How's that go? Your freedom to shake your fist ends at my nose.
There are consequences to all actions, even speech. You basically posit that the good actions to the speech sayer and all other speech sayers are always greater than the negative effects of the rest of humanity. I posit that's not always the case.
Didn't we just pass some laws to protect cops from recording (cause they'd never break the law - umm Homan Square), so I'm not sure if this is still the case.
No troll feeding right? anyways...
Im a programmer, who's done low level things including some kernel work in both Windows 95 (yeah, dating me some) and a couple UNIXen. I have two Macs at home. The Windows box has been shut down since WinXP stopped getting updates. You gonna make fun of me for the jump from XP? "yeah, you're so hosed, you've got a Mac when I've got WINDOWS VISTA." I tried playing around with Windows 8 when it first came out, and I couldn't even figure out how to do a pic slideshow on it. I'm no anti-Windows snob - I had been using DOS since 5.0 and DOSSHELL, and every Windows version from 3.1 to XP (including WinNT 3.1 on a dec alpha), and I got lost in the UI. I spent 20 minutes trying to find the network settings to get WiFi working, and then had to do odd folder indirection to just show some pics off of a DVD. Again, im no newb... I've done work on IBM Mainframes, UNIX, Mac, Linux, DOS, and Windows. I've done HCI Classes, and I can usually model a new UI in my head. Nope, i was fucked. Multiply that wasted time by a hundred if it was my personal box. That's why I use a Mac. I just get shit done. No Fanboi-ism. I just want to work.
My sister in law had Vista on her laptop, and we never got it running right. Part of the issue was they de-contented Vista so they could charge the same for the upgrade, and nickel and dime you for the next SKU going up. Is that home premium, home ultimate, home premium ultimate super-size plus fries and a thirty two ounce coke? Mac updates from this time scale were i think $10, no tiering. They are now free. I was able to update my very very hideously techphobic mother in law recently, bumping two Mac OS X versions (for free) with no training. Her biggest issue? The desktop wallpaper changed. Imagine going from WinVista to Win8 and saying that same thing. I was confident enough to send her home (to taiwan - imagine tech support with a 14 hour time zone difference) with the change. Imagine leaving someone from WinVista to Win8 and saying "ok you're updated, good luck with that". You'd be on the phone every other hour.
Anyways, at home, I have two running computers instead of a Windows Vista or a Win8 box that I'd spend hours configuring.
Yeah, people like MacOSX enough that they're able to charge a premium on Mac hardware. This popularity is a failure how? The ability to be so popular you can charge more - not sure how that's a "haha Mac you suck" criticism. It's kind of like the "no one goes there any more - it's too crowded". YOU may not think the premium is worth it, but enough do that they don't have to charge prices you wish they did.
Why do folks keep on bringing up the First Amendment when people act like clowns?
1) the first amendment only prevents the government from slapping you down. This was a slapdown by a private entity.
2) Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences. Act like a clown, expect them to slap a clown suit on you.
Reread the message. Google Chromium is called spyware. They don't want to add TSYNC to support this software bundle they consider spyware.
I once lost a game of chess to a guy who was partially stoned, and who didn't know the complete ruleset. Yes, I'm that sloppy.
That said, I once did beat the reigning extended family chess player with a very very risky move that required me to sacrifice my queen and have a couple moves after that. Very risky. That's my fave fame of pretty much anything ever because of that.
I despise sports.
Watch "The 16th Man" from ESPN's 30 for 30. Also known as Invictus with Morgan Freeman.
Sports, watching sports as a nation, changed a nation and prevented a cataclysmic race riot.
as far as american football goes, they've found the cumulative effect of heavy hits but not concussion level pretty damaging too. so, full contact two-a-days pretty bad. not sure if theyve studied sparring with headgear yet.
How would this work with VoIP? SIP? What if the phone number is pure virtual? By definition it's "spoofed".
The exemptions were temporary ones based on a radical change in the medical care landscape. They're not meant to be permanent.
Eventually the ACA,
will have to stand on it's own.
Comcast will want permanent exemptions.
Somewhat True... but there are problems in the system we love called democracy.
1) People get elected on the basis of how good they campaign. This is not necessarily the same skill set that will serve you well in actually governing.
2) The current election cycle makes you spend a huge amount of time working on your next election cycle. A shockingly low amount of time actually governing.
I grew up in chicago, and even though I live in the suburbs now, I do realize a healthy chicago is very important to a healthy suburban ecosphere. Therefore i don't like Rahm's policies. Other than being sociopathic at times (picks a fight with the teachers union, gets so pissed they actually fight back that he turns on heat lamps in the Chicago summer when they march) he really does things that screw the city.
The problem is, no one seems to care. Millions to TIF while the schools get closed? Nobody seems to care. That TIF money going to an unneeded hotel and arena? no one seems to care. The parking fiasco that he could have pushed back on and helped chicagoans? well, we care, but most blame on Daley and Rahm gets off scott free. Close schools so his cronies in charter schools get more cash, threatening kids safety as they now have to cross new gang borders? You get the point.
So here is an issue that i hope energizes a subset of the people to vote against him. I actually am a friend of Chuy Garcia (well, friend of a friend really - he's my best friend's godfather) and I hope he wins of course, but there are quite a few people that would be better than Rahm
The Internet of rushed to market, horribly secured, never updated, easily pwn3d things.
The second you say "firmware" or even worse "tftp" you've lost +99.9% of people out there.
Im not sure why I need a smart TV. Besides the "smart TV, dumb viewer" joke, Im really not into the "every thing needs a CPU" thing.
Im a geek, not a Luddite (though Luddism wasn't about tech per se, but tech taking over jobs), and Ive been on the Internet since FTP space days (simtel anyone? sumex-aim?) But having every physical object having an infinite state machine programmed by someone thinking "security can come later" rushing half finished code to the market doesn't seem like nirvana to me.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
