We would be fucking young boys, burning our women, fucking sheep and farm animals, drinking at home where nobody can see, beating our women, attacking anyone who who was different, never taking responsibility for our actions, burning books....
Thank Allah they are not a world power.
Their backwards and narrow thinking is a threat to our freedom.
These sites are monitored by many governments. If you start posting to one of them, you will go onto a watch list as a terrorist suspect. Then, when you fly to another country or back to the USA, you will be seriously questioned.
"Because the government told me so." will not work.
I would not do it. Never trust any government.
Perhaps we should black list Orson Scott Card and prevent him from being with 10 meters of a child. Let's prevent him from being alone with his grand children.
Hey! This is America! We can just lock him up! Let's do that.
I spent 4 months in Shanghai and was considering moving there. Shanghai is an amazing city.
However, by the end of the 4 months I could not get out of there fast enough. Their Internet censoring/monitoring slows down your Internet connection so much it is sometimes not useable.
Skype and many other programs/websites we use regularly in the west are not legal in China. Some are blocked for political reasons and other are blocked so people are forced to use local versions of the products. The local versions all have built in monitoring for the government.
Almost all expats in China use VPN connections for their daily work.
Hong Kong is the complete opposite. Nothing is censored there and their Internet connections are extremely fast! I can live in HK.
If a person were to help another government gain access to confidential data, it would be called treason.
If APPLE or Nokia does it, it is OK?
Can someone please explain that?
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Sir Jonathan Ive is a KBE.
To be exact, in the order of precedence, he is above Sir Paul McCarthney (who is an MBE) and Sir Michael Caine (who is a CBE), and Bill Gates (is only an honorary knight. He cannot use the title. If he were British, he would be a KBE).
He ranks equally with Sir Bob Geldof who is also a KBE.
The whole Order of Precedence (in England and Whales) is very complicated, and to an American, a bit silly.
One of my corporate customers, a UN office in Brussels, have IE6 on all their office computers. Yet they require their site to have functionality that is not supported in IE6. It took a lot of education to show them why IE6 was bad. Now they require IE7 minimum. Hurray for education. You can teach old dogs new tricks.
During the 4 short months I was in China, most of the computers I saw were old and running XP. It is no wonder they use IE6. Yes. I believe the statistics from having witnessed it.
However, most people visit Chinese sites.
Those people in China that surf to western sites and purchase western products on them most likely have better/newer computers running pirated versions of Windows 7.
My conclusion is the IE6 users in China are NOT potential customers and therefore irrelevant. So I refuse to develop IE6 compatible sites.
* Remote Admin
* Skype
The most important thing you can put on that computer is the ability to control it remotely to fix what they break.
Even better, use one where you can both interact at the same time so you can show them what to do without having to go there. The build in Remote Desktop Connection is not good because you both can't work together. Try using RAdmin. It works great.
Also add Skype! So you can talk with them hands free while you are helping them.
People like you and I are a bit ahead of the technology curve. I am constantly traveling (mostly for fun) around the world. What we need has not really been created yet. The technology is here, but companies like Apple would rather bleed us to death than give us the ultimate device now. I can't blame them though. I would do the same thing if I were in their shoes.
* I use a simple 12" laptop. The new Macbook Air is making me drool. Lighter is always better. However I can't afford that now.
* I have the new iPod 160 gig. Fantastic! Big storage and battery life in one. Thank you very much Apple!:)
* My telephone is a simple smart phone I would prefer the new Nokia N95 (smart phone, wifi, 5 mega pixel camera, and GPS all in one), but I can't afford it (traveling a lot keeps you poor in wallet, but rich in life).
- the perfect device would be the 3rd or 4th generation iPhone. It should have have GPS, 5+ mega pixel camera, wifi, 3G, and 100+ gigs of storage. All-in-one! They can do it now, but they won't.
Unlike you, I have an added disadvantage. I am a photographer, so I have a dSLR with 3 lenses. It is a pain in the butt to take around. Consider yourself lucky you don't need to carry one of these things.
My best advice is to get used to carry more weight. Build up your mussels a little.;)
Has it occured to people that Sony should be charged for writing and spreading a virus? They should be treaded like any hacker that has been cought. Take them to court, thrown in jail and fined a LOT of money.
Hackers are not just nerds any more, they are corporations!
There are a lot of laws being passed whose only purpose is to protect a business from loosing money on a product or service. Doesn't this strike you as a bit odd?
It may be agianst the law to not watch a comercial. Think about this a mintue.
Large corporations are forcing their control far too much. The world changes, things evolve. Business must evolve with it or be left behind... perhaps... unless we can force people to not change or grow or evolve.
I moved away from the States 6 years ago because I wanted to see the world. I have been watching the US from a difference perspective while away. I have been seeing our freedoms slowly stripped away. How can the USA be considered a free country if we cannot skip a commercial, have an opinion without being condemed as a traitor ("you are with me or against me"), love and marry who you want without the church interfearing... The list goes on.
The USA is becomeing a scare place.
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I can't believe there was not a location set for London yet. Now there is one. At the Scooter Cafe behind Waterloo. It is a great little cafe.
...we are doing something right! :)
We would be fucking young boys, burning our women, fucking sheep and farm animals, drinking at home where nobody can see, beating our women, attacking anyone who who was different, never taking responsibility for our actions, burning books.... Thank Allah they are not a world power. Their backwards and narrow thinking is a threat to our freedom.
Saudi Arabia can go fuck itself.
These sites are monitored by many governments. If you start posting to one of them, you will go onto a watch list as a terrorist suspect. Then, when you fly to another country or back to the USA, you will be seriously questioned. "Because the government told me so." will not work. I would not do it. Never trust any government.
Perhaps we should black list Orson Scott Card and prevent him from being with 10 meters of a child. Let's prevent him from being alone with his grand children. Hey! This is America! We can just lock him up! Let's do that.
The USA is pathetic. I am glad I emigrated.
I spent 4 months in Shanghai and was considering moving there. Shanghai is an amazing city. However, by the end of the 4 months I could not get out of there fast enough. Their Internet censoring/monitoring slows down your Internet connection so much it is sometimes not useable. Skype and many other programs/websites we use regularly in the west are not legal in China. Some are blocked for political reasons and other are blocked so people are forced to use local versions of the products. The local versions all have built in monitoring for the government. Almost all expats in China use VPN connections for their daily work. Hong Kong is the complete opposite. Nothing is censored there and their Internet connections are extremely fast! I can live in HK.
If a person were to help another government gain access to confidential data, it would be called treason. If APPLE or Nokia does it, it is OK? Can someone please explain that?
Good call on the whales. :) My spelling is horrible.
According to Debretts, knights bachelor is the lowest of the knights. All other knights rank above.
http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/hierarchies/table-of-precedence-gentlemen.aspx
Sir Jonathan Ive is a KBE. To be exact, in the order of precedence, he is above Sir Paul McCarthney (who is an MBE) and Sir Michael Caine (who is a CBE), and Bill Gates (is only an honorary knight. He cannot use the title. If he were British, he would be a KBE). He ranks equally with Sir Bob Geldof who is also a KBE. The whole Order of Precedence (in England and Whales) is very complicated, and to an American, a bit silly.
The Dutch do wear clogs!!!
One of my corporate customers, a UN office in Brussels, have IE6 on all their office computers. Yet they require their site to have functionality that is not supported in IE6. It took a lot of education to show them why IE6 was bad. Now they require IE7 minimum. Hurray for education. You can teach old dogs new tricks.
That is a VERY scary website! There are far more reasons why IE6 must die: http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/ http://davidwalsh.name/6-reasons-why-ie6-must-die http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/ http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/ie6-must-die-twibon/ Even Microsoft is trying very hard to kill IE6. Don't be selfish. Let IE6 die!
During the 4 short months I was in China, most of the computers I saw were old and running XP. It is no wonder they use IE6. Yes. I believe the statistics from having witnessed it. However, most people visit Chinese sites. Those people in China that surf to western sites and purchase western products on them most likely have better/newer computers running pirated versions of Windows 7. My conclusion is the IE6 users in China are NOT potential customers and therefore irrelevant. So I refuse to develop IE6 compatible sites.
Where is the 'You are here' marker?
* Remote Admin * Skype The most important thing you can put on that computer is the ability to control it remotely to fix what they break. Even better, use one where you can both interact at the same time so you can show them what to do without having to go there. The build in Remote Desktop Connection is not good because you both can't work together. Try using RAdmin. It works great. Also add Skype! So you can talk with them hands free while you are helping them.
People like you and I are a bit ahead of the technology curve. I am constantly traveling (mostly for fun) around the world. What we need has not really been created yet. The technology is here, but companies like Apple would rather bleed us to death than give us the ultimate device now. I can't blame them though. I would do the same thing if I were in their shoes. * I use a simple 12" laptop. The new Macbook Air is making me drool. Lighter is always better. However I can't afford that now. * I have the new iPod 160 gig. Fantastic! Big storage and battery life in one. Thank you very much Apple! :)
* My telephone is a simple smart phone I would prefer the new Nokia N95 (smart phone, wifi, 5 mega pixel camera, and GPS all in one), but I can't afford it (traveling a lot keeps you poor in wallet, but rich in life).
- the perfect device would be the 3rd or 4th generation iPhone. It should have have GPS, 5+ mega pixel camera, wifi, 3G, and 100+ gigs of storage. All-in-one! They can do it now, but they won't.
Unlike you, I have an added disadvantage. I am a photographer, so I have a dSLR with 3 lenses. It is a pain in the butt to take around. Consider yourself lucky you don't need to carry one of these things.
My best advice is to get used to carry more weight. Build up your mussels a little. ;)
Has it occured to people that Sony should be charged for writing and spreading a virus? They should be treaded like any hacker that has been cought. Take them to court, thrown in jail and fined a LOT of money. Hackers are not just nerds any more, they are corporations!
There are a lot of laws being passed whose only purpose is to protect a business from loosing money on a product or service. Doesn't this strike you as a bit odd? It may be agianst the law to not watch a comercial. Think about this a mintue. Large corporations are forcing their control far too much. The world changes, things evolve. Business must evolve with it or be left behind... perhaps... unless we can force people to not change or grow or evolve. I moved away from the States 6 years ago because I wanted to see the world. I have been watching the US from a difference perspective while away. I have been seeing our freedoms slowly stripped away. How can the USA be considered a free country if we cannot skip a commercial, have an opinion without being condemed as a traitor ("you are with me or against me"), love and marry who you want without the church interfearing... The list goes on. The USA is becomeing a scare place.