The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
The problem with this is that a gun or guns, or even a million people with guns has absolutely no chance against today's military. Blast your AR-15s at as many predator drones as you like. It will not do you a bit of good. If you do not win the military to your cause, then all the guns in the world will not help you fight physically against any tyranny the government pushes. It just will label you and your ilk as 'terrists'.
I am wondering if there will be a Steambox announcement. Perhaps, but with the announcement of SteamOS, with the flexibility to be either a gaming device itself, or accept in home streams of games from a more powerful machine, I wonder if it will primarily be a spec that other hardware devs can produce, like LG or Samsung.
"Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Gamer, with SteamOS and Gesture Sense UI overlay":P
Op again. Sure, I have a 'gamepad' for my PC. I use it when emulating my old console games. For PC games its WASD + mouse biotches:P.
The implication/hint being that this is a console announcement. However it says they will involve us in the design process. I hope that means we can turn off monitoring and always online aspects!
This morning I saw a line of about 50 people camped out 2 hours in advance at the Verizon store. They like the garden. The only snake in this garden is the owner of it, and apparently they like his bites.
If they accessed email accounts without consent, then it is criminal action, and should be treated accordingly. The managers who signed off on such behaviors and any techs who performed them or created tools to, should be charged and tried with whatever hacking statutes apply. Then the company should be made to pay the victims.
If we are going to be a 'nation of laws' then we need stop being hypocritical in their application. But of course, the law is typically made to bully the small guy to the betterment of the big guy.
Oh, BTW. Name calling does not help your point at all. Next time, actually make an argument, instead of a statement and insults. You'll sound smarter (whether you actually are remains to be seen).
If a lawyer knowingly sends out C&D or settle or we'll sue letters for knowingly invalid or absent patents, it IS fraud and extortion. They willfully misrepresented facts to their clients (and their own) betterment. If the patent is valid, then no they attorneys did not break the law, and it is a symptom af a flawed patent system that needs repair.
In neither case do we need more laws on the books.
Felony conviction is cause for disbarment in most jurisdictions.
If an attorney aids and abets fraud, extortion, or is criminally negligent in defending/prosecuting a case, then fucking charge and convict them of -that- crime. They will still be disbarred, and we will actually be prosecuting crimes that matter, instead of letting those with money and power flout the system so egregiously.
Let us not forget, they ran ALL of freedom hosting and brought down ALL of freedom hosting, even non pedo sites. What do you think would happen if they took over all of AWS because someone set up a child porn server?
In Q2 2010, (around when the dumping was occurring), Exxon reported its worst quarterly profits in years. Some might say that explains this, while not excusing this. Corporate pressure to cut budgets was driving lower managers, etc. However, in that -low- quarter, guess how much net profit (not gross revenue) they reported?
Yep. In one fucking poor quarter they earned nearly 7 billion in profit. But could not bother to dump waste properly. And this was in the USA, with relatively strict, if often bought, environmental laws and protections. Can you imagine what companies like this do in places that do not care or cannot afford enforcement? Where the African dictator of the month just wants a few million to arm his army of children that go village raping?
This is the type of activity we should be pursuing and punishing. Not Syria, let them kill each other off if they want, lets not make enemies of both sides by dropping bombs and killing innocents (which does happen). Not pot smokers and growers. Not lil Suzy mp3 torrenter. Not Aaron Swartz. Not Snowden.
Anyway, I am done ranting, if you stayed through it you can go back to Football/Idol/TMZ now. Cheers
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Good ol' US of A has "Free Speech Zones" for certain things.
Um.. NaCl == Table Salt. Salt in a wound?
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson
The problem with this is that a gun or guns, or even a million people with guns has absolutely no chance against today's military. Blast your AR-15s at as many predator drones as you like. It will not do you a bit of good. If you do not win the military to your cause, then all the guns in the world will not help you fight physically against any tyranny the government pushes. It just will label you and your ilk as 'terrists'.
The metadata is necessary for the furtherance of the war effort.
The data itself is a flexible as we rewrite it to be.
Google once again shuts down a service/feature, but this time they have the audacity to rub NaCl in the wound. That burns, it really does.
"Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Gamer, with SteamOS and Gesture Sense UI overlay" :P
The original page on steam has two more icons to light up and a new countdown ending 2 days hence. Apparently there are two more announcements to go.
Half Life 3? Left for Dead 3? Portal 3? Team Fortress 3?
The implication/hint being that this is a console announcement. However it says they will involve us in the design process. I hope that means we can turn off monitoring and always online aspects!
They may not have a huge library of linux games, but what they do have are some exclusive AAA titles they could trot out. L4D3, HL3, Portal 3, etc....
OP here. I meant it as derogatory.
This morning I saw a line of about 50 people camped out 2 hours in advance at the Verizon store. They like the garden. The only snake in this garden is the owner of it, and apparently they like his bites.
If we are going to be a 'nation of laws' then we need stop being hypocritical in their application. But of course, the law is typically made to bully the small guy to the betterment of the big guy.
Oh, BTW. Name calling does not help your point at all. Next time, actually make an argument, instead of a statement and insults. You'll sound smarter (whether you actually are remains to be seen).
In neither case do we need more laws on the books.
Felony conviction is cause for disbarment in most jurisdictions.
If an attorney aids and abets fraud, extortion, or is criminally negligent in defending/prosecuting a case, then fucking charge and convict them of -that- crime. They will still be disbarred, and we will actually be prosecuting crimes that matter, instead of letting those with money and power flout the system so egregiously.
Solve the analog shark problem, we will be all set! Sounds like a good darpa project.
Indeed. I am a guy and Limor Freid is one of my heroes. And she is cute :P
Not just this, but force the carriers to blacklist ESN/MEIDs that are reported stolen through the appropriate channels.
I am not mad about your joke at my mothers expense, just that I was going to make the same joke about my ex-wife!
But the person/company on the other end of the transaction very well may.
GLADos in a potato
Let us not forget, they ran ALL of freedom hosting and brought down ALL of freedom hosting, even non pedo sites. What do you think would happen if they took over all of AWS because someone set up a child porn server?
The US gov asked n. Korea to start making noise to distract us from Syria.
In Q2 2010, (around when the dumping was occurring), Exxon reported its worst quarterly profits in years. Some might say that explains this, while not excusing this. Corporate pressure to cut budgets was driving lower managers, etc. However, in that -low- quarter, guess how much net profit (not gross revenue) they reported?
6.86 billion dollars
(source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/01/exxon-2q-profit-lowest-since-2010/2608403/ )
Yep. In one fucking poor quarter they earned nearly 7 billion in profit. But could not bother to dump waste properly. And this was in the USA, with relatively strict, if often bought, environmental laws and protections. Can you imagine what companies like this do in places that do not care or cannot afford enforcement? Where the African dictator of the month just wants a few million to arm his army of children that go village raping?
This is the type of activity we should be pursuing and punishing. Not Syria, let them kill each other off if they want, lets not make enemies of both sides by dropping bombs and killing innocents (which does happen). Not pot smokers and growers. Not lil Suzy mp3 torrenter. Not Aaron Swartz. Not Snowden.
Anyway, I am done ranting, if you stayed through it you can go back to Football/Idol/TMZ now. Cheers