There are already zillions of free games available on the App Store. Apple isn't worried about free games, it makes their iOS platform way more appealing to users, and they know that.
Of course. What possible reason could the military have for internally sharing the identities of individuals who were willing to help them?
Don't blame the guy who stole my wallet and then used my credit card to buy crap. It's my fault for carrying around a piece of plastic with my real credit card number on it. How foolish of me.
Yes. Steve Jobs should personally write a letter of apology to every single person who has complained about the App Store anywhere on the internet. He must apologize and also thank me for my wise business advice. And I want this letter to be personalized, and handwritten on real paper, none of the this bulk email nonsense. Also if he'd send me a free laptop, that'd be great too.
Fair enough, but I'd imagine that it's easier to ignore this sort of thing when the people doing it aren't citizens of a country that's recently invaded and occupied two countries mostly inhabited by the same people that this gesture is meant to antagonize.
These people have very valid reasons to question whether or not the most powerful military in the world is being used to wage war against their religion. This guy's stunt doesn't reflect well upon the motives of the USA.
I don't care if some guy in Iran burns an American flag, I'm not even particularly concerned if that guy actually would like to kill me just for being an American, because the statistical odds of him having the opportunity to do so are incredibly slim. But the US military has demonstrated capability and willingness to invade countries in the middle east. We literally have the capability to kill millions of muslims if we wanted to. Is there any surprise that purposeful acts of hostility would be met with fear and anger?
Why does the enforcement need to meet any of that criteria? While there are some exceptions (that tend to vary by state), private companies can generally accept and refuse business as they wish (as long as the businesses themselves are legal).
You could argue that this arbitrary enforcement is unfair, but that's just whining, because the world doesn't work that way.
There's no question of rights or freedom here. This is about a guy being an absolute asshole and other people telling him that he should stop being an asshole.
You're totally right, and to direct this sentiment more specifically, I would suggest that people learn to make bread. For most people bread holds a position as one of the most fundamental foods yet entirely mysterious. It turns out that it's really easy to make good bread (especially if you have an electric mixer with a dough hook), and even mediocre homemade bread is light years better than the sliced loafs most people are used to.
Make some white bread rolls on sunday, bring a bag full of them in to work the next day to share, your coworkers will be more friendly to you than ever before.
And if you get into it, there are about a zillion different types of bread you can make. There's literally thousands of years of experimentation and tradition to learn from.
Yeah, although the potential for foraging varies widely depending on where you live. Another great option if you have the space is a vegetable garden. $20 bucks worth of plants and a little bit of hard work can grow you hundreds of dollars worth of veggies. Seeing your food grow is pretty cool, you know it's fresh when you picked it off the stem right before you throw it into the pot, and the only thing that impresses people more than well prepared food is well prepared food that you grew in your own backyard.
Also if you're interested in that sort of thing, no matter where you live there's likely a substantial community of home gardeners who love to teach and learn about growing food and cooking, and are interested in trading homegrown fruits and vegetables (and sometimes even meats). You can get to know some pretty interesting people through a gardening hobby.
You might be right about a lot of that, but if nothing else, moving to electronic formats has the potential to open up the textbook field to more competition, because the cost of entry with digital distribution is so much lower than having to publish hundreds of thousands of big hardcover books.
Good cookware is certainly nice to have, but it's by no means required, and you certainly don't need to go out and spend a thousand bucks on knives and pans when you're just starting out. A sharp knife is essential, but even a cheaper knife can be plenty sharp for you to get started.
Begin with the cheaper stuff until you learn what tools you really prefer and need, then you can make better choices as to what to spend serious money on, plus you'll have had an opportunity to become better educated on which products actually are higher quality. Plus you'll hopefully have learned about how to properly care for your tools before you buy the good stuff.
Lower price stuff isn't always garbage. You can make some totally awesome stuff with cast iron, and that stuff is cheap as hell.
Your point stands, really good quality stuff often costs more money, and it can definitely be worth it. But it's not 100% necessary to make delicious food. Also, I think it can be educational to have tried similar cooking techniques on varying quality equipment, seeing how the different tools affect the food can tell you a lot about what is actually happening on the heat.
Cooking shares a lot of the qualities that make programming a fun hobby for many people. You can generally get fairly quick feedback on whether or not what you're doing is working and so you can iterate and learn quickly. While there can be benefits to having nicer and pricier hardware, it's definitely possible to get good results with older and/or cheaper equipment. There is tons of "open source" material out there to learn from and use, probably thousands of websites with recipes, some are even decently well organized. And while it's hard to find cooking ingredients that are free, you can make lots of good food while only spending a small amount on materials.
And while a clever code hack might impress a handful of geeks, a good meal will impress almost everyone.
Not to get too far off topic, but marriage is really way too easy to get yourself into when you consider the consequences (whether your marriage works well or ends in divorce). I'm all for letting people make their own decisions, but it's no secret how falling in love with someone can lead to poorly thought-out choices. When I got married a few years ago, we were married in a Catholic church, and in order to do that the Church made us go through a bunch of "hoops" before they would marry us. And while a small part of it was sort of "preachy" (talking to us about why the church is against birth control, etc.), most of it was about very practical issues. They made sure that we had discussed our expectations about our careers, our families, how we were going to handle money, etc. While it doesn't have to be through a church, I think that something similar to my experience should be all but mandatory before you get married.
It certainly wouldn't stop divorce, (there are plenty of people who've been married and divorced a bunch of times, and they still continue get tied up in broken marriages), but it could probably help at least some people be more prepared for what they're getting themselves into.
Fair enough, but multiply this by 100 students that you need to schedule and test over the course of a couple days, and it's a little more difficult than imagining a good way of checking.
Yeah except that "clean coal" isn't particularly cheap or plentiful either. So you can spend a bunch of money trying to make a really dirty technology cleaner, or you can put that money towards developing technologies that are inherently clean.
You can cause problems not only by reducing standards, but also by failing to introduce new standards to go along with new technologies/techniques. Now you can argue that semantically the restrictions haven't gotten any softer, in practice it's pretty much the same thing.
Most christians, even in the USA, aren't nearly as nutty and rabidly religious as you imply. You just hear more from the crazy ones because crazy people tend to be loud.
Imagine a hypothetical world without science. One day I walk up to you and say that the universe started as an infinitely dense point that suddenly started expanding faster than light. And eventually it turned into stars, which look like tiny little dots to you, but are actually giant balls of gas billions and billions of miles away, and these balls of gas are turning huge amounts of matter into energy, and have been doing so for billions of years. Oh and everything around you is made up of tiny bits that are way too small to see and most of those tiny bits were created in stars that exploded billions of years ago. Oh and just wait until I start describing black holes, quantum mechanics, string theory, and how many dimensions there might actually be!
I entirely agree. US politicians yelling about how we need to drill more to make ourselves more energy independent are selling false goods. Even if we tripled the amount of oil that we were producing domestically, it would still be a small fraction of the oil that the country uses, and would at best reduce prices by a few pennies per gallon. It would earn big piles of money for a relatively small number of people in the oil industry, and the rest of us wouldn't notice anything different.
We should consider the rest of that oil as a strategic reserve, in case one day we really need it, or somebody else really needs it and is willing to pay out the nose for it.
I don't think that's a useful statement. Many people look to their version of God not just to explain things they don't understand, but also to help them make choices that don't lend themselves to scientific analysis. Life often puts us in positions where a purely rational look at the options isn't very helpful, and some people find religion to be helpful in deciding how best to respond.
I doubt that the knowledge of theoretical physics that Mr. Hawking has is particularly useful for the day to day lives of most people. Knowing more about what happens in a black hole is certainly interesting, but it doesn't help me with 99.9% of the decisions I face in an average day.
I don't know that much about how the industry works, but I can imagine a scenario where the local government runs fiber throughout their town(ideally coordinating with other necessary utility/road work to minimize digging), and then rents out access to those lines to any ISP that cares to compete. Maybe they reserve the right to run their own ISP if the number of interested businesses falls below a certain threshold.
Digging the trenches is the expensive part. You can bite the bullet up front and pay to run a bunch of fiber, or you can try to convince a telecom to pay for it by granting them a local monopoly and let them bleed you for years.
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Even if that was the case (I honestly have no idea), why would the various factors of anti-trust actions have to do with the iPhone?
There are already zillions of free games available on the App Store. Apple isn't worried about free games, it makes their iOS platform way more appealing to users, and they know that.
Of course. What possible reason could the military have for internally sharing the identities of individuals who were willing to help them?
Don't blame the guy who stole my wallet and then used my credit card to buy crap. It's my fault for carrying around a piece of plastic with my real credit card number on it. How foolish of me.
Yes. Steve Jobs should personally write a letter of apology to every single person who has complained about the App Store anywhere on the internet. He must apologize and also thank me for my wise business advice. And I want this letter to be personalized, and handwritten on real paper, none of the this bulk email nonsense. Also if he'd send me a free laptop, that'd be great too.
This is opening a whole other can of worms, but I generally consider respect to be assumed, until one proves themselves unworthy.
You don't have to earn respect from me, it's something that I give you by default because it's something that I expect by default in return.
Fair enough, but I'd imagine that it's easier to ignore this sort of thing when the people doing it aren't citizens of a country that's recently invaded and occupied two countries mostly inhabited by the same people that this gesture is meant to antagonize.
These people have very valid reasons to question whether or not the most powerful military in the world is being used to wage war against their religion. This guy's stunt doesn't reflect well upon the motives of the USA.
I don't care if some guy in Iran burns an American flag, I'm not even particularly concerned if that guy actually would like to kill me just for being an American, because the statistical odds of him having the opportunity to do so are incredibly slim. But the US military has demonstrated capability and willingness to invade countries in the middle east. We literally have the capability to kill millions of muslims if we wanted to. Is there any surprise that purposeful acts of hostility would be met with fear and anger?
Why does the enforcement need to meet any of that criteria? While there are some exceptions (that tend to vary by state), private companies can generally accept and refuse business as they wish (as long as the businesses themselves are legal).
You could argue that this arbitrary enforcement is unfair, but that's just whining, because the world doesn't work that way.
A community center in downtown Manhattan can provide plenty of real benefits to the community, burning a pile of books does not accomplish any good.
There's no question of rights or freedom here. This is about a guy being an absolute asshole and other people telling him that he should stop being an asshole.
Can you caramelize onions in the microwave? Caramelized onions are probably the greatest thing ever.
You're totally right, and to direct this sentiment more specifically, I would suggest that people learn to make bread. For most people bread holds a position as one of the most fundamental foods yet entirely mysterious. It turns out that it's really easy to make good bread (especially if you have an electric mixer with a dough hook), and even mediocre homemade bread is light years better than the sliced loafs most people are used to.
Make some white bread rolls on sunday, bring a bag full of them in to work the next day to share, your coworkers will be more friendly to you than ever before.
And if you get into it, there are about a zillion different types of bread you can make. There's literally thousands of years of experimentation and tradition to learn from.
Yeah, although the potential for foraging varies widely depending on where you live. Another great option if you have the space is a vegetable garden. $20 bucks worth of plants and a little bit of hard work can grow you hundreds of dollars worth of veggies. Seeing your food grow is pretty cool, you know it's fresh when you picked it off the stem right before you throw it into the pot, and the only thing that impresses people more than well prepared food is well prepared food that you grew in your own backyard.
Also if you're interested in that sort of thing, no matter where you live there's likely a substantial community of home gardeners who love to teach and learn about growing food and cooking, and are interested in trading homegrown fruits and vegetables (and sometimes even meats). You can get to know some pretty interesting people through a gardening hobby.
You might be right about a lot of that, but if nothing else, moving to electronic formats has the potential to open up the textbook field to more competition, because the cost of entry with digital distribution is so much lower than having to publish hundreds of thousands of big hardcover books.
Good cookware is certainly nice to have, but it's by no means required, and you certainly don't need to go out and spend a thousand bucks on knives and pans when you're just starting out. A sharp knife is essential, but even a cheaper knife can be plenty sharp for you to get started.
Begin with the cheaper stuff until you learn what tools you really prefer and need, then you can make better choices as to what to spend serious money on, plus you'll have had an opportunity to become better educated on which products actually are higher quality. Plus you'll hopefully have learned about how to properly care for your tools before you buy the good stuff.
Lower price stuff isn't always garbage. You can make some totally awesome stuff with cast iron, and that stuff is cheap as hell.
Your point stands, really good quality stuff often costs more money, and it can definitely be worth it. But it's not 100% necessary to make delicious food. Also, I think it can be educational to have tried similar cooking techniques on varying quality equipment, seeing how the different tools affect the food can tell you a lot about what is actually happening on the heat.
Cooking shares a lot of the qualities that make programming a fun hobby for many people. You can generally get fairly quick feedback on whether or not what you're doing is working and so you can iterate and learn quickly. While there can be benefits to having nicer and pricier hardware, it's definitely possible to get good results with older and/or cheaper equipment. There is tons of "open source" material out there to learn from and use, probably thousands of websites with recipes, some are even decently well organized. And while it's hard to find cooking ingredients that are free, you can make lots of good food while only spending a small amount on materials.
And while a clever code hack might impress a handful of geeks, a good meal will impress almost everyone.
Please tell us more about how much smarter you are than the rest of the world.
Not to get too far off topic, but marriage is really way too easy to get yourself into when you consider the consequences (whether your marriage works well or ends in divorce). I'm all for letting people make their own decisions, but it's no secret how falling in love with someone can lead to poorly thought-out choices. When I got married a few years ago, we were married in a Catholic church, and in order to do that the Church made us go through a bunch of "hoops" before they would marry us. And while a small part of it was sort of "preachy" (talking to us about why the church is against birth control, etc.), most of it was about very practical issues. They made sure that we had discussed our expectations about our careers, our families, how we were going to handle money, etc. While it doesn't have to be through a church, I think that something similar to my experience should be all but mandatory before you get married.
It certainly wouldn't stop divorce, (there are plenty of people who've been married and divorced a bunch of times, and they still continue get tied up in broken marriages), but it could probably help at least some people be more prepared for what they're getting themselves into.
Fair enough, but multiply this by 100 students that you need to schedule and test over the course of a couple days, and it's a little more difficult than imagining a good way of checking.
Yeah except that "clean coal" isn't particularly cheap or plentiful either. So you can spend a bunch of money trying to make a really dirty technology cleaner, or you can put that money towards developing technologies that are inherently clean.
You can cause problems not only by reducing standards, but also by failing to introduce new standards to go along with new technologies/techniques. Now you can argue that semantically the restrictions haven't gotten any softer, in practice it's pretty much the same thing.
Most christians, even in the USA, aren't nearly as nutty and rabidly religious as you imply. You just hear more from the crazy ones because crazy people tend to be loud.
Imagine a hypothetical world without science. One day I walk up to you and say that the universe started as an infinitely dense point that suddenly started expanding faster than light. And eventually it turned into stars, which look like tiny little dots to you, but are actually giant balls of gas billions and billions of miles away, and these balls of gas are turning huge amounts of matter into energy, and have been doing so for billions of years. Oh and everything around you is made up of tiny bits that are way too small to see and most of those tiny bits were created in stars that exploded billions of years ago. Oh and just wait until I start describing black holes, quantum mechanics, string theory, and how many dimensions there might actually be!
Ok, well what about intelligent people who are religious? Or do you refuse to accept that such people can exist?
I entirely agree. US politicians yelling about how we need to drill more to make ourselves more energy independent are selling false goods. Even if we tripled the amount of oil that we were producing domestically, it would still be a small fraction of the oil that the country uses, and would at best reduce prices by a few pennies per gallon. It would earn big piles of money for a relatively small number of people in the oil industry, and the rest of us wouldn't notice anything different.
We should consider the rest of that oil as a strategic reserve, in case one day we really need it, or somebody else really needs it and is willing to pay out the nose for it.
I don't think that's a useful statement. Many people look to their version of God not just to explain things they don't understand, but also to help them make choices that don't lend themselves to scientific analysis. Life often puts us in positions where a purely rational look at the options isn't very helpful, and some people find religion to be helpful in deciding how best to respond.
I doubt that the knowledge of theoretical physics that Mr. Hawking has is particularly useful for the day to day lives of most people. Knowing more about what happens in a black hole is certainly interesting, but it doesn't help me with 99.9% of the decisions I face in an average day.
I don't know that much about how the industry works, but I can imagine a scenario where the local government runs fiber throughout their town(ideally coordinating with other necessary utility/road work to minimize digging), and then rents out access to those lines to any ISP that cares to compete. Maybe they reserve the right to run their own ISP if the number of interested businesses falls below a certain threshold.
Digging the trenches is the expensive part. You can bite the bullet up front and pay to run a bunch of fiber, or you can try to convince a telecom to pay for it by granting them a local monopoly and let them bleed you for years.