actually, in the places where it works, generally speaking the Police don't have guns either. (body armour, sure, but no guns)
which doesn't stop plenty of idiots claiming they Should.
(here, it's only the rough equivilant of SWAT (the Armed Offenders Squad, specifically) who have guns in the normal course of events, and They only deploy in responce to criminals who are, you know, armed. with guns. 'course, they also can call in military vehicals when that comes up. nothing like a twenty-something millimetre autocannon on an armoured vehicle to persuade someone that continuing their current course of action is a bad idea.)
ya know, i'd figure the best way to let you watch broadcast tv on these fancy 'smart' phones would just be to build the damn tv tuner hardware into the phone.
i mean, my tv and phone both already have the capacity to receive and play broadcast radio, so why not? the hardware manufacturers can use it and the selling point and it doesn't cost the Networks a damn thing.
in some places it may incur some sort of television lisence fee or something on the phone, but beyond that...
let's see... if i wanted to make money and improve good will, B. if i wanted to avoid potentual legal issues, A. A slightly reduces the positive gain of B, but none the less the two togeather works nicely and one gains at minimal risk...
C, on the other hand, is stupid.
unless, apparantly, you actually have this situation come up and are some sort of corporate exec.
(fun fact: i read somewhere, a while ago, a little story, the gist of which was that in NZ, an executive who ran his company in the ground would be hard pressed getting employed as anything much for quite some time, being a failure, while in the states he'd be rehired really fast due to having 'experiance'. it was Supposed to be a shot against the general attitude towards failure (and the tall poppy thing worked in there somewhere) here in NZ. but every time i see something like this, it reminds me of that and i think to myself 'you know, that's why our country is not as screwed up as the USA is economically.' of course, then National and Act go and get in and do their level best to make our government and economy more american... and can't even get that right. (Labour, on the other hand, prefer to do a bad job of imitating Finland or something...))
trademark, contrary to what the corporations would like so they could gouge yet more people for yet more money, has NOTHING to do with people using other people's names or anything like that. it's about the customer actually getting what they think they're getting. the logo does matter. it's the entire freaking point, and for once this is a corporation with a valid trade mark case that's not built on bullshit if i'm reading this correctly.
it's not about if he posses a threat to apple's name.
it's about the issues caused for the customer. (i mean, really, you want ANNOTHER reason for a corproation to go out of their way to be unhelpful when their product has issues?)
what's happening here, i think, is that everyone's so used to corporations being arseholes about trademarks in ways that have nothing to do with the law and make no sense, that it's become inconceivable that an actual legitimate violation might actually have happened, ever :D
pretty sure the issue being taken is with the notion that 'the internet' is both a place and a subset of 'the world'
depending on how you look at it, it's either a place, and outside of the usual definition of 'the world', being on a different functional plane, or it's a subset of 'the world' and is effectively everywhere, and thus cannot be compaired to any one place, as that place would include part of it, unless you only compaire the part within the place to the place, at which point ...
basically the statement had major issues with subsets and supersets not working.
well, yes, but the use of 'obsolete' implies that they no longer serve the purpose for which they were intended antiquately, so 'anymore' is valid there for the point David is making.
i also noticed this particular bit of weird sentence structure. i think the second sentence should probably read 'the fallacy is that they're not obsolete despite making no sense' or something like that.
... because, of course, warlords are so much better :P
seriously, look at history. every time government breaks down you end up with warlords. eventually one of them gets it togeather and forms a new government which, once it sorts itself out, is usually an improvement... for a while... or at least better than the intermediate state.
the problem is not government, as such, it's people with power and authority who are not answerable to anyone who has the power to actually keep them in line.
an inevitable consiquence of empire, that. (and seriously, the USA is functionally an empire, the EU is an empire. both of the pen rather than the sword these days, but empires none the less. for that matter, china and russia still are as well, even if they're not monarchies anymore.)
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which doesn't stop plenty of idiots claiming they Should.
(here, it's only the rough equivilant of SWAT (the Armed Offenders Squad, specifically) who have guns in the normal course of events, and They only deploy in responce to criminals who are, you know, armed. with guns. 'course, they also can call in military vehicals when that comes up. nothing like a twenty-something millimetre autocannon on an armoured vehicle to persuade someone that continuing their current course of action is a bad idea.)
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devils advocate here, nothing more.
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it's entertaining if it's a joke.
it's downright disturbing if it's not.
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ehh, it wasn't terribly meaningful anyway. semi-humours ramblings.
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"...while copyright attempts to promote it."
... what planet are YOU living on?
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i mean, my tv and phone both already have the capacity to receive and play broadcast radio, so why not? the hardware manufacturers can use it and the selling point and it doesn't cost the Networks a damn thing.
in some places it may incur some sort of television lisence fee or something on the phone, but beyond that...
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C, on the other hand, is stupid.
unless, apparantly, you actually have this situation come up and are some sort of corporate exec.
(fun fact: i read somewhere, a while ago, a little story, the gist of which was that in NZ, an executive who ran his company in the ground would be hard pressed getting employed as anything much for quite some time, being a failure, while in the states he'd be rehired really fast due to having 'experiance'. it was Supposed to be a shot against the general attitude towards failure (and the tall poppy thing worked in there somewhere) here in NZ. but every time i see something like this, it reminds me of that and i think to myself 'you know, that's why our country is not as screwed up as the USA is economically.' of course, then National and Act go and get in and do their level best to make our government and economy more american... and can't even get that right. (Labour, on the other hand, prefer to do a bad job of imitating Finland or something...))
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it's not about if he posses a threat to apple's name.
it's about the issues caused for the customer. (i mean, really, you want ANNOTHER reason for a corproation to go out of their way to be unhelpful when their product has issues?)
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the last line is key.
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if you pay attention, for a number of them that was the Point. (others were just stupid.)
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depending on how you look at it, it's either a place, and outside of the usual definition of 'the world', being on a different functional plane, or it's a subset of 'the world' and is effectively everywhere, and thus cannot be compaired to any one place, as that place would include part of it, unless you only compaire the part within the place to the place, at which point ...
basically the statement had major issues with subsets and supersets not working.
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i also noticed this particular bit of weird sentence structure. i think the second sentence should probably read 'the fallacy is that they're not obsolete despite making no sense' or something like that.
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seriously, look at history. every time government breaks down you end up with warlords. eventually one of them gets it togeather and forms a new government which, once it sorts itself out, is usually an improvement... for a while... or at least better than the intermediate state.
the problem is not government, as such, it's people with power and authority who are not answerable to anyone who has the power to actually keep them in line.
an inevitable consiquence of empire, that. (and seriously, the USA is functionally an empire, the EU is an empire. both of the pen rather than the sword these days, but empires none the less. for that matter, china and russia still are as well, even if they're not monarchies anymore.)
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