I 'd love to see how the CIA deals with the fact that blank thumb drives are a dime a dozen, and most computers these days have more than one USB slot.
I am pretty sure that if I were one of the journalists who received one of Snowden's little insurance policies, I'd be setting up a few of my own.
His only difficulty being that he likely to had to practise saying, "He is welcome to stay in Russia if he promises to stop giving out American secrets," several times before he could do it without laughing for the next 5 minutes or so.
Pretend you're Putin, and try saying it yourself with a straight face.
Refusing to do business with someone is hardly the same as pulling out a gun and shooting them in the face.
And snide remarks about decaf is a cute attempt at calling the kettle black, but that's what it is; it's your rhetoric that needs turning down a notch, AFAICT.
I have a hard time believing that Sweden's average is only 8.9 Mbps. In fact, I question how they derived their "averages".
I live in a not especially trendy suburb of Stockholm, and I have 100/100 Mbps fibre. I could have 1 Gbps/500 Mbps up for not much more than I'm paying already, but I'd have to buy a new router and new network cards or adaptors for the laptops. And our phones and tablets couldn't take advantage of it. So I'll just wait until these devices age out and get replaced with something that can handle the higher speeds.
The only way I can take the averages cited in TFA seriously would be if they're including mobile data. In which case, that's a bit deceptive, IMO. Since mobile data is relatively cheap here (ridiculously cheap compared to what it appears people pay for it in the States), people use the heck out of it, which would tend to drive down the overall average.
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I suggest you actually visit China a few times before making any more uninformed statements.
I 'd love to see how the CIA deals with the fact that blank thumb drives are a dime a dozen, and most computers these days have more than one USB slot.
I am pretty sure that if I were one of the journalists who received one of Snowden's little insurance policies, I'd be setting up a few of my own.
Hell yeah, Putin's been having a ball with this.
His only difficulty being that he likely to had to practise saying, "He is welcome to stay in Russia if he promises to stop giving out American secrets," several times before he could do it without laughing for the next 5 minutes or so.
Pretend you're Putin, and try saying it yourself with a straight face.
Go for it. All my significant assets are in SEK/Euro/CNY, and have been for years.
And Narcotics Anonymous.
Excuse me?
I was just at the Chinese embassy this week to obtain a visa.
I didn't realise it was a Chinese custom to encourage enemy aliens to visit their country.
And I guess I'll have to tell my fiancée to move out and that the wedding's off. Wouldn't want to marry an enemy national, now, would I?
Come to think of it, we had guests from Russia stay with us for a week or so last summer.
Man, I've been consorting with enemies left and right, haven't I?
Whatever am I going to do?
Hm, I'll have to think about it, but I am pretty sure the solution to my dilemma lies in determining that you are an idiot.
(In best "Soup Nazi" voice:) No postcards of the Great Wall for you!
Apologies for the grammar mismatch--just got up a few minutes ago, and still waiting for the coffee to finish brewing here.
I'm with kiwimate on this one.
Refusing to do business with someone is hardly the same as pulling out a gun and shooting them in the face.
And snide remarks about decaf is a cute attempt at calling the kettle black, but that's what it is; it's your rhetoric that needs turning down a notch, AFAICT.
And, yes, there's the fact I once lived in Tennessee and got to see this sort of thing in action there...
Don't forget your tongue-in-cheek detector while you're at it.
Since TFS couldn't be bothered to include it, here 'tis: Guido's blog.
I think the video and magazine shops are behind it, hoping to boost sales--to people who can no longer find their (free) porn online.
Amen.
I write in DocBook. Content and structure, nothing else.
Then it's just a matter of running the right XSLT on it to get whatever end-user format and styling I want.
Because the original codebase comes from StarOffice, which was developed by a German company (StarDivision).
Great a Single Point of failure and a single target to destroy.
Nobody seems to feel that way about a sub that's carrying enough ICBMs to vaporise a dozen good-sized cities.
Sorry, "Ooh! Shiny!" appears to be more important to some loser with mod points.
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
Sweden is a very socialist country, and the government certainly does not own all businesses here.
In the US, "liberal" = left, and "conservative" = right. So the GP is saying he's socialist/left-leaning.
Not sure what your point is, but I get faster speeds with mobile data here than I did with DSL when I lived in Brisbane.
I have a hard time believing that Sweden's average is only 8.9 Mbps. In fact, I question how they derived their "averages".
I live in a not especially trendy suburb of Stockholm, and I have 100/100 Mbps fibre. I could have 1 Gbps/500 Mbps up for not much more than I'm paying already, but I'd have to buy a new router and new network cards or adaptors for the laptops. And our phones and tablets couldn't take advantage of it. So I'll just wait until these devices age out and get replaced with something that can handle the higher speeds.
The only way I can take the averages cited in TFA seriously would be if they're including mobile data. In which case, that's a bit deceptive, IMO. Since mobile data is relatively cheap here (ridiculously cheap compared to what it appears people pay for it in the States), people use the heck out of it, which would tend to drive down the overall average.
Before somebody without much of a clue mods the parent down, please allow me to point out that 9! = 9 factorial = 362880.
Nerval's submissions have really gotten silly lately.
I invite you to read a little history, and see what invariably comes about when people start citing that as a justification for their actions.
It's not pretty.
Makes sense. Which I wasn't really doing so well yesterday (long story). Cheers.