... We didn't believe these were good guidelines for art, but respected their rights to sell content that met their guidelines at their own store. Apple is not a museum or a library for new content then, so much as they are a grocer.
All of a sudden all those "TRAPPED IN SWEATSHOP HELP" messages that I see in Flash games make a lot more sense now. At first I thought they were easter eggs or something.
The RUSSIANS did that sort of thing. The RUSSIANS. RUSSIANS.
Yes the Russian successfully performed the procedure on land. This is underwater at 5000 feet.
As for the explosives, I offer you this car analogy:
After the mechanic ruptured my gas tank while performing a routine checkup, he blurted out the excuse "there's a lot of pavement out there so don't worry about it" and offered to install a nitrous system instead. Do I really want that nitrous system?
I beg to differ. When Disney killed off Littlefoot's mother I cried for an entire hour. I don't think I can survive the emotional trauma if they go on a killing spree for each Mickey Mouse extension.
You're missing the point of lobbying, which was to combat bribery:
1) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public." Later that night a hundred thousand dollars in cash is transferred.
2) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public. And here's a check for a hundred thousand dollars."
Your scenario 1 isn't realistic because large oil companies is happy to pay the hundred thousand dollars, and the politician is happy to received the hundred thousand dollars regardless of whether it's legal or not. Outlawing it will simply make it underground.
I haven't eaten Cheerios in years; can we please stick to the car analogies?
Heck, I'll start:
Steve Jobs left the keys in his Mercedes SL55 AMG after parking it in the usual handicapped space. A Good Samaritan quickly discovered this abandoned vehicle and yelled out "Finders keepers!" before driving it straight home.
It then took more than a month of negotiations before Steve Jobs finally got his car back, but not before the Good Samaritan disassembled the vehicle and put it back together again.
If Giz really wanted to get in, they could pay for a ticket like everyone else, if necessary getting someone not-so-in-the-news to buy it. Nothing Apple could do about that...
Apple could simply refuse to sell Giz the tickets. Even if Giz bought the tickets from someone else Apple could still deny them entrance to the event. By purchasing a ticket the buyer is implicitly agreeing to a whole phone-book worth of disclaimers, which usually includes the line "We reserve the right to remove you from the premise at any time without providing a reason.".
I'm all for scientific progress and planet explorations, but this entire operation costs too much and yield much too little benefits. Let's not forget that the government is still trillions of dollars in debt.
It costs roughly $5 billion to construct a new nuclear plant on Earth. I'll let you imagine how much it would cost to construct, supply, and maintain 3 nuclear plant on Mars.
Needless to say it's a little beyond NASA's budget.
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Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent,
Let me guess, they just classified every web-page containing Arabic characters to be "terrorism content", didn't they?
... We didn't believe these were good guidelines for art, but respected their rights to sell content that met their guidelines at their own store. Apple is not a museum or a library for new content then, so much as they are a grocer.
In Soviet Russia, Apple sells grocery!
[pey] Show IPA verb, paid or ( Obsolete except for defs. 12, 24c ) payed; paying; noun, adjective –verb (used with object)
Indeed "payed" is an acceptable spelling, except it doesn't apply in this case. For your reference definition 12 and 24 are:
12. Nautical . to let (a ship) fall off to leeward.
24. requiring subscribed or monthly payment for use or service: pay television.
For some reason Nixon's face popped into mind when I read your post. Then I realized I misread "cooks" as "crooks".
All of a sudden all those "TRAPPED IN SWEATSHOP HELP" messages that I see in Flash games make a lot more sense now. At first I thought they were easter eggs or something.
The RUSSIANS did that sort of thing. The RUSSIANS. RUSSIANS.
Yes the Russian successfully performed the procedure on land. This is underwater at 5000 feet.
As for the explosives, I offer you this car analogy:
After the mechanic ruptured my gas tank while performing a routine checkup, he blurted out the excuse "there's a lot of pavement out there so don't worry about it" and offered to install a nitrous system instead. Do I really want that nitrous system?
I beg to differ. When Disney killed off Littlefoot's mother I cried for an entire hour. I don't think I can survive the emotional trauma if they go on a killing spree for each Mickey Mouse extension.
...making contradicting statements like 'Chinese citizens fully enjoy freedom of speech on the Internet'...
How is that statements contradictory? All man has the inalienable right to freedom of speech.
It's another matter whether they still have freedom after speech.
Some papers actually claimed it was "ice" clogging up the device for goodness sake.
Ice
2 : a substance resembling ice; especially : the solid state of a substance usually found as a gas or liquid
Less space than the Library of Congress. Lame.
This can be easily rectified.
I call dibs on burning the John Adams building!
You're missing the point of lobbying, which was to combat bribery:
1) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public." Later that night a hundred thousand dollars in cash is transferred.
2) "I represent many large oil companies, and we think approach X would be beneficial to not only our interests but the interests of the general public. And here's a check for a hundred thousand dollars."
Your scenario 1 isn't realistic because large oil companies is happy to pay the hundred thousand dollars, and the politician is happy to received the hundred thousand dollars regardless of whether it's legal or not. Outlawing it will simply make it underground.
True. But again Apple has full rights to kick that independent out if it's discovered that they are affiliated with Gizmodo.
It's obviously bad press, but just like being singled out for the Foxconn suicides there's nothing Apple can do about it.
I haven't eaten Cheerios in years; can we please stick to the car analogies?
Heck, I'll start:
Steve Jobs left the keys in his Mercedes SL55 AMG after parking it in the usual handicapped space. A Good Samaritan quickly discovered this abandoned vehicle and yelled out "Finders keepers!" before driving it straight home.
It then took more than a month of negotiations before Steve Jobs finally got his car back, but not before the Good Samaritan disassembled the vehicle and put it back together again.
Google's April Fools jokes didn't cause anyone financial harm (if it did then that someone would have already sued).
Disabling TVs during the unveiling demonstration in front of hundreds of reporters on the other hand...
If Giz really wanted to get in, they could pay for a ticket like everyone else, if necessary getting someone not-so-in-the-news to buy it. Nothing Apple could do about that...
Apple could simply refuse to sell Giz the tickets. Even if Giz bought the tickets from someone else Apple could still deny them entrance to the event. By purchasing a ticket the buyer is implicitly agreeing to a whole phone-book worth of disclaimers, which usually includes the line "We reserve the right to remove you from the premise at any time without providing a reason.".
Just curious, are you running Pentium chips by any chance?
It might be better to test the theory first with a mixed group
I already conducted an experiment with a limited sample size within a constrained time-frame (1 girl and 5 minutes respectively).
Needless to say the results were highly discouraging.
No, it's completely different. Nursing homes have a delay time of infinity.
And what the hell do we need robots on Mars for?
I'm all for scientific progress and planet explorations, but this entire operation costs too much and yield much too little benefits. Let's not forget that the government is still trillions of dollars in debt.
It costs roughly $5 billion to construct a new nuclear plant on Earth. I'll let you imagine how much it would cost to construct, supply, and maintain 3 nuclear plant on Mars.
Needless to say it's a little beyond NASA's budget.
I hope you never visit China because you will die from laughter. There are 92.88 million people with that last-name.
Get off my subway station!
iANAL, but doesn't this count as contempt of court? She's obviously mocking and abusing the legal system.
Exactly.
I'm not saying she should be immediately arrested but at least she should be charged with a criminal offense.