Both my camera and palmtop use CF type II cards (can accept type I, but I only have a type II card). Both are very old though (The palmtop runs Windows CE 2.0, the camera was state-of-the-art with 1.5 megapixels).
I don't think the EU could do that with current trade agreements. If that happened I think the US would start ignoring EU copyrights and such, and the **AA's would go apeshit.
The "average" user never installs windows at all and would probably kill themselves if they had to.
This is half the point. An average user HAS to install linux, or have a relative/worker install it for them. Windows comes on systems, and people don't kill themselves for if for some reason a person needs to reinstall it they almost always have tech support readily available from their PC manufacturer or company they work for. And while Ubuntu is extremely easy to use, I still think Windows is much more newbie friendly (but I think OS X is even more so then Windows). I think if one wants to push linux for newbies you really need some sort of tutorial accessible from the desktop, with it painfully easy to understand how to run it (like how windows does the "Click here to explore Windows XP" or Apple does with the 4 buttons on their desktop in the Apple Stores).
As I recall Canada hasn't been an option for escape for at least a decade (they return Americans now). Britain has lost more freedom then us, France has too much unrest, and I'm not about to move to Eastern Europe. So the free world is made up of what exactly? Most of South America is out, so it seems we have maybe Russia, a smattering throughout Western Europe, and small assorted islands.
american aerospace
contractors are never given preferential treatment over foreign
ones in government contracts
What aerospace contracts are not considered to have some military function or some level of secrecy? Personally I don't want the government to export anything regarding security or secrecy,
That is almost exactly what I was thinking. If Microsoft pulls out of the EU it will be a matter of replacing jobs and making facilities somewhere else, I highly doubt they would lose the market. The EU would only be able to try to embargo or ban their product, which would be next to impossible I would think.
It's kind of hard to split a company that shut down. If they shut down in Europe the EU would not be able to enforce laws on the America's side of the pond.
Trying to avoid a punishment by the courts does not work, because the courts have all the power in their jurisdiction.
This is exactly how companies avoid punishment, same way people fleeing to other states or Mexico, they leave the jurisdiction of the courts. It works very well.
Linux is hard for most people. I was able to pick it up fairly fast because I had a few years of DOS experience (3.0 and later 6.22) along with using computers before mice or joysticks were common. Many of my peers didn't start using computers until Windows 95 was out. To me it was switching from DOS commands to Unix commands (which was easy since I'd forgotten most my DOS commands). For the average user it is ALL completely new, many times even the concepts involved. Now an average user may be able to use Ubuntu or Lindows fine, but I highly doubt they would be able to install them, install programs, or set up a printer without some help or a week of lessons.
Even the New York Times, which is usually as unbiased as the BBC
So are you saying the BBC is incredibly biased, or are you just destroying your own point? Don't get me wrong, NYT and a local paper are the only newspapers I read in paper form, and I prefer the NYT to any other national paper, but I would claim the world is flat before I claim the NYT is unbiased.
How did this get modded +5 insightful? How does ID have any less substance then Plato's unmoved mover? I don't know what philosophy class you had, but barely any of the philosopher's I looked at had any "substance" to them.
And if the majority of people in the district are illiterate peasants who only want their children to learn to grow crops, what then?
Then teach them how to better grow crops. If such a community exists all the kids will be pulled out of the school as soon as possible to grow crops, unless the parents see school as making life more beneficial for their kids (which in many cases they didn't, most times rightfully so). This used to an issue in my area with many kids dropping out of school at 16 (state law required attendance until then) then working at the family farm. The school's answer to this was to make a vocational technology school, once kids had the option of machine repair and agricultural science classes they stayed in school longer and picked up skills that could improve their life, while at the same time the school requirements ensured they had a fairly well rounded liberal arts education. Educators can both "pander to the masses" and raise the level of education, infact that is what they should do.
What type of education couldn't be considered brainwashing? How is this any more detrimental or abusive then teaching "Core American Values" or other such lessons that our taught in homes and public schools?
No, this is Slashdot, slashdot wouldn't report about the pryamids, but when geeks make them it is instant front page (see also: Great Wall of China and Great Firewall of China).
The American people are too stupid and too uninterested in politics to do anything about it.
More like the American people don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. American has a history of isolationism, now that we have been forced into the global market we are still going to be as isolationist as possible, so that translates to only caring about Americans.
AND WE LOVED IT That part totally made my day. On a side note I can't believe someone modded me a troll, how am I trolling, but anyways thanks for your comment, it got a laugh out of me.
Now the real question is can we wage battles (not declaring war) and take out strategic military targets over cyberspace. And since there is no overseas troop movements does this mean we can wage such a war without notifying congress, and the American people?
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Both my camera and palmtop use CF type II cards (can accept type I, but I only have a type II card). Both are very old though (The palmtop runs Windows CE 2.0, the camera was state-of-the-art with 1.5 megapixels).
I don't think the EU could do that with current trade agreements. If that happened I think the US would start ignoring EU copyrights and such, and the **AA's would go apeshit.
The "average" user never installs windows at all and would probably kill themselves if they had to.
This is half the point. An average user HAS to install linux, or have a relative/worker install it for them. Windows comes on systems, and people don't kill themselves for if for some reason a person needs to reinstall it they almost always have tech support readily available from their PC manufacturer or company they work for. And while Ubuntu is extremely easy to use, I still think Windows is much more newbie friendly (but I think OS X is even more so then Windows). I think if one wants to push linux for newbies you really need some sort of tutorial accessible from the desktop, with it painfully easy to understand how to run it (like how windows does the "Click here to explore Windows XP" or Apple does with the 4 buttons on their desktop in the Apple Stores).
Europe, Canada and the rest of the free world
As I recall Canada hasn't been an option for escape for at least a decade (they return Americans now). Britain has lost more freedom then us, France has too much unrest, and I'm not about to move to Eastern Europe. So the free world is made up of what exactly? Most of South America is out, so it seems we have maybe Russia, a smattering throughout Western Europe, and small assorted islands.
american aerospace contractors are never given preferential treatment over foreign ones in government contracts
What aerospace contracts are not considered to have some military function or some level of secrecy? Personally I don't want the government to export anything regarding security or secrecy,
That is almost exactly what I was thinking. If Microsoft pulls out of the EU it will be a matter of replacing jobs and making facilities somewhere else, I highly doubt they would lose the market. The EU would only be able to try to embargo or ban their product, which would be next to impossible I would think.
EU would order the company split up immediately
It's kind of hard to split a company that shut down. If they shut down in Europe the EU would not be able to enforce laws on the America's side of the pond.
Trying to avoid a punishment by the courts does not work, because the courts have all the power in their jurisdiction.
This is exactly how companies avoid punishment, same way people fleeing to other states or Mexico, they leave the jurisdiction of the courts. It works very well.
Linux is hard for most people. I was able to pick it up fairly fast because I had a few years of DOS experience (3.0 and later 6.22) along with using computers before mice or joysticks were common. Many of my peers didn't start using computers until Windows 95 was out. To me it was switching from DOS commands to Unix commands (which was easy since I'd forgotten most my DOS commands). For the average user it is ALL completely new, many times even the concepts involved. Now an average user may be able to use Ubuntu or Lindows fine, but I highly doubt they would be able to install them, install programs, or set up a printer without some help or a week of lessons.
What, I have to wait until next week?
I know this is slashdot, but you don't have to rub in how much faster your state-of-the-art processor is then mine. I'll have to wait until next YEAR!
Even the New York Times, which is usually as unbiased as the BBC
So are you saying the BBC is incredibly biased, or are you just destroying your own point? Don't get me wrong, NYT and a local paper are the only newspapers I read in paper form, and I prefer the NYT to any other national paper, but I would claim the world is flat before I claim the NYT is unbiased.
That sounds like an epistemology class (epistemology is the study of knowledge).
How did this get modded +5 insightful? How does ID have any less substance then Plato's unmoved mover? I don't know what philosophy class you had, but barely any of the philosopher's I looked at had any "substance" to them.
And if the majority of people in the district are illiterate peasants who only want their children to learn to grow crops, what then?
Then teach them how to better grow crops. If such a community exists all the kids will be pulled out of the school as soon as possible to grow crops, unless the parents see school as making life more beneficial for their kids (which in many cases they didn't, most times rightfully so). This used to an issue in my area with many kids dropping out of school at 16 (state law required attendance until then) then working at the family farm. The school's answer to this was to make a vocational technology school, once kids had the option of machine repair and agricultural science classes they stayed in school longer and picked up skills that could improve their life, while at the same time the school requirements ensured they had a fairly well rounded liberal arts education. Educators can both "pander to the masses" and raise the level of education, infact that is what they should do.
What type of education couldn't be considered brainwashing? How is this any more detrimental or abusive then teaching "Core American Values" or other such lessons that our taught in homes and public schools?
/didn't read the article, as it's not good Slashdot form to do so.
It's okay to read the article after you post. Just be sure not to read it before you post, especially if you know nothing of the subject.
Wouldn't that be a spelling tip and not a grammar tip?
That's in civil cases. In criminal cases the burden of proof is still on the state.
No, this is Slashdot, slashdot wouldn't report about the pryamids, but when geeks make them it is instant front page (see also: Great Wall of China and Great Firewall of China).
If not v1agra then I'm sure it will be interested in giving me a bank account number so I can get some of my vast forture out of Nigeria.
Oh, and Bill^H^Hg Brother
Dude, I hope you know the black helicopters are on there way to reconfigure your unix box and reconfigure you. Hope you like the Miniluv.
The American people are too stupid and too uninterested in politics to do anything about it.
More like the American people don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. American has a history of isolationism, now that we have been forced into the global market we are still going to be as isolationist as possible, so that translates to only caring about Americans.
I think you mean sin.
AND WE LOVED IT
That part totally made my day. On a side note I can't believe someone modded me a troll, how am I trolling, but anyways thanks for your comment, it got a laugh out of me.
He could have been going for 31173 (elite) and just missed the last 3, judging by the UID he was probably around before it was shortened.
Now the real question is can we wage battles (not declaring war) and take out strategic military targets over cyberspace. And since there is no overseas troop movements does this mean we can wage such a war without notifying congress, and the American people?