Don't forget the biggest one, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which was used to escalate our involvement in Vietnam and led to 50k Americans dead, and of course now turned out to be total bullshit.
There's a difference between "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theory". You can argue that the truth about that incident had been purposefully covered up, but where were the members of the general public standing on street corners or writing in newspapers with signs that said, "Gulf of Tonkin is a lie"?
No, the simple fact is that MOST people suck at logic. When ANYone makes a claim, you should definitely assume it's wrong because most people are complete morons.
You're not helping your case at all; you understand that, right?
Depends on where you played. There are times when you feel there's almost no one else logged on. You could possibly have entire zones for yourself in the less populated servers.
This actually isn't all that uncommon with WoW, either.
Either you are alluding to the idea that companies are more powerful than the government (which is true in some cases, though I doubt facebook's) - or you are trying to say that somehow this US Based corporation doesn't have to obey US Laws.
Hey, I wonder if they managed to evade Taxation with that ruling.
Umm... "Free Speech" is not a law governing the citizens of the United States, or any other entity within. It applies only to the government itself.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
A lot of TV sets that use local dimming have a big problem showing starfields. The average color in a starfield is pretty dark, so the LED goes dim and not bright enough to show the stars. It really takes the punch out of Star Wars Special^n Edition if you can't see the stars.
My brother-in-law bought an LED set not too long ago. I believe it's an edge-lit model, so that may contribute to the problem, but... the bright parts of dark scenes tend to be about half as bright as they should be.
This includes loading screens on some video games as well as movie credits. There's one short scene in the recent Star Trek movie showing the Narada flying by that dims so much that you can't make out any details in the ship.
Like I said, I believe his particular model is edge-lit, so I can't really comment on the traditional back-lit models, but... this seems like an unacceptable quality issue. It's really turned me off to the idea of LED TVs.
I have just gone back to see what it does now, and it is taking me right to the java applet, so what has happened to the advanced shiny app they were pushing, I do not know.
I've gotten—and denied—it, too. It seems to give up after 2 or 3 attempts.
Then Giz got it and took 3 weeks to decide it was real and notify Apple [...]
I'm not even sure I buy the claim that the folks at Gizmodo didn't know it was real at first. I'm sure it's not a very significant amount of money to them, but why drop $5k on what they claim they thought was a cheap knock-off?
After he was arrested and placed in custody is when he stated that he would only give the password to the mayor, not becuase it was a rule or directive but becuase Mayor Newsom was "the only person he felt he could trust".
I don't understand his logic here. It didn't occur to him that the mayor would simply hand that password off to the very same people asking Mr. Childs for it directly?
No, we don't. Contrary to popular opinion, a handful of police precincts engaging in douchebaggery because they're drunk on power does not constitute a police state...
You could rent DVDs twice a week ($10/week), or you could play with you cat ($0). You could buy an album per week from an online store ($10/week) or you could play your own guitar ($0) or a bassoon ($0). Or you can record your music and post it on your website ($5/month), or walk in the park with your dog and try to pick up chicks ($0), you get the idea.
As Gabrosin pointed out, this is deceptive. You're comparing the initial cost of a movie or music album to the repeat cost of playing with your cat or playing an instrument. After the initial purchase of a movie, you can repeatedly watch it for an additional $0. Same goes for a music album. Same for a musical instrument, too. However, a guitar and bassoon are a far more expensive initial purchase than even multiple movies or music albums.
If you want, you could compare the DVD/Blu-Ray or CD player to the instrument and the movies/music albums to the sheet music or lessons, but I'd bet that the instrument still comes out more expensive in the end.
Tell them that their cell phone is reporting their location to the police right now, because we know it does; that Windows and OS X and their Web browsers report what you do with your files and which Web sites you go to, because they probably do. I personally believe they do, why the hell would they not?
There was another definition update for Comodo Antivirus (around the middle of last year, I think) that caused the CPU to peg at 100% usage on Windows XP 32-bit and possibly other versions of Windows.
But that argument itself is based on a misconception: that advertisers are just nice rich guys that will throw money at you for just displaying ads, and that the mere fact of exposing the ads is value in and of itself.
Advertising is an investment. The expectation of the advertiser is to recoup that investment by increased sales or market share. If site visitors ultimately do not care about the ads and do not click on them, or somehow the impressions are not translated into a return on that investment; then they do nothing for the advertiser. Eventually, the value of those ads will decrease to the advertiser, to the point that it will pay less for them, or it may decide not to advertise at all on your site.
So how do you explain advertising in traditional print media, television, or radio? There's no inherent means of tracking purchases, or even interest, generated by advertisements placed in those mediums. And I don't think anyone considers McDonald's to be "nice, rich guys" for paying large sums of cash to have their latest burger repeatedly displayed on a television screen.
Companies will pay good money to simply get their product in front of a lot of people, with no guarantee that any of those viewers will actually purchase the advertised product (immediately or... ever).
I'm not here to defend advertsing (I use NoScript, which blocks the vast majority of ads on websites), but your view seems completely wrong-headed.
Ah, but the issue is going and buying, say, the new Xperia x10 (which is about to come out, months/after/ the Droid and Nexus One) and then discovering that some app which works on the Droid does not work on the x10, because while the Droid is on 2.0.1, the x10 is on a heavily-modified 1.6.
Your entire argument is based on an assumption that your average user would even realize that Xperia x10, Droid, and Nexus One all use the Android OS.
The Xperia x10 may be the newer phone, but it's not their friend's Droid, and, to them, it's the Droid that can do all that neat stuff, not the Android OS.
Couldn't it throw a flag to boot from a secondary, encrypted, trusted "update partition" that only the Windows root can edit, and only during shutdown, then use that to mount the disk as read-only and install updates?
I'm pretty sure that if your system's been rooted, that's no protection at all. Besides, rootkits would quickly evolve to account for this process.
Yes, this was from a virus/trojan/worm/whatever. Who cares? It could just as easily have been a custom file for custom hardware.
You don't know how rootkits work, do you?
It may not be possible to detect differences in a compromised file on a rooted system, because the rootkit will respond to requests with the original file's information.
So, for all we know, Microsoft did check the file before replacing it, but the rootkit told the OS it was unmodified.
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Even if it didn't, it will be better archived for future generations than Twitter will ever be.
How Tweet It Is!: Library [of Congress] Acquires Entire Twitter Archive.
Windows 7 is worse than Vista. Its just Vista with changed name. Look at the minimum system requirements - they actually went up from Vista to 7.
And XP's system requirements are higher than ME's. Does that make XP worse than ME?
Don't forget the biggest one, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which was used to escalate our involvement in Vietnam and led to 50k Americans dead, and of course now turned out to be total bullshit.
There's a difference between "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theory". You can argue that the truth about that incident had been purposefully covered up, but where were the members of the general public standing on street corners or writing in newspapers with signs that said, "Gulf of Tonkin is a lie"?
No, the simple fact is that MOST people suck at logic. When ANYone makes a claim, you should definitely assume it's wrong because most people are complete morons.
You're not helping your case at all; you understand that, right?
Depends on where you played. There are times when you feel there's almost no one else logged on. You could possibly have entire zones for yourself in the less populated servers.
This actually isn't all that uncommon with WoW, either.
Either you are alluding to the idea that companies are more powerful than the government (which is true in some cases, though I doubt facebook's) - or you are trying to say that somehow this US Based corporation doesn't have to obey US Laws.
Hey, I wonder if they managed to evade Taxation with that ruling.
Umm... "Free Speech" is not a law governing the citizens of the United States, or any other entity within. It applies only to the government itself.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
How people obsess over this show completely eludes me.
You don't understand that others are not like you? Why was this comment modded "Insightful"? It's the exact opposite...
How does Kate end up at the funeral dead if she managed to fly off the island alive?
Christian Shepard: "Everyone dies some time."
They spoon-fed that one to you and you missed it.
A lot of TV sets that use local dimming have a big problem showing starfields. The average color in a starfield is pretty dark, so the LED goes dim and not bright enough to show the stars. It really takes the punch out of Star Wars Special^n Edition if you can't see the stars.
My brother-in-law bought an LED set not too long ago. I believe it's an edge-lit model, so that may contribute to the problem, but... the bright parts of dark scenes tend to be about half as bright as they should be.
This includes loading screens on some video games as well as movie credits. There's one short scene in the recent Star Trek movie showing the Narada flying by that dims so much that you can't make out any details in the ship.
Like I said, I believe his particular model is edge-lit, so I can't really comment on the traditional back-lit models, but... this seems like an unacceptable quality issue. It's really turned me off to the idea of LED TVs.
How am I going to get rid of the obnoxious ads written in HTML5?
The NoScript extension for Firefox already blocks the HTML5 <audio> and <video> elements by default.
It is not the worst oil spill by any standard [...]
It's not done yet...
I have just gone back to see what it does now, and it is taking me right to the java applet, so what has happened to the advanced shiny app they were pushing, I do not know.
I've gotten—and denied—it, too. It seems to give up after 2 or 3 attempts.
Then Giz got it and took 3 weeks to decide it was real and notify Apple [...]
I'm not even sure I buy the claim that the folks at Gizmodo didn't know it was real at first. I'm sure it's not a very significant amount of money to them, but why drop $5k on what they claim they thought was a cheap knock-off?
After he was arrested and placed in custody is when he stated that he would only give the password to the mayor, not becuase it was a rule or directive but becuase Mayor Newsom was "the only person he felt he could trust".
I don't understand his logic here. It didn't occur to him that the mayor would simply hand that password off to the very same people asking Mr. Childs for it directly?
Obviously though, he's far too nice of a guy to ever do anything underhanded.
Absolutely. He's the kind of classy guy that will shoot you in the face, not in the back.
We live in a police state [...]
No, we don't. Contrary to popular opinion, a handful of police precincts engaging in douchebaggery because they're drunk on power does not constitute a police state...
[...] just pointing out that one can get quality entertainment in many many non-commercial ways.
You don't think musical instruments are commercial in any way?
You could rent DVDs twice a week ($10/week), or you could play with you cat ($0). You could buy an album per week from an online store ($10/week) or you could play your own guitar ($0) or a bassoon ($0). Or you can record your music and post it on your website ($5/month), or walk in the park with your dog and try to pick up chicks ($0), you get the idea.
As Gabrosin pointed out, this is deceptive. You're comparing the initial cost of a movie or music album to the repeat cost of playing with your cat or playing an instrument. After the initial purchase of a movie, you can repeatedly watch it for an additional $0. Same goes for a music album. Same for a musical instrument, too. However, a guitar and bassoon are a far more expensive initial purchase than even multiple movies or music albums.
If you want, you could compare the DVD/Blu-Ray or CD player to the instrument and the movies/music albums to the sheet music or lessons, but I'd bet that the instrument still comes out more expensive in the end.
Tell them that their cell phone is reporting their location to the police right now, because we know it does; that Windows and OS X and their Web browsers report what you do with your files and which Web sites you go to, because they probably do. I personally believe they do, why the hell would they not?
And this just some truly bizarre paranoia...
There was another definition update for Comodo Antivirus (around the middle of last year, I think) that caused the CPU to peg at 100% usage on Windows XP 32-bit and possibly other versions of Windows.
The W3C publishes standards too rapidly [...]
Do you... experience the passage of time differently than the rest of us?
But that argument itself is based on a misconception: that advertisers are just nice rich guys that will throw money at you for just displaying ads, and that the mere fact of exposing the ads is value in and of itself.
Advertising is an investment. The expectation of the advertiser is to recoup that investment by increased sales or market share. If site visitors ultimately do not care about the ads and do not click on them, or somehow the impressions are not translated into a return on that investment; then they do nothing for the advertiser. Eventually, the value of those ads will decrease to the advertiser, to the point that it will pay less for them, or it may decide not to advertise at all on your site.
So how do you explain advertising in traditional print media, television, or radio? There's no inherent means of tracking purchases, or even interest, generated by advertisements placed in those mediums. And I don't think anyone considers McDonald's to be "nice, rich guys" for paying large sums of cash to have their latest burger repeatedly displayed on a television screen.
Companies will pay good money to simply get their product in front of a lot of people, with no guarantee that any of those viewers will actually purchase the advertised product (immediately or... ever).
I'm not here to defend advertsing (I use NoScript, which blocks the vast majority of ads on websites), but your view seems completely wrong-headed.
Ah, but the issue is going and buying, say, the new Xperia x10 (which is about to come out, months /after/ the Droid and Nexus One) and then discovering that some app which works on the Droid does not work on the x10, because while the Droid is on 2.0.1, the x10 is on a heavily-modified 1.6.
Your entire argument is based on an assumption that your average user would even realize that Xperia x10, Droid, and Nexus One all use the Android OS.
The Xperia x10 may be the newer phone, but it's not their friend's Droid, and, to them, it's the Droid that can do all that neat stuff, not the Android OS.
Couldn't it throw a flag to boot from a secondary, encrypted, trusted "update partition" that only the Windows root can edit, and only during shutdown, then use that to mount the disk as read-only and install updates?
I'm pretty sure that if your system's been rooted, that's no protection at all. Besides, rootkits would quickly evolve to account for this process.
Yes, this was from a virus/trojan/worm/whatever. Who cares? It could just as easily have been a custom file for custom hardware.
You don't know how rootkits work, do you?
It may not be possible to detect differences in a compromised file on a rooted system, because the rootkit will respond to requests with the original file's information.
So, for all we know, Microsoft did check the file before replacing it, but the rootkit told the OS it was unmodified.
you dont have to care, he just gave his opinion like you are giving it right now.
Yeah, but people aren't reporting Capt.DrumkenBum's opinion as if it was newsworthy...