They do if they value their Chinese readership (and the dollars that flow from them). Of course, that's really a moot point. If the Chinese government wished it, they could censor the print version themselves before it ever reached the eyes of any of their citizens, and block the NYT website from everyone in the country without batting an eyelash.
All this may be completely unnecessary, after all the US and perhaps other countries have jury trials without worrying that press coverage might influence the jury.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here in FL, passing speed (5mph or lower for short amounts of time) is not against the law and not considered 'speeding' and you cannot be ticketed for it.
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How are they being belligerant? By following the orders handed down to them through the chain of command? When a citizen becomes a solder, they don't sign a conditional contract that says "I will fight for my country, but only if it's being run by someone of my political persuasion / only if I agree with my orders / only if I'm given all the information my CO's are in order to make a decision on whether I want to do this or not."
As someone else in this thread already said, there is a difference between supporting the troops and supporting a war. I am not a soldier, nor will I ever be. I don't have the stomach for fighting. But I am grateful that there are men and women who will fight for me, and show that desire to protect people like me by signing up.
I honestly don't see how anyone with a modicum of logic can reach the conclusions you have. Whether or not you agree with the US's foreign policy or leadership is irrelevent. The intentions of the men and women on the ground are laudable, whatever the intentions of their leaders are. (Yes yes yes, before you start, I realize there are criminal elements in the armed forces just like anywhere else. But I have known a lot of armed service personel in my life, and I've yet to meet any who wheren't honest, agreeable, and just all-around nice guys.)
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that people don't try to kill you as an ordinary, day-to-day part of your job.
Yes... it would require that all ads be at LEAST as entertaining as the show it is interrupting.
A tremendously hard thing to do.
Not really, considering the mindless drivel that's on most of the time nowadays.
I can say with some certainty that Geico's commercial spoofing Reality-TV shows is more interesting by far than any realty show that has ever or will ever be made.
You have to wonder what they thought might be causing the few laptops that did ignite to go up in smoke.. On the one hand, you have charred batteries, which you know have a huge energy density and caustic, chain-reaction, chemistry.
Did it occur to you that maybe they were trying to acertain exactly what was wrong with the batteries? I don't know about you, but I use all sorts of batteries every day, and none of them are in the habit of exploding in a ball of fire. So I imagine that these people know that too, and were maybe asking themselves what about the bateries caused them to explode.
Why do you need a legal protocol other than a class-action suit? Those are bad enough, from a business standpoint. When everyone and their mother who even knew somebody that knew somebody with a Dell and requires some payment for the 'psychological anxiety' they went through worrying about poor third-cousin Jim and his exploding laptop.
I might agree with having some other recource for these consumers if the limitations on class-actions weren't a total joke.
Consumers win, consumers lose... all of this is irrelevant, the truth is that we have a sh*tty patent system that's vague enough to have two judges give 2 different verdicts on the same case.
So in other words, no different from any other aspect of our legal system, in which judges are about as likely to legislate from the bench as they are likely to judicate according to the law.
I always pop out the three superfluous keys at the bottom: The two "Windows" keys and the other "Menu"(?) key. I remember they seemed kinda neat when keyboards first started using them, but after the third or fourth time I got reamed in some game because I accidentally minimized it by pressing that key instead of the CTRL or ALT I was reaching for... Out they came.
Not to mention, their very presence on my keyboard defiles it with M$ paraphenalia. Yeah. Screw Microsoft.
Nintendo has a great track record of multiplayer and party games, just none online (to speak of). If the new Super Smash Bros. is online, that'd be pretty sweet. I foam at the mouth anticipating a game like Crystal Chronicals or Zelda: Four Swords online.
You would think that a university campus, full of students who could use that extra hundreds of dollars saved from not buying MSO more than most people, would be a perfect place to push Open Office.
You think uni cares about saving their students' money? You obviously havn't seen any of my bills.
I agree, universities should have reason to promote OSS and OO.o, but I think you have the wrong reason:)
It is safe, provided you run the anti-spy ware, anti-virus, anti-add ware, and a good firewall.
So these things are optional for people who run Firefox?
If you think your choice of browser precludes you from virri and spyware, I would like you to look at this brochure for a bridge in Brooklyn I have for sale.
I thought it was a pretty hilarious search. Right up there with the one that was something like "Are niggers gremlins, goblins, monsters" or whatever it said. I can just imagine the series of events that lead that person typing in that search.
It begins in a trailor park in Kentucky. "Well boyah. If y'all's old 'nuff to git that Con-fed-er-ate flag tat and yer first shotgun, I's thinkin' y'all's old 'nuff to be knowin' the REAL story bout this world of ours. Here, put on this bedsheet. No, t'ain't Hal-o-ween, this here's a family hair-loom."
I think it also says a lot about the sorts of ignorant and idiotic people that use AOL:P
I agree with your point, but the rest of the GP's comment is still valid, IMHO. I think it's a bit telling that a lot of the people who were bitching and whining about government wiretaps and bank information mining are finding this breach of personal security to be not only completely A-OK and on the level, but hilarious to boot.
If you want to write to your representitives, then by all means. But I don't know what good it will do; politicians in general don't have so nice of a track record of listening to their consituants, so much as just doing whatever they feel will get them the most money / political leverage / time in the media spotlight / chance of reelection.
I think you're leaving out a very important factor: the polical bias of every media outlet. Give this idea to CNN and the story will be "EVIL REPUBLICAN CULTURE OF CORRUPTION GOES TOO FAR: SPYING ON YOUR MOST INTIMATE PRIVATE LIFE", while the FOX story will be more like "UNPATRIOTIC LIBERAL TERRORIST SYMPATHY REACHES NEW HIGH: TRYING TO BLOCK DATA MINING VITAL TO HOMELAND SECURITY". But whatever the slant given the story, the story will still be out there for people to ponder about and discuss (yeah, I might be giving the voting public too much credit, but I'm in an optimistic mood). It's in the same vein as 'There's no such thing as bad press'.
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They do if they value their Chinese readership (and the dollars that flow from them). Of course, that's really a moot point. If the Chinese government wished it, they could censor the print version themselves before it ever reached the eyes of any of their citizens, and block the NYT website from everyone in the country without batting an eyelash.
I think that's rather on the optomistic side...
Indiana Jones found it. So it must be real.
I, for one, welcome our new communist martian overlords.
Virus... Or feature?
Elvis sang love songs way before most of today's bands, and he did it better.
Every other band who sings about love is ripping Elvis off. [/sarcasm... Sort of]
I like this song a lot. So much, in fact, that I am going to be purchasing Weird Al's CD. Oh, the irony.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here in FL, passing speed (5mph or lower for short amounts of time) is not against the law and not considered 'speeding' and you cannot be ticketed for it.
How are they being belligerant? By following the orders handed down to them through the chain of command? When a citizen becomes a solder, they don't sign a conditional contract that says "I will fight for my country, but only if it's being run by someone of my political persuasion / only if I agree with my orders / only if I'm given all the information my CO's are in order to make a decision on whether I want to do this or not."
As someone else in this thread already said, there is a difference between supporting the troops and supporting a war. I am not a soldier, nor will I ever be. I don't have the stomach for fighting. But I am grateful that there are men and women who will fight for me, and show that desire to protect people like me by signing up.
I honestly don't see how anyone with a modicum of logic can reach the conclusions you have. Whether or not you agree with the US's foreign policy or leadership is irrelevent. The intentions of the men and women on the ground are laudable, whatever the intentions of their leaders are. (Yes yes yes, before you start, I realize there are criminal elements in the armed forces just like anywhere else. But I have known a lot of armed service personel in my life, and I've yet to meet any who wheren't honest, agreeable, and just all-around nice guys.)
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that people don't try to kill you as an ordinary, day-to-day part of your job.
Not really, considering the mindless drivel that's on most of the time nowadays.
I can say with some certainty that Geico's commercial spoofing Reality-TV shows is more interesting by far than any realty show that has ever or will ever be made.
Did it occur to you that maybe they were trying to acertain exactly what was wrong with the batteries? I don't know about you, but I use all sorts of batteries every day, and none of them are in the habit of exploding in a ball of fire. So I imagine that these people know that too, and were maybe asking themselves what about the bateries caused them to explode.
Why do you need a legal protocol other than a class-action suit? Those are bad enough, from a business standpoint. When everyone and their mother who even knew somebody that knew somebody with a Dell and requires some payment for the 'psychological anxiety' they went through worrying about poor third-cousin Jim and his exploding laptop.
I might agree with having some other recource for these consumers if the limitations on class-actions weren't a total joke.
So in other words, no different from any other aspect of our legal system, in which judges are about as likely to legislate from the bench as they are likely to judicate according to the law.
They have a pretty ironic name for being so short-sighted.
I've never worked much on Windows boxes except for gaming, so I never knew anything about the Windows-key shortcuts (except that they existed).
:)
But thanks, that's good to know.
I always pop out the three superfluous keys at the bottom: The two "Windows" keys and the other "Menu"(?) key. I remember they seemed kinda neat when keyboards first started using them, but after the third or fourth time I got reamed in some game because I accidentally minimized it by pressing that key instead of the CTRL or ALT I was reaching for... Out they came.
Not to mention, their very presence on my keyboard defiles it with M$ paraphenalia. Yeah. Screw Microsoft.
Nintendo has a great track record of multiplayer and party games, just none online (to speak of). If the new Super Smash Bros. is online, that'd be pretty sweet. I foam at the mouth anticipating a game like Crystal Chronicals or Zelda: Four Swords online.
You think uni cares about saving their students' money? You obviously havn't seen any of my bills.
I agree, universities should have reason to promote OSS and OO.o, but I think you have the wrong reason
Typical /. moderator axe-grinding. Mod parent up; his point isn't any less valid because he said something you didn't like.
Indeed...
So these things are optional for people who run Firefox?
If you think your choice of browser precludes you from virri and spyware, I would like you to look at this brochure for a bridge in Brooklyn I have for sale.
It begins in a trailor park in Kentucky. "Well boyah. If y'all's old 'nuff to git that Con-fed-er-ate flag tat and yer first shotgun, I's thinkin' y'all's old 'nuff to be knowin' the REAL story bout this world of ours. Here, put on this bedsheet. No, t'ain't Hal-o-ween, this here's a family hair-loom."
I think it also says a lot about the sorts of ignorant and idiotic people that use AOL
I agree with your point, but the rest of the GP's comment is still valid, IMHO. I think it's a bit telling that a lot of the people who were bitching and whining about government wiretaps and bank information mining are finding this breach of personal security to be not only completely A-OK and on the level, but hilarious to boot.
If you want to write to your representitives, then by all means. But I don't know what good it will do; politicians in general don't have so nice of a track record of listening to their consituants, so much as just doing whatever they feel will get them the most money / political leverage / time in the media spotlight / chance of reelection.
I think you're leaving out a very important factor: the polical bias of every media outlet. Give this idea to CNN and the story will be "EVIL REPUBLICAN CULTURE OF CORRUPTION GOES TOO FAR: SPYING ON YOUR MOST INTIMATE PRIVATE LIFE", while the FOX story will be more like "UNPATRIOTIC LIBERAL TERRORIST SYMPATHY REACHES NEW HIGH: TRYING TO BLOCK DATA MINING VITAL TO HOMELAND SECURITY". But whatever the slant given the story, the story will still be out there for people to ponder about and discuss (yeah, I might be giving the voting public too much credit, but I'm in an optimistic mood). It's in the same vein as 'There's no such thing as bad press'.
I guess it means that people who are smart enough to have correct spelling are also smart enough not to want to see people fucking animals.
Or at least they don't use AOL searches to find it.