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It's already withering... iOS is steadily losing marketshare. Sure, they're selling more and more iPhones and iPads each quarter, but that's because the market as a whole is growing faster than their loss of marketshare. It's already on a downslope, just masked by the general market as a whole. iOS devices will end up like Macs - relegated to a small, single-digit share of market, basically irrelevant to the industry as a whole. They had a good run with media players until that market was subsumed by cell phones, and are now watching the cellphone market go away from them as well... It will be interesting to see what they move to next.
We are not better than them if we execute people without trial. We are then exactly the same as them.
Our Justice Department went over it, and concluded that it was legal to do so. A trial not needed. Still doesn't change the fact that if he surrendered, he would have received a trial.
I wonder if you could "surrender" to Al Qaeda and get a trial, or if they'd have their legal team debate and research if it's legal and ethical to execute you...
At the rate that electronics components drop in price, it'll only be a "loss leader" for a few months at most. After that, it'll be a break even or small profit-maker on its own - regardless of the amount of content consumed.
Yes, we are all clear that you want more people murdered by police for any reason they like. In your mind it is fine to trade all liberty for the pretense of safety even as the total number of those killed increases, and the killers inevitably escape justice because they are police and not evil, evil terrorists.
When you had no logical position to put forward, you made up a strawman and attacked that. Thanks for showing you have no point other than "USA = teh debbil!".
Hate to tell you, ANY Proxy service that is US based or uses a US-based IP will gladly work with the US Government regarding your privacy. Now, you can have an EU-based proxy - but that's not going to help the original poster when streaming US services like Pandora, Hulu, and Netflix. You have to use a proxy based in the US to stream those services.
By your own numbers, the police are 1/15th as bad as the terrorists. Additionally, how many of those killed by the police had outstanding arrest warrants - basically Court ordered actions to capture? Now how many of those murdered on September 11th, 2001 had Court ordered executions or even arrest warrants?
Interesting... When such actions were taken when President Bush was in office,/. was rife with "Bush is teh debbil!" type screaming. Now that it's President Obama calling the shots, the opposition is now genericized to "USA bad"...
We're supposed to be better than them. Otherwise you might as well just have a military dictatorship where the General can kill whoever he wants at any time.
We are better than them. He could have surrendered at any time and then would have had his day in court. Now you go over there and tell your local Al Qaeda cell leader that you're an American - you'll probably end up like Daniel Pearl - no trial, no jury of peers, no court. Just a knife or - if they're feeling merciful - a bullet.
If Iran decides that someone in our country is an enemy and kills him, then Iran has committed an act of war against us. So if the US kills an enemy, the US has committed an act of war against them.
However, in this case the country of Yemen gave us permission to carry out the attack - we're not at war with them since it was done with their blessing.
These people are not now, and never were an existential threat to this country. There is not now, and never has been, any real justification for declaring a ridiculous, unending global war against these insignificant mosquitos on the ass of world culture, who can barely get a plot together, and 90% of the time seem to need FBI help to find their way out of a paper bag.
Tell that to the families of 2,977 people murdered on September 11, 2001. Heck, since they're so insignificant, go ahead and send your parents or siblings over to the wilds of Afghanistan or Yemen to have a chat. When they're beheaded like Daniel Pearl it won't mean jack shit because they're insignificant, and it's only a few people, well below the thousands killed earlier that you claim are irrelevant.
OK, let's get pedantic and say that since Congress didn't state an exact set of words you'd like to see, it hasn't declared war (we'll ignore the authorization and funding of all these operations as being an implicit - and financially explicit - declaration).
Where in the Constitution is the Air Force? Doesn't exist. Hence the Air Force is not part of the military, so using Air Force drones to kill isn't an actual military action. It's not war, it's not military, it's espionage.
In 2001, 2977 people were murdered by terrorists. It'll take the police 15 years to "catch up" to make your little trite attempt at comparison worthwhile...
If you can't hit it and split it with the first attempt, then you really suck at splitting wood, and need much more practice. Single stroke, single HDD shattered and destroyed (or 16" round split in half). Of course, this is/. where 8 hours of heavy mouse use constitutes a long work out period...
Strong VPN. Great service, fast VPNs, lots of VPN options, and streams just about anything everywhere. Punches through the Great Firewall of China (here in Shanghai and elsewhere throughout China) with ease. Pretty cheap, too - worth it to get my fix of Pandora, Hulu, and Netflix!
In five minutes you'll be able to smash about two of them. Smashing hard drives isn't easy.
Huh - seems to take but 3 seconds to heft up the 20 pound splitting maul and bring it down with sufficient force to turn the drive into lots of small bits...
. For the six months ended June 30, 2010 and 2011, our revenue increased from $231.0 million to $522.0 million, our bookings increased from $373.0 million to $561.3 million, our net income decreased from $20.4 million to $18.1 million and our adjusted EBITDA decreased from $187.3 million to $177.3 million.
It looks like net income dropped 10% (to 90% of what it was), and EBITDA dropped by about 5%.
How that translates to a 90% loss in profits I'm not quite sure... Seems like it's a drop TO 90% of what it's profits were - a 10% reduction, not a 90% reduction.
Yeah - you try that. Go ahead. Charges for overseas expenses that are "outside of industry norms" are not allowed, and will not only get you a solid audit but fines and penalties. That's a lot of what Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is disputing right now with the IRS - those kinds of overseas "expenses" that BH claims isn't owned, but the IRS insists is - to the tune of a little more than $1 billion.
Nice straw man you set up and attacked there... Now go back and read what I wrote, and if you are actually honest and intelligent and not simply an ideologue you'll realize my statement was directed at the claim about the "rich" making 60% of the income. Which is provably false. If you want to now shift to a different subject (taxation of that income), then at least have the common courtesy to state as much,
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It's already withering... iOS is steadily losing marketshare. Sure, they're selling more and more iPhones and iPads each quarter, but that's because the market as a whole is growing faster than their loss of marketshare. It's already on a downslope, just masked by the general market as a whole. iOS devices will end up like Macs - relegated to a small, single-digit share of market, basically irrelevant to the industry as a whole. They had a good run with media players until that market was subsumed by cell phones, and are now watching the cellphone market go away from them as well... It will be interesting to see what they move to next.
The record says otherwise, unless you limit your timeframe to, say, 800 years or so...
Do I have the option for a trial with al-Qaeda? He did with the US - and chose to flee and cede his rights.
We are not better than them if we execute people without trial. We are then exactly the same as them.
Our Justice Department went over it, and concluded that it was legal to do so. A trial not needed. Still doesn't change the fact that if he surrendered, he would have received a trial.
I wonder if you could "surrender" to Al Qaeda and get a trial, or if they'd have their legal team debate and research if it's legal and ethical to execute you...
At the rate that electronics components drop in price, it'll only be a "loss leader" for a few months at most. After that, it'll be a break even or small profit-maker on its own - regardless of the amount of content consumed.
Yes, we are all clear that you want more people murdered by police for any reason they like. In your mind it is fine to trade all liberty for the pretense of safety even as the total number of those killed increases, and the killers inevitably escape justice because they are police and not evil, evil terrorists.
When you had no logical position to put forward, you made up a strawman and attacked that. Thanks for showing you have no point other than "USA = teh debbil!".
Hate to tell you, ANY Proxy service that is US based or uses a US-based IP will gladly work with the US Government regarding your privacy. Now, you can have an EU-based proxy - but that's not going to help the original poster when streaming US services like Pandora, Hulu, and Netflix. You have to use a proxy based in the US to stream those services.
By your own numbers, the police are 1/15th as bad as the terrorists. Additionally, how many of those killed by the police had outstanding arrest warrants - basically Court ordered actions to capture? Now how many of those murdered on September 11th, 2001 had Court ordered executions or even arrest warrants?
Interesting... When such actions were taken when President Bush was in office, /. was rife with "Bush is teh debbil!" type screaming. Now that it's President Obama calling the shots, the opposition is now genericized to "USA bad"...
We're supposed to be better than them. Otherwise you might as well just have a military dictatorship where the General can kill whoever he wants at any time.
We are better than them. He could have surrendered at any time and then would have had his day in court. Now you go over there and tell your local Al Qaeda cell leader that you're an American - you'll probably end up like Daniel Pearl - no trial, no jury of peers, no court. Just a knife or - if they're feeling merciful - a bullet.
If Iran decides that someone in our country is an enemy and kills him, then Iran has committed an act of war against us. So if the US kills an enemy, the US has committed an act of war against them.
However, in this case the country of Yemen gave us permission to carry out the attack - we're not at war with them since it was done with their blessing.
All your arguments hinge on a very strong assumption (which is unfortunately commonly claimed by Bush, Bush2.0 and followers)
Don't forget President Obama in that little list...
These people are not now, and never were an existential threat to this country. There is not now, and never has been, any real justification for declaring a ridiculous, unending global war against these insignificant mosquitos on the ass of world culture, who can barely get a plot together, and 90% of the time seem to need FBI help to find their way out of a paper bag.
Tell that to the families of 2,977 people murdered on September 11, 2001. Heck, since they're so insignificant, go ahead and send your parents or siblings over to the wilds of Afghanistan or Yemen to have a chat. When they're beheaded like Daniel Pearl it won't mean jack shit because they're insignificant, and it's only a few people, well below the thousands killed earlier that you claim are irrelevant.
No formal declaration of war: Check.
OK, let's get pedantic and say that since Congress didn't state an exact set of words you'd like to see, it hasn't declared war (we'll ignore the authorization and funding of all these operations as being an implicit - and financially explicit - declaration).
Where in the Constitution is the Air Force? Doesn't exist. Hence the Air Force is not part of the military, so using Air Force drones to kill isn't an actual military action. It's not war, it's not military, it's espionage.
In 2001, 2977 people were murdered by terrorists. It'll take the police 15 years to "catch up" to make your little trite attempt at comparison worthwhile...
If you can't hit it and split it with the first attempt, then you really suck at splitting wood, and need much more practice. Single stroke, single HDD shattered and destroyed (or 16" round split in half). Of course, this is /. where 8 hours of heavy mouse use constitutes a long work out period...
Net income - I do not think you know what that means...
Strong VPN. Great service, fast VPNs, lots of VPN options, and streams just about anything everywhere. Punches through the Great Firewall of China (here in Shanghai and elsewhere throughout China) with ease. Pretty cheap, too - worth it to get my fix of Pandora, Hulu, and Netflix!
In five minutes you'll be able to smash about two of them. Smashing hard drives isn't easy.
Huh - seems to take but 3 seconds to heft up the 20 pound splitting maul and bring it down with sufficient force to turn the drive into lots of small bits...
For the six months ended June 30, 2010 and 2011, our revenue increased from $231.0 million to $522.0 million, our bookings increased from $373.0 million to $561.3 million, our net income decreased from $20.4 million to $18.1 million and our adjusted EBITDA decreased from $187.3 million to $177.3 million.
It looks like net income dropped 10% (to 90% of what it was), and EBITDA dropped by about 5%.
How that translates to a 90% loss in profits I'm not quite sure... Seems like it's a drop TO 90% of what it's profits were - a 10% reduction, not a 90% reduction.
No, I thought of Zaxxon. God I feel old...
It happens rather often, however, especially with small cap stocks. I've stumbled across companies a few times worth less than their balance sheet.
With that logic, Microsoft should be worth around $520 billion, given their $52 billion in cash on hand and short term investments...
Yeah - you try that. Go ahead. Charges for overseas expenses that are "outside of industry norms" are not allowed, and will not only get you a solid audit but fines and penalties. That's a lot of what Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is disputing right now with the IRS - those kinds of overseas "expenses" that BH claims isn't owned, but the IRS insists is - to the tune of a little more than $1 billion.
Nice straw man you set up and attacked there... Now go back and read what I wrote, and if you are actually honest and intelligent and not simply an ideologue you'll realize my statement was directed at the claim about the "rich" making 60% of the income. Which is provably false. If you want to now shift to a different subject (taxation of that income), then at least have the common courtesy to state as much,