you know, you're an idiot troll and you pollute just about every single thread on slashdot.. but I'll bite. spend much time in shelters? see many panhandlers? citation please.
How are the evil republicans singling out minorities and starving them for work/jobs/housing exactly?
you left out "easy access to credit with onerous terms" and "consumerist culture that places tantamount value upon material possessions"
on my desktop background I have a drawing of a tiny little man holding up an oversized credit card, with his neck positioned over the card swiping track (basically a guillotine) -- this kind of sums up consumerist culture in my eyes. I wish I could remember the artist's name:(
it should be taken as common sense, whenever a corporation tells you they are doing something for YOUR benefit, they are really doing it entirely for THEIR benefit.
My theory is because currently terrorism still has a bit of 'awe' factor behind it. Treating these cases like any other case would diminish that. The emperor has no clothes, and they are terrified at letting us see what precisely is going on, and what we're giving up civil liberties over.
Terrorism is the vehicle by which the authoritarian elements in society (on both sides of the pond) can use to gain more power and exert control over the populace. Since 9/11 (and I'm sure 7/7) the state has granted itself more power at the expense of personal privacy.
Allowing us to see that in reality it's not an extraordinary case, that plotting to murder people over ideology shouldn't be treated any differently than plotting to murder people indiscriminately -- takes that avenue away from them.
Sorry, I was being snarky. Primarily the lack of AAA games for Linux. (Yes, there's a token number of them out there, cherry picking a few titles only reinforces my point: The general dearth of linux compatible games.)
in the span of 100 odd years our society went from valuing labor..
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." (Henry Ford)
To completely disregarding the notion that employees are more than just an input needed to generate shareholder value:
"Costco's average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam's Club. And Costco's health plan makes those at many other retailers look Scroogish. One analyst, Bill Dreher of Deutsche Bank, complained last year that at Costco 'it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder.'"
The interesting thing is, Final Fantasy 3 on android uses the touch screen to simulate joystick/gamepad, and after a really shallow learning curve, is perfectly fine.
I think the real problem is app developers want something they can basically shit out on an appstore, turk up some positive reviews, and make a few dollars. (hey, people are only paying 3 bucks for garbage, so they'll be unlikely to really complain).
On the other side of things, you have the freemium / uber-casual games that want to make as shallow of a Skinner box as they can get away with, again with the express desire to get a few impulse purchases from each 'customer'.
Basically the problem isn't in the platform, it's in the mindset of the developers. there's nothing stopping them from making quality, immersive games (FF3 for example) -- they just choose to be lazy and collect the easy money.
and those countries with higher minimum wages also tend to have better social services, and higher taxes to accommodate the increase in unemployment. You forget that we in America invented the "i've got mine, fuck you" mindset.
It seems the only way people in the US will ever get proper internet is from municipal broadband co-ops. We've made the mistake of granting monopolies to companies like comcast and cox and now we're paying the price in stifled innovation and increased costs.
Surely there is some mechanism our society could use to prevent these parasites from suing to prevent municipal broadband networks, and let the cable companies compete on something other than monopoly power.
Well, compared to what he'd get if he was in the US (more than likely multiple life sentences or multi-million dollar fines); 8 months is indeed a vacation.
In the 1990's movie "The Net" the bad guys used a pi symbol to advertise their software lurking on an innocuous webpage. Maybe Zazzle should get sued for copying a fine work of cinema, as well as picking a retarded name.
No. A person exposing a crime is not responsible for the consequences.
A guy starts driving home from a bar while being completely hammered. Someone sees him swerving on the road and calls the cops. The drunk driver can't go back and sue to the person who reported him for damages stemming from the DUI fine and loss of driving privileges.
Eventually what the NSA would have been found out, and the piper would have to paid. Snowden did us ALL a huge favor by getting this out in the open and hopefully stopped.
Stop covering for these asshats. The damage to the tech industry is on the NSA, and maybe on us for allowing such secretive government agencies to exist in the first place. The founding fathers would have been absolutely aghast at the IDEA of a NSL.
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you know, you're an idiot troll and you pollute just about every single thread on slashdot.. but I'll bite.
spend much time in shelters? see many panhandlers? citation please.
How are the evil republicans singling out minorities and starving them for work/jobs/housing exactly?
you left out "easy access to credit with onerous terms" and "consumerist culture that places tantamount value upon material possessions"
on my desktop background I have a drawing of a tiny little man holding up an oversized credit card, with his neck positioned over the card swiping track (basically a guillotine) -- this kind of sums up consumerist culture in my eyes. I wish I could remember the artist's name :(
it should be taken as common sense, whenever a corporation tells you they are doing something for YOUR benefit, they are really doing it entirely for THEIR benefit.
how quaint, you must have been born before the scourge of the MBA took over American business. (i totally agree with you, or your dad .. as it were.)
My theory is because currently terrorism still has a bit of 'awe' factor behind it. Treating these cases like any other case would diminish that. The emperor has no clothes, and they are terrified at letting us see what precisely is going on, and what we're giving up civil liberties over.
Terrorism is the vehicle by which the authoritarian elements in society (on both sides of the pond) can use to gain more power and exert control over the populace. Since 9/11 (and I'm sure 7/7) the state has granted itself more power at the expense of personal privacy.
Allowing us to see that in reality it's not an extraordinary case, that plotting to murder people over ideology shouldn't be treated any differently than plotting to murder people indiscriminately -- takes that avenue away from them.
Sorry, I was being snarky. Primarily the lack of AAA games for Linux. (Yes, there's a token number of them out there, cherry picking a few titles only reinforces my point: The general dearth of linux compatible games.)
in the span of 100 odd years our society went from valuing labor ..
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." (Henry Ford)
To completely disregarding the notion that employees are more than just an input needed to generate shareholder value:
"Costco's average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam's Club. And Costco's health plan makes those at many other retailers look Scroogish. One analyst, Bill Dreher of Deutsche Bank, complained last year that at Costco 'it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder.'"
Fantastic.
The interesting thing is, Final Fantasy 3 on android uses the touch screen to simulate joystick/gamepad, and after a really shallow learning curve, is perfectly fine.
I think the real problem is app developers want something they can basically shit out on an appstore, turk up some positive reviews, and make a few dollars. (hey, people are only paying 3 bucks for garbage, so they'll be unlikely to really complain).
On the other side of things, you have the freemium / uber-casual games that want to make as shallow of a Skinner box as they can get away with, again with the express desire to get a few impulse purchases from each 'customer'.
Basically the problem isn't in the platform, it's in the mindset of the developers. there's nothing stopping them from making quality, immersive games (FF3 for example) -- they just choose to be lazy and collect the easy money.
I'm eagerly awaiting the day when all communication on the internet can be done either via cat pictures or quoting memes
we're getting closer and closer.
I think the better (and more common way) is to simply boot into Windows to play your games.
how is that even remotely fair? if you get charged with something, you have to pay a fee to even argue the merits of that accusation?????
and those countries with higher minimum wages also tend to have better social services, and higher taxes to accommodate the increase in unemployment. You forget that we in America invented the "i've got mine, fuck you" mindset.
i think you guys totally missed his point. From apple's perspective, that's a lost sale.
clearly the name is an anagram that you aren't Robert Langdon enough to suss out.
the board of directors has just made comcast and cox look good by comparison :(
unless you started paying residents to use your network, it's a bad, dishonest idea.
It seems the only way people in the US will ever get proper internet is from municipal broadband co-ops. We've made the mistake of granting monopolies to companies like comcast and cox and now we're paying the price in stifled innovation and increased costs.
Surely there is some mechanism our society could use to prevent these parasites from suing to prevent municipal broadband networks, and let the cable companies compete on something other than monopoly power.
Well, compared to what he'd get if he was in the US (more than likely multiple life sentences or multi-million dollar fines); 8 months is indeed a vacation.
yeah we should get rid of those tea party ACLU types.
In the 1990's movie "The Net" the bad guys used a pi symbol to advertise their software lurking on an innocuous webpage. Maybe Zazzle should get sued for copying a fine work of cinema, as well as picking a retarded name.
the god damn article.
The most striking thing to me about that .. article is that the factory was actually closed on a Saturday.
Just a guess, your kids are going to be very skinny too. =D clearly a product of superior willpower amiright?
(Or, a pair of highly insulin sensitive people?)
Also many heavy people have un-diagnosed sleep apnea, which makes it even harder/impossible to get proper restful sleep.
No. A person exposing a crime is not responsible for the consequences.
A guy starts driving home from a bar while being completely hammered. Someone sees him swerving on the road and calls the cops. The drunk driver can't go back and sue to the person who reported him for damages stemming from the DUI fine and loss of driving privileges.
Eventually what the NSA would have been found out, and the piper would have to paid. Snowden did us ALL a huge favor by getting this out in the open and hopefully stopped.
Stop covering for these asshats. The damage to the tech industry is on the NSA, and maybe on us for allowing such secretive government agencies to exist in the first place. The founding fathers would have been absolutely aghast at the IDEA of a NSL.
are you implying that cats have souls, and that there is in fact a cafterlife? (cat+afterlife, sorry.)