Please... a system of technology that ONLY lets you work within the walled garden of Apple goodness - the company that invents crappy proprietary connectors simply to inconvenience their existing customers- requiring them to buy a cable that can only be bought from Apple - at least until other companies come up with the extortion.. er, sorry - the 'licensing fee' to use Apple's fricking plug? USB 3.0 not good enough for them? The company with the balls to outright steal an innovative UI (from Xerox) then SUE the companies that LICENSED the same technology. Ya.. Apple is a corporate citizen. How about coming thru on the wonderful mr jobs promise to let facetime connect to the rest of the world? Gimme a break.. I'll NEVER again own Apple products if they are te last in the world.
Louisiana is different than the remaining 49 starts - it's laws are based on Napoleonic Code rather than English Common Law. Things that are legal in Louisiana may not apply elsewhere; and tings that are fine everywhere else are often not legal in Louisiana. It's been years since I lived thee, so this example may be dated, but you don't get a 'car loan' in Louisiana - you get a 'chattel mortgage'. You get title immediately; but you've got a mortgage on the car which is to be paid over time. In practice it doesn't seem very different but legally there are fine points beyond my grasp. This is one reason that people who study law in Louisiana stay in Louisiana.
I'm not really as good a student of history as many, but I'm pretty sure I have heard tell that the camera, on its rise to popularity a hundred or more years ago, was considered an ultimate evil because if made pornography easy for anyone to do. Think of that next time you take a picture! We didn't crack down on that technology and somehow managed to survive, yes? Those who want to restrict the 'net should go back to their houses, lock the doors, and wait for the end...
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Andy.
The utimate monpoly: Apple
Please... a system of technology that ONLY lets you work within the walled garden of Apple goodness - the company that invents crappy proprietary connectors simply to inconvenience their existing customers- requiring them to buy a cable that can only be bought from Apple - at least until other companies come up with the extortion.. er, sorry - the 'licensing fee' to use Apple's fricking plug? USB 3.0 not good enough for them? The company with the balls to outright steal an innovative UI (from Xerox) then SUE the companies that LICENSED the same technology. Ya.. Apple is a corporate citizen. How about coming thru on the wonderful mr jobs promise to let facetime connect to the rest of the world? Gimme a break.. I'll NEVER again own Apple products if they are te last in the world.
Louisiana and law..
Louisiana is different than the remaining 49 starts - it's laws are based on Napoleonic Code rather than English Common Law. Things that are legal in Louisiana may not apply elsewhere; and tings that are fine everywhere else are often not legal in Louisiana. It's been years since I lived thee, so this example may be dated, but you don't get a 'car loan' in Louisiana - you get a 'chattel mortgage'. You get title immediately; but you've got a mortgage on the car which is to be paid over time. In practice it doesn't seem very different but legally there are fine points beyond my grasp. This is one reason that people who study law in Louisiana stay in Louisiana.
Internet now; cameras a century before
I'm not really as good a student of history as many, but I'm pretty sure I have heard tell that the camera, on its rise to popularity a hundred or more years ago, was considered an ultimate evil because if made pornography easy for anyone to do. Think of that next time you take a picture! We didn't crack down on that technology and somehow managed to survive, yes? Those who want to restrict the 'net should go back to their houses, lock the doors, and wait for the end...