As my lecturer said (in a Data Protection Act lecture in Britain*): "the biggest threat to the data protection is not criminals but american companies". It seems your protection laws are remarkably slack.
*That's BritainEnglandUKEurope to my friends over the pond
You don't buy software for your computer? You must be one of them communist open-source fags am I right? You people make me sick. I fought in Vietnam for people like you.
no doubt everyone's going to start moaning about how the government is yet AGAIN censoring the activities of upstanding all-american companies... aren't they?
This seems to be a feature of Japanese (and Chinese) technology, the idea of enforced 'happiness'. Smiling faces everywhere, bright colours garish colours and features. Perhaps this has only limited cultural relevance in the international market?
There's a difference between being the opposite of and being the opposite of . I was saying that in the set of cases to which I was referring, there had been no positive motivation to do good. Not that there was motivation to do evil or whatever word you want to use.
A privation of a predicate is not the negation of it.
And why the need to keep making comparisons? Can't a country be perceived on its own objective merits? Not EVERY issue has to be 'good guys' and 'bad guys', us and them &c. I was just addressing what I saw as, well, frankly naiveté on the part of the original poster (which I thought was a joke at first otherwise I wouldn't have got drawn into this).
Makes sense financially to US industry. So long as people keep buying arms from big American companies and so long as those companies keep buying people in government everyone's happy. Everyone at the top. Everyone who matters.
Can I just say that I do find what the US gets up to (and my own government) both now and at numerous points in history utterly disgraceful and sickening.
I'm not saying it's evil, I'm not taking a moralistic point. I'm just saying that the majority of international policy decisions appear to have been motivated by money etc. What you think about that's your own opinion.
But you can't deny that the US is a capitalist society with a capitalist government as an objective statement. Isn't that's the whole point of the American Dream -- everyone has the freedom to start a business, earn money, buy a house and perhaps one day become president?
Slashdot Mirror
I agree. But they're right to be scared of Harvard's lawyers -- they must be the bee's knees
"Astronauts hook up"
The first space kiss?
I would say that the RIAA is a white elephant
Oh, she knows more than we do. That's probably why she didn't mention it...
As my lecturer said (in a Data Protection Act lecture in Britain*): "the biggest threat to the data protection is not criminals but american companies". It seems your protection laws are remarkably slack.
*That's BritainEnglandUKEurope to my friends over the pond
You don't buy software for your computer? You must be one of them communist open-source fags am I right? You people make me sick. I fought in Vietnam for people like you.
And get off my lawn!
I noticed the graph half way down the page which says that most people would buy the iPhone a gift. Great gift.
... and here's the contract"
"Happy Christmas, here's an iPhone
That's not all! We've been known to eat and drink McDonald's, KFC, Coca-Cola...
Crazy.
"sugar vegetable-extract based soft drink"? That's what they're calling it these days is it?
Whatever the answer, it's easier than getting it out of the keyboard.
Schrodinger's CAT5?
no doubt everyone's going to start moaning about how the government is yet AGAIN censoring the activities of upstanding all-american companies... aren't they?
I don't know in what capacity these people serve, but we put them onto the 'extraordinary rendition', Guantanamo bay etc people. That would be fun.
I for one welcome our new Web 2.0 underlings
It looks like you can't get at the command line from the built-in shell. Will this be at all useable without a reinstall?
This seems to be a feature of Japanese (and Chinese) technology, the idea of enforced 'happiness'. Smiling faces everywhere, bright colours garish colours and features. Perhaps this has only limited cultural relevance in the international market?
that the link is a PDF?
Oblig SQL Injection http://www.xkcd.com/327/
Annotations that are referenced in the text. Remember, this is a legal document and the lawyers have a duty to spend as much money on it as possible
c'mon it was only a joke. I'm a Mac user, always have been, always will be and I'm fully aware expansion options.
This wouldn't happen on a Mac. 'Cos in most of them you can't even get in there to change the graphics card.
I don't care about those patents, they don't affect me (yet). But I just love the style with which they are illustrated. That flow-chart is beautiful.
Software patents bad. Software patent drafters though...
There's a difference between being the opposite of and being the opposite of . I was saying that in the set of cases to which I was referring, there had been no positive motivation to do good. Not that there was motivation to do evil or whatever word you want to use.
A privation of a predicate is not the negation of it.
And why the need to keep making comparisons? Can't a country be perceived on its own objective merits? Not EVERY issue has to be 'good guys' and 'bad guys', us and them &c. I was just addressing what I saw as, well, frankly naiveté on the part of the original poster (which I thought was a joke at first otherwise I wouldn't have got drawn into this).
Makes sense financially to US industry. So long as people keep buying arms from big American companies and so long as those companies keep buying people in government everyone's happy. Everyone at the top. Everyone who matters.
Can I just say that I do find what the US gets up to (and my own government) both now and at numerous points in history utterly disgraceful and sickening.
But I'm playing devil's advocate to win.
I'm not saying it's evil, I'm not taking a moralistic point. I'm just saying that the majority of international policy decisions appear to have been motivated by money etc. What you think about that's your own opinion.
But you can't deny that the US is a capitalist society with a capitalist government as an objective statement. Isn't that's the whole point of the American Dream -- everyone has the freedom to start a business, earn money, buy a house and perhaps one day become president?