I for one shall make a point to post as many links from my mobile devices as possible If only because it rustles the jimmies of crotchety old assholes like Zontar the Mindless, bearer of the most accurate nick ever. iGadgets are prevalent, and soon shall be the most common means to access web sites. Get used to it or get used to be ridiculed for being an clueless old fart too stupid to figure out how to use a "view standard version" link or to realize that most sites automatically redirect to the standard version when a desktop browser is detected, as the parent's link did.
So, to make "fun" of it is ok and protected, to pay homage to it is despicable and a violation of their "rights"?
Dude -- just wow. Nice to see you have zero value for creative expression and free speech
What is Parody if not to amuse? And what is amusement but entertainment? To say the only form of parody is the sort we see on Saturday Night Live would be utterly limiting and disingenuous at best. This is clearly a piece of "Fan Fiction" and should by all intents and purposes be covered by fair use since it is not a commercial work, and was created to amuse fellow fans of the Power Rangers.
Perhaps instead of calling their lawyers, the copyright holders should have called the creator of this piece to see about putting together a deal to bring this to SyFy as a Galactica style reboot.
But hey -- they're assholes in suits and more about "protecting" the rights they've secure from others than "creating" anything new with those rights.
No privacy! Every file upload must be monitored and scrutinized and reported to the authorities!
This is how we will defeat terror and keep the children safe!
I think Season 1 Ep 3 of Black Mirror just about nailed the future of the global workforce smack on the head. The rarified elite will control 99.999% of the global wealth while the rest are used as a captive consumer base, forced to watch ads and rewarded in credits for providing energy to help provide "green energy" by toiling on exercise bikes all day and/or by being used as entertainment in reality tv or porn.
If the robot is owned and operated by a person or organization other than the patient, then the patient should have no say.
I fail to see the point here. If anything, it would be very difficult to create a robot that could determine if someone is drunk, much less is a drunk.
So most likely, any nursing robot would refuse to serve booze to any patient since that would be a far easier option to implement.
So Judges should be held accountable for the decisions of juries?
Maybe in your world, judges send in their sheriffs to "aggressively persuade" juries to make the decision the judge wants.
That's not how it works in what little of a democratic republic we have left.
But, hey -- your perfect world is coming. Fascism is rising fast in the Western World.
Dropping the mobile division would be best. It's super competitive and Sony hasn't had much success in the mobile phone market since the early digital days in the 90s.
Seems they would do well to sell off their mobile interests to one of the companies seeking to enter the smart phone market, just their IP and facilities alone would be worth several hundred million
* cough * wooosh! * cough *
Learn to take a joke -- or have you become too accustomed to being beaten up and given wedgies for being a die-hard MS fanboy?
Looking at it's Desktop environment (lumina), there is no way in hell PC-BSD will ever become widely adopted.
It's a jarring shitfest of Windows-95 wanna-be hell designed by amateurs.
If any OSS *nix has a shot at becoming mainstream by 2020, that would be Ubuntu.
While they have their own issues, at least they understand how to put together a good looking UI, and their installer works quite well on consumer grade gear unlike most OSS *nix distros.
Battleships went out the same reason the Presidio and it's coastal batteries protecting the SF Bay was decommissioned -- the days of cannons for Naval warfare are long over.
Why bother with a floating artillery garrison that can only attack targets within a dozen miles when we already have superiority with a Carrier Group consisting of a floating air base accompanied by floating missile platforms that can take out the major military targets of a small nation several hundred miles away all by themselves? A Battleship serves no practical purpose in a carrier group, nor could it ever hope of attacking a hostile carrier group -- subs or guided missile cruisers would take it out before it ever got anywhere near it's intended target
Communism has always been about the redistribution of the wealth held by the few into the hands of even fewer while claiming to be about liberating the "people", who wind up with even less wealth than before and little if any actual freedoms.
Communism is a lie told to the ignorant and the poor to convince them to help tyrannical autocrats and their cronies to power.
Warning: Nutritionists, Doctors and Scientists don't know jack shit about what constitutes a healthy diet and anything anyone says about calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol in your diet is pure bullshit
Hmmm... I don't think WASP means what it think it means.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant is typically used to describe lacoste clad and teeth whitened mcMansion types, not bible banging NASCAR fans
Assuming that the concept of the "multiverse" is indeed correct -- and presently, current scientific theories do point to a strong probability -- why would the other Universes be COPIES of this universe? Why wouldn't they be similar, yet different, such as cells in a body? Sure, cells may have all the fundamental parts in common, but the atoms and molecules that comprise them are entirely unique. You and I are frankly of no significance nor would there be even the slightest possibility of a copy or alternate version of ourselves in any other universe. However, if you want to talk about alternate versions of THIS Universe, well, we might have something to talk about.
And for the record, I do not think it so preposterous to posit that the multiverse concept is too wild an idea. Have we seen anything entirely unique in this Universe? Have we seen were magnification or division ends? Why should we not have a multiverse where thousands, even millions or billions of Universes exist? And what contains those? How do you propose we ever find out if we shit all over the very idea until we actually have "proof". Frankly, I find the notion of a singular Universe too close to the notion of a God to take seriously, the multiverse concept seems more in line with what we see in nature
That mistook the headline's mention of RU Sirius for Yahoo Serious? Same era, same stupid sounding name, same flash in the pan.
I wonder if they were separated at birth
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I for one shall make a point to post as many links from my mobile devices as possible If only because it rustles the jimmies of crotchety old assholes like Zontar the Mindless, bearer of the most accurate nick ever. iGadgets are prevalent, and soon shall be the most common means to access web sites. Get used to it or get used to be ridiculed for being an clueless old fart too stupid to figure out how to use a "view standard version" link or to realize that most sites automatically redirect to the standard version when a desktop browser is detected, as the parent's link did.
So, to make "fun" of it is ok and protected, to pay homage to it is despicable and a violation of their "rights"? Dude -- just wow. Nice to see you have zero value for creative expression and free speech
What is Parody if not to amuse? And what is amusement but entertainment? To say the only form of parody is the sort we see on Saturday Night Live would be utterly limiting and disingenuous at best. This is clearly a piece of "Fan Fiction" and should by all intents and purposes be covered by fair use since it is not a commercial work, and was created to amuse fellow fans of the Power Rangers. Perhaps instead of calling their lawyers, the copyright holders should have called the creator of this piece to see about putting together a deal to bring this to SyFy as a Galactica style reboot. But hey -- they're assholes in suits and more about "protecting" the rights they've secure from others than "creating" anything new with those rights.
No privacy! Every file upload must be monitored and scrutinized and reported to the authorities! This is how we will defeat terror and keep the children safe!
I mean, TuxKart is great and all, but c'mon does it really warrant it's own fork of Linux? Talk about bloat.
I think Season 1 Ep 3 of Black Mirror just about nailed the future of the global workforce smack on the head. The rarified elite will control 99.999% of the global wealth while the rest are used as a captive consumer base, forced to watch ads and rewarded in credits for providing energy to help provide "green energy" by toiling on exercise bikes all day and/or by being used as entertainment in reality tv or porn.
This is nothing but a blatant infringement of my Candy Making in a Van innovation!
If the robot is owned and operated by a person or organization other than the patient, then the patient should have no say. I fail to see the point here. If anything, it would be very difficult to create a robot that could determine if someone is drunk, much less is a drunk. So most likely, any nursing robot would refuse to serve booze to any patient since that would be a far easier option to implement.
So Judges should be held accountable for the decisions of juries? Maybe in your world, judges send in their sheriffs to "aggressively persuade" juries to make the decision the judge wants. That's not how it works in what little of a democratic republic we have left. But, hey -- your perfect world is coming. Fascism is rising fast in the Western World.
Dropping the mobile division would be best. It's super competitive and Sony hasn't had much success in the mobile phone market since the early digital days in the 90s. Seems they would do well to sell off their mobile interests to one of the companies seeking to enter the smart phone market, just their IP and facilities alone would be worth several hundred million
Their roots? There seems to be more than enough rice cookers on the market these days as it is.
Our reputation is everything and our products are ultimately how we have our reputation.
You reputation is now at the Sony and Comcast level: Scum bag assholes who are out to fuck their customers every way they can.
* cough * wooosh! * cough * Learn to take a joke -- or have you become too accustomed to being beaten up and given wedgies for being a die-hard MS fanboy?
Have we slipped so far down the performance-orientated slide that we are impressed by *how well a dungeon generator runs on an i7 with 16GB of RAM*.
It's C# -- so it's likely that's the minimum requirements for a compiled .NET App to run
I'm pretty sure Rubber Bands cover this "innovation"
Looking at it's Desktop environment (lumina), there is no way in hell PC-BSD will ever become widely adopted. It's a jarring shitfest of Windows-95 wanna-be hell designed by amateurs. If any OSS *nix has a shot at becoming mainstream by 2020, that would be Ubuntu. While they have their own issues, at least they understand how to put together a good looking UI, and their installer works quite well on consumer grade gear unlike most OSS *nix distros.
How is this news? Lets all submit stories about the sky being blue
Battleships went out the same reason the Presidio and it's coastal batteries protecting the SF Bay was decommissioned -- the days of cannons for Naval warfare are long over.
Why bother with a floating artillery garrison that can only attack targets within a dozen miles when we already have superiority with a Carrier Group consisting of a floating air base accompanied by floating missile platforms that can take out the major military targets of a small nation several hundred miles away all by themselves? A Battleship serves no practical purpose in a carrier group, nor could it ever hope of attacking a hostile carrier group -- subs or guided missile cruisers would take it out before it ever got anywhere near it's intended target
Communism has always been about the redistribution of the wealth held by the few into the hands of even fewer while claiming to be about liberating the "people", who wind up with even less wealth than before and little if any actual freedoms. Communism is a lie told to the ignorant and the poor to convince them to help tyrannical autocrats and their cronies to power.
CAN!!!!!!!!!!! YOU!!!!!!!!!!! SHOUT!!!!!!!!!!! LOUDER????????
-- Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING --
I CAN'T!!!!!!!!!!! HEAR!!!!!!!!!!! YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
When the shit dries, it can be used as fuel.
Warning: Nutritionists, Doctors and Scientists don't know jack shit about what constitutes a healthy diet and anything anyone says about calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol in your diet is pure bullshit
Hmmm ... I don't think WASP means what it think it means.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant is typically used to describe lacoste clad and teeth whitened mcMansion types, not bible banging NASCAR fans
And for the record, I do not think it so preposterous to posit that the multiverse concept is too wild an idea. Have we seen anything entirely unique in this Universe? Have we seen were magnification or division ends? Why should we not have a multiverse where thousands, even millions or billions of Universes exist? And what contains those? How do you propose we ever find out if we shit all over the very idea until we actually have "proof". Frankly, I find the notion of a singular Universe too close to the notion of a God to take seriously, the multiverse concept seems more in line with what we see in nature
That mistook the headline's mention of RU Sirius for Yahoo Serious? Same era, same stupid sounding name, same flash in the pan. I wonder if they were separated at birth