Try again and come up with something that meets the quality levels of used Thinkpads. Comparable performance and cost, and they aren't full of cut-rate hardware.
Here, it exists, period. When they have enough information to fix the problem easily(in cost), but make a defense(and waste their time defending a bug), it is malice.
And a note about McCain's abstention: he's a strong supporter of Bush on this matter. The only reason his vote is registered as 'abstain' is because he's in Ohio raising money and support for his bid for President instead of actually performing his job as a senator.
He's already walking on hot coals for his position on trade; if he voted with Bush, he'd turn Ohio into Southern Michigan. That is, mostly Democrat with a minority of Republicans here and there.
Give me Clinton (Bill, NOT Hillary) over both of 'em any day.
He ruined the nation with NAFTA, and allowed the DMCA to pass. No thanks, but I'd rather have the likes of Edwards. A trial lawyer who can tame business does have what it takes to lead.
This is what people get when they went for Obama when they really wanted the likes of Edwards.
I wouldnt mind seeing how the remaining elements of the Bush apparatus react when they're being tapped. This includes the activist judges Roberts and Alito, the entirety of Fox News, certain "conservative" bloggers(Pajamas Media and Club for Growth come to mind), the entirety of talk radio, lobbyists of all influences, union busting/H1B agencies, and those whose business is Wall Street(or similar). It is implied that Congress will be tapped.
For full effect, wait until Bush leaves office, then start the tapping. Collect enough for a year, then release to the non-Fox media at the first major economic crisis/election cycle.
Then break out the popcorn and watch the amusement.
It isn't an end-run around the Constitution. [bunch of strawman comments snipped]
It is as it permits things that are normally in violation - the only difference is the non-involvement of government. That is what makes it the end run that it is. Marginalize a community, break up its dissent, they're effectively silenced. Works well when there is a presence that is hard to move.
So long as the "gates" of the Internet remain open and website operators are given... over their tiny little domain of the Internet,
That gets abused enough times not to be funny.
Interesting that dictatorship finds a new home, outside of government. Force is all the same, no matter who initiates it.
No one is forcing anyone to use... Nothing is stopping you from...
The favorite excuses that do not apply. When somewhere is the practical choice, it is indeed censorship, albeit from an entity that end-runs the First Amendment.
Perhaps you would do well to remember the following: Force is force is force even from a private entity.
The logic here is the same as me letting people put signs on my lawn, but if I don't like one of those signs, and I remove it, they complain. Too bad, it's my lawn
Forum != lawn. The only thing that should be done is to require a procedure similar to due process. This procedure would also have to discourage gaming it by the likes of you.
It's just like any convenience store, it's a public space but private property.
What part of attempted end-run around the Constitution do you not understand?
If this really is such a problem stop devoting so much time and effort onto areas controlled and governed by private entities
Nearly impossible to do when they can exert undue influence. When they are the only practical (as opposed to the favorite realms of libertarians, the theoretical and hypothetical) choice, the balance needs to be shifted away from the private entity.
However, using said power to (effectively) end-run the Constitution is just covering up tyranny. Using libertarianism to defend it only makes it more obvious.
There comes a point where The Unquestionable Market fails. When a private entity is able to exert influence by means nearly identical to censorship, the balance has been lost. That is, you've given too much power to entities that censor and use "private entity" as a shield.
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Is anyone reporting on the fact that the US Congress has only a 14% job approval rating while Bush is at least above 25%?
Insufficient majority to overcome obstructionist Republicans.
(like Ken Lay, who killed himself so his wife and family could keep every dime of his stolen money).
That's called an Aspen Pardon. Take one for the family, and they become untouchable.
That's what you get with the stunts that Berlusconi pulls on your country.
He proves that organized crime has moved to the corporation.
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...while they collectively clean your bank account with you in jail.
While they get off relatively clean, you're serving time for multiple accounts of assault and battery.
Just because it is Apple does not justify measures taken by similarly restrictive vendors.
On the consumer side, it's ridiculously easy to jailbreak, install, and use unrestricted iPhone apps without any computer interaction
Fixed that for you. That also takes care of the other paragraph on the BREW-like App Store.
And it preserves their customers' freedom to get help with their products.
When you said NDA on a supposedly open platform, freedom went out the window. That is lock-in, plain and simple.
You wonder why people are still jailbreaking or buying Nokias enmasse. Here is your answer.
...one thing comes to mind.
Try again and come up with something that meets the quality levels of used Thinkpads. Comparable performance and cost, and they aren't full of cut-rate hardware.
But...but...I can't go down to starbucks to play WoW and pwn newbs...plus this thing doesn't even have lights on the case.
At least not legitimately.
(donning multiple layers of asbestos)
When it's Apple it's a sin, yet if it's about anyone else, it's no problem?
...when malice exists.
Here, it exists, period. When they have enough information to fix the problem easily(in cost), but make a defense(and waste their time defending a bug), it is malice.
That explains the McCain campaign completely.
The not-so-good economy.
Or would we be better off if the whole world is rich and innovating?
That's presuming they even are, and they aren't. They are the world's equivalent of a broken Xerox machine. Low quality copies, at a high rate.
The alternative is keeping those two countries continue with hundreds of millions of people living in absolute poverty (under $1 per year).
They'll still be in poverty.
At this point, one stops looking toward other countries and at saving one's own country.
It's not as if it made any difference.
Buggy game architecture in both cases. Not to mention that it doesn't block all macro keyboards - just redo you macros and you're done.
My point was that Lineage II was the poster example of a worldwide failure in Gameguard. In Lineage II it's primarily for the following:
a) The low hanging fruit
b) Those who threaten the botting - see NCNA.
And a note about McCain's abstention: he's a strong supporter of Bush on this matter. The only reason his vote is registered as 'abstain' is because he's in Ohio raising money and support for his bid for President instead of actually performing his job as a senator.
He's already walking on hot coals for his position on trade; if he voted with Bush, he'd turn Ohio into Southern Michigan. That is, mostly Democrat with a minority of Republicans here and there.
Give me Clinton (Bill, NOT Hillary) over both of 'em any day.
He ruined the nation with NAFTA, and allowed the DMCA to pass. No thanks, but I'd rather have the likes of Edwards. A trial lawyer who can tame business does have what it takes to lead.
This is what people get when they went for Obama when they really wanted the likes of Edwards.
I wouldnt mind seeing how the remaining elements of the Bush apparatus react when they're being tapped. This includes the activist judges Roberts and Alito, the entirety of Fox News, certain "conservative" bloggers(Pajamas Media and Club for Growth come to mind), the entirety of talk radio, lobbyists of all influences, union busting/H1B agencies, and those whose business is Wall Street(or similar). It is implied that Congress will be tapped.
For full effect, wait until Bush leaves office, then start the tapping. Collect enough for a year, then release to the non-Fox media at the first major economic crisis/election cycle.
Then break out the popcorn and watch the amusement.
It isn't an end-run around the Constitution. [bunch of strawman comments snipped]
It is as it permits things that are normally in violation - the only difference is the non-involvement of government. That is what makes it the end run that it is. Marginalize a community, break up its dissent, they're effectively silenced. Works well when there is a presence that is hard to move.
So long as the "gates" of the Internet remain open and website operators are given ... over their tiny little domain of the Internet,
That gets abused enough times not to be funny.
Interesting that dictatorship finds a new home, outside of government. Force is all the same, no matter who initiates it.
My thoughts exactly. You're calling me a Reaganite because I oppose you [hyperbole removed]?
No, you're being called one as you defend the end-run around the Constitution just because you're a "private entity".
It's been a practice around that time to stifle sentiment.
No one is forcing anyone to use ...
Nothing is stopping you from...
The favorite excuses that do not apply. When somewhere is the practical choice, it is indeed censorship, albeit from an entity that end-runs the First Amendment.
Perhaps you would do well to remember the following:
Force is force is force even from a private entity.
The logic here is the same as me letting people put signs on my lawn, but if I don't like one of those signs, and I remove it, they complain. Too bad, it's my lawn
Forum != lawn. The only thing that should be done is to require a procedure similar to due process. This procedure would also have to discourage gaming it by the likes of you.
It's just like any convenience store, it's a public space but private property.
What part of attempted end-run around the Constitution do you not understand?
If this really is such a problem stop devoting so much time and effort onto areas controlled and governed by private entities
Nearly impossible to do when they can exert undue influence. When they are the only practical (as opposed to the favorite realms of libertarians, the theoretical and hypothetical) choice, the balance needs to be shifted away from the private entity.
However, using said power to (effectively) end-run the Constitution is just covering up tyranny. Using libertarianism to defend it only makes it more obvious.
There comes a point where The Unquestionable Market fails. When a private entity is able to exert influence by means nearly identical to censorship, the balance has been lost. That is, you've given too much power to entities that censor and use "private entity" as a shield.
Never mind that it's been easily bypassed by actual botting programs it was supposed to stop.
See Lineage II for example.