Look everyone knows it is only a matter of time before M$ kills skype on Windows 7 to force people to the probe. That's what upsets them, they have become accustomed to M$'s behaviour, expect it and are becoming annoyed when they see it coming even when it couple of years down track. They know M$'s modus operandi and regardless to the bullshit press releases M$ puts out, the react the the reality underlying it. So as M$ bought skype, I was done with it, I know the inevitable consequence, they are a crappy company and it will be bad for end users, it's just the way it is. Didn't complain, just dropped it and moved on.
It could be the nerd/geek in my but exactly what makes non-reproductive mutual masturbation, with someone you barely know and do not trust (with all the commensurate risks of psychopaths, diseases, high costs, just plain bad relationships), than a quick individual hormonal adjustment (our bodies chemicals fucking with our bodies brains). Ignoring the demands from market droids that sex sells, you know, cars, power boats, clothing, makeup, jewellery, holiday tours, fancy restaurants, flowers, expensive weddings and even more expensive divorces. Not to of course to forget giving reason for being of pretty but stupid, shallow and greedy (male or female).
If they make it so hard to bring up children and you can see their future as nothing more than burning on the greed driven pyres of the rich and greedy, why play the game.
Social media is a part of life but people need to accept each social media site as only a fun fad and not commit so much emotion or effort to it. Social media, no different to the yoyo, the hula hoop or any other fad, just like MySpace. Play with it for a little while, gets boring or annoying, then stop, do not invest your life in it, you will suffer for it.
People need to place proper context on social media, ignore the hype and bullshit marketing, it is a game, it is not life. Play to amuse yourself and be willing to drop it when ever it becomes boring or annoying and move on to real life but playing on social media can be a small part of life or not, just like all fads, choose which ones you want to play on.
It is not permanent, nobody can lay claim to your rights, it is just legal bullshit. The second you claim any of your rights they must immediately hand them back, they can seek recompense for the loss but they most certainly can not keep them, you are not a slave. You can not claim my image to infer I support your product, that is technically theft of free speech, you are stealing my free right to speech by forcing a false statement upon me.
I see that you do not understand Wall Street what so ever. Here let me explain it for you, they sell the product, they do not keep the product, they take a percentage from the sale. Need I remind of the too big to fail banks and them selling crap assets to their customers telling them how great they were and making ever more money by betting those assets would lose value.
It is not what the dot.bomb is worth, it is how much you make selling it.
The mind boggles as to what a new digital company that actually generates a profit would be worth, 1.5 planet earths perhaps.
So watch netflix on your Android TV, whilst doing other stuff on your computer. I do this all of the time, well, not netflix, but streamed youtube et al, whilst gaming, shopping etc. and no, I do not want corporations spying on me, I do not want them to install software without my specific permission, nor do I want them to delete content without my permission. You can see it coming, the only copy of a wedding video, fresh from the camera, stored on windows and because ohh ahh copyrighted music for which the owner does not permission is in the background, well, along comes Mr Clippy, here let me fix that for you and deletes the wedding video, gone for ever. Don't think it will happen, M$ the company that resets privacy settings, not once but over and over again, they don't care, their attitude fuck the end users, they do as they are told and this repeated again and again and again and only temporarily stops or slows down when users kick up an almighty stink and then a couple of years down track, M$ tries it on again.
Have you not paid one bit of attention during the last eight years, not the slightest. Where is universal health care, where are the cut backs on out sourcing including government services, where are the improvement in public education, how about a living wage (still don't have just empty vague promises of one quite a few years down the track), how about the halt of attacks on unions, than abandon workers for conservative professionals look from their own mouths https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Expand, open your eyes, other wise there is no point.
Reality is democracy is all about people. People should make the votes and people should count the votes and real people should be voted for. Outside actors were never the problem, the corporations that make the devices and the current government in power that control the devices, they are the problem.
Actually technically speaking they are, this is really a high risk game, across international boundaries, it is extremely problematic. They will find a while bunch of agencies from around the world go after them and the penalties could be quite dramatic. Really, really, not a good idea, there will be a severe price to pay.
Brick and mortar retail runs at a margin of between 60% to 80%. The might make a profit of 10% to 15% but that most definitely is not their markup. Price fixing in most countries is a criminal offence and geo-pricing is price fixing, yeah, steam and a bunch of others will pay. Steam will likely be able to fob most of the penalty off to the publishers and long as they turn them over and prove steam was forced into it. Publishers will take a bath on this one, wont pay taxes one way, you will be forced to pay taxes the other way (unless they can prove it was steams idea).
Local steam outlets make sense, after all it just runs different database rules and mirrors the content. From the end user perspective they either use the local steam server with local rules or connect to the international server with international rules. Local offices also allow you to hook into local customers more and get a better understanding of them to improve relations between the seller and the customer. It would also allow Steam to dip into game serving for MMOs, relieving the publisher and developer of that chore and likely picking up more players (a lot of countries who would not normally get game servers would now do so because steam could serve hundreds of games off the same infrastructure).
M$ is attempting to force OEM and ODM into the xbone licensing scam and make no mistake, if end users no longer own the PC once the install windows 10, what makes you think M$ will allow anyone else to own it. Licence fees for anything hooked to windows 10 including content (the promise for content providers, anyone installs content on a pc owned by M$ as a result of naive user installing windows 10, will see that content deleted at the next compulsory upgrade and FOSS of course banned outright). Make no mistake once you install windows 10, they own your computer, they choose what software to install, they choose the configuration setting, they sell your privacy and you obey and STFU, else they will shut you down, oh no, not at first but it will come (there is no law that requires them to rent you windows and you will be paying rent in the end and when that rent stops so does access to the content that you created, your own family images, your digital life, all to be held hostage to extortion payments).
Still, the message is, 'so what train a local'. I sorry you do not get it but this is exactly what happens every single time. Greedy arseholes abuse the system and the rules are changed to end the disruption and a whole bunch of people get caught in the cross fire. It has happened exactly like this in the past and it will happen like it in the future. Greedy arse holes fuck the system up, regulations come in to curtail their excess and the few people who were doing the right thing lose out. Make no mistake right now the system is being abused the crap out of and everyone knows it and it has to stop and that means a bunch of people doing the right will suffer because of many, many, more doing the wrong thing. Don't whine about a few here and a few there suffering when tens of thousands are suffering on the other side. Corporations should train locals they should not demand that others pay for the training and then use them to break the backs of local workers and force them to submit to hugely reduced conditions of employment, it has to stop, sorry but that is it, suck it up.
No death spiral, a google scam. Basically google used insider information to steal as much market share as possible from mozzila, no ifs buts or maybes. Mozzila targeted the wrong market. People do not really browse the internet with mobile phones, they only get want they want at the time. It generates a lot of hits because of numbers of people but per person, outside of filling an immediate need, the browsing does not really happen, simply a very bad reading format, too small. Browsing - "to access and view (website content) with a Web browser, usually without looking for something specific" http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., only really occurs on a bigger screen formats.
So Mozilla needs to focus on browsing information (not targeted information retrieval, in and out and done), that leisurely trawl through the internet on the big screen, whether that be a desktop, an all in one big screen computer (55" and up) or next gen virtual reality glasses.
The mobile phone and tablet, are internet search devices not internet browsing devices. Also they need to ignore google's bullshit, goggle is not their friend, goggle is a disingenuous predator and should not be trusted (proof of this, the purposeful attempt to surreptitiously corrupt elections in their corporate favour, really, really, dangerous anti-democratic stuff because it was done in secret and specifically targeted the subconscious of people, sick stuff indeed, as evil as it gets).
Basically at the moment, main stream media is purposefully trying to toxify any political environment that is not corporate establishment. Pay attention to the shenanigans, to those trying to distort socio-economic issues back into identity politics, it is not happening by accident, establishment PR agencies and stink tanks are behind it, in affect, false flag trolls and main stream media than jumps on it and blames the entire political movements and tarnishes them as nazis and communists and inevitably as terrorists (they will try to destroy to keep their corruption going and to stay out of prison, of course).
Alternate right and much the same as the developing alternate left, was more about tackling fake conservatives and fake progressives, you know the corporate party that has infested both parties and taken them over. The fake conservatives flooded the right side of politics with empty distractions, religious state , abortions, gay issues and low and behold, the corporate party, filled the progressives with empty distractions, anti-religous state , abortions, gay issues. This whilst robbing us all blind and those shallow self serving nutbags they piled on both sides actually acting against core issues of both sides, rabbiting on about injustice of it all and how they are special and their dear leader and the evil demon lord from the other side (scam, people, all a scam).
The left is about social equality for labour, and it got flooded with selfish, idiotic social justice warriors who oppose social equality for labour (they don't want to end the exploitation, they want to become the exploiters. You might say they are alien to both sides of politics). The want to become the exploiters and the only reason they are not on the right side of politics, the right is a whole lot less tolerant. It seems the progressive left needs to also become a whole lot less tolerant and drive those people out of the party who oppose core real issues of the party.
The problem is, the people involved have clearly not read the privacy act. For example it covers accuracy of records kept. So Trump is now stating that US government department need not keep accurate records on foreigners visiting the US, surely anyone can see the problem with that. So basically US law for foreigners if any record in error claims the tourist is a felon subject to a life sentence in prison, the foreigner has no right of redress because no matter how inaccurate the record is, there is not requirement to change it. So the US has become a place not to visit because now it has become too risky, not just because of a poorly thought out executive decision but how that decision will be used by low level power tripping flunkies. So basically, yeah, I agree with you 100%, no travel to the US is the sound recommendation.
PS numb nuts, do you know what is the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen, prove it in a court of law, oh wait you can't, the government has claimed you are a non-citizen with no rights and thus have no access to the courts, 'er', good luck with you very shallow thinking.
I doubt you have ever been involved in establishing and maintaining manual system. You can not simply scribble stuff on bits of paper. Data needs to make it from one person to another, set formats, product descriptions, needed information all need to be taken care of, no notes, not computer, no previous forms to copy, all from scratch. Those manual systems to many years to develop and training to use. Your hope for the best attitude will work after about 6 months and a percentage of the population has died from starvation, quite a large percentage, let alone medical care.
There is a distinct edge coming to Apple, an excitement seems to be developing. M$ has dropped the ball big time and Apple can sense an opening into the desktop market, that they have never had before. It will be interesting to see how it develops over this year. M$ seems locked into forcing users to do what they say when ever M$ says it and gross invasions of privacy and basically turning a PC into a xbox. Arrogantly doing that has already caused their phone market to collapse and that is rapidly extending into budget notebooks and tablets. Likely the xbox is not far behind and the desktop, what is left of it, is becoming very fragile. The next big market the big screen all in one, looks like a complete shut out for M$ and that market has not even really kicked off yet.
M$'s insane gamble of treating it customers like serfs who must obey and expose themselves to their masters, making use of application and data lock in, looks to be pretty much blowing right up in the collective stupendously arrogant faces. No matter what they try to do to fix it, it looks they are done (an annoying waste of effort lost in learning windows, meh, nothing last forever).
Sorry but to claim that you must use massive data sets. So for example toss a coin three times and get three heads in a row, still highly probable just less than a fifty percent chance. To validate, you must toss that coin at least 10 times and preferably 100 to actually get anywhere near fifty percent heads and fifty percent tales, the fewer the tosses the far more likely 80% heads and twenty percent tales etc. is quite readily possible. So the test seems to be more about making people more comfortable with generating profits from people trapped in a vegetative state by them (so the ones that say no, are they still trapped and feeding profits with their suffering).
This is the kind of news people are forced to resort to, when corporations like M$ a lying pieces of shite. Lie, lie, lie, it's all they do, they are disgusting. Now they biggest lie of all, they have the right to install software on the computer that you bought, that you paud of the OS, against you will, against your rights, what a crock of shite. Basically screw M$ and it blatantly corrupt theft of user rights, it is the biggest abuse of the public by any corporation in history and being backed up by a corrupt US government.
No company has the right to force anything from you, not your energy, not you equipment, not your time, not your bandwidth and not your life (they do not own it and have no right to sell information about it). They are truly done as a corporation, something to be actively opposed and shut down.
The evidence of the pacemaker is only evidence of it's activity and nothing more. There is not evidence correlating changes in activity to anything else. What else can cause changes, intoxicant consumption, sexual activity (whether shared or individual sexual stimulation), general exposure to media content (movies, TV series, music).
Basically they twisted the evidence in such a way, that the defendant must now prove innocence. There are many activities that would generate those response, their claim that only one could produce it, is inherently false, especially when the defendant is now forced to prove they were doing something else to generate that response and the prosecution has to prove nothing, just make that false claim.
Perhaps this is better, "Li-ion batteries use an intercalated lithium compound as one electrode material, compared to the metallic lithium used in a non-rechargeable lithium battery."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery), even referenced. - and just in case - "In chemistry, intercalation is the reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into compounds with layered structures. Examples are found in graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(chemistry)) - oh bugger - "Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are atomically thin semiconductors of the type MX2, with M a transition metal atom (Mo, W, etc.) and X a chalcogen atom (S, Se, or Te.). One layer of M atoms is sandwiched between two layers of X atoms. A MoS2 monolayer is 6.5 Ã... thick."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal_dichalcogenide_monolayers) - when will it end - The chalcogens (/ËkælkÉ(TM)dÊ'ánz/) are the chemical elements in group 16 of the periodic table. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcogen);D.
The question being avoided is the contractual right to your image and whether someone can lay claim to it, permanently. Consider if you agree to you image being used and not noticing in the fine print that it was permanent. How about if they starting using it via digital animation, to sell something you were opposed to. Your face up their selling say chocolate covered bullshit as the best thing ever and you loved the taste, now consider they also have your voice to tie to your image and there it is large as life blazing across the internet.
Are you allowed redress, can you recover you personal data or biometrics, considering how they can be used against you in very extreme fashion. So lets stretch in on out, you go to the hairdresser for a hair cut by your claim that hairdresser can now claim right to the DNA in your hair, you don't claim it, in fact by assumed consent you give all rights of possession to the hairdresser, who can they sell you DNA information.
People have a right to privacy which means, just like all other rights, they can suspend them if they choose but just like all other rights, the snap right back in place the very second they choose to no longer suspend them. It is a fair and reasonable right for people to be able to reclaim their privacy, to demand information about them be deleted, subject to reasonable limits ie like non-personalised data or public record data or prescribed government held and restricted from public access data. What rights do corporations have to your privacy, none what so ever and they need to be taught that lesson with harsh laws and custodial sentences.
Didn't know that. When it asked to connect to my router, I just said no and that was that. I'll do wired to do upgrades and than disconnect but not wireless. Optical drives are so last millennium, either download or USB stick (that format is dropping in price really fast).
Buying new content, been at it a while, not much I an interested in buying any more. Once you have enough content to last a whole year watching every waking hour, your are pretty much done. My home TV station is full and commercial free. The market bargain bin will fill your connection over the years, always amusing to see top dollar content suddenly appear in the bargain bin, just buy when its cheap.
Also the last bunch of years has been really crap, just scammy marketing a viral rubbish produced by the likes of Jar Jar Abrams. You don't want to see it in the cinema, you don't want a quality version, it just pisses you off because crap took the place of a better version that will never be made, yeah, ghost busters, fuck.
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Look everyone knows it is only a matter of time before M$ kills skype on Windows 7 to force people to the probe. That's what upsets them, they have become accustomed to M$'s behaviour, expect it and are becoming annoyed when they see it coming even when it couple of years down track. They know M$'s modus operandi and regardless to the bullshit press releases M$ puts out, the react the the reality underlying it. So as M$ bought skype, I was done with it, I know the inevitable consequence, they are a crappy company and it will be bad for end users, it's just the way it is. Didn't complain, just dropped it and moved on.
It could be the nerd/geek in my but exactly what makes non-reproductive mutual masturbation, with someone you barely know and do not trust (with all the commensurate risks of psychopaths, diseases, high costs, just plain bad relationships), than a quick individual hormonal adjustment (our bodies chemicals fucking with our bodies brains). Ignoring the demands from market droids that sex sells, you know, cars, power boats, clothing, makeup, jewellery, holiday tours, fancy restaurants, flowers, expensive weddings and even more expensive divorces. Not to of course to forget giving reason for being of pretty but stupid, shallow and greedy (male or female).
If they make it so hard to bring up children and you can see their future as nothing more than burning on the greed driven pyres of the rich and greedy, why play the game.
Social media is a part of life but people need to accept each social media site as only a fun fad and not commit so much emotion or effort to it. Social media, no different to the yoyo, the hula hoop or any other fad, just like MySpace. Play with it for a little while, gets boring or annoying, then stop, do not invest your life in it, you will suffer for it.
People need to place proper context on social media, ignore the hype and bullshit marketing, it is a game, it is not life. Play to amuse yourself and be willing to drop it when ever it becomes boring or annoying and move on to real life but playing on social media can be a small part of life or not, just like all fads, choose which ones you want to play on.
It is not permanent, nobody can lay claim to your rights, it is just legal bullshit. The second you claim any of your rights they must immediately hand them back, they can seek recompense for the loss but they most certainly can not keep them, you are not a slave. You can not claim my image to infer I support your product, that is technically theft of free speech, you are stealing my free right to speech by forcing a false statement upon me.
Dude, I was going for funny, give me a break, well, I guess I'm just not funny enough, just boringly informative ;D
I see that you do not understand Wall Street what so ever. Here let me explain it for you, they sell the product, they do not keep the product, they take a percentage from the sale. Need I remind of the too big to fail banks and them selling crap assets to their customers telling them how great they were and making ever more money by betting those assets would lose value.
It is not what the dot.bomb is worth, it is how much you make selling it.
The mind boggles as to what a new digital company that actually generates a profit would be worth, 1.5 planet earths perhaps.
So watch netflix on your Android TV, whilst doing other stuff on your computer. I do this all of the time, well, not netflix, but streamed youtube et al, whilst gaming, shopping etc. and no, I do not want corporations spying on me, I do not want them to install software without my specific permission, nor do I want them to delete content without my permission. You can see it coming, the only copy of a wedding video, fresh from the camera, stored on windows and because ohh ahh copyrighted music for which the owner does not permission is in the background, well, along comes Mr Clippy, here let me fix that for you and deletes the wedding video, gone for ever. Don't think it will happen, M$ the company that resets privacy settings, not once but over and over again, they don't care, their attitude fuck the end users, they do as they are told and this repeated again and again and again and only temporarily stops or slows down when users kick up an almighty stink and then a couple of years down track, M$ tries it on again.
Have you not paid one bit of attention during the last eight years, not the slightest. Where is universal health care, where are the cut backs on out sourcing including government services, where are the improvement in public education, how about a living wage (still don't have just empty vague promises of one quite a few years down the track), how about the halt of attacks on unions, than abandon workers for conservative professionals look from their own mouths https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Expand, open your eyes, other wise there is no point.
Reality is democracy is all about people. People should make the votes and people should count the votes and real people should be voted for. Outside actors were never the problem, the corporations that make the devices and the current government in power that control the devices, they are the problem.
Actually technically speaking they are, this is really a high risk game, across international boundaries, it is extremely problematic. They will find a while bunch of agencies from around the world go after them and the penalties could be quite dramatic. Really, really, not a good idea, there will be a severe price to pay.
Brick and mortar retail runs at a margin of between 60% to 80%. The might make a profit of 10% to 15% but that most definitely is not their markup. Price fixing in most countries is a criminal offence and geo-pricing is price fixing, yeah, steam and a bunch of others will pay. Steam will likely be able to fob most of the penalty off to the publishers and long as they turn them over and prove steam was forced into it. Publishers will take a bath on this one, wont pay taxes one way, you will be forced to pay taxes the other way (unless they can prove it was steams idea).
Local steam outlets make sense, after all it just runs different database rules and mirrors the content. From the end user perspective they either use the local steam server with local rules or connect to the international server with international rules. Local offices also allow you to hook into local customers more and get a better understanding of them to improve relations between the seller and the customer. It would also allow Steam to dip into game serving for MMOs, relieving the publisher and developer of that chore and likely picking up more players (a lot of countries who would not normally get game servers would now do so because steam could serve hundreds of games off the same infrastructure).
M$ is attempting to force OEM and ODM into the xbone licensing scam and make no mistake, if end users no longer own the PC once the install windows 10, what makes you think M$ will allow anyone else to own it. Licence fees for anything hooked to windows 10 including content (the promise for content providers, anyone installs content on a pc owned by M$ as a result of naive user installing windows 10, will see that content deleted at the next compulsory upgrade and FOSS of course banned outright). Make no mistake once you install windows 10, they own your computer, they choose what software to install, they choose the configuration setting, they sell your privacy and you obey and STFU, else they will shut you down, oh no, not at first but it will come (there is no law that requires them to rent you windows and you will be paying rent in the end and when that rent stops so does access to the content that you created, your own family images, your digital life, all to be held hostage to extortion payments).
Still, the message is, 'so what train a local'. I sorry you do not get it but this is exactly what happens every single time. Greedy arseholes abuse the system and the rules are changed to end the disruption and a whole bunch of people get caught in the cross fire. It has happened exactly like this in the past and it will happen like it in the future. Greedy arse holes fuck the system up, regulations come in to curtail their excess and the few people who were doing the right thing lose out. Make no mistake right now the system is being abused the crap out of and everyone knows it and it has to stop and that means a bunch of people doing the right will suffer because of many, many, more doing the wrong thing. Don't whine about a few here and a few there suffering when tens of thousands are suffering on the other side. Corporations should train locals they should not demand that others pay for the training and then use them to break the backs of local workers and force them to submit to hugely reduced conditions of employment, it has to stop, sorry but that is it, suck it up.
No death spiral, a google scam. Basically google used insider information to steal as much market share as possible from mozzila, no ifs buts or maybes. Mozzila targeted the wrong market. People do not really browse the internet with mobile phones, they only get want they want at the time. It generates a lot of hits because of numbers of people but per person, outside of filling an immediate need, the browsing does not really happen, simply a very bad reading format, too small. Browsing - "to access and view (website content) with a Web browser, usually without looking for something specific" http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., only really occurs on a bigger screen formats.
So Mozilla needs to focus on browsing information (not targeted information retrieval, in and out and done), that leisurely trawl through the internet on the big screen, whether that be a desktop, an all in one big screen computer (55" and up) or next gen virtual reality glasses.
The mobile phone and tablet, are internet search devices not internet browsing devices. Also they need to ignore google's bullshit, goggle is not their friend, goggle is a disingenuous predator and should not be trusted (proof of this, the purposeful attempt to surreptitiously corrupt elections in their corporate favour, really, really, dangerous anti-democratic stuff because it was done in secret and specifically targeted the subconscious of people, sick stuff indeed, as evil as it gets).
Basically at the moment, main stream media is purposefully trying to toxify any political environment that is not corporate establishment. Pay attention to the shenanigans, to those trying to distort socio-economic issues back into identity politics, it is not happening by accident, establishment PR agencies and stink tanks are behind it, in affect, false flag trolls and main stream media than jumps on it and blames the entire political movements and tarnishes them as nazis and communists and inevitably as terrorists (they will try to destroy to keep their corruption going and to stay out of prison, of course).
Alternate right and much the same as the developing alternate left, was more about tackling fake conservatives and fake progressives, you know the corporate party that has infested both parties and taken them over. The fake conservatives flooded the right side of politics with empty distractions, religious state , abortions, gay issues and low and behold, the corporate party, filled the progressives with empty distractions, anti-religous state , abortions, gay issues. This whilst robbing us all blind and those shallow self serving nutbags they piled on both sides actually acting against core issues of both sides, rabbiting on about injustice of it all and how they are special and their dear leader and the evil demon lord from the other side (scam, people, all a scam).
The left is about social equality for labour, and it got flooded with selfish, idiotic social justice warriors who oppose social equality for labour (they don't want to end the exploitation, they want to become the exploiters. You might say they are alien to both sides of politics). The want to become the exploiters and the only reason they are not on the right side of politics, the right is a whole lot less tolerant. It seems the progressive left needs to also become a whole lot less tolerant and drive those people out of the party who oppose core real issues of the party.
The problem is, the people involved have clearly not read the privacy act. For example it covers accuracy of records kept. So Trump is now stating that US government department need not keep accurate records on foreigners visiting the US, surely anyone can see the problem with that. So basically US law for foreigners if any record in error claims the tourist is a felon subject to a life sentence in prison, the foreigner has no right of redress because no matter how inaccurate the record is, there is not requirement to change it. So the US has become a place not to visit because now it has become too risky, not just because of a poorly thought out executive decision but how that decision will be used by low level power tripping flunkies. So basically, yeah, I agree with you 100%, no travel to the US is the sound recommendation.
PS numb nuts, do you know what is the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen, prove it in a court of law, oh wait you can't, the government has claimed you are a non-citizen with no rights and thus have no access to the courts, 'er', good luck with you very shallow thinking.
I doubt you have ever been involved in establishing and maintaining manual system. You can not simply scribble stuff on bits of paper. Data needs to make it from one person to another, set formats, product descriptions, needed information all need to be taken care of, no notes, not computer, no previous forms to copy, all from scratch. Those manual systems to many years to develop and training to use. Your hope for the best attitude will work after about 6 months and a percentage of the population has died from starvation, quite a large percentage, let alone medical care.
There is a distinct edge coming to Apple, an excitement seems to be developing. M$ has dropped the ball big time and Apple can sense an opening into the desktop market, that they have never had before. It will be interesting to see how it develops over this year. M$ seems locked into forcing users to do what they say when ever M$ says it and gross invasions of privacy and basically turning a PC into a xbox. Arrogantly doing that has already caused their phone market to collapse and that is rapidly extending into budget notebooks and tablets. Likely the xbox is not far behind and the desktop, what is left of it, is becoming very fragile. The next big market the big screen all in one, looks like a complete shut out for M$ and that market has not even really kicked off yet.
M$'s insane gamble of treating it customers like serfs who must obey and expose themselves to their masters, making use of application and data lock in, looks to be pretty much blowing right up in the collective stupendously arrogant faces. No matter what they try to do to fix it, it looks they are done (an annoying waste of effort lost in learning windows, meh, nothing last forever).
Sorry but to claim that you must use massive data sets. So for example toss a coin three times and get three heads in a row, still highly probable just less than a fifty percent chance. To validate, you must toss that coin at least 10 times and preferably 100 to actually get anywhere near fifty percent heads and fifty percent tales, the fewer the tosses the far more likely 80% heads and twenty percent tales etc. is quite readily possible. So the test seems to be more about making people more comfortable with generating profits from people trapped in a vegetative state by them (so the ones that say no, are they still trapped and feeding profits with their suffering).
This is the kind of news people are forced to resort to, when corporations like M$ a lying pieces of shite. Lie, lie, lie, it's all they do, they are disgusting. Now they biggest lie of all, they have the right to install software on the computer that you bought, that you paud of the OS, against you will, against your rights, what a crock of shite. Basically screw M$ and it blatantly corrupt theft of user rights, it is the biggest abuse of the public by any corporation in history and being backed up by a corrupt US government.
No company has the right to force anything from you, not your energy, not you equipment, not your time, not your bandwidth and not your life (they do not own it and have no right to sell information about it). They are truly done as a corporation, something to be actively opposed and shut down.
The evidence of the pacemaker is only evidence of it's activity and nothing more. There is not evidence correlating changes in activity to anything else. What else can cause changes, intoxicant consumption, sexual activity (whether shared or individual sexual stimulation), general exposure to media content (movies, TV series, music).
Basically they twisted the evidence in such a way, that the defendant must now prove innocence. There are many activities that would generate those response, their claim that only one could produce it, is inherently false, especially when the defendant is now forced to prove they were doing something else to generate that response and the prosecution has to prove nothing, just make that false claim.
Perhaps this is better, "Li-ion batteries use an intercalated lithium compound as one electrode material, compared to the metallic lithium used in a non-rechargeable lithium battery."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery), even referenced. - and just in case - "In chemistry, intercalation is the reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into compounds with layered structures. Examples are found in graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(chemistry)) - oh bugger - "Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are atomically thin semiconductors of the type MX2, with M a transition metal atom (Mo, W, etc.) and X a chalcogen atom (S, Se, or Te.). One layer of M atoms is sandwiched between two layers of X atoms. A MoS2 monolayer is 6.5 Ã... thick."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal_dichalcogenide_monolayers) - when will it end - The chalcogens (/ËkælkÉ(TM)dÊ'ánz/) are the chemical elements in group 16 of the periodic table. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcogen) ;D.
The question being avoided is the contractual right to your image and whether someone can lay claim to it, permanently. Consider if you agree to you image being used and not noticing in the fine print that it was permanent. How about if they starting using it via digital animation, to sell something you were opposed to. Your face up their selling say chocolate covered bullshit as the best thing ever and you loved the taste, now consider they also have your voice to tie to your image and there it is large as life blazing across the internet.
Are you allowed redress, can you recover you personal data or biometrics, considering how they can be used against you in very extreme fashion. So lets stretch in on out, you go to the hairdresser for a hair cut by your claim that hairdresser can now claim right to the DNA in your hair, you don't claim it, in fact by assumed consent you give all rights of possession to the hairdresser, who can they sell you DNA information.
People have a right to privacy which means, just like all other rights, they can suspend them if they choose but just like all other rights, the snap right back in place the very second they choose to no longer suspend them. It is a fair and reasonable right for people to be able to reclaim their privacy, to demand information about them be deleted, subject to reasonable limits ie like non-personalised data or public record data or prescribed government held and restricted from public access data. What rights do corporations have to your privacy, none what so ever and they need to be taught that lesson with harsh laws and custodial sentences.
Didn't know that. When it asked to connect to my router, I just said no and that was that. I'll do wired to do upgrades and than disconnect but not wireless. Optical drives are so last millennium, either download or USB stick (that format is dropping in price really fast).
Buying new content, been at it a while, not much I an interested in buying any more. Once you have enough content to last a whole year watching every waking hour, your are pretty much done. My home TV station is full and commercial free. The market bargain bin will fill your connection over the years, always amusing to see top dollar content suddenly appear in the bargain bin, just buy when its cheap.
Also the last bunch of years has been really crap, just scammy marketing a viral rubbish produced by the likes of Jar Jar Abrams. You don't want to see it in the cinema, you don't want a quality version, it just pisses you off because crap took the place of a better version that will never be made, yeah, ghost busters, fuck.