I know you think you're protecting your rights, but it doesn't mean you aren't facilitating trafficking meth, heroin or the next big thing in soma-jolting chemistry when you advocate for an untappable form of communication.
Or facilitating free speech in places where saying the wrong thing leads to torture and imprisonment or worse. There will always be illegal things, but the greater right to free secure speech, I believe, takes precedence over stopping drugs / child porn / cause of the decade.
Your right to privacy is actually a proscription against unreasonable use of governmental power. It's not absolute, and it's not guaranteed the 'evil corporation' we all like to whine and bitch about shouldn't be subject to compliance for such measures as reasonable surveillance.
I don't like assuming that there's an unfriendly, obtrusive ear, eye or nose pressed to my privates either, but there are bigger evils out there than the DEA.
So you're of the opinion that if one has done nothing wrong, one has nothing to hide. How can you enjoy your bread and circuses when your head is buried in the sand?
Microsoft seems to be tied to the Windows brand when it is not appropriate and even harmful to the prospects of a product. Would you buy a Microsoft Windows Xbox?
Windows RT brought to mind all the negatives of the Windows brand: viruses, instability, insecurity. Yet the Windows RT name here, as DigitAl56K noted above, did not include the brand positives: Familiar UI, existing software and games.
Coming up with a new product name is difficult, especially for a global company. Using the existing brand plus two random-to-consumers letters was a wimp-out that added nothing to differentiate this radical departure from the rest of the Windows brand.
Let's also not forget the bad old days when ThinkPads had twice as many screws and screw lengths as Dell laptops had, making servicing them a major pain. Putting in a too-long screw in the wrong place risked damage to the motherboard.
That being said, PC makers really do a poor job of marketing what their premium offerings are, and what's a value offering. Outside of Apple, which is almost exclusively premium, no one gets this. Dell didn't with Alienware, HP didn't with VoodooPC, and now Lenovo doesn't get it with ThinkPad. While the exact target of each brand is different in these 3 examples, all are upmarket items.
There has been a significant trend in America that punishment is intended not to provide a reasonable deterrent to crime, but to set an example to keep the rest in line. The higher the possible sentence, the more likely it is for the defendant to plead down to something, or be turned against another defendant in exchange for immunity. All of this is intended to save the prosecutor the hassle of making his case in court.
Eric Holder is promoting a legal version of the Tarkin Doctrine.
Would you prefer corporate hit men bumping off young inventors to protect their company's standing?
What I don't understand is how patent trolling promotes anything. Nor how life+decades are limited times.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
We should encourage the use of longer passphrases rather than passwords and eliminate or raise limits on their length. It's much easier to remember a sentence than a string of random characters.
Too many banks in the US also have limits on both user names and passwords.:(
Massachusetts has had a recent history of spoiler candidates (think Ross Perot in '92 nationally), with several Republicans losing because 3rd party candidates siphoned away votes. Deval Patrick has won election to the governorship twice thanks to both Christy Mihos and Tim Cahill appealing to voters who would otherwise potentially go Republican. With so many other Democratically-held positions going unchallenged, why are you running in one of the few races where a moderate Republican can win?
To give an example of the lack of coordination in American government, my hometown has a large former quarry/sandpit which would be ideal for office space. We have Boston's big ring highway and the highway up to New Hampshire starts here. Instead, the town is allowing single family homes with "traffic calming" (read:causing) planning to be dropped into the middle of the space. I think we plan the roads based on the wiggling of worms.
The State tries to make Boston's waterfront more attractive with tax breaks, which will backup the highways even more. And since we've burnt so much highway money on the Big Dig, there's none left to fix obvious bottlenecks. For example, we have a 4 lane highway connected to another 4 lane highway by a single 20MPH ramp. If there is a master plan, it is to screw everything up.
Both my last shipments from Amazon and NewEgg were all cardboard and brown paper, save items they get in plastic bubbles from the manufacturer. So it is mostly recyclable. Now if apartment complexes had to recycle like the local homeowners do, that would help.
Really, what is my State Attorney General's office going to do to help with something out of state? Chuckle and say "contact the AG in that state" probably. So why should I be paying sales tax?
And on top of that there are also local taxes, some of which cannot be calculated by ZIP code. So there is additional cost for these online stores to deal with because the government doesn't feel its current taxation methods are sufficient.
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How to spell? :P
Americans generally do not want to do STEM degrees, which many other cultures value more highly than we do.
Is this just a tribute or leftover from Firefox's previous life as Netscape Navigator? It seems they were the first browser to include blink.
I know you think you're protecting your rights, but it doesn't mean you aren't facilitating trafficking meth, heroin or the next big thing in soma-jolting chemistry when you advocate for an untappable form of communication.
Or facilitating free speech in places where saying the wrong thing leads to torture and imprisonment or worse. There will always be illegal things, but the greater right to free secure speech, I believe, takes precedence over stopping drugs / child porn / cause of the decade.
Your right to privacy is actually a proscription against unreasonable use of governmental power. It's not absolute, and it's not guaranteed the 'evil corporation' we all like to whine and bitch about shouldn't be subject to compliance for such measures as reasonable surveillance.
You means the government that retroactively gives itself powers to invade our rights? There's not much checks-and-balances going on in America.
I don't like assuming that there's an unfriendly, obtrusive ear, eye or nose pressed to my privates either, but there are bigger evils out there than the DEA.
So you're of the opinion that if one has done nothing wrong, one has nothing to hide. How can you enjoy your bread and circuses when your head is buried in the sand?
A security hole left open for the good guys is also a security hole left open for the bad guys.
Microsoft seems to be tied to the Windows brand when it is not appropriate and even harmful to the prospects of a product. Would you buy a Microsoft Windows Xbox?
Windows RT brought to mind all the negatives of the Windows brand: viruses, instability, insecurity.
Yet the Windows RT name here, as DigitAl56K noted above, did not include the brand positives: Familiar UI, existing software and games.
Coming up with a new product name is difficult, especially for a global company. Using the existing brand plus two random-to-consumers letters was a wimp-out that added nothing to differentiate this radical departure from the rest of the Windows brand.
Let's also not forget the bad old days when ThinkPads had twice as many screws and screw lengths as Dell laptops had, making servicing them a major pain. Putting in a too-long screw in the wrong place risked damage to the motherboard.
That being said, PC makers really do a poor job of marketing what their premium offerings are, and what's a value offering. Outside of Apple, which is almost exclusively premium, no one gets this. Dell didn't with Alienware, HP didn't with VoodooPC, and now Lenovo doesn't get it with ThinkPad. While the exact target of each brand is different in these 3 examples, all are upmarket items.
There has been a significant trend in America that punishment is intended not to provide a reasonable deterrent to crime, but to set an example to keep the rest in line. The higher the possible sentence, the more likely it is for the defendant to plead down to something, or be turned against another defendant in exchange for immunity. All of this is intended to save the prosecutor the hassle of making his case in court.
Eric Holder is promoting a legal version of the Tarkin Doctrine.
Personally economic, perhaps not. But nationally economic, children are essential, as we need a certain level of birthrate.
Would you prefer corporate hit men bumping off young inventors to protect their company's standing?
What I don't understand is how patent trolling promotes anything. Nor how life+decades are limited times.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
We should encourage the use of longer passphrases rather than passwords and eliminate or raise limits on their length. It's much easier to remember a sentence than a string of random characters.
Too many banks in the US also have limits on both user names and passwords. :(
Will we get Timothy Zahn's excellent Thrawn trilogy on screen, complete with new faces on existing roles? Or something else entirely?
You mean the current political framework that gives us two options, both of which are shockingly similar?
Don't you mean Nokia?
If RIM had adopted Android, what would differentiate them from any Android phone with a Qwerty keyboard?
"Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao
It also uses file name/path blacklisting, something it seems most major AVs do not.
...when you're already looking at a screen to play the game.
The problem is neither, it is cultural. The rankings they are using seem to correlate with the emphasis each group places on education.
Now if we can get new versions of X-Wing and TIE Fighter to go with it.
That sound over your head wasn't someone jumping down at the speed of light.
Massachusetts has had a recent history of spoiler candidates (think Ross Perot in '92 nationally), with several Republicans losing because 3rd party candidates siphoned away votes. Deval Patrick has won election to the governorship twice thanks to both Christy Mihos and Tim Cahill appealing to voters who would otherwise potentially go Republican. With so many other Democratically-held positions going unchallenged, why are you running in one of the few races where a moderate Republican can win?
To give an example of the lack of coordination in American government, my hometown has a large former quarry/sandpit which would be ideal for office space. We have Boston's big ring highway and the highway up to New Hampshire starts here. Instead, the town is allowing single family homes with "traffic calming" (read:causing) planning to be dropped into the middle of the space. I think we plan the roads based on the wiggling of worms.
The State tries to make Boston's waterfront more attractive with tax breaks, which will backup the highways even more. And since we've burnt so much highway money on the Big Dig, there's none left to fix obvious bottlenecks. For example, we have a 4 lane highway connected to another 4 lane highway by a single 20MPH ramp. If there is a master plan, it is to screw everything up.
And her mother lived to over 100. Poor Charles.
You don't have any systems with more than 4GB of RAM?
Both my last shipments from Amazon and NewEgg were all cardboard and brown paper, save items they get in plastic bubbles from the manufacturer. So it is mostly recyclable. Now if apartment complexes had to recycle like the local homeowners do, that would help.
Why is this a troll?
Really, what is my State Attorney General's office going to do to help with something out of state? Chuckle and say "contact the AG in that state" probably. So why should I be paying sales tax?
And on top of that there are also local taxes, some of which cannot be calculated by ZIP code. So there is additional cost for these online stores to deal with because the government doesn't feel its current taxation methods are sufficient.