You USAmericans, for all the great society you've managed to build in the last couple of centuries, are UNBELIEVABLE docile to what corporations do to you. I mean, here I am, living in a third world country, making fun of you because government regulation made cell companies:
* Don't charge me for receiving calls
* Don't charge for the first 5 seconds of a call, meaning you can decide to hang up before billing starts if voice mail answers
* Bill by the second
Why oh why can't you manage yourself, as a society, to stand up and resiste to corporate abuse?
Well it sounds ridiculous, but that's exactly what happens in the field of soccer players, here in latin america. They are usually "raised" in some small Club, then "sold" to a bigger one where they get exposure in international tournaments, national teams and (most of all) TV time, and when they're finally tranferred to an european big club, the initial institution claims a share of the amount.
Same to me. While all the articles everywhere mention it's "standalone download only, not yet in Automatic updates", it appeared yesterday in the update notifications window. Since I have it set to "notify only", I manually downloaded and installed it. I wonder if it wouldn't be alredy automatically installed if it was configured that way.
Of course, he could've done that. But that's hardly expectable from a self-defined anarchist. And he wouldn't have a story for his blog. Maybe he was having fun the whole time; not everyone is that scared of THE MIGHTY COPS.
Anyway, you CAN be all polite and "respectful", but the real question is: why should everyone behave that "cowardly"? What kind of police-state has the US turned into?
A saner approach would be to simply not sincerely negotiate at all and always mount military responses if the terrorists don't surrender after a reasonable period of time.
I'm quite curious about what you understand by "sane".
How would your tactic preserve the lives or the innocents involved, anyhow?
I don't know how it works in Japan, but in my country the two major cellphone companies are implementing their own "mobile cash replacement" systems since months ago. They work on sms/mms platform, without any readers needed on the vendor side. All you do, as a customer, is enter a menu and transfer the money to the recipient.
It's really understandable: suddenly some financial operations (debit card simile, money transfers) are available to the almost 90% of the population with a cellphone. Most of them were simply off the Banking System before. The percentage of people with access to "classical" finantial institutions / services, such as credit cards or checking accounts is less than 20%. There was clearly a niche to be filled.
Then again, I don't know how viable would the system be, in countries where most of the population do have credit cards.
Police have boundaries and borders. The internet, alas, does not.
Well that's correct... for a while. As in any "new territory", there's a time for anarchy and (maybe) chaos, free-for-all and stuff. During that period, it's jungle law. Lots of wounded, and a few winners.
Then of course comes the Reaction, and the Usual Powers settle in. This book explains it pretty well.
That's interesting. They posted the video a few days before attacking. It turns out they (IDF) have a YouTube user posting -propaganda- videos all the time.
Just two thoughts:
1)That school was clearly marked as a target from months ago. Couldn't they at least WARN the civilians, knowing it was being used as a refuge?
2)I wonder how many other info of future targets they're giving away with all those videos.
The status bar for hovered links is "automatic", as it appears anytime you... hover on a link.
And the stop button... is automatic too. It appears as a large X, on the right end of the address bar, when the page is loading.It's difficult to reach (or remember it's there!), though . It's just too far away.
Seriously, I have no idea of how their system works.
Are those servers required to listen to the music EVERYTIME you want to play them on your computer? If so, what kind of idiot designed such a flawed "system"?
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"though they didn't call me weave"
Weave is his nickname.
Sounds nice. But what does the LAW say? I mean, doesn't every crime / offense / felony have an expected punishment written in some code?
You USAmericans, for all the great society you've managed to build in the last couple of centuries, are UNBELIEVABLE docile to what corporations do to you. I mean, here I am, living in a third world country, making fun of you because government regulation made cell companies :
* Don't charge me for receiving calls
* Don't charge for the first 5 seconds of a call, meaning you can decide to hang up before billing starts if voice mail answers
* Bill by the second
Why oh why can't you manage yourself, as a society, to stand up and resiste to corporate abuse?
Could it be because maybe, just maybe, and in spite of everything MSM tells you, Iran and North Korea have better things to do than annoy USA?
Well it sounds ridiculous, but that's exactly what happens in the field of soccer players, here in latin america. They are usually "raised" in some small Club, then "sold" to a bigger one where they get exposure in international tournaments, national teams and (most of all) TV time, and when they're finally tranferred to an european big club, the initial institution claims a share of the amount.
Mod parent "-1 Too reasonable to be accepted by the masses"
Same to me. While all the articles everywhere mention it's "standalone download only, not yet in Automatic updates", it appeared yesterday in the update notifications window. Since I have it set to "notify only", I manually downloaded and installed it. I wonder if it wouldn't be alredy automatically installed if it was configured that way.
:-)
BTW, everything seems to be still working
Also don't forget to wait for NoKidsOnLawn. You'll love it.
Of course, he could've done that. But that's hardly expectable from a self-defined anarchist. And he wouldn't have a story for his blog. Maybe he was having fun the whole time; not everyone is that scared of THE MIGHTY COPS.
Anyway, you CAN be all polite and "respectful", but the real question is: why should everyone behave that "cowardly"? What kind of police-state has the US turned into?
A saner approach would be to simply not sincerely negotiate at all and always mount military responses if the terrorists don't surrender after a reasonable period of time.
I'm quite curious about what you understand by "sane".
How would your tactic preserve the lives or the innocents involved, anyhow?
You can't impose freedom...
NO, you can't.
I was able to read slashdot while working in China.
But... will you be able, the next time?
:-)
Taiwan != China
Taiwan != China
Taiwan != China
Did anyone give local loop unbundling a try?
I don't know how it works in Japan, but in my country the two major cellphone companies are implementing their own "mobile cash replacement" systems since months ago. They work on sms/mms platform, without any readers needed on the vendor side. All you do, as a customer, is enter a menu and transfer the money to the recipient.
It's really understandable: suddenly some financial operations (debit card simile, money transfers) are available to the almost 90% of the population with a cellphone. Most of them were simply off the Banking System before. The percentage of people with access to "classical" finantial institutions / services, such as credit cards or checking accounts is less than 20%. There was clearly a niche to be filled.
Then again, I don't know how viable would the system be, in countries where most of the population do have credit cards.
The "private" mode is expected to arrive with Firefox 3.1 :-)
Police have boundaries and borders. The internet, alas, does not.
Well that's correct... for a while. As in any "new territory", there's a time for anarchy and (maybe) chaos, free-for-all and stuff. During that period, it's jungle law. Lots of wounded, and a few winners.
Then of course comes the Reaction, and the Usual Powers settle in. This book explains it pretty well.
That's interesting. They posted the video a few days before attacking. It turns out they (IDF) have a YouTube user posting -propaganda- videos all the time.
Just two thoughts:
1)That school was clearly marked as a target from months ago. Couldn't they at least WARN the civilians, knowing it was being used as a refuge?
2)I wonder how many other info of future targets they're giving away with all those videos.
Have you *used* the browser?
The status bar for hovered links is "automatic", as it appears anytime you... hover on a link.
And the stop button... is automatic too. It appears as a large X, on the right end of the address bar, when the page is loading.It's difficult to reach (or remember it's there!), though . It's just too far away.
One of my peers is an astrophysicist
Doesn't that make you also an astrophysicist?
Well I for one welcome our new Single Neuron Simian Overlords
He must be white.
Seriously, I have no idea of how their system works.
Are those servers required to listen to the music EVERYTIME you want to play them on your computer? If so, what kind of idiot designed such a flawed "system"?
Hey skinnyguy, meet Nick Burns. I think you hadn't met.
Funny, yes, but actually really insightful.
If Jobs really was suffering from a terminal illness, I would expect to see him grooming a successor.
Dictators don't do that. Never did, and never will.