USAID is suppose to be an aide organization. The moment they have to start laundering money they have gone off the reservation and entered CIA territory.
If you think USAID has ever been an "aid" organization, I have a bridge you might be interested in.
As a Dane im proud that the Secretary General of NATO and the Danish foreign minister is in front with sanctions against Russia. Putin is effectively destroying what has created lasting peace in Europe from the last 69 years. Putin will keep pushing, until we stand firm. Then he will pick as with someone else...even the gay community, anything that will take eyes of the fact that he rules the country like a dictator. But, the US Russian space cooperation was first initiated as a sign of good will. It will always stand as one of the greatest examples of respect, despite differences. I want to keep the space cooperation out of any foreign relations.
As a Serb that watched part of his country being taken away (while being bombed), let me tell you this:
Fuck you and your moral high-ground
I am so incredibly tired of heading/reading all the hypocrisy for the past 20 years. It appears people, in general, are really stupid and blind.
Yet again its forced outrage against basically something which is common sense - if the file has been taken down before, its going to be again, and the less man power Dropbox expends while handling DCMA requests the better for them as a company.
As we have seen before, noone would ever file an invalid DMCA takedown request.
The difference is that Limbaugh doesn't speak for a state-controlled news agency, and thus Limbaugh's opinions are only that of a single man with a microphone and do not represent the government of an entire country.
Wait - you believe that something being said on state owned TV station is in the name of government and entire country?
What is wrong with you people?
You probably never lived in a country with 'state owned TV' if you can make statements this retarded. Sigh.
For as long as Putin and his cronies are in power, the U.S. and the rest of the western world should offer any law-abiding Russian citizen who wants to leave an automatic green card, work permit, etc. We cannot realistically or morally change Russia from the outside. The most powerful weapon against fanaticism would be allowing regular law-abiding Russians to vote with their feet. We could always use some more scientists and engineers anyway...
What is worrying is that you might be serious about things you say. Is that what you really believe?
Most of this thing is just common sense technological progress. If Apple didn't come up with it, someone else inevitably would have. There wasn't any spark of genius required.
Seriously, if you come here to talk about how this isn't a fundamental bitcoin problem, you deserve to have your noise smacked with newspaper like a dog.
The only 'benefit' bitcoin has is that its unregulated and not as well watched by the government... which means its easy for people to just steal your money and lie about it... I'm sorry, its easy for someone to setup an exchange and let someone else steal the coins from the 'hot wallet', whatever the fuck that is.
Before you open your mouth to defend bitcoin....
THIS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOUR STUPID DUMB ASSES ABOUT, NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP, ITS A SHITTY IDEA.
I am wondering if you have even the slightest idea about how stupid you are.
I got the feeling that Czechoslovakia didn't feel all that liberated. Nor Hungary, Romania, Poland or Yugoslavia. Swapping one mad bastard for another isn't liberation.
How can you even debate a topic, when you get one major thing wrong at the start?
Do you even realize what is horribly wrong/inaccurate in your silly statement?
I recently checked Reddit's/r/bitcoin, to see how the True Believers were taking the latest developments. To hear them say it, Bitcoin has already recovered off its lows, which mean everything is fine and all this bad news is just FUD spread by haters. Bitcoin believers truly live in their own universe.
Secondly, the guy responsible, a 29 year old banker who was literally asleep when it all went down, insists that the virtual money was in the account and it was set to autopay. People close to this suggest the word for this is "bullshit", but it has been "petitioned" -- a claim by a player that the server screwed up. This isn't without precident, as the game is currently limping about with it standings system broken. Standings is basically Eve's IFF system. Right now, nobody in the game can tell friend from foe. Needless to say, it's a massive issue. So it's possible they farked up, but unlikely.
Standings issue is the screwup that occured after deployment of new update, yesterday,
A day after the 'autopay' thing you are talking about.
Stop talking nonsense and trying to rationalize, please. I understand that losing hurts, but don't be a silly liar.
Can we just fess up and admit that SteamOS is an effort predicated on a personal beef Gabe Newell has with Microsoft and especially the fact that Windows 8 included it's own store and that store was not Steam. The story is well documented and the whole industry is going to blow a lot of money on development just to satisfy one man's ego.
Yea, because Gabe is a jedi master who makes other people do things he wants.
Please, stop the nonsense. I can bet my left nut that Gabe and people working on Steam machines know a thing or two more than you about PC hardware and/or gaming, and are not just mind-controlled by Gabe.
Reasons and everything else have also been well documented, and are certainly not based on a hunch that someone has about Gabe's ego.
Desktop/PC is not dead. It's just that people, until now, didn't have any other option than to purchase a PC, in order to do tasks they are interested in.
Now that they can get a tablet/phone to do this, they don't need PC. They never did. They just didn't have a choice.
Yes, because it would have been a much better proposition to start churning out more disposable Android phones in an already over saturated market. At least wp8 gives them some market differential.
It sure does. Market share shows it.
Nokia sold out its soul to get few shitty percent share on US market.
For all Its faults, the NSA is more of a flawed character than an evil one. It does have a particular job to do, the job it's supposed to do is a worthwhile one, and for the most part "our"* criticism of it has to do with its methods, not its mandate. We do, actually, want to know what foreign governments are up to, especially in terms of what those governments might be planning that severely affects America's interests. We do, actually, want our government to know what terrorists are up to, as part of a combined good faith effort to counter-act them.
Blah, blah, blah.
Tell me - what kind of society expects "population" to obey the rule of law, as long as "population" does not work in government agency?
What exactly makes NSA cyber criminals immune to laws that are being applied to the rest of the population?
The fact that they "work for government"?
Everyone is equal before the law... unless they work for the government agency?
Would you like me to explain you where that leads? Well, it doesn't really lead anymore, you've already go there.
Anyone who thinks Symbian was a decent alternative OS and that abandoning it for virtually ANYTHING else was a mistake needs to have their head examined. In fact I'd credit sticking to Symbian for too long with as much of Nokias problems as anything else.
Symbian was a phone OS. Not an 'alternative' OS (whatever you mean by that). And it was the best phone OS.
You know, for people who want to have a phone, and not a miniaturized computer that runs shitty OS which spend more time tracking you than letting you use it.
Honestly, I just can't get worked up about this justified censorship. Until Apple releases some kind of official solution (which might very well be "send it in for repair"), giving out wrong solutions just increases the amount of trouble involved. Having managed a help desk before, I've seen how often we had to waste time undoing users' community-given fixes for problems, like adding RAM to remove a virus (thanks, Geek Squad!). By resorting to the warranty's options, Apple's operational cost rises, and the user still doesn't have wi-fi on their phone.
So, how long do you think people should wait for Apple to give "some kind of official solution"?
A day? Week? Month? Year?
I mean, I can't see why people would be upset that device which they paid hundreds of dollars for does not work and they also have no idea how long before they would be given "some kind of official solution".
It is just natural to wait for weeks/months in such situations, isn't it?
From these "world leaders" to journalists, why all of the 'surprise?' Spying is one of the things that governments do, ALL of them. They ALL spy on their allies and foes alike and it has always been this way. In the US/Israel context, we both spy on each other all day, every day, and assist with information on other countries too. France does the same thing, so does England. Nothing new here.
I think you might be confusing "spying" with "breaking all kinds of local and international laws, crossing all possible lines and doing acts to others on a daily basis which your own government considers as acts of war".
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USAID is suppose to be an aide organization. The moment they have to start laundering money they have gone off the reservation and entered CIA territory.
If you think USAID has ever been an "aid" organization, I have a bridge you might be interested in.
As a Dane im proud that the Secretary General of NATO and the Danish foreign minister is in front with sanctions against Russia. Putin is effectively destroying what has created lasting peace in Europe from the last 69 years. Putin will keep pushing, until we stand firm. Then he will pick as with someone else...even the gay community, anything that will take eyes of the fact that he rules the country like a dictator. But, the US Russian space cooperation was first initiated as a sign of good will. It will always stand as one of the greatest examples of respect, despite differences. I want to keep the space cooperation out of any foreign relations.
As a Serb that watched part of his country being taken away (while being bombed), let me tell you this:
Fuck you and your moral high-ground
I am so incredibly tired of heading/reading all the hypocrisy for the past 20 years. It appears people, in general, are really stupid and blind.
Yet again its forced outrage against basically something which is common sense - if the file has been taken down before, its going to be again, and the less man power Dropbox expends while handling DCMA requests the better for them as a company.
As we have seen before, noone would ever file an invalid DMCA takedown request.
Are you a fucking idiot, or you work at DropBox?
The difference is that Limbaugh doesn't speak for a state-controlled news agency, and thus Limbaugh's opinions are only that of a single man with a microphone and do not represent the government of an entire country.
Wait - you believe that something being said on state owned TV station is in the name of government and entire country?
What is wrong with you people?
You probably never lived in a country with 'state owned TV' if you can make statements this retarded. Sigh.
For as long as Putin and his cronies are in power, the U.S. and the rest of the western world should offer any law-abiding Russian citizen who wants to leave an automatic green card, work permit, etc. We cannot realistically or morally change Russia from the outside. The most powerful weapon against fanaticism would be allowing regular law-abiding Russians to vote with their feet. We could always use some more scientists and engineers anyway...
What is worrying is that you might be serious about things you say. Is that what you really believe?
Most of this thing is just common sense technological progress. If Apple didn't come up with it, someone else inevitably would have. There wasn't any spark of genius required.
They didn't come up with it.
They just managed to patent it.
rocks ... doesn't it.
This is what you wanted right?
Seriously, if you come here to talk about how this isn't a fundamental bitcoin problem, you deserve to have your noise smacked with newspaper like a dog.
The only 'benefit' bitcoin has is that its unregulated and not as well watched by the government ... which means its easy for people to just steal your money and lie about it ... I'm sorry, its easy for someone to setup an exchange and let someone else steal the coins from the 'hot wallet', whatever the fuck that is.
Before you open your mouth to defend bitcoin ....
THIS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOUR STUPID DUMB ASSES ABOUT, NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP, ITS A SHITTY IDEA.
I am wondering if you have even the slightest idea about how stupid you are.
Probably not :(
I got the feeling that Czechoslovakia didn't feel all that liberated. Nor Hungary, Romania, Poland or Yugoslavia. Swapping one mad bastard for another isn't liberation.
How can you even debate a topic, when you get one major thing wrong at the start?
Do you even realize what is horribly wrong/inaccurate in your silly statement?
Wait, some people believe "goto fail" was a "programming error"?
Heh.
I recently checked Reddit's /r/bitcoin, to see how the True Believers were taking the latest developments. To hear them say it, Bitcoin has already recovered off its lows, which mean everything is fine and all this bad news is just FUD spread by haters. Bitcoin believers truly live in their own universe.
MtGox != Bitcoin
I hope it will come to you eventually.
Secondly, the guy responsible, a 29 year old banker who was literally asleep when it all went down, insists that the virtual money was in the account and it was set to autopay. People close to this suggest the word for this is "bullshit", but it has been "petitioned" -- a claim by a player that the server screwed up. This isn't without precident, as the game is currently limping about with it standings system broken. Standings is basically Eve's IFF system. Right now, nobody in the game can tell friend from foe. Needless to say, it's a massive issue. So it's possible they farked up, but unlikely.
Standings issue is the screwup that occured after deployment of new update, yesterday,
A day after the 'autopay' thing you are talking about.
Stop talking nonsense and trying to rationalize, please. I understand that losing hurts, but don't be a silly liar.
It would be nice to actually have a trial before doing anything.
Can we just fess up and admit that SteamOS is an effort predicated on a personal beef Gabe Newell has with Microsoft and especially the fact that Windows 8 included it's own store and that store was not Steam. The story is well documented and the whole industry is going to blow a lot of money on development just to satisfy one man's ego.
Yea, because Gabe is a jedi master who makes other people do things he wants.
Please, stop the nonsense. I can bet my left nut that Gabe and people working on Steam machines know a thing or two more than you about PC hardware and/or gaming, and are not just mind-controlled by Gabe.
Reasons and everything else have also been well documented, and are certainly not based on a hunch that someone has about Gabe's ego.
All islamic terrorists - therefore pretty much all of the violent ones - hate us for not being Muslim, full stop.
How is that a "pretty valid reason"?
Any other reason they claim to hate us for doesn't ever stop the hate when we address it.
I am really not sure whether you are serious or jus trolling.
I hope you're trolling, for your sanity sake.
Yeah, I don't see why there's so much shock. "US ally assists US spy agency in spying." Wow. My flabber is truly gasted.
What they are doing is not spying.
I surely hope you understand that. If you do not, then no amount of talk will explain you the difference.
You have to understand it for yourself.
Desktop/PC is not dead. It's just that people, until now, didn't have any other option than to purchase a PC, in order to do tasks they are interested in.
Now that they can get a tablet/phone to do this, they don't need PC. They never did. They just didn't have a choice.
Yes, because it would have been a much better proposition to start churning out more disposable Android phones in an already over saturated market. At least wp8 gives them some market differential.
It sure does. Market share shows it.
Nokia sold out its soul to get few shitty percent share on US market.
If that's what they wanted...
Of course, they haven't broken any/all the laws, because some secret people in secret room said so.
Laws only apply to "other people", obviously.
For all Its faults, the NSA is more of a flawed character than an evil one. It does have a particular job to do, the job it's supposed to do is a worthwhile one, and for the most part "our"* criticism of it has to do with its methods, not its mandate. We do, actually, want to know what foreign governments are up to, especially in terms of what those governments might be planning that severely affects America's interests. We do, actually, want our government to know what terrorists are up to, as part of a combined good faith effort to counter-act them.
Blah, blah, blah.
Tell me - what kind of society expects "population" to obey the rule of law, as long as "population" does not work in government agency?
What exactly makes NSA cyber criminals immune to laws that are being applied to the rest of the population?
The fact that they "work for government"?
Everyone is equal before the law... unless they work for the government agency?
Would you like me to explain you where that leads? Well, it doesn't really lead anymore, you've already go there.
Anyone who thinks Symbian was a decent alternative OS and that abandoning it for virtually ANYTHING else was a mistake needs to have their head examined. In fact I'd credit sticking to Symbian for too long with as much of Nokias problems as anything else.
Symbian was a phone OS. Not an 'alternative' OS (whatever you mean by that). And it was the best phone OS.
You know, for people who want to have a phone, and not a miniaturized computer that runs shitty OS which spend more time tracking you than letting you use it.
Blackberry stuck with their own stuff, which was even relatively entrenched in the enterprise... a lot of good it did them.
This is the most retarded comparison you could think of.
Nokia had excellent products and a very large and loyal 'user base'.
Blackberry had nothing similar.
...in the US is called "lobbying".
Quite sad, actually.
Honestly, I just can't get worked up about this justified censorship. Until Apple releases some kind of official solution (which might very well be "send it in for repair"), giving out wrong solutions just increases the amount of trouble involved. Having managed a help desk before, I've seen how often we had to waste time undoing users' community-given fixes for problems, like adding RAM to remove a virus (thanks, Geek Squad!). By resorting to the warranty's options, Apple's operational cost rises, and the user still doesn't have wi-fi on their phone.
So, how long do you think people should wait for Apple to give "some kind of official solution"?
A day? Week? Month? Year?
I mean, I can't see why people would be upset that device which they paid hundreds of dollars for does not work and they also have no idea how long before they would be given "some kind of official solution".
It is just natural to wait for weeks/months in such situations, isn't it?
From these "world leaders" to journalists, why all of the 'surprise?' Spying is one of the things that governments do, ALL of them. They ALL spy on their allies and foes alike and it has always been this way. In the US/Israel context, we both spy on each other all day, every day, and assist with information on other countries too. France does the same thing, so does England. Nothing new here.
I think you might be confusing "spying" with "breaking all kinds of local and international laws, crossing all possible lines and doing acts to others on a daily basis which your own government considers as acts of war".
But please, just keep justifying.
The US has an independent press that's always critical of the government, no matter which politcal party is in power, like the New York Times.
Now, this is a good joke :)