They've pretty much ridden the "Appeal to nature" logical fallacy right into the dirt. They see the natural world as the epitome of morality and the more the human race steers away from it, the more amoral we become. The problem is they forget that we too are a part of nature and that the human race is where it is by way of collective action, not individualism.
Well, Google's argument for dropping Qi on Nexus 5X/6P was that it'd add thickness. to the device. Which I find questionable given just how thin the Qi receiver coils are. So the only real remaining justification for gutting the feature is expense. And really if I had to choose Qi or Fingerprint, I'd rather have Qi. But both would not be unwelcome, of course.
On every reboot and every 24 hours you have to reauthenticate with your PIN on Android. Probably so someone that stole your device doesn't have ample time to duplicate your fingerprint.
I'd rather have Qi charging than the fingerprint reader... as convenient as the fingerprint reader may be.
Regarding your car trade-in. Don't beat yourself up too bad over that. The dealer is most likely just going to send it to a wholesale auction and make it some BHPH lot's problem. Your minimum trade value was determined before you even walked in the door by a database. Very rarely does the trade value go down from there. It goes up because the customer plays hardball.
I really think trying to quash the secondary market for games is going to end up costing them more new sales than used games ever could have. If someone can buy a brand new AAA title and get at least a portion of that money back then they might be willing to take more of a chance on a given game and go ahead and buy it, knowing that if they end up not liking it they can recoup some of their money. Eliminate this "insurance policy" as it were, and gamers are going to be much more fickle when it comes to how they spend their money. It just ends up with people buying fewer and fewer new games than before. Do you really think half the shovelware that gets released would even be bought by one person if gamers were unable to foist such garbage onto some other sucker?
Your child may not be mature enough to understand sex. HOWEVER, by 9 a kid is going to understand through their own observation the relationship mom and dad have with each other. My mom and dad explained homosexuality to me as when 2 men or 2 women love each other the same way mom and dad love each other. They didn't go any further than that and they didn't need to go any further than that, I just shrugged it off and got on with my life. Really gay people are in relationships with other gay people for the same reasons (some of which aren't sex) that heterosexual men and women get in relationships.
Don't forget that the Will Rogers and Turner Turnpikes have been in place BEFORE interstate 44. At least according to their histories from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.
This is JUST the sort of thing that would make Lexus' target demographic drive STRAIGHT back to the dealership and either yell at the service department to make the car STFU, or toss the keys back in the sales person's face. I know I would. If the dealer wouldn't take it back I'd then probably pull the fuse from the stereo or whatever gadget was giving me the ads (assuming it didn't disable the engine, which actually would further provoke me.)
Bottom line, unless the message is based upon a service interval and is EASILY disabled, nobody wants the vehicle they just paid 40k+ for giving them any sort of advertisements. Definitely suicide on Toyota's/Lexus' part.
Count me in as well. This could put American workers back to work and provide us with much needed battery technology so we can replace alot Internal combustion engines with electric motors.
Lots of acorns in the woods on my mother's place. She lives in the Missouri Ozarks. I guess this is opposite of Chicken Little.
"NO ACORNS FELL ON MY HEAD! The Environment's doomed!"
The author of this article is making a very broad assumption that everybody in the United States has access to the high speed EVDO or HSDPA services offered by the cellular carriers. In Amarillo Texas (where I live) there is no HSDPA or EVDO from Sprint or AT&T and neither have any plans in the immediate future to bring that higher speed data to the area. Many of the areas I travel to in the Texas Panhandle have ABSOLUTELY no cellular service. The only two ways I can get music is via my iPod or XM Radio. The iPod's shortcoming is that it's limited to the songs I can fit on it and I might suddenly want to switch genres. XM's advantage is that they play music I may have not heard in a long time and haven't had the thought to purchase it from Amazon or itunes.
And a 700B bailout for banks that were too preoccupied with their Scrooge McDuck fantasies to exercise some sound judgement in how much mortgage subprime borrowers were getting approved for isn't socialism......Just saying.
And before you reiterate the Rush Limbaugh rhetoric pinning all of this on Clinton. While yes, there was a mandate from Washington to increase home-ownership especially among lower income people. They weren't mandating the banks write a $300,000 mortgage to people that couldn't even afford $150,000. They also weren't mandating the banks write real-estate speculators no money down mortgages on properties they weren't even going to live in. I'd get into the borrowers inability to realize what ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE means, but I've taken up enough space. But not every group's hands are clean in all this.
My brother in law and one of my best friends are in the Army and neither of them think civilians should be disarmed. They think we should have MORE guns. Heck, it would make their jobs easier should some of our lenders call in their notes to our government.
You're spot on. Look at the market for stand-alone PDAs today. Five years ago you had Dell, HP/CPQ, Sony, Palm, and Handspring all selling stand-alone PDAs. Now the only market for stand-alone PDAs is the retail and courier service industry which is filled by Symbol and Motorola with PDA's that have integrated barcode readers.
Nobody wants to carry a PDA and a seperate cell phone anymore, especially with plenty of folks carrying multiple cell phones (office and personal)
I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic. However really, the terrorists have no way of directly destroying our freedom. All they can do is kill us, that's it. We are the ones destroying our own freedom. Destroying your own freedom to preserve it is like killing your kids so they don't get molested.
Personally, I'd rather run the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack than be alive in the safety of tyrrany.
It is true, freedom isn't free, however the price is more than just the blood of soldiers. The price is also the risk that those jealous of your freedom will try to kill you.
My employer has a contract to do these fixes. What has aparrently happened is some assembly workers have routed the DC cables for the power jack (which is in the left hinge) on top of the hinge rather than alongside and slightly underneath. This can potentially fray the wire and cause a short. Once we determine that the system is affected, we are to redo the wiring to that side of the hinge replace the webcam (if necessary) add an insulator to the hinge and put a rubber cap on one of the screws. Doesn't seem that time consuming and it looks like it's an on-site swap for everybody.
When I was a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers (worked at a grocery store) The health insurance I paid $0 (the company paid 100% of the premiums) for was excellent. They paid for almost everything imaginable, health, dental, vision. They were prompt too, my dentist never once complained about getting paid by my union insurance. They also had the far better health network that included my primary care physician. The term "pre-existing condition" was also not in their vocabulary. I also rarely put in more than 24 hours/week because I was still in school.
After that job dried up (Wal-Mart pushed them out) my next job had absolutely no benefits. Then my first full-time job I was paying $150/mo for health insurance with United Healthcare, they denied EVERYTHING at least once. Everything to them was a pre-existing condition unless I could prove otherwise. My primary care physician was out of network and it took an act of congress to get them to ever pay a claim.
Dues I thought were very reasonable $7/week I just ate fast food 2 fewer times a week.
Not all unions are created equal I understand that, but they aren't all bad.
Last time I had jury duty, the judge, DA (surprisingly), and the Defense attorney all instructed the panel during selection that exercising one's fifth amendment rights is not to be construed as evidence of guilt.
The only thing I'm addressing in your comment is your mass transit proposal. While I'm not opponent of mass transit. "Build 10 subway lines in every city" is a bit idealistic and does need a healthy dose of realism. Not every city has sub-surface terrain that's suited for tunnel construction, and elevated train ways pose their own unique planning and engineering concerns. Mag-lev trains would eliminate a good portion of noise issues that is associated with El-ways. Another thing is, an elevated train can potentially displace those that need public transit the most as you buy out the properties they currently rent. More bus service would be nice though, in my city the buses run ever decreasing routes and only pass by a stop every hour and a half to two hours. By next census it might get worse as the feds will pull funding if the city's population exceeeds a certain figure. I think there also needs to be a PR campaign to remove alot of stereotypes that have been portrayed in the media. Just about any place outside of New England, the residents act as though setting foot on a city bus will give you AIDS.
Judging by the fact I can count his roles prior to GTAIV (according to IMDB) on one hand, I think this guy has a massive ego who hasn't a clue as to what drives sales in the video game industry. Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams are more recognizable than this guy. I don't see either of those two gents complaining about their compensation for their work on the game.
Newsflash to these nobody actors, gamers really don't care who does the voice work in games so long as their ears don't bleed from it.
Not to toot Valve's own horn though, but at least Valve does give you some extra features with Steam, like a friend's list that shows you which server they are playing on (though only in valve games).
As far as non-valve games. The.exe of the game rather than looking for a CD checks to see weather or not Steam.exe is running in the background. The games also don't need to phone home. In the early days following halflife 2's release Offline mode was a royal pain to get working, but they have since worked on it and the only time it gets bothersome is when you're on a network connection being used by 3000 people at the same time.
I also like the fact that at least with Steam I don't have to keep track of those infernal CD keys, nor swap discs constantly.
Personally, I'd rather all this login requirement and CD key and CD check business be gone.
I really don't like the implications of this either. I really would avoid shopping at Amazon if it meant that New York state was taxing me either directly or indirectly. It's about as bad as Massachusetts wanting me to pay them state income tax just because my Employer is located there though my state of residence does not have income tax.
Not only that, but GTA IV gives the player a choice as to weather or not they want to drive drunk. The player can hail a cab or call a car service. If the player decides to damn the torpedoes and DUI. Every cop in town is going to instantly give the player at least a 1 star wanted level. Not only that but running from the cops is quite difficult as the controls have been appropriately compromised to simulate driving drunk.
It'd be different if the player was rewarded for DUI, or if the game made DUI no different than driving sober. But in this instance the game is giving the player the same choices that they have in real life, albeit not with as serious of consequences.
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They've pretty much ridden the "Appeal to nature" logical fallacy right into the dirt. They see the natural world as the epitome of morality and the more the human race steers away from it, the more amoral we become. The problem is they forget that we too are a part of nature and that the human race is where it is by way of collective action, not individualism.
That's a 200 year old piece of paper written by people with fleas and wooden teeth.
They also went to the same guy for haircuts, dentistry, and surgery.
Well, Google's argument for dropping Qi on Nexus 5X/6P was that it'd add thickness. to the device. Which I find questionable given just how thin the Qi receiver coils are. So the only real remaining justification for gutting the feature is expense. And really if I had to choose Qi or Fingerprint, I'd rather have Qi. But both would not be unwelcome, of course.
On every reboot and every 24 hours you have to reauthenticate with your PIN on Android. Probably so someone that stole your device doesn't have ample time to duplicate your fingerprint. I'd rather have Qi charging than the fingerprint reader... as convenient as the fingerprint reader may be.
Regarding your car trade-in. Don't beat yourself up too bad over that. The dealer is most likely just going to send it to a wholesale auction and make it some BHPH lot's problem. Your minimum trade value was determined before you even walked in the door by a database. Very rarely does the trade value go down from there. It goes up because the customer plays hardball.
I really think trying to quash the secondary market for games is going to end up costing them more new sales than used games ever could have. If someone can buy a brand new AAA title and get at least a portion of that money back then they might be willing to take more of a chance on a given game and go ahead and buy it, knowing that if they end up not liking it they can recoup some of their money. Eliminate this "insurance policy" as it were, and gamers are going to be much more fickle when it comes to how they spend their money. It just ends up with people buying fewer and fewer new games than before. Do you really think half the shovelware that gets released would even be bought by one person if gamers were unable to foist such garbage onto some other sucker?
Your child may not be mature enough to understand sex. HOWEVER, by 9 a kid is going to understand through their own observation the relationship mom and dad have with each other. My mom and dad explained homosexuality to me as when 2 men or 2 women love each other the same way mom and dad love each other. They didn't go any further than that and they didn't need to go any further than that, I just shrugged it off and got on with my life. Really gay people are in relationships with other gay people for the same reasons (some of which aren't sex) that heterosexual men and women get in relationships.
Don't forget that the Will Rogers and Turner Turnpikes have been in place BEFORE interstate 44. At least according to their histories from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.
This is JUST the sort of thing that would make Lexus' target demographic drive STRAIGHT back to the dealership and either yell at the service department to make the car STFU, or toss the keys back in the sales person's face. I know I would. If the dealer wouldn't take it back I'd then probably pull the fuse from the stereo or whatever gadget was giving me the ads (assuming it didn't disable the engine, which actually would further provoke me.) Bottom line, unless the message is based upon a service interval and is EASILY disabled, nobody wants the vehicle they just paid 40k+ for giving them any sort of advertisements. Definitely suicide on Toyota's/Lexus' part.
Count me in as well. This could put American workers back to work and provide us with much needed battery technology so we can replace alot Internal combustion engines with electric motors.
Lots of acorns in the woods on my mother's place. She lives in the Missouri Ozarks. I guess this is opposite of Chicken Little. "NO ACORNS FELL ON MY HEAD! The Environment's doomed!"
The author of this article is making a very broad assumption that everybody in the United States has access to the high speed EVDO or HSDPA services offered by the cellular carriers. In Amarillo Texas (where I live) there is no HSDPA or EVDO from Sprint or AT&T and neither have any plans in the immediate future to bring that higher speed data to the area. Many of the areas I travel to in the Texas Panhandle have ABSOLUTELY no cellular service. The only two ways I can get music is via my iPod or XM Radio. The iPod's shortcoming is that it's limited to the songs I can fit on it and I might suddenly want to switch genres. XM's advantage is that they play music I may have not heard in a long time and haven't had the thought to purchase it from Amazon or itunes.
And a 700B bailout for banks that were too preoccupied with their Scrooge McDuck fantasies to exercise some sound judgement in how much mortgage subprime borrowers were getting approved for isn't socialism......Just saying. And before you reiterate the Rush Limbaugh rhetoric pinning all of this on Clinton. While yes, there was a mandate from Washington to increase home-ownership especially among lower income people. They weren't mandating the banks write a $300,000 mortgage to people that couldn't even afford $150,000. They also weren't mandating the banks write real-estate speculators no money down mortgages on properties they weren't even going to live in. I'd get into the borrowers inability to realize what ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE means, but I've taken up enough space. But not every group's hands are clean in all this.
My brother in law and one of my best friends are in the Army and neither of them think civilians should be disarmed. They think we should have MORE guns. Heck, it would make their jobs easier should some of our lenders call in their notes to our government.
You're spot on. Look at the market for stand-alone PDAs today. Five years ago you had Dell, HP/CPQ, Sony, Palm, and Handspring all selling stand-alone PDAs. Now the only market for stand-alone PDAs is the retail and courier service industry which is filled by Symbol and Motorola with PDA's that have integrated barcode readers. Nobody wants to carry a PDA and a seperate cell phone anymore, especially with plenty of folks carrying multiple cell phones (office and personal)
I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic. However really, the terrorists have no way of directly destroying our freedom. All they can do is kill us, that's it. We are the ones destroying our own freedom. Destroying your own freedom to preserve it is like killing your kids so they don't get molested. Personally, I'd rather run the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack than be alive in the safety of tyrrany. It is true, freedom isn't free, however the price is more than just the blood of soldiers. The price is also the risk that those jealous of your freedom will try to kill you.
My employer has a contract to do these fixes. What has aparrently happened is some assembly workers have routed the DC cables for the power jack (which is in the left hinge) on top of the hinge rather than alongside and slightly underneath. This can potentially fray the wire and cause a short. Once we determine that the system is affected, we are to redo the wiring to that side of the hinge replace the webcam (if necessary) add an insulator to the hinge and put a rubber cap on one of the screws. Doesn't seem that time consuming and it looks like it's an on-site swap for everybody.
When I was a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers (worked at a grocery store) The health insurance I paid $0 (the company paid 100% of the premiums) for was excellent. They paid for almost everything imaginable, health, dental, vision. They were prompt too, my dentist never once complained about getting paid by my union insurance. They also had the far better health network that included my primary care physician. The term "pre-existing condition" was also not in their vocabulary. I also rarely put in more than 24 hours/week because I was still in school. After that job dried up (Wal-Mart pushed them out) my next job had absolutely no benefits. Then my first full-time job I was paying $150/mo for health insurance with United Healthcare, they denied EVERYTHING at least once. Everything to them was a pre-existing condition unless I could prove otherwise. My primary care physician was out of network and it took an act of congress to get them to ever pay a claim. Dues I thought were very reasonable $7/week I just ate fast food 2 fewer times a week. Not all unions are created equal I understand that, but they aren't all bad.
If they don't want UVerse, I'll take it, hell AT&T can put the box in my backyard for all I care, it'd mean that much less grass to mow.
Last time I had jury duty, the judge, DA (surprisingly), and the Defense attorney all instructed the panel during selection that exercising one's fifth amendment rights is not to be construed as evidence of guilt.
The only thing I'm addressing in your comment is your mass transit proposal. While I'm not opponent of mass transit. "Build 10 subway lines in every city" is a bit idealistic and does need a healthy dose of realism. Not every city has sub-surface terrain that's suited for tunnel construction, and elevated train ways pose their own unique planning and engineering concerns. Mag-lev trains would eliminate a good portion of noise issues that is associated with El-ways. Another thing is, an elevated train can potentially displace those that need public transit the most as you buy out the properties they currently rent. More bus service would be nice though, in my city the buses run ever decreasing routes and only pass by a stop every hour and a half to two hours. By next census it might get worse as the feds will pull funding if the city's population exceeeds a certain figure. I think there also needs to be a PR campaign to remove alot of stereotypes that have been portrayed in the media. Just about any place outside of New England, the residents act as though setting foot on a city bus will give you AIDS.
Judging by the fact I can count his roles prior to GTAIV (according to IMDB) on one hand, I think this guy has a massive ego who hasn't a clue as to what drives sales in the video game industry. Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams are more recognizable than this guy. I don't see either of those two gents complaining about their compensation for their work on the game. Newsflash to these nobody actors, gamers really don't care who does the voice work in games so long as their ears don't bleed from it.
Not to toot Valve's own horn though, but at least Valve does give you some extra features with Steam, like a friend's list that shows you which server they are playing on (though only in valve games). As far as non-valve games. The .exe of the game rather than looking for a CD checks to see weather or not Steam.exe is running in the background. The games also don't need to phone home. In the early days following halflife 2's release Offline mode was a royal pain to get working, but they have since worked on it and the only time it gets bothersome is when you're on a network connection being used by 3000 people at the same time.
I also like the fact that at least with Steam I don't have to keep track of those infernal CD keys, nor swap discs constantly.
Personally, I'd rather all this login requirement and CD key and CD check business be gone.
I really don't like the implications of this either. I really would avoid shopping at Amazon if it meant that New York state was taxing me either directly or indirectly. It's about as bad as Massachusetts wanting me to pay them state income tax just because my Employer is located there though my state of residence does not have income tax.
Not only that, but GTA IV gives the player a choice as to weather or not they want to drive drunk. The player can hail a cab or call a car service. If the player decides to damn the torpedoes and DUI. Every cop in town is going to instantly give the player at least a 1 star wanted level. Not only that but running from the cops is quite difficult as the controls have been appropriately compromised to simulate driving drunk. It'd be different if the player was rewarded for DUI, or if the game made DUI no different than driving sober. But in this instance the game is giving the player the same choices that they have in real life, albeit not with as serious of consequences.