Don't be silly. It's just a coincidence. Accusing someone of rape isn't one of the fastest and easiest ways to publicly discredit them and destroy their reputation in the press and among their supporters. No one would ever think of using that to their own political ends. Stop all this crazy talk.
Strauss Kahn had been openly criticizing the value of the U.S. dollar in the weeks leading up to his arrest and had just pulled ahead of the pro-U.S. Sarkozy in the French presidential race. Omar was raising funds for the Muslim Brotherhood, in their effort to secure a place in the new Egyptian government.
Don't be crazy. Next you'll be saying that the U.S. would be willing to frame someone for a sex crime just to put a pro-U.S. puppet in charge of the IMF and ensure the reelection of their pro-U.S. puppet in France. And that's just crazy talk. The CIA doesn't do bad stuff like that.
Don't be silly. He is every bit as guilty as Dominique Strauss Kahn. Just because Julian Assange, Dominique Strauss Kahn, Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, Moamarr Quadaffi, and many other enemies of the U.S. became accused rapists shortly after crossing the U.S. government doesn't mean these are obvious CIA setups to publicly discredit them in the interests of the U.S. That's just a coincidence.
The CIA doesn't do bad stuff like that. And if you say otherwise, you're obviously nuts. So stop talking crazy and just accept Assange's guilt.
Leaking information on current and former US military personnel is just going to fan the flames of "shut everything down" in Congress.
It actually wouldn't surprise me if this particular leak were part of a counter-intelligence operation to discredit anon and accomplish just that. It's the kind of thing I would do if I were the NSA/CIA/FBI and wanted to garner public support for taking on anon. There have been several leaks and activities of late that I suspect weren't actually initiated by anon themselves, but were part of efforts to tar them.
Is there a way for me to easily segregate friends into groups and restrict what each of those groups see? What I mean by that is, one of the things that really annoyed me with Facebook was that it was difficult to segregate my co-workers, friends, and family into different groups. With every post, I basically had to manually exclude groups. Obviously there are some pictures that I only want friends to see, some posts that I don't want co-workers but do want friends and family to see, etc. And I don't ever want my co-workers, friends, and family intermingling (I would prefer they not even be able to see each other). I'm tired of hearing my mother complain because one of my college buddies posts a dirty joke on my wall or pic. This kind of stuff was a total pain-in-the-ass with Facebook (especially early on). That SNL skit about the sanitizer service to keep mom from seeing your Facebook posts is a good illustration of just how frustrating that was.
Belying its roots as a fellow-college-student-only social site, Facebook always defaults to "I want everyone to see this! Hell yeah!" Which has made it difficult to use with anyone who wouldn't appreciate hearing my political rants, or seeing pictures of me hammered at some party. There are now ways to manually do this on Facebook, but I was hoping Google+ would come up with something more elegant and automatic.
Most of us make use of or benefit from fairn use countless times every day. This morning I watched a news show that showed god knows how many trademarked images, copyrighted clips, personal images, snips of audio, etc. I hummed a song I liked. I emailed a joke I had overheard to a friend. I downloaded a ungodly number of copyrighted images to my PC as part of my morning web browsing.
There are countless incidents of fair use we each do every day without even thinking about it. Can you even imagine a world where that WASN'T the case? Where humming a copyrighted song without permission was a criminal offense? Where news reports weren't allowed to use any copyrighted or trademarked images/audio/etc.? Where web browsing meant signing a copyright agreement with every website?
Damned ape took more lives than a serial killer at a hitchhiker convention.
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Must have missed GoDaddy's ad campaigns for the last few years. They look like Hooters ads. I stopped recommending them after one of my (straight-laced) clients said "Wasn't that the company that ran the Superbowl ads with the wet t-shirt contest?" It just became way too embarrassing. I suspect their CEO started out promoting strip clubs or something, and still has the mentality that a web hosting service should be promoted the same way.
First of all, they make very good money doing the job (some of those captains are making 7-figure incomes, with high-school diplomas). And they do it year-round, not just for a few weeks (Deadliest Catch only shows the Red Crab and Opilio Crab seasons).
And, as I said, if you watched the show, you would get a quick appreciation for how obsessed those guys are with money, and the lengths they will go to to get it. There have been captains on that show who have made their own brothers work with broken bones because it might cost them a few thousand bucks on the haul (I kid you not). They LOVE the money.
You mark my word, if this guy wins his case he will turn around and sell it very quickly.
Actually, kdawson was going to see the launch too. But when the NASA people learned who he was, they tried to seat him under the thrusters.
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People joke, but this is the reason I stopped talking about GIMP in my photo editing classes. It's also why I stopped recommending GoDaddy to web clients. If you want to be taken seriously, here's a tip. Don't name your software something that has the potential to offend people. And don't make your website look like a Hooters ad.
If you've ever watch the crab captains on Deadliest Catch, you would know that there never existed in the universe a more greedy, money-obsessed group of cold sonofabitches than those guys. They LOVE money. They don't hesitate to risk the lives of their own families for money. They think about money from the second they get up to the moment they go to bed.
If this guy was a crab captain, you can bet that he's holding out for more money. All that sentimental value crap is just his way of bargaining. I guarantee you that the only thing that has stopped him from selling it before was his questionable title to it. If he wins this case, he'll be auctioning it off the next day.
So... one incident of an Israeli abusing her power means the whole country is under Apartheid?
No, the fact that Palestinians have been stripped of their lands, forced into walled ghettos, and stripped of almost all rights does that. The behavior of this one soldier is just a symptom of the larger disease.
For a measly $1 million, I'll sell them a computer that will offer cutting-edge insights like "Look for drug-dealing and robberies in the neighborhood with grillwork on all the windows and people sitting around drinking malt liquor on their porches all day."
It's really innovative technology. And for a mere $1 million, I'm really just giving them away.
Dude, this is MONEY we're talking here. Sony doesn't give a shit if they're being fair. They don't give a shit about reasoning. If you're selling someone a used game, that's a customer lost who MAY have otherwise bought the game new. They see that as money out of their pocket.
And it's not just Sony. The same applies to just about every game publisher out there. Why do you think the PC game publishers were so happy to kill off the used market for PC games? They WILL move to do the same for console games. It's only a matter of time.
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Don't be silly. It's just a coincidence. Accusing someone of rape isn't one of the fastest and easiest ways to publicly discredit them and destroy their reputation in the press and among their supporters. No one would ever think of using that to their own political ends. Stop all this crazy talk.
Strauss Kahn had been openly criticizing the value of the U.S. dollar in the weeks leading up to his arrest and had just pulled ahead of the pro-U.S. Sarkozy in the French presidential race. Omar was raising funds for the Muslim Brotherhood, in their effort to secure a place in the new Egyptian government.
Don't be crazy. Next you'll be saying that the U.S. would be willing to frame someone for a sex crime just to put a pro-U.S. puppet in charge of the IMF and ensure the reelection of their pro-U.S. puppet in France. And that's just crazy talk. The CIA doesn't do bad stuff like that.
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Don't be silly. He is every bit as guilty as Dominique Strauss Kahn. Just because Julian Assange, Dominique Strauss Kahn, Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, Moamarr Quadaffi, and many other enemies of the U.S. became accused rapists shortly after crossing the U.S. government doesn't mean these are obvious CIA setups to publicly discredit them in the interests of the U.S. That's just a coincidence.
The CIA doesn't do bad stuff like that. And if you say otherwise, you're obviously nuts. So stop talking crazy and just accept Assange's guilt.
It could be worse. He could be a part-time lawyer or politician too.
Everyone except my cousin, Flyte Downes.
No, that was George Clooney.
Congratulations, sir and welcome to first-class. Here is your 4-ounce Dr. Pepper and complimentary half-bag of potato chips.
Leaking information on current and former US military personnel is just going to fan the flames of "shut everything down" in Congress.
It actually wouldn't surprise me if this particular leak were part of a counter-intelligence operation to discredit anon and accomplish just that. It's the kind of thing I would do if I were the NSA/CIA/FBI and wanted to garner public support for taking on anon. There have been several leaks and activities of late that I suspect weren't actually initiated by anon themselves, but were part of efforts to tar them.
Is there a way for me to easily segregate friends into groups and restrict what each of those groups see? What I mean by that is, one of the things that really annoyed me with Facebook was that it was difficult to segregate my co-workers, friends, and family into different groups. With every post, I basically had to manually exclude groups. Obviously there are some pictures that I only want friends to see, some posts that I don't want co-workers but do want friends and family to see, etc. And I don't ever want my co-workers, friends, and family intermingling (I would prefer they not even be able to see each other). I'm tired of hearing my mother complain because one of my college buddies posts a dirty joke on my wall or pic. This kind of stuff was a total pain-in-the-ass with Facebook (especially early on). That SNL skit about the sanitizer service to keep mom from seeing your Facebook posts is a good illustration of just how frustrating that was.
Belying its roots as a fellow-college-student-only social site, Facebook always defaults to "I want everyone to see this! Hell yeah!" Which has made it difficult to use with anyone who wouldn't appreciate hearing my political rants, or seeing pictures of me hammered at some party. There are now ways to manually do this on Facebook, but I was hoping Google+ would come up with something more elegant and automatic.
Most of us make use of or benefit from fairn use countless times every day. This morning I watched a news show that showed god knows how many trademarked images, copyrighted clips, personal images, snips of audio, etc. I hummed a song I liked. I emailed a joke I had overheard to a friend. I downloaded a ungodly number of copyrighted images to my PC as part of my morning web browsing.
There are countless incidents of fair use we each do every day without even thinking about it. Can you even imagine a world where that WASN'T the case? Where humming a copyrighted song without permission was a criminal offense? Where news reports weren't allowed to use any copyrighted or trademarked images/audio/etc.? Where web browsing meant signing a copyright agreement with every website?
Damned ape took more lives than a serial killer at a hitchhiker convention.
Must have missed GoDaddy's ad campaigns for the last few years. They look like Hooters ads. I stopped recommending them after one of my (straight-laced) clients said "Wasn't that the company that ran the Superbowl ads with the wet t-shirt contest?" It just became way too embarrassing. I suspect their CEO started out promoting strip clubs or something, and still has the mentality that a web hosting service should be promoted the same way.
First of all, they make very good money doing the job (some of those captains are making 7-figure incomes, with high-school diplomas). And they do it year-round, not just for a few weeks (Deadliest Catch only shows the Red Crab and Opilio Crab seasons).
And, as I said, if you watched the show, you would get a quick appreciation for how obsessed those guys are with money, and the lengths they will go to to get it. There have been captains on that show who have made their own brothers work with broken bones because it might cost them a few thousand bucks on the haul (I kid you not). They LOVE the money.
You mark my word, if this guy wins his case he will turn around and sell it very quickly.
Actually, kdawson was going to see the launch too. But when the NASA people learned who he was, they tried to seat him under the thrusters.
People joke, but this is the reason I stopped talking about GIMP in my photo editing classes. It's also why I stopped recommending GoDaddy to web clients. If you want to be taken seriously, here's a tip. Don't name your software something that has the potential to offend people. And don't make your website look like a Hooters ad.
If you've ever watch the crab captains on Deadliest Catch, you would know that there never existed in the universe a more greedy, money-obsessed group of cold sonofabitches than those guys. They LOVE money. They don't hesitate to risk the lives of their own families for money. They think about money from the second they get up to the moment they go to bed.
If this guy was a crab captain, you can bet that he's holding out for more money. All that sentimental value crap is just his way of bargaining. I guarantee you that the only thing that has stopped him from selling it before was his questionable title to it. If he wins this case, he'll be auctioning it off the next day.
So... one incident of an Israeli abusing her power means the whole country is under Apartheid?
No, the fact that Palestinians have been stripped of their lands, forced into walled ghettos, and stripped of almost all rights does that. The behavior of this one soldier is just a symptom of the larger disease.
Don't forget the invention of nuclear weapons, which will ultimately lead to a nasty nuclear world war in 2037.
Oh, wait, did I say that out loud?
Spending money to research the blatantly obvious is an American tradition.
Can you cite any research that supports that claim?
For a measly $1 million, I'll sell them a computer that will offer cutting-edge insights like "Look for drug-dealing and robberies in the neighborhood with grillwork on all the windows and people sitting around drinking malt liquor on their porches all day."
It's really innovative technology. And for a mere $1 million, I'm really just giving them away.
I mean, you expect this kind of behavior out of others...but Sony has such a long history of consumer-friendly practices.
Wow, maintaining that level of sarcasm made even me dizzy.
Dude, this is MONEY we're talking here. Sony doesn't give a shit if they're being fair. They don't give a shit about reasoning. If you're selling someone a used game, that's a customer lost who MAY have otherwise bought the game new. They see that as money out of their pocket.
And it's not just Sony. The same applies to just about every game publisher out there. Why do you think the PC game publishers were so happy to kill off the used market for PC games? They WILL move to do the same for console games. It's only a matter of time.
they've likely never used or have even seen the product you're having trouble with
Nonsense! They have had many computer time with the "Dell Inspiron 15R Laptop," sir.