I don't disagree at all with your point about Greece, there's no doubt the Olympics sucked an awful lot of money out of Greece, but Sydney is not that much better.
The main stadium was going to be a new, large venue for Rugby and Rugby League matches, but it's way too big, and looks awful on TV when it's a quarter full.
The Sydney Swans AFL team was supposed to play some of their home matches there, but it turns out the stadium is so far away from the fans, that they just won't go, and so the Swans have ended their contract a year early.
Sydney is going to be paying for their Olympics for a long time, just like everyone else who have been suckered into hosting it.
Sue needs to employ a photographer for her website before she does anything, at least someone who has a basic grasp of colour balance.
What an awful site.
There were a lot American GIs, a lot of Chinese, a lot of Koreans, a lot Filipinos, a lot of Burmese, and so forth...
There was also my Father, fighting the Nazis from early 1940 until VE Day in 1945, who was told that he would be sent, with his regiment to fight in Japan. I don't know if they would have mutinied, (they probably wouldn't have) but I can tell you he was very angry at the thought of another 2 (or 3 or more) years of war.
My father was extremely happy about the atom bombs, they saved millions of lives, possibly including his.
This also won't apply to you, because TFA is about blocking access to the App Store using Group Policies, which means a AD Domain connected device, not your home PC.
Everything else you wrote I entirely agree with, if I didn't use Photoshop and Lightroom so much I'd install Linuxmint on my main desktop right now.
they forgot that the party doesn't like Cruz either.
Where I live the media were running stories only a couple of weeks ago about how Cruz was hated by the Republican elite, almost as much as they hate Trump.
Yesterday I read about how Cruz is teaming up with Kasich to stop Trump, and the Republicans love Cruz.
No-one seems able to explain how that was ever going to work, so of course it fell over at the first hurdle, and Trump won five more States.
If Cruz has Fiorina as his running mate, what about Kasich?
None of this makes any sense unless you get no outright winner, and the Party can then insert their own man.
That's all true, some movies make more money than others, but where I live movies are funded by a $50 million (local dollars) government handout.
The studios are also exempt from local labour laws (because that's good for the country).
These aren't local studios either, these are the big Hollywood guys, those ones making the record profits, because if we don't pay them to come here, someone else will.
I suspect they'll do what they do where I live, and set the fines at a level that makes it cheaper to pay the fines than to plead not guilty.
As an aside, my sister has never paid a traffic ticket in her life, as she has time on her hands. She pleads not guilty, and by the time the police realize they were supposed to turn up in court, she has been let off through a lack of evidence.
Let the US shoot itself in the foot. The rest of the world will encrypt.
The problem for me is that while I do not live in the US, I wind up subject to US laws, because if my Government looks like it might step out of line with what the US wants, our Prime Minister gets a round of golf with the President.
I imagine he is told in private what the US wants, and the great photo ops are his payment.
That's pretty much my thought too, but it's worse, because US$30 will translate into 60 of my local dollars. Then I'm going to guess Sony will complain because the uptake will be low.
Wankers.
I would argue that with the gerrymandering of electorates and the way money dictates outcomes in US politics, you really don't have a democracy anymore.
I'm not sure that is very likely. The massively wealthy corporations that fund and control the US Government are run by people just like Tim Cook, and I don't think they would be keen on seeing one of their own in jail, or the assets stripped.
After all, the assets of Apple are largely owned by the same wealthy elites that own everything else.
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The main stadium was going to be a new, large venue for Rugby and Rugby League matches, but it's way too big, and looks awful on TV when it's a quarter full.
The Sydney Swans AFL team was supposed to play some of their home matches there, but it turns out the stadium is so far away from the fans, that they just won't go, and so the Swans have ended their contract a year early.
Sydney is going to be paying for their Olympics for a long time, just like everyone else who have been suckered into hosting it.
Makes sense really, with 0.38 of Earth gravity, waves are going to be big aren't they?
She says she will destroy the coal industry
She will say whatever she needs to say to get elected, then she will do whatever she's paid to do. Just like every other politician you have.
Sue needs to employ a photographer for her website before she does anything, at least someone who has a basic grasp of colour balance. What an awful site.
There were a lot American GIs, a lot of Chinese, a lot of Koreans, a lot Filipinos, a lot of Burmese, and so forth...
There was also my Father, fighting the Nazis from early 1940 until VE Day in 1945, who was told that he would be sent, with his regiment to fight in Japan. I don't know if they would have mutinied, (they probably wouldn't have) but I can tell you he was very angry at the thought of another 2 (or 3 or more) years of war. My father was extremely happy about the atom bombs, they saved millions of lives, possibly including his.
With what is all too typical news reporting hyperbole...
No surprise the story is published in the NZ Herald, sourced from news.com.au, two of the least trustworthy "news" organisations on the planet.
Same here in New Zealand, so when we buy our books from Amazon and similar, cue the whining from the local booksellers about unfair competition.
There's no indication in the article why books cost so much though. Government policy? Retail monopoly?
It's not actually terribly informative.
Everything else you wrote I entirely agree with, if I didn't use Photoshop and Lightroom so much I'd install Linuxmint on my main desktop right now.
they forgot that the party doesn't like Cruz either.
Where I live the media were running stories only a couple of weeks ago about how Cruz was hated by the Republican elite, almost as much as they hate Trump. Yesterday I read about how Cruz is teaming up with Kasich to stop Trump, and the Republicans love Cruz.
No-one seems able to explain how that was ever going to work, so of course it fell over at the first hurdle, and Trump won five more States. If Cruz has Fiorina as his running mate, what about Kasich?
None of this makes any sense unless you get no outright winner, and the Party can then insert their own man.
I would absolutely classify most of John Scalzi's books as "swashbuckling fun", but they hate Scalzi
I would too, and I would also classify Scalzi as pretty right wing also.
Canonical seems to be a UK company. Head office is Southwark St London from what I can see.
These aren't local studios either, these are the big Hollywood guys, those ones making the record profits, because if we don't pay them to come here, someone else will.
I don't live in the US, neither does my sister. You have described a US court system, which bears no resemblance to the one I live under.
I suspect they'll do what they do where I live, and set the fines at a level that makes it cheaper to pay the fines than to plead not guilty. As an aside, my sister has never paid a traffic ticket in her life, as she has time on her hands. She pleads not guilty, and by the time the police realize they were supposed to turn up in court, she has been let off through a lack of evidence.
Let the US shoot itself in the foot. The rest of the world will encrypt.
The problem for me is that while I do not live in the US, I wind up subject to US laws, because if my Government looks like it might step out of line with what the US wants, our Prime Minister gets a round of golf with the President. I imagine he is told in private what the US wants, and the great photo ops are his payment.
Limit what encryption consumers can have?
They've done it once before, when encryption was classed as a munition, so could not be exported from the US without Government authorization.
All you people here moaning about expensive, slow crappy Internet from your monopoly provider haven't stopped to look at it from AT&T's point of view.
You know those huge subsidies they got? You know all those legal concessions they needed to prevent cities from creating publicly owned ISP's?
Do you really think all the money they needed to bribe politicians just came out of thin air?
You really do have the government you deserve, and it was sold years ago, to the likes of AT&T.
Money doesn't dictate outcomes, it just helps a little...
Like 91% of the time
Hahahahahahahaha!! Yeah Right!
That's pretty much my thought too, but it's worse, because US$30 will translate into 60 of my local dollars. Then I'm going to guess Sony will complain because the uptake will be low. Wankers.
This is just another example of Government for sale.
Having private industry write legislation would be a huge scandal in any other democracy I can think of, but it is almost unremarkable in the US.
This is interesting
I would argue that with the gerrymandering of electorates and the way money dictates outcomes in US politics, you really don't have a democracy anymore.
That's what I thought. I've been really skeptical of VR, but if pornographers are on it, they'll make it successful.
Bear in mind, that $17.25 is in New Zealand dollars, so about $11.68 in your fancy US Dollars. It's always just worked, I'd call that pretty reliable.
I want to say it'll be illegal to complain after that. I wouldn't put it past them...
I wouldn't either
armed takeover of Apple's corporate offices...
I'm not sure that is very likely. The massively wealthy corporations that fund and control the US Government are run by people just like Tim Cook, and I don't think they would be keen on seeing one of their own in jail, or the assets stripped.
After all, the assets of Apple are largely owned by the same wealthy elites that own everything else.