in 2003 I tried to tell people of the abuses going on, that the Red Cross was reporting and international media. However, no pictures and no videos, so people didn't care. Those allegations only got mentioned in newspapers (who reads that? They're not on TV).
The photos forced Americans to fully realize why so many Iraqis were angry at us, and forced them to come to terms with the fact that America isn't winning.
The fifth amendment protects a person under oath from incriminating himself, i.e. a right to remain silent. Microsoft didn't do anything of the kind; they lied in a court of law by presenting "evidence" of how much slower a IE-less Windows ran, and the prosecution proved and forced them to admit that the video was doctored. Self-incrimiation and trying to lie under oath are two very different things.
Also, I reject your fallacy of trying to redefine what I say as some sort of land analogy. I said nothing of the kind. See my reply in the cousin thread.
I was thinking of Microsoft locking PC vendors into selling only Microsoft OSes with their boxes, the derided "microsoft tax." I wasn't referring to standards.
Yeah, Microsoft has the right to do whatever they want with their OS, true. However, I was thinking of how Microsoft was found guilty, I believe, of trying to sabotage Quicktime on Windows95, issueing updates that were meant and designed to break the program, and delivering cryptic and literally baseless error messages, in order to turn users away from quicktime and towards Windows Media. Who cares about Linux, you jumped to a conclusion about what I was thinking of.
I don't know where you get the idea "only government can create a monopoly." Since when? Only governments can create vertical monopolies, or horizontal monopolies? Again, as a Mac user, I wasn't thinking of Linux when I penned the post stating factually that microsoft is a monopoly.
I didn't say anything socialistic as you accuse. I believe in voting with your wallet, and my money goes to Apple instead.
Microsoft is NOT a monopoly? Who locks vendors into their software? Who tried to block other media players on their OS? Who committed numerous acts of perjury at their antitrust trial?
Well we could get something that analyzes trace amounts of the ketones (found in the alcoholic breath) in the air, but I don't know if it could differentiate between the designated driver or the inebriated passenger...
Depends. I've been able to watch it on a TV, and I've even ripped my own shows. A few artifacts here and there, but people are still wowed by a tiny iPod playing a video on a big HDTV.
Only when Apple tries to kill off other companies. Apple can't and won't kill off Adobe or Microsoft or Netscape or lie to the government or break antitrust laws.
This alleged plan to bomb Al Jazeera was in 2004. By that time, Americans had moved everything into Iraq and Saddam's palaces and American bases in Iraq. Qatar was done with.
Maybe its a codec that wants to be availible to all users instead of just one. Or maybe it's the copy protection. Drag the codec into the ~/Library/Quicktime/ folder
10% Marketshare of new PC sales. That number is low because of companies, libraries, and universities buying stacks of Dells in bulk; the marketshare of homes is much higher.
Also, Macs last longer, I've seen Mac Classics still in use while nobody uses 386's anymore. Macs have 25% share in installed computers, as opposed to new sales.
iPods were doing "well" until Apple made a windows-compatible version, then they exploded into an even better bestseller.
Yes, Apple did keep modifying their kernel and breaking stuff in the past. Now they have a consistent kernel system in 10.4 that will allow updates without breaking stuff. Read more about their kernel update system with KPIs
You mean against the Kurds in Halabja? He didn't use Anthrax, he used something akin to Mustard gas, which burned and scarred the people, not infected them. Also, the US at the time blamed Iran, and backed Saddam Hussein's tactics (Which is why they're not trying him on that charge yet, if ever.)
Oh of course, silly me. The people who the US military found INNOCENT and RELEASED back to Afghanistan and Pakistan and UK claimed they were beaten, drugged, subjected to extreme temperatures, food and water deprivation, lack of religious accommodation (they weren't allowed to pray), and a rash of other things. Even they heard about the Quran abuse.
The US military detailed incidents it found in its investigation post-outrage, like a guard splashing his own urine on a detainee's Quran. I don't buy the US military's excuse for the incident, that a guard went to urinate outside near a detainee's cage and somehow a little urine blew into a vent and onto the pages of the Quran? How about the tall tale that if the detainee nicely asked the guard to come over and give him a new Quran because of the urine on it, he would and did gladly do so? According to the released detainees, the former guards, and the lawyers, these people were subject to beatings and weren't allowed to pray via some quite mean methods. One report was that a detainee was hospitalized for a broken shoulder when a guard beat him while he was on the ground and in the prone handcuff position. Do you think that the guards who break shoulders and beat detainees would smile and nicely replace a Quran when asked?
The only group that made the claim of Al Qaeda making up torture stories to "lie to the infidel" is the US military spokesman. They're not Al Qaeda, or else the US wouldn't have let them go. Besides, even if Muslims were allowed to "lie to the infidel" (which they aren't), these people have told their stories to people in their home countries of Pakistan and to some Muslim reporters and the Muslim chaplain, James Yusuf Yee. They're not going to perpetuate that lie to other Muslims, as it would be a sin anyway.
It doesn't have to be genius. My first idea of defense would be, maybe they were scanning someone else's computer, someone who had previously installed it and had no idea that another person would be using anti-spyware research on that machine. They might then go and sue the installer of the system for negligance or something. Who knows.
Who said I was giving them a pass? I was just replying to the earlier poster.
The rioters who are burning cars and causing havoc are wrong, what they are doing is runing their cause, and strengthening their right-wing enemies. I was watching Fox News gleefully cover the events, both hating the French and deploring "foreign immigrants" while lecturing that the same thing could somehow happen to America. Baloney. The people who are doing this aren't educated and are going to cause their entire communities to suffer, not improve anything at all.
No, I don't like riots one bit. They're a bunch of vigilantes and fools, and are going to cause the government to crack down extremely badly on their communities and families. I'm with Juan Cole on this one.
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I don't like Wikipedia's system and its edit wars and such. That's why I use Everything2 instead, because it doesn't have wiki's flaws.
IE did however use the iTools plugin, opening server connections in the Finder for you.
in 2003 I tried to tell people of the abuses going on, that the Red Cross was reporting and international media. However, no pictures and no videos, so people didn't care. Those allegations only got mentioned in newspapers (who reads that? They're not on TV).
The photos forced Americans to fully realize why so many Iraqis were angry at us, and forced them to come to terms with the fact that America isn't winning.
The fifth amendment protects a person under oath from incriminating himself, i.e. a right to remain silent. Microsoft didn't do anything of the kind; they lied in a court of law by presenting "evidence" of how much slower a IE-less Windows ran, and the prosecution proved and forced them to admit that the video was doctored. Self-incrimiation and trying to lie under oath are two very different things.
Also, I reject your fallacy of trying to redefine what I say as some sort of land analogy. I said nothing of the kind. See my reply in the cousin thread.
I was thinking of Microsoft locking PC vendors into selling only Microsoft OSes with their boxes, the derided "microsoft tax." I wasn't referring to standards.
Yeah, Microsoft has the right to do whatever they want with their OS, true. However, I was thinking of how Microsoft was found guilty, I believe, of trying to sabotage Quicktime on Windows95, issueing updates that were meant and designed to break the program, and delivering cryptic and literally baseless error messages, in order to turn users away from quicktime and towards Windows Media. Who cares about Linux, you jumped to a conclusion about what I was thinking of.
I don't know where you get the idea "only government can create a monopoly." Since when? Only governments can create vertical monopolies, or horizontal monopolies? Again, as a Mac user, I wasn't thinking of Linux when I penned the post stating factually that microsoft is a monopoly.
I didn't say anything socialistic as you accuse. I believe in voting with your wallet, and my money goes to Apple instead.
Microsoft is NOT a monopoly? Who locks vendors into their software? Who tried to block other media players on their OS? Who committed numerous acts of perjury at their antitrust trial?
Hazara? Are you Afghani perchance?
Well we could get something that analyzes trace amounts of the ketones (found in the alcoholic breath) in the air, but I don't know if it could differentiate between the designated driver or the inebriated passenger...
WebObjects isn't that young. Didn't Apple switch WebObjects from a OS X Server application to a slower Java one in order to be cross-platform?
Yes! I'd pay for Rocko's Modern Life.
Depends. I've been able to watch it on a TV, and I've even ripped my own shows. A few artifacts here and there, but people are still wowed by a tiny iPod playing a video on a big HDTV.
Only when Apple tries to kill off other companies. Apple can't and won't kill off Adobe or Microsoft or Netscape or lie to the government or break antitrust laws.
You CAN play it outside iTunes, I'm looking at Jay Leno in Quicktime player right now. You're right about not being able to export it, however.
2005-12-06 14:45:35 iTunes sells 3 Million videos, adds new shows (Apple,Television) (rejected)
And decaffeinated coffee was recently discovered to raise your LDL cholesterol, the bad kind. Always a tradeoff, eh?
This alleged plan to bomb Al Jazeera was in 2004. By that time, Americans had moved everything into Iraq and Saddam's palaces and American bases in Iraq. Qatar was done with.
No way man, Safari is the best browser for the Mac. Firefox is slower on the mac for some reason, which is why they have the Camino fork.
Maybe its a codec that wants to be availible to all users instead of just one. Or maybe it's the copy protection. Drag the codec into the ~/Library/Quicktime/ folder
What? No Ender's Game? Not even listed in the first page of Comments?
10% Marketshare of new PC sales. That number is low because of companies, libraries, and universities buying stacks of Dells in bulk; the marketshare of homes is much higher.
Also, Macs last longer, I've seen Mac Classics still in use while nobody uses 386's anymore. Macs have 25% share in installed computers, as opposed to new sales.
Yes, Apple did keep modifying their kernel and breaking stuff in the past. Now they have a consistent kernel system in 10.4 that will allow updates without breaking stuff. Read more about their kernel update system with KPIs
You mean against the Kurds in Halabja? He didn't use Anthrax, he used something akin to Mustard gas, which burned and scarred the people, not infected them. Also, the US at the time blamed Iran, and backed Saddam Hussein's tactics (Which is why they're not trying him on that charge yet, if ever.)
The US military detailed incidents it found in its investigation post-outrage, like a guard splashing his own urine on a detainee's Quran. I don't buy the US military's excuse for the incident, that a guard went to urinate outside near a detainee's cage and somehow a little urine blew into a vent and onto the pages of the Quran? How about the tall tale that if the detainee nicely asked the guard to come over and give him a new Quran because of the urine on it, he would and did gladly do so? According to the released detainees, the former guards, and the lawyers, these people were subject to beatings and weren't allowed to pray via some quite mean methods. One report was that a detainee was hospitalized for a broken shoulder when a guard beat him while he was on the ground and in the prone handcuff position. Do you think that the guards who break shoulders and beat detainees would smile and nicely replace a Quran when asked?
The only group that made the claim of Al Qaeda making up torture stories to "lie to the infidel" is the US military spokesman. They're not Al Qaeda, or else the US wouldn't have let them go. Besides, even if Muslims were allowed to "lie to the infidel" (which they aren't), these people have told their stories to people in their home countries of Pakistan and to some Muslim reporters and the Muslim chaplain, James Yusuf Yee. They're not going to perpetuate that lie to other Muslims, as it would be a sin anyway.
It doesn't have to be genius. My first idea of defense would be, maybe they were scanning someone else's computer, someone who had previously installed it and had no idea that another person would be using anti-spyware research on that machine. They might then go and sue the installer of the system for negligance or something. Who knows.
The rioters who are burning cars and causing havoc are wrong, what they are doing is runing their cause, and strengthening their right-wing enemies. I was watching Fox News gleefully cover the events, both hating the French and deploring "foreign immigrants" while lecturing that the same thing could somehow happen to America. Baloney. The people who are doing this aren't educated and are going to cause their entire communities to suffer, not improve anything at all.
No, I don't like riots one bit. They're a bunch of vigilantes and fools, and are going to cause the government to crack down extremely badly on their communities and families. I'm with Juan Cole on this one.