Your comment in another way: "Sure influenza has killed some people but not everyone dies when they get it so how can you say it's bad?"
No that infers that socialism is a sickness and a bad thing. Its more like saying. "Sure military vaccinations kill some people and they makes some people throw up for days. But for most people you will just have some swelling, itching, and redness at the injection site. And as long as you don't keep scratching it that will go away in a few days(years)".
That is probably b/c they change the order of the chapters every year slap on a new version number and tell the schools last years book is obsolete and force everyone to upgrade to the new book rendering all the old books being resold worthless.
To play Devil's Advocate wasn't Samsung barred from showing phone designs they made that predated the iPhone? How can you be prohibited from mentioning those designs?
The U.S. wasn't born as a divine child from God. People all around the world engineered and innovated the U.S. over many years of work. The creation of the United States was not flawless by the choices of people, it took years experience, experimentation, observation, learning, pain, suffering, love, enlightenment of the universe to build a system. And we continue to build towards perfection and well being, regardless of how what or how many may attempt to oppose.
Whoa whoa whoa. Hold on there buddy. According to my 'Merican History book and I quote 'The founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and miracles followed, Railroads sprouted coast to coast and oil flowed from the ground like the sweet nectar it was. The Indians all decided to move west and the electric light was born. And through-out the land a great booming voice was heard "You are my chosen people and to you I give all these gifts" So looks like your wrong about the divinity of this great nation. Now I need to get back to helping my daughter with her Science homework 'Why the flood killed the dinosaurs' These Texas middles chools are tough.
You are correct there are always idiots who will abuse things like model glue, pain pills, hell even energy drinks. Unfortunately we have evolved to allow people like that to continue living and even scarier breed. In the words of the late great George Carlin " What ever happened to natural selection? Survival of the fittest? The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple stuff. Nature knows best."
Yeah. Except you need to unplug the USB device you booted the installer from, put it in again, cancel the installation and start over for Windows to find the installation files. On any Linux system I tried to install, everything just worked. No need to go on the internet to figure out how to get past the next screen.
WTF are you talking about. I've installed Windows 7 from a CD-Rom and flash drive with no problems.
You haven't installed Windows 7 have you? As surprising as it might sound Windows 7 is actually really good at installing the drivers for most hardware OOB even wireless cards then when you run windows update the first time it will almost always find and install the missing drivers. I've only had one or two weird pieces of hardware it couldn't find drivers for and one of those was because they didn't make a 64bit driver for it.
The EXACT same thing could be said about us in the good ol' US of A. But just like the people in the UK we have no real power to change anything significant.
I think that $560 million can do a lot more for the world than if I volunteered at a soup kitchen. Sure I might make that homeless guys day but they can improve exponentially more lives than I can with that money. And I believe that until resource/energy sarcity is a thing of the past large somes of money put to good use in the right places will make a bigger impact on the world than what an individual can. You might be willing to donate your time and work hard but you have to pay for supplies. Your points are valid but don't try to take away from all the good the Gates do just because they are doing it with money.
Again this is all a result of the content providers they are the ones preventing distributors like DirecTv from offering per-channel subscriptions. Lets say Viacom wants $1 a month per subscriber that gets their channels and lets say they have 25 channels. DirecTv would rather you be able to pay 4 cents for each channel you want and not force you to pay for the channels you don't. Viacom on the other hand says no way it's either all or nothing. Same goes for all the other bundles you mentioned. The providers know that in most homes there are only a handful of channels that an individual or family actually watch. The rest is nothing more than filler so they can run more ads. Just look at the list of channels that were dropped. There are not too many homes where Nick, CMT, and BET would be watched regularly. But Viacom forces you to get all those channels plus channels like TV Land and VH1 classics which are full of old shows/videos and cost them a relatively small amount to create so its almost pure profit. In the end DirecTv's hands are tied.
You do have to love how the distributors bitch that the content producers bundle channels & then go and do the exact same thing to the subscribers.
You do realize that is because distributors are forced to pay for those other channels whether or not you would choose some or all of them? Whether you would pick 5 of Viacom's channels or all 25 DirecTv would have to pay the same price. So if they did start offering a pay per channel service the prices per channel would have to be high to cover there losses.
True but they didn't pursue systematic genocide across an entire continent. And no I'm white. You can also stop with the they did it too so that makes it ok mentality. You probably love the whole M.A.D idea don't you?
I do wonder if part of that has to do with the fact that gay men also are more likely to get tested for AIDS regularly than straight guys. I live in Lakewood Ohio that has a huge openly gay community that probably rivals San Fransisco on a per capita basis. In fact the nursing home I work in has twice as many gay male employees than straight. While talking to them there seems to be a trend of being very open about multiple partners or sharing partners while they were young and usually settling down in monogamist relationships around their late 30's early 40's. But even with all the promiscuous sex there is a get tested and get tested often mentality in the community.
A big part of that was the lack of condom use among homosexuals in the 70s and 80s. Who is going to wear a condom when there is no risk of anyone getting pregnant. Another risk was the fact that the homosexual community was so small and hidden back then. If one guy caught AIDS it wouldn't take long for it to make the rounds in that area due to lack of choice in partners.
Umm I never heard of a recreational crack or heroin user. Though it would be funny to hear someone say "I'm not an addicted I'm just a social freebaser."
Exes mother ODed on pills after years of abusing them. Current girlfriend's father ODed on heroin after first being addicted to pain pills. Best friend's brother ODed injecting oxycontin but luckily was found by his mother and was saved by EMS. There is a reason opiates are demonized they are abused very badly by many people. Education or not people will abuse and do stupid things when drugs are involved. Look at all the drunk driving deaths every year and that's with every bottle labeled with the strength and plenty of education about the dangers.
Once docked its really not a tablet anymore is it? Plus those docks (and BT keyboards) are an overpriced added expense that I've only seen on high end tablets. We are talking about supplies for millions of students at all grade levels. Do you really think its a good idea to have young kids walking class to class with such expensive equipment?
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Your comment in another way: "Sure influenza has killed some people but not everyone dies when they get it so how can you say it's bad?"
No that infers that socialism is a sickness and a bad thing. Its more like saying. "Sure military vaccinations kill some people and they makes some people throw up for days. But for most people you will just have some swelling, itching, and redness at the injection site. And as long as you don't keep scratching it that will go away in a few days(years)".
That is probably b/c they change the order of the chapters every year slap on a new version number and tell the schools last years book is obsolete and force everyone to upgrade to the new book rendering all the old books being resold worthless.
Don't worry that wasn't a really basketball game. I mean hell the other teams didn't have one black player.
To play Devil's Advocate wasn't Samsung barred from showing phone designs they made that predated the iPhone? How can you be prohibited from mentioning those designs?
Because all the know about Sony is that they make big screens and that game system their kids wanted for Christmas?
The U.S. wasn't born as a divine child from God. People all around the world engineered and innovated the U.S. over many years of work.
The creation of the United States was not flawless by the choices of people, it took years experience, experimentation, observation, learning, pain, suffering, love, enlightenment of the universe to build a system. And we continue to build towards perfection and well being, regardless of how what or how many may attempt to oppose.
Whoa whoa whoa. Hold on there buddy. According to my 'Merican History book and I quote 'The founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and miracles followed, Railroads sprouted coast to coast and oil flowed from the ground like the sweet nectar it was. The Indians all decided to move west and the electric light was born. And through-out the land a great booming voice was heard "You are my chosen people and to you I give all these gifts" So looks like your wrong about the divinity of this great nation. Now I need to get back to helping my daughter with her Science homework 'Why the flood killed the dinosaurs' These Texas middles chools are tough.
He was confused with the question when they said sexual intercourse he didn't know oral and anal counted.
You are correct there are always idiots who will abuse things like model glue, pain pills, hell even energy drinks. Unfortunately we have evolved to allow people like that to continue living and even scarier breed. In the words of the late great George Carlin " What ever happened to natural selection? Survival of the fittest? The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple stuff. Nature knows best."
Yeah. Except you need to unplug the USB device you booted the installer from, put it in again, cancel the installation and start over for Windows to find the installation files. On any Linux system I tried to install, everything just worked. No need to go on the internet to figure out how to get past the next screen.
WTF are you talking about. I've installed Windows 7 from a CD-Rom and flash drive with no problems.
Windows found the built in LAN drivers for both my current and previous mobo and my usb wireless N adapter. Sorry about your luck.
You haven't installed Windows 7 have you? As surprising as it might sound Windows 7 is actually really good at installing the drivers for most hardware OOB even wireless cards then when you run windows update the first time it will almost always find and install the missing drivers. I've only had one or two weird pieces of hardware it couldn't find drivers for and one of those was because they didn't make a 64bit driver for it.
The EXACT same thing could be said about us in the good ol' US of A. But just like the people in the UK we have no real power to change anything significant.
All great things have small beginnings.
Your right sometimes its building computers in your garage that decades down the line allow you to give away billions.
I think that $560 million can do a lot more for the world than if I volunteered at a soup kitchen. Sure I might make that homeless guys day but they can improve exponentially more lives than I can with that money. And I believe that until resource/energy sarcity is a thing of the past large somes of money put to good use in the right places will make a bigger impact on the world than what an individual can. You might be willing to donate your time and work hard but you have to pay for supplies. Your points are valid but don't try to take away from all the good the Gates do just because they are doing it with money.
Again this is all a result of the content providers they are the ones preventing distributors like DirecTv from offering per-channel subscriptions. Lets say Viacom wants $1 a month per subscriber that gets their channels and lets say they have 25 channels. DirecTv would rather you be able to pay 4 cents for each channel you want and not force you to pay for the channels you don't. Viacom on the other hand says no way it's either all or nothing. Same goes for all the other bundles you mentioned. The providers know that in most homes there are only a handful of channels that an individual or family actually watch. The rest is nothing more than filler so they can run more ads. Just look at the list of channels that were dropped. There are not too many homes where Nick, CMT, and BET would be watched regularly. But Viacom forces you to get all those channels plus channels like TV Land and VH1 classics which are full of old shows/videos and cost them a relatively small amount to create so its almost pure profit. In the end DirecTv's hands are tied.
You do have to love how the distributors bitch that the content producers bundle channels & then go and do the exact same thing to the subscribers.
You do realize that is because distributors are forced to pay for those other channels whether or not you would choose some or all of them? Whether you would pick 5 of Viacom's channels or all 25 DirecTv would have to pay the same price. So if they did start offering a pay per channel service the prices per channel would have to be high to cover there losses.
True but they didn't pursue systematic genocide across an entire continent. And no I'm white. You can also stop with the they did it too so that makes it ok mentality. You probably love the whole M.A.D idea don't you?
Hey buddy I have a group of the last dozen or so of the last Native Americans left with me and they wanted me to tell you you can go fuck yourself.
I do wonder if part of that has to do with the fact that gay men also are more likely to get tested for AIDS regularly than straight guys. I live in Lakewood Ohio that has a huge openly gay community that probably rivals San Fransisco on a per capita basis. In fact the nursing home I work in has twice as many gay male employees than straight. While talking to them there seems to be a trend of being very open about multiple partners or sharing partners while they were young and usually settling down in monogamist relationships around their late 30's early 40's. But even with all the promiscuous sex there is a get tested and get tested often mentality in the community.
A big part of that was the lack of condom use among homosexuals in the 70s and 80s. Who is going to wear a condom when there is no risk of anyone getting pregnant. Another risk was the fact that the homosexual community was so small and hidden back then. If one guy caught AIDS it wouldn't take long for it to make the rounds in that area due to lack of choice in partners.
Don't forget AIDS and malaria.
Umm I never heard of a recreational crack or heroin user. Though it would be funny to hear someone say "I'm not an addicted I'm just a social freebaser."
Exes mother ODed on pills after years of abusing them. Current girlfriend's father ODed on heroin after first being addicted to pain pills. Best friend's brother ODed injecting oxycontin but luckily was found by his mother and was saved by EMS. There is a reason opiates are demonized they are abused very badly by many people. Education or not people will abuse and do stupid things when drugs are involved. Look at all the drunk driving deaths every year and that's with every bottle labeled with the strength and plenty of education about the dangers.
Once docked its really not a tablet anymore is it? Plus those docks (and BT keyboards) are an overpriced added expense that I've only seen on high end tablets. We are talking about supplies for millions of students at all grade levels. Do you really think its a good idea to have young kids walking class to class with such expensive equipment?
Yes but we do get the Super-Deluxe-Only-Those-With-Something-To-Hide-Need-To-Worry-Keylogger courtesy of the NSA.