If you like the legislation that FORCES,as you put it, conservation, then you are a moron. People will not respond when FORCED. If you want change, then go invent something better that will work better and/or cheaper and have the same/better functionality as that which is currently used. There are reasons that people use what they use.
I already use CFLs in about half of the applications in my home. There are simply reasons to not use them in certain applications, especially in exterior lighting.
You and all your greenie buddies that wish to force people can all get bent. You want change, then come up with a better alternative. Maybe your pal who invented the internet can help you...
re:I have. Wal Mart donates their money to Republicans.
Both sides get some... This is the case with most companies/industries etc... with their donations, in an effort to not be frozen out if the other side wins. It is the "know on which side thy pita is buttered" principle.
The Dems get far more of the Wal-Mart generosity. After all, it was a Dem who granted "most favored nation" status to their biggest supplier, and it is mostly dems who want the socialist programs to suppliment their employees, thus making the need for the corperation to step up less necessary. I never said that the Republicans didn't get any money from Wal-Mart and their ilk, just considerably less than their left-leaning counterparts. After all, you have to grease both sides of the wheel to get things done...
"Seriously, this seems like an excellent way for the rest of the world to shoot itself right in the foot. Maybe we should just let them. Isolationism in reverse."
Yep. I agree. The talk is big until it comes time to do without. The internet is run by those who pioneered developed and built it.
"You can get a learners permit at age 15 1/2, but that wasn't necessary either. Once you get a license, you used to keep it until you were 65 (which sucks now that I dont have one...I always wanted to get pulled over at age 65 with a license that had my picture at age 25), now I think it only lasts 10 years."
Last time I checked, in Arizona your license is still good until you are 65. If you get your license before the age of 21 it will not be good that long. In that case you will have to come in after the age of 21 to renew it. The physical license itself even looks different before the age of 21. If you have kept your nose clean and not had any tickets, it will not require any additional testing, just a fee and new picture. In fact if you have a change of address or loose your license you can go online and order another one without even going into the DMV office. One thing of note, the learners permit only allows you to drive during daylight hours and only if you have another licensed driver in the automobile with you.
Motorcycles require a special endorsement with a seperate written test, and evaluation on a test track.
Do you think that Gmail would turn over logs to the Chinese government so that they could put someone in prison for sending a "dangerous" e-mail? Yahoo did!! I am not sure if Gmail would or not, but if they wouldn't then I would say that Gmail is the clear choice as the superior experience.
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"As far as the law, minimum speeds are posted. As for being cited for holding up traffic while traveling at the speed limit, that is a myth. You can not be cited for driving at the speed limit, and if you were it would be thrown out. In fact, if I am in a hurry I intentionally drive in the "fast lane" at the exact speed limit. Why? Because it is the fasted speed at which I am legally allowed to travel and those who wish to pass are in violation of the law. If they wish to speed they will have to wait until they can pass me on the right."
Check the laws in various states. Idaho is one of the states which has passed the "Left Lane Vigilante" law. I assure you that if you are impeding the flow of traffic in the states where these laws have been passed that you will be cited. I don't speed much myself, but when I am trying to go the speed limit and someone, such as yourself, is going 5 under, next to a truck or another driver, such as yourself, going 5 under, and I have some hotfoot hot on my tail, and I can't get around you to get out of fireballs way, I get annoyed. At that point you are an impediment and a danger. BTW, in Arizona, where I live, most highways have no posted minimum.
"Secondly, you do not put your windows down to save gas. That creates drag and costs mileage. That is what your vents are for, use them."
Try that in Phoenix in August, and let me know how that works out for you!!
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"Nope, sorry. Slow down and obey the law or get off our roads. If you want to go to a race track and pay to drive fast, do so. Do not expect anyone to yield to you if you wish to behave that way on public roads, however."
Doing the speedlimit is obeying the law. You holding me back is not. Several states have passed what I have heard referred to as the Left Lane Vigilante law. That means if you are holding up traffic in the left lane, you will be cited, even if traffic is exceeding the speed limit. The reason that there are more than one lane is to that those who cannot or do not wish to go the max speed can MOVE TO THE RIGHT!
>I get a kick out of hearing people talk about "quality control" from Apple.
Good, then you should really enjoy my story since you claim to derive some type of satisfaction from Apple quality control issues.
About 16 months ago I decided to try my first Apple product ever. I wanted an MP3 player, and decided to give an iPod a try. I purchased a silver MINI. After a few days I was hooked, and was using it all the time. 3 weeks almost to the day after purchasing it the click wheel ceased to function. I was pretty upset, as I had grown accustomed to using it almost all the time, as I travel a lot for work. Makes a great companion while traveling. Anyhow, it stopped working on a Saturday morning. I got onto Apple's website and went through all of the troubleshooting steps. It was indeed dead. I filled out the little form and recieved an e-mail back about half an hour later telling me to expect a box by Tuesday to ship back the defective device, and that once recieved a replacement would follow in a week or so. at 7:30AM Monday morning, approximately 45 hours after making my initial complaint, a box arrived by courier. I set it aside and planned to prepare and ship that night when I returned home from work. That night I opened the box to put the defective unit in for shipping. Lo and behold, there was a brand new sealed iPod mini. I literally had a replacement within 48 hours and it was a weekend. I have never had customer service that prompt from any other electronics or computer company, EVER!
Needless to say, 3 months ago when it was time to replace my aging thinkpad, I took a look at the Mac stuff. I am now the very satisfied owner of a 17" G4 aluminum PowerBook.
I don't expect any companies products to be perfect, but customer service like that I recieved from Apple goes a long way. I am confident that even if I do have trouble that Apple will go out of their way to minimize the inconvenience. I could have spent less and gotten a fine machine from another manufacturer, but it is worth it to me to pay a little more. You typically get what you pay for.
>Other posters have brought up a good point. These children being born, being brought forth from the miracle frozen embryos, are given life by the in-vitro fertilization process. A >process that wastes dozens of "lives" in order to create one of those IVF children.
>So why all the outcry about embryonic stem cell research? Why not go after the people who are wasting and killing all these embryos in the first place? The infertile people >"playing god" and destroying embryos in the first place? They are endorsing killing embryos, as it is inherently part of the process of IVF. But yet the outcry is against the >research on the remains of the IVF process... where is the logic in this?"
While I admit that I am really torn on this issue, I have to say that this is one of the best and most thoughtful arguments that I have seen posted today. It actually addresses the issue, and dosen't fall into the typical insults and namecalling that I have seen in the vast majority of these posts. I just wanted to thank you, even though you posted AC. Thank you for giving me a good point to ponder as I try and make up my mind on this issue. It is possible to disagree, or not have fully decided on an issue. That does not mean that you are a moron or jerk, just that you have not come to a conclusion. Some of the people here need to learn that.
To most of the rest of the AC posters on this topic: If your post is so stupid or weak that you have to post AC, maybe you should rethink your argument before you post.
"i can make the same argument for assault weapons. hey, i'm not going to gun down a bus full of nuns, i should be able to own one, right? heck i bet a large % of the people that might (or do) own assault weapons won't be gunning down nuns. if the device is primarily used for illegal activity, or if the illegal activity perpetrated by it is severely damaging (sure, that's arbitrary to some degree), then it is in the best interest in society to prohibit the device. you can make your "hey i can think of SOME valid use for it" arguments till the cows come home, without avail. i can make that argument for many terrible devices and practices. it doesn't work that way."
While your point is a valid one, you should pick a better analogy than assault weapons. If you look at the "assault" type rifles and firearms, most of those that were banned in the USA were banned as a result of menacing appearance, and not because they were any more deadly or more powerful than other non-banned non-assault rifles and fire arms. There were/are plenty of more deadly capable and powerful weapons that were/are untouched by said ban just because they didn't look as mean.
"After all, do you see people expecting to buy and use a car with zero training, no licence or maintenance? Why do they apply a different standard to computers?"
"The damned things were steel core, hollow point rounds designed to penetrate body armor. "
"That's impossible. The whole purpose of a hollowpoint is to deform on impact and spread out, which is why they have an exposed lead core."
What the original post was describing sounds to me a whole lot like a "HYDROSHOCK" round. It is kind of a hollow point hybrid. It is a soft lead hollow tip, with a steel point in the center. This gives you the best of both worlds. Thanks to the lead surround, you get the expansion. Thanks to the steel core/point, you get penetration. it is a hollow point, but has a small point in the center. Looks like a donut around the point of a ball-point pen. (the point is hollow, but with a steel tip protruding from the center of the hollow tip)
It isn't called "seattop" it is called laptop. I use a 17" Powerbook G4, and it is quite useable on bus or plane even with people next to me. I use it frequently on airplanes, even in coach with the tighter seating arrangements. A little toasty on the lap sometimes, but it works. Why on earth do you find it impossible to use without 2 seats? Are the busses just smaller outside of the U.S.A. ?
"Leaving aside the snobbery and bigotry of that "leaning on brooms" comment, this proposal is seeing some discussion here in North Carolina. Most that I've heard and read correctly points to this as a management issue, not something that merits legislation."
How the heck do you get BIGOTRY from reading that comment? Man, you are really reaching! Do you see BIGOTRY in everything? Do you not know the meaning of the word? I would reluctantly grant you the "SNOBBERY", but "BIGOTRY"? That's a pretty serious charge, and after reading the exact same comment you did, completely unwarranted and without evidence.
Holy crap! You must see demons everywhere in your world and/or mind! Good luck with that!
"wouldn't this also apply to those banner ads that look like a Windows dialog box saying that "viruses / spyware / adware / slowness /... have been found on your machine, click here to remove / speed up:"
Those always crack me up when I get them as a pop-under on my MAC running OSX.
I wrote an e-mail to ultracade stating that they should never expect any business from me as their lawsuit was not only lame, but also probably would be their ultimate undoing as it is sure to be a PR disaster. Here are the highlights from the reply I recieved.
You should get your facts straight, we aren't suing anyone.
Like most things that are spread by rumor, the facts about me, UltraCade Technologies, and the M.A.M.E. emulation system are quite distorted. I will try and educate anyone who cares to listen about the reality of our marketplace and what we are doing and what we are not. Simply put, we are
making an effort to stamp out the commercial sales of M.A.M.E. based systems that advertise the ability to play thousands of games while relying on the customer to obtain the ROMs which can not legally be obtained. What we are not doing is trying to claim ownership of the M.A.M.E. open source emulator or sue its authors. We are concerned about the commercial marketplace, and
not the readers of the many M.A.M.E. user groups and forums.
Now that we have attempted to take legal recourse to prevent illegal competition, the same people, who steal the work of the M.A.M.E. authors, and then profit by selling machines that have no value without the pirated games being made available, turn around and cry foul when we call them on
their ways. They run to the M.A.M.E. discussion forums and spread rumors about UltraCade suing the authors of M.A.M.E. or stealing the M.A.M.E.
engine. I'm amazed at the response of the community, a community that is being whipped into action by the same people who are stealing and profiting from them and they're efforts. Many people have reacted with hate mail without even considering to look at the facts of the situation, or to realize who is spreading the rumors. They are being spread by those who wish to profit by selling unlicensed games.
This is a complex case amongst companies that are trying to make it about UltraCade stealing something from the M.A.M.E. team. That is not what this is about. This is simply UltraCade Technologies and other publishers doing whatever it takes to protect our commercial interests and prevent other companies from stealing our market by capitalizing on unlicensed games and selling products that only have value when coupled with illegally obtained games. Our application towards a trademark is to simply prevent anyone from
commercially marketing an illegal product, nothing more. There have been no lawsuits filed against any of the M.A.M.E. authors, and there have been no claims towards the open source engine, nor will there be. We are simply protecting our commercial market, and nothing more. We have no interest in
the hobby community. We have no interest in the open source project. Our goal is to simply stop the rampant piracy in our marketplace, and we will
use every means at our disposal to do so.
I welcome open discussions about this situation, and will respond to legitimate communications or questions.
-David R. Foley
David R. Foley
UltraCade Technologies
CEO
1281 Wayne Avenue, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
www.ultracade.com
408.436.8885 415.723.7225 FAX
"So sure, by all means, go down to the station and request the blood test. But refusing to take the breathalyzer DOES NOT by default imply failure of the test. *Evidence* is required by our judicial system, remember?"
In Arizona, failure to take the breatalyzer may not prove your guilt, but it results in a 1 year suspension of your license regardless of whether you are found guilty or not.
"Betch fewer than 25% of Prius owners are Republicans.
Betcha more than 50% of Hummer owners are."
Betcha you're a douche. Did you happen to take note of what Tereza drove? How bout your friend Barbara Streisand? In the case of the latter, she goes shopping on RODEO in a 5MPG RV that is bigger and heavier than any HUMMER on the plannet. There are plenty of jackasses in both partys, so quit being another one!
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If you like the legislation that FORCES ,as you put it, conservation, then you are a moron. People will not respond when FORCED. If you want change, then go invent something better that will work better and/or cheaper and have the same/better functionality as that which is currently used. There are reasons that people use what they use.
I already use CFLs in about half of the applications in my home. There are simply reasons to not use them in certain applications, especially in exterior lighting.
You and all your greenie buddies that wish to force people can all get bent. You want change, then come up with a better alternative. Maybe your pal who invented the internet can help you...
This hits too close to home to be funny...
re:I have. Wal Mart donates their money to Republicans.
Both sides get some... This is the case with most companies/industries etc... with their donations, in an effort to not be frozen out if the other side wins. It is the "know on which side thy pita is buttered" principle.
The Dems get far more of the Wal-Mart generosity. After all, it was a Dem who granted "most favored nation" status to their biggest supplier, and it is mostly dems who want the socialist programs to suppliment their employees, thus making the need for the corperation to step up less necessary. I never said that the Republicans didn't get any money from Wal-Mart and their ilk, just considerably less than their left-leaning counterparts. After all, you have to grease both sides of the wheel to get things done...
RE:cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
Apparently you have not taken a very in-depth look lately at which political party recieves the most monitary support from Wal-Mart...
"Seriously, this seems like an excellent way for the rest of the world to shoot itself right in the foot. Maybe we should just let them. Isolationism in reverse."
Yep. I agree. The talk is big until it comes time to do without. The internet is run by those who pioneered developed and built it.
"Don't forget, humans are on the food menu too. It goes for both Phyton and Alligator. It is bad when the pets want to have you for lunch."
In Soviet Russia, animals eat you!!
"Dell kicks Apple's ass where it counts---in big business."
Yea, the same way that a Honda Civic kicks a Ferrari Testarosas.
"You can get a learners permit at age 15 1/2, but that wasn't necessary either. Once you get a license, you used to keep it until you were 65 (which sucks now that I dont have one...I always wanted to get pulled over at age 65 with a license that had my picture at age 25), now I think it only lasts 10 years."
Last time I checked, in Arizona your license is still good until you are 65. If you get your license before the age of 21 it will not be good that long. In that case you will have to come in after the age of 21 to renew it. The physical license itself even looks different before the age of 21. If you have kept your nose clean and not had any tickets, it will not require any additional testing, just a fee and new picture. In fact if you have a change of address or loose your license you can go online and order another one without even going into the DMV office. One thing of note, the learners permit only allows you to drive during daylight hours and only if you have another licensed driver in the automobile with you.
Motorcycles require a special endorsement with a seperate written test, and evaluation on a test track.
Do you think that Gmail would turn over logs to the Chinese government so that they could put someone in prison for sending a "dangerous" e-mail? Yahoo did!! I am not sure if Gmail would or not, but if they wouldn't then I would say that Gmail is the clear choice as the superior experience.
"As far as the law, minimum speeds are posted. As for being cited for holding up traffic while traveling at the speed limit, that is a myth. You can not be cited for driving at the speed limit, and if you were it would be thrown out. In fact, if I am in a hurry I intentionally drive in the "fast lane" at the exact speed limit. Why? Because it is the fasted speed at which I am legally allowed to travel and those who wish to pass are in violation of the law. If they wish to speed they will have to wait until they can pass me on the right."
Check the laws in various states. Idaho is one of the states which has passed the "Left Lane Vigilante" law. I assure you that if you are impeding the flow of traffic in the states where these laws have been passed that you will be cited. I don't speed much myself, but when I am trying to go the speed limit and someone, such as yourself, is going 5 under, next to a truck or another driver, such as yourself, going 5 under, and I have some hotfoot hot on my tail, and I can't get around you to get out of fireballs way, I get annoyed. At that point you are an impediment and a danger. BTW, in Arizona, where I live, most highways have no posted minimum.
"Secondly, you do not put your windows down to save gas. That creates drag and costs mileage. That is what your vents are for, use them."
Try that in Phoenix in August, and let me know how that works out for you!!
"Nope, sorry. Slow down and obey the law or get off our roads. If you want to go to a race track and pay to drive fast, do so. Do not expect anyone to yield to you if you wish to behave that way on public roads, however."
Doing the speedlimit is obeying the law. You holding me back is not. Several states have passed what I have heard referred to as the Left Lane Vigilante law. That means if you are holding up traffic in the left lane, you will be cited, even if traffic is exceeding the speed limit. The reason that there are more than one lane is to that those who cannot or do not wish to go the max speed can MOVE TO THE RIGHT!
>I get a kick out of hearing people talk about "quality control" from Apple.
Good, then you should really enjoy my story since you claim to derive some type of satisfaction from Apple quality control issues.
About 16 months ago I decided to try my first Apple product ever. I wanted an MP3 player, and decided to give an iPod a try. I purchased a silver MINI. After a few days I was hooked, and was using it all the time. 3 weeks almost to the day after purchasing it the click wheel ceased to function. I was pretty upset, as I had grown accustomed to using it almost all the time, as I travel a lot for work. Makes a great companion while traveling. Anyhow, it stopped working on a Saturday morning. I got onto Apple's website and went through all of the troubleshooting steps. It was indeed dead. I filled out the little form and recieved an e-mail back about half an hour later telling me to expect a box by Tuesday to ship back the defective device, and that once recieved a replacement would follow in a week or so. at 7:30AM Monday morning, approximately 45 hours after making my initial complaint, a box arrived by courier. I set it aside and planned to prepare and ship that night when I returned home from work. That night I opened the box to put the defective unit in for shipping. Lo and behold, there was a brand new sealed iPod mini. I literally had a replacement within 48 hours and it was a weekend. I have never had customer service that prompt from any other electronics or computer company, EVER!
Needless to say, 3 months ago when it was time to replace my aging thinkpad, I took a look at the Mac stuff. I am now the very satisfied owner of a 17" G4 aluminum PowerBook.
I don't expect any companies products to be perfect, but customer service like that I recieved from Apple goes a long way. I am confident that even if I do have trouble that Apple will go out of their way to minimize the inconvenience. I could have spent less and gotten a fine machine from another manufacturer, but it is worth it to me to pay a little more. You typically get what you pay for.
>Other posters have brought up a good point. These children being born, being brought forth from the miracle frozen embryos, are given life by the in-vitro fertilization process. A >process that wastes dozens of "lives" in order to create one of those IVF children.
>So why all the outcry about embryonic stem cell research? Why not go after the people who are wasting and killing all these embryos in the first place? The infertile people >"playing god" and destroying embryos in the first place? They are endorsing killing embryos, as it is inherently part of the process of IVF. But yet the outcry is against the >research on the remains of the IVF process... where is the logic in this?"
While I admit that I am really torn on this issue, I have to say that this is one of the best and most thoughtful arguments that I have seen posted today. It actually addresses the issue, and dosen't fall into the typical insults and namecalling that I have seen in the vast majority of these posts. I just wanted to thank you, even though you posted AC. Thank you for giving me a good point to ponder as I try and make up my mind on this issue. It is possible to disagree, or not have fully decided on an issue. That does not mean that you are a moron or jerk, just that you have not come to a conclusion. Some of the people here need to learn that.
To most of the rest of the AC posters on this topic: If your post is so stupid or weak that you have to post AC, maybe you should rethink your argument before you post.
"i can make the same argument for assault weapons. hey, i'm not going to gun down a bus full of nuns, i should be able to own one, right? heck i bet a large % of the people that might (or do) own assault weapons won't be gunning down nuns.
if the device is primarily used for illegal activity, or if the illegal activity perpetrated by it is severely damaging (sure, that's arbitrary to some degree), then it is in the best interest in society to prohibit the device. you can make your "hey i can think of SOME valid use for it" arguments till the cows come home, without avail. i can make that argument for many terrible devices and practices. it doesn't work that way."
While your point is a valid one, you should pick a better analogy than assault weapons. If you look at the "assault" type rifles and firearms, most of those that were banned in the USA were banned as a result of menacing appearance, and not because they were any more deadly or more powerful than other non-banned non-assault rifles and fire arms. There were/are plenty of more deadly capable and powerful weapons that were/are untouched by said ban just because they didn't look as mean.
"After all, do you see people expecting to buy and use a car with zero training, no licence or maintenance? Why do they apply a different standard to computers?"
Ever heard of a MAC?
"The damned things were steel core, hollow point rounds designed to penetrate body armor. "
"That's impossible. The whole purpose of a hollowpoint is to deform on impact and spread out, which is why they have an exposed lead core."
What the original post was describing sounds to me a whole lot like a "HYDROSHOCK" round. It is kind of a hollow point hybrid. It is a soft lead hollow tip, with a steel point in the center. This gives you the best of both worlds. Thanks to the lead surround, you get the expansion. Thanks to the steel core/point, you get penetration. it is a hollow point, but has a small point in the center. Looks like a donut around the point of a ball-point pen. (the point is hollow, but with a steel tip protruding from the center of the hollow tip)
It isn't called "seattop" it is called laptop. I use a 17" Powerbook G4, and it is quite useable on bus or plane even with people next to me. I use it frequently on airplanes, even in coach with the tighter seating arrangements. A little toasty on the lap sometimes, but it works. Why on earth do you find it impossible to use without 2 seats? Are the busses just smaller outside of the U.S.A. ?
"Leaving aside the snobbery and bigotry of that "leaning on brooms" comment, this proposal is seeing some discussion here in North Carolina. Most that I've heard and read correctly points to this as a management issue, not something that merits legislation."
How the heck do you get BIGOTRY from reading that comment? Man, you are really reaching! Do you see BIGOTRY in everything? Do you not know the meaning of the word? I would reluctantly grant you the "SNOBBERY", but "BIGOTRY"? That's a pretty serious charge, and after reading the exact same comment you did, completely unwarranted and without evidence.
Holy crap! You must see demons everywhere in your world and/or mind! Good luck with that!
"wouldn't this also apply to those banner ads that look like a Windows dialog box saying that "viruses / spyware / adware / slowness / ... have been found on your machine, click here to remove / speed up:"
Those always crack me up when I get them as a pop-under on my MAC running OSX.
I believe the correct term is "tinfoil habadashary"...
"So sure, by all means, go down to the station and request the blood test. But refusing to take the breathalyzer DOES NOT by default imply failure of the test. *Evidence* is required by our judicial system, remember?"
In Arizona, failure to take the breatalyzer may not prove your guilt, but it results in a 1 year suspension of your license regardless of whether you are found guilty or not.
I for one welcome our new smart-hologram overlords!
"Betch fewer than 25% of Prius owners are Republicans.
Betcha more than 50% of Hummer owners are."
Betcha you're a douche. Did you happen to take note of what Tereza drove? How bout your friend Barbara Streisand? In the case of the latter, she goes shopping on RODEO in a 5MPG RV that is bigger and heavier than any HUMMER on the plannet. There are plenty of jackasses in both partys, so quit being another one!