If OLPC completely moves any operations out of Nigeria, are they still infringing? I mean, you don't see microsoft being sued over bogus patents from Uzbekistan, do you? Some countries have patent treaties with us but i'm quite sure that Nigeria isn't one of them.
The whole point of the article is that the device is painless. Unless they're totally lying about that fact, it's not the same device the thing you're thinking of from decades ago. Superficial similarity doesn't mean they work the same way.
I know several police, and they're all terrified to be without a firearm, even off-duty or on furlough, sometimes going so far as to plan their vacations around which states have police gun treaties that will allow them to carry. Some people are just paranoid, I guess.
Although I don't see how this thing will help, it seems like a bleeding dick would not incapacitate the attacker enough to prevent him from beating the shit out of his victim instead of raping her.
Finally, the most important star trek technology comes to the real world! Forget all that transporter, holodeck, or warp drive crap; we've got painless injections! woo!
It's a nonprofit organization. This company is literally robbing children, quite likely children from their own country. Maybe they're not patent trolls, but they're clearly assholes.
Stop these misleading headlines. "Brick" has a definition. If an update breaks your Mac, but your data is still available and you can reinstall the OS, then it sucks, but your Mac is certainly still a lot more useful than a brick, isn't it?
Wow. Going to the developer's Wiki gives a great example of how facebook is playing crazy games with their users. When you go there (in this example, linked from another site, slashdot) with a usable facebook cookie, they create a wiki account for you and log you in to it. How thoughtful of them...
You are clearly an intelligent and compassionate man. Kudos to you for your extremely nuanced and well-researched opinions on the cultures the OLPC is targeted at. I hope you will consider running for political office in the future, and once you inevitably make it to president, that you suspend the constitution and act as a benevolent autocrat, guiding the world with the light of your brilliant mind.
I'm not a fan of killing puppies. Why spawn an organization to reconstruct the right, when it's clearly too far gone. Desire for change is a leftist attribute. Substantially changing American conservatism isn't conservative.
You're entitled to your opinion, but some of the things you wrote simply aren't true. Pitchfork focuses on indie music; you can't fault them for giving more news and review coverage to the type of music they were founded to review. And after reading the site for years, I'm convinced that their editors don't give undue praise to a band for being indie, or punishment for not. For example, they have a running list of the "best new music." One of the current three is the new Jay-Z album. And I can think of dozens of acts that pitchfork reviewed glowingly while indie, and, when they switched to a major, continued to do so.
I think the mindset you describe is very prevalent among indie fans and some websites, but pitchfork has always struck me as one of the few that has managed to forge a strong bond with the mainstream. I know some people are prejudiced against indie music in the same way that, for example, I am against goth emo. This can lead people to see things that aren't there in what they read.
http://newzleech.com/ is also excellent. I once paid for newzbin, and it's nice, but indexing content isn't something people should pay for nowadays, even if they did invent NZB.
These sites are essential to maintaining my indie cred. They aren't 100% RIAA-free, but they do skew quite heavily toward the independent side. Pitchfork is the biggest of these and IMO the best music publication in existence.
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If OLPC completely moves any operations out of Nigeria, are they still infringing? I mean, you don't see microsoft being sued over bogus patents from Uzbekistan, do you? Some countries have patent treaties with us but i'm quite sure that Nigeria isn't one of them.
So true... especially foreign ones. This is why it pays to look up words and know IPA.
The whole point of the article is that the device is painless. Unless they're totally lying about that fact, it's not the same device the thing you're thinking of from decades ago. Superficial similarity doesn't mean they work the same way.
THey're designed to slide out easily once attatched to the penis. just use anything that will catch hooks. any piece of fabric should do.
It's a breakthrough for pussies.
that exact thing happens in the book. YT engages in somewhat spontaneous consensual sex, then remembers the thing when the guy's passed out.
I know several police, and they're all terrified to be without a firearm, even off-duty or on furlough, sometimes going so far as to plan their vacations around which states have police gun treaties that will allow them to carry. Some people are just paranoid, I guess.
Although I don't see how this thing will help, it seems like a bleeding dick would not incapacitate the attacker enough to prevent him from beating the shit out of his victim instead of raping her.
Ah, yes. The Vagina Dentata. Making scary Freudian dreams come to life for over 15 years!
For example: http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF051-Zarflax.jpg
Finally, the most important star trek technology comes to the real world! Forget all that transporter, holodeck, or warp drive crap; we've got painless injections! woo!
It's a nonprofit organization. This company is literally robbing children, quite likely children from their own country. Maybe they're not patent trolls, but they're clearly assholes.
+5, Teh Funnay.
Stop these misleading headlines. "Brick" has a definition. If an update breaks your Mac, but your data is still available and you can reinstall the OS, then it sucks, but your Mac is certainly still a lot more useful than a brick, isn't it?
Wow. Going to the developer's Wiki gives a great example of how facebook is playing crazy games with their users. When you go there (in this example, linked from another site, slashdot) with a usable facebook cookie, they create a wiki account for you and log you in to it. How thoughtful of them...
blocking this URL in Adblock Plus will work as well, and way more people already have it.
This might be a partial list, as I've heard reports of participating sites not on this list. But Here ya go:
* AllPosters.com
* Blockbuster
* Bluefly.com (NASDAQ: BFLY)
* CBS Interactive (CBSSports.com & Dotspotter) (NYSE: CBS)
* eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY)
* ExpoTV
* Fandango
* Gamefly
* IAC InterActiveCorp. (NASDAQ: IACI) sites (CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, iWon, Citysearch, Pronto.com, echomusic)
* Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE)'s Hotwire
* Joost
* Kiva
* Kongregate
* LiveJournal
* Live Nation (NYSE: LYV)
* Mercantila
* National Basketball Association
* NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT)
* Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK)
* (RED)
* Redlight
* SeamlessWeb
* Sony Online Entertainment LLC (NYSE: SNE)
* Sony Pictures (NYSE: SNE)
* STA Travel
* The Knot (NASDAQ: KNOT)
* TripAdvisor
* Travel Ticker
* Travelocity
* TypePad
* viagogo
* Vox
* Yelp
* WeddingChannel.com
* Zappos.com
from
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/11/22/facebooks-creepy-ads-put-your-mouth-where-your-money-is/
which sources the info from
http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20071106/AQTU20606112007-1.html
You are clearly an intelligent and compassionate man. Kudos to you for your extremely nuanced and well-researched opinions on the cultures the OLPC is targeted at. I hope you will consider running for political office in the future, and once you inevitably make it to president, that you suspend the constitution and act as a benevolent autocrat, guiding the world with the light of your brilliant mind.
I find it ill-fitting that someone named Ian is not teaching us about Debian.
As a radical drug-dealing terrorist pedophile, I have to disagree.
duh, he posted about it on slashdot. and maybe his blog.
Tinfoil hats are for conspiracy theorists. When your fears of an abusive government prove to be true, you're a liberal.
You're entitled to your opinion, but some of the things you wrote simply aren't true. Pitchfork focuses on indie music; you can't fault them for giving more news and review coverage to the type of music they were founded to review. And after reading the site for years, I'm convinced that their editors don't give undue praise to a band for being indie, or punishment for not. For example, they have a running list of the "best new music." One of the current three is the new Jay-Z album. And I can think of dozens of acts that pitchfork reviewed glowingly while indie, and, when they switched to a major, continued to do so.
I think the mindset you describe is very prevalent among indie fans and some websites, but pitchfork has always struck me as one of the few that has managed to forge a strong bond with the mainstream. I know some people are prejudiced against indie music in the same way that, for example, I am against goth emo. This can lead people to see things that aren't there in what they read.
http://newzleech.com/ is also excellent. I once paid for newzbin, and it's nice, but indexing content isn't something people should pay for nowadays, even if they did invent NZB.
These sites are essential to maintaining my indie cred. They aren't 100% RIAA-free, but they do skew quite heavily toward the independent side. Pitchfork is the biggest of these and IMO the best music publication in existence.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
http://cokemachineglow.com/
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/