I would argue that this move could be targeted just as much at the group of people who a) currently don't pirate Windows, and b) would pirate it if it weren't too difficult. It's sort of an arms race. They have to maintain a moving target, or else piracy will get easier over time as tools to do it improve.
I'm not saying that is their reasoning; I don't work on Windows. I'm also not saying I agree with the move. I'm just saying there's two sides to that coin.
Yeah, don't be surprised if you're pepper-sprayed and dumped in a winter storm with no coat, left to fend for yourself because you hurt someone's feelings. You should know better.
We've evolved to do all kinds of things. Fortunately, we don't have to do everything we've evolved to be able to do. The argument that our teeth are evolved to do something, so we're predestined to do that thing is about a half a step away from saying we should eat meat because God wants us to. We weren't 'meant' to do anything.
Perhaps the meat available to you (at least as far as your body knows) isn't very good, and so your body makes you want to eat vegetables. You think that it's a conscious decision because people like to analyze stuff, but that doesn't mean that you actually made a conscious decision. I'm not saying you didn't, but I argue that it's more likely that you're rationalizing something.
Well, I know it's a conscious choice because I really miss meat (especially chicken), and don't especially like all that many vegetables. Also, my being a vegetarianism turns every meal into a trial. I have to figure out where I can go that will have anything I can eat. I have to figure out what might have meat hidden in it when it's not immediately apparent. If I'm eating with my wife (who still does eat meat) I have to determine where we can go that will have food we both like and can both eat.
I usually have to pay more. I have to consider whether I'm meeting my nutritional needs. I'll often have to wait longer, since whatever I get will probably be a special order.
I can think of a lot of easier ways to be smug.
The other thing that bugs me is how much other people obsess about what i'm NOT eating.
Bullshit, you invite the attention. At least, you did with this comment. It doesn't bug you, it gratifies you. Perhaps you're a vegetarian just to annoy people, and you don't even know it.
Oh, please. I'd guess that you've met three or four times as many vegetarians as you're aware of, just because most of us don't make a big thing out of it. I don't know how many people I've met and known for months without them ever realizing I don't eat meat. Half the time, when they find out, they don't believe me.
Most of us really just do not give a shit what anyone else eats. We just want to eat what we want to eat in peace.
This is close to why my dad, back in South Dakota will never own a hybrid. Not because it takes too much power to run the heater in the winter, but because when it's fourteen below outside, he'd rather find out that his engine isn't going to start while he's still at home, rather than after he's driven ten or twenty miles from home on only battery power.
For the record, every LED in the matrix displays at Times Square couldn't easily have anything applied, at least not more than once. I used to work in the factory that made most of those signs. Maybe they could implement something up in electrical assembly that could spray something on once, when the display mods are being produced, but A) there'd be no point, since you couldn't change it or resell that ad space, B) it would reduce the intensity of each LED, and C) it would likely reduce the overall lifespan of each LED. It was common enough to have to rub off potting material from the tips of the LEDs, I don't even want to imagine the hurdles involved in something like that. Besides all of which, the whole idea with the development of those displays is to make each LED smaller, to increase the sign resolution, which is going to make it even more impossible to cram any information in.
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except, it appears, in the minds of Democrats.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a Republican, and he's one of the people who lobbied most strenuously to do this. 15 Republicans voted to kill it and 15 Dems voted to keep it alive.
Also, if the F-35 has one third the payload of the F-22, how could it take four F-35s to replace one F-22?
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How many soldiers will die if 240 F-22s aren't enough?
How many soldiers will die if 320 F-22's aren't enough?
How many soldiers will die if 1,780 F-22's aren't enough?
1) Sometimes you can't bike where the bus can go, e.g. across Lake Washington on the 520 floating bridge.
2) Biking gives you more freedom than walking. I can get to stops further away, which gives me more options for what busses I can take.
3) Combining bus and bike lets me tailor my commute to how much energy I have. If I'm feeling tired or lazy, I can pass up that first bus across the bridge that'll only get me within three miles of work and take the next bus that'll get me to within five or six blocks.
3a) Maybe I don't feel like biking in the rain. I can rack the bike, pop off the seat, and take the bus home.
Joe Q. Spammer sends me spam with a uniquely named image. I can never ever ever know what that image is.
I can't let my mail client show me the image. I can't copy the address and paste it into a browser myself. I can't even write it down and go to the library and type the address in by hand.
Considering that a few weeks ago, for the first time in my life, a set I bought contained a slightly defective piece, and one email to LEGO got a replacement part in the mail immediately, no questions asked, yeah I think the choice is obvious.
I'm willing to pay a premium for the kind of quality control that keeps a regular purchaser from experiencing any issues with missing or defective pieces for a quarter of a century.
I've got one in my wallet right now. My electromagnetically-shielded wallet.
I've seen the readers in 7-11, Best Buy, and even on vending machines (which was actually a convenient way for me to test the wallet).
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Man, you guys must hate ice cube trays.
Thank you so much!
I had no idea there were other operating systems!
I would argue that this move could be targeted just as much at the group of people who a) currently don't pirate Windows, and b) would pirate it if it weren't too difficult. It's sort of an arms race. They have to maintain a moving target, or else piracy will get easier over time as tools to do it improve.
I'm not saying that is their reasoning; I don't work on Windows. I'm also not saying I agree with the move. I'm just saying there's two sides to that coin.
...is to release more records per breach. Cost-per-record will plummet.
Yeah, don't be surprised if you're pepper-sprayed and dumped in a winter storm with no coat, left to fend for yourself because you hurt someone's feelings. You should know better.
Of course he didn't resist arrest, did he?
If only we had some kind of charge we could bring against someone who resisted arrest... Hmmm...
And being booted from Live doesn't infringe on that right.
Life feeds on life and we've evolved to eat meat.
We've evolved to do all kinds of things. Fortunately, we don't have to do everything we've evolved to be able to do. The argument that our teeth are evolved to do something, so we're predestined to do that thing is about a half a step away from saying we should eat meat because God wants us to. We weren't 'meant' to do anything.
Perhaps the meat available to you (at least as far as your body knows) isn't very good, and so your body makes you want to eat vegetables. You think that it's a conscious decision because people like to analyze stuff, but that doesn't mean that you actually made a conscious decision. I'm not saying you didn't, but I argue that it's more likely that you're rationalizing something.
Well, I know it's a conscious choice because I really miss meat (especially chicken), and don't especially like all that many vegetables. Also, my being a vegetarianism turns every meal into a trial. I have to figure out where I can go that will have anything I can eat. I have to figure out what might have meat hidden in it when it's not immediately apparent. If I'm eating with my wife (who still does eat meat) I have to determine where we can go that will have food we both like and can both eat.
I usually have to pay more. I have to consider whether I'm meeting my nutritional needs. I'll often have to wait longer, since whatever I get will probably be a special order.
I can think of a lot of easier ways to be smug.
The other thing that bugs me is how much other people obsess about what i'm NOT eating.
Bullshit, you invite the attention. At least, you did with this comment. It doesn't bug you, it gratifies you. Perhaps you're a vegetarian just to annoy people, and you don't even know it.
Oh, please. I'd guess that you've met three or four times as many vegetarians as you're aware of, just because most of us don't make a big thing out of it. I don't know how many people I've met and known for months without them ever realizing I don't eat meat. Half the time, when they find out, they don't believe me.
Most of us really just do not give a shit what anyone else eats. We just want to eat what we want to eat in peace.
This idea is far from original. People have been using the comic format to tell stories for years.
If they've been used to play Sony BMG CDs, then they're Sony laptops now.
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Richard Nixon's SSN.
This is close to why my dad, back in South Dakota will never own a hybrid. Not because it takes too much power to run the heater in the winter, but because when it's fourteen below outside, he'd rather find out that his engine isn't going to start while he's still at home, rather than after he's driven ten or twenty miles from home on only battery power.
"Windows 7" is too boring? That's your problem with it? Yeah, it really just doesn't have the zest of something like "OS X."
Or maybe you'd prefer something along the lines of "Windows 7: Alliterative Animal?"
For the record, every LED in the matrix displays at Times Square couldn't easily have anything applied, at least not more than once. I used to work in the factory that made most of those signs. Maybe they could implement something up in electrical assembly that could spray something on once, when the display mods are being produced, but A) there'd be no point, since you couldn't change it or resell that ad space, B) it would reduce the intensity of each LED, and C) it would likely reduce the overall lifespan of each LED. It was common enough to have to rub off potting material from the tips of the LEDs, I don't even want to imagine the hurdles involved in something like that. Besides all of which, the whole idea with the development of those displays is to make each LED smaller, to increase the sign resolution, which is going to make it even more impossible to cram any information in.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a Republican, and he's one of the people who lobbied most strenuously to do this. 15 Republicans voted to kill it and 15 Dems voted to keep it alive.
Also, if the F-35 has one third the payload of the F-22, how could it take four F-35s to replace one F-22?
How many soldiers will die if 240 F-22s aren't enough?
How many soldiers will die if 320 F-22's aren't enough?
How many soldiers will die if 1,780 F-22's aren't enough?
My god, numbers just keep going!
Cross-eye and parallel-eye stereoscopic images don't have this problem.
Don't worry, I'll think you're racist for a good deal longer than just a minute.
1) Sometimes you can't bike where the bus can go, e.g. across Lake Washington on the 520 floating bridge.
2) Biking gives you more freedom than walking. I can get to stops further away, which gives me more options for what busses I can take.
3) Combining bus and bike lets me tailor my commute to how much energy I have. If I'm feeling tired or lazy, I can pass up that first bus across the bridge that'll only get me within three miles of work and take the next bus that'll get me to within five or six blocks.
3a) Maybe I don't feel like biking in the rain. I can rack the bike, pop off the seat, and take the bus home.
This drive me absolutely crazy.
Joe Q. Spammer sends me spam with a uniquely named image. I can never ever ever know what that image is.
I can't let my mail client show me the image. I can't copy the address and paste it into a browser myself. I can't even write it down and go to the library and type the address in by hand.
I can never see that image.
And if you live somewhere with no busses or other public transit?
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Considering that a few weeks ago, for the first time in my life, a set I bought contained a slightly defective piece, and one email to LEGO got a replacement part in the mail immediately, no questions asked, yeah I think the choice is obvious.
I'm willing to pay a premium for the kind of quality control that keeps a regular purchaser from experiencing any issues with missing or defective pieces for a quarter of a century.
Maybe you can take a look at mine. It's '4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444'.
I know, I know, it doesn't look very random. But you can never really be sure with random numbers, you know?
I've got one in my wallet right now. My electromagnetically-shielded wallet. I've seen the readers in 7-11, Best Buy, and even on vending machines (which was actually a convenient way for me to test the wallet).