If the entirety of human history is any indicator, the governed won't see any changes in a situation like this until they're willing to use lethal force against those who govern them.
People like you and responses like this are why most people don't buy into the AGW scam. Thanks for showing us all how pathetic your religion really is.
They can use just about any method they feel like using, don't have to explain how they got to the conclusion they got to,
Wrong, they have to explain to the people they are selling the scores too. If they are delivering innacurate scores then their service is worthless and the loan agencies have no reason to use them.
They are highly motivated, financially, to be right in their judgements of peoples credit. You make it sound likes it 3 fat guys in suits arbitrarily assigning scores to people "because they feel like it"
You sound really freaking clueless on the subject honestly.
Spying actually prevents wars as it allows governments to act diplomatically before the shit hits the fan. However, spying on ones own citizens is what dictatorships do to oppress their own people. The NSA was created specifically to spy on foreign nations, just like every other country does.
It sucks but thats how the world is.
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Someone should have told Ballmer it was his job to out do what Bill Gates created, not undo it.
Failure of Windows 8 Failure of Xbox One Failure of Vista Failure of the Kin Failure of the Zune Failure of Windows Phone 7 Failure of Windows Phone 8 Need I go on? You can only fuck up so many times before the board sends you packing. I'm amazed he lasted this long.
What exactly are you implying? Were they forced up a tower at gun point?
"Jackson! Head up that fucking pole and meet your god damned quota or I fire your ass and your kids starve next week!"
We saw this same shit with truck drivers driving while tired and killing people. Being fired from your job and facing financial hardships is far more traumatic than having a gun drawn on you.
I've seen Red Hat and FreeBSD support people work up security patches in a matter of hours and release them to customers. I've even seen them do this with bug fixes that later get incorporated into the kernel or whatever other source package they are supporting.
Its just just the freedom to compile and fix your own OS, it's the freedom to audit it. You do not get that with Windows.
No one trusts Canonical outside of the die-hard Ubuntu fanboys. Canonical forks everything due to their NIH syndrome. They released the buggiest, ugliest and most uselessly incoherent Desktop imaginable (Unity) and then sold their userbase to Amazon.
The Edge could be the greatest thing since sliced bread, I still wouldn't give them my money.
How about your conservative-panic? I mean, you did bring conservatism into an argument where politics didn't even come into play. Not sure what it has to do with this at all in fact. Your strawman is pathetic.
You do know he was prosecuted under the liberals watch right? Your liberal messiah could have pardoned him or called off the dogs at any time. I guess that wouldn't fit into your liberal narrative though................
Giving money to your own social clubs like the mormon church and its affiliates like Brigham Young University, or the George W Bush Library, or the private school where 5 of his kids attended isn't charity, it's tax-deductible self-interest.
Why would he give 30% of his income to causes and institutions with which he disagrees? Yes he gave it to his church and his party and other causes he and his wife believe in. Some how in your twisted liberal mind that's wrong.
Everything Microsoft produces. I have the misfortune of working with the MS developers on a regular basis and if I had a nickle for every time they told me they didnt know how their own software works I'd be richer than Bill Gates.
Nevermind the inherent security flaws in their crap OS, my concern, and the concern from every foreign country should be MS's willingness to work with the NSA. If ever there was a time to ditch Microsoft and go Open Source it is now.
I'm not so sure. The Debian group "formed" for lack of a better work on 8/16/93 but they didnt release anything til almost 1995. So the group might be 20 years old but the distro itself maybe not.
Read my post again if you didn't understand it. Read more slowly if you still dont. Shoot yourself if after the 4th time you're still so fucking clueless. Thanks.
What about the fast version of the Safari HTML/Javascript engine? All 3rd party apps are limited to using the crippled one. When multitasking first appeared it was limited to Apple apps only. It was a while before the API was available to 3rd party apps.
Believe it or not that's not actually a bad thing. The JS engine used by Apple in Safari has extra security privedges, Apple doesn't want to open that up to every developer to write buggy insecure code on. The slower JS engine they do have access to is sandboxed and unable to harm the device.
Apple doesn't do this to be malicious, they do it for security reasons.
But it'll void my warranty which isn't cool and why bother with all that when its only an extra 20 bucks to have the genius bar do it for me?
Besides, the point was that I can't swap it with another one part way through the day like I can with my work HP laptop. I can't even dole out extra bucks to buy an extended battery. I have two for my HP, one that lasts about 3-4 hours and another that will get me about 7-8. I just slap it on and away I go.
Haven't been able to do that with an Apple in years, not since the MacBook Pro's had it in 2009 I think.
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If the entirety of human history is any indicator, the governed won't see any changes in a situation like this until they're willing to use lethal force against those who govern them.
Let's take at the history of nonviolent resistance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance
In fact, if you look at, it looks as if through the entirety of human history non-violent resistance is really in these days :)
(In fact, never before in the history of mankind have you as an individual ever been more empowered than now).
Tell that to Syrians, Iranians, North Koreans, Yemen etc etc. Hell, tell it to Russian homosexuals
People like you and responses like this are why most people don't buy into the AGW scam. Thanks for showing us all how pathetic your religion really is.
In the real world, credibility matters and Cas Sunstein has ZERO.
This is the same guy that thinks animals should have a right to sue people:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/cass-sunstein-proposes-that-animals-should-have-legal-right-to-sue
Nothing this guy says should be taken seriously.
People leave, new people come. It ebbs and flows like everything else.
They can use just about any method they feel like using, don't have to explain how they got to the conclusion they got to,
Wrong, they have to explain to the people they are selling the scores too. If they are delivering innacurate scores then their service is worthless and the loan agencies have no reason to use them.
They are highly motivated, financially, to be right in their judgements of peoples credit. You make it sound likes it 3 fat guys in suits arbitrarily assigning scores to people "because they feel like it"
You sound really freaking clueless on the subject honestly.
Spying actually prevents wars as it allows governments to act diplomatically before the shit hits the fan. However, spying on ones own citizens is what dictatorships do to oppress their own people. The NSA was created specifically to spy on foreign nations, just like every other country does.
It sucks but thats how the world is.
Someone should have told Ballmer it was his job to out do what Bill Gates created, not undo it.
Sinofsky was the brain child for Windows 8. Hiring him back would be like hiring Gilbert Grape back to run the business.
Failure of Windows 8
Failure of Xbox One
Failure of Vista
Failure of the Kin
Failure of the Zune
Failure of Windows Phone 7
Failure of Windows Phone 8
Need I go on? You can only fuck up so many times before the board sends you packing. I'm amazed he lasted this long.
What exactly are you implying? Were they forced up a tower at gun point?
"Jackson! Head up that fucking pole and meet your god damned quota or I fire your ass and your kids starve next week!"
We saw this same shit with truck drivers driving while tired and killing people. Being fired from your job and facing financial hardships is far more traumatic than having a gun drawn on you.
Only if they had 1 dev. However if they have 16000 devs saying it simultaneously................
I've seen Red Hat and FreeBSD support people work up security patches in a matter of hours and release them to customers. I've even seen them do this with bug fixes that later get incorporated into the kernel or whatever other source package they are supporting.
Its just just the freedom to compile and fix your own OS, it's the freedom to audit it. You do not get that with Windows.
No one trusts Canonical outside of the die-hard Ubuntu fanboys. Canonical forks everything due to their NIH syndrome. They released the buggiest, ugliest and most uselessly incoherent Desktop imaginable (Unity) and then sold their userbase to Amazon.
The Edge could be the greatest thing since sliced bread, I still wouldn't give them my money.
How about your conservative-panic? I mean, you did bring conservatism into an argument where politics didn't even come into play. Not sure what it has to do with this at all in fact. Your strawman is pathetic.
You do know he was prosecuted under the liberals watch right? Your liberal messiah could have pardoned him or called off the dogs at any time. I guess that wouldn't fit into your liberal narrative though................
Giving money to your own social clubs like the mormon church and its affiliates like Brigham Young University, or the George W Bush Library, or the private school where 5 of his kids attended isn't charity, it's tax-deductible self-interest.
Why would he give 30% of his income to causes and institutions with which he disagrees? Yes he gave it to his church and his party and other causes he and his wife believe in. Some how in your twisted liberal mind that's wrong.
Fuck you
Everything Microsoft produces. I have the misfortune of working with the MS developers on a regular basis and if I had a nickle for every time they told me they didnt know how their own software works I'd be richer than Bill Gates.
Nevermind the inherent security flaws in their crap OS, my concern, and the concern from every foreign country should be MS's willingness to work with the NSA. If ever there was a time to ditch Microsoft and go Open Source it is now.
That's nice, but he isn't speaking German, he's speaking English and in English it doesn't mean poison.
For Debian, ideology trumps usability. It's why Ubuntu exists.
I'm not so sure. The Debian group "formed" for lack of a better work on 8/16/93 but they didnt release anything til almost 1995. So the group might be 20 years old but the distro itself maybe not.
Read my post again if you didn't understand it. Read more slowly if you still dont. Shoot yourself if after the 4th time you're still so fucking clueless. Thanks.
What about the fast version of the Safari HTML/Javascript engine? All 3rd party apps are limited to using the crippled one. When multitasking first appeared it was limited to Apple apps only. It was a while before the API was available to 3rd party apps.
Believe it or not that's not actually a bad thing. The JS engine used by Apple in Safari has extra security privedges, Apple doesn't want to open that up to every developer to write buggy insecure code on. The slower JS engine they do have access to is sandboxed and unable to harm the device.
Apple doesn't do this to be malicious, they do it for security reasons.
Nor do I. You can do whatever you want with your money, including sending it to Apple to purchase their overpriced hardware and buggy software... :)
My macbook air is cheaper than every other ultrabook on the market. You still haven't pointed out this "buggy" software you keep complaining about.
But it'll void my warranty which isn't cool and why bother with all that when its only an extra 20 bucks to have the genius bar do it for me?
Besides, the point was that I can't swap it with another one part way through the day like I can with my work HP laptop. I can't even dole out extra bucks to buy an extended battery. I have two for my HP, one that lasts about 3-4 hours and another that will get me about 7-8. I just slap it on and away I go.
Haven't been able to do that with an Apple in years, not since the MacBook Pro's had it in 2009 I think.
Yeah, I dont want to void my warranty either.