The article fails to mention the part of the patent that includes the intravenous anti-anxiety/antidepressant pump that is integral to the optimal Wal-Mart Experience.
As someone the same age, I must agree. I've never even thought of the networks as "brands"; they're just containers with an arbitrary number attached. If you asked me to differentiate beyond that, I truly could not.
Given the notoriously litigious current IP landscape, I have to wonder how many cease-and-desists companies selling kits like these get hit with, since they're basically selling pirate ships.
Eh, might work if you package it with huge cuts (or abolishments) to other federal welfare programs and sell it a massive systematic reform that ultimately gives people more freedom.
Believe it or not, there are a number of high profile libertarians advocating basic income over the sprawling welfare state we have. No sprawling apparatuses, complex laws, loans, interventions, etc. Everyone gets a check, and that's it. How you define meaning, worth, value etc. is up to you.
He's advocating that the college perform one of its primary purposes stated by the founders, ie, to block the appointment of a demagogue. And that's grounds for "civil war".
Every time I think this election has hit peak-irony, it manages to tick up another level.
I'm referring to the circumstantial precedent, not the procedural one. It wouldn't behoove the nation to broadcast "leaks are consequence free if your heart's in the right place!"
Yeah, i read it to mean that he wouldn't make a determination without due process weighing in and forcing Snowden to formally defend his case.
Lacking that, he really *can't* preimtively pardon him without establishing a pretty bad precedent.
Personally, I think the best reconciliation of the predicament would be to see him tried, found guilty, and given a gentle slap on the risk (were it legally possible). Something akin to the ol' Streetcar Conspiracy verdict.
"In the realm of politics when you ideologically wreck the lives of a lot of people, justice demands you pay for it."
If by "pay" you mean "sit out of office for a term", then sure. I don't recall anyone volunteering for the gallows when we were wrong about WMDs, and near-millions died for it.
Swap their names and I'm in the same boat ("at least she's not Trump")...Seriously, I'm praying for a third party. Give me a Perot, a Nader, a Sanders, a Gary Johnson, ANYONE with discernable principles.
This election more than ever feels like a complete failure of the system.
He also said this word for word:
"...smoking doesn't kill. In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness..."
Poor grammar aside, that may be one of the worst arguments I've ever heard.
Seriously. "I was literally bleeding from a cut on my hand." My word, literal blood? It's amazing he didn't faint!
Meanwhile, I'm still playing on a prefab-gaming machine I bought in 2013 for $600 (plus a recently acquired 9 series graphic card at $150), and I'm yet to hit a new title that I can't run smoothly at medium or max settings. A $2k+ machine is a choice, like a Rolls-Royce; you can get to where you want to go for far less.
It worries me that they're simultaneously gobbling up platforms (beats, tidal), while pushing hardware manufacturers to abandon open standards and migrate to their proprietary drm garbage. No other company has such weight to forcibly drag consumers into a vertically integrated, walled garden. I fully expect that Tidal (and any others they gobble up) users will soon require Lightning headphones for the "full experience", or for drm "security" reasons, or whatever.
Oh, pish-tosh. There will always be another bubble. The region's real Estate is riding high upon one right now, and there's no shortage of fabulists remaining in the valley.
Until my local Wal-Mart starts handing out Zoloft at the door to combat the rush of depression that accompanies being at Wal-Mart, I can live with paying Amazon a marginal cost increase.
Actually, people do have the right to tell others what to think. At least, as much right as you have to tell them to "FUCK OFF AND DIE!!!111"
Funny you managed to miss that, during an election of all times.
I was arguing this with the last gen. I can surf the Web, watch videos, etc. without noticeable lag, so what motivation is there to continually upgrade?
The only real limitation is the physical life of the device, which I fear manufacturers have more incentive to disregard than improve.
It's pretty depressing if every time we mention CO2, there has to be an obligatory, if completely non sequitur mentioning of AGW. It's akin to being required to say something about werewolves everytime someone mentions silverware.
I don't think apathy is as big a factor as conditioned distrust of everything. Religion, education, corporations, government, your neighbors, etc. 24-7, we're told they're all out to get us. If that's the case, why bother? The 24-hour media cycle has our brains by the balls.
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The article fails to mention the part of the patent that includes the intravenous anti-anxiety/antidepressant pump that is integral to the optimal Wal-Mart Experience.
"...Professors don't have to worry about reelection..." After they're tenured, correct. Until then, not so much.
As someone the same age, I must agree. I've never even thought of the networks as "brands"; they're just containers with an arbitrary number attached. If you asked me to differentiate beyond that, I truly could not.
Given the notoriously litigious current IP landscape, I have to wonder how many cease-and-desists companies selling kits like these get hit with, since they're basically selling pirate ships.
Eh, might work if you package it with huge cuts (or abolishments) to other federal welfare programs and sell it a massive systematic reform that ultimately gives people more freedom.
Believe it or not, there are a number of high profile libertarians advocating basic income over the sprawling welfare state we have. No sprawling apparatuses, complex laws, loans, interventions, etc. Everyone gets a check, and that's it. How you define meaning, worth, value etc. is up to you.
He's advocating that the college perform one of its primary purposes stated by the founders, ie, to block the appointment of a demagogue. And that's grounds for "civil war". Every time I think this election has hit peak-irony, it manages to tick up another level.
I'm referring to the circumstantial precedent, not the procedural one. It wouldn't behoove the nation to broadcast "leaks are consequence free if your heart's in the right place!"
Yeah, i read it to mean that he wouldn't make a determination without due process weighing in and forcing Snowden to formally defend his case. Lacking that, he really *can't* preimtively pardon him without establishing a pretty bad precedent. Personally, I think the best reconciliation of the predicament would be to see him tried, found guilty, and given a gentle slap on the risk (were it legally possible). Something akin to the ol' Streetcar Conspiracy verdict.
"In the realm of politics when you ideologically wreck the lives of a lot of people, justice demands you pay for it." If by "pay" you mean "sit out of office for a term", then sure. I don't recall anyone volunteering for the gallows when we were wrong about WMDs, and near-millions died for it.
But all of our exhausting rants about politics on Slashdot are still effective, right?
Not if it's rough, apparently.
Swap their names and I'm in the same boat ("at least she's not Trump")...Seriously, I'm praying for a third party. Give me a Perot, a Nader, a Sanders, a Gary Johnson, ANYONE with discernable principles. This election more than ever feels like a complete failure of the system.
He also said this word for word: "...smoking doesn't kill. In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness..." Poor grammar aside, that may be one of the worst arguments I've ever heard.
Seriously. "I was literally bleeding from a cut on my hand." My word, literal blood? It's amazing he didn't faint! Meanwhile, I'm still playing on a prefab-gaming machine I bought in 2013 for $600 (plus a recently acquired 9 series graphic card at $150), and I'm yet to hit a new title that I can't run smoothly at medium or max settings. A $2k+ machine is a choice, like a Rolls-Royce; you can get to where you want to go for far less.
It worries me that they're simultaneously gobbling up platforms (beats, tidal), while pushing hardware manufacturers to abandon open standards and migrate to their proprietary drm garbage. No other company has such weight to forcibly drag consumers into a vertically integrated, walled garden. I fully expect that Tidal (and any others they gobble up) users will soon require Lightning headphones for the "full experience", or for drm "security" reasons, or whatever.
Oh, pish-tosh. There will always be another bubble. The region's real Estate is riding high upon one right now, and there's no shortage of fabulists remaining in the valley.
Until my local Wal-Mart starts handing out Zoloft at the door to combat the rush of depression that accompanies being at Wal-Mart, I can live with paying Amazon a marginal cost increase.
Actually, people do have the right to tell others what to think. At least, as much right as you have to tell them to "FUCK OFF AND DIE!!!111" Funny you managed to miss that, during an election of all times.
All great points, but airport gate attendants still seem rather nonplussed whenever you ask them where onboard you can plug in a 55" LCD.
Only snoots say cretins.
I was arguing this with the last gen. I can surf the Web, watch videos, etc. without noticeable lag, so what motivation is there to continually upgrade? The only real limitation is the physical life of the device, which I fear manufacturers have more incentive to disregard than improve.
It's pretty depressing if every time we mention CO2, there has to be an obligatory, if completely non sequitur mentioning of AGW. It's akin to being required to say something about werewolves everytime someone mentions silverware.
I don't think apathy is as big a factor as conditioned distrust of everything. Religion, education, corporations, government, your neighbors, etc. 24-7, we're told they're all out to get us. If that's the case, why bother? The 24-hour media cycle has our brains by the balls.
That's...actually the best description I've heard of its flavor. No longer shall I describe is as "a mix of laxatives and coffee-laced stomach acid".