First, you obviously didn't read the article. The trip was for negotiating business deals once the embargo is lifted. There are plenty of US businesses doing that today, and I don't see you or any other kool-aid drinker getting your panties in a twist about it. You are insulting people's intelligence with your claims.
Canada has caught US customs pre-clearance agents trying to stop US citizens from going to Cuba. Such interference is a violation of the treaties between Canada and the US, same as any other activity by Americans that runs against Canadian law American exceptionalism - that laws should apply to everyone except America and American businesses - has led to many stupid wars. Now that Putin is doing the same thing in Syria, you get all "oh this is so wrong." It's no more wrong than when you do it.
If you hadn't set the example, maybe Russia wouldn't have tried to do the same crap.
Most countries see the embargo as a violation of the UN charter and international law. So no, it's the people who are obeying the stupid embargo who are violating international law - which is why ALL other countries except Israel violate the illegal embargo. The ONLY countries voting in favor of the embargo 23 years running are the US and Israel.
The only people benefiting from the embargo are the politicians who are sucking up to the anti-Castro voters in Florida's Little Havana.
But that’s not the only way. For decades, despite the embargo, some Americans have been visiting Cuba by way of indirect flights through countries such as Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. These trips require less paperwork and can cost less than half the official option. An official, state-approved trip from the U.S. can cost between $4,000 and $5,000 for a week. A package including a resort stay and round-trip flights through Canada or another country will cost about $1,290 (or $1,500 Canadian), according to Krytiuk.
Typically, American travelers book flights to Cuba through a Canadian city or Caribbean hubs such as Nassau, Bahamas, or Cancún, Mexico. From there, every traveler going to Cuba is issued a tourist card for the passport. Upon arrival, Cuban customs agents remove one half of the card, and take the other half upon departure -- leaving no official record of the visit in a traveler’s passport.
Targeted ads are just another opportunity to rip off people by showing them different prices for the same thing. Sort of like how Coke wanted to have vending machines that would raise the price when it was hot outside.
The problem with targeted ads, of course, is that it only takes a quick search to find a better deal if what they're offering you isn't competitive. Anyone remember how for a while big-box electronic stores that offered to price match, when you went to show them the ad on their computer system, the price was higher than what you had seen at home a few hours before, because the stores would serve dummy clones of their competitors with higher prices? Had to stop once browsing over the cell network became practical, as long as you didn't use their wi-fi.
As the copyright holder, Microsoft has always had the right to grant or refuse licensing, and to set the terms. If you knew anything about copyright, you would know.
"My Sweet Lord" was such an obvious rip-off that I'm amazed that absolutely nobody around him said "Hey, you can't do that!" The first time I heard it I recognized it as a rip-off of "He's So Fine" long before the song finished - and I'm not a music fanatic. Harrison got nailed, and he deserved it.
The second option (wiping out huge sections of the population) is the best option over the long term, both for the survival of humans and other species. The question is, who gets to decide who gets wiped out. I suspect that will sort itself out over the next few decades via war, famine, disease, and lack of resources (including water).
Eye candy won't keep someone using a crappy system. Look at Vista with the Aero interface. Also, the larger the screen area, the less useful a menu bar that holds the menus for the currently active window becomes - it makes for a lot more mousing around. Application menus in application windows becomes much more usable. Most of the time the system menu/tool bar (no matter which side it's located on) can be hidden or shrunk.
Nobody is going to host anything significant on freenet. Freenet, in terms of distribution and content, is a joke. It would be easy enough for any agency that wanted to to poison all the caches by continually inserting and requesting a collection of random documents that is larger than the cache size of any node. The older documents would quickly be "forgotten", having been bumped out of the cache. On freenet, nothing is guaranteed to persist.
Copyright law still benefits people. There'd be no GPL without it. Also, without copyright laws there;d be far more draconian DRM. Remember back in the days wiith custom floppies with laser burns that couldn't be copied without both a PC Tools option board (special floppy controller) and software that would allow the board to maintain a copy of the unreadable bits and return errors when those bad ones were read, or when they would intercept write requests and return just the bits that were readable on the original floppy?
Heck, I did something similar with a needle - just pierce a hole at random, then figure out which sectors are unreadable in my original. If you could read them, the floppy was not an original. And since it was at random, no two disks were alike. Writing data to the original wasn't a big deal - once you knew where the bad sectors were, skip over them.
Is it breakable? Of course. Would the average person be able to? Of course not.
People who create works have the right to decide, within the limitations of the law, how they are used. That includes how they are sold, licensed, or whatever. Without that incentive, most of the stuff you experience (books, music, movies and tv shows, professional sports broadcasts, most radio and tv stations - wouldn't exist. TV wouldn't exist as we know it today because there wouldn't be much worth watching on it - same as almost all the stuff on youtube is crap. Most of the decent games are possible because copyright makes it financially viable to develop them. You might not like patented medicines, but without those patents, and the chance to make money off of drugs, the research won't get done and they won't get put through the testing and production phases.
As just one recent example, look at the self-driving car craze. Without a financial profit motive, nobody would be developing one. That financial profit is made possible because you can recoup the money invested via sales, without having to compete with someone who didn't have to spend to develop one, just ripped of your design and sold it for less (because they can afford to without the sunk costs you incurred).
The Indian government certainly has jurisdiction over communications entering and leaving their country. They can cut them off pretty much completely if they want. Wouldn't be the first country that suspended US access.
a more eye-candy design with the panel on top (not on the bottom like on a default LXDE setup), new icons, new Applications Menu, and new theme.
Oh, look - the bar is now at the top of the screen and we've shined up the icons and stuff. Mac envy much? Not everyone wants eye candy cluttering up everything they see.
They didn't take away my big-box bookstore. On the contrary, another competitor opened up a superstore book store a couple of years ago. Amazon CAN be beaten.
So what you're saying is that you are a failure at your job. Why should we listen to a self-admitted failure who can't do what he sees as his job? As for living as a character in Star Trek, ain't gonna happen.
CloudFlare can't deny they are distributing the copyrighted material - that's the "content" in Content Distribution Network. They certainly know the source, and who's paying the bills. I wonder how many other illegal sites are hiding behind CloudFlare that they're investing so much into an indefensible position.
Reduced oil supply in the future is irrelevant, and even a good thing, so what's the problem? Alternate energy sources are already cost-competitive.
How do you plan on relieving North Korea of their nuclear weapons development plan? More sanctions? Dream on. Pressure from China? Not going to happen because, like Putin, Kim Jong Un knows that when push comes to shove, there are two outcomes - The other side blinks, and you win, or the other side nukes you, and you'll be dead anyway so who gives a sh*t.
As for China heading for a crash, how much US debt does China hold? You better hope they don't have to liquidate it or the US economy will be nuked within hours. The US foreign currency reserves are less than 4% of China's. And unlike China, the US hasn't allowed an audit of the physical gold reserves in decades.
China lets people own things, including land and homes. You're really out of date on that one.
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First, you obviously didn't read the article. The trip was for negotiating business deals once the embargo is lifted. There are plenty of US businesses doing that today, and I don't see you or any other kool-aid drinker getting your panties in a twist about it. You are insulting people's intelligence with your claims.
Canada has caught US customs pre-clearance agents trying to stop US citizens from going to Cuba. Such interference is a violation of the treaties between Canada and the US, same as any other activity by Americans that runs against Canadian law American exceptionalism - that laws should apply to everyone except America and American businesses - has led to many stupid wars. Now that Putin is doing the same thing in Syria, you get all "oh this is so wrong." It's no more wrong than when you do it.
If you hadn't set the example, maybe Russia wouldn't have tried to do the same crap.
Seriously, who cares?
Not you, apparently. But law abiding people do.
Most countries see the embargo as a violation of the UN charter and international law. So no, it's the people who are obeying the stupid embargo who are violating international law - which is why ALL other countries except Israel violate the illegal embargo. The ONLY countries voting in favor of the embargo 23 years running are the US and Israel.
The only people benefiting from the embargo are the politicians who are sucking up to the anti-Castro voters in Florida's Little Havana.
The "one rate across the nation" will never happen. Some states are less densely populated. And Hawaii? Everything is more expensive there..
Seriously, who cares? The embargo has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. Any American who wanted to go to Cuba just had to go via another country, and they've worked out a scheme with Cuba to prevent it from ever showing up on your passport:
But that’s not the only way. For decades, despite the embargo, some Americans have been visiting Cuba by way of indirect flights through countries such as Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. These trips require less paperwork and can cost less than half the official option. An official, state-approved trip from the U.S. can cost between $4,000 and $5,000 for a week. A package including a resort stay and round-trip flights through Canada or another country will cost about $1,290 (or $1,500 Canadian), according to Krytiuk.
Typically, American travelers book flights to Cuba through a Canadian city or Caribbean hubs such as Nassau, Bahamas, or Cancún, Mexico. From there, every traveler going to Cuba is issued a tourist card for the passport. Upon arrival, Cuban customs agents remove one half of the card, and take the other half upon departure -- leaving no official record of the visit in a traveler’s passport.
Targeted ads are just another opportunity to rip off people by showing them different prices for the same thing. Sort of like how Coke wanted to have vending machines that would raise the price when it was hot outside.
The problem with targeted ads, of course, is that it only takes a quick search to find a better deal if what they're offering you isn't competitive. Anyone remember how for a while big-box electronic stores that offered to price match, when you went to show them the ad on their computer system, the price was higher than what you had seen at home a few hours before, because the stores would serve dummy clones of their competitors with higher prices? Had to stop once browsing over the cell network became practical, as long as you didn't use their wi-fi.
As the copyright holder, Microsoft has always had the right to grant or refuse licensing, and to set the terms. If you knew anything about copyright, you would know.
And for every nerd, there are at least a dozen "nermals" that they provide free tech support in return for beer and pizza.
"My Sweet Lord" was such an obvious rip-off that I'm amazed that absolutely nobody around him said "Hey, you can't do that!" The first time I heard it I recognized it as a rip-off of "He's So Fine" long before the song finished - and I'm not a music fanatic. Harrison got nailed, and he deserved it.
You actually can't make a lightning connector accessory without Apple's blessing. So they at least have a licensing interest.
Or maybe they overlooked that detail ...
BS. There's a HUGE difference between "one rate per tier across the country" and "the best rate we have available for their speed tier in their area."
Tell that to the Great Firewall of China. Or North Korea. It's easy for any country to block outside traffic. Happens all the time.
The second option (wiping out huge sections of the population) is the best option over the long term, both for the survival of humans and other species. The question is, who gets to decide who gets wiped out. I suspect that will sort itself out over the next few decades via war, famine, disease, and lack of resources (including water).
Eye candy won't keep someone using a crappy system. Look at Vista with the Aero interface. Also, the larger the screen area, the less useful a menu bar that holds the menus for the currently active window becomes - it makes for a lot more mousing around. Application menus in application windows becomes much more usable. Most of the time the system menu/tool bar (no matter which side it's located on) can be hidden or shrunk.
Nobody is going to host anything significant on freenet. Freenet, in terms of distribution and content, is a joke. It would be easy enough for any agency that wanted to to poison all the caches by continually inserting and requesting a collection of random documents that is larger than the cache size of any node. The older documents would quickly be "forgotten", having been bumped out of the cache. On freenet, nothing is guaranteed to persist.
Copyright law still benefits people. There'd be no GPL without it. Also, without copyright laws there;d be far more draconian DRM. Remember back in the days wiith custom floppies with laser burns that couldn't be copied without both a PC Tools option board (special floppy controller) and software that would allow the board to maintain a copy of the unreadable bits and return errors when those bad ones were read, or when they would intercept write requests and return just the bits that were readable on the original floppy?
Heck, I did something similar with a needle - just pierce a hole at random, then figure out which sectors are unreadable in my original. If you could read them, the floppy was not an original. And since it was at random, no two disks were alike. Writing data to the original wasn't a big deal - once you knew where the bad sectors were, skip over them.
Is it breakable? Of course. Would the average person be able to? Of course not.
People who create works have the right to decide, within the limitations of the law, how they are used. That includes how they are sold, licensed, or whatever. Without that incentive, most of the stuff you experience (books, music, movies and tv shows, professional sports broadcasts, most radio and tv stations - wouldn't exist. TV wouldn't exist as we know it today because there wouldn't be much worth watching on it - same as almost all the stuff on youtube is crap. Most of the decent games are possible because copyright makes it financially viable to develop them. You might not like patented medicines, but without those patents, and the chance to make money off of drugs, the research won't get done and they won't get put through the testing and production phases.
As just one recent example, look at the self-driving car craze. Without a financial profit motive, nobody would be developing one. That financial profit is made possible because you can recoup the money invested via sales, without having to compete with someone who didn't have to spend to develop one, just ripped of your design and sold it for less (because they can afford to without the sunk costs you incurred).
The Indian government certainly has jurisdiction over communications entering and leaving their country. They can cut them off pretty much completely if they want. Wouldn't be the first country that suspended US access.
Many do, they just think that they "need" all those channels. OTA TV is free, with an initial cost of $20 for an antenna and $10 for coax.
a more eye-candy design with the panel on top (not on the bottom like on a default LXDE setup), new icons, new Applications Menu, and new theme.
Oh, look - the bar is now at the top of the screen and we've shined up the icons and stuff. Mac envy much? Not everyone wants eye candy cluttering up everything they see.
Also, then it's easy to shut down the site because they're not hiding behind CloudFlare.
Until they hide behind something else.
Maybe others won't take them on as customers because they don't need the legal scrutiny?
Any time that an inspector finds the wiring has been interfered with (lots of grow-ops), the power is cut. No advance notice.
MS doesn't control what H/W manufacturers package with the OS. For be signature compliant they need to follow rules MS put in place.
In other words, Microsoft CAN, and always has been able to, control what hardware manufacturers package with the OS.
As for Apple, check out the Hackintosh - there's only millions of search results.
They didn't take away my big-box bookstore. On the contrary, another competitor opened up a superstore book store a couple of years ago. Amazon CAN be beaten.
So what you're saying is that you are a failure at your job. Why should we listen to a self-admitted failure who can't do what he sees as his job? As for living as a character in Star Trek, ain't gonna happen.
CloudFlare can't deny they are distributing the copyrighted material - that's the "content" in Content Distribution Network. They certainly know the source, and who's paying the bills. I wonder how many other illegal sites are hiding behind CloudFlare that they're investing so much into an indefensible position.
Reduced oil supply in the future is irrelevant, and even a good thing, so what's the problem? Alternate energy sources are already cost-competitive.
How do you plan on relieving North Korea of their nuclear weapons development plan? More sanctions? Dream on. Pressure from China? Not going to happen because, like Putin, Kim Jong Un knows that when push comes to shove, there are two outcomes - The other side blinks, and you win, or the other side nukes you, and you'll be dead anyway so who gives a sh*t.
As for China heading for a crash, how much US debt does China hold? You better hope they don't have to liquidate it or the US economy will be nuked within hours. The US foreign currency reserves are less than 4% of China's. And unlike China, the US hasn't allowed an audit of the physical gold reserves in decades.
China lets people own things, including land and homes. You're really out of date on that one.