It was far more likely to be the pocket protector MIT/Caltech brigade than the idiotic stereotypical "hacker" with his tattoos and piercings.
The anti-government "Anonymous" type hackers are little children compared to the people the government has access to, I doub't they're looking to slum and are too worried about being unable to hire the anti-establishment set.
I love when people anthropomorphize reality. Well, or think there's some evil cabal of "fat cats" forcnig the world into misery and war for profiteering purposes. I'd say both are equally idiotic.
What Hicks says appeals to a certain sort of person who likes to see themselves as "above it all". All of us "squares", why we're just "Wage slaves" (I _know_ you're a user of that ridiculous phrase) while you've totally seen through it.
So by all means, sell your computer. Sell your TV. Sell everything but enough to survive on and give it all to the hungry. Don't lock your doors, get rid of all your (lol) trinkets. Totally, like, tune out you deep fucking thinker.
I'll be sure to feel very banal and ashamed as I work hard to provide myself and my family a comfortable life. Why, I'll really look chagrined when some fucking nimrod comes and espouses his ironically self unaware philosophy of "it's all just a ride, maaaan!".
No, the phones that are equal or better than the iPhone hardware-wise are still $350-$600. And Not being able to sell the product hasn't been a problem with any of Samsung's big ticket phones.
Google and Samsung should start dumping Android phones on the market at every price point. I mean you're already pretty fucking stupid to pay $500-$600 for an iPhone (directly or via subsidized, expensive plans) when you can get a better Android phone (Galaxy Nexus) for $359 but make that value proposition even worse.
Oh, don't technically dump. Just sell for razor thin margins. $1 a phone, or they can sell for a loss and claim advertising revenues will make up for it if regulators and Apple whine about dumping.
I think if Samsung/Google/HTC/others tried they could sell something like the Galaxy S3 for $300 and fuck up Apple's program. And this should be obvious, but manufacture and ship them to the US in _ridiculous_ numbers so they're already here when Apple tries to sue to stop them.
Meaningless sarcasm. If Bayer had spent $2 billion dollars researching and getting Aspirin to the market recently and immediately had to sell a bottle of 100 for $1.98 then they _would_ make no money. Then they'd say "F it" and just stop researching anything that's too expensive.
Ever see that old pre-Internet era meme where people would cross out the complicated instructions on the hand blow dryer in the bathroom and write "fuck it, wipe hands on pants", a clever comment on the over-complexity of the instructions?
Bayer in your world: "Fuck it, move factories to make Viagra, end all research."
Life isn't "fair". Patents aren't to make things fair, they're meant to stoke inventions by providing an incentive.
There's plenty of benefit inherent to writing some "amazing piece of software" first, and enough people are doing it that there is no societal benefit from providing patent protections (you already have copyright) for software.
Iran is not the US, Russia, China, or even India or Pakistan. It's a state on the edge, susceptible to revolution and incapable of properly securing a nuclear weapon or nuclear technology.
I even agree nuclear weapons have been a net boon, but one of these things is not like the other.
Why not reduce his argument, one could even say to the point of absurdity, and say that we'll be better off if everyone in my neighborhood has a nuclear weapon? I mean who's going to rob me if I can nuke them, am I right??
No. We can't allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. States don't have "rights", so fairness is not an issue. And it's clearly not in our or anyone's interests if they have a revolution or someone in their smallish government decides they want to allow some terrorists access to a nuclear weapon or even just the technology to make a very dirty conventional weapon.
Reading books in an iPod is a fail. Utter fail. eInk is mandatory unless all you do is read your comic books for 20 minutes at a time while you sit with your legs crossed in the local starbucks.
So? You remind me of those people who think "discrimination" is like the world's worst thing, and that if they label _anything_ discrimination it must be bad.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Apple and like this (among others) as yet another reason to not buy their products.
That said, what crime is possible selling a legal product to a US citizen? If I sell an iPod XL to a US citizen am I supposed to ask if they will ship it to Iran? What if he hints about it, should I put on my PI cap and follow them around to investigate? If she asked them to ship it there, then there's an issue, otherwise it's pretty stupid.
How is anybody being "exploited"? I can't stand Apple for a variety of reasons, this is definitely not one of them. If people are willing to work for that pay, then both parties are satisfied and nothing's wrong.
Meh, that's why I'm Libertarian leaning and not Libertarian. Basically I think there should be a very compelling reason for government intervention in something.
I'd be kicked out of the Libertarian party because I support a single payer high deductible type national insurance plan. If you're poor, you get $500 and have a $500 deductible. If you make $10M a year, you get $0 (of course) and have maybe a $20k deductible. No matter what you get health care.
But in most things I sympathize with Libertarian views, just not the whacky, impractical "private roads and police, maaaan!" nuts.
PS: The "good riddance" types aren't Libertarians, they're left wingers who rant about how the govt is in the pocket of the corporations. Learn your Internet bloviator bestiary.
Why is it your types always come up with what I like to call the Somalia Gambit in any discussion with anyone you consider "Libertarian"? Why always Somalia? It's some weird fetish you voice of reason types have.
Slashdot used to be a libertarian haunt, these days it's 30% American progressives, 40% Eurosocialists of various stripes, 20% Libertarian, and 10% right wing kook.
Yeah, because Win32 binaries are soooo important. I mean, I can't count how many times I'm all "Wow, I can't do what I want to do on Linux!". I can't count it because it's _0_. The old lock-in argument is so 1995. Nowadays only a minority of users have any problem using alternative OS's.
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It was far more likely to be the pocket protector MIT/Caltech brigade than the idiotic stereotypical "hacker" with his tattoos and piercings.
The anti-government "Anonymous" type hackers are little children compared to the people the government has access to, I doub't they're looking to slum and are too worried about being unable to hire the anti-establishment set.
Lol, do you dance around the computer while you "hack" with your cool "python" ala Swordfish?
PS the 'lol' above should be construed as a derisive lol and not a "we're chumming about" lol.
I love when people anthropomorphize reality. Well, or think there's some evil cabal of "fat cats" forcnig the world into misery and war for profiteering purposes. I'd say both are equally idiotic.
What Hicks says appeals to a certain sort of person who likes to see themselves as "above it all". All of us "squares", why we're just "Wage slaves" (I _know_ you're a user of that ridiculous phrase) while you've totally seen through it.
So by all means, sell your computer. Sell your TV. Sell everything but enough to survive on and give it all to the hungry. Don't lock your doors, get rid of all your (lol) trinkets. Totally, like, tune out you deep fucking thinker.
I'll be sure to feel very banal and ashamed as I work hard to provide myself and my family a comfortable life. Why, I'll really look chagrined when some fucking nimrod comes and espouses his ironically self unaware philosophy of "it's all just a ride, maaaan!".
Yes we will get off your lawn grandpa.
No, the phones that are equal or better than the iPhone hardware-wise are still $350-$600. And Not being able to sell the product hasn't been a problem with any of Samsung's big ticket phones.
Google and Samsung should start dumping Android phones on the market at every price point. I mean you're already pretty fucking stupid to pay $500-$600 for an iPhone (directly or via subsidized, expensive plans) when you can get a better Android phone (Galaxy Nexus) for $359 but make that value proposition even worse.
Oh, don't technically dump. Just sell for razor thin margins. $1 a phone, or they can sell for a loss and claim advertising revenues will make up for it if regulators and Apple whine about dumping.
I think if Samsung/Google/HTC/others tried they could sell something like the Galaxy S3 for $300 and fuck up Apple's program. And this should be obvious, but manufacture and ship them to the US in _ridiculous_ numbers so they're already here when Apple tries to sue to stop them.
Possibly, maybe this is why there are rumors we are prepared to go in and use force at a moment's notice to secure their weapons in that eventuality.
Meaningless sarcasm. If Bayer had spent $2 billion dollars researching and getting Aspirin to the market recently and immediately had to sell a bottle of 100 for $1.98 then they _would_ make no money. Then they'd say "F it" and just stop researching anything that's too expensive.
Ever see that old pre-Internet era meme where people would cross out the complicated instructions on the hand blow dryer in the bathroom and write "fuck it, wipe hands on pants", a clever comment on the over-complexity of the instructions?
Bayer in your world: "Fuck it, move factories to make Viagra, end all research."
Shut up.
He's expressing his opinion on a piece of law, namely that software patents are necessary or required by current patent laws.
Life isn't "fair". Patents aren't to make things fair, they're meant to stoke inventions by providing an incentive.
There's plenty of benefit inherent to writing some "amazing piece of software" first, and enough people are doing it that there is no societal benefit from providing patent protections (you already have copyright) for software.
So no soup for you.
Iran is not the US, Russia, China, or even India or Pakistan. It's a state on the edge, susceptible to revolution and incapable of properly securing a nuclear weapon or nuclear technology.
I even agree nuclear weapons have been a net boon, but one of these things is not like the other.
Why not reduce his argument, one could even say to the point of absurdity, and say that we'll be better off if everyone in my neighborhood has a nuclear weapon? I mean who's going to rob me if I can nuke them, am I right??
No. We can't allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. States don't have "rights", so fairness is not an issue. And it's clearly not in our or anyone's interests if they have a revolution or someone in their smallish government decides they want to allow some terrorists access to a nuclear weapon or even just the technology to make a very dirty conventional weapon.
Reading books in an iPod is a fail. Utter fail. eInk is mandatory unless all you do is read your comic books for 20 minutes at a time while you sit with your legs crossed in the local starbucks.
I think you have your nomenclature backwards on the iPad nano.
Apple has released one product in various formats.
iPod.
iPod nano, iPod 3G (they call it the iPhone), iPod 4-3G, iPod 4s-3G, iPod XL (they call it the iPad), iPod 4G (upcoming iPone 5), iPod XXL (if they release a TV), etc...
I'm waiting for the iPod XL-Folder (Mac based on iOS). Then the hilarity will be complete.
Yeah, those didn't happen 1000 years ago, right? Totally new phenomena.
So? You remind me of those people who think "discrimination" is like the world's worst thing, and that if they label _anything_ discrimination it must be bad.
He's a bigot. So am I. What now?
Don't get me wrong, I hate Apple and like this (among others) as yet another reason to not buy their products.
That said, what crime is possible selling a legal product to a US citizen? If I sell an iPod XL to a US citizen am I supposed to ask if they will ship it to Iran? What if he hints about it, should I put on my PI cap and follow them around to investigate? If she asked them to ship it there, then there's an issue, otherwise it's pretty stupid.
How is anybody being "exploited"? I can't stand Apple for a variety of reasons, this is definitely not one of them. If people are willing to work for that pay, then both parties are satisfied and nothing's wrong.
Meh, that's why I'm Libertarian leaning and not Libertarian. Basically I think there should be a very compelling reason for government intervention in something.
I'd be kicked out of the Libertarian party because I support a single payer high deductible type national insurance plan. If you're poor, you get $500 and have a $500 deductible. If you make $10M a year, you get $0 (of course) and have maybe a $20k deductible. No matter what you get health care.
But in most things I sympathize with Libertarian views, just not the whacky, impractical "private roads and police, maaaan!" nuts.
Carrots? That's ridiculous, I mean who would think the government would try to limit the size of some type of food or beverage we'd buy Pshaw.
Now, about that 64 ounce Super Slurper you were going to buy at the corner market in NYC...
PS: The "good riddance" types aren't Libertarians, they're left wingers who rant about how the govt is in the pocket of the corporations. Learn your Internet bloviator bestiary.
Why is it your types always come up with what I like to call the Somalia Gambit in any discussion with anyone you consider "Libertarian"? Why always Somalia? It's some weird fetish you voice of reason types have.
Slashdot used to be a libertarian haunt, these days it's 30% American progressives, 40% Eurosocialists of various stripes, 20% Libertarian, and 10% right wing kook.
Yeah, because Win32 binaries are soooo important. I mean, I can't count how many times I'm all "Wow, I can't do what I want to do on Linux!". I can't count it because it's _0_. The old lock-in argument is so 1995. Nowadays only a minority of users have any problem using alternative OS's.
Yeah, BOYCOTT something you can turn off and that delivers tangible benefits to most consumers. You rock, brohan!
Lie. Nobody is making anybody pay Microsoft any money, they can get their own keys.
It has nothing to do with Microsoft other than them requiring secure boot support. It's up to OEMs and consumers.