No, he has Asperger's syndrome, which, from what I can gather, is way for IT guys like us to behave like absolutely fucking pricks, and we just have to hold up the card "Asperger's" and everyone is supposed to accept our miserable attitude. Apserger also apparently extends to hacking into systems we have no business being in. Apparently, providing we have this wonderful social ineptitude disease, we don't face the consequences of any of our online actions.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I think I'm going to go out at lunch and kick some little old lady in the ass. "Asperger's!"
And if some crisis, like say a monster autumn storm, does billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure, well, your constituents can just go fuck themselves, because, by golly, the only thing that counts in this world is sticking to a four year economic plan no matter fucking what.
More than likely we'll just end up with a cross-licensing deal and an end to this particular patent theater of war. Frankly, I don't think Apple's expectation was ever to permanently ban competitors devices, it was simply to delay their release into major markets long enough to cripple sales.
Jesus fucking Christ. Over the last ten years there have been numerous articles all over the place reporting amino acids, sugars, alcohols and other organic compounds even in deep fucking space. Christ, pal, Titan is packed full of hydrocarbons.
There's no doubt that the German invasion of Russia was the Third Reich's first step into oblivion. Hitler's hatred of Slavs was almost as fierce as his hatred of Jews, though he and Himmler and other German "racial theorists" did think Slav==Slave, so they would happily let lots of Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs and Slovakians live as slave labor to their Aryan masters. But the German military was far less certain that Operation Barbarossa should be attempted while the British Empire remained a serious belligerent (they were very mindful of Napoleon's fateful invasion of Russia while Britain remained unbent and France's Iberian and Central European puppet states remained restive).
One must remember here that Hitler was not the originator of many of the plans put into place. Plans for the invasion of Russia, France and even Britain had begun while ex-Corporal Hitler was sitting in a prison cell writing Mein Kampf. Many historians that at best Hitler only accelerated WWII, and that the Prussian military machine first forged under Frederick the Great, was, while wounded, remained intact (if in secret). The German General Staff, that critical skeleton on which an army could be built up, had not been broken up, and even during the height of the Weimar Years, the members of the Kaiser's General Staff were employed as civil servants and given the secret task of refining the plans for the Spring 1919 offensive that never was and for finding a way to refight the initial 1914 offensive in such a way as the hideous stalemate that had bogged down the German forces then would not reoccur. This cadre of senior officers were not Nazis, they were the survivors and the veterans of the crucible of 1917-1918, when the final shreds of the old post-Napoleonic order of military planners were swept away, and they and their Weimar masters wanted to make sure the next time they invaded France, it was done right.
To the General Staff, the idea of another two, or potentially even three front war (which is what Italy became) was far too risky. To their mind forcing France into capitulation and dealing with the threat of the British Navy, which neither Napoleon or the Kaiser had been able to do, was of the absolute importance. Invading Russia before they had dealt with Western Europe was something many of the General Staff had absolutely no desire, and it was out of that catastrophic decision that much resentment between Hitler's inner circle and the German military would eventually form, and in subtle ways perhaps aid in the defeat of the Nazis.
That the road to hell is sometimes paved with good intentions doesn't mean the rocket boosted mach 3 rail link to hell isn't built with bad ones.
Concern over groundwater contamination isn't some sort of leftist conspiracy to make everyone bicycle to work. Potable water is infinitely more important in the grand scheme of things than getting every last ounce of hydrocarbons out of the ground.
The chief difference nowadays seems to be that the Left (not that the Left meaningfully exists as any coherent entity in the States, the Democrats by and large being a slightly right of center party by most standards) is actually interested in winning elections and not in the bizarre and self-defeating navel gazing exercise of ideological purity.
Wanting to win elections tends to mean aligning your platform and policies to what a majority of voters want, rather than trying to sell voters your particular vision. This is what Obama got and Romney didn't until the final weeks of the election, and what all those hard-nosed Tea Party types who want to throw the US over the fiscal cliff just to show all those evil liberals still don't get. If the numb-nuts still running the Republican party think the fiscal cliff and trying another bombing attack on the debt ceiling will make the majority love them, then they are even bigger idiots than they usually appear to be.
First of all, this legislation didn't begin with the Tories. It was under the Paul Martin Liberals that the first attempt at putting major copyright reforms through was made, and THAT legislation was extremely onerous, as was the drafts that the Tories followed up with.
And yes, the government could raise the amounts, but as it stands now, short of using it as a cudgel to grab some quick money out of the uninformed, there is no value in going to court over some guy who downloads a few pirated movies from Bittorrent. Even if the court were to award the maximum, it would barely cover legal fees for writing the nasty letter and a day's examination. I know, I've been through a lawsuit up here in the Great White North, and the fees for just one day of discovery cost me nearly $4,000. My cost for the recording clerk alone was $235, which is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of what a Canadian court will now award in damages.
Even if they doubled or tripled the amount. the very fact that there is a legislated ceiling is going to assure that out of control file sharing law suits do not spread north of the border.
While I don't think the legislation is perfect, I have to say that I think the Tories very cleverly understand that simply suing filesharers into peonage is not going to help anyone in the long run, and the proper solution is for these media companies to actually start giving consumers what they want.
The real winner here is Netflix and other streaming or download services, because now they can go to the American media giants and say "Look, there is no money in suing Canadian filesharers, and little enough in the way of a stick, so let's get your offerings up here so you can actually make some money."
Um, I think you mean 1mb. I cannot even imagine what a gig would have cost in 1990, and outside of minis and supercomputers, I doubt there was a board out there that could handle anything like a gig of RAM.
Apple is gambling that RT is a market failure. It need not be in any particularly hurry help MS out. If RT becomes a smash hit, well, then it can alter the cut it takes. If RT is a failure, then the pressure is on Microsoft.
without Stalin the whole world would be speaking German and saluting Nazi flags... plenty of people outside the US would say that the US is governed by one of the most tyrannical regimes in history, and it has nothing to do with the President or Congress, which would be seen as mere puppets for the corporate lobbyists who fund and manipulate all levels of the US government for their own greedy purpose
And if the US had not instituted Lend Lease to bolster Russian production and Britain had not redirected some of the Arctic Convoys to Russian ports, Stalin would have been running Russia from east of the Urals. And if Stalin had not liquidated the larger portion of the Red Army's officer corp and had not still allowed steel shipments to Germany right up until the morning of the German invasion, it would be far less likely that Germany would have enjoyed such extraordinary successes early on.
Stalin won the eastern theatre by throwing bodies at the Germans.
It would cost SK trillions, and while it would certainly gain the benefits of NK's technical expertise surrounding certain types of weaponry, I think it would probably do SK severe damage. I don't think you could do a German style reunification. Maybe a stages approach, but that would pretty much mean the Kims and the senior military brass would have to be out of the picture, and as we've seen, the Kim's are very very good at keeping their power base intact.
Lets phrase this properly, shall we. NK uses the threat of nuking SK and Japan and the prospect of millions of refugees flooding into China to keep China compliant, the US at bay and everyone giving one of the most tyrannical and inept regimes in existence the food and other humanitarian supplies its pathetic and abused citizens need to survive because it has redirected most of its economic output to its insanely disproportionate military machine.
I give the Kims' credit for the cleverness by which they manipulate friend and foe, but that's praising Stalin for the efficiency of his show trials.
Even if the lawsuits went through, what then? At a maximum award of $5000, a day in court by the movie industry's lawyers will eat up the award. Bring it on, I say.
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Plus it makes electrocution incidents that much more awesome.
Ah, I see the Asperger's gang has come out to play. Wouldn't want anyone questioning their Get Out Of Jail free card, would they.
Fog On The Barrowdowns is one of the most harrowing parts of the book, and the first major signal that this wasn't merely The Hobbit part 2.
No, he has Asperger's syndrome, which, from what I can gather, is way for IT guys like us to behave like absolutely fucking pricks, and we just have to hold up the card "Asperger's" and everyone is supposed to accept our miserable attitude. Apserger also apparently extends to hacking into systems we have no business being in. Apparently, providing we have this wonderful social ineptitude disease, we don't face the consequences of any of our online actions.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I think I'm going to go out at lunch and kick some little old lady in the ass. "Asperger's!"
And if some crisis, like say a monster autumn storm, does billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure, well, your constituents can just go fuck themselves, because, by golly, the only thing that counts in this world is sticking to a four year economic plan no matter fucking what.
The US did invent it after all. Other countries are free to build their own networks.
I drink your short chain hydrocarbons like a milk shake!
More than likely we'll just end up with a cross-licensing deal and an end to this particular patent theater of war. Frankly, I don't think Apple's expectation was ever to permanently ban competitors devices, it was simply to delay their release into major markets long enough to cripple sales.
Jesus fucking Christ. Over the last ten years there have been numerous articles all over the place reporting amino acids, sugars, alcohols and other organic compounds even in deep fucking space. Christ, pal, Titan is packed full of hydrocarbons.
Who invited the Unitarian?
And to what extent is it happening?
The problem with the studios is that, frequently, their version of "enough" is "Tip consumer upside down and shake vigorously."
Unless he was claiming refugee status, Guatemala was under no obligation to let him stay within their borders.
I guess he was hoisted by his own petard.
There's no doubt that the German invasion of Russia was the Third Reich's first step into oblivion. Hitler's hatred of Slavs was almost as fierce as his hatred of Jews, though he and Himmler and other German "racial theorists" did think Slav==Slave, so they would happily let lots of Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs and Slovakians live as slave labor to their Aryan masters. But the German military was far less certain that Operation Barbarossa should be attempted while the British Empire remained a serious belligerent (they were very mindful of Napoleon's fateful invasion of Russia while Britain remained unbent and France's Iberian and Central European puppet states remained restive).
One must remember here that Hitler was not the originator of many of the plans put into place. Plans for the invasion of Russia, France and even Britain had begun while ex-Corporal Hitler was sitting in a prison cell writing Mein Kampf. Many historians that at best Hitler only accelerated WWII, and that the Prussian military machine first forged under Frederick the Great, was, while wounded, remained intact (if in secret). The German General Staff, that critical skeleton on which an army could be built up, had not been broken up, and even during the height of the Weimar Years, the members of the Kaiser's General Staff were employed as civil servants and given the secret task of refining the plans for the Spring 1919 offensive that never was and for finding a way to refight the initial 1914 offensive in such a way as the hideous stalemate that had bogged down the German forces then would not reoccur. This cadre of senior officers were not Nazis, they were the survivors and the veterans of the crucible of 1917-1918, when the final shreds of the old post-Napoleonic order of military planners were swept away, and they and their Weimar masters wanted to make sure the next time they invaded France, it was done right.
To the General Staff, the idea of another two, or potentially even three front war (which is what Italy became) was far too risky. To their mind forcing France into capitulation and dealing with the threat of the British Navy, which neither Napoleon or the Kaiser had been able to do, was of the absolute importance. Invading Russia before they had dealt with Western Europe was something many of the General Staff had absolutely no desire, and it was out of that catastrophic decision that much resentment between Hitler's inner circle and the German military would eventually form, and in subtle ways perhaps aid in the defeat of the Nazis.
That the road to hell is sometimes paved with good intentions doesn't mean the rocket boosted mach 3 rail link to hell isn't built with bad ones.
Concern over groundwater contamination isn't some sort of leftist conspiracy to make everyone bicycle to work. Potable water is infinitely more important in the grand scheme of things than getting every last ounce of hydrocarbons out of the ground.
No, the guy is a jerk and a fraud, and the question about the potential harm to groundwater by fracking remains unanswered.
The chief difference nowadays seems to be that the Left (not that the Left meaningfully exists as any coherent entity in the States, the Democrats by and large being a slightly right of center party by most standards) is actually interested in winning elections and not in the bizarre and self-defeating navel gazing exercise of ideological purity.
Wanting to win elections tends to mean aligning your platform and policies to what a majority of voters want, rather than trying to sell voters your particular vision. This is what Obama got and Romney didn't until the final weeks of the election, and what all those hard-nosed Tea Party types who want to throw the US over the fiscal cliff just to show all those evil liberals still don't get. If the numb-nuts still running the Republican party think the fiscal cliff and trying another bombing attack on the debt ceiling will make the majority love them, then they are even bigger idiots than they usually appear to be.
First of all, this legislation didn't begin with the Tories. It was under the Paul Martin Liberals that the first attempt at putting major copyright reforms through was made, and THAT legislation was extremely onerous, as was the drafts that the Tories followed up with.
And yes, the government could raise the amounts, but as it stands now, short of using it as a cudgel to grab some quick money out of the uninformed, there is no value in going to court over some guy who downloads a few pirated movies from Bittorrent. Even if the court were to award the maximum, it would barely cover legal fees for writing the nasty letter and a day's examination. I know, I've been through a lawsuit up here in the Great White North, and the fees for just one day of discovery cost me nearly $4,000. My cost for the recording clerk alone was $235, which is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of what a Canadian court will now award in damages.
Even if they doubled or tripled the amount. the very fact that there is a legislated ceiling is going to assure that out of control file sharing law suits do not spread north of the border.
While I don't think the legislation is perfect, I have to say that I think the Tories very cleverly understand that simply suing filesharers into peonage is not going to help anyone in the long run, and the proper solution is for these media companies to actually start giving consumers what they want.
The real winner here is Netflix and other streaming or download services, because now they can go to the American media giants and say "Look, there is no money in suing Canadian filesharers, and little enough in the way of a stick, so let's get your offerings up here so you can actually make some money."
Um, I think you mean 1mb. I cannot even imagine what a gig would have cost in 1990, and outside of minis and supercomputers, I doubt there was a board out there that could handle anything like a gig of RAM.
Apple is gambling that RT is a market failure. It need not be in any particularly hurry help MS out. If RT becomes a smash hit, well, then it can alter the cut it takes. If RT is a failure, then the pressure is on Microsoft.
without Stalin the whole world would be speaking German and saluting Nazi flags... plenty of people outside the US would say that the US is governed by one of the most tyrannical regimes in history, and it has nothing to do with the President or Congress, which would be seen as mere puppets for the corporate lobbyists who fund and manipulate all levels of the US government for their own greedy purpose
And if the US had not instituted Lend Lease to bolster Russian production and Britain had not redirected some of the Arctic Convoys to Russian ports, Stalin would have been running Russia from east of the Urals. And if Stalin had not liquidated the larger portion of the Red Army's officer corp and had not still allowed steel shipments to Germany right up until the morning of the German invasion, it would be far less likely that Germany would have enjoyed such extraordinary successes early on.
Stalin won the eastern theatre by throwing bodies at the Germans.
It would cost SK trillions, and while it would certainly gain the benefits of NK's technical expertise surrounding certain types of weaponry, I think it would probably do SK severe damage. I don't think you could do a German style reunification. Maybe a stages approach, but that would pretty much mean the Kims and the senior military brass would have to be out of the picture, and as we've seen, the Kim's are very very good at keeping their power base intact.
Lets phrase this properly, shall we. NK uses the threat of nuking SK and Japan and the prospect of millions of refugees flooding into China to keep China compliant, the US at bay and everyone giving one of the most tyrannical and inept regimes in existence the food and other humanitarian supplies its pathetic and abused citizens need to survive because it has redirected most of its economic output to its insanely disproportionate military machine.
I give the Kims' credit for the cleverness by which they manipulate friend and foe, but that's praising Stalin for the efficiency of his show trials.
Even if the lawsuits went through, what then? At a maximum award of $5000, a day in court by the movie industry's lawyers will eat up the award. Bring it on, I say.