Well, Dell sells (sold) mostly computers. Amazon sells just about anything.
Some states tax clothes. Some states don't. Some tax some sorts of foods and not others. A state may not tax something but a municipality or county within that state may.
Satirizing the "military utopia" of the book instead of praising it probably is what pisses most people off.
I thought it was pretty obvious that the "good guys" weren't really (in the movie) on the side of good from the first time I saw it in the theater. The social commentary might have been a bit over the top when it came out but it is starting to get a bit too close to home in this "post 9/11 world"* that supposedly "changed everything"*.
*please imagine air quotes here. I don't personally believe that 9/11 changed anything aside from providing a good stump for politicians and a good excuse for government power grabs and other miscellaneous bad behavior.
It's not just the masses commenting on articles that are incredibly stupid, their (CNN) reporters and correspondents aren't much better (and their talking heads are nearly as bad).
During the coverage of the Fort Hood shooting, they had a reporter saying: "He had two pistols, one a semi-automatic of a type favored by the narco gangs, so you know how deadly it is." No, I don't know how deadly it is. Other than being a semi-auto pistol I have no clue what brand let alone model he was talking about. He never mentioned the actual weapons.
Damn, it must be awesome to have built your generator from the ground up!
Mining the ore, refining it, casting it, forming all the wiring. How long did it take?
Did you start with stone tools and work your way up too?
What sort of fuel are you producing for it? Are you working your way through the agricultural stages so you can be sure you know how your crop works if you are using a bio fuel? Which wild plants did you decide to domesticate?
Civilization works because everyone doesn't have to know everything. Not having to individually reinvent the wheel for every task and tool is why we can make progress.
"... but you'd be amazed at how much easier things become when you ask people what they want."
The problem is, especially with suits, is that what they want probably isn't in the same galaxy, let alone ballpark, as what they need or what they can use.
The upshot is once you get that report all nice and automated they'll ask you for the exact same report three months later having entirely forgotten its existence. Don't tell them they've been getting that report daily/weekly already for the last three months. They don't like that for some reason. Re-title it, move some columns around, maybe add a new bit of information and then call it good.
Those artists tended have the patronage of the very wealthy (or were part of an already wealthy family) and art was not something accessible to the common man.
Also I'm fairly sure the mouse was created after copyright existed.
I could see how hackintoshers demonstrate the existence of demand for those things but saying they are proof of a market Apple would be interested in would be *really* stretching it.
Apple doesn't need to join in with everyone else in the race to the bottom.
You missed a bit on your summary: "His immediate resignation of his absolute authority with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, and modesty."
A bit further down in the entry: "...After this, the war ended and Cincinnatus disbanded his army. He then resigned his dictatorship and returned to his farm, a mere sixteen days after he had been nominated dictator.
He came out of retirement again during his second term as dictator (439 BC) to put down a revolt by the plebeians. After the war, Cincinnatus retired as dictator and resumed where he had left off, working on his farm."
Dictator of Rome, with a large and victorious army, and what does he do? He gives it up and goes back to his farm. Twice.
"Any business that wouldn't want me as a customer probably won't be around very long. Not because I have tons of money to throw around, but any business that don't care that they are pushing away customers won't be around due to competion."
"As I said, it was THEIR choice to offer wifi in that way; if they want to do it but can't pay the rent doing so because someone sits there all day taking up a seat without buying anything else, then tough shit. They deserve to close. Or they can simply limit the wifi to an hour. Of course that may mean some people may not come back, but if enough others think that's fine, they'll be fine too. But I never said i was entitiled to anything."
If everyone else can behave themselves but you, you are definitely the sort of customer that costs more in lost business than you bring in. And the regular customers shouldn't have to be penalized or inconvenienced due to your lack of self control or restraint.
I've seen it where one customer, just one, has ruined things for everyone else just because they had to take "full advantage" of something for themselves. Something that had been going on for years and that was used by many other customers. Of course, people like that just move on to the next good thing like the locust they are while the regular customers suffer.
If they are honest, they won't be a professional politician. If they are professional, they won't be a honest politician.
Honesty means they are either admitting they are the pawns of their paymasters, which means the public won't be voting for them (even though it's a given for politicians, they just aren't supposed to be open about it), or they are admitting they won't be the pawns of lobbyists, which means they won't have enough money to win against the guy that does dance to the lobbyists' tune.
Honest politicians tend to be one shots. If they get in, they soon find they can't get anything done since the regular politicians don't want the upstart rocking the boat and either make him completely ineffectual so he won't be re-elected or they turn him to their style of politics so he's not a problem anymore.
And those lizards, they've come up with quite the scheme to be sure one of them always gets elected...
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I don't think anyone in the rest of the U.S. would stop California (or Texas) from leaving.
Sure we'd have to spend a fair bit in border security to make sure none of them ever get back in but it'd be worth it.
You are aware what happens when a lasgun hits a Holtzmann field, right?
Nevermind that we haven't actually declared war since WWII...
It seems really duplicitous to want wartime powers while not accepting wartime responsibilities.
Sending the military out does not make something a "war".
Thinking about children as much as they do can't be normal.
Hmm, there might be some ulterior motives for cracking those passwords...
Well, Dell sells (sold) mostly computers. Amazon sells just about anything.
Some states tax clothes. Some states don't. Some tax some sorts of foods and not others. A state may not tax something but a municipality or county within that state may.
Satirizing the "military utopia" of the book instead of praising it probably is what pisses most people off.
I thought it was pretty obvious that the "good guys" weren't really (in the movie) on the side of good from the first time I saw it in the theater. The social commentary might have been a bit over the top when it came out but it is starting to get a bit too close to home in this "post 9/11 world"* that supposedly "changed everything"*.
*please imagine air quotes here. I don't personally believe that 9/11 changed anything aside from providing a good stump for politicians and a good excuse for government power grabs and other miscellaneous bad behavior.
Ya, it really sucks that I have to buy special Apple brand BT headsets to work with their products.
Oh, wait. It doesn't because I don't have to.
Really, this sort of drivel gets insightful? Go go /. Apple Hate!
I'm just hoping Android makes it big so I can watch /. turn on their once favorite underdog.
Alas poor Superbit, we hardly knew ye.
It's not just the masses commenting on articles that are incredibly stupid, their (CNN) reporters and correspondents aren't much better (and their talking heads are nearly as bad).
During the coverage of the Fort Hood shooting, they had a reporter saying:
"He had two pistols, one a semi-automatic of a type favored by the narco gangs, so you know how deadly it is." No, I don't know how deadly it is. Other than being a semi-auto pistol I have no clue what brand let alone model he was talking about. He never mentioned the actual weapons.
But he could afford to have it modded, which cost as much as two games, so he could have afforded to buy (two of) them.
I believe in the free-market system just as much as I believe in leprechauns, invisible flying pink unicorns and politicians that aren't corrupt.
Damn, it must be awesome to have built your generator from the ground up!
Mining the ore, refining it, casting it, forming all the wiring. How long did it take?
Did you start with stone tools and work your way up too?
What sort of fuel are you producing for it? Are you working your way through the agricultural stages so you can be sure you know how your crop works if you are using a bio fuel? Which wild plants did you decide to domesticate?
Civilization works because everyone doesn't have to know everything. Not having to individually reinvent the wheel for every task and tool is why we can make progress.
Doesn't help you know that "fmt" is supposed to be "formatted string" in the first place.
You could just use import fmt "formattedString" and then you can write fmt.Printf("Yay"); to your heart's content.
And then OSX behaves just as badly as Windows since it is now in the same driver hell as MS.
If you're going to have a crappy experience either way, why not stick with the one that everyone else is suffering through?
Vowels aren't nearly as expensive as they used to be back in the day.
It'd be a nice touch if they'd add vowel support in package names.
I think we'll have bigger issues than not being able to power a television if nuclear reactions ceased to happen.
This was just a backup plan in case the bird failed in its mission to delay the start of the LHC.
Sure, the universe had to start the backup plan long before birds, let alone the bird, existed...
"... but you'd be amazed at how much easier things become when you ask people what they want."
The problem is, especially with suits, is that what they want probably isn't in the same galaxy, let alone ballpark, as what they need or what they can use.
The upshot is once you get that report all nice and automated they'll ask you for the exact same report three months later having entirely forgotten its existence. Don't tell them they've been getting that report daily/weekly already for the last three months. They don't like that for some reason. Re-title it, move some columns around, maybe add a new bit of information and then call it good.
Those artists tended have the patronage of the very wealthy (or were part of an already wealthy family) and art was not something accessible to the common man.
Also I'm fairly sure the mouse was created after copyright existed.
Last Mile's a Last Mile, but they call it "Le Last Mile".
I could see how hackintoshers demonstrate the existence of demand for those things but saying they are proof of a market Apple would be interested in would be *really* stretching it.
Apple doesn't need to join in with everyone else in the race to the bottom.
You missed a bit on your summary:
"His immediate resignation of his absolute authority with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, and modesty."
A bit further down in the entry:
"...After this, the war ended and Cincinnatus disbanded his army. He then resigned his dictatorship and returned to his farm, a mere sixteen days after he had been nominated dictator.
He came out of retirement again during his second term as dictator (439 BC) to put down a revolt by the plebeians. After the war, Cincinnatus retired as dictator and resumed where he had left off, working on his farm."
Dictator of Rome, with a large and victorious army, and what does he do? He gives it up and goes back to his farm. Twice.
"Any business that wouldn't want me as a customer probably won't be around very long. Not because I have tons of money to throw around, but any business that don't care that they are pushing away customers won't be around due to competion."
"As I said, it was THEIR choice to offer wifi in that way; if they want to do it but can't pay the rent doing so because someone sits there all day taking up a seat without buying anything else, then tough shit. They deserve to close. Or they can simply limit the wifi to an hour. Of course that may mean some people may not come back, but if enough others think that's fine, they'll be fine too. But I never said i was entitiled to anything."
If everyone else can behave themselves but you, you are definitely the sort of customer that costs more in lost business than you bring in. And the regular customers shouldn't have to be penalized or inconvenienced due to your lack of self control or restraint.
I've seen it where one customer, just one, has ruined things for everyone else just because they had to take "full advantage" of something for themselves. Something that had been going on for years and that was used by many other customers. Of course, people like that just move on to the next good thing like the locust they are while the regular customers suffer.
An "Honest" professional politician can't exist.
If they are honest, they won't be a professional politician.
If they are professional, they won't be a honest politician.
Honesty means they are either admitting they are the pawns of their paymasters, which means the public won't be voting for them (even though it's a given for politicians, they just aren't supposed to be open about it), or they are admitting they won't be the pawns of lobbyists, which means they won't have enough money to win against the guy that does dance to the lobbyists' tune.
Honest politicians tend to be one shots. If they get in, they soon find they can't get anything done since the regular politicians don't want the upstart rocking the boat and either make him completely ineffectual so he won't be re-elected or they turn him to their style of politics so he's not a problem anymore.
And those lizards, they've come up with quite the scheme to be sure one of them always gets elected...
A new, but better in my opinion, adage is "Never attribute to stupidity that which can profit from malice."