it's only in USA that financial crimes are considered equal to murder.
Really? Care to provide proof of a case where someone was sentenced to death for a financial crime? Or are you just practicing your anti-American troll?
If I'm abiding by the law and exhibiting no suspicious behaviour, it's arguable that stopping me just to take a look-see at my ID is unreasonable.
It's too bad the U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with you.
That said, for the last six months I lived in Houston, my wife would get pulled over every week or so for driving-while-blonde-in-a-sports-car just so some hillbilly with a tin star could harrass her. When she told one Harris County Sheriff's deputy that she didn't want to go on a date with him, he accused her of stealing the car she was in (it was my car).
Even interstate buses and trains now usually require ID for ticket purchases.
That's strange. I've never had to show ID for interstate train travel in the United States. And based on what I've seen of the people getting off the buses at the Greyhound station, I don't think any of those people have IDs. At least not from this country.
Driving on some highways in Texas there are Border Patrol checkpoints that are very much like the ones when you cross the border into Canada. They stop your car and look at your ID and look under your car with a mirror on a long pole. And this isn't near the Mexican border, but over a hundred miles away where you're not crossing any border -- just an average pasty-white American citizen driving home.
How's this for irony: I know a woman from Canada who's living as an illegal alien in Mexico. I know she's doing it for love, but I really don't get it.
I'd prefer not to waste my money on the 50 garbage channels and just pay for the several I actually watch.
There's a lot of blame to go around on this one, and it's not always the cable company's fault. For example, in Houston a couple of years ago there was a very loud and very public dispute between Disney and Time Warner. Time Warner just wanted to carry Disney's local TV station (KTRK channel 13) and Disney Channel. But Disney refused to let them carry it unless they also carried SoapNet and ABC Family and some other Disney channel. It got so bad that Disney paid for billboards, TV spots, radio spots, and full-page newspaper ads telling people to switch to satellite because they were going to lose KTRK, the number one station in the market. KTRK even ran ads offering to send technicians out to people's homes to help them make the switch.
Another example -- if a cable system wants to carry MTV, they also have to carry a crapload of other bad Viacom-owned channels. Can you imagine the uproar from the average teen-filled home if their cable system didn't carry MTV?
It's not always the case, but sometimes the cable companies are the ones getting screwed, and they pass it on to the rest of us.
From what I've read, people in Japan are already sharing video clips that are in the PSP native format.
Yes, they are. And so is everyone else. In fact, you can download PSP videos from Sony's web site. Sony also provideS step-by-step instructions for putting your own videos on the PSP.
The big disappointment I have is that the videos taken by my Sony camera (F-828) won't play on the PSP. You'd think that would be automatic!
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You can buy a USB keyboard for the PSP that flips up to form a screen protector when not in use. If the PSP e-mail client makes it to American shores, I'm going to get it immediately.
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it's only in USA that financial crimes are considered equal to murder.
Really? Care to provide proof of a case where someone was sentenced to death for a financial crime? Or are you just practicing your anti-American troll?
If I'm abiding by the law and exhibiting no suspicious behaviour, it's arguable that stopping me just to take a look-see at my ID is unreasonable.
It's too bad the U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with you.
That said, for the last six months I lived in Houston, my wife would get pulled over every week or so for driving-while-blonde-in-a-sports-car just so some hillbilly with a tin star could harrass her. When she told one Harris County Sheriff's deputy that she didn't want to go on a date with him, he accused her of stealing the car she was in (it was my car).
Even interstate buses and trains now usually require ID for ticket purchases.
That's strange. I've never had to show ID for interstate train travel in the United States. And based on what I've seen of the people getting off the buses at the Greyhound station, I don't think any of those people have IDs. At least not from this country.
Driving on some highways in Texas there are Border Patrol checkpoints that are very much like the ones when you cross the border into Canada. They stop your car and look at your ID and look under your car with a mirror on a long pole. And this isn't near the Mexican border, but over a hundred miles away where you're not crossing any border -- just an average pasty-white American citizen driving home.
How's this for irony: I know a woman from Canada who's living as an illegal alien in Mexico. I know she's doing it for love, but I really don't get it.
I would agree except the US doesn't seem to care a whole lot about what is and is not constitutional with the passing of the USA PATRIOT ACT.
The Patriot Act takes away the right to bear arms, and the right for women to vote, and reinstates slavery? Wow. Who knew?
Lemme guess... I'm just feeding another troll.
Guilt should be determined by professionals, i.e. judges, as in most parts of the civilized world.
FWIW, Japan is in the process of switching from trial decided by judges to trials decided by juries.
Or do you not consider Japan "civilized?"
So now the new /. paradigm is: TiVO are the bad guys.
Apple are the bad guys.
Next thing you know, Microsoft will be fighting spam.
Oh, wait...
I'd prefer not to waste my money on the 50 garbage channels and just pay for the several I actually watch.
There's a lot of blame to go around on this one, and it's not always the cable company's fault. For example, in Houston a couple of years ago there was a very loud and very public dispute between Disney and Time Warner. Time Warner just wanted to carry Disney's local TV station (KTRK channel 13) and Disney Channel. But Disney refused to let them carry it unless they also carried SoapNet and ABC Family and some other Disney channel. It got so bad that Disney paid for billboards, TV spots, radio spots, and full-page newspaper ads telling people to switch to satellite because they were going to lose KTRK, the number one station in the market. KTRK even ran ads offering to send technicians out to people's homes to help them make the switch.
Another example -- if a cable system wants to carry MTV, they also have to carry a crapload of other bad Viacom-owned channels. Can you imagine the uproar from the average teen-filled home if their cable system didn't carry MTV?
It's not always the case, but sometimes the cable companies are the ones getting screwed, and they pass it on to the rest of us.
From what I've read, people in Japan are already sharing video clips that are in the PSP native format.
Yes, they are. And so is everyone else. In fact, you can download PSP videos from Sony's web site. Sony also provideS step-by-step instructions for putting your own videos on the PSP.
The big disappointment I have is that the videos taken by my Sony camera (F-828) won't play on the PSP. You'd think that would be automatic!
You can buy a USB keyboard for the PSP that flips up to form a screen protector when not in use. If the PSP e-mail client makes it to American shores, I'm going to get it immediately.
China, as a socialist country, relies on a lot of slave labour.
I keep hearing this, especially on Slashdot. Can anyone supply a list of credible corroborating links so I can judge for myself?