It's really only a matter or time before some President or intelligence chief realizes that he has every email and phone call sent or received, and website visited, of every one of his political opponents--all right at his fingertips. And even if he doesn't have the balls to use it openly, it would be easy enough to use it in secret.
And let *me* guess. You think it's just a coincidence that the son of one of the strongest Russian leaders in favor of Ukrainian invasion just happens to become a criminal card thief in the middle of the Ukrainian crisis?
I suppose you believe that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Julian Assange just *happened* to become rapists a few months after challenging the value of the U.S. dollar and leaking secret U.S. material (respectively), right?
Soon Emperor Disney will complete his plan and dissolve the European Parliament altogether. The last vestiges of the Old Republic will be swept away and the regional Disney franchises will have direct control over their territories.
And she's just as misguided for blaming the platform. It seems to me like the real person she should be suing here is the person who (presumably illegally) stole or leaked the photos in the first place. Anything else is just grandstanding, and she must know it (unless you're presuming that she's so profoundly stupid that she just can't understand how the technology works).
How about we just use nuclear power for most cases because it's more efficient, safer, etc.?
Something tells me that the West won't exactly be thrilled with the idea of giving nuclear technology to every two-bit dictator and unstable, terrorist-haven, shithole country in the world--even if they pinky-promise never to upgrade their centrifuges to produce weapons-grade material.
I wonder if anyone in the architecture profession has ever proclaimed "Well if you really want to change the world, empower regular people to build skyscrapers." Probably not. And yet the programming profession seems to be constantly obsessed with making the field accessible to everybody and her sister, as if programming should be something any idiot off the street can do easily.
I always feared Big Brother's spy camera would come to my house.
What I never even *dreamed* is that not only would we accept it when it came, but that we would voluntarily pay $500 for it and even hook it up to our cable box and home network so it could monitor that too.
You're right that the Superman aspect of his memorial is indeed trivial. It's so trivial that DC (or any company in their right mind) would have simple approved it with a rubber stamp and maybe (at most) issued a simple statement about how tragic his death was.
It was only by denying such a simple and trivial request that DC's *FUCKING CLUELESS* legal/public relations people turned this into a story, not about a kid's tragic death, but about a company so callous and clueless that it would deny something so simple and decent that wouldn't have even cost them a dime--just out of reflex, it seems. What could have been a simple story about DC letting the Superman symbol be used for a small memorial for a child who died tragically has once again turned into a story about the clueless leadership at DC and raised more questions about the culture-of-clueless-fuckup that seems to so thoroughly pervade that company and every decision they make.
Of course, it also doesn't help that Superman is a classic symbol of human decency--a symbol that DC has sullied yet again with greed and callousness.
Maybe at some point after they're all finally out companies, agencies, colleges, etc. will finally realize that using SSN's as their unique identifiers of choice is dangerous.
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Because it's like my grandpa used to say about volunteers: "Sonny, you can't fire someone for doing a bad job if they're doing it for free. Also, don't trust the jews or coloreds with money."
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Considering he was thrown from the vehicle (likely from not wearing a seatbelt) I'm not sure you could say he died 'in' a Tesla.
I'd be surprised if they found most of him in the same city.
It's really only a matter or time before some President or intelligence chief realizes that he has every email and phone call sent or received, and website visited, of every one of his political opponents--all right at his fingertips. And even if he doesn't have the balls to use it openly, it would be easy enough to use it in secret.
It may have already happened.
Networks: Your honors, if it pleases the Court, we would like to offer a political bribe to Congress.
SCOTUS: We'll allow it.
Maybe the broadcasters should have listened to Admiral Ackbar before they argued so persuasively that Aereo was a cable company.
And let *me* guess. You think it's just a coincidence that the son of one of the strongest Russian leaders in favor of Ukrainian invasion just happens to become a criminal card thief in the middle of the Ukrainian crisis?
I suppose you believe that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Julian Assange just *happened* to become rapists a few months after challenging the value of the U.S. dollar and leaking secret U.S. material (respectively), right?
Soon Emperor Disney will complete his plan and dissolve the European Parliament altogether. The last vestiges of the Old Republic will be swept away and the regional Disney franchises will have direct control over their territories.
Iran tried that and got nowhere. Only powers who play ball with the West are allowed.
which is pretty much just victim blaming.
And she's just as misguided for blaming the platform. It seems to me like the real person she should be suing here is the person who (presumably illegally) stole or leaked the photos in the first place. Anything else is just grandstanding, and she must know it (unless you're presuming that she's so profoundly stupid that she just can't understand how the technology works).
How about we just use nuclear power for most cases because it's more efficient, safer, etc.?
Something tells me that the West won't exactly be thrilled with the idea of giving nuclear technology to every two-bit dictator and unstable, terrorist-haven, shithole country in the world--even if they pinky-promise never to upgrade their centrifuges to produce weapons-grade material.
I can't wait for the confusion when the judge orders that Tor be executed.
I wonder if anyone in the architecture profession has ever proclaimed "Well if you really want to change the world, empower regular people to build skyscrapers." Probably not. And yet the programming profession seems to be constantly obsessed with making the field accessible to everybody and her sister, as if programming should be something any idiot off the street can do easily.
Don't forget the F-35!
Yeah, I could use one of those too.
I always feared Big Brother's spy camera would come to my house.
What I never even *dreamed* is that not only would we accept it when it came, but that we would voluntarily pay $500 for it and even hook it up to our cable box and home network so it could monitor that too.
Duh, he was that announcer on Saturday Night Live.
And he worked at Blizzard too??
You're right that the Superman aspect of his memorial is indeed trivial. It's so trivial that DC (or any company in their right mind) would have simple approved it with a rubber stamp and maybe (at most) issued a simple statement about how tragic his death was.
It was only by denying such a simple and trivial request that DC's *FUCKING CLUELESS* legal/public relations people turned this into a story, not about a kid's tragic death, but about a company so callous and clueless that it would deny something so simple and decent that wouldn't have even cost them a dime--just out of reflex, it seems. What could have been a simple story about DC letting the Superman symbol be used for a small memorial for a child who died tragically has once again turned into a story about the clueless leadership at DC and raised more questions about the culture-of-clueless-fuckup that seems to so thoroughly pervade that company and every decision they make.
Of course, it also doesn't help that Superman is a classic symbol of human decency--a symbol that DC has sullied yet again with greed and callousness.
Maybe at some point after they're all finally out companies, agencies, colleges, etc. will finally realize that using SSN's as their unique identifiers of choice is dangerous.
Or continue to collect that princely sum of $20,000/year that DC agreed to pay them after the lawsuit forced them to.
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They must have the same guy in charge of their PR that they have in charge of their movie division.
Not to mention that Uber drivers probably aren't paying as much as $1 million for a single taxicab license.
You have to understand the complex mathematics of Airbus' futuristic engineering:
!pilot = !pilot-salary
Planes land with zero visibility all the time.
Yeah, but only when they HAVE to, not because someone thought a cool new gadget would be fucking flawless.
Because it's like my grandpa used to say about volunteers: "Sonny, you can't fire someone for doing a bad job if they're doing it for free. Also, don't trust the jews or coloreds with money."