Really the only thing that links all the under developed countries to the classical Cold War "third world country" is that all third world country demand and receive Western aid.
Fair enough, Thailand is one of SE Aisa's highest performing economies.
What I meant was they don't have a stable political system, Thailand still has the government of a third world nation (not the economy)
Thailand also has a few "white elephants" in their military including an aircraft carrier dubbed as the worlds most expensive royal yacht (active for all of 12 days a year). As far as richer nations like Malaysia and Singapore go the Thai military is not that good, they are only just buying 4th gen fighters like the Saab Gripen. But compare that to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (Burma).
If the Thai people are having their ability to critique the political leadership
This is true, but it has little to do with the King and a lot to do with the wealthy Bangkok families who hold the real political power. The King of Thailand has as much political influence as the Queen of England and deliberately tries to keep the royal family out of politics (much like HRH Elizabeth II).
The current party in power who ousted the PPP (Peoples Power Party) are funded by the wealthy Thai's and backed by the army (the real political decider in Thailand, if the army supports your party you will get in). Meanwhile the "Red Shirts" are backed and funded by ousted PM Thaksin Shintarwa (who was, until recently one of Thailand's wealthiest).
Perhaps you should learn about a countries political situation before driveling on about it.
Apparently there were a number of PMs in the last few years who have been sacked for one reason or another, and the only one who wasn't tossed out was the one that the King put into power himself
This is inaccurate. Thailand is a nation that has had as many coups since 1932 as the US has had elections.
The King has not put a single PM into power in recent years. Most are removed via political jockeying from their opponents. The only Thai PM to complete his term was Thaksin Shintrawa (sp) and he was ousted for corruption in his second term by a military coup (Thailand is a third world nation, did you expect political stability). Most coups/oustings are simply attempts by one political party, not in power to gain power. Thaksin is far from innocent (who is), he is the main driving force as well as the bankroll of the recent political unrest in Bangkok.
Thailands biggest political forces are the rich families like the Nana family. Mostly ethnic Chinese, which is a major division between the rich and the poor, who are mostly ethnic Thai. Most of the unrest is caused by these power-brokers.
The King is about the only stable political force in Thailand, this is mainly because the King rarely speaks about politics. I'd hate to think how bad things will get when the King dies (and I doubt this will be too long). The last demonstration saw Silom burn and 50 people killed.
It seems he had small penis syndrome right until the end.
Overdose is quite effective, you just have to get the dosage right, but seeing as you have no upper limit, this is simpler then most people think. A single shot of about $300 worth of heroin will be just as effective as any firearm and much nicer on the clean up crew (as well as permitting an open casket). The world isnt just about you, you know.
My beef is that most people don't know how ineffective "jumping" is. The human body can survive one hell of an impact.
Trains are also quite popular (esp in Japan) but we have the same impact issue, electrocution on live wires (powering the trains) is effective but I could imagine quite painful.
Morbid jokes aside the only guy I know who committed suicide did so by turning off the respirator he required to breath in his sleep. When you think about it, the people who really want to die can find very simple ways of doing it.
The problem is, how did the market become "uncompetitive" in the first place?
High cost of entry.
When Australia privatised it's public telco back in the 90's regulations were put in place to ensure that they could not carry on their current monopoly by refusing to lease lines or leasing them at a prohibitive cost. Seeing as wiring up an entire country would cost more then it could possibly make this ensures an unregulated market is uncompetitive.
No they didn't. The bill hasn't even gone to a vote of the full Senate. What you were reading about was a Senate panel passing it. The two aren't synonymous.
Oh no you don't, If Australian bills that have not gone before the houses are considered long enforced laws then the same will be applied to the US nanny state, whom is now bent on controlling the interwebs for teh children
How much would IBM invested in that considering that Apple would only be a small customer
No one should wonder why IBM all but told Apple to sod off considering that all three of this generations consoles use IBM processors. Apple was worth nothing to IBM especially as they didn't have the contract for the Ipod. Just one of the console manufacturers are worth an order of magnitude more to IBM then Apple ever was.
I'm still holding out hope that all this internet filter crap is just an attempt to keep Fielding and Xenophon on side
Feilding has all but thrown his hat in with Abbott, Xenophon was only onside when the bill included blocking online gambling which was dropped as soon as Rudd got elected (Xenophon is from the No Pokies party). But as long as the Rudd government does not get a clear majority they will rely on the greens who are dead against the filter (with the Greens on side, the Labor party ATM can does not need the votes of Xenophon or fielding).
That is the question I would like answered: Why does Apple force people to stick with the appstore unless they modify the hardware? Why can't we have the walled garden and a key to the gate?
Because the gatekeeper says no.
If you legally want a semi-walled garden and the key here is how to legally accomplish it on the Iphone.
1. Drop Iphone in bin.
2. Drop bin off Cliff.
3. Go to store.
4. Buy Android phone.
Making a copy of Apple's bootloader and modifying it is copyright infringement.
Seeing as you cant install your own bootloader without jailbreaking which requires you to use Apple's copyrighted software in an unapproved manner that would be a yes, this is prohibited by US law.
"Balanced" socialism has gotten us unsustainable debt, which is bankrupting Europe, and will eventually bankrupt America as well.
Which is why most of the Nordic states and all of the Scandinavian nations are not knee deep in debt. Yet the capitalist nations like the US and UK are. Someone has been brainwashed here and it's not me and the GP.
It seemed the "socialist" nations balanced the books and survived the GFC. BTW, I'm using your definition of socialism, which means any nations that has social services, Scandinavia is one of the most free markets you will ever encounter but you must be responsible for your products and services. This is why the SEK and NOK did not drop when the USD, GBP and EUR did in 2008, the AUD recovered completely by late 2009 (currently about 0.86 USD).
Infant mortality statistics cannot be compared between the America and Europe, since in some countries babies born below a certain size or weight are not counted as live births, unlike in America.
Wow, citation needed, I can vouch for Sweden, Australia and the UK that if it comes out of a woman with a pulse, it's considered alive.
I'd call you retarded but that would be a grievous insult to people with down syndrome.
Being half-Greek, I think you'll find that Greece's bankruptcy has more to do with being Greece than with being socialist.
Indeed, Greece's problem is that Greece had/still has no industry and was relying on tourism for most of it's income. When the GFC hit 90% of this money stopped coming in. Now Greece could not stop spending when it could keep borrowing, so in my reconing at least 51% of the blame falls on the bond holders who kept giving Greece money rather then recongising the credit risk and denying more loans.
So we have the same scenario as the US bailing out banks, it's the same thing. The tax payers are bailing out bond holders, not Greece. The US's debt is currently 2/3 of it's GDP, this means you have more money incoming then borrowing, even if you're still borrowing a stupid amount. Greece had 110% of it's GDP in debt when all hell broke loose. However both the US and EU end up with the same problem, you're protecting the bond holders from risk rather then letting them take the loss of bad credit decisions.
and the Greens, who are one of those parties who have a lot of really good ideas, but who are also raving lunatics.
In an extreme twist of irony, they are currently the least insane party at the moment. The best we can hope for is another deadlock, with neither party receiving a majority and the leading party depending on the minor parties and independents.
BTW, both parties have left and right fringes, all four fringes are equally bat shit insane. Australian political parties are not drawn on left/right line like in the US. The Liberal party was supported business, the Labor party was traditionally supported blue collar workers. The last election voted in Labor to get rid of Howard and his Industrial Relations (IR) reforms, the next election will vote in Labor and the nanny state to keep out Abbott and his religious state (so yes, we have the choice between a nanny state or a religious state).
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See, a lot of the Slashdot crowd has chosen not to interact with real people due to a myriad of insecurities hidden by a superiority complex. This presents itself worst when they start to pant and whine about other people mentioning situations in which one is in forced proximity with other people with whom you may have to "socially interact". Mentioning any sort of situation like this causes bouts of anxiety fueled nerdrage in which the perceived aggressor is mocked and jeered through choked back tears of bitter, vitriol-fueled anguish on a playing field sympathetic to such unrealistic and unhealthy views (Slashdot).
I order on-line because its 5% cheaper then going to the fucking store.
Motorola Milestone, new and unlocked GBP 349
HTC Desire, new and unlocked GBP 399
Apple Iphone 3G, 16GB, refurbished and locked to O2 BP 459
A New 3GS is GBP 574 for the 16 GB model. Remember that those of us outside the EU do not pay VAT so take about 17% off the prices.
by the time you buy a SD card it's more than an iphone
In Australia a class 6, 16 GB MircoSD card is A$45 (approx GBP 27-30). So here's your reminder, a new Desire with 16 GB is cheaper then an old Iphone 3G by A$220 and US$190.
No, everyone hates how Flash is used or I should more accurately say, misused. HTML5 wont fix this, in fact it will make it worse.
is just another excuse for Apple haters to keep on hating Apple, regardless of whether or not the like Flash.
Whatever you need to tell yourself. But for everyone else, the problem we have with this is not that Apple said "no Flash" it's the fact that Apple said, "we decide what you can and cant do", this is not new. What is new is that Apple changed the rules deliberately to stop Adobe. I'm sorry if this clashes with your fanboyism.
All they are doing is associating your device's MAC address with a profile, something they could do completely without a web page.
Spoken like someone who has never run a public AP before.
Captive portals have many uses that simply associating a users MAC address cannot provide, they can be used to protect a vlan on wireless networks (I.E. you can have a secure network for staff and a free wireless service for visitors, on the MAC level (layer 2) this can only be done by physically segmenting the network). IP/MAC addresses can be easily spoofed so the captive portal uses the browser for authentication (while not perfect is a hell of a lot better then layer 2 controls).
Even just displaying an AUP is reason enough, many nations have laws that you may not be aware of (including your own).
All of these are good reasons for having a login page but it doesn't make it any less annoying.
Going to one web page is annoying?
After all your whining my only response is, Harden up princess. It only takes 10 seconds to connect to a free service.
My big quibble with all of these "click to log on" types of systems is they are a pain in the butt.
I assume you are talking about captive portal systems. The are a way of having encryption without having to distribute a password. Certain captive portals allow individual device encryption and it's also device independent (meaning your device does not need to support WPA2 or other encryption). Also captive portals are good for enforcing session/download/bandwidth limits (quit bitching, its free and if you've ever run a public AP you'd understand why you'd need these limits, like some arsehole connecting and starting up a dozer torrents killing bandwidth for all your customers).
KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) has such a system, as soon as I log on using a web page, I can close that browser session and run Apt, FTP, SMTP or whatever I want (Apt, FTP and SMTP are all I tested in my 3 hour stopover). BTW, if you're a cheapskate like me, the best spot for WiFi I've found in the LCC Terminal is near gate T6.
You have proof of this, in order to even accuse someone of breaking a law you need hard evidence beyond reasonable doubt. Also they need to break an actual law, the Mafia-like organisation is not suing for punishment, they are suing for compensation.
I think the comparison to the mafia would only work if they went around suing random people.
Which is pretty much what they are doing, pay us or we'll sue you into oblivion (CLUE, this is the dictionary definition of extortion). Also they are abusing the US court systems by lumping thousands of individuals into a single case in order to lower their costs but demanding individual compensation from the defendants. Hopefully a US judge with a clue will smack this down.
US has good history of coming to right places in right times...
Somalia is on the cusp of becoming the next Afghanistan, it's a hotbed of religious hatred combined with extreme poverty. The US did a shit load of good there.
Saudi Arabia is ruled by one of the most ruthless monarchs of our time. Religious laws are enacted everywhere, its a hotbed of extremism and provides organisations like HAMAS and Al-queda with the educated resources they need to make war (engineers, bomb makers and so forth). How many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, they were Saudi because they were brainwashed enough and educated enough to be able to carry out their given missions. You cant send Afghani dirt farmers to learn how to fly planes.
Iraq I did nothing for the people of Iraq, Saddam took out his vengeance on the Kurds by gassing them. Iraq II only turned their semi stable, if not authoritarian country into a warzone. Iraq is in state of civil war, killing Americans is just a bonus at this point in time, who ever wins out of the Sunni's and Shiites is going to kick the living shit out of the remaining Kurds.
Kosovo, the US only got involved in after the genocides, the Royal Army (Great Britain) ended up doing most of the ground work whist a US carrier, safely out of range in the Adriatic took all the credit.
There are a few examples of where the US actually did good (Haiti, Thailand, the Philippines although the food here is terrible, I blame you septics for that), but these are so severely outnumbered by the times the US has fucked up a nation. South America is heavily scarred by US intervention by propping up corrupt governments (such as Colombia) and supporting terrorist organizations and coups against other legitimate governments who had the wrong philosophy.
As a side note, if you're looking for the blokes who stopped Communism in SE Asia, look at Australia and the Malays in 1957. We call it the Malaya Emergency, the Malays call it their civil war and why as an Australian, I've always been greeted well in Kuala Lumpur. ANZAC and Malay forces successfully stopped communist guerrillas in the Malay peninsula in 1957. Communism kept spreading west until it hit the borders of Thailand, then the evil communist Vietnamese put a stop to it by invading Cambodia and removing the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia is now a Representative Monarchy still suffering from the thousands of land mines dropped on it by the US in the Vietnam war and later by the Khmer Rouge).
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Fair enough, Thailand is one of SE Aisa's highest performing economies.
What I meant was they don't have a stable political system, Thailand still has the government of a third world nation (not the economy)
Thailand also has a few "white elephants" in their military including an aircraft carrier dubbed as the worlds most expensive royal yacht (active for all of 12 days a year). As far as richer nations like Malaysia and Singapore go the Thai military is not that good, they are only just buying 4th gen fighters like the Saab Gripen. But compare that to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (Burma).
This is true, but it has little to do with the King and a lot to do with the wealthy Bangkok families who hold the real political power. The King of Thailand has as much political influence as the Queen of England and deliberately tries to keep the royal family out of politics (much like HRH Elizabeth II).
The current party in power who ousted the PPP (Peoples Power Party) are funded by the wealthy Thai's and backed by the army (the real political decider in Thailand, if the army supports your party you will get in). Meanwhile the "Red Shirts" are backed and funded by ousted PM Thaksin Shintarwa (who was, until recently one of Thailand's wealthiest).
Perhaps you should learn about a countries political situation before driveling on about it.
This is inaccurate. Thailand is a nation that has had as many coups since 1932 as the US has had elections.
The King has not put a single PM into power in recent years. Most are removed via political jockeying from their opponents. The only Thai PM to complete his term was Thaksin Shintrawa (sp) and he was ousted for corruption in his second term by a military coup (Thailand is a third world nation, did you expect political stability). Most coups/oustings are simply attempts by one political party, not in power to gain power. Thaksin is far from innocent (who is), he is the main driving force as well as the bankroll of the recent political unrest in Bangkok.
Thailands biggest political forces are the rich families like the Nana family. Mostly ethnic Chinese, which is a major division between the rich and the poor, who are mostly ethnic Thai. Most of the unrest is caused by these power-brokers.
The King is about the only stable political force in Thailand, this is mainly because the King rarely speaks about politics. I'd hate to think how bad things will get when the King dies (and I doubt this will be too long). The last demonstration saw Silom burn and 50 people killed.
Jees, you know almost every business will have a picture of the king up. Why don't you threaten to wear yellow as well.
It seems he had small penis syndrome right until the end.
Overdose is quite effective, you just have to get the dosage right, but seeing as you have no upper limit, this is simpler then most people think. A single shot of about $300 worth of heroin will be just as effective as any firearm and much nicer on the clean up crew (as well as permitting an open casket). The world isnt just about you, you know.
My beef is that most people don't know how ineffective "jumping" is. The human body can survive one hell of an impact.
Trains are also quite popular (esp in Japan) but we have the same impact issue, electrocution on live wires (powering the trains) is effective but I could imagine quite painful.
Morbid jokes aside the only guy I know who committed suicide did so by turning off the respirator he required to breath in his sleep. When you think about it, the people who really want to die can find very simple ways of doing it.
High cost of entry.
When Australia privatised it's public telco back in the 90's regulations were put in place to ensure that they could not carry on their current monopoly by refusing to lease lines or leasing them at a prohibitive cost. Seeing as wiring up an entire country would cost more then it could possibly make this ensures an unregulated market is uncompetitive.
Oh no you don't, If Australian bills that have not gone before the houses are considered long enforced laws then the same will be applied to the US nanny state, whom is now bent on controlling the interwebs for teh children
No one should wonder why IBM all but told Apple to sod off considering that all three of this generations consoles use IBM processors. Apple was worth nothing to IBM especially as they didn't have the contract for the Ipod. Just one of the console manufacturers are worth an order of magnitude more to IBM then Apple ever was.
Many nations did IIRC, it's not a bad model. The US has other problems, bad laws and no enforcement will quickly undermine the best economic model.
Feilding has all but thrown his hat in with Abbott, Xenophon was only onside when the bill included blocking online gambling which was dropped as soon as Rudd got elected (Xenophon is from the No Pokies party). But as long as the Rudd government does not get a clear majority they will rely on the greens who are dead against the filter (with the Greens on side, the Labor party ATM can does not need the votes of Xenophon or fielding).
Because the gatekeeper says no.
If you legally want a semi-walled garden and the key here is how to legally accomplish it on the Iphone.
1. Drop Iphone in bin.
2. Drop bin off Cliff.
3. Go to store.
4. Buy Android phone.
5. ????
6. Profit!
Seeing as you cant install your own bootloader without jailbreaking which requires you to use Apple's copyrighted software in an unapproved manner that would be a yes, this is prohibited by US law.
Which is why most of the Nordic states and all of the Scandinavian nations are not knee deep in debt. Yet the capitalist nations like the US and UK are. Someone has been brainwashed here and it's not me and the GP.
It seemed the "socialist" nations balanced the books and survived the GFC. BTW, I'm using your definition of socialism, which means any nations that has social services, Scandinavia is one of the most free markets you will ever encounter but you must be responsible for your products and services. This is why the SEK and NOK did not drop when the USD, GBP and EUR did in 2008, the AUD recovered completely by late 2009 (currently about 0.86 USD).
Wow, citation needed, I can vouch for Sweden, Australia and the UK that if it comes out of a woman with a pulse, it's considered alive.
I'd call you retarded but that would be a grievous insult to people with down syndrome.
Indeed, Greece's problem is that Greece had/still has no industry and was relying on tourism for most of it's income. When the GFC hit 90% of this money stopped coming in. Now Greece could not stop spending when it could keep borrowing, so in my reconing at least 51% of the blame falls on the bond holders who kept giving Greece money rather then recongising the credit risk and denying more loans.
So we have the same scenario as the US bailing out banks, it's the same thing. The tax payers are bailing out bond holders, not Greece. The US's debt is currently 2/3 of it's GDP, this means you have more money incoming then borrowing, even if you're still borrowing a stupid amount. Greece had 110% of it's GDP in debt when all hell broke loose. However both the US and EU end up with the same problem, you're protecting the bond holders from risk rather then letting them take the loss of bad credit decisions.
In an extreme twist of irony, they are currently the least insane party at the moment. The best we can hope for is another deadlock, with neither party receiving a majority and the leading party depending on the minor parties and independents.
BTW, both parties have left and right fringes, all four fringes are equally bat shit insane. Australian political parties are not drawn on left/right line like in the US. The Liberal party was supported business, the Labor party was traditionally supported blue collar workers. The last election voted in Labor to get rid of Howard and his Industrial Relations (IR) reforms, the next election will vote in Labor and the nanny state to keep out Abbott and his religious state (so yes, we have the choice between a nanny state or a religious state).
This is the sound of your average Yorkie, sober.
I order on-line because its 5% cheaper then going to the fucking store.
Really,
Motorola Milestone, new and unlocked GBP 349
HTC Desire, new and unlocked GBP 399
Apple Iphone 3G, 16GB, refurbished and locked to O2 BP 459
A New 3GS is GBP 574 for the 16 GB model. Remember that those of us outside the EU do not pay VAT so take about 17% off the prices.
In Australia a class 6, 16 GB MircoSD card is A$45 (approx GBP 27-30). So here's your reminder, a new Desire with 16 GB is cheaper then an old Iphone 3G by A$220 and US$190.
No, everyone hates how Flash is used or I should more accurately say, misused. HTML5 wont fix this, in fact it will make it worse.
Whatever you need to tell yourself. But for everyone else, the problem we have with this is not that Apple said "no Flash" it's the fact that Apple said, "we decide what you can and cant do", this is not new. What is new is that Apple changed the rules deliberately to stop Adobe. I'm sorry if this clashes with your fanboyism.
I'm not a number, I'm a...
Hang on, it does kind of look like a 1.
Mod parent -1 Shlong.
Spoken like someone who has never run a public AP before.
Captive portals have many uses that simply associating a users MAC address cannot provide, they can be used to protect a vlan on wireless networks (I.E. you can have a secure network for staff and a free wireless service for visitors, on the MAC level (layer 2) this can only be done by physically segmenting the network). IP/MAC addresses can be easily spoofed so the captive portal uses the browser for authentication (while not perfect is a hell of a lot better then layer 2 controls).
Even just displaying an AUP is reason enough, many nations have laws that you may not be aware of (including your own).
Going to one web page is annoying?
After all your whining my only response is, Harden up princess. It only takes 10 seconds to connect to a free service.
I assume you are talking about captive portal systems. The are a way of having encryption without having to distribute a password. Certain captive portals allow individual device encryption and it's also device independent (meaning your device does not need to support WPA2 or other encryption). Also captive portals are good for enforcing session/download/bandwidth limits (quit bitching, its free and if you've ever run a public AP you'd understand why you'd need these limits, like some arsehole connecting and starting up a dozer torrents killing bandwidth for all your customers).
KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) has such a system, as soon as I log on using a web page, I can close that browser session and run Apt, FTP, SMTP or whatever I want (Apt, FTP and SMTP are all I tested in my 3 hour stopover). BTW, if you're a cheapskate like me, the best spot for WiFi I've found in the LCC Terminal is near gate T6.
You have proof of this, in order to even accuse someone of breaking a law you need hard evidence beyond reasonable doubt. Also they need to break an actual law, the Mafia-like organisation is not suing for punishment, they are suing for compensation.
Which is pretty much what they are doing, pay us or we'll sue you into oblivion (CLUE, this is the dictionary definition of extortion). Also they are abusing the US court systems by lumping thousands of individuals into a single case in order to lower their costs but demanding individual compensation from the defendants. Hopefully a US judge with a clue will smack this down.
Somalia is on the cusp of becoming the next Afghanistan, it's a hotbed of religious hatred combined with extreme poverty. The US did a shit load of good there.
Saudi Arabia is ruled by one of the most ruthless monarchs of our time. Religious laws are enacted everywhere, its a hotbed of extremism and provides organisations like HAMAS and Al-queda with the educated resources they need to make war (engineers, bomb makers and so forth). How many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, they were Saudi because they were brainwashed enough and educated enough to be able to carry out their given missions. You cant send Afghani dirt farmers to learn how to fly planes.
Iraq I did nothing for the people of Iraq, Saddam took out his vengeance on the Kurds by gassing them. Iraq II only turned their semi stable, if not authoritarian country into a warzone. Iraq is in state of civil war, killing Americans is just a bonus at this point in time, who ever wins out of the Sunni's and Shiites is going to kick the living shit out of the remaining Kurds.
Kosovo, the US only got involved in after the genocides, the Royal Army (Great Britain) ended up doing most of the ground work whist a US carrier, safely out of range in the Adriatic took all the credit.
There are a few examples of where the US actually did good (Haiti, Thailand, the Philippines although the food here is terrible, I blame you septics for that), but these are so severely outnumbered by the times the US has fucked up a nation. South America is heavily scarred by US intervention by propping up corrupt governments (such as Colombia) and supporting terrorist organizations and coups against other legitimate governments who had the wrong philosophy.
As a side note, if you're looking for the blokes who stopped Communism in SE Asia, look at Australia and the Malays in 1957. We call it the Malaya Emergency, the Malays call it their civil war and why as an Australian, I've always been greeted well in Kuala Lumpur. ANZAC and Malay forces successfully stopped communist guerrillas in the Malay peninsula in 1957. Communism kept spreading west until it hit the borders of Thailand, then the evil communist Vietnamese put a stop to it by invading Cambodia and removing the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia is now a Representative Monarchy still suffering from the thousands of land mines dropped on it by the US in the Vietnam war and later by the Khmer Rouge).