And what percentage of end-users do their own repairs? And by end-users, I don't mean slashdot posters... I mean the general public-at-large. For that matter, what percentage of end-users has ever opened up their laptop's case for any reason besides a simple RAM upgrade? What percentage even bother to do that? I bet all of those percentages are very small. And I bet Apple did the market research to get solid numbers and took those into account with their design decisions.
People who have the ability and inclination to take apart and repair their own laptop are an almost vanishingly small minority. They are not, and should not be, the market for whom a product is targeted.
If he did not rape those women, then he's got a corrupt government and police force on a witch hunt, trying to frame him far a crime he didn't commit. Presumably, this is being done by Sweden at the behest of the US government, which wants his head served up on a platter. Why anyone surrender himself to that situation. It's not like he'd get anything resembling a fair trial, in Sweden, or here after the inevitable rendition.Â
If he DID rape those women, then he really is a scumbag of scumbags, every bit as bad... worse... as the republicans here make him out to be. Why would you expect that a lowlife like that would have even a sliver of honor? And every second he dodges extradition is another second he dodges justice and if free to rape again.Â
Innocent *or* guilty, his circumstances don't exactly favor surrender.
> you should come up with an example that doesn't > involve a company lazily duplicating 25 details of a > competitor's design.
Well, there is Windows Phone 7 and the Nokia Lumia. And while I don't personally care for either, their approach is fairly fresh and distinctive and, unlike the galaxy, does not slavishly imitate the iPhone.
Oh wait. Apple's not suing Microsoft and Nokia over WP7 and the Lumia, are they?
Sorry bub. But Arizona doesn't get to overrule federal immigration law. That's what the recent SCOTUS bitchslap was about. *NO* state-issed driver's license establishes both both identity and immigration status! Did you even bother to read my link? It's right there in black-and -white. Have you ever had a legitimate job? You would have had to fill out an I-9 and provide appropriate identification if you had.
Go ahead... shred your passport and social security card and take your precious arizona driver's license and try to use it to show citizenship on an I-9 or at a border crossing. I'll bring the popcorn, watch, and laugh.
You people may think you're a law unto yourselves. But you're not.
A state driver's license is NOT proof of citizenship or residence, only identity. To demonstrate both, you need a passport, green card, or one of a few others. But no state-issued ID is adequate. That's one of the big dangers here. The vast majority of Americans don't carry their passports with them as a matter of routine; just a driver's license. Sheriff joe is, no doubt, salivating with glee at all the ways he abuse the situation.
Most people in the US only routinely carry their driver's license as ID. A driver'd licenses are state-issued, not federal. As such, they're adequate for proving identity, but NOT citizenship or legal residence. To demonstrate both you need a passport (I certainly don't carry *mine* when I'm not traveling.) or an I-551 (green card). There are a couple of other docs that'll do but those are the biggies. (See the back of the I-9 form for the table.)
So yeah, drive through in Arizona while brown, and despite being a natural-born citizen with perfectly valid ID, and you chance being detained as an illegal.
So what exactly do you think a child who is being brought into the US illegally by his/her parents should do in their situation? Run away? Snitch on their own parents? What if they're too young at the time to even be aware of the illegality of their crossing, or it's repercussions? Hell, some of those kids don't even know they're here illegally until the government launches into a deportation.
And then what? They're supposed to go back to a country where they have no ties, may not remember, and may not even speak the language? Leave the only home they've ever known because of something their *parents* did when they were children?
You people are just sick. Whatever one might think the policy should be on adults who cross the border illegally; to oppose the Dream Act, or its replication in Obama's recent directive, isn't just morally repugnant. It's inhuman and sadistic.
> I don't see Coke suing Pepsi over the shape of their bottle.
You don't see Coke suing Pepsi over the shape of their bottle *headlined on slashdot* because slashdot is a us-centric tech news site which seldom features news about the sugared-water industry and because Pepsi has already been throughly slapped down in the US on the matter.
The only difference is that this is less common in tech because until very recently, few people in the tech industry though design was important, the mainstream tech crowd liked to denigrate those who did, and large swaths of the tech crowd has had a preconceived "Let's find a reason, any reason, to mindlessly bash Apple." bias pretty much as long as Apple has been in business.
But like I said, outside of tech, trademarks, trade dress, and design patents have always been part of business as usual.
And just like Coke isn't trying to sue every manufacturer of sugared water everywhere, just the ones that shamelessly imitate its protected designs; Apple is not suing every cellphone manufacturer over every cellphone. They're just going after the specific manufacturers and specific models that bear an uncanny resemblance to the iPhone.
Wait, If Ix could have built fold-ships that didn't need spice and navigators, how did Leto manage to take over the whole damn galaxy then? If it were possible, *I* would certainly think it preferable to tell Leto to take his spice and stick it in his ear and use computers for navigation than deal with 3000 years of half-man half-worm god-emperor.
Disclaimer: I was told by someone whose opinion I trust that the various prequels and sequels written by Herbert's offspring and hangers-on were utterly terrible and never got around to reading them. Hell, by God Emperor, even the genuine article was really starting to drag.
The United Stated *DID* sign the Kyopto Treaty... while Clinton was president.
Then George dubya took office. And he never particularly cared for things like the notion that international treaties and obligations (or, for that matter, our own Constitution) should constrain him from doing anything he damn well pleased.
Oh, it's even more brilliant than just turning a profit. By selling the HDB flats, even at subsidized prices, to the poor, instead of just letting them live there or subsidizing rentals like we do here with Section 8 housing, Singapore is giving the poor an actual ownership stake in their homes AND giving them the opportunity to build personal and family equity.
So, unlike public housing here, the residents have an incentive to take care of the place and build community; instead of trashing them and letting the neighborhood go to hell like it does here in the US when a public housing project or block of Section 8 units is added to an area.
Likewise, when Singapore adds public housing, they make sure it is served by mass transit and they build neighborhood services (Shops, doctor/dentist offices, schools, hawker centers, etc.) on-site, or at least within a short walk or train ride. The benefit of this is fairly obvious.
That's all not to say that they don't have their haves and have-nots. But they don't have the cycle of abject poverty we do in places like East Oakland, South Central LA, or rural Appalachia.
It's more likely that this was already in progress, or at least already planned out and ready to begin purchasing and deployment, when microsoft set their fangs into Skype. The timing doesn't really work out for a complete overhaul to be proposed, planned, designed, purchased, and deployed in the timeframe since the acquisition. So they probably just let the Skype team see the in-progress work through to completion.
I don't think there can be any doubt that the next upgrade of the Skype infrastructure will see a switch to windows though. See, for example, the Hotmail acquisition. They want windows running on everything, everywhere, and with no exceptions or competitors allowed.
I think you may be seeing bias where simple demographics are at play.
Where I work, my group has eight people when we're fully staffed. When we have an opening to fill and HR starts sending us resumes of potential hires, perhaps one candidate in fifteen is female. So with all other things equal and assuming no gender bias at all, simple percentages result in our department being all male the vast bulk of the time.
Hell, even if we were to purposely decide we specifically wanted to fill a slot with a female, we can't very well hire candidates who don't apply.
Who cares what some bureaucrat wrote in some city policy? If what Glik, and people like him, were doing was not, in fact, against the law; then the cops were 100% out of line in even speaking to him, much less arresting him. And they should be facing catastrophic civil and even criminal penalties of their own.
How the heck does anyone figure that policy overrides the law?
It's not as if ANY of the supposedly "4g" devices on the market really meet the 4g spec. (The real 4g spec... before the carriers shoveled a bunch of money into the pockets whoever at the ITU made the call to change the rule so that that LTE and HSPA+ qualify.)
Oh, that's right. We're talking about Apple. And anything Apple does is uniquely evil and must be punished top the exclusion of all others; no matter that it's common practice in the entire industry.
Even being fired, they would have been let off too easy. At the very minimum, that $170K should have come out of the officers' assets and future earnings; not from the taxpayers.
I'd even say that when the cops decide to make up false offenses and arrest people for them like this, the cops involved should, themselves, be facing jail time.
1) They actually bother to follow their published schedule. 2) Said schedule is structured in such a way that it takes no longer than 20% longer to get anywhere I need to go, any time I need to get there, than it does now by car. 3) They're scheduled with such frequency that there will always be room to comfortably get on board with two bags of groceries. 4) They get rid of all of the graffiti, mysterious liquids and smells, and the general trouble causing riffraff.... I'll be happy to give up my car.
Actually, I do mostly believe in the transit-first concept. And I'd like to not have to own or drive a car. And I do commute to and from work daily on MUNI. But the sacks of lazy and incompetent crap that populate both the ranks of its administration and drivers/operators make it more or useless for anything in the evenings or on the weekends. So when what would be an easy 15-minute drive is no longer an hour-long expedition on MUNI, I'll get back to the notion of giving up my car. Until then, it fills a need for which there is simply not a viable replacement.
Oh... Don't forget Willie Brown's most ridiculous "gift" to the city: Mission Bay and that ridiculous T-Third rail line.
God forbid he actually put his new light rail line where it'd actually do some good and take people somewhere worth going... like on Geary Street as a replacement for the always-overcrowded and never-ontime 38. Nope, he wanted Mission Bay to be his "legacy" to the city; so we get saddled with a boondoggle of a rail line down third that doesn't go to Candlestick and stops before the Cow Palace... basically not going anywhere worth going.
Sigh. Sometimes I wonder how I can love a city that's so dysfunctional as much as I do.
I hate it when people repeat doublespeak like: "the complexities of constitutional law", and so forth. What I think a lot of people forget is that many of the founding fathers were, themselves, lawyers. It seems obvious that if they had intended for that document to be by lawyers and for lawyers, they were more than capable of writing it in incomprehensible (to a normal human being) legalese.
The fact that they wrote the constitution in plain and simple english says to me that it is a document meant to be read and understood by the common people. And that phrases like "shall make no law", "no warrants shall be issued", and "shall not be violated" really do mean what they say. And in the plain and simple english in which the founding fathers chose to write the constitution, those are fairly simple booleans.
So yes. Every single individual TSA minion, who chose to take up a career of violating the rights of the people without probable cause, is also at fault. Maybe they're not guilty to the same degree as the politicians who hired them. But they still made the choice to be where they are and do what they do. And that makes them contemptible loathsome scum who deserve any unpleasantness that the people can find to inflict upon them.
According to averagesalarysurvey.com, the median income here in the US is $46,300. And the median income in the EU (Well... I'm assuming bit. But you did use the â in a previous post.) is â38,000 which converts to $49,605 at the current exchange rate; a somewhat higher income, actually.
Now, I know that taxes are higher in Europe so your actual take-home is probably lower. But you do get services for those taxes (better schools, public health care, mass transit that actually works) that are inadequate, for-pay, or entirely unavailable here.
If I recall my history correctly though, Henry Ford deliberately priced the Model T and such below what the market would bear AND overpaid his own workers so as to make sure they had enough disposable income to buy one and to drive up average wages in general so other companies' employees did as well.
Tesla makes cool toys, no doubt. But are they engaging in the economy-as-a-whole building exercises that Ford did?
I'm sure that same argument has been made by some pundit by just about EVERY advance in military technology that served to keep one side's troops somewhat less in harm's way than the other's.
When the U-Boat and torpedoes came about, the Admiralty condemned them as cowardly, illegal, and: "A damn un-English way to fight a war." But now just about every navy includes extensive submarine capabilities.
Firing an artillery shell at a target that's beyond your horizon also removes one side from a certain amount of harm that they hope to inflict on the other side... until both sides adopt artillery; which has been done by every army in the world.
The same could even have been said about line-of-sight firearms when they were introcuded. But every military force uses them now.
Heck... I bet that back when the English first started carrying longbows, some clergyman was there to pontificate about the ethics of firing arrows into the French from afar instead of plodding up and hacking at them with a sword.
The only difference is that, this time, we deployed drones first and have the temporary advantage; like the English did with the longbow and the Germans did with the U-Boat. Give it a couple of decades and EVERY military will use drones as extensively as we do. And that could very well dramatically *reduce* the human cost of war... drones fighting other drones.
Yes. The common idiom is a complete misunderstanding of a concept based on a mistranslation from ancient latin legal terminology. It has no more place in modern discussion than begging the question, an appeal to authority, or any other logical fallacy.
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And what percentage of end-users do their own repairs? And by end-users, I don't mean slashdot posters... I mean the general public-at-large. For that matter, what percentage of end-users has ever opened up their laptop's case for any reason besides a simple RAM upgrade? What percentage even bother to do that? I bet all of those percentages are very small. And I bet Apple did the market research to get solid numbers and took those into account with their design decisions.
People who have the ability and inclination to take apart and repair their own laptop are an almost vanishingly small minority. They are not, and should not be, the market for whom a product is targeted.
Look at it from HIS point of view though.
If he did not rape those women, then he's got a corrupt government and police force on a witch hunt, trying to frame him far a crime he didn't commit. Presumably, this is being done by Sweden at the behest of the US government, which wants his head served up on a platter. Why anyone surrender himself to that situation. It's not like he'd get anything resembling a fair trial, in Sweden, or here after the inevitable rendition.Â
If he DID rape those women, then he really is a scumbag of scumbags, every bit as bad... worse... as the republicans here make him out to be. Why would you expect that a lowlife like that would have even a sliver of honor? And every second he dodges extradition is another second he dodges justice and if free to rape again.Â
Innocent *or* guilty, his circumstances don't exactly favor surrender.
> you should come up with an example that doesn't
> involve a company lazily duplicating 25 details of a
> competitor's design.
Well, there is Windows Phone 7 and the Nokia Lumia. And while I don't personally care for either, their approach is fairly fresh and distinctive and, unlike the galaxy, does not slavishly imitate the iPhone.
Oh wait. Apple's not suing Microsoft and Nokia over WP7 and the Lumia, are they?
Sorry bub. But Arizona doesn't get to overrule federal immigration law. That's what the recent SCOTUS bitchslap was about. *NO* state-issed driver's license establishes both both identity and immigration status! Did you even bother to read my link? It's right there in black-and -white. Have you ever had a legitimate job? You would have had to fill out an I-9 and provide appropriate identification if you had.
Go ahead... shred your passport and social security card and take your precious arizona driver's license and try to use it to show citizenship on an I-9 or at a border crossing. I'll bring the popcorn, watch, and laugh.
You people may think you're a law unto yourselves. But you're not.
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf
A state driver's license is NOT proof of citizenship or residence, only identity. To demonstrate both, you need a passport, green card, or one of a few others. But no state-issued ID is adequate. That's one of the big dangers here. The vast majority of Americans don't carry their passports with them as a matter of routine; just a driver's license. Sheriff joe is, no doubt, salivating with glee at all the ways he abuse the situation.
Most people in the US only routinely carry their driver's license as ID. A driver'd licenses are state-issued, not federal. As such, they're adequate for proving identity, but NOT citizenship or legal residence. To demonstrate both you need a passport (I certainly don't carry *mine* when I'm not traveling.) or an I-551 (green card). There are a couple of other docs that'll do but those are the biggies. (See the back of the I-9 form for the table.)
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf
So yeah, drive through in Arizona while brown, and despite being a natural-born citizen with perfectly valid ID, and you chance being detained as an illegal.
> What about Obama's Immigration Directive ?
So what exactly do you think a child who is being brought into the US illegally by his/her parents should do in their situation? Run away? Snitch on their own parents? What if they're too young at the time to even be aware of the illegality of their crossing, or it's repercussions? Hell, some of those kids don't even know they're here illegally until the government launches into a deportation.
And then what? They're supposed to go back to a country where they have no ties, may not remember, and may not even speak the language? Leave the only home they've ever known because of something their *parents* did when they were children?
You people are just sick. Whatever one might think the policy should be on adults who cross the border illegally; to oppose the Dream Act, or its replication in Obama's recent directive, isn't just morally repugnant. It's inhuman and sadistic.
> I don't see Coke suing Pepsi over the shape of their bottle.
You don't see Coke suing Pepsi over the shape of their bottle *headlined on slashdot* because slashdot is a us-centric tech news site which seldom features news about the sugared-water industry and because Pepsi has already been throughly slapped down in the US on the matter.
Worldwide, however, it's a different story. To this day, in other jurisdictions Pepsi continues to try to glom onto Coke's designs:
http://ipwars.com/2010/10/22/coke-pepsi-and-the-shape-of-the-bottle/
And Coke continues to work, in those jurisdictions, to stop them.
http://class-99.blogspot.com/2010/10/real-thing-coke-sues-pepsi-over-bottle.html
http://www.managingip.com/Article/1450469/How-Coca-Cola-protects-its-rights-in-Asia.html?Print=true
The only difference is that this is less common in tech because until very recently, few people in the tech industry though design was important, the mainstream tech crowd liked to denigrate those who did, and large swaths of the tech crowd has had a preconceived "Let's find a reason, any reason, to mindlessly bash Apple." bias pretty much as long as Apple has been in business.
But like I said, outside of tech, trademarks, trade dress, and design patents have always been part of business as usual.
And just like Coke isn't trying to sue every manufacturer of sugared water everywhere, just the ones that shamelessly imitate its protected designs; Apple is not suing every cellphone manufacturer over every cellphone. They're just going after the specific manufacturers and specific models that bear an uncanny resemblance to the iPhone.
Wait, If Ix could have built fold-ships that didn't need spice and navigators, how did Leto manage to take over the whole damn galaxy then? If it were possible, *I* would certainly think it preferable to tell Leto to take his spice and stick it in his ear and use computers for navigation than deal with 3000 years of half-man half-worm god-emperor.
Disclaimer: I was told by someone whose opinion I trust that the various prequels and sequels written by Herbert's offspring and hangers-on were utterly terrible and never got around to reading them. Hell, by God Emperor, even the genuine article was really starting to drag.
eh?
The United Stated *DID* sign the Kyopto Treaty... while Clinton was president.
Then George dubya took office. And he never particularly cared for things like the notion that international treaties and obligations (or, for that matter, our own Constitution) should constrain him from doing anything he damn well pleased.
Oh, it's even more brilliant than just turning a profit. By selling the HDB flats, even at subsidized prices, to the poor, instead of just letting them live there or subsidizing rentals like we do here with Section 8 housing, Singapore is giving the poor an actual ownership stake in their homes AND giving them the opportunity to build personal and family equity.
So, unlike public housing here, the residents have an incentive to take care of the place and build community; instead of trashing them and letting the neighborhood go to hell like it does here in the US when a public housing project or block of Section 8 units is added to an area.
Likewise, when Singapore adds public housing, they make sure it is served by mass transit and they build neighborhood services (Shops, doctor/dentist offices, schools, hawker centers, etc.) on-site, or at least within a short walk or train ride. The benefit of this is fairly obvious.
That's all not to say that they don't have their haves and have-nots. But they don't have the cycle of abject poverty we do in places like East Oakland, South Central LA, or rural Appalachia.
It's more likely that this was already in progress, or at least already planned out and ready to begin purchasing and deployment, when microsoft set their fangs into Skype. The timing doesn't really work out for a complete overhaul to be proposed, planned, designed, purchased, and deployed in the timeframe since the acquisition. So they probably just let the Skype team see the in-progress work through to completion.
I don't think there can be any doubt that the next upgrade of the Skype infrastructure will see a switch to windows though. See, for example, the Hotmail acquisition. They want windows running on everything, everywhere, and with no exceptions or competitors allowed.
I think you may be seeing bias where simple demographics are at play.
Where I work, my group has eight people when we're fully staffed. When we have an opening to fill and HR starts sending us resumes of potential hires, perhaps one candidate in fifteen is female. So with all other things equal and assuming no gender bias at all, simple percentages result in our department being all male the vast bulk of the time.
Hell, even if we were to purposely decide we specifically wanted to fill a slot with a female, we can't very well hire candidates who don't apply.
So?
Who cares what some bureaucrat wrote in some city policy? If what Glik, and people like him, were doing was not, in fact, against the law; then the cops were 100% out of line in even speaking to him, much less arresting him. And they should be facing catastrophic civil and even criminal penalties of their own.
How the heck does anyone figure that policy overrides the law?
It's not as if ANY of the supposedly "4g" devices on the market really meet the 4g spec. (The real 4g spec... before the carriers shoveled a bunch of money into the pockets whoever at the ITU made the call to change the rule so that that LTE and HSPA+ qualify.)
Oh, that's right. We're talking about Apple. And anything Apple does is uniquely evil and must be punished top the exclusion of all others; no matter that it's common practice in the entire industry.
Even being fired, they would have been let off too easy. At the very minimum, that $170K should have come out of the officers' assets and future earnings; not from the taxpayers.
I'd even say that when the cops decide to make up false offenses and arrest people for them like this, the cops involved should, themselves, be facing jail time.
Great idea.
Once city hall fixes MUNI so that:
1) They actually bother to follow their published schedule. ... I'll be happy to give up my car.
2) Said schedule is structured in such a way that it takes no longer than 20% longer to get anywhere I need to go, any time I need to get there, than it does now by car.
3) They're scheduled with such frequency that there will always be room to comfortably get on board with two bags of groceries.
4) They get rid of all of the graffiti, mysterious liquids and smells, and the general trouble causing riffraff.
Actually, I do mostly believe in the transit-first concept. And I'd like to not have to own or drive a car. And I do commute to and from work daily on MUNI. But the sacks of lazy and incompetent crap that populate both the ranks of its administration and drivers/operators make it more or useless for anything in the evenings or on the weekends. So when what would be an easy 15-minute drive is no longer an hour-long expedition on MUNI, I'll get back to the notion of giving up my car. Until then, it fills a need for which there is simply not a viable replacement.
Oh... Don't forget Willie Brown's most ridiculous "gift" to the city: Mission Bay and that ridiculous T-Third rail line.
God forbid he actually put his new light rail line where it'd actually do some good and take people somewhere worth going... like on Geary Street as a replacement for the always-overcrowded and never-ontime 38. Nope, he wanted Mission Bay to be his "legacy" to the city; so we get saddled with a boondoggle of a rail line down third that doesn't go to Candlestick and stops before the Cow Palace... basically not going anywhere worth going.
Sigh. Sometimes I wonder how I can love a city that's so dysfunctional as much as I do.
Bingo.
I hate it when people repeat doublespeak like: "the complexities of constitutional law", and so forth. What I think a lot of people forget is that many of the founding fathers were, themselves, lawyers. It seems obvious that if they had intended for that document to be by lawyers and for lawyers, they were more than capable of writing it in incomprehensible (to a normal human being) legalese.
The fact that they wrote the constitution in plain and simple english says to me that it is a document meant to be read and understood by the common people. And that phrases like "shall make no law", "no warrants shall be issued", and "shall not be violated" really do mean what they say. And in the plain and simple english in which the founding fathers chose to write the constitution, those are fairly simple booleans.
So yes. Every single individual TSA minion, who chose to take up a career of violating the rights of the people without probable cause, is also at fault. Maybe they're not guilty to the same degree as the politicians who hired them. But they still made the choice to be where they are and do what they do. And that makes them contemptible loathsome scum who deserve any unpleasantness that the people can find to inflict upon them.
> they'll probably also be of a kind that doesn't
> change color until you've gotten a fatal dose....
Considering who will be wearing them, I have to ask...
So?
Crud. Apparently, what my computer thinks is the symbol for the Euro and what slashdot thinks is the symbol for the Euro do not agree.
6+ times? I think your math is off.
According to averagesalarysurvey.com, the median income here in the US is $46,300. And the median income in the EU (Well... I'm assuming bit. But you did use the â in a previous post.) is â38,000 which converts to $49,605 at the current exchange rate; a somewhat higher income, actually.
Now, I know that taxes are higher in Europe so your actual take-home is probably lower. But you do get services for those taxes (better schools, public health care, mass transit that actually works) that are inadequate, for-pay, or entirely unavailable here.
If I recall my history correctly though, Henry Ford deliberately priced the Model T and such below what the market would bear AND overpaid his own workers so as to make sure they had enough disposable income to buy one and to drive up average wages in general so other companies' employees did as well.
Tesla makes cool toys, no doubt. But are they engaging in the economy-as-a-whole building exercises that Ford did?
You know...
I'm sure that same argument has been made by some pundit by just about EVERY advance in military technology that served to keep one side's troops somewhat less in harm's way than the other's.
When the U-Boat and torpedoes came about, the Admiralty condemned them as cowardly, illegal, and: "A damn un-English way to fight a war." But now just about every navy includes extensive submarine capabilities.
Firing an artillery shell at a target that's beyond your horizon also removes one side from a certain amount of harm that they hope to inflict on the other side... until both sides adopt artillery; which has been done by every army in the world.
The same could even have been said about line-of-sight firearms when they were introcuded. But every military force uses them now.
Heck... I bet that back when the English first started carrying longbows, some clergyman was there to pontificate about the ethics of firing arrows into the French from afar instead of plodding up and hacking at them with a sword.
The only difference is that, this time, we deployed drones first and have the temporary advantage; like the English did with the longbow and the Germans did with the U-Boat. Give it a couple of decades and EVERY military will use drones as extensively as we do. And that could very well dramatically *reduce* the human cost of war... drones fighting other drones.
Yes. The common idiom is a complete misunderstanding of a concept based on a mistranslation from ancient latin legal terminology. It has no more place in modern discussion than begging the question, an appeal to authority, or any other logical fallacy.