You can blame anyone you choose, but your reasoning is faulty.
In general, the leverage that the European citizens have over the EC is significantly smaller than the leverage the Americans have over their federal government.
.... a whole lot of statements about corruption and cronyism that applies equally well to the US political system
No worries there, when it comes to coporatocracy and cronyism, I think we're in a neck to neck race.
I'm not sure you understand what circumsision means to the Jews. It wasn't to correct a mistake in design, it was a physical demonstration on the part of Abram (Abraham) that he entered into the covenant with God. Without that demarcation, the descendants of Abraham would be apart from the covenant with God. Correcting a mistake was never part of the deal. It was a marker to seperate those chosen from those not chosen.
I note that the same passage apparently approves the sale of children.
What's amazing is that only 40/year are in the US. So it is roughly 26 times more dangerous outside the US than inside? Closer inspection says it's.3/Million, which.3 * 7100M is approximately 2130/year, which is much closer but still almost double the 1173 reported here
I don't think they should restrict what's on, but they definitely should control what is called "news" to prevent the muddle minded from parroting opinionated statements as fact, because they heard it on some entertainment show calling itself "the news". It might even help with that debate thing you talking about.
FOX is biased - it's not an opinion. You can document it easily, and it has been. So are the rest of them, to varying degrees, but much less than FOX.
I personally would love a real news cast, like the old days, where I got my snapshot of news without the gossip and opinions, which were shown at the end of the newscast during the editorial sections. I also wasn't subjected to the tabloid headlines etc. BTW, this is all under the FCC's control, as they "charter" all TV broadcasters, and therefore can control this facet. It's how the "news" started in the first place.
Yes, it's there for iDevices, and it's a good thing in that segment. Note how well things work together versus the disaster that's Android. For those that want to take over their own devices, they can jailbreak. For the vast user base, however, that appears to not be a concern.
and there's apple's tendency to simply stop supporting legacy hardware (which i agree with wholeheartedly, but can be considered an abusive practice)
Simply stop supporting hardware that's more than 5 years old is abusive? Seriously? Have you checked the Android/Windows device support history of late? It's down to 6 months or less in some cases. Apple is still supporting 3G iPhones, which are over 3 years old, although they cannot update to the next version of iOS, that doesn't mean they're not supported. As for the PowerPC and initial Intel Core systems, they were supported for 5+ years (actually may still be supported - my Intel Core system still is, although I don't know if it will run Lion. Heck, my 7-8 year old nano is still "supported" in that it works with everything I have.
and theres the "apple tax" on desktops and laptops (sure, we can debate the merits of apple's "quality", or their warranties, but at the end of the day, i can buy an equally spec'd machine with windows on it for roughly half of what i would pay for a mac, and do as much, if not more on it than i could on a mac. and if i build it myself, i can probably do it even cheaper.).
I used to believe that. I don't anymore. I built a hack, actually, it's a hex-core (Intel 980x). With Win7 would be around $2300 with a single HD and the same RAM. The Mac Pro equivalent would run about $3K for the same configuration, true, but that includes a faster processor, so it's not quite apples to apples yet. With the same processor, it'll run $3K as well. I'll also note that my case is much cheaper, and the power supply, while a decent one, may or may not be as good as what Apple uses. I also don't have the ability to upgrade to a dual socket system like I would with the Mac Pro. I wouldn't be surprised if the analysis of laptops against a Dell, IBM, or Asus would reveal the same comparisons I did across the past 6 years and 3 laptop purchases, all of which came out surprisingly in favor of Apple being cheaper than their competitors for the same equipment, and that's not even counting the extra software you need to purchase on Windows to reach parity.
my comment wasnt a comparison of ms vs apple, but simply a statement of how we, as americans, have a tendency to move from one abusive product provider to another, and we laud how great the new abuser is until we get tired of the way they beat us, and we move again to a different form of abuse.
So far, no one except a few hardcore Apple haters believe Apple is abusing them. They may not like everything about an Apple product, but abuse would be something different. I'd argue Android users are getting abused some, but nothing like the abuse Windows Phone adopters are getting. Both of those are buying products with 2 year contracts and having support dropped less than 9 months later (for Android on average) and almost on initial sale (for the Lumia 900).
I'm hopeful that game companies will see the light and support macs as well. Once they do, they should be able to add Linux support pretty easily also. I think this will be driven in no small part by the change over to tablets for a significant chunk of the semi-casual users, which currently means pretty much iPad. Breaking the windows hegemony, once deemed as likely as aliens landing in New York, now appears to be an achievable feat in the near future, and we'll all be better for it.
The only thing(s) I'm not encrypting anymore is DNS queries and some assorted web traffic, including/. Now I suppose I could go ahead and encrypt and proxy those 2, just to make it even more difficult.
I agree with you on the other points, though - ISPs won't be able to shift traffic to a specific protocol - VOIP, VPNs, and games are too prevalent at this point for that switch to be acceptable.
And then I recall a story just last week about how Germany passed an anti-child abuse law and the Jewish and Islamic faiths are up in arms and joining forces condemning said law because their faith requires them to "correct" a flaw god made in men. And then I recall an even more disturbing story: ritual could pose fatal risk to infants
I'm not sure how how the average consumer gets "caned" by Apple. They buy a machine/tablet - it works. If anything goes wrong with it in the first year short of abuse, they get it fixed or replaced. For a nominal sum, they can extend that policy to 3 years. On price, it's been proven by lack of competing devices with significantly lower prices that they're reasonably priced, whether some on/. think so or not. (We're not talking lower quality or capability hardware, but an apples to apples comparison, pardon the pun)
It'd sure seem less conspiracy-like if the way they were building these things wasn't rife with DRM that can't be turned off. But the entire ARM-based mobile world is basically centered around non-optional, inflexible lock down.
And a subset of that is being shoved into the PC space. Who knows how many iterations it'll be until it's pushed fully.
You must be talking about the MS world view of the next generation of devices and PCs. Hopefully it'll fall flat on its face.
Those redacted moments would still need to be available in a court of law. If they're not available, then the officer is automatically considered guilty. (Citizens are innocent until proven guilty, officials working under the power of the government should be the other way)
If I were to witness such an event, I would make a citizens arrest on the police officer even though it would mean spending the rest of my life in jail. It is even possible that the situation might require me to shoot the officer because he would not submit to an arrest and try to shoot me.
Unfortunately for you, interfering with a police officer doing his duty is a crime. You have no way of knowing whether he's doing a stop and frisk or not unless you have all the facts. The only way to really manage it is to video tape it (video is difficult to argue against in court) and hand it to the alleged victims along with your contact information to be a witness in court, provided they file charges or sue. Otherwise, it will continue being what it is.
Are you seriously suggestion the NYPD will search down Slashdot posters for their controversial "this sucks US is Nazi George Bush=Hitler" posts? Or alternately, that any sane person would be afraid of this? It's time to take off you tinfoil hat my good sir.
I'm sure you've already been added to the no-fly list. Enjoy.
I can understand how someone that didn't go to a western university might think it's "easy". Engineering pretty much was along the lines of your schedule there. 18 credit hours involved most of the technical aspects you have listed, no quantum, but much in the applied/vector area along with modeling physical systems. Also add to that Chemistry and Biology, the same calculus class, I'd have to go back and look up the rest. All of those had labs, a couple 2 a week. All labs were 3 hours. IIRC, class time along accounted for 30+ hours a week, not including the additional out of class study time. You'll note the time adds up quickly.
He may have lived in fear, that is irrelevant. He certainly attempted to make his own cult. That he failed is irrelevant. The only staying power of Kim Il-Sung is the fact that the Kim 3 has maintained it, probably because his own personality is considerably weaker.
Last point: if someone is offended by the comparison, perhaps they should seriously look into their own cult... err "faith".
Well, it's a good thing that atheists like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are so much better, then...
Stalin and Mao fair enough but how can you justify pegging Hitler as an atheist?
I'm pretty sure Stalin believed in the Cult of Stalin pretty heavily. Mao I don't know enough about to make a statement on what I think his beliefs were.
However valid on their own your points fail when comparing world religions with hundreds of millions of followers to a commercially exploitative cult with at best a hundred thousand of nuts and fruits.
Every religion today has gone through that stage as viewed by contemporaries...
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You can blame anyone you choose, but your reasoning is faulty.
In general, the leverage that the European citizens have over the EC is significantly smaller than the leverage the Americans have over their federal government.
.... a whole lot of statements about corruption and cronyism that applies equally well to the US political system
No worries there, when it comes to coporatocracy and cronyism, I think we're in a neck to neck race.
Devo was ahead of the curve.
I'm not sure you understand what circumsision means to the Jews. It wasn't to correct a mistake in design, it was a physical demonstration on the part of Abram (Abraham) that he entered into the covenant with God. Without that demarcation, the descendants of Abraham would be apart from the covenant with God. Correcting a mistake was never part of the deal. It was a marker to seperate those chosen from those not chosen.
I note that the same passage apparently approves the sale of children.
What's amazing is that only 40/year are in the US. So it is roughly 26 times more dangerous outside the US than inside? Closer inspection says it's .3/Million, which .3 * 7100M is approximately 2130/year, which is much closer but still almost double the 1173 reported here
It's called reading. It's been in use for like 1000 years.
(read the summary at least, please? this is doing far more than telling you your orientation.)
Don't need a compass to tell where his head is oriented.
They certainly could put a new ad campaign around it. :)
I don't think they should restrict what's on, but they definitely should control what is called "news" to prevent the muddle minded from parroting opinionated statements as fact, because they heard it on some entertainment show calling itself "the news". It might even help with that debate thing you talking about.
FOX is biased - it's not an opinion. You can document it easily, and it has been. So are the rest of them, to varying degrees, but much less than FOX.
I personally would love a real news cast, like the old days, where I got my snapshot of news without the gossip and opinions, which were shown at the end of the newscast during the editorial sections. I also wasn't subjected to the tabloid headlines etc. BTW, this is all under the FCC's control, as they "charter" all TV broadcasters, and therefore can control this facet. It's how the "news" started in the first place.
well, theres the whole "walled garden" thing
Yes, it's there for iDevices, and it's a good thing in that segment. Note how well things work together versus the disaster that's Android. For those that want to take over their own devices, they can jailbreak. For the vast user base, however, that appears to not be a concern.
and there's apple's tendency to simply stop supporting legacy hardware (which i agree with wholeheartedly, but can be considered an abusive practice)
Simply stop supporting hardware that's more than 5 years old is abusive? Seriously? Have you checked the Android/Windows device support history of late? It's down to 6 months or less in some cases. Apple is still supporting 3G iPhones, which are over 3 years old, although they cannot update to the next version of iOS, that doesn't mean they're not supported. As for the PowerPC and initial Intel Core systems, they were supported for 5+ years (actually may still be supported - my Intel Core system still is, although I don't know if it will run Lion. Heck, my 7-8 year old nano is still "supported" in that it works with everything I have.
and theres the "apple tax" on desktops and laptops (sure, we can debate the merits of apple's "quality", or their warranties, but at the end of the day, i can buy an equally spec'd machine with windows on it for roughly half of what i would pay for a mac, and do as much, if not more on it than i could on a mac. and if i build it myself, i can probably do it even cheaper.).
I used to believe that. I don't anymore. I built a hack, actually, it's a hex-core (Intel 980x). With Win7 would be around $2300 with a single HD and the same RAM. The Mac Pro equivalent would run about $3K for the same configuration, true, but that includes a faster processor, so it's not quite apples to apples yet. With the same processor, it'll run $3K as well. I'll also note that my case is much cheaper, and the power supply, while a decent one, may or may not be as good as what Apple uses. I also don't have the ability to upgrade to a dual socket system like I would with the Mac Pro. I wouldn't be surprised if the analysis of laptops against a Dell, IBM, or Asus would reveal the same comparisons I did across the past 6 years and 3 laptop purchases, all of which came out surprisingly in favor of Apple being cheaper than their competitors for the same equipment, and that's not even counting the extra software you need to purchase on Windows to reach parity.
my comment wasnt a comparison of ms vs apple, but simply a statement of how we, as americans, have a tendency to move from one abusive product provider to another, and we laud how great the new abuser is until we get tired of the way they beat us, and we move again to a different form of abuse.
So far, no one except a few hardcore Apple haters believe Apple is abusing them. They may not like everything about an Apple product, but abuse would be something different. I'd argue Android users are getting abused some, but nothing like the abuse Windows Phone adopters are getting. Both of those are buying products with 2 year contracts and having support dropped less than 9 months later (for Android on average) and almost on initial sale (for the Lumia 900).
I'm hopeful that game companies will see the light and support macs as well. Once they do, they should be able to add Linux support pretty easily also. I think this will be driven in no small part by the change over to tablets for a significant chunk of the semi-casual users, which currently means pretty much iPad. Breaking the windows hegemony, once deemed as likely as aliens landing in New York, now appears to be an achievable feat in the near future, and we'll all be better for it.
The only thing(s) I'm not encrypting anymore is DNS queries and some assorted web traffic, including /. Now I suppose I could go ahead and encrypt and proxy those 2, just to make it even more difficult.
I agree with you on the other points, though - ISPs won't be able to shift traffic to a specific protocol - VOIP, VPNs, and games are too prevalent at this point for that switch to be acceptable.
And then I recall a story just last week about how Germany passed an anti-child abuse law and the Jewish and Islamic faiths are up in arms and joining forces condemning said law because their faith requires them to "correct" a flaw god made in men. And then I recall an even more disturbing story: ritual could pose fatal risk to infants
I'm not sure how how the average consumer gets "caned" by Apple. They buy a machine/tablet - it works. If anything goes wrong with it in the first year short of abuse, they get it fixed or replaced. For a nominal sum, they can extend that policy to 3 years. On price, it's been proven by lack of competing devices with significantly lower prices that they're reasonably priced, whether some on /. think so or not. (We're not talking lower quality or capability hardware, but an apples to apples comparison, pardon the pun)
Then buy a mac ;)
Unfortunately, your analogy is not that big a stretch.
It'd sure seem less conspiracy-like if the way they were building these things wasn't rife with DRM that can't be turned off. But the entire ARM-based mobile world is basically centered around non-optional, inflexible lock down.
And a subset of that is being shoved into the PC space. Who knows how many iterations it'll be until it's pushed fully.
You must be talking about the MS world view of the next generation of devices and PCs. Hopefully it'll fall flat on its face.
Those redacted moments would still need to be available in a court of law. If they're not available, then the officer is automatically considered guilty. (Citizens are innocent until proven guilty, officials working under the power of the government should be the other way)
If I were to witness such an event, I would make a citizens arrest on the police officer even though it would mean spending the rest of my life in jail. It is even possible that the situation might require me to shoot the officer because he would not submit to an arrest and try to shoot me.
Unfortunately for you, interfering with a police officer doing his duty is a crime. You have no way of knowing whether he's doing a stop and frisk or not unless you have all the facts. The only way to really manage it is to video tape it (video is difficult to argue against in court) and hand it to the alleged victims along with your contact information to be a witness in court, provided they file charges or sue. Otherwise, it will continue being what it is.
Are you seriously suggestion the NYPD will search down Slashdot posters for their controversial "this sucks US is Nazi George Bush=Hitler" posts? Or alternately, that any sane person would be afraid of this? It's time to take off you tinfoil hat my good sir.
I'm sure you've already been added to the no-fly list. Enjoy.
Stealing Ideas? Touchscreens would be great on phones! Yep, stole the idea, the implementation is where they were innovative.
blah blah blah... who would appoint themselves as philosopher kings to manage other people's lives and choices through government decree.
You must really hate those republicans.
I can understand how someone that didn't go to a western university might think it's "easy". Engineering pretty much was along the lines of your schedule there. 18 credit hours involved most of the technical aspects you have listed, no quantum, but much in the applied/vector area along with modeling physical systems. Also add to that Chemistry and Biology, the same calculus class, I'd have to go back and look up the rest. All of those had labs, a couple 2 a week. All labs were 3 hours. IIRC, class time along accounted for 30+ hours a week, not including the additional out of class study time. You'll note the time adds up quickly.
He may have lived in fear, that is irrelevant. He certainly attempted to make his own cult. That he failed is irrelevant. The only staying power of Kim Il-Sung is the fact that the Kim 3 has maintained it, probably because his own personality is considerably weaker.
Last point: if someone is offended by the comparison, perhaps they should seriously look into their own cult... err "faith".
Well, it's a good thing that atheists like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are so much better, then...
Stalin and Mao fair enough but how can you justify pegging Hitler as an atheist?
I'm pretty sure Stalin believed in the Cult of Stalin pretty heavily. Mao I don't know enough about to make a statement on what I think his beliefs were.
However valid on their own your points fail when comparing world religions with hundreds of millions of followers to a commercially exploitative cult with at best a hundred thousand of nuts and fruits.
Every religion today has gone through that stage as viewed by contemporaries...
You shouldn't have posted anon - now that was funny! I don't care who you are.