Just because you record something criminal you are doing does not make it legal, unless of course it is prostitution in which case apparently it does or getting paid a bribe, apparently if you accept the bribe by giving a public speech about it, then it is no longer a bribe. Never to forget that as money is considered speech, then paying someone to kill someone is speech, so they payer is freely entitled to pay and only the assassin should be prosecuted. Now add in bearing false witness, fraud, perjury or changing your mind about an oath (if speech is free is should no bind you as an oath does).
You are free to express an opinion, you are not free to invent false facts for gain.
More obviously, stop paying and you will lose your tag, pretty lame stuff by M$, manipulating minors with a sense of loss of identity to keep them paying.
Its a typical geek/nerd thing, random deep interest in a particular subject. So why specifically women's hair and why not men's hair. What happens if you shave you head and are bald, do you still require the covering. How about if you shave you head and wear an artificial wig, it's not your hair, so do you still need to cover it. What happens if you shave you head and displays the leftover hair, do you cover your head or that hair. If it is women's hair what happens if a bald man, wears a wig made of women's hair, does he now have to cover his head. How about if you are a man and cover your head, hiding you hair, is that a crime ie pretending to be a woman? Are any particular hair styles more subject to legal intervention than others. Overall the rules seems really arbitrary and nothing more than a forced control to limit the rights of one group in preference to the other group not bound by the same control, so the control has no function beyond enforcing that control and reminding those being controlled, that they are subject to control and should mind their place.
In the case of tech sites and the application of technology. What happens if you wore a head covering and is was digitally removed and replaced with something that just looks like hair, has a law been broken on not. How about counter measures, should the rest of the world flood Iran with, Iranian looking websites with women with their hair exposed, so as to leave them running around in circles looking for culprits.
M$ should simply have launched the paid for Windows SE versions and free Windows anal probe version at the same time and give people a choice but M$ are renown for not giving customers a choice and trying to force customers to do what M$ want them to do. It seems likely that their goal was to make you pay for the anal probe if they could get away with it but if they can't then Windows SE goes ahead instead of being cancelled. It seems they went to far though and have given Apple and Linux (via Android) to big an opportunity. Losephone is near dead (can't call it Win phone, that would be a lie, they are winning nothing with it). All rather arbitrary as the desktop is rapidly shrinking back to business and power users with notebooks for education (consumer markets big screen all in ones, tablets to control those big screens and smart phones - they are basically just consumers of content, so goes the smart phone choice, so goes that big screen all in one). That message, mostly subconscious, "M$ is watching you masturbate", is killing them.
P. How about a reassessment of copyright law in line with patent laws. Works must demonstrate true worth and value to society prior to achieve copyright protection, which is actually copytheft protection, the ability to steal the work of others because it is a copy of a protected work. The US constitution puts it very well, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", should any work fail that test, it should not have copyright protection and the taxpayers most certainly should not be expected to fund that protection. It is about time that test was used as it was reasonably and soundly intended to do.
What they are doing is quite interesting legally speaking. So what are the realistic expectations of privacy in a public space, why would a sound recording differ from a video recording. The second point, the fine point about randomly recording events at a specific location, rather than specifically targeting an individual, does that public location have an expectation of privacy. The legal fine point, you sit in a public space with a smart phone and make a call, does someone sitting close by have an expectation that you will stop using your phone so as not accidentally capture and transmit their communications with someone else.
So cheeky but not really illegal as they are continuously recording a public space and have no control over who wanders into it and what they do or say in it, no different to a video security camera, so add in a microphone and is a security camera that monitors public space illegal.
Police have a duty to monitor public space and citizens had a right to monitor police in that public space. A fixed microphone at a location versus a mobile one tracking a specific individual. By happen stance when recording bird song in a public park I recorded two people plotting a murder, keep in mind the recording was purposeful but not targeted at a specific individual, except if you take into account the private communications of those birds. So provide that recording to the police or destroy for invading the privacy of those individuals plotting the murder, so which is the greater crime, invading someone's privacy or accessory before the fact to a crime, specifically in this case a murder.
Not really all that accurate with regard to increasing the efficiency of solar panels. So for a given horizontal area exposed to sunlight, you could split the light frequencies and reflect specific frequencies onto specific frequency adapted vertical solar panels, with much greater area than the original horizontal area and substantially increase efficiency. The problem with this, does the substantial increase in capital cost with the more expensive panel provide sufficient return compared to a plain simple cheap panel, taking into account customer resistance to higher cost and storm risk factors. So the Solyndra system does improve efficiency just not enough to justify the substantial increase capital cost, engineers looking at their power output numbers without considering other factors, like the rapidly reducing price of plain, simple, everyday solar panels and other design efficiencies coming in at much lower cost. So quite simply if you have enough roof space to run a greater area of panels at a lower price, than say much more expensive and efficient panels that use say, half the space but at double the cost, what do you gain. So most houses have sufficient roof area to cover their power needs with much cheaper panels, so they buy the cheaper panels. Basic failure, designing for yesterday, rather than designing for tomorrow.
As for the sound thing, look you might have some sort of chance transmitting the sound through a solid (say concrete slab floor or wall) but through atmosphere pretty much none at all, unless the receiver fully encapsulates the sound being emitted by the atmospheric pressure modulation device (sounds like they had the whole idea of sonar on the brain, delusions about some sort of acoustic laser but if you don't point it in exactly the right location it could never work even if you get it to somehow work). Even pushing the sound through a solid would be terribly inefficient. By some miracle they get it to work, it still collapses with cheaper batteries and much less frequent recharging cycles ie imagine a battery you only need to charge once a week, nobody would give a crap about chargers any more (somewhere in that week you would be able to drop it in various docking stations for varying amounts of time to keep up the charge without impacting use).
Far more likely, that's no bug, that's a purposeful feature. Apple's blunder, not taking into account content creators and the difference between that and empty content consumers. Why so few complaints, Apple were counting on questionable down loaders not complaining, not taking into content creators who would complain loudly and emphatically, now that's a bug at Apple management. So apple are in fact wholly and totally guilty of extremely empathic copyright infringement actually and actively stealing content.
Apple's other big mistake, not taking into account that quite a few people only enjoy very specific mixes, that have memories associated with them and regardless of the claimed better mixes, they actually hate those 'improved mixes' as it disrupts the emotions associated with those memories and the very specific mixes, the bring them about. Seriously Apple you are fucking with peoples memories and the emotions associated with those memories, not a good idea.
The reality is quite simple, targeted advertisements have a very damaging subconscious impact. They see that alignment of advertisements with their behaviour and are subconsciously disturbed by it without actually expressing that concern, simply curtailing the behaviour that brings it about. We know what is going on and consciously protecting ourselves or even providing misinformation to contaminate the database, as computer geeks and nerds. They do not (it's all the magic box that does, magic things, they call it a computer without any understanding of how it computes), so the impact becomes very disturbing subconsciously, they then avoid interactions that generate those undesired unspoken feelings, interesting impact.
So when exactly are you going to apply for a job as a TSA screening officer, they are looking for 768, after all it is like winning the lottery or are you just bullshitting. So people should be banned from joining unions or perhaps having a government jobs means becoming a second class citizen with less rights or well, seriously. Perhaps you can just kick a random fireman, soldier or policemen in the nuts for you jollies, as they do not deserve the protection of unions and they should be regularly 'sacrificed?', seriously.
All they need is a working class geek to do the interpretations for the court. Using an intellectual from more affluent circumstance will produce problems. So the proper definition for an application programming interface for oldies, especially Luddite is, "it's morse code". The interface being the commonly accepted pattern of dots and dashes to communicate information, but does not include the information to be transmitted, which is protected and copyright, where as the agreed pattern of dots and dashes is just an agreed pattern and the nature of the pattern is completely arbitrary as long (which patterns of dots and dashes represent what information), as long as there is agreement between sender and receiver with regards to the arrangements of dots and dashes are required to represent components of that communication (they have no inherent value, no worth, beyond being an agreed pattern of dots and dashes to facilitate communications). It is the total arbitrary nature of the pattern that eliminates it's value, no pattern is worth more or less than another, they just represent an agreed pattern between the morse operators, so they can send and receiver information and understand what those messages mean, that message itself having the worth, the equipment involved being patentable but the arbitrary pattern has no value, it is arbitrary.
Neither M$ nor Amazon can tolerate that sort of bad advertising, they'll do an internal review, find out whether it extended further and likely hand them over. Simply not worth it unless they are major investors and in that case they have the wealth to defend themselves. Advertising is extraordinarily expensive, in fact it costs billions now, so how expensive would the public relations exercise of being a leading corporate citizen by handing over corrupt executives and protecting the honour of the company versus protecting them 'at all costs', considering how much it would cost to protect them and how much more it would cost to repair the public relations damage.
Let's be realistic, who wants corporate executives who are lead by their genitals, what worth are they, really. What risk are they, what would they sell to please their genitals. If they can not contain their hormones with a quick low risk toss but must risk their entire companies for their weaknesses, why protect them at all, better all round to get rid of them as quickly as possible and perhaps even improve the reputation demonstrating corporate leadership.
Well, I would hardly lazily use my initials and year of birth If I was particularly concerned. As for the rest, others have dug far deeper with nefarious intent and still without much concern on part, even direct in person stuff and active digital intrusions. As for the personal insults, it's the internet, so what's new, overall, pretty lame but hey worth a shot I suppose if you are into that but that's just your nature, your guilt expressing itself upon others, viewing the negatives in yourself as being expressed by others. Retired http://www.merriam-webster.com..., pretty accurately describes my current state of lack of need or desire for employment. So I am not sure what you are intending, as for potential desire, sure I suppose being paid a lot for doing a little is always a thought to be entertained, if you are intending to imply that my retirement is impermanent for some reason.
So how many successful attacks are M$ launching upon their unsuspecting victims via Windows anal probe 10, hmm, just saying (invading the privacy of others, yeah, that's a hack all right and on going one because they let the government in through that same back door, for a price).
So it looks like the intent is to pick random comments so as to stretch existing rules further and further, so that any comment they dislike for any reason can be targeted. They can use that precedence creep to single out individuals for persecution via unsuccessful but extended prosecution. You know the drill, first the home invasion, trash the dwelling place, brutally assault the target, kidnap them and the jail them so as to continue the abuse. Ramp up false charges, arrange a massive bond and them extend out the court process for months and months, whilst continuing to abuse them in prison. After abusing them for near a year, force a guilty plea with threats of continuing the process or the plead guilty and are immediately freed as sentence served. Now no job, home gone, life destroyed. That is what it is all about, that precedence creep to allow the police state to attack anyone they want to for any reason they want to, everyone is guilty of something.
You left out the layer of corruption. This is all to do with the corrupt corporations that control government seeking to maintain and protect their cartels as they parasitically prey upon their societies. So they are using the governments they control to destroy their competitors at tax payer expense (the taxes they are not paying because they have laundered their profits in the tax havens they control). When you turn society into a cesspit don't be surprised when the biggest pieces of shit float to the top.
Today I was reminded of Tucows, dropped in to look and noticed I had blocked it's scripts and cookies and can not remember why, oh well, better safe than sorry, no real point testing to find out why I blocked it's scripts and cookies, so many other choices.
The easiest answer to the question of whether or not you find it acceptable is, whether or not your find it acceptable. Don't like it stop being their customer. Still somewhat interested, inform them of the reason you stopped being their customer and check back every now and again to see if they change, until either you get bored coming back to check and stop or they change. There are just, so, so many choices out there and it will only grow, especially with accurate auto-translators on the horizon, content available from all over the world.
For me either the web site is OK and they get cookies and scripts or they are not and 'no cookies for you'. This extends to publishing houses (kill off everyone of their websites cookies and scripts) to advertising agencies (kill off their cookies and scripts no matter where they are).
What ever you preference is as a customer should always drive your choices on the internet ie Don't like that they promote wasteful consumption of fossil fuels, drop them and go else where, there are thousands upon thousands of other places to go. Don't like the politics of the owner, drop them, there is an whole internet of alternates. Don't like the products they promote, simply go elsewhere. You can also choose whether or not to let them know why. Don't forget https://www.google.com.au/?cli... , it really is just so easy.
Seriously, once you go to all the trouble of getting up there in any serious manner ie with a view of getting to other stars, why bother coming back down. Anything you mine up there, can be more effectively used up there to reach further and further out. Way better off turning earth into a chaotic theme park of itself then trying to advance it against the wishes of the primitives.
The fossil fuellers are just a prime example of that chaotic destructive urge of the psychopathic self aggrandising extremists, with a total lack of interest in the consequences just the insatiable desire to feed their ego and lusts and no matter how much, more, more, more, is the only response. It isn't the system, it is the individuals who created that system, that is their destructive nature.
So you clean up the parts worth saving and let the others, dwell in their own ignorance and ensure sufficient application of appropriate technology to limit the negative activity of the ignorant parts upon those localised allied regions, which continue to technological and socially advance (keeping in mind the odd socio-political hiccup like crony capitalism). Certainly those advancing regions should never be the core of planetary abuse.
So the revolution, simple, cut back on fossil fuel use, kill their profitability. Do not support anything that promotes wasteful consumption of fossil fuels, ridicule and chastise those that do, private jets, mega yachts, mac mansions, ludicrous jewellery, grind them down into the worthless pollution puss hogs they are, wasting the planets resources and polluting beyond all reasons, individuals consuming more than entire towns, truly disgusting individuals, worthy only of condemnation.
The story is those people cheating on the taxes are the same people promoting austerity, actually buying politicians, so services are cut back due to lost tax revenue and citizens suffer and die. So tax havens are basically economic terrorists, attacking other countries economies and harming those citizens in collusion with the corrupt politicians of those countries and the 1% psychopath class as well as transfer of funds from the tax evaders accounts to the corrupt politician accounts (so hiding money has been proven, what has yet to be accounted for is how that hidden money was earned). So it is not just people cheating a little on their taxes, it is organised crime upon a massive scale, bribery and corruption, upon a mass scale. The question is should countries being cheated by tax havens and having their democracies attacked and their economies seriously damaged, declare economic war upon tax havens, real serious, active economic war to destroy those tax havens and put them out of business.
More likely they will simply release the Windows 10 SE version (secure edition), that you have to pay for, in conjunction with Windows anal probe 10, that you get for free. They would also have to allow up clean-up version for those who want to swap from anal probe to SE (secure edition). It just means the enterprise version just becomes available to typical end users. Also watch out, that means disabling the probes on the free version will also become impossible ie pay or probe extortion.
The real problem with the study is the inherent lie in the presentation of the study ie the claim of a 29 year analysis. This because year one is no where near the same as year 29 of the study. Think of it as age over time of the people. So year 1 had a huge percentage of he population with zero exposure at the start and only limited exposure there on in. Towards year 29 those most a risk have only limited exposure over time with maximum exposure to that form of radiation ie they are still to young to get a real measure of impact ie consider starting from the year 2000 on, for more realistic exposure, in terms of degree of exposure and number of years being exposed from a young age (using US data http://hypertextbook.com/facts...).
Reality is the most likely period of measure would be when children highly exposed hit their twenties and thirties, so large changes in occurrence would not logically occur until somewhere between the 2020s and 2040s. So the study is really disingenuous. Reality is the countdown for impact is only really starting now and would still be considered early for a population based study. So come back in the year 2030 and see how people feel about his study whether they are acknowledge for the efforts in a positive fashion of whether the population wants them hung, drawn and quartered for spreading false information.
No one is trying to excuse the driver and they should face the typical penalty for excessive speed and reckless driving. However there is more than enough blame to spread around and based upon snapchat's behaviour and purposefully promoting criminal activity, keep in mind promoting crime is a criminal activity, they certainly deserve the civil suit and prosecutors should really consider a criminal indictment.
Now that is the only real matter of significance. Of all species on the planet, as far back in the past we can investigate, we will be the only species on this planet to evolve into a galactic species with our presence on more than one world, consider the real significance of that, 1 in 1 trillion. Quite the achievement to either succeed at truly evolving or fail and die in the planetary cocoon (that is the inevitable guaranteed fate by more than one possible major extinction events, we either thrive in the galaxy or die in the cocoon).
Trump has a killer weapon in this campaign, Democrat party voter purges in closed primaries. The leading Republican question, "Are you going to let Hillary Clinton purge your vote as well?!?".
Never forget the rich and greedy do not have friends, not ever, the have acquaintances and co-conspirators. We they can bring each other down to enrich themselves they will. They focus on their own profits, which is exactly why repeated chaos in the US corporate governments actions over seas, different corporations pulling in different directions, undermining each others work because their profits first.
So Trump the developer and his factions versus Hillary Clinton the banker and military industrial complex and her factions (keep in mind the banks often eat the bulk of the profits of the developer, often sending them bankrupt on purpose, small or big). So the question for everyone else is, which corruption best serves their interests at this time, developers or banksters and war mongers (not that either is good but one is certainly far less evil than the other).
Perhaps a third option or even fourth option might be better all round, more neutrals say Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein (imagine how clean and well behaved a contest between those two would be, an election that would be a pleasure instead of the alternate Trump and Clinton pain).
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Just because you record something criminal you are doing does not make it legal, unless of course it is prostitution in which case apparently it does or getting paid a bribe, apparently if you accept the bribe by giving a public speech about it, then it is no longer a bribe. Never to forget that as money is considered speech, then paying someone to kill someone is speech, so they payer is freely entitled to pay and only the assassin should be prosecuted. Now add in bearing false witness, fraud, perjury or changing your mind about an oath (if speech is free is should no bind you as an oath does).
You are free to express an opinion, you are not free to invent false facts for gain.
More obviously, stop paying and you will lose your tag, pretty lame stuff by M$, manipulating minors with a sense of loss of identity to keep them paying.
Its a typical geek/nerd thing, random deep interest in a particular subject. So why specifically women's hair and why not men's hair. What happens if you shave you head and are bald, do you still require the covering. How about if you shave you head and wear an artificial wig, it's not your hair, so do you still need to cover it. What happens if you shave you head and displays the leftover hair, do you cover your head or that hair. If it is women's hair what happens if a bald man, wears a wig made of women's hair, does he now have to cover his head. How about if you are a man and cover your head, hiding you hair, is that a crime ie pretending to be a woman? Are any particular hair styles more subject to legal intervention than others. Overall the rules seems really arbitrary and nothing more than a forced control to limit the rights of one group in preference to the other group not bound by the same control, so the control has no function beyond enforcing that control and reminding those being controlled, that they are subject to control and should mind their place.
In the case of tech sites and the application of technology. What happens if you wore a head covering and is was digitally removed and replaced with something that just looks like hair, has a law been broken on not. How about counter measures, should the rest of the world flood Iran with, Iranian looking websites with women with their hair exposed, so as to leave them running around in circles looking for culprits.
M$ should simply have launched the paid for Windows SE versions and free Windows anal probe version at the same time and give people a choice but M$ are renown for not giving customers a choice and trying to force customers to do what M$ want them to do. It seems likely that their goal was to make you pay for the anal probe if they could get away with it but if they can't then Windows SE goes ahead instead of being cancelled. It seems they went to far though and have given Apple and Linux (via Android) to big an opportunity. Losephone is near dead (can't call it Win phone, that would be a lie, they are winning nothing with it). All rather arbitrary as the desktop is rapidly shrinking back to business and power users with notebooks for education (consumer markets big screen all in ones, tablets to control those big screens and smart phones - they are basically just consumers of content, so goes the smart phone choice, so goes that big screen all in one). That message, mostly subconscious, "M$ is watching you masturbate", is killing them.
P. How about a reassessment of copyright law in line with patent laws. Works must demonstrate true worth and value to society prior to achieve copyright protection, which is actually copytheft protection, the ability to steal the work of others because it is a copy of a protected work. The US constitution puts it very well, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", should any work fail that test, it should not have copyright protection and the taxpayers most certainly should not be expected to fund that protection. It is about time that test was used as it was reasonably and soundly intended to do.
What they are doing is quite interesting legally speaking. So what are the realistic expectations of privacy in a public space, why would a sound recording differ from a video recording. The second point, the fine point about randomly recording events at a specific location, rather than specifically targeting an individual, does that public location have an expectation of privacy. The legal fine point, you sit in a public space with a smart phone and make a call, does someone sitting close by have an expectation that you will stop using your phone so as not accidentally capture and transmit their communications with someone else.
So cheeky but not really illegal as they are continuously recording a public space and have no control over who wanders into it and what they do or say in it, no different to a video security camera, so add in a microphone and is a security camera that monitors public space illegal.
Police have a duty to monitor public space and citizens had a right to monitor police in that public space. A fixed microphone at a location versus a mobile one tracking a specific individual. By happen stance when recording bird song in a public park I recorded two people plotting a murder, keep in mind the recording was purposeful but not targeted at a specific individual, except if you take into account the private communications of those birds. So provide that recording to the police or destroy for invading the privacy of those individuals plotting the murder, so which is the greater crime, invading someone's privacy or accessory before the fact to a crime, specifically in this case a murder.
Not really all that accurate with regard to increasing the efficiency of solar panels. So for a given horizontal area exposed to sunlight, you could split the light frequencies and reflect specific frequencies onto specific frequency adapted vertical solar panels, with much greater area than the original horizontal area and substantially increase efficiency. The problem with this, does the substantial increase in capital cost with the more expensive panel provide sufficient return compared to a plain simple cheap panel, taking into account customer resistance to higher cost and storm risk factors. So the Solyndra system does improve efficiency just not enough to justify the substantial increase capital cost, engineers looking at their power output numbers without considering other factors, like the rapidly reducing price of plain, simple, everyday solar panels and other design efficiencies coming in at much lower cost. So quite simply if you have enough roof space to run a greater area of panels at a lower price, than say much more expensive and efficient panels that use say, half the space but at double the cost, what do you gain. So most houses have sufficient roof area to cover their power needs with much cheaper panels, so they buy the cheaper panels. Basic failure, designing for yesterday, rather than designing for tomorrow.
As for the sound thing, look you might have some sort of chance transmitting the sound through a solid (say concrete slab floor or wall) but through atmosphere pretty much none at all, unless the receiver fully encapsulates the sound being emitted by the atmospheric pressure modulation device (sounds like they had the whole idea of sonar on the brain, delusions about some sort of acoustic laser but if you don't point it in exactly the right location it could never work even if you get it to somehow work). Even pushing the sound through a solid would be terribly inefficient. By some miracle they get it to work, it still collapses with cheaper batteries and much less frequent recharging cycles ie imagine a battery you only need to charge once a week, nobody would give a crap about chargers any more (somewhere in that week you would be able to drop it in various docking stations for varying amounts of time to keep up the charge without impacting use).
Far more likely, that's no bug, that's a purposeful feature. Apple's blunder, not taking into account content creators and the difference between that and empty content consumers. Why so few complaints, Apple were counting on questionable down loaders not complaining, not taking into content creators who would complain loudly and emphatically, now that's a bug at Apple management. So apple are in fact wholly and totally guilty of extremely empathic copyright infringement actually and actively stealing content.
Apple's other big mistake, not taking into account that quite a few people only enjoy very specific mixes, that have memories associated with them and regardless of the claimed better mixes, they actually hate those 'improved mixes' as it disrupts the emotions associated with those memories and the very specific mixes, the bring them about. Seriously Apple you are fucking with peoples memories and the emotions associated with those memories, not a good idea.
The reality is quite simple, targeted advertisements have a very damaging subconscious impact. They see that alignment of advertisements with their behaviour and are subconsciously disturbed by it without actually expressing that concern, simply curtailing the behaviour that brings it about. We know what is going on and consciously protecting ourselves or even providing misinformation to contaminate the database, as computer geeks and nerds. They do not (it's all the magic box that does, magic things, they call it a computer without any understanding of how it computes), so the impact becomes very disturbing subconsciously, they then avoid interactions that generate those undesired unspoken feelings, interesting impact.
So when exactly are you going to apply for a job as a TSA screening officer, they are looking for 768, after all it is like winning the lottery or are you just bullshitting. So people should be banned from joining unions or perhaps having a government jobs means becoming a second class citizen with less rights or well, seriously. Perhaps you can just kick a random fireman, soldier or policemen in the nuts for you jollies, as they do not deserve the protection of unions and they should be regularly 'sacrificed?', seriously.
All they need is a working class geek to do the interpretations for the court. Using an intellectual from more affluent circumstance will produce problems. So the proper definition for an application programming interface for oldies, especially Luddite is, "it's morse code". The interface being the commonly accepted pattern of dots and dashes to communicate information, but does not include the information to be transmitted, which is protected and copyright, where as the agreed pattern of dots and dashes is just an agreed pattern and the nature of the pattern is completely arbitrary as long (which patterns of dots and dashes represent what information), as long as there is agreement between sender and receiver with regards to the arrangements of dots and dashes are required to represent components of that communication (they have no inherent value, no worth, beyond being an agreed pattern of dots and dashes to facilitate communications). It is the total arbitrary nature of the pattern that eliminates it's value, no pattern is worth more or less than another, they just represent an agreed pattern between the morse operators, so they can send and receiver information and understand what those messages mean, that message itself having the worth, the equipment involved being patentable but the arbitrary pattern has no value, it is arbitrary.
Neither M$ nor Amazon can tolerate that sort of bad advertising, they'll do an internal review, find out whether it extended further and likely hand them over. Simply not worth it unless they are major investors and in that case they have the wealth to defend themselves. Advertising is extraordinarily expensive, in fact it costs billions now, so how expensive would the public relations exercise of being a leading corporate citizen by handing over corrupt executives and protecting the honour of the company versus protecting them 'at all costs', considering how much it would cost to protect them and how much more it would cost to repair the public relations damage.
Let's be realistic, who wants corporate executives who are lead by their genitals, what worth are they, really. What risk are they, what would they sell to please their genitals. If they can not contain their hormones with a quick low risk toss but must risk their entire companies for their weaknesses, why protect them at all, better all round to get rid of them as quickly as possible and perhaps even improve the reputation demonstrating corporate leadership.
Well, I would hardly lazily use my initials and year of birth If I was particularly concerned. As for the rest, others have dug far deeper with nefarious intent and still without much concern on part, even direct in person stuff and active digital intrusions. As for the personal insults, it's the internet, so what's new, overall, pretty lame but hey worth a shot I suppose if you are into that but that's just your nature, your guilt expressing itself upon others, viewing the negatives in yourself as being expressed by others. Retired http://www.merriam-webster.com..., pretty accurately describes my current state of lack of need or desire for employment. So I am not sure what you are intending, as for potential desire, sure I suppose being paid a lot for doing a little is always a thought to be entertained, if you are intending to imply that my retirement is impermanent for some reason.
So how many successful attacks are M$ launching upon their unsuspecting victims via Windows anal probe 10, hmm, just saying (invading the privacy of others, yeah, that's a hack all right and on going one because they let the government in through that same back door, for a price).
So it looks like the intent is to pick random comments so as to stretch existing rules further and further, so that any comment they dislike for any reason can be targeted. They can use that precedence creep to single out individuals for persecution via unsuccessful but extended prosecution. You know the drill, first the home invasion, trash the dwelling place, brutally assault the target, kidnap them and the jail them so as to continue the abuse. Ramp up false charges, arrange a massive bond and them extend out the court process for months and months, whilst continuing to abuse them in prison. After abusing them for near a year, force a guilty plea with threats of continuing the process or the plead guilty and are immediately freed as sentence served. Now no job, home gone, life destroyed. That is what it is all about, that precedence creep to allow the police state to attack anyone they want to for any reason they want to, everyone is guilty of something.
You left out the layer of corruption. This is all to do with the corrupt corporations that control government seeking to maintain and protect their cartels as they parasitically prey upon their societies. So they are using the governments they control to destroy their competitors at tax payer expense (the taxes they are not paying because they have laundered their profits in the tax havens they control). When you turn society into a cesspit don't be surprised when the biggest pieces of shit float to the top.
Today I was reminded of Tucows, dropped in to look and noticed I had blocked it's scripts and cookies and can not remember why, oh well, better safe than sorry, no real point testing to find out why I blocked it's scripts and cookies, so many other choices.
The easiest answer to the question of whether or not you find it acceptable is, whether or not your find it acceptable. Don't like it stop being their customer. Still somewhat interested, inform them of the reason you stopped being their customer and check back every now and again to see if they change, until either you get bored coming back to check and stop or they change. There are just, so, so many choices out there and it will only grow, especially with accurate auto-translators on the horizon, content available from all over the world.
For me either the web site is OK and they get cookies and scripts or they are not and 'no cookies for you'. This extends to publishing houses (kill off everyone of their websites cookies and scripts) to advertising agencies (kill off their cookies and scripts no matter where they are).
What ever you preference is as a customer should always drive your choices on the internet ie Don't like that they promote wasteful consumption of fossil fuels, drop them and go else where, there are thousands upon thousands of other places to go. Don't like the politics of the owner, drop them, there is an whole internet of alternates. Don't like the products they promote, simply go elsewhere. You can also choose whether or not to let them know why. Don't forget https://www.google.com.au/?cli... , it really is just so easy.
Seriously, once you go to all the trouble of getting up there in any serious manner ie with a view of getting to other stars, why bother coming back down. Anything you mine up there, can be more effectively used up there to reach further and further out. Way better off turning earth into a chaotic theme park of itself then trying to advance it against the wishes of the primitives.
The fossil fuellers are just a prime example of that chaotic destructive urge of the psychopathic self aggrandising extremists, with a total lack of interest in the consequences just the insatiable desire to feed their ego and lusts and no matter how much, more, more, more, is the only response. It isn't the system, it is the individuals who created that system, that is their destructive nature.
So you clean up the parts worth saving and let the others, dwell in their own ignorance and ensure sufficient application of appropriate technology to limit the negative activity of the ignorant parts upon those localised allied regions, which continue to technological and socially advance (keeping in mind the odd socio-political hiccup like crony capitalism). Certainly those advancing regions should never be the core of planetary abuse.
So the revolution, simple, cut back on fossil fuel use, kill their profitability. Do not support anything that promotes wasteful consumption of fossil fuels, ridicule and chastise those that do, private jets, mega yachts, mac mansions, ludicrous jewellery, grind them down into the worthless pollution puss hogs they are, wasting the planets resources and polluting beyond all reasons, individuals consuming more than entire towns, truly disgusting individuals, worthy only of condemnation.
The story is those people cheating on the taxes are the same people promoting austerity, actually buying politicians, so services are cut back due to lost tax revenue and citizens suffer and die. So tax havens are basically economic terrorists, attacking other countries economies and harming those citizens in collusion with the corrupt politicians of those countries and the 1% psychopath class as well as transfer of funds from the tax evaders accounts to the corrupt politician accounts (so hiding money has been proven, what has yet to be accounted for is how that hidden money was earned). So it is not just people cheating a little on their taxes, it is organised crime upon a massive scale, bribery and corruption, upon a mass scale. The question is should countries being cheated by tax havens and having their democracies attacked and their economies seriously damaged, declare economic war upon tax havens, real serious, active economic war to destroy those tax havens and put them out of business.
More likely they will simply release the Windows 10 SE version (secure edition), that you have to pay for, in conjunction with Windows anal probe 10, that you get for free. They would also have to allow up clean-up version for those who want to swap from anal probe to SE (secure edition). It just means the enterprise version just becomes available to typical end users. Also watch out, that means disabling the probes on the free version will also become impossible ie pay or probe extortion.
The real problem with the study is the inherent lie in the presentation of the study ie the claim of a 29 year analysis. This because year one is no where near the same as year 29 of the study. Think of it as age over time of the people. So year 1 had a huge percentage of he population with zero exposure at the start and only limited exposure there on in. Towards year 29 those most a risk have only limited exposure over time with maximum exposure to that form of radiation ie they are still to young to get a real measure of impact ie consider starting from the year 2000 on, for more realistic exposure, in terms of degree of exposure and number of years being exposed from a young age (using US data http://hypertextbook.com/facts...).
Reality is the most likely period of measure would be when children highly exposed hit their twenties and thirties, so large changes in occurrence would not logically occur until somewhere between the 2020s and 2040s. So the study is really disingenuous. Reality is the countdown for impact is only really starting now and would still be considered early for a population based study. So come back in the year 2030 and see how people feel about his study whether they are acknowledge for the efforts in a positive fashion of whether the population wants them hung, drawn and quartered for spreading false information.
No one is trying to excuse the driver and they should face the typical penalty for excessive speed and reckless driving. However there is more than enough blame to spread around and based upon snapchat's behaviour and purposefully promoting criminal activity, keep in mind promoting crime is a criminal activity, they certainly deserve the civil suit and prosecutors should really consider a criminal indictment.
Now that is the only real matter of significance. Of all species on the planet, as far back in the past we can investigate, we will be the only species on this planet to evolve into a galactic species with our presence on more than one world, consider the real significance of that, 1 in 1 trillion. Quite the achievement to either succeed at truly evolving or fail and die in the planetary cocoon (that is the inevitable guaranteed fate by more than one possible major extinction events, we either thrive in the galaxy or die in the cocoon).
Trump has a killer weapon in this campaign, Democrat party voter purges in closed primaries. The leading Republican question, "Are you going to let Hillary Clinton purge your vote as well?!?".
Never forget the rich and greedy do not have friends, not ever, the have acquaintances and co-conspirators. We they can bring each other down to enrich themselves they will. They focus on their own profits, which is exactly why repeated chaos in the US corporate governments actions over seas, different corporations pulling in different directions, undermining each others work because their profits first.
So Trump the developer and his factions versus Hillary Clinton the banker and military industrial complex and her factions (keep in mind the banks often eat the bulk of the profits of the developer, often sending them bankrupt on purpose, small or big). So the question for everyone else is, which corruption best serves their interests at this time, developers or banksters and war mongers (not that either is good but one is certainly far less evil than the other).
Perhaps a third option or even fourth option might be better all round, more neutrals say Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein (imagine how clean and well behaved a contest between those two would be, an election that would be a pleasure instead of the alternate Trump and Clinton pain).