The video at least shows that the targets were taken on a fairly arbitrary basis. Yes it was childish etc etc but there was no deliberate targeting or discrimination. The comments about 'what would X's customers think of the company if...' are unfounded because all the screens were dying.
Now, I'm not a US citizen, but the way I see it, Company X convinced officials A and B to buy these machines. The machines were bought, company X was paid by the taxpayer, officials A and B were paid by company X, the board, employees and shareholders of company X were paid. The voting machines went wrong so more money will have to be spent on them.
Who cares about right and wrong? Rich people and public officials made themselves some money.
Surely an American dream. What could be more perfect?
I'm not defending I'm observing! You can't argue that a capitalist system (such as, well, all of global trade) is geared toward profits and maximising commodification? I'm no economist so I'm not going to express anything more specific than that, but you can't argue that the general trend in electronics has been toward production/consumption over maintainability.
It's very common in pseudo-democracies for common citizens to be more accurate than they thought. I lived in Moscow for several years in the eighties, and several of my acquaintances (I had no true friends, being a Serb), were more accurate than they thought. Sexual intercourse was rarely involved, but when it was, it was a bit more satisfying than your run-of-the-mill bar encounter.
Since I was not a citizen (I was there illegally), I was unable to be more accurate than I thought. I feel I missed out somehow, but I got over it after Glasnost.
Anyway, my point is, you were more accurate than you thought.
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The video at least shows that the targets were taken on a fairly arbitrary basis. Yes it was childish etc etc but there was no deliberate targeting or discrimination. The comments about 'what would X's customers think of the company if...' are unfounded because all the screens were dying.
From TFA: "virtual-world enthusiasts can create the trees of their dreams"
How many of us honestly dream about trees? Really?
Hamburgers eat people?
You must have woken up in Soviet Russia!
But you just *know* that sooner or later there would be secret mailing lists... then a scandal about the emails being deleted...
Probably sooner.
Now, I'm not a US citizen, but the way I see it, Company X convinced officials A and B to buy these machines. The machines were bought, company X was paid by the taxpayer, officials A and B were paid by company X, the board, employees and shareholders of company X were paid. The voting machines went wrong so more money will have to be spent on them.
Who cares about right and wrong? Rich people and public officials made themselves some money.
Surely an American dream. What could be more perfect?
So they're using a series of tubes to make renewable energy? Seems like you can do anything on the internets these days...
... bounce. Perfect for anyone who gets their hands on one this Christmas.
You insensitive clod! This is Slashdot. You must be new here.
there is no better universal translator than google images: http://images.google.com/images?q=kite
For a second there -- just for a second -- I thought there was some hope for humanity. Then I saw what it was carrying in those pictures.
I think you're mixing up innovation and patent-worthiness. You must be new here.
that's almost convinciing
Me too!
I did have to think look twice at that title to make sense of it (which is incidentally also the solution to the problem they're trying to solve).
insensitive clod
No, that wouldn't be an issue. The Welsh have a long history of long names. They've developed the technology to do it.
No doubt being in America they're going to try and call it Doglas Adams or some other such vowel-mangling.
The comments on http://poweryogi.blogspot.com/2005/03/hbsapplyyourself-admit-status-snafu.html sure seem to underline the lax approach to security...
SOMEONE's been waiting a long time to say that
we are found in nature... ?
I'm not defending I'm observing! You can't argue that a capitalist system (such as, well, all of global trade) is geared toward profits and maximising commodification? I'm no economist so I'm not going to express anything more specific than that, but you can't argue that the general trend in electronics has been toward production/consumption over maintainability.
Surely with silicon products such a commodity these days this isn't so relevant?
(nth post?)
Look beyond the syntactic.
you forgot /bin/backgroundcheck
It's very common in pseudo-democracies for common citizens to be more accurate than they thought. I lived in Moscow for several years in the eighties, and several of my acquaintances (I had no true friends, being a Serb), were more accurate than they thought. Sexual intercourse was rarely involved, but when it was, it was a bit more satisfying than your run-of-the-mill bar encounter.
Since I was not a citizen (I was there illegally), I was unable to be more accurate than I thought. I feel I missed out somehow, but I got over it after Glasnost.
Anyway, my point is, you were more accurate than you thought.
If someone can't afford to buy the full price DVD, are they going to be able to afford the things that the DVDs are advertising?
My bet's on credit card averts.