He's also facing a bit of a problem from Macs: new Mac software is requiring new Mac hardware
I call bullshit. The requirements for proapps like Logic and Final Cut Studio are are an Intel-based Mac with 2 gigs or more ram recommended.
If your friend has expansion cards, that means either a Mac Pro or an Xserve, the only Macs with expansion slots. The Mac Pro and the Intel XServe were released in 2006. 2006 is not "new".
Because the technology wasn't up to at the time, that's why. It was the same with flash storage until the price/capacity became competitive with HDD based mp3 players.
AllOfMP3 maintained that it can operate under existing Russian laws that are intended to cover radio broadcasts, which was always a rather dubious assertion.
Serves the RIAA right, since the entire recording industry is itself based on piracy, as is the movie industry.
A year ago, the common wisdom -- particularly on towards the right side of the political spectrum -- was that environmental concerns are just handwringing by whacko liberal moonbats
Sure, there's even a name for such people: idiots. MMS was known to be a cesspool in 2008, and not only have the risks of offshore drilling been known for a long time, but we've had other such accidents, though in shallower waters.
Seriously, in your second to last paragraph you start out by saying the right is stupid for criticizing Obama, and then go on to criticize him yourself.
Because those on the right are fucking idiots, that's why. Those on the left are pissed that Obama has left BP in charge of the response effort, that Obama is continuing Bush's wars, that Obama is continuing Bush's abuses of executive power, and pissed that his policies consistently place a higher priority on Wall Street profits than the well being of the working class.
Whereas the right whines about concentration camps, socialism/communism, and started off Obama's presidency by protesting taxes right after Obama actually made good on one of his campaign promises and pushed for a tax cut on the middle class. And then spent the next few months parading around with signs like "keep your government hands off my medicare".
The U.S. has established a nice little track record of abducting people far away from any battlefields and "holding them for questioning for 8 years and counting". And on what planet would it make sense to risk the comparatively lesser ordeal of being arrested, prosecuted, and spending the next few years in jail while the case works it's way through the courts?
None of these dictators could have been/can be removed from office without the use of force
Pretty much all of the dictators on your list came to power as the result of war. So your list is kind of...pointless. And one, Ahmadinejad, isn't even close to be a dictator - he's a figurehead for the clerics that hold the actual power.
when you articulate something moderate, the far left sees that what you are saying is to the right of them, they project their fears onto what you are saying, and therefore lash out at you for being far right
What "far left" are you speaking of? You know Barack Obama makes Nixon look like a hippie, right?
It's perfectly possible for the U.S. to intervene in situations like the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide, or Sudan while also staying the hell out of Iraq.
By teasing over the alleged videos and documents, he's shifting the focus of attention to himself and how he's treated by the US.
So. Fucking. What?
I'm amazed you have sufficient brainpower to keep your lungs functioning. How is this relevant? Only that:
1. He runs the site and is being harassed by the Australian and U.S. governments 2. The U.S. has kidnapped people far from any actual battlefield 3....and kept those people in prison years after the government knew they were innocent 4. You don't see the relevance in a whistleblowing site facing animosity from the subjects of it's whistleblowing?
The U.S. has established a nice record of kidnapping people far from any battlefield, and shipping them off to Gitmo or Bagram Prison for 8 years, with a possible flyover in Syria for a few months of torture. The U.S. government has used sensory deprivation torture on and authorized assassinations for U.S. citizens.
If you're on the shit list of the U.S. military/intelligence establishment, you'd be a fool not to say far, far, far, far away as possible.
Hm, maybe. It's certainly legitimate to object to the ill-chosen, ad hoc terminology that clashes with the existing meaning of the phrase. It's also legitimate to quibble over the enormous amount of wiggle room in the definition. Apple wasn't lying, but they were making claims without a great deal of actual substance. People get fed up with Apple's constant hyperbole, especially when the product in question is, in the end, a PDA with a larger than usual screen.
Isn't that just a long winded way of saying "well, you were right on your claims after all, but I'm still going to hold it against you rather than admit that I was wrong in my rush to judgment."
Garbage. American citzens have not just been threatened with deportation on the suspicion that they look mexican, but that it's actually happened. And if this Arizona law isn't struck down, this will be a regular occurrence.
Tell me, am I the only one who views yellow lights as a "stop if possible, proceed if committed" sign rather than a "light's about to change, hurry up!" signal?
Boy, I hope so. Yellow doesn't mean "stop if possible", it means clear the intersection.
Notice the massive number of new traffic laws passed recently? When local governments are hurting for cash they just beat the "safety" drum and pass a bunch of new fines.
For which you can than Republicans and other anti-tax zealots. You vote to limit necessary revenue, your state and local governments will start looking to raise money by other means - like sin taxes (what most traffic tickets actually are).
If the speed limit is 50, it was set there for a reason.
And usually that reason is arbitrary zoning, not how fast you can drive safely. Two local examples:
There's an interstate highway running through my town, and an interchange was recently completed, with a divided 4 lane street going over the highway. On the north side of the interchange, there's an elementary school, houses and apartment buildings. On the south side, nothing has been built yet. There is literally nothing around for miles - except for back the way you came.
And yet the speed limit is set at 35 for the entire length of the street. How does that make any sense whatsoever? On one side you have kids crossing the street to go to school, and on the other there's still farmland as far as the eye can see - the speed limit could easily be 70 mph instead of 35 mph.
A few miles away, there's a rural highway with a 55 mph limit that forms a T intersection with another street, and the speed limit drops down to 45 mph. Except that other street is currently being converted from 2 lanes to 4, and is totally impassable. Not only is the speed limit still 45 mph, but they haven't turned off the stoplight at the intersection!
People justifiably bitch about speeding tickets because:
1. Limits are seldom based on safety, and usually on arbitrary zoning 2. Limits can be set deliberately low on purpose, in order to rack up more tickets 3. Which means that most speeding tickets aren't about safety, they're a sin tax
I do, however, enjoy listening to anti-all-taxes Republicans bitch about speeding tickets, though. Vote to deny your state and local governments necessary funding, and they will look to other sources....like speeding tickets.
The web browser, NetFront 3.1, was above par at the time.
"At the time" was still the cat's ass, though - that's like saying a sandwich filled with rotting fish is great because the alternative is a sandwich filled with shit. And there's still the whole touchscreen thing.
I still use it to check movie times, research Pubmed and Wikipedia, download pdfs and docs, upload docs, check my student timetable and download lecture notes, and browse Fark, Reddit, and news sites -- all on the go obviously.
And I can do the same from my LG Touch. But a pleasant experience it isn't.
I fail to see your point? I'm not claiming it isn't a PalmOS device or that it had multi-touch function... parent poster was claiming 320x480 screens in mobile devices were introduced by Apple.
It's because everyone is focusing on the screen resolution or arguing that other browsers had web browsers before that. But that's a selective reading of his original argument:
the main characteristics of which are a ~3.5" touch display at 320x480 and a very good web browser
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He's also facing a bit of a problem from Macs: new Mac software is requiring new Mac hardware
I call bullshit. The requirements for proapps like Logic and Final Cut Studio are are an Intel-based Mac with 2 gigs or more ram recommended.
If your friend has expansion cards, that means either a Mac Pro or an Xserve, the only Macs with expansion slots. The Mac Pro and the Intel XServe were released in 2006. 2006 is not "new".
Because the technology wasn't up to at the time, that's why. It was the same with flash storage until the price/capacity became competitive with HDD based mp3 players.
AllOfMP3 maintained that it can operate under existing Russian laws that are intended to cover radio broadcasts, which was always a rather dubious assertion.
Serves the RIAA right, since the entire recording industry is itself based on piracy, as is the movie industry.
Sure, there's even a name for such people: idiots. MMS was known to be a cesspool in 2008, and not only have the risks of offshore drilling been known for a long time, but we've had other such accidents, though in shallower waters.
Because those on the right are fucking idiots, that's why. Those on the left are pissed that Obama has left BP in charge of the response effort, that Obama is continuing Bush's wars, that Obama is continuing Bush's abuses of executive power, and pissed that his policies consistently place a higher priority on Wall Street profits than the well being of the working class.
Whereas the right whines about concentration camps, socialism/communism, and started off Obama's presidency by protesting taxes right after Obama actually made good on one of his campaign promises and pushed for a tax cut on the middle class. And then spent the next few months parading around with signs like "keep your government hands off my medicare".
The U.S. has established a nice little track record of abducting people far away from any battlefields and "holding them for questioning for 8 years and counting". And on what planet would it make sense to risk the comparatively lesser ordeal of being arrested, prosecuted, and spending the next few years in jail while the case works it's way through the courts?
He's just an attention whore with no limits.
You're just drinking the Hatorade while engaging in a bunch of substance-free hand waiving.
Ask Kim Jung Il 'pretty please' and he'll stop trying to get a nuke?
Um, they already have nukes.
Ask Ahmadinejad to 'pretty please' not threaten to drive the jews burning bodies into the ocean and he'll somehow find compassion?
Except he's never talked about doing anything of the kind.
None of these dictators could have been/can be removed from office without the use of force
Pretty much all of the dictators on your list came to power as the result of war. So your list is kind of...pointless. And one, Ahmadinejad, isn't even close to be a dictator - he's a figurehead for the clerics that hold the actual power.
What "far left" are you speaking of? You know Barack Obama makes Nixon look like a hippie, right?
It's perfectly possible for the U.S. to intervene in situations like the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide, or Sudan while also staying the hell out of Iraq.
Shocking, I know.
Only that I'm sick of hearing about how our military is so evil, and giving a complete pass to barbarism of anyone not in our military.
Um, what? Our tax dollars aren't going to fund any of the barbarisms you're speaking of. Just how stupid are you, really?
The last video left out a few key details
Not relevant details.
and was edited ala Michael Moore style to make a point rather than present all the facts
Translation: Michael Moore and Wikileaks should do the work of proving their critics points for them in advance.
I'm amazed you have sufficient brainpower to keep your lungs functioning. How is this relevant? Only that:
1. He runs the site and is being harassed by the Australian and U.S. governments ...and kept those people in prison years after the government knew they were innocent
2. The U.S. has kidnapped people far from any actual battlefield
3.
4. You don't see the relevance in a whistleblowing site facing animosity from the subjects of it's whistleblowing?
You. Fucking. Dumbass.
The U.S. has established a nice record of kidnapping people far from any battlefield, and shipping them off to Gitmo or Bagram Prison for 8 years, with a possible flyover in Syria for a few months of torture. The U.S. government has used sensory deprivation torture on and authorized assassinations for U.S. citizens.
If you're on the shit list of the U.S. military/intelligence establishment, you'd be a fool not to say far, far, far, far away as possible.
No. What's "childish and dishonest" is continuing to harp on someone for misstating their case after their case has been shown to be true.
Stop drinking the Hatorade.
Isn't that just a long winded way of saying "well, you were right on your claims after all, but I'm still going to hold it against you rather than admit that I was wrong in my rush to judgment."
See, and then you blame those rear-ends on cameras...
Of course. Because people slam on their brakes rather than on focusing on clearing the intersection.
Wouldn't that logically include not entering it in the first place?
No. Next question?
Garbage. American citzens have not just been threatened with deportation on the suspicion that they look mexican, but that it's actually happened. And if this Arizona law isn't struck down, this will be a regular occurrence.
But nice try at hand waving.
Liar.
Boy, I hope so. Yellow doesn't mean "stop if possible", it means clear the intersection.
For which you can than Republicans and other anti-tax zealots. You vote to limit necessary revenue, your state and local governments will start looking to raise money by other means - like sin taxes (what most traffic tickets actually are).
If the speed limit is 50, it was set there for a reason.
And usually that reason is arbitrary zoning, not how fast you can drive safely. Two local examples:
There's an interstate highway running through my town, and an interchange was recently completed, with a divided 4 lane street going over the highway. On the north side of the interchange, there's an elementary school, houses and apartment buildings. On the south side, nothing has been built yet. There is literally nothing around for miles - except for back the way you came.
And yet the speed limit is set at 35 for the entire length of the street. How does that make any sense whatsoever? On one side you have kids crossing the street to go to school, and on the other there's still farmland as far as the eye can see - the speed limit could easily be 70 mph instead of 35 mph.
A few miles away, there's a rural highway with a 55 mph limit that forms a T intersection with another street, and the speed limit drops down to 45 mph. Except that other street is currently being converted from 2 lanes to 4, and is totally impassable. Not only is the speed limit still 45 mph, but they haven't turned off the stoplight at the intersection!
People justifiably bitch about speeding tickets because:
1. Limits are seldom based on safety, and usually on arbitrary zoning
2. Limits can be set deliberately low on purpose, in order to rack up more tickets
3. Which means that most speeding tickets aren't about safety, they're a sin tax
I do, however, enjoy listening to anti-all-taxes Republicans bitch about speeding tickets, though. Vote to deny your state and local governments necessary funding, and they will look to other sources....like speeding tickets.
"At the time" was still the cat's ass, though - that's like saying a sandwich filled with rotting fish is great because the alternative is a sandwich filled with shit. And there's still the whole touchscreen thing.
And I can do the same from my LG Touch. But a pleasant experience it isn't.
It's because everyone is focusing on the screen resolution or arguing that other browsers had web browsers before that. But that's a selective reading of his original argument: