I must have been hallucinating during all those country commission meetings. I only *imagined* hearing, "All in favour, raise your hand... Those opposed, same sign."
Pretty obvious you have the Google hate-boner thing happening here, as you apparently did a search for "Google" and "bias", then pasted the first 2 results that appeared to bash Google without even reading them.
Otherwise, you'd surely have noticed that they're both really laughably shitty articles that do nothing whatsoever to back you up, right?
Moore's Law has feck-all to do with the decline in PC sales. You're the one with the emotional attachment to it, to the extent that you ignore the highly relevant fact that most people don't care about "faster" any longer, and their needs can already be met by 10-years-old hardware.
You're quite possibly wrong in any event. We might be approaching the limits of what can be done with silicon, but who says we have to use silicon?
I can attest that, when I flew home from Guangzhou after spending Spring Festival with the in-laws, nobody in the security screening or Customs at Baiyun tried to take away my several very fat hongbao, which very obviously held a lot more cash than one is supposed to be able to take out of the country legally.
What the Chinese authorities *are* worried about these days are the corrupt businessmen and Party officials smuggling stuff like tens of millions of yuan in cash, gold bars, diamonds, and so forth out of the country, and mainlanders looking to make a quick profit trying to smuggle items that are cheaper in Hong Kong or Macao back to the mainland. At the HK-mainland border, Hong Kongers and foreigners practically get waved through, but the mainlanders tend to receive the fine-toothed comb treatment going both ways.
I have a bog-standard Swedish keyboard, yet it's no trouble for me to write text in English, Spanish, German, French, or any just about other language that uses Latin characters, with no need to change the layout. Am I holding it wrong?
"Innocent until proven guilty." "Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." They are not just noises, or squiggles on paper. They mean something.
It's *criminal* negligence that is indictable. To make it criminal and then make it stick in court, you must show *intent* to be so negligent as to break the law. Yes, intent does matter, and it's that sort of intent of which no evidence that had any chance of convincing a jury beyond any reasonable doubt was found. Let me restate that so you don't miss it: The director of the FBI said no evidence was found that met that legal standard which, said another way, is "If there is any room for reasonable doubt, you must not convict".
And, yes, it's very likely that the head of the US' national police agency is a lot more qualified to make that call than you are.
Sounds more like, "The US government should just stand by and let foreign powers fuck with American people or organisations that I happen not to like, especially Democrats."
This exactly what the AC was talking about--folks trying to be clever instead of seeing what should be obvious.
Secondly, they can't release 'propaganda' if the DNC wasn't doing shady shit in the first place.
Say what? Your naïveté is touching, but apparently you've never heard of Richelieu, so let me impart a little wisdom to you:
Give me a 2-minute tape recording of yourself talking. It can be about anything--your dog, your grandmother, the weather. Absolutely does not matter.
Now give me an hour, a razor blade, and a roll of sticky tape. I can have you saying that you worship Baal, want to fuck Hitler, plan to assassinate the governor of your state, or any damn thing I want. And that was 20 years ago--nowadays I could do it digitally in half that time.
I don't use any Apple gear at all, myself--my stuff all runs Linux or Android, no walled garden for me, thanks.
All I know is that the number of times I've had to play support person for her since she made the switch has dropped from an average of 1-2x/day to... zero.
YMMV. But 13 months later, I'm quite satisfied it was the right thing for her. (And me.)
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You do understand that it's perfectly okay for you to be challenged on your blanket assumptions, don't you?
Because you tried oh-so-cleverly to hijack the thread in order to indulge your Hillary Hate Boner, maybe?
Funny thing about a lot of wives... Seems that, when they get married, they expect to be marrying an actual husband.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great--
Those were the days...
There is no such thing as a negative vote.
I must have been hallucinating during all those country commission meetings. I only *imagined* hearing, "All in favour, raise your hand... Those opposed, same sign."
640x480 should be enough for anybody!
And we can spell 'fish' as 'ghoti' and get rid of F, too?
You somehow managed to forget, "Certain to be told exactly how you may or may not use their device (Apple)".
You're welcome!
And pray tell what evidence do you have that Samsung are hiding something, other than an insinuation and a lofty "I suggest..."?
Please don't try to insult our intelligence like that. You just make yourself look very partisan and very stupid.
Pretty obvious you have the Google hate-boner thing happening here, as you apparently did a search for "Google" and "bias", then pasted the first 2 results that appeared to bash Google without even reading them.
Otherwise, you'd surely have noticed that they're both really laughably shitty articles that do nothing whatsoever to back you up, right?
Moore's Law has feck-all to do with the decline in PC sales. You're the one with the emotional attachment to it, to the extent that you ignore the highly relevant fact that most people don't care about "faster" any longer, and their needs can already be met by 10-years-old hardware.
You're quite possibly wrong in any event. We might be approaching the limits of what can be done with silicon, but who says we have to use silicon?
I can attest that, when I flew home from Guangzhou after spending Spring Festival with the in-laws, nobody in the security screening or Customs at Baiyun tried to take away my several very fat hongbao, which very obviously held a lot more cash than one is supposed to be able to take out of the country legally.
What the Chinese authorities *are* worried about these days are the corrupt businessmen and Party officials smuggling stuff like tens of millions of yuan in cash, gold bars, diamonds, and so forth out of the country, and mainlanders looking to make a quick profit trying to smuggle items that are cheaper in Hong Kong or Macao back to the mainland. At the HK-mainland border, Hong Kongers and foreigners practically get waved through, but the mainlanders tend to receive the fine-toothed comb treatment going both ways.
I have a bog-standard Swedish keyboard, yet it's no trouble for me to write text in English, Spanish, German, French, or any just about other language that uses Latin characters, with no need to change the layout. Am I holding it wrong?
I'd say that people need to type Z a lot less than they do J.
All the Troll mods that I and quite a few others have been collecting lately for being critical of Trump would like to have a word with you.
I note especially any posts pointing out various (and patently obvious) Trump-Putin connections/parallels get modbombed almost instantly.
If there's one thing the Chief Executive should *not* be, it's capricious.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
This is why those of us who remember how Hitler and Mussolini rose to power are so completely dumbfounded that anyone would consider voting for Trump.
If that's true, then you must be very happy that The Donald was willing to help out.
(You do realise that he's a contributor, don't you?)
"Innocent until proven guilty." "Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." They are not just noises, or squiggles on paper. They mean something.
It's *criminal* negligence that is indictable. To make it criminal and then make it stick in court, you must show *intent* to be so negligent as to break the law. Yes, intent does matter, and it's that sort of intent of which no evidence that had any chance of convincing a jury beyond any reasonable doubt was found. Let me restate that so you don't miss it: The director of the FBI said no evidence was found that met that legal standard which, said another way, is "If there is any room for reasonable doubt, you must not convict".
And, yes, it's very likely that the head of the US' national police agency is a lot more qualified to make that call than you are.
It seems like the dems are setting the stage to claim "hacked!" if Trump wins as a way of invalidating the election.
I thought y'all were claiming that Hil's gonna fix the election in her favour. Can y'all not get your stories straight?
'Tis said, The best defence is a good offence.
Sounds more like, "The US government should just stand by and let foreign powers fuck with American people or organisations that I happen not to like, especially Democrats."
This exactly what the AC was talking about--folks trying to be clever instead of seeing what should be obvious.
Secondly, they can't release 'propaganda' if the DNC wasn't doing shady shit in the first place.
Say what? Your naïveté is touching, but apparently you've never heard of Richelieu, so let me impart a little wisdom to you:
Give me a 2-minute tape recording of yourself talking. It can be about anything--your dog, your grandmother, the weather. Absolutely does not matter.
Now give me an hour, a razor blade, and a roll of sticky tape. I can have you saying that you worship Baal, want to fuck Hitler, plan to assassinate the governor of your state, or any damn thing I want. And that was 20 years ago--nowadays I could do it digitally in half that time.
Hope you feel a little smarter now.
Rules for the what? You seem to have accidentally a word.
I don't use any Apple gear at all, myself--my stuff all runs Linux or Android, no walled garden for me, thanks.
All I know is that the number of times I've had to play support person for her since she made the switch has dropped from an average of 1-2x/day to... zero.
YMMV. But 13 months later, I'm quite satisfied it was the right thing for her. (And me.)