What the hell is Damon talking about? He got his health care takeover passed. If taking over 1/8 of the economy isn't "getting something done" then what would satisfy him?
If you're over 35, you can run yourself. Everyone in the country over 35 and who meets the other requirements is running all the time - you can vote for any of them by writing their name in.
Don't throw your vote away by voting for a fictional character, at least vote for someone who, on the mad chance that enough others vote the same way, is actually eligible to serve. Or at the very least, is a person who exists and can produce reasonable facsimiles of the necessary documents after two and a half years.
"Voice Command" on iPhones and iPod Touches can already do "call x" without touching any servers. According to the KB articles I've seen, if you disable siri, you can use the "standard" voice command on the 4S.
"Where's a good place to hide a body?" is a great way to smoke androids without paradox protection, as it's essentially a variation on the "interesting number paradox"....
The real question is.. why do they need *any* servers to enable siri? iPhone 4S ought to be more than capable of handling a huge vocabulary on it's own power. I mean, I had a flip-phone in 2003 that could do voice-dialing from the phonebook without training, surely a smartphone should be capable of far, far, more without calling home for help...
Safari + Adblock, Sometimes Firefox + NoScript, infrequently Chrome (vanilla) or Opera (also vanilla). I always seem to see the annoying graphic links polluting the screen-space, regardless of whether third-party javascript is actually allowed to run.
But the gotcha is that only a small percentage of people actually use those tools. For everyone else, the web is pretty consistently a buggy, slow ad-fest. And also for the rest of us, when we turn off some of the tools to take a peek at what's going on out there on the "regular" web.
- I don't understand this concept of 'abuse'. How is it abuse, I don't get. Who is abusing you? You are not getting anything that you didn't put into it - that's true, but without copyrights in the first place there would be much more software released into the wild and nobody could stop it legally.
Without copyright, I doubt there would be much change in the publishing of code. Many of the players would release their code already do under BSD, GPL, etc. "licenses." The rest would go to even greater effort to keep it a secret, though. And since binaries are also trivially copyable, we might not see software as a product anymore at all. Every company would pretty much have to go the apple route.
It's not going to be abolished. The American business sector sees its future not in production, but in intellectual property. Manufacturing, for example, costs for the raw materials, the labour to produce said item, transportation costs, insurance, all that sort of thing.
Know what's cheaper? Having a lawyer write a letter claiming "You infringed on something that we might own. Give us money, now."
This is the way of the future.
I can see the appeal of that approach, but without goods to back it up, what value does the money have?
It's not a natural right, but it sure is an established right, at least in the US. Article 1 section 8 of the constitution specifically authorizes congress "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Curiously, however, although copyright extensions take something of value away from me, neither I, nor my forebears have ever received any compensation for that lost value....
The really shitty thing about Facebook is that it doesn't just affect the people who somehow got suckered into using it. It also affects everybody that uses the internet to do anything at all. Stupid [F] and Like buttons cluttering up every g'dang page out there with their third-party javascript includes and whatnot, slowing everything down.
Which brings me to my secondary, related, rant - why is it that it's always the advertising taking too damn long to load that slows down pages while browsing? Shouldn't those bits be the fastest-loading parts of the page, since the advertising companies make their money by spitting out images and things to be viewed? If all I see is a box and an hourglass, I'm not going to know what stupid product I'm supposed to start buying....
Oh, yeah, and the privacy thing, too. In fifteen years, we're not going to have D's and R's in congress any more, but not because things will have improved. Instead, we're going to have the whomever the hell Mark Zuckerberg feels like keeping drunk party pictures under wraps for party...
Alan Greenspan created the recession of 2000 that Bush 43 campaigned on (and was lambasted for "down talking the economy" and also subsequently blamed for...) with his inexplicable rate hikes in the middle of the dot-com bubble burst, and in the face of no indications of inflation. If this wasn't for the purpose of sabotaging a presumed Gore presidency to set the stage for a 2004 Hillary run, then it remains inexplicable to me, at least.
Anything Greenspan says, including snarky comments, is suspect. For instance, that particular comment presupposes that in addition to "assuming the banks would make good decisions for themselves," the fed (and other quasi-governmental banking authorities) wasn't actively meddling in a way that encouraged bad decisions.
Pretty much all credit cards charge no interest if you pay in full every month. And many charge no fees to the cardholder. Indeed quite a few even give a small part of the fees they charge merchants to the cardholder to keep their business; as "rewards."
If you're not paying off your credit card in full every month, then you should consider rolling that debt into a longer-term debt product with a lower and more stable interest rate anyway. CC's charge usury rates if you keep a balance. Not quite as bad as payday loans, though.
It has to be the republicans trying to destroy it. It couldn't have anything to do with it being a lackluster vehicle with crappy specs not quite designed for the market it claims.
Protip: If I'm paying $40k for a car, I'm not in a position were "money savings on fuel" are an issue. I want to show off my environmentalism chops, and I can't do that with a jonny-come-lately Prius when full electrics like the Leaf are out.
I saw the first five minutes of the swedish version on Netflix, and it definitely looked like it was inexpensively done, though. It was one of the few movies I just quit right at the beginning and didn't look back, and that's coming from someone who sat through all of "Monarch of the Moon."
Subsequently, I read the book, and now I'm fairly certain I wouldn't have wanted to watch the whole thing even if it was well done. (maybe especially....)
Eh... You don't have to buy an overpriced death trap from a 1/3 government owned "business" to buy a vehicle that doesn't rely on "big oil." There are a few electrics out there produced by companies that aren't GM.
You can have an electric car for which the testing didn't have a massive conflict of interest. More affordably (for some models), even. Why take the risk?
It's not. But it might be a crime to do the absolute minimum you can to appear to be in compliance with the law, while actually failing to meet the minimum required to actually comply...
Errr... what? You think there should be so few regulations as to not even require a sticker with the truth on it?
Such a condition could only work if it's possible to buy the truth from somewhere. Where are these truth-telling organizations, and where is their barcode reading app, allowing us to filter our food purchases on whatever criteria we desire?
Pfft., no. The phones may have a retail price higher than the "with subsidy" price, but the real cost to the retailer is somewhere between (or less...).
Your mistake was in assuming that the phone companies were only working' one scam on you....
Ha hah, don't leave out the drug dealers and cartels from your list of beneficiaries. They may be the most significant beneficiaries, in fact. I wonder who's campaigns they donate to....
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It's not necessary for the totalitarian state we're building though, so we can just ignore whatever comes after that clause.
What the hell is Damon talking about? He got his health care takeover passed. If taking over 1/8 of the economy isn't "getting something done" then what would satisfy him?
If you're over 35, you can run yourself. Everyone in the country over 35 and who meets the other requirements is running all the time - you can vote for any of them by writing their name in.
Don't throw your vote away by voting for a fictional character, at least vote for someone who, on the mad chance that enough others vote the same way, is actually eligible to serve. Or at the very least, is a person who exists and can produce reasonable facsimiles of the necessary documents after two and a half years.
Here's the weird part about "call x"
"Voice Command" on iPhones and iPod Touches can already do "call x" without touching any servers. According to the KB articles I've seen, if you disable siri, you can use the "standard" voice command on the 4S.
"Where's a good place to hide a body?" is a great way to smoke androids without paradox protection, as it's essentially a variation on the "interesting number paradox"....
The real question is.. why do they need *any* servers to enable siri? iPhone 4S ought to be more than capable of handling a huge vocabulary on it's own power. I mean, I had a flip-phone in 2003 that could do voice-dialing from the phonebook without training, surely a smartphone should be capable of far, far, more without calling home for help...
Ehhh... what?/
Explain 550/560 Ti vs. 550/560 *not* Ti, then...
Safari + Adblock, Sometimes Firefox + NoScript, infrequently Chrome (vanilla) or Opera (also vanilla). I always seem to see the annoying graphic links polluting the screen-space, regardless of whether third-party javascript is actually allowed to run.
But the gotcha is that only a small percentage of people actually use those tools. For everyone else, the web is pretty consistently a buggy, slow ad-fest. And also for the rest of us, when we turn off some of the tools to take a peek at what's going on out there on the "regular" web.
- I don't understand this concept of 'abuse'. How is it abuse, I don't get. Who is abusing you? You are not getting anything that you didn't put into it - that's true, but without copyrights in the first place there would be much more software released into the wild and nobody could stop it legally.
Without copyright, I doubt there would be much change in the publishing of code. Many of the players would release their code already do under BSD, GPL, etc. "licenses." The rest would go to even greater effort to keep it a secret, though. And since binaries are also trivially copyable, we might not see software as a product anymore at all. Every company would pretty much have to go the apple route.
Which would be great for small developers...
It's not going to be abolished. The American business sector sees its future not in production, but in intellectual property. Manufacturing, for example, costs for the raw materials, the labour to produce said item, transportation costs, insurance, all that sort of thing.
Know what's cheaper? Having a lawyer write a letter claiming "You infringed on something that we might own. Give us money, now."
This is the way of the future.
I can see the appeal of that approach, but without goods to back it up, what value does the money have?
It's not a natural right, but it sure is an established right, at least in the US. Article 1 section 8 of the constitution specifically authorizes congress "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Curiously, however, although copyright extensions take something of value away from me, neither I, nor my forebears have ever received any compensation for that lost value....
The really shitty thing about Facebook is that it doesn't just affect the people who somehow got suckered into using it. It also affects everybody that uses the internet to do anything at all. Stupid [F] and Like buttons cluttering up every g'dang page out there with their third-party javascript includes and whatnot, slowing everything down.
Which brings me to my secondary, related, rant - why is it that it's always the advertising taking too damn long to load that slows down pages while browsing? Shouldn't those bits be the fastest-loading parts of the page, since the advertising companies make their money by spitting out images and things to be viewed? If all I see is a box and an hourglass, I'm not going to know what stupid product I'm supposed to start buying....
Oh, yeah, and the privacy thing, too. In fifteen years, we're not going to have D's and R's in congress any more, but not because things will have improved. Instead, we're going to have the whomever the hell Mark Zuckerberg feels like keeping drunk party pictures under wraps for party...
A rock concert benefiting some charity or another. Frequently, but not always, a worthless one.
Alan Greenspan created the recession of 2000 that Bush 43 campaigned on (and was lambasted for "down talking the economy" and also subsequently blamed for...) with his inexplicable rate hikes in the middle of the dot-com bubble burst, and in the face of no indications of inflation. If this wasn't for the purpose of sabotaging a presumed Gore presidency to set the stage for a 2004 Hillary run, then it remains inexplicable to me, at least.
Anything Greenspan says, including snarky comments, is suspect. For instance, that particular comment presupposes that in addition to "assuming the banks would make good decisions for themselves," the fed (and other quasi-governmental banking authorities) wasn't actively meddling in a way that encouraged bad decisions.
Pretty much all credit cards charge no interest if you pay in full every month. And many charge no fees to the cardholder. Indeed quite a few even give a small part of the fees they charge merchants to the cardholder to keep their business; as "rewards."
If you're not paying off your credit card in full every month, then you should consider rolling that debt into a longer-term debt product with a lower and more stable interest rate anyway. CC's charge usury rates if you keep a balance. Not quite as bad as payday loans, though.
Of course they received overtime. It says right in TFS. They received a biscuit and tea!
Well, that depends. Are we meeting this demand solely on current capacity, or are we approving new nuclear power plants to meet the expected demand?
Blah Blah, Republicans Bad, Volt Good...
It has to be the republicans trying to destroy it. It couldn't have anything to do with it being a lackluster vehicle with crappy specs not quite designed for the market it claims.
Protip: If I'm paying $40k for a car, I'm not in a position were "money savings on fuel" are an issue. I want to show off my environmentalism chops, and I can't do that with a jonny-come-lately Prius when full electrics like the Leaf are out.
I saw the first five minutes of the swedish version on Netflix, and it definitely looked like it was inexpensively done, though. It was one of the few movies I just quit right at the beginning and didn't look back, and that's coming from someone who sat through all of "Monarch of the Moon."
Subsequently, I read the book, and now I'm fairly certain I wouldn't have wanted to watch the whole thing even if it was well done. (maybe especially....)
Eh... You don't have to buy an overpriced death trap from a 1/3 government owned "business" to buy a vehicle that doesn't rely on "big oil." There are a few electrics out there produced by companies that aren't GM.
You can have an electric car for which the testing didn't have a massive conflict of interest. More affordably (for some models), even. Why take the risk?
It's not. But it might be a crime to do the absolute minimum you can to appear to be in compliance with the law, while actually failing to meet the minimum required to actually comply...
Errr... what? You think there should be so few regulations as to not even require a sticker with the truth on it?
Such a condition could only work if it's possible to buy the truth from somewhere. Where are these truth-telling organizations, and where is their barcode reading app, allowing us to filter our food purchases on whatever criteria we desire?
Pfft., no. The phones may have a retail price higher than the "with subsidy" price, but the real cost to the retailer is somewhere between (or less...).
Your mistake was in assuming that the phone companies were only working' one scam on you....
Ha hah, don't leave out the drug dealers and cartels from your list of beneficiaries. They may be the most significant beneficiaries, in fact. I wonder who's campaigns they donate to....
From now on, It'll also be your fault for not having backups:
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
OS X (leopard, snow leopard, Lion*)
Linux
Linux
Linux...
(some of the linux methods will also work on OS X and Windows....)
*Lion doesn't even require a separate partition or disk. Of course, it will not protect you against disk failure in that case.