Comment Re:is this a dupe article? (Score 2) 526
All cars are deathtraps, just go and look at the figures
It's only news because rather than the engine catching on fire as is usual in cars it was the batteries
All cars are deathtraps, just go and look at the figures
It's only news because rather than the engine catching on fire as is usual in cars it was the batteries
The NSA's job is to spy on anyone and everyone who might be a potential threat to the USA
The NSA only spies on enemies, or potential terrorists, or people linked to potential terrorists, or people linked to people linked to potential terrorists etc
Which will break as well
How much do you pay to use Google's search engine
Could this just be that Android users are more wary of ads... or that iPhone users click on the ads not knowing they are an ad
Some religions are strictly non-violent, but not perfect and have still harmed their followers, and families
Some Atheists are violent, just as some people are violent
Most/All religions say that killing is wrong, but almost all of the allow killing of certain people in the right circumstances
A VM is by definition running on a host that can skew what the VM sees and so is intrinsicly insecure
A smoke detector has one job, it needs to do this flawlessly, so smoke detectors are very very simple and are designed to have a near zero failure rate
Homeschooling assumes you have enough education to teach your kids, or enough money to pay for someone else to do so, and enough time or money to spend the time to do this, and that you actually already care and actively participate in your child's education
All of this means that these statistics probably do not apply to you
Would that be TCP/IP (invented by Americans in the USA more than 40 years ago)
or the Web invented in Switzerland 20 years ago by a Brit
The USA was innovative but that was in the past and most of the innovation is now imported
I think you will find that many of the inventions over the last 20 years that you think are American, were invented by others, by privileged Americans who bypassed the poor state run system, or by naturalised Americans who did not have to suffer the education system at all
You cite a series of international companies that are based in the USA, who employ many people in many countries and where the innovation is driven by people across the world
You refer to technologies that were invented in the USA (and other countries) mostly more than 30 years ago, and much of the recent innovation has been international
What have people in the USA actually invented themselves recently
They have attempted to use a single interface on small mobile phones, tablets, Home PC's, General business workstations, Servers, High end workstations, etc
What they have ended up with is an interface that will only satisfy some of the customers on some of these devices
So in the USA if the government cannot agree a budget they just stop
In the UK the defeat of a supply bill (one that concerns the spending of money) automatically requires the resignation of the government or dissolution of Parliament, much like a non-confidence vote, since a government that cannot spend money is hamstrung. i.e Since the Government cannot agree on what to spend money they leave it to the will of the people
Unless you are a Mac user, you probably have three buttons on your mouse, the middle one is disguised as a wheel....
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