I think it was a combination of a lot of factors, but another interesting issue is that there is now no phone on sale that runs Android 2.2. Sometimes, it looks like Google doesn't know what it's doing.
You said Breitbart is the one who destroyed ACORN, so I told you ACORN destroyed itself through poor management practices and actions on the part of higher-ups. I mentioned that I think you must read left-wing blogs a lot because ACORN is one of those things they obsess over, along with Sarah Palin.
Obama and the Senate cut off funding of ACORN due to all their scandals. You can blame Brietbart if you want, but it wasn't the cause of their demise. Their internal investigation describes their lack of transparency and opaqueness of information.
Other than countless examples in the past, from regular people to celebrities to businesses who have been attacked by the likes of Jesse Jackson, the big reason this is a bit of karmic retribution is the NAACP's recent declaration that the entire Tea Party is a racist organization. There is no official Tea Party organization--it's a bunch of local groups using the same moniker. There have been a few racist individuals who attached themselves to the movement, but they have been distanced. It's really just a group of anti-government, anti-tax people. Obama has even stated he doesn't believe the group is racist.
Disagreeing with the Tea Party is one thing, but playing the race card in 2010 is a cop-out and nothing more than a political play to try to drum up minority support going into the November elections. It's the same reason Obama is suddenly talking about immigration reform even though he knows it won't pass--it's to appeal to Hispanics by making it look like he fought for it but was foiled by Congress. Never mind that he didn't pursue it all when he had the 60 guaranteed votes.
I didn't think it was possible, but Obama has made me even more cynical about politicians than Bush. But now we're going way off-topic, and it's not like we'd sway each other anyway.:)
Brietbart is the guy who destroyed ACORN with false accusations and edited video
Whoa, what the hell? They really were involved in an embezzlement controversy, and an internal ACORN investigation found that poor management led to bad behavior on the part of employees. Based on your statements, I'm guessing you visit nothing but left-wing blogs and so have a completely one-sided perspective of nearly everything. Frankly, I find it amusing that the left gets to experience what it's like to have allegedly edited footage portray you in a bad light after all those years of heavily edited "documentaries" like Michael Moore films and Outfoxed.
Pretty much the entire Obama era so far has been an example of the left experiencing all the things they did to the right and an administration doing all the things Bush did. The country didn't change at all.
So what do we say about the idiots that saw the faked Shirley Sharrod video up on breitbart.com and rushed to denounce her and the NAACP as racist, when in fact the original video shows the exact opposite?
We say that the NAACP now understands what it's like to be unfairly accused of racism, lose your job, and have nobody listen to your side of the story.
You're completely misinformed. Threatening to kill people is not protected by freedom of speech. Quite the contrary, it can get you arrested. Freedom of speech merely protects ideas from government regulation, but it ends when that speech threatens the rights of others.
Threaten to kill the president on a blog and see what happens with your freedom of speech.
Uh, piracy should be illegal too. Do you think you shouldn't have to pay content creators? How does that work logically? Are you just entitled to their stuff for free or something?
Yeah, I'm sure nothing bad could ever happen from a group calling itself the "Pirate Party" taking money to provide internet services for the purpose of illegal activities. I'm sure no law on the books would ever get them in trouble for this. I bet the users of this ISP will be, moral, just, and never use it to rip off content creators.
What does any of that have to do with the claim of people getting thrown in jail for a "little bit of computer knowledge?" You actually think your knowledge was stunted because you couldn't commit a crime? Give me a break.
You're the ones making the claim. I searched Google using what search terms I thought would bring something up, but I didn't find any evidence of some epidemic of poor, innocent users getting thrown in jail just for knowing a little bit about computers.
In other words, you're full of shit and trying to play the poor, oppressed computer nerd.
All you'd have to do is cite a single example. Just one example of an innocent hacker who was arrested and put in jail. Otherwise, this sounds like more victimhood crap.
"Check out the 80s and 90s" isn't exactly convincing research on your part.
Maybe it's because we call anyone with even the smallest amount of computer knowledge a witch^H hacker, and burn them at the stake^H^H^H^H^H^H put them in jail (or detention, for the juveniles) while banning them from using computers?
We do? Could you cite some examples of all these innocent computer users being thrown in jail for having a small amount of computer knowledge?
It's pretty simple, guys. If you ban model rockets, you won't get a generation of rocket scientists. If you ban chemistry kits, you won't get a generation of chemical engineers. If you ban playing around with computer systems, you won't get a generation of hackers.
Could you cite some examples of "playing around with computer systems" being banned as well? Or are you just following a narrative cliche to get upmods?
Sure would love to see examples of all these innocent hackers the U.S. has a bad habit of arresting. Oh, wait, you were talking about the very adversaries the U.S. is trying to fight. Yeah, I'm sure hiring bank robbers to guard a bank is the best idea in the world.
This is a site with a readership that takes a strict pro-piracy stance, so of course they're selfishly going to be in favor of free web content. Everything is "me, me, me."
Don't forget Clang and LLVM which are replacing the GCC toolchain. Clang now builds FreeBSD and is eventually going to be the default compiler. Most people don't seem to realize these are Apple-led projects.
What are you talking about? It's been known that Safari 5 supported resource blocking since AdBlock's developer said it did on stage back at WWDC. I'm not really getting what resource-blocking in WebKit has to do with the iPhone.
Safari 5 supported it from day one. AdBlock's developer mentioned it on stage while demoing it during Safari's WWDC session, which drew applause from the crowd.
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Well, of course Google isn't going to come out and say their product failed. Customers and industry observers judge it as a failure.
I think it was a combination of a lot of factors, but another interesting issue is that there is now no phone on sale that runs Android 2.2. Sometimes, it looks like Google doesn't know what it's doing.
You said Breitbart is the one who destroyed ACORN, so I told you ACORN destroyed itself through poor management practices and actions on the part of higher-ups. I mentioned that I think you must read left-wing blogs a lot because ACORN is one of those things they obsess over, along with Sarah Palin.
Obama and the Senate cut off funding of ACORN due to all their scandals. You can blame Brietbart if you want, but it wasn't the cause of their demise. Their internal investigation describes their lack of transparency and opaqueness of information.
Other than countless examples in the past, from regular people to celebrities to businesses who have been attacked by the likes of Jesse Jackson, the big reason this is a bit of karmic retribution is the NAACP's recent declaration that the entire Tea Party is a racist organization. There is no official Tea Party organization--it's a bunch of local groups using the same moniker. There have been a few racist individuals who attached themselves to the movement, but they have been distanced. It's really just a group of anti-government, anti-tax people. Obama has even stated he doesn't believe the group is racist.
Disagreeing with the Tea Party is one thing, but playing the race card in 2010 is a cop-out and nothing more than a political play to try to drum up minority support going into the November elections. It's the same reason Obama is suddenly talking about immigration reform even though he knows it won't pass--it's to appeal to Hispanics by making it look like he fought for it but was foiled by Congress. Never mind that he didn't pursue it all when he had the 60 guaranteed votes.
I didn't think it was possible, but Obama has made me even more cynical about politicians than Bush. But now we're going way off-topic, and it's not like we'd sway each other anyway. :)
Certainly. Here is the embezzlement story from the New York Times, and here is the result of the internal ACORN investigation about their poor management practices.
Whoa, what the hell? They really were involved in an embezzlement controversy, and an internal ACORN investigation found that poor management led to bad behavior on the part of employees. Based on your statements, I'm guessing you visit nothing but left-wing blogs and so have a completely one-sided perspective of nearly everything. Frankly, I find it amusing that the left gets to experience what it's like to have allegedly edited footage portray you in a bad light after all those years of heavily edited "documentaries" like Michael Moore films and Outfoxed.
Pretty much the entire Obama era so far has been an example of the left experiencing all the things they did to the right and an administration doing all the things Bush did. The country didn't change at all.
We say that the NAACP now understands what it's like to be unfairly accused of racism, lose your job, and have nobody listen to your side of the story.
You're completely misinformed. Threatening to kill people is not protected by freedom of speech. Quite the contrary, it can get you arrested. Freedom of speech merely protects ideas from government regulation, but it ends when that speech threatens the rights of others.
Threaten to kill the president on a blog and see what happens with your freedom of speech.
"sniveling coward-shit"
Another angry pirate desperate to defend the immoral free ride.
Ever heard of surveillance cameras? Your reasoning is bullshit-wrong.
What trust can you have when the ISP is run by a group called the "Pirate Party?" I mean, how blatant and obvious could their intent be?
Uh, piracy should be illegal too. Do you think you shouldn't have to pay content creators? How does that work logically? Are you just entitled to their stuff for free or something?
Yeah, I'm sure nothing bad could ever happen from a group calling itself the "Pirate Party" taking money to provide internet services for the purpose of illegal activities. I'm sure no law on the books would ever get them in trouble for this. I bet the users of this ISP will be, moral, just, and never use it to rip off content creators.
What does any of that have to do with the claim of people getting thrown in jail for a "little bit of computer knowledge?" You actually think your knowledge was stunted because you couldn't commit a crime? Give me a break.
You're the ones making the claim. I searched Google using what search terms I thought would bring something up, but I didn't find any evidence of some epidemic of poor, innocent users getting thrown in jail just for knowing a little bit about computers.
In other words, you're full of shit and trying to play the poor, oppressed computer nerd.
All you'd have to do is cite a single example. Just one example of an innocent hacker who was arrested and put in jail. Otherwise, this sounds like more victimhood crap.
"Check out the 80s and 90s" isn't exactly convincing research on your part.
We do? Could you cite some examples of all these innocent computer users being thrown in jail for having a small amount of computer knowledge?
Could you cite some examples of "playing around with computer systems" being banned as well? Or are you just following a narrative cliche to get upmods?
Sure would love to see examples of all these innocent hackers the U.S. has a bad habit of arresting. Oh, wait, you were talking about the very adversaries the U.S. is trying to fight. Yeah, I'm sure hiring bank robbers to guard a bank is the best idea in the world.
This is a site with a readership that takes a strict pro-piracy stance, so of course they're selfishly going to be in favor of free web content. Everything is "me, me, me."
Don't forget Clang and LLVM which are replacing the GCC toolchain. Clang now builds FreeBSD and is eventually going to be the default compiler. Most people don't seem to realize these are Apple-led projects.
What are you talking about? It's been known that Safari 5 supported resource blocking since AdBlock's developer said it did on stage back at WWDC. I'm not really getting what resource-blocking in WebKit has to do with the iPhone.
Safari 5 supported it from day one. AdBlock's developer mentioned it on stage while demoing it during Safari's WWDC session, which drew applause from the crowd.
Isn't Chrome itself an ad for Google services? It even defaults to their search engine.
There are things that make it look family-friendly in comparison.
It desensitizes you. The cheering crowds of the Middle Ages who watched people burned at the stake or broken on the wheel viewed it as entertainment.