This trend is not confined to tech and didn't originate there. Companies have attempted to turn us all into annuities. They prefer to think of us as warm bodies and themselves as bloodsucking mosquitoes with permanently installed straws. They just have to fly by every month and let a little blood out into their coffers.
So we consumers are left with choosing which bloodsuckers will be allowed to feed on us. Death occurs when you are sucked dry. You won't be able to afford the water bill, or the electric bill to keep the machines you need to live running, etc.
The article mentions that the Sahara is big, really big, so big you have no idea. The sun is usually out during daytime on a large part of it. Granted the large part moves a bit with the weather but at any one time, it is still a large part.
Okay, will you please contribute to my Solar Sahara project. We intend to populate Libya with solar panels but we need backers with money. Yours will do, fork it over.
And if the IRS did concentrate on the drugs, weapons, and contraband, you'd be whining about them overstepping their bounds. They are interested in financials because they are the IRS. What about this confuses you?
The reason: Pakistan. This darling country is becoming a nuke super-market. They are now interested in building tactical nuclear weapons because, goodness knows, those sneaky Indians are attempting to subvert the Pakistan culture with Bollywood or something.
All it would take for a real disaster is for those nice terrorists to do a deal with some disgruntled Pakistan military personnel and get their hands on a nuke. It might be difficult to slip it into the U.S. but they could take out a major city in Russia or Europe. You do remember the Pakistanis? They sheltered bin Laden for mere political whimsy figuring it gave them some sort of leverage over the U.S. in Afghanistan. The only reason the U.S. has an interest in Pakistan is because of their nukes, this makes them feel important. They are bit like Putin in that respect.
There is a reason to fear the Islamists, but it doesn't have to do with a few psychopaths shooting up a mall. The reason to fear them is they are currently attracting a motley crew of psychopaths who think taking out an entire city is something that will assure them their 72 virgins in the afterlife, herald in a new world-order ruled mechanistically by an Allah who is so other that anything you can say about him, he is not (Islamic theocratic idea). Think of this Allah as the new Skynet.
IOS and osx share much already. The fact that they do not share an interface is because phones are not desktops or laptops. Apple continues to reiterate the difference but apparently you aren't getting those memos. See MS for an example of how to screw up when you confuse the two.
Old ideas never die. Schwarzkopf during the first Gulf War used the Marines history of storming beaches to fool the Iraqis into thinking the U.S. was going to retake Kuwait for the fat boys in robes via a seaborne invasion. He had them practicing beach storming in the Gulf in ways the Iraqis could see.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Patton ruse was a British idea. The things the Brits did to the Germans during WWII with misdirection, deceit, etc. were really amazing.
I know I shouldn't respond to a troll, but you and congress-critters need to stop having wet dreams over a "draft". Modern warfare by the West is a professional occupation and requires much training. The unprofessional rabble that Iraq and Afghanistan's governments field show just how ineffective untrained meat-sacks are against religious zealots. Even Iranian backed Iraqi militias are pretty much cannon fodder with loud mouths. Ever watch the Kurds fight? They are just a bunch of guys with guns.
The U.S. cut through just about anything the Al Qaeda could field. Where it had problems was in attempting to solve the underlying issues that spawned the problems starting with Muslim 7th century wet dreams. One can see just how removed the current populace's idea of modern warfare is by listening to their mouthpieces in Congress. McCain (who ought to know better but stupidly doesn't) made some remark about how carpet bombing Germany finished off the Nazies. It didn't, Hitler was a more effective weapon against the Nazies by being a dolt. What carpet bombing did do was cause a massive human tragedy which put a big dent in the Marshall plan after the war. Cruz is another moron advocating this.
When asked if the U.S. would carpet bomb ISIS, Gen. Paul Selva (vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in front of McCain said unequivocally, "The U.S. Military will never carpet bomb." He and the U.S. Military would be brought up on war crimes in EuroLand. But that isn't why he dismissed such a stupid move.
While we can be dismissive of that lot over there, public opinion matters, the general and the U.S. Military knows that the U.S. and the West is in an ideological war with Islam, to treat it as purely kinetic is just mindless. Europe, whatever their faults, did the Christian thing and accepted untold thousands of refugees from Syria but also Afghanistan, and N. Africa. They put the "Christians" in the U.S. to shame. Even Little Jerry Falwell at Liberty U. was counseling his students to arm themselves against the Muslims. I guess Jesus had a secret directive, "Turn the other cheek that I may get a better aim at your ass."
The general and the U.S. Military know damn well that the U.S. needs to work on the underlying problems that carpet bombing will not solve. It would only antagonize the pop., something Russia is conveniently forgetting, and not stopping Russia from doing this by giving Putin a swift kick in the nuts will cause spill over that the West will suffer from for years.
Some people will have their religious beliefs for sale, some won't, no matter how demented. I once rented a house in the boonies, I won't say where. The landlord and lady were perfectly reasonable people. Then the gas company decided to move the gas meters. The landlady went Satanic, claimed the G-d did not want those meters to be moved. The landlord figured that living with the landlady would be harder than living with the new placement of the meters were they to remain. The gas company finally relented and sent a crew to move the meters back to their original position. Presumably G-d was pleased, the landlord was able to live with woman going forward. The gas company learned a lesson of not kissing up before the meters were moved. There was no amount of money that would have come between her and G-d. Angels proceeded to dance on their pinhead in joyous celebration.
Bingo, too bad you posted as an AC. Most people think of technology as FM, Fucking Magic. Most people in policy positions of government are no different because they come from the ranks of most people. They do not believe someone telling them something cannot be done because they've "consumed" too many TV shows that tell them technology is FM. Those crazy scientists and engineers are always pulling someone's nuts out of the fire at the last minute when the previous 3/4 of the show convinced them it those nuts are going fry.
The policy makers still come from the ranks of most people. Ever listen to most people calling on CSPANs morning callin show? They are nuts. Few are able to think logically much less rationally. They believe Jews control the world, WTC was an inside job, the moon landing was faked, there's a shadow government, Obama is a Muslim. Expect this lot to somehow come up with sensible policies is like asking for square eggs.
The rank and file in the government, for the most part not the policy makers, are more or less normal, can think logically and rationally, many have advanced degrees so the nutjobs got weeded out. The policy makers were mostly elected or rose to their position by stepping on qualified people to make themselves look better. They are mostly firm believers in FM because they want to believe in FM. The fact that their reasoning is circular is only reinforcing their beliefs to themselves.
Unless them precursor birds hadn't yet figured out how to use their feathers to fly. Many dinosaurs had feathers about the time they went extinct but couldn't get off the ground due to weight, no traffic control, really bad transponders, etc. It was hard work to fly back then.
For me it depends upon whether I get to pick the 14 channels. I think I probably surf about 14 channels looking for something, anything worthy of my time. However, I doubt Apple can get the agreements to allow me to pick the 14 channels. If the 14 channels, maybe 5 have consistently something I'd care about, and most of time they do not. So what happens if that gets close to 0....Verizon can then stop counting my TV money.
We are not going to be at war with Russia or China NOW precisely because we do have a potent military which, whether you like it or not, cost money. China and Russia are preparing to be at war with the U.S. in the future because the little sawed off runts that run those joints define themselves and the size of their dicks by animosity towards the U.S.
If China succeeds in controlling the high seas because the U.S. can no longer be bothered, expect the economic fallout to be substantial. All that trade the U.S. does goes by ship. Any time the Chinese think their dicks don't look big enough, they'll squeeze just a bit harder and the U.S. will be able to do nothing except pull up your disjointed reasoning telling them why we don't think it is in our best interest to defend our interests.
On the contrary, San Bernadino scored a direct hit on the Republican Party. It's a wonder that the party of gun-nuts and "Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammunition" has become the most unhinged of the two parties, wringing their hands and peeing in their panties.
A bigger problem for both parties is that they don't believe democracy is a better alternative to anything. The only hope the Mid-East crazies have of living with each other is democracy. Failing that, they are left to devining a mystical Allah's wishes via a late stage schizophrenic's pompous writings about how He is the Last Prophet and hence had the biggest dick. You'd think this Allah guy could take care of his own business instead of waiting for a bunch of hairy psychopaths to do his dirty work for him.
I give up, why would American officials import "millions" of those terrorists? Wait, wait, I know....it is because then Obama could declare martial law and be the Muslim President for Life!!! Yep, that must be it. The only thing preventing this must be the Republicans armed to the teeth. What could possibly make us safer then a bunch of Republican gun nuts running around: Are you a terrorist? Are you a terrorist? You are, eh...BLAM...sorry I had to shoot your kid, Madam, he should be in kindergarten with the rest of the 5 year-olds...goddamn terrorist spawn of Satan.
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This trend is not confined to tech and didn't originate there. Companies have attempted to turn us all into annuities. They prefer to think of us as warm bodies and themselves as bloodsucking mosquitoes with permanently installed straws. They just have to fly by every month and let a little blood out into their coffers.
So we consumers are left with choosing which bloodsuckers will be allowed to feed on us. Death occurs when you are sucked dry. You won't be able to afford the water bill, or the electric bill to keep the machines you need to live running, etc.
The article mentions that the Sahara is big, really big, so big you have no idea. The sun is usually out during daytime on a large part of it. Granted the large part moves a bit with the weather but at any one time, it is still a large part.
Okay, will you please contribute to my Solar Sahara project. We intend to populate Libya with solar panels but we need backers with money. Yours will do, fork it over.
It's happened to me a few times in the last two days, MacPro, MacProLap, Mavericks and Yosemite.
A conspiracy theorist's work is never done.
And if the IRS did concentrate on the drugs, weapons, and contraband, you'd be whining about them overstepping their bounds. They are interested in financials because they are the IRS. What about this confuses you?
The reason: Pakistan. This darling country is becoming a nuke super-market. They are now interested in building tactical nuclear weapons because, goodness knows, those sneaky Indians are attempting to subvert the Pakistan culture with Bollywood or something.
All it would take for a real disaster is for those nice terrorists to do a deal with some disgruntled Pakistan military personnel and get their hands on a nuke. It might be difficult to slip it into the U.S. but they could take out a major city in Russia or Europe. You do remember the Pakistanis? They sheltered bin Laden for mere political whimsy figuring it gave them some sort of leverage over the U.S. in Afghanistan. The only reason the U.S. has an interest in Pakistan is because of their nukes, this makes them feel important. They are bit like Putin in that respect.
There is a reason to fear the Islamists, but it doesn't have to do with a few psychopaths shooting up a mall. The reason to fear them is they are currently attracting a motley crew of psychopaths who think taking out an entire city is something that will assure them their 72 virgins in the afterlife, herald in a new world-order ruled mechanistically by an Allah who is so other that anything you can say about him, he is not (Islamic theocratic idea). Think of this Allah as the new Skynet.
Actually, right now the U.S. is about equal with China in manufacturing. You are just looking at the half that has gone bye-bye.
I agree, this is not science. Science would be setting up controlled experiments and presenting the results in peer reviewed journals or conferences.
IOS and osx share much already. The fact that they do not share an interface is because phones are not desktops or laptops. Apple continues to reiterate the difference but apparently you aren't getting those memos. See MS for an example of how to screw up when you confuse the two.
Really? Read up on Special Ops sometime, you are about 30 years behind the times.
No, it shows that this method of key distribution might be borked, nothing more.
Short logic lesson, your reasoning is indistinguishable in form from: 3 is prime, therefore all numbers are prime.
Or more bluntly: (Ex) P(x) --> (Ax) P(x)
is falsifiable in first-order logic. In English, this is "if there exists some x such that P(x), then for all x it is the case that P(x)."
Old ideas never die. Schwarzkopf during the first Gulf War used the Marines history of storming beaches to fool the Iraqis into thinking the U.S. was going to retake Kuwait for the fat boys in robes via a seaborne invasion. He had them practicing beach storming in the Gulf in ways the Iraqis could see.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Patton ruse was a British idea. The things the Brits did to the Germans during WWII with misdirection, deceit, etc. were really amazing.
I know I shouldn't respond to a troll, but you and congress-critters need to stop having wet dreams over a "draft". Modern warfare by the West is a professional occupation and requires much training. The unprofessional rabble that Iraq and Afghanistan's governments field show just how ineffective untrained meat-sacks are against religious zealots. Even Iranian backed Iraqi militias are pretty much cannon fodder with loud mouths. Ever watch the Kurds fight? They are just a bunch of guys with guns.
The U.S. cut through just about anything the Al Qaeda could field. Where it had problems was in attempting to solve the underlying issues that spawned the problems starting with Muslim 7th century wet dreams. One can see just how removed the current populace's idea of modern warfare is by listening to their mouthpieces in Congress. McCain (who ought to know better but stupidly doesn't) made some remark about how carpet bombing Germany finished off the Nazies. It didn't, Hitler was a more effective weapon against the Nazies by being a dolt. What carpet bombing did do was cause a massive human tragedy which put a big dent in the Marshall plan after the war. Cruz is another moron advocating this.
When asked if the U.S. would carpet bomb ISIS, Gen. Paul Selva (vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in front of McCain said unequivocally, "The U.S. Military will never carpet bomb." He and the U.S. Military would be brought up on war crimes in EuroLand. But that isn't why he dismissed such a stupid move.
While we can be dismissive of that lot over there, public opinion matters, the general and the U.S. Military knows that the U.S. and the West is in an ideological war with Islam, to treat it as purely kinetic is just mindless. Europe, whatever their faults, did the Christian thing and accepted untold thousands of refugees from Syria but also Afghanistan, and N. Africa. They put the "Christians" in the U.S. to shame. Even Little Jerry Falwell at Liberty U. was counseling his students to arm themselves against the Muslims. I guess Jesus had a secret directive, "Turn the other cheek that I may get a better aim at your ass."
The general and the U.S. Military know damn well that the U.S. needs to work on the underlying problems that carpet bombing will not solve. It would only antagonize the pop., something Russia is conveniently forgetting, and not stopping Russia from doing this by giving Putin a swift kick in the nuts will cause spill over that the West will suffer from for years.
Some people will have their religious beliefs for sale, some won't, no matter how demented. I once rented a house in the boonies, I won't say where. The landlord and lady were perfectly reasonable people. Then the gas company decided to move the gas meters. The landlady went Satanic, claimed the G-d did not want those meters to be moved. The landlord figured that living with the landlady would be harder than living with the new placement of the meters were they to remain. The gas company finally relented and sent a crew to move the meters back to their original position. Presumably G-d was pleased, the landlord was able to live with woman going forward. The gas company learned a lesson of not kissing up before the meters were moved. There was no amount of money that would have come between her and G-d. Angels proceeded to dance on their pinhead in joyous celebration.
Bingo, too bad you posted as an AC. Most people think of technology as FM, Fucking Magic. Most people in policy positions of government are no different because they come from the ranks of most people. They do not believe someone telling them something cannot be done because they've "consumed" too many TV shows that tell them technology is FM. Those crazy scientists and engineers are always pulling someone's nuts out of the fire at the last minute when the previous 3/4 of the show convinced them it those nuts are going fry.
The policy makers still come from the ranks of most people. Ever listen to most people calling on CSPANs morning callin show? They are nuts. Few are able to think logically much less rationally. They believe Jews control the world, WTC was an inside job, the moon landing was faked, there's a shadow government, Obama is a Muslim. Expect this lot to somehow come up with sensible policies is like asking for square eggs.
The rank and file in the government, for the most part not the policy makers, are more or less normal, can think logically and rationally, many have advanced degrees so the nutjobs got weeded out. The policy makers were mostly elected or rose to their position by stepping on qualified people to make themselves look better. They are mostly firm believers in FM because they want to believe in FM. The fact that their reasoning is circular is only reinforcing their beliefs to themselves.
Unless them precursor birds hadn't yet figured out how to use their feathers to fly. Many dinosaurs had feathers about the time they went extinct but couldn't get off the ground due to weight, no traffic control, really bad transponders, etc. It was hard work to fly back then.
Yeah, have you seen the way they eat? No manners, smacking their lips and making all those disgusting crunching sounds.
Noscript actually puked on my keyboard trying to visit that site. Gotta run for some cleaner...
For me it depends upon whether I get to pick the 14 channels. I think I probably surf about 14 channels looking for something, anything worthy of my time. However, I doubt Apple can get the agreements to allow me to pick the 14 channels. If the 14 channels, maybe 5 have consistently something I'd care about, and most of time they do not. So what happens if that gets close to 0....Verizon can then stop counting my TV money.
We are not going to be at war with Russia or China NOW precisely because we do have a potent military which, whether you like it or not, cost money. China and Russia are preparing to be at war with the U.S. in the future because the little sawed off runts that run those joints define themselves and the size of their dicks by animosity towards the U.S.
If China succeeds in controlling the high seas because the U.S. can no longer be bothered, expect the economic fallout to be substantial. All that trade the U.S. does goes by ship. Any time the Chinese think their dicks don't look big enough, they'll squeeze just a bit harder and the U.S. will be able to do nothing except pull up your disjointed reasoning telling them why we don't think it is in our best interest to defend our interests.
On the contrary, San Bernadino scored a direct hit on the Republican Party. It's a wonder that the party of gun-nuts and "Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammunition" has become the most unhinged of the two parties, wringing their hands and peeing in their panties.
A bigger problem for both parties is that they don't believe democracy is a better alternative to anything. The only hope the Mid-East crazies have of living with each other is democracy. Failing that, they are left to devining a mystical Allah's wishes via a late stage schizophrenic's pompous writings about how He is the Last Prophet and hence had the biggest dick. You'd think this Allah guy could take care of his own business instead of waiting for a bunch of hairy psychopaths to do his dirty work for him.
Fooled you, his wife was the daughter of Pakistanis, they emigrated to SA about 20 years or so ago. Please try to keep up,
I give up, why would American officials import "millions" of those terrorists? Wait, wait, I know....it is because then Obama could declare martial law and be the Muslim President for Life!!! Yep, that must be it. The only thing preventing this must be the Republicans armed to the teeth. What could possibly make us safer then a bunch of Republican gun nuts running around: Are you a terrorist? Are you a terrorist? You are, eh...BLAM...sorry I had to shoot your kid, Madam, he should be in kindergarten with the rest of the 5 year-olds...goddamn terrorist spawn of Satan.
So, you are complaining the government spying isn't 100% effective?