What the whole controversy reveals to me is that MoveOn.org has decided that trademark protection is an important weapon to use to resolve a political issue. It strikes me that MoveOn.org has characterized themselves as a commercial operation by this action. If by "commercial operation" you mean an organization not dumb enough to let others hijack their name, you are right. But then, you probably don't.
You are actually saying that the "Nobel Peace Prize was disgraced, when... Mikhail Gorbachev received" his, and mention fucking Kissinger in the same post?
There are many people more deserving of the award who actually work towards peace, most at the risk of their lives. However I seriously doubt the Nobel committee would dare cross China or even some Islamic factions to award these types of people. You mean they would never give the Prize to say, The Dalai Lama? Or severalIsraeli politicians?
So "Sun is getting warmer"? I bet you will now tell us that the reason why its getting warmer on Earth is because all that sunlight gets stuck in the atosphere? Because there is less reaching the surface than 30+ years ago.
Yes, too many people want to delete perfectly fine articles from Wikipedia because they're "not notable". For example, people keep trying to delete the late Rob Levin, who ran the Freenode IRC channel. Poor guy dies and they immediately want to delete him!
Oh come on, the article was nominated (and deleted) because Rob Levin said himself he wasn't notable enough. Then after his death the article was recreated, and enough people said twice he was now somehow notable (even though his death wasn't).
Yeah, I watch the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty articles, and nearly every edit is either vandalism, a revert or arguably not an improvement. And what new changes exactly would you expect in articles of inanimate objects over a century old?
Well, the question is how "independent" the source is. I've seen it more than once that it's been basically a circle-jerk. When you dig deep enough you'll see that those "sources" pretty much link to one another. Gee, just like science;-)
If you want an open phone, there are several on the market or very close to market that will work MUCH better and the companies will support you in creating the apps. There's no need to hack the iPhone and Apple has cheated no one.
There's no need to climb Mount Everest either, but lots of people do it just the same...
Yup, and they complain that the Nepalese government now wants them to not make a mess up there. Nice analogy.
In light of the current 'one cent' stupidity on/.'s front page I think someone should charge the german police with possession of child pron. They clearly downloaded it off the interweb and AOL has the logs showing their username to "prove" it, right?
There is in fact no accent on the 'e' in the Spanish word "Bolero". But there is in fact one in the title of Ravels piece - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro
Also from your link Yugoslavia 1999 where's the oil in Yugoslavia? According to this map, right east by south-east of Zagreb, and north and north-east of Belgrade.
And don't get me started on the BS links about Depleted Uranium shells being used as carcinogenic bullets, guess what's also a carcinogen? LEAD!. But lead bullets don't disintegrate to fine dust on impact by design.
Likely very few of the research projects they're funding are of use only for questionable purposes. But if it can be used for questionable purposes by the government, it can just put its thumb on it and call it "vital for National Security" - and bang, nobody but the NSA can use it.
Why is it that nobody but Apple seems to understand that too many features actually BREAK a product and reduce it to a tiny minority appeal (yes, looking at the slashdot crowd here)?
How come people keep hacking iPhone if they want less features? Is it possible you also don't get what Apple buyers like in Apple? At least you're pretty good at repeating their marketing messages. Errm, how many of the > 1 million iPhones sold have been hacked?
Do you think they even managed a million units this quarter? If they only moved 730,000 units in 72 days I'd be really surprised. It is looking like 900,000 in 90 days to me. Ask again in about a week.
Because such rumors are not new. It has been reported by multiple, realworld sources, that Apple did the exact same thing in regards to ATI. According to similar rumors, they also did it to Nvidia - and we all know that Apple uses neither ATI nor Nvidia cards, right?
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of. Considering recent news regarding the DoD, It's pretty much down to the CIA and the NSA, and I have my doubts about their competence.
My tinfoil hat may be unnecessary after all. When people are overly powerful, incompetence is probably worse than competence.
I'm not saying any of these men are innocent -- just that they deserve due process under the law like any other citizen, regardless their religion or hairstyle. As do all the others in Gitmo, for that matter - even if they aren't citizens of the USA.
That's why we have a legal system and don't just leave justice up to the police.
If only the "legal system" (with its elected officials) wasn't actually a bigger problem than the police. Most of them will want to look tough on crime to get re-elected, and won't get truth in the way of "justice".
Thanks for the information and your thoughts on the matter Lars. I'm quite surprised to hear that the ICE's share the same tracks as the regular train service; I can imagine that this would cause scheduling headaches. Well, there certainly are lines specially build for them - but they usually cost quite a bit. Near the major stations they always share tracks with normal trains, and you can see how slow they drive there compared to the S-Bahn.
I certainly wasn't presuming to recommend that the money should be spent on the ICE, just that it would perhaps be more valuable to upgrade existing systems, and in light of your comment about the Transrapid system it's even more baffling to me why the maglev route was ever approved. This seems to me to be another case of politics trumping common sense. Well, the only alternative plan is a rather vague project that would run an express S-Bahn on partially new tracks with 3 stops inbetween, with 4 trains per hour taking 25 minutes (instead of 40 with the regular S-Bahn today) - but even that would cost 860 million Euros. The fact that the plan comes from the red-green city council of Munich doesn't help in conservatibe Bavaria either.
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And in the last 10 years that's started to reverse.
(This time with a working link.)
And global warming has increased even more in the last ten years.what, on slashdot? naaaaaah... Oooh, a Lesbian?
You are actually saying that the "Nobel Peace Prize was disgraced, when ... Mikhail Gorbachev received" his, and mention fucking Kissinger in the same post?
So "Sun is getting warmer"? I bet you will now tell us that the reason why its getting warmer on Earth is because all that sunlight gets stuck in the atosphere? Because there is less reaching the surface than 30+ years ago.
Oh come on, the article was nominated (and deleted) because Rob Levin said himself he wasn't notable enough. Then after his death the article was recreated, and enough people said twice he was now somehow notable (even though his death wasn't).
And what new changes exactly would you expect in articles of inanimate objects over a century old?
If you want an open phone, there are several on the market or very close to market that will work MUCH better and the companies will support you in creating the apps. There's no need to hack the iPhone and Apple has cheated no one.
There's no need to climb Mount Everest either, but lots of people do it just the same...
Yup, and they complain that the Nepalese government now wants them to not make a mess up there. Nice analogy.So who will claim copyright on the images?
The user talk page for that IP claims it is part of the "Wikileaks anonymizing network".
Gee, who would have thought, a whistle-blower site that automatically anonymizes the IP-Adresses of its posters.How come people keep hacking iPhone if they want less features? Is it possible you also don't get what Apple buyers like in Apple? At least you're pretty good at repeating their marketing messages.
Errm, how many of the > 1 million iPhones sold have been hacked?
My tinfoil hat may be unnecessary after all. When people are overly powerful, incompetence is probably worse than competence.
If only the "legal system" (with its elected officials) wasn't actually a bigger problem than the police. Most of them will want to look tough on crime to get re-elected, and won't get truth in the way of "justice".