That and because the NSA doesn't deal much with the courts. They are not police or prosecutors, they are intelligence officers.
I don't believe that absolves them from the responsibility to act in accordance with the Constitution, but I also don't believe that it doesn't matter what I believe, they will do as they wish to do in any event. If you get "arrested" by the NSA, I simply wouldn't expect for you to ever see the light of day again.
I always cringe going to a website with a name that starts with "gizm". Well, not always, but if I'm looking for tech news or whatever, then yeah... especially anything related to iProducts.
Yeah, sure, there are explosions on boats from time to time. People also get struck by lightning and attacked by sharks. It's actually quite rare, as evidenced by your own search results: the first page has minor stories in obscure publications from 4 and 5 years ago. Furthermore, most of them appear to have resulted in no fatalities, and many not even in serious injuries. It would most certainly get scrutinized if, out of nowhere, this guy went out in a Michael Bay explosion. Consider for a moment just how many boats are actually out there, not exploding or experiencing any kind of misadventure. It's a rarity.
In fact, it would be much less suspicious if his house burned down. That happens all the time, and often doesn't even make it into the local paper above page 5. To be honest though, I think they'd rather he just gave up the cause, faded from the public eye, and was forgotten; which basically leaves intimidation and bribery as the most likely options.
Oh look, a tourist. How quaint. Might I interest you in some local seafood, or perhaps some maple syrup? You really must try the salt water taffy, it's pissah.
"Taxachusetts" actually has overall tax rates that put it near the middle of the pack. Most taxes here are well-known to citizens and consumers, because they are directly levied on them, so people *feel* like they are being more heavily taxed than elsewhere, but in reality they are not.
Why don't you take that sour grapes BS and screw off to New Hampshire. They're conservative, and they like whining about how stupid and backwards and overpriced Massachusetts, and how we're all stupid for living here... then they drive to the STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED liquor stores to fuel up for the next anti-commie rant. Plus they've got nice low taxes and corporate-friendly laws which ensure that the gravy train will be rolling into town any day now, it's right around the corner, really. Charming place, and the infrastructure is very close to not being laughable. You'd fit right in.
You're kidding right? Explosions are flashy, they get a lot of attention and everybody sees it. The last thing that a group interested in keeping their activities under wraps would want is for everybody to start looking at them because a critic just turned into a fireball.
Poisonings, "muggings gone wrong", character assassinations, etc. are all much more subtle ways to go about silencing a nuisance. They want a resolution where they can, reasonably, act just as surprised as everyone else. I'd be much more suspicious if he died of a sudden heart attack, or was murdered by an apparent Islamic terrorist than if he went out in a blaze of improbability.
Yes, this would be a much better place to live if education were available only to those children whose parents can afford to pay for it. Either that, or they can enroll in a school operated by religious extremists who may or may not brainwash children into bizarre, cultish practices and beliefs.
Then we'd have less poor people clogging our schools AND more devoutly/disturbingly fringe religious whackjobs running around. That's 2 birds with 1 stone.
To be fair, their joke neighbors are Nicaragua and Panama. The only way it would be funnier is if they bordered Venezuela. Most of the region is a political and economic basketcase. Oddly enough, Costa Rica has few mineral resources, virtually no oil (they found some along the Atlantic cost, but choose not to allow extraction), no military (and a well-known policy of permanent neutrality), and still manages to have a fairly solid economy, a very stable government, routinely holds free and fair elections and holds a place on the UN Security Council. They also have 99% green, renewable energy production, and are on pace to be carbon neutral in the very near future without causing severe damage to the private sector.
Their neighbors don't have to be a joke for them to look good, but it certainly doesn't hurt.
The only time I've ever even heard of somebody being pulled over for that was my ex-girlfriend. She was going 10mph over, passing people, but a statey was annoyed because his private lane was only going 74 while he liked driving 80.
Suffice it to say, I am thoroughly unconvinced that those laws have any beneficial effect on safety or traffic fow.
the problem then, is that it is substantially easier to employ PR and marketing than it is to instill critical thinking in the masses. Not to mention the difficulty of overcoming oppositional PR and marketing, which will cloud your truths. Surely you don't expect that those without fact on their side to simply roll over and let you win simply because you're right and they're wrong?
I'd like to point out that, by and large, the people who refer to it as a "living document" are not the ones who most rapaciously ignore what it says. The "literalists" are all in favor of police and executive power, creative interpretations of the word "person" to mean something other than "an individual human being", expanding corporate influence, and generally interfering with people's day to day lives and personal choices.
They are for different usage levels. Audacity is the best tool I've encountered for doing quick and dirty edits, where the end result is a track that only slightly varies from the original (eg. I spliced the beginning of Jorge Quintero's 300 Violin Concierto into an intro for They Might Be Giant's Particle Man a few weeks ago... the entire edit took less than 5 minutes) and there just isn't much value in spending more time than absolutely necessary doing them.
Hmmm... that gives me a neat idea for and IMAX film... stage a play in the round, with the audience semi-illuminated, and give the cameras to one of the actors. Obviously, it would have to be somebody in every scene. The movie audience now gets to experience what it is like to be on stage being watched by an audience. Very avant garde.
It could be really awesome, or really boring, or both. The first would make bank, the second would win some film festival awards, and the 3rd would make it Oscar material... it can't lose!
Oh, right, copyright Miseph 2010-eternity (end period is an estimate based on current copyright trends).
He said health care. That particular industry is not only not a dead end, it just received the biggest boost in completely reality-divorced profitability in American history. It doesn't even matter what aspect of health care: insurance, equipment manufacturer, pharmaceuticals, even just a hospital administration and management company; they were all just a few short months ago handed an enormous blank check.
What it lacks on Apple is the same thing their competitors in the electronics market lack: sex appeal. Apple has sex appeal, Apple products have sex appeal (doubt it? if you want to get laid, should you carry an iPod, or a Zen? sex appeal), Dell does not.
I believe that GP was saying it would be out of most people's price range to purchase that equipment for their own personal use. They also stated that it would likely make small, local ISPs economically viable... which is pretty much you said somebody could do. Unless you happen to think $500k is a reasonable amount of money to spend on home networking gear, in which case I'd like to give you my card the next time your home internet connection gets a bit laggy...
My God, it's like your meaningless differences of opinion complement one another such that there is nothing to argue or disagree about... you simply don't have the same preferences, and live your lives as you wish to.
I know that's possible, but this is Slashdot. Things like that just don't happen here. Ever.
I'm not sure that I can sit idly by and watch the very fabric of our community be torn asunder in this way. THIS CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND. I hereby order you to fight. Bitch and moan, make ad hominem attacks, assert that one another are intellectually inferior beings because they hold such clearly invalid opinions! Do as you have been trained, and uphold our dearest traditions!
I suspect the GP will point out the dirt cheapness of small flash drives. I will now beat him to the punch.
One could reasonably afford to distribute Linux installers on fairly small USB flash drives (1gb no longer counts as "big"... my inner child is appropriately stunned) for only a few cents more per unit than CDs or DVDs, and they are substantially sturdier for the purposes of travel by pocket.
Actually, I'll probably mention that to the next Ubuntu type I see handing out discs at a convention.
Presumably for the same reason they would develop for anything else: because they or somebody else wants the software on it. WebOS has a lot of closed source, but it is an open system in the sense that anyone can develop for it and release their product without artificial restriction. HP would have to be idiots to lock down the environment like Apple does, partly because it's just not such a great idea for anyone, and partly because unlike Apple they don't have a userbase willing to accept that sort of thing.
Now that Carly is gone, I think HP could rebound, and if they do the Slate right, that could be a huge part of it. Frankly, the iPad doesn't do what I would want a device in that size and at that price to do, I would love to see if the Slate does, and if so I very well might get one. Basically, I need some way of using a physical keyboard with it (preferably USB, although slide-out would be acceptable, and both would be the best), HDMI out, wireless LAN, and some way of connecting to a cell network for data - preferably one that allows me to just plug my phone or a dongle into it via USB.
And assuming that independent reviewers don't tear it apart on build quality or usability of WebOS. I really hope this isn't how it turns out, but one can never be sure until it hits the street.
In 2003, I was unable to get even 56k internet at home, the lines were so bad it was limited to 28.8. At that point, broadband was considered a standard service, and everyone was supposed to have access.
A small non-profit that set up a wireless network across the lake I lived on to serve a potential market of about 100 homes met some initial success, then run out of funding and folded. It gave everyone the equivalent of low DSL bandwidth, with high latency and frequent outages, which was spectacular by comparison. To the best of my knowledge, the people there are back to 28.8 or nothing.
There are places which still don't have broadband, and maybe never will, even in America.
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That and because the NSA doesn't deal much with the courts. They are not police or prosecutors, they are intelligence officers.
I don't believe that absolves them from the responsibility to act in accordance with the Constitution, but I also don't believe that it doesn't matter what I believe, they will do as they wish to do in any event. If you get "arrested" by the NSA, I simply wouldn't expect for you to ever see the light of day again.
I always cringe going to a website with a name that starts with "gizm". Well, not always, but if I'm looking for tech news or whatever, then yeah... especially anything related to iProducts.
Yeah, sure, there are explosions on boats from time to time. People also get struck by lightning and attacked by sharks. It's actually quite rare, as evidenced by your own search results: the first page has minor stories in obscure publications from 4 and 5 years ago. Furthermore, most of them appear to have resulted in no fatalities, and many not even in serious injuries. It would most certainly get scrutinized if, out of nowhere, this guy went out in a Michael Bay explosion. Consider for a moment just how many boats are actually out there, not exploding or experiencing any kind of misadventure. It's a rarity.
In fact, it would be much less suspicious if his house burned down. That happens all the time, and often doesn't even make it into the local paper above page 5. To be honest though, I think they'd rather he just gave up the cause, faded from the public eye, and was forgotten; which basically leaves intimidation and bribery as the most likely options.
Oh look, a tourist. How quaint. Might I interest you in some local seafood, or perhaps some maple syrup? You really must try the salt water taffy, it's pissah.
"Taxachusetts" actually has overall tax rates that put it near the middle of the pack. Most taxes here are well-known to citizens and consumers, because they are directly levied on them, so people *feel* like they are being more heavily taxed than elsewhere, but in reality they are not.
Why don't you take that sour grapes BS and screw off to New Hampshire. They're conservative, and they like whining about how stupid and backwards and overpriced Massachusetts, and how we're all stupid for living here... then they drive to the STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED liquor stores to fuel up for the next anti-commie rant. Plus they've got nice low taxes and corporate-friendly laws which ensure that the gravy train will be rolling into town any day now, it's right around the corner, really. Charming place, and the infrastructure is very close to not being laughable. You'd fit right in.
You're kidding right? Explosions are flashy, they get a lot of attention and everybody sees it. The last thing that a group interested in keeping their activities under wraps would want is for everybody to start looking at them because a critic just turned into a fireball.
Poisonings, "muggings gone wrong", character assassinations, etc. are all much more subtle ways to go about silencing a nuisance. They want a resolution where they can, reasonably, act just as surprised as everyone else. I'd be much more suspicious if he died of a sudden heart attack, or was murdered by an apparent Islamic terrorist than if he went out in a blaze of improbability.
Yes, this would be a much better place to live if education were available only to those children whose parents can afford to pay for it. Either that, or they can enroll in a school operated by religious extremists who may or may not brainwash children into bizarre, cultish practices and beliefs.
Then we'd have less poor people clogging our schools AND more devoutly/disturbingly fringe religious whackjobs running around. That's 2 birds with 1 stone.
To be fair, their joke neighbors are Nicaragua and Panama. The only way it would be funnier is if they bordered Venezuela. Most of the region is a political and economic basketcase. Oddly enough, Costa Rica has few mineral resources, virtually no oil (they found some along the Atlantic cost, but choose not to allow extraction), no military (and a well-known policy of permanent neutrality), and still manages to have a fairly solid economy, a very stable government, routinely holds free and fair elections and holds a place on the UN Security Council. They also have 99% green, renewable energy production, and are on pace to be carbon neutral in the very near future without causing severe damage to the private sector.
Their neighbors don't have to be a joke for them to look good, but it certainly doesn't hurt.
The only time I've ever even heard of somebody being pulled over for that was my ex-girlfriend. She was going 10mph over, passing people, but a statey was annoyed because his private lane was only going 74 while he liked driving 80.
Suffice it to say, I am thoroughly unconvinced that those laws have any beneficial effect on safety or traffic fow.
As GP pointed out, the joke sucked. That is a perfectly valid reason to criticize it.
the problem then, is that it is substantially easier to employ PR and marketing than it is to instill critical thinking in the masses. Not to mention the difficulty of overcoming oppositional PR and marketing, which will cloud your truths. Surely you don't expect that those without fact on their side to simply roll over and let you win simply because you're right and they're wrong?
I'd like to point out that, by and large, the people who refer to it as a "living document" are not the ones who most rapaciously ignore what it says. The "literalists" are all in favor of police and executive power, creative interpretations of the word "person" to mean something other than "an individual human being", expanding corporate influence, and generally interfering with people's day to day lives and personal choices.
But, are you a plumber?
If by "a ton" you mean 4% of US gamers.
They are for different usage levels. Audacity is the best tool I've encountered for doing quick and dirty edits, where the end result is a track that only slightly varies from the original (eg. I spliced the beginning of Jorge Quintero's 300 Violin Concierto into an intro for They Might Be Giant's Particle Man a few weeks ago... the entire edit took less than 5 minutes) and there just isn't much value in spending more time than absolutely necessary doing them.
That is not what Pro Tools is for.
May I formally request that we start with humans? They're easily the most annoying.
I would also like to suggest that we start with the btard sub(human)species, for maximum efficiency.
How much is a Sharpie?
Hmmm... that gives me a neat idea for and IMAX film... stage a play in the round, with the audience semi-illuminated, and give the cameras to one of the actors. Obviously, it would have to be somebody in every scene. The movie audience now gets to experience what it is like to be on stage being watched by an audience. Very avant garde.
It could be really awesome, or really boring, or both. The first would make bank, the second would win some film festival awards, and the 3rd would make it Oscar material... it can't lose!
Oh, right, copyright Miseph 2010-eternity (end period is an estimate based on current copyright trends).
I believe that the Amish use snail mail from time to time. The USPS is also a 3rd party.
He said health care. That particular industry is not only not a dead end, it just received the biggest boost in completely reality-divorced profitability in American history. It doesn't even matter what aspect of health care: insurance, equipment manufacturer, pharmaceuticals, even just a hospital administration and management company; they were all just a few short months ago handed an enormous blank check.
What it lacks on Apple is the same thing their competitors in the electronics market lack: sex appeal. Apple has sex appeal, Apple products have sex appeal (doubt it? if you want to get laid, should you carry an iPod, or a Zen? sex appeal), Dell does not.
I believe that GP was saying it would be out of most people's price range to purchase that equipment for their own personal use. They also stated that it would likely make small, local ISPs economically viable... which is pretty much you said somebody could do. Unless you happen to think $500k is a reasonable amount of money to spend on home networking gear, in which case I'd like to give you my card the next time your home internet connection gets a bit laggy...
My God, it's like your meaningless differences of opinion complement one another such that there is nothing to argue or disagree about... you simply don't have the same preferences, and live your lives as you wish to.
I know that's possible, but this is Slashdot. Things like that just don't happen here. Ever.
I'm not sure that I can sit idly by and watch the very fabric of our community be torn asunder in this way. THIS CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND. I hereby order you to fight. Bitch and moan, make ad hominem attacks, assert that one another are intellectually inferior beings because they hold such clearly invalid opinions! Do as you have been trained, and uphold our dearest traditions!
That sounds very much like long-term business thinking. That has no place in modern American business.
By the way, here's your papers... you've been served.
Sincerely,
The ##AA
I suspect the GP will point out the dirt cheapness of small flash drives. I will now beat him to the punch.
One could reasonably afford to distribute Linux installers on fairly small USB flash drives (1gb no longer counts as "big"... my inner child is appropriately stunned) for only a few cents more per unit than CDs or DVDs, and they are substantially sturdier for the purposes of travel by pocket.
Actually, I'll probably mention that to the next Ubuntu type I see handing out discs at a convention.
Presumably for the same reason they would develop for anything else: because they or somebody else wants the software on it. WebOS has a lot of closed source, but it is an open system in the sense that anyone can develop for it and release their product without artificial restriction. HP would have to be idiots to lock down the environment like Apple does, partly because it's just not such a great idea for anyone, and partly because unlike Apple they don't have a userbase willing to accept that sort of thing.
Now that Carly is gone, I think HP could rebound, and if they do the Slate right, that could be a huge part of it. Frankly, the iPad doesn't do what I would want a device in that size and at that price to do, I would love to see if the Slate does, and if so I very well might get one. Basically, I need some way of using a physical keyboard with it (preferably USB, although slide-out would be acceptable, and both would be the best), HDMI out, wireless LAN, and some way of connecting to a cell network for data - preferably one that allows me to just plug my phone or a dongle into it via USB.
And assuming that independent reviewers don't tear it apart on build quality or usability of WebOS. I really hope this isn't how it turns out, but one can never be sure until it hits the street.
In 2003, I was unable to get even 56k internet at home, the lines were so bad it was limited to 28.8. At that point, broadband was considered a standard service, and everyone was supposed to have access.
A small non-profit that set up a wireless network across the lake I lived on to serve a potential market of about 100 homes met some initial success, then run out of funding and folded. It gave everyone the equivalent of low DSL bandwidth, with high latency and frequent outages, which was spectacular by comparison. To the best of my knowledge, the people there are back to 28.8 or nothing.
There are places which still don't have broadband, and maybe never will, even in America.