I had a job during the summer where I had to do a lot of data entry into phones and I ended up holding the thing upside-down and using it that way because it was easier.
Of course, this was all on a bicycle, so that makes a difference as well.
Apple's terms would have cut out major retailers when it comes to the handset, making it more difficult to retain those retail partners.
I'd guess that this would be for a limited time, and for the benefit of Apple. Those big stores are notorious (ahem.. Walmart) for using their bulk buying to get better deals.
Or maybe Apple just wants all that foot traffic into their store, and they won't be able to supply Apple stores, cell stores, and big chain retailers.
If they make the choice to not sell a product where there isn't a big enough market to justify the expence, they are under no obligation to.
The whole point is that there is no expense to sell on iTMS in the US and Japan as opposed to just Japan. There might be a minimal ammount off extra server load and bandwidth, but that is only when someone actually buys or looks at something. So there is no expense to justify.
I'm just wondering when the rest of the world is going to stop appeasing the U.S.
That's when the shit really hits the fan.
I'd imagine that Iran would probably be the last straw. If we attack Iran, which, after the SotU, seems more and more likely, then I have a feeling that the kiddie gloves that China and Russia and maybe even the EU have been wearing come off. All in all we have it easy in Iraq compared to what it could be. If Russia decided to start sending in some nice STA missiles, get us back for Afghanistan, when they were there, not this time around, we could start seeing 3 figure weekly casualties.
The Amendments are part of the constitution. They are called amendments because they were amended on to the constitution. Just like when there are amendments to a bill.
Ok I am going to wade in here. The latest tactic I have seen is people pretending that all discussion is over on this issue.
I'll be honest here, you need to wade back out. What you are doing right now is the latest tactic. The cries of "Oh, the earth's climate has clearly changed before!" are the latest greatest nonsense to be brought against the scientific evidence.
My response. Yes, climate certainly has been different in the past. This is one of the things studied in an effort to understand how much humans have affected the climate. (note: how much, not whether or not)
This "problem" you bring up is, precisely, the evidence.
Do you use incandescent light bulbs? Then YOU are part of the problem. Do you leave your PC on 24/7? Then YOU are part of the problem. Do you leave your laser printer on all day? Then YOU are part of the problem (laser printers suck more juice than all other computer components combined; they're mini space heaters).
Do you Drive an SUV? Then YOU are even more of the problem and a sociopath as well. Do you race to the next red light instead of taking your foot off the gas? Not only are you part of the problem, then you are an idiot to boot.
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then please stop fucking up my planet. Thank you.
Not to burst your little bubble, but no, I don't do any of those things. In fact I try to go one step further and unplug appliances when they aren't in use so as to use less power. It's not all me being a selfless person. I save a crap-load of money by not using as much energy and by not having a car.
And, no, doing these things does not make a person a sociopath, not does it necessarily make them a bad person. Individual circumstances differ and what is easy for me is not so easy for others.
The ozone hole has nothing to do with global warming and is getting smaller precisely because we took action to make it smaller. As for how much we influence the climate,you seem to lack any justification, besides your flawed ozone argument, for believing we have little influence on the climate.
All that said, yes, Kyoto is not going to deal with the problem. However, given that we have enough poeple, such as yourself, who refuse to acknowledge the extent of the climate change problem, I hardly expect that an international treaty which includes more strict emmission curtails will ever come into being.
I'd hope you'd have a choice of a country whose language you speak. Getting the email of a kid in China so I can not talk to him would be much less interesting for me than would being able to communicate with a kid who speaks Spanish or Arabic, languages I'd actually be able to email in.
And how will a wall stop the privileged Irish immigrants?
Clearly you think privileging anyone who has not gone through the correct channels to get here is a problem, so why do you specifically have a problem with non-english speaking people, i.e. "mexicans" as you like to call them?
In addition, a wall will not stop people from coming through the southern borders, where there is a will there is a way.
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That works better if they're upside-down as well.
You just punch the numbers in.
You asked for it.
If I had a GPS I'd most certainly use it to avoid that type of porn. /shudder
not if you hold it right.
I had a job during the summer where I had to do a lot of data entry into phones and I ended up holding the thing upside-down and using it that way because it was easier.
Of course, this was all on a bicycle, so that makes a difference as well.
I think the problem is that they don't want the throttling up to be gradual, they want it to change gears quick like.
Apple's terms would have cut out major retailers when it comes to the handset, making it more difficult to retain those retail partners.
I'd guess that this would be for a limited time, and for the benefit of Apple. Those big stores are notorious (ahem.. Walmart) for using their bulk buying to get better deals.
Or maybe Apple just wants all that foot traffic into their store, and they won't be able to supply Apple stores, cell stores, and big chain retailers.
As long as Ebay makes money on higher prices they have no incentive to stop this type of fraud.
Yes, everyone run around and complain as much as you want, this isn't going to change.
Whatever, I never trusted auction sites anyway.
Yep.
This article should be labeled:
"Company refuses to give away free trip, Forces winner to pay.
If you restrict life saving to literally saving some ones life
Just stop it.
This is pathetic.
Of course we were talking about literally saving someones life.
And the life saving is where?
Not a single one of those people made there money on things that save peoples lives, or anything close.
All of them are good at making money.
P.S. Yes, I think it is good that Gates and Buffet are giving back, but the argument is about how much people are worth.
Authors?
In scientific journals?
Paid?
Man, I wish I lived in that magical world.
Go look at the list of the ten richest people in the U.S.
Now tell me which one of them saved peoples lives with whatever they made their money on.
If they make the choice to not sell a product where there isn't a big enough market to justify the expence, they are under no obligation to.
The whole point is that there is no expense to sell on iTMS in the US and Japan as opposed to just Japan. There might be a minimal ammount off extra server load and bandwidth, but that is only when someone actually buys or looks at something. So there is no expense to justify.
I'm just wondering when the rest of the world is going to stop appeasing the U.S.
That's when the shit really hits the fan.
I'd imagine that Iran would probably be the last straw. If we attack Iran, which, after the SotU, seems more and more likely, then I have a feeling that the kiddie gloves that China and Russia and maybe even the EU have been wearing come off. All in all we have it easy in Iraq compared to what it could be. If Russia decided to start sending in some nice STA missiles, get us back for Afghanistan, when they were there, not this time around, we could start seeing 3 figure weekly casualties.
Yeah, I worry, I'm cynical.
What the hell else is there to do.
The Amendments are part of the constitution. They are called amendments because they were amended on to the constitution. Just like when there are amendments to a bill.
People need to learn them some political science.
Ok I am going to wade in here.
The latest tactic I have seen is people pretending that all discussion is over on this issue.
I'll be honest here, you need to wade back out. What you are doing right now is the latest tactic. The cries of "Oh, the earth's climate has clearly changed before!" are the latest greatest nonsense to be brought against the scientific evidence.
My response. Yes, climate certainly has been different in the past. This is one of the things studied in an effort to understand how much humans have affected the climate. (note: how much, not whether or not)
This "problem" you bring up is, precisely, the evidence.
Do you use incandescent light bulbs? Then YOU are part of the problem. Do you leave your PC on 24/7? Then YOU are part of the problem. Do you leave your laser printer on all day? Then YOU are part of the problem (laser printers suck more juice than all other computer components combined; they're mini space heaters).
Do you Drive an SUV? Then YOU are even more of the problem and a sociopath as well. Do you race to the next red light instead of taking your foot off the gas? Not only are you part of the problem, then you are an idiot to boot.
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then please stop fucking up my planet. Thank you.
Not to burst your little bubble, but no, I don't do any of those things. In fact I try to go one step further and unplug appliances when they aren't in use so as to use less power. It's not all me being a selfless person. I save a crap-load of money by not using as much energy and by not having a car.
And, no, doing these things does not make a person a sociopath, not does it necessarily make them a bad person. Individual circumstances differ and what is easy for me is not so easy for others.
The problem is that we only have them until the sea rises,then they drop back below the water line.
The ozone hole has nothing to do with global warming and is getting smaller precisely because we took action to make it smaller. As for how much we influence the climate,you seem to lack any justification, besides your flawed ozone argument, for believing we have little influence on the climate.
All that said, yes, Kyoto is not going to deal with the problem. However, given that we have enough poeple, such as yourself, who refuse to acknowledge the extent of the climate change problem, I hardly expect that an international treaty which includes more strict emmission curtails will ever come into being.
Yeah, it's like they say, hard work may pay off later, but procrastination pays off now.
P.S. I would've gotten first post, but I kept putting it off and putting it off.
Go make those connections, nobody is stopping you except yourself. Plenty of people have done it before you, how did they manage it?
Right, I'll just run out and hang with the Harvard folks.
Are you really so naive as to believe this crap you spew?
I'd hope you'd have a choice of a country whose language you speak. Getting the email of a kid in China so I can not talk to him would be much less interesting for me than would being able to communicate with a kid who speaks Spanish or Arabic, languages I'd actually be able to email in.
Yeah, they tacked it on as a rider. But it only applies to those with the accent. Sorry.
And how will a wall stop the privileged Irish immigrants?
Clearly you think privileging anyone who has not gone through the correct channels to get here is a problem, so why do you specifically have a problem with non-english speaking people, i.e. "mexicans" as you like to call them?
In addition, a wall will not stop people from coming through the southern borders, where there is a will there is a way.
No. I'm saying that undocumented immigrants from Ireland are more privileged than those from Mexico.