Speaking as a gay man, it's nice to know that my freedom to have a sexual relationship doesn't "really matter" and that I should be more worried about "the increasing power of Big Media" than about whether I spend the rest of my life alone.
You're supposed to be "alone". Only it's called "independance", lots of us heteros are doing it. We feel very "independant" sitting in our single apartments eating take-out Thai food and watching HBO... again. Big Media is there to make the sexless aloneness entertaining. And why have actual sex when you can watch Eva Longoria on "Desperate Housewives", or in your case whatever the gay equivalent of that is. Gay or straight, sexual arousal should just be a commodity you buy from them, not something two people can give each other for free!
Wiping their ass with it? Probably nobody, but if you're my boss, I was definitely teabagging it this morning while you were on your 45 minute coffee break.
Man, people who deliberately use "submarine patents" to try and make money off a popular technology really bug me. As do "technology companies" whose sole business model is to own patents. They wait and see, and if the tech becomes successful, they pounce. If it flops they stay away and let the infringer take the loss.
I respect the rights of patent owners, and I'm not sure how you could legally sanction this berhaviour without harming patent holders' legitimate rights, but the practice is just plain sleazy.
Now it may be that they have had suit against Toyota ever since the hybrid came on the market, and this is just a recent expansion of that suit, in which case they are not being weasels...
"To discover how prevalent counterfeit high-tech parts have become in the United States, PC World purchased seven hard drives, seven memory modules, and ten cell phone batteries online, using pricing search engines to find low prices."
Well DUH. When you're shopping solely on the basis of price, you will get fleeced, because somebody is always happy to give you a really good "deal" on SHIT. Suck up the extra few $ and buy from a reputable site/store and you'll have a much better chance of getting a decent product.
It's not hard to produce nearly-bugless code when you have both the budget to do proper quality control, and the incentive to do so.
The reason why Windows is not bugless is that they have the budget to properly debug it... but little incentive to do so before launch. The customers will purchase it anyway and gratefully accept bug fixes after the fact. Airports or the military who bought faulty mission-critical software would not be so forgiving.
by and large, this sort of stuff can already be done much cheaper -- by a mule.
Mules are inexpensive, easy to manage, and can be eaten when the chips are really down. They also don't disappear into untidy, million-dollar piles of metal and plastic scrap when they blunder over improvised explosive devices. Sure, they make a mess. But it's not quite as costly (other than to the mule).
What you are suggesting is that the US military conduct business the way their opponents do. What's next, arming American soldiers with stamped-receiver AK-47s that cost $10 on the black market and almost never jam? It'll never fly, simply because it makes war less profitable for certain parties...
Paleontologists believed that bipedal dinosaurs had a more horizontal stance well before "Jurassic Park". I think the physical model changed around the 80's. But JP was the big dino movie in recent years that really redefined the image of _T. rex_ and other dinosaurs in the public mind.
These "special" cables sound like a rip-off to me.
Of course they're a rip-off. How could they NOT be a rip-off, at those prices? What would you have to get for that muchmoney to make your purchase actually worth it? I mean... speaker cables that cost $30,000! Even the $1500 ones are insane.
Then someone showed up at the message board I used most and we hit it off. Things worked out for over a year, but we aren't still together [online relationships fizzle if there's no chance of ever really meeting].
That's because as much as we like to gloss it up, dating is ultimately about SEX. That's why we do it. For some that may mean "hold hands now, sex after we get married", but physical proximity or at least the possibility of it is a fundamantal need for human romance. We are still apes at heart no matter how fancy our computer networks get.
Online dating services at least allow one to narrow the pool to LOCAL prospects, which is why they should be superior to just meeting people on interest-based forums etc.
seriously--can you really sue a dating service for your lack of ability to find a suitable mate? I mean, that's really what the suit is about. What person with any semblance to a sex life would have the time or energy to pursue a class action lawsuit?
They're not suing because they can't find a mate, they're suing because the service's employees wasted their time, and misrepresented themselves (fraud) for the sole goal of making the service appear more effective than it actually is. And imagine if they'd brushed off an actual prospect because "Joe Match" was chatting them up and seemed to like them?
Everyone knows these sites offer no guarantees you'll "hook up", but they should not be padding their database with fraudulent "non-people".
"Looks good in a bikini" is not necesssarily the best criterion to use for selecting somebody to ask out. After all you're not going to spend your first date just ogling them, right?
They should be somebody you can relate to, and talk to. An "interesting profile" should be an ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT for somebody you contact. Otherwise you are just trolling for a hot body - so go hire the best prostitute you can afford.
Since when did a movie like that make geeks look "cool"? It's about a guy with several stereotypically geeky hobbies, who can't get laid AT ALL despite being at least reasonably attractive. Yeah, he's "nice" but that's like saying Gone With the Wind helped whites accept blacks because Mammy didn't shoot and rob Scarlett (much as the rest of us may have wanted to).
Notice they didn't make the character a beer-bellied 40-year-old sports fan virgin with a collection of World Series bobbleheads, that's all I'm saying. Don't kid yourselves that geeks are now "cool".
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"King Tut's left index finger is pointing at his wound."
Is that sort of like "Throckmorton's Sign"?
Speaking as a gay man, it's nice to know that my freedom to have a sexual relationship doesn't "really matter" and that I should be more worried about "the increasing power of Big Media" than about whether I spend the rest of my life alone.
You're supposed to be "alone". Only it's called "independance", lots of us heteros are doing it. We feel very "independant" sitting in our single apartments eating take-out Thai food and watching HBO... again. Big Media is there to make the sexless aloneness entertaining. And why have actual sex when you can watch Eva Longoria on "Desperate Housewives", or in your case whatever the gay equivalent of that is. Gay or straight, sexual arousal should just be a commodity you buy from them, not something two people can give each other for free!
Wiping their ass with it? Probably nobody, but if you're my boss, I was definitely teabagging it this morning while you were on your 45 minute coffee break.
Man, people who deliberately use "submarine patents" to try and make money off a popular technology really bug me. As do "technology companies" whose sole business model is to own patents. They wait and see, and if the tech becomes successful, they pounce. If it flops they stay away and let the infringer take the loss.
I respect the rights of patent owners, and I'm not sure how you could legally sanction this berhaviour without harming patent holders' legitimate rights, but the practice is just plain sleazy.
Now it may be that they have had suit against Toyota ever since the hybrid came on the market, and this is just a recent expansion of that suit, in which case they are not being weasels...
"To discover how prevalent counterfeit high-tech parts have become in the United States, PC World purchased seven hard drives, seven memory modules, and ten cell phone batteries online, using pricing search engines to find low prices."
Well DUH. When you're shopping solely on the basis of price, you will get fleeced, because somebody is always happy to give you a really good "deal" on SHIT. Suck up the extra few $ and buy from a reputable site/store and you'll have a much better chance of getting a decent product.
It's not hard to produce nearly-bugless code when you have both the budget to do proper quality control, and the incentive to do so.
The reason why Windows is not bugless is that they have the budget to properly debug it... but little incentive to do so before launch. The customers will purchase it anyway and gratefully accept bug fixes after the fact. Airports or the military who bought faulty mission-critical software would not be so forgiving.
"The poor fools that everyone laughs at during lan parties with their Micron Windows ME PC's from Costco?"
I doubt they'd be LAN'ing anything more than "Warcraft 2" on those. You can barely play Counter Strike Source or BF2 on a P4 these days.
They are really large alien space craft. Pluto is powered down while Charon is still running.
by and large, this sort of stuff can already be done much cheaper -- by a mule.
Mules are inexpensive, easy to manage, and can be eaten when the chips are really down. They also don't disappear into untidy, million-dollar piles of metal and plastic scrap when they blunder over improvised explosive devices. Sure, they make a mess. But it's not quite as costly (other than to the mule).
What you are suggesting is that the US military conduct business the way their opponents do. What's next, arming American soldiers with stamped-receiver AK-47s that cost $10 on the black market and almost never jam? It'll never fly, simply because it makes war less profitable for certain parties...
Paleontologists believed that bipedal dinosaurs had a more horizontal stance well before "Jurassic Park". I think the physical model changed around the 80's. But JP was the big dino movie in recent years that really redefined the image of _T. rex_ and other dinosaurs in the public mind.
You're being way too overt to be the REAL NSA. We have standards, you know.
Probably nothing - unless you live in Brazil, where it is very popular. Nobody elsewhere seems to use it.
These "special" cables sound like a rip-off to me.
Of course they're a rip-off. How could they NOT be a rip-off, at those prices? What would you have to get for that muchmoney to make your purchase actually worth it? I mean... speaker cables that cost $30,000! Even the $1500 ones are insane.
Then someone showed up at the message board I used most and we hit it off. Things worked out for over a year, but we aren't still together [online relationships fizzle if there's no chance of ever really meeting].
That's because as much as we like to gloss it up, dating is ultimately about SEX. That's why we do it. For some that may mean "hold hands now, sex after we get married", but physical proximity or at least the possibility of it is a fundamantal need for human romance. We are still apes at heart no matter how fancy our computer networks get.
Online dating services at least allow one to narrow the pool to LOCAL prospects, which is why they should be superior to just meeting people on interest-based forums etc.
seriously--can you really sue a dating service for your lack of ability to find a suitable mate? I mean, that's really what the suit is about. What person with any semblance to a sex life would have the time or energy to pursue a class action lawsuit?
They're not suing because they can't find a mate, they're suing because the service's employees wasted their time, and misrepresented themselves (fraud) for the sole goal of making the service appear more effective than it actually is. And imagine if they'd brushed off an actual prospect because "Joe Match" was chatting them up and seemed to like them?
Everyone knows these sites offer no guarantees you'll "hook up", but they should not be padding their database with fraudulent "non-people".
"Looks good in a bikini" is not necesssarily the best criterion to use for selecting somebody to ask out. After all you're not going to spend your first date just ogling them, right?
They should be somebody you can relate to, and talk to. An "interesting profile" should be an ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT for somebody you contact. Otherwise you are just trolling for a hot body - so go hire the best prostitute you can afford.
Imagine back 100 years ago... a root kit??? What the heck is that?
Dynamite, for getting stumps out of your back forty.
Since when did a movie like that make geeks look "cool"? It's about a guy with several stereotypically geeky hobbies, who can't get laid AT ALL despite being at least reasonably attractive. Yeah, he's "nice" but that's like saying Gone With the Wind helped whites accept blacks because Mammy didn't shoot and rob Scarlett (much as the rest of us may have wanted to).
Notice they didn't make the character a beer-bellied 40-year-old sports fan virgin with a collection of World Series bobbleheads, that's all I'm saying. Don't kid yourselves that geeks are now "cool".
It's okay, some of us get the reference :)
PS: everyone else, Snopes has the scoop.
Is this a reference to some infuriating computer game where you have to do all sorts of nonsensical random activities before it lets you progress?
The secret is to flex them. And be gentle. Take your time. Also, don't stick two of the same size together like that - leave yourself a handle.
Man, they still had me until that bit about the poodle. That's just wrong.
Christ, you could probably convince OTHER anti-spyware companies' shareholders to set up a legal fund for these guys, with that logic.
The following extensions stopped working for me:
Farkit (for commenting on Fark.com)
DownThemAll (bulk file downloading)
ImgTag (adds img HTML for a web image to the clipboard)
I can see some people thinking "what's the minimal portion we need to print off for our purposes?" :O