Well see, here's the thing. A 1000 (or 400) sq.foot apartment might be fine to you, but to millions of families everywhere, that is simply not possible. People who are "fine" with expensive apartment living are so because they have no option. That doesn't make it good, better, or even acceptable, especially when I can move to any number of medium-large cities in America, make lots of money, and live in something other than a box-sized apartment.
Hell, even the bumper stickers tell me more - one place is full of religious mumbo jumbo and right-wing political stickers,
Well you got that part right. That's why I live in Austin.
But a $1500/month mortgage in Dallas will get you a 3000 sq. Foot HOUSE. It's only hot there for a couple months, then you enjoy 9 months of 70ish weather the rest of the time.
Are you serious? Renting you are guaranteed nothing other than paying somebody else's mortgage for them. If you buy and your foundation splits or you get termites, you file an insurance claim. If the market falls out on you, keep living in the house until it recovers. If you live in Detroit, then yeah, you probably should have rented;-)
Fixed that one. It's not affordable, and the weather and traffic suck. I don't care how great a city is--if a family of three can't afford a house with more than 1200 sq. feet and a fenced yard, it is automatically disqualified from the "best" places to live list, especially with bad weather and traffic.
What's so subjective about "Detroit, Arkansas and Cleveland suck"? Pretty good list, if you ask me. I could think of worse places than Orlando, though. No State income tax is nice.
I think you might want to re-read your post. I agree the word "data" is plural. I don't agree that a plural subject takes a singular verb conjugation like your example provides.
Replace your subject with "dog" and "dogs", and I think you'd agree that dogs indicate, but a dog indicates.
another one of Apples (not so) subtle schemes to get you using a particular software version whether you like it or not
Or there's the part where the new functionality in the phone requires a new software version to control it? You know, as in, "we couldn't predict the future with iTunes 8.1 to know what it would need for the third-gen iPhone coming out next year".
Data indicate something, they don't indicates something. Perhaps I am being pedantic, but I figured slashdot was the one place left on the Internet where such pedantry was encouraged.
While it indeed was a typo, it would still be relevant to my intent. Likewise, I could have typed "Some" chick (as in pick any half-way decent looking chick on the planet, like they do now), same schtick.
So we can get away from my side note and focus on my point. Easing copyright seems to encourage copycat "cultural production", especially at the lowest common denominator level. Hence, we get Pussy Cat Dolls (x15 knock-off girl groups)and Britney Spears (x25 knock-off talentless bimbos). This has been true since forever (hair bands of the 80s, disco music of the 70s, peace & love music of the 60s). Easing copyright doesn't encourage more, diverse, better, whatever music, it only encourages more of the same revenue-generating music. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the slant to the story is that easy copyright laws are somehow leading us to cultural enlightenment.
I just can't get Vanilla Ice out of my head, trying to explain how his riff is completely different than Queen's riff.
1. The data indicates that file sharing has not discouraged creativity, as the evidence shows significant increases in cultural production.
Britney, meet Lady GaGa. Some schtick, different chick. Let's all thank them, and the hordes of copycat bimbo lip-synching strippers out there, for the "cultural producton".
Sidenote: What does it say about the credibility of the link, when they can't even get noun-verb agreement right? Data are plural, thus data "indicate"--they don't "indicates".
Visual Voice mail is pretty nice. Worth the cost of admission, at least. Web pages that display correctly is another one I can think of that I've never seen on another cell phone. Then there's the whole concept that my iPhone is the best iPod I own (I own 6).
Lines usually indicate a lack of planning on the part of the line-maker.
Seriously? If your statement were true, then it could be said that all of Europe suffers from "lack of planning". Here in the US, we don't have good planning like Europe, yet we spend considerably less time standing in lines. Hint: population density has far more to do with lines than any amount of planning.
In my mere 40 years of existence, most lines exist because there is a greater demand than the capacity to handle that demand. NO amount of proper planning can get 95,000 people into a football game in a timely no-line manner. No amount of planning can alleviate long lines leaving the track of the Indianapolis 500 or the Daytona 500. 150,000-400,000 people simply can't get in an out that easily.
Thanks to the Zero Attention Span Theater Generation we get vapid video games (as opposed to substantive ones of old) and 15 second "music videos". Now get off my lawn.
...to block Internet sites in order to fight child pornography... enabling the government to block content containing child pornography.
I don't get the outrage. Is it just because it is Germany, and stirs up memories of, "Die Papieren, bitte"? Otherwise, I don't see how this is any different than shutting down ANY illegitimate business (regardless if it is online or brick-and-mortar).
the National Security Agency is 'a secretive, hidebound culture incapable of keeping up with innovation,
Yeah, right. That's why the NSA-proprietary software actually works and the rest of the DoD is "innovating" by wasting billions of dollars on contractor-developed software that doesn't work. Maybe he thinks innovation means cutting off USB ports like the Army has done?
Credit card fraud is a crime, regardless of your socioeconomic status, and regardless if you try to dismiss is as "trying to make a living". You don't have a right to etch out "some sort of living" by purchasing stuff with stolen credit cards.
I'm pretty sure the burden of proof is on the prosecution in this case. Still doesn't mean it wouldn't suck to have the stigma of child pornographer attached to you because some Geek Squad dork doesn't like you.
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Well see, here's the thing. A 1000 (or 400) sq.foot apartment might be fine to you, but to millions of families everywhere, that is simply not possible. People who are "fine" with expensive apartment living are so because they have no option. That doesn't make it good, better, or even acceptable, especially when I can move to any number of medium-large cities in America, make lots of money, and live in something other than a box-sized apartment.
Hell, even the bumper stickers tell me more - one place is full of religious mumbo jumbo and right-wing political stickers,
Well you got that part right. That's why I live in Austin.
But a $1500 /month mortgage in Dallas will get you a 3000 sq. Foot HOUSE. It's only hot there for a couple months, then you enjoy 9 months of 70ish weather the rest of the time.
Are you serious? Renting you are guaranteed nothing other than paying somebody else's mortgage for them. If you buy and your foundation splits or you get termites, you file an insurance claim. If the market falls out on you, keep living in the house until it recovers. If you live in Detroit, then yeah, you probably should have rented ;-)
Boston is one of the best places to visit.
Fixed that one. It's not affordable, and the weather and traffic suck. I don't care how great a city is--if a family of three can't afford a house with more than 1200 sq. feet and a fenced yard, it is automatically disqualified from the "best" places to live list, especially with bad weather and traffic.
I can't believe they left Austin off the good list. Maybe they meant Austin instead of Atlanta?
What's so subjective about "Detroit, Arkansas and Cleveland suck"? Pretty good list, if you ask me. I could think of worse places than Orlando, though. No State income tax is nice.
How is your stupid corporate IT policy Apple's fault again?
$30 counts as insanely expensive these days???
I think you might want to re-read your post. I agree the word "data" is plural. I don't agree that a plural subject takes a singular verb conjugation like your example provides.
Replace your subject with "dog" and "dogs", and I think you'd agree that dogs indicate, but a dog indicates.
another one of Apples (not so) subtle schemes to get you using a particular software version whether you like it or not
Or there's the part where the new functionality in the phone requires a new software version to control it? You know, as in, "we couldn't predict the future with iTunes 8.1 to know what it would need for the third-gen iPhone coming out next year".
I think they actually mean the 3.0 upgrade. Of course, this is slashdot and I wouldn't expect any news about actual features...just security patches.
Data indicate something, they don't indicates something. Perhaps I am being pedantic, but I figured slashdot was the one place left on the Internet where such pedantry was encouraged.
While it indeed was a typo, it would still be relevant to my intent. Likewise, I could have typed "Some" chick (as in pick any half-way decent looking chick on the planet, like they do now), same schtick.
So we can get away from my side note and focus on my point. Easing copyright seems to encourage copycat "cultural production", especially at the lowest common denominator level. Hence, we get Pussy Cat Dolls (x15 knock-off girl groups)and Britney Spears (x25 knock-off talentless bimbos). This has been true since forever (hair bands of the 80s, disco music of the 70s, peace & love music of the 60s). Easing copyright doesn't encourage more, diverse, better, whatever music, it only encourages more of the same revenue-generating music. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the slant to the story is that easy copyright laws are somehow leading us to cultural enlightenment.
I just can't get Vanilla Ice out of my head, trying to explain how his riff is completely different than Queen's riff.
Typos hardly count, and I see two in my post. I blame the lousy forum tools. What grammar do you take offense to in my post?
1. The data indicates that file sharing has not discouraged creativity, as the evidence shows significant increases in cultural production.
Britney, meet Lady GaGa. Some schtick, different chick. Let's all thank them, and the hordes of copycat bimbo lip-synching strippers out there, for the "cultural producton".
Sidenote: What does it say about the credibility of the link, when they can't even get noun-verb agreement right? Data are plural, thus data "indicate"--they don't "indicates".
Visual Voice mail is pretty nice. Worth the cost of admission, at least. Web pages that display correctly is another one I can think of that I've never seen on another cell phone. Then there's the whole concept that my iPhone is the best iPod I own (I own 6).
Disney World managed to eliminate lines.
Disney World is behind this bad economy?
Lines usually indicate a lack of planning on the part of the line-maker.
Seriously? If your statement were true, then it could be said that all of Europe suffers from "lack of planning". Here in the US, we don't have good planning like Europe, yet we spend considerably less time standing in lines. Hint: population density has far more to do with lines than any amount of planning.
In my mere 40 years of existence, most lines exist because there is a greater demand than the capacity to handle that demand. NO amount of proper planning can get 95,000 people into a football game in a timely no-line manner. No amount of planning can alleviate long lines leaving the track of the Indianapolis 500 or the Daytona 500. 150,000-400,000 people simply can't get in an out that easily.
Or not from the South.
Thanks to the Zero Attention Span Theater Generation we get vapid video games (as opposed to substantive ones of old) and 15 second "music videos". Now get off my lawn.
Uh, isn't it the job of the police to prevent you from, or capture you for committing a crime? Is that what counts as a Police State these days?
...to block Internet sites in order to fight child pornography ... enabling the government to block content containing child pornography.
I don't get the outrage. Is it just because it is Germany, and stirs up memories of, "Die Papieren, bitte"? Otherwise, I don't see how this is any different than shutting down ANY illegitimate business (regardless if it is online or brick-and-mortar).
the National Security Agency is 'a secretive, hidebound culture incapable of keeping up with innovation,
Yeah, right. That's why the NSA-proprietary software actually works and the rest of the DoD is "innovating" by wasting billions of dollars on contractor-developed software that doesn't work. Maybe he thinks innovation means cutting off USB ports like the Army has done?
Credit card fraud is a crime, regardless of your socioeconomic status, and regardless if you try to dismiss is as "trying to make a living". You don't have a right to etch out "some sort of living" by purchasing stuff with stolen credit cards.
I'm pretty sure the burden of proof is on the prosecution in this case. Still doesn't mean it wouldn't suck to have the stigma of child pornographer attached to you because some Geek Squad dork doesn't like you.