Comment Re:This is what happens (Score 1) 101
Like, secretary as in the one that takes dictation, or secretary as in the one that is in charge of a large arm of government bureaucracy?
Yes.
Like, secretary as in the one that takes dictation, or secretary as in the one that is in charge of a large arm of government bureaucracy?
Yes.
Except that theyre the only one not cooperating with governments like China these days. Microsoft has been in agreements with them for years.
Keep up with current events, young'un - Google did an about-face on China over a year ago.
Google Shows China the White Flag of Surrender
Google hasn't been the "don't be evil" company for quite a while.
i think you're misinformed. both Tea Party group and progressive group applications were scrutinized. no Tea Party groups were denied their application from what i remember, but at least one progressive group was. so no, this isn't the powerful silencing opposition and not approving one side whilst rubber-stamping the other.
The IRS is hopelessly corrupt.
because they did their due diligence when it came to applications for tax-exempt status, or because of the lost emails?
if the former, why shouldn't the IRS scrutinize applications for a tax-exempt status which disallows political activity* where the applicant group has 'Tea Party' in its title and description? isn't the Tea Party pretty much by definition a political movement? they also scrutinized 'progressive' groups for the same reason (IIRC 'progressive' groups were the only ones denied status), but you don't hear people on capitol hill yelling about that.
should 501(c)(3) status just be handed out without the application receiving any scrutiny at all? or should conservative groups get a pass and only 'progressive' groups get scrutinized? i honestly don't understand what's the actual scandal here.
*substantive lobbying and campaigning IIRC.
I prefer the current, genteel Internet - one where people are well-spoken and polite. I don't want it to become a cesspool of jargon and shorthand. Sure, you may think acronyms are harmless, but if they ever catch on... next thing you know, people will be putting numbers and symbols in place of letters, or even (God forbid) substituting one letter for another!
Of course, what they're shooting for is
No Secrets Anywhere.
Tell them you stored all of your records in e-mail messages. They'll understand the loss.
What loss? They can ask the NSA for their copies.
Their unofficial motto is "Don't be evil".
When was the most recent instance someone from Google's leadership team used that phrase, anyway?
Social networks are useful. It's about time we wrote and popularized a distributed one, hosted on our own machines rather than dependent on some group of folks to whom we are products, not customers.
Diaspora is dead, dude - just get over it.
We know about the "research" leading to this - we all saw "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" too.
I have a pretty good idea how often that joke works - and you don't need octal to keep it in single digits.
Just use a different base.
Well, by remembering domain names instead of IP addresses you're basically using base 26.
So to get access to a Comcast customer's wi-fi, you also have to be a Comcast customer AND you are limited to a short amount of time per month.
I suspect what's going to happen soon is Comcast will start charging its customers per device, since visitor's computers/devices are now separated out from the homeowner's stuff. "So you own one iMac, three Kindle Fire tablets and an iPhone? That's five MACs connecting to our service - so here's the base charge, plus the $10/month surcharge per extra device."
I also expect there'll be a premium "feature" where Comcast customers can pay for additional "roaming" time on Comcast routers other than their own.
Given those of us the world calls "nerds" seemingly have a weakness for championing the lesser-known, and given that nerd-driven edits are a disproportionately large percentage of Wikipedia edits... it's not surprising someone like Linnaeus has the top spot.
Really, the biggest surprise isn't that Linnaeus outranks Jesus - it's that Jesus managed to outrank Joss Whedon.
BOA did this to me a few years ago.. I'd make some purchases before traveling abroad only to have my card shut off when I was in Ukraine.
Well, Mr. Putin - maybe NEXT TIME you'll think before you invade another country!
"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid." - Martin Mull
