Of course, we must all keep in mind that saying "I hope someone kills that guy" is not the same thing as saying "I'm gonna kill that guy." Only the latter can be construed as an actionable threat.
The person running the blog in question is, apparently, incapable making that distinction
While the Secret Service should make the distinction, for all practical purposes, he's still saying terrible, awful things, and should be judged as such.
I don't see how he put anyone in danger. These were copies of posts people made online. These folks were already telling the world this about themselves.
I'm guessing when they made the posts, there wasn't a big, neon sign saying who they are in reality and where they live.
That's the case in any organization, private or government, of a decent size. They will create huge monstrosities of Excel spreadsheets that end up running the business for them.
If I recall correctly, there is a plugin for MS Office to support ODF. Meaning presumably one could still use MS Office to author/edit correspondence with the local government, they just had to save it in a particular file format.
I fail to see why that's relevant. In addition, when a call is dropped, they don't keep charging me for the minutes I would have used if the call continued.
Why should you get any kind of say as to what I can and cannot do with the connection they sold me? I don't give a fuck about your costs; I want what they sold me.
And in the mean time, how are they going to make revenue? If you think a lot of users are getting their paid-for apps outside of the Google and Amazon stores, you're crazy.
But Apple is not giving developers that choice - they can either remove the term "memory", or remove the app entirely.
You're making assumptions here. Nobody has said whether any use of "memory" was being targeted, or just the games.
Apple have taken a decision to impose a blanket ban on the term - which, while I see the practical benefits from their point of view, is clearly detrimental to, say, people searching for an application to check what DIMMs might be compatible with some hardware they need to upgrade...
Sue Ravensburger for damages. You'd have a very similar problem if you were selling the app through your website, and they went after your hosting provider.
I don't believe you have a right to lie. Further, not once in that guy's post did he actually call for government censorship. So your statement is nothing but an attack looking for an excuse.
If it was non-professional, we'd have people running for a single term, pissing the majority of their constituents off, but actually accomplishing at least part of their agenda
Not necessarily. It takes time to figure out how to get stuff done in Congress. By the time most of them have figured it out, their term would be up.
Ummm... no. I popped in here to give kudos to Nate Silver, give credit where due, but... no. That is just not true. This election could have easily gone the other way if Romney had made a few less mistakes, and if that hurricane hadn't hit New England. In that case, Nate Silver would have looked as silly as Dick Morris does today (Morris was one of the "pundits" predicting a Romney landslide).
If Romney hadn't been Romney, and the storm hadn't hit, wouldn't polling have been vastly different? In which case, wouldn't Nate's model come out differently?
He didn't guess who was going to win. He looked at data and extrapolated conclusions from it.
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Of course, we must all keep in mind that saying "I hope someone kills that guy" is not the same thing as saying "I'm gonna kill that guy." Only the latter can be construed as an actionable threat.
The person running the blog in question is, apparently, incapable making that distinction
While the Secret Service should make the distinction, for all practical purposes, he's still saying terrible, awful things, and should be judged as such.
I don't see how he put anyone in danger. These were copies of posts people made online. These folks were already telling the world this about themselves.
I'm guessing when they made the posts, there wasn't a big, neon sign saying who they are in reality and where they live.
That's the case in any organization, private or government, of a decent size. They will create huge monstrosities of Excel spreadsheets that end up running the business for them.
If I recall correctly, there is a plugin for MS Office to support ODF. Meaning presumably one could still use MS Office to author/edit correspondence with the local government, they just had to save it in a particular file format.
Yes, that's all possible. But it's also a lot of extra work.
I fail to see why that's relevant. In addition, when a call is dropped, they don't keep charging me for the minutes I would have used if the call continued.
Why should I have to pay for a retransmitted packet? They didn't deliver me the packet.
Did they sell it to you as a side of beef, or did they sell it to you as 1000 pounds of meat?
Why should you get any kind of say as to what I can and cannot do with the connection they sold me? I don't give a fuck about your costs; I want what they sold me.
You cant even cry monopoly, there is competition.
That remark is quite bullshit in most of the country.
And no, wireless, satellite, and dial up are NOT competition.
Yeah, no, that makes no sense.
No, they are complying with the law. Under US law, if they don't respond to things like this, they can be held liable too.
And in the mean time, how are they going to make revenue? If you think a lot of users are getting their paid-for apps outside of the Google and Amazon stores, you're crazy.
No, this is just anti-Apple bullshit.
But Apple is not giving developers that choice - they can either remove the term "memory", or remove the app entirely.
You're making assumptions here. Nobody has said whether any use of "memory" was being targeted, or just the games.
Apple have taken a decision to impose a blanket ban on the term - which, while I see the practical benefits from their point of view, is clearly detrimental to, say, people searching for an application to check what DIMMs might be compatible with some hardware they need to upgrade...
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Except that by acting as the distributor, Apple can be held liable under US law as well.
Apple should use its billions of dollars to squash this ridiculous claim.
Why? Why should they be the ones to defend this?
The problem is that Apple is also blocking sales while the two parties "work it out".
Because if they don't, then they can be held liable as well.
What do I do in the mean time while i'm losing profit.
Not our problem.
Sue Ravensburger for damages. You'd have a very similar problem if you were selling the app through your website, and they went after your hosting provider.
It depends on if those apps are available outside the Play store.
Google can do the same thing in their store. So can Amazon.
I don't believe you have a right to lie. Further, not once in that guy's post did he actually call for government censorship. So your statement is nothing but an attack looking for an excuse.
If it was non-professional, we'd have people running for a single term, pissing the majority of their constituents off, but actually accomplishing at least part of their agenda
Not necessarily. It takes time to figure out how to get stuff done in Congress. By the time most of them have figured it out, their term would be up.
Ummm ... no. I popped in here to give kudos to Nate Silver, give credit where due, but ... no. That is just not true. This election could have easily gone the other way if Romney had made a few less mistakes, and if that hurricane hadn't hit New England. In that case, Nate Silver would have looked as silly as Dick Morris does today (Morris was one of the "pundits" predicting a Romney landslide).
If Romney hadn't been Romney, and the storm hadn't hit, wouldn't polling have been vastly different? In which case, wouldn't Nate's model come out differently?
He didn't guess who was going to win. He looked at data and extrapolated conclusions from it.