No, he just thinks that a rational choice can consist of "have or not have". We're all free to tell our monopoly telcos and ISPs to shove their crap service and rape pricing where the sun don't shine whenever we like... provided we're willing to stop having internet connections.
So they shouldn't use shaping to , for example, favor high priority VOIP traffic (potentially including emergency service communications) over low priority torrent traffic during periods of peak usage? That would run afoul of your rule.
Should hotspots and school or municipal wifi networks be allowed to route users through a login or TOS page before admitting them onto the internet proper? That could be viewed as a violation of your rule as well.
Should an ISP be able to restrict SMTP traffic from a known spam zombie until the issue can be properly addressed? That would violate your rule as well.
I'm not saying that the legislation should be Xbox huge, but your one line version is simply not sophisticated enough to meet the needs of net neutrality without breaking the needs of actual users and providers.
Have you heard the Tea Partiers and Conservatives on this issue? They're braying about "government takeover" and calling net neutrality an assault on basic liberties.
I think a strong case can be made that he's done better than the rest, even if "better" just means he didn't completely bury net neutrality from the word go.
So is Wikileaks inside of US jurisdiction? Not a news source protected by shield laws?
I like the intellectual disconnect that allows people to believe Wikileaks isn't a news outlet almost as much as I like the one that allows them to believe the Bill of Rights only applies to Government action regarding US Citizens living within the country... "shall not [except when dealing with furrners or working outside of the country] infringe..."
Which is funny, because Julian Assange and Wikileaks didn't steal anything... the documents were given to them by a third party, widely believed to be Bradley Manning. Wikileaks is guilty only of receiving the data and publishing the parts they feel are morally justifiable to make public, not stealing, and not espionage, and certainly not treason (they aren't even eligible to commit that one).
Deep Throat provided stolen, classified documents... nobody calls for the heads of Woodward and Bernstein.
Or selection bias... Unless the all-girls school in question was the only option, GP went there by choice for a specific purpose, and likely had to meet certain academic requirements to do so. That a school full of students who are strong academic achievers who take enough interest in their education to attend a special high school at demonstrable social cost (teens tend to like being around the opposite sex, tend to place high value on time spent thusly, and tend to place negative connotations on those who choose not to do so) would have an advanced academic course with well above-average enrollment is, frankly, unsurprising.
Of course, that all flies out the window if my earlier assumption that going to the all-girls school was entirely voluntary proves false.
Yeah, all that charity work in Africa is just EVIL.
I'm not a fan of many of Bill's business practices, but at the end of the day I'd much rather see a kid wish to emulate him than a lot of other people. I think if you put aside your blinding irrational hatred for a moment, you might even agree.
I'd also add that their "research" is hardly ground-breaking or important. Important research into string theory or medical technology warrants an altogether different level of seriousness and scientific rigor than does testing the plausibility of urban legends.
You might be saddened to learn that many sports and racing titles also use acronyms for titles, and have been doing so for decades. There are even many shooters and action games (SOCOM, comes to mind) which do so... it's actually a pretty widespread practice.
Your statistics imply that Apple is losing on some metric, and they are therefore invalid. Any facts contradicting the ultimate supremacy of Apple in all things are obviously and unquestionably flawed... the deranged lies of pathetic astroturfers.
Now if you would be so kind as to report to the nearest Apple Store and Re-Education Center, such unworthy ideas can be swiftly removed.
You would be correct if the purpose of those questions was not diagnostic, and if many such patients are not only so delirious that they really don't know what's happening anyway, but absolutely cannot be allowed to lose consciousness: Tetris can't pressure people into staying awake. Even if it seems obvious what's wrong with somebody, It's entirely possible that a non-obvious issue also exists... maybe the guy with broken leg fell down the stairs because he was starting to have a heart attack, treating just the apparent issue is going to end poorly.
PTSD is definitely a serious condition in need of effective mitigation techniques, but it in no way trumps immediate physical danger.
I'd say the secret is that DNF is the training program for employees of Xe (The Mercenary Company Formerly Known as Blackwater), focused as it is on wantonly brutalizing everything, engaging in wildly promiscuous and only theoretically consensual sexual conduct, using steroids to better smash opponents and generally being an epic-level asshole to everyone... but that would be much too obvious for a "secret".
Don't be ridiculous, that's a totally legitimate business practice. You're probably just upset because you don't have enough money to put yourself on an even playing field with the big boys... maybe you should try working harder and having some personal accountability. Commie.
"Chances are, if everyone is waiting for the game to be patched, then the patch will never see the light of day because they will assume the game failed and that's the end of it."
Yeah, that's pretty much how this works. Once enough time passes where their big-budget blockbusters keep on "failing" because people opt not to buy them until the major bugs get fixed, they'll either start shipping fewer bugs or patching them a lot faster. Either way, we get what we should already have.
If anything, the current tactic of buying on release then waiting for updates is far more likely to backfire... they've already got your money, why bother shelling out to fix it when they could just sell you another broken game instead?
I think you're being a bit unfair to Yahoo! with that comment. They're clearly on the leading edge of innovating new and compelling business strategies designed to leverage their company even further into the abyss of irrelevancy. They must have gotten a lot of very bright, very creative people together to develop and idea that spectacularly stupid... it's almost like they're writing the script for their own "Pirates of Silicon Valley" or "The Social Network" corporate creationist Hollywood retrospective, and their working title is "Jackass IT".
Hardly any pirates ever commanded a ship that big or well-armed... excepting outliers like Morgan, Drake or Teach (and, frankly, they mostly fit the bill as well) virtually all of them were low-rent criminals and thugs going after small un-armed merchant craft just to keep the crew from starvation. Few of them were particularly competent fighters or sailors, and the majority died swift, painful deaths after a very brief career.
Of course, it makes for a much less compelling movie if you've only got 5-10 half-starved men on a small boat carrying 2 guns and only enough powder and shot for one and a half volleys, running away from anything that has an actual soldier aboard and mostly plundering ships that immediately surrender because they are simply too small to fight and fail to run away. The reality isn't even approximate to the fantasy.
For me, the problem there is that Harry Reid has let them get away with just threatening to filibuster, rather than forcing them to actually try it. We live in the age of C-SPAN, if they want to stand up there and babble like morons rather than actually do their jobs, let them.
Nixon created the EPA, and his healthcare platform when debating Kennedy was essentially Obamacare without a mandate (he was very specific on that one point). He also ended (albeit for potentially questionable reasons) the Vietnam conflict (technically not a war), much to the chagrin of various arms manufacturers and other military contractors.
Saying Obama is further to the right than Nixon or Reagan might be a bit of a stretch, but far less absurd than you seem to believe. This country took a hard right turn in the 80s, and has now gone so far right that we're actually seeing the right-wing fringe adopt ideas too radically liberal for most Democrats (see: prop 19).
Also, who the hell is Harry Roosevelt? Franklin's hirsute cousin?
Lol, no. There are some things I cannot entrust to a piece of software, and the monopoly on legitimate violence is absolutely on that list.
Beyond that, anyone who claims that democracy is dead, that corruption and fraud have finally become so ingrained in the system that it simply doesn't work as intended, etc. needs to actually learn some basic history of electoral politics. Plain and simple, this shit has been happening since long before day 1. Hell, most of the guys who wrote the fracking Declaration of Independence weren't even elected, and many of the ones who wrote the Constitution were either effectively self-appointed or elected by a process that can only charitably be described as "deeply flawed"... not that it mattered much, since the only people actually allowed to vote were older white men with sufficient means to show up at whatever obscure building was chosen for polling in the middle of fall harvest, and when you've got an almost wholly agrarian, rural society possessing no faster transportation than horseback that's the sort of thing that seriously cramps voter turnout.
The fact of the matter is that, for all the dishonesty and shenanigans that happen every year, American politics are more open, transparent and free from tampering than they've ever been. Democracy is dead like nobody uses the internet.
I didn't forget that at all, I simply wrap that into a broader point from the other side: "creating a (regulated and taxed) legitimate industry to serve that desire would be of greater benefit to society than the prohibition which is current policy".
I've taken up a policy of keeping things positive and not accusing others of conspiracy to ________. I've seen a 90% dropoff in people calling me a loony or some such, and a 900% uptick in people dropping their bullshit right quick. Tact has its uses.
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No, he just thinks that a rational choice can consist of "have or not have". We're all free to tell our monopoly telcos and ISPs to shove their crap service and rape pricing where the sun don't shine whenever we like... provided we're willing to stop having internet connections.
Well, you might if your face is buried in muff...
So they shouldn't use shaping to , for example, favor high priority VOIP traffic (potentially including emergency service communications) over low priority torrent traffic during periods of peak usage? That would run afoul of your rule.
Should hotspots and school or municipal wifi networks be allowed to route users through a login or TOS page before admitting them onto the internet proper? That could be viewed as a violation of your rule as well.
Should an ISP be able to restrict SMTP traffic from a known spam zombie until the issue can be properly addressed? That would violate your rule as well.
I'm not saying that the legislation should be Xbox huge, but your one line version is simply not sophisticated enough to meet the needs of net neutrality without breaking the needs of actual users and providers.
Have you heard the Tea Partiers and Conservatives on this issue? They're braying about "government takeover" and calling net neutrality an assault on basic liberties.
I think a strong case can be made that he's done better than the rest, even if "better" just means he didn't completely bury net neutrality from the word go.
So is Wikileaks inside of US jurisdiction? Not a news source protected by shield laws?
I like the intellectual disconnect that allows people to believe Wikileaks isn't a news outlet almost as much as I like the one that allows them to believe the Bill of Rights only applies to Government action regarding US Citizens living within the country... "shall not [except when dealing with furrners or working outside of the country] infringe..."
Which is funny, because Julian Assange and Wikileaks didn't steal anything... the documents were given to them by a third party, widely believed to be Bradley Manning. Wikileaks is guilty only of receiving the data and publishing the parts they feel are morally justifiable to make public, not stealing, and not espionage, and certainly not treason (they aren't even eligible to commit that one).
Deep Throat provided stolen, classified documents... nobody calls for the heads of Woodward and Bernstein.
Or selection bias... Unless the all-girls school in question was the only option, GP went there by choice for a specific purpose, and likely had to meet certain academic requirements to do so. That a school full of students who are strong academic achievers who take enough interest in their education to attend a special high school at demonstrable social cost (teens tend to like being around the opposite sex, tend to place high value on time spent thusly, and tend to place negative connotations on those who choose not to do so) would have an advanced academic course with well above-average enrollment is, frankly, unsurprising.
Of course, that all flies out the window if my earlier assumption that going to the all-girls school was entirely voluntary proves false.
Yeah, all that charity work in Africa is just EVIL.
I'm not a fan of many of Bill's business practices, but at the end of the day I'd much rather see a kid wish to emulate him than a lot of other people. I think if you put aside your blinding irrational hatred for a moment, you might even agree.
I'd also add that their "research" is hardly ground-breaking or important. Important research into string theory or medical technology warrants an altogether different level of seriousness and scientific rigor than does testing the plausibility of urban legends.
You might be saddened to learn that many sports and racing titles also use acronyms for titles, and have been doing so for decades. There are even many shooters and action games (SOCOM, comes to mind) which do so... it's actually a pretty widespread practice.
So sorry to burst your bubble.
Your statistics imply that Apple is losing on some metric, and they are therefore invalid. Any facts contradicting the ultimate supremacy of Apple in all things are obviously and unquestionably flawed... the deranged lies of pathetic astroturfers.
Now if you would be so kind as to report to the nearest Apple Store and Re-Education Center, such unworthy ideas can be swiftly removed.
You would be correct if the purpose of those questions was not diagnostic, and if many such patients are not only so delirious that they really don't know what's happening anyway, but absolutely cannot be allowed to lose consciousness: Tetris can't pressure people into staying awake. Even if it seems obvious what's wrong with somebody, It's entirely possible that a non-obvious issue also exists... maybe the guy with broken leg fell down the stairs because he was starting to have a heart attack, treating just the apparent issue is going to end poorly.
PTSD is definitely a serious condition in need of effective mitigation techniques, but it in no way trumps immediate physical danger.
I'd say the secret is that DNF is the training program for employees of Xe (The Mercenary Company Formerly Known as Blackwater), focused as it is on wantonly brutalizing everything, engaging in wildly promiscuous and only theoretically consensual sexual conduct, using steroids to better smash opponents and generally being an epic-level asshole to everyone... but that would be much too obvious for a "secret".
Don't be ridiculous, that's a totally legitimate business practice. You're probably just upset because you don't have enough money to put yourself on an even playing field with the big boys... maybe you should try working harder and having some personal accountability. Commie.
"Chances are, if everyone is waiting for the game to be patched, then the patch will never see the light of day because they will assume the game failed and that's the end of it."
Yeah, that's pretty much how this works. Once enough time passes where their big-budget blockbusters keep on "failing" because people opt not to buy them until the major bugs get fixed, they'll either start shipping fewer bugs or patching them a lot faster. Either way, we get what we should already have.
If anything, the current tactic of buying on release then waiting for updates is far more likely to backfire... they've already got your money, why bother shelling out to fix it when they could just sell you another broken game instead?
I think you're being a bit unfair to Yahoo! with that comment. They're clearly on the leading edge of innovating new and compelling business strategies designed to leverage their company even further into the abyss of irrelevancy. They must have gotten a lot of very bright, very creative people together to develop and idea that spectacularly stupid... it's almost like they're writing the script for their own "Pirates of Silicon Valley" or "The Social Network" corporate creationist Hollywood retrospective, and their working title is "Jackass IT".
Holy fuck, his name scans into the theme song well enough to work... it's not as catchy by a mile, but what can you do?
Anyway, where's an all-male a capella group when you really need it?
It's my turn with the sex box... and her name is Sony!
Hardly any pirates ever commanded a ship that big or well-armed... excepting outliers like Morgan, Drake or Teach (and, frankly, they mostly fit the bill as well) virtually all of them were low-rent criminals and thugs going after small un-armed merchant craft just to keep the crew from starvation. Few of them were particularly competent fighters or sailors, and the majority died swift, painful deaths after a very brief career.
Of course, it makes for a much less compelling movie if you've only got 5-10 half-starved men on a small boat carrying 2 guns and only enough powder and shot for one and a half volleys, running away from anything that has an actual soldier aboard and mostly plundering ships that immediately surrender because they are simply too small to fight and fail to run away. The reality isn't even approximate to the fantasy.
For me, the problem there is that Harry Reid has let them get away with just threatening to filibuster, rather than forcing them to actually try it. We live in the age of C-SPAN, if they want to stand up there and babble like morons rather than actually do their jobs, let them.
Nixon created the EPA, and his healthcare platform when debating Kennedy was essentially Obamacare without a mandate (he was very specific on that one point). He also ended (albeit for potentially questionable reasons) the Vietnam conflict (technically not a war), much to the chagrin of various arms manufacturers and other military contractors.
Saying Obama is further to the right than Nixon or Reagan might be a bit of a stretch, but far less absurd than you seem to believe. This country took a hard right turn in the 80s, and has now gone so far right that we're actually seeing the right-wing fringe adopt ideas too radically liberal for most Democrats (see: prop 19).
Also, who the hell is Harry Roosevelt? Franklin's hirsute cousin?
Lol, no. There are some things I cannot entrust to a piece of software, and the monopoly on legitimate violence is absolutely on that list.
Beyond that, anyone who claims that democracy is dead, that corruption and fraud have finally become so ingrained in the system that it simply doesn't work as intended, etc. needs to actually learn some basic history of electoral politics. Plain and simple, this shit has been happening since long before day 1. Hell, most of the guys who wrote the fracking Declaration of Independence weren't even elected, and many of the ones who wrote the Constitution were either effectively self-appointed or elected by a process that can only charitably be described as "deeply flawed"... not that it mattered much, since the only people actually allowed to vote were older white men with sufficient means to show up at whatever obscure building was chosen for polling in the middle of fall harvest, and when you've got an almost wholly agrarian, rural society possessing no faster transportation than horseback that's the sort of thing that seriously cramps voter turnout.
The fact of the matter is that, for all the dishonesty and shenanigans that happen every year, American politics are more open, transparent and free from tampering than they've ever been. Democracy is dead like nobody uses the internet.
"I suppose there could be another group who do think that morality and practicality are one and the same"
Utilitarians and objectivists could both, to some extent, be viewed as holding that opinion. Neither is a small group.
I didn't forget that at all, I simply wrap that into a broader point from the other side: "creating a (regulated and taxed) legitimate industry to serve that desire would be of greater benefit to society than the prohibition which is current policy".
I've taken up a policy of keeping things positive and not accusing others of conspiracy to ________. I've seen a 90% dropoff in people calling me a loony or some such, and a 900% uptick in people dropping their bullshit right quick. Tact has its uses.
Which one?
I very much dislike the game of politics by innuendo, if you a have point, make it or shut the fuck up.