Comment Re:So your point then... (Score 1) 105
Such a state would probably optimize the balance between the individual and the group.
Which invites the question: what's your next obfuscation?
I think when the Irish and Polish and Italian immigrant waves came, they actually liked the basic system of America and wanted to melt into it. They thought they could make it just fine on their own, by working. Now we have multiculturalism and its encouragement of cultural segregation, and of not learning the language and customs and fully joining in. Now suddenly these days it's like America is at a zenith of racism and the message that can and does resonate is that you can't make it on your own in America, without the Left's help.
You have to admire the Left's genius in realizing that there is more political power to be derived from keeping people divided, rather than having them unite under one set of capitalistic Judeo-Christians values.
It wasn't impossible to write cross platform browser stuff in the late 1990s, when most corporations started this whole "We'll standardize on browser X" policy making, but it required a discipline that had most developers throwing their hands up in the air in disgust.
I had these arguments many times back then. It was laziness more than anything else. We were writing cross-platform web applications without problems at that time. We were trying to convince other developers to follow the same route, but their attitude was mainly "IE has 90%+ market share, why bother?" They didn't believe a time would come when proprietary IE code wouldn't work - even if other browsers caught on, they were expecting them to copy the IEisms. They certainly didn't believe that even later versions of Internet Explorer wouldn't support their crappy code.
- IE4+ was the most standard. Yes, really. Those versions had a relatively complete implementation of CSS.
Let's not overstate things. Netscape bet on JSSS and when the W3C selected CSS as the standard instead, they scrambled to fix Netscape 4 to convert from CSS to JSSS on the fly. So Netscape 4 was exceptionally bad at CSS. Internet Explorer 4 was merely very bad at CSS. Opera was ahead at that time. I don't think you can call IE4 "relatively complete" unless you only compare it to Netscape 4, which was unusually bad.
he's still married to his first wife. That's gotta mean something...
Well, he's a practicing Jew, but apparently that wasn't enough to keep Chuck Todd from replacing him at Press the Meat.
It's an extremely small victory in the struggle against fascism, but obtaining David Gregory's arrest warrant helps underscore the point that too many laws is fertile ground for uneven enforcement, which is a refined form of tyranny.
reverse engineering is allowed, and could be opening themselves up to legal action.
Just because reverse engineering is legal, it doesn't mean WhatsApp are legally obligated to provide their services to third-party clients.
The legal matter here is the blatant trademark infringement by WhatsApp Plus.
I prefer Apple to keep iMessage to themselves. It will make sure its adoption never become widespread.
It's already widespread. Several billion iMessages are sent per day.
The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong -- until the next person quits or is fired.