Diss the overpriced HDMI cables, which are ridiculous, but Harmony remotes are actually useful. Granted, they probably could be priced a lot less and still produce a profit, but I actually own a Harmony and find it saves me a lot of hassle.
Warehouses generally are reliable as large storage solutions, however if 24 is any indication, they are magnets for terrorist operations, so buyer beware.
I was referring more to today's politics rather than the politics of the 60's where there were quite a few open racists still around. I think in most circles it is realized that in this day and age, you can't openly or quietly attempt to appeal to racists. That doesn't mean that you won't by chance appeal to people who are racist because of other stances that you hold, but that by no means indicates that someone who appeals to people who happen to be racist are in any way trying to appeal to those sort of people. Far the opposite, in my estimation, I'd say many people, especially in the GOP, try their hardest to distance themselves from racists. Maybe not always successfully, but I honestly (and maybe naively) believe that racism is not dead but is not healthy and vigorous anymore, in many legit political circles.
I think the anti-immigration movement does have some racist elements, but the people who were architects of this movement didn't exactly have this as their intention. It was more of an issue where people are getting displaced out of their lines of work in groves by people who came here outside of the normal rules of immigration and often times get paid under the table, so not only are they taking jobs since they are willing to work for less, but in a lot of cases they do not contribute to the tax pool either, so those roads and bridges and schools and public hospitals that they are supposed to be contributing towards, they use but do not contribute. I know it is a misnomer to say that all illegal immigrants do not pay taxes, and I'm not heartless either, I do believe a lot of people come here illegally because the process is fucking stupid, but rules are rules and you do have to follow the rules. I do hope that the process for becoming a citizen gets streamlined, however, because it is fucking retarded. I know someone who has a brother who was a Marine, and they are from Finland I believe. He got deported because he had his greencard taken away and had to fight for his citizenship because the military didn't help him with the process. That's fucking retarded, no matter how you cut it. IMO, if anyone comes to this country and joins the military, upon completion of at least a year of service you should automatically be made a citizen (assuming a thorough background check was done upon enlisting for military service). In many countries, military service is required in order to maintain citizenship. Why not at least make it an easy way to gain citizenship in ours? I'm not saying make it mandatory. But reward those who come from another country and voluntarily join the military. Trust me, the ones who do it just to be a citizen will likely wash out, but those truly deserving of the uniform should be given the respect they deserve and not treated like criminals by ICE.
You must've missed the response posts where I basically dismantled his argument. I think your bad karma has more to do with being a fucking retard than not giving a fuck. You are too stupid to give a fuck, it has nothing to do with choice.
Trust me, most people who sleep with the wrong person know that they are druggies, or they are too naive and the Darwin process is merely in action. If that makes me a fucking moron for recognizing it, than what does it make you, a naive moron? And what does that have to do with Catholics who won't dole out birth control? You think that people who want birth control MUST go to the Catholic Church to get some? It's called CVS Pharmacy, you fucking retard. Go, like, read a fucking book or step in front of a train. Either way you might do us all a big favor.
The phone manufacturer and cell service provider often are the ones who make the phones crap, not the OS maker. Windows Mobile isn't a bad platform, but the quality of software for it is suspect IMO. Also, many providers such as Verizon go in after the OS Maker and lock down a lot of stuff they don't like being available on their phones. I think companies like Verizon are much more responsible for the shit phones than the OS makers, MS, Palm, etc.
Fair enough. It's a work in progress, much like our version of Democracy was in the 1700's. I can appreciate that. I do think the idea is noble, it just needs a lot of work still, and as you indicated, some test runs in a smaller form factor.
I'm sorry but anyone who makes a living off of providing sex for money is a whore. That's the way I feel and no amount of PC sugarcoating will change my personal opinion of that. Being a homosexual, and being someone that pimps themselves out for cash, are two completely different beasts. You choose to be gay (or maybe born gay, another debate for another time) and that is a lifestyle choice, but one that harms no one else. If you provide sex for money, whether it be legal or not, you are cheapening the great and wonderful thing that is sex, and possibly opening yourself up to a lot of nasty STDs as well. Yeah I know, prostiutes in places like Nevada where it is legal are medically screened, but are their clients? And even if a condom is used, it can break. Even condoms do not 100% prevent the transfer of STDs, they just give you a reasonable chance that it will be prevented.
I see his point that some people might not seek treatment for fear of the stigma, except that's not what he said. He specifically said people are denied the drugs because of some protected status. You might find incidents of this happening, but it is in no way rampant. In fact, most large companies that run pharmacy chains have strict rules against that sort of thing. The mom and pop places might have this occur to some extent, but that's why you have choices to shop at different pharmacies.
I was referring more to the treatments that help people manage HIV, not cure it. But I do hope that one day there is a cure. Personally I'm all for giving the cure to anyone who has the disease, if there ever is a cure. That's assuming enough is available for everyone. But if we have limited supply, I'd say treat it similar to organ donation, which ignores social status but doesn't ignore your medical history. And Medical History includes drug abuse. That's not discrimination. That's pragmatic medical treatment.
Sadly, it does happen, but you make it seem rampant. From what I have read (I'm not a woman and don't know anyone who's had an abortion, so I have no anecdotal evidence pro or con) these situations do happen but are isolated. And in many cases, if the woman has issues at one pharmacy, she can just go to another. Most of these problems are at mom and pop type pharmacies, not your walgreens, CVS, or Wally World. Most of the large companies have very strict non-discrimination policies when it comes to this sort of stuff.
You describe the use of the Blackberry as if it was Batman's Batarang. Thrown around? Yeah, every woman should have one in their purse just in case they are mugged.
You know, I didn't preorder mine, don't live in a 3G area, and got mine a week after ordering (and it took a week because T-Mobile fucked up the shipping the first time around and sent it to the wrong address). I guess people should've just waited until launch to order. Preorder people, from what I hear on the T-Mobile forums, are getting fucked over.
Man, you totally could've left out the fact that you have a hair under the screen and your post would've still been pretty credible. Is there a -1:Eww?
That's also something I like about the G1. Although in the pics it looks like it might not feel durable, when you hold the phone, you are amazed by how solid it feels. Even the slider on the G1 feels very solid and durable, which was shocking to me because I totally expected it to feel flimsy. Now granted, it probably weighs more than any most cell phones, but IMO that's a good thing in the case of the G1. Now if they just would've put a 3.5mm jack on it...
I have never used an iPhone so I won't speak on it (shocking that a slashdot user has no opinion on something they haven't used, right?) but I tested out a Blackberry at a Verizon store when I was looking to replace my jacked up Moto Q. I admittedly only spent about 20 minutes with it, but that's all I needed to decide that while it's probably an excellent phone for corporate VPs, it was not a very enjoyable interface at all, IMO. I have since switched away from Verizon (as most of their phones are pure garbage) and gotten a G1. Love it so far, although it has a few flaws, and hoping for Flash to come to the G1 eventually (at least Google is open to the idea if someone can get Flash working for it, Apple is against both Flash and Silverlight on the iPhone)
He was making the argument that people disagreed with someone's sexual lifestyle and thought that because they were sinners, they deserved no treatment. The "proof" he provided had nothing to do with his argument. It was case study on the provision or lack thereof of HIV/AIDS drugs to active drug users. If you can show me a connection there, I'll give you a cookie.
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Let's wait until the profits start coming in before we jump to conclusions.
Surprised that it took this long for the obligatory Profit post. Perhaps everyone was too busy searching for locations that gave out flu shots.
Diss the overpriced HDMI cables, which are ridiculous, but Harmony remotes are actually useful. Granted, they probably could be priced a lot less and still produce a profit, but I actually own a Harmony and find it saves me a lot of hassle.
Warehouses generally are reliable as large storage solutions, however if 24 is any indication, they are magnets for terrorist operations, so buyer beware.
I posted direct replies to the post you referenced. I wouldn't expect you to catch this though, as you obviously have the intelligence blinders on.
I was referring more to today's politics rather than the politics of the 60's where there were quite a few open racists still around. I think in most circles it is realized that in this day and age, you can't openly or quietly attempt to appeal to racists. That doesn't mean that you won't by chance appeal to people who are racist because of other stances that you hold, but that by no means indicates that someone who appeals to people who happen to be racist are in any way trying to appeal to those sort of people. Far the opposite, in my estimation, I'd say many people, especially in the GOP, try their hardest to distance themselves from racists. Maybe not always successfully, but I honestly (and maybe naively) believe that racism is not dead but is not healthy and vigorous anymore, in many legit political circles.
I think the anti-immigration movement does have some racist elements, but the people who were architects of this movement didn't exactly have this as their intention. It was more of an issue where people are getting displaced out of their lines of work in groves by people who came here outside of the normal rules of immigration and often times get paid under the table, so not only are they taking jobs since they are willing to work for less, but in a lot of cases they do not contribute to the tax pool either, so those roads and bridges and schools and public hospitals that they are supposed to be contributing towards, they use but do not contribute. I know it is a misnomer to say that all illegal immigrants do not pay taxes, and I'm not heartless either, I do believe a lot of people come here illegally because the process is fucking stupid, but rules are rules and you do have to follow the rules. I do hope that the process for becoming a citizen gets streamlined, however, because it is fucking retarded. I know someone who has a brother who was a Marine, and they are from Finland I believe. He got deported because he had his greencard taken away and had to fight for his citizenship because the military didn't help him with the process. That's fucking retarded, no matter how you cut it. IMO, if anyone comes to this country and joins the military, upon completion of at least a year of service you should automatically be made a citizen (assuming a thorough background check was done upon enlisting for military service). In many countries, military service is required in order to maintain citizenship. Why not at least make it an easy way to gain citizenship in ours? I'm not saying make it mandatory. But reward those who come from another country and voluntarily join the military. Trust me, the ones who do it just to be a citizen will likely wash out, but those truly deserving of the uniform should be given the respect they deserve and not treated like criminals by ICE.
Well, maybe I should've qualified it. Logical thinking is desired by at least one person, but not required. There, fixed it.
You must've missed the response posts where I basically dismantled his argument. I think your bad karma has more to do with being a fucking retard than not giving a fuck. You are too stupid to give a fuck, it has nothing to do with choice.
Trust me, most people who sleep with the wrong person know that they are druggies, or they are too naive and the Darwin process is merely in action. If that makes me a fucking moron for recognizing it, than what does it make you, a naive moron? And what does that have to do with Catholics who won't dole out birth control? You think that people who want birth control MUST go to the Catholic Church to get some? It's called CVS Pharmacy, you fucking retard. Go, like, read a fucking book or step in front of a train. Either way you might do us all a big favor.
The phone manufacturer and cell service provider often are the ones who make the phones crap, not the OS maker. Windows Mobile isn't a bad platform, but the quality of software for it is suspect IMO. Also, many providers such as Verizon go in after the OS Maker and lock down a lot of stuff they don't like being available on their phones. I think companies like Verizon are much more responsible for the shit phones than the OS makers, MS, Palm, etc.
Fair enough. It's a work in progress, much like our version of Democracy was in the 1700's. I can appreciate that. I do think the idea is noble, it just needs a lot of work still, and as you indicated, some test runs in a smaller form factor.
I'm sorry but anyone who makes a living off of providing sex for money is a whore. That's the way I feel and no amount of PC sugarcoating will change my personal opinion of that. Being a homosexual, and being someone that pimps themselves out for cash, are two completely different beasts. You choose to be gay (or maybe born gay, another debate for another time) and that is a lifestyle choice, but one that harms no one else. If you provide sex for money, whether it be legal or not, you are cheapening the great and wonderful thing that is sex, and possibly opening yourself up to a lot of nasty STDs as well. Yeah I know, prostiutes in places like Nevada where it is legal are medically screened, but are their clients? And even if a condom is used, it can break. Even condoms do not 100% prevent the transfer of STDs, they just give you a reasonable chance that it will be prevented. I see his point that some people might not seek treatment for fear of the stigma, except that's not what he said. He specifically said people are denied the drugs because of some protected status. You might find incidents of this happening, but it is in no way rampant. In fact, most large companies that run pharmacy chains have strict rules against that sort of thing. The mom and pop places might have this occur to some extent, but that's why you have choices to shop at different pharmacies.
I was referring more to the treatments that help people manage HIV, not cure it. But I do hope that one day there is a cure. Personally I'm all for giving the cure to anyone who has the disease, if there ever is a cure. That's assuming enough is available for everyone. But if we have limited supply, I'd say treat it similar to organ donation, which ignores social status but doesn't ignore your medical history. And Medical History includes drug abuse. That's not discrimination. That's pragmatic medical treatment.
Sadly, it does happen, but you make it seem rampant. From what I have read (I'm not a woman and don't know anyone who's had an abortion, so I have no anecdotal evidence pro or con) these situations do happen but are isolated. And in many cases, if the woman has issues at one pharmacy, she can just go to another. Most of these problems are at mom and pop type pharmacies, not your walgreens, CVS, or Wally World. Most of the large companies have very strict non-discrimination policies when it comes to this sort of stuff.
The odd things you see are the cell companies imposing their will on their users. Verizon is the worst among them.
You describe the use of the Blackberry as if it was Batman's Batarang. Thrown around? Yeah, every woman should have one in their purse just in case they are mugged.
I'm not aware of any phones that MS makes. Could you point some out for those of us who are confused?
If they would've said Seattle, WA it would've made the story more believable. Silly Onion...
You know, I didn't preorder mine, don't live in a 3G area, and got mine a week after ordering (and it took a week because T-Mobile fucked up the shipping the first time around and sent it to the wrong address). I guess people should've just waited until launch to order. Preorder people, from what I hear on the T-Mobile forums, are getting fucked over.
Man, you totally could've left out the fact that you have a hair under the screen and your post would've still been pretty credible. Is there a -1:Eww?
That's also something I like about the G1. Although in the pics it looks like it might not feel durable, when you hold the phone, you are amazed by how solid it feels. Even the slider on the G1 feels very solid and durable, which was shocking to me because I totally expected it to feel flimsy. Now granted, it probably weighs more than any most cell phones, but IMO that's a good thing in the case of the G1. Now if they just would've put a 3.5mm jack on it...
I have never used an iPhone so I won't speak on it (shocking that a slashdot user has no opinion on something they haven't used, right?) but I tested out a Blackberry at a Verizon store when I was looking to replace my jacked up Moto Q. I admittedly only spent about 20 minutes with it, but that's all I needed to decide that while it's probably an excellent phone for corporate VPs, it was not a very enjoyable interface at all, IMO. I have since switched away from Verizon (as most of their phones are pure garbage) and gotten a G1. Love it so far, although it has a few flaws, and hoping for Flash to come to the G1 eventually (at least Google is open to the idea if someone can get Flash working for it, Apple is against both Flash and Silverlight on the iPhone)
Jesus, you people hate your phones. I got the G1 and I guard this thing with my life. Well, mostly because of the $130 deductible on the insurance.
He was making the argument that people disagreed with someone's sexual lifestyle and thought that because they were sinners, they deserved no treatment. The "proof" he provided had nothing to do with his argument. It was case study on the provision or lack thereof of HIV/AIDS drugs to active drug users. If you can show me a connection there, I'll give you a cookie.