Comment Re:Basically no chance of this happening (Score 1) 1065
Sort of. Here is the official response.
Sort of. Here is the official response.
Thanks, Gene Ray.
google bans stuff...
from its own market.
They have every right to ban whatever they feel like banning from their market. In this case, Google claims that the app went against their policy.
which is only one
Not quite. There are alternatives.
enjoy platform openness
The platform is still open. Google hasn't banned you from installing this particular app onto your android device, just removed the possibility of buying it from their market. You can still acquire the app through the developer or from an alternative market and install it on your phone as a third-party app. The question is whether it was ethical for Google to remove the app, since you could have potential good uses for it. I can't argue for or against the ethics of removing the app from their market, but this particular case does not make the platform less open.
For elected leaders I can maybe understand that logic, but that doesn't make the least bit of sense for police officers. Would you prefer there to be some sort of draft for police officers? So the cop responding to your 911 intruder call is some scared housewife or accountant who got drafted last month and is liable to shoot the first thing that moves when they come through the door?
Sounds like a promising police academy movie sequel.
Well according to the article, the court ruled that he owes Facebook the money, not the government. I guess it makes sense -- he used their network to distribute and profit off of the spam. He did so by tricking users into giving him their login credentials, and once he had that, he would run programs to send out the millions of spam messages. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone will see a dime out of this.
Iran is not a completely crazy country. Sure, the leadership is run by corrupt figures who use religious zealotry to organize the poor in order to remain in power, but that's no different than many Western countries. But many Iranians are middle class kinds of people, not the raving lunatics who want to nuke the rest of the world like they portray on TV. It's certainly possible that if the current leaders were to stumble on the national stage that the poor might see them for who they are, and violently remove them from power.
Wow. This sounds like you live in Iran, since you know so much.
You do live in Iran, don't you?
I mean, you've at least been to Iran once, haven't you?
Ah, I see.
I've been to Iran three times since 2003, and I can agree with the person that you are responding to. I've been to three major cities - Tehran, Esfahan, and Shiraz. I do have relatives there, so I may be biased. The majority of the people that I've met and spoken to are moderates who are stuck under the thumb of an oppressive regime. Every time they try protest, the government mobilizes their armed thugs to quash it. And since weapons are banned in Iran, the citizens have no means of defending themselves.
It's one of the biggest reasons why I fully support the second amendment. People seriously have no idea how good it is in America to be able to purchase a gun to protect yourself. Sure, the government will always be allowed to have higher powered shit, but at least the people have SOMETHING to defend themselves with. And the total population of people will always outnumber the government.
Anyway, the people there are very moderate. Islam is their main religion because it's what they're born into, but many Iranians, especially those who move overseas, later adopt a more spiritual view on religion than a hardcore stance. In one of the recent protests, people were chanting "No help for Hezbollah, no help for Palestine, support the Iranian people". The people are pissed that the government is spending money on propping up those groups rather than spending it on infrastructure. The political mood there has been, for the last decade, really sickening and every year that goes by, the people get more restless.
Change is bound to happen, and hopefully it happens before anything really bad occurs in that region.
When you ask these same kids how they feel about the Jap-camps the USA had in those days they look at you as if they see water burn.
The US's internment camps were certainly wrong, but if you think they were anything like Nazi Germany's concentration camps, you're almost as stupid as your history teacher was.
Good job of proving santax's point.
According to this article, 4chan was thought to be behind the data breach. There's even a screen shot in the article taken from the forums, though there's nothing in there that says what they were planning on doing specifically. Regardless of how the data was exposed, they deserve the potential half a million pound fine for keeping so much personal data on people in unencrypted files.
Actually, they're pretty lucky if they get away with only a half a million pound fine.
Don't worry, Canonical will eventually get around to using that as an Ubuntu release name.
The book burning is barely a real political statement, its not an artistic performance, and its certainly not warranted. It's some groaty, pissed-off redneck reminiscent of the side-character Skeeter in South Park -- the guy who hangs out in the bar going "we don't take kindly to your kind around here." In this case its "hey, intolerant Muslims! we don't take kindly to your kind around here!" Just because he has a legal right to proceed with his moronic plan, the irony of which, I'm sure, is probably much too subtle to have an impression on him, doesn't mean that, you, I, Rackspace, or anyone else has to facilitate his stupidity.
And killing people because of a perceived insult is
muslims once again demonstrates what assholes they are. I will, incidentally, retract this statement if any decent-sized group of muslims stands up and defends this book burning.
Here you are:
Imam says reaction to Koran burning should be peaceful
While he's not exactly defending the burning, he's advocating turning the other cheek and bringing up the point that destroying the Quran won't destroy its message. Still, news like this never makes the front page, and gets buried because it wouldn't sell.
You're calling someone who just defended prison sentences for those that cross a border illegally a lefty ?? Are you fucking serious?
You're already at +5, but if only I had mod points. Consider this a +1 perfection.
It's called Persian. You don't go around saying "in espanol it's called..." do you?
THANK YOU! Here's a PDF that lays out some of the arguments against calling the language Farsi. We don't go around calling the English that people from Boston speak as "Bostonese", do we?
Ah, good old appeal to emotion. Works like a charm, every time.
Person 1: "I support the death penalty"
Person 2: "You wouldn't support it if your child was put on death row!!"
Person 1: "I am against the death penalty"
Person 2: "You wouldn't be against it if the murderer had killed your child!!"
If they actually had 15,000 documents on Israeli operations in the West Bank, then Wikileaks would release it. It's hard to be balanced if you don't have anyone on the inside feeding you the classified documents. It's not as if Julian Assange puts on a ski mask and sneaks through the ventilation systems of Langley or the Pentagon and swipes documents while nobody is looking.
If someone from Mossad or Shin-Bet has the access to such documents and forwards them to Wikileaks, then expect it to be posted once verified.
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