When we talk about freedom, let's not appeal to the Founders, ok?
No, lets appeal to the ministers of Antwerp and the Dutch East India Company, and the English Mercantile gentry who started trading in slaves. I, for one, have no problem appealing to those men. Jefferson in particular. He was an incredibly bright guy. Those men were products of their time. Dismissing them because for an institution that during their time was endemic AROUND THE WORLD is a bit short sighted.
Oh yeah, because the world desperately needs ONE fuk nut country to cut the heads off infidels who would dare to write programs that up load photos. YES... yours is the reasonable POV...
Here's a kick in the groin for ya; I'm not even an Apple fan boy. I've criticised them in the past. I really couldn't care less about this though. Shouldn't even be a/. item.
If you're going to treat corporations as persons...
I'm doing no such thing. What my elected officials do despite my best impotent threats I may throw their way is beyond my grasp. I think its easy to show that Washington and in my case Sacramento is run amok. I am however going to direct my meagre and limited efforts to those causes which I deem to be worthy of those efforts. This ain't one of 'em, sorry.
You've never heard the reports of government waste in the media? I find that difficult to believe.
You would, of course, be saying the exact same damn thing if the government were spending millions of dollars on elegant-sounding but ultimately impractical or unworkable solutions offered by academic geniuses with no experience in government or project management.
I find that many government geniuses have no experience in government or project management. Glad you seem to have gotten so lucky.
You're completely glossing over my point; how many times has the government spent millions on massive, bloated, unworkable solutions after they get handed an elegant solution? I suspect the cases are in the thousands. Thanks for being so cavalier with MY money.
Yes. But you're making it as if Apple were Monsanto lying about 3 headed babies because their mothers ate corn in the 3rd trimester. Lets scale this down to what it is; a defective consumer product. That's it. Its not a "gate." Not even a Keating 3. Its a 3 oz candy bar with wrapping saying its 5, at best. We both have bigger issues in our lives, at least I do.
Yep, Jobs effectively fired Mark Papermaster because of the antenna problems. Interesting because I remember when he was hired, it made a news splash in 2007 and Apple hailed him as the second coming, even though Bob Mansfield (some Mac hardware exec) didn't think he was a good fit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Papermaster
Or, they simply wanted to butter him up and keep him quiet because the presiding industrial defence complex entities at the time (Westinghouse, GE, Hughes, Bell Telephone (or later, AT&T), etc.) already had inferior, but completed cryptographic solutions ready to go. How many times has the Fed been handed elegant solutions to problems only to pass them by for fixes given to them by men from the old boy's network?
Ha! Those things have been in the news here and there for the past few years! You'd have to be a turtle not to have heard of those incidents! Video my ass.
There are a handful of scientists worldwide that deny the AGW consensus. The question is why? The assumption used to be that they were handsomely paid to do it. That is now fact.
No, its not fact at all. Yes, SOME may have been paid to be deniers, but some were simply questioning the"science" (see what I did there?) behind AGW, as they still do. As for getting paid, wasn't all that long ago that a respected researcher could get drummed out of the academy for denying agw, Who was getting paid then?
One of the funniest and most insightful comments ever posted on this forum some months ago went along these lines: Some one asked some one else to describe the Canadian political structure, more exactly how the political vehicle functioned, and without skipping a beat a/.'r replied "Its a clown car, manned by one-eyed clowns." Which of course brought replies of "Not much different on this side of the border either."
If you defend child porn possession [bit.ly], you get modded +5 Insightful.
This is your sig? Proud of that, are you? I'm not defending child porn, but I am saying there is a point to the man's argument. I for one do not care to live in a society that demands anyone's door get broken down because that person has some pictures. After that how much more will it take to make it perfectly all right to bust down doors because of some written material some one has? Say, political material? Your types have already made it ok for them to hold US citizens indefinitely without being charged with any crime (NDAA 1031). Well, lets just do away with the house and senate and rubber stamp anything that Obama does now? Why not go full police state?
Master/slave terminology is still in vogue to describe field bus topology in the industrial automation industry. Apparently those old modbus guys didn't get the memo. And Crenshaw Blvd. has yet to be offended by those old engineers.
The reason East Texas is popular for patent litigation is because its the one place in the country where any lawyer from any state bar can practice, and it alone has a set of rules that govern how patent cases are to be run that favour the plaintiffs.
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If that's a joke, I'm not getting it.
When we talk about freedom, let's not appeal to the Founders, ok?
No, lets appeal to the ministers of Antwerp and the Dutch East India Company, and the English Mercantile gentry who started trading in slaves. I, for one, have no problem appealing to those men. Jefferson in particular. He was an incredibly bright guy. Those men were products of their time. Dismissing them because for an institution that during their time was endemic AROUND THE WORLD is a bit short sighted.
Are you talking about the most recent Iraq War?
Oh yeah, because the world desperately needs ONE fuk nut country to cut the heads off infidels who would dare to write programs that up load photos. YES... yours is the reasonable POV...
Yeah, this is no sweat off your nose. That's why you keep replying.
Here's a kick in the groin for ya; I'm not even an Apple fan boy. I've criticised them in the past. I really couldn't care less about this though. Shouldn't even be a /. item.
If you're going to treat corporations as persons...
I'm doing no such thing. What my elected officials do despite my best impotent threats I may throw their way is beyond my grasp. I think its easy to show that Washington and in my case Sacramento is run amok. I am however going to direct my meagre and limited efforts to those causes which I deem to be worthy of those efforts. This ain't one of 'em, sorry.
Ah, well. As long as you have hard numbers, then.
You've never heard the reports of government waste in the media? I find that difficult to believe.
You would, of course, be saying the exact same damn thing if the government were spending millions of dollars on elegant-sounding but ultimately impractical or unworkable solutions offered by academic geniuses with no experience in government or project management.
I find that many government geniuses have no experience in government or project management. Glad you seem to have gotten so lucky.
You're completely glossing over my point; how many times has the government spent millions on massive, bloated, unworkable solutions after they get handed an elegant solution? I suspect the cases are in the thousands. Thanks for being so cavalier with MY money.
But instead Apple lied.
Yes. But you're making it as if Apple were Monsanto lying about 3 headed babies because their mothers ate corn in the 3rd trimester. Lets scale this down to what it is; a defective consumer product. That's it. Its not a "gate." Not even a Keating 3. Its a 3 oz candy bar with wrapping saying its 5, at best. We both have bigger issues in our lives, at least I do.
Yep, Jobs effectively fired Mark Papermaster because of the antenna problems. Interesting because I remember when he was hired, it made a news splash in 2007 and Apple hailed him as the second coming, even though Bob Mansfield (some Mac hardware exec) didn't think he was a good fit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Papermaster
Or, they simply wanted to butter him up and keep him quiet because the presiding industrial defence complex entities at the time (Westinghouse, GE, Hughes, Bell Telephone (or later, AT&T), etc.) already had inferior, but completed cryptographic solutions ready to go. How many times has the Fed been handed elegant solutions to problems only to pass them by for fixes given to them by men from the old boy's network?
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/01/12/22506/ http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/nov_2000/christ_gnostic.htm http://www.jewlicious.com/2010/10/fired-for-questioning-evolution-and-human-caused-global-warming-gavriel-avital/ http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=5ef55aa3-802a-23ad-4ce4-89c4f49995d2 http://www.solopassion.com/node/2291 Took me two seconds to find these. Seems you have indeed been living under a rock. I am not finding videos for you. I have enough to do right now.
Ha! Those things have been in the news here and there for the past few years! You'd have to be a turtle not to have heard of those incidents! Video my ass.
Fred Singer is one of the top 3 denialists in the world. We now know he's paid $60,000 per annum to do propaganda. Not research. Propaganda.
No, its not fact at all. Yes, SOME may have been paid to be deniers
Be specific.
You have access to google, same as I do.
There are a handful of scientists worldwide that deny the AGW consensus. The question is why? The assumption used to be that they were handsomely paid to do it. That is now fact.
No, its not fact at all. Yes, SOME may have been paid to be deniers, but some were simply questioning the"science" (see what I did there?) behind AGW, as they still do. As for getting paid, wasn't all that long ago that a respected researcher could get drummed out of the academy for denying agw, Who was getting paid then?
One of the funniest and most insightful comments ever posted on this forum some months ago went along these lines: Some one asked some one else to describe the Canadian political structure, more exactly how the political vehicle functioned, and without skipping a beat a /.'r replied "Its a clown car, manned by one-eyed clowns."
Which of course brought replies of "Not much different on this side of the border either."
The next few years are going to be really fun to watch as companies fight over this new market.
Not how I'd put it.
it's a line from "Nineteen Eighty Four".
Yeah... I know.. still, apt line.
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
I think the future is here.
If you defend child porn possession [bit.ly], you get modded +5 Insightful.
This is your sig? Proud of that, are you? I'm not defending child porn, but I am saying there is a point to the man's argument. I for one do not care to live in a society that demands anyone's door get broken down because that person has some pictures. After that how much more will it take to make it perfectly all right to bust down doors because of some written material some one has? Say, political material? Your types have already made it ok for them to hold US citizens indefinitely without being charged with any crime (NDAA 1031). Well, lets just do away with the house and senate and rubber stamp anything that Obama does now? Why not go full police state?
Master/slave terminology is still in vogue to describe field bus topology in the industrial automation industry. Apparently those old modbus guys didn't get the memo. And Crenshaw Blvd. has yet to be offended by those old engineers.
Yes; http://www.turbohercules.com/. Near and dear to my heart is the CDC Cyber series on which I had to run my COBOL assignments at uni; http://members.iinet.net.au/~tom-hunter/. Anyone also do assignments on PDP 11/70's as I did also? http://www.dbit.com/. Christ, I bet there's an emulator for any platform and architecture that's existed.
Yes. My immediate thought was on the "...the Russians are not as concerned with safety." comment. After 80 years of Stalinism I think I get that.
The reason East Texas is popular for patent litigation is because its the one place in the country where any lawyer from any state bar can practice, and it alone has a set of rules that govern how patent cases are to be run that favour the plaintiffs.
Whereas in any country in the EU they'd scan the drive for kiddie pr0n and have a pr0n party?