It's much better to understand that your so-called "natural" rights are by societal agreement -- then you can actually work towards a mutual cohesion rather than just yelling "No, that land was promised to *us*!"
Stop making excuses for Apple. Even if they have some sort of agreement with AT&T that prevents AT&T customers from tethering, the iTunes store is internationalized to the point that they could easily offer the tethering app to less restrictive countries and not to AT&T customers.
Could you please elaborate, paying particular attention to exactly what details you know about how Apple's DRM works with respect to internationalization?
The discussion at hand is about whether Apple's use of the term "buy" (for DRMed music, not "Plus") is fraudulent. You claim not, on the basis that it wasn't encrypted until it reaches your machine. But I don't really understand what difference that makes, when the button labelled "Buy" applies DRM without giving you any other option.
Google, as a publicly traded company, has obligations to three people. The stock is structured such that Sergei, Larry and Eric have complete control over every single shareholder vote.
That may be the case, but Google is still beholden to maximise shareholder value for every shareholder. Sergei, Larry and Eric can't vote to change the law in that respect.
I for one welcome our new carrot-and-stick definition. Unlike the completely redundant misuse of "turn the other cheek" you mention, it's actually quite useful to be able to say "too much carrot and not enough stick" or similar.
I don't know about a multitouch touchpad, that seems kind of lame. What makes multitouch cool is touching directly on the screen.
As someone who can't stand it when I use an older iBook and can't use two fingers across the trackpad to scroll through pages of Slashdot comments, I disagree!
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If it takes people believing it came from God, fine.
But this can of worms carries so much baggage. Yes, society can take away your right to free speech, but so can high priests...
How on earth would the submitter purport to know which theories are sound and which are crackpot, without using the scientific method?
He needs to leave his preconceptions at the door.
It's much better to understand that your so-called "natural" rights are by societal agreement -- then you can actually work towards a mutual cohesion rather than just yelling "No, that land was promised to *us*!"
Anyone who treats the Bible as anything other than a work of fiction is missing the point of Christ.
Test everything, keep the good...
Try to live your life by Christ's example by all means, but for God's sake [sic] don't actually claim he was the incarnation of a personal deity.
As far as I can tell, he's some financial analyst. So why would anyone consider him a credible source? ... Am I missing something?
Must be new here... yet UID says not... does not compute! [head explodes]
Absolutely: it isn't flamebait because if you don't buy the latest phone from Apple, they will actually anally rape you. </sarcasm>
AT&T can't decided what is available in the App Store. At best, they can only make requests.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract
Stop making excuses for Apple. Even if they have some sort of agreement with AT&T that prevents AT&T customers from tethering, the iTunes store is internationalized to the point that they could easily offer the tethering app to less restrictive countries and not to AT&T customers.
Could you please elaborate, paying particular attention to exactly what details you know about how Apple's DRM works with respect to internationalization?
The discussion at hand is about whether Apple's use of the term "buy" (for DRMed music, not "Plus") is fraudulent. You claim not, on the basis that it wasn't encrypted until it reaches your machine. But I don't really understand what difference that makes, when the button labelled "Buy" applies DRM without giving you any other option.
If you'd used a pair of quotation marks, people might have thought you were being deliberate.
If you fail to be able to distinguish between "in clear violation of the law" and "in the wrong", then yes, you are too much of a goody-goody.
A Googlewhack comprises two words, not a three-word phrase.
Maybe they've indexed 120 billion pages, but only by words appearing in the URL rather than in the content ;)
Good point. Did you know that there is also a crack team of lightsaber-wielding jedi marines in the US army?
What do you mean, you haven't seen or heard of them? You think the gub'mint goes around shouting about that sort of thing?
I gave up today in shear frustration.
That might be what your problem is: it's not supposed to be yielding wool.
Google, as a publicly traded company, has obligations to three people. The stock is structured such that Sergei, Larry and Eric have complete control over every single shareholder vote.
That may be the case, but Google is still beholden to maximise shareholder value for every shareholder. Sergei, Larry and Eric can't vote to change the law in that respect.
Maybe it's not a lie, and they just index all the link farms to which Google give the go-by.
"Number of web pages indexed" is a completely useless metric on the modern internet.
I for one welcome our new carrot-and-stick definition. Unlike the completely redundant misuse of "turn the other cheek" you mention, it's actually quite useful to be able to say "too much carrot and not enough stick" or similar.
Try comparing like with like:
http://www.google.com/search?q=aes+zip+linux
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=aes+zip+linux
I agree with you in general -- but the Falklands War a war of aggression on Britain's part? Could you please elaborate?
1) Buy shares in traditional media
2) Buy laws that pwn new media
3) Wait for people incensed about #2 to give you their money via #1?
4) Profit!
I'm not talking about infinite recursion. I'm talking about volume failure.
YOUR DATA FAILS IT.
I don't know about a multitouch touchpad, that seems kind of lame. What makes multitouch cool is touching directly on the screen.
As someone who can't stand it when I use an older iBook and can't use two fingers across the trackpad to scroll through pages of Slashdot comments, I disagree!
Are you suggesting that Apple are willing to sell (i.e., not apply DRM to) those files? Or are you just making a non-point?
Nobody ever does backups until they lose data.
Nobody ever does offsite backups until they lose their backups.
Have a look at mozy.com or similar to store your most critical data!
#> tar -czvf back.tar.gz *.*
If you're currently backing up to the same volume as what you're backing up, you might just one day find out that Time Machine is an innovation ;P