Even if your premise were correct (which it isn't), the costs of said 'solution' are borne by the victim in the cost of increased CPU cycles, storage, et cetera. Any legitimate solution would impose these costs on the malefactor instead.
Precisely. I remember a couple of years ago Starz demanded extortionate fees during contract renewal negotiations and Netflix declined (citation). A huge swathe of A-list movies and TV shows disappeared from streaming as a result. It's clear that the content providers want to provide exclusive access to their catalogues solely through their own fragmented, stove-piped streaming services.
Social Security is paid out of the Social Security Trust Fund, not the General Fund (citation). By law, it is not allowed to touch the GF. However, money does flow the opposite way to plug revenue gaps -- hence Al Gore's famous 'lockbox' speeches that were much lampooned on SNL.
The Enterprise edition of Windows 10 allows you to turn off all telemetry and data collection. It might be cost-prohibitive for a smaller doctor's surgery to upgrade to it, but large medical complexes like Cedars Sinai and Mayo Clinic will just opt for Enterprise Win10 and be done with it.
All rights are contingent, including the right to bear arms. My right to life trumps your right to liberty if said liberty means my life being forfeit.
In the foreseeable future, further restrictions to firearm ownership are off the table due to the prevailing political climate. One idea that is gaining traction is that of requiring firearm owners to purchase liability insurance, analogous to how most states require drivers to have some kind of auto liability insurance.
Others have had votes with different weighting, much like some publicly traded companies have.
Are you implying that you advocate the principle of 'One dollar, one vote' -- or are you merely playing devil's advocate? ODOV would hasten a return to feudalism.
WinCE had a GUI superficially similar to desktop Windows but had no (or at least minimal) Win32 code, plus it was based on a completely bespoke kernel that was in no way derived from NT. The fact that it has 'Windows' in the name is purely for marketing purposes. It was related to desktop Windows to the same degree that Javascript is related to Java -- i.e., not really at all.
I would say both. An email and a notarised letter printed on dead trees. Actually hell, go further and print the email and have that notarised, as well.
Keep this up, MIcrosoft, and we may yet see the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
I just moderated you Insightful, BTW.
People continue to think I'm crazy and slam me on here and other sites, but running Linux as one's daily OS is becoming easier and easier for non-neckbeards. ReactOS development seems to be accelerating after twenty years of gestation, and WINE continues to improve on a weekly basis. Unless you're running some really obscure Windows app, most stuff runs under WINE without show-stopping problems. If there is some bug, it's as likely the fault of the app as it is something not yet supported under WINE. And to all the naysayers, no, I don't have Linus Torvalds' cock in my mouth or up my arse.
Vatican City is a sovereign city-state enclaved within Rome (and therefore, Italy). Despite its physical location within the city of Rome, it is not, however, politically a constituent of Rome or Italy. It truly is sovereign and sui generis.
Ummm....NO. Fascism is corporate power fully expressed. Calling fascism a left-wing ideology is patently absurd and fallacious. You, sir, are the one wholly and completely wrong.
Source: My grandfather was a professor of political science with a PhD from Duke University and I learned at his knee, so I do know my political terminology.
With Valve porting more and more games to Linux, this excuse holds less and less water as time goes by. If it's DOS games you're worried about playing, set FreeDOS up in a VM and be done with it.
The Democratic Party has been allied with 'Big Money' at least since the era of Clinton. He happily signed the Gramm-Bliley-Leach Act, which dismantled Glass-Steagall. You can lay a big part of the blame for the Great Recession at Slick Willie's feet. When he was campaigning in '92, he ushered in an era of the 'New Democrats' (cf. New Labour in the UK) and actively courted Wall Street. This alignment with plutocrats is nothing new for them. In an age of billion-dollar political campaigns, you go where the money is.
You have the freedom not to buy a new car if you don't wish to. Some of us like the niceties that come with newer models, and we'll continue to buy them. Now get off my fucking lawn.
They are playing whack a mole with a thousand holes.
And to the government, this is a non-problem. They can get more budget money to buy more mallets and hire more mallet wielders, and it's job security for life. It's a war that under the existing paradigm will never be won.
limitations of form concentrates the minds and enhances the power and effect of content.
And it will continue to, if Twitter sticks to the philosophy of its current experimental interface. 140 characters will still be shown in the feed, with a link to view the extended tweet. Don't feel like writing more than 140 characters? Then don't! I'm sure Twitter will include some kind of 'legacy' config option where it will artificially disallow you from writing more than 140 characters if you enable the setting.
The vast majority of politicians don't give two shits about something unless it affects them personally, or else they're bribed to care. How did this make it into the news pile?
Clipping the wings of WhatsApp very neatly solves two problems for the Powers That Be(tm): it protects a de facto, if not de jure, monopoly on the one hand, and enforces censorship on the other. Only a chump would think that the judge issued this order merely because WhatsApp didn't play bureaucratic ball. The PTB feel a threat to their entrenched power, and have employed the judiciary to strike out at the rebels.
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Doubtless, this is a 'feature' mandated by the Chinese government and not a bug.
My 2006 MacBook lasted ten years.
Survivor bias, pure and simple. I have at least 10 anecdotes contra ones like yours.
Spam is largely a solved problem.
Even if your premise were correct (which it isn't), the costs of said 'solution' are borne by the victim in the cost of increased CPU cycles, storage, et cetera. Any legitimate solution would impose these costs on the malefactor instead.
Precisely. I remember a couple of years ago Starz demanded extortionate fees during contract renewal negotiations and Netflix declined (citation). A huge swathe of A-list movies and TV shows disappeared from streaming as a result. It's clear that the content providers want to provide exclusive access to their catalogues solely through their own fragmented, stove-piped streaming services.
Social Security is paid out of the Social Security Trust Fund, not the General Fund (citation). By law, it is not allowed to touch the GF. However, money does flow the opposite way to plug revenue gaps -- hence Al Gore's famous 'lockbox' speeches that were much lampooned on SNL.
The Enterprise edition of Windows 10 allows you to turn off all telemetry and data collection. It might be cost-prohibitive for a smaller doctor's surgery to upgrade to it, but large medical complexes like Cedars Sinai and Mayo Clinic will just opt for Enterprise Win10 and be done with it.
1) you do not have a right to own a car
All rights are contingent, including the right to bear arms. My right to life trumps your right to liberty if said liberty means my life being forfeit.
In the foreseeable future, further restrictions to firearm ownership are off the table due to the prevailing political climate. One idea that is gaining traction is that of requiring firearm owners to purchase liability insurance, analogous to how most states require drivers to have some kind of auto liability insurance.
Others have had votes with different weighting, much like some publicly traded companies have.
Are you implying that you advocate the principle of 'One dollar, one vote' -- or are you merely playing devil's advocate? ODOV would hasten a return to feudalism.
WinCE had a GUI superficially similar to desktop Windows but had no (or at least minimal) Win32 code, plus it was based on a completely bespoke kernel that was in no way derived from NT. The fact that it has 'Windows' in the name is purely for marketing purposes. It was related to desktop Windows to the same degree that Javascript is related to Java -- i.e., not really at all.
Maybe they will unify marques and the next Xbox will be a desktop addition to the Surface family of products.
I would say both. An email and a notarised letter printed on dead trees. Actually hell, go further and print the email and have that notarised, as well.
Keep this up, MIcrosoft, and we may yet see the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
I just moderated you Insightful, BTW.
People continue to think I'm crazy and slam me on here and other sites, but running Linux as one's daily OS is becoming easier and easier for non-neckbeards. ReactOS development seems to be accelerating after twenty years of gestation, and WINE continues to improve on a weekly basis. Unless you're running some really obscure Windows app, most stuff runs under WINE without show-stopping problems. If there is some bug, it's as likely the fault of the app as it is something not yet supported under WINE. And to all the naysayers, no, I don't have Linus Torvalds' cock in my mouth or up my arse.
A project called Odin had the goal of porting WINE to OS/2, but it looks like nothing significant has been done in a decade or so.
There's an interesting Reddit thread here which has some updated information.
TL;DR: Some aborted projects exist out there on the Interwebs, but someone would have to pick them up, dust them off, and provide some TLC.
Vatican City is a sovereign city-state enclaved within Rome (and therefore, Italy). Despite its physical location within the city of Rome, it is not, however, politically a constituent of Rome or Italy. It truly is sovereign and sui generis.
Ummm....NO. Fascism is corporate power fully expressed. Calling fascism a left-wing ideology is patently absurd and fallacious. You, sir, are the one wholly and completely wrong.
Source: My grandfather was a professor of political science with a PhD from Duke University and I learned at his knee, so I do know my political terminology.
With Valve porting more and more games to Linux, this excuse holds less and less water as time goes by. If it's DOS games you're worried about playing, set FreeDOS up in a VM and be done with it.
EDIT: 'viable option'
Maybe one of these years ReactOS will become a viable for the non-neckbeard set.
The Democratic Party has been allied with 'Big Money' at least since the era of Clinton. He happily signed the Gramm-Bliley-Leach Act, which dismantled Glass-Steagall. You can lay a big part of the blame for the Great Recession at Slick Willie's feet. When he was campaigning in '92, he ushered in an era of the 'New Democrats' (cf. New Labour in the UK) and actively courted Wall Street. This alignment with plutocrats is nothing new for them. In an age of billion-dollar political campaigns, you go where the money is.
You have the freedom not to buy a new car if you don't wish to. Some of us like the niceties that come with newer models, and we'll continue to buy them. Now get off my fucking lawn.
They are playing whack a mole with a thousand holes.
And to the government, this is a non-problem. They can get more budget money to buy more mallets and hire more mallet wielders, and it's job security for life. It's a war that under the existing paradigm will never be won.
limitations of form concentrates the minds and enhances the power and effect of content.
And it will continue to, if Twitter sticks to the philosophy of its current experimental interface. 140 characters will still be shown in the feed, with a link to view the extended tweet. Don't feel like writing more than 140 characters? Then don't! I'm sure Twitter will include some kind of 'legacy' config option where it will artificially disallow you from writing more than 140 characters if you enable the setting.
The vast majority of politicians don't give two shits about something unless it affects them personally, or else they're bribed to care. How did this make it into the news pile?
Clipping the wings of WhatsApp very neatly solves two problems for the Powers That Be(tm): it protects a de facto, if not de jure, monopoly on the one hand, and enforces censorship on the other. Only a chump would think that the judge issued this order merely because WhatsApp didn't play bureaucratic ball. The PTB feel a threat to their entrenched power, and have employed the judiciary to strike out at the rebels.