Just before the invasion of Iraq, most news channels were, reasonably enough (given that most americans at the time, when polled, were against an invasion)
I'm sorry, there is no way you're getting away with that one. Stealing from our friends at Wikipedia:
Most polls showed that support for the invasion, depending on how the question is phrased, was at between 55-65% (58% according to CNN/USA Today, 57% according to the LA Times, and 67% according to Fox).
I'm sorry, where the the hell have you been for the last 150 years? Corporations do run the world, yet we're really no closer the mythical world of "they own everything" than we were when that idea was first floated.
This is business as usual. If RedHat made these same comments to the US government about moving jobs out of the US because of software patents, would you have the same concern?
Check out the Samsung i790. It's a combination CDMA/GSM phone. You can pretty much use it anywhere they use CDMA (South Korea, Canada, US, parts of China, Taiwan, Thailand, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India....there's a lot of them), then you can use in GSM mode in all the other countries. Pretty cool.
It's all overlap, and completely different technologies.
They're overlapping, and yet completely different, huh? 8)
In all seriousness, this is really exactly what Sprint needs. Their primary problem right now is that they don't have any low-freq spectrum space, they only have stuff in the PCS range. Nextel has stuff in the 800/900 MHz range. So, yeah, it will take a year or two to migrate the cells (and Nextel customers) from iDEN to CDMA, but Sprint is already doing the 1xRTT -> 1xEV-DO/DV transition, so this can't be too terribly hard. And if they have the rights to the spectrum, they could start switching their current cells to the lower frequencies as soon as possible, and slowly turn down Nextel capacity as they switch to CDMA phones.
...it only gets harder for the corporations to put the virtual, and legal, smackdown on file sharing.
Just for the record, the makers of Kazaa, Morpheus, eDonkey, LimeWire and numerous other P2P services are also corporations. To repeat a lousy capitalist cliché, don't blame the entire corporate system when it's really just a few soon-to-be-out-of-business-due-to-their-own-stupid ity movie companies who are to blame.
he did make it clear he supported the ideas and intent behind Kyoto, though he disagreed with the way it was implemented.
Bush has said the same thing:
America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
This entire US/Kyoto debacle started in 1998 when Al Gore decided to sign the treaty even after the entire US Senate voted in 1997 (well, okay, it passed 95 to 0) to say they wouldn't sign any climate protocol without certain details changed. Knowing this, the Clinton administration didn't even submit the treaty for ratification.
Knowing all this, it is unreasonable to expect any administration to again resubmit the treaty for ratification, especially when US green gas emissions have gone up a bit since 1998. For what it's worth, John Kerry not only voted in favor of the 1997 resolution, but also made it clear he would not push for Kyoto ratification were he to be elected. (His campaign did criticize the Bush administration's decision to not resubmit the treaty for ratification in 2001-2004, however)
How does it feel to have the cannon pointed at you?
How does it feel that I can't be paid millions of dollars to do the ever-so-slightly more mature version of yelling "PENIS!" in a crowd of people without the small risk of a fine?
Well, I feel fine, actually. This has been the law my entire life.
As much as I like Howard Stern's radio show, he's really hurting his own cause at this point.
Since when he is anything but an actor? He has a cause? Give me a fucking break. His cause is keeping his employer (Viacom, now Sirius) happy by staying popular on the air so more advertising airtime can be sold. As a good capitalist, I feel this is a noble goal, but there's near-zero evidence he's actually fighting for anything other than money here.
If he were really out there to get his message (about...whatever) out, why is he taking $600 million to work at Sirius? He's a professional entertainer, doing it for the money. Please don't confuse this with honest civil libertarianism or anything.
And banning something that 20-30% of the public doesn't have a problem with does?
Yes. It diminishes society to listen to Stern's show when 90% of the time is spent with him bitching about the FCC/his job/news stories he doesn't understand.
And they're warning customers now about the battery: "Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information."
Yeah, apparently some non-Apple manufacturers use rechargeable batteries that don't need to be replaced. After all, Apple the only company actually giving out that warning.
...which is probably why this is being marketed as a smartphone, not a PDA with phone abilities.
Seriously, on the Treo 600, they replace all references in the software to "PDA" with "Phone." Compared to other expensive phones (P900, for example), it's actually somewhat price competitive, and has feature like a keyboard and a real SD slot which makes it really useful for stuff like text messaging (T9 sucks) and MP3 playing.
no they didn't so stop lying. wheres the s and the h in your name?
Can't believe I'm replying to this, but... in 2001-2002, they shipped VAIO desktops with built-in NetMD drives.
then the blue ray drives that are available already must be a miracle then!
The best they can do now are drives that only read DVDs and read/write Blu-Ray. Making something that can record both has not been made, or at least hadn't as of the last time I checked.
If you'd RTFM, you might have noticed that the US troops essentially did roll right over them (zero fatal casualties against a multi-thousand man enemy force).....which I think was the main point here. They were extremely luck they were fighting with better hardware, because their software was completely useless.
They started putting MD drives in their computers, too. Didn't help the format. It's highly possible the PS3 may be the only successful use of Blu-Ray (if it is successful).
The fact that 95% of computers could be shipping with HD DVD playback in 3 years is much more relevant. Combine this with the fact that HD DVD won't require new lasers, and that HD DVD-read/DVD-write drives will be really easy to make, while the same for Blu-Ray will be nigh-impossible, and we likely have a winner in HD DVD.
I'm somewhat disappointed by this, as I think blue lasers and stuff are neat, and I really like cartridge formats (DVDs are far, far too delicate already), but more expensive, radical standards are rarely very successful, especially in a world market (see Beta/VHS, GSM/CDMA, iPods/SACD/DVD-Audio, etc.).
FYI, Michael Powell was appointed by Clinton. Bush re-affirmed his position. He has been popular with both parties.
the GOP always preaching to have a smaller government and regulate the industry less... Now, it seems that FCC, with a Republican Chairman is pushing an un-Republican agenda.
Think there are some missing words there, but I don't think your point is valid here. A single set of federal regulation would probably mean less overall bureaucracy than state-level regulation. Imagine if cell phone providers had to get difference licenses in each state; it would be a mess. Moreover, just because Democrats would probably support FCC regulation of VoIP doesn't mean Republicans can't.
Yeah, in all seriousness, news sources close to the perpetrators of news are the best sources. Read VoA for information about US military actions and Aljazeera for information about guerilla/terrorist actions.
For instance, compare Reuter's coverageAljazeera's coverage of one event. Reuter's completely misses the information about the drone being shot down, and the guard building's destruction is also totally missing.
The crowd wasn't shot at for "fighting and breaking shit", it was for speaking up about Bush.
Impossible.
Do you really think the professional riot-controllers holding the paintball guns either: a) were told to shoot at the the anti-Bush side? b) all, in a coordinated manner, wanted to shoot the anti-Bush side (but not the Pro-Bush side)? c) suddenly heard "three more weeks" emanating from the crowd, and decided "Wait a minute, the entire world might hear that these people want Bush to not be re-elected...holy crap, make them all disperse!"
Read the article. "There were no reports of injuries." No one was killed. No one was injured. The non-lethal deterrent worked perfectly. If I were a protester, I'd hope more cops use these as opposed to rubber bullets or sticky foam. Furthermore, the simple use of this new technology made it international news, so the "they were silenced" argument doesn't hold water.
It should be every protesters dream to be shot by a pepper paintball and covered by a newspaper.
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Just before the invasion of Iraq, most news channels were, reasonably enough (given that most americans at the time, when polled, were against an invasion)
I'm sorry, there is no way you're getting away with that one. Stealing from our friends at Wikipedia:
Most polls showed that support for the invasion, depending on how the question is phrased, was at between 55-65% (58% according to CNN/USA Today, 57% according to the LA Times, and 67% according to Fox).
He's also been behind the ffmpeg project for a long time. Most Linux users probably use a fair bit of his code when watching videos.
I'm sorry, where the the hell have you been for the last 150 years? Corporations do run the world, yet we're really no closer the mythical world of "they own everything" than we were when that idea was first floated.
This is business as usual. If RedHat made these same comments to the US government about moving jobs out of the US because of software patents, would you have the same concern?
"We'll even give you 1 billion jiaozi for it."
A billion dumplings?
Yeah, I'd take it. Oh, wait, only if they're meat dumplings.
Try that with a CDMA or iDEN phone...
Check out the Samsung i790. It's a combination CDMA/GSM phone. You can pretty much use it anywhere they use CDMA (South Korea, Canada, US, parts of China, Taiwan, Thailand, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India....there's a lot of them), then you can use in GSM mode in all the other countries. Pretty cool.
It's all overlap, and completely different technologies.
They're overlapping, and yet completely different, huh? 8)
In all seriousness, this is really exactly what Sprint needs. Their primary problem right now is that they don't have any low-freq spectrum space, they only have stuff in the PCS range. Nextel has stuff in the 800/900 MHz range. So, yeah, it will take a year or two to migrate the cells (and Nextel customers) from iDEN to CDMA, but Sprint is already doing the 1xRTT -> 1xEV-DO/DV transition, so this can't be too terribly hard. And if they have the rights to the spectrum, they could start switching their current cells to the lower frequencies as soon as possible, and slowly turn down Nextel capacity as they switch to CDMA phones.
...it only gets harder for the corporations to put the virtual, and legal, smackdown on file sharing.
d ity movie companies who are to blame.
Just for the record, the makers of Kazaa, Morpheus, eDonkey, LimeWire and numerous other P2P services are also corporations. To repeat a lousy capitalist cliché, don't blame the entire corporate system when it's really just a few soon-to-be-out-of-business-due-to-their-own-stupi
he did make it clear he supported the ideas and intent behind Kyoto, though he disagreed with the way it was implemented.
Bush has said the same thing:
America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
This entire US/Kyoto debacle started in 1998 when Al Gore decided to sign the treaty even after the entire US Senate voted in 1997 (well, okay, it passed 95 to 0) to say they wouldn't sign any climate protocol without certain details changed. Knowing this, the Clinton administration didn't even submit the treaty for ratification.
Knowing all this, it is unreasonable to expect any administration to again resubmit the treaty for ratification, especially when US green gas emissions have gone up a bit since 1998. For what it's worth, John Kerry not only voted in favor of the 1997 resolution, but also made it clear he would not push for Kyoto ratification were he to be elected. (His campaign did criticize the Bush administration's decision to not resubmit the treaty for ratification in 2001-2004, however)
Someone mod the parent up. Silliness has just reached a new low.
....over 30 years ago, there were movies about .
How does it feel to have the cannon pointed at you?
How does it feel that I can't be paid millions of dollars to do the ever-so-slightly more mature version of yelling "PENIS!" in a crowd of people without the small risk of a fine?
Well, I feel fine, actually. This has been the law my entire life.
As much as I like Howard Stern's radio show, he's really hurting his own cause at this point.
Since when he is anything but an actor? He has a cause? Give me a fucking break. His cause is keeping his employer (Viacom, now Sirius) happy by staying popular on the air so more advertising airtime can be sold. As a good capitalist, I feel this is a noble goal, but there's near-zero evidence he's actually fighting for anything other than money here.
If he were really out there to get his message (about...whatever) out, why is he taking $600 million to work at Sirius? He's a professional entertainer, doing it for the money. Please don't confuse this with honest civil libertarianism or anything.
And banning something that 20-30% of the public doesn't have a problem with does?
Yes. It diminishes society to listen to Stern's show when 90% of the time is spent with him bitching about the FCC/his job/news stories he doesn't understand.
Uh, duh, the Unix epoch is January 1, 1970. Any universe before that would have required negative time(), which is clearly impossible.
And they're warning customers now about the battery: "Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information."
Yeah, apparently some non-Apple manufacturers use rechargeable batteries that don't need to be replaced. After all, Apple the only company actually giving out that warning.
...which is probably why this is being marketed as a smartphone, not a PDA with phone abilities.
Seriously, on the Treo 600, they replace all references in the software to "PDA" with "Phone." Compared to other expensive phones (P900, for example), it's actually somewhat price competitive, and has feature like a keyboard and a real SD slot which makes it really useful for stuff like text messaging (T9 sucks) and MP3 playing.
no they didn't so stop lying. wheres the s and the h in your name?
Can't believe I'm replying to this, but... in 2001-2002, they shipped VAIO desktops with built-in NetMD drives.
then the blue ray drives that are available already must be a miracle then!
The best they can do now are drives that only read DVDs and read/write Blu-Ray. Making something that can record both has not been made, or at least hadn't as of the last time I checked.
If you'd RTFM, you might have noticed that the US troops essentially did roll right over them (zero fatal casualties against a multi-thousand man enemy force). ....which I think was the main point here. They were extremely luck they were fighting with better hardware, because their software was completely useless.
Nonsense.
They started putting MD drives in their computers, too. Didn't help the format. It's highly possible the PS3 may be the only successful use of Blu-Ray (if it is successful).
The fact that 95% of computers could be shipping with HD DVD playback in 3 years is much more relevant. Combine this with the fact that HD DVD won't require new lasers, and that HD DVD-read/DVD-write drives will be really easy to make, while the same for Blu-Ray will be nigh-impossible, and we likely have a winner in HD DVD.
I'm somewhat disappointed by this, as I think blue lasers and stuff are neat, and I really like cartridge formats (DVDs are far, far too delicate already), but more expensive, radical standards are rarely very successful, especially in a world market (see Beta/VHS, GSM/CDMA, iPods/SACD/DVD-Audio, etc.).
FYI, Michael Powell was appointed by Clinton. Bush re-affirmed his position. He has been popular with both parties.
the GOP always preaching to have a smaller government and regulate the industry less... Now, it seems that FCC, with a Republican Chairman is pushing an un-Republican agenda.
Think there are some missing words there, but I don't think your point is valid here. A single set of federal regulation would probably mean less overall bureaucracy than state-level regulation. Imagine if cell phone providers had to get difference licenses in each state; it would be a mess. Moreover, just because Democrats would probably support FCC regulation of VoIP doesn't mean Republicans can't.
Yeah, in all seriousness, news sources close to the perpetrators of news are the best sources. Read VoA for information about US military actions and Aljazeera for information about guerilla/terrorist actions.
For instance, compare Reuter's coverageAljazeera's coverage of one event. Reuter's completely misses the information about the drone being shot down, and the guard building's destruction is also totally missing.
The crowd wasn't shot at for "fighting and breaking shit", it was for speaking up about Bush.
Impossible.
Do you really think the professional riot-controllers holding the paintball guns either:
a) were told to shoot at the the anti-Bush side?
b) all, in a coordinated manner, wanted to shoot the anti-Bush side (but not the Pro-Bush side)?
c) suddenly heard "three more weeks" emanating from the crowd, and decided "Wait a minute, the entire world might hear that these people want Bush to not be re-elected...holy crap, make them all disperse!"
Read the article. "There were no reports of injuries." No one was killed. No one was injured. The non-lethal deterrent worked perfectly. If I were a protester, I'd hope more cops use these as opposed to rubber bullets or sticky foam. Furthermore, the simple use of this new technology made it international news, so the "they were silenced" argument doesn't hold water.
It should be every protesters dream to be shot by a pepper paintball and covered by a newspaper.
I wonder if you would be so happy if it were Nader who wanted to be number three in the debates.
Most democrats weren't so happy about it last time.
I have *never* used Windows. For *anything*.
Hate to bring us into the political domain, but since the metaphor came from the article...
I have *never* voted. For *anyone*.
(and it seems about 50% of the population is with me on this one)