I think they're probably not happy that it turns out they're own astroturfers are vulnerable. The problem with cyberwarfare is not much different than conventional warfare; just because your bullets can hit the enemy does not discount the ability of the enemy's bullets hitting you.
There's a desperate need in some circles to make California sound like a third world country. I think it's a bit of the good-old fashioned penis envy. California is one of the largest economies on the planet, and folks living in a lot of Red States just have never been able to deal with the fact that a state can by and large be democrat and liberal, and actually have an economy of such significance that it outguns most of the Red States combined.
Jesus Christ, pal. Just grow up already. Maybe you're the apple in your mother's eye, but out in the real world, you're just another whining little asshole who is not nearly as important as you like to imagine.
The two terms are not mutually exclusive. Congress, the fundamental lawmaking body of the US, is democratically selected. The President is indirectly elected. Only the courts and Cabinet officials, and by extension heads of various departments, are not democratically constituted; though all those positions must pass muster in the Senate, which has been democratically constituted since the 17th amendment.
And really, this is no different than how it works in Parliamentary democracies. In a Westminster government; Parliament is democratically elected, but the Government is effectively selected by that elected Parliament (in other words, the Prime Minister and his cabinet), through the process of gaining the House's confidence in the speech from the throne (or Queen's Speech in Britain). By your definition, only direct democracies would in fact be true democracies, and clearly that is not a definition used by any political scientist in the last five hundred years.
Having briefly experienced the Blackberry UI during that critical period when Apple was first releasing the iPhone there's little doubt why Blackberry's market share collapsed. Simply put, the interface was awful compared to the simpler and more intuitive iOS interface. It's really that simple. We can debate all day which one of the companies was more innovative, what really counted was that the iPhone was easier to use, and it won the market based simply on that fact. RIM/Blackberry had no idea how to respond, and just kept plugging away for lack of any real response. By the time it finally figured out the market, it could do little more than either build in Android compatibility, and ultimately just release Android phones built by someone else. Their positive cash flow was largely manufactured by selling off assets, so there was a whole funny business going on at the corporate level. Then there was the whole "QNX will take over the embedded world", despite the fact that QNX had no lack of competitors, and Microsoft and Google were already pretty far ahead in such areas as embedded software for dashboard displays.
Everything Blackberry has done over the last decade has either been idiotic, or outright malfeasance. That they'll likely end their days as a patent troll before the valuable assets like QNX get sold off was a foregone conclusion five years ago. They are the SCO of the mobile world.
Um, that's why NFS was developed. And all the Linux file systems, indeed all the *nix file systems conform to certain basic standards which delivers a pretty high degree of interoperability. I get why DOS used crlf , for instance, but I can't sort out why MS has ridden that horse this long.
I think there's a strong argument for basically pensioning senior bureaucrats once they leave their post. Basically the deal should be "You work for us in a senior position for over a year, you get a lifetime pension with an annual amount equal to your salary (or heck, triple your annual salary), but you can never ever ever work in any capacity in any industry related to what you were responsible for. If you do, not only will you lose your pension, but you will be fined some obscene amount of money equal to that of the GDP of some equatorial African nation and spend years in a prison cell.
In other words, while it will cost the taxpayer lots of money, the integrity of the system is maintained. Someone like an FCC Commissioner, even if they've been out of the job for years, still has an enormous amount of internal information that would be highly valuable to industry players, and efforts should be made to assure that none of those companies can ever gain any advantage from it.
Because nationalism and regionalism lead to such a better world. I've got a few world wars (the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, WWI and WWII) to show where that road lead. The whole point of economic entanglement is to make general war between the Great Powers unthinkable. A review of Churchill's post-war speech on a united Europe, not to mention his spearheading of the Anglo-American alliance (via the Atlantic Charter in 1941), should be studied by anyone wanting to understand the precise underpinnings of what we call globalism.
Can it be improved? To be sure. No institution, agreement or alliance should ever be permitted to float on on its own momentum, but neither should it just simply be rejected because of some suboptimal results. These set of agreements created the conditions for a degree of economic growth and general improvement of the people living in those countries never before seen in world history.
Thank goodness we have posters from China, land of the stolen IP, that has for years made it's "great strides" by buying, begging, borrowing and outright stealing other countries' tech to set the record straight.
And what is the economic good being done? The new version of NAFTA is little more than a reorganized version of the pre-existing one. The trade war with China really started under Obama, it's just that Trump is by nature more strident. As to those tax cuts, those are debt funded, so the taxpayer will end up paying for those anyways through debt servicing and cuts to other services.
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I think they're probably not happy that it turns out they're own astroturfers are vulnerable. The problem with cyberwarfare is not much different than conventional warfare; just because your bullets can hit the enemy does not discount the ability of the enemy's bullets hitting you.
In other words, it's to operating systems what Zune was to MP3 players.
There's a desperate need in some circles to make California sound like a third world country. I think it's a bit of the good-old fashioned penis envy. California is one of the largest economies on the planet, and folks living in a lot of Red States just have never been able to deal with the fact that a state can by and large be democrat and liberal, and actually have an economy of such significance that it outguns most of the Red States combined.
Jesus Christ, pal. Just grow up already. Maybe you're the apple in your mother's eye, but out in the real world, you're just another whining little asshole who is not nearly as important as you like to imagine.
For chrissake, global warming is about mean temperatures. And when an entire continent sees temperature shifts, no that's not fucking weather.
Translation: Help me bury my head in the sand!
The two terms are not mutually exclusive. Congress, the fundamental lawmaking body of the US, is democratically selected. The President is indirectly elected. Only the courts and Cabinet officials, and by extension heads of various departments, are not democratically constituted; though all those positions must pass muster in the Senate, which has been democratically constituted since the 17th amendment.
And really, this is no different than how it works in Parliamentary democracies. In a Westminster government; Parliament is democratically elected, but the Government is effectively selected by that elected Parliament (in other words, the Prime Minister and his cabinet), through the process of gaining the House's confidence in the speech from the throne (or Queen's Speech in Britain). By your definition, only direct democracies would in fact be true democracies, and clearly that is not a definition used by any political scientist in the last five hundred years.
Think of it. We will save a fortune on electricity. We can turn the street lights off and walk by the lovely glow of hydrocarbon-infused water. MAGA!
Joseph Goebbels has been named Ambassador to Israel, and Karl Marx has been named an FCC commissioner.
Having briefly experienced the Blackberry UI during that critical period when Apple was first releasing the iPhone there's little doubt why Blackberry's market share collapsed. Simply put, the interface was awful compared to the simpler and more intuitive iOS interface. It's really that simple. We can debate all day which one of the companies was more innovative, what really counted was that the iPhone was easier to use, and it won the market based simply on that fact. RIM/Blackberry had no idea how to respond, and just kept plugging away for lack of any real response. By the time it finally figured out the market, it could do little more than either build in Android compatibility, and ultimately just release Android phones built by someone else. Their positive cash flow was largely manufactured by selling off assets, so there was a whole funny business going on at the corporate level. Then there was the whole "QNX will take over the embedded world", despite the fact that QNX had no lack of competitors, and Microsoft and Google were already pretty far ahead in such areas as embedded software for dashboard displays.
Everything Blackberry has done over the last decade has either been idiotic, or outright malfeasance. That they'll likely end their days as a patent troll before the valuable assets like QNX get sold off was a foregone conclusion five years ago. They are the SCO of the mobile world.
Thanks Comrade. Good to know you got the network up and running again.
I can only assume that you're either a moron or an ignoramus. Seriously, you idiot, look up herd immunity.
Um, that's why NFS was developed. And all the Linux file systems, indeed all the *nix file systems conform to certain basic standards which delivers a pretty high degree of interoperability. I get why DOS used crlf , for instance, but I can't sort out why MS has ridden that horse this long.
Children are not property. Parents a guardians, not owners.
I think there's a strong argument for basically pensioning senior bureaucrats once they leave their post. Basically the deal should be "You work for us in a senior position for over a year, you get a lifetime pension with an annual amount equal to your salary (or heck, triple your annual salary), but you can never ever ever work in any capacity in any industry related to what you were responsible for. If you do, not only will you lose your pension, but you will be fined some obscene amount of money equal to that of the GDP of some equatorial African nation and spend years in a prison cell.
In other words, while it will cost the taxpayer lots of money, the integrity of the system is maintained. Someone like an FCC Commissioner, even if they've been out of the job for years, still has an enormous amount of internal information that would be highly valuable to industry players, and efforts should be made to assure that none of those companies can ever gain any advantage from it.
Virgins or cattle? We're writing our continuity plan. Just want to make sure to have plenty of whatever it is security requires to be satiated.
Unless you're one of the billion people with an android phone
The huge library. Like it or not Java has a two decade head start on any would be contender.
It's the new COBOL. Long after the .NET ecosystem had been buried, Java will still be there.
Because nationalism and regionalism lead to such a better world. I've got a few world wars (the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, WWI and WWII) to show where that road lead. The whole point of economic entanglement is to make general war between the Great Powers unthinkable. A review of Churchill's post-war speech on a united Europe, not to mention his spearheading of the Anglo-American alliance (via the Atlantic Charter in 1941), should be studied by anyone wanting to understand the precise underpinnings of what we call globalism.
Can it be improved? To be sure. No institution, agreement or alliance should ever be permitted to float on on its own momentum, but neither should it just simply be rejected because of some suboptimal results. These set of agreements created the conditions for a degree of economic growth and general improvement of the people living in those countries never before seen in world history.
Thank goodness we have posters from China, land of the stolen IP, that has for years made it's "great strides" by buying, begging, borrowing and outright stealing other countries' tech to set the record straight.
And so did iPhones and many of the mid to high range Androids, and they had an actual app ecosystem.
The job recovery began long before Trump was even a serious contender for the Republican nomination.
Um, the mainstream of both parties favor free trade. It is the extremes of both parties that are isolationist (and delusional).
And what is the economic good being done? The new version of NAFTA is little more than a reorganized version of the pre-existing one. The trade war with China really started under Obama, it's just that Trump is by nature more strident. As to those tax cuts, those are debt funded, so the taxpayer will end up paying for those anyways through debt servicing and cuts to other services.