No offense, but if someone is actually a member of the "wealthy ruling class", they aren't posing on/. You sir... are the middle class, because only the middle class likes to think of themselves as uber wealthy while still posting on/.
I worked for an ISP/Newspaper, I was on my way to work, stopped to get gas and heard that a plane hit the WTC.. Thinking it was a single engine plane lost in the fog or something, and being corrected that it was a jet liner.. my mind was slightly boggled. Half way to work I learned a 2nd plane had hit, and before I got out of my car, the Pentagon. Stepped inside the door and people were ALL over the place!!! My boss told me to get to work on a stripped down bare bones plain text version of our new site ASAP!... Spent the day posting update after update after update.. when I finally did get to go home, my gas was almost empty... Yes.. I was from that area of the midwest that made national news because some idiot jacked up the gas price to $4.25/gal (ironic that its just getting there 10 years later) sending the whole area into a panic. Eventually I made it home but damn that was an experience in internet news, and fighting to keep everything up and running! We were smaller so our traffic was proportionally smaller, but it was still a fight...
Where does this "The Chinese own the US" myth come from?
From the same place that "The Japanese own the US" myth came from in the 80's... Ironically the British owned the most US assets followed by the Dutch then the Japanese in the 80's... I have no idea who owns what in what capacity these days.
$11 million is pretty much chump change in this day and age when it comes to corps.. whether the story is "propoganda" or not, who knows, but it'd be on the same level as saying a story about China counterfeiting goods is a propaganda story. Actually the counterfeiting of goods would be a bigger story. Basically, nothing to see here.. move along.
I would have to agree with this. We've ditched our cable TV and watch our content almost entirely over streaming. With normal use on standard resolution video we burn through about 120-130GB/month of data usage.
I have a netflix client on my android phone. It doesn't work for viewing as it's a pre-release version but you can alter your list. That being said there IS a Netflix client for Android.. it's just not released yet, as other's have said.. due to the DRM issue.
Oh ya... it's getting close to election time again. This is just the first gentle tug of it's grandstanding gravitational pull into the singularity known as US elections.
There's also information that while true, is formulated in a falsely alarmist way.
Like, true fact coming from authoritative measurements: the Iodine-131 levels in Poland have risen some 1000-2000 times above their usual level.
Conveniently omitted fact: that's still about 500-1000 times less than levels causing any measurable increase of risk of thyroid cancer.
Well then they should be educating the public instead of censoring the information. It's a safer route to take than censorship which is a very slippery slope. When you have censorship it breeds rumor as fact a lot more readily than some idiot blogger spreading his FUD. Censorship means they're hiding something from you in an effort to control your thought process, which is a different all be it just as significant form of fear.
Well I've travelled in Europe as well.. so I guess this is the part where we just disagree and sit on opposite sides of the fence. No use trying to change a subjective opinion somone has...
Sorry to inform you, I am in fact American. Born in Texas, raised in the Midwest Chicago area, lived and worked in Florida, California and Washington, and have travelled to every portion of this country save New England, and my opinion still stands.
There are different 'cultures' in the US.. with a little c.. as opposed to a big C.. and I call bullshit on the amount of cultural difference being comparable to different countries in Europe. Point being, people in the US identify themselves as Americans first, before say.. New Yorkers or Californians etc. Where people in the EU would call themselves German or French first before European Union.
IMHO, the EU is a perfect example of a central governing body where states rights being dominant would actually work well. Each country in the EU pretty much has it's own unique culture and identity. In the US the states are nothing more than geographic divisions of the country. Each country with it's own tax code (and in some cases currency) and a loose central governing body.
Indeed the US was originally a "confederation" of states, but we opted for a stronger central government in order to overcome some of our early problems. I believe states rights fell to the weaker position in the US, because in essence we were all from the same culture and strong states rights were more divisive than unifying at the time.
A basic scientific calculator should be so cheap these days that they could just be added to the instructors budget and handed out to students and returned to the instructor during a test. I see no reason in this day and age where basic calculators shouldn't be as readily available as say, a pen.
Look at it this way. Everyone in DC can have his computer taken and searched for no reason at all. Every politician using a computer working in DC is subject to this. Let that sink through their thick skulls and see how fast this gets overturned.
Android is an operating system available on devices from numerous manufacturers. It was only a matter of time, given the level of control that both RIM and Apple maintain over the hardware that their operating system is available on.
Not trying to start a flame war but it never stopped comparisons between Apple and MS operating systems. Granted Windows wasn't "open" but it's the same general comparison.
It links to a story posted March 31. I don't know if you are just to lazy to RTFA or just wasn't too lucky with your April 1. joke, either way your post officially sucks
Ah isn't that the beauty of the internet though.. it's already *out there* for all to see, and no amount of "copy®ight censorship" can do a damn thing about it. The Internet is functioning as intended.
It used to be that music/tv shows were there as an enticement for a viewer to be exposed to the ads..NOW, the viewer/listener is considered 'stealing' the shows, if they don't listen to / watch the ads.
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In related news, the Australian government will be placing monitoring devices inside phones to monitor decibel levels and signal quality.
No offense, but if someone is actually a member of the "wealthy ruling class", they aren't posing on /. You sir... are the middle class, because only the middle class likes to think of themselves as uber wealthy while still posting on /.
I worked for an ISP/Newspaper, I was on my way to work, stopped to get gas and heard that a plane hit the WTC.. Thinking it was a single engine plane lost in the fog or something, and being corrected that it was a jet liner.. my mind was slightly boggled. Half way to work I learned a 2nd plane had hit, and before I got out of my car, the Pentagon. Stepped inside the door and people were ALL over the place!!! My boss told me to get to work on a stripped down bare bones plain text version of our new site ASAP!... Spent the day posting update after update after update.. when I finally did get to go home, my gas was almost empty... Yes.. I was from that area of the midwest that made national news because some idiot jacked up the gas price to $4.25/gal (ironic that its just getting there 10 years later) sending the whole area into a panic. Eventually I made it home but damn that was an experience in internet news, and fighting to keep everything up and running! We were smaller so our traffic was proportionally smaller, but it was still a fight...
Where does this "The Chinese own the US" myth come from?
From the same place that "The Japanese own the US" myth came from in the 80's... Ironically the British owned the most US assets followed by the Dutch then the Japanese in the 80's... I have no idea who owns what in what capacity these days.
$11 million is pretty much chump change in this day and age when it comes to corps.. whether the story is "propoganda" or not, who knows, but it'd be on the same level as saying a story about China counterfeiting goods is a propaganda story. Actually the counterfeiting of goods would be a bigger story. Basically, nothing to see here.. move along.
I would have to agree with this. We've ditched our cable TV and watch our content almost entirely over streaming. With normal use on standard resolution video we burn through about 120-130GB/month of data usage.
I have a netflix client on my android phone. It doesn't work for viewing as it's a pre-release version but you can alter your list. That being said there IS a Netflix client for Android.. it's just not released yet, as other's have said.. due to the DRM issue.
Oh ya... it's getting close to election time again. This is just the first gentle tug of it's grandstanding gravitational pull into the singularity known as US elections.
There's also information that while true, is formulated in a falsely alarmist way.
Like, true fact coming from authoritative measurements: the Iodine-131 levels in Poland have risen some 1000-2000 times above their usual level. Conveniently omitted fact: that's still about 500-1000 times less than levels causing any measurable increase of risk of thyroid cancer.
Well then they should be educating the public instead of censoring the information. It's a safer route to take than censorship which is a very slippery slope. When you have censorship it breeds rumor as fact a lot more readily than some idiot blogger spreading his FUD. Censorship means they're hiding something from you in an effort to control your thought process, which is a different all be it just as significant form of fear.
TSA is an agency of the United States Government. If you can't make the connection I will draw you a picture. :o)
Glenn?!
If you're not guilty then you won't have anything to hide. ( which, ironically, I think we should apply generously to politicians/corporations )
Paranoids to the right...
Fanboy's to the left...
NEXT!
Well I've travelled in Europe as well.. so I guess this is the part where we just disagree and sit on opposite sides of the fence. No use trying to change a subjective opinion somone has...
Sorry to inform you, I am in fact American. Born in Texas, raised in the Midwest Chicago area, lived and worked in Florida, California and Washington, and have travelled to every portion of this country save New England, and my opinion still stands.
There are different 'cultures' in the US.. with a little c.. as opposed to a big C.. and I call bullshit on the amount of cultural difference being comparable to different countries in Europe. Point being, people in the US identify themselves as Americans first, before say.. New Yorkers or Californians etc. Where people in the EU would call themselves German or French first before European Union.
IMHO, the EU is a perfect example of a central governing body where states rights being dominant would actually work well. Each country in the EU pretty much has it's own unique culture and identity. In the US the states are nothing more than geographic divisions of the country. Each country with it's own tax code (and in some cases currency) and a loose central governing body. Indeed the US was originally a "confederation" of states, but we opted for a stronger central government in order to overcome some of our early problems. I believe states rights fell to the weaker position in the US, because in essence we were all from the same culture and strong states rights were more divisive than unifying at the time.
A basic scientific calculator should be so cheap these days that they could just be added to the instructors budget and handed out to students and returned to the instructor during a test. I see no reason in this day and age where basic calculators shouldn't be as readily available as say, a pen.
Look at it this way. Everyone in DC can have his computer taken and searched for no reason at all. Every politician using a computer working in DC is subject to this. Let that sink through their thick skulls and see how fast this gets overturned.
Android is an operating system available on devices from numerous manufacturers. It was only a matter of time, given the level of control that both RIM and Apple maintain over the hardware that their operating system is available on.
Not trying to start a flame war but it never stopped comparisons between Apple and MS operating systems. Granted Windows wasn't "open" but it's the same general comparison.
It links to a story posted March 31. I don't know if you are just to lazy to RTFA or just wasn't too lucky with your April 1. joke, either way your post officially sucks
too* lazy...
Story post time is officially Apr. 1.... it's /. hell day...
Then you start complaining about outsourcing and wondering why corporations prefer to invest overseas instead of paying the taxes in your country.
I'm sorry.. could you repeat that portion about corporations and paying taxes...
Ah isn't that the beauty of the internet though.. it's already *out there* for all to see, and no amount of "copy®ight censorship" can do a damn thing about it. The Internet is functioning as intended.
Everyone makes mistakes
Here, have a nice refreshing glass of gulf water!
It used to be that music/tv shows were there as an enticement for a viewer to be exposed to the ads..NOW, the viewer/listener is considered 'stealing' the shows, if they don't listen to / watch the ads.
It's a subtle but disgusting difference.