And we do have domestic nuts as well as foreign nuts who really want to harm us. At least with foreign nations directing evil acts we can extract revenge but with home grown idiots it is very expensive and difficult to catch them. The Unabomber and Charley Manson leap to mind. Think of the millions spent just on those two cases and then think if we had just 1,000 similar types all active at the same time what expenses we would be subjected to.
Yes, think about the Unabomber and Charley Manson. Consider how the crimes they committed are so memorable decades after the fact.
Now realize that those acts are so memorable precisely because they are so rare -- if there were 1,000 Unabombers running around, they'd get a 5-minute story on the evening news and then get promptly forgotten about (just like all the gang-related or robbery-related murders do).
If I go into a big grocery store like Krogers, and some disgruntled employee has put a a 50 dollar bottle of wine on sale at $10, they are not going to sell it to me for $10 when it rings up for 50. There is a secondary check there for price, the human element.
Kroger used to have a policy that if the item was marked wrong, then you got it free. I found an organic whole turkey marked $0.00 just before Thanksgiving, and was very sad to hear that the policy had been changed (to $5 off if the item cost more than $5).
Think of it this way: if Microsoft tried to say that to Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Sony, Tosihiba, and Samsung, how long do you think Microsoft would last?
Couldn't the Internet Archive argue that it's in the same category as e.g. Youtube and therefore not liable unless it fails to respond to a takedown notice?
What part of "multiple computer makers [are] planning a revolt" do you not understand? They're acting collectively, and if Microsoft refuses them then no Windows machines would be sold at all.
My point is that by "land owners" you must mean "landed gentry" or something. In America, we have lots and lots of people who own many acres of land but can't afford a $25,000 vehicle (let alone one that costs the same number in pounds). Besides, the cheapest model of Land Rover is $40,000+ and a Range Rover is well over $80,000. Do you guys use Audis and Mercedes for farming work too?
I thought the Ford Transit, or maybe the Toyota Hilux was the British equivalent of the US pickup truck. Land Rovers are at least twice as expensive as necessary. (Or do all British people drive luxury cars and think they're normal?)
I take it you've never heard of GNUStep? I'm not sure how well it's keeping up, but it is intended to be not only comparable, but a source-compatible replacement for Cocoa.
As an American, it's hard to criticize Dubai when kids in the US getting expelled from school and/or arrested over the content of their jokes or writing assignments.
agree, but it's difficult to argue that it's Orwellian to monitor that which could be visually monitored if only you were a savant.
Red herring. It's not difficult to argue at all, because it's the aggregation that's Orwellian, not the mere monitoring. Even savants are not omniscient.
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Yes, think about the Unabomber and Charley Manson. Consider how the crimes they committed are so memorable decades after the fact.
Now realize that those acts are so memorable precisely because they are so rare -- if there were 1,000 Unabombers running around, they'd get a 5-minute story on the evening news and then get promptly forgotten about (just like all the gang-related or robbery-related murders do).
Kroger used to have a policy that if the item was marked wrong, then you got it free. I found an organic whole turkey marked $0.00 just before Thanksgiving, and was very sad to hear that the policy had been changed (to $5 off if the item cost more than $5).
Think of it this way: if Microsoft tried to say that to Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Sony, Tosihiba, and Samsung, how long do you think Microsoft would last?
R is for statistics. Octave is for linear algebra.
Hey, give him a break. French is "so complicated no one can figure it out" too, apparently!
No you didn't: a sale is a sale is a sale. That's all, period.
You can take your bullshit "EULA" nonsense and fuck right off with it!
Couldn't the Internet Archive argue that it's in the same category as e.g. Youtube and therefore not liable unless it fails to respond to a takedown notice?
What part of "multiple computer makers [are] planning a revolt" do you not understand? They're acting collectively, and if Microsoft refuses them then no Windows machines would be sold at all.
I am aware, as I too watch Top Gear.
My point is that by "land owners" you must mean "landed gentry" or something. In America, we have lots and lots of people who own many acres of land but can't afford a $25,000 vehicle (let alone one that costs the same number in pounds). Besides, the cheapest model of Land Rover is $40,000+ and a Range Rover is well over $80,000. Do you guys use Audis and Mercedes for farming work too?
I thought the Ford Transit, or maybe the Toyota Hilux was the British equivalent of the US pickup truck. Land Rovers are at least twice as expensive as necessary. (Or do all British people drive luxury cars and think they're normal?)
But how long did it take to research and shop for the parts?
I take it you've never heard of GNUStep? I'm not sure how well it's keeping up, but it is intended to be not only comparable, but a source-compatible replacement for Cocoa.
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As an American, it's hard to criticize Dubai when kids in the US getting expelled from school and/or arrested over the content of their jokes or writing assignments.
Years ago we were thinking of the possibilities for recording our own interactions for our own use.
Today, we are thinking of the possibilities of large corporations/the government recording through us and aggregating it for their use.
Of the camera.
With spray paint.
That ship sailed when the other guy put on the Glass.
Punching him in the face is self-defense.
FTFY.
http://xkcd.com/1022/
Red herring. It's not difficult to argue at all, because it's the aggregation that's Orwellian, not the mere monitoring. Even savants are not omniscient.
I'd like to see a subtractive-manufacturing machine that's FOSS in the same way that a RepRap is. Does such a thing exist?
The folks killed by the I-35W bridge collapse beg to differ.
And before you object that anecdotes are not data, the ASCE thinks that America is barely passing overall.
With that much corn, you could build a palace!
The pharmacy billing software company I work for hires people like you to be product owners.