No matter how thin it is, no matter how fast it is, no matter how well the display can be, it is still a tablet
Perhaps some might be oooh and aaah over yet-another-tablet, not me
What I am looking for - especially from tech firms such as Google - is something totally new, something that is revolutionary, not evolutionary
Nowadays all the new smartphone and tablet offerings sound much like new cars - ooooh, model 2014 Buick is so much better than the ones in 2013, with shiny wheels, with more comfy seats, more safety features, it gonna be great, really ?
A 2014 Buick (or Chrysler or Toyota) is a car, just like a 2013 Buick (or Chrysler or Toyota). There's nothing revolutionary anymore in cars, and unfortunately, nor for the smartphones / tablets
National Origin is the claim. And yes, discrimination must be proved
In the United States of Politically Correct America, it is very hard to prove reverse discrimination - it is always the Whites discriminating against the non-White, and judges and juries will always side with the non-White in discriminatory lawsuits
What makes this case a little bit more interesting is that the plaintiff is a female - and if that Bangladeshi worker happens to be a male, then that's a plus for the plaintiff
Most of those who have studied advanced math have heard of the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but not every single one of them understand it
Putting the same Heisenberg's Unvertainty Principle to the "average Joe on the street" and you would most probably get a blank stare
This has nothing to do with elitism, this is about reality
Most people simply do not have the mental capacity to comprehend the meaning of 1 + 1 = 2, and if you do not believe me, go ask the people around you, why 1 + 1 = 2, and not 1 + 1 = 3 ?
But Apple's image and brand is of a better, more responsible company -- that's part of the justification for the higher price. "Everyone else does it" might be true, but the statement was "we thought you were better"
If Apple is that better they would STOP letting their contractor abusing the workers a long time ago
Back in 2010-2011, another contractor, Wintek, caused deaths and injuries to several of its workers due to n-hexane exposure - including one engineer who dropped dead while working
Anyone can come up with any kind of policy, and what Apple is doing is merely giving lip service to their "policy"
Especially after the death and injuries that had occurred in Wintek last time, Apple ought to have wised up and ensure that their so-called "policy" be strictly followed
True, we are predictable, but, as irrational beings, our so-called "predictability" is not actually that "predictable", after all.
Blockbuster movies become blockbuster movies because they somehow sync with the audiences. Be it King Kong or Casablanca or Star Wars or Gone With The Wind, they sell because the fulfill something that the audiences need - either to be entertained, or to be informed, or to be enlightened.
Lately, actually not lately, but has been for the past several decades, Hollywood has lost its touch.
Instead of producing movies that can fulfill the needs of the audiences, Hollywood has been relying on formulas, sequels, and remakes of old classics.
The "Analytics", sad to say, is just a new name for their formula Hollywood has been relying upon since the 1980's.
Somewhere it helps to be ahead of the curve and not chronically behind it. Listening is good, yes, but who was Apple listening to when they created the iPhone?
Decades before Apple came out with the iPod/iPhone/iPad, they came out with the Apple Newton
quote> are they talking server INSTALL or in physical server boxes? Because the two aren't anywhere close to the same thing, hell I have run a couple of server VMs on a $50 Athlon X3 and with the number of CPUs per box (How many are they up to now? Something like 48 for the AMD dual sockets i think?) you could easily have a million server installs on 150k-250k boxes and still have plenty of cycles left over. Conversely if they do have a million boxes then if they average say 24 CPUs per box you could have 20 million server installs running on those million servers, again just depending on the hardware
Do you think Ballmer comprehends anything that he talks about ?
same goes for Georgia, we tried in southern Georgia to get solar panels but city ordinance, zoning commission inspection fees and licensing, state red tape and you have to notify the grid and since the city controls utilities here, we dont have a normal power company our power bill is issued by the city on the bill has power, water, cable, garbage all on one bill. They wont allow them to be fed back into their grid here.
Meanwhile, in the United States, Americans for Prosperity - a political lobbying group founded by billionaire fossil fuel industrialists Charles and David Koch - is currently lobbying the Georgia state legislature to reject a plan requiring Georgia Power, one of the largest energy utilities in the American Southeast, to buy more solar energy.
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies. the only reason why every houshold in the US doesnt have solar panels is because the energy companies lobby our government to increase the cost of them thousandfold...
Methinks there is another angle to this matter - China Phobia.
China can produce PV panels cheapest than anybody in the world, and if USA is indeed serious into cheap electricity, the most rational action to take is to get as many solar panel as the Chinese can produce and install them in the U.S. of A.
But is that happening ?
Why not?
Instead of making US strong again by taming the power crisis, congress is more concern of "unfair dumping" or whatever fucking excuse they can come up with, and ban the import of the solar panel from China.
They claim that China has unfairly subsidize their PV industry, and I mean, so what ?
If the Chinese are going to subsidize $100 per solar panel that we buy, let us by 1 billion solar panels and the Chinese will end up having to subsidize $100 billion on the sale.
That's basic math.
If they are going to subsidize something that we can use for our OWN benefits, let us buy as many as we could possibly use, and in the meantime, bankrupt those motherfuckers who are doing all the subsidizing.
Simple reasoning like this our congress also cannot comprehend.
Please tell me, what's the fucking use to have a congress that can not think properly ?
However, I can't lie, reading stories about the abusiveness of the community is a huge turn off.
The Kernel Dev Mailing List isn't for people who are without strong will.
You need to have the skin of a thousand rhino and the determination of the super-est of all supermen to push your idea across the many seasoned, and equally thick-skinned developers.
The so-called "abusive languages" is but a mechanism to weed out ideas which are not fully thought-over.
The very thing that has become a "turn off" for you to others is a challenge that they must overcome.
If you can't stand the heat, dear Sir, I suggest you to get out of the kitchen.
Obviously you are not made for the Kernel Development for Linux.
For past few decades, political Correctness has been steadily encroaching into all aspects of our lives, and now, even the Linux Kernel Development is not spared.
I hope sane minds within the KD will prevail, and stop the PC disease from spreading further, or else, they would start to cherry-picking for some of the more exotic labels within the source codes and make a mountain out of a molehill.
Paywalls are a relatively new development for Internet, revealing itself to the public some 10 years ago.
It's effect was often ignore, until this case, that is.
The article the former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Peter Bradford wrote for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists earlier this year is locked behind a paywall, an article that could have contained vital information for the public to make up their correct judge regarding the use of Nuclear Energy to generate electricity for the United States of America.
The more articles being locked behind paywalls, the less informed the public are going to become.
The less informed the public are, the more power the elite 0.1% is going to garner, for the public will have no cause to oppose whatever they propose, as vital information locked up, so that a few could make some money, while the masses lose.
One would think they'd weigh the container themselves and charge accordingly. But then I'm not in the shipping business so I dunno...
If that's the case just another prime example of how self regulated business leads to disaster in pursuit of profit..
Yes... because the shipping company doesn't worry at all about overloaded containers or ships at all.
We'll just ignore the massive costs should go something go wrong that they are oblivious to in your world.
When I read the above comments, I cringe.
I cringe because people who wrote the above messages have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA on the shipping business.
All commercial vessels, whether they be big or small, must have at least one master (that's the captain) and one chief officer.
The job of the master is to determine when and where and how the ship should do in any given time.
And among the many jobs of the chief officer, determining how the weight of the cargo on board the vessel is to be optimally distributed (whether on the Starboard side, the Port side, the Aft, the Fore... )
A ship which has uneven weight of cargo/fuel/ballast water on board can easily sink.
As for that ship which broke into two parts, I do not know what is the actual cause --- but the "undeclared weight of the cargo" is definitely not the chief culprit --- or the ship would have sank sideway, instead of broken in two.
Nowadays anything and everything that are related to NSA has been condemned to death by a million cuts.
But we do need to tally up what has actually transpired to the American society BEFORE Mr. Edward Snowden decided to break his silence of the terrible truth...
The American society before the Snowden era was already a very damaged and trouble society.
The United States of America, as a nation, has already become very heavily debt-ridden, and that the rights of the average Americans has already been greatly reduced by patent-trolls and the copyright-MAFIAA-trolls.
Taken as a whole, NSA is but one of the many players with the nefarous intentions to decimate the Rights of the average Americans as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.
I am not defending NSA, but I have to be fair.
It ***IS*** the system itself, which the government of the United States of America is but a part of it, that is behind the destruction of the Spirit of Americana.
They allowed, hmm... no, they ENCOURAGED the HUMONGOUS CORPORATIONS to encroach into our rights (via patents and copyrights), and they actively fanned phobia against "gun violence" / "terrorism" in order to expediting the destruction of the Bill of Rights.
But the most important aspect of all is this --- that the American people have failed to rise up against the system.
We have become a people who no longer care about our own Constitutions.
Instead of being proud Americans who will fight for liberty and justice for all, we have become the timid Americans who will sacrifice anyting in order to secure a place inside the "safety cocoon" prepared for us, by our Great Leader.
The true "1984" had arrived, and it had arrived 29 years later than as was promised.
As an American, as an American who loves my country, I need to have the courage to face the reality --- that my country has ceased to be the land of the free, the home of the braves, but has turned into an empire which is moving towards oblivion
...the researcher, Ashkan Soltani, may not have enough understanding of the United States of America to come into a more holistic conclusion that it was the technology that puts the limit on the Big Brother
There was a limit, - and I use the past tense, "was", - and that limit, was morality
You just gotta be an American to understand what makes an American, an American
It's not a "snide remark" or a "fool's pride", but to be a true American, one has to have that sense of responsibility, that morality that pushes one to respect other people's rights, that forces one to limit oneself in order to not infringing onto other people's "space"
It was a social construct - that, in order for others to respect your right, you gotta respect others first
Unfortunately, all that had gone out of the door, when the congress critters in Washington D.C., stop thinking of themselves being Americans, but rather, a part of the global ruling elites governing the entire world
The erosion of morality on Congress Hill did not start with Obama, it started way back during Clinton's administration
While some may want to push the envelope to Tricky Dick's time (after all, he was the president who was pushed out of his presidency), but during Tricky Dick's era, the sense of morality was _still_ intact, or Richard Nixon wouldn't have to move out of the White House
Compare to Richard Nixon, how many of you think that Obama feels ashamed of what he has done ?
Whether you like it or not, if you are an American (which I am), NSA is part and parcel of the American government - and whatever NSA is doing (and whatever the Obama administration is doing right now) does represent ALL THE AMERICANS
I mean, look at what is happening in Egypt
The Egyptians who are tired of the non-performing Egyptian presidents are gathering in HUGE CROWD, demanding that muslim-brotherhood figurehead to step down
And about America...... do you see anything like that happening ?
Why not ?
What kind of message the Americans are telling the world ?... that we, the Americans, are SATISFIED with what the Obama administration is doing... that we, the Americans, agree with what NSA is doing... that we, the Americans, do not mind our phones be tapped, do not mind that the big brother has invaded our privacy, do not mind at all, that our liberties are being violated
By doing nothing, that's THE MESSAGE the Americans are telling the world... whether you like it, or not
Snowden has retracted his asylum application to Russia, on the ground that he does not want to jeopardize the state-to-state relationship between Russia and the USA
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No matter how thin it is, no matter how fast it is, no matter how well the display can be, it is still a tablet
Perhaps some might be oooh and aaah over yet-another-tablet, not me
What I am looking for - especially from tech firms such as Google - is something totally new, something that is revolutionary, not evolutionary
Nowadays all the new smartphone and tablet offerings sound much like new cars - ooooh, model 2014 Buick is so much better than the ones in 2013, with shiny wheels, with more comfy seats, more safety features, it gonna be great, really ?
A 2014 Buick (or Chrysler or Toyota) is a car, just like a 2013 Buick (or Chrysler or Toyota). There's nothing revolutionary anymore in cars, and unfortunately, nor for the smartphones / tablets
National Origin is the claim. And yes, discrimination must be proved
In the United States of Politically Correct America, it is very hard to prove reverse discrimination - it is always the Whites discriminating against the non-White, and judges and juries will always side with the non-White in discriminatory lawsuits
What makes this case a little bit more interesting is that the plaintiff is a female - and if that Bangladeshi worker happens to be a male, then that's a plus for the plaintiff
Most of those who have studied advanced math have heard of the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but not every single one of them understand it
Putting the same Heisenberg's Unvertainty Principle to the "average Joe on the street" and you would most probably get a blank stare
This has nothing to do with elitism, this is about reality
Most people simply do not have the mental capacity to comprehend the meaning of 1 + 1 = 2, and if you do not believe me, go ask the people around you, why 1 + 1 = 2, and not 1 + 1 = 3 ?
But Apple's image and brand is of a better, more responsible company -- that's part of the justification for the higher price. "Everyone else does it" might be true, but the statement was "we thought you were better"
Apple ARE better.
http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/accountability.html [apple.com]
If Apple is that better they would STOP letting their contractor abusing the workers a long time ago
Back in 2010-2011, another contractor, Wintek, caused deaths and injuries to several of its workers due to n-hexane exposure - including one engineer who dropped dead while working
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/technology/23apple.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Anyone can come up with any kind of policy, and what Apple is doing is merely giving lip service to their "policy"
Especially after the death and injuries that had occurred in Wintek last time, Apple ought to have wised up and ensure that their so-called "policy" be strictly followed
... is the day Analytics get to rule the world.
Human beings are famous for being irrational.
True, we are predictable, but, as irrational beings, our so-called "predictability" is not actually that "predictable", after all.
Blockbuster movies become blockbuster movies because they somehow sync with the audiences. Be it King Kong or Casablanca or Star Wars or Gone With The Wind, they sell because the fulfill something that the audiences need - either to be entertained, or to be informed, or to be enlightened.
Lately, actually not lately, but has been for the past several decades, Hollywood has lost its touch.
Instead of producing movies that can fulfill the needs of the audiences, Hollywood has been relying on formulas, sequels, and remakes of old classics.
The "Analytics", sad to say, is just a new name for their formula Hollywood has been relying upon since the 1980's.
From time immemorial nation-states have always been spying on their own citizens.
New Zealand, being one of the most progressive nations on Earth, is again taking the lead in making this ancient practice LEGAL.
As this has come to pass, wonder what New Zealand will do next ...
Somewhere it helps to be ahead of the curve and not chronically behind it. Listening is good, yes, but who was Apple listening to when they created the iPhone?
Decades before Apple came out with the iPod/iPhone/iPad, they came out with the Apple Newton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
It wasn't Apple which came out with the iPod/iPhone/iPad, it was Mr. Steve Jobs that made it possible.
Apple, without the late Mr.Steve Jobs, is not that much better than Microsoft.
The Fed caught the crooks, fined them, and threw some of them into the slammer.
But what about the consumers who had been cheated ?
Don't we deserve some refunds?
I mean, we paid overpriced batteries for our notebooks, overpriced car parts for our vehicles, and so on.
Don't we deserve to get our money back ?
Any attorney here ?
quote> are they talking server INSTALL or in physical server boxes? Because the two aren't anywhere close to the same thing, hell I have run a couple of server VMs on a $50 Athlon X3 and with the number of CPUs per box (How many are they up to now? Something like 48 for the AMD dual sockets i think?) you could easily have a million server installs on 150k-250k boxes and still have plenty of cycles left over. Conversely if they do have a million boxes then if they average say 24 CPUs per box you could have 20 million server installs running on those million servers, again just depending on the hardware
Do you think Ballmer comprehends anything that he talks about ?
TFA gave a link to http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/colliding-exploding-stars-may-have-created-all-gold-earth , which led to another link at http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3960 , which I have dl-ed the PDF at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.3960v1.pdf? but no matter how I search, I couldn't find any mention of the word 'gold' anywhere
Can someone please point us to the real article, please ?
same goes for Georgia, we tried in southern Georgia to get solar panels but city ordinance, zoning commission inspection fees and licensing, state red tape and you have to notify the grid and since the city controls utilities here, we dont have a normal power company our power bill is issued by the city on the bill has power, water, cable, garbage all on one bill. They wont allow them to be fed back into their grid here.
You may want to read this ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/peru-solar-power-program-to-give-electricity-to-2-million-of-poorest-peruvians/
Meanwhile, in the United States, Americans for Prosperity - a political lobbying group founded by billionaire fossil fuel industrialists Charles and David Koch - is currently lobbying the Georgia state legislature to reject a plan requiring Georgia Power, one of the largest energy utilities in the American Southeast, to buy more solar energy.
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies. the only reason why every houshold in the US doesnt have solar panels is because the energy companies lobby our government to increase the cost of them thousandfold...
Methinks there is another angle to this matter - China Phobia.
China can produce PV panels cheapest than anybody in the world, and if USA is indeed serious into cheap electricity, the most rational action to take is to get as many solar panel as the Chinese can produce and install them in the U.S. of A.
But is that happening ?
Why not?
Instead of making US strong again by taming the power crisis, congress is more concern of "unfair dumping" or whatever fucking excuse they can come up with, and ban the import of the solar panel from China.
They claim that China has unfairly subsidize their PV industry, and I mean, so what ?
If the Chinese are going to subsidize $100 per solar panel that we buy, let us by 1 billion solar panels and the Chinese will end up having to subsidize $100 billion on the sale.
That's basic math.
If they are going to subsidize something that we can use for our OWN benefits, let us buy as many as we could possibly use, and in the meantime, bankrupt those motherfuckers who are doing all the subsidizing.
Simple reasoning like this our congress also cannot comprehend.
Please tell me, what's the fucking use to have a congress that can not think properly ?
However, I can't lie, reading stories about the abusiveness of the community is a huge turn off.
The Kernel Dev Mailing List isn't for people who are without strong will.
You need to have the skin of a thousand rhino and the determination of the super-est of all supermen to push your idea across the many seasoned, and equally thick-skinned developers.
The so-called "abusive languages" is but a mechanism to weed out ideas which are not fully thought-over.
The very thing that has become a "turn off" for you to others is a challenge that they must overcome.
If you can't stand the heat, dear Sir, I suggest you to get out of the kitchen.
Obviously you are not made for the Kernel Development for Linux.
I will miss that pair of breasts I ogle whenever I drive down to San Diego...
Back in the days when I was in California, and that was many moons ago, that cute pair was known as "Dolly Parton"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton
I know this has to happen sooner or later.
For past few decades, political Correctness has been steadily encroaching into all aspects of our lives, and now, even the Linux Kernel Development is not spared.
I hope sane minds within the KD will prevail, and stop the PC disease from spreading further, or else, they would start to cherry-picking for some of the more exotic labels within the source codes and make a mountain out of a molehill.
Paywalls are a relatively new development for Internet, revealing itself to the public some 10 years ago.
It's effect was often ignore, until this case, that is.
The article the former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Peter Bradford wrote for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists earlier this year is locked behind a paywall, an article that could have contained vital information for the public to make up their correct judge regarding the use of Nuclear Energy to generate electricity for the United States of America.
The more articles being locked behind paywalls, the less informed the public are going to become.
The less informed the public are, the more power the elite 0.1% is going to garner, for the public will have no cause to oppose whatever they propose, as vital information locked up, so that a few could make some money, while the masses lose.
... it is the males of the Middle East who are totally useless.
In the West, most of the men work.
In Middle East, most of the men just sit there, doing nothing.
In fact, some got so bored they decide to become human bombers.
I read TFA, and the paragraph title "The NSA Canâ(TM)t Lose" really irked me.
But, as an American who knows that my own government has turned into a cabal, I know that it is the reality.
I used to be proud as an American. Used to be.
Now, I hang my head low, feeling so powerless, so ashamed.
so they operate on an honor system?
One would think they'd weigh the container themselves and charge accordingly. But then I'm not in the shipping business so I dunno...
If that's the case just another prime example of how self regulated business leads to disaster in pursuit of profit..
Yes... because the shipping company doesn't worry at all about overloaded containers or ships at all.
We'll just ignore the massive costs should go something go wrong that they are oblivious to in your world.
When I read the above comments, I cringe.
I cringe because people who wrote the above messages have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA on the shipping business.
All commercial vessels, whether they be big or small, must have at least one master (that's the captain) and one chief officer.
The job of the master is to determine when and where and how the ship should do in any given time.
And among the many jobs of the chief officer, determining how the weight of the cargo on board the vessel is to be optimally distributed (whether on the Starboard side, the Port side, the Aft, the Fore ... )
A ship which has uneven weight of cargo/fuel/ballast water on board can easily sink.
As for that ship which broke into two parts, I do not know what is the actual cause --- but the "undeclared weight of the cargo" is definitely not the chief culprit --- or the ship would have sank sideway, instead of broken in two.
Nowadays anything and everything that are related to NSA has been condemned to death by a million cuts.
But we do need to tally up what has actually transpired to the American society BEFORE Mr. Edward Snowden decided to break his silence of the terrible truth ...
The American society before the Snowden era was already a very damaged and trouble society.
The United States of America, as a nation, has already become very heavily debt-ridden, and that the rights of the average Americans has already been greatly reduced by patent-trolls and the copyright-MAFIAA-trolls.
Taken as a whole, NSA is but one of the many players with the nefarous intentions to decimate the Rights of the average Americans as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.
I am not defending NSA, but I have to be fair.
It ***IS*** the system itself, which the government of the United States of America is but a part of it, that is behind the destruction of the Spirit of Americana.
They allowed, hmm... no, they ENCOURAGED the HUMONGOUS CORPORATIONS to encroach into our rights (via patents and copyrights), and they actively fanned phobia against "gun violence" / "terrorism" in order to expediting the destruction of the Bill of Rights.
But the most important aspect of all is this --- that the American people have failed to rise up against the system.
We have become a people who no longer care about our own Constitutions.
Instead of being proud Americans who will fight for liberty and justice for all, we have become the timid Americans who will sacrifice anyting in order to secure a place inside the "safety cocoon" prepared for us, by our Great Leader.
The true "1984" had arrived, and it had arrived 29 years later than as was promised.
As an American, as an American who loves my country, I need to have the courage to face the reality --- that my country has ceased to be the land of the free, the home of the braves, but has turned into an empire which is moving towards oblivion
And Richard Nixon wasn't ashamed of what he'd done, he ashamed he got caught!
You are right in saying that Tricky Dick was ashamed because he got caught
Obama got caught with his hands in the cookie jar too
Now, the question ...
Has Obama shown any sign of shame, yet ?
...the researcher, Ashkan Soltani, may not have enough understanding of the United States of America to come into a more holistic conclusion that it was the technology that puts the limit on the Big Brother
There was a limit, - and I use the past tense, "was", - and that limit, was morality
You just gotta be an American to understand what makes an American, an American
It's not a "snide remark" or a "fool's pride", but to be a true American, one has to have that sense of responsibility, that morality that pushes one to respect other people's rights, that forces one to limit oneself in order to not infringing onto other people's "space"
It was a social construct - that, in order for others to respect your right, you gotta respect others first
Unfortunately, all that had gone out of the door, when the congress critters in Washington D.C., stop thinking of themselves being Americans, but rather, a part of the global ruling elites governing the entire world
The erosion of morality on Congress Hill did not start with Obama, it started way back during Clinton's administration
While some may want to push the envelope to Tricky Dick's time (after all, he was the president who was pushed out of his presidency), but during Tricky Dick's era, the sense of morality was _still_ intact, or Richard Nixon wouldn't have to move out of the White House
Compare to Richard Nixon, how many of you think that Obama feels ashamed of what he has done ?
... but NSA does represent the Americans !!
Whether you like it or not, if you are an American (which I am), NSA is part and parcel of the American government - and whatever NSA is doing (and whatever the Obama administration is doing right now) does represent ALL THE AMERICANS
I mean, look at what is happening in Egypt
The Egyptians who are tired of the non-performing Egyptian presidents are gathering in HUGE CROWD, demanding that muslim-brotherhood figurehead to step down
And about America ... ... do you see anything like that happening ?
Why not ?
What kind of message the Americans are telling the world ? ... that we, the Americans, are SATISFIED with what the Obama administration is doing ... that we, the Americans, agree with what NSA is doing ... that we, the Americans, do not mind our phones be tapped, do not mind that the big brother has invaded our privacy, do not mind at all, that our liberties are being violated
By doing nothing, that's THE MESSAGE the Americans are telling the world ... whether you like it, or not
Snowden has retracted his asylum application to Russia, on the ground that he does not want to jeopardize the state-to-state relationship between Russia and the USA