> paying every time you play a song isn't necessarily a bad idea
Yes, it necessarily is. Devil's advocate or not, it's a horrible idea, unless I can listen to an album for a few years and never accumulate more than $16-20 in fees for it. And I can copy it anywhere I damn well please. Only then will it come close to resembling anything fair.
What I'm pissed about is being forced to use the iTunes software to transfer files. Why the hell can't I just drag the files into the drive? It's USB and makes the drive letter, you just can't do anything with it, AFAIK.
Sorry if reality interferes with your ignorance, but I am not going to watch it silently. Fine, go back to church, good for you. Enjoy yourself. I don't care, why bother telling me? Do you think I'm going to say "damn, the atheists lost another one to God" like it's some fucking Ditech commercial?
> Should I have put the word "approximately" in all caps and bold-faced?
Regardless of that words presence, it is an incorrect statement. Human disease resistance person-to-person is about as "approximately equivalent" as humans are "approximately equivalent" to gorillas. Which is to say that taken to its most extreme (or "its finest" if you prefer), it is correct, but taken in context of everything else similar, not very.
> eager to hop on the tiniest irrelevancies
IT WAS THE FIRST STINKING SENTENCE OF YOUR POST! How is that a "tiny irrelevancy???"
> Then why you bitchin about apple doing the same thing?
Uh... I'm not, I wasn't the OP. Hell, I don't care if they release patches with known bugs, as long as they plainly say that the bugs are there, what they are, and don't force it to be installed.
> The religion right, OTOH, want to have their cake, eat it to, and shov eit down everyone else's throat, which doesn't really work as an analogy, but there you go.
Maybe "they want to have their cake, eat it, and outlaw pies."
> American universities, Ivy League et. al should announce that if this passes they will automatically decline to admit students from Kansas.
Emotionally, I agree. However, wouldn't it be more impressive to find a student who, despite his school system, was as qualified as someone who went to school in a "more reasonable" district?
You may be right, but I'll highlight an important word to suggest that is not the case:
continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena.
> existence of exclusively homosexual behavior in animals. Does this make evolution "falsified"?
How would that falsify anything, unless you thought the only purpose of evolution was to ensure reproduction? If evolutionary processes also includes reducing the size of a species when necessary, that would be the perfect way to do it without needing large numbers to just die off by starvation, disease, violence, etc.
Why does that surprise you? People are scared of any change at all, and evolution = change. They worship an invisible guy in the sky that was thought up by ignorant, illiterate nomads a couple thousand years ago, wouldn't you expect them to be scared of science?
> Sun's idea of shipping untested patches to customers with instructions to put them on production machines
Phew, good thing they don't actually do that! fucking troll... Sun releases them for people who want a patch and know enough to test it. They release regular patches for regular admins.
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> paying every time you play a song isn't necessarily a bad idea
Yes, it necessarily is. Devil's advocate or not, it's a horrible idea, unless I can listen to an album for a few years and never accumulate more than $16-20 in fees for it. And I can copy it anywhere I damn well please. Only then will it come close to resembling anything fair.
> It's not "what you WANT to hear", its "exactly what you NEED to hear".
No, I don't NEED to be a brainless zombie consumer that buys whatever shit they spew. Nor do I want to be one.
> iPod buyers are locked into using iTMS.
I have an iPod mini and have never used iTMS...
What I'm pissed about is being forced to use the iTunes software to transfer files. Why the hell can't I just drag the files into the drive? It's USB and makes the drive letter, you just can't do anything with it, AFAIK.
> 1. Obvious
> 2. Racist
> 3. ???
> 4 . Profit!!!
3 = Become a standup comic.
Unfortunately, 3a is "get funny material," so that step has not yet been reached.
> Next, I'll suppose you'll tell us about the angels guarding the entrance to the Garden of Eden, so that none of us wander back there.
No, no, it's guarded by the military... You DO know what's in Area 51, don't you? *sshhh, don't tell*
> I would recommend herbal tea and rhythmic breathing.
I would recommend you try recommending something useful and not herbal crap because it's "all natural." Cocaine is all-fucking natural.
Sorry if reality interferes with your ignorance, but I am not going to watch it silently. Fine, go back to church, good for you. Enjoy yourself. I don't care, why bother telling me? Do you think I'm going to say "damn, the atheists lost another one to God" like it's some fucking Ditech commercial?
> Should I have put the word "approximately" in all caps and bold-faced?
Regardless of that words presence, it is an incorrect statement. Human disease resistance person-to-person is about as "approximately equivalent" as humans are "approximately equivalent" to gorillas. Which is to say that taken to its most extreme (or "its finest" if you prefer), it is correct, but taken in context of everything else similar, not very.
> eager to hop on the tiniest irrelevancies
IT WAS THE FIRST STINKING SENTENCE OF YOUR POST! How is that a "tiny irrelevancy???"
> Then why you bitchin about apple doing the same thing?
Uh... I'm not, I wasn't the OP. Hell, I don't care if they release patches with known bugs, as long as they plainly say that the bugs are there, what they are, and don't force it to be installed.
> The religion right, OTOH, want to have their cake, eat it to, and shov eit down everyone else's throat, which doesn't really work as an analogy, but there you go.
Maybe "they want to have their cake, eat it, and outlaw pies."
> American universities, Ivy League et. al should announce that if this passes they will automatically decline to admit students from Kansas.
Emotionally, I agree. However, wouldn't it be more impressive to find a student who, despite his school system, was as qualified as someone who went to school in a "more reasonable" district?
> This equates more along the lines of christians forcing their believes on their children.
Everyone's children. And it's Kansas, not Kentucky, there's a slight difference.
> "or" limits you to a single criteria.
Naw, that's an xor.
> Have you ever actually done a carbon dating?
Have you ever learned Greek, Aramaic, etc. and read the Bible in its original form, instead of the re-re-translated versions?
You may be right, but I'll highlight an important word to suggest that is not the case:
> Nothing wrong with Kansas science that a visit from Godzilla wouldn't take care of.
I think that Godzilla appearing anywhere would throw evolutionists for a loop...
> what is with this us vs. them attitude.
What is with it? We like the search for the truth, but "they" want it outlawed. That's where the attitude comes in.
> existence of exclusively homosexual behavior in animals. Does this make evolution "falsified"?
How would that falsify anything, unless you thought the only purpose of evolution was to ensure reproduction? If evolutionary processes also includes reducing the size of a species when necessary, that would be the perfect way to do it without needing large numbers to just die off by starvation, disease, violence, etc.
> I know he's not a Jedi but do you really think that would stop George?
He'll say that all along it was intended that the Jedi are all descended from Gungan-Human interbreeding long, long ago.
I was wondering who the heck Lisa was...
> I can't be bothered reading it all, but I'm sure it's comedy gold.
Just the first few lines, explaining the intricate use of a power button.
> OSXIE (OS X Isn't Either -- response to GNU)
...
Should that not be "OSXIE Isn't Either?"
Should I not be doing work?
> why? are you serious?
Why does that surprise you? People are scared of any change at all, and evolution = change. They worship an invisible guy in the sky that was thought up by ignorant, illiterate nomads a couple thousand years ago, wouldn't you expect them to be scared of science?
> anyone, who calls someone else "Dude" needs to be neutered
> The penguins are stealing my Sanity one piece at a time.
You, however, show the greatest hope for our future...?
> Sun's idea of shipping untested patches to customers with instructions to put them on production machines
Phew, good thing they don't actually do that! fucking troll... Sun releases them for people who want a patch and know enough to test it. They release regular patches for regular admins.