2010-04-02, 10:50 | Link #6761 | |
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Nut jobs on the move again in the US, as governors receive demands to leave office.
While news reports filed by the Associated Press say 30 governors have received threatening letters from the "Guardians of the free Republics", this account, in a Nevada paper, claims a source within the "guardians" has informed them the letter went to all 50 governors. Quote:
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2010-04-02, 11:29 | Link #6762 | |
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2010-04-02, 18:43 | Link #6764 | |
I disagree with you all.
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Frankly, rather than worry about why Japan's got porn, a more pertinent question would be "Why does everyone have porn?". Or, if you insist on focusing on Japan and Rapelay, "Why can they export it to the culturally different US?" or "Why does anyone care?". |
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2010-04-02, 21:22 | Link #6765 | |
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I also fail to see how this will spark extra rape and sexual harassment crimes. Lets remember, Japan has one of the highest outputs of pornography in the world, and the lowest rate of sexual assault cases of any other region in the world too. If people want to ban this game, they would've succeeded in banning Grand Theft Auto too. The people who play these games know that it is fantasy, they know it's only a game, and are intelligent enough to be able to differentiate between what is fantasy and what is reality. Those that are not intelligent enough to are the ones that shouldn't be playing these games. Those disturbed by it shouldn't play such games. Frankly, if you stumble across such a game, you were actively looking for it.
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2010-04-03, 14:03 | Link #6766 |
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Contesting jobless claims becomes a BOOM industry
WASHINGTON — With a client list that reads like a roster of Fortune 500 firms, a little-known company with an odd name, the Talx Corporation, has come to dominate a thriving industry: helping employers process — and fight — unemployment claims. Talx, which emerged from obscurity over the last eight years, says it handles more than 30 percent of the nation’s requests for jobless benefits. Pledging to save employers money in part by contesting claims, Talx helps them decide which applications to resist and how to mount effective appeals... |
2010-04-04, 08:49 | Link #6767 | |
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Karzai Slams the West Again
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2010-04-04, 09:07 | Link #6768 | |
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2010-04-04, 18:12 | Link #6769 | |
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2010-04-04, 18:58 | Link #6770 |
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iPad is launched
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8601679.stm All i could do when watching this video was cry and shudder in fear that this was not an Onion remake but infact reality. Then I heard the comments and wondered which would be more sastifying, A sniper rifle or a shotgun... Will iPad be a magic bullet for the publishing industry? To continue the debate on iPad's future with the e-book industry....
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2010-04-04, 19:16 | Link #6771 | |
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2010-04-04, 19:25 | Link #6772 |
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I think it will succeed, at least at first. Though I can see apple eventually loosing ground like it did back the late 80's for the same reasons: it's competitors will put up something similar that is far more open to third-party development than the iPad is. (Seriously, something can be said about the paranoia of Steve Jobs when he won't even let third party app developers USE an iPad to test their programs before the iPad's release.)
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2010-04-04, 20:13 | Link #6773 | |
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The market for eReaders was just taking off, and now you can get an iPad to do that, AND surf the web, AND email, AND play games, AND ... There is clearly a market for this device. |
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2010-04-04, 20:19 | Link #6774 |
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They just sold 600,000+ of them on the first day... I wouldn't say it's a failure just yet... just give it some time...
I'm planning to get one on the future to try and bypass those expensive college textbooks (and iPad has access to iBooks, Kindle and B&N ebooks store, which the current ereaders lack at the moment as they are locked to one store and a color display)... and other stuff.
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2010-04-04, 20:36 | Link #6776 |
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Okay then, Apple must have a black magic department, because all their products seem to be very popular, even for their price. Although I have seen the prices on the iPad and they look rather appealing for what they are.
I'm just thinking Apple may have been tempting with luck here, it does seem a bit over the top. I'd prefer a netbook over one of these, but as an eReader, the iPad will appeal to the open minded. I just wish it wasn't so minimalist in the design the department, the tiny home button and the proprietory Dock port looks really out of place on a device that size.
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2010-04-04, 20:45 | Link #6777 |
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Netbooks aren't great in my opinion because of the cramped keyboards, slow processors and small screens. If they had a bit more power, a better, touch oriented OS (perhaps Linux) and a touch screen with no keyboard and mouse, then it would be better. All they are is just Ultraportables with less power and smaller... not really something evolutionary or groundbreaking.
I'm sure after the iPad is out, there will be more open solutions that use Android and Linux to spur competition (and no, Windows 7, even though it has multitouch, isn't optimized for the touchscreen without putting more applications on top of it...) and soon, probably it will be jailbroken.
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2010-04-04, 20:57 | Link #6778 |
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I beg to differ. Ever since the 3rd Gen iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS, jailbreaking either of them has become a bit incomplete. If either one is turned off, it has to be jailbroken again. A jailbreak was simply an exploit, and it won't take long for Apple to make their products bullet-proof (software-wise, that is).
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2010-04-04, 21:04 | Link #6779 | |
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and yes, the iPad got jailbroken... but yeah... it's pretty much a cat and mouse game like Wii, PSP homebrew.
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2010-04-04, 21:11 | Link #6780 | |
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