If you don't ban them, but instead start F-N with them, they will "...just clear cookies, change their IP, and register a new account..." and then start a vendetta to get back at the F-N bastard that had the audacity to do something that underhanded and cowardly.
It's the board equivalent of upping a verbal pissing match into a knife fight. Only the really stupid do that.
Actually spying and law enforcement by government officials is almost never due to economic concerns already, why do you think their snooping into email would be any different?
There have been studies that show a huge increase in collision, especially rear-end collisions at intersection cameras. There have been many scandals with towns setting their yellow lights to have durations significantly below the correct, and often legally required minimum times.
There is a huge trend for these to be cash cows for local governments by means of fraud. And they wonder why people hate them.
Looks like this guy has identified a town where the cameras are 'miscalibrated' and are raking in tons of dough from everyone that isn't as smart as this guy.
I was taught metrics in 1st grade, that was back in the 70s, and it's so easy a 7 year old can master it. This imperial crap almost everyone else in the US uses is rather incomprehensible. Your foot is divided by 12 inches, which are divided by 16ths, yet it's 3 foot to the yard, and god only knows how many yards in a mile. Here's a fun trick to do, ask some of your friends or relatives how many yards are in a mile. How many of them will actually give you an answer, much less the right one. Bet more than half can't, at least without someone else how many feet are in the mile. And let's not forget the long delay as they try to divide by 3. Not very impressive is it. Now, ask some kid who knows metric how many meters are in a kilometer. How many centimeters are in a kilometer. Bet you that prepubescent child that know metric will give you an answer really fast, and be right every time. It's because metric is a concise system based on 10 that even an imbecile can understand it, and smart people make far fewer mistakes because it's a consistent system.
You want to screw over the country when dealing with the rest of the world, keep using imperial. We've lost people and multi-million dollar machines because of imperial, is it really worth it?
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Chemists have a list of the Toxicity of many different things, even water is on it, and by the way, nothing has a non-toxic zero. To a chemist, everything is toxic, so just saying sugar is toxic is like saying matter has mass.
As to the article, it boils down to a simple thing: Too much of anything is bad for you. As to the claims of Lustig that sugar is evil and poison. It looks like he's full of B.S. as there doesn't seem to be any science backing that up. Especially the claims of a basic molecule having an ethical stance of a negative type.
All non-apple handheld devices must now follow specific design requirements if they compete on any level with an apple product.
1 - They shall not be rectangular in shape. Circular, Conic, and Toroidal are occasionally acceptable, but pentagonal is preferred.
2 - They shall not have rounded corners. All corners and edges should be as discomfortingly sharp as possible, preferably to the point of drawing blood.
3 - They shall not be black, or white, in fact, we claim all primary colors. They can use fecal brown, puke green, or plaid because we don't like plaid.
4 - As our icons are based on a representation of the action or item it represents, theirs can't. We don't care what it is, as long as it doesn't look cool and gives you no idea what it's actually for, other than that, the sky's the limit.
Don't forget that anytime you have a for-profit business taking over anything, they ALWAYS have the primary goal of making money. It's not to serve the community, it's for purposes of greed only. Now to do that, they will attempt to maximize the profit margins. Although this may include changes to make the business more efficient (so called trimming fat and cutting dead weight), that won't decrease the 'consumers' costs, it just increases the profit margin of the company. On top of that, they will often increase prices, especially if there isn't any local competition, and in situations like providing a service to a community, they end up with a defacto (if not dejure) local monopoly.
The overall end result of these types of situations is that the 'consumers', in this case the populace, get screwed by paying more for worse service, while the 'service provider', the company, gets a big fat wad of cash.
And no, this isn't a free market situation. Don't forget that 'Free Market' is an economic utopian theory, there is no actual free market anywhere in the world. Additionally, if you actually read the definitions of 'Free Markets', you will very quickly see that any situation where you have a monopoly, even if it's localized to a city, county, state, etc., or is of a limited duration, it is NOT part of any kind of 'Free Market'.
Yeah, I can see some ways to make it work with 'companies' handling the work, but it's more of a contractor situation where the authority/government sets the price and requirements of coverage. Companies hate being told how to do things, and besides, you still end up with the local government ultimately managing it, you've just added another layer of middlemen to crank up costs. Though it can work if the current system is so completely incompetent it can't even get a cup of coffee without $1000 and a 30 hours advanced notice.
after a report recorded his young child freaking out because of a patdown the TSA Rep stated that their rules clearly state they are not to give patdowns to children under the age of 10. Isn't it nice how the airport nazis don't care about even their own regulations, until they get caught on film violating people...
I thought flash was interesting and possibly very useful, then everybody started making these flash monstrosities of websites that became gaudy fairgrounds of useless crap. That's when I swore off flash. Shortly after that the 'advertisers' discovered flash. At that point, flash became the marauding barbarians at the gate. The only real choice was to reinforce the wall, ready the boiling oil, and siege engines. Metaphorically speaking.
Currently I hate flash, though I still need it for certain things. If there was someway to split out the useless bloatware and the evil ads (they're all evil by default), it wouldn't be bad.
Except the more people that have access to something like that, the more likely it is to get loose. On top of that, it appears as though cell phones have a backdoor key as well. This was determined by a university group that tried to crack the encryption, and the way and speed it broke lead them to conclude that there is a common key to all of them. They assumed it was instituted by 'law enforcement' to make it easy for them to crack the phones. After all, if you already have half the key, it becomes many orders of magnitude easier and faster to crack.
Of course, with the abuses regularly commuted by our various 'law enforcement' agencies, do you really trust them with anything?
It's not a meme, it's been around a long time, it's an answer to both. To clarify if you don't get it: "Are you talking about Microsoft of Google?" Yes, both Microsoft AND Google were being referenced.
I agree. When it takes Nasa using a paired set of atomic clocks and a spaceship that travels way faster than your feet or any car you can own to find and measure the temporal discrepancy thus proving the time dilation predictions. I really doubt any ijunk would have the accuracy necessary to measure that, and that's not even taking into account the localized gravitational variations of our world which also effect such minuscule variations.
At best it's getting an estimated speed from the gps, and applying a generic formula to calculate the discrepancy without regard to localized variations, and without coordinating with atomic clocks. The same way I can estimate how much fuel you've burned in your car by looking at your odometer and referencing the sales materials stated mpg for your car. By the way, if you've changed tire size either through low air or pimping your ride, your odometer is wrong, you need to get it recalibrated, or your tires restored to the correct pressure/diameter.
It's amazing what weak ijunk they keep trying to sell in Apples app store.
The colors are a waste of ink/electrons. I don't know anybody that can remember what they are without checking a list other than green is safe and red is deep you know what. Just do a simple number scale, people understand that without checking a chart.
I take my absolutely can't lose stuff in carry-on for a simple reason, the time my luggage arrived 9 months and 10 days after I did. Whenever the check-in counter person complains about my carry-on stuff, I point out that incident and they immediately shut up.
It's true that you may not have personally demonstrated it, but it's possible that you CAN personally demonstrate it. It's much like a modern car. CAN you design and build one by yourself? Yes. Sure you might have to take a lot of classes, and do a lot of machining of parts and tons of assembly, but you can do it.
As to the whole memorizing as opposed to doing the science yourself, well, again, you CAN do it, but it's a daunting task that only an insane or immortal person would even try.
Our science is based on centuries of experiments and testing by thousands upon thousands of highly educated people, and even more with lesser educations. To even suggest that one person should treat science as faith because they haven't personally tested all the aspects of it is much like declaring that a huge fortress is a miracle of god unless one man built it all by himself. That's just absurd. Our science, our technology, our entire society is built by the work of generations upon generations of people striving towards goals, not by the work of any single individual attempting to recreate everything by themselves.
Yep, all those simplistic charts and tables that politicians and pencil pushers can comprehend are about as accurate in determining health as eviscerated chicken guts are for predicting hurricanes.
Way back when I used to be in the military. Their chart added the same amount of pounds for every extra inch above the base height. Virtually everyone on the planet 6' or taller was obese by that chart. (The idiots that made it apparently assumed an increase in height didn't have an increase in the other 2 dimensions. Something that can only be achieved if you are taffy and not an actual human.) Just before I got out, they switched over to a different voodoo formula that used your neck diameter and height to make the calculation. Many tall thin people were labeled obese by that, yet ironically, the short fat guy that wobbled when he walked got listed as acceptable weight because his neck was so fat we all called him 'no-neck'.
There are scientific ways that can accurately determine if you are overweight or not (excluding the obvious extreme cases), but those methods will never be used by those idiots wanting to punish fat people. Those jerks just want something fast and easy with which to vilify one segment of the populace, and rack up cash quick.
(ianal - duh) If they just made a fake version that gave you a "shame on you" message, the worst they could get yelled at for is misrepresentation of product, and that would probably never go to court. However, I'd bet the hijacking of your info and email can get them burned from a legal standpoint.
It's not cool to pirate software, but to attack users, even pirate users, with malware is worse. (Among other things, there will always be people who get a non-official copy of software when they think they are obtaining the real one through legitimate means for one reason or another.) Basically, just because someone spit on your shoes, doesn't make it any more right or legal for you to spray paint their face than in this or any other situation.
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If you don't ban them, but instead start F-N with them, they will "...just clear cookies, change their IP, and register a new account..." and then start a vendetta to get back at the F-N bastard that had the audacity to do something that underhanded and cowardly.
It's the board equivalent of upping a verbal pissing match into a knife fight. Only the really stupid do that.
Actually spying and law enforcement by government officials is almost never due to economic concerns already, why do you think their snooping into email would be any different?
There have been studies that show a huge increase in collision, especially rear-end collisions at intersection cameras.
There have been many scandals with towns setting their yellow lights to have durations significantly below the correct, and often legally required minimum times.
There is a huge trend for these to be cash cows for local governments by means of fraud. And they wonder why people hate them.
Looks like this guy has identified a town where the cameras are 'miscalibrated' and are raking in tons of dough from everyone that isn't as smart as this guy.
Yes
No, that's just incompetence and horrible customer support on the part of the game creator.
I was taught metrics in 1st grade, that was back in the 70s, and it's so easy a 7 year old can master it.
This imperial crap almost everyone else in the US uses is rather incomprehensible.
Your foot is divided by 12 inches, which are divided by 16ths, yet it's 3 foot to the yard, and god only knows how many yards in a mile. Here's a fun trick to do, ask some of your friends or relatives how many yards are in a mile. How many of them will actually give you an answer, much less the right one. Bet more than half can't, at least without someone else how many feet are in the mile. And let's not forget the long delay as they try to divide by 3. Not very impressive is it.
Now, ask some kid who knows metric how many meters are in a kilometer. How many centimeters are in a kilometer. Bet you that prepubescent child that know metric will give you an answer really fast, and be right every time. It's because metric is a concise system based on 10 that even an imbecile can understand it, and smart people make far fewer mistakes because it's a consistent system.
You want to screw over the country when dealing with the rest of the world, keep using imperial.
We've lost people and multi-million dollar machines because of imperial, is it really worth it?
Chemists have a list of the Toxicity of many different things, even water is on it, and by the way, nothing has a non-toxic zero. To a chemist, everything is toxic, so just saying sugar is toxic is like saying matter has mass.
As to the article, it boils down to a simple thing: Too much of anything is bad for you.
As to the claims of Lustig that sugar is evil and poison. It looks like he's full of B.S. as there doesn't seem to be any science backing that up. Especially the claims of a basic molecule having an ethical stance of a negative type.
All non-apple handheld devices must now follow specific design requirements if they compete on any level with an apple product.
1 - They shall not be rectangular in shape. Circular, Conic, and Toroidal are occasionally acceptable, but pentagonal is preferred.
2 - They shall not have rounded corners. All corners and edges should be as discomfortingly sharp as possible, preferably to the point of drawing blood.
3 - They shall not be black, or white, in fact, we claim all primary colors. They can use fecal brown, puke green, or plaid because we don't like plaid.
4 - As our icons are based on a representation of the action or item it represents, theirs can't. We don't care what it is, as long as it doesn't look cool and gives you no idea what it's actually for, other than that, the sky's the limit.
I think that just about sums it up. >^_^<
Don't forget that anytime you have a for-profit business taking over anything, they ALWAYS have the primary goal of making money. It's not to serve the community, it's for purposes of greed only. Now to do that, they will attempt to maximize the profit margins. Although this may include changes to make the business more efficient (so called trimming fat and cutting dead weight), that won't decrease the 'consumers' costs, it just increases the profit margin of the company. On top of that, they will often increase prices, especially if there isn't any local competition, and in situations like providing a service to a community, they end up with a defacto (if not dejure) local monopoly.
The overall end result of these types of situations is that the 'consumers', in this case the populace, get screwed by paying more for worse service, while the 'service provider', the company, gets a big fat wad of cash.
And no, this isn't a free market situation. Don't forget that 'Free Market' is an economic utopian theory, there is no actual free market anywhere in the world. Additionally, if you actually read the definitions of 'Free Markets', you will very quickly see that any situation where you have a monopoly, even if it's localized to a city, county, state, etc., or is of a limited duration, it is NOT part of any kind of 'Free Market'.
Yeah, I can see some ways to make it work with 'companies' handling the work, but it's more of a contractor situation where the authority/government sets the price and requirements of coverage. Companies hate being told how to do things, and besides, you still end up with the local government ultimately managing it, you've just added another layer of middlemen to crank up costs. Though it can work if the current system is so completely incompetent it can't even get a cup of coffee without $1000 and a 30 hours advanced notice.
after a report recorded his young child freaking out because of a patdown the TSA Rep stated that their rules clearly state they are not to give patdowns to children under the age of 10. Isn't it nice how the airport nazis don't care about even their own regulations, until they get caught on film violating people...
Perhaps, but since it only requires accusations and not convictions, you can still wreck her day and get her banned.
I thought flash was interesting and possibly very useful, then everybody started making these flash monstrosities of websites that became gaudy fairgrounds of useless crap. That's when I swore off flash. Shortly after that the 'advertisers' discovered flash. At that point, flash became the marauding barbarians at the gate. The only real choice was to reinforce the wall, ready the boiling oil, and siege engines. Metaphorically speaking.
Currently I hate flash, though I still need it for certain things. If there was someway to split out the useless bloatware and the evil ads (they're all evil by default), it wouldn't be bad.
The bigger they are, the more we bitch when they screw us.
Except the more people that have access to something like that, the more likely it is to get loose. On top of that, it appears as though cell phones have a backdoor key as well. This was determined by a university group that tried to crack the encryption, and the way and speed it broke lead them to conclude that there is a common key to all of them. They assumed it was instituted by 'law enforcement' to make it easy for them to crack the phones. After all, if you already have half the key, it becomes many orders of magnitude easier and faster to crack.
Of course, with the abuses regularly commuted by our various 'law enforcement' agencies, do you really trust them with anything?
They are experts at violating freedoms, internet and others.
>^_^<
"They really are at the pinnacle of the BSing" - Of course, they are both using lawyers.
It's not a meme, it's been around a long time, it's an answer to both.
To clarify if you don't get it: "Are you talking about Microsoft of Google?" Yes, both Microsoft AND Google were being referenced.
I agree. When it takes Nasa using a paired set of atomic clocks and a spaceship that travels way faster than your feet or any car you can own to find and measure the temporal discrepancy thus proving the time dilation predictions. I really doubt any ijunk would have the accuracy necessary to measure that, and that's not even taking into account the localized gravitational variations of our world which also effect such minuscule variations.
At best it's getting an estimated speed from the gps, and applying a generic formula to calculate the discrepancy without regard to localized variations, and without coordinating with atomic clocks. The same way I can estimate how much fuel you've burned in your car by looking at your odometer and referencing the sales materials stated mpg for your car. By the way, if you've changed tire size either through low air or pimping your ride, your odometer is wrong, you need to get it recalibrated, or your tires restored to the correct pressure/diameter.
It's amazing what weak ijunk they keep trying to sell in Apples app store.
Exactly, you are behind the times due to time dilation, it only lets you watch the world zoom past.
Fox news is not old, they make up things fresh every day!
The colors are a waste of ink/electrons. I don't know anybody that can remember what they are without checking a list other than green is safe and red is deep you know what. Just do a simple number scale, people understand that without checking a chart.
I take my absolutely can't lose stuff in carry-on for a simple reason, the time my luggage arrived 9 months and 10 days after I did.
Whenever the check-in counter person complains about my carry-on stuff, I point out that incident and they immediately shut up.
It's true that you may not have personally demonstrated it, but it's possible that you CAN personally demonstrate it.
It's much like a modern car. CAN you design and build one by yourself? Yes. Sure you might have to take a lot of classes, and do a lot of machining of parts and tons of assembly, but you can do it.
As to the whole memorizing as opposed to doing the science yourself, well, again, you CAN do it, but it's a daunting task that only an insane or immortal person would even try.
Our science is based on centuries of experiments and testing by thousands upon thousands of highly educated people, and even more with lesser educations. To even suggest that one person should treat science as faith because they haven't personally tested all the aspects of it is much like declaring that a huge fortress is a miracle of god unless one man built it all by himself.
That's just absurd.
Our science, our technology, our entire society is built by the work of generations upon generations of people striving towards goals, not by the work of any single individual attempting to recreate everything by themselves.
Yep, all those simplistic charts and tables that politicians and pencil pushers can comprehend are about as accurate in determining health as eviscerated chicken guts are for predicting hurricanes.
Way back when I used to be in the military. Their chart added the same amount of pounds for every extra inch above the base height. Virtually everyone on the planet 6' or taller was obese by that chart. (The idiots that made it apparently assumed an increase in height didn't have an increase in the other 2 dimensions. Something that can only be achieved if you are taffy and not an actual human.)
Just before I got out, they switched over to a different voodoo formula that used your neck diameter and height to make the calculation. Many tall thin people were labeled obese by that, yet ironically, the short fat guy that wobbled when he walked got listed as acceptable weight because his neck was so fat we all called him 'no-neck'.
There are scientific ways that can accurately determine if you are overweight or not (excluding the obvious extreme cases), but those methods will never be used by those idiots wanting to punish fat people. Those jerks just want something fast and easy with which to vilify one segment of the populace, and rack up cash quick.
(ianal - duh) If they just made a fake version that gave you a "shame on you" message, the worst they could get yelled at for is misrepresentation of product, and that would probably never go to court. However, I'd bet the hijacking of your info and email can get them burned from a legal standpoint.
It's not cool to pirate software, but to attack users, even pirate users, with malware is worse. (Among other things, there will always be people who get a non-official copy of software when they think they are obtaining the real one through legitimate means for one reason or another.)
Basically, just because someone spit on your shoes, doesn't make it any more right or legal for you to spray paint their face than in this or any other situation.