Meego was another Maemo, not WebOS, it have its own lineage as example. Was sabotaged by Symbian fans inside Nokia first, then the days before it was released Elop said that it had no future, cut all future hopes for development for the platform, and released just one phone with it, just because already made it. Is even against that that sold pretty well. And yes, sold better than the Windows 7.x phones that Microsoft killed before they come out to the market saying that they will have no future neither (but most people that buys windows phone only hears windows phone, not version, so even with that had sales).
Anyway, wasn't the end of the road, there is hope on Qt-based cellphones still. From it derived Sailfish that is about to come out (the first batch already sold out), and Tizen, that Samsung could start making phones with it.
When the first alerts of global warming started to appear, most people tough only in a bit more heat, while everything else continues the same. Then we had seasons of extreme weather hitting big cities, alerts on ocean rising, pests, and a lot more that is still coming, as everything is interconnected. Global Warming is just part of the problem, just a symtom, one where scientist can take a bunch of historical data and point a finger showing to even the dumbest persons that is happening, but our effect in the global ecosystem goes beyond temperature, changues in atmosphere, ocean and in life (specially the most abundant and invisible one). Changing the ecosystem we are taking high bets (agriculture that depends on climate being stable, cities that ties people to specific places), and a lot of people will pay those bets with their lives if the change happens fast enough (as it seems to be doing).
Meanwhile, the people behind the main human factors in the change try to convince people that nothing is happening nor is their fault, are the ones that control laws and government politics in this topics, and won't care at all as have enough money to keep living comfortably even if things get very wrong for everyone else.
Any person that work for a non US company storing in the "cloud" internal data (even if is sending a presentation in a private mail, or talking about it in skype) is in fact leaking trade secrets, and probably being target for jail with this kind of ruling. Browsing in social sites from a machine or in the open internet in general holding whatever could be seen as trade secret is risky at the very least.
This is not about caring about Syrian people, at least, not the big majority of them, just about the friendly ones that will be put in control. Remember how much US cared about iraquis? Seem that they wanted exclusivity on killing them for fun
Elysium in space, Atlantis in the ocean, or Shangri-la in Tibet. The people that owns most money could build them and move there instead of worrying about dams, or sea level rise. The rest of the people already played their role putting them in that position, so are disposable.
Would be a great solution. Whats the worst that could happen? Sea level rising pretty fast 60 meters because most of ice in continental antarctica ends in the ocean? It won't affect the people living in Elysium after all.
By far the main priority for the ones that causes the problem is to keep getting money, that is the ultimate good in US, not people, and they have enough resources to put their mansions elsewhere if a big city floods tomorrow anyway. And as they make the laws, nothing will change (unless the "change" makes even more profit for them, like building pharaonic dams that won't solve the problem, but will give them even more money)
Would be profitable for them to move to a new location, i.e. somewhere outside US where they don't have to follow its secret legislation. Most of them have enough money to have their own country,
Missing the point 2: Is not just watching what they are doing in foreing countries, is attack too, active attacks, the surveillance gives them just base data to infiltrate, corrupt, extort, steal IP, or incite unrest. It will hurt all world population, maybe less to american people, maybe more, but other countries must defend themselves against this after US started the fire.
Probably they have far more right on spying their own citizens, after all they elected them, than a foreing government, specially if that foreing government is known to infiltrate in social networks to influence people according to their own "defense" programs, like incitate revolutions and social unrest.
So if you want to hide something you must be guilty? Considering the level of secrecy (even secret laws) and the level of persecution on possible leakers that could exist, the US government should make the dark in any foreing government shine in white light compared with the tar pit that it must have.
What about the packets that are NOT routed through the US, like i.e. between servers of the same country?. For internal traffic inside a country, specially official communication, it don't need to go thru US inspection and approval. More, if not all, countries should had done the same since long time ago.
If you think brillant people puts you in trouble, you have to see in what kind of situation puts you dumb people or policies. Breeding idiocracy inside the main collecting point of US and world's data is shooting yourself in the foot, the groin, and the head, in that order.
Maybe understanding that brillaint people that put you in troubles could give you the hint on who is wrong there, even if you are not smart enough to realize why.
What i do is privacy, what i write, specially in private, is intellectual property. So first take out the biggest offenders in intellectual property violations (NSA and associated/contracted companies) and then we maybe could consider about enforcement in other areas.
This could bring them back from the grave, specially if whoever replaces him on nokia take a hint and dumps windows as phone OS, their main alternatives would be android or, well, back to meego or one of its childrens (sailfish, tizen, etc).
And that could be the final nail on the coffin of Windows 8, and with Elop as CEO could play again the burning platform game and be the end of Windows.
Until they move to other country where that they aren't forced to follow US laws (they have enough money to buy a few of them), and then we can get back a bit of our privacy. In the end could be the cheaper alternative for them.
We are burning all oil here, probably getting out of that not renovable resource in this century or next. And that, in just 200 years of a civilization that been around for 10000 years, from a species that exist since 1 millon years ago, and will be out for anyone/anything here in the next billon years. And is it not just an energy source, it have a lot of derivatives that will be hard/expensive/impossible in practice to get from other sources. Compared to that, the limited amount of He3 that we could bring from the moon, and in a not very fast rate, won't count a lot.
Regarding the energy surplus, getting the same amount of energy from the sun (i.e. collectors in the desert, or satellites that somewhat beam down the energy) would have a similar effect.
The real problem is the civilization or the current culture, not using the moon as energy source or not. The current agenda is to use everything as if would be no tomorrow (thing that will happen if we keep acting like that). If you don't fix it, the moon won't matter anyway.
Don't buy for you. Buy for others. Break the link between the one that actually paid and the one that received the product or service. If it becomes widespread enough will add enough noise to make tracking unreliable. You can do it i.e. sending your bitcoins to the person that will use their own bitcoin/wallet/etc to do the actual purchase for you.
If "everyone" steals, then is ok that you do it too? To point that of the 200 countries a few does it, and then generalize to everyone to justify your wrongdoings is deceptive at least, and if you later say "oh, we care about law, we care about people rights, we care about everything", you are just a lier. Grow up and accept what your actions tell about you.
The government is pretty transparent in this. They spend government money in the civil war they instigated because some US corporation want Syria resources. Is not interfering, just going out of the dark (or at least, the mild grey).
What It's not is because they care about human rights, definately, they showed how much they care about them when they jailed and tortured children in Guantanamo just to be out of the law sight, or when they denied the right of privacy to basically everyone in the planet. Also you can get a hint how they got fully involved in the wars on Africa where human rights were violated in worse ways, or preventing climate change that will affect everyone except the top rich.
Well, at least you must concede that they reached some sort of transparency at last. Now its the time to see how many more governments pledge their support by plain idiocy or its own share of malice to see how big is the problem.
How much this book got outdated (even the entire series) when PRISM et al got widely disclosed, with Apple, Google and Microsoft (some of the main smartphone OS manufacturers) between the companies with close ties with NSA?
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Who would he sell Microsoft to, if he got to be Microsoft's CE? Anyone have ideas?
NSA or some of its affiliate companies. They aren't fully assimilated yet, so could make sense that an arm of the money printing machine buys it.
Meego was another Maemo, not WebOS, it have its own lineage as example. Was sabotaged by Symbian fans inside Nokia first, then the days before it was released Elop said that it had no future, cut all future hopes for development for the platform, and released just one phone with it, just because already made it. Is even against that that sold pretty well. And yes, sold better than the Windows 7.x phones that Microsoft killed before they come out to the market saying that they will have no future neither (but most people that buys windows phone only hears windows phone, not version, so even with that had sales).
Anyway, wasn't the end of the road, there is hope on Qt-based cellphones still. From it derived Sailfish that is about to come out (the first batch already sold out), and Tizen, that Samsung could start making phones with it.
When the first alerts of global warming started to appear, most people tough only in a bit more heat, while everything else continues the same. Then we had seasons of extreme weather hitting big cities, alerts on ocean rising, pests, and a lot more that is still coming, as everything is interconnected. Global Warming is just part of the problem, just a symtom, one where scientist can take a bunch of historical data and point a finger showing to even the dumbest persons that is happening, but our effect in the global ecosystem goes beyond temperature, changues in atmosphere, ocean and in life (specially the most abundant and invisible one). Changing the ecosystem we are taking high bets (agriculture that depends on climate being stable, cities that ties people to specific places), and a lot of people will pay those bets with their lives if the change happens fast enough (as it seems to be doing).
Meanwhile, the people behind the main human factors in the change try to convince people that nothing is happening nor is their fault, are the ones that control laws and government politics in this topics, and won't care at all as have enough money to keep living comfortably even if things get very wrong for everyone else.
Any person that work for a non US company storing in the "cloud" internal data (even if is sending a presentation in a private mail, or talking about it in skype) is in fact leaking trade secrets, and probably being target for jail with this kind of ruling. Browsing in social sites from a machine or in the open internet in general holding whatever could be seen as trade secret is risky at the very least.
Iraq: A defining moment for weapons of mass destruction
How many times people will buy remakes of The empire strikes back?
And, btw, is good to have backup of what newspapers said before media control, like when was disclosed that U.S. backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime.
This is not about caring about Syrian people, at least, not the big majority of them, just about the friendly ones that will be put in control. Remember how much US cared about iraquis? Seem that they wanted exclusivity on killing them for fun
Elysium in space, Atlantis in the ocean, or Shangri-la in Tibet. The people that owns most money could build them and move there instead of worrying about dams, or sea level rise. The rest of the people already played their role putting them in that position, so are disposable.
Would be a great solution. Whats the worst that could happen? Sea level rising pretty fast 60 meters because most of ice in continental antarctica ends in the ocean? It won't affect the people living in Elysium after all.
And sometimes there are more water around, but not just in the ocean, like flooding big areas inland.
By far the main priority for the ones that causes the problem is to keep getting money, that is the ultimate good in US, not people, and they have enough resources to put their mansions elsewhere if a big city floods tomorrow anyway. And as they make the laws, nothing will change (unless the "change" makes even more profit for them, like building pharaonic dams that won't solve the problem, but will give them even more money)
Would be profitable for them to move to a new location, i.e. somewhere outside US where they don't have to follow its secret legislation. Most of them have enough money to have their own country,
So is pretty convenient that US is not a democracy.
Missing the point 2: Is not just watching what they are doing in foreing countries, is attack too, active attacks, the surveillance gives them just base data to infiltrate, corrupt, extort, steal IP, or incite unrest. It will hurt all world population, maybe less to american people, maybe more, but other countries must defend themselves against this after US started the fire.
Probably they have far more right on spying their own citizens, after all they elected them, than a foreing government, specially if that foreing government is known to infiltrate in social networks to influence people according to their own "defense" programs, like incitate revolutions and social unrest.
So if you want to hide something you must be guilty? Considering the level of secrecy (even secret laws) and the level of persecution on possible leakers that could exist, the US government should make the dark in any foreing government shine in white light compared with the tar pit that it must have.
What about the packets that are NOT routed through the US, like i.e. between servers of the same country?. For internal traffic inside a country, specially official communication, it don't need to go thru US inspection and approval. More, if not all, countries should had done the same since long time ago.
If you think brillant people puts you in trouble, you have to see in what kind of situation puts you dumb people or policies. Breeding idiocracy inside the main collecting point of US and world's data is shooting yourself in the foot, the groin, and the head, in that order.
Maybe understanding that brillaint people that put you in troubles could give you the hint on who is wrong there, even if you are not smart enough to realize why.
What i do is privacy, what i write, specially in private, is intellectual property. So first take out the biggest offenders in intellectual property violations (NSA and associated/contracted companies) and then we maybe could consider about enforcement in other areas.
This could bring them back from the grave, specially if whoever replaces him on nokia take a hint and dumps windows as phone OS, their main alternatives would be android or, well, back to meego or one of its childrens (sailfish, tizen, etc).
And that could be the final nail on the coffin of Windows 8, and with Elop as CEO could play again the burning platform game and be the end of Windows.
Until they move to other country where that they aren't forced to follow US laws (they have enough money to buy a few of them), and then we can get back a bit of our privacy. In the end could be the cheaper alternative for them.
We are burning all oil here, probably getting out of that not renovable resource in this century or next. And that, in just 200 years of a civilization that been around for 10000 years, from a species that exist since 1 millon years ago, and will be out for anyone/anything here in the next billon years. And is it not just an energy source, it have a lot of derivatives that will be hard/expensive/impossible in practice to get from other sources. Compared to that, the limited amount of He3 that we could bring from the moon, and in a not very fast rate, won't count a lot.
Regarding the energy surplus, getting the same amount of energy from the sun (i.e. collectors in the desert, or satellites that somewhat beam down the energy) would have a similar effect.
The real problem is the civilization or the current culture, not using the moon as energy source or not. The current agenda is to use everything as if would be no tomorrow (thing that will happen if we keep acting like that). If you don't fix it, the moon won't matter anyway.
And with style too, snack instead of jumbo sized. Still, not sure if zombies will accept synthesized food, will lack that adrenaline aftertaste
Don't buy for you. Buy for others. Break the link between the one that actually paid and the one that received the product or service. If it becomes widespread enough will add enough noise to make tracking unreliable. You can do it i.e. sending your bitcoins to the person that will use their own bitcoin/wallet/etc to do the actual purchase for you.
If "everyone" steals, then is ok that you do it too? To point that of the 200 countries a few does it, and then generalize to everyone to justify your wrongdoings is deceptive at least, and if you later say "oh, we care about law, we care about people rights, we care about everything", you are just a lier. Grow up and accept what your actions tell about you.
The government is pretty transparent in this. They spend government money in the civil war they instigated because some US corporation want Syria resources. Is not interfering, just going out of the dark (or at least, the mild grey).
What It's not is because they care about human rights, definately, they showed how much they care about them when they jailed and tortured children in Guantanamo just to be out of the law sight, or when they denied the right of privacy to basically everyone in the planet. Also you can get a hint how they got fully involved in the wars on Africa where human rights were violated in worse ways, or preventing climate change that will affect everyone except the top rich.
Well, at least you must concede that they reached some sort of transparency at last. Now its the time to see how many more governments pledge their support by plain idiocy or its own share of malice to see how big is the problem.
How much this book got outdated (even the entire series) when PRISM et al got widely disclosed, with Apple, Google and Microsoft (some of the main smartphone OS manufacturers) between the companies with close ties with NSA?