Some car fires are caused not by accident or defect. Uncle burns leaves, later that night it snows. Cousin comes home in the dark and parks with tire over smouldering coals.
There's a podcast interviewing former NSA officer Brian Snow that was recorded before the Snowden leaks, and provides some valuable perspective on what the NSA does. I am probably going to get modded and/or flamed to oblivion for saying this, but listening to that podcast made me believe that not everything the NSA does is bad.
People don't argue that point. It's the extent and the soft supervision of it, such that it could be trivially abused by political operatives in the US against other politicians (or business interests, for that matter.)
A lot can be done with knowledge of who is talking to whom (just the metadata) to say nothing of call contents.
By the way, console gaming is a freaking huge arena. They just seem to be losing money hoping to make it back on other stuff. But their panic over it needing to be kept going to OMG MAYBE HAFTA shift their PC business to it is gone now. So if keeping it, do it roght, which means not an underpowered, overpriced unit that still loses money.
Yep. Microsoft bet on TV set top game/surf machines would take over from the PC, but they didn't. Giant-screen phones and tablets did. They bet the wrong way when Apple, then Google-as-Apple-alternative went a slightly different way.
From then on it was all "me too-itis". They need to develop new things, not copies, or go gently into the night like IBM did, still giant but largely serving the corporate-industrial consumer.
Bill Gates once said an opportunity like he had to go big on the ground floor of a whole new industry is about once every 50 years. Well, this is the third computer boom in the 30 years since the mid 80's, so we're averaging about every 15 years.
I support accurate labeling, however, and do not support scurrilous behavior where people knowingly sell products without at least letting you know.
"Warning! This product contains trans fats created from a process to make vegetable oil turn rancid more slowly, but, on a per-calorie basis, is approximately 2.5x as bad for you as animal fat, which is the stuff you are supposedly using vegetable oil trying to avoid soas to not have heart attacks."
If you had to completely obliterate all competition before you could be prosecuted for anticompetitive action, it would completely defeat the purpose of the legislation.
Microsoft kept Apple's heartbeat alive for a decade, including infusing tons of cash, so they could dodge monopoly charges by pointing to them as a competitor.
In the 1950s, Alcoa execs went to jail because they kept prices low, making it difficult for competitors to arise, not for killing them off.
It's all a stupid game for politicians to act like kings demanding kickbacks. Don't play right? Release the surface argument the hoi polloi buys, and bring them back in line.
"reports at CNN that a combination ofoverfishing, warming water, low oxygen and pollution are creating perfect conditions for jellyfish to multiply. "The jellyfish seem to be the ones that are flourishing in this while everything else suffers
Well, now that the election is over, CNN needs something to impartially report on besides its week-long hammering on the discrepancies between rich and poor.
This post is important. They swore up and down these were emergency, temporary powers needed to combat terrorism. "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
Drug war won't be far behind. These liars already took a law in the 1990s to fight terrorism, swore it would only be used for that, and immediately began using it to spy on and arrest prosaic drug dealers.
They didn't even bother regurgitating the fiction drug dealers were akin to terrorists. They brazenly stated, "Well, the law doesn't specifically state only terrorists.". They wasted no time at all before deliberately abusing their power.
Most of you are akin to chimpanzees jumping at the behest of memes to strip freedoms in the support of your meme's attempt at dominance.
Grow up and leave that tens of millenia old crap on the dustheap of history where it belongs. We, who do not recognize consenting crimes, are currently twisting the dagger in the corpse of anti-gay and anti-marijuana laws.
Come on over to the winning side! "Imagine how stupid you will look in 50, 100, or 150 years."
By the way, to FBI profilers, I don't use Tor and have smoked marijuana precisely 2x in my life, once in Jamaica and once in Ann Arbor. This is inconceivable to you, of course, and to most dear readers, no doubt, who think nobody thinks this way without ulterior motives. You all are sad.
The Tom Cruise War of the Worlds is nothing but a tripods action movie. That aside, it is a fantastic piece of sci-fi action film.
There are many jaw dropping moments both with and without action ("What's all this stuff?!?!?" [flinch!].)
And when the walker emerges is right up there with the death star vaey run, the first time we see Trinity, and "Get away from her you bitch!". It needs seeing on the big screen. You need to ignore the lousy adherance to provenance.
I hate reviews by people who read the book. Even if they mostly followed the spirit of the book, including major "WOW" moments, people still get bogged down bitching about this or that missing or changed detail.
I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo first (US version), and it was awesome. And the book was, too. I am holding off reading the second book until the movie because you can only see the story first once, and I want that to be the movie.
Dune is perhaps a better example. I saw that as the movie first (Picard version, not tv one) and it was magnificent. It had tremendous, epic scope and science fiction feel. The only bad part were minor things like the worms with people riding looked cheap (otherwise worm scenes were grand) and the Emperor being involved gunning at the end seemed stupid and small as an operation.
Later read the whole series, felt no rage at differences.
A movie is something like 50 pages of a book -- a lot must be consolidated and eliminated or glossed over, while still maintaining the feel and "WOW" moments that made the book stand out.
Oh Baron Harkonen, what a magnificent fucking pig you were!
The furious self-gratfication (in the hairy palm sense) laying blame on those who are responsible for feeding billions successfully is ferocious today. I can feel the generated breeze as used kleenex are tossed to the floor near the wastebasket.
The solution is known: use antibiotic coctails in the future. Nobody knew this, least of all you self-satisfied clowns who have nothing to do with feeding billions and, if you had your way, by stripping profits, would lead to the deaths of billions as hundreds of freedom-stripping, century-long experiments last century repeatedly demonstrated.
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Some car fires are caused not by accident or defect. Uncle burns leaves, later that night it snows. Cousin comes home in the dark and parks with tire over smouldering coals.
If only tech were easy-to-see good or bad, like checking if agents had green (or blue) or red lightsabers.
OH MY GOD. Yoda, you idiot! It's so simple. A child could do it. A youngling I mean!
There's a podcast interviewing former NSA officer Brian Snow that was recorded before the Snowden leaks, and provides some valuable perspective on what the NSA does. I am probably going to get modded and/or flamed to oblivion for saying this, but listening to that podcast made me believe that not everything the NSA does is bad.
People don't argue that point. It's the extent and the soft supervision of it, such that it could be trivially abused by political operatives in the US against other politicians (or business interests, for that matter.)
A lot can be done with knowledge of who is talking to whom (just the metadata) to say nothing of call contents.
> The expansion will also revamp a number of aging character models.
I hope it has a butt slider so I can make my Draeni mini-cowgirl's booty more properly Kardashinesque.
By the way, console gaming is a freaking huge arena. They just seem to be losing money hoping to make it back on other stuff. But their panic over it needing to be kept going to OMG MAYBE HAFTA shift their PC business to it is gone now. So if keeping it, do it roght, which means not an underpowered, overpriced unit that still loses money.
Yep. Microsoft bet on TV set top game/surf machines would take over from the PC, but they didn't. Giant-screen phones and tablets did. They bet the wrong way when Apple, then Google-as-Apple-alternative went a slightly different way.
From then on it was all "me too-itis". They need to develop new things, not copies, or go gently into the night like IBM did, still giant but largely serving the corporate-industrial consumer.
Bill Gates once said an opportunity like he had to go big on the ground floor of a whole new industry is about once every 50 years. Well, this is the third computer boom in the 30 years since the mid 80's, so we're averaging about every 15 years.
> Fine, until you get a runaway.
"Jimmy? Why is the 'runaway' weed-pulling bot in your room under your bed?"
It takes two to tango, and the Democrats were saying no to Republican proposals with equal vigor.
The childlike games played just to prevent spending cuts is embarrassing and shameful.
That the military regalia was Nazi fashion kinda gave it away.
The asshole director Godwinned a multimillion dollar movie.
> They could 'trip' and fall into each other (faking...)
Nah, I tried that at work with a secretary and got into even worse trouble.
I support accurate labeling, however, and do not support scurrilous behavior where people knowingly sell products without at least letting you know.
"Warning! This product contains trans fats created from a process to make vegetable oil turn rancid more slowly, but, on a per-calorie basis, is approximately 2.5x as bad for you as animal fat, which is the stuff you are supposedly using vegetable oil trying to avoid soas to not have heart attacks."
If you had to completely obliterate all competition before you could be prosecuted for anticompetitive action, it would completely defeat the purpose of the legislation.
Microsoft kept Apple's heartbeat alive for a decade, including infusing tons of cash, so they could dodge monopoly charges by pointing to them as a competitor.
In the 1950s, Alcoa execs went to jail because they kept prices low, making it difficult for competitors to arise, not for killing them off.
It's all a stupid game for politicians to act like kings demanding kickbacks. Don't play right? Release the surface argument the hoi polloi buys, and bring them back in line.
Well, now that the election is over, CNN needs something to impartially report on besides its week-long hammering on the discrepancies between rich and poor.
Anyone finds out who his guy is and his embarrasing photos, let us know.
Assclowns who modded him down, answer the question instead of behaving in a shameful way, trying to hide the question.
This post is important. They swore up and down these were emergency, temporary powers needed to combat terrorism. "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
Drug war won't be far behind. These liars already took a law in the 1990s to fight terrorism, swore it would only be used for that, and immediately began using it to spy on and arrest prosaic drug dealers.
They didn't even bother regurgitating the fiction drug dealers were akin to terrorists. They brazenly stated, "Well, the law doesn't specifically state only terrorists.". They wasted no time at all before deliberately abusing their power.
A lefty wrote tbis.
Most of you are akin to chimpanzees jumping at the behest of memes to strip freedoms in the support of your meme's attempt at dominance.
Grow up and leave that tens of millenia old crap on the dustheap of history where it belongs. We, who do not recognize consenting crimes, are currently twisting the dagger in the corpse of anti-gay and anti-marijuana laws.
Come on over to the winning side! "Imagine how stupid you will look in 50, 100, or 150 years."
By the way, to FBI profilers, I don't use Tor and have smoked marijuana precisely 2x in my life, once in Jamaica and once in Ann Arbor. This is inconceivable to you, of course, and to most dear readers, no doubt, who think nobody thinks this way without ulterior motives. You all are sad.
The Tom Cruise War of the Worlds is nothing but a tripods action movie. That aside, it is a fantastic piece of sci-fi action film.
There are many jaw dropping moments both with and without action ("What's all this stuff?!?!?" [flinch!].)
And when the walker emerges is right up there with the death star vaey run, the first time we see Trinity, and "Get away from her you bitch!". It needs seeing on the big screen. You need to ignore the lousy adherance to provenance.
I hate reviews by people who read the book. Even if they mostly followed the spirit of the book, including major "WOW" moments, people still get bogged down bitching about this or that missing or changed detail.
I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo first (US version), and it was awesome. And the book was, too. I am holding off reading the second book until the movie because you can only see the story first once, and I want that to be the movie.
Dune is perhaps a better example. I saw that as the movie first (Picard version, not tv one) and it was magnificent. It had tremendous, epic scope and science fiction feel. The only bad part were minor things like the worms with people riding looked cheap (otherwise worm scenes were grand) and the Emperor being involved gunning at the end seemed stupid and small as an operation.
Later read the whole series, felt no rage at differences.
A movie is something like 50 pages of a book -- a lot must be consolidated and eliminated or glossed over, while still maintaining the feel and "WOW" moments that made the book stand out.
Oh Baron Harkonen, what a magnificent fucking pig you were!
The furious self-gratfication (in the hairy palm sense) laying blame on those who are responsible for feeding billions successfully is ferocious today. I can feel the generated breeze as used kleenex are tossed to the floor near the wastebasket.
The solution is known: use antibiotic coctails in the future. Nobody knew this, least of all you self-satisfied clowns who have nothing to do with feeding billions and, if you had your way, by stripping profits, would lead to the deaths of billions as hundreds of freedom-stripping, century-long experiments last century repeatedly demonstrated.
Great. Now the bird will smash into it, pulp the people inside, and fly off in its straight line with no driver, right into space.
WOW! 300 miles at 132 mph.
> Helpouts, where, for a fee, video chat with a live person who will help you solve your dilemma.
As usual, porn led the way.
Regarding their attitude towards the FOIA requests, where's that rancid cocks up your fetid ass guy when you need him?
"unmanned", so no touching or pressure issues for humans.