>Legal details aside, my question was more about whether it's morally right to sentence someone to eighteen years for the crimes described in the article?
Posting child porn and death threats? Yeah, that's worth 18 years.
The NBAPA has had a Rookie Transition program which deals in large part with money management for the last 25 years. The NFLPA has a similar Rookie Symposium.
California is claiming that by having affiliates who are physically located in California , Amazon does have a physical presence in the state. If Amazon ignores it (and doesn't cancel the affiliate program in California, as they have said they will), California will sue them for unremitted taxes.
His argument is basically that all governments can become corrupted, so we should have no government. The first part of his argument is obviously true, but is far from sufficient justification for his conclusion. It completely ignores all the good things that come from government (social services, police, military defense). It also ignores that the lack of government can also become corrupted. In places like Somalis, where there was effectively no government, pseudo-governments form (like the various warlords, the Islamic Courts Union, and Al-Shabaab).
>but our conversations with the developers of the drivers in question make us confident that they’re as committed as us and Microsoft to a robust and secure experience for our shared users
ATI and NVidia have never cared about driver stability (or anything other than benchmark performance), and now we're supposed to believe that they will start caring about security?
On reddit that stat is inflated by each click taking so long to load. When I use reddit, I literally spend 30-40% of my time waiting for pages to load.
The title claims that it is a year of the moon, but the description says that the images are from 2011 - which isn't over yet. So is this a year of the moon, or six months?
It is illegal to gamble in the physical world in most of the US (with some very conspicuous exceptions - horse racing, Indian tribe-run casinos and state-run lotteries).
Few M1s have been destroyed or badly damaged by insurgents in Iraq. Their use has declined since the invasion not because they are too vulnerable, but because they are less useful without enemy tanks to engage and using them against infantry in urban environments risks heavy civilian casualties.
An actual IBM-PC could reliably be rebooted using the keyboard controller (as mentioned in the article). The issues come with IBM-PC "compatible" machines. I'm sure commodore would have the same problem if anyone had bothered to clone them.
I agree with most of your point, but have to quibble with the assertion that computers are not "better" at chess. Deep Blue was able to beat arguably the greatest chess player ever. Computer chess programs today are far stronger than Deep Blue, and could almost certainly defeat any human player. The way they decide moves is different that humans, but it is also objectively better at achieving the goal (of winning).