It's hardly worth living in now. I couldn't be bothered paying attention to these idiots and what they do with their military industrial complex, borrowed money and world terror campaign. The USA is done, gone, finished.. no longer the place in which you were born.
I hear Ecuador is a fine democracy, move there.
If you want a world worth living in, stop supporting the people destroying it. Get out of the USA.. quit making their computer systems, quit paying for the destruction being done in your name.
The first known patient in the new incident was a 60-year-old man from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, who died from pneumonia in July
First patient died of pneumonia, virus was found in his blood after death
Ever since people in the Middle East started dying of a mysterious new infection last year
The first report was from September 2012, ie. 11 months ago.
The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus has sickened 94 people so far and killed 46 of them
46 people dying globally over the course of 330 days from a virus which is only transmitted by physical contact. And who knows if the numbers are accurate? The first man died of pneumonia, is the virus just a formerly un-noticed strain that has a detrimental effect on the immune system causing pneumonia to flare up? Has the virus always existed in the people's of the middle east and remained un-noticed? It would appear as if the camels have carried this virus for at least 13 years.
Like I said in the original post, people are dying of the flu every day. One person dying every 10 days from a different virus isn't worth notching up to a global catastrophy. Sure.. investigate it, find a cure. Flood the world full of fear induced hatred?
It doesn't matter whether this is a naturally occurring virus or something created by whatever government around the world wants to make people afraid of Muslims, this is just plain silly. People are dying of pneumonia.. this happens ALL the time. Just because some doctor finds a cold virus in their system, doesn't mean you need to be afraid of Muslims or start calling them camel humpers or promoting nuclear war!
I'm sick of the insighting of hatred against Muslims. It's such a programmed fear response. If you don't recognise the programming being unleashed upon you by these global fascist insiders, then you need to take a long hard look at yourself. This is fear programming.. designed to make you shun others, specifically, to shun Muslims. 2 people have died, flu viruses cause many more deaths than that every day. This is the promotion of unrealistic fear, nothing more.
I like the point you're making, it's very true. Not every 'saving' is really a saving.
Would people abandon the console for a mobile device
But this is so much more true. The 'gaming console' era is nearing the end of it's teather. People are sick of the pump and dump shoot by wire FPS rubbish which has been churned out for the last 10 years. Couple this with mobile gaming devices that are powerful enough and full of fun (if not graphtastic) cheap games using effective intuitive controls along with simple effective PC gaming that moves SSSOOOOO much faster that and you've got the death of the loungeroom gaming device.
I don't think it's that the MS beancounters are necessarily killing the platform. But unfortunately, nobody is reviving the platform. There's little to encourage people to desire these expensive, inflexible and nonsensical devices in the face of so much change. The XBOX 1 market is essentially the XBOX 360 market, only smaller.
Until the beancounters face up to the need for massive change, aint nothing gonna keep this dead duck breathing.
There are MP's telling soldiers where they can put their winkies? Are we going to have a new division of the army... the Willie Police WP's?
WP: "Soldier! Lay down your weapon. I'll bend over this vehicle, you're to perform a thorough cavity search, UNDERSTOOD!"
Soldier: "Sir yes Sir!"
WP: "Get in position"
Soldier: [prepares for battle]
WP: "All right soldier, MOVE IT OR LOSE IT!"
Seriously? What business is it of the government who a soldier is fucking, when, how and why? "Let them"? To hell with anyone who tries to tell another person what their sexual antics should be.
working from the position of strength provided by selling a 100% Office office suite
This is all which holds businesses back from using any other office suite. The office suite they use must be compatible with MS Office because everyone else uses MS Office. Every release or two, Microsoft creates a new file format.. it then takes the competitors 5 years to catch up at which time, MS releases a new file format.
If the creators of the other office suites made a 100% Office office suite, there would be no competition. Until that time (which I believe will come), Microsoft will continue to leverage Office in whatever way they can. And who could blame them? They have always and continue to make bazillions of dollars doing this.
Is it dumb to make a 'not very good' 100% Office suite for Android? Yes, very dumb. Will MS feel the pain of this stupidity? Nope, they'll profit even more from it.
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#1341. 10 fucking years old
Pffft, give Oracle time .. they can best it.
but, what do I know?
Clearly not a lot, yet still you infer to know a great deal.
Ever considered getting into politics?
we won't have a USA or a world worth living in
It's hardly worth living in now. I couldn't be bothered paying attention to these idiots and what they do with their military industrial complex, borrowed money and world terror campaign. The USA is done, gone, finished .. no longer the place in which you were born.
.. quit making their computer systems, quit paying for the destruction being done in your name.
I hear Ecuador is a fine democracy, move there.
If you want a world worth living in, stop supporting the people destroying it. Get out of the USA
drones are a cheap, easy, and incredibly effective way to oppressive your citizens
No, he's saying that drones are a cheap, easy, incredibly effective and safe way to oppress your citizens.
.. who needs them.
Pffft, Luddites
could Linux itself be vulnerable to the attacks the NSA can launch
That's the most awesome question ever. Likely to spark a heated debate with an incredibly obvious answer.
Lulz, nice one.
The sad thing, really, is that I expect that the vast majority of people are so boring
Thank heavens for that, you were starting to depress me.
what the U.S. government does on a daily basis
You should pay closer attention, daily was 10 years ago.
... that geeks will start breeding.
Rights aren't offered, they're innate (or God-given, if you prefer) and can only be infringed
It's okay, Bush got permission.
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Plain speaking is such a wonderful thing isn't it?
The 2002 incident might have been one of the larger ones, but in the overall scheme of things is nothing very special
Let me know when something significant happens, I don't want to miss it.
The first known patient in the new incident was a 60-year-old man from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, who died from pneumonia in July
First patient died of pneumonia, virus was found in his blood after death
Ever since people in the Middle East started dying of a mysterious new infection last year
The first report was from September 2012, ie. 11 months ago.
The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus has sickened 94 people so far and killed 46 of them
46 people dying globally over the course of 330 days from a virus which is only transmitted by physical contact. And who knows if the numbers are accurate? The first man died of pneumonia, is the virus just a formerly un-noticed strain that has a detrimental effect on the immune system causing pneumonia to flare up? Has the virus always existed in the people's of the middle east and remained un-noticed? It would appear as if the camels have carried this virus for at least 13 years.
.. investigate it, find a cure. Flood the world full of fear induced hatred?
Like I said in the original post, people are dying of the flu every day. One person dying every 10 days from a different virus isn't worth notching up to a global catastrophy. Sure
That's not a solution, that's an agenda.
Oh come one, seriously?
.. this happens ALL the time. Just because some doctor finds a cold virus in their system, doesn't mean you need to be afraid of Muslims or start calling them camel humpers or promoting nuclear war!
.. designed to make you shun others, specifically, to shun Muslims. 2 people have died, flu viruses cause many more deaths than that every day. This is the promotion of unrealistic fear, nothing more.
It doesn't matter whether this is a naturally occurring virus or something created by whatever government around the world wants to make people afraid of Muslims, this is just plain silly. People are dying of pneumonia
I'm sick of the insighting of hatred against Muslims. It's such a programmed fear response. If you don't recognise the programming being unleashed upon you by these global fascist insiders, then you need to take a long hard look at yourself. This is fear programming
Take the red pill.
are now available for viewing in VP8/Vorbis
I was looking forward to watching them :(
Would people abandon the console for a mobile device
But this is so much more true. The 'gaming console' era is nearing the end of it's teather. People are sick of the pump and dump shoot by wire FPS rubbish which has been churned out for the last 10 years. Couple this with mobile gaming devices that are powerful enough and full of fun (if not graphtastic) cheap games using effective intuitive controls along with simple effective PC gaming that moves SSSOOOOO much faster that and you've got the death of the loungeroom gaming device.
I don't think it's that the MS beancounters are necessarily killing the platform. But unfortunately, nobody is reviving the platform. There's little to encourage people to desire these expensive, inflexible and nonsensical devices in the face of so much change. The XBOX 1 market is essentially the XBOX 360 market, only smaller.
Until the beancounters face up to the need for massive change, aint nothing gonna keep this dead duck breathing.
except of course stirring up some more MS / Xbox One hate
What site did you think you were on?
There are MP's telling soldiers where they can put their winkies? Are we going to have a new division of the army ... the Willie Police WP's?
WP: "Soldier! Lay down your weapon. I'll bend over this vehicle, you're to perform a thorough cavity search, UNDERSTOOD!"
Soldier: "Sir yes Sir!"
WP: "Get in position"
Soldier: [prepares for battle]
WP: "All right soldier, MOVE IT OR LOSE IT!"
Let them hook up with whomever they want
Seriously? What business is it of the government who a soldier is fucking, when, how and why? "Let them"? To hell with anyone who tries to tell another person what their sexual antics should be.
This is a win for everyone
Except the government paid prostitutes.
working from the position of strength provided by selling a 100% Office office suite
This is all which holds businesses back from using any other office suite. The office suite they use must be compatible with MS Office because everyone else uses MS Office. Every release or two, Microsoft creates a new file format .. it then takes the competitors 5 years to catch up at which time, MS releases a new file format.
If the creators of the other office suites made a 100% Office office suite, there would be no competition. Until that time (which I believe will come), Microsoft will continue to leverage Office in whatever way they can. And who could blame them? They have always and continue to make bazillions of dollars doing this.
Is it dumb to make a 'not very good' 100% Office suite for Android? Yes, very dumb. Will MS feel the pain of this stupidity? Nope, they'll profit even more from it.
like they have some dominant market position
They do, but despite mathematics being compulsory for most CS courses .. geeks just don't get it.
a crappy office experience on iOS and Android that only serves to make the company look bad
Clearly it also makes the company look outdated and monopoloistic. But I see your point.
I'd buy one today if it wasn't running Ubuntu.
A separate set of solar panels could be used to power / charge things other than a laptop
And all you need is a team of electrical engineers to help you set them up.
This ability to change the title is something that any javascript enabled page has been able to do since the dawn of javascript.
I just got a 2001 visual of apes shattering bones with big chunks of wood..