As somebody who is just trying to check his email and get directions on Google Maps, I want you to pay out the goddamned nose if you're streaming BluRay-class movies on a tethered laptop.
Japanese manufacturers such as Toyota/Lexus and Honda. They've been selling hybrids worldwide for around ten years now, and you can bet that they, too, lost money on every sale for at least the first few years. In doing so, they bought themselves ten years to refine their processes, tooling, and supply chains, iron out bugs, and discover (and patent) non-obvious efficiencies and improvements.
Meanwhile, the American auto manufacturers chose to stick with the same old profit-heavy SUVs, elderly sedans, and rental-grade compacts they'd been selling for the past twenty years.
The history of alternate-fuel technology is yet another demonstration of US companies' skill at trading the next decade's earnings for the next quarter's. I have zero sympathy for Chevrolet and whatever learning curve they (and their customers) are about to climb with the Volt, because with any competent management in place they would already have several years' experience manufacturing these cars by now.
So why was it wrong for Einstein to add Cosmological Fudge Factor X to the equation, but not for us? How do we know, or what makes us think, that the missing matter is non-baryonic in nature?
So when they came to take away part of my liberty by installing red light cameras, I wasn't so upset. It was a trade off that would make the world better.
Dude, everyone does that. AMD/ATI does it, Nvidia does it, IBM does it, Motorola used to do it, and if Apple ever designed/manufactured anything themselves, they would do it, as well.
Dude, WTF? If Apple were any more vertically-integrated they'd own their own African tantalum mine.
(Shrug) The employees already pay taxes, and the shareholders are taxed on the increase in value when they sell their stock. People making your argument about "even the toilet cleaners pay higher tax rates than the company does" are basically lying with figures. (And yes, that includes Warren Buffett.)
Anyway, do you have a job that requires you to walk around while also having access to a lot of information at the same time?
I would probably have paid twice what my iPad cost if you had shown me what it could do as a VNC client. Even if it couldn't surf the web or play pinball or read e-books, it's still worthwhile as a VNC controller. Much easier to use at a crowded workbench than a laptop.
Does it bother you that you aren't allowed to log in as root on your dishwasher? How about your car's engine controller? How about your pocket calculator? How about your TV set? How about your PC monitor? No, not the PC itself, the monitor's menu controller? How about your A/V receiver? How about the digital photo frame you gave your mom last Christmas? How about the GPS unit in your car? How about the oscilloscope your technicians use at work? How about the treadmill at your gym?
No?
Then what in the world is such a big deal about a stupid cell phone? If it does what you want and you can afford it, buy it. If not, buy something else, or nothing at all. Computers are appliances now, and vice versa. Deal with it and get over it.
And legislative interference with the end user's right to enter into a contract -- regardless of your personal opinion about the terms of that contract -- isn't "disenfranchising"?
Actually, let's do it the other way -- rather than handing you a link to some huge list of nitpicky contradictions, or references to the usual stories where God commits one atrocity or another after claiming to love His people, what would be some examples of specific arguments you find easy to dismiss? Maybe you haven't understood those arguments completely, maybe they weren't phrased very well, or maybe (and this seems fairly common) you're holding their authors to one standard of evidence while holding your pastor to another.
But the Bible is objectively wrong about a great many things. Perhaps if that weren't the case, people would give your Bible-based arguments more credence.
As it is, I could just as easily quote L. Ron Hubbard to demonstrate the "wrongness" of a great many things that you probably don't see anything wrong with. Both sources have similar credibility.
What made you so mad at Christians in general? You are a true odd ball. Do you hate everything in this world that you are unable to achieve? I've known people like that, and you reek of it.
This blog entry is actually a good starting point, if you're sincere about wanting to know why people "hate" Christians. (Some ads on the page may be NSFW.)
Someone should do the same for the Catholic Church. There are a great many "lapsed Catholics" who are nevertheless counted as full members in good standing when politicians decide what demographics are large enough to be worth pandering to.
You have to explicitly request excommunication in order to be dropped from the church rolls, and that's really only the beginning of the process, as they may not let you go without a fight. It would be nice if there were a site that made it easier for those whose consciences no longer permit them to be counted among the Church's numbers to take this first step.
This needs to die. When did emissive displays start to cause "eyes burn out"? bullshit
Well, of course they do! Nobody wants to spend hours a day reading from a backlit LCD. And the GP will cheerfully spend the next 12 hours staring at his LCD monitor, reading Slashdot threads on the subject and telling people all about it.
The problem is that Iran really wants to wipe Israel out.
Iran wants to wipe Israel out the way the Baptists want to make abortion illegal. Specifically, not at all. Why would the fundamentalists want to give up their respective multimillion-vote rallying points like that? If they actually got what they wanted, it would be the end of their world.
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As somebody who is just trying to check his email and get directions on Google Maps, I want you to pay out the goddamned nose if you're streaming BluRay-class movies on a tethered laptop.
Japanese manufacturers such as Toyota/Lexus and Honda. They've been selling hybrids worldwide for around ten years now, and you can bet that they, too, lost money on every sale for at least the first few years. In doing so, they bought themselves ten years to refine their processes, tooling, and supply chains, iron out bugs, and discover (and patent) non-obvious efficiencies and improvements.
Meanwhile, the American auto manufacturers chose to stick with the same old profit-heavy SUVs, elderly sedans, and rental-grade compacts they'd been selling for the past twenty years.
The history of alternate-fuel technology is yet another demonstration of US companies' skill at trading the next decade's earnings for the next quarter's. I have zero sympathy for Chevrolet and whatever learning curve they (and their customers) are about to climb with the Volt, because with any competent management in place they would already have several years' experience manufacturing these cars by now.
Good thing they're "too big to fail," I guess.
So why was it wrong for Einstein to add Cosmological Fudge Factor X to the equation, but not for us? How do we know, or what makes us think, that the missing matter is non-baryonic in nature?
Well, yes, they "recovered" by defaulting, but who in the right mind is going to lend money to Iceland now?
Krugman's columns mostly just amount to one facepalm after another.
I wouldn't be surprised if it came to that. Not that stupid an idea, really.
So when they came to take away part of my liberty by installing red light cameras, I wasn't so upset. It was a trade off that would make the world better.
You've been lied to.
You should be pissed off about that, but I'm guessing not.
Dude, everyone does that. AMD/ATI does it, Nvidia does it, IBM does it, Motorola used to do it, and if Apple ever designed/manufactured anything themselves, they would do it, as well.
Dude, WTF? If Apple were any more vertically-integrated they'd own their own African tantalum mine.
Where does "idiots with good intentions possibly causing harm" fall in to the Good or Bad scale?
Well, that's a more charitable description of the Bush Administration than I'd have proposed, but I suppose reasonable people can disagree.
You "don't care" enough to post multiple messages in threads pertaining to devices you don't own.
Got it.
(Shrug) The employees already pay taxes, and the shareholders are taxed on the increase in value when they sell their stock. People making your argument about "even the toilet cleaners pay higher tax rates than the company does" are basically lying with figures. (And yes, that includes Warren Buffett.)
Anyway, do you have a job that requires you to walk around while also having access to a lot of information at the same time?
I would probably have paid twice what my iPad cost if you had shown me what it could do as a VNC client. Even if it couldn't surf the web or play pinball or read e-books, it's still worthwhile as a VNC controller. Much easier to use at a crowded workbench than a laptop.
What in the world are you talking about? Of course Traffic is an intended feature. The app has a button to turn it on and off!
Does it bother you that you aren't allowed to log in as root on your dishwasher?
How about your car's engine controller?
How about your pocket calculator?
How about your TV set?
How about your PC monitor? No, not the PC itself, the monitor's menu controller?
How about your A/V receiver?
How about the digital photo frame you gave your mom last Christmas?
How about the GPS unit in your car?
How about the oscilloscope your technicians use at work?
How about the treadmill at your gym?
No?
Then what in the world is such a big deal about a stupid cell phone? If it does what you want and you can afford it, buy it. If not, buy something else, or nothing at all. Computers are appliances now, and vice versa. Deal with it and get over it.
I disallow writing anything else on it so it's not a how-small-can-you-write exercise.
Ice-cold can of Coke + phase-change ink from erasable pen -> I pass your physics class :)
How did this corporation gain all this power over me in the first place, if the government didn't hand it to them?
Why, when it only disenfranchises the end user?
And legislative interference with the end user's right to enter into a contract -- regardless of your personal opinion about the terms of that contract -- isn't "disenfranchising"?
That's rich.
Actually, let's do it the other way -- rather than handing you a link to some huge list of nitpicky contradictions, or references to the usual stories where God commits one atrocity or another after claiming to love His people, what would be some examples of specific arguments you find easy to dismiss? Maybe you haven't understood those arguments completely, maybe they weren't phrased very well, or maybe (and this seems fairly common) you're holding their authors to one standard of evidence while holding your pastor to another.
But the Bible is objectively wrong about a great many things. Perhaps if that weren't the case, people would give your Bible-based arguments more credence.
As it is, I could just as easily quote L. Ron Hubbard to demonstrate the "wrongness" of a great many things that you probably don't see anything wrong with. Both sources have similar credibility.
What made you so mad at Christians in general? You are a true odd ball. Do you hate everything in this world that you are unable to achieve? I've known people like that, and you reek of it.
This blog entry is actually a good starting point, if you're sincere about wanting to know why people "hate" Christians. (Some ads on the page may be NSFW.)
Someone should do the same for the Catholic Church. There are a great many "lapsed Catholics" who are nevertheless counted as full members in good standing when politicians decide what demographics are large enough to be worth pandering to.
You have to explicitly request excommunication in order to be dropped from the church rolls, and that's really only the beginning of the process, as they may not let you go without a fight. It would be nice if there were a site that made it easier for those whose consciences no longer permit them to be counted among the Church's numbers to take this first step.
This needs to die. When did emissive displays start to cause "eyes burn out"? bullshit
Well, of course they do! Nobody wants to spend hours a day reading from a backlit LCD. And the GP will cheerfully spend the next 12 hours staring at his LCD monitor, reading Slashdot threads on the subject and telling people all about it.
The problem is that Iran really wants to wipe Israel out.
Iran wants to wipe Israel out the way the Baptists want to make abortion illegal. Specifically, not at all. Why would the fundamentalists want to give up their respective multimillion-vote rallying points like that? If they actually got what they wanted, it would be the end of their world.
Seriously don't know why you guys put up with so much crap from your telcos. We never hear anything like this in Australia
I imagine there's a lot of stuff you don't hear in Australia. Why do you put up with so much crap from your government?
Rather a (*#$@ move on their part, but perfectly within bounds
Really? What do you suppose would happen to me, as a private citizen, if I were to be caught in the act of planting a GPS tracker on an FBI vehicle?
If your answer is anything other than "Nothing," then you must agree that the judges in this case pulled brand-new law out of their asses.