That's because in Sweden the cops know that you were probably using the laptop to download from The Pirate Bay. The RIAA has convinced then that theft of the laptop is a lesser crime.
Yea but that's getting dated these days. Virus writers write viruses just because they can, and kids these days are so morally bankrupt they'll steal something just for the thrill. It's time for a new razor:
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by boredom.
Geniuses are more the product of their upbringing and social circumstances during their development as a human being and less the product of some genetic accident.
Yes, that means that the "average" human could, with the right parenting, circumstances and/or education (as distinct from schooling, which what passes off as education these days), be a genius.
While I agree with the premise that "it's prison, it's not meant to be fun", I disagree with your "prisoners are all criminals so lets disregard their welfare" attitude.
In this day and age, where the legal definition of a criminal and the moral definition of one are so far divorced from one another, it really can't be taken for granted that prisoners deserve to be where they are. Remember, the RIAA wants jail time for college file sharers.
So, unless you've never shared a copyrighted song or movie with a friend, I'd lose the attitude.
You're obviously not familiar with the current generation of twenty something females, for whom yapping on the phone trumps food, sex, work and just about everything else. I've been to restaurants and seen girls madly SMSing away while their meal sits untouched. That's not even the most extreme. SMS related accidents are on the rise. Try convincing the average Sex In The City chick that replying to that SMS should take second priority to concentrating on the road.
Incorrect. Had she not imparted momentum to it by shoving it aside, it would have stayed right there and not moved, at least in any time frame likely to be relevant to the ISS personnel.
While I agree with the complaint that he government spends too much money on overpriced kit, one would presume that if you're going into space, your equipment would need to be manufactured to a higher standard than what's available at Home Depot.
Some of the dumbass ideas I've seen and heard over the years that most everyone would support (if they actually voted) would ruin this country
Such as an insanely expensive unnecessary war of conquest that costs more than it could possibly ever yield and actually reduces the security of the US, perhaps?
The people very loudly clamored against that, to no avail. Perhaps those gatekeepers you speak of thought that advising against invading a country for no good reason was a dumb idea.
Re your point about Obama, we'll see how much real change he can effect. My position is that the government is window dressing for a de-facto plutocracy, and that Obama *can't* change much because the presidency doesn't hold real power over the private sector any more.
Actually, according to this list, the top spammers are from the US but perform their nefarious deeds using Chinese servers.
In other words, your claim that "The Chinese are EVIL!" because they portscan you is BS.
I also think that by saying this "this is a good reason for me to have an unfriendly attitude toward China" you qualify for the Dumbest Statement All Week award. Most civilized people have, by now, realized that the "us versus them" attitude between nations is stupid, as no nation's people can be judged according to the deeds of its government or a minority such as it's hacking community. What sort of judgment would the world make regarding the US based on the actions and behavior of your last president?
Well done on being the among the last blind bigots to grow up.
In the democratic theater that is modern western politics, the two governments that the population choose between (Republican/Democrat in the USA, Liberal/Labour in Australia, Conservative/Labour in the UK) need to be effectively identical in order that the real decisions get made not by the people, but by the neo-nobility.
There's no difference between modern western politics and autocratic regimes such as monarchy or even dictatorships. It's just that the ruling class hides behind the veil democratic system, and like the Wizard of Oz, pulls the string without the vastly dumbed down population being any the wiser.
They are kept in this subjugated state with a combination of bread and circuses to keep them politically passive as well as carefully constructed media content that portrays a monoculture as though it's freedom.
This is actually an on-topic point, that meandered for a bit. The point I'm trying to make is that only a fool would believe that the US does not have a cyber-warfare (ugh, idiotic term) program, and all this reporting on online attacks by the Chinese is an example of the media reporting bias.
Given that the government is bailing out banks by taking a direct stake and talking about directly intervening in industry across the board, you won't be able to refer to America as capitalist for much longer.
I'm willing to take a -1 Off topic to make that point:P
Isn't Epiphany using Gecko, Mozilla's HTML rendering engine?
Yes, but Gecko is "Mozilla's" in the same way that the Linux kernel is "Red Hat's". They contribute to it, but not a whole lot, they concentrate on building the browser. I.e., the bits that bring in their dollars.
It may be true that Firefox has kind of lost its way over the years, but you cannot deny it's popular success.
People use Firefox because mindshare has slightly expanded allowing for a second option. Very few FF users use it because they think it is the best browser, they use it because they think it's the only alternative.
it still is the less corporate-agenda-encumbered of all browsers.
Disagree. Epiphany, Konqueror, Shiira just to name a few, and let's not forget IceWeasel. These are all far less beholden to corporate interests and far more representative of the interests of the open source community.
Such as, in this case, funding Firefox and Thunderbird development.
If that were the case, the amount of money they are earning should fund a hell of a lot more development than is actually going on.
$50m+ per year should fund enough developers to work on a fully integrated suite of internet tools, but they seem to be barely coping with maintaining Firefox and Thunderbird.
Their primary interest seems to be ensuring that their Intellectual Property does not get included in distros like Debian. Open source non-profit my ass.
Mozilla is no longer a friend to the open source community, and the sooner we realize that, the sooner these profiteering parasites will stop making megabucks riding on the back of their excellent developers, and those excellent developers can contribute to a project that actually makes a difference in the open source world. Mozilla (the organization) is no longer a benefit to the community, and has become dead weight.
Firefox should be forked. Better yet, it should be replaced with a browser that lives up to the lean and fast goal that Firefox initially had, but has since lost on its way to becoming the bloated mess that it is today.
There are many candidates out there that could be polished into a fully featured high performance browser. Being an Xfce user, my personal favorite is Epiphany.
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That's because in Sweden the cops know that you were probably using the laptop to download from The Pirate Bay. The RIAA has convinced then that theft of the laptop is a lesser crime.
Yea but that's getting dated these days. Virus writers write viruses just because they can, and kids these days are so morally bankrupt they'll steal something just for the thrill. It's time for a new razor:
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by boredom.
Wouldn't work.
Geniuses are more the product of their upbringing and social circumstances during their development as a human being and less the product of some genetic accident.
Yes, that means that the "average" human could, with the right parenting, circumstances and/or education (as distinct from schooling, which what passes off as education these days), be a genius.
Indeed. What I want to know is what attracts them all to YouTube.
While I agree with the premise that "it's prison, it's not meant to be fun", I disagree with your "prisoners are all criminals so lets disregard their welfare" attitude.
In this day and age, where the legal definition of a criminal and the moral definition of one are so far divorced from one another, it really can't be taken for granted that prisoners deserve to be where they are. Remember, the RIAA wants jail time for college file sharers.
So, unless you've never shared a copyrighted song or movie with a friend, I'd lose the attitude.
You're obviously not familiar with the current generation of twenty something females, for whom yapping on the phone trumps food, sex, work and just about everything else. I've been to restaurants and seen girls madly SMSing away while their meal sits untouched. That's not even the most extreme. SMS related accidents are on the rise. Try convincing the average Sex In The City chick that replying to that SMS should take second priority to concentrating on the road.
Incorrect. Had she not imparted momentum to it by shoving it aside, it would have stayed right there and not moved, at least in any time frame likely to be relevant to the ISS personnel.
Gr8! Im gld tht u thnk lyk tht bcoz evrybdy els thnks tht ths iz hrd 2 reed.
Like what? Fetching that mysterious alien egg?
While I agree with the complaint that he government spends too much money on overpriced kit, one would presume that if you're going into space, your equipment would need to be manufactured to a higher standard than what's available at Home Depot.
A seal pup walked into a club... ...or at least, that's what the poacher claimed.
Well hello there, neighbor, I'm from South Africa, soon to be Zimbabwe v2.0 :P
Such as an insanely expensive unnecessary war of conquest that costs more than it could possibly ever yield and actually reduces the security of the US, perhaps?
The people very loudly clamored against that, to no avail. Perhaps those gatekeepers you speak of thought that advising against invading a country for no good reason was a dumb idea.
Re your point about Obama, we'll see how much real change he can effect. My position is that the government is window dressing for a de-facto plutocracy, and that Obama *can't* change much because the presidency doesn't hold real power over the private sector any more.
I hope I'm wrong. Lets talk again in 4 years.
Actually, according to this list, the top spammers are from the US but perform their nefarious deeds using Chinese servers.
In other words, your claim that "The Chinese are EVIL!" because they portscan you is BS.
I also think that by saying this "this is a good reason for me to have an unfriendly attitude toward China" you qualify for the Dumbest Statement All Week award. Most civilized people have, by now, realized that the "us versus them" attitude between nations is stupid, as no nation's people can be judged according to the deeds of its government or a minority such as it's hacking community. What sort of judgment would the world make regarding the US based on the actions and behavior of your last president?
Well done on being the among the last blind bigots to grow up.
In the democratic theater that is modern western politics, the two governments that the population choose between (Republican/Democrat in the USA, Liberal/Labour in Australia, Conservative/Labour in the UK) need to be effectively identical in order that the real decisions get made not by the people, but by the neo-nobility.
There's no difference between modern western politics and autocratic regimes such as monarchy or even dictatorships. It's just that the ruling class hides behind the veil democratic system, and like the Wizard of Oz, pulls the string without the vastly dumbed down population being any the wiser.
They are kept in this subjugated state with a combination of bread and circuses to keep them politically passive as well as carefully constructed media content that portrays a monoculture as though it's freedom.
This is actually an on-topic point, that meandered for a bit. The point I'm trying to make is that only a fool would believe that the US does not have a cyber-warfare (ugh, idiotic term) program, and all this reporting on online attacks by the Chinese is an example of the media reporting bias.
Hey, at least it's not something Theo worked on. Then we'd see fireworks.
Bill Clinton had terrible taste in women. I really do not want to see any of his partners in *anything* transparent.
How about if someone shops out a civilian in front of a soldier firing his rifle so that it looks like he's just firing it at enemies in the distance?
Do you mean "et Voila" ?
French, motherfucker, do you speak it? :P
If that guy with the Silverlight web site didn't consider the ramifications to his audience of using Silverlight, then he deserves to lose viewers.
Given that the government is bailing out banks by taking a direct stake and talking about directly intervening in industry across the board, you won't be able to refer to America as capitalist for much longer.
I'm willing to take a -1 Off topic to make that point :P
Noah, is that you?
Yes, but Gecko is "Mozilla's" in the same way that the Linux kernel is "Red Hat's". They contribute to it, but not a whole lot, they concentrate on building the browser. I.e., the bits that bring in their dollars.
People use Firefox because mindshare has slightly expanded allowing for a second option. Very few FF users use it because they think it is the best browser, they use it because they think it's the only alternative.
Disagree. Epiphany, Konqueror, Shiira just to name a few, and let's not forget IceWeasel. These are all far less beholden to corporate interests and far more representative of the interests of the open source community.
If that were the case, the amount of money they are earning should fund a hell of a lot more development than is actually going on.
$50m+ per year should fund enough developers to work on a fully integrated suite of internet tools, but they seem to be barely coping with maintaining Firefox and Thunderbird.
Their primary interest seems to be ensuring that their Intellectual Property does not get included in distros like Debian. Open source non-profit my ass.
Mozilla is no longer a friend to the open source community, and the sooner we realize that, the sooner these profiteering parasites will stop making megabucks riding on the back of their excellent developers, and those excellent developers can contribute to a project that actually makes a difference in the open source world. Mozilla (the organization) is no longer a benefit to the community, and has become dead weight.
Firefox should be forked. Better yet, it should be replaced with a browser that lives up to the lean and fast goal that Firefox initially had, but has since lost on its way to becoming the bloated mess that it is today.
There are many candidates out there that could be polished into a fully featured high performance browser. Being an Xfce user, my personal favorite is Epiphany.