There's a phrase around the office "His machine's being McAfee'd". This cpu-sucking bloatware is forced upon us from on high where the air is too thin to reason well.
...behave as if a strongly expressed emotion that disagrees with their emotion is wrong
Good morning, it's your three-am wake-up call!
This thought-process seems to be almost universal in defining 'wrong', in my experience. More accurately, I'd probably suspect that people are merely playing at ethics in a thoughtless attempt to have their own way.
The system is correcting for an artificially-maintained anomaly which may no longer be artificially maintained.
Anyhow, I see no correlation between success of the music industry and success of the artists. No doubt much of the ease with which the feeling of wrongdoing is swept aside when someone downloads music is due to the feeling that the artists that made the music so loved by the downloader are being shafted by the music industry. The artists and customers are merely tools of "big music" to achieve a particular outcome.
The whole premise of contests is a scam. Everyone works their ass off for some 'prize'. Only one wins yet the contest hosts get to benefit from all entries.
Apple are playing by rule from the Big Book of Business: * Rule 73b clause ii) Doubly-maximize profits by selling your shiny-yet-behind-the-curve-when-sold product to retards for 2.5 actual market worth whilst simultaneously obtaining the hardware at such low costs that the supplier *literally* enslaves its 'workers' to meet demand to the extent that they are jumping to their deaths to escape.
Yet you don't see the apple fans talking about THAT now, Do you ?
They're too busy licking their phones or queuing to buy a <Phone-they-just-bought-three-weeks-ago-for-two-and-a-half-times-the-actual-market-worth-which-was-already-behind-the-curve-when-they-bought-it>S
Android still don't seem to have emulator Apple's use of manufacturing plant where their 'staff' are held prisoner and try to kill themselves to escape.
Samsung have plenty of design-space in which to play. The completely spherical phone is an untapped market, crying out for vendors. Apple have really done everyone a favour. All hail the the fruit! Pretty soon the whole barrel will be as sweet-smelling!
It's nice to see some variant of the Streisand Effect at work here. First post by a shill-account and the whole conversation up to this point has been arguing about why it's clear that the obvious shill is an obvious shill. Nice work <whichever-marketing-company-won-this-particular-contract>.
I can tell you that when my awesome, light powerful Samsung phone with a great screen, camera, lots of ram, fast processor etc.. is stripped of features because of Apple's bullshit, Apple have just won themselves a lifelong non-customer.
Fuck you Apple. I sincerely mean that, you money-grabbing cocksuckers. Make your shitty, locked-in products a reasonable price so that the n00bs that buy them can afford to eat. Pay your employees a decent wage.
1. It took us three major OS versions to implement copy-and-paste 2. You make slimmer, faster tablets with more ports which are more open and cost less - we can't compete 3. You owe us billions of dollars. Q.E.D.
PS. Our failure to patent copy-and-paste was an oversight which is soon to be rectified. See you in a Texan court in the immediate future.
The USA has demonstrably reached toxic levels of stupidity / corruption-disguised-as-stupidity. It should be cut off from the rest of the world to prevent us from being infected.
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These career-criminals-in-the-making must be made to pay.
There's a phrase around the office "His machine's being McAfee'd". This cpu-sucking bloatware is forced upon us from on high where the air is too thin to reason well.
Q) Will you please make it stop? :o)
Good morning, it's your three-am wake-up call!
This thought-process seems to be almost universal in defining 'wrong', in my experience. More accurately, I'd probably suspect that people are merely playing at ethics in a thoughtless attempt to have their own way.
Who is Galt, Anon?
The system is correcting for an artificially-maintained anomaly which may no longer be artificially maintained.
Anyhow, I see no correlation between success of the music industry and success of the artists. No doubt much of the ease with which the feeling of wrongdoing is swept aside when someone downloads music is due to the feeling that the artists that made the music so loved by the downloader are being shafted by the music industry. The artists and customers are merely tools of "big music" to achieve a particular outcome.
The whole premise of contests is a scam. Everyone works their ass off for some 'prize'. Only one wins yet the contest hosts get to benefit from all entries.
Apple are playing by rule from the Big Book of Business:
* Rule 73b clause ii) Doubly-maximize profits by selling your shiny-yet-behind-the-curve-when-sold product to retards for 2.5 actual market worth whilst simultaneously obtaining the hardware at such low costs that the supplier *literally* enslaves its 'workers' to meet demand to the extent that they are jumping to their deaths to escape.
They're too busy licking their phones or queuing to buy a <Phone-they-just-bought-three-weeks-ago-for-two-and-a-half-times-the-actual-market-worth-which-was-already-behind-the-curve-when-they-bought-it>S
Android still don't seem to have emulator Apple's use of manufacturing plant where their 'staff' are held prisoner and try to kill themselves to escape.
Apple are way ahead of the pack on this one.
Samsung have plenty of design-space in which to play. The completely spherical phone is an untapped market, crying out for vendors. Apple have really done everyone a favour. All hail the the fruit! Pretty soon the whole barrel will be as sweet-smelling!
Which button do I press to get back the life I Iost reading the ancestor thread?
... or an adult being named 'Jono'.
The iPad is irrelevant, soon to be eclipsed (no pun intended) by all things Android. Arguably, this has already happened.
USA. World [sports-] Police. Duh!
Who gave these judges in one corner of the world the right to affect the whole of humanity?
On communist earth, us eat dinosaurs.
Humans are pretty scary. I'm seeing a possible future with McVelociraptor Burgers.
It's nice to see some variant of the Streisand Effect at work here. First post by a shill-account and the whole conversation up to this point has been arguing about why it's clear that the obvious shill is an obvious shill. Nice work <whichever-marketing-company-won-this-particular-contract>.
Whu? How are Apple involved?
Outlook.com - All the machine-lagging, fifteen-levels-of-nested-dialog-boxes crapness of Outlook. Now on the web! Yay \o/
I can tell you that when my awesome, light powerful Samsung phone with a great screen, camera, lots of ram, fast processor etc.. is stripped of features because of Apple's bullshit, Apple have just won themselves a lifelong non-customer.
Fuck you Apple. I sincerely mean that, you money-grabbing cocksuckers. Make your shitty, locked-in products a reasonable price so that the n00bs that buy them can afford to eat. Pay your employees a decent wage.
1. It took us three major OS versions to implement copy-and-paste
2. You make slimmer, faster tablets with more ports which are more open and cost less - we can't compete
3. You owe us billions of dollars. Q.E.D.
PS. Our failure to patent copy-and-paste was an oversight which is soon to be rectified. See you in a Texan court in the immediate future.
Nothing yet :-(
The USA has demonstrably reached toxic levels of stupidity / corruption-disguised-as-stupidity. It should be cut off from the rest of the world to prevent us from being infected.
Clearly this is propaganda perpetrated by Mac-Haters.
Yah :D