Yahoo! Inc. ("Yahoo!") welcomes you. Yahoo! provides the Yahoo! Services (defined below) to you subject to the following Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you.
A little later on, this gem:
but that Yahoo! and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or remove any Content that is available via the Yahoo! Services
There's more!
Yahoo! reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Yahoo! Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. If not, print this out, take it to your lawyer, and he'll explain it to you using hand puppets and bright crayon drawings.
Nope. TOS means: We do what we want with our website, you do what you want with yours.
Stunning how many people have a hard time with this concept. If you really have a problem with this (as opposed to scoring whatever ideological points you think you can), don't use Flickr.
Better yet, start up a Flickr competitor, only with hookers and blackjack.
The issue is slightly more complicated when the government turns corporate websites into official media distribution channels.
Examples: The White House flickr page, twitter page, facebook page, etc.
Only if, for some weird reason, the gubmint isn't bound by the Terms Of Service of those websites. Otherwise, not complicated at all.
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but slam after slam of bad press against it is slowly turning the opinion of the technically inclined
Hogwash. The "technically inclined", if they don't already claim to hate Apple with every fiber of their being, have their ipods/iphones jailbreaked and doing all the things they want it to do already. So, to answer your question, Apple can this up for a long time.
Long story short: Theo rules with an iron fist and springs releases like pop quizzes.
Mod parent up. Successful organizations need strong leadership. FOSS' generally decentralized model (and that damn egalitarian hacker ethic) works against this. Not that that's a bad thing, but somebody needs to steer the boat.
I don't see how you can define normal language outside of the individual.
Nice try, but the individual's not an island. He or she might very well be comfortable with saltier language than most, but still surrounded by (and very much aware of) a society that generally thinks otherwise, thus the language still has 'power'.
windows users laugh at you when you release a work in progress
No they don't. We get plenty of half-assed, non-polished games for the windows platform. And for consoles too. Rushed deadlines and shitty code aren't just part of the GNU/Linux world.
It's been a few months since I read it but I remember the humans staying human all the way to the end.
And I seem to remember quite a few characters going insane, some quietly, some in a more bugfuck manner. Not always 'integration' to blame, but there was futsie (future shock, fellow thrill lovers) all over that book.
Yes and no. Thumb typing works best in landscape mode, but not all apps provide that, so sometimes I do a one-handed, 2 to 3 fingered hunt and peck. I suspect that method would work best on the Crunchpad for me, although, with my hands, thumb typing would probably be quite feasible.
As someone who uses the Ipod touch onscreen keyboard, and has huge gorilla hands, an onscreen keyboard on a 12" screen will be a piece of piss. Of all the criticisms of the Crunchpad, this is the one that baffles me the most.
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Hmmm. GP said:
If I remember correctly, Bush was ridiculed, parodied and protested*
And then you say:
Is that the same war that all the major Democrats voted for? And was it the same Iraq that Clinton bombed without asking permission?
Anti-war protesters != Democrats.
HTH.
Incredibly, these people would rather trade a legal mess for a PR mess.
If I was their lawyer, that's would I would have advised them to do. PR flacks are waaaaay cheaper than legal fees.
So in short, this is a tempest in a teapot - a completely expected situation that is being blown out of proportion by people with an axe to grind.
<The Church Lady>Hmmmm, could it be....the GOP?</The Church Lady>
Sloppy fail. From the very tippy top of Yahoo's Terms of Service:
A little later on, this gem:
There's more!
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. If not, print this out, take it to your lawyer, and he'll explain it to you using hand puppets and bright crayon drawings.
They don't seem to have a problem with the photoshopped Sarah Palin porn
To be fair, nobody has a problem with Palin Porn. Pelosi Porn, on the other hand...ugh.
Nope. TOS means: We do what we want with our website, you do what you want with yours.
Stunning how many people have a hard time with this concept. If you really have a problem with this (as opposed to scoring whatever ideological points you think you can), don't use Flickr.
Better yet, start up a Flickr competitor, only with hookers and blackjack.
The issue is slightly more complicated when the government turns corporate websites into official media distribution channels. Examples: The White House flickr page, twitter page, facebook page, etc.
Only if, for some weird reason, the gubmint isn't bound by the Terms Of Service of those websites. Otherwise, not complicated at all.
Didn't stop timmeh the braindead editor from slapping a fascism tag on TFS though.
but the chest-pounding, dick-waving idiots who like to pretend that they're Rambo really, really piss me off.
Naw, pity's more appropriate. They have to behave that way to compensate fro minuscule appendages.
Fucking colonials. In Europe, it's the welshmen we make fun of for their attraction to sheep. We make fun of the scotsmen for being dour tightwads.
On the other side of the globe, New Zealanders get the short end of the stick in regards to livestock love.
Here endeth the lesson.
What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
We should be restraining copyright, not expanding it.
Careful son, that's commie talk.
Why can't we stand up to big corporations here in the US?
Because you're not a bunch of socialists who hate capitalism?
Crap, there's shit dribbling out my ears again...
No kidding, Charles Dickens is kicking himself for missing that one.
Do you like cheese?
Do you like peas?
Do you like cheesy peas?
Then you'll love these!
New Squeezy Cheesy Peas!
They're squeezy!
They're cheesy!
They're peasy!
They're Squeezy Cheesy Peas!
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A buddy of mine wants to buy some property in Georgia, preferably on top of a hill, so he can build a dock on it and wait for the water to come.
but slam after slam of bad press against it is slowly turning the opinion of the technically inclined
Hogwash. The "technically inclined", if they don't already claim to hate Apple with every fiber of their being, have their ipods/iphones jailbreaked and doing all the things they want it to do already. So, to answer your question, Apple can this up for a long time.
The downside is, you have to eat a human heart.
You say downside, I say Tuesday.
-Mola Ram
Long story short: Theo rules with an iron fist and springs releases like pop quizzes.
Mod parent up. Successful organizations need strong leadership. FOSS' generally decentralized model (and that damn egalitarian hacker ethic) works against this. Not that that's a bad thing, but somebody needs to steer the boat.
I don't see how you can define normal language outside of the individual.
Nice try, but the individual's not an island. He or she might very well be comfortable with saltier language than most, but still surrounded by (and very much aware of) a society that generally thinks otherwise, thus the language still has 'power'.
windows users laugh at you when you release a work in progress
No they don't. We get plenty of half-assed, non-polished games for the windows platform. And for consoles too. Rushed deadlines and shitty code aren't just part of the GNU/Linux world.
It's been a few months since I read it but I remember the humans staying human all the way to the end.
And I seem to remember quite a few characters going insane, some quietly, some in a more bugfuck manner. Not always 'integration' to blame, but there was futsie (future shock, fellow thrill lovers) all over that book.
Yes and no. Thumb typing works best in landscape mode, but not all apps provide that, so sometimes I do a one-handed, 2 to 3 fingered hunt and peck. I suspect that method would work best on the Crunchpad for me, although, with my hands, thumb typing would probably be quite feasible.
that is not some horrible onscreen keyboard
As someone who uses the Ipod touch onscreen keyboard, and has huge gorilla hands, an onscreen keyboard on a 12" screen will be a piece of piss. Of all the criticisms of the Crunchpad, this is the one that baffles me the most.
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