Google is to Apple as Rogers is to AT&T here; this is the carrier being evil. On the iPhone it's both. Of course, you can just jailbreak your iPhone so I don't see a huge difference either way.
If nothing else it can help remove a black mark from your resume. Depending on the job, you might change positions or locations. Sometimes the same action will even cause the bad person to be fired, if the stars are truly right.
Skills such as not playing video games so much that YOU feel that you need to stop. Keep in mind if nothing else that the power of a placebo is correlated with the inconvenience you must undergo (time, money, pain, etc) to achieve it. Sugar pills are less effective than shots are less effective than surgery. If nothing else, the cost and time may well help, and perhaps they develop healthy new hobbies while there such as playing tennis, playing D & D (it's not a prison), and LARPing.
I'm ok with estate (surviving spouse), it's America's de-facto perpetual copyright combined with abuse of international copyright treaties (keep renewing in a different country to circumvent laws) that pisses me off.
who claim that IP exhaustion is a conspiracy thought up by Al Gore to generate more money for the British Royal Family, and that if we ignore the liberal computer scientists and their biased journals, everything will be fine.
Eh I think the truth is something to the tune of all public companies must disclose and all private ones that don't voluntarily disclose don't get donations because people are smart.
Non-profits have a long, long history of "administrative overhead" and embezzlement, which is why you need to be very careful with your charitable donations and do your homework if you want to make a real difference.
Firefox is barely usuable with extensions, it seems like it will bereduced to a pile of crud without them.
Will someone/please/ write a browser that just works without being buggy, slow, and Gnome-dependent to hell? (haven't yet triedcrome,could be the problem).
>> is run by its people That's the point I'm trying to challenge here. North Korea is an extreme example, perhaps China makes more sense.
You know the arguments we all laugh at in the rest of the world, that Chinese want their internet censored? A surprisingly large number do (based on accounts from Chinese friends who left in their late teens/early 20's). I have no idea if they're 10% or 90% of the population but I'd put good money it it being in this range. With internet censorship as a proxy for other things the government does. Is it a people's right to be censored to such an extreme extent? In my opinion that point is debatable. If you preach social contracts too hard, soon you have ones that are binding on children and children's children.
The problem here is that when a country "run by its people" goes too far, it becomes a tyranny, sometimes by a majority. A well run country in my mind needs to respect the rights of the minority while carrying out the will of the majority, and I'd argue that Italy's systematic censorship (I'm not just talking about Youtube here) and fascist [literally] economics, this is not the case.
But as you say, sovereignty is sovereignty, and it's not the American president's duty to go around Liberating countries we don't like the government of *cough* *cough*. But that doesn't mean I can't call it what it is.
If one doesn't live in North Kora, there is no reason to care what Italians choose for themselves. The country has been a joke since before the Korean War, the citizens choose their fate, and it's none of our business what they do to each other.
Or explain that we ignorant Westerners "don't understand the Chinese culture" and are trying to foist our beliefs on them by objecting to their breaking into American servers.
This is a major international incident. I hope the State department chooses to treat it as such.
I am in a similar position (except I live in the US) and I'd say just go for it. Your data is irreplaceable so back it up. Your computer isn't. It's expensive.
Option B: Get a $200 eepc, take that to the conference
Eh as much as I hate these people, I'm glad to see them still alive and hating. As long as they get to spread their hateful rhetoric, I can be quite sure no one is going to threaten my free speech. The oppression always comes at the fringes first.
Funny, I have diagnosed allergies to various common things and have been receiving shots for years, and even been on immunosuppressents at times, but my experience is that people tend to scoff at allergies and pretend they're "all in your head".
I've even heard of people slipping those with deathly allergies to them nuts, to prove it's "all in their head". Only for depression and bipolar have I seen more of a syndrome of denial. This is in the mid 20's demographic, by the way.
To be fair, if I heard stories about morons like this guy, and didn't know better, I'd stop taking allergies seriously as well. Allergies are a medical condition with symptoms that can be tested.
I love the generation argument. So simple, yet so true. With their braindead enforcement attempts, these content sharks have sown the seeds of their own destruction.
BSA also attempts to audit shops that do not volume licnese software, eg, you bought 1000 computers and 0 Windows licenses therefore you're stealing.Of course there the yhave no legal leg to stand on aside from asking nicely.
Yes,but the counter-charges are criminal and civil: assault with a deadly weapon, breaking and entering, hacking laws, etc.
Consider that these are private citizens. They have as much right to break down my door with guns and break into my machines without permission as I do to arm myself like Neo, walk into Microsoft, and attempt the same thing.
I'd have been fine if I'd asked for reseating, as I'd have done if she had a/cat/ on her lap instead of an innocent-looking blanket; it took me a long time to figure it out.
The only reason I mentioned my own inconvenience was to draw an analogy to the plight of people "allergic" to delayed flights, too tall, etc. IE, inconveniences, and to make a distinction between lethal and inconvenient.
As to people with lethal allergies, you're taking a big risk. If there is someone peanut allergic on a flight who enters anaphylactic shock, this means that he will be injected with tremendous doses of adrenaline (no, that's not good for you) until the plane can make an emergency landing and the patient rushed to a hospital for full treatment. And everyone gets where they're going much, much later. So really it's to everyone's benefit to prevent attacks.
Of course, as has been pointed out elsewhere, is this really necessary on flights without allergic travelers?
I blame no one but myself for the discomfort on that flight. I could have asked for reseating, as you mention SW is good about that. It was more that I figured out the cat blanket toward the/end/ of the flight. After all, if she obviously had a cat on her, well...SW is open seating.
More generally, chance of allergen * discomfort of it is less than utility of flying.
I have no lethal allergies. I know that I can be in pain for (at very worst) a few days but it WILL get better. This seems inconvenience on the order of not being able to take your cat on a plane, so I don't really care whether the allergic people or pet owners are favored (there are probably more of the latter). Deathly allergies to cats do exist but are extremely uncommon.
Now if I had a lethal allergy, and risked anaphylactic shock (on a plane, this essentially means a reasonably high chance of death, depending on how many epipens you have on you and how soon the plane can make an emergency landing and get you to a hospital) when I flew, you can bet I'd be damn careful about these things.
I agree that these precautions are only necessary on flights containing allergic people and so perhaps there is a better way of doing this; it would be preferable to me that these regulations take that into account. That said, I would highly favor that these people be granted the disability status such that should such an allergy exist, it would be required to be dealt with, assuming that there was a systematic failure of the airlines to address it themselves (I only ever fly Southwest lately, so no basis to judge).
I am well aware you were making the height argument to make a point, but it makes sense to explain the misunderstanding. A better comparison might be the "allergy" of 99.99% or whatever the kill rate is of humans to nerve gas.
In my experience, people think allergies just means runny nose, and while those are by far the most common type, it gets much worse. I had dust ones so bad I had to take steroid immunosuppresents for extended periods of time just to be able to sleep, while waiting a year for the two shots every week to kick in. And my allergies are considered "moderate" on a scale of light, moderate, and severe. I'd argue being too tall is comparable to my problems, not to someone who risks death from it.
So it's not really for my own sake I see caring about this as relevant; I'm looking at a night or two without sleep, not my own death. It's just that when I was researching my own problems I found that allergies are a lot worse than people realize, and the common stereotype of allergics as whiners, while somewhat deserved for people like me, applied to those with lethal allergies is roughly as fair as calling clinically depressed patients lazy.
Bias Disclaimer: I don't much like peanuts anyway, and pretzels/other snacks would be fine as well. I wonder how many people are passionate about peanut snacks vs the other snacks. May well be comparable to people with lethal peanut allergies.
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Google is to Apple as Rogers is to AT&T here; this is the carrier being evil. On the iPhone it's both. Of course, you can just jailbreak your iPhone so I don't see a huge difference either way.
If nothing else it can help remove a black mark from your resume. Depending on the job, you might change positions or locations. Sometimes the same action will even cause the bad person to be fired, if the stars are truly right.
Skills such as not playing video games so much that YOU feel that you need to stop. Keep in mind if nothing else that the power of a placebo is correlated with the inconvenience you must undergo (time, money, pain, etc) to achieve it. Sugar pills are less effective than shots are less effective than surgery. If nothing else, the cost and time may well help, and perhaps they develop healthy new hobbies while there such as playing tennis, playing D & D (it's not a prison), and LARPing.
I'm ok with estate (surviving spouse), it's America's de-facto perpetual copyright combined with abuse of international copyright treaties (keep renewing in a different country to circumvent laws) that pisses me off.
who claim that IP exhaustion is a conspiracy thought up by Al Gore to generate more money for the British Royal Family, and that if we ignore the liberal computer scientists and their biased journals, everything will be fine.
Eh I think the truth is something to the tune of all public companies must disclose and all private ones that don't voluntarily disclose don't get donations because people are smart.
Non-profits have a long, long history of "administrative overhead" and embezzlement, which is why you need to be very careful with your charitable donations and do your homework if you want to make a real difference.
Don't feed the trolls.
Well that's different!
Firefox is barely usuable with extensions, it seems like it will bereduced to a pile of crud without them.
Will someone /please/ write a browser that just works without being buggy, slow, and Gnome-dependent to hell? (haven't yet triedcrome,could be the problem).
All typos due to laggy text boxin firefox.
Personally I'd suggest getting high on marihuana; I've never been a fan of playing the Lottery.
Yes that was a bit over the top. However:
>> is run by its people
That's the point I'm trying to challenge here. North Korea is an extreme example, perhaps China makes more sense.
You know the arguments we all laugh at in the rest of the world, that Chinese want their internet censored? A surprisingly large number do (based on accounts from Chinese friends who left in their late teens/early 20's). I have no idea if they're 10% or 90% of the population but I'd put good money it it being in this range. With internet censorship as a proxy for other things the government does. Is it a people's right to be censored to such an extreme extent? In my opinion that point is debatable. If you preach social contracts too hard, soon you have ones that are binding on children and children's children.
The problem here is that when a country "run by its people" goes too far, it becomes a tyranny, sometimes by a majority. A well run country in my mind needs to respect the rights of the minority while carrying out the will of the majority, and I'd argue that Italy's systematic censorship (I'm not just talking about Youtube here) and fascist [literally] economics, this is not the case.
But as you say, sovereignty is sovereignty, and it's not the American president's duty to go around Liberating countries we don't like the government of *cough* *cough*. But that doesn't mean I can't call it what it is.
If one doesn't live in North Kora, there is no reason to care what Italians choose for themselves. The country has been a joke since before the Korean War, the citizens choose their fate, and it's none of our business what they do to each other.
That was back when Americans cared about freedom. I think we saw after 9/11 just how little that matters to us today. Bread and circuses.
Even if it were 100% microsoft, zero-days happen. The only problem is that with MS, they're 31 days, not zero days.
Works great if you're a stand up comedian.
Or explain that we ignorant Westerners "don't understand the Chinese culture" and are trying to foist our beliefs on them by objecting to their breaking into American servers.
This is a major international incident. I hope the State department chooses to treat it as such.
I am in a similar position (except I live in the US) and I'd say just go for it. Your data is irreplaceable so back it up. Your computer isn't. It's expensive.
Option B: Get a $200 eepc, take that to the conference
Eh as much as I hate these people, I'm glad to see them still alive and hating. As long as they get to spread their hateful rhetoric, I can be quite sure no one is going to threaten my free speech. The oppression always comes at the fringes first.
Funny, I have diagnosed allergies to various common things and have been receiving shots for years, and even been on immunosuppressents at times, but my experience is that people tend to scoff at allergies and pretend they're "all in your head".
I've even heard of people slipping those with deathly allergies to them nuts, to prove it's "all in their head". Only for depression and bipolar have I seen more of a syndrome of denial. This is in the mid 20's demographic, by the way.
To be fair, if I heard stories about morons like this guy, and didn't know better, I'd stop taking allergies seriously as well. Allergies are a medical condition with symptoms that can be tested.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
I love the generation argument. So simple, yet so true. With their braindead enforcement attempts, these content sharks have sown the seeds of their own destruction.
BSA also attempts to audit shops that do not volume licnese software, eg, you bought 1000 computers and 0 Windows licenses therefore you're stealing.Of course there the yhave no legal leg to stand on aside from asking nicely.
Yes,but the counter-charges are criminal and civil: assault with a deadly weapon, breaking and entering, hacking laws, etc.
Consider that these are private citizens. They have as much right to break down my door with guns and break into my machines without permission as I do to arm myself like Neo, walk into Microsoft, and attempt the same thing.
I'd have been fine if I'd asked for reseating, as I'd have done if she had a /cat/ on her lap instead of an innocent-looking blanket; it took me a long time to figure it out.
The only reason I mentioned my own inconvenience was to draw an analogy to the plight of people "allergic" to delayed flights, too tall, etc. IE, inconveniences, and to make a distinction between lethal and inconvenient.
As to people with lethal allergies, you're taking a big risk. If there is someone peanut allergic on a flight who enters anaphylactic shock, this means that he will be injected with tremendous doses of adrenaline (no, that's not good for you) until the plane can make an emergency landing and the patient rushed to a hospital for full treatment. And everyone gets where they're going much, much later. So really it's to everyone's benefit to prevent attacks.
Of course, as has been pointed out elsewhere, is this really necessary on flights without allergic travelers?
I blame no one but myself for the discomfort on that flight. I could have asked for reseating, as you mention SW is good about that. It was more that I figured out the cat blanket toward the /end/ of the flight. After all, if she obviously had a cat on her, well...SW is open seating.
More generally, chance of allergen * discomfort of it is less than utility of flying.
I have no lethal allergies. I know that I can be in pain for (at very worst) a few days but it WILL get better. This seems inconvenience on the order of not being able to take your cat on a plane, so I don't really care whether the allergic people or pet owners are favored (there are probably more of the latter). Deathly allergies to cats do exist but are extremely uncommon.
Now if I had a lethal allergy, and risked anaphylactic shock (on a plane, this essentially means a reasonably high chance of death, depending on how many epipens you have on you and how soon the plane can make an emergency landing and get you to a hospital) when I flew, you can bet I'd be damn careful about these things.
I agree that these precautions are only necessary on flights containing allergic people and so perhaps there is a better way of doing this; it would be preferable to me that these regulations take that into account. That said, I would highly favor that these people be granted the disability status such that should such an allergy exist, it would be required to be dealt with, assuming that there was a systematic failure of the airlines to address it themselves (I only ever fly Southwest lately, so no basis to judge).
I am well aware you were making the height argument to make a point, but it makes sense to explain the misunderstanding. A better comparison might be the "allergy" of 99.99% or whatever the kill rate is of humans to nerve gas.
In my experience, people think allergies just means runny nose, and while those are by far the most common type, it gets much worse. I had dust ones so bad I had to take steroid immunosuppresents for extended periods of time just to be able to sleep, while waiting a year for the two shots every week to kick in. And my allergies are considered "moderate" on a scale of light, moderate, and severe. I'd argue being too tall is comparable to my problems, not to someone who risks death from it.
So it's not really for my own sake I see caring about this as relevant; I'm looking at a night or two without sleep, not my own death. It's just that when I was researching my own problems I found that allergies are a lot worse than people realize, and the common stereotype of allergics as whiners, while somewhat deserved for people like me, applied to those with lethal allergies is roughly as fair as calling clinically depressed patients lazy.
Bias Disclaimer: I don't much like peanuts anyway, and pretzels/other snacks would be fine as well. I wonder how many people are passionate about peanut snacks vs the other snacks. May well be comparable to people with lethal peanut allergies.