"Ninety-two percent of requests for customer content came from U.S. law-enforcement agencies."
The remaining 8% of request came from various Mafia agencies, I suppose. This raises the obvious question: did Microsoft comply with them in the same proportions as with requests coming from U.S. law-enforcement agencies?
Venice, Italy, is another place where cars simply cannot go. A few weeks ago I spotted the Trekker crew on the stairs of Rialto Bridge, plus another crew filming them. They looked like they were enjoying the trek.
Some photos: http://fotoni.liviux.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5182
Are waterfront neighborhoods going to be abandoned to rising water? No way in hell. They'll just get rebuilt on taller foundations every 50 years or so when a major hurricane blows away whatever's there now.
I guess that makes sense, in a common USA mindset. After all, who wants to live in a house older than 50 years?
My point of view is different, as I live in Venice and my 400-year old house is my most valuable property, at barely one meter over sea level thanks to last century's reckless underground water extraction. Relocating to a copy somewhere else (maybe Las Vegas?) is not going to be the same thing. Call me sentimental.
You feel odors with hearing? Well, it sometimes do, with low tide and the wrong weather conditions. But it's all natural, organic, all-bio stinking stuff...
As someone who actually lives in Venice, I can tell you that you are right about the tourist traps, but they are easily avoided if you look around instead of going windows shopping. The made-in-China stuff you can buy is far from romantic, but the sheer structure of the city, with its two entangled mobility networks (one for walkers, one for boats) still amazes me after 10 years living here. Now we have three entangled networks... Yesterday I had dinner with an old pal whose job in the last months has been installing the access points and congratulated him. He confirmed the amazing level of interest even among the elder population. Today, lots of people I know are checking signal strength in every hidden corner. Looks like the municipality (and my friend) did a great job, as the coverage seems rather complete. BTW, Venice is not a theme park. People still live and work here, enjoying a lifestyle like no other, mainly due to the absense of cars. I won't tell you "come visit us", but I can confirm you don't need a pretext like free connectivity.
As a male white Italian with no involvement into USA elections, I have to admit that this morning I cried and laughed hearing what just happened in a big nation far far away.
This changes everything. The politics of fear will end. Black people won't be seen "out of place" in any place from now on. Things won't go worse all the time, like last years made us think!
A big thank you to the US people. This affects us all.
In case you didn't notice, 2008 already was the year of Linux on your lap.
Rethinking about all the noise we made about a few Dell laptop models coming with Linux preinstalled, what should we say about the impact that millions of Linux netbooks have had with ordinary people who now use it because it "just works" very well for their purposes?
Its discontinuation was announced last year due to difficulties in procuring some of the raw materials used to produce the emulsion.
The sensibilities in the world are evolving all the time. In 2007, the public image of your company can be negatively affected when everybody gets to know about your acquisition of huge amounts of thirld world babies' retinas.
In 2010 Slashdot will be full of people lamenting that it has become impossible to buy a simple ipod without all the useless phone functions thrown in.
Windows' shaky foundations constitute the main incentive for Windows users to make the switch. Finding on Linux the same FOSS applications you got accustomed with does just make the switch easier. I know it worked this way for my father, who now happily uses on Xubuntu the same Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice he used on Windows. No equivalent for Symantec software, luckily!
Most raids also leave in their wake a number of innocents who were either rounded up and detained or had their houses busted up. These can conceivably lead to bitterness over the occupation and spawn new attacks.
No! This can't be! Keep for yourself your wild hypotesis! Delete it from the document!
No, sorry. English is not my main language. I live in a mythical place that somebody call "Rest of the World", where we speak funny. My spell checker is configured so that it checks for every word I type to be correctly funny. Maybe your President uses it, too.
(I apologize for any spelling error in this message: they are meant to be funny, you know?)
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...everything looks like a nail
"Fishing", got it?
No?
Sharks are fishes, you know?
If needed I can be more explicit, just ask.
"Ninety-two percent of requests for customer content came from U.S. law-enforcement agencies."
The remaining 8% of request came from various Mafia agencies, I suppose. This raises the obvious question: did Microsoft comply with them in the same proportions as with requests coming from U.S. law-enforcement agencies?
You'd need to maybe do something like end the war on terror or war on drugs to get another manned moon mission.
Good idea, indeed! What about starting a new "War on stupidity"?
My robot can crack a typical Android phone's screen with just one vigorous hit!
Leave out the "pm", and you double the accuracy while saving ink!
The Fine Article is a full year old. On October 17 2012 the very same source reported that the firm revised its plans, pointing to a more reasonable (but still very short) 210 days construction time. http://inhabitat.com/worlds-tallest-skyscraper-to-be-built-in-210-days-instead-of-90-as-originally-planned/
Venice, Italy, is another place where cars simply cannot go. A few weeks ago I spotted the Trekker crew on the stairs of Rialto Bridge, plus another crew filming them. They looked like they were enjoying the trek.
Some photos: http://fotoni.liviux.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5182
...what could possibly go wrong?
...when I'll can pay online my ticket for the electric spaceship that will bring me to Mars.
Seriously, now that robots beat us in every significant ability (this one was the last missing) we can't control the future anymore.
Are waterfront neighborhoods going to be abandoned to rising water? No way in hell. They'll just get rebuilt on taller foundations every 50 years or so when a major hurricane blows away whatever's there now.
I guess that makes sense, in a common USA mindset. After all, who wants to live in a house older than 50 years? My point of view is different, as I live in Venice and my 400-year old house is my most valuable property, at barely one meter over sea level thanks to last century's reckless underground water extraction. Relocating to a copy somewhere else (maybe Las Vegas?) is not going to be the same thing. Call me sentimental.
You feel odors with hearing?
Well, it sometimes do, with low tide and the wrong weather conditions. But it's all natural, organic, all-bio stinking stuff...
As someone who actually lives in Venice, I can tell you that you are right about the tourist traps, but they are easily avoided if you look around instead of going windows shopping. The made-in-China stuff you can buy is far from romantic, but the sheer structure of the city, with its two entangled mobility networks (one for walkers, one for boats) still amazes me after 10 years living here. Now we have three entangled networks...
Yesterday I had dinner with an old pal whose job in the last months has been installing the access points and congratulated him. He confirmed the amazing level of interest even among the elder population. Today, lots of people I know are checking signal strength in every hidden corner. Looks like the municipality (and my friend) did a great job, as the coverage seems rather complete.
BTW, Venice is not a theme park. People still live and work here, enjoying a lifestyle like no other, mainly due to the absense of cars. I won't tell you "come visit us", but I can confirm you don't need a pretext like free connectivity.
As a male white Italian with no involvement into USA elections, I have to admit that this morning I cried and laughed hearing what just happened in a big nation far far away. This changes everything. The politics of fear will end. Black people won't be seen "out of place" in any place from now on. Things won't go worse all the time, like last years made us think! A big thank you to the US people. This affects us all.
In case you didn't notice, 2008 already was the year of Linux on your lap. Rethinking about all the noise we made about a few Dell laptop models coming with Linux preinstalled, what should we say about the impact that millions of Linux netbooks have had with ordinary people who now use it because it "just works" very well for their purposes?
Can add some hiss to what? To the perfect Hi-Fi quality you are expected to get out of a century old phonograph?
In 2010 Slashdot will be full of people lamenting that it has become impossible to buy a simple ipod without all the useless phone functions thrown in.
Windows' shaky foundations constitute the main incentive for Windows users to make the switch. Finding on Linux the same FOSS applications you got accustomed with does just make the switch easier. I know it worked this way for my father, who now happily uses on Xubuntu the same Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice he used on Windows. No equivalent for Symantec software, luckily!
What's next, a movie about capacitors? Followed by "Resistors' revenge", maybe?
No, sorry. English is not my main language. I live in a mythical place that somebody call "Rest of the World", where we speak funny. My spell checker is configured so that it checks for every word I type to be correctly funny. Maybe your President uses it, too. (I apologize for any spelling error in this message: they are meant to be funny, you know?)
"Shed some light"! Good one this one! :-)