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1. (I'm not saying the censorship isn't a story) If you think NBC doesn't deserve the rights to broadcast the games, you should tell the IOC to use somebody else next time.
2. Apple buys a chunk of Twitter. Will my twitter be suspended when I complain that a Mac model doesn't have USB3? Probably not. But now it's not certain. Chillin.
http://www.bnd.bund.de/EN/__Home/Startseite/startseite__node...
http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/en/index_en.html
A least one country takes the threat seriously.
if you want to try it the super easy way
http://uncensoredsite.de/redirect?siteiwant=thepiratebay.org-- essentially a web-based, but trustworthy dns service.
there are sites like
http://baremetal.com/cgi-bin/dnsip?target=thepiratebay.org
but they're presumably just doing a lookup on a us-based nameserver, we need a site that uses an uncensored server and that provides an http redirect.
Is there to be direct blocking of ip addresses at all? Will everyone nerdy in America just be able to change their OS DNS settings to something outside the US?
" ...and routes around it! "I think the warnings fb use are necessary, there's so many worms and spam wall postings. You can debate the wording and motive. Many users need paternalism.
You can AUTOMATICALLY have posterous post a link on your wall every time you write a blog post. It doesn't use the notes system at all. It sounds like fb are stopping people using notes for something they weren't designed for.
If he's saying every dumb aol/xp/ie6 user will be too scared to ever leave fb for the rest of the web, wouldn't that be the end of the Eternal September, which some would welcome?
"...is the new IE6." is the new "...is the new black."
(It's also the reason why the med is comfortable with nudity and the Anglosphere isn't)
Protestant ascetic work ethic: no pleasure is allowed. first toil then the grave.
The med is Catholic, and so far more comfortable with resting.
"a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation" is a terrible description of source code, but I've heard worse.
"Its free, open-source variant, Linux [...] serves as the foundation of operating systems, like Apple’s iOS". Simply not true. Android is linux. iOS is mach/BSD/Darwin/nextstep/OSX. None of which are derived from Linux.
Firefox should/will also get a facebook spying blocker as chrome now has. Microsoft is real friendly with fb, so they'll never implement this.
Things shouldn't go to people "according to his need".
But now things are going to people "according INVERSELY to his need".
Endless claim checks on future productivity are being stockpiled by precisely those who have no need of 99% of that productivity. In many cases they also have very little future, because they are old.
Politics is bought and paid for. People will not pay taxes. Inflation must now be used as a regressive wealth tax of last resort. At least it transfers purchasing power from the old to the young.
Poor people should, if they were intelligent, stop spending their disposable income and use it to buy the thing that gives the best return on investment - which is bribing politicians. And no, corporations aren't people, and money isn't speech.
why didn't they do a beautiful girl's face instead?
You have to tax the money that doesn't move. The millions of unneeded unspent $ that the rich are sitting on, with a wealth tax. You may not even make the poor richer, but you will make the rich poorer. Good.
everyone knows where they come from, their creators: 14 year old Average Frustrated Chumps.
So it's not i18n:redneck it's more like locale:dixie.
The austerity cuts haven't started yet. They may cause unrest later. They can't cause unrest before it.
reasons for UK problems:
1. Economy is crap.
2. Inequality. Public education is crap. Lower classes are as anti-intellectual as any red state American.
3. Multiculturalism. Between new immigrants and old ones. Young and old. Muslim and non-Muslim. Black and white. Taxpayer class, benefits class. These cultures are totally ghettoised from each other.
4. Rioting is fun. Herd behaviour. Media coverage - monkey see monkey do. Monkey sees little social sanction.
5. Britain is not a democracy. First past the post is the most stable oligarchy for a political class short of dictatorship. 3 parties fight only for a few thousand swing voters.
You can have incompetent but responsible adults or competent but irresponsible teenagers. Choose one?
Elite keeps serfs ignorant by providing no economics education.
Voters fail to grasp debt situation.
US soft defaults, inflation etc.
Dollar loses preeminence, 50% of value, the unwarranted part.
Massive inflation affecting all imports, which is most of what people buy, since America makes very little.
Inflation acts as wealth tax, and transfers value from old to young. Many factories move (back) to US. More jobs. Less inequality.
So, I think the demand for dollars from overseas investors who want safety really hurts the US. You could do all this without the evaluation if you would start seeing China as a threat and get protectionist now. Autarchy, in fact.
Good job anyway, but lucky.
Things are done to give the police the tools to fight whatever social ill currently obsesses the political class, however clumsily drawn.
They'll arrest protesters at an event and let them go 48 hours later with no intention of ever charging them. Politicians really want indefinite internment of terrorists. Because they're probably right that nobody will abuse it.
No privacy for drivers.
The age of consent of 16 DOESN'T exist to stop 13/14/15 year olds having sex. It is set at 16 to make (Victorian) child prostitution dead easy to convict. Covertly having sex with any age of teenager who is discreet would be easy. Pimping them would get me in real trouble though.
It is assumed that all these powers will never be abused, because there is so much undetected and unprosecuted crime that the police don't have the time or inclination to abuse them. But they are there when they need them. The British police would never be so ungentlemanly, like those nuclear sub crews who protect their launch enablers with bicycle locks. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/UltimateDe...) When you have a social contract, you don't need enforcement, just the enablement of enforcement against badness.