Considering we ALREADY knew, if we were paying attention. Remember ECHELON, and "Jam ECHELON day" ?? Remember "CARNIVORE" ?? Remember "Total Information Awareness" ?? This just release 4.x (and probably higher, nobody found the earlier and/or intermediate programs. ..)
Those were all crazy tin-foil hat conspiracy theories. Hence the GP's comment "Conspiracies take time to unravel". I'd add that it takes courage and luck, too. Courage for someone to speak out, and luck for someone influential to listen.
Speaking for myself, people I previously regarded as batshit crazy like Alex Jones sound a little more sane these days.
The Egyptians who are tired of the non-performing Egyptian presidents are gathering in HUGE CROWD, demanding that muslim-brotherhood figurehead to step down
And about America...... do you see anything like that happening ?
Why not ?
What kind of message the Americans are telling the world ?... that we, the Americans, are SATISFIED with what the Obama administration is doing... that we, the Americans, agree with what NSA is doing... that we, the Americans, do not mind our phones be tapped, do not mind that the big brother has invaded our privacy, do not mind at all, that our liberties are being violated
Easy. The economy is in the shitter. Banks and corporations get bail outs and forgiven loans and bankruptcy protection. For the rest of us, persistent unemployment (so persistent, half are not even counted anymore because they cannot get any additional unemployment benefits). Commodity prices are increasing every month while pay remains stagnant. The majority of people have little to no net worth. You'd think we'd be ripe for mass demonstrations.
But being in poverty in the US features far better conditions than poverty in other nations. They can still afford a TV, McDonalds, free Obamaphone, free internet at the public library. The priority is to keep people fat and happy specifically so they don't march down the streets in protest. Aside from a few token advocates -- maybe, what, half a percent of the population? -- they're too busy watching Kim Kardashian, downing cheeseburgers, twittering about getting laid, and half-assing an online application to work at Target. These Brave New World comforts are what the masses stand to lose, so you get apathy. "Oh well, they're illegally collecting data on me, I DGAF becuz I got beer after trading my EFT for cash."
what a tool this Snowden is. he's a wanted fugitive, accused of treason and espionage. then he whines that US is blocking his asylum bids? no shit, sherlock! he needs to recognize the impact of his actions, and set his expectations accordingly. somebody call the waaambulance! US has long arms around the world, so he shouldn't be surprised when the MIB show up to put him on a plane to quantico in short, he did a really crappy thing (or herioc thingi if that's your worldview), and he's going to be held accountable to it. any statements to the contrary are naive and self centered (like assange himself).
What's happening to Snowden is less about punishing him as it is scaring any future would-be whistleblowers. He already threw his previous life away by exposing illegal data mining, would he have done so if he thought he also wouldn't be able to get safe harbor anywhere else?
Consider, if he was really a bad guy, he'd board the train to Pyongyang from Moscow. I'm sure North Korea would welcome a former NSA sysadmin with open arms.
Right, so the slippery slope in the gun control debate is that the constitution only allows for a well-trained militia to keep their guns, but gun-owners have forced it to become anybody's right regardless of training or participation in a militia. The government is trying to go back up the slope (with mandatory ID and criminal record checks), but they just keep sliding back down.
No, the constitution recognizes the need for a regulated militia and the right of the people. Otherwise:
1. It would be self contradictory, since regulating your militia is, in turn, regulating arms, which the text says shall not be infringed 2. It wouldn't be located next to the third amendment, which also puts the freedom of the people over soldiers of the union 3. It would be unique, as the fifth amendment also refer to the militia as external to the people 4. It would be misplaced, as rights specifically granted to a government entity (states) that wasn't already addressed in the articles is all the way in the back at amendment ten 5. It would be redundant, since the military is already presumed to exist as in Article 2
Anyone can argue whether they like it or not, but the fact is the second amendment, quite clearly, refers to the right of the people. Anyone claiming otherwise is mistaken at best and selectively manipulative at worst.
Booth babes are offensive to the larger population of women
...snip...
I go to ask what I thought was a saleswoman, but she didn't know anything about what it was or how to buy it, even though she was dressed in Vespa branded attire. Point is; I was interested; but they lost a sale because the lady was apparently hired as decoration, but wasn't trained to even point me to a real salesperson!
If she had pointed to a salesperson, would having her there no longer been offensive?
Don't forget that the only reason why those feminists graduated college is because they led suckers like you on so you'd do their homework and papers for them. As if women could do math on their own, ha.
They got a degree. You got the blue-balls while they had sex with me. Believe it or not, they enjoy being dominated by men they consider worthy.
Anonymous Coward is a bit of an counterpoint to a Worthy Dominator, wouldn't you say?
Based on the IT industry here (Ireland) at least, there's been a huge increase in the number of gay men in IT, or out gay men at least. Not much use in having a booth babe if the guy buying the product doesn't like boobs.
I've never met a gay man that didn't like boobs. He may not want to have sex with the person they're attached to, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a dislike.
Similar situation happened with me and Google's Nexus 7. Preordered, email goes out promising to ship them out by a certain date, nothing. Weeks go by. I see it sitting on store shelves and Google customer "service" claims they can't cancel my preorder and that "it's shipping today", despite saying that every single time I called.
I was called a liar a few times, too, when I complained publicly about it. I hope it gets sorted out for you soon.
No, 45 days after you swallow it, you'll run to the nearest toilet (or wastebasket) and strain to remove the brick residing in your large bowel. You'll understand what women go through when they give birth. The rounded corners usually prevent anal bleeding. Usually.
I guess it's no big deal that they've got a ton of calories per 100g, since it's not like it's digestible in the first place.
Why 299792458? Why not 299792459? Why not 300000000? Why not 1000000000? And let's not even get into how long a second is.
Backwards compatibility, from when the meter was defined by "the length of this here stick."
Seconds, though? Absolutely. Sorcery that is. I guess there had to be a unit of time to make all of science useful in some way, but seconds are really SI unfriendly since, while you could use units like kiloseconds, you can't really abandon hours/minutes for it.
It's the nsa's job to spy on foreign frenemies. For an American to expose this is treason. What moral excuse could there possibly be?
Because they were also spying domestically, and Snowden would be punished instead of being treated as a whistleblower. Any deals he made with other nations (deals, mind you, that have no proof to have occurred) would have been made in exchange for protection.
Or do you think it would have been morally superior to have Snowden arrested, tried, and executed as a traitor from day one only for reporting illegal operations underway? On my compass, the most moral choices from the set of all choices are those where Snowden is allowed to be a free man.
First, MBI hasn't claimed "credit for all home 3d printing innovation despite the existence of the Reprap project" - they were formed specifically to commercialize the RepRap project, cooperatively with the RepRap project. MBI credits and links to the RepRap project, and vice versa.
I guess you haven't seen any of Bre's world press tours. When he mentions Reprap, it's only with the context that he had trouble making it work and came up with the Cupcake because the Reprap sucks. Obvious paraphrasing aside, the message is clear. That Reprap project you might have heard about? Yeah, don't bother. Get a Makerbot.
Second, they aren't "putting terms of service on their object repository Thingiverse that basically says, regardless of the license you select for the works you upload, you give them a permanent, irrevocable right to do whatever they want rights-wise with your stuff". The TOS gives them the rights, but you left off the limitation that the rights are granted only for the purposes of operating Thingiverse.
Nice try.
Groundwork:
Company provides a service for users to share digital designs that can be printed on 3D printers to create physical objects (collectively, with all other services provided through the Site, the "Services").
So let's play rules parsing, shall we? "Services" is defined widely. It definitely includes the "sharing of digital designs that can be printed on 3D printers to create physical objects." But note it also states "collectively, with all other services". That means whatever services they offer. There is not limit to what that collection of services actually IS.
Now the fun begins:
3.2 License. You hereby grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Company and its affiliates and partners, an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use your User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site and Services. You agree to irrevocably waive (and cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content.
You might read "solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site and Services" and think "wow, ok, it's just for the functioning of the site. The laughable plain-English version on the side of the screen seems to indicate that, too. Too bad you won't be able to argue the plain-English version in court, they want the real TOS. And if you read the real TOS, note that since the Services are unbounded, so to is what you're granting the "irrevocable worldwide license" and you "irrevocably waive... any claims of moral rights or attribution".
All the feel good hipster bullshit doesn't change the fact that, if Thingiverse put a "Buy Me!" button on the site tomorrow, adding sales to the list of "Services", you would have already granted them the right to sell it at profit, regardless of whatever public license you're asking other people to be bound by. You have also waived your right to claims of attribution, so your widget can get a nice big fat Makerbot logo bolted on, too.
If you didn't grant them any rights, they wouldn't have the right to serve the files that you upload to them to serve!
Funny that the right to serve files is directly defined as a Service, yet it's also open enough to include anything else they may come up with at a later time. Doesn't matter if they come up with it later, or if you take your thing down, you can't revoke the worldwide license you granted them. Oopsie.
You don't have to trust me, you should read the actual text, not the feel-good marketing babble next to it.
I suspect author is also bothered by wifi signals emanating from his router.
If my eyes are watering after a long session its because my screen is too bright, which is exactly the opposite of what he postulates as the problem (on off cycles of LEDs). Brighter requires longer "on" cycles, which in turn are less perceptible. Yet for most people overly bright screens are the source of complaints.
Ah, the good old "it doesn't happen to me, he's a liar" reasoning.
PWM lighting is annoying if the frequency isn't high enough. Rates that that drive me crazy don't drive everyone else crazy. I perviously didn't know why some displays made me slightly nauseous and others didn't until I started to dabble in electronics and learned what PWM actually is and built a circuit that gave me headaches.
I don't understand how the carrier frequency is chosen in consumer goods, but it seems in times past it was based around whatever clock source was conveniently available, and those sources are generally completely arbitrary. I found is rather funny how one arbitrary number can make me hate your product if it wasn't high enough.
To be fair, things are a lot better for me now than they used to be. Probably because the conveniently available clock sources are faster now, or maybe some switched to adjusting the current directly? Maybe also that VFDs and LED displays have given way to LCD displays. And nothing was worse to me than a CRT with phosphors that decayed faster than the retrace. Yetch.
I bought a Thing-o-matic at the beginning of Bre's PR blitz a year and a half ago. I was excited about it. Then I needed more stuff from theIr store, and they were out of stock... for months... While Bre was still going on every talk show that would have him.
I began to think that this whole venture was just about Bre's self-aggrandizement and there was no follow through for the DIY product itself.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is marketing at it's finest. Getting you to part with your money with the glitz and glamour of empty promises.
They have now aquired Makerbot and will keep it seperate, which means they can now start trolling other companies with their stratasys patents and keep selling under the Makerbot name avoiding backlash from the community in general.
Makerbot has already sullied their name in the community by stealing from the Open Source guys, claiming credit for all home 3d printing innovation despite the existence of the Reprap project, and putting terms of service on their object repository Thingiverse that basically says, regardless of the license you select for the works you upload, you give them a permanent, irrevocable right to do whatever they want rights-wise with your stuff, including commercial use and only a "promise" in a blog that they won't violate that trust. Except, now, it's Stratasys's trust now. Ha.
It's a well known fact that crime is a sign of society's shortfalls. Most people commit crime for a reason, few do it for the thrill (there's some). Now, building drones costs money, wouldn't that money be better spent fixing society's ills. There is no need for the government to watch us. They need to work on making us as great a society as possible and fixing problems (seems we need to watch them though.. drones all around the whitehouse!). These drone would just focus more on catching criminals then fixing whatever drove the person to commit the crime. Everybody should be able to see how this drones to catch criminals approach can quickly spiral out of control.
Also, LEO's aren't your friend, they'll do anything to get a conviction and advance their career, some are good, but most don't have a working sense of justice. Even google is more of a friend to you.
The goal of the powerful is not to stop crime altogether, it's to stop crime from exceeding certain rates that will interfere with the continual farming of the citizenry. The crime that remains is there to scare them away from voting you out.
In short, it's a balance between making sure just enough people get murdered for us to say "hey, there are murderers out there, pay me more taxes!" but not so many that the GDP starts going down.
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Considering we ALREADY knew, if we were paying attention. Remember ECHELON, and "Jam ECHELON day" ?? Remember "CARNIVORE" ?? Remember "Total Information Awareness" ?? This just release 4.x (and probably higher, nobody found the earlier and/or intermediate programs. . .)
Those were all crazy tin-foil hat conspiracy theories. Hence the GP's comment "Conspiracies take time to unravel". I'd add that it takes courage and luck, too. Courage for someone to speak out, and luck for someone influential to listen.
Speaking for myself, people I previously regarded as batshit crazy like Alex Jones sound a little more sane these days.
I mean, look at what is happening in Egypt
The Egyptians who are tired of the non-performing Egyptian presidents are gathering in HUGE CROWD, demanding that muslim-brotherhood figurehead to step down
And about America ... ... do you see anything like that happening ?
Why not ?
What kind of message the Americans are telling the world ? ... that we, the Americans, are SATISFIED with what the Obama administration is doing ... that we, the Americans, agree with what NSA is doing ... that we, the Americans, do not mind our phones be tapped, do not mind that the big brother has invaded our privacy, do not mind at all, that our liberties are being violated
Easy. The economy is in the shitter. Banks and corporations get bail outs and forgiven loans and bankruptcy protection. For the rest of us, persistent unemployment (so persistent, half are not even counted anymore because they cannot get any additional unemployment benefits). Commodity prices are increasing every month while pay remains stagnant. The majority of people have little to no net worth. You'd think we'd be ripe for mass demonstrations.
But being in poverty in the US features far better conditions than poverty in other nations. They can still afford a TV, McDonalds, free Obamaphone, free internet at the public library. The priority is to keep people fat and happy specifically so they don't march down the streets in protest. Aside from a few token advocates -- maybe, what, half a percent of the population? -- they're too busy watching Kim Kardashian, downing cheeseburgers, twittering about getting laid, and half-assing an online application to work at Target. These Brave New World comforts are what the masses stand to lose, so you get apathy. "Oh well, they're illegally collecting data on me, I DGAF becuz I got beer after trading my EFT for cash."
what a tool this Snowden is. he's a wanted fugitive, accused of treason and espionage. then he whines that US is blocking his asylum bids? no shit, sherlock! he needs to recognize the impact of his actions, and set his expectations accordingly. somebody call the waaambulance! US has long arms around the world, so he shouldn't be surprised when the MIB show up to put him on a plane to quantico
in short, he did a really crappy thing (or herioc thingi if that's your worldview), and he's going to be held accountable to it. any statements to the contrary are naive and self centered (like assange himself).
What's happening to Snowden is less about punishing him as it is scaring any future would-be whistleblowers. He already threw his previous life away by exposing illegal data mining, would he have done so if he thought he also wouldn't be able to get safe harbor anywhere else?
Consider, if he was really a bad guy, he'd board the train to Pyongyang from Moscow. I'm sure North Korea would welcome a former NSA sysadmin with open arms.
Right, so the slippery slope in the gun control debate is that the constitution only allows for a well-trained militia to keep their guns, but gun-owners have forced it to become anybody's right regardless of training or participation in a militia. The government is trying to go back up the slope (with mandatory ID and criminal record checks), but they just keep sliding back down.
No, the constitution recognizes the need for a regulated militia and the right of the people. Otherwise:
1. It would be self contradictory, since regulating your militia is, in turn, regulating arms, which the text says shall not be infringed
2. It wouldn't be located next to the third amendment, which also puts the freedom of the people over soldiers of the union
3. It would be unique, as the fifth amendment also refer to the militia as external to the people
4. It would be misplaced, as rights specifically granted to a government entity (states) that wasn't already addressed in the articles is all the way in the back at amendment ten
5. It would be redundant, since the military is already presumed to exist as in Article 2
Anyone can argue whether they like it or not, but the fact is the second amendment, quite clearly, refers to the right of the people. Anyone claiming otherwise is mistaken at best and selectively manipulative at worst.
I shouted "DROP TABLE" a few times into the phone but I don't know if it worked.
Here in the US it is impossible to take two steps forward without taking a step and a half back.
This week has been pretty scary in those regards...
Week? Last decade, surely.
Are there plans to release a remake of the original original version of Leisure Suit Larry, Softporn Adventure?
I thought the first LSL was a remake of Softporn Adventure?
Booth babes are offensive to the larger population of women
...snip...
I go to ask what I thought was a saleswoman, but she didn't know anything about what it was or how to buy it, even though she was dressed in Vespa branded attire. Point is; I was interested; but they lost a sale because the lady was apparently hired as decoration, but wasn't trained to even point me to a real salesperson!
If she had pointed to a salesperson, would having her there no longer been offensive?
In what world is a full coverage t-shirt "scantily-dressed"?
When it's wet?
Don't forget that the only reason why those feminists graduated college is because they led suckers like you on so you'd do their homework and papers for them. As if women could do math on their own, ha.
They got a degree. You got the blue-balls while they had sex with me. Believe it or not, they enjoy being dominated by men they consider worthy.
Anonymous Coward is a bit of an counterpoint to a Worthy Dominator, wouldn't you say?
Based on the IT industry here (Ireland) at least, there's been a huge increase in the number of gay men in IT, or out gay men at least. Not much use in having a booth babe if the guy buying the product doesn't like boobs.
I've never met a gay man that didn't like boobs. He may not want to have sex with the person they're attached to, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a dislike.
Similar situation happened with me and Google's Nexus 7. Preordered, email goes out promising to ship them out by a certain date, nothing. Weeks go by. I see it sitting on store shelves and Google customer "service" claims they can't cancel my preorder and that "it's shipping today", despite saying that every single time I called.
I was called a liar a few times, too, when I complained publicly about it. I hope it gets sorted out for you soon.
...but I still won't eat them. I prefer Little Debbie Swiss Rolls. ...and RC Cola - Mmmmmm nom nom
Yodels > Swiss Rolls
No, 45 days after you swallow it, you'll run to the nearest toilet (or wastebasket) and strain to remove the brick residing in your large bowel. You'll understand what women go through when they give birth. The rounded corners usually prevent anal bleeding. Usually.
I guess it's no big deal that they've got a ton of calories per 100g, since it's not like it's digestible in the first place.
Why 299792458? Why not 299792459? Why not 300000000? Why not 1000000000? And let's not even get into how long a second is.
Backwards compatibility, from when the meter was defined by "the length of this here stick."
Seconds, though? Absolutely. Sorcery that is. I guess there had to be a unit of time to make all of science useful in some way, but seconds are really SI unfriendly since, while you could use units like kiloseconds, you can't really abandon hours/minutes for it.
It's the nsa's job to spy on foreign frenemies. For an American to expose this is treason. What moral excuse could there possibly be?
Because they were also spying domestically, and Snowden would be punished instead of being treated as a whistleblower. Any deals he made with other nations (deals, mind you, that have no proof to have occurred) would have been made in exchange for protection.
Or do you think it would have been morally superior to have Snowden arrested, tried, and executed as a traitor from day one only for reporting illegal operations underway? On my compass, the most moral choices from the set of all choices are those where Snowden is allowed to be a free man.
"The final step is going to be to have all car manufacturers agree on a certain standard, "
Hell will freeze first. we cant eve get the Gas cap on the same side of the car.
Tell me about it. I hate that my gas cap is on the inside of my car.
First, MBI hasn't claimed "credit for all home 3d printing innovation despite the existence of the Reprap project" - they were formed specifically to commercialize the RepRap project, cooperatively with the RepRap project. MBI credits and links to the RepRap project, and vice versa.
I guess you haven't seen any of Bre's world press tours. When he mentions Reprap, it's only with the context that he had trouble making it work and came up with the Cupcake because the Reprap sucks. Obvious paraphrasing aside, the message is clear. That Reprap project you might have heard about? Yeah, don't bother. Get a Makerbot.
Second, they aren't "putting terms of service on their object repository Thingiverse that basically says, regardless of the license you select for the works you upload, you give them a permanent, irrevocable right to do whatever they want rights-wise with your stuff". The TOS gives them the rights, but you left off the limitation that the rights are granted only for the purposes of operating Thingiverse.
Nice try.
Groundwork:
Company provides a service for users to share digital designs that can be printed on 3D printers to create physical objects (collectively, with all other services provided through the Site, the "Services").
So let's play rules parsing, shall we? "Services" is defined widely. It definitely includes the "sharing of digital designs that can be printed on 3D printers to create physical objects." But note it also states "collectively, with all other services". That means whatever services they offer. There is not limit to what that collection of services actually IS.
Now the fun begins:
3.2 License. You hereby grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Company and its affiliates and partners, an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use your User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site and Services. You agree to irrevocably waive (and cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content.
You might read "solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site and Services" and think "wow, ok, it's just for the functioning of the site. The laughable plain-English version on the side of the screen seems to indicate that, too. Too bad you won't be able to argue the plain-English version in court, they want the real TOS. And if you read the real TOS, note that since the Services are unbounded, so to is what you're granting the "irrevocable worldwide license" and you "irrevocably waive ... any claims of moral rights or attribution".
All the feel good hipster bullshit doesn't change the fact that, if Thingiverse put a "Buy Me!" button on the site tomorrow, adding sales to the list of "Services", you would have already granted them the right to sell it at profit, regardless of whatever public license you're asking other people to be bound by. You have also waived your right to claims of attribution, so your widget can get a nice big fat Makerbot logo bolted on, too.
If you didn't grant them any rights, they wouldn't have the right to serve the files that you upload to them to serve!
Funny that the right to serve files is directly defined as a Service, yet it's also open enough to include anything else they may come up with at a later time. Doesn't matter if they come up with it later, or if you take your thing down, you can't revoke the worldwide license you granted them. Oopsie.
You don't have to trust me, you should read the actual text, not the feel-good marketing babble next to it.
I suspect author is also bothered by wifi signals emanating from his router.
If my eyes are watering after a long session its because my screen is too bright, which is exactly the opposite of what he postulates as the problem (on off cycles of LEDs). Brighter requires longer "on" cycles, which in turn are less perceptible. Yet for most people overly bright screens are the source of complaints.
Ah, the good old "it doesn't happen to me, he's a liar" reasoning.
PWM lighting is annoying if the frequency isn't high enough. Rates that that drive me crazy don't drive everyone else crazy. I perviously didn't know why some displays made me slightly nauseous and others didn't until I started to dabble in electronics and learned what PWM actually is and built a circuit that gave me headaches.
I don't understand how the carrier frequency is chosen in consumer goods, but it seems in times past it was based around whatever clock source was conveniently available, and those sources are generally completely arbitrary. I found is rather funny how one arbitrary number can make me hate your product if it wasn't high enough.
To be fair, things are a lot better for me now than they used to be. Probably because the conveniently available clock sources are faster now, or maybe some switched to adjusting the current directly? Maybe also that VFDs and LED displays have given way to LCD displays. And nothing was worse to me than a CRT with phosphors that decayed faster than the retrace. Yetch.
I bought a Thing-o-matic at the beginning of Bre's PR blitz a year and a half ago. I was excited about it. Then I needed more stuff from theIr store, and they were out of stock... for months... While Bre was still going on every talk show that would have him.
I began to think that this whole venture was just about Bre's self-aggrandizement and there was no follow through for the DIY product itself.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is marketing at it's finest. Getting you to part with your money with the glitz and glamour of empty promises.
They have now aquired Makerbot and will keep it seperate, which means they can now start trolling other companies with their stratasys patents and keep selling under the Makerbot name avoiding backlash from the community in general.
Makerbot has already sullied their name in the community by stealing from the Open Source guys, claiming credit for all home 3d printing innovation despite the existence of the Reprap project, and putting terms of service on their object repository Thingiverse that basically says, regardless of the license you select for the works you upload, you give them a permanent, irrevocable right to do whatever they want rights-wise with your stuff, including commercial use and only a "promise" in a blog that they won't violate that trust. Except, now, it's Stratasys's trust now. Ha.
If they were so quick to listen to the gaming community, why have they been so deaf to the feedback about Windows 8?
Because there's no EULA prohibiting you from selling your 360 to someone else, so those consoles will always be plentiful on the secondary market.
Meanwhile, Windows 7 can be pulled from stores and you are prohibited from transferring your license to any other computer, whether you own it or not.
In short, you don't have to listen to your customers when they're locked in and you control the market scarcity.
Those only fit on Predator (MQ-1) and Reapers (MQ-9), they can't put missiles on light surveillance drones
Guess they'll just have to settle for the lighter 2-mile range missiles.
It's a well known fact that crime is a sign of society's shortfalls. Most people commit crime for a reason, few do it for the thrill (there's some). Now, building drones costs money, wouldn't that money be better spent fixing society's ills. There is no need for the government to watch us. They need to work on making us as great a society as possible and fixing problems (seems we need to watch them though.. drones all around the whitehouse!). These drone would just focus more on catching criminals then fixing whatever drove the person to commit the crime. Everybody should be able to see how this drones to catch criminals approach can quickly spiral out of control.
Also, LEO's aren't your friend, they'll do anything to get a conviction and advance their career, some are good, but most don't have a working sense of justice. Even google is more of a friend to you.
The goal of the powerful is not to stop crime altogether, it's to stop crime from exceeding certain rates that will interfere with the continual farming of the citizenry. The crime that remains is there to scare them away from voting you out.
In short, it's a balance between making sure just enough people get murdered for us to say "hey, there are murderers out there, pay me more taxes!" but not so many that the GDP starts going down.
Why shouldn't they use drones? They use surveillance helicopters. This is just another method of doing the same thing.
Because we all would like to think "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy and not a human certainty.