Firing squad is reserved for soliders. Hermann Goering requested death by firing squad, but they said no, you're too scummy to die like a soldier... so he suicided with cyanide instead.
Assange would be considered a spy so they'd probably hang him, like they did the Rosenbergs.
Except that they don't have much of a case against him, so they're probably just taking a wait-and-see attitude. If they have anything even remotely concrete to charge him with, they would've done it by now and extradited him from Britain already. It would be easier to get him from Britain which is a US lapdog, than Sweden, which is not so much.
It's not, and we all have an expectation of privacy regarding our cells.
Who's we? I never had any such illusions, cos I know how a cellphone works. But then, I have an IQ over 80 and I took high school physics... which I guess is more than you can say about a lot of people babbling on their "cells".
he also defrauded (stole?) his buddy Woz of their Atari chip design money, even though it was Woz who actually did all the work. He is simply not an honest human being.
only if you have/make good money. If you don't, there are whole bunch of places better to live than US.
Debt *is* an issue. If something can't go on forever -- for instance spending more money than you earn every month -- it won't. Reality will catch up eventually and the most probable outcome (judging by the current political climate and all the talk about "fairness" and "1%") is that US will adopt high tax rates like Europe. And then US will not be such a good place to live for people making lots of money.... it'll just become another Europe but with worse food and more crime.
I recommend New Zealand, if they'll take you... I've heard nice things about that place and they have hobbit villages there too.
no, it was not necessary. If you're not a geek and don't know what pico means, look it up. Does CNBC explain what an IPO is what P/E ratio means is in every article?
Take your current 8 TB of backed up data (which is on redundant drives you said), store them in your mom's basement... now you have an offsite backup. All new data from now on, store them in Dropbox or some other cloud service. Bite the bullet and pay the $5 a month.
Metro was a stupid name; first thing that occurs to people when they hear it is something along the lines of sexual orientation. And it makes easy fodder for metro vs. homo jokes. Even "Ghetto" would've been a better name. Microsoft got lucky that a third party sued them and prevented them from using it.
That's the difference between MS and Apple: Apple had a clear-headed CEO who kept saying "No" to lame ideas.
I think brine effluence is only a problem in *current* desalination plants. With near-limitless energy (fusion, antimatter or...?) you can just evaporate away all the water from the brine effluence and be left with solids. Which we could mine for minerals:)
there is no water shortage, there's only energy shortage.
There's water everywhere for the taking. With cheap enough energy, you can get all the freshwater you need from distilling seawater or towing icebergs from the Arctic or reverse osmosis or any of a thousand different ways.
Madoff surrendered himself to police, so there was no need for this kind of muscle. Kim Dotcom barricaded himself in his bunker under his mansion, and is known for flaunting his gun collection (highly unusual in NZ).
But who really robbed people for tens of millions?
finding a decent open proxy. They go down all the time with no warning. So pay up and get a commercial account or be prepared to make open proxy hunting a part of your daily/weekly routine.
I used to play a MMRPG that banned my entire continent's IP... I still remember the feeling of joy upon finding a fast open proxy outside my banned zone!
Weird, i made 3 posts that became -1 (troll) in within the past week and my karma's still excellent. Maybe your cumulative karma was just barely in the excellent range and the one troll was enough to knock you down?
Marissa should bring Steve Regge onboard so he can teach Yahoo people to eat their own dogfood and build a common platform around Flickr and YIM that will be API accessible for 3rd party developers to develop an ecosystem!
Reminds me of the story where humans send a robotic probe to another star, and after decades of traveling it finally gets there and beams back the first images. The people at mission control yawn and are hardly excited because they've all seen the images already; during the time the probe was in transit, the aliens from that star already came to earth via warp drive. And the only person in the room who was excited about the whole thing was an alien in attendance, because the aliens have warp technology but they don't have good robotics.
Well if we ever get humans orbiting and living on Mars, these images will seem about as exciting as Columbus's sketches of Bahama island. Just a thought.
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Donno but the South Sea Company in 1720 made a second round of stock offering and sold 1 million shares at 400 pounds each. That's 400 million pounds.
Adjusted for inflation that's about 720 billion pounds, or in US money:
1.2 trillion dollars
And that's not even the whole company
lasers?
Firing squad is reserved for soliders. Hermann Goering requested death by firing squad, but they said no, you're too scummy to die like a soldier... so he suicided with cyanide instead.
Assange would be considered a spy so they'd probably hang him, like they did the Rosenbergs.
Except that they don't have much of a case against him, so they're probably just taking a wait-and-see attitude. If they have anything even remotely concrete to charge him with, they would've done it by now and extradited him from Britain already. It would be easier to get him from Britain which is a US lapdog, than Sweden, which is not so much.
but when I do, I prefer Ubuntu.
It's not, and we all have an expectation of privacy regarding our cells.
Who's we? I never had any such illusions, cos I know how a cellphone works. But then, I have an IQ over 80 and I took high school physics... which I guess is more than you can say about a lot of people babbling on their "cells".
well yes it's bullshit, but it was spouted by some guy named Nick Selby... it's not what the judge said.
The judge compared it to police finding a suspect's location by using a dog to track his scent, which they are allowed to do.
died :(
that was done at the edge of space where the air is almost nonexistent. It was basically a spacecraft at that point, not an airplane.
I didn't RTFA but I'm guessing the Waverider is being tested at much lower altitude to study hypersonic dynamics and scramjet efficiency and stuff.
he also defrauded (stole?) his buddy Woz of their Atari chip design money, even though it was Woz who actually did all the work. He is simply not an honest human being.
it means if your child makes a frist post on slashdot as AC, you're screwed.
It depends on what you value. You're from "Southern Europe". That's semi-specific.
Judging by his name, he's from Greece.
only if you have/make good money. If you don't, there are whole bunch of places better to live than US.
Debt *is* an issue. If something can't go on forever -- for instance spending more money than you earn every month -- it won't. Reality will catch up eventually and the most probable outcome (judging by the current political climate and all the talk about "fairness" and "1%") is that US will adopt high tax rates like Europe. And then US will not be such a good place to live for people making lots of money.... it'll just become another Europe but with worse food and more crime.
I recommend New Zealand, if they'll take you... I've heard nice things about that place and they have hobbit villages there too.
like Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime?
no, it was not necessary. If you're not a geek and don't know what pico means, look it up. Does CNBC explain what an IPO is what P/E ratio means is in every article?
Take your current 8 TB of backed up data (which is on redundant drives you said), store them in your mom's basement... now you have an offsite backup. All new data from now on, store them in Dropbox or some other cloud service. Bite the bullet and pay the $5 a month.
Metro was a stupid name; first thing that occurs to people when they hear it is something along the lines of sexual orientation. And it makes easy fodder for metro vs. homo jokes. Even "Ghetto" would've been a better name. Microsoft got lucky that a third party sued them and prevented them from using it.
That's the difference between MS and Apple: Apple had a clear-headed CEO who kept saying "No" to lame ideas.
I think brine effluence is only a problem in *current* desalination plants. With near-limitless energy (fusion, antimatter or...?) you can just evaporate away all the water from the brine effluence and be left with solids. Which we could mine for minerals :)
People who point out their puns should be put to sleep
there is no water shortage, there's only energy shortage. There's water everywhere for the taking. With cheap enough energy, you can get all the freshwater you need from distilling seawater or towing icebergs from the Arctic or reverse osmosis or any of a thousand different ways.
But who really robbed people for tens of millions?
You're right, Dotcom only robbed people of millions, not tens of millions - insider trading and embezzlement
finding a decent open proxy. They go down all the time with no warning. So pay up and get a commercial account or be prepared to make open proxy hunting a part of your daily/weekly routine.
I used to play a MMRPG that banned my entire continent's IP... I still remember the feeling of joy upon finding a fast open proxy outside my banned zone!
Weird, i made 3 posts that became -1 (troll) in within the past week and my karma's still excellent. Maybe your cumulative karma was just barely in the excellent range and the one troll was enough to knock you down?
Slashdot works in mysterious ways...
Marissa should bring Steve Regge onboard so he can teach Yahoo people to eat their own dogfood and build a common platform around Flickr and YIM that will be API accessible for 3rd party developers to develop an ecosystem!
Reminds me of the story where humans send a robotic probe to another star, and after decades of traveling it finally gets there and beams back the first images. The people at mission control yawn and are hardly excited because they've all seen the images already; during the time the probe was in transit, the aliens from that star already came to earth via warp drive. And the only person in the room who was excited about the whole thing was an alien in attendance, because the aliens have warp technology but they don't have good robotics.
Well if we ever get humans orbiting and living on Mars, these images will seem about as exciting as Columbus's sketches of Bahama island. Just a thought.
you really know someone named Nina. God help you if your wife is named Nina.
Siri on the other hand is safe because no real person is named Siri.