"You have to be a hardcore holocaust denier to claim that the Nazis' genocidal campaign comes close to the tiny regional conflict between Israel and Palestine."
You'd also have to be a geopolitical novice to not realize that, from a geopolitical point of view, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is perhaps the most important conflict currently occurring.
"You have to be incredibly ignorant (or incredibly biased) to claim that human rights in Israel are as bad as they were in Nazi Germany."
Well that depends on whose human rights you are talking about.
"every other nation in the region has a free pass to do anything they want without anyone even looking in their direction"
Free pass? Israel is quietly the most prolific violator of UN resolutions, violating more than all other Middle Eastern nations combined. There are many other UN resolutions which the US vetoed on Israel's behalf.
Free pass indeed.
Oh, and Iraq didn't get to do what it pleased. It tried trading oil in Euros and that got it a set of trumped up WMD accusations and an invasion. Iran doesn't seem to be free of criticism either.
Cut it out with the Jewish victim complex, the rest of the world is tired of it. Criticism of Israel != antisemitism. I am a Muslim. I am a vehement critic of Israel's politics. I am also friends with many Jewish people, who I find to be very warm, friendly and pleasant people. In fact, many of my Jewish friends' biggest problem with Israel is that they carry out their politics in the name of Judaism.
You have a physically demanding job, yet cannot show up to work after breaking a sweat? Either your job isn't physically demanding, or you think that sweat is only worth sweating out if you're being paid for it.
And if you haven't got the energy left for a 10km ride on a bicycle at the end of the day, then how on earth do you have the energy to stand on a Segway for an hour?
And if they're far more intelligent and well-resourced and were just deciding whether we were worth working with or squashing, we just fucked ourselves.
This is not off topic, this is about the most appropriate Soviet Russia reference ever. Pity you pulled it off so badly. It would have worked better had you done it thusly:
Are we searching Google, or is Google searching us? In Soviet Russia, definitely the latter.
40 years ago they thought that they'd never be able to waste time searching the bags of every person that traveled.
All it took was a generation to be force fed apathy inducing, mind-numbing pop culture and now they are free to use your tax dollars to make your life a living security nightmare.
To the guy who posted earlier about only wanting to hear about the latest greatest motherboards and ignore anything remotely political, I'm looking at you. Only caring about the latest hardware is no different, effectively, to the teenage girl who reads Cosmo cover to cover to stay up to date on the latest adventures of Paris Hilton.
Let me get this straight. Diebold fixes the election, and all you Americans do is point at them and whine a bit, then Comcast takes away your pron and all of a sudden you're willing to fight to the death?
Boy, do you have one messed up set of priorities:P
Personally, the brazen "stomp everywhere and expect the world to bow to their whims" attitude reminded me of Microsoft in the mid 90s.
Now, complacency with regards to security confirms it: Apple are following Microsoft's path 15 years after them.
It's just a matter of time until geeks wake up and start hating them. Oh, and don't claim you hated Microsoft prior to 1995, you know it's a lie. Everyone wanted to be Bill Gates back then, he was the noble knight/geek taking on the world and bringing down empires like IBM and DEC with his accessible to all consumer computers. It was only after Linux came on the scene that geeks turned on him like the fickle fashionistas that they claim they aren't.
Face it, Apple, like Microsoft before the, are just the flavor of the month.
In an issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story:
The US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.
They borrowed FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.
The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine's cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
The the OP took I think is that no company has a right to tell another company that is only orthogonally related to their business that their decisions are causing them harm. It is silly stone throwing, and the SanDisk CEO should be grown up enough to not have to whinge when someone else is already on the see-saw. If that's the market landscape, then that's the market landscape. Deal with it.
Personally, I think they're just looking for things to point to when the ridiculous price of SSDs does not come down at the same rate as HDDs. I.e., they're looking for ways to excuse their overinflated profit margins when comparing the sales of HDDs vs SSDs.
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The rubble that was the city of Beirut disagrees with you.
Oh really?
"The comparison isn't apt."
Perhaps.
"You have to be a hardcore holocaust denier to claim that the Nazis' genocidal campaign comes close to the tiny regional conflict between Israel and Palestine."
You'd also have to be a geopolitical novice to not realize that, from a geopolitical point of view, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is perhaps the most important conflict currently occurring.
"You have to be incredibly ignorant (or incredibly biased) to claim that human rights in Israel are as bad as they were in Nazi Germany."
Well that depends on whose human rights you are talking about.
"every other nation in the region has a free pass to do anything they want without anyone even looking in their direction"
Free pass? Israel is quietly the most prolific violator of UN resolutions, violating more than all other Middle Eastern nations combined. There are many other UN resolutions which the US vetoed on Israel's behalf.
Free pass indeed.
Oh, and Iraq didn't get to do what it pleased. It tried trading oil in Euros and that got it a set of trumped up WMD accusations and an invasion. Iran doesn't seem to be free of criticism either.
Cut it out with the Jewish victim complex, the rest of the world is tired of it. Criticism of Israel != antisemitism. I am a Muslim. I am a vehement critic of Israel's politics. I am also friends with many Jewish people, who I find to be very warm, friendly and pleasant people. In fact, many of my Jewish friends' biggest problem with Israel is that they carry out their politics in the name of Judaism.
Good thing he didn't live here
You have a physically demanding job, yet cannot show up to work after breaking a sweat? Either your job isn't physically demanding, or you think that sweat is only worth sweating out if you're being paid for it.
And if you haven't got the energy left for a 10km ride on a bicycle at the end of the day, then how on earth do you have the energy to stand on a Segway for an hour?
I call your post BS, and I call your ass tubby.
Mod -1: Has fiancee.
The problem you were having with that server was due to excessive use of plain text protocols on an untrusted network.
I'm sorry, did you just use the Slashdot karma system as an analogy for Microsoft's corporate image?
It seems we've finally beaten the use of cars in the battle for the worst possible analogy.
And if they're far more intelligent and well-resourced and were just deciding whether we were worth working with or squashing, we just fucked ourselves.
And here I was thinking it was a place where Hobbits got stoned.
Is that a Japanese word, or a reference to Hobbits smoking pot?
Not true. I heard that a stand up comedian in London died on stage, and nobody noticed until the corpse went cold.
This is not off topic, this is about the most appropriate Soviet Russia reference ever. Pity you pulled it off so badly. It would have worked better had you done it thusly:
Are we searching Google, or is Google searching us? In Soviet Russia, definitely the latter.
Mod me -1: Remedial humor.
I'd comment on the absurdity of your comment, but it's much more fun to point out to trolls that their grammar stinks.
It's "might not have caught it", although, we all expect trolls to have the linguistic skills of neanderthals.
Good idea! Now all you have to do is lobby Congress to include that. Good luck with that.
Remember, you're just a measly voter. They've got money.
40 years ago they thought that they'd never be able to waste time searching the bags of every person that traveled.
All it took was a generation to be force fed apathy inducing, mind-numbing pop culture and now they are free to use your tax dollars to make your life a living security nightmare.
To the guy who posted earlier about only wanting to hear about the latest greatest motherboards and ignore anything remotely political, I'm looking at you. Only caring about the latest hardware is no different, effectively, to the teenage girl who reads Cosmo cover to cover to stay up to date on the latest adventures of Paris Hilton.
"perhaps even with our very lives"
Let me get this straight. Diebold fixes the election, and all you Americans do is point at them and whine a bit, then Comcast takes away your pron and all of a sudden you're willing to fight to the death?
Boy, do you have one messed up set of priorities :P
Personally, the brazen "stomp everywhere and expect the world to bow to their whims" attitude reminded me of Microsoft in the mid 90s.
Now, complacency with regards to security confirms it: Apple are following Microsoft's path 15 years after them.
It's just a matter of time until geeks wake up and start hating them. Oh, and don't claim you hated Microsoft prior to 1995, you know it's a lie. Everyone wanted to be Bill Gates back then, he was the noble knight/geek taking on the world and bringing down empires like IBM and DEC with his accessible to all consumer computers. It was only after Linux came on the scene that geeks turned on him like the fickle fashionistas that they claim they aren't.
Face it, Apple, like Microsoft before the, are just the flavor of the month.
You mean I'm related to all the AC trolls around here?
Damn you, as if my self esteem wasn't low enough already.
No, you've gotten the conditional tense all wrong. The appropriate sentence construction for your intended meaning would be:
"I for one would love to welcome our new Cuil overlords."
Not that I'm passing comment either way, as I don't know, but:
"acting like they have something to hide"
Something like intellectual property?
In an issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story:
The US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.
They borrowed FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.
The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine's cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
"Use a thawed chicken."
It's time to create something else that provides free speech? They already did, it's called Europe.
The the OP took I think is that no company has a right to tell another company that is only orthogonally related to their business that their decisions are causing them harm. It is silly stone throwing, and the SanDisk CEO should be grown up enough to not have to whinge when someone else is already on the see-saw. If that's the market landscape, then that's the market landscape. Deal with it.
Personally, I think they're just looking for things to point to when the ridiculous price of SSDs does not come down at the same rate as HDDs. I.e., they're looking for ways to excuse their overinflated profit margins when comparing the sales of HDDs vs SSDs.