Actually, this is still capitalism... or the free market or whatever you like. #1 The sellers do whatever the market will bear. #2 The buyers do not want to bear it while they have alternatives. So what's the end-game here? Well? I suppose it depends on whether or not the government was getting tax revenue from these higher prices. If they were, then you can bet there will be some sort of legislation against the use of proxies or similar methods to avoid price fixing scams... or "tax avoidance."
But if this is a bunch of sellers who came to realize "hey! they expect to pay higher prices anyway, so let's make sure they do!" then to hell with them. They will lose.. they will lose without government backing. But that's kind of the way it works everywhere isn't it?
I don't know... I was reading somewhere when I got my Nexus 7 about setting up my own personal cloud storage with my own server and stuff like that. Perhaps it's doubtful other people would be inclined to do something like that, but perhaps they would in light of current personal data concerns.
It was pretty good I guess. I think the point of this article is to highlight how ridiculous this has all become. Parody is ALWAYS protected and he mixed up the words [ostensibly] as a form of parody expression. But rather than fight about it, they [too] would rather give up and give in.
They can't even be civil among themselves, so what hope to we, the little people, have in dealing with this bastards?
To break a contract with them before they had alternatives lined up would have resulted in yet another suit which Samsung may well have lost. I imagine they timed their cut from Apple very carefully to ensure there was a reasonable understanding that Apple could transition to another supplier.
That said, the current situation plays into Apple's favor. They *LOVE* being 'limited' 'exclusive' 'hard to find' 'highly sought after.' We know this because every new release of every new product starts with an artificially limited supply which people wait in line for days to get. The mindless frenzy and desire makes their stuff perceptually more valuable.
So once there is an announcement of iPhone and other iThing shortages, people will freak out trying to buy as quickly as they can. On top of that, it give them an opportunity to make a "v2" of the iPhone 5 to fix its problems.
Reminds me of when the Motorola RAZR came out. It was a revolution in terms of size and general look and feel. It was a kind of slick that no one has ever seen before and I wanted one badly!
Well... I never got one... time went by, I had whatever it was I had at different times... my life is no better or worse for not having had that phone.
I've got Galaxy S2 now and have been eyeing the S3... but you know? I'm starting to rethink that too. Perhaps the Google Nexus would be better for me. With all this advertised processor power and stuff, I find myself wondering why I need it. My Angry birds games play just fine... they played fine on my Galaxy S too.
I guess I don't need the newest whatever.
But you know who should feel shame and humiliation? iPhone users. They have no idea what they are giving up and their iThing is just like everyone else's iThing. Hardly 'Thinking Different' when everyone is doing it.
Paint for me, if you will, a method by which you could accomplish an effective defense without putting the victim's own actions and character in question?
Circumstantial evidence appears to back Zimmerman's story. But that's not enough for some people. So under this situation, because the victim is a legal minor, should we simply accept the fate of conviction simply because we don't want to blame the victim?
If you were robbed at gunpoint, let's say, and you fought back and won leaving the victim dead... and the victim was also a young black male (keep in mind that this scenario has played out numerous times in fact and in reality -- please don't deny that young black males have performed armed robbery) would you give up your case because it would might seem "unseemly" to accuse the dead? YOU KILLED A CHILD!!! Right?
In this case, the factors are simply not clear. The victim cannot speak, but the public is speaking for him in the form of doctored photos, out of date photos, ommissions of various sorts and, of course, out-right denial.
Please tell me how a fair trial could occur unless the defense is allowed to substantiate his case?
Zimmerman is visibly hispanic. But the ethnicity of any of these parties isn't entirely relevant except for the fact that he fit the very profile of the criminals which were, at the time, visiting their neighborhood. It is the public outcries which are making this a racial issue. Want to blame someone? Look to the people who make the initial claims of racial bias.
When your defense is "protecting yourself from an attacker" then yes. When the defending question is "was he fighting or in fear for his life?" then yes, that is the appropriate response. If someone tells you the story of an encounter, are you not curious as to whether or not the defendant's claims are true? Or, instead are you only concerned that the victim is dead and you presume is blameless for the encounter and its result?
I am in favor of getting at some truth beyond reasonable doubt. If you seek to limit the evidence presented in defense, then, in the words of Samsung's lawyers, "Why have a trial at all?!"
One of the driving factors behind the design and intent of the US justice system is to give the accused the most fair trial process possible. It might disturb someone to consider the notion that defendants have rights... that is, until you become a defendant yourself eh?
At first I was going to argue against your point, but then I realized I couldn't easily do that. What you say is generally true. That said:
- Someone should defent the environment and hold polluters accountable. There has been MUCH human suffering resulting from commercial pollution. - Malpractice law... I don't have experience per se, but I think malpractice is kind of bullshit. I think every doctor wants to do a good job and certainly whatever is best for the patient. Doctors are human and don't know EVERYTHING. - Government unions? Ugh... Government seeking to avoid them resort to expensive contractor services which usually waste a LOT of money. - Education trolls? Sorry... I don't follow. I know what the educational systems are up against. I see no trolls there. Education has been and remains on the losing side of things. Want to fix the problems? Stop paying school administrators $300,000 a year and do something about the cost of books. - Disability lawsuit trolls? Hold insurers responsible for honoring their agreements and hold employers responsible for their working conditions. Auto accidents? Sorry, but that's got to go. Driving on the public streets are an unpredictable hazzard. Short of criminal negligence and drunk driving, that's as far as it needs to go. - Defense appro... what?! We know they waste money. But to call them trolls? No. They sleep with the government to get their favors. This practice goes by a different name. Not troll. - Green energy research is simply required to make any sort of progress. There was no progress into space without "useless research" to get us there. Not every bit of research turns into viable results. Without it, we are stuck in a hopeless cycle spinning around until we die. - Shareholders NEED to sue the companies who are not representing their interests. The capital raising jackasses who sell interest in their companies and then do not follow the interests of the shareholders are committing fraud. I just can't get behind that. - Race grievance trolls? Hell yeah... get rid of them. In this world, you have to play the game by the rules. Sometimes you can change the rules to suit you, but mostly you just join in under the existing rules and maybe change the game from within. There was a time for race equality. But now? It is simply crap. - Class action trolls. There needs to be a better way and there should be rules for that which do not include lawyers getting millions of dollars. They need to get their hourly rate and nothing more... and it needs to be reasonable. This definitely needs regulation. - Farm trolls? I'm not sure that was their idea. At least initially, it was to keep farmers from over-producing and the product from being undervalued. Individual farmers will not do this without incentive. There has to be a better way, but it can't be by socializing agriculture.
But generally, I agree with you. There are a LOT of players out there sucking the life out of the economy. They should all be dealt with. The problem is that you view resembles the views of Adolf Hitler. I don't disagree with Hitler... except for, perhaps, his methods.
Associations with drugs and violence and burglury are all well established in Martin's history. The pictures associated with NO_LIMIT_NIGGA which was initially denied as being Martin's turned out to be Martin's after all.
The kid was a picture perfect... no, Hollywood perfect model of a thug in training. That he was a minor protected him from most of justice system, but as trends go, he was a perfect candidate for entry into the system. I mean really. Did you look at this guy and the doctoring of the photos they did of him?
The people promoting his innocense are simply and utterly shameless. They KNOW what they are doing. To edit the photo of him in a hoodie to make him look like a child wasn't just "enhancing" the image. They doctored it to create a false appearance and false impression. Can you offer a plausible and reasonable explanation to the contrary?
His twitter account is truly damning of his image. Truly damning... even from the name of it. Based on the circumstancial evidence of his character, it's just bad. The rest of his character references? Well... let's see how it all goes, but so far, it's not looking good. His "friends" wasted no time in confirming that the NO_LIMIT_NIGGA twitter account was his as were all the thug pictures associated with it.
Looks like a thug. Acts like a thug. Thinks like a thug. Behaves like a thug. Would it really be racist or prejudiced of me to think he was a thug?
My argument is that Windows 8, if it can success on tablets and phones, will never stand a chance. The public has already rejected those things due, in large part, to Microsoft's inability to commit to a platform other than PCs running on Intel chips.
EVERY Windows phone has been a failure. EVERY Windows handheld device has been a failure. The market shows very little interest in these devices and "compatibility with PC applications" is pretty low on the public's mind. If Windows8's best hope is in Mobile devices, you might as well start writing your eulogy now.
This kid was pretty much on the path to prison. Sure, there was always "hope" but there's a long list of people in prison who also had hope.
I want every young man to clean up and straighten out, but it's just not going to happen. It'd be amazing for society, but the trends and statistics do not support the desire. If you were to dig into crime and behavior statistics, you would find some overwhelmingly damning data which clashes with our society's idealistic and hopeful image of things.
But I'll just leave you with this:
Humans are animals. And the chemical and biological content of each human determines thought and behavior. You can go into spiritual ideas all you like, but at the end of the day, we ALL understand that chemical and biochemical influences on the human body occur and lead to all manner of behaviors, both good and bad and everything in between. (Think postpardum depression, manic depression, alcoholism, PMS and more) We know this about ourselves.
We also know dogs are animals... capable of learning and training. Yet beyond that, we will trust our children around a collie more than a pit bull. Why? Because we know about the different breeds and the behaviors of those breeds.
Why is it so hard to face up to certain facts about human breeds?
It would be less slanted of you to say "the homicide" than "the murder."
I have followed all sorts of stuff about this case and have found two serious problems colliding here. The first is a person who was clearly frustrated with his neighborhood and the crime going on all around there generally committed by "not middle-aged white females" if you get my drift... also a person who had his own issues of self-importance and lack of good personality control. Not an ideal condition on Zimmerman's side of things. The second is a community which supports and defends all young black males with blind faith against anything and everything. (Check this story to see some obvious parallels: http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/black-mob-picks-the-wrong-guy/) It does not matter to them that the deceased was a person with behavior problems of his own or that he had a documented past of similar behaviors to the ones being alleged as the cause leading to his death. The media fell into place siding with the religious support of a young black male and has blocked every attempt to update the story with truth or facts.
At the end of the day, it should be the truth and the facts which SHOULD bring a conclusion to the case. Unfortunately, other factors are in the way.
It has been a long time in evolving this way, but I think it is finally arriving to that point.
The days of the PC are coming to an end. The PC itself will still be around, of course, but it will be relegated to what is should have always been -- a data and service access device.
The thing is that Microsoft really seized into an opportunity by making itself the one main OS. We all watched as Microsoft built its Windows into what we see today. Protocol standards being embraced and extrended all over. The protocols only Windows used being adapted into standards and implemented under Linux. Document formats... most of us have witnessed the unfolding.
But with the web and the push for standards, even Microsoft could not hold off the inevitability. Microsoft wants badly to own and control the standards platforms everyone operates from, but they are developing faster than Microsoft can maintain while at the same time maintain its core products and services.
Microsoft is still very entrenched and they are still playing their strategies hard and will slow the downhill slide as people and business begin to favor and demand support for devices which are not PCs running MS Windows. All Microsoft phones and tablet efforts so far have been rejected and determined to be a failure and all predictions say this will not change. Microsoft is unable to leverage its PC monopoly to grow into other markets as people are generally untrusting of anything with Microsoft on the labels of handhelds and other devices... and if they tried, they will no doubt find themselves back in court.
I find it difficult to imagine anything other than Microsoft shrinking down to its core and waiting for its next opportunity or simply being killed off by the next thing... the next thing which hasn't come around just yet, but it's not hard to imagine some form of Android stepping in.
So what's new here? When you keep our data on someone else's server and then pay them for access to it, guess what you're doing?
I'm sure what I am saying now is has been repeated dozens of times above, but damn... obvious is obvious. The public needs to hear more about this issue.
This "Anonymous" is 4Chan and the crowd. They helped to participate in Todd's suffering. Next, they had a new target and went on to make him suffer. A new jackass pops up to participate in the event by placing a dead-girl picture next to a picture of Todd and he made himself yet another target.
Anonymous is not a bunch of do-gooders. They simply select "worthy targets" and try to make their lives hell. It's never about justice. But what's a worthy target? Anyone they feel is stupid. Todd was stupid for appearing nude on the internet and more stupid for getting angry about it and not learning about the Streissand effect. It goes on and on like that. And this target #2? He's just another of those 4Chanimals. They will turn on each other because they are not really a group or a collective. They don't travel in packs... they just go to the same web site(s) and screw around with each other for fun. And a few of them don't have a reasonable notion of what "too much" or "too far" is.
Of course, people will misunderstand the nature of these Anonymous people and somehow think they are of like mind and in some way organized. That's just not the case.
Seems like when government defends business, it invariably means the government is defending its own interests in some way. What is Google serving up to government?
No one is to blame. Each plays their parts. Each serving their own interests. None of them can do any of it alone.
The story of the DMCA is a perfect example of deep, dark corruption at play though. There is no escaping that it can't happen without corrupt politicians willing to sell out the rights of the people.
While I can't advocate violence as I can't imagine myself participating in such a thing, if I were to pick up a news paper to find some sort of news story where citizens responded to this type of corruption against a politician or a business interest, I would not be... uh... what's the word... disappointed? upset? I don't know what the best words might be, but I can say I would certainly understand the motivation behind it.
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Send me your money and I'll keep it in my bank account for you... :) Sounds like a wonderful idea. Want my paypal email account?
Actually, this is still capitalism... or the free market or whatever you like. #1 The sellers do whatever the market will bear. #2 The buyers do not want to bear it while they have alternatives. So what's the end-game here? Well? I suppose it depends on whether or not the government was getting tax revenue from these higher prices. If they were, then you can bet there will be some sort of legislation against the use of proxies or similar methods to avoid price fixing scams... or "tax avoidance."
But if this is a bunch of sellers who came to realize "hey! they expect to pay higher prices anyway, so let's make sure they do!" then to hell with them. They will lose.. they will lose without government backing. But that's kind of the way it works everywhere isn't it?
I don't know... I was reading somewhere when I got my Nexus 7 about setting up my own personal cloud storage with my own server and stuff like that. Perhaps it's doubtful other people would be inclined to do something like that, but perhaps they would in light of current personal data concerns.
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It happened.
It was pretty good I guess. I think the point of this article is to highlight how ridiculous this has all become. Parody is ALWAYS protected and he mixed up the words [ostensibly] as a form of parody expression. But rather than fight about it, they [too] would rather give up and give in.
They can't even be civil among themselves, so what hope to we, the little people, have in dealing with this bastards?
To break a contract with them before they had alternatives lined up would have resulted in yet another suit which Samsung may well have lost. I imagine they timed their cut from Apple very carefully to ensure there was a reasonable understanding that Apple could transition to another supplier.
That said, the current situation plays into Apple's favor. They *LOVE* being 'limited' 'exclusive' 'hard to find' 'highly sought after.' We know this because every new release of every new product starts with an artificially limited supply which people wait in line for days to get. The mindless frenzy and desire makes their stuff perceptually more valuable.
So once there is an announcement of iPhone and other iThing shortages, people will freak out trying to buy as quickly as they can. On top of that, it give them an opportunity to make a "v2" of the iPhone 5 to fix its problems.
Ever hook an iPhone to a computer without iTunes and try to move data between the device and the computer?
Also, app freedom is a cost of doing business with Apple.
Reminds me of when the Motorola RAZR came out. It was a revolution in terms of size and general look and feel. It was a kind of slick that no one has ever seen before and I wanted one badly!
Well... I never got one... time went by, I had whatever it was I had at different times... my life is no better or worse for not having had that phone.
I've got Galaxy S2 now and have been eyeing the S3... but you know? I'm starting to rethink that too. Perhaps the Google Nexus would be better for me. With all this advertised processor power and stuff, I find myself wondering why I need it. My Angry birds games play just fine... they played fine on my Galaxy S too.
I guess I don't need the newest whatever.
But you know who should feel shame and humiliation? iPhone users. They have no idea what they are giving up and their iThing is just like everyone else's iThing. Hardly 'Thinking Different' when everyone is doing it.
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Paint for me, if you will, a method by which you could accomplish an effective defense without putting the victim's own actions and character in question?
Circumstantial evidence appears to back Zimmerman's story. But that's not enough for some people. So under this situation, because the victim is a legal minor, should we simply accept the fate of conviction simply because we don't want to blame the victim?
If you were robbed at gunpoint, let's say, and you fought back and won leaving the victim dead... and the victim was also a young black male (keep in mind that this scenario has played out numerous times in fact and in reality -- please don't deny that young black males have performed armed robbery) would you give up your case because it would might seem "unseemly" to accuse the dead? YOU KILLED A CHILD!!! Right?
In this case, the factors are simply not clear. The victim cannot speak, but the public is speaking for him in the form of doctored photos, out of date photos, ommissions of various sorts and, of course, out-right denial.
Please tell me how a fair trial could occur unless the defense is allowed to substantiate his case?
Zimmerman is visibly hispanic. But the ethnicity of any of these parties isn't entirely relevant except for the fact that he fit the very profile of the criminals which were, at the time, visiting their neighborhood. It is the public outcries which are making this a racial issue. Want to blame someone? Look to the people who make the initial claims of racial bias.
When your defense is "protecting yourself from an attacker" then yes. When the defending question is "was he fighting or in fear for his life?" then yes, that is the appropriate response. If someone tells you the story of an encounter, are you not curious as to whether or not the defendant's claims are true? Or, instead are you only concerned that the victim is dead and you presume is blameless for the encounter and its result?
I am in favor of getting at some truth beyond reasonable doubt. If you seek to limit the evidence presented in defense, then, in the words of Samsung's lawyers, "Why have a trial at all?!"
One of the driving factors behind the design and intent of the US justice system is to give the accused the most fair trial process possible. It might disturb someone to consider the notion that defendants have rights... that is, until you become a defendant yourself eh?
At first I was going to argue against your point, but then I realized I couldn't easily do that. What you say is generally true. That said:
- Someone should defent the environment and hold polluters accountable. There has been MUCH human suffering resulting from commercial pollution.
- Malpractice law... I don't have experience per se, but I think malpractice is kind of bullshit. I think every doctor wants to do a good job and certainly whatever is best for the patient. Doctors are human and don't know EVERYTHING.
- Government unions? Ugh... Government seeking to avoid them resort to expensive contractor services which usually waste a LOT of money.
- Education trolls? Sorry... I don't follow. I know what the educational systems are up against. I see no trolls there. Education has been and remains on the losing side of things. Want to fix the problems? Stop paying school administrators $300,000 a year and do something about the cost of books.
- Disability lawsuit trolls? Hold insurers responsible for honoring their agreements and hold employers responsible for their working conditions. Auto accidents? Sorry, but that's got to go. Driving on the public streets are an unpredictable hazzard. Short of criminal negligence and drunk driving, that's as far as it needs to go.
- Defense appro... what?! We know they waste money. But to call them trolls? No. They sleep with the government to get their favors. This practice goes by a different name. Not troll.
- Green energy research is simply required to make any sort of progress. There was no progress into space without "useless research" to get us there. Not every bit of research turns into viable results. Without it, we are stuck in a hopeless cycle spinning around until we die.
- Shareholders NEED to sue the companies who are not representing their interests. The capital raising jackasses who sell interest in their companies and then do not follow the interests of the shareholders are committing fraud. I just can't get behind that.
- Race grievance trolls? Hell yeah... get rid of them. In this world, you have to play the game by the rules. Sometimes you can change the rules to suit you, but mostly you just join in under the existing rules and maybe change the game from within. There was a time for race equality. But now? It is simply crap.
- Class action trolls. There needs to be a better way and there should be rules for that which do not include lawyers getting millions of dollars. They need to get their hourly rate and nothing more... and it needs to be reasonable. This definitely needs regulation.
- Farm trolls? I'm not sure that was their idea. At least initially, it was to keep farmers from over-producing and the product from being undervalued. Individual farmers will not do this without incentive. There has to be a better way, but it can't be by socializing agriculture.
But generally, I agree with you. There are a LOT of players out there sucking the life out of the economy. They should all be dealt with. The problem is that you view resembles the views of Adolf Hitler. I don't disagree with Hitler... except for, perhaps, his methods.
Associations with drugs and violence and burglury are all well established in Martin's history. The pictures associated with NO_LIMIT_NIGGA which was initially denied as being Martin's turned out to be Martin's after all.
The kid was a picture perfect... no, Hollywood perfect model of a thug in training. That he was a minor protected him from most of justice system, but as trends go, he was a perfect candidate for entry into the system. I mean really. Did you look at this guy and the doctoring of the photos they did of him?
http://sadhillnews.com/2012/03/25/the-trayvon-martin-our-government-subsidized-media-wont-let-you-see
The people promoting his innocense are simply and utterly shameless. They KNOW what they are doing. To edit the photo of him in a hoodie to make him look like a child wasn't just "enhancing" the image. They doctored it to create a false appearance and false impression. Can you offer a plausible and reasonable explanation to the contrary?
His twitter account is truly damning of his image. Truly damning... even from the name of it. Based on the circumstancial evidence of his character, it's just bad. The rest of his character references? Well... let's see how it all goes, but so far, it's not looking good. His "friends" wasted no time in confirming that the NO_LIMIT_NIGGA twitter account was his as were all the thug pictures associated with it.
Looks like a thug. Acts like a thug. Thinks like a thug. Behaves like a thug. Would it really be racist or prejudiced of me to think he was a thug?
My argument is that Windows 8, if it can success on tablets and phones, will never stand a chance. The public has already rejected those things due, in large part, to Microsoft's inability to commit to a platform other than PCs running on Intel chips.
EVERY Windows phone has been a failure. EVERY Windows handheld device has been a failure. The market shows very little interest in these devices and "compatibility with PC applications" is pretty low on the public's mind. If Windows8's best hope is in Mobile devices, you might as well start writing your eulogy now.
This kid was pretty much on the path to prison. Sure, there was always "hope" but there's a long list of people in prison who also had hope.
I want every young man to clean up and straighten out, but it's just not going to happen. It'd be amazing for society, but the trends and statistics do not support the desire. If you were to dig into crime and behavior statistics, you would find some overwhelmingly damning data which clashes with our society's idealistic and hopeful image of things.
But I'll just leave you with this:
Humans are animals. And the chemical and biological content of each human determines thought and behavior. You can go into spiritual ideas all you like, but at the end of the day, we ALL understand that chemical and biochemical influences on the human body occur and lead to all manner of behaviors, both good and bad and everything in between. (Think postpardum depression, manic depression, alcoholism, PMS and more) We know this about ourselves.
We also know dogs are animals... capable of learning and training. Yet beyond that, we will trust our children around a collie more than a pit bull. Why? Because we know about the different breeds and the behaviors of those breeds.
Why is it so hard to face up to certain facts about human breeds?
I am not so certain of the notion of leading to riots these days.
There have been enough other cases... smaller ones, which paint other pictures.
Sure. There will be many blindly upset people. There will always be those people. We have to accept that and I'm pretty sure the courts accept it.
It would be less slanted of you to say "the homicide" than "the murder."
I have followed all sorts of stuff about this case and have found two serious problems colliding here. The first is a person who was clearly frustrated with his neighborhood and the crime going on all around there generally committed by "not middle-aged white females" if you get my drift... also a person who had his own issues of self-importance and lack of good personality control. Not an ideal condition on Zimmerman's side of things. The second is a community which supports and defends all young black males with blind faith against anything and everything. (Check this story to see some obvious parallels: http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/black-mob-picks-the-wrong-guy/) It does not matter to them that the deceased was a person with behavior problems of his own or that he had a documented past of similar behaviors to the ones being alleged as the cause leading to his death. The media fell into place siding with the religious support of a young black male and has blocked every attempt to update the story with truth or facts.
At the end of the day, it should be the truth and the facts which SHOULD bring a conclusion to the case. Unfortunately, other factors are in the way.
It has been a long time in evolving this way, but I think it is finally arriving to that point.
The days of the PC are coming to an end. The PC itself will still be around, of course, but it will be relegated to what is should have always been -- a data and service access device.
The thing is that Microsoft really seized into an opportunity by making itself the one main OS. We all watched as Microsoft built its Windows into what we see today. Protocol standards being embraced and extrended all over. The protocols only Windows used being adapted into standards and implemented under Linux. Document formats... most of us have witnessed the unfolding.
But with the web and the push for standards, even Microsoft could not hold off the inevitability. Microsoft wants badly to own and control the standards platforms everyone operates from, but they are developing faster than Microsoft can maintain while at the same time maintain its core products and services.
Microsoft is still very entrenched and they are still playing their strategies hard and will slow the downhill slide as people and business begin to favor and demand support for devices which are not PCs running MS Windows. All Microsoft phones and tablet efforts so far have been rejected and determined to be a failure and all predictions say this will not change. Microsoft is unable to leverage its PC monopoly to grow into other markets as people are generally untrusting of anything with Microsoft on the labels of handhelds and other devices... and if they tried, they will no doubt find themselves back in court.
I find it difficult to imagine anything other than Microsoft shrinking down to its core and waiting for its next opportunity or simply being killed off by the next thing... the next thing which hasn't come around just yet, but it's not hard to imagine some form of Android stepping in.
As a law abiding person, you should expect her to turn herself in.
So what's new here? When you keep our data on someone else's server and then pay them for access to it, guess what you're doing?
I'm sure what I am saying now is has been repeated dozens of times above, but damn... obvious is obvious. The public needs to hear more about this issue.
This "Anonymous" is 4Chan and the crowd. They helped to participate in Todd's suffering. Next, they had a new target and went on to make him suffer. A new jackass pops up to participate in the event by placing a dead-girl picture next to a picture of Todd and he made himself yet another target.
Anonymous is not a bunch of do-gooders. They simply select "worthy targets" and try to make their lives hell. It's never about justice. But what's a worthy target? Anyone they feel is stupid. Todd was stupid for appearing nude on the internet and more stupid for getting angry about it and not learning about the Streissand effect. It goes on and on like that. And this target #2? He's just another of those 4Chanimals. They will turn on each other because they are not really a group or a collective. They don't travel in packs... they just go to the same web site(s) and screw around with each other for fun. And a few of them don't have a reasonable notion of what "too much" or "too far" is.
Of course, people will misunderstand the nature of these Anonymous people and somehow think they are of like mind and in some way organized. That's just not the case.
Ooops... sent before I was done.
Seems like when government defends business, it invariably means the government is defending its own interests in some way. What is Google serving up to government?
Regardless of your position (that is, what team you may be rooting for) I think generally speaking, we're all responding with the same sigh of dread.
You haven't learned from history? The rich people hire stupid people to carry guns on their behalf.
These devices which draw more energy? Do they not output more results?
No one is to blame. Each plays their parts. Each serving their own interests. None of them can do any of it alone.
The story of the DMCA is a perfect example of deep, dark corruption at play though. There is no escaping that it can't happen without corrupt politicians willing to sell out the rights of the people.
While I can't advocate violence as I can't imagine myself participating in such a thing, if I were to pick up a news paper to find some sort of news story where citizens responded to this type of corruption against a politician or a business interest, I would not be... uh... what's the word... disappointed? upset? I don't know what the best words might be, but I can say I would certainly understand the motivation behind it.