If I were Paraguayan right now I would be spamming every forum I knew of(...) We are;-)
As the sibling post noticed, that's why you are hearing from us right now. We also digged it, ICANNed it, and sent it to many other news sites.
Of course we also told the local radios, TV and newspapers. Even though Internet is almost always still viewed here as a secondary issue with regards to national politics, this time everybody just couldn't hold the rage this stupid move generated. We even made it to the cover of the most important national newspaper on saturday. Obviously they (the ruling party) are desperate because they certainly CAN lose the power after 60 years, and they're gonna try just anything.
Actually, the reaction was so strong (and certainly unexpected by the Telco) that the "mischief" lasted less than 24 hours: they fixed it quietly the next morning.
This week is the last one before the most crucial elections in this country modern history. Let's just hope this helps to oust those bastards once and for all.
Could Apple face regulators for restricting third party development on THEIR SOFTWARE which is on THEIR HARDWARE which does not in any sense of the word have a monopoly. Well, maybe if it is somehow established that the iPhone belongs to a new category of devices, different from celphones and computers, in which Apple holds a factual monopoly... regulations could suddenly apply.
What scares people about China is not that it is getting ahead but that we're open to their citizens but they are not really open to us Well, the US of A is not that open to foreigners either:
"In March 2005, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation CNOOC) tried to acquire Unocal with a bid that valued Unocal at between $16 billion and $18 billion. Following a vote in the United States House of Representatives, the bid was referred to President George W. Bush, on the grounds that its implications for national security needed to be reviewed. CNOOC withdrew its bid. Soon after this, Unocal merged with Chevron."
Let's say we threw out all of our ethical frameworks, erased civilization and started over. Let's say we sat around a table to come up with a new set of rules for civilization.
Every rational person at the table would agree that a certain set of rights belongs to everyone at the table.
Yep, that's been thought of before. FTWA:
In the state of nature, it might be argued that certain persons (the strong and talented) would be able to coerce others (the weak and disabled) by virtue of the fact that the stronger and more talented would fare better in the state of nature. This coercion is sometimes thought to invalidate any contractual arrangement occurring in the state of nature. In the original position, however, representatives of citizens are placed behind a veil of ignorance, depriving the representatives of information about the individuating characteristics of the citizens they represent. Thus, the representative parties would be unaware of the talents and abilities, ethnicity and gender, religion or belief system of the citizens they represent. As a result, they lack the information with which to threaten their fellows and thus invalidate the social contract they are attempting to agree to.
Must be something about those Kurdish womean&children that positively screams out "gas me! gas me!"
Yeah, those own-country-pursuers can be really annoying.
Stuart Parkin and two groups of colleagues at IBM's Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif, quickly recognized its potential, both as an important new scientific discovery in magnetic materials and one that might be used in sensors even more sensitive than MR heads.
What he was saying is that if you get a speeding ticket, you shouldn't be able to go in, edit the law to exclude everyone with your surname and then tear the ticket up.
Well of course, that's obvious. It's reasonable to asume the wiki will be used to build a draft of the law, which will be later passed by the Congress, and "locked for edition".
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Those are bacteria you're talking about.
The struggle has never been so much between socialists and capitalists, but between control and liberty.
"Moco" meaning "booger" in Spanish, I don't think THAT many people will be willing to get one :-p
Take it easy NASA boy. Were you working in the Mars Climate Orbiter program, or what?.
You don't have to use C++, you know. There's PyQt, for example.
How about stop waging expensive wars?
As the sibling post noticed, that's why you are hearing from us right now. We also digged it, ICANNed it, and sent it to many other news sites.
Of course we also told the local radios, TV and newspapers. Even though Internet is almost always still viewed here as a secondary issue with regards to national politics, this time everybody just couldn't hold the rage this stupid move generated. We even made it to the cover of the most important national newspaper on saturday. Obviously they (the ruling party) are desperate because they certainly CAN lose the power after 60 years, and they're gonna try just anything.
Actually, the reaction was so strong (and certainly unexpected by the Telco) that the "mischief" lasted less than 24 hours: they fixed it quietly the next morning.
This week is the last one before the most crucial elections in this country modern history. Let's just hope this helps to oust those bastards once and for all.
But I don't expect it, nor look forward to it.
I will just wait for Android.
Feel free to substitute "unfounded" with "well funded".
"In March 2005, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation CNOOC) tried to acquire Unocal with a bid that valued Unocal at between $16 billion and $18 billion. Following a vote in the United States House of Representatives, the bid was referred to President George W. Bush, on the grounds that its implications for national security needed to be reviewed. CNOOC withdrew its bid. Soon after this, Unocal merged with Chevron."
Or, less politely...
Every rational person at the table would agree that a certain set of rights belongs to everyone at the table.
Yep, that's been thought of before. FTWA:
In the state of nature, it might be argued that certain persons (the strong and talented) would be able to coerce others (the weak and disabled) by virtue of the fact that the stronger and more talented would fare better in the state of nature. This coercion is sometimes thought to invalidate any contractual arrangement occurring in the state of nature. In the original position, however, representatives of citizens are placed behind a veil of ignorance, depriving the representatives of information about the individuating characteristics of the citizens they represent. Thus, the representative parties would be unaware of the talents and abilities, ethnicity and gender, religion or belief system of the citizens they represent. As a result, they lack the information with which to threaten their fellows and thus invalidate the social contract they are attempting to agree to.
It makes sense, IMHO.
Of course he didn't.
He was frist!!
Yeah, those own-country-pursuers can be really annoying.
Funniest. Comment. Ever.
Come ooon! Who modded this as troll??
Yeah right.
Am I supposed to believe a bunch of fat-assed geeks will leave their PS3 and Wiis and organize a revolt against the government?
HA!
No sir, you (US)Americans are lost.
Corporate States of America is here to stay.
Just out of curiosity: please disclose the price tag for the li'l beast :-)
How is that expensive? I thought you can fire people with no reason or compensation whatsoever in USA.
That, sir, was an AMAZING post (and of course, I couldn't agree more).
Let me salute you.
Enter the "Global War of Terror" and other forms of perpetuating in ruling the world.
Exactly. From their account of the story:
Stuart Parkin and two groups of colleagues at IBM's Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif, quickly recognized its potential, both as an important new scientific discovery in magnetic materials and one that might be used in sensors even more sensitive than MR heads.
Well of course, that's obvious. It's reasonable to asume the wiki will be used to build a draft of the law, which will be later passed by the Congress, and "locked for edition".
Care to explain why?
I'm not flaming or anything: A couple of friends keep telling me I should Atlas Shrugged, so i would like to hear the other bell too.