I agree that Android's open approach will give them a much bigger market share and that history will repeat itself.
But at the moment the iOS SDK and IDE are still far superior to Android's offerings. Just try them both if you don't believe me. Android-Java vs. Objective-C isn't really an issue. Picking up the idiosyncrasies of Java for Android (for example to workaround the weaknesses of the current garbage collector) took me about as long as to learn Objective-C; each of them can be done in a weekend. But this is only a temporary edge for Apple. I'm sure Google will catch up and then overtake them in that area too within a year or so.
Can you name any WikiLeaks publication which authenticity is disputed? Can you name any other "media corp." or whatever you want to call it with that track record? WikiLeaks has stellar credibility.
I'm mostly (only?) interested in results not in ideology. So if charities work than fine use them to cure the social ills. From my limited experience working for charities they rarely provide more than a bandaid for some kinds of usually very limited problems. The governments of the countries I lived in (only Europe) seemed to do a way better job of achieveing the goals I described above. But that's only anecdotal evidence; your mileage and hence your opinion may vary.
I am not about being compassionate, but I do object to having the force of law stealing money from widows & orphans at gunpoint so that people who are wealthy can get good health care.
I used health care as an example to make things more concret because I find it incredibly hard to think about our/ my situation in abstract totally unfitting terms like slavery and "socialism". That's just hogwash.
Governments do a pretty good job of acting as a referee to help resolve disputes and conflict between private individuals and to help keep other people and other governments from messing with me and those things I care about. But government can and ought to be limited, and it is this principle of very limited government that I am advocating here, not a complete elimination of government.
I totally agree with that. Well... I'm not sure if I would call it a "pretty good job", but the alternatives are far worse.
The only question remaining is: What are suitable limits? I think it would be great if nobody would feel hunger or freeze and that everybody gets medical treatment when they're sick. I'm willing to give up some of my own resources for that and I'm voting for candidates that seem to have the same goal. These candidates are not my buddies; I merely try to use them to achieve these goals because I'm too lazy to do more than voting once every other year or so. And I will never hold a gun to your head to force you to do something you don't want to do. The opt-out option should always be available but has to be balanced with the need to fight freeloading; so you might have to jump through a hoop or two to opt-out.
Note that I'm also pretty sure that a gto strategy in the struggle between different societies or groups of people will include some kind of in-group altruism. So societies that behave like I described will do better in the long run. But that's more like a belief than some kind of scientific argument.
I can't comment on the state vs. federal issue; the countries in Europe are too small to give me any meaningful insight into this problem. But looking at what monster the EU is becoming I tend to agree with you in favoring local over global solutions.
I live in one of the "socialist" European countries. I have spent maybe 5 hours total in the forty years I've lived thinking about health care plans. It practically did not cost me any time at all. And time is my most valued resource. Our socialised medicine has given me the freedom to use this resource as I wish. It has not enslaved me but has given me more freedom. And I pay far less than I would have to pay in the States.
I really don't see how this makes you think that I wish to become a slave and am longing for some tyrant. I do understand that you don't want to participate in the socialised medicine I enjoy; I think everyone should have the choice to opt out. But even if you do I would still think you should get treatment if you get sick even if you can not afford to pay for the treatment. The problem is that if too many people opt out and start to freeload the system breaks. So there have to be some rules regarding opting out like proving that you will be able to pay your health care bills some other way. Theses rules reduce our freedom.
For me the freedoms I gain ("easy" healthcare) far outweigh the freedoms I give up (problematic opt-out). For you it's the other way around. But one is not pure freedom and the other is not pure slavery. That's just bad and childish rhetoric.
The fact that no such place exists might be an indication that a system that follows libertarian principles is not stable. Maybe something just comes along and fills the power vacuum. Maybe that something is not very enjoyable.
"Mass riots" is an extrem exaggeration. The French are not satisfied with their government so they protest it. This is what the tea party would look like if they weren't just some useful idiots for corporate interests. But getting really angry while listening to Limbaugh, Beck, and the other clowns and then voting for the guys who did, and still do, and will continue to do all the thing you protest against is fine too, i guess.
You have to read the description of critterding in order to understand the changes made in critterdrug (as described in TFA). The software actually is pretty cool. It's a simulation of a evolutionary process starting with agents ("critters") with different random attributes. The agents can perform actions like "eat", "procreate", or "bend joint" and have sensors for "food", other critters, their own condition, and so on.
What did they edit out of the video that was wrong to take out?
The unedited video shows that at least one man in the group that got murdered was armed with an assualt rifle. No guns are visible in the edited version.
And what link do you have that proves that they provided the unedited video only after being 'caught' doing what every other news video have had done in the whole entire history of news video?
Probably Ashraf: Governor Mangal (whoever that is) "considers Zabet Mohammed Ashraf of Gonapal to be better, but still an enemy." I think "Gonopol" and "Gonapal" are the same.
Another tidbit about Shabib "typically the information that he provided has not been relevant."
From AFG20070316n610: "This is the third time that Shabib has reported to US Forces at the COP, as covered in the intel section, enemy forces had been planning some type of attack possibly on the 14th of March but were deterred by aircraft observed overhead, according to him there were as many as 400 men staged for an attack in the Margah area, Shabib said they were staged in the Habib Mulla village. He also said that because their attack was spoiled they were planning another attack but he did not know the target of date. Shabib is motivated to report on enemy activities because he believes that the Taliban are not interested in education, and he feels very strongly about educating young people." Other documents mentioning his name:
afg/event/2007/03/AFG20070316n610.html
afg/event/2007/03/AFG20070323n548.html
afg/event/2007/05/AFG20070501n693.html
According to AFG20061119n463.htm Ashraf seems to be tribal elder Ashraf from Gonopol who supported the coalition forces. These documents mention his name:
I just downloaded the archive from WikiLeaks (googling wardiary.wikileaks.org doesn't work because of "Disallow:/" in robots.txt) and greped for "Khalifa Abdullah"; he was mentioned in a NewsWeek article as one of the civilians who has been killed because of the war diaries being published on WikiLeaks. His name is not in any of the documents.
I've found lots of other names in the documents but only of "insurgents" or of people that have been killed by either side. I have only read maybe hundred of the reports so this doesn't disprove TFA.
From TFA: "The initial document dump by WikiLeaks last month is reported to have disclosed the names of hundreds of Afghan civilians who have cooperated with NATO forces". Has anyone checked if this is true? Are the names of Afghan civilians in the disclosed documents?
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I agree that Android's open approach will give them a much bigger market share and that history will repeat itself.
But at the moment the iOS SDK and IDE are still far superior to Android's offerings. Just try them both if you don't believe me. Android-Java vs. Objective-C isn't really an issue. Picking up the idiosyncrasies of Java for Android (for example to workaround the weaknesses of the current garbage collector) took me about as long as to learn Objective-C; each of them can be done in a weekend. But this is only a temporary edge for Apple. I'm sure Google will catch up and then overtake them in that area too within a year or so.
I haven't used it myself but Status-4-Evar might solve your problem.
20 years experience? You started "web development" in 1990? What kind of webs did you develop back then?
The RIAA and MPAA wouldn't exist without the government stealing money end equipment on behalf of them.
Can you name any WikiLeaks publication which authenticity is disputed? Can you name any other "media corp." or whatever you want to call it with that track record? WikiLeaks has stellar credibility.
Who went to jail for killing 11 people on Deep Horizon?
I'm mostly (only?) interested in results not in ideology. So if charities work than fine use them to cure the social ills. From my limited experience working for charities they rarely provide more than a bandaid for some kinds of usually very limited problems. The governments of the countries I lived in (only Europe) seemed to do a way better job of achieveing the goals I described above. But that's only anecdotal evidence; your mileage and hence your opinion may vary.
I am not about being compassionate, but I do object to having the force of law stealing money from widows & orphans at gunpoint so that people who are wealthy can get good health care.
LOL WHAT?
Decoding h264 on the dedicated hardwar uses far less power than decoding it in software on the CPU. Orders of magnitude less power.
I used health care as an example to make things more concret because I find it incredibly hard to think about our/ my situation in abstract totally unfitting terms like slavery and "socialism". That's just hogwash.
Governments do a pretty good job of acting as a referee to help resolve disputes and conflict between private individuals and to help keep other people and other governments from messing with me and those things I care about. But government can and ought to be limited, and it is this principle of very limited government that I am advocating here, not a complete elimination of government.
I totally agree with that. Well ... I'm not sure if I would call it a "pretty good job", but the alternatives are far worse.
The only question remaining is: What are suitable limits? I think it would be great if nobody would feel hunger or freeze and that everybody gets medical treatment when they're sick. I'm willing to give up some of my own resources for that and I'm voting for candidates that seem to have the same goal. These candidates are not my buddies; I merely try to use them to achieve these goals because I'm too lazy to do more than voting once every other year or so. And I will never hold a gun to your head to force you to do something you don't want to do. The opt-out option should always be available but has to be balanced with the need to fight freeloading; so you might have to jump through a hoop or two to opt-out.
Note that I'm also pretty sure that a gto strategy in the struggle between different societies or groups of people will include some kind of in-group altruism. So societies that behave like I described will do better in the long run. But that's more like a belief than some kind of scientific argument.
I can't comment on the state vs. federal issue; the countries in Europe are too small to give me any meaningful insight into this problem. But looking at what monster the EU is becoming I tend to agree with you in favoring local over global solutions.
I live in one of the "socialist" European countries. I have spent maybe 5 hours total in the forty years I've lived thinking about health care plans. It practically did not cost me any time at all. And time is my most valued resource. Our socialised medicine has given me the freedom to use this resource as I wish. It has not enslaved me but has given me more freedom. And I pay far less than I would have to pay in the States.
I really don't see how this makes you think that I wish to become a slave and am longing for some tyrant. I do understand that you don't want to participate in the socialised medicine I enjoy; I think everyone should have the choice to opt out. But even if you do I would still think you should get treatment if you get sick even if you can not afford to pay for the treatment. The problem is that if too many people opt out and start to freeload the system breaks. So there have to be some rules regarding opting out like proving that you will be able to pay your health care bills some other way. Theses rules reduce our freedom.
For me the freedoms I gain ("easy" healthcare) far outweigh the freedoms I give up (problematic opt-out). For you it's the other way around. But one is not pure freedom and the other is not pure slavery. That's just bad and childish rhetoric.
The fact that no such place exists might be an indication that a system that follows libertarian principles is not stable. Maybe something just comes along and fills the power vacuum. Maybe that something is not very enjoyable.
"Mass riots" is an extrem exaggeration. The French are not satisfied with their government so they protest it. This is what the tea party would look like if they weren't just some useful idiots for corporate interests. But getting really angry while listening to Limbaugh, Beck, and the other clowns and then voting for the guys who did, and still do, and will continue to do all the thing you protest against is fine too, i guess.
Europe is not exactly known for its stellar productivity per capita per hour rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_hour_worked seems to disagree.
How about a teacher who knows her/his pupils?
You don't need a certificate from apple for your development if you jailbreak.
You have to read the description of critterding in order to understand the changes made in critterdrug (as described in TFA). The software actually is pretty cool. It's a simulation of a evolutionary process starting with agents ("critters") with different random attributes. The agents can perform actions like "eat", "procreate", or "bend joint" and have sensors for "food", other critters, their own condition, and so on.
No, sorry. I saw it in a short clip of the unedited version on TV a couple of months ago.
What did they edit out of the video that was wrong to take out?
The unedited video shows that at least one man in the group that got murdered was armed with an assualt rifle. No guns are visible in the edited version.
And what link do you have that proves that they provided the unedited video only after being 'caught' doing what every other news video have had done in the whole entire history of news video?
AFAIK both videos were released at the same time.
Annoying, yes, but hardly the Russian tactic of poisoning you with radiation (Alexander Litvinenko) [...]
Of course they don't poison them! Instead they use unmaned drones for murdering hundreds of people every year.
[...] or throwing him and his wife (if he had one) into a forgotten political prison (Liu Xiaobo) (if he could be extradited).
Kidnapping people from all over the world, throwing them in secret prisons, and torturing them is an important part in the war on terror.
If they want people to listen to radio again, as probably the underlying purpose of this misguided effort is,
No. The underlying purpose is stated in TFA: "radio would agree to pay around $100 million a year" (to RIAA members). Nothing else matters.
Probably Ashraf: Governor Mangal (whoever that is) "considers Zabet Mohammed Ashraf of Gonapal to be better, but still an enemy." I think "Gonopol" and "Gonapal" are the same.
Another tidbit about Shabib "typically the information that he provided has not been relevant."
From AFG20070316n610: "This is the third time that Shabib has reported to US Forces at the COP, as covered in the intel section, enemy forces had been planning some type of attack possibly on the 14th of March but were deterred by aircraft observed overhead, according to him there were as many as 400 men staged for an attack in the Margah area, Shabib said they were staged in the Habib Mulla village. He also said that because their attack was spoiled they were planning another attack but he did not know the target of date. Shabib is motivated to report on enemy activities because he believes that the Taliban are not interested in education, and he feels very strongly about educating young people." Other documents mentioning his name:
According to AFG20061119n463.htm Ashraf seems to be tribal elder Ashraf from Gonopol who supported the coalition forces. These documents mention his name:
Do you know any of the 3 names? I would like to check what information the disclosed files contain about them.
replying to myself ...
I just downloaded the archive from WikiLeaks (googling wardiary.wikileaks.org doesn't work because of "Disallow: /" in robots.txt) and greped for "Khalifa Abdullah"; he was mentioned in a NewsWeek article as one of the civilians who has been killed because of the war diaries being published on WikiLeaks. His name is not in any of the documents.
I've found lots of other names in the documents but only of "insurgents" or of people that have been killed by either side. I have only read maybe hundred of the reports so this doesn't disprove TFA.
From TFA: "The initial document dump by WikiLeaks last month is reported to have disclosed the names of hundreds of Afghan civilians who have cooperated with NATO forces". Has anyone checked if this is true? Are the names of Afghan civilians in the disclosed documents?