Really, if FedEx refused to ship a gay wedding cake, you know there would be a lawsuit.
First of all, only an idiot - gay or otherwise - would use FedEx, UPS, or the postal service to ship a wedding cake.
That said, if we substitute something else gay-positive for the hypothetical cake, they could still say "we won't transport that product" and the conservatives would be championing their cause. Carriers have the right to refuse to do business with whomever they want, for whatever reason they want. In this situation, however, the conservatives are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to force a company to take a type of business that it does not want.
If you think FedEx doesn't decide what goods it will or won't ship, go ask them to ship your car, or your pet. They refuse both for different reasons and nobody has ever tried to make a constitutional crisis out of either. There is no law prohibiting them from shipping either, they decided on their own that shipping them isn't worth their bother.
Notice that again the conservative voice on slashdot is screaming about how FedEx doesn't want to transport certain goods. If the product was a pamphlet for a local union hall, the conservatives would say that FedEx was exercising their rights to free speech and freedom of association. But since the product is something that conservatives believe all Americans have god-granted rights to, FedEx's refusal to transport it is clearly a constitutional crisis.
In other words, FedEx is free to transport whatever goods they want, unless refusing them angers the conservatives. Then, FedEx must transport them in spite of their objections.
It is rather amusing that you are refusing to think when replying to a thread about people not thinking. An outside observer might see this and suspect you to be a sock puppet as you are doing more for my argument than against it.
Have you considered a new hobby? Following me around and showing that you love replying to my comments without reading them is a rather odd choice, particularly on a website with as few readers as this one. We heard recently that Gary Con is coming up soon, maybe you can find something to do there.
You shouldn't just expect that everything you say is monitored and will be used against you.
There is a big difference between what you say - verbally or in private writing - and what you write in public. He wrote this in a public place, he had no reason to expect that it would be withheld from his employer if they were to come looking for it.
Seriously, if you post something to an internet forum, that post is no longer under your control. Don't say something online about someone if you are concerned how they might react to it. Yeah, jail time is extreme by western standards but the person who wrote it is not faultless.
The opinions of the media are irrelevant and "the other guy did it too!" is no excuse.
I'm not saying it's an excuse for the behavior. I'm only asking why the punishment is different based on the consonant after the person's name. The law did not change in the interim period; yet we are making a huge deal out of the current example after having quickly brushed the previous one under the rug.
So no trial, just execution of punishment? No thought into if the emails were actually stored or not, just punishment because you dont agree with her politics?
That has been the standard approach of the GOP towards all democrats for some time now. Look at all the conspiracy nuts out there who are certain that Obama deserves immediate forceful removal from the white house sans trial over... well, insert your favorite conspiracy here. They don't care if their favorite conspiracy has already been investigated numerous times by nonpartisan public and private sources. They don't care about rule of law, either. They just grab any flimsy justification they can to force out a democrat, just for being a democrat.
When the administration of the previous guy... what was his name again? nobody ever talks about him any more... used personal email instead of government email it was quickly made into a non-issue by our fearless "liberal media". Now Hillary may have done the same and it's a big deal. Why?
Those of us in science use the lower-case "m" for "milli" - or 1/1000. Hence 500m would be 1/2, and I'm prety sure more than 1/2 of one person recieved the rolled-out U2 music.
When they started releasing band-specific titles I thought maybe they were on to something.
Then they released Green Day. Really? Forget them. I don't want Green Day, I want Dire Straits.
They also released Metallica. Really? No, I don't want Metallica, I want Joe Satriani.
There were other specific titles where they screwed up by focusing on bands that sold out or were overrated as well, but those were two of the most egregious examples.
I loved his acting as much as anyone, but I disagree that it was necessarily a sad day. He was, after all, 83 years old. He beat the average life expectancy in this country by a wide margin. He made an impact on a huge number of people, as well. He was ready to check out and move on. Really, what could you reasonably expect an 83 year old man to do beyond this point anyways? I'm happy for him and all he's done.
Because it would, of course, be a terrible thing if drivers were well qualified, reasonably paid, and respected by their employers. Really, who doesn't wish they could work 70+ hours a week for 35 hours of pay? And job stability is so 1950s...
Don't order it, go to your local computer repair shop.
Who has one of those? Most of the local computer shops have been snuffed out by Best Buy and the Geek Squad. The few that survived that have been killed off by Amazon. You're likelihood of finding one anywhere that can help with older stuff is very very low.
That said, you might have some luck with placing a want ad on craigslist. Every town has old codgers who use to work at (or run) said old computer shops and they have all the adapters for this stuff that you could ever want. Several years ago I used craigslist to acquire what were likely the last 5.25 (and 5.25 / 3.5 combo!) floppy drives in the county I lived in.
Less, let's let facebook lead the way...
on
Facebook's Colonies
·
· Score: 1
Then the third world can quickly become as woefully unproductive as the first world.
The fact that it was not onstalled in the "business line" machines indicates that they KNEW it was crooked before they did it. They just hoped the sheeple...er I mean consumers wouldn't notice.
That is one way to look at it. A competing hypothesis is that the business line systems are more profitable in general, while the consumer lines are subsidized by the software that they install on them before shipping. Hence the consumer level ones were being consistently filled up with an ever-increasing load of crapware to make them more (if only marginally) profitable. Whether there was ever any ethics considered by the company is not clear.
I've never met anyone with a lenovo for their at home use, always dell's or hp's.
Well, some people really love to embrace mediocrity.
And anyone that I've met that did have a lenovo used it just for business.
The business Lenovo systems - ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation workstations - were not part of this as Lenovo never installed superfish on any of them. This only applied to their mediocre consumer-level units that were sold as Lenovos with other model names.
Just another reason why I only buy ThinkPads for my own use. Home, work, etc; I won't buy anything else. Lenovo knows better than to risk that golden goose.
I was trying to load a lenovo forum on the superfish situation yesterday and was puzzled why it was just showing me G-rated pictures of teenagers staring at cameras. I figured something had gone amiss with the code running the forum, or something was weird with my browser that moment. I then found the information I wanted elsewhere.
In other words, this wasn't a very impressive hack.
It sounds like someone is trying to force a company to transport a good to a customer. That sounds counter to the free market as I understand it. Under a free market isn't a company free to turn down any business they don't want to be involved with? If FedEx doesn't want to handle and deliver this product, why are people trying to force them to?
Slashdot Mirror
Those are the icons I most associate with the Mac. High art, maybe not, but definitely the icons I faced the most frequently.
Really, if FedEx refused to ship a gay wedding cake, you know there would be a lawsuit.
First of all, only an idiot - gay or otherwise - would use FedEx, UPS, or the postal service to ship a wedding cake.
That said, if we substitute something else gay-positive for the hypothetical cake, they could still say "we won't transport that product" and the conservatives would be championing their cause. Carriers have the right to refuse to do business with whomever they want, for whatever reason they want. In this situation, however, the conservatives are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to force a company to take a type of business that it does not want.
If you think FedEx doesn't decide what goods it will or won't ship, go ask them to ship your car, or your pet. They refuse both for different reasons and nobody has ever tried to make a constitutional crisis out of either. There is no law prohibiting them from shipping either, they decided on their own that shipping them isn't worth their bother.
Notice that again the conservative voice on slashdot is screaming about how FedEx doesn't want to transport certain goods. If the product was a pamphlet for a local union hall, the conservatives would say that FedEx was exercising their rights to free speech and freedom of association. But since the product is something that conservatives believe all Americans have god-granted rights to, FedEx's refusal to transport it is clearly a constitutional crisis.
In other words, FedEx is free to transport whatever goods they want, unless refusing them angers the conservatives. Then, FedEx must transport them in spite of their objections.
It is rather amusing that you are refusing to think when replying to a thread about people not thinking. An outside observer might see this and suspect you to be a sock puppet as you are doing more for my argument than against it.
Eh, whatever. When I bump into something you wrote, I tend to turn off my brain, avoid reading and overreact.
FTFY.
Have you considered a new hobby? Following me around and showing that you love replying to my comments without reading them is a rather odd choice, particularly on a website with as few readers as this one. We heard recently that Gary Con is coming up soon, maybe you can find something to do there.
I didn't see any gaps in the chat to suggest there were commercial interruptions.
You shouldn't just expect that everything you say is monitored and will be used against you.
There is a big difference between what you say - verbally or in private writing - and what you write in public. He wrote this in a public place, he had no reason to expect that it would be withheld from his employer if they were to come looking for it.
Seriously, if you post something to an internet forum, that post is no longer under your control. Don't say something online about someone if you are concerned how they might react to it. Yeah, jail time is extreme by western standards but the person who wrote it is not faultless.
I thought the original portrait on the Canadian $5 bill looks more like a young Palpatine.
Deepwater Wind, eh? That name should be great, because we all have fond memories of something whose name previously began with Deepwater.
The opinions of the media are irrelevant and "the other guy did it too!" is no excuse.
I'm not saying it's an excuse for the behavior. I'm only asking why the punishment is different based on the consonant after the person's name. The law did not change in the interim period; yet we are making a huge deal out of the current example after having quickly brushed the previous one under the rug.
So no trial, just execution of punishment? No thought into if the emails were actually stored or not, just punishment because you dont agree with her politics?
That has been the standard approach of the GOP towards all democrats for some time now. Look at all the conspiracy nuts out there who are certain that Obama deserves immediate forceful removal from the white house sans trial over ... well, insert your favorite conspiracy here. They don't care if their favorite conspiracy has already been investigated numerous times by nonpartisan public and private sources. They don't care about rule of law, either. They just grab any flimsy justification they can to force out a democrat, just for being a democrat.
When the administration of the previous guy ... what was his name again? nobody ever talks about him any more ... used personal email instead of government email it was quickly made into a non-issue by our fearless "liberal media". Now Hillary may have done the same and it's a big deal. Why?
Those of us in science use the lower-case "m" for "milli" - or 1/1000. Hence 500m would be 1/2, and I'm prety sure more than 1/2 of one person recieved the rolled-out U2 music.
When they started releasing band-specific titles I thought maybe they were on to something.
Then they released Green Day. Really? Forget them. I don't want Green Day, I want Dire Straits.
They also released Metallica. Really? No, I don't want Metallica, I want Joe Satriani.
There were other specific titles where they screwed up by focusing on bands that sold out or were overrated as well, but those were two of the most egregious examples.
I loved his acting as much as anyone, but I disagree that it was necessarily a sad day. He was, after all, 83 years old. He beat the average life expectancy in this country by a wide margin. He made an impact on a huge number of people, as well. He was ready to check out and move on. Really, what could you reasonably expect an 83 year old man to do beyond this point anyways? I'm happy for him and all he's done.
Because it would, of course, be a terrible thing if drivers were well qualified, reasonably paid, and respected by their employers. Really, who doesn't wish they could work 70+ hours a week for 35 hours of pay? And job stability is so 1950s...
Don't order it, go to your local computer repair shop.
Who has one of those? Most of the local computer shops have been snuffed out by Best Buy and the Geek Squad. The few that survived that have been killed off by Amazon. You're likelihood of finding one anywhere that can help with older stuff is very very low.
That said, you might have some luck with placing a want ad on craigslist. Every town has old codgers who use to work at (or run) said old computer shops and they have all the adapters for this stuff that you could ever want. Several years ago I used craigslist to acquire what were likely the last 5.25 (and 5.25 / 3.5 combo!) floppy drives in the county I lived in.
Then the third world can quickly become as woefully unproductive as the first world.
The fact that it was not onstalled in the "business line" machines indicates that they KNEW it was crooked before they did it. They just hoped the sheeple...er I mean consumers wouldn't notice.
That is one way to look at it. A competing hypothesis is that the business line systems are more profitable in general, while the consumer lines are subsidized by the software that they install on them before shipping. Hence the consumer level ones were being consistently filled up with an ever-increasing load of crapware to make them more (if only marginally) profitable. Whether there was ever any ethics considered by the company is not clear.
I've never met anyone with a lenovo for their at home use, always dell's or hp's.
Well, some people really love to embrace mediocrity.
And anyone that I've met that did have a lenovo used it just for business.
The business Lenovo systems - ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation workstations - were not part of this as Lenovo never installed superfish on any of them. This only applied to their mediocre consumer-level units that were sold as Lenovos with other model names.
Just another reason why I only buy ThinkPads for my own use. Home, work, etc; I won't buy anything else. Lenovo knows better than to risk that golden goose.
I was trying to load a lenovo forum on the superfish situation yesterday and was puzzled why it was just showing me G-rated pictures of teenagers staring at cameras. I figured something had gone amiss with the code running the forum, or something was weird with my browser that moment. I then found the information I wanted elsewhere.
In other words, this wasn't a very impressive hack.
It sounds like someone is trying to force a company to transport a good to a customer. That sounds counter to the free market as I understand it. Under a free market isn't a company free to turn down any business they don't want to be involved with? If FedEx doesn't want to handle and deliver this product, why are people trying to force them to?
Projection? Nonsense. I read your comment. It had nothing to do with what I wrote. Pointing that out is not a projection.