"but I suspect driving with two hands might be inherently safer anyway."
You might suspect so. You might also find some citations. I'm one who often drives with one hand. I just can't sit in one position, with both hands in almost the same position all day long. Of course, I'm sure that you only sit behind the wheel for 15 to 30 minutes at a time, and have little idea what a twelve hour drive is like, when the vehicle DEMANDS that both hand be positioned just so.;^)
Nothing prevents the OWNER from disabling any or all "safety features" on an automobile. The owner's manual usually gives explicit directions for disabling those killer air bags. Those airbags go off with the force of a shotgun, and they are aimed to "protect" a full grown adult male. That aim is lethal to small children and small women, as the bad hits them high on the forehead, rolling their heads backward, breaking their necks.
Want to disable something, just google for the directions. I hate all audible warnings. Visual warnings are mostly red, I don't see them anyway, so they can stay, LMAO
It's not up in the air at all. Back in the day when cell phones were large, bulky things that took up the center seat on a standard bench seat pickup truck, my boss got me one. Most of the time, it would ring, I would tell whoever that I'm driving, and I'll call them back. One day, the boss called me to rag on me. He got moderately abusive, and my mind was on the phone call, not on my driving. Holding the phone was no great distraction - the content of the discussion was. Instead of making my turn, I drove across the state line, and only realized it after I had driven about 6 or 7 miles into the neighboring state.
Forever after, I turned that damned phone OFF while I was driving. I'm a pretty damned good driver, with literally millions of miles behind me. But, if I can screw up so badly, you bet your ass that other people can!!
From TFA: "It would seem natural, then, to offer motorists friendly, yet stern warnings about another bad habit: holding a cell phone while driving, whether for texting or talking."
I would rather there be no warning. The car detects that you're an idiot with a cell phone in his hand, the ignition shuts off until you comply with the law. Idiot - HANG UP AND DRIVE!!
I agree with your sentiment, but I think you exaggerate. If we stop buying software for 24 months, corporate heads will wake up, and make a lot of concessions - but that won't end proprietary software. And, in fact, I really don't want to see all proprietary software eradicated.
Hey, even Windows would be a decent buy, for twenty bucks, if they stopped with the WGA nonsense, end their stupid call-home validation processes, and whatever other idiot crap they have in mind. They never should have cared about small time dummies who download a ripped ISO. The only piracy they should EVER have gone after, are OEM's who use pirated Windows, and the mass producers of pirated CD's. I think almost everyone can get behind that sort of anti-piracy.
Twenty bucks for a legal Win7 CD, and I can re-install it as many times as I wish in my own home, and I'd run right out to buy a copy. At ten times that price, it's nothing but a ripoff, and I will never buy it.
"You can have iPlayer when The Daily Show and Colbert Report webfeeds are available again in the UK."
Wait - are you in a position to make this deal? I'm willing to take it!
"The geo-locking of web streams is very annoying."
My point exactly. In fact, it's more than annoying. The douchebags who "own" all that "IP" have gained to much power, and it's far past time they were slapped down. Instead of being slapped down, they've been pretty well promised ACTA as a reward.
It hardly matters if I live in the UK and pay a license, or not. Drive through that tunnel, arrive in France, and you can no longer receive the BBC content.
Perhaps I do contribute to the BBC. What makes you think otherwise? Have I ever posted anything to indicate that I do or do not contribute anything to the BBC?
Free ride? What about citizens of the UK who can't watch their favorite whatever, because the are in France, or Belgium, or wherever, on business for a day or a week?
DRM is broken, and any attempt to control content is broken. Simple as that.
iPlayer has been broken since day one, as far as I'm concerned. "You're in America, and we refuse to play anything for you, you colonial barbarian. All content on this site is reserved for refined, sophisticated subjects of Her Majesty, the Queen, properly located within Her Majesty's Realm."
Three words. Bite me, bitch. I have never responded well to pedantic little bitches. "Posts are modded troll, not users". La-de-dah - it amounts to nearly the same thing - karma falls and rises with the moderation. "Real name" on the intartubez MEANS "use your registered nick".
ALL CAPITALS BOTHERS YOU?!?!!?! LOOK WHO HAS THEIR PANTIES IN A FUCKING WAD!! I type and write as I see fit, and pedantic bitches aren't going to change that. Grow up, and get over yourself. FFS, I may well have been typing before your parents were out of diapers, and you're going to teach me how? Pompous little ass.
Whatever your interest is in open source, try googling it. Not everything in the labs is open source, but some is - check that out: http://www.googlelabs.com/
Want code to play with? You'll get more from Google than you'll EVER get from Microsoft. Maybe I exxagerated with the word "most" - but they have given away a lot of stuff, and they help with a lot more. One of the things you'll see when you click the links above is Gnome. They contribute, but, of course, Gnome doesn't belong to Google - that capital "g" is just coincidental.
No, but I do realize how pathetic you are to take my words, mix them around, and try to make me look absurd.
Israeli soldiers committed a war crime, and the crimes were not investigated by anyone other than the media. The soldiers weren't prosecuted or convicted. Nothing happened, period. That particular incident is NOT ISOLATED. At best, you might argue that such incidents are rare, but you can't even make a very convincing argument for that.
What's going on in Jerusalem today, with housing developments being built on Palestinian land? As usual, Israel cares little for the people who have a legitimate claim to that land, and sides with the Israelis who want to make a dollar.
But go ahead, make fun of stuff you don't understand.
Freinds don't let freinds do hotmail. I looked at it a time or two. I also looked at yahoo mail. They just don't compare to Gmail, either in features, attractiveness, or the intrusiveness of advertising.
"That's awful and those people should be in jail."
Are they in jail? I don't think so. Why not? Because, of course, the Israeli government and the judicial system don't care enough about no Israeli lives to prosecute an Israeli "good ole boy".
Ahhhh, you ask, ""America doesn't value non-American lives"?"
The answer, of course, is both yes and no. We DON'T care, as a nation, for non-American lives, in general. On the other hand, we care enough to imprison our soldiers who commit crimes similar to what happened at the Golan heights.
Well, the US has it's faults, and the US really doesn't value foreign lives as much as it probably ought to. But, quite obviously, Israel has a long way to go to catch up to our present deplorable state.
"In short, presenting Israel as a monolithic entity with a single view on settlements or with a uniform view attributing no value to non-Jewish lives is absurd."
The US is represented overseas by a single monolithic government, just as Israel and all other countries are. You will note that I have not stated that "every Israeli is a swine who places no value on any lives that aren't Jewish". I referred to the government. Of course the government does NOT represent every single point of view in Israel, any more than the government of the United States represents every single point of view in the US.
As for the aid sent to devastated areas outside of the mideast - we can view a lot of that just as we are forced to view a lot of United States' foreign aid: propaganda opportunities. The publicity surrounding rescue teams sent to disaster areas is very cheap, all things considered.
Call me a cynic. But, often enough, aid of any kind is intended to purchase certain results for the donor.
"Oh, and that rapidshare guy should be careful calling his most active clients "criminals".... it's those criminals that put the ad dollar-powered dinner on his table.."
He's not the first guy to forget who feeds his chidren. We've already forgotten thousands of others!
People actually WAIT for games to come out? People who have real lives actually check every day or two, to see if the new version of their favorite game has come out yet? I mean, REAL people, who do things outside of their mama's basement walls? People who actually know members of the opposite sex, participate in some kind of sport now and then, people who pay their way through the world?
Oh? Really? Lemme see - I select which adverts I see, if any. Google doesn't track me very much at all. Their "tailored" advertising doesn't work on me - I'm as likely to see feminine hygiene products as firearms and survivalist gear. I'm their product? I don't think so. Joe Clueless and Betty Airhead may indeed be Google's products, but I'm not. Have you looked at the Firefox addons? Do you use Privoxy or any other anonymizing software?
As I said, IF anyone is going to make money off of me, it will be Google - but I did NOT say that Google owns my machine.
Unlike those who thought it was obvious to oil stubborn bolt, I thought it was prohibited.
Clean the bolt threads, chase the threads in the bolt hold, if the bolt still won't go in, get a new bolt. If the new bolt is stubborn about going into the bolt hole, use some TEFLON TAPE or ANTISIEZE to lubricate the bolt. Oil on a bolt will eventually oxidize, corrode the bolt and the bolthole, ensuring that the bolt WILL NOT come out the next time.
Just another case of./ moderation being broken. I wasn't shooting for "insightful", I was just explaining MY attitude.;^)
"Microsoft gives free search, browser, and email just like google"
I disagree. The search ain't "just like google", hence TFA. The browser ain't "just like google" because Chrome isn't the property of a monopoly trying to squash the only other popular browser in use. Email ain't "just like google" because Outlook is subject to an entire genre of bugs, viruses, and worms that Gmail has never had. Worse, Outlook has access to my internal system, which Google never has had, and never will have.
Speaking of fanboys - maybe you missed the fact that MS OWNS every line of code they produce, and they OWN everything they research.
On the other hand, Google gives away most of the stuff they write research. Google makes it possible to take their neatest stuff, modify it, and release it again.
Granted, there are SOME things that Google won't open source. They have a few bread-and-butter things that they don't want to give away to their competition, which is understandable. But, for the advancement of computer science, almost everything they do is just thrown out there, and made available for anyone who has a "better idea".
Try taking some MS code, and improving on it. IF MS approves of it, they will put their name on it, making it their own, then they will either use it, or drown it in the sea of obscurity surrounding Redmond.
I remember, among other things, video and dicsussions of the Golan heights, in which Israeli soldiers drove around in jeeps, with loudspeakers blaring insults at the inhabitants. Stupid kids would come out and throw rocks at the jeeps, and the soldiers would fire back with small arms and machine guns.
Go ahead, google around, there are many many cases like that. You don't even have to visit "anti-semitic" sites to find the stories. The BBC carries them.
Bottom line, Israel, as a nation, places no value on the life of an Arab, or a Moslem. If Israel DID value the lives of Moslems and/or Arabs, they could have reached some kind of a compromise years ago, and found peace.
How 'bout those "settlements". One group or another of Israelis move in, bulldoze everything that belongs to Arabs, build their own village, fortify it, and presents a fait accompli to the world, "Hey, we have a village, and the presence of Arabs is prohibited. Arabs will be shot on sight!"
Granted, the government doesn't always "approve" of those settlements - but the government does little to nothing to discourage them.
Try the same thing here in the US. As much as we've abused the Native Americans over the last 500 years, today you WILL NOT get away with appropriating Indian lands.
He MIGHT BE a moron - but people are reporting different results, with screenshots to back them up. He MIGHT BE a Microsoft shill - but when people get different results for the same search, you have to scratch your head.
You've contributed nothing here. Next time, post with your real name, so you can be properly modded "troll".
And, no, I'm OBVIOUSLY NOT a Microsoft shill - search for my other posts on this page, dummy.
I just ran the search through bing, and as GP suggests, the very first hit is http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061212021150AAOfyNz GP's assertion is verified by me, anyway. Maybe it makes a difference which browser you use for the search, or which operating system, or maybe even what country you are searching from? I'm running Firefox on Ubuntu Karmic, from the United States. Maybe they force feed that specific search result to the people they think are most likely to buy a Mac? Who knows? Let's send Ballmer an email, and ask him about it.
On second thought, I don't want a chair flying through my screen - you send the email!
HA HA!! I'm just ROFLMAO, thinking about creating a bot that sends that query to BING about 24,000 times a day, from every computer infected. To bad I'm not a black hat, huh? Cool name for it would be the Bing virus. Yeah, I know, a bot ain't a virus, but we could call it that, and use it to scare the ignorant away from Bing! Beauty!
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"but I suspect driving with two hands might be inherently safer anyway."
You might suspect so. You might also find some citations. I'm one who often drives with one hand. I just can't sit in one position, with both hands in almost the same position all day long. Of course, I'm sure that you only sit behind the wheel for 15 to 30 minutes at a time, and have little idea what a twelve hour drive is like, when the vehicle DEMANDS that both hand be positioned just so. ;^)
Uhhhhh - will that clamp also grasp a labia? Or will that be a specially fitted option?
I'll add to Anachrognome's answer:
Nothing prevents the OWNER from disabling any or all "safety features" on an automobile. The owner's manual usually gives explicit directions for disabling those killer air bags. Those airbags go off with the force of a shotgun, and they are aimed to "protect" a full grown adult male. That aim is lethal to small children and small women, as the bad hits them high on the forehead, rolling their heads backward, breaking their necks.
Want to disable something, just google for the directions. I hate all audible warnings. Visual warnings are mostly red, I don't see them anyway, so they can stay, LMAO
It's not up in the air at all. Back in the day when cell phones were large, bulky things that took up the center seat on a standard bench seat pickup truck, my boss got me one. Most of the time, it would ring, I would tell whoever that I'm driving, and I'll call them back. One day, the boss called me to rag on me. He got moderately abusive, and my mind was on the phone call, not on my driving. Holding the phone was no great distraction - the content of the discussion was. Instead of making my turn, I drove across the state line, and only realized it after I had driven about 6 or 7 miles into the neighboring state.
Forever after, I turned that damned phone OFF while I was driving. I'm a pretty damned good driver, with literally millions of miles behind me. But, if I can screw up so badly, you bet your ass that other people can!!
From TFA: "It would seem natural, then, to offer motorists friendly, yet stern warnings about another bad habit: holding a cell phone while driving, whether for texting or talking."
I would rather there be no warning. The car detects that you're an idiot with a cell phone in his hand, the ignition shuts off until you comply with the law. Idiot - HANG UP AND DRIVE!!
I agree with your sentiment, but I think you exaggerate. If we stop buying software for 24 months, corporate heads will wake up, and make a lot of concessions - but that won't end proprietary software. And, in fact, I really don't want to see all proprietary software eradicated.
Hey, even Windows would be a decent buy, for twenty bucks, if they stopped with the WGA nonsense, end their stupid call-home validation processes, and whatever other idiot crap they have in mind. They never should have cared about small time dummies who download a ripped ISO. The only piracy they should EVER have gone after, are OEM's who use pirated Windows, and the mass producers of pirated CD's. I think almost everyone can get behind that sort of anti-piracy.
Twenty bucks for a legal Win7 CD, and I can re-install it as many times as I wish in my own home, and I'd run right out to buy a copy. At ten times that price, it's nothing but a ripoff, and I will never buy it.
"You can have iPlayer when The Daily Show and Colbert Report webfeeds are available again in the UK."
Wait - are you in a position to make this deal? I'm willing to take it!
"The geo-locking of web streams is very annoying."
My point exactly. In fact, it's more than annoying. The douchebags who "own" all that "IP" have gained to much power, and it's far past time they were slapped down. Instead of being slapped down, they've been pretty well promised ACTA as a reward.
"Do you live in the UK and pay your TV License?"
It hardly matters if I live in the UK and pay a license, or not. Drive through that tunnel, arrive in France, and you can no longer receive the BBC content.
Perhaps I do contribute to the BBC. What makes you think otherwise? Have I ever posted anything to indicate that I do or do not contribute anything to the BBC?
Free ride? What about citizens of the UK who can't watch their favorite whatever, because the are in France, or Belgium, or wherever, on business for a day or a week?
DRM is broken, and any attempt to control content is broken. Simple as that.
iPlayer has been broken since day one, as far as I'm concerned. "You're in America, and we refuse to play anything for you, you colonial barbarian. All content on this site is reserved for refined, sophisticated subjects of Her Majesty, the Queen, properly located within Her Majesty's Realm."
Three words. Bite me, bitch. I have never responded well to pedantic little bitches. "Posts are modded troll, not users". La-de-dah - it amounts to nearly the same thing - karma falls and rises with the moderation. "Real name" on the intartubez MEANS "use your registered nick".
ALL CAPITALS BOTHERS YOU?!?!!?! LOOK WHO HAS THEIR PANTIES IN A FUCKING WAD!! I type and write as I see fit, and pedantic bitches aren't going to change that. Grow up, and get over yourself. FFS, I may well have been typing before your parents were out of diapers, and you're going to teach me how? Pompous little ass.
An interested person might start here: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/
This is interesting reading: http://socghop.appspot.com/
Chrome and/or Chromium browser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
Whatever your interest is in open source, try googling it. Not everything in the labs is open source, but some is - check that out: http://www.googlelabs.com/
Want code to play with? You'll get more from Google than you'll EVER get from Microsoft. Maybe I exxagerated with the word "most" - but they have given away a lot of stuff, and they help with a lot more. One of the things you'll see when you click the links above is Gnome. They contribute, but, of course, Gnome doesn't belong to Google - that capital "g" is just coincidental.
So, go look around.
No, but I do realize how pathetic you are to take my words, mix them around, and try to make me look absurd.
Israeli soldiers committed a war crime, and the crimes were not investigated by anyone other than the media. The soldiers weren't prosecuted or convicted. Nothing happened, period. That particular incident is NOT ISOLATED. At best, you might argue that such incidents are rare, but you can't even make a very convincing argument for that.
What's going on in Jerusalem today, with housing developments being built on Palestinian land? As usual, Israel cares little for the people who have a legitimate claim to that land, and sides with the Israelis who want to make a dollar.
But go ahead, make fun of stuff you don't understand.
Freinds don't let freinds do hotmail. I looked at it a time or two. I also looked at yahoo mail. They just don't compare to Gmail, either in features, attractiveness, or the intrusiveness of advertising.
"That's awful and those people should be in jail."
Are they in jail? I don't think so. Why not? Because, of course, the Israeli government and the judicial system don't care enough about no Israeli lives to prosecute an Israeli "good ole boy".
Ahhhh, you ask, ""America doesn't value non-American lives"?"
The answer, of course, is both yes and no. We DON'T care, as a nation, for non-American lives, in general. On the other hand, we care enough to imprison our soldiers who commit crimes similar to what happened at the Golan heights.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/5293821/Former-US-soldier-guilty-of-rape-and-murder-of-Iraqi-girl.html
What of that? you might ask.
Well, the US has it's faults, and the US really doesn't value foreign lives as much as it probably ought to. But, quite obviously, Israel has a long way to go to catch up to our present deplorable state.
"In short, presenting Israel as a monolithic entity with a single view on settlements or with a uniform view attributing no value to non-Jewish lives is absurd."
The US is represented overseas by a single monolithic government, just as Israel and all other countries are. You will note that I have not stated that "every Israeli is a swine who places no value on any lives that aren't Jewish". I referred to the government. Of course the government does NOT represent every single point of view in Israel, any more than the government of the United States represents every single point of view in the US.
As for the aid sent to devastated areas outside of the mideast - we can view a lot of that just as we are forced to view a lot of United States' foreign aid: propaganda opportunities. The publicity surrounding rescue teams sent to disaster areas is very cheap, all things considered.
Call me a cynic. But, often enough, aid of any kind is intended to purchase certain results for the donor.
"Oh, and that rapidshare guy should be careful calling his most active clients "criminals".... it's those criminals that put the ad dollar-powered dinner on his table.."
He's not the first guy to forget who feeds his chidren. We've already forgotten thousands of others!
People actually WAIT for games to come out? People who have real lives actually check every day or two, to see if the new version of their favorite game has come out yet? I mean, REAL people, who do things outside of their mama's basement walls? People who actually know members of the opposite sex, participate in some kind of sport now and then, people who pay their way through the world?
I find all of this hard to believe.
Oh? Really? Lemme see - I select which adverts I see, if any. Google doesn't track me very much at all. Their "tailored" advertising doesn't work on me - I'm as likely to see feminine hygiene products as firearms and survivalist gear. I'm their product? I don't think so. Joe Clueless and Betty Airhead may indeed be Google's products, but I'm not. Have you looked at the Firefox addons? Do you use Privoxy or any other anonymizing software?
As I said, IF anyone is going to make money off of me, it will be Google - but I did NOT say that Google owns my machine.
Unlike those who thought it was obvious to oil stubborn bolt, I thought it was prohibited.
Clean the bolt threads, chase the threads in the bolt hold, if the bolt still won't go in, get a new bolt. If the new bolt is stubborn about going into the bolt hole, use some TEFLON TAPE or ANTISIEZE to lubricate the bolt. Oil on a bolt will eventually oxidize, corrode the bolt and the bolthole, ensuring that the bolt WILL NOT come out the next time.
I never oil a bolt. Never, never, never!!
"This is not a very insightful post IMHO"
Just another case of ./ moderation being broken. I wasn't shooting for "insightful", I was just explaining MY attitude. ;^)
"Microsoft gives free search, browser, and email just like google"
I disagree. The search ain't "just like google", hence TFA. The browser ain't "just like google" because Chrome isn't the property of a monopoly trying to squash the only other popular browser in use. Email ain't "just like google" because Outlook is subject to an entire genre of bugs, viruses, and worms that Gmail has never had. Worse, Outlook has access to my internal system, which Google never has had, and never will have.
Speaking of fanboys - maybe you missed the fact that MS OWNS every line of code they produce, and they OWN everything they research.
On the other hand, Google gives away most of the stuff they write research. Google makes it possible to take their neatest stuff, modify it, and release it again.
Granted, there are SOME things that Google won't open source. They have a few bread-and-butter things that they don't want to give away to their competition, which is understandable. But, for the advancement of computer science, almost everything they do is just thrown out there, and made available for anyone who has a "better idea".
Try taking some MS code, and improving on it. IF MS approves of it, they will put their name on it, making it their own, then they will either use it, or drown it in the sea of obscurity surrounding Redmond.
http://qumsiyeh.org/thecurrentuntenablesituation/
I remember, among other things, video and dicsussions of the Golan heights, in which Israeli soldiers drove around in jeeps, with loudspeakers blaring insults at the inhabitants. Stupid kids would come out and throw rocks at the jeeps, and the soldiers would fire back with small arms and machine guns.
Go ahead, google around, there are many many cases like that. You don't even have to visit "anti-semitic" sites to find the stories. The BBC carries them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2102081.stm
Bottom line, Israel, as a nation, places no value on the life of an Arab, or a Moslem. If Israel DID value the lives of Moslems and/or Arabs, they could have reached some kind of a compromise years ago, and found peace.
How 'bout those "settlements". One group or another of Israelis move in, bulldoze everything that belongs to Arabs, build their own village, fortify it, and presents a fait accompli to the world, "Hey, we have a village, and the presence of Arabs is prohibited. Arabs will be shot on sight!"
Granted, the government doesn't always "approve" of those settlements - but the government does little to nothing to discourage them.
Try the same thing here in the US. As much as we've abused the Native Americans over the last 500 years, today you WILL NOT get away with appropriating Indian lands.
He MIGHT BE a moron - but people are reporting different results, with screenshots to back them up.
He MIGHT BE a Microsoft shill - but when people get different results for the same search, you have to scratch your head.
You've contributed nothing here. Next time, post with your real name, so you can be properly modded "troll".
And, no, I'm OBVIOUSLY NOT a Microsoft shill - search for my other posts on this page, dummy.
I just ran the search through bing, and as GP suggests, the very first hit is http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061212021150AAOfyNz
GP's assertion is verified by me, anyway. Maybe it makes a difference which browser you use for the search, or which operating system, or maybe even what country you are searching from?
I'm running Firefox on Ubuntu Karmic, from the United States. Maybe they force feed that specific search result to the people they think are most likely to buy a Mac? Who knows? Let's send Ballmer an email, and ask him about it.
On second thought, I don't want a chair flying through my screen - you send the email!
"Why is Windows so expensive?"
HA HA!! I'm just ROFLMAO, thinking about creating a bot that sends that query to BING about 24,000 times a day, from every computer infected. To bad I'm not a black hat, huh? Cool name for it would be the Bing virus. Yeah, I know, a bot ain't a virus, but we could call it that, and use it to scare the ignorant away from Bing! Beauty!