This is very true. Reminds me of a story someone told me once. He was going over to a secure datacenter his company was using to see for himself how they handled things. He got there and had to admit they seemed to actually know what they were doing. Until he felt a draft... One of the employees inside the center had decided it was a bit too hot in there and propped open a door to let air in. All it took was one person's bad decision to nullify everything else they had done. Remember people, weakest link...

I really have no knowledge of the particulars of this group or incident. I’m just refuting your blanket statement, because it’s entirely possible to restrict freedom of speech by selective enforcement of regulations and laws and through untimely handling of paperwork. I can’t say whether or not this happened, only that I know it’s possible.

This basically allows a law enforcement officer to carry out his duties.

Why, exactly, do they need this protection? Especially given that criminal infiltration of law enforcement is something to guard against.

It is identical to when the FBI comes to a local town to investigate, they can not be hindered or stopped by the local law enforcement.

What if they hinder otherwise interfere with the investigations of local law enforcement? What if they break the law in the course of their activities?

This is obvious and should not raise any issues.

Anyone being "above the law" comes with a whole host of issues. Even more so if they are "law enforcement".

I never said you can't be useful in low level ships, you can--but your job basically is slowing other ships down. Not fun.

I think the Intelligence Quota is an anthropocentric way to pin any amount of intellect. Anyhow, this may coincide with another story about how genetically-same branches of human in Africa were separated for possibly over 100,000 years: http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre60104l-us-antarctica-plane/

I also heard the memory availabe to store applications is quite small, despite the shitload of memory the device has, which looks dumb. Is that true?

It is 2GB. The other 30GB is dynamically mounted/umounted when syncing to a external USB host (/home/user/MyDocs)

It should be possible to repartition /dev/mmcblk0 to increase the size of /home (and hence /home/opt) and reduce the size of /home/user/MyDocs.

this is, from my perspective, without a doubt a technical issue.

the people who got wiped out, if the killboards are correct - only destroyed 3 ships (helios, onyx and anathema)

for them to not have dropped any other ships in such and engagement, given their capability - can only mean they could not move or couldn't even see they were in a fight.

the killboards would also suggest the engagement was 421 against 65, even at those odds they should have destroyed a portion of the other fleet. even if it was 842 vs 65, nothing would prevent them from attacking except a technical issue.

i have been in engagements with over 800 in system (before dominion) and was able to function.

so, certainly there was a record broken on sheer lost of assets in one stroke, but it defiantly needs a foot note.

(also, if there was a deliberate attempt to drop the node, well yea - strike against them too, anyway)

there will no doubt be a rematch as the attacking alliance still owns another 20 titans

Sigh. You're not being creative enough. I never said that adjusting price upward cannot result in lower profits. I said that it comes out of profit doesn't mean you have to adjust downward the amount of profit you expect. Your original claim was that it follows necessarily ("their cost has got to come out of your profit"). My hypo gave an admittedly simplistic example of why that is not necessarily true.

You'd be surprised how many people claim to have had that happen to them (actually, I'd bet its comparable to the number that have been sued for file sharing).

If carriers are going to make termination fees proportional, why not just itemize the subsidy as a "handset finance payment" on the bill?

Because then the masses (well, the ones that read their bill every month) would realize they're getting hosed more easily. The cell companies don't want to give you any information that makes it easy to understand how badly you're getting screwed. It would hurt their business model.

"Behind every great fortune is a crime." -- Honoré de Balzac