That could be true. Osama bin Laden made "celebratory" video messages on the date of 11th of September both in years 2002 and 2003. But this year he has not. I wonder why, hmm?
That's pretty funny. I wonder how things would be if somebody programmed an installer that installed Blizzard's games without agreeing to the EULA. Blizzard could try to go after the guy for not complying with their EULA of reverse-engineering their software -- but how? He's never read the EULA because he used his own installer! Funny paradox.
They're pretty good, or as I have heard. They link their stuff to sources so you can check it out yourself. Some people say they have a liberal bias since they released a book called "Banana Republicans" which is not flattering to the party in question.
I have to admit though, it's difficult to find good non-biased political info on the net. Maybe the best thing would be to just read both sides instead and in that way make up your mind. It's tougher than just getting from one source, but I think it's the only good way right now...
The population in Sweden is 22 people per square mile.
South Korea has 1223 people per square mile.
The United States has 80 people per square mile.
Sweden has much less than both South Korea and United States, yet high speed broadband is very common. Hell, I live in a village that's about 200-300 people and I have 100mbit, up in the northen part of the country where the population per square mile is very, very low. The government payed a bit of it and gave us a tax relief while it cost every household about 2200-2000 dollars. I don't have IP telephony or internet video, but I know one of the major reasons we got it was because people wanted to download movies off of the internet (I'm serious). They even said when I asked about our bandwidth limit that "it's enough per day for you to download a movie or two". It's great to have really fast internet, but I think that the main reason why we got it is kind of shady... Even the Swedish guy from Eskilstuna in the Reuters-article is talking about downloading movies.
Turner, a director of AOL Time Warner Inc. in which he holds more stock than any individual, wrote an opinion piece in Friday's Washington Post saying he would not have been able to start his own media empire in 1970 if the proposed rule changes had been in effect then.
I hope we abstain from posting messages such as "PLZZ DOOD WHY YOU INCREEZ SIZE FOR MEGACORPS?? YO HANDZ IN POXET OF COMPS YO NOOB!!!!" please. It's like the Mac-community's knowledge of Steve Jobs email, we all know his email adress but we must only use it when we are civil in fear of to not lose the chance of using it in the future.
What did the article prove? Nothing. This is in my opinion a waste of space on the Slashdot's first page. Mod me down if you want, but the fact that Apple employees put in a fake name in a demonstration movie is no 'conspiracy'. Have you considered that maybe they just don't want people to peek at real people's profiles/names?
A nice little thing to notice, but using it as proof for the one who designed Dashboard? That's stretching it...
Most of these claimed 'deceits' by Dave Kopel are really bogus. Many of them aren't deceits at all. The footage for example with Al Goore cheering that 'he won the presidency'. Yes, Michael Moore show the footage playing along with a scenario of 'what if Gore won' (I agree kind of constituting of a certain degree of a deceit, but continue to read my explanation). Michael Moore clearly says in the end of the segment it was all a dream and that Gore never won presidency. He expects the viewer to understand that Gore never won presidency, thus that the footage of Gore and his mates cheering could have never been for Gore when he won. He's not deceiving anybody; unless they've been living under a rock for the last four years and just left the theatre before that segment was about to end.
He also says on the Afghan pipeline-issue:
After Afghanistan was liberated from the Taliban, the new Afghanistan government did sign a plan to build an oil pipeline. Indeed, any Afghani government (Taliban or otherwise) would rationally seek the revenue that could be gained from a pipeline. But the new pipeline (which has not yet been built) has nothing to do with Unocal.
In that whole 'deceit' section he does NOT mention the Afghani president Hamid Karzai. Who is Hamid Karzai? Presdeint of Afghanistan! And what past does Hamid Karzai have? He used to work for Unical! Michael Moore says this in his movie, and this is a reversed situation where Kopel is being a hypocrite because he leaves this information out!
...the urban population in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong live a lot like the rest of us (albeit in slightly more cramped spaces).
Not competely true. Did you only visit the places where tourists go? I've travelled all around China and believe me, and the middle class don't live as good as we do -- not at all. The only places in China where it was up-to-par compared to my home country (Sweden) was the places were tourists go.
I don't expect Apple to sell more iPods in China than the United States for quite some years.
Even crazier? You know what I just realized? They've changed the theme song in the Teaser as well! It used to be different with the last tone in the melody, but now they've changed it to the Bond-theme. Wow...
When the Incredibles teaser came out, I got eerie over the music in it. Why? Because I felt like they ripped off the music from somewhere else... Guess what? It's from the James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies Soundtrack. The "cool" song that play in this trailer is Backseat Driver (David Arnold featuring the Propellerheads) from Tomorrow Never Dies. I have no idea why they're recycling soundtracks. Maybe that's a starting trend...
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That could be true. Osama bin Laden made "celebratory" video messages on the date of 11th of September both in years 2002 and 2003. But this year he has not. I wonder why, hmm?
That's pretty funny. I wonder how things would be if somebody programmed an installer that installed Blizzard's games without agreeing to the EULA. Blizzard could try to go after the guy for not complying with their EULA of reverse-engineering their software -- but how? He's never read the EULA because he used his own installer! Funny paradox.
If you got a spare key, please contact me. I'd like to perhaps purchase it.
Kind of what Apple just did with splitting the company in to an iPod division and Mac division?
I wouldn't be suprised to see this happen.
Yes, CNN is so liberal they're trying to please the GOP by meeting with them. I find it trusting that a boss of a news channel meet with politicians discussing how they should change their covering to please them better.
comparing him to Hitler
Get your facts straight.
If there's been somebody that's been throwing around Nazi Germany references it's the right wing, such as Bill O'Reilly who call Michael Moore and Al Franken "Goebbels" of propaganda and Michael Savage for example.
J/K
:-)
Sorry, this joke was too good to be left out
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They're pretty good, or as I have heard. They link their stuff to sources so you can check it out yourself. Some people say they have a liberal bias since they released a book called "Banana Republicans" which is not flattering to the party in question.
I have to admit though, it's difficult to find good non-biased political info on the net. Maybe the best thing would be to just read both sides instead and in that way make up your mind. It's tougher than just getting from one source, but I think it's the only good way right now...
The population in Sweden is 22 people per square mile.
South Korea has 1223 people per square mile.
The United States has 80 people per square mile.
Sweden has much less than both South Korea and United States, yet high speed broadband is very common. Hell, I live in a village that's about 200-300 people and I have 100mbit, up in the northen part of the country where the population per square mile is very, very low. The government payed a bit of it and gave us a tax relief while it cost every household about 2200-2000 dollars. I don't have IP telephony or internet video, but I know one of the major reasons we got it was because people wanted to download movies off of the internet (I'm serious). They even said when I asked about our bandwidth limit that "it's enough per day for you to download a movie or two". It's great to have really fast internet, but I think that the main reason why we got it is kind of shady... Even the Swedish guy from Eskilstuna in the Reuters-article is talking about downloading movies.
Got to go... Planning to download a movie! j/k
Sorry, bad attempt at humor by me :)
And maybe conservatives are caused by marrying your cousin. :-)
I strongly agree with you. I was about to mention the same movie.
Remember the debates on Slashdot on the FCC (chiefed by Colin Powell's relative) on increasing the size limit of media companies?
Ted Turner, the largest individual shareholder of the nation's largest media conglomerate, opposes proposed changes in Federal Communications Commission rules on media ownership that are generally seen as benefiting big players.
Turner, a director of AOL Time Warner Inc. in which he holds more stock than any individual, wrote an opinion piece in Friday's Washington Post saying he would not have been able to start his own media empire in 1970 if the proposed rule changes had been in effect then.
Ted Turner is the good guy here!
I hope we abstain from posting messages such as "PLZZ DOOD WHY YOU INCREEZ SIZE FOR MEGACORPS?? YO HANDZ IN POXET OF COMPS YO NOOB!!!!" please. It's like the Mac-community's knowledge of Steve Jobs email, we all know his email adress but we must only use it when we are civil in fear of to not lose the chance of using it in the future.
What did the article prove? Nothing. This is in my opinion a waste of space on the Slashdot's first page. Mod me down if you want, but the fact that Apple employees put in a fake name in a demonstration movie is no 'conspiracy'. Have you considered that maybe they just don't want people to peek at real people's profiles/names?
A nice little thing to notice, but using it as proof for the one who designed Dashboard? That's stretching it...
Washington Post once again prove that they're my favorite paper. Best there is, bar none.
Most of these claimed 'deceits' by Dave Kopel are really bogus. Many of them aren't deceits at all. The footage for example with Al Goore cheering that 'he won the presidency'. Yes, Michael Moore show the footage playing along with a scenario of 'what if Gore won' (I agree kind of constituting of a certain degree of a deceit, but continue to read my explanation). Michael Moore clearly says in the end of the segment it was all a dream and that Gore never won presidency. He expects the viewer to understand that Gore never won presidency, thus that the footage of Gore and his mates cheering could have never been for Gore when he won. He's not deceiving anybody; unless they've been living under a rock for the last four years and just left the theatre before that segment was about to end.
He also says on the Afghan pipeline-issue:
After Afghanistan was liberated from the Taliban, the new Afghanistan government did sign a plan to build an oil pipeline. Indeed, any Afghani government (Taliban or otherwise) would rationally seek the revenue that could be gained from a pipeline. But the new pipeline (which has not yet been built) has nothing to do with Unocal.
In that whole 'deceit' section he does NOT mention the Afghani president Hamid Karzai. Who is Hamid Karzai? Presdeint of Afghanistan! And what past does Hamid Karzai have? He used to work for Unical! Michael Moore says this in his movie, and this is a reversed situation where Kopel is being a hypocrite because he leaves this information out!
Not true that Apple don't care about developers. Remember the whole deal with Apple's Theme Converter for Mac OS 8.5 and how they after much press skipped it?
From: Some building on Earth.
To: Uhm, space?
I mean, seriously. Where would it end at? Otherwise it'll just be a 10 billion dollar murder machine launching people in to space so they die.
Ironically, my iBook broke down with this problem just this week. This is the third time for me. Amazing!
...the urban population in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong live a lot like the rest of us (albeit in slightly more cramped spaces).
Not competely true. Did you only visit the places where tourists go? I've travelled all around China and believe me, and the middle class don't live as good as we do -- not at all. The only places in China where it was up-to-par compared to my home country (Sweden) was the places were tourists go.
I don't expect Apple to sell more iPods in China than the United States for quite some years.
That's the first and the most annoying scroll script I've ever encountered. I hope I never see one again...
Ever. By the way, anyone have a copy of the flash or something? It doesn't load for me.
I'd kill to play Golden-Eye on Gameboy DS. I mean, seriously. 4+ players duking it out? That'd be friggin' amazing.
Even crazier? You know what I just realized? They've changed the theme song in the Teaser as well! It used to be different with the last tone in the melody, but now they've changed it to the Bond-theme. Wow...
When the Incredibles teaser came out, I got eerie over the music in it. Why? Because I felt like they ripped off the music from somewhere else... Guess what? It's from the James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies Soundtrack. The "cool" song that play in this trailer is Backseat Driver (David Arnold featuring the Propellerheads) from Tomorrow Never Dies. I have no idea why they're recycling soundtracks. Maybe that's a starting trend...