These detainees are most likely terrorist suspects. (emphasis mine)
I'm not willing to risk MY liberty, or the liberty of my fellow Americans on a term qualified with "most likely". How far are we from US citizens being declared terrorists and being stripped of constitutional rights and locked up indefinitely? Who gets to decide what constitutes terrorism? One of the strongest traditions of our democracy is that we treat our enemies better than they treat us because we are above them morally. If you have to resort to tactics from their play book you've become just as sinister, just as much an enemy to freedom as they are. The current Administration and the Republican party at large* would have us destroy the very thing we set out to protect.
*Although there are an increasing number of Republican representatives that are breaking ranks
I think gratuitous attention, historically afforded by men to women, will become a rarity. And then they'll realize how good they really had it, and they'll still complain!:P
You know all Asian languages are fictional right? They spout jibberish when the round eyes are near to keep us confused. When they're alone they all speak English.
My mistake calling it an iBook, they're called MacBooks now apparently. I wasn't aware of the name change. This was the product I was referring to. And there is the cheapest configuration available at 1099 USD. Again, price differential IS NOT MINIMUM. All of these laptops are several hundred dollars cheaper and most with higher specs. The difference in desktops is even more dramatic, and down right hilarious when you build your own system. The numbers game isn't something you can argue here. If you're going to try and make a case for Apple being better it's not going to be about price so don't try. You can say they're nicer to look at or built better, like a "professional" laptop, but that's a matter of opinion and there are just as many examples to prove you wrong as you can bring up to support that position.
"engineered-in obsolescence"? They'll be obsolete only when I can't find a use for them anymore and thanks to Linux pretty much all my old hardware continues to be useful for something.
And I have anecdotal evidence that says iBooks break after 1 month of use and require numerous replacements before they stop having serious hardware problems (logic board?). The truth, every company occasionally ships faulty systems. I've never had a problem with any of my cheap OEM computers either, or any that I've built myself from commodity parts. One of my Acer laptops has been abused to hell for over a year and a half--other than reboots and transportation it's never turned off--and it's still going strong without one hardware problem.
if you're pricing laptops (which is a market in which Apple excels), then the prices are VERY comparable The prices are NOT comparable. That's what I'm trying to say, my laptop was less than half what the cheapest iBook costs and it still has lower specs. How can you look at that and still say comparable?
Nope, they're still more expensive. Take whatever specs your mac is and build one comparable from Dell or wherever, it's going to be more, probably by greater than 1000 dollars for the high end (And mac mini doesn't count). For example, I got a laptop from Acer for under 400. Apple doesn't make ANY computer for that amount, their cheapest laptop (which still doesn't meet the specs of my cheap acer) is over a grand. I could have bought TWO laptops for that, and still had money left over!
One of two things would have to happen for me to consider apple to be an actual option to MS. Apple would have to lower its hardware cost to match that of a system I could get from Dell/Acer/HP with similar specs, or they'd have to allow me to buy just the OS and install it on any machine I build myself. There's practically no chance of this ever happening. Well, their loss if they don't want my business. XP and Linux work just fine. I even like Vista more than XP on the one machine I installed it on, it's definitely an improvement--and I've never had a problem with drivers, most get downloaded automatically anyway.
To our dear neighbors to the North, since your government seems to think it's OK to just assume you're all breaking the law anyway, and charge you accordingly with the extra price on blank media, you might as well do your best to get what you're paying for. Fill those torrent queues with music, movies, and games you already paid for with this levy!
Also, if you don't mind, keep seeding when you're done;)
You know, I've lived in AG all my life and been to SLO countless times and I've never actually been there. I can't believe it has its own Wikipedia page.
I think you can use a Fuel Air Explosive weapon in Lock-On Modern Air Combat with the A-10. Not sure though. And you can fly over Russia, see how they like it:P
One of the great military advantages of modern nuclear devices is that they pack an enormous amount of power into a relatively small space. A small nuke can be made to sizes no bigger than conventional bombs, so the bombers/missile/icbm can carry a lot of them. They also scale very well, every small amount you can increase in size allows for a huge increase in power, normal bombs have a more linear scale. This thing must be huge since there has to be more conventional explosive packed into it to get the same effect, this limits the amount they can produce and carry. It's probably too big to be easily fit onto an ICBM, and if you could there'd probably be just the one warhead instead of the dozens that can be carried with a nuclear configuration.
This is just another example in Russia's long history of impressive, unwieldy, and impractically large weapons. The Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever created and tested by man (even at half it's theoretical strength) broke windows hundreds of miles away and registered on seismic instruments all over the world even though it was detonated in Northern Russia.
Are you kidding me? Vista was the easiest to crack out of all the OSs MS has made with copyprotection activations schemes. You run one program that installs and OEM bios emulator, and add the cert and key that match the OEM. That's it, no activation required. Vista gets "pre-authenticated" just like the Dells and other OEM boxes you'd buy.
None of those solutions approach the ease of use, elegance, and simplicity of Firefox and the mentioned plugins. Manually editing files and filters just doesn't cut it. And have you even used DownThemAll? It does a lot more than just Ctrl+J in Opera. Also, Foxmarks, I can't recall how I ever lived without that. Is there some way I can sync bookmarks between different computers automatically with Opera?
Automatically updating block lists, Opera doesn't have that. Flashblock displays an inline play button over all flash content so you can choose to play something instantly. Noscript gives you an icon right at the bottom showing what domains are allowed and what are blocked from running scripts and you can white and black list things through the same menu. Opera doesn't even come close to matching these features natively, and if there's plugins that do I'm not aware of them. And I'll kick in Down Them All plugin that I can't live without now. So that's four reasons I can't use Opera, even though I like it better than FF in a lot of ways, the UI is solid and it's very snappy with a low memory footprint.
The B-52 is a ship of Theseus. It may be a 50 year old aircraft, but nearly everything in it has been replaced and retrofitted several times. The avionics and weapon systems are completely modern.
From the CNN story, "The crew was unaware that the plane was carrying nuclear weapons, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary sensitivity and security surrounding the case."
Hard to take special safety measures when you're not even aware of what you're carrying.
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Yeah! What a fucking bastard!
Also, vaguely related to TV shows starting soon, House MD season premiere tomorrow. Who's excited? I know I am!
Does it really matter though? LessWatts is short, understandable and catchy. FewerWatts or LessWattage just sounds pedantic.
More space would require a hard drive, and then you're going to bring the battery life down to levels that wouldn't be acceptable for a mobile phone.
*Although there are an increasing number of Republican representatives that are breaking ranks
While you were begging me to stay
Finally, vindication!
You know all Asian languages are fictional right? They spout jibberish when the round eyes are near to keep us confused. When they're alone they all speak English.
Did you really think people talked like that?
...by not displaying the ads at all! No false clicks from me. Are you guys doing your part too?
My mistake calling it an iBook, they're called MacBooks now apparently. I wasn't aware of the name change. This was the product I was referring to. And there is the cheapest configuration available at 1099 USD. Again, price differential IS NOT MINIMUM. All of these laptops are several hundred dollars cheaper and most with higher specs. The difference in desktops is even more dramatic, and down right hilarious when you build your own system. The numbers game isn't something you can argue here. If you're going to try and make a case for Apple being better it's not going to be about price so don't try. You can say they're nicer to look at or built better, like a "professional" laptop, but that's a matter of opinion and there are just as many examples to prove you wrong as you can bring up to support that position.
"engineered-in obsolescence"? They'll be obsolete only when I can't find a use for them anymore and thanks to Linux pretty much all my old hardware continues to be useful for something.
I just faced palmed at your post. Worse than that is I thought of that joke before reading your reply.
Give up now if you think an apple fan boy will be swayed by reality, or "facts". Focus on informing people who haven't already drank Jobs' kool-aid.
Nope, they're still more expensive. Take whatever specs your mac is and build one comparable from Dell or wherever, it's going to be more, probably by greater than 1000 dollars for the high end (And mac mini doesn't count). For example, I got a laptop from Acer for under 400. Apple doesn't make ANY computer for that amount, their cheapest laptop (which still doesn't meet the specs of my cheap acer) is over a grand. I could have bought TWO laptops for that, and still had money left over!
One of two things would have to happen for me to consider apple to be an actual option to MS. Apple would have to lower its hardware cost to match that of a system I could get from Dell/Acer/HP with similar specs, or they'd have to allow me to buy just the OS and install it on any machine I build myself. There's practically no chance of this ever happening. Well, their loss if they don't want my business. XP and Linux work just fine. I even like Vista more than XP on the one machine I installed it on, it's definitely an improvement--and I've never had a problem with drivers, most get downloaded automatically anyway.
To our dear neighbors to the North, since your government seems to think it's OK to just assume you're all breaking the law anyway, and charge you accordingly with the extra price on blank media, you might as well do your best to get what you're paying for. Fill those torrent queues with music, movies, and games you already paid for with this levy!
;)
Also, if you don't mind, keep seeding when you're done
I just made room for you on my friends list. Good show, sir.
You know, I've lived in AG all my life and been to SLO countless times and I've never actually been there. I can't believe it has its own Wikipedia page.
I think you can use a Fuel Air Explosive weapon in Lock-On Modern Air Combat with the A-10. Not sure though. And you can fly over Russia, see how they like it :P
One of the great military advantages of modern nuclear devices is that they pack an enormous amount of power into a relatively small space. A small nuke can be made to sizes no bigger than conventional bombs, so the bombers/missile/icbm can carry a lot of them. They also scale very well, every small amount you can increase in size allows for a huge increase in power, normal bombs have a more linear scale. This thing must be huge since there has to be more conventional explosive packed into it to get the same effect, this limits the amount they can produce and carry. It's probably too big to be easily fit onto an ICBM, and if you could there'd probably be just the one warhead instead of the dozens that can be carried with a nuclear configuration.
This is just another example in Russia's long history of impressive, unwieldy, and impractically large weapons. The Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever created and tested by man (even at half it's theoretical strength) broke windows hundreds of miles away and registered on seismic instruments all over the world even though it was detonated in Northern Russia.
Are you kidding me? Vista was the easiest to crack out of all the OSs MS has made with copyprotection activations schemes. You run one program that installs and OEM bios emulator, and add the cert and key that match the OEM. That's it, no activation required. Vista gets "pre-authenticated" just like the Dells and other OEM boxes you'd buy.
None of those solutions approach the ease of use, elegance, and simplicity of Firefox and the mentioned plugins. Manually editing files and filters just doesn't cut it. And have you even used DownThemAll? It does a lot more than just Ctrl+J in Opera. Also, Foxmarks, I can't recall how I ever lived without that. Is there some way I can sync bookmarks between different computers automatically with Opera?
Automatically updating block lists, Opera doesn't have that. Flashblock displays an inline play button over all flash content so you can choose to play something instantly. Noscript gives you an icon right at the bottom showing what domains are allowed and what are blocked from running scripts and you can white and black list things through the same menu. Opera doesn't even come close to matching these features natively, and if there's plugins that do I'm not aware of them. And I'll kick in Down Them All plugin that I can't live without now. So that's four reasons I can't use Opera, even though I like it better than FF in a lot of ways, the UI is solid and it's very snappy with a low memory footprint.
The B-52 is a ship of Theseus. It may be a 50 year old aircraft, but nearly everything in it has been replaced and retrofitted several times. The avionics and weapon systems are completely modern.
From the CNN story, "The crew was unaware that the plane was carrying nuclear weapons, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary sensitivity and security surrounding the case."
Hard to take special safety measures when you're not even aware of what you're carrying.