IT's interesting that in a country which has some of the worst food safety laws in the developed world, people are worried about imaginary nanotech getting them...
I'd say their real problem with it is that a hard disk is a point of failure in a system with very few points of failure. They do not want to be providing much technical support for this thing.
The Internet transmission will, of course, also be through frequency modulation; you will be required to ping a particular server and make a signal curve from the resulting ping values (this could actually work as a really dodgy multicasting mechansim;) )
> So the question on everyone's minds at this point is: What *will* Longhorn actually have in it?
Well, remember Windows ME?
Also, Clippy will be attached to the voice synthisiser.
Not to forget the thousands of Americans who die every year because free health care is not provided, like it is in every other affluent industrialised country.
Besides Nazi Germany, the US was the largest western offender, and probably the largest offender overall in the modern era. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Eugenics is again a growing issue in the US, which, along with China, legalises prenatal screening for gender and so on. This sort of thing could get quite nasty in the future.
Does America hold elections during national emergencies? If not, want to bet on a national emergency lasting for the next 40 years or so? Of course, he might just abdicate in favour of King Bush III.
Sorry, this is the country which TORTURES PEOPLE (they use a number of techniques which the UN, EU an d ISRAEL, for goodness sakes, consider illegal torture) and interns them indefinitely without trial. Human Rights are for hippy communist Europeans and the UN;)
That's unfair. The classic definition of a police state is Nazi Germany (they were very patriotic, too), or possibly the Soviet Union. The US is simply the most obvious modern example.
It's worth noting that many Islamic-majority countries don't do any of those things, either. In fact, America has shamelessly supported the largest offender; Saudi Arabia.
Blind faith is always a bad thing. Blind faith led to a thousand years of religious tyranny. Blind faith is the reason that the American government is currently torturing people in Iraq and Guantanamo.
And patriotism is NOT a good thing; it's a machanism of controlling the masses.
It is not up to the people to justify feeling unhappy about what the leaders are doing. It is up to the leaders to justify what they are doing to the people. When people stop questioning the leaders, Horrible Things Happen.
I'm not convinced that's actually true. Historically, the only major revolution I can think of where the starving, poor and unemployed wre the driving force was the Russian one. Most revolutions are instigated by the middle or upper classes (French, American, Irish etc.)
I'm not sure that it was really just about provoking a reaction. If permanent detention centers are set up, as has been talked about, they will meet the normal definition for concentration camp.
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Did it work great? This was the one in Cambridge, right? I seem to remember hearing it was an expensive disaster...
Are you an inanimate object homophobe? Tut-tut.
IT's interesting that in a country which has some of the worst food safety laws in the developed world, people are worried about imaginary nanotech getting them...
I'd say their real problem with it is that a hard disk is a point of failure in a system with very few points of failure. They do not want to be providing much technical support for this thing.
I wonder will we see people who do Altivec-intensive cluster software fleeing to this from the ruins of Apple?
Can't they just round these people who sell "miraculous" objects on ebay up and execute them, or something?
MEncoder will do that.
The Internet transmission will, of course, also be through frequency modulation; you will be required to ping a particular server and make a signal curve from the resulting ping values (this could actually work as a really dodgy multicasting mechansim ;) )
> So the question on everyone's minds at this point is: What *will* Longhorn actually have in it? Well, remember Windows ME? Also, Clippy will be attached to the voice synthisiser.
Are they illegal in Australia? They probably should be (tho of course, Australia doesn't have freedom of speech: http://www.hrcr.org/safrica/expression/freedom_spe ech.html
Presumably because no-one submits things from other juristictions.
Just as clarification, I was refering to the Irish constitution (silly document that it is) rather than the American one above.
Not to forget the thousands of Americans who die every year because free health care is not provided, like it is in every other affluent industrialised country.
Besides Nazi Germany, the US was the largest western offender, and probably the largest offender overall in the modern era. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics Eugenics is again a growing issue in the US, which, along with China, legalises prenatal screening for gender and so on. This sort of thing could get quite nasty in the future.
A lot of countries (rightly, imo) consider written (and drawn, photoshopped etc.) child pornography illegal.
Pigs and farmers, anyone ;)
Does America hold elections during national emergencies? If not, want to bet on a national emergency lasting for the next 40 years or so? Of course, he might just abdicate in favour of King Bush III.
Sorry, this is the country which TORTURES PEOPLE (they use a number of techniques which the UN, EU an d ISRAEL, for goodness sakes, consider illegal torture) and interns them indefinitely without trial. Human Rights are for hippy communist Europeans and the UN ;)
That's unfair. The classic definition of a police state is Nazi Germany (they were very patriotic, too), or possibly the Soviet Union. The US is simply the most obvious modern example.
It's worth noting that many Islamic-majority countries don't do any of those things, either. In fact, America has shamelessly supported the largest offender; Saudi Arabia.
Blind faith is always a bad thing. Blind faith led to a thousand years of religious tyranny. Blind faith is the reason that the American government is currently torturing people in Iraq and Guantanamo. And patriotism is NOT a good thing; it's a machanism of controlling the masses.
It is not up to the people to justify feeling unhappy about what the leaders are doing. It is up to the leaders to justify what they are doing to the people. When people stop questioning the leaders, Horrible Things Happen.
I'm not convinced that's actually true. Historically, the only major revolution I can think of where the starving, poor and unemployed wre the driving force was the Russian one. Most revolutions are instigated by the middle or upper classes (French, American, Irish etc.)
I'm not sure that it was really just about provoking a reaction. If permanent detention centers are set up, as has been talked about, they will meet the normal definition for concentration camp.
An "anti-patriot act nazi"? This patriot act of yours sounds like something the Nazis would be jealous they didn't think of it first ;)