Washing with soap and water removes most of the harmful bacteria that might cause nasty stomach issues or serious infections while leaving behind the generally "beneficial" bacteria.
Bullshit. Soap removes oils, and whether the bacteria in that oil are "bad" or "good" is not something for which the soap has the capacity to select. It's not like the soap is some kind of magical intelligent agent. For all your semantic specificity and classification you are contributing more misinformation than you are adding anything useful.
Actually plain soap doesn't do shit. It's an emulsifier, not a panacea. Plain soap simply binds oils and water, the theory being that if you take the oil off your skin you're magically "clean". It does not "kill" "germs" (the non-scientific catchall term which includes viruses which aren't even alive in the first place according to the classical definition of life) any more than other emulsifiers like lecithin or egg yolks do.
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that I finally have a place I can print my porn, hate speech, and counterfeit money at 3 am. And so long as I'm paying you, you can't refuse! Brilliant! I love how freedom only applies to people who want to speak and not people who own equipment. It's a free country after all, for some people, so long as they aren't big corporate fat cat boogeymen! Fuck their freedom.
I notice in your example of censorship you include the machinery of the state ("illegal to just hand out fliers door-to-door"), and your second example is entirely government control of a market.
How is this effective criticism of so-called private censorship again? Censorship without government intervention is impossible. There are no reasonable scenarios where the means of information distribution can be wholly consolidated under one private authority (other than the original content producer).
I don't own a smart phone either, which really underscores the matter. If we, people who have never bought smart phones, can know these things, than if people who are about to drop hundreds of dollars on a device and a service contract can't be bothered to even read an article or two about the matter before opening their wallets then they deserve whatever they get.
I sure as hell don't spend money in ignorance. I read reviews before any significant purchase, and for major purchases like cars I always have an independent inspection first. People need to learn to be responsible for themselves, not whine about how somebody should have done their work for them or prevented them from freely doing something stupid.
If you buy Photoshop it will refuse to print images it believes are paper currency. New Xerox photocopiers will not copy bank notes either. Is that censorship? Are you entitled to counterfeit and Adobe and Xerox are big jerks for not letting you?
As I've said in other replies, I'm not defending Apple's policy. It is stupid and people should stop buying Apple products. However I will defend Apple's right to do stupid things.
This may shock you, but some people want different things, that's what freedom is about, sonny. If you buy something without making any attempt to find out what downsides there may be to the thing, yes, that's your fault. It's one of the oldest principles in commerce, so old the term is fucking Latin, caveat emptor. So long as the seller is not deliberately misrepresenting an item, which would be fraud, more or less all other responsibility is on the buyer. There is a wide market of items, some high quality, some low, some open, some closed, and each person is free to buy according to how their perceive their own needs. It would be nice if more people valued open products, but you can't force them, and if they think a closed product does what they want at the price they want, you can't force them or the wider market at large to stop buying such things. Not everybody wants what you want, and people are free to make mistakes.
So green robots are protected classes now? It's funny, anti-business people get all hot and bothered about how corporations are frequently treated as people under the law, but as soon as it's convenient they want to start equating the exclusion of competition with *RACISM*! What an absurd analogy, and it is disrespectful to real struggles against real discrimination. "Oh you know how your ancestors were lynched in cold blood for the color of their skin? Why that's just like how Apple ended the distribution of an Android magazine in their app store!" That kind of cheap rhetorical shit disgusts me.
And don't misunderstand, I agree, Apple does need to be publicly humiliated for this stupid decision so that people can choose not to buy into their bullshit system. I'm not defending what Apple did, I'm defending their right to do it, and people should be informed so they can exercise their right to buy something else.
This is why people need to stop buying Apple. If they are such assholes, which they are, STOP FEEDING THEM MONEY. They are free to build products however they wish, and people are free to buy or not buy them.
Only the power of the state is sufficient to qualify as censorship. If a company or even a group of companies refuses to distribute something there is still no ultimate barrier to another company or a given individual from doing it themselves if they can afford it. However when the state uses the power of legislation and law enforcement that represents a real barrier. Nobody could, with impunity, break ranks and distribute against the law without risking fines or even imprisonment. That is what real censorship is.
So, when can I come by your house to print some documents on your printer? I'm sure you wouldn't mind, as refusing to let me use your resources to distribute my content would be "censorship" after all...
The free market means that a business is not *required* to do anything for anybody. It cannot however prevent you from going to another business or starting your own. That's the whole point of the free market. You cannot compel businesses, businesses cannot compel you. The cost of acting outside of a given framework to achieve similar effects may be prohibitively high, but that's life. Not everybody can own a massive content distribution mechanism.
Cooking fresh fish is a lot of work... and I spend 3 hours a day commuting, I don't have the energy. However your correlation seems correct, the few places I've found that know what they're doing are ~$20+ a plate. But then at prices like that you'd damn well better know what you're doing.
You ever get out to Neah Bay and have some salmon fresh and still warm out of a Makah smoker? That stuff is as good as the salad in When Harry Met Sally. You will not find salmon prepared better anywhere in the world, and I don't care how many stars the restaurant or the chef possesses. Sometimes there's just no substitute for millennia of traditional knowledge.
I know of a few good restaurants near the University of Washington and Seattle University, but there too if you're motivated by price chances are you get what you pay for.
Just the thought makes me homesick for The Continental on University (and makes me want to punch all the dicks on Yelp who can't even spell fucking 'tzatziki' but think they know shit about Greek food and sully The Continental's ratings). That and Taste of India on Roosevelt... my wife and I used to go there practically just for the chai, which was damn near the best anywhere and they would constantly refill it like other places do water.
But no... now I'm stuck on the East Coast where apparently only three people know how to cook fish.
You're doing it wrong! You should have used gold leaf. That would be edible, and it sends the message 'I'm so so fucking loaded I eat gold for dessert!'
Lavender contains high levels of phytoestrogens, so high that a bath product that overconcentrated their lavender extracts was causing peripheral precocious puberty in children and was acting like topical HRT to males. For some reason I can't paste the link into this box (it's a chrome/slashdot problem), but if you search for lavender precocious on google the second result details the occurrence. In any case, this endocrinological aspect may be the key to interpreting the results.
According to Michelin, there are more three star restaurants in New York than Rome. In any case it is pathetic that you think you can judge and an entire continent-spanning nation of hundreds of millions based on whatever handful of random restaurants you happened upon. Grow up.
Yeah, it was so bold of him to point out how America imprisons people for drug offences. Clearly that makes them so much worse than China where drug smugglers can be fucking summarily executed after a jury-less show trial. These things are so equivalent and parallel I don't know why I couldn't see it before.
Bad laws != bad prisons. Plus, we're talking about China here. You think American laws are harsh, they put people to death for things like drug smuggling. Oh and sex with underaged girls? In China: death. Counterfeiting or fraud? Death again. It may not be used in the majority of cases, but it's always an option, and bear in mind that the justice system in China is entirely authoritarian. No jury, no media, no public access unless the state wishes it. Most trials are just a formality of an hour or so and then it's off to prison or the firing squad. The US justice system has problems, but trying to equate it with China's is fucking laughable. You're just another knee-jerk America-hater.
Why don't you take the time to look into the comparitive health of inmates in China vs. the US? Some US prisons may be crowded, but they're not as disease-ridden as China's.
NO BASIC! I taught myself to program using QBasic when I was twelve. It's the main reason I'm not a programmer today. After 3-4 years of developing really bad habits and learning through reverse engineering I could not transition to a real language or any professional standards or methods.
Boxes are indeed awesome. I remember when I was ten my family moved to a different state and I took many of the moving boxes and connected them end to end to create a huge labyrinth fort in the basement. The best part of which was a huge refrigerator box that I spent most of my time in, even used to sleep in that all the time. My cat liked it too.
They should have model variants with connectors staggered relative to the DIMM length. Have one with the connector in the first quarter, another with the connector in the second quarter, etc. So you could have a bank of four with no cable/connector overlap.
The evolution of PC-DOS > OS/2 was concurrent with MS-DOS > Windows. People were flocking to compatibles running MS because it was cheaper (and more prevalently pirated) than IBM branded hardware running PC-DOS & OS/2. More software was written for MS because MS was more popular driven by the underlying cost and availability of hardware and OS. The software ecosystem drew even more people in that direction and laid the foundation for their familiarity, but the core remains the cost and availability of hardware and OS.
What won was an architecture. IBM produced a really nice architecture, but it was too expensive for most people, so companies made 'IBM PC compatible' hardware. It was the lower cost competitive market of clones that was the attractive platform. People liked having options to work with different companies without getting locked into a hardware channel that if they ever left would need to be wholly junked. Windows won the PC market vs. other competitors like BE and OS/2 because it supported the most hardware, so people could keep more options open.
100 years ago there were no tones, just pulse. There was a time when I could tell you a dial-up connection's speed just by listening to the handshake. I'm too out of practice to do that anymore, but seriously, it's just a matter of learning your environment and adapting. Unless you're tone-deaf, then I guess you're just SOL.
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Washing with soap and water removes most of the harmful bacteria that might cause nasty stomach issues or serious infections while leaving behind the generally "beneficial" bacteria.
Bullshit. Soap removes oils, and whether the bacteria in that oil are "bad" or "good" is not something for which the soap has the capacity to select. It's not like the soap is some kind of magical intelligent agent. For all your semantic specificity and classification you are contributing more misinformation than you are adding anything useful.
Actually plain soap doesn't do shit. It's an emulsifier, not a panacea. Plain soap simply binds oils and water, the theory being that if you take the oil off your skin you're magically "clean". It does not "kill" "germs" (the non-scientific catchall term which includes viruses which aren't even alive in the first place according to the classical definition of life) any more than other emulsifiers like lecithin or egg yolks do.
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that I finally have a place I can print my porn, hate speech, and counterfeit money at 3 am. And so long as I'm paying you, you can't refuse! Brilliant! I love how freedom only applies to people who want to speak and not people who own equipment. It's a free country after all, for some people, so long as they aren't big corporate fat cat boogeymen! Fuck their freedom.
I notice in your example of censorship you include the machinery of the state ("illegal to just hand out fliers door-to-door"), and your second example is entirely government control of a market.
How is this effective criticism of so-called private censorship again? Censorship without government intervention is impossible. There are no reasonable scenarios where the means of information distribution can be wholly consolidated under one private authority (other than the original content producer).
I don't own a smart phone either, which really underscores the matter. If we, people who have never bought smart phones, can know these things, than if people who are about to drop hundreds of dollars on a device and a service contract can't be bothered to even read an article or two about the matter before opening their wallets then they deserve whatever they get.
I sure as hell don't spend money in ignorance. I read reviews before any significant purchase, and for major purchases like cars I always have an independent inspection first. People need to learn to be responsible for themselves, not whine about how somebody should have done their work for them or prevented them from freely doing something stupid.
That is some of the most brilliant rhetoric since recess on a playground full of kindergartners.
Nuh-UH!
If you buy Photoshop it will refuse to print images it believes are paper currency. New Xerox photocopiers will not copy bank notes either. Is that censorship? Are you entitled to counterfeit and Adobe and Xerox are big jerks for not letting you?
As I've said in other replies, I'm not defending Apple's policy. It is stupid and people should stop buying Apple products. However I will defend Apple's right to do stupid things.
This may shock you, but some people want different things, that's what freedom is about, sonny. If you buy something without making any attempt to find out what downsides there may be to the thing, yes, that's your fault. It's one of the oldest principles in commerce, so old the term is fucking Latin, caveat emptor. So long as the seller is not deliberately misrepresenting an item, which would be fraud, more or less all other responsibility is on the buyer. There is a wide market of items, some high quality, some low, some open, some closed, and each person is free to buy according to how their perceive their own needs. It would be nice if more people valued open products, but you can't force them, and if they think a closed product does what they want at the price they want, you can't force them or the wider market at large to stop buying such things. Not everybody wants what you want, and people are free to make mistakes.
So green robots are protected classes now? It's funny, anti-business people get all hot and bothered about how corporations are frequently treated as people under the law, but as soon as it's convenient they want to start equating the exclusion of competition with *RACISM*! What an absurd analogy, and it is disrespectful to real struggles against real discrimination. "Oh you know how your ancestors were lynched in cold blood for the color of their skin? Why that's just like how Apple ended the distribution of an Android magazine in their app store!" That kind of cheap rhetorical shit disgusts me.
And don't misunderstand, I agree, Apple does need to be publicly humiliated for this stupid decision so that people can choose not to buy into their bullshit system. I'm not defending what Apple did, I'm defending their right to do it, and people should be informed so they can exercise their right to buy something else.
This is why people need to stop buying Apple. If they are such assholes, which they are, STOP FEEDING THEM MONEY. They are free to build products however they wish, and people are free to buy or not buy them.
Only the power of the state is sufficient to qualify as censorship. If a company or even a group of companies refuses to distribute something there is still no ultimate barrier to another company or a given individual from doing it themselves if they can afford it. However when the state uses the power of legislation and law enforcement that represents a real barrier. Nobody could, with impunity, break ranks and distribute against the law without risking fines or even imprisonment. That is what real censorship is.
So, when can I come by your house to print some documents on your printer? I'm sure you wouldn't mind, as refusing to let me use your resources to distribute my content would be "censorship" after all...
The free market means that a business is not *required* to do anything for anybody. It cannot however prevent you from going to another business or starting your own. That's the whole point of the free market. You cannot compel businesses, businesses cannot compel you. The cost of acting outside of a given framework to achieve similar effects may be prohibitively high, but that's life. Not everybody can own a massive content distribution mechanism.
Cooking fresh fish is a lot of work... and I spend 3 hours a day commuting, I don't have the energy. However your correlation seems correct, the few places I've found that know what they're doing are ~$20+ a plate. But then at prices like that you'd damn well better know what you're doing.
You ever get out to Neah Bay and have some salmon fresh and still warm out of a Makah smoker? That stuff is as good as the salad in When Harry Met Sally. You will not find salmon prepared better anywhere in the world, and I don't care how many stars the restaurant or the chef possesses. Sometimes there's just no substitute for millennia of traditional knowledge.
I know of a few good restaurants near the University of Washington and Seattle University, but there too if you're motivated by price chances are you get what you pay for.
Just the thought makes me homesick for The Continental on University (and makes me want to punch all the dicks on Yelp who can't even spell fucking 'tzatziki' but think they know shit about Greek food and sully The Continental's ratings). That and Taste of India on Roosevelt... my wife and I used to go there practically just for the chai, which was damn near the best anywhere and they would constantly refill it like other places do water.
But no... now I'm stuck on the East Coast where apparently only three people know how to cook fish.
You're doing it wrong! You should have used gold leaf. That would be edible, and it sends the message 'I'm so so fucking loaded I eat gold for dessert!'
Lavender contains high levels of phytoestrogens, so high that a bath product that overconcentrated their lavender extracts was causing peripheral precocious puberty in children and was acting like topical HRT to males. For some reason I can't paste the link into this box (it's a chrome/slashdot problem), but if you search for lavender precocious on google the second result details the occurrence. In any case, this endocrinological aspect may be the key to interpreting the results.
According to Michelin, there are more three star restaurants in New York than Rome. In any case it is pathetic that you think you can judge and an entire continent-spanning nation of hundreds of millions based on whatever handful of random restaurants you happened upon. Grow up.
Yeah, it was so bold of him to point out how America imprisons people for drug offences. Clearly that makes them so much worse than China where drug smugglers can be fucking summarily executed after a jury-less show trial. These things are so equivalent and parallel I don't know why I couldn't see it before.
Bad laws != bad prisons. Plus, we're talking about China here. You think American laws are harsh, they put people to death for things like drug smuggling. Oh and sex with underaged girls? In China: death. Counterfeiting or fraud? Death again. It may not be used in the majority of cases, but it's always an option, and bear in mind that the justice system in China is entirely authoritarian. No jury, no media, no public access unless the state wishes it. Most trials are just a formality of an hour or so and then it's off to prison or the firing squad. The US justice system has problems, but trying to equate it with China's is fucking laughable. You're just another knee-jerk America-hater.
Why don't you take the time to look into the comparitive health of inmates in China vs. the US? Some US prisons may be crowded, but they're not as disease-ridden as China's.
RTFA. Somebody showed up on his doorstep with a binder full of claptrap, and they still weren't right.
NO BASIC! I taught myself to program using QBasic when I was twelve. It's the main reason I'm not a programmer today. After 3-4 years of developing really bad habits and learning through reverse engineering I could not transition to a real language or any professional standards or methods.
Boxes are indeed awesome. I remember when I was ten my family moved to a different state and I took many of the moving boxes and connected them end to end to create a huge labyrinth fort in the basement. The best part of which was a huge refrigerator box that I spent most of my time in, even used to sleep in that all the time. My cat liked it too.
They should have model variants with connectors staggered relative to the DIMM length. Have one with the connector in the first quarter, another with the connector in the second quarter, etc. So you could have a bank of four with no cable/connector overlap.
The evolution of PC-DOS > OS/2 was concurrent with MS-DOS > Windows. People were flocking to compatibles running MS because it was cheaper (and more prevalently pirated) than IBM branded hardware running PC-DOS & OS/2. More software was written for MS because MS was more popular driven by the underlying cost and availability of hardware and OS. The software ecosystem drew even more people in that direction and laid the foundation for their familiarity, but the core remains the cost and availability of hardware and OS.
What won was an architecture. IBM produced a really nice architecture, but it was too expensive for most people, so companies made 'IBM PC compatible' hardware. It was the lower cost competitive market of clones that was the attractive platform. People liked having options to work with different companies without getting locked into a hardware channel that if they ever left would need to be wholly junked. Windows won the PC market vs. other competitors like BE and OS/2 because it supported the most hardware, so people could keep more options open.
100 years ago there were no tones, just pulse. There was a time when I could tell you a dial-up connection's speed just by listening to the handshake. I'm too out of practice to do that anymore, but seriously, it's just a matter of learning your environment and adapting. Unless you're tone-deaf, then I guess you're just SOL.