What do you want? Competitive mobile phone companies that are allowed to innovate in order to bring enhanced value to their customers, or some dirty socialist government regulation? The phone companies know what's best for us. Who are we to decide what programs and features belong on our phones?
Yes bitcoin is unstable, it is also a very new technology. Things should stabilize as the currency matures.
No, it will not stablize, because no, it is not currency, at least not be any reasonable definition of the word.
Crime is crime? Well, no. Not when it comes to banks.
I may not like the fact that the credit card companies take a significant bite out of every transaction, but they offer something to the card holder that BC does not (and likely never will), indemnification. If someone fraudulently uses my card, I'm covered. Same goes for my "money in the bank". If the bank gets robbed, my assets are protected.
Tell me, in what world is the "value" of a BitCoin so protected? Q.E.D.
They are not the same thing. Nobody who needs the efficient input of keyboard and mouse does their work on a table. That said, yes, there are a lot of users who don't need that but, because they had no other choice, bought PC's. The WinTel consortium is losing those users. Microsoft _might_ be able to hang on to some of them with a free mobile OS, but I doubt it. That ship has pretty much sailed.
OK. Fine. Everybody, STFU already with the whining about losing something that did not, ever, cost you a dime. We agree on that, but the decision to pull the plug on such short notice is clearly a shameless attempt at squeezing bucks out of those for whom an alternative solution is not reasonably within their grasp in a few days time. In other words, this company has no integrity. I can and will work out an alternative to LogMeIn, but I will never do business with that company now, because if I did not have that wherewithal, I'd have been forced to pay up, at least until I could figure out something else, and I'd have been doubly pissed in that situation.
Law enforcement and Government in general doesn't like when random citizens record things. It makes it harder to railroad people in courts afterwards if there is actual footage of an incident.
So anyone using Google Glass can expect to be bullied and harassed whenever it can be done with a "reasonable cause". And yes, law enforcement is not happy that just wearing something like that isn't grounds for it. But hey, do it in the movies and those Hollywood-lobbied antipiracy laws give them perfect justification...
You're really not being fair to our hard working law enforcement people. The theater clearly was in fear for the safety of their intellectual property and had every right to insist that the FBI bully and intimidate their patron.
Is that the approx. 2000 year old Gospel accounts illustrate precisely that this behaviour occurs in organised religion, that it's not right, and that a good teacher teaches against such stuff. How can so many from so many Christian churches read their Bible regularly and not see this???
Most don't read it all. Most of those that do, only use it as a reference to support this or that preconceived notion. A significant portion of the group "Christians" can't read well enough to read their holy book, even if they wanted to, let alone comprehend it. So in answer to your actual question... because they don't want to.
The "denigration of religion" is a messy situation which still needs clear legal decisions
It needs one, and only one; the one where finally agree that any argument (prosecution or plaintiff) that is based on a variation of "It says in my holy book...", is thrown out of court, automatically, with no chance of appeal. And yes, the mess is already made when a country's constitution includes "some sort of religion" as source from which it derives it's authority. And for those of you who slept through your civics classes in the U.S., no. Our constitution may reference deity, but it very carefully avoids citing that deity as the source of the government's authority to rule. Indeed, it lays out quite the opposite.
Perhaps you missed the quotes around "the faithful". That term has a rather specific meaning, and it certainly does not encompass every "believer" in this or that religion. Still, religions, (those with "revealed" dogma, at least) by their very nature frequently require to people to believe things that are not true. That's a built-in lever for manipulating those who can't (or won't) know any better.
Sure... Long shot, from the beach, looking out at the water. At least one vessel, light color, roughly center of frame. Pieces of shuttle hitting the water all around it.
I saw live video, shot from roughly the same vantage point, including shots of the pieces hitting water. Seconds later, that live feed was cut. Since then, only certain portions of that video have ever (to my knowledge) seen the light of day.
So it's not Islam in general that's anti-polio. Indeed, you don't get those craziness in any Muslim culture with well-educated populace.
The people who are killing health workers administering vaccines in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are not just Muslims. They are Salafi, an extremely fundamentalist Muslim sect that espouses strict Koranic literalism and advocates for a return to the practices of the "original Islam" (which, basically, translates to society and culture frozen as it was in the times of Muhammad). Taliban, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Caucasus Emirate etc - these are all Salafi.
Education and enlightenment are the enemy of "the faithful" in every religion.
It would probably help if every time there's a hurricane like Sandy, Katrina, et. al. there wasn't some global warming advocate on TV arguing that this was evidence of global warming. You can't taut every weather event that supports warming as evidence and then turn around and dismiss every weather event that doesn't jibe with the narrative.
If you are suggesting that the unusual extremes we're seeing in winter weather patterns are not an indicator of global warming, you have more to learn.
Education is already available and has not fixed the problem in many decades.
[citation needed]
While what you assert was once true, it is (measurably and demonstrably) no longer the case. Hasn't been for "many decades". The causes of the decline in our public education system are many and certainly open to debate, the solutions to that problem, even more so, but the effective public education that was one of the key things leading to the development of the middle class is clearly no longer a reality.
And let's face it, that's all the Republican party is. As proof of this fact, name one Republican policy that benefits the poor to the detriment of the rich. Just one.
Christ may have died for the poor, but the GOP fights for the wealthy. It's an odd reality for the party of God, isn't it?
Not odd at all. It is by design; clever and obscenely cynical, but definitely by design that the GOP has managed to hook voters with meaningless "social issues" and convince them to vote, over and over, against their own (the voters') best interests. That strategy is starting to run out of gas now, as younger voters, who appreciate a woman's right to choose and don't really give a rat's ass about gay marriage, are tilting the balance. Still, this brilliant play has worked extremely well for decades.
Yeah, but regardless, this kid went out of his way to help out this company, and they repay him by having the cops toss him in the clink. The overall theme SHOULD be the idiot company, but in the meantime lets not forget about the cops who arrested him.
RTFA. The police have done no such thing. The police have not even contacted Mr. Rogers. Apparently they (the police) have a bit more security acumen than does the idiot who decided to involve them.
It is really telling that the ATF gave over 2500 guns to Mexican drug cartels, and no one from the ATF, DOJ, or Obama Administration is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the IRS targeted political opponents during an election year, and no one from the IRS, DOT, or Obama Administration is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that Obama campaign donors at Solyndra got $500,000,000 of tax payer money, promptly went bankrupt, and no one from the DOE is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the Fed prints $75,000,000,000 a month, totaling over $4,000,000,000,000 in the last 5 years, and no one from the fed is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the president himself breaks the PPACA on a daily basis by announcing parts he will be temporarily or permanently not enforcing, and he's not sitting in jail.
...and that there may be other motives such as political and economic espionage
Jeez... Ya think? I'll spare us the rant about how much of that has already occurred and jump right to how ashamed I am that my country has embraced such activity on such a scale. I mean, I get that, in business "it's just business" is a tacit rationalization for doing anything that you can get away with to enhance the bottom line, but for my government, who is supposed to at least carry on the illusion that it represents my interests, to give that same excuse is just, well, shameful.
Well, that's silly. They ruled that the "Defense of Marriage Act"'s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional...
And a few short months later, that same court has said that Utah may continue (pending the appeals process) to discriminate against same sex couples. Nice try. This is a shamelessly tilted court, especially when you take the social issues off the scales.
Clever, yes. Win for anyone but AT&T? Hell no. The Internet became what it is because it was the very antithesis of traditional media. This move is a huge step towards turning it back into little more than cable TV.
Global Warming alarmists who don't know what they're talking about to deride folks who do, for pointing to a weather event....just like Global Warming alarmists do EVERY SINGLE hurricane, drought, flood, tornado and earthquake.
That doesn't change the fact that a pattern of weather events (hot or cold) is an indicator of climate change. Understanding that, it is fair to deride anyone who observes isolated events (hot or cold) and then makes pronouncements about climate change.
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What do you want? Competitive mobile phone companies that are allowed to innovate in order to bring enhanced value to their customers, or some dirty socialist government regulation? The phone companies know what's best for us. Who are we to decide what programs and features belong on our phones?
...and now this?
How in the world will our government keep us pious and safe now?
Yes bitcoin is unstable, it is also a very new technology. Things should stabilize as the currency matures.
No, it will not stablize, because no, it is not currency, at least not be any reasonable definition of the word.
Crime is crime? Well, no. Not when it comes to banks.
I may not like the fact that the credit card companies take a significant bite out of every transaction, but they offer something to the card holder that BC does not (and likely never will), indemnification. If someone fraudulently uses my card, I'm covered. Same goes for my "money in the bank". If the bank gets robbed, my assets are protected.
Tell me, in what world is the "value" of a BitCoin so protected? Q.E.D.
They are not the same thing. Nobody who needs the efficient input of keyboard and mouse does their work on a table. That said, yes, there are a lot of users who don't need that but, because they had no other choice, bought PC's. The WinTel consortium is losing those users. Microsoft _might_ be able to hang on to some of them with a free mobile OS, but I doubt it. That ship has pretty much sailed.
OK. Fine. Everybody, STFU already with the whining about losing something that did not, ever, cost you a dime. We agree on that, but the decision to pull the plug on such short notice is clearly a shameless attempt at squeezing bucks out of those for whom an alternative solution is not reasonably within their grasp in a few days time. In other words, this company has no integrity. I can and will work out an alternative to LogMeIn, but I will never do business with that company now, because if I did not have that wherewithal, I'd have been forced to pay up, at least until I could figure out something else, and I'd have been doubly pissed in that situation.
Law enforcement and Government in general doesn't like when random citizens record things. It makes it harder to railroad people in courts afterwards if there is actual footage of an incident.
So anyone using Google Glass can expect to be bullied and harassed whenever it can be done with a "reasonable cause". And yes, law enforcement is not happy that just wearing something like that isn't grounds for it. But hey, do it in the movies and those Hollywood-lobbied antipiracy laws give them perfect justification...
You're really not being fair to our hard working law enforcement people. The theater clearly was in fear for the safety of their intellectual property and had every right to insist that the FBI bully and intimidate their patron.
Is that the approx. 2000 year old Gospel accounts illustrate precisely that this behaviour occurs in organised religion, that it's not right, and that a good teacher teaches against such stuff. How can so many from so many Christian churches read their Bible regularly and not see this???
Most don't read it all. Most of those that do, only use it as a reference to support this or that preconceived notion. A significant portion of the group "Christians" can't read well enough to read their holy book, even if they wanted to, let alone comprehend it. So in answer to your actual question... because they don't want to.
I've got news for you -- politics is religion.
Bullshit. All religion is based on the supernatural. Politics is not. The fact that the two are often overlapped does not make them one and the same.
The "denigration of religion" is a messy situation which still needs clear legal decisions
It needs one, and only one; the one where finally agree that any argument (prosecution or plaintiff) that is based on a variation of "It says in my holy book...", is thrown out of court, automatically, with no chance of appeal. And yes, the mess is already made when a country's constitution includes "some sort of religion" as source from which it derives it's authority. And for those of you who slept through your civics classes in the U.S., no. Our constitution may reference deity, but it very carefully avoids citing that deity as the source of the government's authority to rule. Indeed, it lays out quite the opposite.
Perhaps you missed the quotes around "the faithful". That term has a rather specific meaning, and it certainly does not encompass every "believer" in this or that religion. Still, religions, (those with "revealed" dogma, at least) by their very nature frequently require to people to believe things that are not true. That's a built-in lever for manipulating those who can't (or won't) know any better.
Sure... Long shot, from the beach, looking out at the water. At least one vessel, light color, roughly center of frame. Pieces of shuttle hitting the water all around it.
I saw live video, shot from roughly the same vantage point, including shots of the pieces hitting water. Seconds later, that live feed was cut. Since then, only certain portions of that video have ever (to my knowledge) seen the light of day.
From TFA:
So it's not Islam in general that's anti-polio. Indeed, you don't get those craziness in any Muslim culture with well-educated populace.
The people who are killing health workers administering vaccines in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are not just Muslims. They are Salafi, an extremely fundamentalist Muslim sect that espouses strict Koranic literalism and advocates for a return to the practices of the "original Islam" (which, basically, translates to society and culture frozen as it was in the times of Muhammad). Taliban, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Caucasus Emirate etc - these are all Salafi.
Education and enlightenment are the enemy of "the faithful" in every religion.
These are fantastic news!
It is indeed, and if they want it to stick, they need to revoke Jenny McCarthy's visa immediately.
It would probably help if every time there's a hurricane like Sandy, Katrina, et. al. there wasn't some global warming advocate on TV arguing that this was evidence of global warming. You can't taut every weather event that supports warming as evidence and then turn around and dismiss every weather event that doesn't jibe with the narrative.
If you are suggesting that the unusual extremes we're seeing in winter weather patterns are not an indicator of global warming, you have more to learn.
Education is already available and has not fixed the problem in many decades.
[citation needed] While what you assert was once true, it is (measurably and demonstrably) no longer the case. Hasn't been for "many decades". The causes of the decline in our public education system are many and certainly open to debate, the solutions to that problem, even more so, but the effective public education that was one of the key things leading to the development of the middle class is clearly no longer a reality.
And let's face it, that's all the Republican party is. As proof of this fact, name one Republican policy that benefits the poor to the detriment of the rich. Just one.
Christ may have died for the poor, but the GOP fights for the wealthy. It's an odd reality for the party of God, isn't it?
Not odd at all. It is by design; clever and obscenely cynical, but definitely by design that the GOP has managed to hook voters with meaningless "social issues" and convince them to vote, over and over, against their own (the voters') best interests. That strategy is starting to run out of gas now, as younger voters, who appreciate a woman's right to choose and don't really give a rat's ass about gay marriage, are tilting the balance. Still, this brilliant play has worked extremely well for decades.
The police have more important things to do than chase down credit card thieves, like chasing down mp3 and video pirates.
Yeah, but regardless, this kid went out of his way to help out this company, and they repay him by having the cops toss him in the clink. The overall theme SHOULD be the idiot company, but in the meantime lets not forget about the cops who arrested him.
RTFA. The police have done no such thing. The police have not even contacted Mr. Rogers. Apparently they (the police) have a bit more security acumen than does the idiot who decided to involve them.
It is really telling that the ATF gave over 2500 guns to Mexican drug cartels, and no one from the ATF, DOJ, or Obama Administration is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the IRS targeted political opponents during an election year, and no one from the IRS, DOT, or Obama Administration is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that Obama campaign donors at Solyndra got $500,000,000 of tax payer money, promptly went bankrupt, and no one from the DOE is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the Fed prints $75,000,000,000 a month, totaling over $4,000,000,000,000 in the last 5 years, and no one from the fed is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the president himself breaks the PPACA on a daily basis by announcing parts he will be temporarily or permanently not enforcing, and he's not sitting in jail.
[citation needed]
...is where to place the drill bit and how deep to go.
...and that there may be other motives such as political and economic espionage
Jeez... Ya think? I'll spare us the rant about how much of that has already occurred and jump right to how ashamed I am that my country has embraced such activity on such a scale. I mean, I get that, in business "it's just business" is a tacit rationalization for doing anything that you can get away with to enhance the bottom line, but for my government, who is supposed to at least carry on the illusion that it represents my interests, to give that same excuse is just, well, shameful.
Well, that's silly. They ruled that the "Defense of Marriage Act"'s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional...
And a few short months later, that same court has said that Utah may continue (pending the appeals process) to discriminate against same sex couples. Nice try. This is a shamelessly tilted court, especially when you take the social issues off the scales.
Clever, yes. Win for anyone but AT&T? Hell no. The Internet became what it is because it was the very antithesis of traditional media. This move is a huge step towards turning it back into little more than cable TV.
Global Warming alarmists who don't know what they're talking about to deride folks who do, for pointing to a weather event....just like Global Warming alarmists do EVERY SINGLE hurricane, drought, flood, tornado and earthquake.
That doesn't change the fact that a pattern of weather events (hot or cold) is an indicator of climate change. Understanding that, it is fair to deride anyone who observes isolated events (hot or cold) and then makes pronouncements about climate change.