Which is why it's sad that no one learned the real lesson of Columbine. The lesson wasn't "listen to angry music" or "dress a certain way" and you'll kill people. The lesson was "if you're an asshole to people, eventually someone is going to shoot your ass -- so just be nice".
What they need to learn is that authority figures, especially in the academic world, are power hungry assholes who need someone to take a baseball bat upside their head and put them in their place.
They knew damn well she wasn't planning on doing anything, they just wanted to remind everyone that they own your ass and you can't take a shit without their permission.
threatening to kill someone publicly is never a good idea.
Absolutely. However, she didn't threaten to kill anyone. She merely said that she'd LIKE to stab them. Big difference actually. One implies that you WILL do it (a threat), the other is simply an expression of anger.
Yes, because god forbid someone is angry and says that they'd LIKE to do something painful to someone. If we arrested people for that, then 99% of the worlds population would be in jail. If she wrote that she was GOING to stab someone, THEN you could say they had a reason to detain her.
I'm saying that people being used to using different browsers and trying new ones won't fight people who try new browsers. It's the same as the old lead IT guys right now who refuse to let people install freeware and insist on paying for a product that does the same thing because "it must be better, it costs money". One of the major clients I work with has an IT head like that and it kills me how much money they waste when they could use free products to do the same things (like using Winzip when they could use 7zip for free).
There has been genuine competition for years now. The problem is, most people are 1) too stupid to learn about other browsers, even when you tell them flat out or 2) just don't care because it would require a minuscule amount of effort to install a new browser and adjust to it's layout. I even know people who've been in IT for decades who say "Why would I use anything other than IE?" even after you repeatedly explain all the superior features of other browsers plus IE's security problems. The main problem probably won't go away for a few decades, then it'll be the people who grew up using Firefox, Chrome, etc running the show and we won't have the old dinosaurs who can't comprehend installing a new browser dragging people down.
If you bothered to RTFA, you'd have seen the pics and noticed that her laptop didn't have "Al-Qaeda" stickers on it, it had stickers on the keys so that she could type in Arabic without having to keep a screen up showing her what keys to press.
I have to say, this bullshit definitely cements my "Leave Israel to take care of themselves" sentiment.
The ability to speak well in public doesn't mean jack shit about a person's intelligence or leadership abilities. As much as I dislike Bush, he still is a hell of a lot more of a leader than Obama.
Well yes, the lawyers do make it worse, but that's a given. Sadly, since Congress and the Senate are nothing BUT lawyers, we'll never get laws in place to keep lawyers in check.
Too true. Hollywood was instrumental in getting Obama elected, and as a reward, he created a new, entirely pointless, position of "Hollywood Liason" that he gave to Kal Penn to repay him for all the hard work he did in getting Obama elected. That's why I laugh when Democrats complain about corruption with Republican politicians while they cheer on the corruption among Democrat politicians.
Sorry, but I fail to see how being Governor made Sarah Palin unqualified to be Vice President, yet being Governor made Bill Clinton qualified to be President.
Like her or dislike her, that's fine - but Palin was much more qualified than Obama who'd never held a real leadership position before -- and Palin wasn't even running for President.
If you only look at cost, sure. Except that the US costs the most because we train the best doctors, have the best research institutes, and develop most of the new medicines -- all of which cost a metric shit ton of money.
If you'd rather pay less and have crappy treatment, be my guest. I'm crazy enough to think it's worth spending more money if it means I get top of the line medical treatment.
Funny? Yes, but it's actually insightful / informative. God, I think this post just made us aware that we need to improve the mod system to more accurately reflect a post's content......
My issue with e-readers (besides the DRM) isn't the price of the device - it's the price of the books. It costs essentially $0 to make ebooks (yea, it costs a tiny bit for that first copy to be created, but that's it), yet they charge more for an e-book than they do for a paperback. Same with newspapers on it - I can get a subscription to the WSJ on Kindle for more than I pay for the print version, yet the electronic copy has less in it (no graphs and such). Once the drop prices to being less than a paperback, then I'd buy one.
Opera's reasoning why why there "should" be a ballot screen in Europe is because IE has a monopoly - I'm not aruging your numbers, so I'm not going to the link, but if Opera does have a 40% share in Europe, then the reason for the ballot does not exist.
As for your insistence that I'm "politicizing" anything, I'd say the same about any government that was doing this. You sir, are politicizing it by insisting that "some damn American" hates the EU for criticizing their actions instead of realizing that it's a comment on government corruption, regardless of the country or the government.
I never said that "Opera shouldn't be on the ballot screen" I was saying that "there shouldn't be a ballot screen" because those who care about non-IE broswers already download and install them on their own. If, like you say, Opera really does have a 40% share in Europe, then that means that Europeans are well aware of what Opera is, how to download it, and how to install it -- which makes the entire ballot screen pointless. Opera is just bitching that people voluntarily choose not to use their browser. I used to use Opera, found something better, tried Opera again a few years ago and didn't like the version at that time. I've considered trying it again (because I've heard good things), but their childish whining and ridiculous lawsuit means that I have no plans on ever using their product again.
Oh, and on a side note:
So you can drag all the politics you want into this (you are an American after all)
What the hell did that have to do with anything discussed in this article or my post?
Also you can pick up a cheap projects for about the same price or less than an LCD TV. The really cheap ones are $100 - don't know how long they last though; and a half-way decent one runs around $500. Sure you can go top of the line and spend $2k or $5k. $500 to $1k is probably the sweet spot though
Yet, if you look around for a sale, you can get a very good LCD tv that's in the 40"-50" range for betweek $500 - $1,000.
I also don't get why you're talking about tv cabinets when LCD's are typically just mounted straight on a wall - it's essentially replaced the "look at this lovely picture over the fireplace" with "look at my badass tv over the fireplace".
Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all have decently large user bases. This entire idiotic situation is arising because Opera is upset that most people don't like their browser. It's rather immature and the only reason the EU is going along with it is so that they could take another few million from MS to line politicians pockets.
You obviously don't value the experience of watching a movie very much then. An upconvert dvd player is about $50 and it makes your dvd's look MUCH better than they do on a standard tv with a regular dvd player. It'll also cost less to buy an LCD (god, don't even think about plasma) tv than it will to get a decent projector, not to mention how much easier it is to set up the tv than the hassle with mounting a projector in the ceiling.
But hey, if you want to stick with inferior quality just because you're afraid of "that newfangled technowizardy", then I'd love to sell you a 1983 Toyota Camry - by your definition, it must be vastly superior to anything you're driving!
The reason oil still costs $80 a barrel is because, both due to the economy and the incompetence of politicians, the dollar isn't worth shit. Sadly, $80 two years ago was worth a lot more than it is todayp>
Also, I love your "scare people with claims of insane prices that has no rationale behind it" tactic. It's very effective for getting modded up and scaring the uneducated. Even at it's worst the average price of gas (and this takes into account places like CA where gas is WAY more expensive) was like $4.50/gallon a few years ago. The government would have to be added a HELL of a lot of taxes to make gas $12/gallon.
First, it's not just "high school / college" kids who play games. Virtually everyone at the IT consulting firm I work at plays games - even the people in their late 50's and early 60's. You just make yourself sound like a dick trying to marginalize it as a "kid thing" because you don't do it. Secondly, you seem to be one of the many who fall into the trap of thinking that just because you're old that life has to be all about work and you can never have fun, and that's sad to see.
Most people will never try to learn anything but what they know. It doesn't matter if it's a new OS, a new VCR, whatever. That, plus the stupidity of PHB's keeps Windows and their insane prices in the workplace. There's no reason for most companies to use MS Office over Open Office and there's no reason not to use linux on their servers, but due to people refusing to learn new things, they stay and that's also why the prices are so high - because PHB's / IT people who refuse to learn different OS's say "we HAVE to have MS XYZ, so we'll pay $rational_price X 5 for it".
To say that MS "overcharges" in some kind of absolute sense is meaningless.
Look at what the competition charges - OS X is $30, linux is free, MS is $130 for the cheapest Home Upgrade version. Look at servers - OS X is $500, linux is free, MS is I forget what for SBS and what, $3,000? for a full featured server. Open Office is free, MS Office is $150-ish for the cheapest version. Most any other program (outside of things like Photoshop and other "professional tools" where they drastically over charge as well) costs $50-$75. The fact that you think that MS prices are anywhere near reasonable is just baffling.
They don't even charage a consistent price.
This just doesn't really even make sense. Are you referring to how they give student discounts? Referring to how different versions (Home, Pro, Ultimate) cost different amounts based on how many features you buy? Are you referring that they charge different amounts for Windows, Server, Office, etc?
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Which is why it's sad that no one learned the real lesson of Columbine. The lesson wasn't "listen to angry music" or "dress a certain way" and you'll kill people. The lesson was "if you're an asshole to people, eventually someone is going to shoot your ass -- so just be nice".
How is a professor to know who is "just ranting" and who might be mentally unbalanced? I say, a prudent move by the prof.
The professor teaches at a mortuary school. I think it's safe to say that all of the students and staff are mentally unbalanced.
What they need to learn is that authority figures, especially in the academic world, are power hungry assholes who need someone to take a baseball bat upside their head and put them in their place.
They knew damn well she wasn't planning on doing anything, they just wanted to remind everyone that they own your ass and you can't take a shit without their permission.
threatening to kill someone publicly is never a good idea.
Absolutely. However, she didn't threaten to kill anyone. She merely said that she'd LIKE to stab them. Big difference actually. One implies that you WILL do it (a threat), the other is simply an expression of anger.
Yes, because god forbid someone is angry and says that they'd LIKE to do something painful to someone. If we arrested people for that, then 99% of the worlds population would be in jail. If she wrote that she was GOING to stab someone, THEN you could say they had a reason to detain her.
Yes there is, it's call direct injection - and you get more mpg as well as more power from the same displacement.
I'm saying that people being used to using different browsers and trying new ones won't fight people who try new browsers. It's the same as the old lead IT guys right now who refuse to let people install freeware and insist on paying for a product that does the same thing because "it must be better, it costs money". One of the major clients I work with has an IT head like that and it kills me how much money they waste when they could use free products to do the same things (like using Winzip when they could use 7zip for free).
You mean an engine using 60 year old technology?
There has been genuine competition for years now. The problem is, most people are 1) too stupid to learn about other browsers, even when you tell them flat out or 2) just don't care because it would require a minuscule amount of effort to install a new browser and adjust to it's layout. I even know people who've been in IT for decades who say "Why would I use anything other than IE?" even after you repeatedly explain all the superior features of other browsers plus IE's security problems. The main problem probably won't go away for a few decades, then it'll be the people who grew up using Firefox, Chrome, etc running the show and we won't have the old dinosaurs who can't comprehend installing a new browser dragging people down.
If you bothered to RTFA, you'd have seen the pics and noticed that her laptop didn't have "Al-Qaeda" stickers on it, it had stickers on the keys so that she could type in Arabic without having to keep a screen up showing her what keys to press.
I have to say, this bullshit definitely cements my "Leave Israel to take care of themselves" sentiment.
The ability to speak well in public doesn't mean jack shit about a person's intelligence or leadership abilities. As much as I dislike Bush, he still is a hell of a lot more of a leader than Obama.
Well yes, the lawyers do make it worse, but that's a given. Sadly, since Congress and the Senate are nothing BUT lawyers, we'll never get laws in place to keep lawyers in check.
Too true. Hollywood was instrumental in getting Obama elected, and as a reward, he created a new, entirely pointless, position of "Hollywood Liason" that he gave to Kal Penn to repay him for all the hard work he did in getting Obama elected. That's why I laugh when Democrats complain about corruption with Republican politicians while they cheer on the corruption among Democrat politicians.
Obama's main qualification seems to be the fact that he can put together a good speech.
Obama's main qualification seems to be the fact that his speech writers can put together a good speech and he can read from a teleprompter.
There, fixed that for ya!
Sorry, but I fail to see how being Governor made Sarah Palin unqualified to be Vice President, yet being Governor made Bill Clinton qualified to be President.
Like her or dislike her, that's fine - but Palin was much more qualified than Obama who'd never held a real leadership position before -- and Palin wasn't even running for President.
If you only look at cost, sure. Except that the US costs the most because we train the best doctors, have the best research institutes, and develop most of the new medicines -- all of which cost a metric shit ton of money.
If you'd rather pay less and have crappy treatment, be my guest. I'm crazy enough to think it's worth spending more money if it means I get top of the line medical treatment.
Funny? Yes, but it's actually insightful / informative. God, I think this post just made us aware that we need to improve the mod system to more accurately reflect a post's content......
My issue with e-readers (besides the DRM) isn't the price of the device - it's the price of the books. It costs essentially $0 to make ebooks (yea, it costs a tiny bit for that first copy to be created, but that's it), yet they charge more for an e-book than they do for a paperback. Same with newspapers on it - I can get a subscription to the WSJ on Kindle for more than I pay for the print version, yet the electronic copy has less in it (no graphs and such). Once the drop prices to being less than a paperback, then I'd buy one.
Opera's reasoning why why there "should" be a ballot screen in Europe is because IE has a monopoly - I'm not aruging your numbers, so I'm not going to the link, but if Opera does have a 40% share in Europe, then the reason for the ballot does not exist.
As for your insistence that I'm "politicizing" anything, I'd say the same about any government that was doing this. You sir, are politicizing it by insisting that "some damn American" hates the EU for criticizing their actions instead of realizing that it's a comment on government corruption, regardless of the country or the government.
I never said that "Opera shouldn't be on the ballot screen" I was saying that "there shouldn't be a ballot screen" because those who care about non-IE broswers already download and install them on their own. If, like you say, Opera really does have a 40% share in Europe, then that means that Europeans are well aware of what Opera is, how to download it, and how to install it -- which makes the entire ballot screen pointless. Opera is just bitching that people voluntarily choose not to use their browser. I used to use Opera, found something better, tried Opera again a few years ago and didn't like the version at that time. I've considered trying it again (because I've heard good things), but their childish whining and ridiculous lawsuit means that I have no plans on ever using their product again.
Oh, and on a side note:
So you can drag all the politics you want into this (you are an American after all)
What the hell did that have to do with anything discussed in this article or my post?
Also you can pick up a cheap projects for about the same price or less than an LCD TV. The really cheap ones are $100 - don't know how long they last though; and a half-way decent one runs around $500. Sure you can go top of the line and spend $2k or $5k. $500 to $1k is probably the sweet spot though
Yet, if you look around for a sale, you can get a very good LCD tv that's in the 40"-50" range for betweek $500 - $1,000.
I also don't get why you're talking about tv cabinets when LCD's are typically just mounted straight on a wall - it's essentially replaced the "look at this lovely picture over the fireplace" with "look at my badass tv over the fireplace".
Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all have decently large user bases. This entire idiotic situation is arising because Opera is upset that most people don't like their browser. It's rather immature and the only reason the EU is going along with it is so that they could take another few million from MS to line politicians pockets.
You obviously don't value the experience of watching a movie very much then. An upconvert dvd player is about $50 and it makes your dvd's look MUCH better than they do on a standard tv with a regular dvd player. It'll also cost less to buy an LCD (god, don't even think about plasma) tv than it will to get a decent projector, not to mention how much easier it is to set up the tv than the hassle with mounting a projector in the ceiling.
But hey, if you want to stick with inferior quality just because you're afraid of "that newfangled technowizardy", then I'd love to sell you a 1983 Toyota Camry - by your definition, it must be vastly superior to anything you're driving!
The reason oil still costs $80 a barrel is because, both due to the economy and the incompetence of politicians, the dollar isn't worth shit. Sadly, $80 two years ago was worth a lot more than it is todayp>
Also, I love your "scare people with claims of insane prices that has no rationale behind it" tactic. It's very effective for getting modded up and scaring the uneducated. Even at it's worst the average price of gas (and this takes into account places like CA where gas is WAY more expensive) was like $4.50/gallon a few years ago. The government would have to be added a HELL of a lot of taxes to make gas $12/gallon.
First, it's not just "high school / college" kids who play games. Virtually everyone at the IT consulting firm I work at plays games - even the people in their late 50's and early 60's. You just make yourself sound like a dick trying to marginalize it as a "kid thing" because you don't do it. Secondly, you seem to be one of the many who fall into the trap of thinking that just because you're old that life has to be all about work and you can never have fun, and that's sad to see.
Most people will never try to learn anything but what they know. It doesn't matter if it's a new OS, a new VCR, whatever. That, plus the stupidity of PHB's keeps Windows and their insane prices in the workplace. There's no reason for most companies to use MS Office over Open Office and there's no reason not to use linux on their servers, but due to people refusing to learn new things, they stay and that's also why the prices are so high - because PHB's / IT people who refuse to learn different OS's say "we HAVE to have MS XYZ, so we'll pay $rational_price X 5 for it".
To say that MS "overcharges" in some kind of absolute sense is meaningless.
Look at what the competition charges - OS X is $30, linux is free, MS is $130 for the cheapest Home Upgrade version. Look at servers - OS X is $500, linux is free, MS is I forget what for SBS and what, $3,000? for a full featured server. Open Office is free, MS Office is $150-ish for the cheapest version. Most any other program (outside of things like Photoshop and other "professional tools" where they drastically over charge as well) costs $50-$75. The fact that you think that MS prices are anywhere near reasonable is just baffling.
They don't even charage a consistent price.
This just doesn't really even make sense. Are you referring to how they give student discounts? Referring to how different versions (Home, Pro, Ultimate) cost different amounts based on how many features you buy? Are you referring that they charge different amounts for Windows, Server, Office, etc?