But most of us are in big cities. That's where the nerds congregate. Aside from the super suburban/rural nerds who are afraid of "crime" (read: black people).
Like what? You're pretty obviously basing your judgement in this matter on sensationalized, overblown reports.
Of course, you were modded up. Most likely by someone who doesn't even like in the US and has zero understanding of the court system here, beyond what he reads on Slashdot, bless his heart.
No, the system seems to work pretty well, overall. Things go wrong, certainly, but as it's a human endeavor, that's completely unavoidable.
This was a little beyond a mistake. This was a deliberate violation of civil rights, in the face of multiple laws to the contrary of the officers actions. Pretty much the biggest reason we have a court system, frankly.
Reading your posts is practically orgasmic for me. So much work, so barely comprehensible, and really, your points would almost be reasonable if not for the veneer of insanity you seem to try so hard to add.
I don't think you have the motivation right, but you're definitely on track. People (twitter is a bold example) get really exercised about Microsoft, and often espouse "solutions" that involve things like imposing their will on everybody else to get what they want.
It's an interesting frame of mind. I'm always intrigued when people take the attitude that everything would be perfect, if only they could make everybody else do as they want. Such an unrealistic state of mind, and it typically results in some very amusing opinions about other people. Like calling them sheeple. God, that one gets me every time.
If you think $251 is serious money, you have no appreciation of the scale of Microsoft's operations. Even assuming every citizen in your state got that (and I'm sure that's not the case) it's really not that much.
You're going to need a better metaphor. For instance, I've cooked tremendous amounts of food for large numbers of people, and most never cared how it was made.
Even throwing out the personal anecdote, there are a lot of "secret" recipes out there in various bakeries and restaurants, and even most food sold in stores gets vague with the ingredient list when it comes to flavoring.
Of course, in my opinion, source code access isn't all that important. It's nice when it's there, but I don't get my panties in a bunch when it isn't. And I'm one of the tiny minority of people worldwide who could understand it.
Thank you for displaying such an obvious lack of understanding reality in your attempt to bash the US. It allows me to ignore your ignorance in the future.
For the record: it is perfectly legal to unlock phones in the US as well. I've done it with three of mine thus far. The DCMA, if applicable in any way, would be enforced if the provisions of that law were broken. There are no specific provisions regarding the unlocking of phones, and not even a hint of such legal hassles is made in the article or the summary.
In conclusion, you pulled shit out of your ass in a misguided attempt to bash the US. Next time, try to do it in a manner that doesn't display rabid ignorance, and I won't call you out on it.
I'll throw you the health care working better as a socialized system, but what socialist countries are high ranking in all those things you listed? There aren't even that many socialist countries out there, and quite a few of them are essentially third world backwaters where people scrape to get by and try desperately to get out.
Ah, but capitalism as practiced doesn't work that way. You've demonized it by turning it into something it isn't, and even in that mainly by drawing from its past mistakes (which it is working towards correcting, as it always does. Don't believe me? Go try breathing in a city 50 years ago.)
And yes, I missed the word explain. You win a point on the invisible scoreboard.
If only smokers ever patronized restaurants you could be certain non-smoking restaurants would open almost immediately. A market vacuum that big would never go unfilled for long.
Of course, you don't understand capitalism so I guess that's not blindingly obvious to you. You'd rather have Bog Brother take care of the issue for you.
Thank you, yes. This is exactly what I meant in my original post.
I'm not saying there aren't good points to libertarianism or socialism, I'm not saying capitalism is the end-all, I'm not saying vote Democrat or Republican or Green or Hippie or Nazi or whatever.
I'm saying any time you don't accommodate the fact that people in the real world don't behave in ideal ways, you're doomed to fail miserably.
That interpretation says a lot more about you than it does about the question. I certainly didn't get that from it, but I didn't bring quite as much baggage to reading it as you did, apparently.
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Jeezus pleezus but you pigs are ungrateful. Just don't download it then.
I don't get it.
Like the other replies have said, when the hell has that ever happened?
Thanks, good answer. If more people presented their cases the way you just did, I'd be more inclined to listen.
Do we want this voted down? I haven't kept up with the newsletter.
I hope this is some sort of joke too subtle for me to get.
But pretty much every computer on a private network is monitored, This isn't really a new "feature" so much as a continuation of existing procedure.
Besides, you kinda killed your point with that picture.
But most of us are in big cities. That's where the nerds congregate. Aside from the super suburban/rural nerds who are afraid of "crime" (read: black people).
Like what? You're pretty obviously basing your judgement in this matter on sensationalized, overblown reports.
Of course, you were modded up. Most likely by someone who doesn't even like in the US and has zero understanding of the court system here, beyond what he reads on Slashdot, bless his heart.
No, the system seems to work pretty well, overall. Things go wrong, certainly, but as it's a human endeavor, that's completely unavoidable.
This was a little beyond a mistake. This was a deliberate violation of civil rights, in the face of multiple laws to the contrary of the officers actions. Pretty much the biggest reason we have a court system, frankly.
What are you going to wait out, exactly? Are you an executive at a chip-producing firm with the power to decide to use this?
Reading your posts is practically orgasmic for me. So much work, so barely comprehensible, and really, your points would almost be reasonable if not for the veneer of insanity you seem to try so hard to add.
You, sir, rock.
I didn't make any assertions, I don't need to provide evidence.
Reading comprehension FTW.
I don't think you have the motivation right, but you're definitely on track. People (twitter is a bold example) get really exercised about Microsoft, and often espouse "solutions" that involve things like imposing their will on everybody else to get what they want.
It's an interesting frame of mind. I'm always intrigued when people take the attitude that everything would be perfect, if only they could make everybody else do as they want. Such an unrealistic state of mind, and it typically results in some very amusing opinions about other people. Like calling them sheeple. God, that one gets me every time.
If you think $251 is serious money, you have no appreciation of the scale of Microsoft's operations. Even assuming every citizen in your state got that (and I'm sure that's not the case) it's really not that much.
You're going to need a better metaphor. For instance, I've cooked tremendous amounts of food for large numbers of people, and most never cared how it was made.
Even throwing out the personal anecdote, there are a lot of "secret" recipes out there in various bakeries and restaurants, and even most food sold in stores gets vague with the ingredient list when it comes to flavoring.
Of course, in my opinion, source code access isn't all that important. It's nice when it's there, but I don't get my panties in a bunch when it isn't. And I'm one of the tiny minority of people worldwide who could understand it.
Thank you for displaying such an obvious lack of understanding reality in your attempt to bash the US. It allows me to ignore your ignorance in the future.
For the record: it is perfectly legal to unlock phones in the US as well. I've done it with three of mine thus far. The DCMA, if applicable in any way, would be enforced if the provisions of that law were broken. There are no specific provisions regarding the unlocking of phones, and not even a hint of such legal hassles is made in the article or the summary.
In conclusion, you pulled shit out of your ass in a misguided attempt to bash the US. Next time, try to do it in a manner that doesn't display rabid ignorance, and I won't call you out on it.
You have anything aside from a naked assertion, or are you just throwing that in to stir a little shit?
I'll throw you the health care working better as a socialized system, but what socialist countries are high ranking in all those things you listed? There aren't even that many socialist countries out there, and quite a few of them are essentially third world backwaters where people scrape to get by and try desperately to get out.
I'm going to ask a stupid question: who does follow these teachings, exactly?
Ah, but capitalism as practiced doesn't work that way. You've demonized it by turning it into something it isn't, and even in that mainly by drawing from its past mistakes (which it is working towards correcting, as it always does. Don't believe me? Go try breathing in a city 50 years ago.)
And yes, I missed the word explain. You win a point on the invisible scoreboard.
If only smokers ever patronized restaurants you could be certain non-smoking restaurants would open almost immediately. A market vacuum that big would never go unfilled for long.
Of course, you don't understand capitalism so I guess that's not blindingly obvious to you. You'd rather have Bog Brother take care of the issue for you.
Please, beyond your faux-witty rhetorical device, how capitalism is in any way an idealistic philosophy.
Thank you, yes. This is exactly what I meant in my original post.
I'm not saying there aren't good points to libertarianism or socialism, I'm not saying capitalism is the end-all, I'm not saying vote Democrat or Republican or Green or Hippie or Nazi or whatever.
I'm saying any time you don't accommodate the fact that people in the real world don't behave in ideal ways, you're doomed to fail miserably.
That interpretation says a lot more about you than it does about the question. I certainly didn't get that from it, but I didn't bring quite as much baggage to reading it as you did, apparently.