Funny that all the responsibility lies on Israel when Hamas could, you know, just stop attacking with rockets. Then there would be no people killed by Israeli reaction. Seems a simple solution? Especially as Hamas knows that there will be an Israeli reaction and the Israelis themselves have clearly stated that there will be a reaction. Indeed the very word "reaction" implies a reply to a previous action. What's wrong with my solution?
Bzzt wrong. Your information is out of date. The new rockets - you know, the ones aimed at Tel Aviv - are Iranian-made Fajr-5 rockets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajr-5
They have a much longer range than the Qassams. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to reach Tel Aviv, period.
I love the attempt at equivocation by saying with zero proof that the missiles don't have any explosives. The entire point is to inspire terror and kill Jews, and if they can't kill Jews they'll just have to settle for terror. Go ahead, be in a city with a for-real air raid siren going off. Then, have that happen a couple of times a day for weeks. See how it affects your psyche.
It should be noted that in Boston, there are no Republicans; the city is owned lock, stock & barrel by Mayor Tom 'Mumbles' Menino. Oh, and his party affiliation is (D), which is so often left out of summaries. "You Never Stumbles When You Votes for Mumbles"
Nope, there are other people who will put your information online, against your express will. I've been "tagged" in facebook photos with my real full name even though I don't use facebook. Facebook never forgets.
Who cares about the legal niceties? To him, and the company, he is engaged in legitimate research and development. While there is always something to be learned from your competitors, in China the balance is way out of whack. At the end of the day, ask him if he spent his time ripping off a foreign company's hard work or developing new, fresh Chinese indigenously produced technology. Go ahead, guess what his answer will be.
Xiaomi was launched last year to great applause in China. It was lauded as an original Chinese innovation in smartphones, the company was great, CEO smart, etc. I almost bought one myself, but decided I couldn't live without a physical keyboard (HTC Desire Z). They're coming out with a new phone soon.
It's not that they are being selfish by refusing to share. It simply has never occurred to anyone at the company that there might be rules to follow and a community to participate in. To Chinese, IP is just something that may be freely copied by anyone, slightly modified, and released as your own (when it is no longer OK to copy it, naturally). Ten feet from where I am sitting right now, a man is watching videos of packaging machines in operation and drawing the mechanisms on a CAD program. He is in the R&D department.
Bzzt wrong. Stop saying that. China is a country achieving socialism by the capitalist road. Look up "capitalist roaders", you'll see that it's a heresy of socialism and Mao warned against it as it would destroy everything he worked for in exchange for temporary prosperity. Gosh, what happened after Mao died? The People's Revolution was hijacked by a bunch of jackasses. Sad.
It takes two to make a contract. Why would any artist agree to such a lopsided deal, unless they're total morons? I've had lopsided contracts dropped in my lap, with the other party waving a pen in my face expecting me to sign then and there. The big-city slickers expecting to take advantage of the rube. I walked away from the deal. Why are not these intelligent, creative people playing the role of the rube, when they should by all rights be on the other side of the fence looking down on the rubes?
This article appears to be bitching and moaning about the fact that hate speech has been universally recognized as out of the scope of free speech. Ann Coulter is generally regarded amongst the cognoscenti as a purveyor of hate speech, not free speech. I fail to see how denying her an audience of like-minded listeners could possibly be bad in any way.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
Anyone who supports this Islamophobic nutbag is a like-minded nutbag who is not welcome on any university campus. Her ideas practically beg to be suppressed, so why should she be surprised when it happens? Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Shutting down a business may be a violation of the rules. What collective bargaining agreements do his employees operate under? And if not, what the fuck? What kind of nutbags start a job without the protection of a collective bargaining agreement?
"Freedom of speech is too precious a freedom to be meddled with..... And since I am sure of this in general, and since I'd expect most of you to be so too, I shall probably shock you when I say it is the purpose of my lecture tonight to argue in one particular area just the opposite. To argue, in short, in favour of censorship against freedom of expression, and to do so in an area of life that has traditionally been regarded as sacrosanct. I am talking about moral and religious education. And especially the education a child receives at home....parents (have) no god-given licence to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose....in short, children have the right not to have their minds addled by (religion). And we as a society have a duty to protect them from it. So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, the literal truth of the Bible, or that the planets rule their lives, than we should allow parents to knock their children's teeth out or lock them in a dungeon. That's the negative side of what I want to say. But there will be a positive side as well. If children have a right to be protected from false ideas, they have too a right to be succored by the truth. And we as a society have a duty to provide it."
-- Nicholas Humphrey, addressing Amnesty International
This "legitimate conservative" idea intrigues me and I would like to know more. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to? I have been frequently assured, on these very pages, that any opposition to liberalism is, in fact, racism of the overt or disguised type. No joking. I am curious to find what sort of dissent would be acceptable. Please provide real-life examples and positive, non-derogatory references to such in the pages of the New York Times. Thanking you in advance.
So, it was 100% assumed that the disaster would happen, period. Did the study account for the fact that the crisis' own authors' words indicate that the whole thing may well have been a Big Lie in order to justify emergency measures to pass laws favorable to the authors' political biases?
Just saying, because, you know, there would be a shit-ton of skeptics if Global Warming required political solutions of the Right side...instead of the current situation where amelioration "requires" solutions favorable to the Left side.
Useless? Do you know what a "contested sea zone" is and how it affects commerce? No? Yeah, that's what I thought, and the reason why is overwhelming dominance. Assuming, of course, you like imported coffee at the hip indie coffeeshop and hipster fruits like the Durian instead of that crap domestically made junk.
It's important that the "cool" factor be removed from cars. They need to be reduced to the status level of grocery store shopping carts. The very concept of "a pleasure drive" needs to disappear and become as irrelevant to modern life and as hoary-sounding as a hayride or the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Heh [tm]. I bought an HTC phone from a grey-market dealer in China (Chinese domestic phones are hardware crippled by gov't) and used the stock ROM for several months. I knew custom ROMs existed, but didn't want to fuck with my phone as the stock ROM seemed OK, and I had previously bricked my Windows phone by applying ROMs from xda-developers (bootloader was corrupted at some point - brick). I began to notice that weird Chinese icons were appearing on my shortcuts. Huh. After I installed an unrelated app - which for some reason includes application update/install/uninstall history - I noticed that apps were being downloaded over 3G (not wireless) in the dead of night and installed. I'd uninstall them, but who knows what they were doing in the meantime? I eventually installed Cyanogen and the mysterious behavior went away. So, yaknow, maybe walled garden means nothing when the phone is pre-rooted by powers beyond your control. Yeah, Android isn't walled garden - but I intentionally never installed anything that wasn't from the official Market, never less than 100,000 downloads, and never rooted my phone.
See, you start with a good story, but then you totally fail to notice when you wrap right around to the other side: absolutism about "bullies and sociopaths". WTF dude? And the racial comment was really uncalled-for. If you ever wonder why nobody listens to your sob story, this is why.
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Funny that all the responsibility lies on Israel when Hamas could, you know, just stop attacking with rockets. Then there would be no people killed by Israeli reaction. Seems a simple solution? Especially as Hamas knows that there will be an Israeli reaction and the Israelis themselves have clearly stated that there will be a reaction. Indeed the very word "reaction" implies a reply to a previous action. What's wrong with my solution?
Bzzt wrong. Your information is out of date. The new rockets - you know, the ones aimed at Tel Aviv - are Iranian-made Fajr-5 rockets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajr-5
They have a much longer range than the Qassams. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to reach Tel Aviv, period.
I love the attempt at equivocation by saying with zero proof that the missiles don't have any explosives. The entire point is to inspire terror and kill Jews, and if they can't kill Jews they'll just have to settle for terror. Go ahead, be in a city with a for-real air raid siren going off. Then, have that happen a couple of times a day for weeks. See how it affects your psyche.
City of Boston November 2012 Presidential Election Results. Only three precincts reported less than 100% turnout. A great day for democracy!
It should be noted that in Boston, there are no Republicans; the city is owned lock, stock & barrel by Mayor Tom 'Mumbles' Menino. Oh, and his party affiliation is (D), which is so often left out of summaries. "You Never Stumbles When You Votes for Mumbles"
Nope, there are other people who will put your information online, against your express will. I've been "tagged" in facebook photos with my real full name even though I don't use facebook. Facebook never forgets.
Who cares about the legal niceties? To him, and the company, he is engaged in legitimate research and development. While there is always something to be learned from your competitors, in China the balance is way out of whack. At the end of the day, ask him if he spent his time ripping off a foreign company's hard work or developing new, fresh Chinese indigenously produced technology. Go ahead, guess what his answer will be.
Xiaomi was launched last year to great applause in China. It was lauded as an original Chinese innovation in smartphones, the company was great, CEO smart, etc. I almost bought one myself, but decided I couldn't live without a physical keyboard (HTC Desire Z). They're coming out with a new phone soon.
It's not that they are being selfish by refusing to share. It simply has never occurred to anyone at the company that there might be rules to follow and a community to participate in. To Chinese, IP is just something that may be freely copied by anyone, slightly modified, and released as your own (when it is no longer OK to copy it, naturally). Ten feet from where I am sitting right now, a man is watching videos of packaging machines in operation and drawing the mechanisms on a CAD program. He is in the R&D department.
Bzzt wrong. Stop saying that. China is a country achieving socialism by the capitalist road. Look up "capitalist roaders", you'll see that it's a heresy of socialism and Mao warned against it as it would destroy everything he worked for in exchange for temporary prosperity. Gosh, what happened after Mao died? The People's Revolution was hijacked by a bunch of jackasses. Sad.
I've always wanted to tax stupid people. They're idiots and deserve it. Explain to me why this is a bad thing?
Clicking an EULA button is far different from accepting an employment contract. And if the terms are not to your liking - walk away.
It's not "Russia", it's "the Soviet Union". They're different. Get it right.
Let's play: "spot the racist comment." Hint: it's near where blacks are castigated and white-owned Monsanto is exonerated.
It takes two to make a contract. Why would any artist agree to such a lopsided deal, unless they're total morons? I've had lopsided contracts dropped in my lap, with the other party waving a pen in my face expecting me to sign then and there. The big-city slickers expecting to take advantage of the rube. I walked away from the deal. Why are not these intelligent, creative people playing the role of the rube, when they should by all rights be on the other side of the fence looking down on the rubes?
This article appears to be bitching and moaning about the fact that hate speech has been universally recognized as out of the scope of free speech. Ann Coulter is generally regarded amongst the cognoscenti as a purveyor of hate speech, not free speech. I fail to see how denying her an audience of like-minded listeners could possibly be bad in any way.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
Anyone who supports this Islamophobic nutbag is a like-minded nutbag who is not welcome on any university campus. Her ideas practically beg to be suppressed, so why should she be surprised when it happens? Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Shutting down a business may be a violation of the rules. What collective bargaining agreements do his employees operate under? And if not, what the fuck? What kind of nutbags start a job without the protection of a collective bargaining agreement?
-- Nicholas Humphrey, addressing Amnesty International
This "legitimate conservative" idea intrigues me and I would like to know more. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to? I have been frequently assured, on these very pages, that any opposition to liberalism is, in fact, racism of the overt or disguised type. No joking. I am curious to find what sort of dissent would be acceptable. Please provide real-life examples and positive, non-derogatory references to such in the pages of the New York Times. Thanking you in advance.
So, it was 100% assumed that the disaster would happen, period. Did the study account for the fact that the crisis' own authors' words indicate that the whole thing may well have been a Big Lie in order to justify emergency measures to pass laws favorable to the authors' political biases?
Just saying, because, you know, there would be a shit-ton of skeptics if Global Warming required political solutions of the Right side...instead of the current situation where amelioration "requires" solutions favorable to the Left side.
"Those" billions? It's one billion, singular.
The US government spends 19% on defense, 19% on social security, and 20% on healthcare. The last two items are expected to grow much faster than the first.
Useless? Do you know what a "contested sea zone" is and how it affects commerce? No? Yeah, that's what I thought, and the reason why is overwhelming dominance. Assuming, of course, you like imported coffee at the hip indie coffeeshop and hipster fruits like the Durian instead of that crap domestically made junk.
It's important that the "cool" factor be removed from cars. They need to be reduced to the status level of grocery store shopping carts. The very concept of "a pleasure drive" needs to disappear and become as irrelevant to modern life and as hoary-sounding as a hayride or the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Suck it, one-percenter. I love every time the world gets together to fuck your kind over - even if it's unintentional.
Google Translate. It's free. It even supports voice. Why even bother learning the local language when you travel?
Heh [tm]. I bought an HTC phone from a grey-market dealer in China (Chinese domestic phones are hardware crippled by gov't) and used the stock ROM for several months. I knew custom ROMs existed, but didn't want to fuck with my phone as the stock ROM seemed OK, and I had previously bricked my Windows phone by applying ROMs from xda-developers (bootloader was corrupted at some point - brick). I began to notice that weird Chinese icons were appearing on my shortcuts. Huh. After I installed an unrelated app - which for some reason includes application update/install/uninstall history - I noticed that apps were being downloaded over 3G (not wireless) in the dead of night and installed. I'd uninstall them, but who knows what they were doing in the meantime? I eventually installed Cyanogen and the mysterious behavior went away. So, yaknow, maybe walled garden means nothing when the phone is pre-rooted by powers beyond your control. Yeah, Android isn't walled garden - but I intentionally never installed anything that wasn't from the official Market, never less than 100,000 downloads, and never rooted my phone.
I love how your entire post is moaning about the loss of business class. Suck it, one-percenter!
See, you start with a good story, but then you totally fail to notice when you wrap right around to the other side: absolutism about "bullies and sociopaths". WTF dude? And the racial comment was really uncalled-for. If you ever wonder why nobody listens to your sob story, this is why.
"Customer CPE"?
Yeah, I believe you work at Comcast.