just kludging through blogspot or whatever.
I understand how he can ask, say, Facebook to remove disparaging content and screen for it. Stupid and a fundamentally massive and retarded task, to be sure.
But how in gods name did they think that ISPs have the ability to delete content on other and foreign sites?
India's It leaders literally do not understand the internet.
Perhaps the devices themselves are just premature?
I'm not sure about manufacturing costs, but a large part of their purpose - consumption of media, particularly online, on the go - would be massively benefitted by nationwide/'global' wifi access.
The original iPad, if given the latest possible OS update, sure.
The iPad 2 is far, far, faaaaaaaaaaar 'snappier'/smoother and has a generally more refined user experience than any Android tablet on the market right now.
Which is odd, because some of the Android hardware out there is pretty close to par, if not better.
Blame Java?
I'd imagine that would be one of the sweetest jobs of all time.
Literally, a Porn Hunter.
If you're on, say, Ubuntu, the OS itself may (because Shuttleworth demands it to be, or some such silliness) be updating it automatically.
Or so they say, which doesn't explain why it happens on every OS.
Gotta love those edge cases.
Ugh. Been posting on Ars too much lately.
To follow up;
the Vita requires a memory card in order to play certain games. As in, they won't even start up if they don't detect a memory card.
An SD card, or rather, an expensive add-on is not [i]required[/i] for the core functionality of the iPhone.