Comment Re:This has been going on for a long time (Score 1) 400
Note that no security, physical or electronic, was ever broken.
That attitude is one of the reasons that DRM still exists.
Note that no security, physical or electronic, was ever broken.
That attitude is one of the reasons that DRM still exists.
I suspect that if Swartz had stopped the first couple of times MIT tried to block him, that would have been the end of it.
(No, Swartz did not deserve years in jail for what he did and the whole situation was a tragedy. I'm just noting that you were warned and you stopped. Swartz was warned and he kept at it).
Then we were politely told by security to cut it out. Enough fun. We weren't arrested.
Now what would have happened if you kept doing it?
But would you vote for an ignorant Republican and throw the people to the wolves?
Well, no...I'd not vote an 'ignorant' Republican...but from what I've seen, I don't think Romney has shown himself to be an ignorant person.
At the very least, he seems to have much more on the ball than, say...Joe Biden, who can't seem to keep his foot out of his mouth...and is only one heart attack away from the presidency.
Obama is a center-right president, which of course upsets both the left and the extreme-insane-fallen-off-the-map-right. There's a real danger that we could wind up with wingnut throwbacks in charge just because modern people aren't quite satisfied with Obama.
I have to heartily disagree with you in my view of Obama. Perhaps you are describing him from a European point of view, not the US view on liberal vs conservative.
I think Obama is one of the most left leaning, divisive and ideological people I've ever seen in power in the US, much less in the presidency. I think he is so very stuck to his ideals based agenda, that he cannot truly compromise or even see when things he tries and supports just do not work. I think he is so bent on going with fundamentally changing the US, its principals...etc...that he wants to keep pushing it even to the detriment of our country and its people.
Really? Really?
Let's look at some of his more signature accomplishments:
About the only thing he has been to the left on is gay rights, and even that was basically half-hearted until very recently.
Following up - another post reminded me about the 2007-2008 Democratic primaries. Hillary Clinton had a significant lead among black voters in the early going. Things started shifting when Bill started running his mouth in South Carolina.
Every single survey, poll, etc that was on the news at the time had between 96 and 98% of american black voters voting for him. That means they ignored all policy, all politics, all financial plans, all qualifications, all personal history, all things in general he said he'd do, and just for him based on the color of his skin.
What you mean is "96 and 98% of american black voters" voted for the Democrat - the 96% Obama got is consistent with the 90% that Gore got, the 88% Kerry got, the 90% Mondale and Dukakis got, the 94% Johnson got etc.
If blacks were voting overwhelmingly based on race, than you should see overwhelming support for Hermain Cain, Alan Keyes, Ward Connerly, etc. That's not the case.
What the governments shouldn't do is announce specific groups of people protected, and enact quotas and other ways to promote those groups ahead of other groups, on the basis that they have been historically discriminated against, and now need an unfair advantage in order to "even out" things. That is segregation and discrimination, and it is no less evil when it's done in favor of the minority rather than the majority. That is what affirmative action is.
Uh, no it isn't. Quotas (in the USA) in particular have been illegal since the 1970's.
Since incorporation means that you obligate yourself to the pursuit of profit over all else, it is not much of a stretch to say it also effectively obligates you to evil.
Uh, no. Maybe you can argue that an IPO or accepting outside investment obligates yourself to the pursuit of profit over all else, but not incorporation in and of itself. If my LLC cared about profit over all else, I'd be charging a lot more for my services.
BULLSHIT The segregationist racist laws of the US South were passed by DEMOCRATS
Yes- conservative Democrats. Liberal = Democrat and Conservative = Republican is a recent turn of events, before the 1960's there were conservative and liberal Republicans, as well as conservative and liberal Democrats.
Personally, I think parents and teachers unions are the biggest parts of the problems, or are certainly high on the list.
If the problem were "unions" you would expect that states without collective bargaining requirements would outperform states with those requirements.They don't.
iTunes may be a household name, but the award states "career in music" and "significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording." Steve Jobs fails on both of those requirements. He may deserve an award of some technical nature for the field of access to purchase music, but iTunes does not merit a Grammy for Steve.
It's not "career in music," it's "during their careers in music" which changes the context some. In any event, looking at the effect Jobs had on the music industry, I'd say he was at least as deserving of the award as Dick Clark, Don Cornelius, and Walt Disney (previous recipients).
I would have guessed that Korean brands like Samsung [,,] still do a lot of manufacturing in Korea, under better conditions than what China usually has.
Tell that to this guy.
Pretty sure my Nokia N900 and N9 (consumer version) weren't. My N950 (developer edition) wasn't either
You say this based on...? Nokia is a Foxconn customer
Moron. You increase the number of people on each airplane. Bigger airplanes.
Ain't that simple. "Bigger airplanes" assumes that the longer runways that can accommodate those larger planes aren't already maxed out. In the event that there is room to accommodate those planes, the airport has to account for new wake separation procedures. There's also the issue of whether the markets served by the airline are appropriate for larger planes. Finally, larger planes are in many (but not all) cases louder than smaller planes, and that results in environmental issues that are similar to those building new runways.
At best, "Bigger airplanes" is a stop-gap solution.
Airport capacity is measured in landings/takeoffs per hour.
Exactly. Which means to increase capacity, you have to increase the number of landings and takeoffs per hour. That means a) new runways, or b) new airports. That's really difficult to do these days, hence my point.
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad