Yeah, but privacy and free speech and all that only applies if you're saying politically-correct stuff. The second you say "nigger" or even mildly criticize some protected group YOU MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!!
Granted, you can probably just disconnect the kinect and be just fine.
I guess then Kinect won't respond to voice commands for a while. But then, it never really did before either. I guess you will know when you have to yell "Xbox Off" 30 times instead of the normal 25.
I've learned quite a bit about smelting from playing Elder Scrolls Online. And so I feel qualified to say that smelting is actually very straightforward. Just go to a blacksmith station, open up your refine menu and add your ore, press the refine key, and you're done!
From every description I've heard of "dark energy" it sounds like a kind of place-filler variable for something--as in, "This equation only works if we put in X, but we have no idea what X is."
A Chromebook isn't a general purpose workstation, it's a web browser and a few supporting apps. If that isn't what you want just don't buy it
The problem is that this is not how companies are marketing it. They are ABSOLUTELY marketing Chromebooks as general purpose laptops. You can see them in the Best Buy flyers right next to the other Windows and Apple laptops.
Well then, you Republicans and libertarian types should welcome this move. Seattle will be the perfect test bed to prove your argument that raising the minimum wage will collapse the economy and cause higher unemployment. All we have to do it watch Seattle for the next few years and see what happens. If you're right, we'll see their growth stop, unemployment and cost-of-living shoot through the roof, and every Mom & Pop store in town close their doors.
Hell, Seattle is *ideal* for your cause! They not only raised it to the $10.10 that you have predicted will doom us all, but they've went even *further* and raised it to $15!!!! If you're even remotely right, Seattle should become a Mad Max style wasteland soon.
The new directive, he added, "shows firm support for the IC IG Whistleblowing program that actively promotes federal whistleblowing through lawful disclosures, which will be ignored and will get you fired and maybe thrown in prison
I almost came in my pants watching it. But then, I have a very specific GUI improvement fetish that most (especially YOU, Dr. Swartz!) just don't understand.
They were prosecuted for the same thing under the same act.
Because 1973 American was a LOT different than 2014 America. Ellsberg was a media darling for one thing (in an era where the press was a lot stronger and less subservient to the government), being tried under a much more liberal court and under a Presidential Administration that wanted the whole Vietnam War to go the fuck away (with leaks that mostly implicated the previous Administration anyway). And it was before there were secret courts and long before prosecuting leakers under the Espionage Act was commonplace.
Snowden would not only not get a fair trial, he wouldn't even get a fair detention. The second he stepped off the airplane he would be whisked away to solitary confinement in some secret detention center and placed under permanent gag order (probably for the rest of his life). If he was lucky, his lawyer MIGHT be allowed to see him a few times and/or access SOME of the evidence against him. Then he would get a quick show-trial and be thrown back into permanent imprisonment, still in solitary and under a gag order for the rest of his life. He would never again be allowed to do press interviews or even communicate with the public.
And THAT is why he left the country and why he is able to plead his case to the public today. All of you who think he should have stayed here and "faced the music" are fucking idiots. The only "music" he would face in the U.S. is a dungeon and gag. He's never again going to be able to "make his case" or get a "fair trial" anywhere on U.S. (or U.S. lapdog) soil.
I'm going to write a full explanation of my thoughts on the subject with special ink on this piece of paper. But if you try to observe or measure the ink in any way, it will disappear. But the explanation is there. Trust me.
Every state in the union allows for pre-trial detention of criminals convicted of serious crimes. Every one of these detainees is held indefinitely. Theoretically, this is just temporary and they will receive speedy trial. In actual practice, they can be held for as long as the prosecutor wishes to stall. If they don't have a smart lawyer who files a speedy trial petition and they're not willing to accept a plea, this could be years. It could be a lifetime. That's why it's called "indefinite."
You want proof? Head down to your nearest local or state pre-trial detention facility and see for yourself. You'll find a lot of people there who couldn't make bail and who couldn't afford decent lawyers, and who have no idea when (or even if) their case is actually going to be heard.
I thought only the F.B.I. could serve National Security Letters. Can the NSA also serve them?
Even if they couldn't (and they won't say whether this is the case or nor), they could easily get the FBI to do it for them.
We the public are never going to know either say (without another heroic whistleblower), since even the process is a secret. Maybe we can find out the truth in about 75 years when they declassify it.
“UPS’ long-standing policy is to require a legal court-ordered process, such as a subpoena, before responding to any third-party requests,” UPS spokeswoman Kara Ross wrote in an e-mail to TheBlot Magazine. “UPS is not aware of any court orders from the NSA seeking to inspect technology-related shipments.”
When you parse the language and translate it from PR-speak/legalese, you realize that this is basically a meaningless statement. The first sentence is boilerplate BS, and has nothing to do with the allegation at hand at all. "We have a long-standing policy not to do X" *IS NOT* the same as saying "We didn't do X" (though that's what they want you to believe they're saying, of course). The second part of the statement only tells us that the NSA didn't get a court order to do this, *NOT* that UPS didn't let them do it anyway without a court order.
And what the whole statement is absolutely NOT is an actual denial. In short, if UPS *REALLY* didn't let the NSA intercept their packages, they could have released a very simple statement saying "UPS did not and does not let the NSA intercept our packages." What they released was some vague boilerplate BS that basically says fuck all.
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In the age of the internet, bitching has become the number one export of western civilization.
Yeah, but privacy and free speech and all that only applies if you're saying politically-correct stuff. The second you say "nigger" or even mildly criticize some protected group YOU MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!!
For the hundredth time, vulcan, we're not joining any goddamn federation of planets!
I still use my Wii for parties. Doesn't mean it's not dead.
Granted, you can probably just disconnect the kinect and be just fine.
I guess then Kinect won't respond to voice commands for a while. But then, it never really did before either. I guess you will know when you have to yell "Xbox Off" 30 times instead of the normal 25.
I've learned quite a bit about smelting from playing Elder Scrolls Online. And so I feel qualified to say that smelting is actually very straightforward. Just go to a blacksmith station, open up your refine menu and add your ore, press the refine key, and you're done!
It'll be pretty damn efficient at putting a lot of money into the hands of the dealerships where you have to switch those batteries out, though.
The government has decided that it's in the public interest for the public not to know what the government is doing. And the public is uninterested.
From every description I've heard of "dark energy" it sounds like a kind of place-filler variable for something--as in, "This equation only works if we put in X, but we have no idea what X is."
This. They're already unreachable now. And until someone comes along and proves Einstein wrong, they're going to remain that way too.
Prototypes and promises are Valve's bread and butter these days.
Actual delivery? Well....not so much.
A Chromebook isn't a general purpose workstation, it's a web browser and a few supporting apps. If that isn't what you want just don't buy it
The problem is that this is not how companies are marketing it. They are ABSOLUTELY marketing Chromebooks as general purpose laptops. You can see them in the Best Buy flyers right next to the other Windows and Apple laptops.
Well then, you Republicans and libertarian types should welcome this move. Seattle will be the perfect test bed to prove your argument that raising the minimum wage will collapse the economy and cause higher unemployment. All we have to do it watch Seattle for the next few years and see what happens. If you're right, we'll see their growth stop, unemployment and cost-of-living shoot through the roof, and every Mom & Pop store in town close their doors.
Hell, Seattle is *ideal* for your cause! They not only raised it to the $10.10 that you have predicted will doom us all, but they've went even *further* and raised it to $15!!!! If you're even remotely right, Seattle should become a Mad Max style wasteland soon.
Care to place a wager?
Anyone stupid enough to believe this "we respect whistleblowers" horseshit had best read up on Thomas Drake.
The new directive, he added, "shows firm support for the IC IG Whistleblowing program that actively promotes federal whistleblowing through lawful disclosures, which will be ignored and will get you fired and maybe thrown in prison
FTFY
I almost came in my pants watching it. But then, I have a very specific GUI improvement fetish that most (especially YOU, Dr. Swartz!) just don't understand.
How much to run most software on it?
$0, because you can't.
UPS isn't stupid. If they really wanted to deny something, they would have used strong and clear language to do so.
They were prosecuted for the same thing under the same act.
Because 1973 American was a LOT different than 2014 America. Ellsberg was a media darling for one thing (in an era where the press was a lot stronger and less subservient to the government), being tried under a much more liberal court and under a Presidential Administration that wanted the whole Vietnam War to go the fuck away (with leaks that mostly implicated the previous Administration anyway). And it was before there were secret courts and long before prosecuting leakers under the Espionage Act was commonplace.
Snowden would not only not get a fair trial, he wouldn't even get a fair detention. The second he stepped off the airplane he would be whisked away to solitary confinement in some secret detention center and placed under permanent gag order (probably for the rest of his life). If he was lucky, his lawyer MIGHT be allowed to see him a few times and/or access SOME of the evidence against him. Then he would get a quick show-trial and be thrown back into permanent imprisonment, still in solitary and under a gag order for the rest of his life. He would never again be allowed to do press interviews or even communicate with the public.
And THAT is why he left the country and why he is able to plead his case to the public today. All of you who think he should have stayed here and "faced the music" are fucking idiots. The only "music" he would face in the U.S. is a dungeon and gag. He's never again going to be able to "make his case" or get a "fair trial" anywhere on U.S. (or U.S. lapdog) soil.
I'm going to write a full explanation of my thoughts on the subject with special ink on this piece of paper. But if you try to observe or measure the ink in any way, it will disappear. But the explanation is there. Trust me.
Delta Airlines to sue the shit out of mathematicians and Greeks!
Every state in the union allows for pre-trial detention of criminals convicted of serious crimes. Every one of these detainees is held indefinitely. Theoretically, this is just temporary and they will receive speedy trial. In actual practice, they can be held for as long as the prosecutor wishes to stall. If they don't have a smart lawyer who files a speedy trial petition and they're not willing to accept a plea, this could be years. It could be a lifetime. That's why it's called "indefinite."
You want proof? Head down to your nearest local or state pre-trial detention facility and see for yourself. You'll find a lot of people there who couldn't make bail and who couldn't afford decent lawyers, and who have no idea when (or even if) their case is actually going to be heard.
I thought only the F.B.I. could serve National Security Letters. Can the NSA also serve them?
Even if they couldn't (and they won't say whether this is the case or nor), they could easily get the FBI to do it for them.
We the public are never going to know either say (without another heroic whistleblower), since even the process is a secret. Maybe we can find out the truth in about 75 years when they declassify it.
Don't forget "It's our standard policy not to" which is NOT the same as "We didn't" of course.
Here is the quote from the article:
“UPS’ long-standing policy is to require a legal court-ordered process, such as a subpoena, before responding to any third-party requests,” UPS spokeswoman Kara Ross wrote in an e-mail to TheBlot Magazine. “UPS is not aware of any court orders from the NSA seeking to inspect technology-related shipments.”
When you parse the language and translate it from PR-speak/legalese, you realize that this is basically a meaningless statement. The first sentence is boilerplate BS, and has nothing to do with the allegation at hand at all. "We have a long-standing policy not to do X" *IS NOT* the same as saying "We didn't do X" (though that's what they want you to believe they're saying, of course). The second part of the statement only tells us that the NSA didn't get a court order to do this, *NOT* that UPS didn't let them do it anyway without a court order.
And what the whole statement is absolutely NOT is an actual denial. In short, if UPS *REALLY* didn't let the NSA intercept their packages, they could have released a very simple statement saying "UPS did not and does not let the NSA intercept our packages." What they released was some vague boilerplate BS that basically says fuck all.