I didn't mind paying $5 to download Super Mario Bros to my Wii. I do mind having to pay again to download it on the 3DS, and yet again to download it to a Wii U.
And that's not my only complaint about how their Virtual Consoles have been handled.
How has the US helped establish order since helping to win WWII ?
You seem to be assuming that "establishing order" is limited to actively killing people and breaking things. Try thinking less "Pentagon" and more "Foggy Bottom."
China is a better neighbor to us here in NZ than the USA
For the Kiwis, it's not "US or China," it's "US or Fiji" or even "US or France." Most of the South Pacific (i.e. New Zealand's neighborhood) isn't a very fun place to live, and the folks in Wellington would like to keep that from happening to their own (surprisingly expansive) corner of it.
The Chinese really don't care who's in power in any particular non-Sinosphere country (if anybody) so long as they have buyers. In contrast, the US (and Australia and France and...) has actual people and territory at stake in the region and have a vested interest in things like local coups, fishing rights, pollution, high-seas piracy, etc.
In that respect, the US government has been relatively consistent (for better or for worse) and has helped to establish order (for better or for worse) in the region. In that respect, the US is at least a known evil, and isn't the one currently trying to "test" nuclear weapons in American Samoa.
No, what I am saying is that, if you're brandishing a weapon in public you are... breaking the law. If you are breaking the law, the person will be much better served by calling the police with his phone, than by putting an update into this gun tracking website.
Except most (if not all) of the relevant laws do not result in that person no longer being allowed to own a gun, thanks in no small part to the gun lobby. Drunken shooter discharges his weapon in a residential area, the police come, the shooter pays a fine, and then the shooter is free to continue drinking and owning a gun. Short of a repeal of the Second Amendment, calling the police may accomplish something this time but will not prevent the situation from happening again in the future. The only solution left is to not be around if and when the shooter decides to go drunk shooting again, which is what this geotagging facilitates.
Well hold on here. I wasn't talking about someone using a firearm to threaten or to attack. I am talking about people that are just being stupid with firearms (open carrying, what have you).
A bullet doesn't care if it was discharged intentionally or accidentally. If a firearm is being handled in an unsafe manner, someone can be maimed or killed.
And note that open carrying is perfectly legal in many states, so calling the police wouldn't accomplish anything there regardless.
The point I am trying to make is that this app has nothing to do with stopping criminal behavior, but the only meaningful purpose of it is to harass gun owners.
So empowering people to avoid showing up on this list isn't a "meaningful purpose?"
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away
All the more reason to have a publicly-available list of dangerous gun-owners rather than rely on police enforcement of (lax) gun regulations, is it not? It would seem better to rely on avoidance and shunning of such dangerous people and situations than rely on calling police after the fact.
Because its not like you couldn't call the police if people are doing unsafe things with guns. In a lot of places there are laws about the safe handling of weapons.
And yet the "you can just call the police" argument somehow becomes unacceptable when used to justify banning firearms outright.
And Senator Obama voted to retroactively approve of such behavior. When placed in a position to put a stop to this or at least voice his opinion against it, he instead actively supported it.
"Wash." used to be the postal code for WA before we went to two letter abbreviations.
There were no standardized abbreviations before the US Postal Service created them. At best you had something like the Associated Press style manual for datelines. Canada Post collaborated (note that "MB" is the only possible abbreviation for Manitoba that doesn't overlap with a US state).
I'm surprised though that people are having such a hard time reading this (well, I can understand non US based people not getting it, but anyone in America who doesn't must lead an incredibly hard life, being so literal and all).
It's up there with there/their/they're and to/too/two: "WA" has a clear and unambiguous meaning and its incorrect use is jarring, interrupting the smooth flow of reading while we have to consciously decipher the writer's intent.
The newspaper's name is Washington Post, and the typical jargon shorthand is "WaPo." Anagama wanted to use jargon to sound "in the know" and instead made the source sound like a no-name local competitor to the Seattle Times.
Would even that be enough? I have a motherboard with Firewire ports, but the only use I get out of them is when I need to connect my sister's MacBook for some reason.
For those curious to why Google raised a ruckus about this, there is a concept that once a word has become used in the more generic sense that the term may be used by other companies
That's not the whole story here, though:
After Google demanded that the definition be changed and the Council add a disclaimer
Ungoogleableadj.--Describes a concept that cannot be found using lesser, inferior, and possibly hazardous search engines, but readily available using Google's superior technology; nothing is impossible for Google, your new best friend! Sign up for Google+ today!
Organizations have a hard enough time explaining to their adult employees how to avoid phishing scams and the like, and they have knowledgeable professionals doing the training. It is wholly unrealistic to expect one or two individual parents to be able to adequately protect the privacy and information security of minors against entities that have the drive and resources of Facebook.
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I didn't mind paying $5 to download Super Mario Bros to my Wii. I do mind having to pay again to download it on the 3DS, and yet again to download it to a Wii U.
And that's not my only complaint about how their Virtual Consoles have been handled.
I bought a Wii and a 3DS practically on the potential of their respective Virtual Consoles alone.
I've learned my lesson.
How has the US helped establish order since helping to win WWII ?
You seem to be assuming that "establishing order" is limited to actively killing people and breaking things. Try thinking less "Pentagon" and more "Foggy Bottom."
China is a better neighbor to us here in NZ than the USA
For the Kiwis, it's not "US or China," it's "US or Fiji" or even "US or France." Most of the South Pacific (i.e. New Zealand's neighborhood) isn't a very fun place to live, and the folks in Wellington would like to keep that from happening to their own (surprisingly expansive) corner of it.
The Chinese really don't care who's in power in any particular non-Sinosphere country (if anybody) so long as they have buyers. In contrast, the US (and Australia and France and...) has actual people and territory at stake in the region and have a vested interest in things like local coups, fishing rights, pollution, high-seas piracy, etc.
In that respect, the US government has been relatively consistent (for better or for worse) and has helped to establish order (for better or for worse) in the region. In that respect, the US is at least a known evil, and isn't the one currently trying to "test" nuclear weapons in American Samoa.
Good luck getting Google or Facebook to comply if all their datacenters and business locations are only in the US.
And good luck to Google or Facebook trying to withdraw their euro payments from EU banks.
Sure, US companies can scoff EU law, but they won't make any money by doing so.
No, what I am saying is that, if you're brandishing a weapon in public you are... breaking the law. If you are breaking the law, the person will be much better served by calling the police with his phone, than by putting an update into this gun tracking website.
Except most (if not all) of the relevant laws do not result in that person no longer being allowed to own a gun, thanks in no small part to the gun lobby. Drunken shooter discharges his weapon in a residential area, the police come, the shooter pays a fine, and then the shooter is free to continue drinking and owning a gun. Short of a repeal of the Second Amendment, calling the police may accomplish something this time but will not prevent the situation from happening again in the future. The only solution left is to not be around if and when the shooter decides to go drunk shooting again, which is what this geotagging facilitates.
Their walking around with a round in the chamber and the safety off makes them dangerous.
Their keeping a loaded gun on the kitchen table around children makes them dangerous.
Their shooting their gun into the air during a holiday celebration makes them dangerous.
Their pointing a gun they "know" is unloaded at anybody makes them dangerous.
Saying "mean things" about them doesn't make them dangerous, unless they feel the need to buy more guns to assuage their hurt feelings.
Well hold on here. I wasn't talking about someone using a firearm to threaten or to attack. I am talking about people that are just being stupid with firearms (open carrying, what have you).
A bullet doesn't care if it was discharged intentionally or accidentally. If a firearm is being handled in an unsafe manner, someone can be maimed or killed.
And note that open carrying is perfectly legal in many states, so calling the police wouldn't accomplish anything there regardless.
The point I am trying to make is that this app has nothing to do with stopping criminal behavior, but the only meaningful purpose of it is to harass gun owners.
So empowering people to avoid showing up on this list isn't a "meaningful purpose?"
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away
All the more reason to have a publicly-available list of dangerous gun-owners rather than rely on police enforcement of (lax) gun regulations, is it not? It would seem better to rely on avoidance and shunning of such dangerous people and situations than rely on calling police after the fact.
Because its not like you couldn't call the police if people are doing unsafe things with guns. In a lot of places there are laws about the safe handling of weapons.
And yet the "you can just call the police" argument somehow becomes unacceptable when used to justify banning firearms outright.
using non-impressive means to gain access to accounts by people stupid enough to use easy to guess passwords.
So you believe that only 24,000 out of 15,000,000 used "easy to guess passwords?"
24,000 out of 15 million? If it really is brute force, why so few?
And Senator Obama voted to retroactively approve of such behavior. When placed in a position to put a stop to this or at least voice his opinion against it, he instead actively supported it.
"Wash." used to be the postal code for WA before we went to two letter abbreviations.
There were no standardized abbreviations before the US Postal Service created them. At best you had something like the Associated Press style manual for datelines. Canada Post collaborated (note that "MB" is the only possible abbreviation for Manitoba that doesn't overlap with a US state).
I'm surprised though that people are having such a hard time reading this (well, I can understand non US based people not getting it, but anyone in America who doesn't must lead an incredibly hard life, being so literal and all).
It's up there with there/their/they're and to/too/two: "WA" has a clear and unambiguous meaning and its incorrect use is jarring, interrupting the smooth flow of reading while we have to consciously decipher the writer's intent.
The newspaper's name is Washington Post, and the typical jargon shorthand is "WaPo." Anagama wanted to use jargon to sound "in the know" and instead made the source sound like a no-name local competitor to the Seattle Times.
I live in the real Washington
Prior art
I love it when people try to show themselves as clever and end up showing the complete opposite.
The NSA pays Microsoft $200k to implement the "bug "to begin with, so they're still making a net profit.
That is not a tumor, that is evidence of a tumor. As you are pointing to a fossil and not actual bone, the actual tumor is long gone.
Here we have actual bones, and an actual tumor.
It's a same we can't moderate the article as flamebait.
... in Vienna.
That might mean something if the energy was consumed at a uniform rate over the course of 86,400 s. That is true of neither homes nor LHCs.
BoA didn't try to blame their poor reputation on homophobes.
Would even that be enough? I have a motherboard with Firewire ports, but the only use I get out of them is when I need to connect my sister's MacBook for some reason.
I've got more USB 3.0 devices than I do Firewire.
For those curious to why Google raised a ruckus about this, there is a concept that once a word has become used in the more generic sense that the term may be used by other companies
That's not the whole story here, though:
Ungoogleable adj.--Describes a concept that cannot be found using lesser, inferior, and possibly hazardous search engines, but readily available using Google's superior technology; nothing is impossible for Google, your new best friend! Sign up for Google+ today!
Organizations have a hard enough time explaining to their adult employees how to avoid phishing scams and the like, and they have knowledgeable professionals doing the training. It is wholly unrealistic to expect one or two individual parents to be able to adequately protect the privacy and information security of minors against entities that have the drive and resources of Facebook.
how many of them will come back?
This isn't EA's first screw-up, and yet enough "came back" for this to be an issue.