Just because some crusty old men are wrong, that doesn't invalidate the concept upon which the founding father built the country. Go read Scalia or Alito's dissent on the recent DOMA ruling to see how far separated from reality these people have become.
An analogy I like to use is with our well known Miranda rights. Being told "you have the right to remain silent," isn't what grants me those rights. As a citizen of the US, I have those rights by default. A cop doesn't give those rights, he simply makes sure I know about them.
Likewise, neither the Constitution, the Declaration of Independance, nor any other document GRANT the unalienable rights of all men. They simply let us know that as a living, breathing human being, these are the rights we have.
A MUCH smaller subset actually wanted the old start menu back. I know I don't. There are elements of the old start menu that I liked, but most of it was a bad idea. Start -> All Programs was a complete disaster -- lets put a hierarchy of everything installed on your computer in a small non-resizable popup menu. Sorry that was just awful. For anything you need the start MENU for, the start screen is a LOT better.
Maybe I'm in that smaller subset, but the small hierarchical popup menu in alphabetical order was the perfect place for the majority of rarely-used programs, or groups of several versions of the same program, perhaps with slightly different switches. I suppose being able to resize them would have been a nice touch, but they were a pretty good size by default. Turning each of those options into a 2x4 block on the desktop is ungainly at best.
The fact that I have to download some 3rd party app just to make those grid squares is fundamentally broken. If the tiles were just shortcuts, and you could easily "Right-click > New Tile" and point to whatever, that would upgrade it back to just ungainly. But last I checked (admittedly, it's been 6 months since I banged my head against that particular wall), there was no easy path to create your own custom tiles.
"I'm a professional baseball player, and I've never once had to lift a barbell during a game. Why should I spend so much time between games lifting weights?"
Just because you might not be using the exact formulae from calc, that doesn't mean you aren't a better programmer because of it.
Maybe it's just my age showing, but I've always preferred my generation of video games over the current crop. The NES, SNES, Genesis eras. Mega Man, Squaresoft (pre-enix), Sonic, River City Ransom, Altered Beast, etc - and having them all in a single device with simple HDMI output and a real controller - can't beat it
The fact that it might play some new games, and run XMBC sweeten the deal even further.
So the US is like the preacher's daughter, while the UK are the wet-tshirt contest girls
Even if they both get around the same amount, the preacher's daughter feels dirtier, because its coming from repression and filled with shame. At least the UK is comfortable with its dirty behavior, and doesn't try to keep it secret.
Try flipping your H1B into a green card. Not even close to easy.
One minor nit-pick. This is a feature, not a bug. The whole H1B system is not designed as a path to citizenship, but as a path to highly skilled workers on the cheap
Size : Helicopters (or any other manned aircraft) are big... at least big enough for a person to sit in, plus room for things like engines and cameras and whatnot. Gives any random citizen a good chance of seeing the thing, and knowing that he/she is being helicopter surveilled.
Scope : You've gotta have at least one pilot per surveillance helicopter. Two or three pilots of you want round-the-clock surveillance. That puts some serious diminishing returns into trying to record more than just a handful of people. It also vastly increases the number of people who know about the surveillance and thus increases the chance of leaks and whistle-blowers if the surveillance starts getting too Orwellian.
Duration : manned aircraft gotta land every so often so the pilot can eat, sleep, etc. Drones, not so much.
Altitude : a manned aircraft has to stay low enough for the pilots to breathe, or work out a sealed compartment and oxygen systems. Drones are only limited by the requirements on the engines.
I'm sure there are more reasons, but there's a few off the top of my head
For the microphone, I just tune a radio to whatever pop station I can find, and aim that directly at the mic. Maybe switch it up to yodeling every so often, or Gregorian Chants.
Then, once every couple days... BLAMO!!! Balloon or brown paper bag popped right over the mic.
I'm in my early 30s with a cushy corporate engineering gig, I'm married, father of one (so far) and by all accounts a respectable and upstanding citizen. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, we got a babysitter, and invited a friend of my wife's out for drinks. All three of us ended up back at the friends house for a very fun sleep over.
Bring it back to E3, you'd better believe that if I was at E3, I'd be ogling and attempting to flirt with the booth babes. My wife would be too;)
Sure, this guy went out of his way and clearly worked with intent to benefit from Montsano's work... But now GMO companies have a leg up on future cases where some of their seed gets mixed into a larger crop.
This stinks of DRM at the genetic level. And if you'll excuse the tinfoil hat, whose to say the farmer here isn't a Monstano shill, violating the patents in the most egregious fashion possible, if only to ensure Montsano's victory, and set the aforementioned precedent?
Yup. Give it a few months to soak in, and everything on TPB will have the bumpers, credits and metadata stripped.
So when someone downloads Adventure of Big-Chair season 3, the fact that it looks surprisingly like some HBO series is irrelevant if I haven't seen said series. I diligently searched for the name in question, and was not familiar with anything else. Thus I am free and clear.
Essentially, they've separated the contract for service and for hardware.
If you want to pay $600+ up front for the newest handset, then you are free and clear of any contracts. But if you want the same phone for $200, they'll finance the other $450. Cutting out of that early is exactly the same as cutting out of your car loan early, just on a smaller scale.
Duration is key. How long will the effects persist?
There's nothing wrong with keeping Boston on lockdown for a few days, while law enforcement track down these scumbags (or rather, the one still standing) Once the immediate threat ends, that's when we need to pay attention. I imagine Boston will go back to mostly normal in a few days.
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Just because some crusty old men are wrong, that doesn't invalidate the concept upon which the founding father built the country. Go read Scalia or Alito's dissent on the recent DOMA ruling to see how far separated from reality these people have become.
Bingo
An analogy I like to use is with our well known Miranda rights. Being told "you have the right to remain silent," isn't what grants me those rights. As a citizen of the US, I have those rights by default. A cop doesn't give those rights, he simply makes sure I know about them.
Likewise, neither the Constitution, the Declaration of Independance, nor any other document GRANT the unalienable rights of all men. They simply let us know that as a living, breathing human being, these are the rights we have.
A MUCH smaller subset actually wanted the old start menu back. I know I don't. There are elements of the old start menu that I liked, but most of it was a bad idea. Start -> All Programs was a complete disaster -- lets put a hierarchy of everything installed on your computer in a small non-resizable popup menu. Sorry that was just awful. For anything you need the start MENU for, the start screen is a LOT better.
Maybe I'm in that smaller subset, but the small hierarchical popup menu in alphabetical order was the perfect place for the majority of rarely-used programs, or groups of several versions of the same program, perhaps with slightly different switches. I suppose being able to resize them would have been a nice touch, but they were a pretty good size by default. Turning each of those options into a 2x4 block on the desktop is ungainly at best.
The fact that I have to download some 3rd party app just to make those grid squares is fundamentally broken. If the tiles were just shortcuts, and you could easily "Right-click > New Tile" and point to whatever, that would upgrade it back to just ungainly. But last I checked (admittedly, it's been 6 months since I banged my head against that particular wall), there was no easy path to create your own custom tiles.
"I'm a professional baseball player, and I've never once had to lift a barbell during a game. Why should I spend so much time between games lifting weights?"
Just because you might not be using the exact formulae from calc, that doesn't mean you aren't a better programmer because of it.
Hells yes
Maybe it's just my age showing, but I've always preferred my generation of video games over the current crop. The NES, SNES, Genesis eras. Mega Man, Squaresoft (pre-enix), Sonic, River City Ransom, Altered Beast, etc - and having them all in a single device with simple HDMI output and a real controller - can't beat it
The fact that it might play some new games, and run XMBC sweeten the deal even further.
So the US is like the preacher's daughter, while the UK are the wet-tshirt contest girls
Even if they both get around the same amount, the preacher's daughter feels dirtier, because its coming from repression and filled with shame. At least the UK is comfortable with its dirty behavior, and doesn't try to keep it secret.
Try flipping your H1B into a green card. Not even close to easy.
One minor nit-pick. This is a feature, not a bug. The whole H1B system is not designed as a path to citizenship, but as a path to highly skilled workers on the cheap
If the NSA's job is to spy on our enemies (real and/or perceived, foreign and/or domestic) ... then what is the CIA doing?
Size : Helicopters (or any other manned aircraft) are big... at least big enough for a person to sit in, plus room for things like engines and cameras and whatnot. Gives any random citizen a good chance of seeing the thing, and knowing that he/she is being helicopter surveilled.
Scope : You've gotta have at least one pilot per surveillance helicopter. Two or three pilots of you want round-the-clock surveillance. That puts some serious diminishing returns into trying to record more than just a handful of people. It also vastly increases the number of people who know about the surveillance and thus increases the chance of leaks and whistle-blowers if the surveillance starts getting too Orwellian.
Duration : manned aircraft gotta land every so often so the pilot can eat, sleep, etc. Drones, not so much.
Altitude : a manned aircraft has to stay low enough for the pilots to breathe, or work out a sealed compartment and oxygen systems. Drones are only limited by the requirements on the engines.
I'm sure there are more reasons, but there's a few off the top of my head
Then, once every couple days ... BLAMO!!! Balloon or brown paper bag popped right over the mic.
Those things are not mutually exclusive.
I'm in my early 30s with a cushy corporate engineering gig, I'm married, father of one (so far) and by all accounts a respectable and upstanding citizen. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, we got a babysitter, and invited a friend of my wife's out for drinks. All three of us ended up back at the friends house for a very fun sleep over.
Bring it back to E3, you'd better believe that if I was at E3, I'd be ogling and attempting to flirt with the booth babes. My wife would be too ;)
"Pulling the rug out from under 40-50% of our clients should really shake things up and boost sales"
"But it's only metadata" = "But at least they lubed up first"
The fact that this is +5 Funny, instead of +5 Insightful is +5 Depressing.
My first reaction too; "Stop helping me!!"
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The probem is precedent. This sets a bad one.
Sure, this guy went out of his way and clearly worked with intent to benefit from Montsano's work ... But now GMO companies have a leg up on future cases where some of their seed gets mixed into a larger crop.
This stinks of DRM at the genetic level. And if you'll excuse the tinfoil hat, whose to say the farmer here isn't a Monstano shill, violating the patents in the most egregious fashion possible, if only to ensure Montsano's victory, and set the aforementioned precedent?
Someone hurry and patent "a zip gun, but from a computer!" It's an entirely new idea.
Be sure to include specifications about the roundness of any edges.
Yup. Give it a few months to soak in, and everything on TPB will have the bumpers, credits and metadata stripped.
So when someone downloads Adventure of Big-Chair season 3, the fact that it looks surprisingly like some HBO series is irrelevant if I haven't seen said series. I diligently searched for the name in question, and was not familiar with anything else. Thus I am free and clear.
Essentially, they've separated the contract for service and for hardware.
If you want to pay $600+ up front for the newest handset, then you are free and clear of any contracts. But if you want the same phone for $200, they'll finance the other $450. Cutting out of that early is exactly the same as cutting out of your car loan early, just on a smaller scale.
"Hallway time?"
It's called lobbying. Mostly because hallwaying sounds ridiculous.
My first thought :
Who the hell tries to bomb Canada? A country stereotyped by polite apologies and maple syrup.
Of course, the thought that immediately followed :
Freaking South Park.
What you are claiming is not dissimilar to saying the greenback with never hyperinflate because of the intrinsic value of the paper it is printed on.
It's cloth, actually.
Currency isn't printed on paper, it's roughly 75% cotton, 25% linen.
Duration is key. How long will the effects persist?
There's nothing wrong with keeping Boston on lockdown for a few days, while law enforcement track down these scumbags (or rather, the one still standing) Once the immediate threat ends, that's when we need to pay attention. I imagine Boston will go back to mostly normal in a few days.
Better yet, sounds like a perfect opportunity for the government to learn BitTorrent.
It's already available for free, and released under CC ... Just seed it yourselves and call it good.