Comment Re:I thought they loved it! (Score 0) 406
What old world do you live in? Everybody text messages now
Go fuck yourself as you GET OFF MY LAWN.
What old world do you live in? Everybody text messages now
Go fuck yourself as you GET OFF MY LAWN.
And this isn't old news either - that a Presidential candidate (JFK) was Catholic was a divisive issue within living memory.
The problem with knowing the truth of US history is, starting in the 60's the black civil rights movement co-opted the idea of discrimination and painted in simple black-and-white terms. Steadily since then, except for things like the internment of the Japanese that simply couldn't be overwritten, the story of discrimination and persecution in the US has been told solely in terms of antisemitism and Jim Crow.
My main issue is if they allow cell phone use in flight - an entire plane full of people yakking on their phones, it'll be like going to the movies.
Irony: I do have an unbreakable encryption scheme. And no, I won't post it here on
{It's flaw is that it has to be used with significant sentences. Short messages won't work}
And now you are officially full of shit.
Lie about it, get caught, and go to prison for 3-5 years.
That's not the way things work in the real world. Move along and let the adults discuss the issue.
Ebola is easy to stop. We have oceans to protect us. All we need to do is stop allowing the 25,000 VISAS from affected countries from being used to gain entry.
1. Person from Ebola Land travels to Europe or some other non-US country, and exposes a person who is not from Ebola Land, who then travels home to the US.
2. US citizen travels to and from Ebola Land.
There are many different ways that Ebola can reach out and touch people who are not from Ebola Land, shutting down foreign visas is not the solution.
Can we get through Ebola, first, and then worry about...
The government should be able to multi-task more than one problem at a time, yes?
Riiight. Because US sex offenders lists contain people who made the mistake of drunkenly pissing against a wall in public...
Bullshit. Cite a reliable news source on that one.
Not to mention that US laws actually allows the prosecution of minors when their nude shot of themselves gets into the public internet.
We're talking about Google's response to the European "right to be forgotten", not US laws.
Can you stay on-topic? Or are you one of these one-topic fanatics that tie every subject into your obsession?
I don't see any claim that they "need" to bring it back, just that they "are" bringing it back. Considering that its stated mission is to test various technologies, maybe they want to change the payload out. Maybe the mission ended. Apparently the other two missions did not end because of a lack of fuel.
Granted, my son is 11.
Your anecdotal argument is irrelevant, your son is a young juvenile, which as you well know, are held to different standards that young adults and adults. For young adults and adults who do bad things, there are different consequences than a young juvenile would expect, and those consequences are generally proportional to the bad thing the young adult or adult has done.
But the real issue here is indexing publicly available data. These people that want to be forgotten need to talk to the people that are making this data public, not the people who are accessing in in a completely legal way and indexing it.
I believe the differences between the two is mostly to the "no nonsense" approach to the Russians, and the fact that they like re-using designs and equipment that work instead of constantly re-inventing the wheel.
Except... they don't re-use designs and equipment. The current mark of the Soyuz (capsule) has almost nothing in common with the early ones other than a reasonably similar moldline. Soyuz has been modified and updated multiple times, not the least as it evolved from a general purpose Earth orbiter into a very specialized station taxi.
Sure, their spacecraft may look "ugly" (or at least, "uglier") than western or American ones, but they get the job done and they are reliable workhorses.
Reliable... is a very shaky claim given the number of near failures and almost disasters suffered by Soyuz over the years. It hasn't killed anyone in a long time, but it's come uncomfortably close an uncomfortably significant percentage of it's flights.[1] And speaking of flights and workhorses... even though it started flying over a decade earlier, it won't match the number of Shuttle flights until somewhere around the end of this decade at the current flight rate. (Last time I looked, I haven't calculated in a while.) In the same vein, while Shuttle suffered two LOCV accidents, it had zero complete mission failures and only one partial mission failure due to an abort-to-orbit placing it in too low of an orbit. Meanwhile, Soyuz had one pad abort, one failure to orbit, and at least two complete mission failures due to an inability to dock with a space station. (As well as several instances of either the orbital module or the re-entry module failing to separate properly.)
All of which is a roundabout way of saying the comparison isn't really as black-and-white as people would like it to be once you compare the actual Shuttle against the actual Soyuz (as opposed the largely fictional Soyuz the actual Shuttle is commonly compared to) and look at the actual numbers.
[1] Here's three accounts just covering reentry and landing failures.
The people affected by this don't seem to be objecting to the past (and historical record existing), but only it's impact on the present.
This is the consequence of bad behavior: People get to know about it, there are repercussions in society for behaving badly. You don't get to behave badly and then demand that people forget about your bad behavior because it in inconvenient for you . That's not the way things work.
The Europeans should not be attacking Google for indexing what is available on the Internet, they should be talking to the people that put that information on the Internet in the first place.
Google's approach to this is reasonable. Criminals and public officials voluntarily give up a level of privacy due to their voluntary status as criminals and public officials.
Microsoft must be shelling out a bunch of dough to Dice for all these Microsoft ads.
Which makes me wonder if a lot of these comments will be modded down into oblivian by Timothy, like what happend in the Slash Beta Wars a few months back...
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android