Sorry, can't agree with this. In my city, religious organizations feed the hungry, shelter the poor, hold the hands of the dying lonely and help make children smile.
I don't see any secular humanist orgs stepping up to that.
I'm an atheist, but I still give money to the Salvation Army.
So is Google a bunch of savages for taking down a video someone posted of 3D printing an AR-15 magazine?
Dude, Google is a corporation, not a government. If the government forced Google to take down the video that would be double-plus ungood, but they didn't. Google can take down whatever they want, in the same way Apple can approve whatever apps they want.
...and I guarantee if the government really had the power to censor YouTube they'd pick a lot more incriminating content than a video showing the use of a 3D printer. Most gun nuts wouldn't even know how to switch a 3D printer on...
Not only that, they'll pound on their chest about the erosion of their nonsensical 'second amendment' rights, while their truly important rights drift away like so much gossamer...
where exactly does one draw the line between a failure to check your sources, and becoming a tabloid?
That's an insult to tabloids. Most tabs (like The Enquirer) are rigorous with their fact-checking to prevent lawsuits from angry celebs. When they say Demi is pining for Ashton, chances are good that she actually is.
Just use market forces: Charge the people who use more bandwidth more money - Grandparents who are watching 3-minute YouTube videos of their grandkids will pay less than Joey Hackerston who is downloading HD movies every night. Or charge more for data in the evening and less at 3AM - The market will sort out the problem - Those people who Torrent will adjust their behaviours (or pay more).
In North America, Chromebooks are largely an education (K12) play. The "traditional" OEMs are seeing tremendous market share erosion to iPads in schools - So this provides them with something to sell. The schools struggle with iPads because they're expensive (next to no edu-discounting from Apple), fragile, difficult to manage and are theft targets. It's also difficult to create content (such as writing and essay) on iPad.
The way it used to work is radio stations would give public exposure to artists' work, and in turn if people liked it they'd go to a record store and buy a copy
You missed a piece - Radio stations would sell advertising which would fund the broadcast of music, and that ad business was lucrative, particularly in larger markets.
Do lay-users even consider these folks relevant any more?
CNET is one of the pre-eminent tech reporting sites, with a huge readership. If you have a tech company then your PR firm will work hard to get you on CNET because your product will get in front of a lot of eyeballs.
At some point an IP address would stop becoming sufficient justification to raid someone's house
By and large it is NOT sufficient. I work for a company that tracks and recovers stolen laptops. We recover up to 150 per week. Rarely will the police be willing to knock on a door based on IP address data alone - They almost always need additional forensic evidence before they are willing to engage.
No, the point is that they're not immigrating here, they're just visiting long enough to get the degree, then going back home
Only because they have to. I'm sure they'd rather stay in the USA and work repairing electrical gear at the gas fields of North Dakota, but the immigration process doesn't allow it - So they're forced to return to HellHole-istan.
What would they do here? It's not like the education they've received is appreciated by American businesses.
Depends on what they've studied. If they have a master's degree in White People Stuff like medieval studies or a journalism degree well then perhaps not, but if they've got a PhD in biochemistry or they've got training in pipefitting, heavy duty mechanics or electrical technologies then yes, their education is appreciated by business.
the HDD installed on the machine didn't need to waste space with the disk image hiding on it.
The main reason the hardware OEMs started deploying these recovery partitions was for an improved customer experience. If you needed to re-install the OS you didn't need to search your house for the recovery DVD - All you needed to do was press F11 (or whatever) on boot and the installer would run. If you wanted to create your own recovery DVD it was pretty easy - In fact most of my computers nagged me to to do it.
It's a trick question. In the daytime, Bellingham's population triples as thousands of Canadians descend on the town snapping up cheaper milk, cheese and Costco vodka.
I'm an atheist without any love for Scientology. I don't see Scientology as any different from the "legitimate religions" that people have grown up in.
I'm an atheist, but my mother-in-law is a practicing Catholic. Are parts of the Catholic church offensive? Absolutely, but I would argue they're leaps-and-bounds less bad than a gang like Scientology. No one follows Catholics around with cameras. No one oppresses Catholics who, for whatever reason, have left the church. If you object to church policy publicly eventually they might excommunicate you, but heck, if I object publicly to my employer they fire me.
Catholics certainly don't demand that members cut off contact with their families.
The Catholic church, at least here in Vancouver, does all kinds of charitable works with the poor and suffering - In the 80s it was the local Catholic hospital that was treating gay men who were dying of aids, back when other hospitals were putting up barriers. When asked why, the Catholic organizations replied that they were practicing Jesus's teachings. I don't see any evidence of the local Scientology "church" doing any good works, other than free "personality tests" which is nothing but indoctrination.
If the Apple ecosystem is too closed for you, resulting in you needing to jump through all these jailbreaking hoops, why buy an Apple product in the first place? Why not buy something else from the get-go?
The question in my mind is why lenovo would want to acquire RIM at all
"Traditional" computing platform sales continue to flatline (Notebooks / Desktops). Lenovo's attempts at a tablet have, to date, flopped. RIM is currently undervalued and still sells millions of handsets. It's a quick jumpstart into the mobile business for Lenovo.
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Religion in all of its forms is bad
Sorry, can't agree with this. In my city, religious organizations feed the hungry, shelter the poor, hold the hands of the dying lonely and help make children smile.
I don't see any secular humanist orgs stepping up to that.
I'm an atheist, but I still give money to the Salvation Army.
So is Google a bunch of savages for taking down a video someone posted of 3D printing an AR-15 magazine?
Dude, Google is a corporation, not a government. If the government forced Google to take down the video that would be double-plus ungood, but they didn't. Google can take down whatever they want, in the same way Apple can approve whatever apps they want.
...and I guarantee if the government really had the power to censor YouTube they'd pick a lot more incriminating content than a video showing the use of a 3D printer. Most gun nuts wouldn't even know how to switch a 3D printer on...
I really don't give a fuck anymore what those insane muslims do anymore...
So you don't care if a teenage girl is shot for the simple act of going to school?
You don't care when Saudis fund ignorant fools so they can go blow up commuter trains in the west?
Not only that, they'll pound on their chest about the erosion of their nonsensical 'second amendment' rights, while their truly important rights drift away like so much gossamer...
Why would anyone live in Texas unless they had to?
One might ask the same question about the USA as a whole.
where exactly does one draw the line between a failure to check your sources, and becoming a tabloid?
That's an insult to tabloids. Most tabs (like The Enquirer) are rigorous with their fact-checking to prevent lawsuits from angry celebs. When they say Demi is pining for Ashton, chances are good that she actually is.
AHAHAHAHAHahaha, when was the last time you actually paid LESS for something (something not made in China)?
All the time. Plane tickets, for example, are much cheaper than they were 30 years ago (indexed to today's dollars).
Just use market forces: Charge the people who use more bandwidth more money - Grandparents who are watching 3-minute YouTube videos of their grandkids will pay less than Joey Hackerston who is downloading HD movies every night. Or charge more for data in the evening and less at 3AM - The market will sort out the problem - Those people who Torrent will adjust their behaviours (or pay more).
They sell parts to dealers who then go on to resell them to independent repair shops.
In North America, Chromebooks are largely an education (K12) play. The "traditional" OEMs are seeing tremendous market share erosion to iPads in schools - So this provides them with something to sell. The schools struggle with iPads because they're expensive (next to no edu-discounting from Apple), fragile, difficult to manage and are theft targets. It's also difficult to create content (such as writing and essay) on iPad.
The way it used to work is radio stations would give public exposure to artists' work, and in turn if people liked it they'd go to a record store and buy a copy
You missed a piece - Radio stations would sell advertising which would fund the broadcast of music, and that ad business was lucrative, particularly in larger markets.
That's okay. Slashdot will whine and cry about how they don't even want to pay for streaming music and fully advocate piracy.
Exactly right, they'll tell you all music 'wants to be free' and that artists like Ms. Keating should make all her money from paid performances.
Do lay-users even consider these folks relevant any more?
CNET is one of the pre-eminent tech reporting sites, with a huge readership. If you have a tech company then your PR firm will work hard to get you on CNET because your product will get in front of a lot of eyeballs.
At some point an IP address would stop becoming sufficient justification to raid someone's house
By and large it is NOT sufficient. I work for a company that tracks and recovers stolen laptops. We recover up to 150 per week. Rarely will the police be willing to knock on a door based on IP address data alone - They almost always need additional forensic evidence before they are willing to engage.
There is this thing called the Internet. Apple's system installer lives on the Internet,
And that helps my dad on dial-up how?
No, the point is that they're not immigrating here, they're just visiting long enough to get the degree, then going back home
Only because they have to. I'm sure they'd rather stay in the USA and work repairing electrical gear at the gas fields of North Dakota, but the immigration process doesn't allow it - So they're forced to return to HellHole-istan.
What would they do here? It's not like the education they've received is appreciated by American businesses.
Depends on what they've studied. If they have a master's degree in White People Stuff like medieval studies or a journalism degree well then perhaps not, but if they've got a PhD in biochemistry or they've got training in pipefitting, heavy duty mechanics or electrical technologies then yes, their education is appreciated by business.
the HDD installed on the machine didn't need to waste space with the disk image hiding on it.
The main reason the hardware OEMs started deploying these recovery partitions was for an improved customer experience. If you needed to re-install the OS you didn't need to search your house for the recovery DVD - All you needed to do was press F11 (or whatever) on boot and the installer would run. If you wanted to create your own recovery DVD it was pretty easy - In fact most of my computers nagged me to to do it.
Bellingham, or the LinuxFest?
It's a trick question. In the daytime, Bellingham's population triples as thousands of Canadians descend on the town snapping up cheaper milk, cheese and Costco vodka.
The RIAA and MPAA have declared war on their customers
No they haven't. I buy music and movies and no one has to gone to war on me.
I'm an atheist without any love for Scientology. I don't see Scientology as any different from the "legitimate religions" that people have grown up in.
I'm an atheist, but my mother-in-law is a practicing Catholic. Are parts of the Catholic church offensive? Absolutely, but I would argue they're leaps-and-bounds less bad than a gang like Scientology. No one follows Catholics around with cameras. No one oppresses Catholics who, for whatever reason, have left the church. If you object to church policy publicly eventually they might excommunicate you, but heck, if I object publicly to my employer they fire me.
Catholics certainly don't demand that members cut off contact with their families.
The Catholic church, at least here in Vancouver, does all kinds of charitable works with the poor and suffering - In the 80s it was the local Catholic hospital that was treating gay men who were dying of aids, back when other hospitals were putting up barriers. When asked why, the Catholic organizations replied that they were practicing Jesus's teachings. I don't see any evidence of the local Scientology "church" doing any good works, other than free "personality tests" which is nothing but indoctrination.
It is possible to land a spacecraft on the ground
I always thought the Vostok re-entry system was pretty crazy - Ejecting the cosmonaut from the capsule and making him parachute down.
If the Apple ecosystem is too closed for you, resulting in you needing to jump through all these jailbreaking hoops, why buy an Apple product in the first place? Why not buy something else from the get-go?
Boeing batteries
By "Boeing Batteries" I presume you mean batteries made by GS Yuasa Corp of Kyoto, Japan & purchased by Boeing for installation in the 787?
The question in my mind is why lenovo would want to acquire RIM at all
"Traditional" computing platform sales continue to flatline (Notebooks / Desktops). Lenovo's attempts at a tablet have, to date, flopped. RIM is currently undervalued and still sells millions of handsets. It's a quick jumpstart into the mobile business for Lenovo.