Or does their jurisdiction actually extend to other countries now?
As far as they believe, yes. Their current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are only the latest examples of their quest in fulfilling their roles as self-appointed World Police.
I think if you look around, instances where the US respected the sovereignty of a foreign power are much scarcer than the opposite, and all with an ulterior motive.
Wouldn't you want law enforcement to investigate something like this? Whether he was prosecuted or not would be a different question, but if something looks sexually explicit towards children, then isn't that to be investigated?
No. I'd want it investigated by the school, and proper measures taken by them (refusing to hire the guy again, perhaps sue him for breach of contract if such a thing existed in the first place, etc). But the moment you involve law enforcement around something like this, and particularly when you start putting people in *jail* is the moment you step outside the realms of reason and right into what's commonly known as "zealous overreaction".
I'm pretty sure that faking a rape on you tube would also get the police involved. It's just not a smart thing to do.
Yeah, because it's rape. Which is actually a serious problem, unlike singing songs with "dirty" words on it.
He got in trouble because he had the stupid idea to upload a video that makes it look like he was abusing children.
Stating that using "dirty" words in front of children constitutes an abuse of them is a huge disrespect to any children who's been a victim of actual abuse.
Attrocious pun aside, by that logic it should be called "Software Libre", to follow Spanish grammar rules rather than those of English, given that "libre" isn't an english word to begin with.
Try figuring out which red goes into which socket sometime. it sucks.
Not really, you just need to read either the instructions on the manual, or the labels on the devices themselves. It's not *completely* intuitive, granted, but it ain't too bad and certainly not even close to the nightmares of digital IO's DRM.
Digital IO DRM is so harmless and so pointless it's not even worth batting an eye at.
Huh. Guess you should've told that to this guy, then.
That's because there are some Slashdotters that support copyright infringement, which are mostly worried about the RIAA et al and so spend their time and modpoints in such discussions, not caring much for Linux, programming or such, and there are other Slashdotters that strongly favor Free Software, its ideals and objectives, which are generally against copyright infringement(*) but also against the way the RIAA et al go about fighting it and so prefer to just read rather than actively participate in RIAA-related discussions.
(*) It's not just about protecting the GPL, btw: regardless of what you may believe about its "wonderful" interface, hardly anybody will pay $699 for Photoshop when The GIMP and Paint.NET are free.
As the GPL shows, no, not even then. Give them away for free but requiring them to share it in turn with others, and people will casually "forget" about all this sharing thing. Give them away for free but only require a small mention, and people will try to claim it as their own work. Give them away, no strings attached and somebody, invariably, will try to attach some strings of his own without anyone else's permission.
The GP is probably basing his judgement on factors not directly related to speed, like usage caps and price per month. But then, that list looks like it's been made based on the advertised rate which, as TFA shows, can be not entirely accurate for normal usage scenarios.
And you may want to look up "argumentum ad populum".
Again, just because it's popular doesn't mean it's more than a toy for people with more money than common sense, don't let buyers' remorse carry you that far.
I'd be happier if they were listening to Classical, for the same reasons I'd be happier if all those iPad consumers were buying an Android device instead: I'd like people to reward quality rather than marketing.
Alas, it is not to be, so I shall continue to dismiss both Bieber and the iPad as marketing fads that cater to those with more money than common sense, as the OP.
The worst thing might be that the nascent tablet platform gets written-off as a high-priced niche for people with more money than sense.
You mean, again?
I mean, the whole reason the iPad revitalized (yes, revitalized, not created) the tablet market was that it cost less than $1k at launch, something previously unheard of in a market where $2k computers were the norm.
Problem is, stupid people don't rely on logic. Consider the fact that it's been proven that using a cellphone while driving drastically increases your chances of an accident, and then the fact that the morons *still* do it in spite of all the drawbacks of a car accident you mentioned.
Besides, public executions would serve a secondary purpose other than the death of the alleged idiot: by virtue of being public, it'd be a very *embarrassing* death. Keeping in mind that even heavily depressed people with suicidal tendencies try to kill themselves in a discreet way that preserves their corpse's appearance such as sleeping pills rather than blowing themselves up with a propane tank or the like, the threat of embarrassment isn't as trivial as one would think consider one's inmediate death.
Not that I'd support killing dumbasses just for being dumb (though banning them for life from ever driving a motorized vehicle would be a decent, realistic alternative), but public executions do have a certain logic behind them.
The same way you know a software download website is legit: word-of-mouth, user reviews, past experiences, the trust of other websites you already trusted beforehand and so on.
You know, the same way you got to trust Our Holiness Stevie in the first place, as I doubt you were his classmate in high school or such.
Because there's nothing preventing another trusted store to open up, as it happened with Palm, Java-capable dumbphones and hell, even desktops PCs. With Apple, it's their way or the highway and if you don't like it too bad so sad, now try to find a security bug to exploit so you can gain control of your own goddamned phone.
Sorry, but no. Microsoft, like most other companies, will sometimes do things that are in our benefit and sometimes will do things that are not, and treating their beneficial actions with complete paranoia is as stupid as treating these kind of developments with open approval so no, you're still a nutjob, sorry.
The most frustrating part of this is that Watchmen was actually *good*.
Well, yeah. The way I see it however, if not even Watchmen did well enough to satisfy the studios then R-rated fantasy movies never had a future to begin with.
I can't remember who was it, but there was an author who said that, past a certain point of popularity, all editors did was to rubber-stamp anything you sent them because the potential cost of losing their star author to the publishing house was far greater than the potential gains of having a better book out there. Compare and contrast with both Star Wars trilogies, and George Lucas' respective fame when making them.
No, it's more like someone tells you your neighbor has a machine gun and may threaten you with it, so you go that night and wreck his house with a sledgehammer then try to claim it was 'self defense'.
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And Microsoft Word documents. Sadly, in spite of that, we still use HTML instead.
Or does their jurisdiction actually extend to other countries now?
As far as they believe, yes. Their current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are only the latest examples of their quest in fulfilling their roles as self-appointed World Police.
I think if you look around, instances where the US respected the sovereignty of a foreign power are much scarcer than the opposite, and all with an ulterior motive.
Wouldn't you want law enforcement to investigate something like this? Whether he was prosecuted or not would be a different question, but if something looks sexually explicit towards children, then isn't that to be investigated?
No. I'd want it investigated by the school, and proper measures taken by them (refusing to hire the guy again, perhaps sue him for breach of contract if such a thing existed in the first place, etc). But the moment you involve law enforcement around something like this, and particularly when you start putting people in *jail* is the moment you step outside the realms of reason and right into what's commonly known as "zealous overreaction".
I'm pretty sure that faking a rape on you tube would also get the police involved. It's just not a smart thing to do.
Yeah, because it's rape. Which is actually a serious problem, unlike singing songs with "dirty" words on it.
He got in trouble because he had the stupid idea to upload a video that makes it look like he was abusing children.
Stating that using "dirty" words in front of children constitutes an abuse of them is a huge disrespect to any children who's been a victim of actual abuse.
Attrocious pun aside, by that logic it should be called "Software Libre", to follow Spanish grammar rules rather than those of English, given that "libre" isn't an english word to begin with.
Try figuring out which red goes into which socket sometime. it sucks.
Not really, you just need to read either the instructions on the manual, or the labels on the devices themselves. It's not *completely* intuitive, granted, but it ain't too bad and certainly not even close to the nightmares of digital IO's DRM.
Digital IO DRM is so harmless and so pointless it's not even worth batting an eye at.
Huh. Guess you should've told that to this guy, then.
Because they Just Work(tm).
To be fair, so would digital IO were it designed rationally instead of being utterly crippled with DRM due to the MAFIAA's paranoia.
That's because there are some Slashdotters that support copyright infringement, which are mostly worried about the RIAA et al and so spend their time and modpoints in such discussions, not caring much for Linux, programming or such, and there are other Slashdotters that strongly favor Free Software, its ideals and objectives, which are generally against copyright infringement(*) but also against the way the RIAA et al go about fighting it and so prefer to just read rather than actively participate in RIAA-related discussions.
(*) It's not just about protecting the GPL, btw: regardless of what you may believe about its "wonderful" interface, hardly anybody will pay $699 for Photoshop when The GIMP and Paint.NET are free.
As the GPL shows, no, not even then. Give them away for free but requiring them to share it in turn with others, and people will casually "forget" about all this sharing thing. Give them away for free but only require a small mention, and people will try to claim it as their own work. Give them away, no strings attached and somebody, invariably, will try to attach some strings of his own without anyone else's permission.
People are just funny that way.
The GP is probably basing his judgement on factors not directly related to speed, like usage caps and price per month. But then, that list looks like it's been made based on the advertised rate which, as TFA shows, can be not entirely accurate for normal usage scenarios.
Not really, but the existence of the data itself is.
And you may want to look up "argumentum ad populum".
Again, just because it's popular doesn't mean it's more than a toy for people with more money than common sense, don't let buyers' remorse carry you that far.
I'd be happier if they were listening to Classical, for the same reasons I'd be happier if all those iPad consumers were buying an Android device instead: I'd like people to reward quality rather than marketing.
Alas, it is not to be, so I shall continue to dismiss both Bieber and the iPad as marketing fads that cater to those with more money than common sense, as the OP.
The worst thing might be that the nascent tablet platform gets written-off as a high-priced niche for people with more money than sense.
You mean, again?
I mean, the whole reason the iPad revitalized (yes, revitalized, not created) the tablet market was that it cost less than $1k at launch, something previously unheard of in a market where $2k computers were the norm.
In other news, Justin Bieber's latest album a resounding success, biographical movie expected to make millions worldwide.
Remember the saying "there's a sucker born every minute"? it was made back when birthrates weren't nearly as high as they are today.
Yeah, because the sun just randomly appears in the middle of the sky, with no previous warning whatsoever. Riiiight.
Problem is, stupid people don't rely on logic. Consider the fact that it's been proven that using a cellphone while driving drastically increases your chances of an accident, and then the fact that the morons *still* do it in spite of all the drawbacks of a car accident you mentioned.
Besides, public executions would serve a secondary purpose other than the death of the alleged idiot: by virtue of being public, it'd be a very *embarrassing* death. Keeping in mind that even heavily depressed people with suicidal tendencies try to kill themselves in a discreet way that preserves their corpse's appearance such as sleeping pills rather than blowing themselves up with a propane tank or the like, the threat of embarrassment isn't as trivial as one would think consider one's inmediate death.
Not that I'd support killing dumbasses just for being dumb (though banning them for life from ever driving a motorized vehicle would be a decent, realistic alternative), but public executions do have a certain logic behind them.
And you guys wonder why Apple gets such a large marketshare...
What large marketshare?
The same way you know a software download website is legit: word-of-mouth, user reviews, past experiences, the trust of other websites you already trusted beforehand and so on.
You know, the same way you got to trust Our Holiness Stevie in the first place, as I doubt you were his classmate in high school or such.
Because there's nothing preventing another trusted store to open up, as it happened with Palm, Java-capable dumbphones and hell, even desktops PCs. With Apple, it's their way or the highway and if you don't like it too bad so sad, now try to find a security bug to exploit so you can gain control of your own goddamned phone.
Sorry, but no. Microsoft, like most other companies, will sometimes do things that are in our benefit and sometimes will do things that are not, and treating their beneficial actions with complete paranoia is as stupid as treating these kind of developments with open approval so no, you're still a nutjob, sorry.
The most frustrating part of this is that Watchmen was actually *good*.
Well, yeah. The way I see it however, if not even Watchmen did well enough to satisfy the studios then R-rated fantasy movies never had a future to begin with.
Actually no, it still sucks, dead-tree editions are the ones that are looking attractive right now.
I can't remember who was it, but there was an author who said that, past a certain point of popularity, all editors did was to rubber-stamp anything you sent them because the potential cost of losing their star author to the publishing house was far greater than the potential gains of having a better book out there. Compare and contrast with both Star Wars trilogies, and George Lucas' respective fame when making them.
No, it's more like someone tells you your neighbor has a machine gun and may threaten you with it, so you go that night and wreck his house with a sledgehammer then try to claim it was 'self defense'.