When the Constitution was ratified in 1789, the average American lived to be 40.
You might want to look up "infant mortality" and "bathtub curve" before citing completely meaningless "facts" such as this.
Hint: you have 100 people. 50 of them die before they turn 1 year old, 50 die at age 80. What age did the "average" one live to?
bet they didn't even think to talk to Teller about this.
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't say anything.
Oppressive behavior just creates terrorists, it doesn't find or defeat them.
Perfect! That's just what the government needs to justify all this bullshit!
Can someone clear this up for me? I keep hearing the two differ. Some tell me they're a geek but not a nerd. Some the opposite. So what is what? Where can I find _the_ definition to point all others to?
Nobody writes it down. If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
Watch the movie "Wargames" (The original 1983 one.) Wait for the scene when David goes to the university to talk to Jim and Malvin, and observe the characters. Jim is a geek, and Malvin is a nerd.
Try reading the Article.
Now Engadget have discovered that the Windows Phone OS makes permanent changes to a card that can prevent it from being read, written to or formatted on any other device.
So, no.
Microsoft promises to take legal responsibiliy in the case of patent lawsuits resulting from use of their platform
What does that have to do with copyright claims?
Answer: absolutely nothing.
Through contract law, just like every other contract ever written.
Come on, what real proof is there the rule change is to be more "embarrassing"?
Occam's razor.
It's utterly stupid on the face of it if you think AT ALL
Exactly - the utter absurdity that this could be in any way about security is the "real proof".
That's the thing about the corporate system that many people fail to realize. It's very easy to get a corporation to change what they're doing if there's a coordinated effort by consumers to choose not to buy from a certain manufacturer until practices are changed.
That's the thing about the corporate system that corporate apologists people fail to realize. It's almost impossible to get a coordinated effort by consumers because the corporations have so more damn money than individuals, and can drown out any opposition to their pracices.
tl;dr
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