Comment Re:Mega (Score 1) 205
Why are you spamming this question over and over, megaupload public relations person?
Why are you spamming this question over and over, megaupload public relations person?
asking the important questions.
Hi megaupload public relations person.
i know it, you know it, everyone knows it. While megaupload was great, most of the content there was illegal *for the users*. I'm not saying the carrier should ever be penalized for it... but regardless of law, what are your thoughts on the ethics of it? What if at the time you were a music wirter or a indie game developer instead of Kim Dotcom, how would you have felt about your company?
found, something.
The second thing I want to just mention very quickly -- last week, Congress obviously was busy. It left town without finishing necessary work on FISA and some of the reforms that are necessary to the Patriot Act.
I said over a year ago that it was important for us to properly balance our needs for security with civil liberties. And this administration engaged on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, talking to Republicans and Democrats about how we could preserve necessary authorities but provide the public greater assurance that those authorities were not being abused.
The House of Representatives did its work and came up with what they’ve called the USA Freedom Act, which strikes an appropriate balance. Our intelligence communities are confident that they can work with the authorities that are provided in that act. It passed on a bipartisan basis and overwhelmingly. It was then sent to the Senate. The Senate did not act. And the problem we have now is that those authorities run out at midnight on Sunday.
So I strongly urge the Senate to work through this recess and make sure that they identify a way to get this done. Keep in mind that the most controversial provision in there, which had to do with the gathering of telephone exchanges in a single government database -- that has been reformed in the USA Freedom Act. But you have a whole range of authorities that are also embodied in the Patriot Act that are non-controversial, that everybody agrees are necessary to keep us safe and secure. Those also are at risk of lapsing.
So this needs to get done. And I would urge folks to just work through whatever issues can still exist, make sure we don't have, on midnight Sunday night, this task still undone, because it's necessary to keep the American people safe and secure.
the article only has quotes on him asking to approve it. there is zero about his reasoning. did he just say those 4 quoted phrases about senate having to say yes? or did he provide any semblance of a reason for why they have to say yes?
i can't find his actual words anywhere.
here are the latests "new" on whitehouse.gov:
Reasons We Need the Clean Water Rule
4 Years of Building Energy Efficiency Across America
Implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order
exactly this!!!
C++ != C
so, if you are going to break away from C, and use a high level language, use a high level language.
Do not use something crippled and ill designed. C++ was good when the alternative was cobol or fortan. And the only reason it is where it is today was because it got a ride on C reputation. But as you pointed out, it is not C.
don't drag the discussion to this point. if someone wants to rent a movie or a game so be it.
now, what we are taking here is Mozilla using the time we all contributed coding, documenting, promoting the browser to serve adobe's purpose and distribute a security/privacy hole to millions of people that do not plan to risk their freedom just to rent a movie ever!
one time an employer made me choose windows or Mac. Linux was verbotten.
i got windows, installed putty... and that's about it.
if microsoft surface could run linux, all netbooks and ultraportables discussion would go to the place they should have been for a long time: the garbage.
> So you have 2 people who think differently and thinking the other is wrong. Which one is? Who knows! Its easy in hindsight of course.
don't appear to be easy in hindsight either because gnome 3 still stand by all the bad choices users complained back then....
also I'm sure there were some hundreds of people saying that 4 were wrong...
so the new generation uses the internet just like the old generation did with AOL?
boy I'm happy to be the current generation!
it's easy to test this hypothesis.
kill all gut bacteria from fat people and see if they thin in some cases.
and since in the usa almost everyone takes massive doses of antibiotics for even bad hair day, i think this is debunked with readily available data already.
the people dumping the money into campaigns. In this case you can clearly see that the buyers for the spectrum are the ones deciding, since every item listed will result in the government buying services from them.
"here is 40billion to buy this pipe. but you have to promises to use it to pay to deliver water via that pipe to those places where i plan to install said pipe"
i have fios. it is coax cable on the street. then on the post near my house it is split into fiber. the fiber goes to my place into a very big box, with two Verizon emblazoned power supplies! and become cable again to a cable modem...
the only explanation i have for this insanity is that if they advertised it as cable, i, who only pay for internet, would be allowed by law to have access to basic cable channels unencrypted. so they do this turnduckey of cables just to avoid it, and force me to pay $20/mo for basic cable.
and the only explanation i have for them dropping it is either that nobody pays that 20, like me. or that they finally got rid of the laws that force them to provide free unencrypted basic cable for cable internet customers.
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