I am not allowed to peek inside nor add any update not approved by the manufacturer and without paying the manufacturer a piece of the update-price.
Please stop spouting this bullshit - you can do whatever the hell you want with your iPad. Just don't expect Apple support. Just like *gasp* automakers will drop support/warranty if you decide you want to add a turbo.
It's ironic that by calling for action against what they judge to be violent entertainment these ones are, in fact, imitating the behaviour of the suspected perpetrator. Sure, their actions haven't risen to the point of violence against others, but their actions come from the same preconception: That their judgments of the beliefs, motives and actions of others are infallible and that they have the right to then force their opinions on others.
The only difference I see is that they seek to use the law to enforce their will, and the suspect had no hope of influencing government to act on his behalf and so took matters into his own hands.
I personally don't like violent video games or other violent entertainment for myself. But I don't assume that those who do, especially when we're dealing with pretend like in video games, are necessarily going to be violent or "evil" persons themselves.
However, someone who takes issue with the fact that it was a person of their nationality that was targeted does scare me as it reveals to me that they (1) don't understand that it's not real and (2) they don't have an issue with one of them being killed.
I know! Would you trust a doctor who, at the age of 15
No way! At 15 he hadn't even left Gallifrey and he hadn't stolen a TARDIS of his own! I personally wouldn't trust a Doctor Who until he's at least the age of 400.
But, what happens when corporation A figures that regulation X hurts profits too much so they lobby to get it waivered, and regulation Y is weakly enforced, so they just ignore it altogether?
But hasn't that been a problem with coal and petroleum? And haven't those industries created their share of "disasters"? Yet we continue to rely on them and largely overlook the negatives seemingly because it's more familiar and easy to understand.
And if you're argument is that we should switch completely to solar/wind (assuming that was even possible, which it isn't), do you really believe that the industry will be ran by mom-and-pop businesses that are primarily concerned with public welfare? I'm quite sure they can manage to create their own problems/"disasters", though perhaps not of the type that inspire doomsday movies like with nuclear energy.
Apple makes its fair share of gaffes, and it's not obvious that all of their design choices are worth the premium costs.
While I agree with much of what you say I have to ask: What "premium costs"?
Why are we still hearing this even though it's been shown for YEARS now to be a fallacy - ie. other manufacturers aren't significantly less expensive when comparing similarly spec'd hardware, and often have horrid designs to boot?
The design & layout actually looks decent on an iPad. It's like designed specifically for it. The font size is fine, spacing reminds me of reading a lot of other iPad formatted sites/media, scrolling works as it should.
Unfortunately, on my PCs and Macs it is unreadable, which is too bad as that was where I primarily read Slashdot, it being my homepage for the last 6 years or so. About a month ago they did something with the site that totally screwed up my v1 settings that I used, so I had to go reset everything. It wouldn't even show threshold settings anymore. I should have realized something was up...
So why the insistence on change all the time? Maybe this a clever ploy to make us feel we all need to switch to 10" monitors...
It's also a well known fact that automakers make money on reselling the tech they've developed with their R&D. That's how Toyota learned to quickly turn a profit with the Prius development - most, if not all, hybrids on the road today license at least some technology from Toyota, developed through their Prius program.
And this is not a new development with so-called high tech cars. VW's been licensing their diesel designs for what seems like aeons with great success.
What's more interesting to me than the specifics of the leaks and the political fallout from them is the social engineering, as it were, that seems to be going on.
If you go to most legitimate "unbiased" (for what the claim is worth) news sites around the world and read articles on wikileaks even the most rational, balanced news stories are full of outrageous, unsupported claims against wikileaks, Assange, et. al. in the comments from the readers. A simple example is the oft-repeated charge against Assange of being a child molester. I've seen comments in fully half of the stories I've read in UK media, US media, Canadian media, and asian media along the lines of "He looks just like a pedophile that lived down the road from me" followed by an assertion that Assange = Wikileaks.
I've even noticed that for the first 2 or 3/. articles on this most recent Wikileaks leak that for the first severals hours the vast majority of +5 comments were anti-WL and anti-Assange, which seems out of place for here.
So the question I'm left wondering is this: Is the US gov't, or some other powerful enemy of Wikileaks, performing proactive character assassination by bombing the web with libelous comments, or are people so hopelessly under the control of Gov't=>Media that they willingly spout off whatever they're told to?
If it's the latter we're all in a lot of trouble...
TheOnion has been doing this opt-out thing for a long time, and others too I guess, although that's really all the ad-supported video I watch online. But the one irritating thing is watching 5 seconds of the same Nissan commercial 500x in a row. If it were a different commercial each time that would be much better. I might actually watch some of them for more than 5 seconds.
Americans have been pumped full of negative propaganda about Castro (& Cuba) for as long as many of them have been alive. The fact is he's done some good, is loved in some parts of the world, and has done bad, and is hated in some places.
In that way he was like many other "leaders" in the world today.
However, he hasn't had to worry about getting votes, so when he made a decision he didn't have to give a shit what anyone thinks of it. That meant less manipulating the public to get their favor and improve his image.
That's where he differs from most leaders in our western, democratic world. Politicians here still do what's in their best interests but they bullshit the masses into believing they care about them more than themselves. You may argue democracy would be better for Cuba nut to argue Castro is more malevolent than the average sociopath that gets into politics is to ignore the facts.
20k PSI is doable with small areas for pressure build-up. But when you have large areas, you have a lot of pressure over that area which makes it difficult to contain.
For example, I've read that the well head is either 21" or 22" in diameter. That gives slightly less than 1400 sq inches to slightly over 1500 square inches for the area at the outlet of the pipe. At 20,000 psi that equates to 29 or 30 million pounds of pressure. There's no way to make a cap that can withstand that pressure. And even if you could the walls of the pipe would burst.
This is, of course, assuming a lot of things, most of which we can't be sure of since BP seems insistent on keeping everyone at arms length.
But it is easy to assign blame to AT&T. In the rest of the world we have tethering, and always have. We also have competition. Up here in Canada pretty much every cell carrier (at least all that carry smart phones) sell the iPhone, and you can tether. When my wife bought her new iPhone from Telus tethering was one of the promotional points they used to sell it to her. Not only that, but a telus rep helped her to figure out how to set up a VOIP system at home (through another company) with a "digital receptionist" feature that allows her to call home for free from anywhere in Canada and then connect over VOIP to anywhere in the world at the VOIP rate. I thought that was pretty decent.
So it's not exactly fair to say it's Apple's fault. What would be fair would be to ask why in the hell they're sticking with AT&T in the first place - it's like Randell Stephenson has some compromising pictures of Jobs with a goat. Or worse yet, Woz.
Most people know how likely they are to win the lotto, but plenty still play. When they see 1:1,000,000,000 all that registers is the first 1, and they say "someone's got to win it, so it might as well be me!" Same thing applies here.
So there are a number of "standards" that could be used, depending on what your manufacturer chooses. You need an interface that will work with the standard for your vehicle. You can google your vehicle make and "OBD protocol" and probably find it. Some use (or have used) multiples, though. VW, for example, historically support ISO 9141, but some vehicles supported ISO14230, and most now have completely transitioned to ISO 15765. Depending on your interface it may work with all those protocols, some of them, or none of them.
OK, but you know your protocol and you want an interface. OK, good, there are a number of open source diagnostics suites that work to varying degrees. Your question leads me to believe that you never even bothered googling for an answer, but anyway, take as examples: http://www.opendiag.org/ (dead in the water??) http://freediag.sourceforge.net/ http://www.obdtester.com/pyobd
The first 2 of those links include links to hardware info where you can build an interface yourself.
Also, some commercial software will work with those interfaces, and some (such as older versions of VAG-COM) will support some basic OBD functionality without paying anything.
But wait, what do I mean basic OBD functionality? Isn't OBD the end-all be-all of diagnostic tools? No, they're actually largely POS's with anything remotely modern. The reason for this is fairly simple - vehicle manufacturers for a long time have only had to implement basic OBD functionality, like reading/clearing codes, and even which codes are implemented (or what they mean) has been largely left to them to decide. So guess what? Most chose to basically give you no info, or misleading info, so that any real problem required a trip to the dealer for them to see the "real" codes which are much more specific and helpful.
As an example, there's a popular interfaces for VW's called vag-com. It emulates VW official diagnostics tools such as VAG1551/1552, etc., which (now that they've been forced to make available) sell for a small fortune. The protocol has been reverse engineered, and in fact the data for the various functions of the scan tool is constantly being updated as new things are discovered. The difference between an interface like this and a generic OBD scan tool is like the difference between an abacus and your computer. I'll leave it to you to look at ross-tech's site to see some examples of what it can do beyond the "generic OBD" functions it also supports.
It's similar with Toyota. Generic scan tools exist, along with some with "modules" that can emulate some of the special functionality of Toyota's mastertech, but to truly be able to do what Toyota can you need to build/buy a (compatible) J2534 interface and use Toyota's techstream.
And yes, I've built interfaces, and bought interfaces, for all sorts of vehicles, including generic units. After learning from my mistakes I only buy interfaces that will emulate the manufacturer's hardware. Of course this means that if I have 3 makes that I need to work on I need 3 separate scantools. It adds up.
If you want the best bang for your buck you can get some pretty good
If you just look at the PC market you're right - floppies have been out of fashion for quite some time, and I don't think I've used one in at least a decade either, although I know some individuals in education who still have all of their crucial data (exams, assignments, custom s/w for their field, etc.) on 3.5"s.
However, where this really could cause problems is in some embedded systems. For some reason a lot of manufacturers of CNC equipment, like VMCs or even embroidery machines, stuck with the ubiquitous floppy for far too long. I know at least as late as 05-06 Haas CNC was still using floppies.
I agree that what the poster's thinking of doing is not going to work from a practical POV, with the parent not likely being capable of administering the network they want to set up. But at the same time it's irritating to hear everyone give the same generic response of "I don't agree with filtering because blah blah blah therefore I won't dignify your stupid question with an answer". I'm not a parent, and while I don't think I would necessarily filter my child's internet access, I don't agree with people intervening in how a parent/parents want to bring up their child. I don't appreciate it when the gov't sanctimoniously decides what me/my children should see/think/do, so why is it better when an individual (or group of individuals, such as here on/.) impose their moral beliefs on someone?
This smacks of the same groupthink that hates MS/Google/Apple/Company-of-the-day without any thought behind it, just because it's the opinion-du-jour on/. It's actually funny how many +5 posts on Apple topics recently have berated Apple for trying to force their way of thinking on everybody, all the while the mods/posters missing the irony in their attempts at coercing others to agree with their anti-Apple opinions, a la Fox News' tactics. Yes, there are legitimate posts with legitimate concerns, and yet they are drowned out by hate-mongering.
Anyway, with that in mind, I agree with the DD-WRT/openWRT/whatever firmware on a decent router as part of the solution. Couple that with OpenDNS, enabling it as outlined here and elsewhere, will allow monitoring of internet activity, as well as filtering based on specific address as well as generic categories of websites if that's desired. This takes much of the work out of the hands of the parent/admin.
Keep the login/passwords private/secure, as well as the password for the DSL/Cable/Fios/satellite/whatever service you use to avoid bypassing. And if there are other open wireless networks nearby you might want to either eliminate wireless adapters from the computers, or lock it down to a single network (a la the dreaded Apple's network setting in Leopard/Snow Leopard to require admin creds to change networks)
(Johnson)It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: "I'm against those things that everybody hates (Jackson)Now I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man but, quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said! (Fry)These are the candidates? They sound like clones. Wait a minute. They are clones! (Leela)Don't let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key issues. (Johnson)I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far. (Jackson)And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough! (Fry)If I were registered to vote, I send these clowns a message by staying home on election day and dressing up like a clown.
This is off the general topic but... cosmetics do serve a utilitarian/practical purpose. They help women attract mates (and to a lesser extend friends). You might say it's a concocted purpose, that the majority of women in many parts of the earth don't use much/any cosmetics and yet have no social problems, but you'll find that their societies don't emphasize the use of cosmetics as being attractive. In some cultures bandaging childrens heads/feet/etc. is/was practiced, causing deformities which were concerned attractive/normal. Individuals without those characteristics would be seen as less attractive if not ugly.
It's similar to the use of deodorant. Again, not strictly needed, but see how many people hang around with you when your stench kills nearby trees. Richard Pryor did a hilarious routine about this very issue in Live on the Sunset Strip after returning from Africa.
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I am not allowed to peek inside nor add any update not approved by the manufacturer and without paying the manufacturer a piece of the update-price.
Please stop spouting this bullshit - you can do whatever the hell you want with your iPad. Just don't expect Apple support. Just like *gasp* automakers will drop support/warranty if you decide you want to add a turbo.
That's about how long it took me with Unity before I gave it the boot too!
It's ironic that by calling for action against what they judge to be violent entertainment these ones are, in fact, imitating the behaviour of the suspected perpetrator. Sure, their actions haven't risen to the point of violence against others, but their actions come from the same preconception: That their judgments of the beliefs, motives and actions of others are infallible and that they have the right to then force their opinions on others.
The only difference I see is that they seek to use the law to enforce their will, and the suspect had no hope of influencing government to act on his behalf and so took matters into his own hands.
I personally don't like violent video games or other violent entertainment for myself. But I don't assume that those who do, especially when we're dealing with pretend like in video games, are necessarily going to be violent or "evil" persons themselves.
However, someone who takes issue with the fact that it was a person of their nationality that was targeted does scare me as it reveals to me that they (1) don't understand that it's not real and (2) they don't have an issue with one of them being killed.
I know! Would you trust a doctor who, at the age of 15
No way! At 15 he hadn't even left Gallifrey and he hadn't stolen a TARDIS of his own! I personally wouldn't trust a Doctor Who until he's at least the age of 400.
But, what happens when corporation A figures that regulation X hurts profits too much so they lobby to get it waivered, and regulation Y is weakly enforced, so they just ignore it altogether?
But hasn't that been a problem with coal and petroleum? And haven't those industries created their share of "disasters"? Yet we continue to rely on them and largely overlook the negatives seemingly because it's more familiar and easy to understand.
And if you're argument is that we should switch completely to solar/wind (assuming that was even possible, which it isn't), do you really believe that the industry will be ran by mom-and-pop businesses that are primarily concerned with public welfare? I'm quite sure they can manage to create their own problems/"disasters", though perhaps not of the type that inspire doomsday movies like with nuclear energy.
Apple makes its fair share of gaffes, and it's not obvious that all of their design choices are worth the premium costs.
While I agree with much of what you say I have to ask: What "premium costs"?
Why are we still hearing this even though it's been shown for YEARS now to be a fallacy - ie. other manufacturers aren't significantly less expensive when comparing similarly spec'd hardware, and often have horrid designs to boot?
The design & layout actually looks decent on an iPad. It's like designed specifically for it. The font size is fine, spacing reminds me of reading a lot of other iPad formatted sites/media, scrolling works as it should.
Unfortunately, on my PCs and Macs it is unreadable, which is too bad as that was where I primarily read Slashdot, it being my homepage for the last 6 years or so. About a month ago they did something with the site that totally screwed up my v1 settings that I used, so I had to go reset everything. It wouldn't even show threshold settings anymore. I should have realized something was up...
So why the insistence on change all the time? Maybe this a clever ploy to make us feel we all need to switch to 10" monitors...
It's also a well known fact that automakers make money on reselling the tech they've developed with their R&D. That's how Toyota learned to quickly turn a profit with the Prius development - most, if not all, hybrids on the road today license at least some technology from Toyota, developed through their Prius program.
And this is not a new development with so-called high tech cars. VW's been licensing their diesel designs for what seems like aeons with great success.
What's more interesting to me than the specifics of the leaks and the political fallout from them is the social engineering, as it were, that seems to be going on.
If you go to most legitimate "unbiased" (for what the claim is worth) news sites around the world and read articles on wikileaks even the most rational, balanced news stories are full of outrageous, unsupported claims against wikileaks, Assange, et. al. in the comments from the readers. A simple example is the oft-repeated charge against Assange of being a child molester. I've seen comments in fully half of the stories I've read in UK media, US media, Canadian media, and asian media along the lines of "He looks just like a pedophile that lived down the road from me" followed by an assertion that Assange = Wikileaks.
I've even noticed that for the first 2 or 3 /. articles on this most recent Wikileaks leak that for the first severals hours the vast majority of +5 comments were anti-WL and anti-Assange, which seems out of place for here.
So the question I'm left wondering is this: Is the US gov't, or some other powerful enemy of Wikileaks, performing proactive character assassination by bombing the web with libelous comments, or are people so hopelessly under the control of Gov't=>Media that they willingly spout off whatever they're told to?
If it's the latter we're all in a lot of trouble...
Agreed!
TheOnion has been doing this opt-out thing for a long time, and others too I guess, although that's really all the ad-supported video I watch online. But the one irritating thing is watching 5 seconds of the same Nissan commercial 500x in a row. If it were a different commercial each time that would be much better. I might actually watch some of them for more than 5 seconds.
Americans have been pumped full of negative propaganda about Castro (& Cuba) for as long as many of them have been alive. The fact is he's done some good, is loved in some parts of the world, and has done bad, and is hated in some places.
In that way he was like many other "leaders" in the world today.
However, he hasn't had to worry about getting votes, so when he made a decision he didn't have to give a shit what anyone thinks of it. That meant less manipulating the public to get their favor and improve his image.
That's where he differs from most leaders in our western, democratic world. Politicians here still do what's in their best interests but they bullshit the masses into believing they care about them more than themselves. You may argue democracy would be better for Cuba nut to argue Castro is more malevolent than the average sociopath that gets into politics is to ignore the facts.
20k PSI is doable with small areas for pressure build-up. But when you have large areas, you have a lot of pressure over that area which makes it difficult to contain.
For example, I've read that the well head is either 21" or 22" in diameter. That gives slightly less than 1400 sq inches to slightly over 1500 square inches for the area at the outlet of the pipe. At 20,000 psi that equates to 29 or 30 million pounds of pressure. There's no way to make a cap that can withstand that pressure. And even if you could the walls of the pipe would burst.
This is, of course, assuming a lot of things, most of which we can't be sure of since BP seems insistent on keeping everyone at arms length.
Steve Jobs says, "You can do that?"
Only 3 more species and I'll have tasted them all!!!
For god's sake nobody type "developers" 3 times!!!
But it is easy to assign blame to AT&T. In the rest of the world we have tethering, and always have. We also have competition. Up here in Canada pretty much every cell carrier (at least all that carry smart phones) sell the iPhone, and you can tether. When my wife bought her new iPhone from Telus tethering was one of the promotional points they used to sell it to her. Not only that, but a telus rep helped her to figure out how to set up a VOIP system at home (through another company) with a "digital receptionist" feature that allows her to call home for free from anywhere in Canada and then connect over VOIP to anywhere in the world at the VOIP rate. I thought that was pretty decent.
So it's not exactly fair to say it's Apple's fault. What would be fair would be to ask why in the hell they're sticking with AT&T in the first place - it's like Randell Stephenson has some compromising pictures of Jobs with a goat. Or worse yet, Woz.
Most people know how likely they are to win the lotto, but plenty still play. When they see 1:1,000,000,000 all that registers is the first 1, and they say "someone's got to win it, so it might as well be me!" Same thing applies here.
Some of top comments thus far seem to be saying "Oh noes if you touch their special stuff your carz will splode!" Well, that's not true...
Vehicle manufacturers have been required in most places for quite some time to provide OBD standards-compliant diagnostic info. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Board_Diagnostics#Standard_interfaces for some info on the OBD standards...
OK, so that sounds good. But then you have the first snag... the communications protocol.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Board_Diagnostics#OBD-II_Signal_Protocols
So there are a number of "standards" that could be used, depending on what your manufacturer chooses. You need an interface that will work with the standard for your vehicle. You can google your vehicle make and "OBD protocol" and probably find it. Some use (or have used) multiples, though. VW, for example, historically support ISO 9141, but some vehicles supported ISO14230, and most now have completely transitioned to ISO 15765. Depending on your interface it may work with all those protocols, some of them, or none of them.
OK, but you know your protocol and you want an interface. OK, good, there are a number of open source diagnostics suites that work to varying degrees. Your question leads me to believe that you never even bothered googling for an answer, but anyway, take as examples:
http://www.opendiag.org/ (dead in the water??)
http://freediag.sourceforge.net/
http://www.obdtester.com/pyobd
The first 2 of those links include links to hardware info where you can build an interface yourself.
Also, some commercial software will work with those interfaces, and some (such as older versions of VAG-COM) will support some basic OBD functionality without paying anything.
But wait, what do I mean basic OBD functionality? Isn't OBD the end-all be-all of diagnostic tools? No, they're actually largely POS's with anything remotely modern. The reason for this is fairly simple - vehicle manufacturers for a long time have only had to implement basic OBD functionality, like reading/clearing codes, and even which codes are implemented (or what they mean) has been largely left to them to decide. So guess what? Most chose to basically give you no info, or misleading info, so that any real problem required a trip to the dealer for them to see the "real" codes which are much more specific and helpful.
As an example, there's a popular interfaces for VW's called vag-com. It emulates VW official diagnostics tools such as VAG1551/1552, etc., which (now that they've been forced to make available) sell for a small fortune. The protocol has been reverse engineered, and in fact the data for the various functions of the scan tool is constantly being updated as new things are discovered. The difference between an interface like this and a generic OBD scan tool is like the difference between an abacus and your computer. I'll leave it to you to look at ross-tech's site to see some examples of what it can do beyond the "generic OBD" functions it also supports.
It's similar with Toyota. Generic scan tools exist, along with some with "modules" that can emulate some of the special functionality of Toyota's mastertech, but to truly be able to do what Toyota can you need to build/buy a (compatible) J2534 interface and use Toyota's techstream.
And yes, I've built interfaces, and bought interfaces, for all sorts of vehicles, including generic units. After learning from my mistakes I only buy interfaces that will emulate the manufacturer's hardware. Of course this means that if I have 3 makes that I need to work on I need 3 separate scantools. It adds up.
If you want the best bang for your buck you can get some pretty good
This can last for six months.
There are a number of areas in my life where YMMV is fine, and I'll take the risk, but I don't think contraception will be one of them.
"Our anticipated enrollment for the fall is 500 percent higher than we expected."
WTF? This from an associate dean?
I hope their language is better in their games or we'll have another "All our base..." incident.
If you just look at the PC market you're right - floppies have been out of fashion for quite some time, and I don't think I've used one in at least a decade either, although I know some individuals in education who still have all of their crucial data (exams, assignments, custom s/w for their field, etc.) on 3.5"s.
However, where this really could cause problems is in some embedded systems. For some reason a lot of manufacturers of CNC equipment, like VMCs or even embroidery machines, stuck with the ubiquitous floppy for far too long. I know at least as late as 05-06 Haas CNC was still using floppies.
It looks to me like makers of floppy to usb adapters are going to be in for a boon.
I agree that what the poster's thinking of doing is not going to work from a practical POV, with the parent not likely being capable of administering the network they want to set up. But at the same time it's irritating to hear everyone give the same generic response of "I don't agree with filtering because blah blah blah therefore I won't dignify your stupid question with an answer". I'm not a parent, and while I don't think I would necessarily filter my child's internet access, I don't agree with people intervening in how a parent/parents want to bring up their child. I don't appreciate it when the gov't sanctimoniously decides what me/my children should see/think/do, so why is it better when an individual (or group of individuals, such as here on /.) impose their moral beliefs on someone?
This smacks of the same groupthink that hates MS/Google/Apple/Company-of-the-day without any thought behind it, just because it's the opinion-du-jour on /. It's actually funny how many +5 posts on Apple topics recently have berated Apple for trying to force their way of thinking on everybody, all the while the mods/posters missing the irony in their attempts at coercing others to agree with their anti-Apple opinions, a la Fox News' tactics. Yes, there are legitimate posts with legitimate concerns, and yet they are drowned out by hate-mongering.
Anyway, with that in mind, I agree with the DD-WRT/openWRT/whatever firmware on a decent router as part of the solution. Couple that with OpenDNS, enabling it as outlined here and elsewhere, will allow monitoring of internet activity, as well as filtering based on specific address as well as generic categories of websites if that's desired. This takes much of the work out of the hands of the parent/admin.
Keep the login/passwords private/secure, as well as the password for the DSL/Cable/Fios/satellite/whatever service you use to avoid bypassing. And if there are other open wireless networks nearby you might want to either eliminate wireless adapters from the computers, or lock it down to a single network (a la the dreaded Apple's network setting in Leopard/Snow Leopard to require admin creds to change networks)
(Johnson)It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: "I'm against those things that everybody hates
(Jackson)Now I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man but, quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said!
(Fry)These are the candidates? They sound like clones. Wait a minute. They are clones!
(Leela)Don't let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key issues.
(Johnson)I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far.
(Jackson)And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!
(Fry)If I were registered to vote, I send these clowns a message by staying home on election day and dressing up like a clown.
This is off the general topic but... cosmetics do serve a utilitarian/practical purpose. They help women attract mates (and to a lesser extend friends). You might say it's a concocted purpose, that the majority of women in many parts of the earth don't use much/any cosmetics and yet have no social problems, but you'll find that their societies don't emphasize the use of cosmetics as being attractive. In some cultures bandaging childrens heads/feet/etc. is/was practiced, causing deformities which were concerned attractive/normal. Individuals without those characteristics would be seen as less attractive if not ugly.
It's similar to the use of deodorant. Again, not strictly needed, but see how many people hang around with you when your stench kills nearby trees.
Richard Pryor did a hilarious routine about this very issue in Live on the Sunset Strip after returning from Africa.