If Verizon couldn't bring FIOS nationwide, and stopped expanding it, is it really reasonable for Google to bring Google Fiber to even a significant portion of the U.S.?
So, buy your music there, or wherever you want, and use it on your iPod or iOS device, if you happen to have one. Who is stopping you?
apple is still doing the buy music thing when everyone has moved on to the subscription model
blu rays are still better than buying locked down digital versions linked to specific products and ecosystems
So at first you're *complaining* about the "buy music thing" in comparison to subscription (which presumably inherently includes DRM), then you're PRAISING the "buy videos" thing, compared to a subscription.
You don't think we have alpha males in our species?
Seems to me like the 50 year old car salesman who has a 20-something wife or girlfriend is the alpha male in his community. (Basically, the local maximum, by some considerations.)
8" floppies may have been introduced in 71 but it wasn't really anywhere close to common until the late seventies and never had much traction with large computers. More so with minicomputers but still fairly useless given the volumes of data. Where they shone was with micros, their 8-bit cpus and low data requirements made them ideal; you could easily boot an O/S off one and have all your data on the other and this lasted until about the early to mid 80s when 5" floppies - much less reliable - took over.
Uhh, 5.25" floppies were used in many computers in the late 70s, and 3.25" disks were what took over in the mid 1980s.
Bob fits, but it was sold for about 6 months 20 years ago so I don't see it being particularly relevant to the here and now. But yes, I guess if you mention IBM RealX products, it's fair to mention Bob, since they're roughly the same age.
You said "Microsoft never did", and it didn't seem to me like you were exaggerating for effect, so the age of the example to disprove your statement is irrelevant.
However, the existence of glasses/contacts/Lasik/etc., presumably has slowed down (if not stopped/reversed) our species' evolution to having better eyesight, because the now not-blind-as-a-bat people aren't being run over by busses (or eaten by lions or whatever).
We already subsidize HFCS, and our food is full of HFCS, so we indirectly already subsidize a lot of our food.
(This is meant mostly as a joke, I am not one of those people who fear HFCS, since it's just like any other sugar to the body... But we shouldn't subsidize it, or anything else.)
You don't need to create your electricity with coal or natural gas.
But *even if you do*, having the pollution concentrated in one place, that can have strict requirements for pollution control/air cleaning is more efficient than you having a "gasoline power plant" inside of your car. For example, just like *some* of the hybrids *do* with their gas engines, presumably the power plant is always running at its most efficient rate (unlike regular gas engines in cars).
It's easy to say that every word in the Bible is true as long as you read it one sentence at a time. It's when you start cross-referencing and one part of it literally calls another part a "lying prophecy" that things start getting uncomfortable.
Aren't there multiple versions of the same overall story, which tell completely different details? I can't remember the example, but I thought one of the well known stories has two different versions that are very different, and somehow both are supposedly true.
but the miracles and myth that permeate the pages are easier to take when you consider them to be a fiction rather than a fact
If you consider that part to be fiction, why don't you consider the whole "invisible man that floats in the sky that controls the universe" to be just as fictional?
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If Verizon couldn't bring FIOS nationwide, and stopped expanding it, is it really reasonable for Google to bring Google Fiber to even a significant portion of the U.S.?
So, buy your music there, or wherever you want, and use it on your iPod or iOS device, if you happen to have one. Who is stopping you?
So at first you're *complaining* about the "buy music thing" in comparison to subscription (which presumably inherently includes DRM), then you're PRAISING the "buy videos" thing, compared to a subscription.
Be consistent!
Do you really think you would've been safer jumping off the ship in the middle of the Atlantic in the 1800s, than being on a spaceship to Mars?
(Arguably now, IF you had some kind of rescue beacon and a life raft, theoretically they could find you with aircraft.. Still seems not much safer.)
Where could we live (besides Antarctica maybe?), where there weren't other species originally?
There were other species where the paved metropolis is now.
(I don't disagree that it's better to avoid the anthills instead of killing them.)
If I don't have to be bothered with paying attention to the gear/RPMs, I can pay more attention to distractions on the road.
HAHAHAHA.. Good joke.
(I agree with your statements in theory though.)
You don't think we have alpha males in our species?
Seems to me like the 50 year old car salesman who has a 20-something wife or girlfriend is the alpha male in his community. (Basically, the local maximum, by some considerations.)
As far as evolution is concerned, no it isn't.
That implies that vegans *want* to be cannibals.
Argh.
Your computer is at the "mercy" of having parts to rebuild it.
Uhh, 5.25" floppies were used in many computers in the late 70s, and 3.25" disks were what took over in the mid 1980s.
So says the guy with the username of an obsolete car!
(BTW, it's one of my favorites ever too.)
You said "Microsoft never did", and it didn't seem to me like you were exaggerating for effect, so the age of the example to disprove your statement is irrelevant.
However, the existence of glasses/contacts/Lasik/etc., presumably has slowed down (if not stopped/reversed) our species' evolution to having better eyesight, because the now not-blind-as-a-bat people aren't being run over by busses (or eaten by lions or whatever).
That's not the only thing that was cut short.
We already subsidize HFCS, and our food is full of HFCS, so we indirectly already subsidize a lot of our food.
(This is meant mostly as a joke, I am not one of those people who fear HFCS, since it's just like any other sugar to the body... But we shouldn't subsidize it, or anything else.)
Plus, the electricity to go a certain distance is cheaper than the gas to go the same distance.
You don't need to create your electricity with coal or natural gas.
But *even if you do*, having the pollution concentrated in one place, that can have strict requirements for pollution control/air cleaning is more efficient than you having a "gasoline power plant" inside of your car. For example, just like *some* of the hybrids *do* with their gas engines, presumably the power plant is always running at its most efficient rate (unlike regular gas engines in cars).
Don't drive(park) during "rush hour", and you can do plenty of freeway driving.
3rd gen Prius gets 50 MPGe "combined". http://www.toyota.com/prius-hybrid/specs.html
The plug in Prius gets 95/50.
So, it sounds like you're *agreeing* with me in that he should take it literally, and thus he isn't following the religion he says he is.
Aren't there multiple versions of the same overall story, which tell completely different details? I can't remember the example, but I thought one of the well known stories has two different versions that are very different, and somehow both are supposedly true.
If you consider that part to be fiction, why don't you consider the whole "invisible man that floats in the sky that controls the universe" to be just as fictional?
So basically, reform it to mean what you want it to mean, not the literal word of God.
Doesn't that make you someone who isn't actually following the religion in which you supposedly believe?