They sure looked happy ransacking the place in the video I've seen, just like the LA rioters. I don't think they're going to be too happy when they run out of things to steal, though.
Backblaze, an unlimited online backup company that keeps 25,000 hard drives spinning at all time,
Drives take far more wear and tear if they're power-cycled on a daily basis, and allowed to spin down when a machine is idle. I'd like to see the figures from an organization that services a large number of desktop machines.
I would love to hear that a judge, upon hearing this kind of bullshit, threw his gavel at the apparatchik's head and knocked him out cold. If that happened, my respect for the courts in the UK would increase infinitely.
Yeah, like Apple would forgo an opportunity to earn money, simply because they also earn money elsewhere.
They've done exactly that, many times. Not all profitable activities are profitable enough to be worth Apple's time and attention. That's why they gave up making the Xserve and Xserve RAID products, for example.
Lest we forget that all firearms legislation has its roots in oppressing minorities.
Not always minorities. But it's always about government seeking to outlaw resistance.
The NRA, as it happens, was founded by a group of Union officers to fight against southern local governments stealing guns from freedmen shortly after the civil war.
The California political class went ape-shit when the Black Panthers made a habit of wearing rifles slung over their shoulders back in the 1970s. They're scared to death of proles being able to resist the police.
There's a reason why Skype caught on in the first place, and Microsoft has just pissed it away. I look forward to using whatever competitors emerge with secure, encrypted VOIP products.
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First, it's not clear a contract was established.
Looks to me like if there was a contract at all, kleargear breached it first by failing to deliver the items ordered.
-jcr
FYI, I get 439,000 hits on a google search for "police brutality in New Zealand". What are YOU going to do about cleaning up your own country?
-jcr
When someone offers you $3B for a company with no revenues and a product that could be duplicated in a week, take the money and RUN.
FB must be brain-dead to offer that much, and Snapchat is insane to turn it down.
-jcr
No, the central tenet of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle. It's not hard to understand at all.
-jcr
You are delusional. Please see a mental health professional at once.
-jcr
"Directive 10-289" which locks the entire workforce into their current jobs
Which is precisely what the emperor Diocletian did, hastening the collapse of the Roman empire.
-jcr
I know what her _philosophy_ is because I've read scholarly publications on it,
Then you know what her detractors have to say about it. You yourself remain smugly ignorant of her actual philosophy.
-jcr
Yep. Looters gonna loot.
They sure looked happy ransacking the place in the video I've seen, just like the LA rioters. I don't think they're going to be too happy when they run out of things to steal, though.
-jcr
Backblaze, an unlimited online backup company that keeps 25,000 hard drives spinning at all time,
Drives take far more wear and tear if they're power-cycled on a daily basis, and allowed to spin down when a machine is idle. I'd like to see the figures from an organization that services a large number of desktop machines.
-jcr
I would love to hear that a judge, upon hearing this kind of bullshit, threw his gavel at the apparatchik's head and knocked him out cold. If that happened, my respect for the courts in the UK would increase infinitely.
-jcr
collecting user data doesn't take any "time and attention", it's basically just pure "profit".
You have no idea what you're talking about. Don't ever attempt to run a business.
-jcr
Yeah, like Apple would forgo an opportunity to earn money, simply because they also earn money elsewhere.
They've done exactly that, many times. Not all profitable activities are profitable enough to be worth Apple's time and attention. That's why they gave up making the Xserve and Xserve RAID products, for example.
-jcr
Lest we forget that all firearms legislation has its roots in oppressing minorities.
Not always minorities. But it's always about government seeking to outlaw resistance.
The NRA, as it happens, was founded by a group of Union officers to fight against southern local governments stealing guns from freedmen shortly after the civil war.
-jcr
The California political class went ape-shit when the Black Panthers made a habit of wearing rifles slung over their shoulders back in the 1970s. They're scared to death of proles being able to resist the police.
-jcr
Feinstein knows full well that this country doesn't have a functioning justice system. If we did, she'd be behind bars herself.
-jcr
Lucky you, but don't kid yourself: it is luck.
-jcr
I sincerely hope that you never have occasion to lose your starry-eyed naiveté. Far too many people know first-hand how wrong you are.
Cops are obedience enforcers and tax collectors. It's been a very long time since they were anything else.
-jcr
1) there is no such thing as a "lie detector". Polygraphs are voodoo.
2) NEVER talk to the police.
HTH,
-jcr
There's a reason why Skype caught on in the first place, and Microsoft has just pissed it away. I look forward to using whatever competitors emerge with secure, encrypted VOIP products.
-jcr
For a more recent example, look at Vietnam.
-jcr
As soon as you get the government to fully disarm, I will consider doing so.
-jcr
I guess nobody in the decision making loop heard about Oracle's big California DMV fuck-up.
-jcr
If you had READ the article, you would have learned that government intervened to drive costs up.
-jcr
The reason it costs $7000/person/year is because corporations and doctors push unnecessary and costly drugs and procedures on gullible consumers
What you're missing is that government protects them from competition.
-jcr
lets keep it that way.
Sure, keep them in abject poverty. Why should you care?
-jcr