In agricultural societies people didn't live that long, but humans at least lived long lives before agriculture came around. Typical life expectancy in hunter gatherer societies (which is most of what paleontologists that deal with human remains would be looking at) was 60.

Except that the emulation doesn't work on a fair number of xbox games (about one in four in my experience, but my sample size wasn't very big). This is a huuuuge problem from a customer perspective.

I was in tech support when Vista rolled out, 99.9% app compatibility doesn't matter to the user if that one app they they absolutely must have OR THEY WILL DIE (which is whatever app isn't working) doesn't work.

Best solution would be to market the ARM version of the OS as a a more powerful tablet appropriate variation of Windows Mobile.

That would be the entire point of a meatspace sit in as well.

Because the goal of Al Qaeda isn't to kill people, but to get the US to spend itself into bankruptcy. Killing people is a means to that end.

As long as the US continues to use expensive and inconvenient solutions to failed attacks, they have no real reason to change tactics.

If you factor in that they could easily use up a million phones before they became obsolete (depending on how serious they are about them being used by everybody) economy of scale would drive that price way way way down.

You make it into an economic issue every time you say the words 'socialist' and 'libertarian'.

Yes, because no non socialist government has ever tried to make it illegal to criticize the government.

Except of course for all that censorship that took place before the concept of socialism even existed, in pretty much every country that ever existed (I defy you to find one single country that did not have at least one year in its history where speech was totally and utterly repressed de jure, prior to Marx being born).

Ultimately, civil liberties are a totally and utterly separate question from every other part of politics, with the small exception that it is slightly easier to maintain them in democracies than other forms of government, assuming the majority of people actually want to have liberty.

So what's your solution? To prevent Fox news from speaking at all? Television is a limited resource, one way or another only certain people will be allowed to speak on it.

In the meantime, I'm speaking to you, and you are certainly not a friend, family, or part of my social circle.

  I can (and do) print political posters and put them up, and distribute flyers. So my voice is heard even by people I have never spoken too, and if the people choose to listen, I can reach a million people with a blog or youtube videos, without spending a single dime.

No, Fox news is simply louder than the rest. Better at shouting from the rooftops. But Fox news may say whatever it likes, and that does not prevent me from saying whatever I like.

The difference is Obama hasn't taken state control of Fox News for spreading dissent about his presidency.

The US is chipping away at the edges of Free Speech, and constantly loses fights over it. Venezuela is putting the final nails in the coffin.

It's not allowed, but it's not a copyright violation either (unless you also copy the mannerisms or story of the character), it's a trademark violation. There are entirely different rules for the two, among other things you can't use a takedown notice for a trademark violation.

It has nothing to do with socialism, it's a standard political power grab. What it has to do with is idiots like you who make it into an economic issue, thus distracting everybody from the real point.

Do you realize just how full of shit you are? It's available at B&N and Amazon, as is the supposedly banned first book.

Actually given that Amazon puts Atlas Shrugged as suggested reading material for anybody who likes the book, I'm guessing no, you don't realize.

I'm certainly not (really, the second they started taking state control of the local media this became only a matter of time), but maybe I can finally get the people who think that my anti Chavez attitude is somehow related to his economic policies to realize just how screwed up the Venezuelan government is.

And thus the last avenue of free speech in Venezuela dissapears.