I think this argument is utter crap. Wikileaks offered an unedited version of Collateral Murder, and what they did edit they did to clarify things and in my opinion they didn't distort the content in any significant way.
Other documents they have edited have been to remove people's names and they'd have gotten more criticism if they hadn't done it.
But the fact that Homer tends to get rewarded for his idiocy is a pretty shitty message to send out. I recall that in the really early Simpsons eps, Homer was genuinely scared of Burns, and his life was pretty miserable punctuated with the odd solace from Marge being nice to him. Now, everyone treats him with respect despite the fact that he's a selfish jerk. Kinda sadly reflects the way some parts of America are.
The Status-4-Evar addon doesn't give you the same look and feel of the FF3 status bar, and the addon bar has a frigging close button on it. I don't want my status bar to have a close button.
Just to give my totally random opinion on FF4, I'm mostly ok with it apart from 2 things.
1) The lack of a status bar. You either love it or hate it, I hate it. I have a high resolution and I want functionality more than about 10px extra real estate. 2) The default theme. WTF? It's ugly black-and-white, the FF3 theme is a million times nicer and more colourful. The first thing I'll have to do with any FF4 install is go grab a decent theme.
I'm a complete novice here, but can't you install Android on such a device from scratch? I know it's impractical for most users, but is there something fundamentally stopping you from wiping the stock OS and installing FroYo yourself?
You know, we complained endlessly when Microsoft fragmented the web user experience for years...why are some of us giving Mozilla and Google a free pass when, however noble the motivation, they are trying to do the same thing?
I always said they should've specified a baseline codec in the HTML5 standard that had to be supported for the video tag. At least then there would be ONE thing that people had to support or be called out as breaking the standard.
the Swedish legal system has a fairly good reputation individually and rape is a crime over here (although some of the allegations would only be classed as sexual assault, and some as just being a bit of a pillock, the latter of which isn't usually illegal).
How do ANY of the charges against assange count as rape or sexual assault? As far as I knew, the only reasons these women even have a case is because Sweden's law allows women to retrospectively classify consentual sex as rape.
It's locked into the Microsoft App Store. All the lock-in of the iPhone. In my book this is a MASSIVE strike against WP7, to the point of my not even considering it.
Oddly enough, "thee, thy, thine" were becoming offensive words (too familiar) in Shakespeare's time, and the language itself changed to subsitiute "you"-based words.
Yep, and nowadays English has lost the distinction between 'familiar' you and 'formal' you, which French hasn't. Thanks, censorship - you really helped us there.
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Was that intended to be ironic or do you take genuine offence to 'se'?
Personally, I'll gladly pay for my gas and beer costs to march on Washington, as soon as a big enough march is organized. For now our job is getting the next door neighbor concerned, bringing this to "main street". Make it applicable to them, in a subtle non-trollish manner (haha). The one thing that can save America, or any other nation who is driven by the will of it's citizens, is to educate and make the issues tangible, clear-cut.
Trouble is, that's already in the process of happening. It's called The Tea Party. The government 'by the people, of the people' of today would manage to be WORSE than what you have now... unless the stupid half of America dropped dead tomorrow. Could we engineer some kind of IQ-based virus?
I see you haven't gotten over your infantile and pathetic name-calling. Maybe you mgiht want look into that if you ever want people to take you seriously, because right now you come across as an arrogant jerk.
If that's in your manifesto, then I guess it's changed beyond the strict limits it used to have. Looks like you decided to expand it like I always said was the way to go. Well done for belatedly discovering that.
What does this have to do with the Pirate movement? It's outside your core areas of copyright and patents. Your 'MPs' are supposed to take a completely unpredictable stance on anything else.
What would be far more effective is letting North Korea know that if they nuke Seoul or Tokyo, we will nuke every bunker their leadership might hide in. Maybe release satellite photos of said bunkers showing that we know where they'll be hiding if the bombs start flying, and intimating that those safe havens will not be safe for very long in a nuclear war. Make it a personal threat instead, such that self-preservation becomes a major factor.
Trouble is, Kim might have looked at the US's hunting down of Osama bin Laden and concluded that the US are about as good at hunting down their prey as Wile E. Coyote.
... when he says that one of the reasons the iPhone won't run Flash is because it doesn't have the processing power.
You're telling me it can have the power needed to do something like this - analyze an image for text, decode it, put sentences together, translate, match the most appropriate font and colours, scrub the original text, render the new text at the appropriate angle and position - but not to play Flash movies. I call bullshit.
I always try and watch Bill Maher's Real Time online (and overtime on his website), though as far as I'm aware it's not syndicated over here. Shame because it's the most witty and sharp political commentary they US has, IMHO.
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I think this argument is utter crap. Wikileaks offered an unedited version of Collateral Murder, and what they did edit they did to clarify things and in my opinion they didn't distort the content in any significant way.
Other documents they have edited have been to remove people's names and they'd have gotten more criticism if they hadn't done it.
Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos.
But the fact that Homer tends to get rewarded for his idiocy is a pretty shitty message to send out. I recall that in the really early Simpsons eps, Homer was genuinely scared of Burns, and his life was pretty miserable punctuated with the odd solace from Marge being nice to him. Now, everyone treats him with respect despite the fact that he's a selfish jerk. Kinda sadly reflects the way some parts of America are.
The Status-4-Evar addon doesn't give you the same look and feel of the FF3 status bar, and the addon bar has a frigging close button on it. I don't want my status bar to have a close button.
Just to give my totally random opinion on FF4, I'm mostly ok with it apart from 2 things.
1) The lack of a status bar. You either love it or hate it, I hate it. I have a high resolution and I want functionality more than about 10px extra real estate.
2) The default theme. WTF? It's ugly black-and-white, the FF3 theme is a million times nicer and more colourful. The first thing I'll have to do with any FF4 install is go grab a decent theme.
But we still have some EU governments who might prosecute them because they aren't in the pockets of big business. Sorry US, but yours is.
I'm a complete novice here, but can't you install Android on such a device from scratch? I know it's impractical for most users, but is there something fundamentally stopping you from wiping the stock OS and installing FroYo yourself?
You know, we complained endlessly when Microsoft fragmented the web user experience for years...why are some of us giving Mozilla and Google a free pass when, however noble the motivation, they are trying to do the same thing?
I always said they should've specified a baseline codec in the HTML5 standard that had to be supported for the video tag. At least then there would be ONE thing that people had to support or be called out as breaking the standard.
What about what's been happening in Abu Gharib?
the Swedish legal system has a fairly good reputation individually and rape is a crime over here (although some of the allegations would only be classed as sexual assault, and some as just being a bit of a pillock, the latter of which isn't usually illegal).
How do ANY of the charges against assange count as rape or sexual assault? As far as I knew, the only reasons these women even have a case is because Sweden's law allows women to retrospectively classify consentual sex as rape.
It's locked into the Microsoft App Store. All the lock-in of the iPhone. In my book this is a MASSIVE strike against WP7, to the point of my not even considering it.
Oddly enough, "thee, thy, thine" were becoming offensive words (too familiar) in Shakespeare's time, and the language itself changed to subsitiute "you"-based words.
Yep, and nowadays English has lost the distinction between 'familiar' you and 'formal' you, which French hasn't. Thanks, censorship - you really helped us there.
per say
Was that intended to be ironic or do you take genuine offence to 'se'?
Why did Nick Clegg cross the road?
Because he said he wouldn't.
Yep.
And 'renewable energy'. What's renewable about it?
Personally, I'll gladly pay for my gas and beer costs to march on Washington, as soon as a big enough march is organized. For now our job is getting the next door neighbor concerned, bringing this to "main street". Make it applicable to them, in a subtle non-trollish manner (haha). The one thing that can save America, or any other nation who is driven by the will of it's citizens, is to educate and make the issues tangible, clear-cut.
Trouble is, that's already in the process of happening. It's called The Tea Party. The government 'by the people, of the people' of today would manage to be WORSE than what you have now... unless the stupid half of America dropped dead tomorrow. Could we engineer some kind of IQ-based virus?
There are some things MasterCard doesn't want you to buy.
For everything else, there's MasterCard.
I see you haven't gotten over your infantile and pathetic name-calling. Maybe you mgiht want look into that if you ever want people to take you seriously, because right now you come across as an arrogant jerk.
If that's in your manifesto, then I guess it's changed beyond the strict limits it used to have. Looks like you decided to expand it like I always said was the way to go. Well done for belatedly discovering that.
What does this have to do with the Pirate movement? It's outside your core areas of copyright and patents. Your 'MPs' are supposed to take a completely unpredictable stance on anything else.
What would be far more effective is letting North Korea know that if they nuke Seoul or Tokyo, we will nuke every bunker their leadership might hide in. Maybe release satellite photos of said bunkers showing that we know where they'll be hiding if the bombs start flying, and intimating that those safe havens will not be safe for very long in a nuclear war. Make it a personal threat instead, such that self-preservation becomes a major factor.
Trouble is, Kim might have looked at the US's hunting down of Osama bin Laden and concluded that the US are about as good at hunting down their prey as Wile E. Coyote.
... when he says that one of the reasons the iPhone won't run Flash is because it doesn't have the processing power.
You're telling me it can have the power needed to do something like this - analyze an image for text, decode it, put sentences together, translate, match the most appropriate font and colours, scrub the original text, render the new text at the appropriate angle and position - but not to play Flash movies. I call bullshit.
Actually, not is an unstressed variant of nought.
Anyone that would 100% oppose someone should be analyzed as well.
What is not to oppose about Glenn Beck?
I always try and watch Bill Maher's Real Time online (and overtime on his website), though as far as I'm aware it's not syndicated over here. Shame because it's the most witty and sharp political commentary they US has, IMHO.
When I go to the toilet, I usually wash my hands BEFORE touching my penis with them. I'm still rather attached to my penis :).
If you're touching toilets with your penis, you're doing something wrong.
In fact, which toilets do you go to? I must avoid them.
PSA: Don't drink the water, you don't know where its electrons have been!
Stop stealing slogans from homeopathy!