If you look at the statistics, you realize that the vast majority of laws currently on the books are completely pointless, and have zero actual effect on lowering cime / saving lives / what-have-you. I think, by this point in time, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that statistical reality doesn't mesh with the mental state of the public at large; they don't care about actual numbers, it's all about the perception that the government is doing something, anything, to calm their fears.
That's one of the main reasons I advocate firearms training for youths; the gun-grabbers and nosy-ninnies don't listen to reason, you have to play to their fears if you want them to bugger off.
Yes, we do. When you hit medicare we are subsidizing
That's technically true for everyone, regardless of whether or not they smoke, over eat, or take really good care of themselves.
Acting like smokers somehow represent a disproportionate amount of the welfare, er, medicare dollars spent, is disingenuous at best and downright propagandist bullshit at worst.
Also, whether or not I will be receiving medicare benefits in the future has absolutely zero bearing on the conversation about who pays for the healthcare I receive today.
As to the smokers, that may be true but the point is I still have to pay for their medical costs...
NO
YOU
DON'T
I smoke, and because I do, I pay a higher health insurance premium than a non-smoker with similar health stats. Stop spreading that damnable myth.
Conversely, fat people really do burden the healthcare system unnecessarily, and they are not required to pay an increased premium. You want to bitch, bitch about that.
Well, theoretically if you start teaching it in the schools at an early age, within a generation the majority of the populace will have went through the course, so you should have a lot fewer incidents like those you mention.
Another potential upside would be that, if the training were mandatory, perhaps future police officers would develop a higher accuracy rate than bad guys in action films.
Seems everyone else has covered the important topics (rights, patent/copyright, et. al), so I'll throw ya a curve:
Bring back the Congressional cane fights. Far more entertaining for the People than listening to geriatrics drone on for hours in legalese, plus we could help shore up the budget a bit by televising the fights on PPV.
I mean, c'mon - who wouldn't pay to see McCain and Pelosi go toe to toe with the pugil sticks?
Smokers pay a higher premium, so calling us 'freeloaders' is complete bullshit.
On the contrary, fat motherfuckers are the largest (no pun intended, but noted and appreciated) burden on the healthcare system, and they are not required to pay a higher premium because they made the decision to be grotesquely obese slobs. You wanna talk freeloaders? Start with the worst offenders.
then require that every person own a gun to protect their neighbor as well.
Add in mandatory semi-yearly safety and marksmanship training.
Also, make it part of the mandatory school curriculum. I think a major reason we have so many kids these days accidentally shooting each other is a result of the fact that the only exposure many children get to firearms is playing/watching their parents play FPS games.
I find myself at an impasse. I can vote for the party that makes the right promises then doesn't keep them, or the party that makes all the wrong promises and does keep them.
There is a third option, you know: Realizing that electing a leader is not a binary decision. Oh, but let me guess at the response: "Voting third parties is a wasted vote!" Yea, so long as they keep you thinking that way, it will be.
You do realize that, by making such a statement, you pretty much negated your own position?
FWIW, I don't want a Verizon branded Nexus 4, I want an unbranded Nexus 4 that works on Verizon's network. They can take their OTA shit and shove it up... well, you know.
Microsoft had been selling XP and Vista as a new OS on computers until just a year or two ago so it would seem reasonable that they should support something they were selling for at least a year or two after selling it as a new, current OS.
... Let's see if I can use your own words to make my point for me, albeit with a bit of creative license:
Verizon had been selling Android as a new OS on smart phones since just a year or two ago, so it would seem reasonable that they should support something they were selling for at least a year or two after selling it as a new, current OS.
Indeed, my earlier post never posits that the auto-drive system will never fail
No, but it does blame any potential failure on the concept of improper road signage, not equipment malfunctions. At least, that's what I presume you meant by "missing signs marking the street as closed is a real possibility if they didn't follow NTSB guidelines in marking it."
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea of self-driving cars; I believe they would help cut down the number of fatal accidents, since there would inevitably be less idiots causing them. What I have a problem with is all the Google-dick-sucking that goes on anytime someone (like me) posits any sort of doubt or question as to the infallible nature of such a system. Programmers write bugs and hardware fails, and no amount of personal attacks or wishy-washy bullshit will change those absolute facts.
Sure, and if there were enough Nexus 4's for every Android user, and they worked on every carriers network, you'd have a point. But there aren't, and they don't.
Besides, one example does not negate the fact that nearly every phone on the market is price fixed.
Why did you buy a carrier phone? Why not get a device that might actually get updates?
A guess would be, because the unsubsidized price is gouged, and hard.
To wit: The other day, I was perusing the Sunday paper circulars when I came across one for Best Buy; on the front page, there was an ad for the Galaxy Tab II 10.1" tablet, and the Galaxy SIII phone; though the specs were almost identical (the SIII has a better processor, the Tab II has a 10 inch screen), the price difference was astronomical; the Tab II was listed for ~$350 and the SIII? Unsubsidized, the cost was $700! Heck, an unlocked SII still retails for around $450, and that's a 2 year old phone.
So, in summation: a 10" tablet with a dual core somehow costs less than half a 4.8" phone with a quad core. If that's not evidence of price fixing, I don't know what is.
You voted for this system with your purchase, you are part of why it exists.
That's why I only buy older, used, unlocked phones. No price gouging, no carriers trying to blast me in the ol' cornshooter, and there's usually plenty of community supported alternative OS'.
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Fine, I'll go make my own TV show! With blackjack! and hookers!
In fact, forget the TV show!
If you look at the statistics,
Heh.
If you look at the statistics, you realize that the vast majority of laws currently on the books are completely pointless, and have zero actual effect on lowering cime / saving lives / what-have-you. I think, by this point in time, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that statistical reality doesn't mesh with the mental state of the public at large; they don't care about actual numbers, it's all about the perception that the government is doing something, anything, to calm their fears.
That's one of the main reasons I advocate firearms training for youths; the gun-grabbers and nosy-ninnies don't listen to reason, you have to play to their fears if you want them to bugger off.
Holy shit, another person that realizes there are more than just two political parties. Are you my clone?
I think you've got it backwards, #47.
Yes, we do. When you hit medicare we are subsidizing
That's technically true for everyone, regardless of whether or not they smoke, over eat, or take really good care of themselves.
Acting like smokers somehow represent a disproportionate amount of the welfare, er, medicare dollars spent, is disingenuous at best and downright propagandist bullshit at worst.
Also, whether or not I will be receiving medicare benefits in the future has absolutely zero bearing on the conversation about who pays for the healthcare I receive today.
As to the smokers, that may be true but the point is I still have to pay for their medical costs...
NO
YOU
DON'T
I smoke, and because I do, I pay a higher health insurance premium than a non-smoker with similar health stats. Stop spreading that damnable myth.
Conversely, fat people really do burden the healthcare system unnecessarily, and they are not required to pay an increased premium. You want to bitch, bitch about that.
Just buy heavier chairs.
Well, theoretically if you start teaching it in the schools at an early age, within a generation the majority of the populace will have went through the course, so you should have a lot fewer incidents like those you mention.
Another potential upside would be that, if the training were mandatory, perhaps future police officers would develop a higher accuracy rate than bad guys in action films.
Seems everyone else has covered the important topics (rights, patent/copyright, et. al), so I'll throw ya a curve:
Bring back the Congressional cane fights. Far more entertaining for the People than listening to geriatrics drone on for hours in legalese, plus we could help shore up the budget a bit by televising the fights on PPV.
I mean, c'mon - who wouldn't pay to see McCain and Pelosi go toe to toe with the pugil sticks?
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+10 Internets to you, sir or madam. Just don't edit them with Emacs.
you're a worse freeloader than any smoker.
Smokers pay a higher premium, so calling us 'freeloaders' is complete bullshit.
On the contrary, fat motherfuckers are the largest (no pun intended, but noted and appreciated) burden on the healthcare system, and they are not required to pay a higher premium because they made the decision to be grotesquely obese slobs. You wanna talk freeloaders? Start with the worst offenders.
then require that every person own a gun to protect their neighbor as well.
Add in mandatory semi-yearly safety and marksmanship training.
Also, make it part of the mandatory school curriculum. I think a major reason we have so many kids these days accidentally shooting each other is a result of the fact that the only exposure many children get to firearms is playing/watching their parents play FPS games.
Hmm, seems to me that Obamacare is going to change that. Alas, can't remember where I read that recently....
http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2013/01/25/ppaca-could-price-smokers-out-of-health-insurance
Change it? Yes. Make it better? Not at all.
I find myself at an impasse. I can vote for the party that makes the right promises then doesn't keep them, or the party that makes all the wrong promises and does keep them.
There is a third option, you know: Realizing that electing a leader is not a binary decision. Oh, but let me guess at the response: "Voting third parties is a wasted vote!" Yea, so long as they keep you thinking that way, it will be.
Ever wonder who really won WWII? Joseph Goebbels, that's who.
I'd wager that hardware revenue alone would make it worth it if glass is "the next big thing."
Is there a substantial market for cell phone accessories that cost twice as much as the phone itself?
Got it.
On the same page now.
I hope VZW never gets another Nexus.
You do realize that, by making such a statement, you pretty much negated your own position?
FWIW, I don't want a Verizon branded Nexus 4, I want an unbranded Nexus 4 that works on Verizon's network. They can take their OTA shit and shove it up... well, you know.
Microsoft had been selling XP and Vista as a new OS on computers until just a year or two ago so it would seem reasonable that they should support something they were selling for at least a year or two after selling it as a new, current OS.
... Let's see if I can use your own words to make my point for me, albeit with a bit of creative license:
Verizon had been selling Android as a new OS on smart phones since just a year or two ago, so it would seem reasonable that they should support something they were selling for at least a year or two after selling it as a new, current OS.
Yea, I think that just about does it.
Let me tell you something about IT: Never listen to the bean counters.
Caveat: Unless you marry one.
In which case, not only do you listen, you never, ever call them a bean counter to their face.
Had to learn that one the hard way myself...
There are enough that you can buy one right now. More buyers would mean they would sell more units.
Fair enough.
They don't need to work on every carriers network, just one you can use. The other carriers will adapt if users do this.
Do they work on Verizon? Because that's the only half-decent network in my area, and Fuck AT&T. They already lost my business.
The answer, BTW, is 'No, they do not work on Verizon's network,' although rumor has it that it will before the end of the summer. Here's hoping!
Phones are price fixed to encourage you into a contract.
Yes, that was the point I was trying to make, although "encourage" is not necessarily the term I would have chosen.
Well, thank goodness that these will be engineered to critical standards, not that of your average PC.
Yea, just like the F22 Raptor, right?
Indeed, my earlier post never posits that the auto-drive system will never fail
No, but it does blame any potential failure on the concept of improper road signage, not equipment malfunctions. At least, that's what I presume you meant by "missing signs marking the street as closed is a real possibility if they didn't follow NTSB guidelines in marking it."
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea of self-driving cars; I believe they would help cut down the number of fatal accidents, since there would inevitably be less idiots causing them. What I have a problem with is all the Google-dick-sucking that goes on anytime someone (like me) posits any sort of doubt or question as to the infallible nature of such a system. Programmers write bugs and hardware fails, and no amount of personal attacks or wishy-washy bullshit will change those absolute facts.
Sure, and if there were enough Nexus 4's for every Android user, and they worked on every carriers network, you'd have a point. But there aren't, and they don't.
Besides, one example does not negate the fact that nearly every phone on the market is price fixed.
Microsoft should be forced to continue to make updates for my Windows 95 machine as well. /s
Right; and AT&T should be forced to continue making updates for System V.
Gawd, but are you an obtuse fucking moron...
If you can't get patches from your carrier OTA, use the damn WiFi and download them from Android direct ?
Well, to paraphrase the news monster...
Android updates do not work that way!
GOODNIGHT!
Why did you buy a carrier phone?
Why not get a device that might actually get updates?
A guess would be, because the unsubsidized price is gouged, and hard.
To wit: The other day, I was perusing the Sunday paper circulars when I came across one for Best Buy; on the front page, there was an ad for the Galaxy Tab II 10.1" tablet, and the Galaxy SIII phone; though the specs were almost identical (the SIII has a better processor, the Tab II has a 10 inch screen), the price difference was astronomical; the Tab II was listed for ~$350 and the SIII? Unsubsidized, the cost was $700! Heck, an unlocked SII still retails for around $450, and that's a 2 year old phone.
So, in summation: a 10" tablet with a dual core somehow costs less than half a 4.8" phone with a quad core. If that's not evidence of price fixing, I don't know what is.
You voted for this system with your purchase, you are part of why it exists.
That's why I only buy older, used, unlocked phones. No price gouging, no carriers trying to blast me in the ol' cornshooter, and there's usually plenty of community supported alternative OS'.
"objectively superior"
yes, from your perspective maybe.
Which makes it, decidedly, not objective.