Representative Democracy. The worst system ever devised, except for all the others.

Wait, is this sarcasm? You're gunning for the funny mod, right?

Because, A., the PATRIOT Act (writing the word "patriot" in reference to these orwellian measures makes my stomach turn, but that's not what I'm talking about here) was promulgated by Cheney Rumsfeld Bush and Co., and passed under their stern, wagging fingers, and, B., Obama operates from the White House, whereas it is the Congress whose building is Capitol Hill.

I'm confused because Paragraph 2 is an accurate representation of the current state of affairs. I mean, Obama is a far sight short of his promises, much like most Democrats these days, and totally wrong on this issue, but he is way less of a totalitarian/authoritarian than CRB executive was. And, at least one or two of his policies are meant for the benefit of the Plebs.

They're doing this. Granted, there's no iOS car version yet, but Carplay is a solid step in that direction.

Too bad they've taken down most of the towers in the broadband network.

if this article is to be believed.

but now

A little smelly. And just when I thought MS was working it's way back to cool.

True for so many things, from automobile failures to nuclear power plants. If everyone at Fukushima had been doing their job, it would have been merely unfortunate, rather than disastrous.

I don't know if sloppy practice explains the earthquakes in Oklahoma, though.

I think more important is that they gave up all their own intellectual property to whomever.

My guess is that they were required to do this as part of settlement, and the hope on the other side is that somehow grooveshark users will be swayed to change their behavior based on this statement.

As regards the statement itself, it appears crafted by a gifted communications expert, but the smell of PR/inauthenticity is not completely masked. Or, it was crafted by the groovesharks and encoded with a little Wayne's World style snark ("It certainly does suck. . .").

Most people did not record on 8-track, but cassette and 8-track were largely coincident formats, kind of like betamax and vhs. 8-track offered playback convenience and maybe a little quality bump in the beginning, cassette offered size convenience (until we got auto-reverse).

True audiophiles back in the day would record to reel-to-reel.

To return to the thread, pirated music goes back a long, long way. It was just sheet music before performance recordings. And before that, bards copied each others' songs. And before that, Grog beat his rocks just like L'hurd.

Isn't the USB-C reversible?

What you are seeing is not necessarily apathy but fear, a confluence of external influences stoking the internal fear of individuals. People are generally terrified, and to acknowledge or understand that among the perpetrators of terribles are the same institutions and authorities they have been relying upon for protection is more than they can bear.

Are you implying that what is legal == what is right/moral/appropriate?

I wonder if the study controlled for the fact that people tend to get more conservative as they age.

I bet if Snowden had done his thing in the 90's, the age distribution of approval would be similar, and I bet you'd get the same result in another 15 years, when those same millennials have kids and are facing their mortality.

Progressive ideals are risky, and it takes more courage to take risks as folks age and have more to lose.

Note this is purely an academic comment and is not meant to endorse or deny either snowden or the NSA.

See Dick, Philip K., Exegesis.

Certainly not on my car. But if it was Bob's car, and his car was a Hyundai Elantra he was trying to drive up the side of a mountain on an unimproved road, I would be calling it a user problem if his doors fell off (or any other of a number of mechanical problems).

With that kind of record, it has to be something to do with your use. Still anecdotal, but I've never had anything but HDD and inverter failures in my laptops (mostly Apple) across multiple models, years, and beatings.

But if laptops failed at your rate across all users, they'd have to cost three times as much to cover warranty repairs.