This was in place in the early nineties when I visited an ATM in one of the World Trade Center towers.

Most people can not see this corruption because the scale of it is so far beyond their real world experiences. Rather like an ant on a tree not being able to see the forest, only the mountains of bark that they are currently negotiating on the tree they are on.

They literally can not see the corruption.

Fortunately, small-scale corruption is frequently punished.

If you are exceedingly wealthy and or powerful, intelligent aliens will be utterly feared.

If you are comfortable in your life station, intelligent aliens will be utterly feared.

Everyone else will be a mish mash of varying responses. Many will see the aliens as an upset to the status quo so will be met with happiness.

Then there are the "real" humans. Regardless of any other emotion or response, they will be dominated by curiosity.

I am unsure why you posted as Anonymous Coward Taco Cowboy.

Your story is familiar to everyone who is not new here.

That is currently the state of modern commercial software. Each vendor wants the entire vertical stack to themselves. God forbid you write something interoperable with a Microsoft program. They will change the API so fast you will not even be able to say your name before they are done.

Modern software companys want it ALL. There is no room for interoperability.

You can get drugs in prison. Either their goal has nothing to do with bad guys are they are just too stupid to be believed.

Sorry, that was a typo! They clearly support it.

I never said I was ok with it, just that even something that crazy would count as at least letting people know how you would govern.

Oops that was a typo. Thanks nite hawk!!! I meant to say supporting Net Neutrality.

This isn't new, we've seen candidates from outside the political establishment try to break in before. What irks me is here is a guy saying "I'm an outsider, support me" as if that and net neutrality ought to be enough. It isn't. I don't know where this guy stands on various matters of civil and human rights, taxation, health care, education, the environment, separation of church and state, etc.

I'm even more suspicious when I see someone railing against "special interest groups", since many of the groups opposing net neutrality (like the EFF) count as special interest groups. That is just a catch all term for groups of people with money that spend it to influence politics. That includes groups we might oppose (like the Koch Brothers or "The Family") and groups we might support (FFRF and the EFF).

If he is serious about winning, he needs to put his cards on the table and let the people he is running to represent know how he will support them on the things they care about. Even if it is simply "I will hold public opinion polls and honor their conclusion". Because right now he is a closed book.

The last time I checked, Odin was Samsung specific. You will want to use Heimdall or just use ADB directly.

There is no paradox here. As matter increases, so does "empty space". The energy is an artifact of this separation of matter and space-time. Matter and space-time want to recombine. The real question here is why did matter and space-time disambiguate to begin with.

All is one... a sort of field. There is no such thing as matter or space-time. (empirically there is but we will get to that momentarily)

As this field cools, it begins to separate. As energy "cools" it condenses into "knots of energy" called matter. What is left over from this is called space, but as pointed out previously, should really be called space-time as they are both properties of what is left when you extract "matter" from the One Field.

Gravity does not exist (empirically it does). It is merely an artifact of time in relation to "matter". There is no quantum foam (empirically there is), that is merely an artifact of the One Field trying to be one again.

It is your empirical knowledge that is making it so hard for "mankind" to see the truth of it all.

Signed,
Knar Goowoos from the Spiro galaxy in the year as you reckon it 87,948.6

Why not something like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Troll, lie, or astroturf? Hard to say.

Last time I looked, Windows 7 used drop shadows and gradients to indicate which window was on top or had focus and that Windows 8.x removed the drop shadow... and even worse, removed the gradient on the window borders. What this means is that if you have a series of windows haphazardly stacked on top of each other it is impossible to tell which set of controls belongs to exactly which window.

But yeah, other than all of the differences, the Windows 7 GUI and the Windows 8 GUI are exactly the same. D'oh. (I should have just modded you down but I am somewhat religiously against using mod points in a negative manner)