The US was given military bases, and Britain paid back a billion Pounds sterling (the last payment was made in 2006). So no, it was initially funded by US taxpayers, but ended up being paid for by the British.
Here's a first-hand account of David Miscavige's earlier years:
LARSON (voice of): The old management was discharged, the new management was put in its place. And its motto was, "We make no deals with anybody. We're tough, we're ruthless, no deals".
LARSON (on camera): It was about 15 of us. We went out and rented three limos, drove up to an organization in San Francisco and did a practice (snaps fingers) beat-'em-up kind of meeting, you know. We took the CDB Org--the commanding officer of that org, organization. He got thrown into the filing cabinets, he was sec-checked on the meter and, um, you--that's where you, what, you have to tell the truth. And there's a whole row of people around the guy, right? And he's sitting there hanging onto the cans and--this is nothing to do with religion any more, right? This is, "Where's the money, Jack? I want the money! Where did you put the money?" And he said, "I, you--I don't know! I don't have the money." David Miscavige comes up, grabs him by the tie (makes punching motion with his right arm) and starts bashing him into the filing cabinet. And he's thrown out in the street; his tie is ripped off. Um, this is just a warm-up kind of bash.
It's from a BBC documentary made in 1987 called Scientology - The Road to Total Freedom. The part of the documentary containing the quote above can be seen here, if you don't want to watch the whole thing (which you should, if this interests you, as it's incredibly eye-opening).
If you have the idea "maybe fire is hot", you can test that. That's not intagible. If you Ideas are fine, but if you have an idea about something completely untestable, and then decide that it's 100% true, you are deluded. Completely, 100% off-your-rocker deluded. Simply because religion has been a part of humanity since we first scratched our heads looking at a sunset doesn't mean it should get a free pass. We deride people when they say they're not going to give their kids vaccines because they'll get autism, yet when people say they're going to go to Heaven and live on a cloud with Jesus after they die, somehow they're enlightened credits to the community. Give me a fucking break. Hypocrisy is what that is. Plain and simple. You can believe what you want. Just don't get all butt-hurt when someone calls out blatantly-irrational behaviour for what it is.
Wait a minute - did you say that it's irrational to think there's no evidence for one or more gods? Ha! Show me the evidence for them, and you'll have a point. Until then you are as irrational as it gets. There is no evidence for any god at all. None. Not one shred. Not one tiny, pathetic iota sitting in some lab somewhere. No fluctuation of measurement describing or pointing to some supreme deity. Nothing. Saying something evidently factual is irrational is about as irrational as it gets. Let me guess - you're a believer in one or more gods.
And yes, billions of people *are* deluded if they believe something exists without evidence. That's the fucking definition of the word. Sure it might make some folks butt-hurt, but they've made their own beds the moment they thought it'd be swell to disregard rational thought in lieu of a fuzzy feeling or promise of spending the rest of eternity with their deceased pets. I can't help that. It's their fault for being so fucking naive and childish, not the fault of people who know what evidence is and what it is not.
Grow the fuck up. Do you get all upset when people say Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy don't exist? Because if you don't, you're hypocritical and irrational. I bet it's quite uncomfortable to be called out for what you are, when what you are most people get over when they're 6 years old or so. Ouch. My bad.
I love how you had a knee-jerk reaction to Windows 7 being shown in a positive light and had to post some snarky bullshit in opposition, when the evidence doesn't back you up at all. Fascinating stuff. Your complete lack of objectivity is incredible. Wow.
Apple doesn't seem to mention this on their website - the only available SDKs for iTunes are for the Windows COM interface and visualisations. Neither of which allows for presenting a device to iTunes to use.
There's something seriously wrong with your setup. I run Vista on a Core 2 2.6 with 4GB of ram and it flies. It seems my anecdotal evidence has cancelled yours out. Oops.
No. I know this is slashdot but if you're going to try to woo the crowd with a stunningly concise and accurate insight into the topic at hand, you might consider reading the first few lines of the article. It's not caching. No UPS required. Nice try, though.
If you look at it like that, sure it's bad. If you look at it like a way of getting more content that you'd have got before, it's definitely an experience update. Remember that DRM allows people too scared to release their stuff entirely release to people willing to use DRM. So the choice isn't "DRM & less content / No DRM & more content" but "DRM & more content / No DRM & less content". DRM, when employed as Vista does, doesn't stop watchable content from being watched, but allows the watching of normally-unwatchable content. Don't be pissy with people providing software that supports DRM, be pissy with the people who only release DRM'd content.
Most folks on Slashdot support rational thought. Religion isn't rational in the slightest. That's why they don't approve of religion. To them, anyone who's willing to believe with all their heart that one or more gods exist, without a single shred of evidence to even suggest it, let alone support it, is not thinking rationally. And they're right. I guess if you deal with logic all day fiddling around with computers, the idea that you can just believe in something without evidence is at odds with what they see and experience all day every day. So religion is fair game on Slashdot, as is belief in Chupacabra, Santa Claus, Unicorns, honest politicians, etc. etc. etc. Sorry.
... and nothing of value was lost. The secular parts of the Jewish culture is what matters. The religion does not. A people are not defined by their religion, but their religion is defined by the people. The people don't need a religion - it's a tool for people to cope. The ultimately-successful people will be secular, and it seems the American Jewish population has figured that out. Fantastic stuff.
The machine is saved. The documentation and notes are saved. Everything is saved, and on display, apart from the old 40s Army huts built to house some of the development. That's it. Quick, throw-away, temporary Army huts. *sniff*
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The US was given military bases, and Britain paid back a billion Pounds sterling (the last payment was made in 2006). So no, it was initially funded by US taxpayers, but ended up being paid for by the British.
He did say of a second, and not seconds, so I guess he was right on that one, pedantry excused ;)
LARSON (voice of): The old management was discharged, the new management was put in its place. And its motto was, "We make no deals with anybody. We're tough, we're ruthless, no deals".
LARSON (on camera): It was about 15 of us. We went out and rented three limos, drove up to an organization in San Francisco and did a practice (snaps fingers) beat-'em-up kind of meeting, you know. We took the CDB Org--the commanding officer of that org, organization. He got thrown into the filing cabinets, he was sec-checked on the meter and, um, you--that's where you, what, you have to tell the truth. And there's a whole row of people around the guy, right? And he's sitting there hanging onto the cans and--this is nothing to do with religion any more, right? This is, "Where's the money, Jack? I want the money! Where did you put the money?" And he said, "I, you--I don't know! I don't have the money." David Miscavige comes up, grabs him by the tie (makes punching motion with his right arm) and starts bashing him into the filing cabinet. And he's thrown out in the street; his tie is ripped off. Um, this is just a warm-up kind of bash.
It's from a BBC documentary made in 1987 called Scientology - The Road to Total Freedom. The part of the documentary containing the quote above can be seen here, if you don't want to watch the whole thing (which you should, if this interests you, as it's incredibly eye-opening).
No, it's widescreen. Period. Shitty widescreen would be a tad wider than 4:3.
If you have the idea "maybe fire is hot", you can test that. That's not intagible. If you Ideas are fine, but if you have an idea about something completely untestable, and then decide that it's 100% true, you are deluded. Completely, 100% off-your-rocker deluded. Simply because religion has been a part of humanity since we first scratched our heads looking at a sunset doesn't mean it should get a free pass. We deride people when they say they're not going to give their kids vaccines because they'll get autism, yet when people say they're going to go to Heaven and live on a cloud with Jesus after they die, somehow they're enlightened credits to the community. Give me a fucking break. Hypocrisy is what that is. Plain and simple. You can believe what you want. Just don't get all butt-hurt when someone calls out blatantly-irrational behaviour for what it is.
Wait a minute - did you say that it's irrational to think there's no evidence for one or more gods? Ha! Show me the evidence for them, and you'll have a point. Until then you are as irrational as it gets. There is no evidence for any god at all. None. Not one shred. Not one tiny, pathetic iota sitting in some lab somewhere. No fluctuation of measurement describing or pointing to some supreme deity. Nothing. Saying something evidently factual is irrational is about as irrational as it gets. Let me guess - you're a believer in one or more gods.
And yes, billions of people *are* deluded if they believe something exists without evidence. That's the fucking definition of the word. Sure it might make some folks butt-hurt, but they've made their own beds the moment they thought it'd be swell to disregard rational thought in lieu of a fuzzy feeling or promise of spending the rest of eternity with their deceased pets. I can't help that. It's their fault for being so fucking naive and childish, not the fault of people who know what evidence is and what it is not.
Grow the fuck up. Do you get all upset when people say Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy don't exist? Because if you don't, you're hypocritical and irrational. I bet it's quite uncomfortable to be called out for what you are, when what you are most people get over when they're 6 years old or so. Ouch. My bad.
I love how you had a knee-jerk reaction to Windows 7 being shown in a positive light and had to post some snarky bullshit in opposition, when the evidence doesn't back you up at all. Fascinating stuff. Your complete lack of objectivity is incredible. Wow.
Hint: It's not for you.
No.
*BZZT!* It's a portmanteau word, actually.
I'd rather use a media player that doesn't look like some sort of widget explosion on my screen :-P
Apple doesn't seem to mention this on their website - the only available SDKs for iTunes are for the Windows COM interface and visualisations. Neither of which allows for presenting a device to iTunes to use.
But IP address blocks identify owners of IP address blocks. 'Nuf said.
There's something seriously wrong with your setup. I run Vista on a Core 2 2.6 with 4GB of ram and it flies. It seems my anecdotal evidence has cancelled yours out. Oops.
No. I know this is slashdot but if you're going to try to woo the crowd with a stunningly concise and accurate insight into the topic at hand, you might consider reading the first few lines of the article. It's not caching. No UPS required. Nice try, though.
No. But nice try.
Widescreen describes the aspect ratio, not the number of pixels. So yes, it's widescreen.
If you look at it like that, sure it's bad. If you look at it like a way of getting more content that you'd have got before, it's definitely an experience update. Remember that DRM allows people too scared to release their stuff entirely release to people willing to use DRM. So the choice isn't "DRM & less content / No DRM & more content" but "DRM & more content / No DRM & less content". DRM, when employed as Vista does, doesn't stop watchable content from being watched, but allows the watching of normally-unwatchable content. Don't be pissy with people providing software that supports DRM, be pissy with the people who only release DRM'd content.
Most folks on Slashdot support rational thought. Religion isn't rational in the slightest. That's why they don't approve of religion. To them, anyone who's willing to believe with all their heart that one or more gods exist, without a single shred of evidence to even suggest it, let alone support it, is not thinking rationally. And they're right. I guess if you deal with logic all day fiddling around with computers, the idea that you can just believe in something without evidence is at odds with what they see and experience all day every day. So religion is fair game on Slashdot, as is belief in Chupacabra, Santa Claus, Unicorns, honest politicians, etc. etc. etc. Sorry.
... and nothing of value was lost. The secular parts of the Jewish culture is what matters. The religion does not. A people are not defined by their religion, but their religion is defined by the people. The people don't need a religion - it's a tool for people to cope. The ultimately-successful people will be secular, and it seems the American Jewish population has figured that out. Fantastic stuff.
Let me guess - you're American?
The machine is saved. The documentation and notes are saved. Everything is saved, and on display, apart from the old 40s Army huts built to house some of the development. That's it. Quick, throw-away, temporary Army huts. *sniff*
There are fixes for every other platform apart from OSX, so yeah, it's solely an OSX vulnerability at the moment.
Wordpress is NASTY. Jesus Christ it's horrific. Ugh. Sprawling spaghetti-code, hideously written. Nasty.
It's not exactly unfair - it's simple economics.
Read this.