"Both statements are fine. You can fail and adjust. This is wonderful business."
Unless you were in the market for a small, rugged, cheap, very portable computer with a very long battery life but didn't need a lot of processing power, which is what a netbook _was_.
If you're looking for a DVD netbook you aren't looking for a netbook, you are looking for a laptop.
"Rent a small plane at a regional airport, fly it to a big airport and crash the bugger into a terminal."
Better to aim for an airliner waiting to take off. Better target density and the aircraft hull is a lot less resilient than a building. Pack some incendiary devices to light up the full fuel load in the target aircraft.
You do know that AAC is Advanced Audio Coding and is part of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 and isn't a proprietary Apple format, right? And that even the Zune supports AAC (along with many other players)?
And your POTS phone provider will be looking at some massive fines from the government if their backup power fails and their service goes down. They have a good motivator to keep the service working. VoIP, not so much.
One could treat anything digital as transitory and any e-reader as a convenience and then get on with life.
If I want something very convenient, and I want it now, and I don't care if it is around later, an e-book would be fine. If I don't need convenience and I do want it around (much) later then it is dead tree time.
If you're buying any sort of digital *anything* and expecting it to last through the ages you are being rather silly.
If you want something to last through the ages it has to be directly human interpretable and in a language/format that will persist.
Archeologists are going to hate this era. Most of our culture will not be available to them. Gone. Poof. Unreadable. Records and film and paper (ie very analog) will be the media that will still be viewable. Digital? Gone.
These people saying just slope the lens and don't give it a floor have obviously never seen perfectly vertical and flat road signs that are totally plastered over by snow and thus unreadable. Snow can stick like a bastard.
Rome in its heyday is a very good example of the power of (early) combat engineers. The soldiers weren't just soldiers, they had they skills to basically bring Rome to wherever they went as well as being able to build, maintain, transport and use some rather complex weapons (for their time).
"The way to reduce terrorism is to stop creating new ones by stop bombing their families and stop manipulating their governments."
You don't have to bomb any family members to get new terrorists.
Someone will say that the "great satan" America just blew up a charity hospital for widows and children of martyred suicide bombers (actually a training camp with 0 women or children) and someone will get pissed off that someone is killing their women (only they get to do that) and go blow himself up.
If the "great satan" America didn't need a government to manipulate in some of those countries there probably wouldn't be a government at all. The current political boundaries are due to the former colonial powers, not the will of the people. Group A that hates group B are stuck together because someone like the British thought that a good looking map was more important than keeping A and B apart. The Mid East has been a killing field for millennia. Even without America (and even with) they'd still be busily killing each other over whose cousin did what five hundred years ago.
You could make everything fair and equal and people would still find reasons to kill each other. Its human nature. Could be as simple as someone not wearing the same kind of silly hat as you wear.
Then terrorists will just implant time delayed explosives in themselves. Make the circuitry look like a pace maker.
Or some sort of non-instantly fatal toxic substance with an aerosol vector that gets released into their lungs so they exhale it into the cabin.
Or go off and get some horribly contagious deadly exotic disease in time to be nice and contagious while still alive enough to get (loaded) onto the plane.
Hadrian's wall had troops stationed in posts every 5000 feet along with observation towers and the occasional large garrison. If they could do it (in a foreign country none the less) we should be able to do it at home.
Selling retail to the first world means providing first world support, and the linux geek down the street in his mom's basement doesn't count.
People are still hung up on the damned crank? Go find a crank powered flashlight. Open it and look and how much of the space is used by the mechanical parts. Put it back together and try cranking long enough and fast enough to charge an XO battery.
That'll be good to know for when we start taking colonies again. Until then it is tangental at best to the situation.
Things probably would have gone a lot smoother had the invasions been part of a plan to take those countries as colonies since you don't even have to pretend to play nice with the locals and their political schemes.
At the time of the so-called "reward", you've done nothing more than following animal instincts. How does that qualify as "earning" it, as you are so concerned with?
"Consider sex (yes, I said it) -- the intense pleasure most participants derive from it is the reward for the excruciating pains of childbirth and hardships of the childrearing. Contrary to the wide-spread misunderstanding, the mainstream religions want us to have sex -- as much as possible. They just want it all to be for the purpose of reproduction, rather than simple self-indulgence."
Pleasure isn't the reward, it's the enticement to get people to do the act and possibly make babies.
Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform script have been readable for thousands of years, what's the chance that your book will still be readable in 5000 years?
I don't think anyone is buying a kindle and expecting it to outlast the ages. Kindles are a lot more convenient than lugging around clay tablets.
I hope you have your grave dug and paid for so that when you do suffer some unexpected ailment you can crawl in and not use any of the services you decided not to pay into. That's the responsible thing to do.
This just in, crossing the street can lead to being struck by a moving vehicle. Insurance companies are no longer liable to pay accident victims because they now know crossing the street can be dangerous.
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Perhaps if Microsoft required Microsoft brand hardware to legally run Windows and Microsoft actually made computers you might have some sort of point.
"Both statements are fine. You can fail and adjust. This is wonderful business."
Unless you were in the market for a small, rugged, cheap, very portable computer with a very long battery life but didn't need a lot of processing power, which is what a netbook _was_.
If you're looking for a DVD netbook you aren't looking for a netbook, you are looking for a laptop.
"Rent a small plane at a regional airport, fly it to a big airport and crash the bugger into a terminal."
Better to aim for an airliner waiting to take off. Better target density and the aircraft hull is a lot less resilient than a building. Pack some incendiary devices to light up the full fuel load in the target aircraft.
You forgot puke.
You do know that AAC is Advanced Audio Coding and is part of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 and isn't a proprietary Apple format, right? And that even the Zune supports AAC (along with many other players)?
And your POTS phone provider will be looking at some massive fines from the government if their backup power fails and their service goes down. They have a good motivator to keep the service working. VoIP, not so much.
This plan is like saying municipal water is outdated and unnecessary because "everyone" can buy bottled water.
One could treat anything digital as transitory and any e-reader as a convenience and then get on with life.
If I want something very convenient, and I want it now, and I don't care if it is around later, an e-book would be fine. If I don't need convenience and I do want it around (much) later then it is dead tree time.
If you're buying any sort of digital *anything* and expecting it to last through the ages you are being rather silly.
If you want something to last through the ages it has to be directly human interpretable and in a language/format that will persist.
Archeologists are going to hate this era. Most of our culture will not be available to them. Gone. Poof. Unreadable. Records and film and paper (ie very analog) will be the media that will still be viewable. Digital? Gone.
And know when to just stay put.
These people saying just slope the lens and don't give it a floor have obviously never seen perfectly vertical and flat road signs that are totally plastered over by snow and thus unreadable. Snow can stick like a bastard.
Rome in its heyday is a very good example of the power of (early) combat engineers. The soldiers weren't just soldiers, they had they skills to basically bring Rome to wherever they went as well as being able to build, maintain, transport and use some rather complex weapons (for their time).
"The way to reduce terrorism is to stop creating new ones by stop bombing their families and stop manipulating their governments."
You don't have to bomb any family members to get new terrorists.
Someone will say that the "great satan" America just blew up a charity hospital for widows and children of martyred suicide bombers (actually a training camp with 0 women or children) and someone will get pissed off that someone is killing their women (only they get to do that) and go blow himself up.
If the "great satan" America didn't need a government to manipulate in some of those countries there probably wouldn't be a government at all. The current political boundaries are due to the former colonial powers, not the will of the people. Group A that hates group B are stuck together because someone like the British thought that a good looking map was more important than keeping A and B apart. The Mid East has been a killing field for millennia. Even without America (and even with) they'd still be busily killing each other over whose cousin did what five hundred years ago.
You could make everything fair and equal and people would still find reasons to kill each other. Its human nature. Could be as simple as someone not wearing the same kind of silly hat as you wear.
Then terrorists will just implant time delayed explosives in themselves. Make the circuitry look like a pace maker.
Or some sort of non-instantly fatal toxic substance with an aerosol vector that gets released into their lungs so they exhale it into the cabin.
Or go off and get some horribly contagious deadly exotic disease in time to be nice and contagious while still alive enough to get (loaded) onto the plane.
If you don't want to be seen, don't stand up when they call your name.
If you don't want to get blown up, don't pick an obvious hiding spot.
We do have a standing army which we already pay.
Hadrian's wall had troops stationed in posts every 5000 feet along with observation towers and the occasional large garrison. If they could do it (in a foreign country none the less) we should be able to do it at home.
So instead of lining some contractor's pocket how about we just do as the Romans did and actually patrol the damned border?
Sure boots on the ground isn't as flashy as a web cam but it might be actually effective.
Of course actual patrols might be too effective...
Selling retail to the first world means providing first world support, and the linux geek down the street in his mom's basement doesn't count.
People are still hung up on the damned crank? Go find a crank powered flashlight. Open it and look and how much of the space is used by the mechanical parts. Put it back together and try cranking long enough and fast enough to charge an XO battery.
That'll be good to know for when we start taking colonies again. Until then it is tangental at best to the situation.
Things probably would have gone a lot smoother had the invasions been part of a plan to take those countries as colonies since you don't even have to pretend to play nice with the locals and their political schemes.
At the time of the so-called "reward", you've done nothing more than following animal instincts. How does that qualify as "earning" it, as you are so concerned with?
"Consider sex (yes, I said it) -- the intense pleasure most participants derive from it is the reward for the excruciating pains of childbirth and hardships of the childrearing. Contrary to the wide-spread misunderstanding, the mainstream religions want us to have sex -- as much as possible. They just want it all to be for the purpose of reproduction, rather than simple self-indulgence."
Pleasure isn't the reward, it's the enticement to get people to do the act and possibly make babies.
Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform script have been readable for thousands of years, what's the chance that your book will still be readable in 5000 years?
I don't think anyone is buying a kindle and expecting it to outlast the ages. Kindles are a lot more convenient than lugging around clay tablets.
I hope you have your grave dug and paid for so that when you do suffer some unexpected ailment you can crawl in and not use any of the services you decided not to pay into. That's the responsible thing to do.
This just in, crossing the street can lead to being struck by a moving vehicle. Insurance companies are no longer liable to pay accident victims because they now know crossing the street can be dangerous.