If the best you can come up with is an accusation of "sophistry" (which you use incorrectly) and hyperbole like "Now, if you want to throw your life away..." is it any wonder I don't put any stock in what you think. I mean, you don't even have a coherent point, but you act like you've proven something other than your own willingness to say stupid shit.
"Next you'll be saying it's your "right" to be an asshole and go into a crowded theatre and shout "fire.""
Newsflash chump, I DO have that right, the caveat being there HAD BETTER BE A FIRE or it's my ass. You clearly are too ignorant to discuss this subject further.
"It makes perfect sense if you realize that the PS3 is the only really future-proof Blu-ray player on the market right now"
Unless I don't want to waste money on another game machine. And your statement about it being "the only future proof" machine is wrong.
"That, and the fact that it's almost the same price as a stand-alone player"
For now. That won't last more than 3 months and you can quote me when you see I'm right.
So, no, I thought about it and it still doesn't make sense unless I want to waste money on another game machine, in which case, why not just sell the 360 and buy a PS3?
The media the games come on is irrelevant, Nintendo proved success is possible with an unusual format.
Microsoft also has stated they are trying to move toward a content-download type system, so the physical media would, again, be irrelevant.
As others have said, there may be a standalone Blu-ray player in the future, but I think MS thinks they simply don't need it. And Ballmer himself has said no Blu-ray for Xbox, of course that's not really worth much and could change with the market.
You're trying to pretend no one was talking about McCain in the middle of the Republican primaries. You sound ridiculous.
"I find it astonishing that this McCain guy is even being talked about."
I find it astonishing that someone is so biased and ignorant that they think people discussing THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is astonishing.
"With the totally ignored cries that the call girl agency which did Spitzer in was long known by U.S. Intelligence to be a Mossad front, and that he was fed to the lions to get a wall-street watchdog like Spitzer out of the way before the shenanigans with the Fed and JP Morgan and Bear Stearns which broke a week later, shows again that if you are clean, you aren't allowed to come to power of any sort."
I doubt they'd have been able to "feed him to the lions" if he wasn't paying for whores.
"That's just sick."
What's really sick is that even in the face of your overwhelming bias and ignorance, you get the same vote I do. THAT is sick.
"Or the difference between a false dilemma like "lying ignoramus or honest ignoramus","
That's not a false dilemma, or even a correct use of it, so the question is, are you lying and ignorant about false dilemmas, or just ignorant?
Of course, you'll ignore that you were wrong and engage in a personal attack because, probably something related to me being a shill, or "Bush-Lover" or some such unoriginal tripe similar to what you've been peddling for years.
"If you're willing to throw your life away to defend Fred Phelp's "right to be an asshole", you value yourself less than any two-bit hooker or crackhead."
See, this explains why you're wrong about this issue (and clueless as well).
It's not "Fred Phelps' 'right to be an asshole'" it is MY right to be an asshole, it just so happens in this case someone else is taking advantage of the same right.
You appear to be taking advantage of the same right in your post.
"Lot's of Dutch folks are very upset about the young firebrand politician Wilders, and wish he'd go shut up and go away. So, they are planning a googlebomb, to in the hopes of undermining the exposure the film Fitna receives."
Just because of this, I will now watch the movie, even though I had no plans to previously.
I wish people trying to censor other people would shut up and go away.
"The open AP = permission is not a lie, it's the entire design and purpose of the device. There is no ambiguity."
Loodk at he boards guy, you think these argeuments stem from a lack of ambiguity? Look at REALITY, there is ambiguity and any article on this subject proves you're wrong.
"If everyone has to name their open access point the same, then there is no way for me to tell which one is the access point I want to connect to."
If they're all open, who cares which one you use? And why would you "have to" name it the same thing? "Neutron Cowgirl's ope AP" would work, why would someone else name their AP the same? Both of those arguments are crap.
"Another question: if you assume that an open AP does not imply permission"
I don't assume it, that's how it is. YOU are assuming that it isn't that way.
"what do you do when you want to connect to web servers? "
I ignore hastily constructed posts that rely on crappy analogies. If you can't tell what the difference is between the two subjects you don't belong in this discussion.
"Perhaps a better approach "
Here's THE approach. Don't use shit that you don't have express permission to use. It's not hard, stop making excuses.
"If one were to litter their apartment building with notes reading"
If you'd like to discuss this without faulty misapplied analogies, I'll be happy to, but I stopped reading your post right there because analogies are for people who aren't capable of making intelligent arguments.
"How am I supposed to know that in almost every situation when a computer or some automated process grants me access that's ok, but when it's a wireless router it's not?"
You personally ask me for my permission, like I said int he post you replied to but apparently didn't read.
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"Having worked in a few different fields, I can assure you that, unless you are applying to work in a discipline relevant to your degree"
This is liberal arts major type thinking. Engineers don't go to school to deliver pizza after they graduate.
If the best you can come up with is an accusation of "sophistry" (which you use incorrectly) and hyperbole like "Now, if you want to throw your life away..." is it any wonder I don't put any stock in what you think. I mean, you don't even have a coherent point, but you act like you've proven something other than your own willingness to say stupid shit.
"Next you'll be saying it's your "right" to be an asshole and go into a crowded theatre and shout "fire.""
Newsflash chump, I DO have that right, the caveat being there HAD BETTER BE A FIRE or it's my ass. You clearly are too ignorant to discuss this subject further.
"Because the PS3 is (a) one of the cheapest BR players (the other standalones are more expensive) and (b) the only one that is currently upgradable"
That's completely wrong, both the BDP-300 and BDP-500 are upgradeable, and the LG BH-200 is also upgradeable.
As to "one of the cheapest" that's wrong too, there are many that beat it on price, and the price is dropping every day.
http://electronics.pricegrabber.com/blu-ray-hd-dvd-players/p/2065/form_keyword=blu+ray+player/rd=1/mode=g_us_e_s/skd=1/st=query/
I have yet to see a convincing argument that isn't based on misinformation.
If price is your concern, wait 3 months and it won't even be close.
So no, it still doesn't make sense.
"It makes perfect sense if you realize that the PS3 is the only really future-proof Blu-ray player on the market right now"
Unless I don't want to waste money on another game machine. And your statement about it being "the only future proof" machine is wrong.
"That, and the fact that it's almost the same price as a stand-alone player"
For now. That won't last more than 3 months and you can quote me when you see I'm right.
So, no, I thought about it and it still doesn't make sense unless I want to waste money on another game machine, in which case, why not just sell the 360 and buy a PS3?
"A much better solution would be to stop artificially inflating the grades of the weaker subjects."
No, that's not any kind of solution at all.
No one who has an opinion worth a damn will ever look at a Liberal Arts major with a 3.8 and think it's equivalent to a 3.8 in chemical engineering.
They're not the same, it's not high school, and you're not competing against the entire student body anymore.
You think buying a PS3 makes sense? Instead of a standalone player?
Sorry, I just don't see how what you said makes any sense at all.
You said
"So, we will not leave ever. Not in a hundred years, not in a thousand years, not in a million years. That is what McCain said in all honesty."
Then you said
"You are projecting on McCain something he has never said."
it very much looks like it is YOU who are "projecting on McCain something he has never said". In all honesty.
The media the games come on is irrelevant, Nintendo proved success is possible with an unusual format.
Microsoft also has stated they are trying to move toward a content-download type system, so the physical media would, again, be irrelevant.
As others have said, there may be a standalone Blu-ray player in the future, but I think MS thinks they simply don't need it. And Ballmer himself has said no Blu-ray for Xbox, of course that's not really worth much and could change with the market.
http://www.crn.com/digital-home/206903456
"Nobody was talking about McCain a month ago."
That's wrong.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:John_McCain
You're trying to pretend no one was talking about McCain in the middle of the Republican primaries. You sound ridiculous.
"I find it astonishing that this McCain guy is even being talked about."
I find it astonishing that someone is so biased and ignorant that they think people discussing THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is astonishing.
"With the totally ignored cries that the call girl agency which did Spitzer in was long known by U.S. Intelligence to be a Mossad front, and that he was fed to the lions to get a wall-street watchdog like Spitzer out of the way before the shenanigans with the Fed and JP Morgan and Bear Stearns which broke a week later, shows again that if you are clean, you aren't allowed to come to power of any sort."
I doubt they'd have been able to "feed him to the lions" if he wasn't paying for whores.
"That's just sick."
What's really sick is that even in the face of your overwhelming bias and ignorance, you get the same vote I do. THAT is sick.
"Or the difference between a false dilemma like "lying ignoramus or honest ignoramus","
That's not a false dilemma, or even a correct use of it, so the question is, are you lying and ignorant about false dilemmas, or just ignorant?
Of course, you'll ignore that you were wrong and engage in a personal attack because, probably something related to me being a shill, or "Bush-Lover" or some such unoriginal tripe similar to what you've been peddling for years.
"All serious human rights organizations have found..."
Something to complain about in every location they've ever been asked to review.
It's what they do guy, you assigning credibility to their opinions doesn't make them valid.
"i cannot understand"
I believe you, based on your post, you can't be very smart, so yo not understanding things makes perfect sense.
"If you're willing to throw your life away to defend Fred Phelp's "right to be an asshole", you value yourself less than any two-bit hooker or crackhead."
See, this explains why you're wrong about this issue (and clueless as well).
It's not "Fred Phelps' 'right to be an asshole'" it is MY right to be an asshole, it just so happens in this case someone else is taking advantage of the same right.
You appear to be taking advantage of the same right in your post.
"Lot's of Dutch folks are very upset about the young firebrand politician Wilders, and wish he'd go shut up and go away. So, they are planning a googlebomb, to in the hopes of undermining the exposure the film Fitna receives."
Just because of this, I will now watch the movie, even though I had no plans to previously.
I wish people trying to censor other people would shut up and go away.
"The open AP = permission is not a lie, it's the entire design and purpose of the device. There is no ambiguity."
Loodk at he boards guy, you think these argeuments stem from a lack of ambiguity? Look at REALITY, there is ambiguity and any article on this subject proves you're wrong.
"If everyone has to name their open access point the same, then there is no way for me to tell which one is the access point I want to connect to."
If they're all open, who cares which one you use? And why would you "have to" name it the same thing? "Neutron Cowgirl's ope AP" would work, why would someone else name their AP the same? Both of those arguments are crap.
"Another question: if you assume that an open AP does not imply permission"
I don't assume it, that's how it is. YOU are assuming that it isn't that way.
"what do you do when you want to connect to web servers? "
I ignore hastily constructed posts that rely on crappy analogies. If you can't tell what the difference is between the two subjects you don't belong in this discussion.
"Perhaps a better approach "
Here's THE approach. Don't use shit that you don't have express permission to use. It's not hard, stop making excuses.
No one cares what you think AC, especially if your argument is just to restate the same stupid points I just destroyed.
"If one were to litter their apartment building with notes reading"
If you'd like to discuss this without faulty misapplied analogies, I'll be happy to, but I stopped reading your post right there because analogies are for people who aren't capable of making intelligent arguments.
Considering your post is based on you jumping to conclusions based on your own failure to correctly read what you were responding to.
The mods are retards, that really cracks me up that they thought modding up your demonstration of ignorance was a good idea.
Save the analogies guy, I genuinely don't care about them, nor about what thieves think.
Wow, you're either the liar I said you were or dumber than I said you were.
Not much good in that scenario either way for you.
"Of course you're right."
You could have just saved yourself the trouble and done this from the start.
"No one should ever complain."
Hey straw man, THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID MORON. Your reading skils are deteriorating as your argument gets destroyed. I doubt it's a coincidence.
"No-one ever got what they wanted by sitting quietly and not complaining. Even Ghandi complained."
Get a reading teacher twat, I never said don't complain. Apparently you're too stupid to understand degrees of behavior.
I'll take that as your admission that your argument is failing.
It was fun shutting you the fuck up, chump.
"Good, then YOU program YOUR WAP to ask for a password"
Why should I have to?
Why are you putting the onus on me when it YOU who wants to use MY stuff?
"Don't demand through law, that anyone who uses your neighbor's open WAP may be punished."
Fuck you buddy, you're thieves. That's what he law is for.
Your argument fails like all the others.
"How am I supposed to know that in almost every situation when a computer or some automated process grants me access that's ok, but when it's a wireless router it's not?"
You personally ask me for my permission, like I said int he post you replied to but apparently didn't read.