There must be a size limit... I for one wondered how something so massive as the original XBOX could even exist. Shouldn't it exceed the Chandrasekhar limit? Perhaps that's it. Perhaps XXBBOOXX don't exist in a form that we can understand. The bloody things may very well have collapsed into singularities that float about the universe, consuming hapless victims, tearing them from reality with their merciless, Stygian flows. Oh noes, I'm feeling the most peculiar draw from the center of my universe...... aiiiieeeeee..............
XXXXBBBBOOOOXXXX Because in here, time has no meaning!
Otherwise, an individual or corporation not barred from receiving patents will appropriate the most valuable publicly funded results - or in this case, the public's DNA itself.
These results took many years to evolve. Why shouldn't the fathers of this research get the credit they deserve?
The iPod should publish it's interfaces so that people can make competing iPod software.
Sony should be forced to reveal all of the hardware interfaces in the PS/3 so that people can make their own add-on devices.
Google should be forced to publish their search engine core to prevent vendor lock-in to Google search. One of these things is not like the others... if you can't figure it out, try google search;p
What? They call it rip-off England for a reason: when calculating import MSRP, all $ -> £ conversions are parity at best. Everyone knows this, and everyone also knows that the English are accustomed to this and very immodestly wary of change.
So as not to incite massive uproar & in the interest of maintaining the public peace, whereas agitators demand slashed prices and veritable economic terrorism, we are working from a 1 USD = 1 GBP golden standard. Also, we broke your shit so that it can't play movies intended for more competitive markets, you dirtyschemingslut. Yeah, you like that, don't you?
Working hard for you, The MPAA in association with the DVD CCA
the price differences and availability differences between iTunes stores for different EU countries constitute a violation of EU competition laws which forbid territorial sales restrictions. And what about DVD zoning, which has been around for years?
Gay marriage has always been banned. It's only recently that it's legal anywhere in the world. Perhaps. However, state constitutional amendments specifically banning gay marriage are new to me. What strikes me and I think most other progressives about these amendments is that they seem to generate the most controversy only every two years.
America is facing many urgent problems from runaway deficit spending to the continual erosion of federal agency responsiveness and even respect for fundamental human rights. Yet certain politicians seem obsessed with gay marriage during election season - the very time when we need to judge them on their positions and history regarding real issues that actually affect America.
In summary, I worry that Americans are extremely susceptible to distraction by highly irrelevant issues and that exploitation of this weakness gravely impacts the quality of their government. I think that we are seeing the results of this poor governance right now in lost jobs and expertise.
either you are intentionally trying to distort the issue, or you were not paying any attention to what world leaders were saying in the buildup to the war. *sigh*. This one has been so thouroughly debunked that I wonder why you mention it. Do you know better? I feel like I'm debating Rush. Yeah, world leaders spouted lies - some unknowingly. What was your point again?
Of course it does. So do traffic laws, or zoning restrictions, or any one of the number of limitations we have accepted in modern society. The concept of a finding a balance between freedom and security is not new, nor is it surprising. What in the world? Yes, zoning laws and the PATRIOT act are both laws. Indeed. However, zoning laws don't infringe upon my fundamental constitutionally guaranteed rights, nor do they authorize the president to fire US Attorneys, secretly arrest citizens, secretly try them in a secret jail with secret evidence for secret crimes. Do you understand what this kind of stuff means? Do you understand how it is different from zoning laws?
Not quite. It has always been legal to fire political appointees such as US Attorneys at any time for any reason. This "obscure" clause in the PATRIOT act only modified the 120 day deadline to have replacements confirmed by the Senate, which has nothing to do with the recent manufactured controversy because it hasn't even been 120 days since the attorneys were fired. This is an outright lie. To wit:
All of the dismissed United States Attorneys were appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate. A key issue in the controversy is the political nature of United States Attorneys' appointments. A 2006 revision of the USA PATRIOT Act amended the United States Code to permit the term of an interim U.S. Attorney to last until a nominated replacement is approved by the Senate, in effect giving the United States Attorney General, the officer authorized to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys, the power to appoint U.S. Attorneys without Senate approval.[7] On March 20, 2007, the Senate voted to overturn this provision by a vote of 94-2.[8] On March 26, the U.S. House overturned it as well, by a vote of 329-78.[9] Read up. Or does wikipedia, like reality, have a well known liberal bias?
I'm not seeing anything sinister here. Whoa, defensive any? You are the first person to say anything about this being sinister. I'd like to be the second, but instead, I'll just excerpt Microsoft's journalist dossier itself:
Q. Is this driven by DOJ? A. No. It's about furthering the dialogue with customers, expanding and encouraging that discussion and making it more two-way. We've been doing this long before the DoJ and will be doing it long after.
Like the kid who [leaned] over and copied you in art class, News Corp./NBC are the archetypal corporation lumbering and so very uncool. Although he was corporeal, the kid who copied from me in art class was not a corporation, OK?! Why do Americans specifically mix this up so badly? Is it because corporations have a monopoly on the American spirit?
It would explain American Spirit cigarettes, at least. You know, smoke 'em all & let God sort you out. Talk about a deal with the Devil...
Hehe, I like these sarcastic posts. So many people will get it wrong - you are inviting us to draw the inference that, like the Phoenix lights, the hexagon is caused by "flares dropped during a USAF training exercise." Clearly, this makes no sense.
Aliens are therefore responsible for both phenomenon.
Although I see nothing wrong with your accusations against Bush, I do wonder why you feel the compelled to characterise his opponents in this manner.
Object to the substance, or lack thereof. For example, the Iraq war cassus belli proved to be fraudent.
The patriot act does indeed invade our privacy and does indeed impinge upon constitutional freedoms. Oh, and by the way, the USA firings are authorized by an obscure clause of PATRIOT act. You can add "protecting big tobbacco" to the list of unintended Patriot Act consequences. Don't dismiss the abuse of the PATRIOT act to damage the DOJ in order to protect big tobacco just because you don't like how it sounds.
Buddy, it sounds bad because it's criminal behavior. Grow up.
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So the original XBOX doesn't count?
There must be a size limit... I for one wondered how something so massive as the original XBOX could even exist. Shouldn't it exceed the Chandrasekhar limit? Perhaps that's it. Perhaps XXBBOOXX don't exist in a form that we can understand. The bloody things may very well have collapsed into singularities that float about the universe, consuming hapless victims, tearing them from reality with their merciless, Stygian flows. Oh noes, I'm feeling the most peculiar draw from the center of my universe...... aiiiieeeeee..............
XXXXBBBBOOOOXXXX
Because in here, time has no meaning!
Portable data centers? They can't even get portable music players right!
Fancy!
So, you know all those people who said that Jobs's "we only use DRM because the labels make us" statement was a self-serving lie?
Yeah, they're looking pretty fucking stupid right now.
Otherwise, an individual or corporation not barred from receiving patents will appropriate the most valuable publicly funded results - or in this case, the public's DNA itself.
These results took many years to evolve. Why shouldn't the fathers of this research get the credit they deserve?
Sony should be forced to reveal all of the hardware interfaces in the PS/3 so that people can make their own add-on devices.
Google should be forced to publish their search engine core to prevent vendor lock-in to Google search. One of these things is not like the others... if you can't figure it out, try google search
Microsoft: would you like us to mod you down today?
*ouch*, my karma!
Yeah, why should they have to give away specs?
Specs that are only valuable because they allow you to interoperate with their software.
Software which is, itself, actually worth something.
Software which you must buy if you want to be able to interoperate with others using it.
Oh, *wrings hanky and cries*, whatever has the world come to!? Poor diminutive microshoft, oooohhh pooooooooor poooooooor widdle micwoswoft.
--WELCOME TO DIEBOLD VOTING SOFTWARE SYSTEM--
--GO AHEAD AND SELECT YOUR SELECTEE FROM THE SELECTIONS BELOW, ALREADY--
[ ] Cowboy Bush
[X] Not Cowboy Bush
[ ] Meat Popsicle
--CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE ELECTED TO SELECT COWBOY BUSH--
--DIEBOLD - BECAUSE YOUR INPUT MATTERS--
What? They call it rip-off England for a reason: when calculating import MSRP, all $ -> £ conversions are parity at best. Everyone knows this, and everyone also knows that the English are accustomed to this and very immodestly wary of change.
So as not to incite massive uproar & in the interest of maintaining the public peace, whereas agitators demand slashed prices and veritable economic terrorism, we are working from a 1 USD = 1 GBP golden standard. Also, we broke your shit so that it can't play movies intended for more competitive markets, you dirtyschemingslut. Yeah, you like that, don't you?
Working hard for you,
The MPAA in association with the DVD CCA
That's good, since it means consumers aren't being taken advantage of.
Bloody clever, you fucking bastards...
We'll all be fanbois of the AC's, seeing as how they clearly have a monopoly on stupidity :)
Oh the humility!
Oh, of course, DVDs are different.
Also, if I may reply to myself:
I fucking hate having an ID so close to yours.
And that's a fact.
So, basically, scientific consensus doesn't mean anything to you.
I'm no scientist, but you're an idiot.
OK, troll. I'll bite.
Have you thought about growing a brain?
Obviously not.
Haha. Nice try, friend.
America is facing many urgent problems from runaway deficit spending to the continual erosion of federal agency responsiveness and even respect for fundamental human rights. Yet certain politicians seem obsessed with gay marriage during election season - the very time when we need to judge them on their positions and history regarding real issues that actually affect America.
In summary, I worry that Americans are extremely susceptible to distraction by highly irrelevant issues and that exploitation of this weakness gravely impacts the quality of their government. I think that we are seeing the results of this poor governance right now in lost jobs and expertise.
Q. Is this driven by DOJ?
A. No. It's about furthering the dialogue with customers, expanding and encouraging that
discussion and making it more two-way. We've been doing this long before the DoJ and will be
doing it long after.
It would explain American Spirit cigarettes, at least. You know, smoke 'em all & let God sort you out. Talk about a deal with the Devil...
Hehe, I like these sarcastic posts. So many people will get it wrong - you are inviting us to draw the inference that, like the Phoenix lights, the hexagon is caused by "flares dropped during a USAF training exercise." Clearly, this makes no sense.
Aliens are therefore responsible for both phenomenon.
Although I see nothing wrong with your accusations against Bush, I do wonder why you feel the compelled to characterise his opponents in this manner.
Object to the substance, or lack thereof. For example, the Iraq war cassus belli proved to be fraudent.
The patriot act does indeed invade our privacy and does indeed impinge upon constitutional freedoms. Oh, and by the way, the USA firings are authorized by an obscure clause of PATRIOT act. You can add "protecting big tobbacco" to the list of unintended Patriot Act consequences. Don't dismiss the abuse of the PATRIOT act to damage the DOJ in order to protect big tobacco just because you don't like how it sounds.
Buddy, it sounds bad because it's criminal behavior. Grow up.
Vista and XP both use NTFS v3.1