Which in my mind is "so what?" She can easily block cyber stuff.
The real problem is that she was physically attacked in real life, assaulted, threatened and stalked. The OP is correct; the headline is there to grab attention, when really this was far more than cyberbullying (it was normal bullying, which included a cyber component).
Might as well said they all played GTA too; could be true, but fairly irrelevent.
Your error is in step 3. See, there may be lots of pages claiming to explain your symptoms, but there's not one shred of evidence the EM causes anything like this. And they've done some tests already; nobody really know if there's a signal or not, its only when told. Once you got to step three, your blamed the tower, and now believe its the tower (hey, these wackjobs are right!) But I suspect something else is going on to cause your symptoms.
The fact that you "solved" it means nothing; when you know there's no signal your mind doesn't project the symptoms.
Well your tree theory raises an interesting point.
My neighbor has a tree in her yard. Its branches reach to my house. At point, they touched the house and windy day knocked some of the siding off. I paid to fix it, and paid to have the tree cut back... but my point here is this: should I have to pay yearly to keep her tree from poking my house again? Its her tree, why should I have the expense of making sure it doesn't cross onto my property?
Now, the problem with this EM case is that there's likely Wifi from other neighbors, but the cell phone signals are there regardless of if she's using them or not. The other wrinkle is that, even if he IS affected, its a rare thing.
So I agree, if I have a rare allergy to a cherry blossom tree, I may just have to deal. But at the same time if its dropping pieces of itself into my yard, why should I have to do EXTRA for a tree I chose not to have?
I think this is along the same lines as banning peanuts from schools. It should be the problem of those alergic, given they're the minority. go find a peanut free school, or be home schooled. I fail to see why the majority should bend over backwards because you have a sucky conidition.
Likewise, this guy should simply move to some place without routers all around.
I guess you never heard of the FCC huh? You know, the government agency that would fine people for violating "decency standards." BTW, saying content can't be accessed by a certain age group is censorship too.
Listen, if you want to say there are good reasons for doing censoring, just say it. But don't try to lie about what you're doing by calling it something else. Preventing a one person from accessing information from another is censorship. You can limit the sets of people to those under 18, or men, or whatever, but that doesn't mean its not censorship. In the end, a third party (government) is still interfering between two people.
Show me the advertising materials you claim hyped up the other os feature. I've never seen it on any advertisement, so I don't know how you can claim it was "explicitly publicized." I'll be waiting for a link.
Anyone who purchased the PS3 in order to use both the alternate OS feature and the online gaming feature has been defrauded by Sony.
Huh? You mean all 12 of them? Please. If you want to run linux, do it on an acutal computer where you would never have this issue.
Your car is mostly (or all) computer controlled. Are you going to be update that you cant run linux on your cars computers? You bought the car to get you from place to place in relative comfort. People buy ps3s to play games and enjoy hd media.
I think there will always be general purpose computers... but if there isn't one day, its because people have collectively decided they don't WANT them. At such a point though, you'd be able to build your own I'm sure.
If you think you should be able to buy non-general computing devices and use them as general ones, well, that's your problem, and its not any violation of your rights. Just because a device could do something doesn't mean your rights are violated if a company disables those uses or makes it hard. You're always free not to buy it.
Show new trophies to who? Other gamers online? Who cares? As for your concerns, patches and DLC are your only relevent points... but hey, you're gonna have to pick one now DLC or running linux. Tough.
The problem with your analogy is that a lot of people actually use the A/C in their cars.
And how is this eroding consumer rights? They are removing a little used feature, one that I doubt by itself sold many, if any, consoles. I'm sure people will still figure out a way to run linux.. they just won't have an easy as a time because sony isn't helping them anymore, not that they were obligated to provide this feature in the first place.
I have a 24" monitor on my desk in the next room with higher resolution than my 1080P in the living room. The "full capabilities" of HDTVs were outdated years before they hit store shelves.
Certainly your opinion, but my 48" HDTV looks really nice when watching BR movies or playing my PS3. It also thas the advantage of not requiring anyone else wanting to watch to not have to huddle around my desk to watch something on a small screen.
They are taking away something that belongs to me. I am really pissed that they couldn't figure out a better way to thwart hackers. Even their own version of Linux, some new version of YDL, that they control, would be better than completely taking away this feature
No they aren't. They're not under any obligation to make sure you can run an alternate OS on their product. Are you made at Ford because they don't provide an easy way to update software in your car? What about your sony TV? Are they denying you something by not giving you an easy way to run Linux on that?
Then you go on to claim they should build their own linux distro, when clearly its a small minority of people that even care about this option? Wtf dude, they don't owe you anything. I'm sure there will still be ways ot get Linux onto a PS3, but they're under no obligation to make it easy for you. They are targeting people that want to play games and watch movies and stuff... not people that was a cell based computer.
Can I start a broadcast station which shows ad supported hardcore porn? Oh, and in some places in the US cable operators aren't allowed to even sell it.
Yes, we do censor, not as much and differently, but we do.
Each country has their own laws and many are considered 'odd' or 'repressing'
I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that slavery is simply "odd" or not repressive.
People tell me all the time how I'm so hard done by because of the taxes and the limits of our free economy compared to the US.
Taxes aren't quite slavery though, so I'm not sure why you brought this up at all, especially since we're talking about China, not Canada.
He just had an $80, 000 operation and I asked him how he felt that it would have been $0 in Canada, other than your taxes.
But if you add in taxes, over your lifetime you've likely put in well over $80,000. Worse, if you never need that surgery, you never benefit from paying in. Seems closer to stealing at that point. I'd love to know, do you have a specific line item for "healthcare tax" on your paycheck, or is it just lumped in with the general tax?
Also, I live near the boarder to Canada; please explain why so many Candians are coming HERE for healthcare. Careful, I know more about healthcare in this area then you'd expect.
Everyone loves not paying taxes until you need a service that you willingly voted against, or decided to stop (like car, house, health insurance).
Yup, which is why smart people wouldn't cancel their car, home, or health insurance. If someone ditches homeowners insurance, and loses their house, I don't see why I should feel bad. I also don't see why I should be forced to pay for healthcare for someone that can't be bothered to take care of themselves by eating right and exercising. Its not hard. Well, physiclaly its not, its just the mental part, but much as I'd love ice cream every night, I don't because I know the consequences.
I like the way my country is setup. Don't believe everything you see on TV. I watched the NBC coverage of the Olympics in Vancouver and couldn't believe how much BS was being spread about Canada. They are talking about all our customs, etc, Brian Williams was a fucking moron (US Brian Williams, not CTV Brian). He stopped a few NEWFIES on the street and that is where he got most of his information. WTF! Newfies are very different from the rest of the Canadians. And no, we don't live in Igloos! And I don't know Jill or Jack from Canada!!
I didn't even watch the olympics, and my knowledge of Canada comes from dealing with Canadians, so I don't know what your point is. As far as TV / news reporting goes, Canada is rarely even mentioned.
We see everything about how China jails protesters and censors information.
Are you saying it doesn't happen or that if the Chinese are a-ok with it, we should be too?
Well, in Canada, all we see about the States is how there is another gun murder
Well, in the US we don't really see Canada, period. So I'm not sure what your point is. Of course most of the gun violence is drug related, which makes me wonder why we continue to ban certain drugs.
how the white cops beat black people
Ya, it happens.
how stupid Bush was
So you're getting fairly accurate information then.
Some of the most interesting perspectives in life come from watching another country's news about your own.
Indeed, which is why I sometimes watch one of the two Canadian channels available to me. Also BBC American, but I'm not sure if that really represents a British take on American news.
There will be a slant, either with the wording, omissions, or the omission or inclusion of entire stories. Just because most of it comes from AP or Reuters, doesn't mean it won't be slanted.
Indeed I know there is a slate, and how simply changing from active to passive voices can influence things. Most notible of this was when NBC "convinently" forgot the word "Interstate" when quoting the Consitution on how the feds can regulate commerce (only interstate commerce though).
Now, I'm not trying to dismiss China - we can all agree it is on an en
Brain drain? What are you talking about? Maybe Chinese citizens are apt to go back to China with their new scholarship, but I do see many Western people getting their degree and becoming Chinese citizens. Our system here isn't perfect, but its much more preferable to me than Chinas.
The Silverlight runtime is not the same as the.Net runtime. They overlap with features, but its a different runtime (even on a Windows machine with the.Net runtime).
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Which in my mind is "so what?" She can easily block cyber stuff.
The real problem is that she was physically attacked in real life, assaulted, threatened and stalked. The OP is correct; the headline is there to grab attention, when really this was far more than cyberbullying (it was normal bullying, which included a cyber component).
Might as well said they all played GTA too; could be true, but fairly irrelevent.
Your error is in step 3. See, there may be lots of pages claiming to explain your symptoms, but there's not one shred of evidence the EM causes anything like this. And they've done some tests already; nobody really know if there's a signal or not, its only when told. Once you got to step three, your blamed the tower, and now believe its the tower (hey, these wackjobs are right!) But I suspect something else is going on to cause your symptoms.
The fact that you "solved" it means nothing; when you know there's no signal your mind doesn't project the symptoms.
Well your tree theory raises an interesting point.
My neighbor has a tree in her yard. Its branches reach to my house. At point, they touched the house and windy day knocked some of the siding off. I paid to fix it, and paid to have the tree cut back... but my point here is this: should I have to pay yearly to keep her tree from poking my house again? Its her tree, why should I have the expense of making sure it doesn't cross onto my property?
Now, the problem with this EM case is that there's likely Wifi from other neighbors, but the cell phone signals are there regardless of if she's using them or not. The other wrinkle is that, even if he IS affected, its a rare thing.
So I agree, if I have a rare allergy to a cherry blossom tree, I may just have to deal. But at the same time if its dropping pieces of itself into my yard, why should I have to do EXTRA for a tree I chose not to have?
I think this is along the same lines as banning peanuts from schools. It should be the problem of those alergic, given they're the minority. go find a peanut free school, or be home schooled. I fail to see why the majority should bend over backwards because you have a sucky conidition.
Likewise, this guy should simply move to some place without routers all around.
I guess you never heard of the FCC huh? You know, the government agency that would fine people for violating "decency standards." BTW, saying content can't be accessed by a certain age group is censorship too.
Listen, if you want to say there are good reasons for doing censoring, just say it. But don't try to lie about what you're doing by calling it something else. Preventing a one person from accessing information from another is censorship. You can limit the sets of people to those under 18, or men, or whatever, but that doesn't mean its not censorship. In the end, a third party (government) is still interfering between two people.
Show me the advertising materials you claim hyped up the other os feature. I've never seen it on any advertisement, so I don't know how you can claim it was "explicitly publicized." I'll be waiting for a link.
Anyone who purchased the PS3 in order to use both the alternate OS feature and the online gaming feature has been defrauded by Sony.
Huh? You mean all 12 of them? Please. If you want to run linux, do it on an acutal computer where you would never have this issue.
Your car is mostly (or all) computer controlled. Are you going to be update that you cant run linux on your cars computers? You bought the car to get you from place to place in relative comfort. People buy ps3s to play games and enjoy hd media.
I think there will always be general purpose computers... but if there isn't one day, its because people have collectively decided they don't WANT them. At such a point though, you'd be able to build your own I'm sure.
If you think you should be able to buy non-general computing devices and use them as general ones, well, that's your problem, and its not any violation of your rights. Just because a device could do something doesn't mean your rights are violated if a company disables those uses or makes it hard. You're always free not to buy it.
I dunno, not having a RROD issue is a nice feature for the ps3.
Please, installing the other os isn't half the value of the console. Games, bluray movies, web browsing, media client, etc.
Advertising? Did you go looking for that, or is it reachable by clicking from their pages on the PS3.
Show new trophies to who? Other gamers online? Who cares? As for your concerns, patches and DLC are your only relevent points... but hey, you're gonna have to pick one now DLC or running linux. Tough.
no games currently on shelves require this new firmware upgrade.
And when you explained this particular feature, did any of them give a rats ass?
The problem with your analogy is that a lot of people actually use the A/C in their cars.
And how is this eroding consumer rights? They are removing a little used feature, one that I doubt by itself sold many, if any, consoles. I'm sure people will still figure out a way to run linux.. they just won't have an easy as a time because sony isn't helping them anymore, not that they were obligated to provide this feature in the first place.
And if you're using it as a research cluster, none of those things matter.
I have a 24" monitor on my desk in the next room with higher resolution than my 1080P in the living room. The "full capabilities" of HDTVs were outdated years before they hit store shelves.
Certainly your opinion, but my 48" HDTV looks really nice when watching BR movies or playing my PS3. It also thas the advantage of not requiring anyone else wanting to watch to not have to huddle around my desk to watch something on a small screen.
They are taking away something that belongs to me. I am really pissed that they couldn't figure out a better way to thwart hackers. Even their own version of Linux, some new version of YDL, that they control, would be better than completely taking away this feature
No they aren't. They're not under any obligation to make sure you can run an alternate OS on their product. Are you made at Ford because they don't provide an easy way to update software in your car? What about your sony TV? Are they denying you something by not giving you an easy way to run Linux on that?
Then you go on to claim they should build their own linux distro, when clearly its a small minority of people that even care about this option? Wtf dude, they don't owe you anything. I'm sure there will still be ways ot get Linux onto a PS3, but they're under no obligation to make it easy for you. They are targeting people that want to play games and watch movies and stuff... not people that was a cell based computer.
And are they all closing research centers in the US? Or is it simply expanding their operations, like many companies have done in the past?
Can I start a broadcast station which shows ad supported hardcore porn? Oh, and in some places in the US cable operators aren't allowed to even sell it.
Yes, we do censor, not as much and differently, but we do.
Way to miss my point dumbass... I was pointing out that we do in fact censor in the US.
Each country has their own laws and many are considered 'odd' or 'repressing'
I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that slavery is simply "odd" or not repressive.
People tell me all the time how I'm so hard done by because of the taxes and the limits of our free economy compared to the US.
Taxes aren't quite slavery though, so I'm not sure why you brought this up at all, especially since we're talking about China, not Canada.
He just had an $80, 000 operation and I asked him how he felt that it would have been $0 in Canada, other than your taxes.
But if you add in taxes, over your lifetime you've likely put in well over $80,000. Worse, if you never need that surgery, you never benefit from paying in. Seems closer to stealing at that point. I'd love to know, do you have a specific line item for "healthcare tax" on your paycheck, or is it just lumped in with the general tax?
Also, I live near the boarder to Canada; please explain why so many Candians are coming HERE for healthcare. Careful, I know more about healthcare in this area then you'd expect.
Everyone loves not paying taxes until you need a service that you willingly voted against, or decided to stop (like car, house, health insurance).
Yup, which is why smart people wouldn't cancel their car, home, or health insurance. If someone ditches homeowners insurance, and loses their house, I don't see why I should feel bad. I also don't see why I should be forced to pay for healthcare for someone that can't be bothered to take care of themselves by eating right and exercising. Its not hard. Well, physiclaly its not, its just the mental part, but much as I'd love ice cream every night, I don't because I know the consequences.
I like the way my country is setup. Don't believe everything you see on TV. I watched the NBC coverage of the Olympics in Vancouver and couldn't believe how much BS was being spread about Canada. They are talking about all our customs, etc, Brian Williams was a fucking moron (US Brian Williams, not CTV Brian). He stopped a few NEWFIES on the street and that is where he got most of his information. WTF! Newfies are very different from the rest of the Canadians. And no, we don't live in Igloos! And I don't know Jill or Jack from Canada!!
I didn't even watch the olympics, and my knowledge of Canada comes from dealing with Canadians, so I don't know what your point is. As far as TV / news reporting goes, Canada is rarely even mentioned.
We see everything about how China jails protesters and censors information.
Are you saying it doesn't happen or that if the Chinese are a-ok with it, we should be too?
Well, in Canada, all we see about the States is how there is another gun murder
Well, in the US we don't really see Canada, period. So I'm not sure what your point is. Of course most of the gun violence is drug related, which makes me wonder why we continue to ban certain drugs.
how the white cops beat black people
Ya, it happens.
how stupid Bush was
So you're getting fairly accurate information then.
Some of the most interesting perspectives in life come from watching another country's news about your own.
Indeed, which is why I sometimes watch one of the two Canadian channels available to me. Also BBC American, but I'm not sure if that really represents a British take on American news.
There will be a slant, either with the wording, omissions, or the omission or inclusion of entire stories. Just because most of it comes from AP or Reuters, doesn't mean it won't be slanted.
Indeed I know there is a slate, and how simply changing from active to passive voices can influence things. Most notible of this was when NBC "convinently" forgot the word "Interstate" when quoting the Consitution on how the feds can regulate commerce (only interstate commerce though).
Now, I'm not trying to dismiss China - we can all agree it is on an en
Brain drain? What are you talking about? Maybe Chinese citizens are apt to go back to China with their new scholarship, but I do see many Western people getting their degree and becoming Chinese citizens. Our system here isn't perfect, but its much more preferable to me than Chinas.
What if the people really do want censorship then? I mean, maybe there are people who think you shouldn't be able to see sex on tv, right?
Better to be alive but a slave instead of free and dead?
The Silverlight runtime is not the same as the .Net runtime. They overlap with features, but its a different runtime (even on a Windows machine with the .Net runtime).