Personally I think we should encourage counterfeit seafood; for example, find an indistinguishable but sustainable substitute for shark fin and that's a good thing, I won't lose any sleep over social-climbing Chinese middle class consumers thinking they're buying genuine shark fins when they're not.
Almost certainly. I doubt the Free Software Foundation would have bid anything like as much as Microsoft to have its logo all over the Olympics coverage.
The important thing is to make sure that no matter whose logo's all over the Olympics coverage that it's not the official 2012 Olympics logo. Britain has never had a reputation for a discerning aesthetic sense but this is even bad by British standards.
It isn't brainwashing necessarily when you sell a lot of a product. The brainwashing can be seen by people who, despite not being employed by Apple or stockholders will come on to internet forums to emotionally defend it.
Like, I am a fan of Toshiba electronics. They're not top of the line, but they are very inexpensive for reasonably good quality. If someone posted on slashdot making fun of Toshiba, calling them overpriced, or that they suck, how do you think I would respond? Answer: I wouldn't. I don't care. Yet Apple users will feel that emotional reaction and need to defend something that they're not part of. Feeling the need to incessantly defend a corporation does smack of brainwashing.
You're not just buying a tablet, my friend, you're buying a lifestyle. The ipad is a bargain if you think about it like that; buy it and you're the kind of person who knows obscure indie bands, is comfortable hanging out in coffee shops just being chill, where strangers will invite you to gallery openings and private parties attended by other good-looking, creative individuals who also have the good taste to buy apple products. You will probably get a job offer by an independent film company, high-end advertising agency, or chic start-up right after buying it, and then you will be able to afford that high-end condo in San Francisco. Just make sure after you get it to come back to slashdot and respond to every anti-Apple post with anguished hostility.
Pizza wasn't considered a vegetable, the tomato paste in pizza sauce was. And honestly, a vegetable doesn't stop being a vegetable because you grind it up.
Wow, who needs lobbyists when just average everyday citizens will shill for bottled water companies, whose sole contribution to civilization is a massive amount of pollution?
Does Hawking have a background in behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, environmental risk assessment, demographics, or aeronautical engineering? Why is he opining on subjects that he's not particularly expert on?
I switched from linux back to windows a few years ago, and don't regret it; as far as I'm concerned Windows 7 on the desktop is now better than Linux on the desktop, even if the previous iterations were not.
I've been back in graduate school for a bit and I am surprised how prevalent powerpoints are now. I barely take notes, I can just download the powerpoints later.
Yep, spoliation of evidence is taken seriously by judges; a common sanction is for the judge to make an adverse inference based on the information lost, with the idea that you deleted it because you were hiding something.
They wouldn't throw you in jail but you could face sanctions for doing it. Word of advice for dealing with judges, do NOT try to pick holes in their orders like that.
In my opinion anytime someone enters into contested divorces they should be assigned a guardian by the court with full power of attorney and the ability to have the person they represent temporarily institutionalized until the divorce is finalized. People who get divorced and have any sort of adversarial proceedings typically turn into raving lunatics who are dangers to society.
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FTA: "Some of the Silicon Valley's most important companies, including Intel, Google, and Yahoo, were cofounded by immigrants."
Intel wasn't.
"Yet America's creaky immigration system makes it difficult for talented young people born outside of the United States to come to the Bay Area"
Riiiight, that's where there aren't any young people born outside of the United States in the Bay Area. Sure.
On a moral level, conservation of endangered species takes higher priority.
You don't need DNA testing to measure for toxicity.
The seafood industry gets plenty of blame for the state of the oceans, so I would not give them any sympathy.
Personally I think we should encourage counterfeit seafood; for example, find an indistinguishable but sustainable substitute for shark fin and that's a good thing, I won't lose any sleep over social-climbing Chinese middle class consumers thinking they're buying genuine shark fins when they're not.
It isn't brainwashing necessarily when you sell a lot of a product. The brainwashing can be seen by people who, despite not being employed by Apple or stockholders will come on to internet forums to emotionally defend it.
Like, I am a fan of Toshiba electronics. They're not top of the line, but they are very inexpensive for reasonably good quality. If someone posted on slashdot making fun of Toshiba, calling them overpriced, or that they suck, how do you think I would respond? Answer: I wouldn't. I don't care. Yet Apple users will feel that emotional reaction and need to defend something that they're not part of. Feeling the need to incessantly defend a corporation does smack of brainwashing.
Exactly, like dancing in silhouette.
Woo, did I angry up the blood here?
You're not just buying a tablet, my friend, you're buying a lifestyle. The ipad is a bargain if you think about it like that; buy it and you're the kind of person who knows obscure indie bands, is comfortable hanging out in coffee shops just being chill, where strangers will invite you to gallery openings and private parties attended by other good-looking, creative individuals who also have the good taste to buy apple products. You will probably get a job offer by an independent film company, high-end advertising agency, or chic start-up right after buying it, and then you will be able to afford that high-end condo in San Francisco. Just make sure after you get it to come back to slashdot and respond to every anti-Apple post with anguished hostility.
Fixate? I made a joke. The BSD license is one of the least restrictive things on the planet.
Of course it couldn't been forked, do you know how restrictive the BSD license is compared to the GPL??
Tomato paste is actually very good for you, according to some researchers better than an actual tomato.
Pizza wasn't considered a vegetable, the tomato paste in pizza sauce was. And honestly, a vegetable doesn't stop being a vegetable because you grind it up.
Wow, who needs lobbyists when just average everyday citizens will shill for bottled water companies, whose sole contribution to civilization is a massive amount of pollution?
Does Hawking have a background in behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, environmental risk assessment, demographics, or aeronautical engineering? Why is he opining on subjects that he's not particularly expert on?
I switched from linux back to windows a few years ago, and don't regret it; as far as I'm concerned Windows 7 on the desktop is now better than Linux on the desktop, even if the previous iterations were not.
How do you know?
By not mentioning it its limited to only criminal cases. That's how the Constitution works.
I've been back in graduate school for a bit and I am surprised how prevalent powerpoints are now. I barely take notes, I can just download the powerpoints later.
Yep, spoliation of evidence is taken seriously by judges; a common sanction is for the judge to make an adverse inference based on the information lost, with the idea that you deleted it because you were hiding something.
Not really, the Constitution clearly states that protection against self-incrimination extends only to criminal cases.
And the law generally provides they can order any silly thing.
They wouldn't throw you in jail but you could face sanctions for doing it. Word of advice for dealing with judges, do NOT try to pick holes in their orders like that.
In my opinion anytime someone enters into contested divorces they should be assigned a guardian by the court with full power of attorney and the ability to have the person they represent temporarily institutionalized until the divorce is finalized. People who get divorced and have any sort of adversarial proceedings typically turn into raving lunatics who are dangers to society.