Hmm. That gives me a thought. A lot of times when I want to authorize a Netflix application I’m presented with the URL and an authentication code. That would be a backdoor way around advertising your website correct?
I am unaware of the legal parameters of Apple tax, so this question could already be answered, but what about apps that are free to download in the App Store that require you to login with your credentials? Like pandora or slingTv. If Pandora does their own billing externally, Apple can’t demand a cut of that can they? If they can that would be very disturbing, because what’s to keep Apple from demanding a cut of my pay since I use an app for my banking software and I pay my bank to hold my money. That would be a loophole that would allow Apple to demand a cut of every bill I pay from my phone. I’m sure those greedy bastards are probably dreaming up a way to pull that off
Actually it sounds like the internet explorer case that microsoft lost, but on steroids. Its significantly more egregious since the app store is the gateway to loading software. At least in windows 98/xp the only means of installing software was to download a zip/exe/cab file and run an installer. That precluded the ability to stifle the customers power to install whatever they wanted. They still lost. With the app store, they can not only tell you what you can and cannot install, but also force the vendors to give them a cut of gross sale regardless how razor thin the profit margin is. I really don’t see how it’s much different then the mob showing up in your business and insisting that you buy their fire insurance.
im taking it back... tired of people taking good words:-)
we slashdotters started the idea of fake news back when Linus Torvalds had to copyright Linux to keep microsoft from running LinuxJournal posing as linux people explaining why windows was a better option. It was a fake site running fake articles.
Oh so i wasnt in Somalia then? Youre a retard. I dont use that word lightly. I have been stuck under the command of some british general more times than you've been on dates. I fucking know when Im told we're now under the joint task force under authority of the united nations.
Next you'll be denying US troops in Kosovo for a NATO led action.
Contributing countries for KFOR btw: Albania - 10 soldiers.... yes thats right, fucking TEN Belgium - 1100 Bulgaria - 11 soldiers.... guess they didnt want to be shown up by the albanians Canada - 1470 Croatia - 20 Czech Republc - 97 Denmark - 308, well we're finnally up to triple digits for an european country contribution Estonia - 122 Findland - 395 France - 7000 (but they showed up with enough white flags for everyone just in case... haha) Germany - 8500 Greece - 1000 Hungary - 223 Italy - 5000 Lithuania - 30 Luxembourg - 23 Montenegro - 2 (Really?!? was someone holding up their hand saying 'were still two men short, i need two men!') Netherlands - 3600 Norway - 2300 Poland - 800 Portugal - 4 (see montenegro) Romania - 62 Russia - 4000 Slovenia - 316 Spain - 1712 Turkey - 752 UAE - 1500 UK - 7000 (a country not much bigger than rhode island contributes 7000 of their elite forces,no wonder they want to Brexit, doing all that heavy lifting) Ukrain - 1300 United States - 19,000
umm someone else already beat me to it. The nato budget. There was no point in repeating it. The US spends more than every other country combined. Its unfortunate you kids today have a dictionary and encyclopedia at your finger tips and are too lazy to even ask google. In my high school years we had to get our asses to a college technical library in order to find a tenth of the shit I look up in the matter of seconds. And that data was often 10 years out of date. Are you always this bad at looking shit up? Eye witness testimony not good enough for you? Me actually having been a UN Peacekeeper MULTIPLE times not direct enough testimony? If you wont accept my testimony why would I believe you'll believe my numbers either. Go use the fingers god gave you and find out in real dollars (not percentages of a countries GDP) how much the US pays in both dollars and manpower compared to every other country. Then you can return with a little crow feathers left in the corner of your mouth. Only a fool would dispute how much the US pays into NATO vs the rest of the world. Its not even remotely up for debate.
was the paper reporting something as fact that turned out to be false? Did they fail to do their own fact checking and instead rely on snopes, who apparently uses the media for their own fact checking? If they tell you something, and repeat it as if it were fact, and they are in the authority to know, then it is most definitely fake. Fake simply means not real. If there was no chip, where the hell did that picture come from? Obviously someone used an image of something else to represent a picture of a microchip. The 10 dollar word for that is an Analogue. It still means copy, not authentic, aka fake.
You really don't get how globalism works do you? It doesn't work that way. You don't get a soft Brexit. You'll get threatened and your country will comply. It simply wont have a choice. A quick withdrawl creates a power vacuum, one that you wont be able to fill before someone else moves in. You claim you dont want a military but its not really a choice. You either use someone elses, and then capitulate to their every demand, or you use your own. Choosing neither means someone else comes in and makes the choice for you, and now someone else makes you capitulate to _their_ demands. Look there is a slow long game of world domination at play here. And you're caught right in the middle of it. Best I can tell its a 3 way battle between a Bear, an Eagle, and a Dragon. The EU really doesn't factor into this at all. In the end one of the 3 is probably going run everything. 10 years ago the Euro was worth 1.5 USD. Now its right on par. Remember that whole Greece thing that has german citizens really pissed off, and rightly so? One bank, Goldman Sachs, bet against Greece, the credit rating goes to crap and boom, economic turmoil. That wasnt an accident, that was someone saying 'play ball or else'. Meanwhile germany has to pick up the slack, the hard working ass germans who work 6 days a week are bailing out a country that barely worked 4 days a week with insane vacation time. Is Greece still working at half the time of germany? That cant be fun.
As a libertarian, I want you to have a strong defense. I want you to be independent and not need help. But the reality is you still do. Its terribly unfortunate because it makes you beholden and I hate that for you. Too many there don't want to do what is necessary to preserve your way of life. Its ugly, its messy, and not many have the resolve for it. It is also very much a necessity. But such things are very expensive and when you do pay for them, well then maybe you'll understand our difficulty in getting some of the same things we want for ourselves that you enjoy by specifically not having to pay for a defense. I'm sick of being the police for the entire world. I hate being part of anything the UN does globally. I hated going into Somalia. I hate having to guard oil Tankers just so some other country can cut supply in order to increase profits. As a libertarian I believe its everyone right to fuck their life up however they see fit. So naturally I am verymuch NOT a globalist, which pretty much makes me a nationalist by default. There is no inbetween here. Either your against Globalism, or you are for it. Globalism is unchecked more than unregulated capitolism. Its going to go down just like in Highlander, there can be only 1. It might take another 100 years, it might happen in as little as 10, but as long as globalism pushes its way forward, world domination is only a few steps behind it.
thank you for making my point. In the world of life it boils down to 3 things, the whores, the pimps, and the paying client. At some point you eventually wish to stop being the whore and either become a pimp or become the paying client. Some way or another you're always one of the three, sometimes your a whore about one thing and a pimp about another. Whores, Pimps, and Johns my friend; whores, pimps, and Johns.
So when the guy with the credit card is funding the party, its prettymuch his call on which bars you hit and whose balloons get bought right? Thats generally how it works.
We tried. Your guys begged us not to. Tell your guys to stop begging. Again, stop bitching about nationalism when your clearly against globalism. Nationalism is the opposite of globalism, you do understand how this works right? First you panick when trump wanted to pull out of nato, now your mad that he didnt. Make up your mind
It would be nice if they at least match 1:1 for troop donation. They are almost the same size the United States is it too much to ask for it to be 50-50?
Look up any UN peacekeeper involvement and run the numbers of body contribution. The US foots 80%. Go ahead, look it up, I’m waiting. While you’re at it how about donating as much money as we do to NATO? It cost money to keep the lights running you know, and the EU has just as many fucking billionaires as we do, how about paying an equal share? Is it too much to ask? Maybe then we could afford to fucking send our people to college without making them permanent financial slaves the rest of their life
What about that chip that made the headlines less than a year ago? The one that had supermicro on the defense for quite a bit? Of course you know the NSA spying, but I wouldn’t go as far as to think China is not. We’re talking about the country that thinks it’s their job to pick the next Dalai Lama when it’s not even in their fucking country. The same country that thinks it’s their job to tell the heads of the five major tai chi styles who their next grandmaster heir-apparent is going to be. A country with that level of “control freak“ tendencies will spy on shit just for the sake of spying on shit.
No they probably used Samsung. I have no idea what Merkel uses to spy. If you don’t think that every country spies on every other country regardless if theyre allies or not, then you’re fairly naïve. I don’t get bent out of shape every time I discover that Israel is spying on us. If we want to keep secrets bad enough we can. They seem to do a pretty good job of keeping the leaks out of area 51. If it doesn’t have that level of security, they probably wanted it leaked in the first place. Which does make you wonder, did you find the real information or did you only find what we wanted you to find. It’s all a sick mind game. I would not take any of that personally. I would be more surprised to find out there was somebody that wasn’t being spied on
Nice try. Germany and Russia were allies until Roosevelt and Churchhill got the idea of persuading Germany to doublecross Stalin. With that little tidbit gone, it would’ve been divided 50-50 between them. Well I’m sure Mussolini would’ve gotten a couple hand-me-downs
My guess is you’re from France, the country that sued Yahoo because somebody was able to look up information about the third Reich. Apparently over there if they are recent from the history books it just never happened. But hey what’s a little genocide between neighbors as long as your art museums don’t get destroyed, am I right comrad? When your kids are born do they already have the brown pants and the white flag or does that come later?
If you want to talk bye-bye, you just wait till you have to pay for your own military instead of mooching off the United States. Bye-bye free college. And don’t even start with that you have your own military shit I have been a UN peacekeeper before. The largest country to contribute forces outside of the United States only donates 1200 to 2000 troops. That pales in comparison to the 30,000 troops we have to supply. I would love nothing better than to have to start pulling your weight for you. It’s about time our citizens got free college instead of having to bail your asses out all the time. I doubt you’d understand that since you can’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag, but still. You make no sense, you rail against nationalism, and then cry like a little bitch when you experience globalism. If you want the United States out of your business you should be preaching nationalism dumbass
They spring forward to ‘save’ daylight because otherwise sunrise would be 4:30AM. I dont get why everyone is such a pussy about the whole thing. Try going on a WestPac deployment. We changed times more than 24times in 6mos. Go across the internatiomal date line and see how far off that throws you. Being the navy, they never gave you that extra hour during sleep. It was always lose an hour at night and gain an hour during ships working hours (0600 - 1600). With our current timechanges, If I’m losing an hour of sleep then I just go to bed earlier as of the time had already changed. But it does happen on Sunday so if I’m still tired I sleep in. As long as I get six hours of sleep it doesn’t matter what the clock on the wall really says
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit; It's the only way to be sure.
Hmm. That gives me a thought. A lot of times when I want to authorize a Netflix application I’m presented with the URL and an authentication code. That would be a backdoor way around advertising your website correct?
I am unaware of the legal parameters of Apple tax, so this question could already be answered, but what about apps that are free to download in the App Store that require you to login with your credentials? Like pandora or slingTv. If Pandora does their own billing externally, Apple can’t demand a cut of that can they? If they can that would be very disturbing, because what’s to keep Apple from demanding a cut of my pay since I use an app for my banking software and I pay my bank to hold my money. That would be a loophole that would allow Apple to demand a cut of every bill I pay from my phone. I’m sure those greedy bastards are probably dreaming up a way to pull that off
Actually it sounds like the internet explorer case that microsoft lost, but on steroids. Its significantly more egregious since the app store is the gateway to loading software. At least in windows 98/xp the only means of installing software was to download a zip/exe/cab file and run an installer. That precluded the ability to stifle the customers power to install whatever they wanted. They still lost. With the app store, they can not only tell you what you can and cannot install, but also force the vendors to give them a cut of gross sale regardless how razor thin the profit margin is. I really don’t see how it’s much different then the mob showing up in your business and insisting that you buy their fire insurance.
im taking it back... tired of people taking good words :-)
we slashdotters started the idea of fake news back when Linus Torvalds had to copyright Linux to keep microsoft from running LinuxJournal posing as linux people explaining why windows was a better option. It was a fake site running fake articles.
Somalia WAS UN led... read the damn link i sent!!! You need to try READING
Oh so i wasnt in Somalia then? Youre a retard. I dont use that word lightly. I have been stuck under the command of some british general more times than you've been on dates. I fucking know when Im told we're now under the joint task force under authority of the united nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Next you'll be denying US troops in Kosovo for a NATO led action.
Contributing countries for KFOR btw: .... yes thats right, fucking TEN
Albania - 10 soldiers
Belgium - 1100
Bulgaria - 11 soldiers.... guess they didnt want to be shown up by the albanians
Canada - 1470
Croatia - 20
Czech Republc - 97
Denmark - 308, well we're finnally up to triple digits for an european country contribution
Estonia - 122
Findland - 395
France - 7000 (but they showed up with enough white flags for everyone just in case... haha)
Germany - 8500
Greece - 1000
Hungary - 223
Italy - 5000
Lithuania - 30
Luxembourg - 23
Montenegro - 2 (Really?!? was someone holding up their hand saying 'were still two men short, i need two men!')
Netherlands - 3600
Norway - 2300
Poland - 800
Portugal - 4 (see montenegro)
Romania - 62
Russia - 4000
Slovenia - 316
Spain - 1712
Turkey - 752
UAE - 1500
UK - 7000 (a country not much bigger than rhode island contributes 7000 of their elite forces,no wonder they want to Brexit, doing all that heavy lifting)
Ukrain - 1300
United States - 19,000
umm someone else already beat me to it. The nato budget. There was no point in repeating it. The US spends more than every other country combined. Its unfortunate you kids today have a dictionary and encyclopedia at your finger tips and are too lazy to even ask google. In my high school years we had to get our asses to a college technical library in order to find a tenth of the shit I look up in the matter of seconds. And that data was often 10 years out of date. Are you always this bad at looking shit up? Eye witness testimony not good enough for you? Me actually having been a UN Peacekeeper MULTIPLE times not direct enough testimony? If you wont accept my testimony why would I believe you'll believe my numbers either. Go use the fingers god gave you and find out in real dollars (not percentages of a countries GDP) how much the US pays in both dollars and manpower compared to every other country. Then you can return with a little crow feathers left in the corner of your mouth. Only a fool would dispute how much the US pays into NATO vs the rest of the world. Its not even remotely up for debate.
was the paper reporting something as fact that turned out to be false? Did they fail to do their own fact checking and instead rely on snopes, who apparently uses the media for their own fact checking? If they tell you something, and repeat it as if it were fact, and they are in the authority to know, then it is most definitely fake. Fake simply means not real. If there was no chip, where the hell did that picture come from? Obviously someone used an image of something else to represent a picture of a microchip. The 10 dollar word for that is an Analogue. It still means copy, not authentic, aka fake.
You really don't get how globalism works do you? It doesn't work that way. You don't get a soft Brexit. You'll get threatened and your country will comply. It simply wont have a choice. A quick withdrawl creates a power vacuum, one that you wont be able to fill before someone else moves in. You claim you dont want a military but its not really a choice. You either use someone elses, and then capitulate to their every demand, or you use your own. Choosing neither means someone else comes in and makes the choice for you, and now someone else makes you capitulate to _their_ demands. Look there is a slow long game of world domination at play here. And you're caught right in the middle of it. Best I can tell its a 3 way battle between a Bear, an Eagle, and a Dragon. The EU really doesn't factor into this at all. In the end one of the 3 is probably going run everything. 10 years ago the Euro was worth 1.5 USD. Now its right on par. Remember that whole Greece thing that has german citizens really pissed off, and rightly so? One bank, Goldman Sachs, bet against Greece, the credit rating goes to crap and boom, economic turmoil. That wasnt an accident, that was someone saying 'play ball or else'. Meanwhile germany has to pick up the slack, the hard working ass germans who work 6 days a week are bailing out a country that barely worked 4 days a week with insane vacation time. Is Greece still working at half the time of germany? That cant be fun.
As a libertarian, I want you to have a strong defense. I want you to be independent and not need help. But the reality is you still do. Its terribly unfortunate because it makes you beholden and I hate that for you. Too many there don't want to do what is necessary to preserve your way of life. Its ugly, its messy, and not many have the resolve for it. It is also very much a necessity. But such things are very expensive and when you do pay for them, well then maybe you'll understand our difficulty in getting some of the same things we want for ourselves that you enjoy by specifically not having to pay for a defense. I'm sick of being the police for the entire world. I hate being part of anything the UN does globally. I hated going into Somalia. I hate having to guard oil Tankers just so some other country can cut supply in order to increase profits. As a libertarian I believe its everyone right to fuck their life up however they see fit. So naturally I am verymuch NOT a globalist, which pretty much makes me a nationalist by default. There is no inbetween here. Either your against Globalism, or you are for it. Globalism is unchecked more than unregulated capitolism. Its going to go down just like in Highlander, there can be only 1. It might take another 100 years, it might happen in as little as 10, but as long as globalism pushes its way forward, world domination is only a few steps behind it.
thank you for making my point. In the world of life it boils down to 3 things, the whores, the pimps, and the paying client. At some point you eventually wish to stop being the whore and either become a pimp or become the paying client. Some way or another you're always one of the three, sometimes your a whore about one thing and a pimp about another. Whores, Pimps, and Johns my friend; whores, pimps, and Johns.
It was in every major newspaper. You wouldnt be suggesting that the media is nothing more than *gasp* Fake News would you???
So when the guy with the credit card is funding the party, its prettymuch his call on which bars you hit and whose balloons get bought right? Thats generally how it works.
We tried. Your guys begged us not to. Tell your guys to stop begging. Again, stop bitching about nationalism when your clearly against globalism. Nationalism is the opposite of globalism, you do understand how this works right? First you panick when trump wanted to pull out of nato, now your mad that he didnt. Make up your mind
It would be nice if they at least match 1:1 for troop donation. They are almost the same size the United States is it too much to ask for it to be 50-50?
Look up any UN peacekeeper involvement and run the numbers of body contribution. The US foots 80%. Go ahead, look it up, I’m waiting. While you’re at it how about donating as much money as we do to NATO? It cost money to keep the lights running you know, and the EU has just as many fucking billionaires as we do, how about paying an equal share? Is it too much to ask? Maybe then we could afford to fucking send our people to college without making them permanent financial slaves the rest of their life
Your huwaaaaaaaawie meter is broken, complete redline.
What about that chip that made the headlines less than a year ago? The one that had supermicro on the defense for quite a bit? Of course you know the NSA spying, but I wouldn’t go as far as to think China is not. We’re talking about the country that thinks it’s their job to pick the next Dalai Lama when it’s not even in their fucking country. The same country that thinks it’s their job to tell the heads of the five major tai chi styles who their next grandmaster heir-apparent is going to be. A country with that level of “control freak“ tendencies will spy on shit just for the sake of spying on shit.
No they probably used Samsung. I have no idea what Merkel uses to spy. If you don’t think that every country spies on every other country regardless if theyre allies or not, then you’re fairly naïve. I don’t get bent out of shape every time I discover that Israel is spying on us. If we want to keep secrets bad enough we can. They seem to do a pretty good job of keeping the leaks out of area 51. If it doesn’t have that level of security, they probably wanted it leaked in the first place. Which does make you wonder, did you find the real information or did you only find what we wanted you to find. It’s all a sick mind game. I would not take any of that personally. I would be more surprised to find out there was somebody that wasn’t being spied on
Nice try. Germany and Russia were allies until Roosevelt and Churchhill got the idea of persuading Germany to doublecross Stalin. With that little tidbit gone, it would’ve been divided 50-50 between them. Well I’m sure Mussolini would’ve gotten a couple hand-me-downs
My guess is you’re from France, the country that sued Yahoo because somebody was able to look up information about the third Reich. Apparently over there if they are recent from the history books it just never happened. But hey what’s a little genocide between neighbors as long as your art museums don’t get destroyed, am I right comrad? When your kids are born do they already have the brown pants and the white flag or does that come later?
If you want to talk bye-bye, you just wait till you have to pay for your own military instead of mooching off the United States. Bye-bye free college. And don’t even start with that you have your own military shit I have been a UN peacekeeper before. The largest country to contribute forces outside of the United States only donates 1200 to 2000 troops. That pales in comparison to the 30,000 troops we have to supply. I would love nothing better than to have to start pulling your weight for you. It’s about time our citizens got free college instead of having to bail your asses out all the time. I doubt you’d understand that since you can’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag, but still. You make no sense, you rail against nationalism, and then cry like a little bitch when you experience globalism. If you want the United States out of your business you should be preaching nationalism dumbass
They spring forward to ‘save’ daylight because otherwise sunrise would be 4:30AM. I dont get why everyone is such a pussy about the whole thing. Try going on a WestPac deployment. We changed times more than 24times in 6mos. Go across the internatiomal date line and see how far off that throws you. Being the navy, they never gave you that extra hour during sleep. It was always lose an hour at night and gain an hour during ships working hours (0600 - 1600). With our current timechanges, If I’m losing an hour of sleep then I just go to bed earlier as of the time had already changed. But it does happen on Sunday so if I’m still tired I sleep in. As long as I get six hours of sleep it doesn’t matter what the clock on the wall really says
Ok but isnt forbes strictly a finance site? I dont read forbes since I dont deal much with stocks.
So kind of like organized religeon, where they qoute a specifc verse out of context, to justify something they want you to do. Seems plausible
My bad, didnt know that even existed.