Pesky problem, civil liberties that apply to all people regardless of the whims of the government or the majority of its citizens. Free speech is guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Note that the concept of 'free speech' the way it is practiced in the United States is not present in EU law.
Arguing that freedom of speech trumps your privacy rights is a rather twisted interpretation of the UDHR, by that interpretation we have no privacy at all, because after all, anything, once uttered by another person immediately becomes 'free speech'.
Your life belongs to you, and so does the data about you, unless you choose to become a public figure (for instance by seeking public office), or you become one through circumstance (for instance because you crash a cruise ship into a rock and capsize it).
In those cases your right to be forgotten is going to be trumped by the rights of the public to be informed.
You're an ass. Nobody is trying to "Americanify" the event. They are simply remembering another event that is linked to the current one by coincidence. The anti-American knee-jerk reaction is 10x worse than any "Americanification".
Then why didn't they bring up one of the three other events, including more recent ones? Those also share that same coincidence.
It is clear that the only point in bringing up a plane crash in the 1960s as opposed to any of the others (including more recent ones, see 2007) was to make it more relevant to Americans.
Is it really an "anti-American knee-jerk" for calling people out for clearly trying to take international events and to twist them into a discussion about your own local issues/problems/incidents? It happens all the freaking time on here, and it is often by the same nationality trying to turn everything into a "well how does this apply to America?"
The TWA 800 plane crash referred to by the OC happened in 1996 (not in the 1960s). So a lot of Americans have memories of that event as well as the aftermath (which dragged on for years).
> twist them into a discussion about your own local issues/problems/incidents
Again, not really sure why this offends you so much. There may not be a lot of value in pointing out this particular coincidence, but it's certainly not intended to pull attention from the tragedy that just occurred. It's just...conversation. Isn't that why we're here on HN?
There is no motivation for the separatists to do this.
"We don't recognize the current government and want more autonomy. Let's shot down a foreign passenger plane! That'll help our cause!"
But the point I was really trying to make is that there is no "overwhelmingly likely" theory at this point. There are just knee-jerk reactions based on your preexisting world view.
You're assuming it had to be intentional, which is an overwhelmingly unjustified assumption. All it would take is the person in control of the weapon to think it's a military transport.
Most likely, it's an accident. Somewhere else in this thread, there's links to a Russian separatist claiming to have shot down what he thought was a military transport with a Buk missile system that they bragged about having several weeks ago.
This seems to make the most sense. I can buy that maybe Russia slipped them parts of a high-end anti-aircraft missile system. Maybe enough to shoot it at an aircraft they saw. But it's plausible that they don't have the high-end air-search radar and/or the personnel with experience in managing the results of such a radar, or with the experience in operating it in cooperation with an anti-aircraft missile battery, that would allow them to reliably identify aircraft and direct attacks against only against the desired targets. They also likely have reason to be on alert to aircraft coming to attack them.
I would also think that the Ukrainian military is likely to have proper air-search radar and the experience using it to identify aircraft properly. And not much reason to be on high alert for potentially hostile aircraft, since the rebels don't have any, and Russia isn't in the fight on that level now.
I think everyone is assuming it was an accident. Coming at it from the direction of trying to explain why anyone would choose to shoot down a passenger plane probably doesn't help clarify the situation.
Turn on any American news outlet, check the front page of any American newspaper, and you'll see tons of coverage of Gaza. It's all over the place. Wall to wall.
If you aren't seeing it then you either aren't really paying attention, or you don't consume American media and have no idea what you're talking about on this topic.
Well, it's going to be overshadowed by this plane crash for a bit.
I think you totally missed the point. We don't want Netflix to go away. (Actually, Netflix is one of the most important technology companies in existence at the moment). We want better behavior.
Because before Netflix, legally streaming copyrighted movies to your computer was a pipedream and now we have several successful providers including Amazon, Vudu, CrunchyRoll, YouTube Live, Hulu, as a part of Hulu various television networks. The Superbowl was on the internet this year. That's kinda big.
It's partly responsible for bringing options to people with regard to what they see.
it's providing a service that will hopefully lead to a more open future. instead of being forced into buying bundled cable packages, maybe one day we'll be able to have more specified choices. i'd say services like Netflix, Hulu, etc. are all things that push towards that. at least i hope
I still don't really understand the importance of this. Also rather than being open, isn't Netflix still locked down with DRM? I seem to recall there is a Netflix DRM plugin built into ChromeOS.
It's not. I don't watch TV. It's not relevant in my life.
I watched a little bit of the Olympics (my wife made me) and while the ladies figure skating was ok, the rest, and especially the commercials, made me feel dumb.
I had to go read a good book (Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger) to boost my mental processes back to normal.
Have a little screen overlay that displays how much memory your browser is using. As it climbs higher and higher, you'll know that you are making progress.
